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End of Year Banquet and Christmas Party
Zenas Fewell claimed the Outstanding Achievment Award for his successful exploits since particiapting in the 2006 Capetown World Cup. Zenas has maintained his apartment for 18 months and recentely got back into classes at the community college. Despite a hearing disability and a mental health disability, Zenas has escaped homelessness. He addressed head on all his disablilties and additionally finished anger management courses. Although he does not train with the team regularly anymore, he checks in from time to time and is an inspiration to others.
The Spirit Award went to new team member Tim Cummings (pictured above) who has been all about supporting his teammates, helping them find jobs, encouraging them in their battles against drugs, and being a general force of good energy. Tim is an invaluable resource for his teammates in their struggles because he has been there himself. With over a year of sobriety, Tim says he has never felt better. Outside of Street Soccer Tim plays goalie in the Latino league where he won an award for outstanding goalkeeping. We are greatful for his efforts on and off the field.
The Fair Play Award went to US Copenhagen World Cup captain Daniel Martinez, whose calm demeanor, excellent hustle and talent earned him praise from coaches of all nations. Most importantly he demands the respect of his teammates. When he, Elmer, and Jorge decided to come to Charlotte, they changed their address and their attitude. Daniel was catalyst for their change and subsequent success.
The Hustle Award went to Craig Holley who has returned to Charlotte and street soccer with more purpose and drive than ever. Craig’s determination is worthy of singling out as an example for all of the players, especially since Craig had never played soccer before training with Street Soccer 945.
While we would have liked to give an award to all players, these were some areas that we felt were important to emphasize for our program. Congrats to everyone. We are thankful for the opportunities afforded us in 2007 and proud of how all of us seized these opportunities.
Stars Shine
Street Soccer Stars ended a two game losing streak to move into second place in the league standings on Tuesday night, winning 5-3. The competition was not as stiff as previous weeks and Jorge’s return in the back was welcomed. The story of the match was Dwayne’s goal (Dwayne is pictured above), the 4th that put us in the lead for good after the half. Why is it the story? Because it extended Dwayne’s streak of goals. He has now scored in every match he has played in for Street Soccer 945 and the Street Soccer Stars. That is 6 games straight and a total of 9 goals. The other nice moment was when 24 year-old volunteer Chris scored our team’s fifth goal with just under 5 minutes to play. The two-goal lead took the pressure of the defense a bit. From a game that saw us miss many chances, we will build positively off the good hustle and improved team play. In another kudos to big Dwayne, known affectionately as D-bone to his teammates, we are happy to congratulate him on passing a drug test and receiving out patient recommendation from the McCleod Center. Dwayne is 6 weeks into his sobriety and has maintained it since leaving a 28 day program. The Stars are back in action after the holiday.
Hectic Day, Hectic Game
J. lost his job when he made the mistake of cashing a false check. Someone approached him with the idea and Jesse went along with it for a number of sympathetic reasons, none that justified what he did of course. The amount was less than 500 dollars so it didn’t register as a felony. Still, it has kept him from getting the jobs he wants. J. is a trained cook, but that charge keeps popping up. Last time they told me, said Jesse, that it showed a lack of trustworthiness. After many years working at the soup kitchen you start to develop a gut instinct about people’s trustworthiness. Everyone is in need, so you factor that in, and sometimes for the sake of what might come of it, you trust people even though your gut tells you not too. Sometimes you get burned on the risk, but the rewards when someone responds to trust are invaluable. Jesse, however, is the type of guy you let hold your wallet; you get that feeling from him right off. So you think, this guys’ greatest asset is his loyalty and trustworthiness, but come to find out that is what’s keeping him where he is right now.
J. jumps to the forefront because we had to take him to the hospital after the game on Wednesday night. His asthma flared up. On the van ride to the hospital we made him laugh which made it even harder for him to breath. J. had started the game at midfield for Street Soccer 945. He is a stolid man, built like a cannonball. He seemed to be shot out from cannon early on as he surprised the opponent, stole the ball, and passed to Junior for our team’s first shot on goal. On a similar play four minutes later he stole the ball again and dished to Tony who powered the ball at the keeper such that the keeper couldn’t handle it and bobbled it over the line for our first goal. The referee however was in a bad position and didn’t call it a goal. Even though all the players had stopped to return the ball to midfield for a kickoff, the referee waved his arms to signal no goal and the play resumed awkwardly. That was J.’s last effort of the first half. He trotted off the field calling for his inhaler. Sweat beaded so heavily on his shaved head that it splashed when his teammates patted him on his head to congratulate him on his effort. While J. regained his breath, goalie Tim Cummings was throwing himself around like he was 18 all over again. Tim made around 20 saves in the first half before finally letting a header bounce past him. The score finished 1-0 at the half.
With J. out, first time player and 17 year old Jones played lots of minutes. Our senior players struggled. Craig had a bad day at work and barely made it to the van after getting off work. Tony came trotting down Tryon Street to catch us just before we got on the on ramp to the highway. Pop hadn’t slept after working night shift. Junior said he had a stomach-ache. Nassir who made his debut last week didn’t even try to come after he was stabbed in the leg by a man who blamed Nassir for his lost bags. Nassir is fine, only a handful of stiches. A calm, non-violent man, Nassir has his taxicab liscense, but is awaiting his greencard replacement to arrive. He managed to convince a cab owner to let him work as a driver. That was until he got stabbed in his right leg. “I was just about crying,’ said Nassir, ‘not from the pain in my leg, but because it was my right leg and he would not let me drive anymore.’
Other new faces included Lamont Harrel and John Oliver. In the end, we lacked cohesion. Despite good hustle we gave up a bevy of goals during a 5 minute period and found ourselves down 5-0 with a minute to go in the game. We gave up one more right at the end.
The most important result was hearing from J. at 1am, telling us he was fine. He said a lot of people asked questions about his uniform in the emergency room. He also said the doctor said he was getting better not worse. Jessie responded well to the treatment and was blowing with above average breath strength of 700 after just one treatment. In the past it has taken him 2 treatments to reach that level. Jess also noticed that even during the asthma attack he was blowing at a level that was above what used to be his average. The doctor told him this was surely a result of laying off cigarettes (he hasn’t smoked since joining the team) and running at games and at practice. Get back out there was the main message the doctor had for J.
The whole team will do that the week following Christmas. Happy Holiday from Street Soccer 945.
945 rallies!
Pictured: William, 44, Amadeus, 19, Junior, 16, Tony Kelly celebrating (see article)
13 players crowded the bench to fill only six spots on the field at the Charlotte Sports Connection on Wednesday night.
First timers Jesse and Nassir had not played competative soccer since they were in high school. For Jesse that was 23 years ago. For Nassir it was 20. They would have to shake off a combined 53 years of rustiness quickly if they were going to make an impact on the match. William, 44, alone had 44 years of soccer inaction to contribute to the match. William was galvanized after his first practice two weeks ago and had been anticipating this his second game all week. William is a calm man with stern mien which belies a warm, gregarious personality. While 16 year old Junior McGregor, or 19 year old Amadeus don’t look like what we typically think of when we think “homeless,” William might come closer in appearance to one’s expectations. Originally from South Carolina, William has worked hard all his life. He is a private man, humble and friendly. He is the type you meet and think, wow, there is a story there. I hope I earn his trust enough to hear it.
In contrast to the previous night with the Street Soccer Starts, Wednesday’s squad arrived early, warmed up, and had time to meet as a team to talk pre-game strategy. Coaches Cann, neither in uniform, combined brains to come up with a successful new strategy. The major move was to play with a sweeper instead of two backs. Craig Holley’s improved skills combined with his speeed and hustle and natural defensive instinct inspired the thought. We explained Craig his role just minutes before the game, but it proved to be a natural fit and Craig was a standout all match, showcasing his athleticism and ability to read the play.
In front of Craig we played Two midfielders, Tony Kelly and Junior McGregor. Junior we hoped could be the link in the middle of the field to our forward pair, Pop and Dwayne. Tim who missed Tuesday because of his recovery house meeting was in the net. The first goal we gave up would prove costly. Excellent defenisve organization had kept the score level until Tim muffed a low shot to the near post. It was keeper error that Tim would later atone for. Craig’s only mistake of the game proved costly as well. He made a great dribble move in the middle of the field. When he found no teammtates readily available he made poor pass which resulted in a breakaway. 2-0. Dwayne who showed great leadership and hustle as he showed signs of improved fitness, pulled a goal back, taking a pass from Junior, fooling a defender and suprising the goalie with low powerful blast. Despite excellence defenisve communication and competant role playing of our substitutions, we tired towards the end of the half, yeilding two more goals. 4-1 was the score at the half.
Two things were clear. Craig had found his natural position and we were playing too much defense as a team. At half time we made it clear that we need to leave Craig back to defend and to attack with all four of the remaining players. That way we would keep the ball in the offensive end. Likewise we needed to defend with four, but we must leave one of the forwards up to keep us dangerous. To their credit, the team listened and responded. We kept the ball in the attack and gave up no goals in the second half. Dwayne and Tony each added to our tally to bring us within one goal. Pop came tantalizinly close and Junior missed several chances. Just as we seemed about to score, our opponents turned a quick counter attack. William had come on and found himself all alone facing two attackers and a lofted ball coming his way. William bravely stepped up to the ball which his chest and then the opponents hand. What looked like a clear break and perhaps goal ended up as a free kick for the good guys.
The crowd began cheering as we kept pressing for a tying goal. Finally Tony Kelly made some magic happen. He was called for a foul and turned to run back up the field on defense. The other team made a quick restart, one defender touching the ball to over to the other. Tony sensed this and made a lighning about face turn. Relaxing with their heads down, believing Tony was retreating, the other team was slow to move to the ball. Tony got there first, and with one touch to his left foot he fired a second touch shot past the keepr who was also asleep on the play. Before we all realized what happened, the score was level. Perhaps a bigger distraction than the euphoria of the tie score was Tony’s bizarre celebration. He jumped into a squat and did a self invented dance that was a strange as it was hilarious. He deserved the celebration. The score stayed levelafter that despite our push for a winning goal.
Debbie, a yoga instructor who volunteers at the center, was there watching our game while she waited for her son’s team to play. Her son is a hig school senior who organized a drive amongst his fellow players to supply our team with outdoor cleats last year. Debbie said she was watching the game and got very excited cheering for our comback. Then she thought Tony looked familiar. But where do I know him from. They she said, I put it together. I looked on the sideline and there you were, Lawrence and Rob, and I said, oh, it’s the homeless team. I elbowed my hustband and said, It’s the homeless team! Wow, they are really good.
Many congrats to the 13 players, 12 of whom got in the game, for their well deserved tie, and inspiring performance.
Street Soccer Stars Struggle after 2-0 start
Brothers Dave and Michael have had a tumultous week. The family had seemed the most stable they had ever been. Dave upon turning 18 had signed on to work with Michael. Each of them were logging a minumum of 40 hours a week. Their sister Yolanda too found a job, plus their mother still had a part time job on the weekends. The burden of a large family had suddenly tranformed into an assest. Additionally Dave continued to train with the Charlotte United U-18 club. After showing off his speed and skills for the lower level team, Dave was given the chance to train with the premier squad. Hesitant, and even fearful of failure, Dave agreed to practice with the premeir team only when Street Soccer Coach Rob offered to practicce with him. Rob put on his cleats and trained with the team. The rest was history. Dave, according the coach, improves by leaps and bounds each time he comes out. He was too good of talent to pass up on, the coach continued. Dave has been invited to play in the club’s January tournament in Raleigh.
But all that was last week. When one of the two bread factories that Dave and Michael clean at night was shut down due to rennovations, the workforce was downsized by four. Dave the most recent hire was cut first. Michael was cut fourth. They are scheduled to return to work in Febuary, but for the moment they are jobless all over again.
On top of that news, there was death in the family back in Panama and Dave and Michael’s mother is putting her income towards a ticket to Panama for the funeral. In short, the family is staring homelessness in the face once again. Still, Dave and Mike are confident they will find work within the week ahead.
So the above was the backdrop for the McGregor’s when we drove up in the van to pick them up for Tuesday’s game. Yolanda was at work and their mother was heading to Panama, so they were alone with Yolanda's son, Xavier. We drove around the neighborhood to find their brother Junior to watch the baby as the green digits on dashboard counted closer and closer to game time.
We arrived in time, but without much time to get settled and talk about the match ahead. Our opponents were the top team in the league (our league is the premier adult division in Charlotte) and featured a MLS player who is training to make it back and others who have played for the local professional team, the Charlotte Eagles.
Although we showed talent, speed, and proved to be dangerous offensively. We lacked concentration, poise, and desire. Dave played an excellent game, but failed to find a tight mark in the back just 3 minutes into the game. We found ourselves down one-nil. Elmer then missed a tap in that would have tied it up five minutes later. That was the last chance we would have of getting back into the game. We consistently lost our marks and conceded easy goals. While we were dangerous when we attacked, we were unprecise. As the total against us mountained we found a few minutes of intensiy that saw us score three unanswered goals. The final tally was 11-4 or there abouts. Our oppents get all the credit. They even scored two full field shots from the goalkeeper who read our keepr being of his line. He struck two perfect knuckle balls over the head of goals and just beneath the cross bar on two shots, one in each half. You can’t even say our goalies were that far out of position. It was that kind of day.
On the postive side, three playeres stood out. Craig Holley, Dwayne Gourzong, and Pop Miller. These three are rubber players that contribute to bothe the Street Soccer Stars and the 945 squad. Dwayne scored once again. He has now scored in every match he has played for Street Soccer. Craig’s hustle was unmatched. He proved a tough defender for even the most talented of our opponents to get around. Pop as well showed a new agressiveness and more confidence on the ball, although his playing time was limited with this squad.
The message after the game was that we joined this league to challenge ourselves, and that we were facing this challenge right now. Next week we will look forward to playing with more intenstiy. We have an opportunity with this team to change people’s minds. Win or lose, if we play with intensity and fair play, we can achive that in every match.
Record for the season is now 2-2.
Pop Miller is pictured above.
Sundance FIlm Festival!!
“Kicking it” at Sundance
Susan Koch’s film about the Homeless World Cup will premeir at the Sundance Film Festival this January. Street Soccer 945’s Craig Holley is the featured player from the US. The film follows seven players from six countries who competed in the 2006 Homeless World Cup in Capetown, South Africa.
http://www.sundance.org/festival/ is the link to sundance.
http://www.homelessworldcup.org/zine/news/homeless-world-cup-documentary-to-premiere-at-sundance is the link to an brief article about the film and the "film-anthropy" group headed by Ted Leonsis which is backing it.
An update on Craig: After the World Cup Craig went to live with his mother and sister in New York. He hadn't seen them since he was 16. The reunion was good on some levels, but ultimately Craig and his sister decided to move out. After spending a couple months in Pennsylvania with his sister, Craig came back to Charlotte where he has excelled for Street Soccer 945. He works at Mert's Heart and Sole restaurant in Uptown and is officially off the street, renting an apartment with a coworker from Mert's. Craig is studying to finish his high school equivalency and has already to talked to the fire department about entering fireman training when he completes receives his equivalency.
New Team, New Beginning
First, check out this photo of street soccer action. Would you guess the game going on here was taking place at a soup kitchen for the homeless. If not, why?
Well, that question aside, we turn our focus to the latest team developments. We are proud to announce that Street Soccer has expanded its progamming (we will announce this again in January). On Wednesday night, Street Soccer began its new two-team system. One team for an interim basis we will call the Street Soccer Stars. This team involves highly skilled players who in many cases have been with the program for while and have gotten off the street, but for whom playing soccer is a sustaining force in their life. Street Soccer 945's traditional team now focuses specifically on players who are developing their soccer skills. This developmental team gives more people the chance to get in the game, and that is what Street Soccer is all about, giving people the chance to compete, to feel alive, to test themsleves, to fail, to practice, to succeed, and giving it to people who otherwise feel locked out of life becuase they are homeless.
Our pep talk before wendnesday's game was about realism. Guys, the coaches emphasized, tonight is about gaining experience and building up team skills. We want to focus on staying in our positions and playing goal-side defence. We want to win tonight, but our objective is to get better. Things will go wrong, we will be challenged, and we might even get far behind on the scoreboard. That is okay because tonight our main objective is to learn. What we can control no matter what is our spirit and our hustle. Let's go out there and show everyone our hustle, our spirit, and our class."
Our team featured John Nze, a fifty something Nigerian who probably weighs two or three pounds over a hundred. Amadeus, a 21 year old Harry potter look-a-like from New York whose story we are trying to learn piece by piece, Capone, 5 foot even on a good day, a 38 year old man who is completely new to soccer, Pop Miller and Tony Kelley, two folks who are seeking to improve their skills but added some experience to our roster, Justin who is 22 from Charlotte, 6 foot 3 and wears size 16 boots, Rodney a 19 year old from Shelby who wrestled in high school and is new to soccer, and a new recruit, Tim, who actually has "star" team skillls. Tim is in recovery and despite what misconceptions his heavy country accent conjures, is an eccelent soccer player who played some in college and who used to be the only "white guy" in the Latino leagues here in Charlotte.
Our team passed the ball and kept their positons throughout the game. Slowly but surely after a couple early scares, we realized we were having the better of the play. The pressure was on because before the game we noticed one of our opponents was Rob, the manager at Brixx Pizza who had first furnished our uniforms and post game meals. Just before half we squeezed in a goal and then we found ourselves up by two when Tony Kelley, who took on a leadership role in the absence of the more skilled players, powered in a low left footed free kick past the goalie. Watching Tony all night was the most gratifying period of Rob's and my coaching exprience at Street Soccer. Tony who we have banned from the team again and again, and who always eventually does what we ask and invariably shows up to every practice, made consistent good passes, played responsible defence, showed dynamic footskills,and really was the difference in the game. By coincidence this week, the ex-girlfriend of Tony's adopted father walked into my office on Tuesday. We talked for an hour about Tony, how special he his, and how he has struggled. Tony spoke with her by telephone on Wednesday and I wondered if that connection had anything to do with his inspired performance. As she and I concluded, "Tony needs a lot of love."
The finals score was a 3-1 Street Soccer victory. After the game we took John to work at an organization called Samaritan's Purse. This group sends shoe boxes full of Christmas goodies to impoverished communities in Africa, among them, communties in John's native Nigeria. With the rest of the team we went back to the Center, showered and dropped folks off at the winter shelter, one person at a half way house, one at transit, and another at a "friend's."
Today we have practice on the court pictured above at 1pm.
Hunger Week at Belmont Abbey College supports Street Soccer for the 2nd Year in a Row.
Belmont Abbey College hosted their annual Hunger Week at the College to raise awareness and funds to support the homeless and impoverished in the Charlotte area last week. Part of Hunger Week was a 5k run and 1 mile walk on Saturday. The student commitee that organized the race chose Street Soccer 945 again this year as the beneficiary of the funraiser. Participants, mostly students, paid an entry fee and raced with the motto in mind "will run for food." Entry fees and sponsorships from local businesses totaled $2600 that was donated directly to Street Soccer 945. Incredible; thank you Belmont Abbey! We are pictured here receiving our check with the "Will Run for Food" commitee.
Racers from Street Soccer 945 included Rodney, John, Sherwood, Diane, Ray, Toney, me, Rob Cann, and our mascot for the day, my dog Ulrich. We met at the UMC at 7am when it was still dark out and the weather still pretty chilly but holding true to their word our runners showed up to represent the team. In particular Rodney Giles, 18 years old, who has been with the team for just the last month, was a standout. Rodney, running in his first race, walked 3 miles from the emergency winter shelter just to get to the center on Saturday so he could then run in the 5k. Rodney is pictured here with his number just before the race began. He finished just behind the coach, but far ahead of his other teammates. My advice to the runners was to start out with a slow jog and to settle into a steady pace. Rodney decided he was going to go at the run a little differently. He started with a sprint, jumping out in front of everyone only to burn out and start walking a quarter mile into the race, a classic long distance run mistake. Ulrich and I came zig-zaging up and got in Rodney's ear as we passed by him only to see a streak of blue pass by us a minute later as he sprinted out a hundred yards ahead. Again he could not sustain his pace. This was our pattern for the race. It mimicked the flow of Rodney's life right now. He is up at 4:30 am at the winter shelter to go four miles to Einstein Bagel for his shift which is seven hours long. With nowhere to rest, he finds any place he can to re-energize before he starts his night job valet parking. When his job finishes, he has a 4 mile walk back to the winter shelter for another small rest. Run, walk, run, walk, run walk. Starting and stopping and fighting fatigue is what Rodney has to do until he can gather enough money to find his own place to live. With his good spirits and calm demeanor and the drive he showed in the race on Saturday, success, at least on a small, school looks eminent for this young man.
Justin Strikes a Double in His Second Match
Players can be seen training here on the new street soccer pitch. We have held practice in the form of scrimmages on this field every friday. The players have caught the buzz and two things have happened: team membership is up, and the same new members are getting better faster as they are seeing more of the ball on the small field.
Justin, a six foot three inch beanpole with size 13 sneakers is one of the new players that has made tremendouse strides in a short amount of time in terms of his technical ability. The volume of his enthusiasm is always to the max, and if it you didn't stop to think about how incredible it is that he is this engaged and excited about our team, you would probably call his enthusiasm annoying. Before we get back to Justin, tonight's self proclaimed MVP--yes he said it, "Wow, I feel good, you know what, I guess I had to be the MVP tonight, Hey coach, I was the MVP"--let me contrast him to three other new players: John, Richard, and Dwayne.
John contrasts Justin in age. John is a fifty year old, bald nigerian, more than twice Justin's age. John is slightly built, but he shares Justin's exhuberance. Today he turned in 4 sheets of potential line-ups given different game scenarios to Rob and during tonight's game Rob had to remind him to step off the field and walk back from in front of his own team's bench. John was cheering so hard he had wandered over into the other team's subsitute area and onto the field during play. He was so excited when he got on the field that he rushed a throw in and tossed it in as a chest pass. John, a nigerian, who has 'loved soccer his entire life' in his own words, is not the person you'd think would make that mistake.
Richard contrasts Justin is size. He is Justin's age, but Richard who claims to have grown up in Italy and could easily look Italian, is a scrawny 5'5' 24 year old who has been completely dedicated since he showed up on the scene last week. Richard would have played tonight but the mission where he has just found lodging wouldn't allow him to be out so late. We look forward to working with them to get around this in the future.
And where Justin is a beanpole, Dwayne is a tree trunk. Weighing in at 240 pounds, Dwayne is central midfielder with good technique and vision for plays and combinations. He uses his body well and has a solid soccer background, growing up playing in West Palm Beach Florida. Dwayne came to the Urban Ministry Center because in his own words, "I had no where else to turn." Dwayne set his personal goals with us last week ans has already gotten started to work on them. In fact , we will miss him for about a month as he has signed up for a 28 treatment program. Dwayne's one year goal is to get everything he lost back, including his children and bring them to Charlotte to live with him in his new apartment and to watch him play a game before he travels with the national team to the World Cup. He is very capable of achieving that.
So to get back to the game and Justin's heroics. Justin took a nice pass from Dave in the center fo the field, settled into the space above the 18 yard box with his first touch and then whacked the ball whizzing into the side netting for his first goal and the teams fourth in the first half. In the second half we mounted a large lead and relaxed. Everyone tried to get in on the scoring, leaving us exposed in the back. The next thing we knew our 6 to 2 lead had slipped to six to four. Justin then struck again, this time striking the ball with the opposite foot but with the same level of concentration. It was another zooming low speed ball that goalie had no chance to save. Then Elmer, always the competor added anothe goal to make it 8-4, a goal that seemed to be mere icing on the cake. We gave up another goal that on a defensive miscue and then a keeper error followed by defensive give a way in the final 4 minutes made it an 8-7 match. Unthinkably, we our opponents won a headball and bea our last defender with 10 seconds on the clock only for our keeper to make a save in a one on one situation to save us the victory.
All in all we learned a lot. As competition increases for spots, we will be srtiving to push our players more and more to show us what they can do. Our record is now 3-2 on the season.
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Street Soccer played its first two games on back to back nights. We almost didn't make this evening's game when our van got a flat tire just one mile after leaving the UMC. The tire had a big gash in it and we inflated it just enough to go back to the center by using a "flat fixer" can we bought at a gas station around the corner. Back at the center, we piled into the coaches two cars and made it to the game 2 mintutes before kickoff. Good thing we left early and got dressed out ahead of time.
In the new season four new team members have stepped up to make contributions. The likes of John Oliver and Patrick Allen, though new to the games, have come in and played their part. John from Nigeria despite being over fifty years old left his feet for two slide tackles in this evening's game. Our experienced player like Jorge, Pop, Dave, Michael, Andre, Tony, and Junior were also back in action.
The energy and attitude of the team has never been better. It is exciting to coach to see all the the players so excited to play and so full of energy even after the game. We were adjusting to a new style of soccer, playing without walls, seven a side, but managed a win on our first game. Tonight we played much better strategically against a strong opponent. Although we can improve a lot, we gave our selves the opportunity to win, but missed several easy chances, including an open goal shot to tie the game in the last minute. Two moments stick out, when our goalie collided with the opponent and instead of following the ball went straight to our opponent to see if he was alright. Well done, Tony Kelley. Then after the game, new team member called for an early morning practice at 6am in order to get ready for next week. Actually though, we have a bye this week, so player will be setting their season and life goals as well as practicing for our next game october 8th.
Ron Miller writes about his experience at the Homeless World Cup for Orato Magazine
This story was written by Charlotte's own Ron Miller. Ron, who was with us as part of Team USA at the HWC, wrote this for Orato, a webpage featuring FIRST PERSON, citizen journalism from around the world. We admire Ron for expressing his feelings and emotions as he chronicles here his battle out of homelessness and playing street soccer with Team USA and with Street Soccer 945.
To see the article in full visit: http://www.orato.com/node/3454
By Ronnie Miller , Brooklyn, New York 09/05/07
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I lived there my whole life. I’m not really comfortable with telling you how I ended up on the street.
I have no experience playing soccer. I just came out there and started playing down at the Urban Ministry, and I just stuck with it. A buddy of mine was already playing soccer there, and he introduced me. I wound up joining in the practices and then I just stuck with it.
It helped me to be more of a people person, interacting with others. On the team, you meet so many other people with different backgrounds and you have to learn how to adapt to these people. The coaches there are also a great help, as far as getting things done, helping you set up interviews – right now, I got steady work and a steady place to stay, so everything has been positive. It’s been a good turn around.
Once you take a blow like that and you’re down to nothing, you gotta build your self-esteem back up. It’s all about building your confidence, with your teammates cheering you on, giving you different pointers on and off the field.
Being out on the street, I’ve seen a lot of things. There are a lot of young people that are homeless, and some that just have nothing to do with their time. If they get involved something like this and it’s positive and will build them up to be a better person, no matter what they’ve been in the past, then I think it’s very much needed.
This year, we traveled to Denmark, Copenhagen for the Homeless World Cup.
When you’re homeless, you don’t think about flying thousands of miles to somewhere else to play some soccer – that’s not the first thing that hits. It’s far fetched from the mind at that time.
We had 48 other countries out there. It’s really about trying to bring awareness about homelessness and trying to give motivation and show that you can do better with your life. For me, I felt great out there, trying to break the stereotype of what” homeless” is. We’re more than just what everybody is brought up to think.
I was representing the USA team, and I went out there and played my best. I just enjoyed the camaraderie of all the other teams, meeting other people from different places, knowing that you’re not the only one struggling out there. These guys all have good stories – they’ve turned their lives around, so all that is an inspiration to you to say you can get back on your feet.
It was a wonderful feeling just to be able to go out there – the shock didn’t hit until we came back that we just went across the world and played in a world cup. I don’t even know how to really put it. It was a great experience meeting people from different nationalities and being able to converse with them and swap stories. It was about more than just playing soccer.
When you’re out here on the street, you build your own little communities – you’re networking within the homeless community that you’re in, sometimes to get ahead.
I got my job and I got a place to stay, and if a dude that I know looked out for me, showed me where to go, how to get there, what agency does what – if he needs to come take a shower, or he’s fatigued and he needs to get some rest because he needs to go to work, then my door’s open.
I love my kids. I always got to give them a nice shout out. She’s only two and he’s one, but I have brought them to soccer practice before - and that’s my motivation right now.
Final Day
Daniel, Ray, and Elmer show of the Ombold Trophy competion plate for fourth place as well as their medals. The US earned the respect of its opponents and the referees after an excellent showing in the Cup. We will return home proud and ready to share our story.
An exciting final saw Scotland beat Poland to win the Homeless World Cup.
You can see the large crowd as well as Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik in the brown jacket next to HWC president Mel Young.
Thanking the crowd
pregame photo before our final match against Greece.
Ambassador Cain returned to watch our quarter final victory over Argentina. You can see our players and coaches, the Ambassador in the red tie and Dave Tyahla from the US Soccer Foundation--the charitable arm of the US Soccer Federation, on the US sideline for the match.
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Penalties again . . .
The US beat Argentina 6-4 when Michael McGregor scored a late goal and Daniel Martinez added another. For the US it was another in a string of victories. The win also placed them in the semifinals of the Ombold Trophy competition. After dominating and improved Austria squad, the US gave up a goal at the end the end of the first half and then again just one second before the end of the match to finish in a tie. Sharp play in the field did not extend to tidy finishing in front of the net as the US really should have openned a wider advantage. Despite two saves by keeper Reggie Jones, the US missed it's final penalty, allowing Austria to advance to the final. Reggie was in tears after the game, but after the initial sadness wore offf, the team still felt disappointed, but know in their hearts that they have a lot to be proud of.
Ambassador Cain Attends match--USA gets 2 wins in 2 matches
Ambassador Cain, former president of the Carolina Hurricanes--the championship NHL hockey team, cheered from the US sidelines and spent time with several players before and after the match. Here he poses with the entire team.
Ambassador Cain, a North Carolinian himself shared his personal coin with Rob and Lawrence. Here he is with Rob explaining the design which is a sports motif encompassing both the Danish and American flags.
Here is Lawrence with the Ambassador chatting about the team and Ambassador Cain North Carolina roots.
On the walk back to the dorm after their second win of the day (6-1 over Canada; 8-4 over Kyrgystan) we caught up with Pop and Reggie who had stopped to help a little boy and his mother put the chain back on the boy's bike. Ray was with us and lended his expertise to finish the job. What sweet ambassadors.
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USA wins big over Austria and Slovenia, tie Greece and goes down on penalties.
Despite the loss the US shows great sportsmanship running to thankt the crowd with their Greek opponents.
Captain Daniel consults with the referee before the penalty shootout.
Our team warms up for the big match against Greece.
Elmer scores on a penalty kick.
Three matches in one day was a challenge emotionally and physically. Here Reggie grimaces, preparing for the final match against greece.
Our guys have been in great spirits, acting as true goodwill ambassadors meeting Europeans, African, and fellow Americans traveling abroad.
US ties ireland 8-8, but go down on penalties, then beats India
Michael McGregor, pictured here, scored one of the goals of the tournament on a rare header goal, field in a long lob from Daniel Martinez and redirecting it into the ned. This gave the US its first lead 2-1 after going down early. The US proceeded to dominate the match, leading 6-4 at half, giving up a goal at the final buzzer. That goal would haunt the Americans when a late equalizer gave the Irish a tie. The Irish subsequently advanced after the first round of sudden death penalities.
For the US, the match showed the crowd the true caliber of our team, but the result was disappointing. Nevertheless, the team has been in good spirits. Last night on their own initiative they all went out on a midnight bike ride together on the free urban bike progam here in Copenhagen. Congrats to our boys despite the tought loss.
USA beats Slovakia!
Our first victory had everything you love about sports in it. With Dave out due to injury we moved Reggie into the net and put Daniel into the field where he made immediate impact scoring the first goal. Then, moments later he recieved a blue card once again early in the game for a call that seemed like it could have gone either way. We preach fair play before every match, and our players, many of whom came to us with anger issues, were put the test once again. We stayed composed and kept Slovakia off the scoreboard even playing a man down. Reggie made several tremendous saves including two penalty kicks. Pop had to step in after Daniel's card and delivered an incredibel performance in a new position in a hard fought match. In the end our discipline wore them down. We poured on several goals in the second half and won 6-1. Here is the picture after the game of the guys in high spirits.
The first game was rough. We ask our players to observe fair play at all times. When Michael McGregor slipped he tried avoid the opposing player, but inexplicably recieved a blue a card and had to leave the field. Shortly there after, Dave, Michael brother, suffered a bruised knee after a rough tackle. Here is a picture of the brothers in the training tent after the match. Spirits were low after the match, but we were proud of our team for maintaining their sportsmanship in match that infuriated them more with every passing minute. Congrats to Burundi who shrugged off visa problems to surpass us 4-2.
Match Day One
We played the runner up in last year's World Cup, a tough Kazahkastan in the first match. Reggie Jones scored first for the USA, but after two own goals we lost our nerve and tried to scramble back rather than stick to our disciplined defense and offensive strategy. The game ended 10-3 after Michael and Reggie added the 2nd and 3rd goals of the tournament. We learned a lot from Kazahkastan and the guys can't wait to get back out there for our 4pm match with Burundi to day.
The USA was drawn in the last group with Kazahkastan, Burundi, and Slovakia. We marched through the streets of Copenhagen with 48 countries tou our first match, cheering and singing till we all lost our voices.
Motivational Speaker Kevin Caroll addressed all nations, telling them a ball changed his life and that a ball had changed their lives as well. He said they needed to keep following that ball whether it remained a soccer ball or became a metaphor for their next dream in life. With this forward looking attitude, the games began.
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Arrival in Copenhagen
Dave and Rob sport the US Soccer Federation gear at the openning dinner as the reality of being in Europe set in for everyone. Pop said he felt like he was in a time capsule. He said he got up every hour last night and just had to walk down stairs and stick his head out the door to make sure it was really real. Michael Blackwell and Reginald Jones got up early and already saw the royal palace and the parliament. We are really proud of our group who is soaking up the experience. Our team meeting was very serious and focused. The team sett goals to exhibit great teamwork, return to the us with dignity, show sportsmanship, and to win the whole dern tournament.
The team makes their way to the openning night dinner!
Daniel Martinez, our team captain, has done everything right for the past 8 months. He's moved into a permanent job, moved out of the shelter, bought a car. He's also a mature postitive influence on other team members. He applied for his passport 3 months ahead of the trip. There was a strike in Honduras which delayed matters, and then we learned a week ago that even though Daniel presented a proper birth certificate and his expired passport, green card, and other supporting documents, the Honduran secretary of foreign relations wouldn't issue his passport. Daniel never had a father growing up, so his mother changed his name to remove his father's sir name. Back then, in Honduras, everything was hand written. When the system was computerized, the goverment failed to update his info and the new birth certificate number Daniel was using belonged to someone else in their system. After hours on the phone with embassy and secretary of consular affairs in honduras and with the help of some lawyers we were able to correct the situation at the last possible moment. We got the code to print Daniel passport the night before our departure. Daniel and I celebrated prematurely however, because the greatest challenge would be getting the passport to us in time to leave. I worked the phones all morning to get the proper people in touch with each other so that the passport could be printed early in the day, then arranged for a courier service to ship it from DC to Newark. Here is a photo of Daniel and myself picking up the passport 2 hours before our flight. We jumped up and down and hugged and had the airport worker shoot this celebration photo. Our hearts soared and now we would could relax and enjoy the experience of a lifetime.
Before the trip we watched videos about Denmark, looked at maps of the world and Europe and then watched Gridirion Gang to pump us up.
US Cup and Conference 2007 PHOTOS!
A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!
FAIR PLAY CHAMPIONS . . . WASHINGTON, DC
US CUP CHAMPS FROM CHARLOTTE
MVP . . . ELMER NUNEZ
BEST GOALIE . . . JOSE REYES
CONFERENCE SESSIONS PROVE USEFUL FOR NEW ORGANIZERS
THANKS TO THE FANS, TO THE SPONSORS-BANK OF AMERICA, EUROPSORT, AND COCACOLA BOTTLING, TO THE ORGANIZERS, VOLUNTEERS, AND PLAYERS!
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US Cup and Conference 2007
US Cup and Organizing Conference 2007 starts thursday with National Team practice followed by a meet and greet of conference attendees at the Fox and Hound. The Conference is designed to launch Street Soccer USA, the national organizing body that will support the new programs starting up around the country. Programm graduates will share their experiences, corporate sponsors will speak, and community activists from the University of Nort Carolina will speak about designing succesful community projects.
The Conference Runs all day on friday from 9am -4pm (to attend call 704 926 0618 or 704 926 0633--also call if you want to register a team in the US for upcoming Cups and to be elegible to play in future Homeless World Cups).
Friday evening at 5pm there will be a rules demonstration followed by a Community Open Mic and cookout.
After a follow up session Saturday morning, Games begin at 1:30 at 945 N. College Street and last until 7pm.
Parking is available across the street at the Charlotte Area Fund on North Tryon.
Atttached is a conference schedule.conferenceinfo.doc
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Rep. Bobby Scott Knew About Assault Allegation Against Lt. Gov. Fairfax for Over a Year: Report
Published 02.06.19 10:55PM ET
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The woman who has accused Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault reportedly informed Virginia Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott of the claim over a year ago, ABC News reports. Aides reportedly told ABC that Scott learned of the allegations straight from the accuser, Dr. Vanessa Tyson, who released a statement Wednesday detailing the alleged 2004 assault that she said took place at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Fairfax has denied the allegations. Scott’s aides said Tyson first reached out to him in an e-mail in October 2017, saying that she was “not a fan" of Fairfax, the then-candidate for Virginia Lieutenant Governor. In another email dated November 29, Tyson reportedly again voiced her dislike for Fairfax and wrote that she would like to “talk about it” with Scott. But Scott’s aides said the congressman was not made aware of the “MeToo allegation” against Fairfax until December 2017, and a short time later Tyson reportedly told him the allegation concerned her. No further details were available on what exactly Tyson is said to have told Scott. Scott confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday that Tyson "is a friend" and said that "she deserves the opportunity to have her story heard."
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Your guide to a tough get: 2013 Great American Beer Festival tickets
By Eric Gorski
Brewers Association, Bristol Brewing, Crooked Stave, Funkwerks, Great American Beer Festival, Great American Beer Festival tickets, Hogshead Brewery, Loveland Aleworks, Rocky Mountain Brewery
Even if you do everything right, this might not be you.
Tickets go on sale next week for the Great American Beer Festival, and all signs point to another lightning fast sell-out. Last year, tickets to craft beer’s biggest party disappeared minutes after going on sale to the general public, shattering the previous record of one week and disappointing many.
The Boulder-based Brewers Association, which stages the event at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, says it has taken steps to try to avoid the kind of problems that marred last year’s ticket-buying experience. But the basic math has not changed: Organizers are keeping the cap of 49,000 attendees spread out over four sessions Oct. 10-12.
“I wish everyone who wanted to go could go,” said Barbara Fusco, sales and marketing director for the Brewers Association. “But the math just doesn’t work.”
If anything, the continued explosive interest in craft beer will make tickets an even tougher get. Not only are fans aware of what happened last year, but we’ve also witnessed quick sell-outs at smaller festivals like Avery’s SourFest and crazy long lines at bottle release parties.
On top of that, the BA continues to work with brewers eager to take part in the festival after registration slots vanished in an hour and 40 minutes this year, leaving 375 breweries on a waiting list.
In short, demand to be in the hall at the Great American Beer Festival has never been greater.
First, the basics: tickets go on sale online through Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. MT July 30 for members of the BA and the American Homebrewers Association, and at 10 a.m. MT July 31 to the general public. General session ticket prices have risen to $75 a session, up $10 from last year and $20 from 2010.
For more of the nitty-gritty, check out this FAQ from the BA on ticket purchases.
Here’s one important change ticket buyers need to know about … you will not be able to use the Ticketmaster mobile app to purchase tickets.
Provided by The Brewers Association
During the members-only pre-sale last year, the app failed to ask for membership identification, defeating the whole purpose of the pre-sale. Mobile app sales were cut off when the problem was discovered.
It was not the only pre-sale problem. On the Ticketmaster website, a glitch involving the terms and conditions box prevented some purchases for a period (it was soon fixed).
Fusco said the BA determined only 21 tickets were sold to non-members because of the app problem. Those orders were canceled and put back on sale to members and snatched up in seconds, she said.
So this year … no mobile app. But that does not mean you must be parked at a computer. Ticket-buyers still may use browers on their smartphones and tablets to buy tickets through the Ticketmaster web site. (Still, Fusco recommends going the computer route and making sure you have an established Ticketmaster account first to simplify things).
Don’t be surprised if the members-only pre-sale closes in record time this year. The American Homebrewers Association, which is part of the BA, has experienced double-digit growth in recent years. As of June 30, there were 38,347 members, up from 33,000 on the eve of last year’s GABF.
A deadline looms for those wishing to take part in the GABF members-only pre-sale, as the AHA reminded through its Twitter account last week:
Join/renew the AHA by midnight (MDT) on 7/26 to access the member #GABF tix presale on 7/30! Join: http://t.co/m8i93SqED6 #homebrew #Denver
— AHA (@HomebrewAssoc) July 18, 2013
But being an AHA or BA member does not guarantee GABF tickets. While only members can purchase tickets to the festival’s Saturday afternoon members-only session, the BA caps how many general session tickets are available in the pre-sale, Fusco said (the BA won’t give a specific figure).
Fusco said last year, the members-only pre-sale closed “in a matter of hours.”
Nearly 7,000 Coloradans are AHA members, meaning almost 1 in 5 of members are from here. That suggests that at least some locals are more interested in snagging GABF tickets than tending a kettle.
“I think the pre-sale is certainly one factor in AHA membership, but it’s really just one,” Fusco said. “I would speculate there are very few folks joining the AHA simply for access to the pre-sale.”
After last year’s problems, many angry festival fans called for Ticketmaster’s ouster. So why is the BA sticking with the much-maligned 800-pound gorilla of event ticket sales?
For one, Fusco said, the BA is under contract with Ticketmaster for GABF sales through 2014. The BA, Fusco said, is a nonprofit trade organization and companies such as Ticketmaster are far better equipped to deal with ticket security and warding off scalpers, especially as the festival has exploded in size.
About 600 breweries are expected to take part in this year’s GABF – and hundreds more would like to (provided by The Brewers Association)
The BA attempts to restrict access to ticket brokers by imposing a purchase limit of no more than four tickets per session per buyer, but brokers are adept at circumventing controls.
“Nobody has found a way to completely avoid the secondary market,” Fusco said.
Artists such as Kid Rock, Pearl Jam and Louis CK have sought to keep ticket prices down and frustrate scalpers by developing alternatives to the large ticket operators, but it’s uncertain at this point whether the BA has either the desire or ability to go in that direction at some point.
Said Fusco: “No options are off the table when the time comes to either renew or pursue a different option.”
One sign of the festival’s booming popularity came earlier this month when registration for participating breweries filled in an hour and 40 minutes; last year the roster was filled out in six days.
A stunning 375 breweries were put on the wait list, including Colorado breweries Crooked Stave, Bristol Brewing, Loveland Aleworks, Rocky Mountain Brewery and Hogshead Brewery.
The stakes are high because registration grants access to both booth space and entry into the competition, which awards coveted GABF medals to some and feedback from the judges to all.
Imagine if this crush had occurred last year and Funkwerks had not entered in time.
Wearing hops on your head won’t give you an edge in getting tickets, but AHA membership will (provided by the BA).
Fusco said BA officials continue to cull registrations to weed out those that might be ineligible because of lack of licensing or commercial availability. Some wait-listed breweries have been notified they will be given spots, while others still may get the call, she said.
Organizers figure out how many breweries they can accommodate based partly on how many beers can reasonably be judged in the competition; this year’s GABF will feature roughly 600 breweries, up from last year’s record 578.
The festival always has given participating breweries the option of only having their beers judged in the competition and not poured at booths. Fusco said on average, about 100 breweries choose that path.
With demand so high, she said organizers are working on an “interim solution” that would allow for additional breweries to pour in the festival hall but not be part of the competition.
The BA is also looking at how much space to afford to non-beer exhibitors, which would impact how many breweries it can squeeze in. But that, too, is a delicate balance, Fusco said, with organizers dedicated to accommodating everything from T-shirt booths to the silent disco to give people something to do other than drink.
So to summarize for would-be ticket buyers … get that Tickemaster account squared away, forget the mobile app, get as many friends and relatives as possible online at the right time and consider joining the AHA by the pre-sale participation deadline if you haven’t already.
Also know that you can do everything right and still end up disappointed.
“The festival is sort of like your favorite concert or the Super Bowl at this point,” Fusco said. “And unfortunately, not everyone who wants to buy tickets will be able to buy tickets.”
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Duke's RJ Barrett enters 2019 NBA Draft
Stacy Diaz
In his first career game for Duke, Barrett broke the school's freshman scoring record with 33 points and six assists against No. 2 ranked Kentucky at the Champions Classic. He became one of our best defensive rebounders, and was close to triple-doubles quite a bit because of his scoring, rebounding and assists. He went on to set the ACC's freshman record for total points with 860 and is second in single-season points among all Blue Devils, behind only J.J. Redick's senior year.
During his one-year career at Duke, Barrett average 22.6 points, 4.3 assists and 7.6 rebounds per game, with many agreeing that his game will translate even further to the National Basketball Association level with additional spacing.
The Blue Devils' season ended in a 68-67 Elite Eight loss to Michigan State in the NCAA Tournament.
"It was wonderful to play for Coach K, play for the brotherhood". After discussing with my family and coaches, I have made a decision to declare for the 2019 NBA Draft.
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"It was a dream of mine to play at Duke, ever since I was a young kid", Barrett said in an Instagram video on Wednesday. "He comes from an incredible family, he's a victor in every sense, and it was so special to have RJ in our program". He is more than just a scorer, finishing second on the team in assists with 4.3 per game. The freshman averaged 7.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and recorded just the program's fourth triple double with 21 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against NC State on February 16.
"I just wanted to thank everyone for all the love and support you've given us all season", Barrett said. I hold that very near and dear to my heart. He sent a ton of love to the "Duke Crazies" and said that he would look forward to coming back to Durham to support the Blue Devils.
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Trump And Andrew Cuomo Prepare For A War Over Natural Gas Pipelines
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Curry heads to locker room after rolling ankle
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USA moves to put tariffs on Countless worth of European Union imports
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Essential stats ahead of Liverpool vs Chelsea at Anfield
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UK's anti-EU Brexit Party launches EU election campaign
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Ten Infant Deaths Linked to Rock 'N Play Sleepers
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Injuries 'could play on Harry Kane's mind'
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Kim Jong Un says he's open to another summit with Donald Trump
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American Media looking to sell tabloid National Enquirer
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Ex-Obama White House counsel to face charges in Mueller probe
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Masters: Weather delay interrupts a vintage Tiger Woods charge
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Elaina Plott Mocks Trump, Ivanka Over Chance Meeting
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6 killed in Khartoum protests: minister
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Fisher-Price recalls Rock 'n Play Sleeper after 32 deaths
ATTENTION PARENTS: Fisher-Price has issued a warning after reports of death when infants roll over while using their Rock 'N Play. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) about the Fisher-Price Rock 'N Play seat after reports of infant deaths.
Babies Die in Fisher-Price Rock ‘N Play, Should Be Recalled
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Child, 5, thrown from balcony at Mall of America
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Two of Nintendo's Biggest Exclusives Will Soon Be Getting Labo VR Support
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Ex-Obama WH Counsel Greg Craig Pleads Not Guilty
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Prince Harry steps out WITHOUT Meghan Markle after SHOCK royal baby announcement!
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Man Utd boss Solskjaer ponders long-term captaincy options
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FCC and White House set to announce 5G push
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Measles outbreak in USA raises concerns over unvaccinated population
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Tiger Woods cops accidental slide tackle after miracle shot at US Masters
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Wells Fargo Cuts 2019 Net Interest Income Forecast, Shares Tumble
Shares of Square, Inc ., (NYSE: SQ ) displayed a change of 1.02% ( Gain , ↑) after which it closed the day' session at $75.50. Shareholders tracking shares of Wells Fargo & Company ( WFC ) belongs to Financial sector and Money Center Banks industry.
Lakers, Walton mutually agree to part ways
Johnson attributed his decision in part to his desire and reluctance to fire Walton, who is close to Lakers owner Jeanie Buss. Los Angeles hired Walton after a very successful stint with the Golden State Warriors as an assistant coach.
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submitted by James Victor Prineas on 28.07.2008
George Tzanne's Olive Tree Exhibition
George will be exhibiting paintings and prints of Kytherian Olive Trees at the Zeidoros Center for the Arts in Kapsali, Kythera from August 11 - 22.
submitted by Sydney Morning Herald on 04.01.2007
Collectors a portrait of philanthropy.
Photograph: Logic will prevail ... collectors Ray Wilson, left, and James Agapitos with some of their works. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
A significant collection of Australian surrealist art is about to find a home, writes Steve Meacham.
James Agapitos tells a delicious story against himself. When he began collecting, he was about to buy a Donald Friend work. Then "an acquaintance", an enthusiastic amateur, offered to paint a copy for a fraction of the price.
Being a hard-nosed businessman, Agapitos, agreed. As a result, he says, he deprived himself "of the pleasure of owning an original Donald Friend", and ended up "with a worthless pastiche of no artistic merit".
It was a lesson, the diminutive Agapitos, now 76, never forgot. Which is a great blessing for his adopted country because Agapitos - born in Egypt of Greek parents - is preparing, with Ray Wilson, his partner of 37 years, to donate their collection to the Australian people.
The Agapitos/Wilson Collection of Australian surrealism is worth about $5 million. But in terms of Australian art history, it's invaluable. It includes artists of the stature of Jeffrey Smart, Friend, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Robert Klippel, plus the shy, studious man regarded as our greatest surrealist, James Gleeson - once described by art critic Bruce James as "Dali with dignity".
For the past year, many of the 300-odd works in the Agapitos/Wilson have been touring Australia. But on Saturday they return to Sydney, for an exhibition at the National Trust's SH Ervin Gallery at Observatory Hill (with an invitation-only opening by the Premier, Bob Carr, on Tuesday).
It's a proud moment for a couple who have devoted 15 years turning a private passion into public philanthropy. But now the collection is back "home", they face perhaps their hardest decision. Over drinks and canapes, the ghouls in designer clothes will be pressing them to declare which gallery they will bequeath their collection to.
At their home in Bellevue Hill, Agapitos - a spritely, dapper man - bounds down the steps to open the security gate. Their house a spacious, modern, practical dwelling designed by the minimalist architect Alex Popov. The immediate impression is one of orderliness, fastidiousness. In this temple of the surreal, nothing is out of place.
Their walls are heavy with some of their greatest purchases. Gleeson's stunning self-portrait, Portrait of the Artist as an Evolving Landscape, and his biblically inspired The Sign. Two rare surrealist ceramic sculptures by Boyd. Works by Max Ebert and the South Australian Dusan Marek. Plus a dual portrait of themselves by Salvatore Zofrea, on loan from the Art Gallery of New England.
Did they design their home as a private art gallery? "Of course," says Agapitos, leaving the silver-haired Wilson to fill in the details. "We used to live in a big house in Dover Heights," says the younger man. "It had lots of rooms which we never went into, and lovely views. But what we wanted was an inward-looking house, an open house where we could look at and enjoy the art that became more and more an important part of our ordinary life."
Agapitos, who arrived in Australia in 1952, had begun buying paintings before he met the 20-year-old Wilson in 1967. But, in Wilson's phrase, what they purchased was mere "decor without knowledge". This was rammed home most painfully when they invited Lou Klepac, of the SH Ervin Gallery, to inspect their earlier acquisitions. Agapitos recalls asking Klepac: "So what do you think of my collection?" Klepac replied: "Well, you have the beginnings of a collection."
At first, Agapitos was affronted by Klepac's apparent rudeness, but the dismissive phrase made him ponder on the essential difference between a group of unrelated paintings and a collection. He and Wilson began talking about what sort of collection they should amass. They considered neglected women artists "but most neglected women artists are not that great". Then they thought about collecting artists from the Charm school.
But the direction was sealed in 1990 when they bought "our first real painting" - Gleeson's seminal The Attitude of Lightning Towards a Lady-Mountain (1939). It "was totally different from anything we had seen before". By 1993 - when the National Gallery of Australia mounted Surrealism: Revolution by Night - they were convinced Australian surrealism was a rich, but neglected, stream which required passionate advocates.
By that time, they had become friends with Gleeson. They knew he was a scholarly, reserved man, not given to self-promotion. Nevertheless, they asked him to paint their double portrait, hoping to convince him to enter the Archibald Prize. Gleeson declined, but decided to paint a self-portrait. Agapitos and Wilson went to Gleeson's home in Northbridge to see the work in progress. "It was just a blank canvas with a charcoal outline," Wilson recalls. Yet they thought it so extraordinary they bought it on the spot.
Despite the artist's reluctance, they pressured Gleeson into entering Portrait of the Artist as an Evolving Landscape for the 1994 Archibald. To their chagrin, it didn't win. They felt they'd let Gleeson down. "It was a great disappointment for a man of his age," says Wilson. But, adds Agapitos, future generations will have a chance to decide whether the judges erred: "We're planning to donate it to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. That is where it belongs."
Gleeson, they acknowledge, is one of the twin pillars of their collection, along with Nolan. They own about 100 of Gleeson's works on paper, and "about 30 paintings, the biggest collection of Gleeson oils in the country". He is the only artist whose modern works they collect: the limit of their collection is 1925 to 1955.
So how have they made the money to fund their philanthropy? Agapitos is the financial brain, though he arrived in Australia as a 24-year-old with nothing except "an HSC certificate in Greek which was hardly of any use in Australia, especially in the 1950s". He worked in a factory, bought a grocery shop, then a newsagency, and finally a printing business which allowed him to build a property portfolio.
Their collection, they say, is one of the most important in Australia. "We cannot compare, value-wise, with the collection John Schaeffer put together, or with James Fairfax," admits Agapitos. Nor, for that matter, with the indigenous collection of Janet Holmes a Court. "But it is the uniqueness of our collection which makes it important."
Not that the collection is complete. Agapitos says he was very disappointed when a key surrealist work - Objects in a Landscape (1936) by James Cant - ended up in the National Gallery due to a misunderstanding with a London dealer. And there are a handful of other works which the owners won't sell, despite his pleas to "name your price". They remain convinced key works by Australian surrealists are lying forgotten in attics.
And so we come to that question. Which gallery will inherit their collection? "That decision hasn't been taken yet," says Agapitos. But there are three contenders: Adelaide, because so many surrealists were from South Australia; The National Gallery of Victoria, because "it's the foremost art institution in Australia"; and the Art Gallery of NSW, "because we're Sydney people".
And the winner will be? "I'm sure logic will prevail," says Agapitos, with an enigmatic smile.
Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection ran at the SH Ervin Gallery from June 19 to August 8, 2004.
submitted by Christine France on 24.12.2006
Form and Clay. By Christine France. Biography of Antikytherian sculptor, Marea Gazzard (nee, Poulmides).
Author: Christine France
Publisher: Craftsman House*, Sydney.
Available: Out of Print, 2003. Available through Second Hand Dealers.
Description: Profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col.
1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.160.
*Craftsman House acquired by Thames and Hudson Australia Pty Ltd,
11 Central Blv
Fishermans Bend 3207
03) 9646 7788
enquiries@thaust.com.au
submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 04.11.2006
With a View. By, Orest Keywan. First Prize in the 1999 Sculpture by the Sea.
*Orest Keywan is the life partner of vibrant young Kytherian Sophia Zantiotis. Who in turn is the daughter of former Kytherian optometrist, and "man about town", Steve Zantiotis. Their Kytherian town of origin is Ayia Anastasia.
Steve Zantiotis. 2005
Sophia - my heritage:
"Maternal grandfather: George Combes, born: Katsoulianika, arrived Australia 1912
Maternal grandmother: Sophia Prineas, born Mitata, arrived Australia 1929
Paternal grandfather: Andonis (Anthony) Zantiotis, born Ayia Anastasia, arrived Australia 1911
Maternal grandmother: Eriphilly Coroneo, born Potamo, arrived ?
My mum is Alexandra (Lexie) Zantiotis nee Combes.
Lexie Combes. Steve Zantioitis. 1952
Mum worked at the State Library of NSW for many, many years. During that time she helped Hugh Gilchrist with his original research hunting back through original documentation and source material.
The strongest link for us has always been the Mitata soi, i.e. Peter Prineas (Katsehamos and the Great Idea)'s father, Jim, is my yiayia's brother,
Katsehamos and the Great Idea. The Book
Peter Prineas. The Man
and James Prineas (kythera-net)'s grandmother, Eleni.
The Coroneo soi is Professor Minas, Peter, Eleni Malanos etc
Professor Minas Coroneo. Notable Kytherian
The Combes soi is Manuel the Optometrist
and the Zantiotis soi is Professor Steve Zantis the Optometrist. (formerly Principal Scientist at Bausch & Lomb in New York, then back here at UNSW)".
Orest Keywan.
Orest was born in Marienbad, Czech Republic, on the Czech/German border. He is Ukranian by nationality. He grew up in Canada. He migrated to Australia in the 1960s, where he studied under Lyndon Dadswell, one of Australia's most accomplished sculptors, at the National Art School in Sydney. Orest later became a lecturer at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (now known as the College of Fine Art, University of NSW).
Acclaimed as 'one of the best sculptors we have' by art critic Sebastian Smee, Orest has represented in public and private collections in Australia and internationally.
He's won numerous awards including the Jackson Smith Sculpture Prize, last week, for miniature sculpture and the Art Gallery of NSW Taskforce Prize at SxS in 2004.
Orest exhibits widely and his work is held in public and private collections both nationally and internationally.
Orest Keywan's history at Sculpture by the Sea.
View/download Orest Ketwan. Profile. 2003., as a .rtf file:
Keywan, Orest – Profile.rtf
Orest has entered Sculpture by the Sea every year since 1998. He is the only sculptor to have been selected 9 consecutive times for the event. He didn't submit anything in its inaugural year.
Orest's work which featured at Sculpture by the Sea in 2005 was entitled Constanta Dreaming. The sculpture stood at 192 x 164 x 132cm and was created out of stainless steel, steel, synthetic resin, wood and concrete.
He was the winner of the Sydney Water Sculpture Prize at Sculpture by the Sea in 1999. He has won first prize again this year. He is the first Australian to win the prize twice.
The 10th annual Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
Bondi - November 2006
The 10th annual Sculpture by the Sea Bondi will be held from 2-19 November 2006.
Sculpture by the Sea turns 10! The Bondi-to-Tamarama coastal walk will again be transformed into a magnificent outdoor art gallery, hosting one of the largest and most popular sculpture exhibitions in the world. This year's exhibition will feature 108 sculptures by artists from 11 different countries.
The celebrations begin a week before the Bondi exhibition with one of the most popular sculptures ever exhibited, 10 little friends by Richie Kuhaupt, making a return visit, popping up right across Sydney in unusual and unlikely places from the Blue Mountains to Bondi Beach. During the exhibition Sculpture by the Sea will be taking to the sky with Guy Warren's Icarus to be created several times by a sky writer for the whole of Sydney to see.
The event has always attracted a strong contingent of international artists and in 2006 the work of sculptors from Scotland, New Zealand, Italy, Japan, England, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Malaysia and the USA, as well as the work of Australian sculptors, will be exhibited. For more information, see the Artists page.
For information about Bondi, see the About Bondi page.
For further information on Sculpture by the Sea, visit the Sculpture by the Sea website.
Western Road Trip. By, Orest Keywan*. Exhibited on Bondi beach, November 2006.
Orest Keywan wins the $30,000 first prize at the 2006 Sculpture by the Sea.
*Orest Keywan is the life partner of vibrant young Kytherian Sophia Zantiotos. Who in turn is the daughter of former Kytherian optometrist, and "man about town", Steve Zantiotis. Their Kytherian town of origin is Ayia Anastasia.
Winner of the Sydney Water Sculpture Prize at Sculpture by the Sea in 1999, Orest has also featured works at Sculpture by the Sea in 1998 and 2000 and appeared again in 2005.
Born in Marienbad, Czech Republic, Orest migrated to Australia in the 1960s, where he studied under Lyndon Dadswell, one of Australia's most accomplished sculptors, at the National Art School in Sydney. Orest later became a lecturer at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (now known as the College of Fine Art, University of NSW).
Orest Keywan's work featured at Sculpture by the Sea in 2005 was entitled Constanta Dreaming. The sculpture stood at 192 x 164 x 132cm and was created out of stainless steel, steel, synthetic resin, wood and concrete.
Rocky Moon. By Orest Keywan. On exhibition, Bondi Beach, November 2006.
submitted by Kytherian Cinema Review on 01.06.2006
George Hatsatouris' (1947- ). Oil painting of Ken G Hall.
Ken G Hall was a famous film director in Australia.
On display at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
"This portrait was an entrant in the Archibald Prize competition in 1985. It shows a younger Ken Hall with camera and dog at bottom left, and an older Ken Hall at the top right with characters from some of his films. Look for Dad Rudd and Smithy."
Until recently, the the National Film and Sound Archive was known as ScreenSound Australia.
The Archive is part of the Australian Film Commission.
Canberra Office
McCoy Circuit Acton
Fox Studios Australia
Level 1 Frank Hurley Grandstand Building
FSA #63 Driver Avenue
Moore Park NSW 1363 Australia
Email National Film and Sound Archive, here
www.screensound.gov.au
submitted by Peter Makarthis on 22.04.2006
Red eggs for Easter 2006
Fabia Azara of Bowral assisting her Yaya (Sophia McCarthy) at Inverell preparing eggs for Easter
submitted by John Ellison on 07.04.2006
Monastery on the Hill. Kythera.
From John Ellison's 2005 Exhibition, Katoomba, NSW.
http://www.katoombafineart.com.au/cgi-bin/parts.cgi?rm=artist&aname=John+Ellison
'And Then He Came To The Fountain Where The Lions Are...’. an exhibition of paintings and drawings from Athens, Kythera and Crete.
I had never travelled outside Australia and had no desire to do so. But, my companion Lyn had her mind made up. “Its now or never” she said and it sounded ominous.
I had been reading Henry Miller’s ‘Colossus Of Maroussi’ and ‘A Modern Odyssey’ by Nikos Kazantzakis, author of ‘Zorba The Greek’. The sights and sounds and smells of Crete were vivid in my minds eye, so I said “if we have to go somewhere, how about Greece”?
That was enough. Within a couple of weeks we were flying to Athens. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There really was a huge coloured world out there and it was far more imposing and beautiful than anything I had seen on television or in the travel section of the Sun Herald. I started to draw in a fever.
Athens, Kythera and Crete. The drawings piled up, averaging four or five a day. I had to draw faster and faster in order to digest the plethora of visual experiences on all sides.
Iraklio, the capital of Crete. I am drawing a fountain surrounded by four stone lions. When I finish the drawing, I cross the road and come to a building dedicated to the literary works of Nikos Kazantzakis. I wander in and see on the wall, writ large, ‘And then he came to the fountain where the lions are...’. A quote from ‘Freedom And Death’, one of Kazantzakis’ great books. I am electrified. I had just drawn the Lion Fountain.
Travel as a spiritual experience; nobody told me it could be so. I came home with 95 black and white drawings and proceeded to turn them into paintings. That is what this exhibition is about; a tribute to that marvellous country and the pagan deities that still pulse in the air.
Diakofti. Ship in Harbour. Line drawing.
Diakofti. Ship in harbour. Painting.
Beach at Diakofti. Line drawing.
Ancient Huts - Kythera.
The Sunken Boat, Diakofti, Kythera.
Fishing boats, Kythera, Crete.
Waterfront, Diakofti.
submitted by Jim Tzannes on 08.10.2005
View of Capsali and Hora Castle.
"Capsali" Lithograph, 58 cm x 13 cm.
Edition 150, 1981
Landscape: View of Capsali [Kapsali] and Hora Castle
Painting by George Tzannes
Detailed information about George Tzannes
View of Hora from the castle.
"Hora" Lithograph, 58 cm x 13 cm. Edition 150, 1981
Landscape: View of Hora from the castle.
Painting by George Tzannes.
Architectural details.
"Architectural Details" Four Lithographs, 8 cm x 8 cm each.
Edition 150, 1982.
Architecture: Capital, Window, Rooftop, Door.
Available only as a set of four prints.
Terraced Meadows. Fields near Aroniadika.
"Terraced Meadows" Litho/Silkscreen,
46 cm x 36 cm. Edition 125, 1976
Landscape: Fields near Aroniadika.
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Coverage-Spatial: Newburg Road (Louisville, Ky.)
Back or side view of the Irvine home at the corner of Black Lane and New Burg [Rd.] Joe. Herring sold this place [to] the Gen. Electric Co.
Houses; Dwellings; Architecture; Buildings
A back view of a two story house with clapboard siding. The back is in an L-Shape and a covered porch is in the corner where the two sides meet. The windows on the left side of house have shutters. Several mature trees are near the home. A tree...
Dining room, Woodbine, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924.
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Dining rooms
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Dining room. Polished oval table with silver tureen and candlesticks and eight chairs, plus two chairs and a small child's chair also in the room....
Drawing room, Woodbine, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924.
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Drawing rooms
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Drawing room. Dark wallpaper and parquet floor with area rugs. Two stiff backed armchairs, and sofa with padded bench. Cupboard with lower drawers...
Entrance hall, Woodbine, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924.
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Entrance halls
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Entrance hall. Two white pillars at base of double white staircase with dark carpet. Stairs curve towards one another, becoming at the landing one...
Fence at Mount St. Agnes, 1928.
Churches; Church schools; Snow
Snow covers the ground and there is a line of bushes along a chain link fence. The church in the background appears to be St. Agnes, a catholic church on Newburg road.
Gallagher home on New Burg Rd. From New Burg Rd.
A distant view of a two story brick Federal style house with a central entrance. A triangular portico juts out from the front fa�ade and covers the entrance. The entrance and porch are flanked by pairs of windows. The second story has five...
Home of Mrs. Frances Schmidt. Is on Newburg Rd. next to the Watterson Expressway. Photo April 11, 1960.
A blurred image of a two story house with a front porch and tall, narrow windows on the first and second floor. Mature trees are in the yard. According to the journals of Warren Kellar Frederick, this was the home of Mrs. Frances Schmidt and was...
Hortstern Louis & Henry. Photos of Newburg school.
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Newburg School (Jefferson County, Ky.)
Two exterior views of the Newburg school, a newly constructed long, one-story building.
Louisville & Jefferson County Metropolitan sewer district. Photos of land & Bluegrass creek at Newburg Rd.
Streams; Roads
Views of Bluegrass Creek near Newburg Road and a bridge and billboard on the road.
Louisville Home Builders. Photos of property on Newburg Road near Indian Trail Rd.
Buildings; Houses; Foundations
Exterior views of small, ramshackle houses and a stone foundation on Newburg Road near Indian Trail Road.
Mr. Lloyd Cardwell. Stites Wood Helm & Peabody. Photos of scene of accident on Watterson Expressway near Newburg Rd.
Four lane portion of Watterson Expressway with a grassy median in the middle near Newburg Road.
Old Christian church at Newburg.
Buildings; Architecture; Churches; Religious facilities
A single story rectangular building with clapboard siding and four windows on the side with open shutters located five miles south of Louisville, on Newburg Rd. According to the journals of Warren Kellar Frederick, the church was organized 22 April...
Saint Agnes Church and Monastery, Louisville, Kentucky, 1928.
Architecture; Churches; Catholic churches; Buildings; Sculpture
St. Agnes Church and Monastery located at 1920 Newburg Rd. in Louisville, Ky. A large oculus dominates the front of St. Agnes Church. It is centered above an inset with a small statue and above the triple set of double doors. Each of the entry...
Architecture; Churches; Catholic churches; Buildings; Altars; Naves; Pews; Columns; Arches
Nave of St. Agnes Church located at 1920 Newburg Road in Louisville, Ky. Rows of pews are flanked by large pillars and archways. The end of the nave features ornate recessed carvings and an alter.
Saint Agnes School at the intersection of Newburg Road and Speed Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, 1947.
Schools; Catholics--education; Wooden buildings; Buildings; Streets; Restaurants; Signs (Notices); Electric signs; Fences; Playground equipment; Bicycles
Address: 1920 Newburg Road in Louisville, Ky. Wooden one story building with basement, with a partially visible sign over the door reading "St. Agnes." There is a cross at the top of the portico over the entrance. A number of bicycles are in a rack...
Shady Lane where Baxter Avenue and Newburg Road converge, Louisville, Kentucky, 1953.
Roads; Residential streets; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Neighborhoods
Two photographs of the intersection at Shady Lane and Baxter Ave. in Louisville, Ky., where Baxter Ave. turns into Newburg Rd. The first photograph is taken from Baxter looking towards the intersection with Shady Lane. Several single story houses...
St. Agnes Catholic Church interior, Louisville, Kentucky, 1928.
Churches; Catholic churches; Religious facilities; Interiors; Columns; Sculptures
Address: 1920 Newburg Road, Louisville, Kentucky. View from the rear of the chapel toward the altar inside St. Agnes church. An inscription carved into the altar says, "Sancta Agnes Ora Pro Nobis."
Buildings; Architecture; Churches; Catholic churches; Altars; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Pews; Religious architectural elements
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Trimark Pictures presents
Shark Attack 2 (2000)
"Y'know, sharks are evil."
- Roy Bishop (Daniel Alexander)
Review By: Dale Dobson
Stars: Thorsten Kaye, Nikita Ager
Other Stars: Daniel Alexander, Danny Keogh
Director: David Worth
Manufacturer: Technicolor
MPAA Rating: R for (shark attacks, language and some sexuality)
D D A- B+ D
Shark Attack 2, sequel to 1999's Shark Attack, pits a new cast of characters against more of the mutant Great White sharks spawned in the first film by ill-advised science. After a shark attacks and kills a female diver, the creature is captured by distinguished biologist/shark wrangler Dr. Nick Harris (Thorsten Kaye) for use as an attraction at the fledgling Water World marine park. Beautiful Samantha Peterson (Nikita Ager), the unfortunate diver's sister, turns up to take revenge on the shark, while Water World entrepreneur Mike Francisco (Danny Keogh) tries to put a positive spin on the situation. When the shark escapes back into the open ocean and rejoins a large family group, Australian TV personality Roy Bishop (Daniel Alexander) shows up to take on the ichthyoid menace.
Shark Attack 2's similarities to the classic Jaws are far from subtle. Director David Worth even goes so far as to ape Spielberg's Sheriff Brody zoom/focal length warping trick in one reaction shot. Add in a similar debate about closing the beaches, a scene of fleeing, laughing beachgoers, and shark scenes that rely primarily on stiff mechanical effects, and this effort's "inspiration" is obvious. Even the "marine park" motif is borrowed from one of the later sequels.
Unfortunately, Shark Attack 2 is no Jaws: The Revenge. The no-name cast is stuck with a cliché-ridden script, and such lines as "Anything exciting yet?", "This is so boring" and "Someone has to end this" don't help matters. The plot turns on predictable yet improbable coincidences—in one early scene, an obviously dispensable park attendant throws meat to the shark, then casually makes notes on his clipboard while standing smack dab in the center of a coil of rope, which is tied to the meat, of course. When a shark autopsy turns up "unusual" blood cells, a casual computer query turns up material on the events of the first film, but the information is never put to use. Anatomy is questionable (how much bone does the human stomach area contain?) and much of the story is driven by Dr. Harris' guilt over letting the shark "loose," which makes no sense at all, considering that it was swimming around freely in the ocean before he ever captured it.
The physical production is highly entertaining for all the wrong reasons. As was the case with its predecessor, Shark Attack 2 relies heavily on stock footage of sharks, with little consideration for color consistency, dramatic flow or even the number of sharks visible in any given shot. One shot of a Water World aquarium is obviously achieved through rear projection, as the stock footage is none too steady and the shark wiggles around visibly on the screen. A few CG sharks turn up in the final sequence, but most of the "special" effects are achieved with a fin-cam mock-up, one full-sized head, and plenty of thrashing about with the details obscured by clouds of fake blood. Some conventional shots are equally awkward, particularly one pier sequence in which camera placement was apparently seriously constrained—Nikita Ager delivers several lines while the wind constantly blows her hair across her face, then turns around and walks indignantly away, straight towards the water's edge.
Shark Attack 2 is a typical low-budget actioner, filmed in Bulgaria and South Africa to capitalize on more prominent shark movies, as evidenced by the film's tagline, "In the deep blue sea, there lives a dark secret." Laughably inept, it's good for a few giggles, but only the most die-hard shark aficionado will want to own this one.
Rating for Style: D
Rating for Substance: D
Anamorphic yes
Image Transfer Review: Though Trimark's DVD packaging doesn't mention it, Shark Attack 2 is presented with a sharp-looking anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen transfer. Detail and color are generally impressive, and the source print is in excellent shape. Stock footage often exhibits excess grain, dirt and damage, and some underwater footage is murky, but in general this disc looks much better than past Trimark releases and is definitely up to standard.
Image Transfer Grade: A-
5.1 English no
Audio Transfer Review: Shark Attack 2 features a competent Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, with solid bass and some very effective surround imaging during underwater sequences. Dialogue has a "looped" character in some scenes, and the guttural big-cat growls attributed to the mutant sharks were a constant source of amusement during our viewing. There's nothing here that will push a high-end system, but it's a well-engineered 5.1 soundtrack that frequently belies the film's low-budget nature.
Audio Transfer Grade: B+
Subtitles/Captions in English, Spanish, French with remote access
3 Other Trailer(s) featuring Shark Attack, Octopus, Crocodile
Packaging: Alpha
Extras Review: Trimark provides a handful of standard supplements here: 24 picture-menu chapter stops, subtitles in three languages, and a collection of trailers for low-budget aquatic adventures including Shark Attack, Shark Attack 2, Octopus and Crocodile (directed by Tobe Hooper, no less!) The Shark Attack trailers feature Dolby Digital 2.0 matrixed surround audio, with discrete 4.0 mixes on the latter two; all are presented in 1.33:1 full-frame format.
Extras Grade: D
Shark Attack 2 is a low-budget Jaws imitator that displays every defect common to its direct-to-video breed. Trimark's DVD features a fine transfer, though supplements are few. Shark movie completists may not be able to resist renting this one, but I can't recommend it.
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The Freddie Mercury Biopic
Discuss current and upcoming Queen projects.
Re: The Freddie Mercury Biopic
by MillionaireWaltz'd » Tue Feb 13, 2018 4:51 pm
I'm extremely apprehensive about this film, truly. I personally wanted it to stay in "development Hell", I will admit.
But since it's being made - I really, really hope it focuses a lot on '71-'79 era Queen and the '87-'91 era, as well.
I'm worried that 1980-1986 will be the bulk of the film, though.
I think my fears are well founded, too. Given the fact that both Queen and pop culture in general wants nothing to do with showing anything other than moustache-era Freddie/Queen.
Seriously, I'm surprised that someone (or Queen itself) hasn't Photo-Shopped a moustache on every photo Freddie took from 1946-1980 and from 1987-1991.
MillionaireWaltz'd
Spread Your Wings
by Baba » Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:15 am
I'm really looking forward to the movie. I think it will be great.
by Another_Roger » Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:43 pm
musicalprostitute wrote:
Another_Roger wrote: Would be strange if they didnt have a new song for this film in some form. But I'd rather see them record it with Marc.
Why would it be strange? I think it would be strange to add a new track on a film about Freddie. They have all the music they require for this project - please don't go and spoil the whole thing by releasing what is inevitably going to be a substandard and weak song; it will only make them look like they are trying to jump on the publicity wagon to promote any new song.
Personally, I would love to see them dust down one or two tracks from the archive.
Yeah, maybe you are right about that. I certainly don't want Adam Lambert anywhere near the film. Maybe they could make a scene where they practice "Silver Salmon" in the movie with Marc on Vocals or something.
Another_Roger
by musicalprostitute » Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:08 pm
Another_Roger wrote:
No; we definitely do not want to hear a new QAL track for this movie: not only would it be illogical but it would also bring some unwanted negativity to the film. I think they should just dust down an old unfinished track or two with The Man on vocals.
Hopefully we shall hear some more details about the film itself from Phoebe soon (he is just waiting to get the permission from the film company to write about a few things).
musicalprostitute
Don't Stop Me Now
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by YAFF » Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:05 am
BitterTears wrote: Surely no one grudges them recording 1 song together..?
I do if they try to smear their Lambert feces on any official Queen (not Queen +) product. If Lameberace is even mentioned in the film or on the soundtrack I shall withhold my patronage. No fucking way will they sneak one past me. QAL is embarrassing crap to anyone with good taste. It just is. They can do whatever they want with their game show runner-up but keep it away from anything involving Freddie. Because it won't go over well.
"I don't dislike Freddie and have said he's hands down the best singer I've ever heard." - magicshoes
YAFF
by Spook2 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:21 am
MillionaireWaltz'd wrote: I'm extremely apprehensive about this film, truly. I personally wanted it to stay in "development Hell", I will admit.
as far as I am aware the film goes upto 1985 Live Aid
my belief is if it is a success, Bo Rap part 2 will be made 85 - 91.
it does leave the door open
Spook2
by icy » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:21 am
YAFF wrote:
I hope Q+AL will not have a thing to do with this movie. Even with AL reportedly included as an extra puts a bad taste in my mouth. I wouldn't mind if he is left on the cutting room floor. I don't hate the guy, but Brian and Roger had already hyped and promoted him more than enough by now.
by sharon20 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:43 am
I've always thought it would be a very bad idea to have Adam anything to do with the film but after Yaff's comment I almost wish they'd make him one of Freddie's lovers. Almost.
sharon20
sharon20 wrote: I've always thought it would be a very bad idea to have Adam anything to do with the film but after Yaff's comment I almost wish they'd make him one of Freddie's lovers. Almost.
Why do you feel that way, because AL has said he would like a part as one of Freddie's lovers?
AL should not have anything to do with this film at all, IMO. The last I'd want to see the film as even more promotion and hype for AL. There's been more than enough of that already.
I've never heard Adam even mention the film, I simply meant because of Yaff's nasty way of commenting, just to pee him off. Like I said (Almost). I don't think he should be in the film either.
by CNB » Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:28 am
I agree! I don’t think either Adam or Marc should be connected to this film at all. It should be Freddie’s original voice or no one. But Yaff’s nasty remarks are totally unnecessary, unwarranted and disgusting!
IT'S LATE !!!!!
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER !!!!!
SPREAD YOUR WINGS !!!!!
by icy » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:45 am
sharon20 wrote: I've never heard Adam even mention the film, I simply meant because of Yaff's nasty way of commenting, just to pee him off. Like I said (Almost). I don't think he should be in the film either.
AL said at one point last year he wanted to be a part of the film as one of Freddie's lovers. It's been discussed in here. I found it very crass when AL said that. That put a bad taste in my mouth, sometimes AL seems so careless in what he comes out with.
AL should not have anything to do with this film. If he is a part of the soundtrack, I won't be pleased. Actually, I don't want him to have anything to do with it all. There is no good reason for him to be involved anyway.
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by sharon20 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:49 am
Ah right, must have missed that, where did he say it, in an interview?
sharon20 wrote: Ah right, must have missed that, where did he say it, in an interview?
Yup. I can't link to it, but if you search this thread you might find the posts about it. I will go look the page number up because I can't post links.
Cheers, I did a search but all that came up was speculation about Adam playing Freddie from something said in 2014.
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Willow, Serie per Disney +
Da Variety:
Ron Howard in Talks for ‘Willow’ Sequel Series at Disney+
Ron Howard and “Solo” writer Jonathan Kasdan are in negotiations for a sequel series to Howard’s 1988 feature “Willow” at Disney+, Variety has confirmed.
The original fantasy film came from a George Lucas story and was produced by Lucasfilm, so a Disney+ series adaptation would seem like a natural fit, given how many other Lucasfilm projects are in the works for the streaming platform.
In an interview on MTV’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Howard said that “serious discussions” were ongoing and confirmed that Warwick Davis, who played the titular character in the original, would be returning.
“Warwick is so cool and so good and he’s such a good actor that I really hope we get the chance to see the mature Willow in action,” Howard said.
“Willow” centers on a dwarf Willow Ufgood (Davis) who reluctantly forced into playing a critical role in protecting a special infant named Elora Danan from an evil queen (Jean Marsh). A prophecy told that Elora would bring the queen’s downfall. Willow is helped along the way by a mercenary swordsman, played by Val Kilmer.
Joanne Whalley, Billy Barty and Kevin Pollak all also starred.
The “Willow” series would be the latest addition to the expansive Disney+ original series slate, which already includes adaptations and spinoffs of a host of Disney properties.
Among the Lucasfilm-produced series set up at Disney+ are “The Mandalorian,” the first ever live-action Star Wars series, written and executive-produced by Jon Favreau, an Untitled Cassian Andor series with Diego Luna, and the return of the beloved animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”
Disney+ is set to debut in the U.S. on Nov. 12.
Dal sito DeadLine:
‘Willow’ Series Reboot Based On Film Eyed At Disney+
Willow may be returning to the small screen. A series reboot of the MGM fantasy film from Ron Howard and George Lucas is being considered at Disney+.
Howard, who directed the film from a story by Lucas, told MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that Jon Kasdan, a writer on Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, has been “hounding” him about rebooting the pic for the upcoming Disney+ streaming service.
“I think it’d be a great way to go,” Howard said. “In fact, George always talked about the possibility of a Willow series, and it’d be great and more intimate, and built around that character and some of the others. And Jon Kasdan has, I think, an inspired take on it and it could be really, really cool.”
There have been conversations about the project at Disney+, a source tells Deadline.
The fantasy film starred Warwick Davis as a reluctant farmer who plays a critical role in protecting a special baby from a tyrannical queen who vows to destroy her and take over the world. Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, and Billy Barty also starred.
Should the project move forward, Howard said the title character would be a more mature Willow, older and wiser and presumably more fast with weaponry than he once was.
Jon Kasdan da Indy l' hanno spostato a lavorare su Willow.
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American University of the Middle East wins 2019 Middle East Student Case Competition
University of Jordan named first runner-up with a total of 23 student teams from 16 universities submitting entries this year
Dubai, UAE, May 05, 2019: IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) today announced the winners of its Middle East Student Case Competition held on April 20, 2019. The American University of the Middle East (AUM) in Kuwait was announced the grand winner followed by the University of Jordan as the first runner-up. The winning teams also received cash prizes of US$ 3000 and US$ 2000 respectively.
“We are pleased to announce that this year’s student case competition was a record-breaking year. We received a total of 23 submissions from 16 universities in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia. The submissions underwent a preliminary evaluation by a task force composed of IMA members and the top four student teams were chosen,” said Rishi Malhotra, Academic and Community Relations Manager at IMA Middle East.
The teams who qualified for the final round of the competition were from the American University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Lebanon, The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt, the American University of the Middle East (AUM) in Kuwait, and the University of Jordan.
This year, teams were given the opportunity to analyze a business case study and propose a solution for a food services start-up. The students were tasked to conduct financial planning and analysis by evaluating the first six months of operations and advise the business owner on how to reach her profit goals including the possibility of expanding or aborting the business altogether.
“As a CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) myself, I want my students to go through the process, compare budget versus actuals, be able to identify appropriate metrics, compute variables, and prepare financial statements. That’s how they will see the problems, come up with solutions, and be able to discuss accounting and non-accounting issues,” said Ahmed Yamen, PhD, CMA, CertIFRS & CertIA, the winning team’s mentor and associate professor of accounting at AUM.
The IMA Student Case Competition is a global competition held annually across countries to help accounting and finance professors showcase their students’ business analysis skills and prepare them for the complex business needs of today’s organizations. As a policy, IMA does not allow faculty or other professional assistance in solving the case.
Each case competition entry was required to present a solution to the case. The case study is common to all participating teams across the globe and was published in IMA’s Strategic Finance magazine in August this year.
The judges for this year’s competition were Abdur Rahim Ghulam Nabi, CMA, CFM, APM, Senior Advisor, Finance and Commercial Division at Dubai Airport Freezone, Jyoti Chokshi, CMA, Finance Manager, Jotun U.A.E, and Hanadi Khalife, Director, MEA and India Operations at IMA.
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Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Resurrection Egg
From Treasures of Imperial Russia:
THE RESURRECTION EGG: A FABERGÉ GOLD, ENAMEL, ROCKCRYSTAL AND JEWELED EASTER EGG,WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, PRE-1899
The figure of Christ depicted standing above the tomb which is flanked by two kneeling angels, each figure naturalistically enameled, the robes enameled white, raised on an oval base bordered by diamonds, the underside with radiating flutes alternately enameled white and translucent strawberry red, the whole contained within a rock-crystal egg-form shell with a vertical diamond-set band raised on a domed quatrefoil foot enameled with multicolored scrolls in Renaissance style and with diamond-set ribbons and mounted with four pearls, the pearl stem with a border of diamonds, marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic and assay mark of 56 standard for 14 karat gold.
The Resurrection Egg bears the early hallmark of head workmaster Michael Perchin 1 and the assay marks of St. Petersburg before 1899, a combination of marks dating it to between 1884 and about 1894. The egg is not inscribed with a Fabergé inventory number.
From September 14 to September 20, 1917 Major General Yerekhovich, chief director in charge of the Anichkov Palace, drew up a list of the Dowager Empress’s treasures to be dispatched to Moscow for safekeeping. Among the descriptions, many of which are easily identifiable, he lists “a small crystal egg with figures inside, on a gold stand with eight diamonds, rose-cut diamonds, and pearls,” 2 a description which fits the Resurrection Egg.
On September 15-16, 1917 a train of forty cars full of Imperial treasure, including eighty-four cases from the Dowager Empress’s Anichkov Palace, departed from Petrograd for Moscow. All the treasures from the capital were stored in the basement of the Kremlin Armory. The present object reappears in a 1922 inventory of confiscated treasure established at the time of a transfer from the Kremlin Armory to Sovnarkom as: “a crystal egg containing figures on goldstand with 8 diamonds, rose-cut diamonds and pearls.” 3
The Resurrection Egg has, until recently, been unanimously considered as one of the eggs given by Tsar Alexander III to his wife, Maria Feodorovna. It was exhibited as such at the pioneering Victoria and Albert exhibition in 1977 organized by the late Kenneth Snowman. It was also published as an Imperial egg by all recognized specialists including Snowman (1953, 1962, 1964, 1972, 1979), Habsburg (1979, 1987, 1993, 1996), Solodkoff (1979, 1984, 1988, 1995) and Hill (1989)....MORE
Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Winter Egg
The highest original cost of an Imperial egg and, until the auction of the Rothschild egg, the highest modern auction price.
Intended as a gift to Empress Maria Feodorovna. Surprise – a basket of anemones, decorated with diamonds and emeralds. At the present time is in the collection of the Emir of Qatar. With 1,300 rose-diamonds in the egg body, another 1,378 for the small flower basket and 360 brilliant diamonds again on the egg body, the Winter Egg cost 24,600 rubles in 1913 the equivalent of approximately 3 million dollars today.
In 1949, it was sold for 1870 pounds ($5,236). In 1994, it was acquired anonymously at public auction by an American businessman for the record price of $5.587 million dollars. Auctioned again at Christie's, April 19 2002 the "Winter Egg" sold for $9.58 million.
In 1927 this egg was sold by the Antikvariat to Emanuel Snowman of Wartski Jewelers, London. In 1934 Wartski sold it to Lord Alington, London. In 1948 it was owned by the late Sir Bernard Eckstein and in 1949 it was sold by Sotheby’s London to Bryan Ledbrook, UK. Around 1975 the egg disaperead and was relocated in a London safe in 1994. In November 1994 the egg was sold by Christie's Geneva on behalf of a trust to a telephone bidder, acting for a US buyer. In 2002 Christie's New York sold it to the Emir of Qatar.
Set on a Siberian rock crystal base shaped into a block of melting ice, the thinly carved, transparent rock crystal egg was delicately engraved and opens vertically to reveal a platinum basket of wood anemones – each flower carved from a single piece of white quartz.
The intrinsic value of the egg is comparatively quite low. The Winter Egg consists of two blocks of rock crystal – a couple of thousand dollars – a bit of platinum and some three thousand minute rose cut diamonds – another couple of thousand dollars. So all in all, if you break this egg up, what is it worth? Four or five thousand dollars.
Egg Decorating: The Moscow Kremlin Egg
The largest of the Fabergé Imperial Eggs
Moscow Kremlin Egg (1906)
Materials: Onyx, quatre-couleur gold, silver, opalescent white and translucent guilloche green enamel, glass, oil painting
Dimensions: Height of egg: 361 mm. (14 3/8 in.)
Base of egg: 185 mm. x 185 mm. (7 1/4 in. x 7 1/4 in.)
Owner: Armoury Museum of the Kremlin, Moscow
This egg, also known as the Uspenski Cathedral Egg, is the tallest of the known Imperial Easter eggs. It represents the Uspenski (Dormition) Cathedral where the tsars of Russia were crowned. Based on a cup attributed to the Nüremberg copper and silversmith Sebastian Lindenast, the elder (ca. 1460–1526), the walls, towers, and staircases are clustered around the central, opalescent white enamel egg, the top of which takes the form of a graceful yellow gold cupola. The turrets of the Kremlin are fashioned in red gold and the roofs are enameled translucent light green. There are chiming clocks in two of the towers, the dials measuring about half an inch (12 mm.) in diameter. The Spasskaia Tower, which is duplicated, bears the coat of arms of the Russian Empire and of Moscow. Through the glass windows of the egg can be seen a minutely accurate representation of the interior of the cathedral, with its rich carpets, decorations, and High Altar, shown on an oval glass plate.
Two Cherubim chants, traditional triumphal Easter hymns, are played when a clockwork mechanism is wound up by a gold key two and a half inches long. Tiny enameled icons of Our Lady of Kazan and Christ Pantocrator decorate the walls of the cathedral. The egg, which rests on an octagonal white onyx base, is consciously designed as a pyramid and is built up of other smaller pyramids.
The making of this egg marked the Imperial couple’s return to Moscow in 1903. They had tended to avoid the capital following a disastrous incident during the celebrations to mark their coronation. Scholars believe the egg was to have been presented in 1904, but there was a delay until 1906, probably because of the Russo-Japanese War or the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Nicholas II’s favorite uncle and brother-in-law. Despite these sad associations, the Moscow Kremlin Egg held the most prominent position in Alexandra Fedorovna’s display cabinet in the Mauve Sitting Room of the Alexander Palace. The tsarina was deeply religious and became more so with age.
Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Colonnade Egg
One of the four eggs in the collection of Elizabeth II Regina
When Tsar Alexander III passed away in 1894, the tradition was continued by his son, Tsar Nicholas II who commissioned Fabergé to create Easter eggs for both his wife and his mother every year until 1917.
the Colonnade Egg was created in 1910 to depict the Imperial family with columns surrounding a pair of platinum doves that represent the enduring love between the Tsar and his wife, and four figures seated around the base, holding a flower garland to represent the Tsar’s four daughters. the gold egg itself, enameled in pale pink works as a clock with white enameled dial and rose-cut diamond numerals set in a band round the egg.
This Imperial Easter Egg – which incorporates a rotary clock in its design, the movement supplied to Fabergé by Henry Moser & Cie – is in the form of a classical temple. The colonnade of pale green bowenite columns supports the pink guilloché enamelled egg, surmounted by a cupid. Below a pair of platinum doves sits on a truncated column and around the base four female silver-gilt cherubs hold garlands of roses in red, white, green and yellow gold. This Easter egg is an allegory of the imperial family in 1910.
Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Trans-Siberian Railway Egg
The Trans-Siberian Train Easter Egg was made in 1900 to commemorate the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. A route map of the railway is engraved across the face of the egg, with major stations marked by precious stones. Inside the egg is a miniature Trans-Siberian train. The craftsman placed a complex mechanism inside the locomotive so that the miniature train could be set in motion by winding the mechanism with a tiny gold key. The train consists of a locomotive and has five gold carriages labelled "direct Siberian communication", "ladies only", "smoking" and "non-smoking", while the last carriage is a chapel. This egg is part of the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection.
Egg Decorating: The Rothschild Fabergé Clock Egg
This is the only non-Imperial egg that we link to, in part because it is one of only three with both an automaton and a clock and partly because it set three auction records, the $18,500,000 realized price makes this the most expensive timepiece, Russian object and Fabergé object ever sold at auction.
The Cristies lot notes describes the egg as:
A JEWELLED VARI-COLOURED GOLD-MOUNTED AND ENAMELLED EGG ON PLINTH, INCORPORATING A CLOCK AND AN AUTOMATON
Lot Notes
This previously unrecorded Fabergé egg is known from the codicil to her will quoted above to have been given to Germaine Alice Halphen on her engagement to Baron Edouard de Rothschild in Paris, and married in 1905. It was a gift from Edouard's elder sister Béatrice (also known as Béatrix) Ephrussi, née de Rothschild, and has remained in the recipient's family until now.
Fifty Imperial eggs were produced and delivered by the Fabergé workshops in St. Petersburg as recorded by Tatiana Fabergé, Lynette Proler and Valentin Skurlov in their book The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 1997, although not all survive.
Between 1885 and 1896, eleven were commissioned by Emperor Alexander III (1881-96) as Easter gifts to his wife, Maria Feodorovna, née Princess Dagmar of Denmark. The remainder were given by Nicholas II to his mother as well as to his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, née Princess Alix of Hesse und bei Rhein, from 1896 to 1916. These eggs, representing the Resurrection, were given on the moveable Feast of Easter ('Paskha' in Russian) each year except 1904 and 1905, on account of the Russo-Japanese war.
Comparable in importance and quality and, indeed rarer than, the Imperial eggs, a very few eggs were produced by the Fabergé workshops in St. Petersburg for a select group of exceptionally wealthy private clients. These include the Egg acquired by the Duchess of Marlborough, née Consuelo Vanderbilt, during her visit to St. Petersburg in 1902, the Iusupov Egg of 1907 commissioned by Prince Felix Iusupov, as a 25th wedding anniverary present for his wife, Zinaida, and Dr. Emmanuel Nobel's Ice Egg. (Tatiana Fabergé, et al, op. cit., pp. 70-91.)
Another enormously wealthy client, Alexander Kelkh, presented his wife, Varvara Petrovna, née Bazanova, no fewer than seven large Fabergé eggs between 1898 and 1904, the last being the Chanticleer Egg. Practically identical to the present egg, it is enamelled in blue, with variations to the plinth, and to the rose-diamonds on the cockerel's throat. This repetition of form in different colours is not unique and is mirrored in the Imperial Blue Serpent Clock Egg of 1887 and the translucent pink Duchess of Marlborough Clock Egg of 1902.
Both the Rothschild egg and the Chanticleer egg are in fact similar in style to the Imperial Cockerel (formerly Cuckoo) Egg of 1900. All these were inspired by the famous ormolu automaton Peacock Egg in the Winter Palace made by James Cox (d.1788). For over 20 years Carl Fabergé voluntarily gave his time and expertise, to the Imperial Hermitage, repairing, restoring and classifying its treasures. Fabergé, together with a mechanic, were known to have examined and repaired the automaton Peacock Clock, and familiarity with this large-scale mechanical work of art led to the design, of the smaller 1900 Cockerel Easter Egg, and the slightly later Rothschild and Chanticleer Eggs.
In fact these three large eggs are the only Fabergé eggs incorporating both a clock and an automaton. While it has not been possible to examine the movement of the Cockerel Easter Egg, from the description of that of the Chanticleer Egg, the latter's appears to be identical to that of the Rothschild Egg. (A. Chapuis and E. Droz, Automata, Switzerland, 1958, pp. 229-232, figs. 280-284.)...MORE
Here's the Christies press release announcing the auction:
THE ROTHSCHILD FABERGÉ EGG TO BE OFFERED AT CHRISTIE’S LONDON IN NOVEMBER 2007
Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Blue Serpent Clock Egg
From Pearly's Qunol:
1887 - Blue Serpent Clock Egg
The egg stands on a base of gold that is painted in opalescent white enamel. The base features three panels with raised motifs in four gold colors, representing the arts and sciences. The top of the egg is encircled by a white band with roman numerals, rotating around the egg, driven by a clock inside the egg. A serpent, set with diamonds, coils around the base up to the middle of the egg. Its head points to the hour, indicating the time.
The egg is enameled in translucent blue and has diamond-studded gold garlands surrounding the top and bottom of the egg. On each side of the egg a sculpted gold handle arches up in a "C" shape. It is attached to the egg on the top near the apex and on the lower half of the egg, near the center.
This is the first of the Imperial Fabergé eggs to feature a working clock.
Since this egg is a working clock, it contains no surprise.
The crafting of this Imperial egg is credited to Mikhail Perkhin of Fabergé's shop.
Fabergé created a very similar egg in 1902, the Duchess of Marlborough Egg for Consuelo Vanderbilt. This clock egg is larger than the Blue Serpent Clock Egg and is enameled in a pink, rather than blue.
Descriptions from the Russian State Historical Archives, the 1917 inventory of confiscated Imperial treasure and the 1922 transfer documents for the egg all describe it as containing sapphires. However, the Blue Serpent Clock Egg contains no sapphire. No one knows what happened to the sapphires.
The Blue Serpent Clock Egg was presented by Czar Aleksandr III to Maria Fyodorovna on Easter day, April 5th, 1887. It is possible that by this time, the egg gift was already an established tradition, allowing Fabergé and his craftsmen an entire year to craft the next egg. This would explain in part why this egg is so much more elaborate than the first Imperial Easter egg.
This egg, along with the First Hen Egg, is the only known surviving Imperial egg from the 1880's.
The egg was housed in the Anichkov Palace until the 1917 revolution. Along with the other Fabergé eggs in the palace, the Serpent Clock Egg was transferred to the Armory Palace of the Kremlin in mid September of 1917. In 1922 the egg was likely transferred to the Sovnarkom where it was held until it was sold abroad to Michel Norman of the Australian Pearl Company. Between 1922 and 1950 the egg was bought by Emanuel Snowman of Wartski Jewelers, sold, and bought back by Wartski. The egg was sold again by Wartski around 1974 to an unknown party, and was held in a private collection in Switzerland in 1989. In 1992 it was owned by Prince Rainier III of Monaco. When Rainier III died in 2005, Prince Albert II inherited the egg along with the throne.
Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Cradle with Garlands and Rennaissance Eggs
First up, from Pearly's Qunol:
1907 - Cradle with Garlands Egg
Dimensions: Height: 14,6 cm (5.7 inches)
This gold egg in the Louis XVI style, is enameled translucent pale blue and decorated with a band composed of painted enamel roses and translucent emerald green enameled leaves, panels of oyster enamel and bands of scrolls and acanthus in colored gold. The Egg is supported in a gold cradle by four columns with Cupid's sets of arrows studded with diamonds. The whole is supported on a carved oval alabaster base and stands on four bun feet in chased colored gold.
The now missing surprise was made of white enamel, ruby, pearls, rose-cut diamonds, watercolor (possibly on ivory), probably gold. According to the original invoice the surprise was a miniature of all the Imperial children.
Private Collection, Robert M. Lee, USA
And from Treasures of Imperial Russia:
THE RENAISSANCE EGG: A FABERGÉ IMPERIAL EASTER EGG PRESENTED BY EMPEROR ALEXANDER III TO HIS WIFE THE EMPRESS MARIA FEODOROVNA AT EASTER 1894,WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG
The egg-shaped casket carved of translucent bluish gray agate opening horizontally and raised on an oval gold foot, the hinged cover applied with a white-enameled latticework and set with diamond and ruby flowerheads at the intersections, the top wit the diamond-set date 1894 on an oval reserve enameled translucent strawberry red, the reserve bordered by green-enameled scallop shells interspaced with red and white enameled ovoids, the lower border of the cover with scallop shells enameled translucent strawberry red between white enamel scrolls set with diamonds, the cover opening to reveal interior rims engraved with scrolling foliage on a white enamel ground, the diamond-set rim of the lower half enameled translucent strawberry red, the “straps” of the lower half enameled with blue scallop shells and berried green leaves, each end of the casket mounted with a gold lion mask and loose ring handle, with diamond-set clasp, the foot repoussé with leaves enameled translucent green interspaced by translucent red enamel bellflowers, marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic and assay mark of 56 standard for 14 karat gold.
The 1894 Imperial Egg is described on its invoice as:
“Agate egg, gold mount, decorated in the Renaissance style, with diamonds, rose-cut diamonds, pearls and rubies. St. Petersburg, May 6, 1894 4750 r.” 1After its confiscation by the Provisional Government, it was sold by Antikvariat for 1,500 rubles to Armand Hammer....MORE
Egg Decorating: There's Top 1% Rich and then There's Autocrat of All the Russias Rich
First posted Palm Sunday, 2011.
While Fabergé created thousands of jeweled Easter eggs it is the 65 large eggs that receive the most attention. Included in that number are the 50 Imperial eggs, of which the wherabouts are known for 42.
There are no eggs referencing Palm Sunday so I was Ieft to choose from those with either a biblical motif or some green coloring.
An odd little site called Pearly's Qunol has the most pictures, Treasures of Imperial Russia the highest pixel counts.
Here's the 1898 Lilies of the Valley egg.
The egg enameled translucent rose pink over a guilloché ground and surmounted by a diamond and ruby-set Imperial crown, the egg divided into four quadrants by diamond-set borders, each quadrant with climbing gold sprays of lily of the valley, the flowers formed by diamond-petaled pearls, the finely sculpted gold leaves enameled translucent green and rising from curved legs formed of wrapped gold leaves set with diamonds ending in scroll feet topped with pearls, a pearl-set knob at the side of the egg activates a mechanism which causes the crown to rise revealing a fan of three diamond-framed portrait miniatures of Tsar Nicholas II and the children of Nicholas and Alexandra, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, each signed by the miniaturist Johannes Zehngraf, the reeded gold backs of the miniatures engraved with the date 5.IV.1898, marked on these backplates with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic and assay mark of 56 standard for 14 karat gold.
Fabergé's invoice lists this egg as:
“April 10. Pink enamel egg with three portraits, green enamel leaves, lilies of the valley pearls with rose-cut diamonds. St. Petersburg, May 7, 1898 6700r.” 1 The Lilies of the Valley Egg is adorned with the favorite flowers and the favorite jewels – pearls and diamonds – of the young Empress. It also contains, as its surprise, miniatures of her three favorite people in the world: her adored husband Nicholas and her two daughters, Olga (born 1895) and Tatiana (born 1897). Moreover, Fabergé designed the egg in the Tsarina's favorite style – Art Nouveau. Doubtless this egg was also one of her favorite objects by the Russian master.
The eight missing eggs would make for one heck of an Easter egg hunt.
Egg Decorating: The Fabergé Steel Military Egg
Easter 1916. Rasputin and war.
Easter was late that year, falling on April 23rd.
1916 - Steel Military Egg
The exterior of this egg is made from steel, coated in translucent enamel, surmounted by a gold crown. It is divided into three sections by two smooth horizontal lines. In the middle section, in inlaid gold, is an image of George the Conqueror in a diamond-shaped frame outlined in laurel leaves. This is topped by the Russian emblem, a double-headed eagle beneath three crowns. Resting on the points of four miniature artillery shells, this egg makes up in sober significance what it lacks in ornamentation.
The surprise is a miniature painting by Vassily Zuiev on an easel made of gold and steel. The easel is coated in translucent enamel. The frame of the painting is lined with diamonds.
Czar Nicolai presented the egg as an Easter gift to his wife, the Czarina Aleksandra Fyodorovna probably on April 23, 1916.
The egg is one of the ten Imperial eggs that were never sold, and is now housed in the Kremlin Armory.
The Economist: "Over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar."
Those are words I never expected to see out of the Grande Dame of the British financial press. They have been staunch proponents of the AGW juggernaut and would brook no dissension, even if the dissent was from the policy prescription of carbon trading rather than from the science of absorption bands of the CO2 molecule. Wow.
This follows on yesterday's link to the middle of the mainstream German paper Die Welt: "Die Welt: Scientists warn of ice age".
From The Economist:
A sensitive matter
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away
OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO₂ put there by humanity since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.”
Temperatures fluctuate over short periods, but this lack of new warming is a surprise. Ed Hawkins, of the University of Reading, in Britain, points out that surface temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range of projections derived from 20 climate models (see chart 1). If they remain flat, they will fall outside the models’ range within a few years.
The mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now. It does not mean global warming is a delusion. Flat though they are, temperatures in the first decade of the 21st century remain almost 1°C above their level in the first decade of the 20th. But the puzzle does need explaining.
The mismatch might mean that—for some unexplained reason—there has been a temporary lag between more carbon dioxide and higher temperatures in 2000-10. Or it might be that the 1990s, when temperatures were rising fast, was the anomalous period. Or, as an increasing body of research is suggesting, it may be that the climate is responding to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in ways that had not been properly understood before. This possibility, if true, could have profound significance both for climate science and for environmental and social policy.
The insensitive planet
The term scientists use to describe the way the climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels is “climate sensitivity”. This is usually defined as how much hotter the Earth will get for each doubling of CO₂ concentrations. So-called equilibrium sensitivity, the commonest measure, refers to the temperature rise after allowing all feedback mechanisms to work (but without accounting for changes in vegetation and ice sheets)....MUCH MORE
Gold Has Yet To Break the Series of Lower Highs Dating to Last October
$1595.00 last.
A bit of simple chartology (just the way we like it):
As we said in February's "Gold Is Approaching a Waterfall Decline" at $1627.90:
...The next area of support is all the way down at $1525 from May 2012....
Was Alan Turing A pre-Internet Troll? Plus: How to Always Win a Turing test
From naked capitalism:
We have a lot to be thankful for today that we owe to Alan Turing – who is generally recognised as among the first, if not the first, computer scientist. But, on the other hand, we also have a lot that we can trace back to Turing that we should be in no way grateful for as it has filled our minds with stupidities and our universities with people talking nonsense. Without detracting from Turing’s undoubtedly important achievements we here focus on the latter and how some of Turing’s ideas came to infect the human sciences in general and economics in particular.
Alan Turing: Pre-Internet Troll
Perhaps there is some irony in the fact that one of the men responsible for the invention of the modern computer was also an insufferable troll who seems to have persistently engaged in acts that were designed to disturb the emotional equilibrium of those around him. Turing’s biographer Andrew Hodges relates one of these incidents which highlights well Turing’s charmingly knavish nature:
Alan was holding forth on the possibilities of a ‘thinking machine’. His high-pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: “No,I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is a mediocre brain, something like the President of American Telephone & Telegraph Company”. The room was paralysed while Alan nonchalantly continued to explain how he imagined feeding in facts on prices of commodities and stocks and asking the machine the question “Do I buy or sell”?
It seems that it is in this vein that we should read his seminal 1950 paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’. What Turing was ostensibly dealing with in this paper was whether or not a computer could be said to “think”. However, at the very beginning of the paper Turing redefines “think” to simply mean that a computer might imitate a human being so perfectly that the person cannot distinguish between the computer and another human being. This, of course, is not the typical manner in which to discern if someone or something is thinking, however we shall consider this point in more depth later on. For now let us simply examine what Turing was doing.
In the paper Turing proposed what came to be known as the “Turing test”. In this test a person would sit in front of two curtains, behind one is a computer and behind the other is another person. The person in front of the curtains would then communicate with the two mystery entities using a keyboard and a screen. Finally they would try to discern which of the entities is human and which is machine.
There is a strong element of trolling manifest in this thought experiment. Turing begins the paper in question by trying to set the reader off-balance by making the case that if you put a man and a woman behind the curtains most people would not be able to guess which is which if the man wants to trick the person guessing. Turing then goes on to make the even more disconcerting proposition that if we replace either the man or the woman with a machine we still might not be able to tell them apart. His account is altogether unsettling – and one gets the distinct impression that this is purposefully so....MUCH MORE
From Nature's Turing special issue:
Big Brains: "Turing at 100: Legacy of a universal mind"
ANDY POTTS; TURING FAMILY
and "Artificial Intelligence: Why There is No Reason to Fear The Singularity/HAL 9000"
Three Decades After The Attempted Silver Corner, Herbert Hunt is Once Again A Billionaire
We've written about the action a few times.*
Hunt Becomes Billionaire on Bakken Oil After Bankruptcy
William Herbert Hunt was once one of the wealthiest men on Earth. With his brother, Nelson Bunker Hunt, the billionaire bought more than 195 million ounces of silver -- 60 percent of the U.S. market -- in the 1970s. By early 1980, their stake was valued at more than $9 billion.
The Hunts’ position imploded when silver prices plummeted 80 percent over the course of a few weeks in March 1980, culminating 33 years ago this week on what traders called Silver Thursday. The crash rattled Wall Street and sent the Texas brothers into bankruptcy.
Hunt is once again a billionaire, this time with oil. In October, he sold 43 percent of the North Dakota petroleum assets owned by his closely held Petro-Hunt LLC for $1.45 billion to Houston-based Halcon Resources Corp. (HK) The cash and stock deal made Hunt Halcon’s largest shareholder and boosted his net worth to $4.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
“The numbers are out there,” said Hunt, 84, in a telephone interview from his Dallas headquarters. “We’re a family-owned company -- a private company -- and are really not interested in being out in the public arena.”
Hunt hasn’t appeared on an international wealth ranking in 25 years. He said oil will continue to fuel the U.S. economy.
“The people of the United States don’t recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy,” he said. “Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.”
Harold Hamm
The $9,500 per acre Halcon paid for Hunt’s land is about average for recent deals in the Williston Basin, according to Eli Kantor, Senior Exploration and Production Analyst with Iberia Capital Partners LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana....MORE
*From 2009's "How to Break a Market Corner: Breeding Breakthrough Helps Sushi Baron Create Sustainable Tuna":
...*In January 1980, as the Hunt Brothers were gunning the price of silver toward it's historic high, the CEO of one of the world's largest trading firms said "Those boys don't know what deep pockets are", rather an amazing statement when talking about billionaires.
Within 48 hours both U.S. silver futures exchanges had gone "Liquidation only", the corner was broken and the Hunt's had lost their fortunes.
I'll leave it to you to guess the CEO.
From 2010's "Hunt Consolidated Creates Two New Energy-linked REIT's, Getty Realty Pumps Gas and Yield (GTY; LUKOY)":
...The Hunt REIT is not open to the public. For folks who don't know the Hunt family genealogy (picture Medusa's hair) Hunt Consolidated is the holding company for Hunt Oil Company, run by Ray Hunt, half-brother of Nelson Bunker who degraded the family crown jewel, Placid Oil, by way of a silver-induced madness bankruptcy back in the '80's.
In '92 Ray got into a bidding war with Ross Perot to buy Bunker's ranch. It was not sibling loyalty.
Finally, some of the details (and a bit of repetition) from 2010's "Wheat prices ease after Russia predicts stable exports" and "...Speculators ‘Hunt What’s Moving":
...Should prices see $8.50 the opportunities on the short side would almost be a lock.
I say almost because the serious money in commodities can pretty much get prices to where they want them, at least for short periods.
When the Billionaire Hunt brothers were attempting to corner the silver market in January 1980 the head of one of the world's largest grain traders said "Those boys don't know what deep pockets are".
The "commercials" had been shorting into the Hunt bros. buying and the grain trader was at the top of the "commercial" heap.
On January 21 the COMEX went "liquidation only".
On January 22 the CBOT went "liquidation only".
On Tuesday the 22nd silver closed at $34, down 27% from its close the previous Friday.
The Hunt's still had enormous paper profits but any attempt to book them would smash the markets even further.
Prices declined to $17 by March, down 66% from the January high and the Hunt's were receiving calls of $60 Million per day in variation margin. On March 27 the price dropped from $21.62 to $10.80 and one of their brokers, Bache was in violation of net capital requirements and another, Merrill Lynch was on the brink.
As the attorneys got involved over the next few years, oil prices headed south, destroying the value of Daddy's creation (and the brother's piggybank) Placid Oil.
Bunker Hunt filed for bankruptcy in September 1988 as did his brother and Placid.
At the time the grain trader spoke it is probable that the various branches of the Hunt families comprised the wealthies "family" in America.
That's why I say "almost" a lock.
Corn Hammered Limit Down on Stocks/Intentions Report
Corn down 40 cents at $695.25, wheat down 40.5 cents at $695.75
From the AP via Washington Post:
USDA report: Farmers intend to plant 97.3 million acres of corn this year, highest since 1936
The USDA reports that farmers intend to plant 97.3 million acres of corn this year, the most since 1936.
The spring planting survey released Thursday says the 2013 corn planting forecast is up slightly from last year’s 97.2 million acres.
Corn remains profitable, as prices are strong after last year’s drought left the grain in short supply.
Record corn acreage is expected in Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, and Oregon.
But some Corn Belt states will continue to be affected by the worst drought since the 1950s, with slightly less planted acreage expected....MORE
From Agrimoney:
Grain futures plunge as US supplies beat forecasts
Corn futures plunged the exchange limit in Chicago, with soybean and wheat prices falling too, after the US said that its stocks of all three crops were larger than had been thought, easing concerns over tight supplies.
The US Department of Agriculture added to ideas of an easing in the corn supply squeeze by pegging domestic sowings of the grain at 97.3m acres, a little above market expectations, and the largest area since 1936.
The USDA said that US corn inventories as of the beginning of the month had fallen to 5.40bn bushels, down some 600m bushels year on year, but well above the figure that investors had expected following last year's drought-hit harvest.
The immediate market reaction was to send corn futures for May down the exchange limit of $0.40 a bushel, or 5.4%, to $6.95 ¼ a bushel.
The new crop December contract dropped 3.6% to $5.50 ¾ a bushel.
Wheat tumbles
For wheat, the USDA said that start-of-month inventories were, at 1.23bn bushels, a little higher than a year before, rather than showing the small decline that investors had expected, spurred by ideas of livestock feeders switching grains....MORE
"US natgas futures slip ahead of holiday despite bullish EIA"
The new front futures are off 3 cents at $4.05.
* Front month hits highest mark since early September 2011
* Forecasts for second week of April turn milder
* Nuclear outages slip below last year, five-year levels
* Coming Up: Baker Hughes rig data Thursday
By Joe Silha
NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) - Front-month U.S. natural gas
futures lost ground on Thursday, pressured by the milder turn in
extended weather forecasts despite an early rally attempt after
a government report showed a weekly inventory withdrawal well
above market expectations.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration report showed
total domestic gas inventories fell last week by 95 billion
cubic feet to 1.781 trillion cubic feet.
Most traders viewed the decline as supportive for prices,
noting stocks usually build slightly that week and the draw came
in well above the Reuters poll estimate of 87 bcf.
"The net withdrawal was in the upper end of the range of
expectations and also bullish relative to the five-year average
for the date," Citi Futures analyst Tim Evans said in a report.
"Natural gas remains supported by current heating demand,
but will become vulnerable to a downside test once the weather
moderates and heating demand fades away," he added.
By 12:05 p.m. EDT (1605 GMT), front-month gas futures
on the New York Mercantile Exchange were down 2.9 cents at
$4.039 per million British thermal units after climbing early to
a fresh 19-month high of $4.121....
Natural Gas: In What Should Be the Start Of Injection Season, Market Instead Pulls 95Bcf From Storage
And the market yawns. The front futures are flat at $4.07. Yesterday was the highest close in 18 months and the pep seems to have gone out of the longs.
Natural Gas Fluctuates After Supplies Decline More Than Forecast
Natural gas futures fluctuated in New York after a government report showed that U.S. stockpiles fell more than forecast last week.
Gas gained as much as 1.3 percent after an Energy Information Administration report showed inventories dropped 95 billion cubic feet in the week ended March 22 to 1.781 trillion cubic feet. Analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg showed an expected withdrawal of 90 billion. Gas has surged 21 percent this quarter as winter storms brought below-normal temperatures.
“The market responded to it, but we couldn’t break a new high,” said Gene McGillian, an analyst and broker with Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. “That suggests that while it was higher than expected, it’s already priced in. Normally, when you get a number that’s bullish, you get a stronger reaction.”
Natural gas for May delivery rose 0.1 cent to $4.069 per million British thermal units at 10:39 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gas traded at $4.055 before the storage number was released at 10:30 a.m. in Washington. Trading was 40 percent above the 100-day average for the time of day. The fuel has climbed 16 percent this month, heading for the largest monthly gain since September....MORE
Here's today's action via FinViz:
From the EIA:
Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending March 22, 2013. | Released: March 28, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: April 4, 2013
Working gas in underground storage, lower 48 states Summary text CSV JSN
Historical Comparisons
billion cubic feet (Bcf)
Year ago
(03/22/12) 5-Year average
Region 03/22/13 03/15/13 change
(Bcf) % change (Bcf) % change
East 710 783 -73
1,070 -33.6 751 -5.5
West 334 339 -5
344 -2.9 261 28.0
Producing 737 754 -17
1,009 -27.0 707 4.2
Salt 178 180 -2
245 -27.3 122 45.9
Nonsalt 558 574 -16
764 -27.0 585 -4.6
Total 1,781 1,876 -95
2,423 -26.5 1,720 3.5
Working gas in storage was 1,781 Bcf as of Friday, March 22, 2013, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net decline of 95 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 642 Bcf less than last year at this time and 61 Bcf above the 5-year average of 1,720 Bcf....MORE
UPDATED--Commodities and High Frequency Trading: Prices Being Driven By Price Moves Rather Than Fundamentals
Update: I forgot to link to the paper, here's the copy on the IMF's servers.
This is a potentially big deal.
On the other hand it might just be the Europeans looking for more reasons to slow down or ban outright, HFT. More to come.
Commodities Futures Driven by Price Moves, Not News, Study Finds
Commodity-future price moves rather than news are increasingly driving trade in oil, sugar and grain futures, which may make finding a fair price less efficient, according to a Swiss study.
Since the middle of the 2000s, more than one out of two price changes in a number of commodity markets followed from an earlier price move, according to the study by Vladimir Filimonov and Didier Sornette at ETH Zurich and David Bicchetti and Nicolas Maystre at the Geneva-based United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
The researchers analyzed intraday trading of oil and sugar in New York and London and corn, soybeans and wheat in Chicago, finding “high levels” of self-generated price moves.
“Price dynamics on these commodity markets are partly driven by self-reinforcing mechanisms,” the researchers wrote in the study published March 20 via the Social Science Research Network. “This evolution partly reflects the development of algorithmic trading and of high-frequency trading in particular.”
The European Parliament backed a proposal to limit high- frequency trading by introducing a 500 millisecond minimum holding period for any trade in October. A study by Bicchetti and Maystre published last year found an increase in high- frequency trading in commodities is boosting the short-term correlation with the prices of stocks and other assets.
Market orders based on technical analysis, herd behavior, margin calls on leveraged trades and stop-loss orders are among the mechanisms that can trigger so-called endogeneity, or price moves not generated by external information, Filimonov, Bicchetti, Maystre and Sornette said.
A cascade of self-generated trading activity makes finding a “true price” take longer, a potential source of inefficiency or instability in the process of price discovery, according to the study....MORE
John Kemp at Reuters also caught the study:
Fundamentals and behaviour in commodity prices
Fundamental changes in supply and demand account for less than a third of short-term movements in commodity futures prices, according to an authoritative new study by researchers at UNCTAD and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Reflexive trading, when prices respond to past price changes rather than new information about fundamentals, now accounts for 60 to 70 percent of price moves in the main futures contracts, up from less than 40 percent before 2005.
The authors examined price moves in Brent oil, U.S. crude, soybeans, sugar, corn and wheat futures using an elaborate procedure designed to separate movements related to the arrival of new information from those in which one price change begets another.
"We find an overall increase in the level of short-term endogeneity since the mid-2000s to October 2012, with a typical value nowadays around 0.6-0.7, implying that at least 60 to 70 percent of commodity price changes are now due to self-generated activities rather than novel information", according to Vladimir Filimonov, David Bicchetti, Nicolas Maystre and Didier Sornette in a paper published on March 21.
The paper marks a breakthrough in research into the formation of commodity futures prices. It brings research on commodity markets into the academic mainstream, integrating behavioural and fundamental approaches, and follows pioneering work in other asset classes by George Soros ("The Alchemy of Finance" 1987), Sornette ("Why Stock Markets Crash" 2003) and Robert Shiller ("Irrational Exuberance" 2009).
If their paper is correct, commodity futures markets may actually have become less efficient at discovering prices in recent years, not more, as a result of high-frequency trading and other aspects of financialisation.
Sornette is one of the world's foremost authorities on price formation and market microstructure, so the findings cannot easily be dismissed by researchers and policymakers who insist markets are efficient and all changes reflect fundamentals....MORE
We've visited with Sornette a few times most recently in Feb. 2013's "Innovation as a Social Bubble: The Example of the Human Genome Project".
He can be a bit of a flake but I'm guessing he's smarter than I.
Econophysicist Predicts Date of Chinese Stock Market Collapse--Part II
Forecasting Financial Crashes: The Ultimate Experiment Begins
And FT Alphaville's wonderfully titled "Dragon-king of the outlier events".
"King Dollar breaks 10-year resistance- Gold on 10-year support. Next Big move will be…"
From Kimble Charting Solutions:
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When Gold was trading at $1,600 per ounce, the Power of the Pattern suggested Gold should trade up to $1,900 and then run into SERIOUS RESISTANCE! (See post here) The advice at that time…”We are long Gold at this time and we will Look to harvest long Gold positions when it hits resistance.”
Another reason I suggested that Gold be harvested was….Gold was becoming a crowded trade, with GLD becoming the largest ETF on the planet!!! (See post here)
Now a year and a half later, Gold finds itself $300 lower in price. What has the U.S. Dollar done over the past 18 months? The US$ has gained 13% while Gold has declined 15%. Is the Dollar the reason that Gold is declining in price?
The Dollar of late is doing something it hasn’t done in 10-years, its breaking above a falling channel that has contained it for 10 years. The breakout becomes very important for Gold, because as the US$ is breaking resistance, Gold is on a 10-year steep rising support line at (2) in the chart below....MORE
Die Welt: Scientists warn of ice age
This is a bit odd.
Die Welt is about as mainstream as German media gets and I've never seen them write anything that might even hint at contradicting Anthropogenic Global Warming theory.
Combined with the Economist story "Climate science A sensitive matter" which we will be linking to later this afternoon (first line: "The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away") which again is, as far as I know, a first, and you have a distinct break with what European mass media has been saying for the last decade.
I can't stress this enough, the change in reporting is a big deal.
I apologize in advance for the Google Translate; between a full schedule and pathological inertia I didn't do the honors myself.
Here's the German language original
Wissenschaftler warnen vor Eiszeit
We've had a few posts re: the possible great cooling, the reason we track this is: cold, and especially cold/wet can set up monster crop failures. Think all of Ukraine and a big chunk of western Russia monster.
Then there's the British natural gas angle, even now the Norwegians are filling the pipeline as fast as they can and it's not enough.
Finally, one of the most perverse effects would be a rise in carbon prices as more hydrocarbons are burned, which carbon price was ostensibly instituted to combat AGW.
One of the more credible earlier posts was 2011's "*****Alert***** "What's down with the Sun? Major drop in solar activity predicted" *****Alert*****" which looked at a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. That one links to a couple prior posts and is worth a look if you are interested in this stuff.
From Die Welt:
Minus 19 degrees in Brandenburg, mild temperatures in southern Germany. What on earth is going on with the weather?
By Ulli Kulke
In Germany inclines one month to the end, which one would not soon forget. At least in the north and east of the country, he could be in the final assessment of the coldest and snowiest especially since the beginning of the detailed records about 100 years ago. In the Brandenburg village Coschen in the night of Sunday, the thermometer dropped to minus 19 degrees at all - it was the coldest place in Germany. Even though it was milder in the south, the first three weeks were still over Germany so far about three and a half degrees colder than the long-term average of this month, and the few days until its end not change anything essential, especially since the meteorologists until much higher temperatures expected Easter. In calculating the total meteorological winter (December to February), the measurements go from March, a longer even, but were also the three winter months together about half a degree colder than "normal." Dark anyway.
Ornithologists have reported that migratory birds coming from the south turned back. Others, equipped with sharper senses, remained the same for longer than usual in the Mediterranean and moved her brood. The flowering is delayed, and less during the mild days formed earlier this month crocus carpet in the parks disappeared for weeks under 20 cm thick snow cover. The construction industry and other industries fear delays, losses and other cost burdens. The tenant association to Hamburg expects that after the winter for a 70 square meter apartment in the next heating bill, a supplement of 100 euros will be paid, in public buildings, the taxpayer debited accordingly. Several times had dozens of flights, such as to and from Frankfurt, canceled due to heavy snow, for a March highly unusual.
Globally, the same temperature extremes from most, but in recent weeks have to look even more closely in order to identify our region particularly warm climes. Japan, for example reports a relatively early onset of spring. Therefore suffered the northeastern United States under snow chaos in New York fell in mid-March because almost half a meter of fresh snow also made many flights. Particularly cold it was and is currently in the European part of northern Russia, as deep dark blue as the current weather map was there rarely have such large areas. They project far into our regions. Perhaps it is no coincidence, therefore, that from Russia louder voices are heard from the science that warn of an impending ice age. Vladimir Bashkin and Rauf Galiulin have only recently discovered this in a study. The two biogeochemist - a discipline which includes the exploration of the Earth's atmosphere is one - have drawn up the paper for the Research Institute VNIIGAZ Gazprom Group, an address that is not sure of lobbying interests acquit altogether. Their reasoning is based on the findings, however, the gain in the independent science more and more ground: The activity of the sun weakens significantly, considered by some experts to a degree as last several hundred years ago, during the "Little Ice Age".
It is not a variation of the warm sunshine that would not be sufficient to explain the climate changes in past centuries. Very influential on the long-term development of underground temperature contrast could be the changes in the solar ionizing radiation emissions, the so-called solar wind. These fluctuations associated with the ups and downs of the number of sunspots. They are to observe from Earth, it is about at least since its discovery by the German-born British astronomer William Herschel in the 18th Performed century book. Herschel had already found a temporal relationship between the number of sunspots and climate impacts, namely the good and bad years in agriculture. His theory of the "hog cycle" was long derided as the declaration was missing. Until they were found a few years ago. Meanwhile, there are methods to track the variations of the solar wind also by other phenomena as sunspots, by isotopes in ice cores, sediments, or millennia old ice. And lo and behold: there are clearly parallel curves between the changes in solar activity and, a few years or decades later, the global temperature - at least insofar as this is retrospectively ascertained what the researchers are always in a better position. Taking account of these delays can be quite the ups and downs of temperatures in the 20 until the beginning of the 21st Century, from the sun to explain their activity in the second half of the last century was the highest rate since the medieval climate optimum any more than it was about one degree warmer than today.
Also a physical explanation for this significant temporal relationship you are currently at several institutions around the track. Among others at the nuclear research center CERN in Geneva and at the state-owned National Space Institute of Denmark. To some extent it was able to win a series of tests a picture of how the solar wind affects the ionizing cloud formation and thus the temperature of the Earth. The delay could be well explained by the buffering effect of the water masses in the oceans. One can only wonder how the scientists who study these connections, see the important fifth "Assessment Report" of the IPCC account, which will be presented in September. So far, it looks even so they will not play a role, and especially the scientists set the tone, the view of man-made carbon dioxide emissions as almost the sole driver of the climate. Here, the one-dimensional explanation of CO2 lately gets by other studies in the review. Last by a scientifically proven work of two climate researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA), published in the February issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" - one of the world's most prestigious scientific magazines. The two researchers came to the conclusion: "The anthropogenic contribution to global warming has been in the second half of the 20th century probably overestimated by a factor of two," actually only half as large as expected. The flow and pressure conditions in the oceans and on the other hand, would fundamentally underestimated.
Before publication in the coming weeks is a study at the University of Oslo, which comes to a similar conclusion. Thus, even a doubling of CO2 by 2050, emanating from the hardly anyone, by far do not have the dramatic effects of which the IPCC says. The influence of natural factors, such as clouds or volcanic eruptions, be much stronger than previously thought. Yet studies do with such content, though they checked all the rules of science ("peer reviewed") are no headlines. Although they appear more frequently lately. The current extreme weather is good for only a limited degree, to support them, weather is fickle. However, this is the other way around for any contrary weather conditions. From the perspective of this winter anyway, it can be definitely: The summer is approaching. Also the next very, very hot. The only question is: When?
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Bengal Tiger Habitat Continues Shrinking
From America's Finest News Source:
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When Will Norway Be a Short? (there's only one direction a triple-A can go)
From Quartz:
Norway’s petro-wealth is making its investments riskier and its workforce less competitive
Some news about Norway today offers a glimpse at a unique collision of economic clichés: the “resource curse” hitting the “welfare state.”
Apparently, the Norwegian government is considering slashing the prices that it charges shippers to transport gas through its pipelines. Investors in those pipelines—and they’re a powerful bunch—are really annoyed at what this will do to their profits. What’s more, the government is risking legal reprisals, investor flight and higher future borrowing costs on its infrastructure projects.
What would make Norway’s government crazy enough to earn comparisons to Venezuela or Russia?
For one thing, its oil production has fallen by around half in the last decade, and it needs to keep raising gas output to offset that. Lowering the tariff encourages gas producers (which are dominated by Norway’s Statoil) to explore more gas deposits and get more out of them.
But more generally, Norway needs to up its gas production to support its economy. Though the country’s non-energy GDP rose more than its overall GDP did last year—3.5%, compared with 3.2%—its workers are becoming less productive and its economy less competitive....MORE
Here's the story linked at "considering slashing the prices".
Norway Becomes Petro-State as Investors Balk at Hidden AAA Risks
Norway, home to the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, is betting it can afford to ignore investor outrage.
After shocking global credit markets in 2011 by pulling support from the once AAA and now junk-rated lender Eksportfinans ASA, the government unveiled plans in January to cut tariffs on gas transport by 90 percent, sapping income for those funding the venture by as much as $7 billion.
Investors are now asking themselves how much risk they’re willing to accept to gain access to western Europe’s biggest oil and gas reserves. And while Norway boasts a stable AAA rating and the world’s smallest default risk, the government’s decision to ride roughshod over investors is starting to resemble actions seen in less stable democracies such as Venezuela and Russia.
The planned tariff cut “undermines Norway’s reputation as a stable and predictable country for investments,” Solveig Gas Norway AS and Silex Gas Norway AS, two of the companies backing the pipeline network that charges the tariffs, Gassled, said in a March 15 letter. It “represents an unauthorized intervention in the infrastructure owners’ legally protected rights and expectations,” they said....MORE
Possibly related:
Why Africa won't be the new Norway
Catchy headline, huh?
It's from the Private Sector Development blog at the World Bank. The PSD blog has this on their sidebar:
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Family Office consultant Graycourt Capital:
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The Tesla Powered Mercedes Electric: It's a Baby Benz
From Wired:
Mercedes Bringing Tesla-Powered EV to U.S. Next Year
Mercedes-Benz is finally getting into the attainable electric-vehicle game with the B-Class Electric Drive, a compact Benz with a 115-mile range, a four-hour charge time and a price considerably cheaper than the awesome all-electric gullwing supercar. Even better, U.S. consumers get it before anyone else.
The B-Class is a popular compact across the pond, but the introduction of the awkwardly named B-Class E.D. (insert Viagra joke here) marks the first time Mercedes will sell the five-door hatchback in the states. When it goes on sale next year, the electric version will be the only B-Class variant available.
In typical EV-retrofit fashion – see also Mitsubishi iMiEV, Ford Focus Electric, etc. – Mercedes took an existing platform, ripped out the conventional drivetrain and installed an electric motor and a battery. Mercedes says the B-Class Electric Drive is good for more than 100 kilowatts (around 135 horsepower), with maximum torque – nearly 230 pound-feet – available the instant you hit the pedal. That’s enough grunt to get this sucker up to 100 mph – Benz won’t let you go any faster – while hitting 0-60 mph in “considerably less than 10 seconds.”...MORE
Awwwwww, it's cute.
What came first Egg or Chicken? Solution Through Granger Causality
I've got a feeling we're going to be talking Granger Causality Tests in the very near future so I might as well start laying (sorry) the groundwork.
Clive Granger was awarded an economics Nobel for his correlation/causation work. Rather a big deal in my world.
(prediction and stuff)
Here's an intro via a defunct blog, Wealthson:
Granger causality was proposed [to answer the question] by Thurman and Fisher. In their paper, they examined US egg production and chicken population from 1930 to 1983. Granger causality looks to see if data in one time series can predict data in another time series. By looking at the annual number of eggs produced, and comparing it with the total number of chickens, Thurman and Fisher sought to see if the chicken population predicted the number of eggs laid, or if the number of eggs predicted the chicken population, or both. It was found that information present in the egg time series predicted the number of chickens, but there was no reciprocal prediction of the number of eggs from the number of chickens.
The notion of Granger causality is simple: If lagged values of X help predict current values of Y in a forecast formed from lagged values of both X and Y, then X is said to Granger cause Y. We implement this notion by regressing eggs on lagged eggs and lagged chickens; if the coefficients on lagged chickens are significant as a group, then chickens cause eggs. Asymmetric regression tests the reverse causality. We perform the Granger causality tests using one to four lags. The number of lags in each equation is the same for eggs and chickens.
To conclude that one of the two "came first," we must find unidirectional causality from one to the other. In other words, we must reject the non-causality of the one to the other and at the same time fail to reject the non-causality of the other to the one. If either both cause each other or neither causes the other, the question will remain unanswered. The test Empirical Results are presented in table 1. They indicate a clear rejection of the hypothesis that eggs do not granger cause chicken. This means that the eggs came first and then came chicken.
Here's a JSTOR version of the Thurman Fisher paper.
Mix Butter, Onions, Cheese and Eggs. Add Electricity...
For some reason, this post from Freakonomics got me thinking about the Chicago Butter and Egg board, the Butter, Cheese, and Egg Exchange of New York and Title 7, Ch. 1, § 13–1 U.S. Code*:
Lightbulb Moment in Food History
Last week’s post talked about early-20th-century “egg gamblers” who bought eggs cheap in spring in order to sell dear in winter. Their kind of speculation proved not just controversial but also pretty risky, and ultimately doomed. Why?...
World Liquid Fuels Supply and Demand Balance 2008-2014 (plus one of the best Hitler parodies evah)
Ms. Iz has an oil post up at FT Alphaville on which I want to ruminate before commenting.
There was one thing that caught my eye, mainly because the EIA's STEO had come out a couple weeks ago.
A commenter said:
Greasy wheels | March 27 12:32pm | Permalink
This article is also a mixture of the good and the bad.
The good: for sure gas substitution WILL have an effect (to be honest, you write it like it is already. Errmm. Not so much). Vehicle efficiency is improving. We're finally responding to high oil prices. Demand growth will be lower than in the past. It might even be negative.
The bad: "it’s interesting to consider to what degree high oil prices were actually a function of an industry clasping to its old relevance but clearly aware of its eventual upcoming demise, thus unwittingly self-imposing a market squeeze designed to extract as much money from the sector for as long as it still could"
Errrmmmm. No. Peak oil talk is hand in hand with rising oil prices. Talk did not lead to the companies squeezing the market, as you seem to suggest. Perhaps check out the capex trends of every single company in the industry in this timeframe. Aggregate spending more than doubled in a 4-year period (~20% CAGR). They didn't see it coming and they were desperate to pump as much as they could. They under-delivered. They rushed plans, they didn't have the resources to develop the fields. Developing a big field is HARD, shallow or deep, onshore or offshore, and it takes time. And OPEC were pumping as hard as they could by the middle of 08....
Here's a CERA chart that uses EIA data:
In the spring of 2008 supply/demand was moving quickly into balance and by the time U.S. WTI prices peaked at $147.27 on July 11 the world was in surplus and no longer drawing down stocks.
Here's another look, this time from the March 2013 STEO, at the supply/demand situation with implied storage and withdrawals:
Consumption began declining almost at the beginning of the recession (dated by ECRI to December 2007) and producers, after ramping by almost 2mm bbl/day were cutting production as fast as they could in an effort to support the price. The commenter is incorrect.
July 11 is now celebrated as Peak Oil Day.
Enough with that stuff, here's the fartmeister (veggie diet, ufff, see: "There's Pollution and There's: Führer Flatus") upon hearing about the 1500% move in Renewable Identification Number certificates:
Of course it is hard to top September 2008's "Hitler Gets a Margin Call".
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Blue Marvel
Full Name Adam Bernard Brashear
Age 55 (91)
Build Bodybuilder
Hair Black w/ Grey
Skin Dark Brown
One of the earliest black superheroes. He was publicly unmasked during a battle with Anti-man. He's known for being the first superhero to be publicly and personally asked by a setting United States President to step down into retirement.
A kind old retired superhero who still goes out into the frey every so often, but mostly keeps to his research. He's known to be kind, and helpful to a fault, with a dedication to those around him.
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, by two dirt poor parents, it becomes clear from the time he's old enough to talk that Adam is a prodigy.
Scraping together what little money they could his parents send him to Cornell University, where he becomes a fullback, and graduates magna cum laude, with Ph.D.s. in electrical engineering and theoretical physics.
While serving in the US Marine Corps during the Korean war Adam gains two Silver Stars, a purple heart and a Medal of Honor he would only receive 40 years later.
Brashear becomes project lead on a scientific attempt to harness anti-matter through a "Negative Reactor" which bridged the gap between the Negative Zone and the positive matter universe. Due to an unexpected accident and explosion in the reactor, Brashear was subjected to mutagenic radiation causing him to became a stable "antimatter reactor" and develop a set of superhuman abilities.
Donning a mask and costume Adam has a long and successful career as Blue Marvel! The mask completely hides his identity as an African American allowing him to work in broad daylight committing acts of heroism for years.
Following a brutal fight to the near death Adam's mask is completely shattered revealing his face for all the world, and cameras to see.
After the event Adam is granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, only to be asked at the same ceremony to retire from his life of crime fighting. The world unready for a black superman.
Following the event he went his own way raised a family, did personal research into the process that made him who he was. The research was beyond cutting edge but there were very few who would give him the actual funding for the project. As such progress slowed to a near halt.
He becomes a tenured professor of physics at the University of Maryland. There he works at the position for several decades before eventually retiring from the position to focus his attention on his research.
Now he's an aged man who's seen the world pass him by long enough. Finally he's ready to step back out onto the world stage, but what consequences await him?
Kind. Determined. Bullheaded. These are all words that could describe Adams personality. He's got the never give up never surrender attitude of a hero with golden age sensibilities. His killing days are behind him, long behind him, and now that his identity has gone public he does everything he can to avoid the nasty business.
Slowed Ageing
Thanks to the experiment Adams natural aging process has been dramatically slown down, almost to a complete halt. This means that he can stay in fighting shape for much longer then those around him.
Super-human Strength
Adams strength clocks in at a 12 on the power scale allowing him to lift over 100 tonnes.
Having survived the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in his hands it's clear that so long as Adam has power he's all but completely indestructible.
Thanks to his ability to manipulate not only gravitons, but magnetic fields, and his absolute molecular movement, in conjunction with his super speed Blue Marvel is able to fly at Hyper-sonic speeds.
Superhuman Agility
With an agility, natural balance and coordination skillset to surpass even the worlds finest athletes it's hard to top Blue Marvel in the agility sector.
Superhuman Stamina
Adam rarely if ever tires due to the composition of his muscular system not producing the toxins usually associated with fatigue.
Healing Factor
When damaged Adams body kicks into overdrive to repair the damages, his natural healing factor is far greater then that of the average human.
Matter Manipulation
Adam can manipulate material bonds as well as anti-material and energy, He's able to do this all the way from the molecular to particle level. This combined with his Anti-Matter Manipulation allows him the following potential advantages:
The ability to release anti-matter energy as a concussive force.
The ability to produce low-energy anti-matter bolts that functions as a long range stun-gun. Capable of rendering people unconscious.
The ability to dump all of his anti-matter energy into a single devastating pulse which can spread out further depending on how much energy he has stored at the given time.
The ability to form a highly concentrated beam of energy from his hands capable of melting through anything weaker then adamantine.
Human Reactor
Adam is a human reactor fueled by anti-matter from the Negative Zone, capable of absorbing Anti-matter energy. He's highly efficient at utilizing this anti-matter energy and it's the source of all of his powers.
Retirement Pay
Having served through the Korean war, and retired from the marines after the early onset of the Vietnam War Brashear receives a healthy paycheck from the united states military every month making him able to pursue his dreams and personal research into Anti-matter.
Blue Marvel's Undersea Fortress (Kadesh) located deep within the depths of the southern ocean serves as Adams home from home and the center of all his research. From here he can watch over the world looking for crime to fight or monitoring the stability of the planet itself. All of his research is kept inside these hollowed halls.
The Ensemble
All of Adams clothing has been specifically crafted to withstand the kind of abuse he's expected to take on a regular basis. It's strong as him and able to stop a good deal of damage.
Adam is the top man in his field filled with several lifetimes worth of time to study the effects and reactions of anti-matter. He's well educated with multiple doctorates, and willing to push his understanding to the brink to better humanity through his research.
Adam was a well known teacher at a local university. His time there has earned him a good degree of tenure and solidified his position. Though he no longer works for the university he still holds many of the connections from those early days, and has a small network of scientists and graduates he can call on for information.
Neutronium
This substance found in the same negative zone which gives Blue Marvel his powers is capable of completely stripping him of his abilities while in its presence. Prolonged contact with the substance renders him nothing more then a human with none of his powers, and can eventually potentially cause severe damage or even death.
Items enchanted with magic can still to an extent effect Blue Marvel. Though the effect is lessened from what it would have on a normal creature it can still effect him. This goes for any such enchanted device, including magical bullets.
There are entire books written about Adam Brashear, and what he did as a masked man. Even a failed comic book line. The mans identity is fully public knowledge that anyone can have access to with a little bit of research and has been since he was unmasked.
This has not only opened his family up to the dangers of what he did, and does, but has opened him up for all manner of lawsuits any time he goes out to fight crime.
The only secret he still has is the location of his lab. Even that has been guessed at far too closely for comfort in various research papers. With his entire life put on display it's only a matter of time before all of his dirty laundry is exposed to the world.
The most important thing in the world to Adam is his family. While his children have long since left home to live their own lives his wife still remains by his side. She, along with his children, are his weak link, the ones he couldn't, and wouldn't want to live without.
After the war, Adam was done killing. His bloodiest days are behind him. He'd sooner let a criminal get away then risk killing them. He'd rather pull his punches and risk being overpowered then give his full strength and risk the deaths of anyone innocent or guilty.
November 02, 2017: Dimensional Weirdness
Kara Zor-El finally arrives to Earth after being sent to protect her baby cousin, Kal-El, decades ago. She is discovered by the Blue Marvel, a Green Lantern and later joined by Power Girl. She discovered a new term: dimensional weirdness. She's not sure what's more alarming or confusing at this point, but she does know that nothing went according to plan.
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November 01, 2017: A Message in Red
A Red Lantern sets foot on Earth and assaults Symkaria. The V-Battalion and Justice League along with Blue Marvel respond.
(permalink: log:6441 | tags: blue_marvel doctor_strange eot glh jla symkaria wonder_woman | posted: 04 Nov 2017 20:30)
October 18, 2017: Is this... War?
A pursuit of Red Lanterns follows Starfire in a form of payback that brings in unexpected allies, as well as a new revelation for the Green Lanterns.
(permalink: log:6364 | tags: bleezspace blue_marvel eot glh green_lantern_rayner jla lanterns starfire superman wonder_woman | posted: 20 Oct 2017 05:00)
October 11, 2017: Swing for the Bleachers
Black Canary bites off more than she can chew. Blue Marvel comes to the rescue.
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October 10, 2017: That Crazy Kid!
Trouble in Manhattan!
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September 01, 2017: College Blues
Lorna asks for her college work, because something is troubling her and she has to go 'home'.
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The Wedding. The End.
RP Logs » RP Log Archives » The Wedding. The End.
It is the day of the victory celebration. Genosha is united. Magneto has won. Lorna Dane and Marcus Diaz are marrying… and some people doesn't believe in happy endings. The Wedding is crashed the worst way.
Magda Square. Hammer Bay. Genosha
Stepford Cuckoos
NPCs: Magneto
Mentions: Most X-Men are in the background
Genosha: Rebirth
House of M
It is a sunny autumn day in Genosha (and the weather is guaranteed to be sunny, by government decree) and downtown Hammer Bay has not looked this good in years. Three days of celebrations for the victory and the peace. But the first day is perhaps the most important one, as the daughter of Magneto is getting married.
No, Magneto is not the king. And he has promised free elections in a couple months. But there is no doubt he is de-facto the king, and so Lorna Dana is the royal princess. Symbols are important and Genosha was colonized by the British. 20 years ago they were part of the Commonwealth.
The morning has been solemn, which speeches about sacrifice and the fallen, and the unveiling of statues of martyrs and heroes. But now the population is gathering around Magda Square, in front of the Spire, where the wedding ceremony is going to take place. Although the space reserved for the guests (over a thousand of them) has been walled off and Acolytes and Magistrates keep watch, there are celebrations going all over the city.
Rationing for most foodstuffs has been lifted already for a week. Every mutate and mutant has a place to live, with running water and power all the day. So do a few thousands of humans that were members of the Resistance. Refugees… yes, those still exist, but not in Hammer Bay. Most humans are no longer accepted in downtown Hammer Bay.
Not many among the mutates miss them.
Magneto is not wearing his armor for once, instead he wears what looks like a dress uniform. Black and with a red sash. This is also the first time most Genoshans see him without the armor and the Corinthian helmet. Another powerful sign they are at peace at last.
All day Lorna had been modestly dressed in more formal attire, given speeches, been present for each and every memorial ceremony and dedication. She walked with the mutates and spoke to them. Held a child at the hospital as they were interviewed by some international media. She knew the point of the day, and knew her role in it and took it very seriously. She didn't freeze up at the first speech of the day, nor did she bat an eye at the fast paced movement from one point to another.
But by afternoon, she was tired. Her feet hurt.. but more over she looked as if she were in the middle of very nearly having a panic attack before she was meant to walk out into Magda square. (Where was her mother's name represented?)
The music was playing as guests filed out into the floral air. Roses had been grown and decorated all over the place for her wedding, not that she had requested it. Rather someone had found out she liked them and suddenly there were everywhere. Lorna was beginning to learn that people took everything she said to heart.
The wedding gown she wore was loose fitting, a combination of what Darcy had helped her pick out and what the Cuckoos had 'edited'. Despite the pomp of the day, her dress was simple. It lacked frills, lace, or glitz. It was a plain white fabric, loose fitting and gauzy to fight the heat of Genosha's sun. It was styled in an almost Roman or Greek Chiton fashion.
Pinned at the shoulders by steel clasps, with a decorative rope of metal around her bust line. The neckline dipped, but not half as much as the low back, which dropped into a long train behind her. Her veils were where most of the frills were, and by that.. it was more Genoshan grown roses. A coronet of the snugged tightly in green locks and she grimaced as she reached up to adjust them again, for the twenty-second time.
Oddly enough the only jewelery besides her engagement band (of magnetic metals) was a black choker with a cameo pendant.
Not the most fancy of wedding ensembles for a 'Princess'.
It was the day.
It was -THE- day.
It took about four delays, but it's finally happening! The marriage of Marcos Diaz and Lorna Dane. Throughout the morning Marcos was pacing the floor and getting hyped for the day, then he went out to start helping to build more homes, receiving a good deal of the early congrats and so forth. That said, by the time he was finished with his activities, he cane down to the venue…and Ho. Lee. Shit.
He saw the masses that are going to be present for all of this, and so Marcos was nervous…so nervous he actually wrote his vows down, for he was scared that he'd be so nervous that he would forget them. Though….now it was time to get ready.
He was with the grooms and best man, making sure his tuxedo was perfect and ready to go. It was definitely up to Genoshan standard. Blame Magneto. The suit jacket was long, about to his knees with a sash around the middle. He fixed it about 30 times juuuust to get it right. He made sure his hair was okay, that he wore -his- necklace, and some other small jewelry items like a silve watch.
After straightening out his tie, he turned his head to the gents around him. "Okay…how do I look?"
It was the -big- day after all!
Nate promised to Lorna he would be at her wedding, but in truth he seems to lack the cheer due to the occasion. Probably because he still can't get over the fact Magneto had won. He can't consider it a victory for mutants, quite the opposite. He is still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Also, he was told to wear a tux. It all piles up to foul his mood.
Since he can't go punch Magneto he is hanging out in a corner with the others non-fans of Magneto present. In the corner with the free bar, that is.
Some might say that inviting the demon queen of a hell dimension to a wedding would be in poor taste, if not actually inimical to the idea of living happily ever after. But somehow Illyana got an invite anyway. While she might have been suspiciously absent for a lot of the pre-wedding bridesmaid duties, she's here for the main event itself.
She's not even wearing black.
Instead, Illyana's attired in a floor-length sky blue dress that's light enough to be appropriate for the climate, and she doesn't seem remotely uncomfortable in it.
She is, of course, keeping a surreptitious eye on Lorna, and when the Princess messes with her veil Illyana steps smoothly into her eyeline, smirks, and raises first one of her hands in front of herself and then gives it a mock slap with her other. Stop messing with your outfit, Lorna.
For her part, Monet always likes to make sure people pay attention to her. Yes, it is definitely Lorna's day so she's compromised. She's wearing her own tuxedo, cut to accentuate curves a bit and loose at the ankles for movement. The color of the tux is sky blue, much like the dresses of the bridesmaids. She, after all, wouldn't want her in a dress to draw too much attention.
Even now, she is standing near to Lorna and Illyana, prepared to do her part in being a bridesmaid for Lorna. Ya know, just one dressed in a tux. What a compromise!
The Cuckoos are in matching gowns with perfectly coifed blonde hair in ringlets that falls in waves across their shoulders like someone wove it from sunshine. Each has a flower tucked just above their right ear that helps to bring out the vivid azure blue of their eyes and an expression that fuses joy and wonder. In short, in a normal gathering these five girls would be the focus of attention. Unlike Monet, they didn't even step a toe out of line to accomplish it. Coming in quintuplicate does have that effect, however.
Logan been expected to attend Lorna's and Marcos’ wedding as a groomsman was all very sudden. One minute he was picking a fight with Bruce Banner, then Scott, and before he knew it Scott was out, and he was in. Not that Logan minded, he had grown fond of Lorna since his time in this universe. It was just the fact that he was not very fond of weddings. But who could blame Logan for that? Most of Logan's wives and long time partners had met with a grizzly and violent end.
Still here he was dressed up in a tux. The heat of Genosha didn't bother him too much, even in a tux. He was rather good adapting to different climates, even if he was better with colder temperatures.
Logan looked at the crowd of smiling faces, as he stood next to Nate. He didn't like it. Not because he gets nervous in front of a crowd mind you. No, Logan didn't like the huge crowd, because even he would find it difficult to see, or smell, any potential threat in the crowd. He did not like it one bit. Nevertheless, to all those who would look at him (and why would they?) he looked calm, and happy.
A few minutes are given for all the guests plus the news reporters to enter the weeding area. Then the ushers move among the crowd, guiding the people to the seating areas. Even those that are working on emptying the bar.
It is then the time for Marcos and the priest (who looks suspiciously like Jamie Madrox) to the front. They are followed by Magneto, but Magneto takes a seat by the front row.
Then comes the time for the Bridesmaids and Groomsman walk down aisle. Which means some ushers go to hunt them down discreetly. Like herding cats.
Lois was here in an official capacity. Why not? She was at the halfway point in between where she first started, to London, on her way back to the states. Covering a wedding? It's quite possibly the best story she's landed this year. But if she was attending as a reporter for the Daily Planet, she had to follow the rule of thumb of a guest and be dressed to the nines (but never, ever to outshine the bride. EVER.)
For a simple modest pearlish pink colored dress she wore, her hair tucked into a curly ponytail. Flat black shoes upon her feet so that the soles don't hurt the 'soul'. Clutch hung cross body about her, and a rather small foldable paper and pen tucked beneath her arm. A thick black strap hung about her neck, which remains attached to one of those expensive, real-time looking cameras for pictures. Sure she cues and clues up. Snapping here and there. Making sure she doesn't block the view of the bride and groom from the guests.
Ignore her. Lois is just doing what she loves.
Lorna glanced at her bridemaids, specifically Illyana as the woman made a gesture for her to stop fidgeting with the veils. "What? They're itchy." She muttered, and picked up the boquet of roses wrapped in white once more. It was hot, and the crowds outside made everything so much worse. Sea-side, tropical weddings (fall of said tropical island or not), it was still too damn hot in the room where Lorna and the bridesmaids waited for their turns to walk out and down the aisle.
The wedding was being broadcasted all over, and that knowledge would stress anyone.
"Go get ready to walk, I'm fine." She murmured to all her bridesmaids. It seemed a bit silly how much easier it was to track down willing bridesmaids rather than groomsmen.
It was time!
Oh man oh man it was time. Okay Marcos, you got this. Those thoughts ran through his head on an endless loop, he was nervous…terrified even, but eventually, he just took the deepest breath and when he was going to walk out with the Priest and Magneto, he actually bowed softly to the latter, showing respect to the father of the bride, before he made his walk. No doubt camera's flashed at him as this was the biggest event in Genosha since that whole rebellion jazz.
Wait a second..that priest looks a helluva lot like- No, nah, can't be.
He takes his position at the altar, hands clasped in front of him with his back turned to the walkway, taking a deep breath before he angles himself just slightly so he could see who was coming down. He smiles as he sees Nate and Logan walk up and move to his side, with Logan being the best man (sorry Nate).
A few deep breaths from Marcos now.
"You'll live." Illyana the Implacable tells Lorna, undeterred by either sulky muttering or the small fact that it's Lorna's big day. The bride does get a blink-and-you'll miss it grin from the only blonde bridesmaid that doesn't match, though. "Besides, I'm helping. You'll never hear the end of it if it's askew in the photos." Illyana makes it sound like she's doing Lorna a favour, but she can't keep the teasing edge out of her voice.
If it were anyone else, people might think she'd finally been caught up in the wedding excitement.
Illyana sketches a deeply ironic curtsey when Lorna dismisses them, and isn't able to resist a last, "If you mess with it again, I'll know." Before she goes to take her place for the ceremony.
In truth Nate had been told the steps of the ceremony. He just thought he could avoid them. But no, Magneto's secret police/the ushers are on him. "You are the best man, seriously?" He asks rhetorically to Logan. Oh well, at least the ladies look great. Contrarily to the grumpy groomsmen. Nate has this long-suffering look. Terrible poker face.
But when he turns to glare to Magneto, the older man is gone.
Because he is going to be the one to walk Lorna down the aisle. Damn him.
"Illyana's right, you know," one of the Cuckoos murmurs as she passes on Lorna's left.
"Everything needs to be perfect," a second adds as she moves up on the right.
"You're the one who said that," the other three chime in in unison. Then they flash Illyana a positively incandescent smile as they settle into their places.
"Okay, last check, ladies. What else needs to be done?" Presumably that's Sophie, given she's more or less the Cuckoos' leader by default. "I can direct the staff so there isn't a disruption."
And here she was all about trying to make sure that she wasn't the center of attention and they go and make her maid of honor. Now as she walks out, she doesn't even mind doing so with her tuxedo on. She waits for the bride's maids to walk down to their places and then she steps out and walks alone down to the altar as per her proper place. She settles into her spot and takes a sharp breath before letting it out slowly.
She glances across to Marcos, then Logan, and finally Nate before looking back the way she came. Her eyes going that way as she waits for the ring bearer and flower girl to come down. Of course, the star of the show, so to speak, will be last as she simply stands and waits.
The first of the wedding party is out. Lois was in the proper space and not behind what looks to be a glittery fairy wing. She didn't have to duck beneath a really tall mutant with incredibly long legs, toes and fingers, nor she didn't have to walk through a flaming pit to get there. There wasn't an obsessive amount of pictures taken. Only one or two, which could possibly be filler to ship to the bride if she manages to sleuth an address from the masses.
Logan shrugs, "What can I say, older mutant with the huge metal claws still beats younger mutant who is 70s punk rock star wannabe." He grins, "Besides, Marcos wanted to borrow my motorcycle." He then turns his attention to women coming down the aisle, they did look beautiful. "Anyway, keep alert, we don't want anything ruining the wedding."
"I am from the 90s, old wolf," grumbles Nate. Also half drunk. But it would be suicidal to attack this wedding. There are hundreds of powerful mutants around. Most of the X-Men are in attendance. Still, he gives another glance to the crew, scanning for hostile thoughts or emotions. Not getting much, the natives are genuinely happy, even those like Philip, Jenny or Mar that should know better than trusting Magneto.
Like he used to. Neveragain.
Lorna waved off her bridesmaids with a faint trace of a smile on her lips, her gaze shifting to the doors as she waited for her turn to walk down the carpeted section where the rest of the wedding party had gone to. Then in a blink of the eye, her father was there, offering her his arm. The magnetic fields buzzed as she took it, a reverberation from her toes to her head. It was as if a circuit had been closed in some strange way, and the air crackled a faint trace of it. Aurora it seemed was an unhappy baby and done with the wedding already.
Still, the smile fixed on Lorna's features as she adjusted her grip on her flower boquet and the music changed to the wedding march. She wasn't entirely sure where it was coming from, some techno mutants had been up the Spire and around with various things..
She stepped out into the aisle, walking beside Magneto, rose petals tumbled from some place up above and the crowd rose like a sea around them.
As the bride joins the groom, the priest starts speaking. Talking in generalities about the importance of marriage, diplomatically avoiding spiny issues like what brand of Christianity is this exactly and mentioning examples of past humans, or remembrances to absent parents.
Experts in formal weddings might notice several important steps are skipped.
But in truth both Lorna and Marcos come from destroyed families. Not much the priest or the wedding organizers can do about it.
And it comes the time for the bride and the groom to recite the wedding vows.
The Wedding March.
The most famous march that transcends cultures across the board. Different variations of it are quite possibly being played during this singular moment in time; quite possibly in Ethiopia. A bride and groom married in their cultural home with a mix of German to American to here and now. A couple at home with a glass of wine revisiting their tri-monthly tradition of a viewing of a Midsummer Nights Dream. Music from the past to cement something beautiful which carries to the here and now.
Lois -TRIED- to capture it, for as soon as father and daughter joined hands her camera went wonky. A quick snap of a picture, and a quick look at the screen has her twisting the camera with a frown. "The hell.." She mutters to herself, attempting to take another picture and.. same result. This time, it was Lois stepping into the isle to try to take a picture of the father of the bride and the bride herself's backside but still.. picture wonky. "..muther.. -CENSORED-.."
Kids are present.
Illyana mostly manages to keep a bridesmaid-appropriate expression on her face as the ceremony begins. Marcos, of course, got a knowing and amused look. The deep breaths weren't hiding his terror from Illyana, and she can't be expected to be encouraging for Lorna and Marcos.
The other object of her attention is the priest, but that's more of a professional appraisal. She wonders if he knows just what's arrived so close to him, and if he does, she has to silently commend him for his poker face.
However, when the Wedding March plays, even Illyana can't remain distracted. There's even a faint smile on her face, but that might just be because Lorna's veils are still at the proper angle. That's going to be her story if anyone notices, anyway.
Marcos had heard that sound of the walk of the bride, and Marcos turns slightly to see Lorna approach. She didn't need to show up wearing the most extravagant dress in the world…no, she looked perfect and angelic by herself. He can feel his heart stop, the way his heart is literally no longer beating because he was so nervous. Alas, he ends up taking a huge breath, smiling the warmest smile to Lorna as she made her walk.
Of course, they look at each other and he lifts the veil to see her face, warm smile and all for her, before it's time to say the vows! He reaches out to hold Lorna's hands, giving them a squeeze before he went first…
"Lorna Sally Dane. You…were the biggest surprise of my life. When I met you, I had no idea that we would be here now..until about the next five minutes that we spoke to each other. You dragged me out of the pit I was in in my life, and I helped drag you out of yours…you brought the light back into me, a passion for life that I hadn't really experienced before. Never truly. and we've been tied at the hip ever since. We've been around the world, we've saved mutants the world over. You're the only woman for me, the only one I would ever choose or love, and I'm the luckiest man in the world because I have you. There's no one on this planet, reality, or plane of existance that I trust more than you. I love you Lorna. I promise to care for you when you fall ill or become injured, and I promise to pick you up when you fall. I will always be at your side, in sickness and in health. Never to part from you until death forces us away."
aaand he didn't even choke on his vows! There ya go, Marcos.
There was a smile awaiting Marcos as she arrived at the altar and her father slipped back to his seat. It remained as Marcos lifted the veil and revealed her carefully make-up'ed features. Wreathed in roses and silk, the petals continued to fall in a sweep of color from above them. Music softened, cameras once more flashed from all over, yet the green haired bride didn't for once, seem even remotely nervous. A rainbow of light exploded around the couple as Marcos took her hands. Aurora borelais that glowed and twisted around them. Perhaps a bit more than strictly necessary, but Lorna's powers were already heightened. Plus it made a good show…
"Marcos, you are the only man that has put up with my rages. With my ups and downs. I told you, you needed a new girlfriend, and well, clearly you took that advice. I never once imagined that it would lead me here, in Genosha…" Her gaze swept out to the audience and back.
"You lift me up when I am down, and cheer me when nothing else can. You're the day to my night. The sun to my moon. You've been there for me through everything. And I swear that I shall be there for you in equal measure. I love you, Marcos Diaz." It had been written previously and she hadn't even needed her notes.. of course, she had rewritten it several times and needed the various bridesmaids to review it.. but it was there. Lorna wasn't big on affection and it was difficult to put emotions to words.
If her delivery was a bit cool, or a bit too stony, well.. it was rehearsed. She could be forgiven. Right?
Looking at the incoming Lorna, she hmms softly at the sight. Lorna did hold herself well and things looked pretty good. Of course, Monet could clearly see the reaction to Magneto. She could see how some looked at him. Some loved the man and some hated him. Honestly, he was polarizing and frankly. She wasn't sure what might happen.
Of course, then the ceremony begins and she does her part. Ya know, taking the bouquet, holding on to the ring that Lorna would place on Marcos finger, that sorta stuff. Honestly, for thr most part, just stand there. Either way, she was watching this happen and totally doing her best to keep up her aloof face rather than making any sort of 'Aww' face.
"OK, fine then. 90s punk rock star, but I think you missed my point." Logan replied. He watched as the wedding proceeding procession occurred before him. He listened intently to the both Marcos' and Lorna's speeches. He was moved. "So, did I miss out on the bachelor weekend or what?"
Even though most of his attention was focused on the wedding. There was a part of him that would not rest. Logan had seen the most important parts of the lives mutants take disastrous turn at the last possible minute, far too may times. It had personally happened to him too several times. Kidnappings. Murders. And much more. So as the wedding to started to wrap up, he mentally prepared himself, just in case.
It starts as silence.
The people freeze in their seats, voices still, gazes unfocused.
Those without psychic defenses or trained wills fall into trance almost instantly. Psions can offer a token resistance, but even for those it is too late. It is an insidious sub-empathic strike that hits the whole city, centered in Magda's Square. The world's most skilled illusionist backed by the most powerful telepath, and the devices of the greatest geneticist.
As even the X-Men becomes lost Magneto staggers to his feet, lightning crackling from his body. "Ferris, Ferris!" He cries. Calling for his helmet.
But even Magneto falls. First to his knees. Then to the floor. Unconscious.
The robot Ferris comes flying down from the top of the Spire, at nearly supersonic speed, bringing its master's helmet. But a dozen yards from reaching Magneto a hypersonic sniper bullet hits its head, nearly decapitating him. The machine crashes on the waiting crowd, killing or injuries a dozen mutates. They die sleeping, and smiling.
Because the House of Magnus is *so* good for mutants.
And in Genosha, in the real Genosha, only a dozen mutants remain awake. They are led by a tall native American in high-tech metal armor, the high-power sniper rifle in his hands still smoking. "Grab the bride and the other targets. We have about a minute before Superman or Flash or some other alien freak gets here."
The Marauders are in Genosha.
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Man charged with DUI after woman thrown off erratic motorcycle
HAGERSTOWN, Md – A woman was taken to a trauma center with serious injuries Tuesday after she was thrown off an erratic motorcycle and her head hit the ground.
The driver of the motorcycle, Gregory Schoen, 38, was charged with DUI, according to Maryland State Police.
MSP said the Hagerstown station was notified at about 4:49 p.m. Tuesday that a female passenger, later identified as Kaleigh Barr, 29, had been thrown off a Harley Davidson motorcycle on Leitersburg Pike near Longmeadow Road and may have been run over.
More: Chambersburg Police looking for man in connection to Sheetz robbery
Police learned the man operating the motorcycle, Gregory Schoen, 38, had been seen speeding and passing vehicles at a high rate of speed while traveling south on Leitersburg Pike. A witness said Schoen was in the opposing lane of traffic passing vehicles when a vehicle began approaching him, and he quickly swerved back into his lane.
The maneuver caused Barr to be thrown off the motorcycle, police said. She struck her head on the pavement, causing her helmet to come off. She was not run over, as an initial report stated.
More: Chambersburg woman tried to run over another woman with her own SUV, police say
Barr was seriously injured and flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. She was released on Wednesday, police said.
After he completed field sobriety tests, police arrested Schoen for DUI. A breath test showed Schoen’s blood alcohol content was .10, police said. The state’s attorney may file additional charges against Schoen.
https://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/local/2018/05/30/woman-thrown-off-erratic-motorcycle-hagerstown-md/656607002/
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The Village Once Called Tessville – Lincolnwood, Illinois Part 2
Betsy 01/25/2017 05/02/2017 Advertising, Chicago, History, Lincolnwood, Nostalgia
In my first Lincolnwood blog, I was determined to feature businesses for which I could find images, with a few exceptions. There were also some I didn’t mention – either because they bit the dust too recently or I forgot about them. I tried to focus primarily on Lincolnwood in the first article, although I included Hollywood Kiddieland, Lincoln Village, and a few business in West Rogers Park and Edgebrook. For this blog, I expanded my scope and included additional businesses in areas of Chicago and Skokie close to Lincolnwood. I will devote an entire blog to Skokie in the near future, due to the availability of a vast number of images and more abundant information. There will also be a third part dedicated to defunct discount and department stores due to the fact this article got a little too long! In any case, when you are writing about a topic both subjective and near and dear to so many people, there are bound to be a few oversights. Thank you to everyone who responded enthusiastically to the first article … your invaluable suggestions helped me identify oversights and inspired part 2, which I present here!
This blog is dedicated to all the former Lincolnwood residents who passed away, including two guys I grew up with – Mitch Tarczynski and Ian Goldman, who I only found out about recently as a result of writing the first Lincolnwood article. A special shout out to the late Leroy Kaplan, whose daughter Roberta commented on the first article. In 1974, Leroy and Elaine founded Lincolnwood Girls Softball with Fred Hosfield. Elaine Kaplan, who was very sweet, owned Gift Motique (on Touhy east of Crawford) with her sister. Leroy supervised the Lincolnwood Girls Softball Umpires – he was a character with a heart of gold.
The top photo shows the fire at Allaguer’s Fireside on May 13, 1958. A known arsonist named Morris Rappaport, who lived at 6600 Harding in Lincolnwood, was the prime suspect, but not prosecuted, from what I could ascertain. He was arrested in December 1958 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for burning down a church and adjacent home in Minneapolis. The second photo shows the aftermath of a grease fire that ravaged Topper’s Drive-In on October 30, 1953. The mystery is solved why my parents don’t remember Topper’s – they didn’t move to Lincolnwood until 1959. Black and white photos courtesy of Eric Bronsky collection. Eric is a historian, urban archaeologist, and author of three books on Chicago.
Multiple people mentioned Henry’s Drive-In with their famous 15 cent hamburgers and Richard’s Drive-In on Lincoln Avenue. The Halloween-themed Henry’s ad is awesome and you have to love the prices on the Richard’s menu! I couldn’t locate the address of Henry’s.
Lincolnwood Dairy was likely in the same location as the Lincolnwood Grill, just east of Thillens Stadium.
I could not find any information about Hans Goodrich other than its location at 6717 Lincoln Avenue – the same address as Renaldi’s and the Great Beijing, which receives consistently good reviews.
According to a blog post I found, on Lincoln Avenue from Devon to Crawford, four restaurants served burgers: Henry’s Drive-In, Richard’s Drive-In, Jalin’s Restaurant, and Howard Johnson’s. I completely forgot about Howard Johnson’s in Lincolnwood until a reader mentioned drinking the best milkshakes ever there and others talked about it on Facebook. The Lincolnwood location changed to a Ground Round – I can’t recall ever going there. In 1969, H.B. Johnson tried a new restaurant concept called Ground Round, which proved successful for a period of time. Ground Round restaurants were company-owned and franchised, thereby increasing Howard Johnson’s company profit. I believe the last Howard Johnson’s Restaurant in the north suburban area was adjacent to a lodge at 9333 Skokie Boulevard (pictured above), which until recently was a revolving succession of moderately priced motels. Highway Host confirms there were standalone restaurants at Lincoln and Crawford in Lincolnwood and Touhy and Cauldwell in Niles – the latter corner has also seen a succession of different restaurants.
Jojo’s was another restaurant on Lincoln Avenue with good burgers, in business some years after the aforementioned hamburger joints. The help wanted ad dates back to 1973. I clearly remember going to Jojo’s on a date with Jim during my junior year in high school, which would have been 1975. He had a burger with all the fixings including onions, while I ordered a soft drink. When Joan and I took my sister Janet and her friend Leslie to the Fleetwood Mac Rumours concert at the Chicago Stadium, we ate at Jojo’s afterwards. My sister and Leslie were acting very silly – pouring ketchup, mustard, sugar and other stuff into their drink glasses. As far as I recall, that’s the last time I ate there.
Amazing how many drive-ins existed in Lincolnwood once upon a time. Sol and Florence Singer opened the Mardi Gras Restaurant, likely across from Allgauer’s, in 1953 or 1954. It was a high-end deli with gourmet dinners and also featured the first drive-thru, drive-in deli. The concept failed and the owners moved to New York, where they apparently opened a successful restaurant.
Multiple people fondly recalled working at Biasetti’s Pizza on Touhy (east of Cicero). From all accounts, Harry Ermoian was a wonderful guy, swell boss, and a tough but beloved baseball coach. Although I couldn’t find anything about Biasetti’s, I located this newspaper clipping from the Niles Bugle, circa September 20, 1973. There was a Biasetti’s in Chicago at 1625 W. Irving Park, however, I found no indications of any relationship between the two restaurants.
I am well aware Myron & Phil was an institution in Lincolnwood. I didn’t include it in the first blog because it went out of business recently. Several people mentioned it and although I never ate there, my parents dined there once or twice in their many years in Lincolnwood. While the restaurant was much beloved, it became infamous when purported ties to the mob surfaced in the early 1990s. Sadly, Myron Freedman, the 95-year-old namesake of half the restaurant died just 30 minutes before a four-alarm fire raged through the restaurant in the early morning hours of May 8, 2013. Myron’s brother Phil Freedman, the namesake of the other half died in September 2014 at the age of 90. The iconic steakhouse, which enjoyed 40 years of business at 3900 Devon Avenue was torn down three years later to make way for an Islamic learning center and mosque. On a positive note, Myron’s son Mark Freedman opened a tavern-style restaurant and bar called Wildwood Tavern at 6480 W. Touhy in Niles.
What’s Cooking was around back when Lincoln Village was an old-fashioned shopping center – before building developers butchered its charm. My parents’ neighbor Sam owned the restaurant for quite a few years, but he has been retired a long time, so I am assuming he sold it. The restaurant closed in 2012 after 42 years in business. When I worked at Bronson Coles, I remember almost being hit by flying dishes when a few busboys got into a fight and started flinging china in the narrow side alley – a few pieces sprayed out onto the front pavement.
Kow Kow Restaurant first opened its doors as a carry out restaurant on August 13, 1949 at its original location on Devon Avenue, in West Rogers Park. Four years later, owners Don Moy and his father Nathan expanded the restaurant into the adjacent store front and it became a full service dine-in restaurant. Back then, along with Kow Kow, shoppers on Devon had a wide pick of eclectic businesses to patronize such as Carol Corr, The Hang It Shop, Bud Shaibly Bowling Alley, The Adam’s Apple, The Clothes Barn, Schwartz’s, Bon-Ton, and Crawford’s.
On October 18, 1989, Kow Kow moved to the southeast corner of Pratt and Cicero in Lincolnwood. This was the prior site of an Italian restaurant called Billy’s, which opened some time after Trattoria Gallo. Gallo was the restaurant famous for a particularly garish, huge sign. I have no idea if the food was good at Billy’s or Gallo because we never ate at either restaurant. Before that it was a vacant lot, yet I also recall a small brown brick building with an insurance office on the same corner when I was very young. Kow Kow’s last day of business was May 31, 2015 – Don’s family finally convinced him to retire. People bemoaned the closing of Kow Kow and their delicious house-made egg rolls, including my family.
On the bright side, Lincolnwood Towers resident and veteran restaurateur Phil Stefani and his daughter Gina bought the property. They will tear it down and open an Italian steak and seafood restaurant. I imagine this will be a high-end restaurant with prices to match, but it’s still good news for Lincolnwood.
Whistlers was a longtime Lincolnwood favorite at 3420 W. Devon. The vast menu was similar to many other restaurants including Jack’s and Sander’s. The last time my family ate at Whistler’s was in August 2014 – the food was plentiful but nothing to write home about. The only other time I dined at this restaurant was in the summer of 1996. I know my mom went there quite a few times with several friends and she said the quality deteriorated over the years.
A lot of people mentioned Dairy Queen at 3472 W. Devon – this has been a Dairy Star for 33 years, which means Dairy Queen sold this location around 1983. This was a hangout for kids in East Lincolnwood, as I’m sure Dairy Star has been to new generations of kids. My parents always took us to 31 Flavors/Baskin-Robbins in Edgebrook. Speaking of ice cream, if I recall correctly, a Bresler’s Ice Cream opened in Lincoln Village some time in the mid-1970s, in the same spot as the Village Nut Shop – next to Bronson Coles, where I worked.
Although this popular restaurant was actually in Skokie, its close proximity to Lincolnwood made it a favorite for generations of families. It was also a hangout for kids who went to Niles West – my older sister must have hung out at Jack’s dozens of time. Jake’s Snack Shop, pictured in the middle photo (from the Chicago Tribune) opened in the 1950s. The restaurant became Jack’s when Jack Koretos and Jerry Rubin bought it in 1965. They subsequently improved and enlarged the building (thanks, Eric!). Located at 5201 W. Touhy Avenue, the restaurant operated as a 24-hour diner for most of its 50-year run. Koretos cited the smoking ban enacted by the village of Skokie in 2003 as the beginning of the end, because Niles West kids could no longer hang out and smoke there. Soon thereafter, the diner reduced its hours and closed daily at 3 pm. Koretos and his son George hung on until 2015, when much to the dismay of legions of fans, Jack’s closed its doors forever.
Some of us remember when the drinking age in Illinois was 19! When I went off to RISD in 1976, the drinking age in Rhode Island was only 18. I was never much of a drinker, yet I could hold my alcohol fairly well back then. Frankenstein on Howard in West Rogers Park was one of our favorite bars during college breaks and over the summer. Two memories stand out above all others. During winter break one year, a few of us went to Frankenstein. I talked to Maurice Dayan (an old classmate I grew up with) for a few minutes, but ended up flirting the rest of the evening with Al Smith Jr., the son of the former longtime mayor of Skokie. We corresponded during the school year and ended up going out a few times the following summer. When we started discussing politics after watching fireworks on July 4, I discovered Al was a staunch Republican and a huge fan of Philip Crane. That effectively put a mutual end to the relationship. The second memory is when a bunch of us were hanging out at Cathy’s house and they decided we should continue the party over at Frankenstein. Since I didn’t drive that night, I forgot to bring my driver’s license. I waited outside for 30 or so minutes while the other went inside – one of those dumb things I’d rather forget but will always remember!
Potpourri and Reader Picks: All on Touhy – Lucky’s, Mr. Adams, Frankel’s Delicatessen, Normie’s Delicatessen, and King Kole – a corner diner evoking an Edward Hopper painting (thanks, Stefanie!). The latter two were east of Crawford – King Kole on the corner of Crawford and Touhy and Normie’s in the middle of the strip mall. My family loved Normie’s and on the former site of King Kole is my parent’s all-time favorite restaurant Renga Tei. Prior to Renga Tei, there was another Japanese restaurant at this location called Sakura. Another reader mentioned Elliot’s Pine Log Restaurant and Lounge in Skokie which operated from 1939 to 1988 at the intersections of Lincoln Avenue, Howard Street, and Skokie Boulevard.
The Continental Savings of Lincolnwood at 6677 Lincoln Avenue is now home to the US Bank. Richard’s Drive-In was torn down to make room for the building.
Bank of Lincolnwood stood for many years on the same site as the Mardi Gras Restaurant, which is currently the Republic Bank. I think my parents had an account there, because I remember running into my freshman year Niles West French teacher Marcia Adelson at the bank.
My first bank account was at Uptown Federal Savings, however, I don’t think the Lincolnwood branch at 6820 Lincoln Avenue (just north of Pratt) was there yet. I opened the account at the Lawrencewood Shopping Center at Oakton and Waukegan. Those were the days when interest rates were something like 6.75 percent and you received nifty gifts for opening accounts! I had my Uptown account until 1988 when the bank was bought by First Nationwide Bank, which was acquired by California Federal Bank in 1997. A BMO Harris Bank branch is currently in the old Uptown location in Lincolnwood.
In December 2011, it was announced MB Financial was acquiring First National Bank of Lincolnwood at 6401 Lincoln Avenue (at Devon). The number of acquisitions in the banking industry over the years makes it hard to keep track what’s what!
Grocery Stores, Specialty Stores and Delis
Just across from Proesel Park and L. Woods, Lincolnwood Produce recently closed and is now a Binny’s. My parents loved this store, however, I wasn’t very impressed – we have so many interesting stores in our area like Valli, Wally’s and others. Kohl’s opened on December 6, 1973 and thrived here until 1981. My younger sister worked in the bakery department very briefly when she was in high school. Jerry’s Deep Discount opened in the space in 1986, a “discount retail operation, specializing in health and beauty aids” according to the Chicago Tribune. Before Lincolnwood Produce opened, it was a self-standing Osco Drug.
The photo is from a different Kohl’s in Chicago – I think there was also one in Morton Grove on Dempster. I had no idea until doing research that the grocery store was owned by the same company as Kohl’s department store. The first Kohl’s supermarket opened in Milwaukee in 1946, founded by Maxwell Kohl. A&P acquired all the grocery stores in 1983, although it was another 20 years before all the locations closed. Thanks to Eric V., who sent me additional information on Kohl’s and Red Owl, a supermarket mentioned by a few other readers.
The Lincolnwood Red Owl opened on December 14, 1959 on the northeast side of Crawford and Devon, current site of a CVS – Hall’s Rental was a longtime business there. On the same day, they opened another 17,000 square foot grocery store at 333 Ridge, Wilmette. A third Chicago-area store opened in January 1960 in Arlington Heights, according to the Chicago Tribune article, the 165th store across 10 states at that time. By May 2, 1962, there were nine locations across Chicagoland. According to the Facebook page, the Minnesota-based company operated across the Midwest from 1922 to the 1980s.
Fannie’s Deli at 4718 W. Touhy was a longtime family favorite and several readers also mentioned it. While my parents mainly shopped there in the 1960s-1970s, I fondly remember buying Warner’s chocolate licorice whips there. The only store I have seen chocolate licorice whips at in recent years is Tenuta’s in Kenosha. My parents also bought bagels and bialys at New York Bagel & Bialy at 4714 W. Touhy long before fresh, refrigerated, shelf-stable, and frozen bagels were widely available. Bialys are still a little more obscure and not available at most grocery stores. Open since 1965, it’s kind of reassuring New York Bagel & Bialy is still in business!
It’s hard to believe the south side of the 5200 block of Touhy Avenue (at Laramie) was such a mess in the 1970s. This photo, taken in 1975, shows wrecked cars across the street from where the Jewel-Osco and Foremost Liquor stood – just west of Jack’s. The Jewel-Osco moved to Village Crossing, however, I’m not certain when because the center opened in 1989, but was built in stages. At the time, I worked at a telecommunications company just east of Lehigh and there was very little to walk to other than Papa Chris’ Place and the Leaning Tower YMCA – Village Crossing was a welcome addition to the neighborhood.
I’m not certain when Cigar Country and the Party Corral went out of business, but this ad is from 1986. I remember my dad going there to buy Ben and Jerry’s and Dove single ice cream bars as well as bags of Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews.
On Facebook in particular, several Lincolnwood guys fondly recalled working at the Milk Pail and pointed out the deli was owned by someone else. Steve Brin and his father Wally owned Wally’s Deli inside the Milk Pail. Wally owned it from 1970-1986 and when he passed away in 1988, Steve purchased the Milk Pail and renamed it Wally’s Milk Pail and Deli until 1999. With partner Harry Friedman, Steve turned the establishment into a strictly-kosher deli and grocery store. Steve worked there longer than any other employee – starting in high school in 1970 through 1999! (thanks, Steve!)
Reader Picks: National grocery store, Robbie’s Deli, and the deli in Lincoln Village.
At the bottom of the ad, you can see a listing for Lincolnwood Hardware – Sam, “The Hardware Man.” There is no address in the ad – thanks to a reader for recalling the store was on Touhy east of Cicero. I didn’t mention Bain Hardware in Lincoln Village in my first article. A reader said one of the owners looked like Floyd the barber from Andy Griffith. My dad and I went there when they were going out of business and I bought this bizarre light plate. Another reader mentioned her father opened Edgebrook Hardware in 1953 on the south side of Devon. Of course the Ace Hardware has been a longtime presence in that same location.
While I couldn’t find any photos of Van Zeelt’s and the building’s charming Dutch gabled building, I did locate an ad. I believe Van Zeelt’s closed in the early 1990s. I remember taking my daughter there when she was 2 or 3-years-old for an Oktoberfest (around 1990). They served free bratwursts and soft drinks and had a swing set in front. My dad purchased and had lawn mowers and snow blowers serviced at Van Zeelt’s.
Many people spoke fondly of Orlove Drug store, which was ultimately forced out of business by Walgreens. Despite thorough research, I found nothing about this drug store – except an obituary for Arlene Orlove and a mention of Herman in a pharmacy document. Orlove was on the ground floor of a medical/dental building at Lincoln and Pratt. My own dentist was upstairs, of whom I have both fond and not so fond memories. He didn’t believe in novocaine and he smoked – so his hands smelled as he sadistically drilled and filled my very deep cavities. This was long before dentists wore gloves. At the reception desk, they had a box full of shiny gumball machine-type rings and the receptionist Annette was a real sweetheart – she always let me take more than one. Orlove was a small and straightforward pharmacy, but they had some candy and Chandler’s assignment books, which were all the rage at Lincoln Hall Junior High School. A reader recounted her salesman dad setting up Ever-So-Fresh candies displayed in bags on a rack with spindles. Another reader talked about buying Charms lollipops there for 5 cents – I did as well, but not at Orlove since I was either going to or leaving my dentist’s office!
Potpourri and Reader Picks: Galen Pharmacy (Touhy east of Crawford), Mal’s Pharmacy (Devon and Crawford/Pulaski – in Chicago), Lee’s Pharmacy (Lincoln Village), and Lincolnwood Drugs owned by Mr. Himmelfarb (on the north side of Touhy east of Cicero).
Hobbies and Sports
Numerous readers fondly recalled bowling at Gabby Hartnett at 6670 Lincoln Avenue, which later became Sy’s Bowl. The former Cubs catcher actually owned the bowling alley. Hartnett was a home run slugger, breaking several records in his 18 years as a Cubbie. In July 1958, robbers forced the night maintenance man into a washroom and stole $1000 from a locked drawer. Hartnett died of liver cirrhosis in 1972 in Park Ridge, which happened to be his 72nd birthday.
Ms. Carr took her Lincoln Hall gym classes bowling at Gabby Hartnett on more than one occasion (thanks, Joan!). Does anyone remember what Ms. Carr was infamous for doing? She threatened to rub gum in anyone’s hair who was found chewing in class, I assume due to the potential choking hazard. Lest anyone was fooled by her angelic face, one day she followed up on her threat and did this to a friend of mine in front of the entire class. If a teacher tried pulling this today, she would not only be fired, but would also likely be sued. But I digress – back to Gabby Hartnett. I was not a good bowler, but I sure had a great time at the 8th grade bowling party thrown by Patty Rosen and Andrea Linn.
Bud Shaibly Bowl was an old-fashioned alley on the second floor of the same building housing Crawford Department Store – on Devon between Western and California. There is something really cool about bowling alleys on upper floors of buildings. It must have been the summer after my first year at RISD when I briefly dated an older guy from West Rogers Park. He was a serious bowler who bowled in several leagues and attended professional tournaments as a spectator. He actually taught me a few skills and I remember getting three strikes in one game, yet I think my best score was only 129! Of course that beats the 88 I bowled in gym class.
Monty Levenson’s Pro Shop was located at 3372 Devon. I remember my mom taking my grandfather there to hit golf balls when my grandparents were visiting from Florida – likely around 1974. Those were the days before mammoth golf shops existed – ironically one of these mammoth stores recently declared bankruptcy. Monty Levenson Golf has a website, but no brick and mortar store and now specializes in customized golf products – like balls imprinted with company names.
My favorite childhood coin shop is still in business after 61 years! In 1955, Archie’s opened at 5516 Devon in Edgebrook. I had a brief obsession collecting coins inspired by my Uncle Jack who had a coin collection worth more than $1 million. When I lost interest in that, I rode my bike to Archie’s to buy antique postcards, which I still have after all these years – a collection that now includes flea market and antique store finds from all over the U.S. and Europe. Another coin shop called King Coin (thanks, Doug!) was on Touhy just east of Cicero. One of the gentlemen who worked there (owner?) was sweet, but the other one was nasty so I never set foot in there again after a bad experience.
Just north of Lincolnwood in Skokie, Sunset Drive-In opened in 1955 and closed in 1977. It was a typical drive-in with a concession stand and playground beneath the screen. Located just north of Touhy and south of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago water filtration plant – you could always smell the distinctive fumes of sewage driving by. I remember going there at least once with my entire family, but never went there on a date or with friends.
Anyone remember Marine World on Devon … or the business directly across from it – Turner North Men’s Clothing? Marine World was in business from 1968 to 1998. Thanks to owner Don Sporleder for scanning and sending me snapshots from the opening on Saturday, October 12, 1968. Don mentioned he still operates on a smaller scale, servicing aquariums in people’s houses.
Reader’s Picks: Several people mentioned Devlin Bowl, which was apparently at Devon and Lincoln, behind the bank (First National Bank of Lincolnwood?) Another reader mentioned several Rogers Park businesses – Libby and General camera stores on Devon and Hobby Models on the northeast corner of Devon and Western.
Photo sources: Eric Bronsky, Don Sporleder, Bowling History, CardCow, Chicago Tribune, Cinema Treasures, Craigs Lost Chicago, DNA Info, ebay, Highway Host, Illinois Digital Archives, Niles Bugle, Pinterest, Pleasant Family Shopping, 70sSkokie.blogspot.com, Yelp
Bank of Lincolnwood, Biasetti's Pizza, Bud Shaibly Bowl, Dairy Queen, Dairy Star, Devon Avenue, Edgebrook, Elliot’s Pine Log Restaurant and Lounge, Frankenstein Bar, Ground Round, Hans Goodrich, Harry Ermoian, Henry's Drive-In, HoJo, Howard Johnson's, Jack's Restaurant, Jojos, Kohl's, Kow Kow Restaurant, Lincoln Village, Lincolnwood, Mardi Gras Restaurant, Marine World, Myron & Phil, New York Bagel & Bialy, Niles West, Orlove Drug Store, Red Owl, Richard's Drive-In, The Milk Pail, Trattoria Gallo, Van Zeelt's Lawn and Garden, What's Cooking, Whistlers Family Restaurant. Bookmark.
Lincolnwood, Illinois – A Trip Down Memory Lane
Defunct Discount and Department Stores – Lincolnwood and Nearby
Stefanie Newman
Oh wow, Betsy. What a labor of love. I can’t imagine the work that went into tracking down all this information and the photos. I was thinking today about the magic shop that used to be on Lincoln Avenue and wondered about this brief trend. There was even a magic shop in Charlottesville for awhile, owned by a professional magician who demonstrated his wares. I digress I know, but I am sure you also feel the absence of so many quirky stores that have disappeared.
Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it and thank you for sharing it on Facebook. I cannot remember the magic shop on Lincoln, but there is still an old-school magic shop on Western near Lincoln – is that the one? The owner appeared on Bozo’s Circus a dozen times and a documentary was made about him a few years ago. I remember when Scott was really into doing magic tricks – I can picture him doing this trick with a red cup and disappearing ball, with Winston watching us. https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150418/lincoln-square/amazing-mr-ash-his-magic-shop-get-star-treatment-at-film-fest.
David Fink
I love seeing your posts. I’m friends with Stefanie Newman who told me about this blog.
David Levey
Thank you for continuing this trip down memory lane. I didn’t live in Lincolnwood, but I certainly spent a lot of time there with my Niles West friends. My wife, Janet (Eickhoff), was a lifeguard at the Lincolnwood pool before I hired her away to work for me at the Harrer Park pool in Morton Grove. I spent a few late evenings at the Lincolnwood pool with Jan and the rest of the staff. Great memories, mirrored sunglasses, and fantastic tans!
You’re welcome, David. I remember you were on the NW swim team, so working at the Harrar Park pool was a perfect gig for you. Yes, indeed – those were the carefree days of summer!
Meryl Goldberg
Betsy, thank you so much for all the work you have put in. You have brought back so many memories for me. We moved to Linconwood in 1955. Our house was on Sherwin Ave. just off East Prairie. My father owned Edgebrook Hardware till he retired in the early ’70’s. And you are right, it is an Ace Hardware now. My first job was working in my father’s store. There was a Chinese takeout store on the corner of Touhy and East Prairie where I worked after school for $1 an hour. During the winter, the town would flood the park on East Prairie so we could ice skate.
I am going to put your website on my Facebook page so other Lincolnwoodites can relive these memories also.
Hi Meryl – You’re welcome and glad you enjoyed the second article. My good childhood friend Stefanie Newman lived on Sherwin just west of East Prairie – perhaps you remember the Newmans or the Bondys, who also lived on Sherwin. I remember the takeout Chinese on Touhy – there was also a laundromat in that little strip mall with a really cool polka dot ball on the roof. Closer to Crawford on the north side of Touhy, there was a little art gallery/school called Steiner Gallery, where both Stefanie and I worked. Thank you for sharing this on your Facebook – I greatly appreciate it!
Bruce Levinson
The Chinese restaurant on the corner of Touhy and East Prairie was called Bamboo House.
Roland Bellman
A great read. It was interesting for me to see the photo of Allgauers because my parents held their wedding reception there in 1956.
Sue (Archibald) Outlaw
I LOVE reading your articles – my mother and father lived in Lincolnwood from 1958-2000 and my two sisters and I grew up there. Such great memories from such a wonderful time in our lives. Your research, comments, and pictures are really great. Thanks for the trip down memory lane…
Curt Leibowitz
The two articles on Lincolnwood were outstanding – what memories! Why no mention of Shoppers World and Community Discount? My father managed both, at one time or another! Once again, great articles!
Hi Curt: Thanks much! Shoppers World and Community Discount are mentioned in the third article – http://consumergrouch.com/?p=7337. Interesting that your father managed both! Glad you enjoyed the articles and hope you’ll read the blog about discount and department stores.
In that same mall was Normie’s delicatessen and Weiner’s Drug store. In the same strip on the corner of Crawford and Touhy was a small restaurant where we used to go for fries and cokes after school. Don’t remember the name. Maybe you do?
Hi Merle – Thanks, I mentioned a few of these under Reader Picks: All on Touhy – Lucky’s, Mr. Adams, Frankel’s Delicatessen, Normie’s Delicatessen, and King Kole – a corner diner evoking an Edward Hopper painting. The latter two were east of Crawford – King Kole on the corner of Crawford and Touhy and Normie’s in the middle of the strip mall. I never went to King Kole, but Normie’s was a family favorite.
The restaurant was King Cole. My parents owned the women’s clothing store called The Sample Hut three doors west of Weiner’s drug store.
Nancy Nortell
King Cole was our after school hangout. So many memories there!!!
My wife and I used to shop at Wally’s Milk Pail and Levinson’s Bakery (located further east on Devon and still in business). You may recall that the brined pickles, tomatoes, etc. were displayed in open barrels opposite the checkout counter. Those items were self-service; the store provided tongs, containers, and bags.
This is a true story: One day my wife’s mother accompanied us there. While shopping, we heard a splash and a loud “OY!!!” Turns out that my mother-in-law had taken her wallet out to pay, but somehow it slipped from her grasp and fell into one of the pickle barrels! She promptly stuck her bare hand into the brine and fished it out, but it was too late; all of her money got ‘pickled.’ This was too funny and we cracked up. The facial expression on the guy behind the counter? Priceless.
OMG … Eric, you made my day with this tale! I couldn’t stop laughing – thanks for amusing me and readers of this blog! Now I can’t wait to hear the story about your dentist – hope you’ll share it.
Enjoyed all of your photos and memories. I have lived in Lincolnwood all of my life within a five block area. I am now 75 years old. I pretty much remembered all of the things you have listed, etc. I worked at Lincolnwood School for 35 years. My brothers used to go rabbit hunting in the winter when most of our village was still prairie. It was a great place to grow up in.
Nancy Vincent Barber
Barbara, your brothers probably knew my brothers Lance and Guy Vincent…they were big on rabbit hunting in the woods behind our house. It was the big Victorian house at 7100 Lincoln Avenue, behind where Proesel Park is now – it was all woods back then.
Patty Rosen Petersen
Thanks so much Betsy for all the wonderful memories! What fun to be taken back to the good ole days. It was such fun growing up in Lincolnwood. We could take off on our bikes on summer mornings and not return home until dark. And no one worried about us. They knew we were safe. So different than today. I wouldn’t trade those days for anything! Thank you again!!
Thanks so much for reading the blog and commenting, Patty! Indeed, we were lucky to be able to gallivant all over the neighborhood safely. Glad you were part of those wonderful memories.
Carol Stone King
I wrote a long comment under part 1 before I learned about part 2. Yikes!
More ancient memories. There was a K-Mart or Venture or something where Lincoln Village was – at least I think so. And Jack’s – spent many a late night there! And… and… and…
One minor thing about the Continental Bank. It was on the corner of Lincoln and East Prairie. Richard’s Drive-in was torn down to make way for it. I grew up across the street from Richard’s at East Prairie and North Shore and mourned Richard’s vanilla shakes for years.
Once again, thanks!
Jim Klyman
Aloha Carol,
This is Jim, your old next door neighbor. Going through this blog, lots of memories. I remember when Tony Novac, did the building expansion to his “Chicken in the Rough” and the neon sign out front was a rooster with a broken putter held up in the air by one chicken leg. We used to go down into the basement and place all the empty reusable beer bottles (from the bar above the basement) into the wooden bottle shipping racks for the beer delivery truck. Once we finished this job, we were allowed up into the kitchen to use their potato press to slice a few potatoes into strips, then dump them into the fry basket to make a pile of french fries. I think we were about 10-years-old then…can’t imagine the liability for allowing something like that these days.
Barbara Saber
Betsy, thank you for your hard work on both of these blogs which have unlocked so many wonderful memories.
My family moved to Lincolnwood in 1955 and then to Arizona in 1970. We lived on Keeler just north of Lunt Ave. Always loved the elm trees that formed a canopy over the street; sadly removed at some point due to Dutch Elm disease. I remember wild pheasants in our yard, and a small vegetable farm just up the street until the area became more populated.
A few personal memories to add…my father actually wrote and produced a jingle for Henry’s Hamburgers. I had a speaking part in this and said “Oh boy, you bet!” Being quite young at the time, several takes were needed as I kept giggling. I recall the night Allgauer’s burned and the sound of the sirens wailing throughout the night. I have always tried to live in a place where I could hear trains in the distance, as I could from my bedroom on Keeler…so soothing.
Shopping on Devon with the girls was always an adventure – we would start with a hot dog from the Ranch, work our way down to a record store that had listening booths, and end up at Swento’s Bakery for a warm pizza roll. It was at that record store that I asked the clerk if he had a record I had just heard for the first time, “Please Please Me” by The Beatles – his classic response was “The Beatles? What a dumb name for a group!!”
I remember when my Mother sent me to Orlove’s Drug Store to pick up a personal female item and being mortified when Bobby Orlove rang me up at the register. While riding my blue Schwinn, I met the love of my life at Weiner’s buying a popsicle. As he lived in Skokie, I would go to baseball games at Terminal Park to catch a glimpse of him. We are together 50 years later.
I won second place in a “Don’t Be A Litterbug” poster contest in third? grade and my poster hung in the lobby of the Bank of Lincolnwood for a while. I remember ice skating on the street to my girlfriend’s house four blocks away after a freezing rain storm. I don’t miss the winters.
While living in Tempe, Arizona, I worked for a Restaurant group called “Big Four Restaurants” (4 guys from Chicago) whose flagship restaurant was “The Lunt Avenue Marble Club”. I enjoyed that irony…
Thanks again for helping me to fondly remember what a great little town Lincolnwood was – a very nice place to be from.
Hi Barbara – Thanks for sharing all your wonderful memories of Lincolnwood. How cool that your dad wrote and produced a jingle for Henry’s and you had a part! Your experience at Orlove’s brought back a flood of memories of how embarrassed I was when a teenage boy would ring me up for female items! I especially love that you met your husband at Weiner’s and are still together after 50 years – that is terrific!
Ann McAlexander
Thanks Betsy, for this great article. I grew up near Touhy and Lehigh in Edgebrook, and so many of these places were in my old stomping ground. I’ve recently moved back after living in Indianapolis for many years, and it’s been fun exploring to find out which of the old places are still around. New York Bagel and Bialy and Lou Malnati’s are two spots I’ve continued to go to over the years when I’ve been home to visit. One question – There was another department store within a few blocks of Crawford’s, also on Devon, and I think also on the south side. Any idea what that one was called? My dentist was located within a block or two of both of those. One other business I’d love to see featured is The Bunny Hutch. I haven’t read your first blog yet, so it might be there, but I recently visited and had a great talk with the new owners, and would love to read some of its history.
Hi Ann – Thanks much for writing and sharing your memories. The department store you are thinking about on Devon might be Robert Hall – I featured it in my last blog: http://consumergrouch.com/?p=7337. As for the Bunny Hutch, I too have fond memories of that place and wrote about it twice – in the first Lincolnwood article: http://consumergrouch.com/?p=7227 and also in one about hot dogs written several years ago: http://consumergrouch.com/?p=3513. I didn’t know the Bunny Hutch had new owners – is it not owned by Craig Klatzco anymore? In any case, glad you are enjoying being back in Chicago.
John Widera
All the talk about Dairy Star, one of my first employers back around ’82, prompted me to google Rosalba Baseley. She and her family bought the business in 1961 and kept it for 25 years. She gave up the Dairy Queen name due to franchise issues in the early 80’s, and “Dairy Star” was born. I hadn’t thought of her in years. Google revealed she just passed away last month in WI. What great times we had working there, on hot weekend nights. The lines would be 20+ people deep at every window until closing. We’d work like dogs for next to no money but we had a riot and never stopped laughing all night. After work we’d go get a hot dog and fries at Superdawg and drive around looking for things to do. Jack’s of course was another late-night spot. And Par-King in Morton Grove was a regular stop. Eventually life took me east to Rogers Park and Loyola where I spent all my time in the mid- to late-80s, and for the most part, the glory days of growing up in Lincolnwood were behind me. Life changed, as it does, but the memories hang on.
Hi John: Thanks again for sharing your memories – you have a way with words that makes the past quite compelling. Sorry to hear Rosalba Baseley passed away. It sounds like you had a great time working at Dairy Star!
Jackie Shaw Rottner
Part 2 was just wonderful – thank you. The comments are also a great read. Here we are years later learning that we all felt the same way. I guess that’s why it was such a terrific community.
But we all came from different neighborhoods, yet and we all used to go back to shop, dine or go to a place of worship. Rogers Park and Devon Ave was a huge part of our lives. The shops and bakeries, and of course, when your mom needed a fancy dress…it was Seymour Paison or L Starr’s. Also, there was the Chinese restaurant called Hi Howe. It was on Cicero just north of Peterson. All gone now.
Andy Rogow
Thank you so much for these amazing blogs, Betsy! The rush of nostalgia is just overwhelming. The photographs are just incredible. I love that you found a photo of Ernie’s Flower shop as my parents were good friends with Ernie.
We moved to Lincolnwood in 1964 when I was 2 years old. We lived in a two-flat at Hamlin and Pratt. My sisters both graduated from Niles West but we moved to Riverwoods/Deerfield just after I finished at Lincoln Hall. All my childhood memories are there. I loved all of the places you mentioned and I miss them.
A few places I would like to add:
Robbie’s Restaurant which was across from Lincoln Village. I loved the chicken noodle soup there. We used to go there the night before Passover started as my mom made our house kosher for Passover.
Elliot’s Pine Log, which was in Skokie near the Dunkin Donuts on Lincoln. I was very young when we went there, but I remember it being very charming.
The Prime Rib – it was near Oakton and was the place we went for birthdays and other occasions.
Where the current library stands at Pratt and Crawford there was originally a Jewel Food Store. Then it became Pier 1 Imports before being torn down for the library.
It wasn’t special, but Estelle’s Diner was near Jojos if I recall.
I’m really looking forward to your blogs on Skokie because we attended synagogue at Niles Township and I have many fond memories of businesses and restaurants there. We shopped often on Oakton and at Old Orchard. Keep up the great work!!!
Hi Andy: I am glad you enjoyed the blogs. Thank you for sharing your memories of Lincolnwood. Very cool you got your start at the Tom Thumb Players on Devon – looks like you’ve had a successful career in the theater.
Oh! A business I forgot but which was very special to me was the Tom Thumb Players on Devon. I studied theater there for three years and now I work professionally in the theater. It’s where I got my start. Lester Netzky was the owner/director. He was wonderful.
Adrienne Stern
What a wonderful endeavor…you have very current info, too. We have lived in Lincolnwood since 1960. In our home for 51 years on Greenleaf west of Hamlin, moving to the corner of Lincoln and Touhy 5 years ago. When we moved into the brand new house there were cock pheasants in the huge prairie east of Hamlin, which was not a paved street. There was a huge tree in the middle of Hamlin just south of Greenleaf. All of our neighbors loved it and did not want change. Two of us took our baby buggies and strapped ourselves to that tree to prevent its removal. We could see all the way east to Bell and Howell. People came every Sunday with sacks to hunt the rabbits in the fields.
My good friends and neighbors would go almost every night to Jalin’s to schmooze over coffee. It was on Crawford just south of Lincoln, across from where they put up Ground Round, which is now a Kia dealership. In the snowstorm of 1967 we learned that the National Foods was open. It is where the library is now located. My next door neighbor and I decided we needed some food as we were getting low after pooling what we had. Her husband told us to take their toboggan but we demurred saying we were only going to buy a few things. Needless to say, we bought too much. We called him from the store to come rescue us. He came walking down the middle of unplowed Crawford, rope across his chest, pulling the toboggan. I made the fatal mistake by saying “mush” and he exploded!
We were the ones responsible for getting houses built on the east side of Hamlin. The Mayor, who owned the whole prairie wanted to put factories there. It cost all the families in our area $200 each to hire an attorney and we finally prevailed after using some info on the Mayor we had learned…pure and simple blackmail. He bought land on the corner of Crawford and Lunt for $16,000 and turned around and sold it for $125,000 because he knew what would become Todd Hall was going to be built there. We fought him to get the library…the village bought National Foods location to use for a library. Before they could start remodeling, the roof collapsed from the weight of the snow…demolished the building instead and we got a nice new library. We fought to get a pool and he said “what do YOU people need a pool for…you can go to the JCC”. We had to force a referendum to get the pool, which opened in 1972. When he cut the ribbon at the opening, I wanted to push him in.
We now live in the condo building that stands on the land where the House of Pierre was. I recall going quite often to the restaurant because it was a favorite of my father as it had great food and strolling violinists. My eldest son worked for the subcontractor who erected our condo during summer break from college. He carried up the balconies and warned us not to hang anything on the ceiling of the balconies because they contained asbestos. Again, loved your two blogs…well done!
Jim Sigrist
Speaking of Hamlin Ave, my father owned a machining business there called Grind-Rite and General Manufacturing. Probably the opposite end of the part of Hamlin that you speak of, as this part had all new factory buildings. This part of Hamlin was off Lincoln Ave, a bit past Lou Malnati’s. What I’m curious about is what was there before? I recall a photo of my dad and business partner standing in front of an old concrete arch that had all kinds of marbles stuck in the pebbled concrete. They were standing in front of the property before ground was broke for the new factory. I worked there many summers and I remember behind the factory was a little wooded pocket with lots of wildflowers I would look at closely with a magnifying glass (lady slippers and milkweed). Seemed magical to me. Always wondered what kind of place existed there before the factories came. Any idea?
Lawrence Kagan
I had the honor of being a classmate of Betsy, I believe in 1966-1967 in 3rd grade with Mrs. Boening. She does a fantastic job pointing out the sites of Lincolnwood back in the day. I guess I never realized it was hip to live in Lincolnwood. I remember back in 1965 or so meeting Comedian Alan Sherman at Shoppers World, who was the most popular cultural icon in America with his famous, “Hello Mudda. Hello Fadda.” I remember going to that pickle place King Kole on Touhy and Crawford too. We lived on Christiana from 1958 to 1965, so Kiddieland was our second home.
Hi Larry – Good to hear from you and thanks for the praise. It’s an honor to know you – a person who has devoted his entire adult life to military service – thank you! While it wasn’t especially hip living in Lincolnwood when we were kids, it was definitely a great community to grow up in. Its close proximity to Chicago enabled many family trips downtown. I think you’re right – we weren’t in any classes together after 3rd grade. I remember running into you on the Pace bus in Lincolnwood – I think in the early 80’s – in the springtime, around Passover. I hope all is well with you.
Mark Heilbron
We moved from Hyde Park to Lincolnwood in 1955 when I was starting kindergarten…7100 block of Keeler between Touhy and Estes Ave. Early memories of Linwood Market and the barber shop on Touhy and Crawford (at the far end of the same strip mall as Norm’s Deli and Weiner Pharmacy. A bit later, across the street from those – Emil’s mens/boys clothing store, the Baskin-Robbins and Ruben’s Deli. My Dad shopped at Aidem and Dess for clothes…as teenagers, we shopped at Selig’s in Evanston, owned by a Lincolnwood family too. The go-kart track near the trampoline place on Lincoln, hamburgers at “Bay’s” – the joint on the street near Niles East HS. We moved to Wilmette in 1976 – on Sheridan Rd. across the street from where the Teatro del Lago and Peacock’s ice cream used to be in “No Man’s Land.” Oh yeah, sno-cones at Thillens Stadium.
Thanks for sharing your Lincolnwood memories, Mark! I had to look up Teatro del Lago because I wasn’t familiar with it – just Plaza del Lago, which was built on the same site. There is a photo and info on it at: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4494.
Sue Archibald Outlaw
Hi Mark, I happen to know EXACTLY where you lived on Keeler! Hope you are doing well.
Signed — previous next door neighbor!
Hi Sue – we did live on a friendly block of Keeler…our joint “claim to fame” – 2 houses side by side which were the “twins” of each other. I warmly remember the invites to Xmas morning celebrations in your home, and the farmhouse at the corner of Keeler and Touhy, which was one of the oldest homes in Lincolnwood together with the garage, converted from a stable that used to house horses. And the Weinhart’s, who used to flood the large empty lot next to their house for a neighborhood winter ice skating rink…w/night lighting and hot cocoa drinks always available. Of course, the summertime block parties – a common occurrence throughout the whole village. Another memory – the annual Halloween bonfire in the park behind the Village Hall near the baseball field. Best regards to you, your sisters and your Dad.
Wow – Emil’s. I remember that store, but like many places mentioned here, it was a long dormant memory. My mom used to take me there for clothes. My mom’s taste in clothing for fellows my age was pretty conservative and I was always bucking against her choices. I wanted Beatles boots and wild polka dot shirts, but she’d just freak out. “Hoodlum shoes!” It was a real struggle.
Does anyone remember the amazing site of monarch butterfly migration? There would be thousands of them in layers rising higher and higher in the sky. Monarchs were everywhere at this time.
It would be nice if this blog brought in more photos from the neighborhoods. How life was in Lincolnwood, particularly for the children growing up there in the ’50’s and ’60’s. If it goes in that direction, I have lots of photos.
john d levy
Bays was such a good place. Their hot chocolate donuts were the best I have ever tasted.
Andrew B Hurvitz
I believe the Bank of Lincolnwood was designed around 1966 by
Marshall Leib, an architect, whose sons, Joel and Alan went to school with me.
In the early 2000s I met Alan out here in Los Angeles at an architectural preservation event.
He was living in a modern home in Glendale.
It looks like there was a big legal battle between the architect and the bank stretching into the 1980s. https://www.leagle.com/decision/1983820113illapp3d7071720
TomZale
In Mark’s comment, he mentioned Ruben’s Deli. I just loved that place – I remember Ruben and his wife, a delightful couple. One of the best recipes for corned beef I ever ate. I’m 24 again and it’s 1978. Thanks!
Rachel Myers Chazen
Thanks for the memories! So many places near and dear to my childhood. You mentioned Gallo’s (official name was Trattoria Gallo) which is where I got my first job at 13. I was the weekend salad bar girl. One of the owners, Dominic Gallo, taught me how to make so many of their delicious recipes including his secret cannoli filling.
Then, Uptown Federal Savings where I held my first full-time job after high school. I started at the branch inside the Jewel at Oakton and Lee. Within a few years, I worked my way up to supervise and then eventually manage the Lincoln and Pratt branch until shortly after the First Nationwide acquisition.
Your articles are the best chronicles of my childhood in Lincolnwood. Thanks for bringing me back!
Hi Rachel – Thanks for reading the blog and sharing a few of your experiences. I’m glad the Lincolnwood articles helped you relive childhood and young adulthood memories!
Since I have lived in Lincolnwood all of my life (76 years so far), I really remembered all of the places you mentioned. It was great growing up here. Thank you,
Zahra Ermoian
My grandfather is Harry Ermoian, owner/boss of Biasetti’s! If anyone has any memories or stories to share, please I would love to hear them. Love my grandpa.
My family loved Biasetti’s! We used to order beef instead of sausage and it was great!
john levy
I lived half a block from Biasettis. I worked there and knew Harry pretty well. I recall how really hot it got in the store in the summer and once I cleaned out the walk-in freezer in back during a hot spell and practically got pneumonia. Great pizza but the ribs were the best. I remember how Harry loved his new baby Mercedes and how he had great hair.
Your grandfather’s place was the best! I’ve never had a half-pound burger that tasted so good. And the fried chicken also ranks No. 1 in my memory…even better than Popeyes. I hope Harry is still doing well. He’ll always be remembered.
Lennie Weiss
I am 51 years old and I needed this blast from my past!
Does anyone remember Charles Moell Cadillac on Lincoln and Pratt?
You bet, and right in front of them – wasn’t that triangle lot gas station a Sinclair with Dino the green dinosaur? And the wooden split rail fence that went around the whole Dist 74 school campus.
Bob Gassel
I know this is technically Chicago, but during the mid-late 60’s there was a hot dog stand on the south side of Devon towards LIncoln…perhaps adjacent to Bounceland, I recall it being named Ed’s or Eddie’s but could be wrong. So far I’ve only found folks with vague memories of this….anyone have more specifics?
For someone who grew up in Skokie during the same era, thanks for posting this….
Hi Neil: Glad you enjoyed the Lincolnwood blog. Most people don’t realize I also wrote a blog on Skokie – in the same style with a lot of research and photos. Hope you enjoy it! http://consumergrouch.com/?p=7637
Are you thinking of the Bunny Hutch? It was on the southwest-ish corner, next to a miniature golf place.
No, the place I’m talking about was in Chicago on the south side of Devon, east of Lincoln…by where the Sprint/Dollar Tree strip mall is now.
Paul Schechter
This site is incredible. So many memories long forgotten came flooding back. Anyone remember the great snow blizzard of 1967. Thought it was so cool that they closed school for several days to clean up all that snow. I still remember jumping off the roof of Todd Hall into the snow drifts.
Paul, I remember not being able to open our back door the snow was so deep at 7:30 am. Later that day, I pulled my sled to the Jewel Tea at Pratt and Crawford for my mom (we lived on the corner of East Prairie and North Shore). Shoveling out the driveway, finishing just before the plow came through… before my mom broke down and bought a snow-blower.
It’s still the storm by which I measure all others.
Thanks for the memories.
I remember the snow that year. It was semester break at Indiana University and I was coming home to Lincolnwood after my last final; only to discover that O’Hare was closed down: I ended up instead in Bedford, Indiana with my roommate…
Carol, I grew up on Crawford between Lunt and Estes and the grocery store at Pratt and Crawford was where my mother did all her shopping. I seem to remember that it was originally a National when we first moved to Lincolnwood in 1960. Correct me if I’m wrong but I also recall a Dominick’s somewhere in that transition between grocery stores. I also remember that the restaurant at East Prairie and Touhy was another restaurant before the Neba. Maybe someone remembers what. Another long forgotten memory just popped back in my head. Anyone remember Friday nights at the American Legion hall? It was the highlight of my week as I used to look forward to seeing all the popular Chicago area bands. Just a few names to jog your memories. Shadows of Knight, Cryan’ Shames, The Buckinghams, The Flock, and The Ides of March. Pretty sure they all played the legion hall at one time or another.
Hi Paul: Thank you for your thoughtful feedback and comments. In March, another reader wrote: “Yes! I’ve been reading for an hour and waiting for a posting about the unbelievably great live music at the Legion Hall Dances.” Somebody mentioned a restaurant on Touhy near East Prairie called Rubie’s Deli and of course there was Normie’s, which my family liked very much when I was quite young. As for the 1967 blizzard, I strained my back sledding down the street during the snowstorm – I was 8 and going to North Shore Food Market, which stayed open.
Paul, the restaurant was Tony Novak’s before Lou Malnati’s (the 1st one). That grocery store was a Jewel Tea as far back as I remember. I seem to recall that the roof caved in from an extra heavy snow. Then it morphed into the Library (is it still there?).
We moved to L’wood in 1954. There were empty lots all over the neighborhood, then. There was a Dominick’s someplace nearby, but I’m not sure where.
My next door neighbor and best friend, Lisa Nathan, walked over to the Legion dances every Friday. Jeez, the memories…
Went back to Lincolnwood summer of 2017 and stopped by to tour the town. Looks like I had just gotten there after they turned our old home into extra parking for Lou Malnati’s. Can’t believe all the homes that popped up around the town reservoir and the empty lot (part of Mayor Proesel’s backyard) we used to drive Rich Masters Go-Kart in. I moved to Hawaii in 2005 so it is a bit of a distance to come home to visit. I did get to see Linda’s new place in Palatine, even brought Ma with to visit.
What an abomination that was done to Mom’s house. Last time I was there was in ‘07. Your old house was still standing then.
How’s life in Hawaii?
Does anybody recall Johnstones Restauraunt in Edgebrook on Peterson and Cicero? Remember the Jungle room and the spinning relish tray?
Mark Stoller, a quiet guy died in 2009. He was a NW 1976 graduate. His family lived at Albion & St. Louis, a softball toss from Dairy Queen/Dairy Star. He will be missed by all who knew him.
Rose Pernicone Spina
Betsy,
Enjoyed reading about all the stores and businesses in Lincolnwood. Brings back many memories.
joel weissman
Was there a restaurant named Jennies that used to be on Devon?
william weiss
Thank you for all your hard work on this subject. I am very interested in early Lincoln Village info. I grew up wandering this shopping center as a 3-year-old by myself as my father opened the deli The Bagel & Tray. Just about everyone in the center knew me as a child since I spent my time exploring their stores. I would love to know if anyone has any photos of the restaurant or memorabilia of interest. Thank you – love the blog!
Hi William:
Thanks for posting and glad you enjoyed the blog. I always hope that somebody with a personal connection to a business I feature has photos I can add to my blog. It’s very cool that your father owned the Bagel & Tray! Since you are asking for photos, you must not have any! I looked far and wide and did not find many of Lincoln Village – perhaps somebody else has photos.
I worked at Biasetti’s and remember Harry well. We all had fun making pizzas. I also worked at Lincolnwood Drug on Touhy near where the NY Bagel and Bialy is located currently. Sam Himmelfarb was the very nice owner and pharmacist. I recall that they kept the Playboy magazines in the back of the store and only the pharmacist could dispense them as requested. The barber shop was next door and I think a man named Abe owned it. He was bald and had some pretty women manicurists.
Thank you, Betsy for getting back to me. You are correct, I possess no photos from this time in my life. I love the memories your writing has awakened in me. My father and I used to go to Gabby Hartnett to bowl on Sundays. We would bowl a couple of lines then go to the basement where there was a gun range where we would shoot…great times. I also looked at your blog on Skokie where we lived at the time. In 1969 I started working at Uniroyal Tire store at Touhy and Cicero. I ate lunch every day from Biasetti’s – knew Harry very well and Johnny and a young lady named Pam.
My father opened a restaurant across the street named The Wedgwood after he sold the Bagel & Tray!
bridget frain burke
I used to live in Lincolnwood on Navajo. I remember the real manger scene at Christmas – cool!
Hi Betsy. I’ve really enjoyed reading your articles. I have a fairly neat piece of history related to one of the folks you talk about in this one. Can I reach out to you?
Hi Jonathan: Glad you enjoy my articles. Can you please email me more details about what you have? Thanks much! bvd6656@hotmail.com
Does anyone remember Turks Drugstore in Edgebrook near the train tracks??
Yes, of course, I think anyone who grew up in Edgebrook in the 60s and 70s remembers Turks (aka Edgebrook Drugs).
Meryl Harris Goldberg
Hi Bridget, of course I remember Turks. My family owned Edgebrook Hardware across the street. My father ran the store from the early 1950’s until he and my mother moved from Lincolnwood to Florida. My favorite place was Lockwood Castle. We knew everyone on the block. My first job was working for my father testing Christmas tree light strings for customers at Christmas time.
Meryl
Hi Meryl:
I moved to Florida also. Where does your mom live??
My parents moved to Hallandale in the early 70’s. They are both gone now. But I cherish my Lincolnwood memories.
bridget burke
I also moved to Hallandale in the 70’s – golden isles. HA!
Boris Tomacic
Who remembers the Cock Robin drive in at the corner of Skokie Blvd and Oakton?
Their ice cream was served in square scoops instead of the traditional round.
Best cheeseburgers ever…
Mid-1960’s
Hi Boris:
I wrote about Cock Robin in my blog about Skokie – http://consumergrouch.com/?p=7637. I never ate there, but my older sister loved it before she became a vegetarian.
Cock Robin was a very fun place indeed. But the real gem was a few doors south of there. Karl’s Truck Stop was the very best. It was a cafeteria with trays and mainly served breakfast. Big rigs parked on Skokie Blvd – came in for the coffee and big helpings, real cheap. KARL’S TRUCK STOP: Who remembers??
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Just started reading your Tessville blogs…great stuff. Moved to Lincolnwood in 1975. Graduate of Niles West 1979. Still a resident.
Did you ever mention Ruben’s Deli at Touhy and Crawford in your blog? Great place…but Milk Pail was my Sunday go-to for bagels and lox.
Bud Schaibly’s second floor bowling alley on Devon Avenue was the site of the original “Gabby Hartnett’s” bowling alley. Hartnett lived in the vicinity and was a parishioner at St. Timothy’s Catholic Church near Devon and Washtenaw. Subsequently, Hartnett’s name was attached to a brand new bowling alley in Lincolnwood — I am not sure if he simply sold his name to the owners or if he had a percentage. Supposedly, he ran the sporting goods store connected with the bowling alley. There was also a pistol range in the basement as well as other rumored activities.
Greg Thoma
Great memories… I moved there in 1956 with three siblings and parents. Dad lived there until 2013.
Some places I remember not mentioned here:
Lin Wood Foods, Howies Hobby Shop, Mitt Man Hardware, driving range and miniature golf (located at Touhy and Lincoln intersection). There was also a restaurant located next to the police station.
Thanks for taking the time to present this.
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Why Are So Many Big Island Residents Getting Ripped Off?
I have come to the conclusion, that there are a few people on the island that are ripping off a bunch of our residents by charging them ridiculous prices for internet web sites.
People… it’s free to set up your own blog/website! (this blog is free!)
If you can send an email off… you can set up your own site! Need help… ask me… I’m not gonna charge you like the majority of these people banking off our residents.
I even give free 24/7 customer service! Geez… why do people allow themselves to get ripped off so easily?
I heard a story that someone actually got paid $1000.00 to set up an online Puna devoted paper! Holy SHIT! For $1000.00 I could set up the entire island with blogs…. I’d just use the money as gas money to get to the peoples houses!
Some day… I’ll find my niche… but it won’t be at the cost of our own community!
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Todays New York Times on Twitter
“The Internet has revolutionized society by giving anyone an instant and unfiltered outlet for self-expression. But it has also turned journalism into a year-round, ever-updated “Dear Friends and Family” Christmas newsletter…”
…Some argue that Twitter has value as a news source, and note that the first snapshots of the Turkish Airlines jet after it crashed near Amsterdam on Wednesday were transmitted via Twitter. But those crash photos could have gotten out just as quickly if sent by cellphone to another Web site. It’s tempting to dismiss Twitter fever as a passing fad, the Pokémon of the blogosphere. But it’s beginning to look more like yet another gateway drug to full-blown media narcissism.
It’s not just television, of course. Ordinary people, bloggers and even columnists and book authors, who all already have platforms for their views, feel compelled to share their split-second aperçus, no matter how mundane…
Pahoa Neighborhood Playground
The Pahoa Skatepark playground is almost complete. They just have to fill in some concrete and it will be ready for use.
It is located right in front of the Skatepark
Total cost of taxpayer money: $71,322
Construction time: October 14, 2008 – February 26th, 2009
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pahOAHU
I just had a small case of Deja Vu
I used to see limousines all the time on Oahu, but very rarely have I seen them on the Big Island… at least on this side of the Big Island.
You see them all the time on the “wealthy” side of the island
I believe this is the FIRST time I have ever seen a limousine in PAHOA!
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Big Island Pre-Season Softball Tournament: Day 3 Rain Delay… Pictures
Today was the final day of the Big Island Pre-Season Softball Tournament.
The day started out as a great day to play ball with the clouds just slightly overcast.
The first game saw Keaau defeating the home team Pahoa 10 – 4.
The second game scheduled was Pahoa vs. Ka’u
My niece at the plate:
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Pahoa was up by a few runs when the overcast sky quickly turned into a little rain.
From a nice day, the rain quickly turned into a downpour and the Umpire pulled the players off the field.
The final game this afternoon that is scheduled to start in 30 minutes, will feature the girls from Waiakea
Against their cross town rivals the Hilo Vikings
I dug out as soon as the Monsoon hit so I don’t even know the results to the Pahoa vs. Kau game as of this posting.
To see day one highlights, click here
Click on the pictures below for larger image.
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Wellspring Hawaii Seeking Overweight Kids
Imagine spending the summer volcano hiking and surfing the Big Island of Hawaii. Wellspring Hawaii, among the most effective weight loss programs for teens, is offering campers the opportunity to enjoy these exciting activities while learning how to live healthier lifestyles. The program is now enrolling campers for four-, six- and eight-week sessions, which begin June 21.
Designed exclusively for boys and girls ages 11-24, Wellspring Hawaii teaches campers how to achieve long-term weight loss success during a fun-filled summer vacation at a secluded retreat nestled on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Campers lose an average of four pounds per week by learning how to prepare low-fat meals and achieving 10,000 steps a day through walks, hikes and a variety of adventure-based activities such as snorkeling, surfing, sea kayaking, beach volleyball and aerobics.
Wellspring Hawaii is the world’s most effective fitness and weight loss program in paradise. With lush rainforests, diverse marine life, active volcanoes and world renowned surf, Hawaii is a unique experience for all. Young men and women ages 11-24 from Asia, Australia, and North America convene with experienced staff for a summer of success and memories to last a lifetime. Campers master the skills necessary for long term weight control while participating in an array of fun and exciting activities as diverse as Hawaii itself. College age campers enjoy Wellspring Hawaii’s separate Upper Camp program…
Wellspring Hawaii Website
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Meet the Flintstones… Yabba Dabba Doo Hawaii Tribune
Yesterday, I posted a blog asking the local papers to make it a bit more enjoyable:
“Is there any way that you folks can make your articles a bit more entertaining to read?”
I must say… I had to laugh this morning at one of the headlines on the front page of the print version… (I’ll give you Tribune Readers more on this since I actually saw this long before it was in the paper)
“Meet the Flintstones”
Although it is an AP generated article… at least it gave me a good laugh and a reason to read the rest of the article.
It is to bad that the Hawaii Tribune can’t provide more to it’s readers… Like an actual link to the EBAY auction on the “Flintstones House” for auction. But if your interested in at least seeing the listing… I’ll provide it here.
You can also see an actual video of it here:
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This is exactly what I was talking about by making the paper a bit more entertaining to read… and while your at… could make it more interactive (well at least the online version of the Tribune… BUT WAIT… The article isn’t even listed in the ONLINE Version!)
Of course the caption in the picture that was on the front page also kind of cracked me up:
“The Ngs were awaiting delivery of a bag of Waipio Valley Poi”
I’m not sure what that had to do with the article about cigarette smoking… but it sure added a bit more of a personal touch to the picture then just a normal caption might.
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Is it Really Past Nine?
My wife and son went to Kona for the weekend and left me at home.
Today is the first time in a long time I didn’t have my son waking me up at 6:30 in the morning telling me he was hungry and ready to watch “Maggie and the Ferocious Beast”.
I just looked at the clock… OMG!!! It’s 9:20 in the morning.
I can’t remember the last time I slept in this late… I have so much online stuff to catch up on… but I’m feeling lazy… so I think I’m gonna just cruise for a while.
Is it really freaking 9:20?
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Damon Dollars… Another Smuck Idea
I have sent an email off to the few folks that participated in my “Damon Dollars” attempt at getting some kala to let them know that I’m returning their dollars and thanking them for participating.
I have a few ideas going through my head for a “new page”… however, I want to work some things through before I start up with it.
I’d hate for my blog to become just another “blog”… so I’m looking for a new twist on something. If you have any ideas on a new “page” at the top of my blog… I’m always willing to listen.
I will not allow my blog to become something like the Big Island Chronicle has become. This is my blog… and I hope people come here to see my blog and not what other people are too lazy to post on their own.
There are a lot of “message boards” out on the internet. Some folks need to understand the difference between a “community board” and a “blog”.
I hope those same folks won’t get pissed at me for expressing these thoughts on my blog.
Why are Big Island folks so slow to realize that it only takes 5-10 seconds to post a thought… and for that matter… less then 3 minutes to start your own blog????
Island Trust Consolidating Offices… Pahoa Branch Now Closed
The economic market is hitting home to me personally. One of my advertisers (Island Trust at top Left) has recently been forced to make a smart economic move and vacate their Pahoa Location.
Side view of former Island Trust Building
The Island Trust Realty office on Pahoa’s main strip has been in business for quite some time. Due to the recent market conditions for real estate on the Big Island, Island Trust has decided to consolidate their offices and will no longer have Pahoa as one of their offices.
Front view of building formerly housing Island Trust, Pahoa Branch
Of course, Island Trust is just one of many businesses that have come and gone through the Pahoa Downtown area in many years. It is one of the first businesses that I have heard of that was still able to sustain themselves after vacating Pahoa.
Real Estate has really tumbled here in Hawaii, and while it may seem great for some of us first time home buyers… many may not realize the long term implications that this down turn in housing really has on us all.
Often times you may get the vibe from my blog that I don’t like tourists, or that I’d love to keep Pahoa as it is… but the truth of the matter is… we all suffer when we lose businesses here in town.
Inside look at the vacant building
Not only is Pahoa losing a great business that did nothing but bring positive things to Pahoa… have you seen the people that have now started hanging out in front of the vacant premise?
I wish the best for Island Trust… and of course… I hope they will continue advertising with my blog. I would hold no hard feelings though if they decided not to advertise here anymore since their office is no longer located in the Puna.
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Community, Economy, Puna, Sustainable Living | Tagged: Economy, Island Trust Real Estate, Pahoa | 1 Comment »
Department of Public Works Blackballing of Bloggers Tied to TMT Project, Saddle Road and the Military?
I can’t do anything but copy and paste this whole article written by Andy Parx over at Got Windmills.
Although Hawai`i County officials claim the blackballing of journalist/bloggers on the Big Island was over before it began one of, if not the main target of the policy says that’s just more shibai.
“I was the one directly targeted by this directive” says Aaron Stene of the Kona Blog in a comment left on yesterday’s column on the subject.
“The troubling aspect of this debacle” he wrote “is the fact the directive seems to be still in effect. I have had a hard time talking to DPW and the county council ever since this directive was released.”
But according to a Big Island source the derivation of the ban may go back to a rather innocuous video posted by Dave Corrigan of the Big Island Video News last August and is apparently related to the controversy over the expansion of the new Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.and Stene’s campaign in support of it in the face of local and kanaka maoli oppostion.
The video shows the repaving of the “Saddle Road” across the Big Island and is also controversial because opponents of the telescope say it is being done not for the pubic but to enable not just the expansion. of the observatory on what Hawaiians consider sacred land but extensive miliary operations in the area.
That video was followed by a post by Stene in Septembers and many more since arguing with opponents but giving them a platform at his popular blog to oppose the project and claim “a military connection to the science going on on Mauna Kea” and that. “the road is mostly used by contractors and not the general public” among other objections.
According to our source, author of the policy DPW spokeswoman Noelani Whittington was still concerned enough about the original video and apparently the discussion on Stene’s blog to still be bringing it up in conversations in December
Though the connection to the ban may or may not be true, Stene thinks it’s far from over.
In a post yesterday he wrote
“(I)t makes me wonder if Noelani and the DPW had a hidden agenda here…. (I)t seemed this directive was targeted mostly at me. I had by far interfaced with the DPW more often than Damon (Tucker) and David (Corrigan)”.
Those are the other two whose blogs were singled out by Whittington when she banned department personnel from interacting with blogger/journalists on the island.
He continued saying:
On a related note, she tried calling me yesterday and tried to kiss my ass by acting all apologetic for doing this. I tried to remain civil even though it was very hard to do so on my part. However I refused to accept her apology for her actions….
There is one more troubling aspect of this debacle. I’ve had a hard talking to DPW, county council ever since this directive was released. Thus it seems in my case I highly doubt this directive has been withdrawn.
But the saddle road may not be the only controversial project Whittington apparently didn’t want publicly debated. Stene concludes by saying
Lastly, it seems there is a lack of communication between the HDOT and DHHL to minimize the impact of the Waimea bypass, according to this WHT article. If there was better communication the concerns of the DHHL homesteaders would’ve been addressed years ago. Thus this much needed highway wouldn’t be delayed once again
As to Tucker his response to the article was a lot more defensive after Whittington’s slight of his and other reporter/bloggers’ professionalism, as was reported in the Hawai`i Tribune Herald article yesterday that broke the story by obtaining Whittington’s six page policy written policy.
In his Open Letter to Department of Public Works Spokeswoman Noelani Whittington, Tucker wrote
Ms. Whittington, thank you for insulting Aaron, Dave and Myself with your little knowledge of our backgrounds in today’s article written by Jason Armstrong in the Tribune Herald….
I guess you just assume some of us lack experience because we blog in a blogging format and not in the traditional news sense?
Here is just a little of my Experience… Sorry I got out of the field more then a decade ago and switched to Education:
1 Year Advertising Manager on Mainland1 Year Lay-Out Editor (Hilo)2 Years Reporting (Mainland/Hilo)1 Year Writing Press Releases for the State Legislature…
I myself have never asked DPW for any information. Any information that I have found on them… was already published. I don’t have some “Deep Throat” working for me at your office lady… get a grip!
I know you don’t know who I am… but had it not been for my father-in-law telling me that you are an OK person (and yes you do know him)… You would have ended up on my Smuck list.
Unlike Kaua`i the Big Island is awash with on-line reporting and general information blogs with no less than a dozen people with varying degrees of reporting experience from Kona to Hilo posting tons of information and opinion on everything from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Kaua`i on the other hand is, with a few notable exceptions, practically devoid of blogs with original news and political commentary and reporting which, when combined with a sycophantic local newspaper that rarely if ever rocks the boat, may explain why the county can get away with their unwritten rules of non-engagement and their tight-fisted hold on what is, by law, public information.
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Blogs, Community, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Kauai, Legal, Newspapers, Rumors, State Affairs, Technology, TMT | Tagged: Blogger Blackballed, Department of Public Works, Got Windmills, Saddle Road, TMT | 1 Comment »
Open Message to Hawaii Tribune and West Hawaii Today Employees
I know a few of you folks have great senses of humor but it NEVER shows in any of the articles you folks pen for the paper.
I’m not going to name anyone in particular… you folks know who you are!
Save the paper and start giving some of your readers some humor in the paper.
I’d love to read more humorous stuff at times. I might even pick up an online copy every now and then. I have to say… the piece yesterday about the Department of Public Works blackballing some of us bloggers certainly humored me enough to drop some cash coin on the paper.
It must suck having to work under Stephens Media knowing that your okoles might be on the line for saying the wrong thing at the RIGHT TIME!
I must say… I applaud the recent efforts to get the paper online by at least 12:00 in the afternoon of late.
I know things are getting difficult and you all have deadlines to make… So I’ll make an excerption this time. :roll:
And I’m just curious… what happens to all the pictures that aren’t published? I publish all the pictures I take on my blog whether I use them or not… any chance you folks could at least do that with some of your online stuff? I mean we all know a picture is worth a thousand words.
I’m not gonna start critiquing every damn article and issue that you folks publish. It seems we have another young gun in town that likes to do that, so maybe I’ll just send a little Brooklyn Kanak Attack your way every once in awhile.
There must be a way to make your folks paper more enjoyable. The Advertiser obviously just kicked the crap out of the Star-Bulletin.
My general feeling, is besides the big bucks that Gannett has to waste on the paper… the downsizing of the paper and moving it towards more of an online beast is what really dominated the Star-Bulletin.
Posting anything and everything Hawaii related at all times of the day, drew readers to the Advertiser constantly… and still does.
You folks need an online person that can update Big Island things as they happen… Not a day later… not an hour later… but as things happen.
I know someone who is looking for a job like that :lol:
If the Tribune Herald and the West Hawaii Today want to stay afloat in this new digital era… they are going to have to get with it quick.
Already we have online papers like Hawaii 24/7 that give us more content for FREE and in a timely manner then anything the TH or WHT can do.
We have a Video Blogger in Mr. David Corrigan over here at Big Island Video News that gets comments like this from professionals on Oahu:
“Check out Dave Corrigan’s volcano coverage and note the quality of his videos and his website. Blackballing this work is clearly a mistake, I wish we could have similar coverage of Oahu“
These pictures don’t have much to do with this blog… I just thought I’d throw it in for nothing. :roll:
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BIVN EXCLUSIVE: Star-Bulletin Reporter Rod Thompson Interview on Todays Neighbor Island News Bureaus Being Closed Down Today… The Video
Today, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin closes its Big Island Bureau, laying off long time bureau chief Rod Thompson.
…In this video filmed on Thursday, Thompson reflects on his decades of Hawaii County journalism as he clears out his Kinoole Street office…
Click Here for Exclusive Video of Rod Thompson’s Reflections on the closure and other past stories of his covering the StarBulletin.
“…Now a days thirty years later, were into a world of blogs and blogs are so much opinion and they start right often with the opinion without getting out the facts…”
Ouch Rod! Just playing… Best of wishes to Rod and I hope you start a blog soon. Let me know if you would like assistance in starting one, because we sure could use someone like you writing a blog.
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Tribune Herald Has Correction in Department of Public Works Blackballing Bloggers Story “Setting the Record Straight”
The following correction appeared in the “Setting the Record Straight” column of today’s Hawaii Tribune Herald under the Police Report (it didn’t make it to the online edition)
“Due to a production error, two lines were deleted from Thursday’s article on the county Public Works department media policy. The complete paragraph, which began on the front page and continued on Page A7, was:
“Whittington wrote the policy, which contains her cell phone number and e-mail address, in mid-November. She initially said DPW had not implemented a media policy, then changed her answer after being read excerpts from the document”
I’m reprinting the whole article here as it should read:
The county Department of Public Works has rescinded a recently implemented media policy that sheltered employees from public scrutiny, denied reporters access to road projects and blackballed Internet bloggers.
The 6-page document obtained by the Tribune-Herald directed DPW employees to stop filming attempts, not to talk about cause or fault, and to withhold information from so-called “citizen journalists.”
It said that “anyone implicated in the situation are not to speak to the media,” yet also advised “far more is lost by refusing to speak to the media than is risked by doing do.”
The policy ended when Warren Lee became Public Works director on Dec. 1, said DPW spokeswoman Noelani Whittington said.
“All of this has been rescinded,” she said.
Whittington wrote the policy, which contains her cell phone number and e-mail address, in mid-November. She initially said DPW had not implemented a media policy, then changed her answer after being read exempts from the document.
“I wasn’t denying anything on it. I just didn’t know what you were referring to,” Whittington said in a follow-up interview Wednesday.
Whittington said she might have been very busy when first interviewed occurred Feb. 19.
“Sometimes it takes me a minute to focus,” she said.
In crafting the policy, Whittington said she drew a distinction between bloggers with professional backgrounds and “citizen journalists” lacking that experience.
“It’s a fine line,” she said.
Bloggers often add personal comments to news information, which would be unethical for traditional journalists, including those who do only online reporting.
There was no incident that prompted the policy, but rather a desire to differentiate “new media” from traditional reporters and concern by some employees that they had been filmed for a TV newscast, Whittington said.
The policy specifically instructed DPW employees not to give out information to bloggers Aaron Stene (The Kona Blog) and Damon Tucker (Damon Tucker’s Weblog) and Dave Corrigan of Big Island Videonews.com.
“I’m actually kind of angry about it,” Stene said when told the old policy specifically named him. “It just stinks on all levels on this one.”
Stene, who said he gets about 200 hits daily on the blog he started in October 2005, said he suspected a change because it’s been about six weeks since Lee has returned his calls.
“I consider myself somebody that’s trying to get information for the general public,” he said.
Lee could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Tucker said he rarely asks the Department of Public Works for information, opting instead to republish information he gets from other sources.
“I’m honored they even know my blog exists,” Tucker said of comments he’s been posting for about six months.
“There is no question this is not an acceptable media policy,” said Hunter Bishop, public relations specialist for Mayor Billy Kenoi.
“It is not in effect. We do not support this policy,” added Bishop, a former Tribune-Herald reporter who authored a popular blog before pulling it voluntarily when he started working for the county in December.
Bishop said he first heard of the DPW policy this week after the Tribune-Herald inquired about it.
“As far as I know, there are no other media policies in the county, but I can’t say that for sure,” he said.
But that status likely will change, Bishop said.
“We are working on a new general media policy for all departments mainly as a result of seeing this,” he said.
That forthcoming policy will call for fair and equal treatment, he said.
“It will treat bloggers like any other media or member of the public,” he said.
When asked how DPW officials now respond to bloggers’ requests for information, Whittington said, “I have no idea.”
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Today’s Kook
Notice what the sign says:
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Hydrogen fueling Station at Volcanoes National Park… “Hydrogen Highway”?
Hat tip to Georgette Deemer over at the Hawaii House Blog for blogging about some of the “US Army Environmental Initiatives for the Big Island“.
The following initiative caught my eye:
…“Hydrogen Highway” – The Army is working with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the Environmental Protection Agency to implement recommendations from the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative. One initiative is working to establish a hydrogen fueling station at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
“I am excited about the possibility of the County of Hawaii and Hawaii state government to partner with the Army to allow and enable our local government fleet to fuel up at a hydrogen fuel station,” said Representative Cindy Evans, a former vice chair of the House Energy & Environmental Protection committee. “As more county and state vehicles turn to hydrogen fuel, not only will we decrease our dependency on foreign oil, but we will also see significant savings in the future. My hope is that this first station will be one of many that will dot a ‘hydrogen highway’ where private and public vehicles can tap into the benefits of this renewable energy source in the future…
I like the concept, but in today’s economy, I have the feeling that only the rich and wealthy will be able to afford the cars that use some of these alternative energies.
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Mayor Hanneman Approved Twitter Experiment? The Ongoing Twitter Saga of Civil Defense/Department of Emergency Management
On February 12th, I blogged that Hawaii County had a Twitter Account. Hawaii County Public Information Specialist replied to me in an email the following regarding that Twitter Account:
Civil Defense is unaware of that account. As I discovered now that I just signed on for my own account, apparently anyone could have set up the CD account. However City Watch is more efficient in reaching large numbers of people, many of whom do not have Twitter accounts. Almost everybody has a telephone. At some point it may behoove us to use Twitter as part of emergency notification procedures but at the current time we do not because of the alternatives available. Thanks for your interest.
On February 24th, I blogged that the Honolulu Civil Defense had joined Twitter, which in actuality turned out to be the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management the Oahu version of the Big Island’s Civil Defense.
On February 26th, I ammended the above post to say:
Yesterday, I blogged that the Honolulu County Department of Emergency Management was on Twitter.
I have reason to believe, that once again… Twitter users have been duped into “following” a fake twitter account.
A Twitter friend that would know whether they are on twitter or not, confirmed it with her friend that works there today that it is not a legit twitter account.
Today I find out the following:
OK, clearing things up, my contact @ DEM says @HonAlert was an I.T. experiment OKed by the mayor. DEM was not involved, though.
See my latest tweet about @HonAlert. Sounds messed up. Anyway, the DEM stuff is supposed to be removed from that profile, per my contact.
I just have to wonder if the initial post I reported on the Big Island Civil Defense Twitter Account was also an experiment.
I did say on February 13th:
Very STRANGE that someone would hijack the Hawaii Civil Defense Twitter Name and then post VOG warnings the day that Pahoa got vogged out, on that account.
Filed under: Blogs, Hawaii, Rumors, Security, State Affairs, Technology | Tagged: Civil Defense, Honoluu Department of Emergency Management, Twitter | 1 Comment »
Surfers vs. the Superferry
Hat tip to one of my readers for pointing out this article in “The Nation”.
by Jerry Mander and Koohan Paik
It all started in 2001 as a purportedly modest “local” effort to offer inter-island ferry service to “help local people more easily visit their relatives on other islands, and carry their farm produce to market.” Most locals liked the idea but soon found that this ferry, the gigantic Hawaii Superferry, was an environmental nightmare. It uses far more fuel (in total and per person) than big planes. It races at high speed (40-45 miles per hour) through zones teeming with endangered humpback whales, dolphins and rare sea turtles. It could transport dangerous invasive species to pristine islands. And it carries hundreds of cars to tiny places already choking on traffic…
Environmentalists demanded an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its Hawaii equivalent (HEPA). But the Hawaii Superferry Company, with strong support from Governor Linda Lingle, the ambitious right-wing Republican lately famous for introducing Sarah Palin at the Republican convention, refused.
By 2004 the lead investor (nearly $90 million) and new chair of the board for this “local” ferry project was New York City military financier John Lehman, Ronald Reagan‘s secretary of the Navy, a leading neocon with a famously aggressive military vision. (The Washington Post quoted him in 1984 as advocating first-strike nuclear strategies.) Lehman is a member of the Project for the New American Century and a 9/11 commissioner, but his great passion has been pushing for a vastly expanded, 600-ship Navy and a stronger US military presence in the Pacific to assuage mounting concerns about China as a future military superpower. After his company, J.F. Lehman, took over the Superferry project, Lehman appointed a new board with a majority of former top military brass. He later hired Adm. Thomas Fargo as CEO. Only four years ago Fargo was the commander of US military operations in the Pacific, answering directly to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. So the question is this: why on earth would anyone need a board that qualifies as a mini-Pentagon to run a friendly transport for families and papayas between islands?
A surfer catches a wave at Kakaako Waterfront Park as the Hawaii Superferry approaches.
A key moment in this saga came in August 2007, on the small island of Kauai, called the Garden Island by tourist agencies for its folded green cliffs, cascading waterfalls and aloha spirit. But on this occasion about 1,500 locals–including a high percentage of Native Hawaiians, joined by people of Japanese and Filipino descent and a contingent of New Age haoles (recent white settlers seeking Shangri-La)–showed up at Nawiliwili Harbor to protest the Superferry’s maiden voyage from Honolulu to Kauai. Several dozen surfers also played a catalytic role.
When the protesters saw the oncoming speeding colossus on the horizon–bigger than a football field, four stories high and capable of carrying as many as 866 people and 282 cars–the outrage grew. The anger had been magnified a few days earlier when Governor Lingle and Lehman’s Superferry company indicated they would disregard a 5-0 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling demanding the boat suspend operations until it completed an EIS. As it approached, dozens of surfers and swimmers leaped into the water. Ignoring strident Coast Guard threats, they headed out under the Superferry’s terrifying catamaran blades, stopping the ship dead in the water. It created a sort of Tiananmen Square standoff in the waters of Kauai.
It was a dangerous business, but next day when the Superferry returned, the crowd of protesters had grown, and the surfers and beach brigades had too. In the ensuing eighteen months, the boat has never returned to Kauai and now has only one daily run, from Honolulu to Maui. The “spirit of Nawiliwili” has become the stuff of legend in Hawaii .
On the island of Maui, similar outrage led to a series of large if less spectacular protests. But the Maui resistance settled on legal actions from groups like the Sierra Club, Maui Tomorrow and the Kahului Harbor Coalition. It was these groups that had won the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court ruling demanding the EIS. Everyone thought that decision would settle matters. Instead, it stimulated Lingle to demonstrate her Machiavellian chops by coercing the State Legislature (many of whose members had received Superferry largesse, as had Lingle) to pass a law theoretically circumventing the court ruling and permitting the boat to operate. It was an in-your-face move worthy of Bush/Cheney at their peak. Lingle’s new law, Act Two, invented an EIS process with few features from NEPA or HEPA. The new law, for example, has no power to stop the Superferry from operating, no matter what the environmental findings. It’s a fake EIS. The Maui groups have gone back to court to charge that Act Two is unconstitutional–violating separation of powers and directly favoring a single company, among other problems. The final decision is expected any day.
Three weeks after Nawiliwili, another huge throng filled the 1,500 seats of Kauai’s War Memorial Convention Hall, with many more outside, for a “public meeting” called by Governor Lingle. Imperiously she warned that she would not discuss whether there would be a Superferry–that had been decided. Her purpose was to instruct people that if they repeated their protests, they would be charged under new anti-terrorism laws that carry prison terms up to five years and/or a $10,000 fine.
Her statements were met with hoots and laughter and then a series of eloquent testimonies about protection of sacred lands (aina in Hawaiian) and sea creatures and the rights of local communities to protect themselves from invasive species and invasive corporations with militaristic intentions. Many indicated they were not opposed to a ferry if it would operate within community and environmental standards rather than those of an absentee owner with profit motives and military intentions. Others denounced Lingle’s embrace of the project and its owner, suggesting she’d abandoned Hawaii for personal ambition.
Lingle’s goals surely go beyond providing a useful local ferry. They certainly seemed to have far more to do with getting closer to powerful Republican Party figures–notably Lehman, slated, as the New York Times reported, to have been John McCain’s chief of staff, had he won.
Throughout all this, the governor and the Superferry company denied the ferry’s long-range military implications, despite earlier statements by Lehman and other executives about transporting Stryker tanks and other military services along with similar statements from the US Maritime Administration, which had issued a loan guarantee. Pacific Business News reported in March 2005 that Timothy Dick, Hawaii Superferry’s original chair, confirmed that “Hawaii Superferry provided the Army with a cost analysis and expects to negotiate a long-term contract.” The article also noted that “with Lehman’s expertise, the Superferry plans to…carry military equipment and ferry vehicles from Oahu to the Big Island on a daily basis” and quoted Lehman saying that “the Superferry is strong enough to take Stryker vehicles.”
Then in November the Superferry’s manufacturer, Austal USA of Mobile, Alabama, was awarded a $1.6 billion Pentagon contract to build ten high-speed catamarans under the Navy’s Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) program in preparation for possible future conflicts with China. The model that Austal submitted for that contract competition was almost identical to the Hawaii Superferry’s large-scale, aluminum-hulled high-speed catamaran design, except for military fittings and accommodations. The fact that the Superferry was already in the water, proving its seaworthiness while the JHSV contract was being considered, suggests that it may have always been intended as a prototype or demo model for the larger deal. It also explains the consistent refusals to do an EIS, which might have delayed getting the boat operational and visible.
Two years earlier, Lehman had also purchased a shipyard, Atlantic Marine, adjacent to Austal in Mobile. It’s not yet clear if Lehman’s company, or Superferry, stands to gain from the Austal award, possibly by subcontracting aspects of that huge construction project, but speculation in Hawaii runs wild.
All parties await the next ruling from the Hawaii Supreme Court on the Maui appeal. A new diverse grassroots community of activists on Kauai is warily assessing whether it will again need to respond. Will the company try to send the boat back to Kauai? Or will the Superferry quit Hawaii altogether as too much trouble, selling the boat for military uses, or to someplace with no activist surfers? As for Lingle’s future, it’s not bright. While touring with Palin during the presidential campaign, Lingle was quoted saying that Barack Obama’s “claim” to be from Hawaii is “disingenuous.” That enraged the Hawaiian public more than the Superferry. She may no longer be politically viable.
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Anyone planning to buy groceries on Amazon’s Prime Day?
Published in: Ecommerce | Wednesday, 11 July 2018. | Written by: Theo Leworthy
Ecommerce giant Amazon’s biggest day of the year is nearly here: the fourth annual Prime Day will kick off on July 16 and last for a solid 36 hours. Over that period, Amazon Prime members will have access to a bevvy of fast-release special offers and deep discounts. It’s a proven method for getting people to double down on their book and gadget spending habits, and the company takes in massive amounts of revenue from it: last year, for example, sales on Prime Day rose by 60% from 2016, and 3.5 million toys were sold. This year will be different in one, exciting, way: it’s the first Prime Day since Amazon acquired Whole Foods.
Amazon’s share price has surged this year
Amazon is offering discounts on everything from strawberries to cod and chicken in an effort to get consumers into its brick-and-mortar empire. It’s also pushing special deals to get them to try home delivery from an Ecommerce grocery shop. The name of the game here is not to make as much money as possible, but to introduce shoppers to a new paradigm for grocery purchases in much the same way Amazon did with books and electronics. It’s a great strategy: by 2022, online grocery sales will hit $100 billion, with 70% of households shopping online. Amazon wants to be the major player in that growing market.
Paco Underhill, founder of behavioural research firm Envirosell, said: "They want people to realize how much stuff in their kitchens they don’t need to schlep to the store for anymore. Amazon wants to train people to shop differently. Prime Day is an opportunity to introduce them to that new form of shopping."
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International Tourism maintains strong momentum
World Tourism
According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)’s latest barometer, international tourist arrivals grew 6% in the first six months of 2018 after a record year of growth in 2017.
All world regions enjoyed robust growth in tourist arrivals in January-June 2018. The increase was fueled by strong demand from major source markets, supported by an upswing in the global economy. It comes after record year-round growth of 7% in 2017.
“Today’s release of international tourism data for the first half of 2018 serves as further proof of the sector’s resilience and relentless growth trajectory. We continue to work with our many partners to translate this growth into better jobs, more benefits to societies, and more opportunities for sustainable livelihoods and destinations,” said UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili.
By region, Europe and Asia and the Pacific led growth with a 7% increase in arrivals each. Southern Mediterranean Europe and South-East Asia had the strongest results in these regions, both welcoming 9% more international tourists.
The Middle East and Africa also recorded sound results with arrivals growing at 5% and 4%, respectively, according to still-limited information available for destinations in these regions. The Americas saw 3% growth in arrivals over the six-month period, driven by South America (+7%) and North America (+5%). The United States continued to fuel much growth in the region and beyond.
On the demand side, France, the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation all reported double-digit increases in outbound spending in Europe. India and the Republic of Korea drove growth in Asia and the Pacific, while the world’s top source market China reported similar spending as in the same period last year.
The first half of the year accounts for about 45% of annual international tourist arrivals. The second half represents 55% as it is three days longer and includes the Northern Hemisphere high-season months of July and August.
Against a strong first semester, growth prospects for the remainder of 2018 remain positive overall, though at a slower pace, according to the latest UNWTO Confidence Index survey. The Index value for May-August and expectations for September-December are somewhat lower than the Index value for January-April.
Read the full article: https://www.eturbonews.com/235185/international-tourism-maintains-strong-momentum
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Minnesota, George G. Morgan and the Rough Riders
Labor Day weekend is fast approaching and vacation plans are in place. I am preparing for a trip to Minnesota to spend a long weekend on Lake Mille Lacs with Chuck's family. While the family is busy playing cards, corn toss and cruising the lake I plan on kicking back with my fully loaded Kindle.
I hope everyone has a great weekend, but if you decide to do some research, here are this week's tips, with a Minnesota twist.
Sunday August 28
* Have an Minnesota Ancestor with a 'checkered' past? The Minnesota Historical Society can help you access their prison records.
* To obtain information about Prison Records visit: The Minnesota Historical Society
Monday August 29
* South Dakota was a part of Minnesota until Minnesota became a state in 1858.
* Cemetery Tip - Once you find an ancestor's grave it is important to record everyone in the family plot whether you think they are related or not.
* Record the names of the graves near by - sisters, brothers, or cousins may have bought plots near each other.
* Looking for an out of print book? Check the following sites:
* Amazon.com
* Abesbook.com
* Alibris
* World Cat
Thursday September 1
* A Brief History of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry - aka Rough Riders. The site contains a rooster, biographies and more.
* Visit: The Rough Riders Website
* The Rough Riders - A Public Domain Book
Friday September 2
* Genealogy Books - Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources - Elizabeth Shown Mills
Saturday September 3
* Attend a State or Local Genealogy Conference!
* Minnesota Genealogical Society Presents the 4th Annual North Star Conference Featuring: George G. Morgan, International Speaker, half of the Genealogy Guys Podcast and author of How to Do Everything: Genealogy and the first two editions of The Official Guide to Ancestry
The picture below is Chuck and his younger brother Billy with some fish they caught! I hope everyone has a safe Labor Day weekend!
Labels: cemetery, georgegmorgan, Minnesota, mngs, Rough Riders, south dakota
Sunday's Obituary - Edith Caroline Gull Maki
Daily Globe - July 12 1997
RAMSAY — Edith Caroline Maki, 83, of Wood Street, Ramsay, died Fnday, July 11, 1997, at her home in Ramsay.
The former Edith C. Gull was born May 14, 1914 at Toivola, Mich., daughter of the late Wilhelm and Hilja (Johnson) Gull. She attended school at Beacon
Hill, Mich. She was married to Waino "Barney" Maki in 1940.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Elizabeth Shore, a sister. Hazel Walters; and a brother, Kenneth Keturi.
Survivors include her husband, Barney; five sons, Wayne Maki of Fort Oranpe, Fla., William (Marilyn) Maki of Ramsay, John Maki of Ramsay, James Maki of Allendale, Fla., and Edward (Jackie) Maki of St. Louis, Mo.; 13 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Hubert and Lawrence; five sisters, Ethel, Judy, Bernice, Faye, and Sharon, and numerous nieces and nephews
At Edith's request, there will be no visitation or funeral service. Cremation has taken place. The Frick-Ziehnski Funeral Home, Bessemer, is in charge of the arrangements.
This picture is of the "Gull Girls". Edie, Ethel and Elvira's (aka Judy) father died in January 1919. Their mother, Hilia married Isaac Keteri in December 1919.
Other newspaper articles found documenting Edith Maki's life.
The Bessemer Pick and Axe - June 6 1974
A.A.A.T. and Mrs. Edward Maki and daughter Kerry are visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Maki and her mother Mrs. Genevive Schultz.
A.A.A.T. Maki is serving in the U.S. Navy and is stationed at N.A.S. Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Bessemer Pick and Axe - August 29 1974
Mr. and Mrs. Waino (Barney) Maki have returned from a week's trip to
Grand Rapids, Minn, and Casper, Wyo. where they visited Mrs. Maki's sisters
and brothers.
The Bessemer Pick and Axe - January 1, 1975
Mr. Ralph Warren has returned to Fruita, Colorado after visiting with Barney and Edie Maki and their family.
The Bessemer Pick and Axe - April 5 1976
Barney and Edie Maki, Port Orange, Florida, are visiting their sons John and William and family.
Another son, Edward, who is stationed at Cecil Field, Florida, in the U.S. Navy, and his guest, Richie Threlkeld, accompanied the Makis on the trip.
The Bessemer Pick and Axe - April 26, 1976
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Taskala of Negaunee visited with Mr. and Mrs. Barney Maki and with friends in Newport Location,
Labels: Gull, keteri, Maki, michigan, obituary, taskala
BlogTalkRadio - Check it out!
I just wanted to point out a new 'gadget' on this blog - BlogTalkRadio!
"MySociety" is presented by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Each week nationally known genealogy speakers tackle subjects that challenge local societies.
MySociety airs LIVE every Saturday at 1:00 pm Central and if you miss an episode you can either download it to your favorite device or listen to it online.
And There Is More!
A quick search on the site just brought up 374 genealogy podcasts.
Visit BlogTalkRadio to check out Featured Internet Radio Programs.
Did I mention that you can even create your own TALK SHOW!
Labels: blog, BlogTalkRadio, FGS, mysociety
Free Software, Acts of Kindness and Cyndi's List
How did they do it? Our ancestors lived through tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes and earthquakes without the benefit of Doppler Weather and early warning systems.
While doing research on births, deaths and marriages be sure to think about how the weather might have affected your ancestor's life. Was your great grandmother born in Upper Michigan in February? How would that have affected a midwife from helping with the birth?
I have such great admiration for the Florida pioneers. Between the snakes, bugs and alligators the sweltering heat and humidity may have been only a minor inconvenience! But how many people died due to the harsh conditions and wildlife?
* Hawaii became a state on this date in 1959
* Hawaii's State Archives holds a variety of vital records from 1832-1949
* Visit: http://hawaii.gov/dags/archives
* Genealogy Blogs can help researchers learn more about a specific locale, ethnic group or general research.
* Visit Cyndi's List for biggest list of Genealogy Blogs around! http://www.cyndislist.com
* Researching in Chicago? Consider The Czech and Slovak American Genealogical Society.
* Visit The Czech & Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois: http://www.csagsi.org/
* Genealogy Glossary:
* Cluster Genealogy A research technique to get a more complete picture of your family. In a cluster study, you document all of the members of your family, and their neighbors, friends, and business associates. This enables you to learn more because you pick up additional information from the records generated by the everybody rather than just a few relatives.
* Need an obituary from a library or a record from a court house in another state? Check out Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness.
* Visit RAOGK: http://www.raogk.org
* Everyone loves free stuff! Check out this free Genealogy Software
* Family Tree Builder 5.1: http://www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder
* Personal Ancestor File (PAF) - 5.2: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/
* RootsMagic Free Trials: http://rootsmagic.com/Try/Default.aspx?
* Legacy 7.0 Family Tree: http://www.mytrees.com
* Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
Take Cover or Care, whichever is appropriate!
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Labels: Cyndi's List, hawaii, RAOGK, rootsmagic, software
Sunday's Obituary - Mary Schwemm Buehler
Daughter of Fred and Emma Rethmeier Schwemm
Married to August Buehler Sept 6, 1919 they divorced August 20, 1934
Barrington Courier Review - August 1934
Funeral services form Mrs. Mary Schwemm Buehler, aged 47, of Barrington
were held Monday afternoon at the funeral home on West Main Street and burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. The Rev Dore Ester, pastor of Salem Church officiated.
Mrs. Buehler died early last Friday at Sherman Hospital where she had become a patient on Tuesday. She had been ill for 18 months. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Florence Pahlke; three brothers Frank and Clarence Schwemm of Barrington and Fred Schwemm of Hobart, IN.
She was born March 28, 1898 on a farm near Barrington, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwemm. Her mother, with whom she lived on Dundee Road, died of injuries sustained in an automobile collision last July 29.
News Articles During the Years
Barrington Review - February 26, 1920
Messrs. George Schumacher, George Buehler and Frank Schwemm visited
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
August Buehler.
October 28, 1920 pg. 5
Miss Margaret Kamlager was a weekend guest at the August Buehler home
in Ela Township.
Barrington Review - August 18, 1921
Mrs. Fred Scheltz went home Sunday after spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. August Buehler
Barrington Review - August 9, 1928 pg 4
Mrs. Garret Kamlager of Garfield street spent Sunday at the August Buehler home south of town.
Barrington Review - January 22, 1932
Mrs. Mary Buehler and Mrs. Fred Sternberg of Arlington Heights and Mrs. and Mrs. Herbert Pingle of Palatine and Frank Schwemm visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwemm Saturday night.
Labels: barrington, Buehler, obituary, schwemm
Sick Day Research Tips - West Virginia, Maiden Names and Finnish Cemeteries
The dog days of summer are here and summer colds and illnesses can be brutal as I found out last week. I made good use of my time by reviewing my Grandmother Hilia Johnson Keteri's twelve sibling's family trees. I was able to find obituaries for many and even some engagement and wedding announcements.
I hope some of this week's tips help you flesh out your family research.
* Love old newspapers? Search over 13 million pages of NY newspapers at the Old Fulton New York Postcard Site.
* Visit: http://www.fultonhistory.com/
* Getting Started in Finnish Research? The Finnish Genealogical Society has listing of Finnish cemeteries across the United States.
* Visit: http://www.genealogia.fi/haudat/index4e.htm
* The state of West Virginia has digitized vital records and they are available online.
* Visit: www.wvculture.org/vrr
* Looking for Native American Indian Records? Check out Joe Beine’s website “Genealogy Articles, Tips and Research Guides”.
* Visit: http://www.genealogybranches.com/nativeamericans.html
* When trying to find a maiden name be sure to search in the unusual sources. Check out the following possibilities:
* Baby or autograph books
* Cards from a wedding or baby shower
* Guest books from weddings or anniversary parties
* Old address books
* National Aviation Day
* Researching an ancestor that was involved in aviation? Find great research links, virtual museums and more at the American Aviation Historical Society
* Visit: http://www.aahs-online.org/news.php
* World Vital Records has a number of free databases, but it is primarily a subscription site. Review the available sources or try a free trial membership.
* Visit: http://worldvitalrecords.com/
Here is a picture of my grandmother and eight of her siblings. We are so lucky that someone in the family actually identifed all the children.
Family of Elias and Anna Hallsten Johnson, Toivola, MI
Labels: aviation, Finnish, Joe Beine, keteri, Native American, New York, toivola, West Virginia
Sunday's Obituary - James Mattila
James S. Mattila, Sr.
The Daily Mining Gazette
SUO DISTRICT - James S. Mattila, Sr., 92, a resident of the Suo District, passed away Friday afternoon, July 30, 2010, at his home following a lengthy illness.
He was born June 1, 1918, in Toivola, a son of the late Sam J. and Laura K. (Johnson) Mattila. He attended the Heikkinen School in Toivola.
On August 14, 1937, he was united in marriage to the former Bertha Maki. Since that time, he had made his home in the Suo District. On September 24, 2006, Bertha preceded him in death.
Mr. Mattila was a veteran, having served with the U.S. Army during WWII.
James operated his family farm and then worked for various contractors in the area doing carpentry work. In 1955, he partnered with his brother, Yalmer, to start Mattila Contracting which he helped to operate until his retirement in 1973.
Mr. Mattila was a member of the Tapiola Apostolic Lutheran Church, the Chassell VFW Post 6507, Carpenters Union Local 1510, along with various organizations in the area.
Jim enjoyed spending time outdoors hunting, fishing and trapping.
Preceding him in death were his wife, Bertha; parents; son, Carl; sisters, Beatrice and Bertha; brothers, Wesley, Walfred, Yalmer and two infant brothers; and a son-in-law, John Keranen.
Surviving are his children, James, Jr. (Karen) Mattila, Shirley Keranen, Robert (Betty) Mattila, Barbara Mattila, Carol (Gary) Johnson, Virginia (Paul) Luoma, Violet (James) Medhurst, Vivian (John) Grischke, Ruth (Thomas) Machrain, Michael (Vicky) Mattila, Vicky (Kenneth) Kline, Laura (Sam) Christoff; brothers, Alvin (Lydia) Mattila, Gordon (Marjorie) Mattila, Earl (Melanie) Mattila, Sanfred (Pat) Mattila, Leo (Marian) Mattila; sisters, Laura (Hiram) Mosley, Carol (Robert) Deede; sister-in-law, Margaret Mattila; 43 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; numerous great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services for James will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 7, 2010, at the Tapiola Apostolic Lutheran Church with Rev. Kenneth Storm and Rodney Johnson to officiate. Burial will be in the Toivola Cemetery where Chassell VFW Post 6507 will hold military rites.
Friends may call on Friday, August 6, 2010, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Memorial Chapel Funeral Home in Hancock and on Saturday from 10 a.m. until time of services at the church.
In lieu of other expressions of sympathy, the family suggests that memorials be given to the Tapiola Apostolic Lutheran Church, the Children's Miracle Network, or the charity of one's choice.
To view James' obituary or to send condolences to the family, please visit memorialchapel.net.
The Memorial Chapel Funeral Home in Hancock is assisting the family with the arrangements.
Mattila Stood For Much
A veteran died today - James S. Mattila, Sr., 92, July 30, 2010. When we look at the journey of our comrade, there are five priorities that stand out:
1. His loyalty to his God. He took the time to know his God and his pastors. He knew where his values were and professed his faith.
2. His loyalty to his country. He left his young family to serve in World War II in Italy as a ground soldier.
3. His young family, which he was anxious to get back to.
4. His work, in which he helped his brother start a company which gave work to many.
5. His community, which he supported as a good citizen.
"When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him." - Proverbs 16: 7.
Jim came from a family of 15 who lost their mother when the last child was one year old in 1941, and yet, their father kept them together. Jim and eight brothers all served their country and came back. Jim and Bertha had 13 children of which 12 survived him. His father told him, 1. "To always be honest." 2. "Keep the Ten Commandments." 3. "Honor our Constitution, we did not have that in the old country."
Now he was not a perfect man, but a great man. There is a man.
Next Memorial Day, a flag will be placed on Jim's grave in Toivola along with the graves of some 6,000 other veterans in Houghton and Keweenaw counties to be remembered by some 4,000 veterans living here.
Rev. Elmer Liimatta,
State Chaplain, Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mattilas to lead Parade of Thanks
By GARRETT NEESE, DMG Writer
HOUGHTON - Though shortened by construction, the Parade of Thanks will go on this year.
The annual parade, which recognizes the efforts of military veterans and those currently serving in the military, starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Citgo station in Hancock.
Due to construction, it will now end in Hancock by the Scott Hotel, not the Miners State Bank in Houghton as originally planned.
The parade will be followed by the Freedom Rally at the Copper Country Mall, starting at 1 p.m. The event will include awards presented to the grand marshals, Patriot of the Year and Junior Patriot of the Year, as well as musical performances by Tom Katalin and a choir headed by Annette Butina.
This year's grand marshals are the nine Mattila brothers of Toivola - James, Yalmer, Wesley, Gordon, Walfred, Alvin, Sanfred, Earl and Leo - all of whom served in the Armed Forces.
James, the oldest, served as an Army infantryman during World War II, once being stationed on the former farm of deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Yalmer served stateside during World War II as a military policeman. Wesley, an Air Force member, was stationed in the South Pacific during World War II.
Gordon served in the Navy after the conclusion of World War II, working in a naval hospital whose patients included troops imprisoned by the Japanese.
Walfred served in the Navy and was part of atomic bomb testing on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Alvin was stationed stateside for two years as an Army policeman in the 50s.
Sanfred traveled to 32 countries in his four years in the Navy, including a patrol ship off the coast of Korea during the Korean War.
Earl served in the Army and was trained in artillery and radar operations.
Leo, the youngest, served in the Army in the early 1960s. Had the Cuban Missile Crisis not been resolved, his company would have gone to Cuba.
Four of the nine brothers will not be there: Walfred, Yalmer and Wesley have died, while Alvin is staying home to take care of his wife, who is sick.
But all will be honored Saturday, said parade organizer Dennis Korby. "We're going to have the living brothers in their uniforms," he said. "We're going to have the empty chairs for the brothers that are no longer with us."
Korby found out about the brothers' story after coming across an old Gazette article about their history. He called the brothers "Copper Country treasures."
"I'll speak with someone outside of this area," he said. "Invariably, they're always shocked by this. You may hear of two or three brothers, but not nine. All nine."
Patriot of the Year is Kenneth Toth. The local pastor, who served in the Korean War, is known for his work with veterans, Korby said. When a soldier returned home last year, Toth organized the placing of American flags all the way from the airport parking lot to his home, interspersed with signs telling him what had gone on at home since he left.
Deanna Hillstrom, a student at Jeffers High School in Painesdale, was named Junior Patriot of the Year. Korby hopes to get her to read a poem she has written about the Mattila brothers, which he called "very passionate and well-written."
Hillstrom has two brothers serving in war zones, including Andrew Hillstrom, who is recovering from severe wounds suffered in action.
"She had something tugging at her heart at a very personal level," Korby said. "She had two brothers in harm's way. Maybe that explains her commitment to this whole thing. I can think of no one - absolutely no one - at her age more deserving of this award."
Included in the parade will be the Calumet High School volleyball team, who will hit red, white and blue volleyballs back and forth behind a "Champions Honoring Champions" banner.
Placed on every block during the parade will be barrels decorated with red, white and blue. These are for donations of items such as crayons, coloring books, erasers and hard candy for children in Afghanistan. Korby said they were the idea of Katie Sullivan, who had talked to the wife of a local soldier serving there.
"The little kids are caught in the middle of all the fighting," Korby said. "They're terrified, and they're poor. They beg for pencils, crayons, coloring books, markers. These are treasures to these children."
Korby said a DVD of the parade will be sent to troops serving overseas, and has also been requested by the White House.
"We're the most patriotic area in the country, bar none, and I think people are starting to take a second look at that," Korby said. "We have a chance to show that in the parade and the rally."
Labels: johnson, Mattila, michigan, obituary, toivola
Stay Cool This Summer Exploring Digital Records
There is an amazing epidemic happening around the country. Every week more and more counties, states and historical societies are receiving grant money for projects to digitize their records or newspapers. A few years ago I would be excited if a state or newspaper had a vital records index. Now that almost seems as old fashioned as visting a courthouse to get a copy of a birth certificate.
I have found myself spending hours on a newly digitized site filling in birth, marriage and death dates and then surfing to a local newspaper to pick up the associated news stories. Once I have the the date of death and obituary it is a quick trip to Findagrave.com to see if the person has a memorial. If there is no memorial I can create one and if it is I may be able to suggest additions.
I call these afternoons 'passive' genealogy research. It seems to easy, but it sure helps filling in all the folks I have accumulated doing 'sideways research'.
Sunday August 7
* Use ebay for genealogy research - Search on town names to find city directories, yearbooks, postcards and misc. town celebrations.
* If there was a local photographer, search on that name to find 'lost' family or local pictures.
Monday August 8
* The Arizona Memory Project has over 67,000 digital records.
* Visit: azmemory.lib.az.us
Tuesday August 9
* Tennessee State Library and Archives:
* Fact Sheets sheets for all counties-* Visit: www.tennessee.gov/tsla/Collections.htm Select -> County Records -> Genealogical Fact Sheets
* Digital Collections - some for the public and some for its residents - Visit: http://www.tn.gov/tsla/index.htm
* Missouri became a state on this date in 1821
* Explore Missouri’s digital heritage with their online death certificate database. Visit: www.sos.mo.gov/mdh
* Check out the Maryland State Archives for vital records, land records, and online databases.
* Visit : http://www.msa.md.gov/
* Library of Virginia - Virginia Memory Digital Collection
* Visit : http://www.virginiamemory.com/
* The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive has fully searchable newspapers from 1847 to 1922.
* Visit: http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu
So, stay out of the summer heat and rain and have fun surfing!
Labels: arizona, Atlanta, Digital, ebay, missouri. obituary, Tennessee
Sunday's Obituary - Edward 'Eddie' Maish
Son of Edward and Daisy Farnum Maish
Nephew of Sherman Maish
Waterloo Daily Courier - May 22 1936
CYCLIST KILLED ON HIGHWAY 30
E. E. Maish, 35, Cedar Rapids, Victim; Struck by Pair On Honeymoon
(Courier Special Service)
Vinton, la. E. E. Maish, 35, Cedar Rapids, was instantly killed about 9:30 p. m. Thursday, when the bicycle he was riding on highway 30, was struck by an automobile driven by Jerome Jameson, Los Angeles, Cal., on his honeymoon.
The accident occurred 18 miles west of Cedar Rapids. Maish and Jameson were both traveling east. Jameson told officers that he came over a hill and failed to see Maish, whose bicycle did not have a light, he said.
Maish suffered a skull fracture, broken neck and fractured ribs. His body was taken to Cedar Rapids. John Burrows, Benton county coroner, investigated the accident.
Cedar Rapids Tribune - May 22 1936
Bicyclist Killed By Auto
Eddie Maish, 30, operator pf the Hi Ho beer tavern at 419 2nd Ave. SE, was
killed Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock when a bicycle he was riding west of town on highway No. 30 was struck by a car bearing a California license. Maish's body was taken to Blairstown
The Oelwein Daily Register - May 22 1936
Honeymoon Trip Interrupted
Vinton Ia., May 22-UP- A honeymoon trip halted last night when their automobile struck and killed Ed. E. Maish, 33-year old Cedar Rapids Beer tavern operator was resumed today by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Jameson of Los Angeles, California.
County Sheriff Leland Fry permitted the bridal couple to continue enroute to Debuque after an investigation disclosed that a bicycle on which Maish was riding at the time of the accident carried no light.
Before their recent marriage in Detroit, the bride was Miss Mildred C. Kannolt of that city.
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Create a Genealogy Bucket List
I love Jack Nicholson movies. No one delivers the line "Here's Johnny!" like he did in The Shining . The other night I was channel surfing and came across Jack and Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List and it got me to thinking about my own bucket list... my Genealogy Bucket List.
My Genealogy Bucket List
What would be on your bucket list if you had unlimited resources or a time machine? While it is not complete, here are some of the ideas I had.
1. Travel to Sterbitz Germany, home of the Schwemm Family. While I would love to find all the birth and christening records what I would really like is to see Sterbitz and learn a bit about its history.
2. Organize a Keteri/Johnson Family Reunion. This is my mother's family and the majority live in Michigan and Minnesota. Since I am one of the older cousins there are many younger cousins I have not seen since they were young children or never met.
3. Track down the descendents of Gustav Blum's wife, Elsa. Gustav may have been my great grandmother's half sibling. Elsa was in an insane asylum when he killed their two children and himself. I would love to find out more about this tragic event and possibly some family photos.
4. Speak at a National Genealogy Conference. While I realize I have a lot of work to do to be considered for such a spot, it is on my bucket list.
5. Win a spot on Family Tree Magazine's top blog list.
6. Time Travel. If this becomes possible in my lifetime I would love an hour with Matilda Mueller Strunk Blum Schumacher. She may or may not be my great great grandmother. While I am fairly certain she was Gustav Blum's mother (see number 3) I have not been able to prove her relationship with Johanna Wilmeir Pahlke, my great grandmother. Johanna and Gus are referred to as half brother and sister, but I have nothing to prove the relationship. Plus, having been married 3 times, she probably has some great stories!
7. Research at the Salt Lake City library for a week. While I have been there before I find that just being there is inspiring and allows me to focus. I love libraries and that is the ultimate library!
Why Start a Bucket List?
I think atarting a Bucket List helped me focus on what I really want out of my genealogy. Sure, I would like to find every birth, death and marriage certificate for every relative but I would also like to connect with living cousins.
On a personal level I enjoy writing this blog and doing presentations so it is natural to want to kick it up a level or two. Listing it on my bucket list makes the goal more real.
So, sit down and do it - create your Genealogy Bucket List. It will help you focus and set goals for yourself and your research.
Unknown Woman, Johanna Pahlke (standing) Florence Schwemm Pahlke sitting with son Newton Pahlke
Labels: Bucket List, germany, keteri, library, pahlke, schwemm, sterbitz
Back to Basics - Vital Records, Census Research and More
Over the last couple of days a number of friends have asked how to start researching their ancestors. It can be hard to give an answer that is clear, concise and not too full of genealogy jargon. I hope this week's tips can help folks start their genealogical adventure.
* Searchable Casualty Lists for the Korean War can by found at the National Archives
* Visit: http://aad.archives.gov
* Colorado became a state on this date in 1876
* The Colorado State Archives has online indexes including but not limited to WPA Employment files, Old Age Pensions and Probate files.
* Visit: http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/online.htm
* Hawaiian birth, christening, death, burial and marriage records are available online at FamilySearch.
* Visit: https://www.familysearch.org/
Wednesday August 3
* Census Research - Have you looked in the census records but could not find them your ancestor? Here are some reasons why:
* They may have been out of town
* Or they may have been living with a friend or other family member
* Or their name may be badly misspelled. The accuracy of the spelling may have been influenced by their limited knowledge of English and the ability of the census taker to understand them. I often find "Schwemm" as "Swim"!
Thursday August 4
* Genealogy Glossary - Bounty Land - Land promised as an incentive for enlistment or payment for military services. Those that enlisted under this provision received a Bounty Land Warrant from the newly formed government after the war.
Friday August 5
* Genealogy Books: Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records Author: Patricia Law Hatcher
Saturday August 6
* Wondering if a county courthouse in Kentucky was destroyed? Check out the list of Kentucky Courthouse Disasters.
* Visit: http://kdla.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx
* Select -> Researchers -> County Courthouse Disasters in Kentucky
Hope these tips and links help in your research.
Labels: census, colorado, familysearch, hawaii, kentucky, korean war, vital records
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Anchor Bay's Creature Triple Feature
24th Nov 05
Is it just me, or does this DVD cover look more like a computer game than a three-film horror film box set? Well, this is the artwork for Anchor Bay's upcoming Creature Triple Feature DVD set, featuring the films Deadly Swarm, Gargoyle's Revenge and Snakehead Terror (all rated 15 - and no, we hadn't heard about any of them before either).
A quick search reveals Deadly Swarm is a killer bee movie made in 2003, Snakehead Terror is a 2004-made killer fish movie and Gargoyle's Revenge deals with winged, fire-spitting creatures. The boxset will be priced at £19.99 and is set to be released on January 24th 2006.
Deadly Swarm
Deep in the jungles of Guatemala, an ancient and deadly variety of wasp has been discovered, a creature whose fatally poisonous sting could provide the key to curing cancer.
Unfortunately a rogue scientist unleashes a swarm of the killer wasps on an unsuspecting Mexican village. As the body count mounts, a local entomologist (Shane Brolly) and an investigative reporter (Kaarina Aufranc) uncover the scientist's plot and set about finding and destroying the wasps' nest before it is too late.
Gargoyles' Revenge (aka Gargolye)
A monstrous tale of an age-old evil terrorizing modern day Romania. Michael Paré (BloodRayne; The Virgin Suicides) and Sandra Hess (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation; California Man) star as a pair of CIA agents dispatched to Romania to investigate the kidnapping of an ambassador's son.
But the case takes a bizarre turn when the kidnapper becomes the first victim of a giant flesh-eating gargoyle!
Snakehead Terror
Local sheriff Patrick James and beautiful marine biologist Lori Dale face up against a mutant breed of killer Snakehead fish living in the lake of their tourism-dependent community.
With a holiday weekend rapidly approaching, and with the town mayor refusing to close the lake to visitors (Jaws! It's just like Jaws I tell you!), Patrick and Lori are forced to fight against both the town leaders and the deadly fish, who prove to be just as dangerous out of the water as in it!
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Did you watch the Olympics? What was that Mum?
Have you been watching the Winter Olympics? What is the cultivar?
There’s quite a story behind the Olympic flowers
By Trey Kerby
After every Olympic event, rather than receiving their medals, athletes are given a
bouquet of flowers. At the Beijing Olympics, roses dominated the bouquets. In
Turin, it was rhododendrons, azaleas, and camellias. This year, it’s green
mums and hypericum berries.
The bouquets come from Just Beginnings Flowers and Margitta’s Flowers in Surrey, British Columbia.
Their entry was chosen from 58 contending florists. June Strandberg, the bouquet designer and owner of Just
Beginnings, teaches floristry to women who have left prison, are recovering from addiction, or have been victims of violence. It’s a pretty amazing program, and Strandberg has even taken it behind bars, where she educates
convicts. She believes it’s her work with these correctional programs that secured the Olympic contract.
For the Vancouver Olympics the florists made 1,800 bouquets, 1,707 of which will be given to medal-winning athletes in the Olympics and Paralympics. The flowers are grown locally, but they aren’t in season during February, so additional supplies were flown in from Ecuador. The flowers were chosen to represent British Columbia and Canada, and are intended as keepsakes for the athletes.
There are even strict regulations for the bouquets presented at the flower ceremonies. Per IOC protocol, bouquets must be 20 to 30 centimeters tall and about 25 centimeters across. Though these flowers might look like something you give your mom at a homecoming football game, a lot of thought and planning goes into choosing and making these bouquets. When you consider the societal benefits behind these flowers,
it almost makes the bouquets as valuable as the medals.
More info at this link:
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News, Television
CBS Springs Multiple 2-Hour Specials in Spring Season Finales!
March 28, 2011 Sheldon Wiebe
CBS has revealed the dates for season finales for its 2010-11 programming schedule. Included are two-hour finales for The Amazing Race, Survivor: Redemption Island [and, of course, the Survivor: Redemption Island Live Reunion Show, and The Mentalist. The complete list of upcoming CBS season finales follows the jump.
9:00-10:00 PM Undercover Boss
8:00-10:00 PM The Amazing Race (two hours)
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: Miami
9:00-10:00 PM CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
9:00-10:00 PM CSI: NY
10:00-11:00 PM Blue Bloods
8:00-10:00 PM Survivor: Redemption Island (two hours)
10:00-11:00 PM Survivor: Redemption Island Live Reunion Show
8:00-8:30 PM How I Met Your Mother
8:30-9:00 PM Mad Love
9:30-10:00 PM Mike & Molly
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10:00-11:00 PM The Good Wife
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8:00-8:30 PM The Big Bang Theory
8:30-9:00 PM Rules of Engagement
9:00-11:00 PM The Mentalist (two hours)
10:00-11:00 PM Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
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Pivot Point, Brexit Special
By Sarah Jane Hogan January 9, 2019 Blog
In light of yesterday’s game changing defeat in Westminster of the UK Governments plans to budget for a No Deal Brexit, today we issue a Brexit Special and maintain our baseline assumption that a crash out is the least likely outcome. Yesterday’s successful rebellion on the UK Finance bill, the first since the mid 1970’s, is the first tangible evidence that a majority of MPs are prepared to take over the reins of Government to prevent the most harmful outcome, a crash out.
But this moment is just a pivot in a longer and harmful game, the outcome of which will redefine internal relationships within the United Kingdom and its external relationships with the outside world. Here we explain why;
The Post Withdrawal Reality Check
There is a blizzard of opinion, biased and otherwise and a great deal of misinformation about Brexit. In this paper I outline (a) how Westminster is likely to resolve its current state of political stalemate given its failure to coalesce around a common position on its relationship with the EU and (b) why, no matter what the outcome, (saving the UK remaining in the EU), the UK will inevitably face a diminution of sovereignty from trade deals including with the EU during which they will be skinned.
The post withdrawal period is not adequately discussed. It will take years to resolve and is the period into which the UK enters with a terribly weakened hand, a first world economy with no trading partners and a desperate need to find them.
This territory is largely unexplored in a media driven by political noise, rather than hard-nosed business and economics because of the focus on the Withdrawal Agreement and not the senior hurling that follows, where the real price of Brexit will be determined and extracted. This is the period during which the UK enters into negotiations with the EU, and with the USA, Japan, and China and a host of other players, each determined to extract the maximum value from UK weakness. It is how the game is played.
What is likely to happen at Westminster?
To date it is clear that PM May’s deal with the EU will get soundly beaten in Parliament, there simply isn’t sufficient political support whether voted for once or twice as expected. But opposition to the deal is still quite fractured and incapable of coalescing, meanwhile the failed attempt in the Tory party to oust Theresa May has secured her leadership, thus closing that route. So here are the possible outcomes;
A. May secures support closer to the exit deadline and perhaps with a second vote because the majority of MPs fearful of a crash out, move to her deal after securing some EU political promises as cover for their retreat and the UK exits in March. I don’t think this will happen.
B. May’s deal fails in parliament, opposition parties immediately table a vote of no confidence in the Government and a cross party group takes control of the negotiations changing UK red lines, the EU responds with a delay to 2020 to facilitate the new model and the UK exits next year. There is no general election because two thirds of MPs don’t vote for one. The defeat of the Government Tuesday January 8th, 2019 marks the first-time cross-party MPs have found a consensus to block a crash out, but this falls far short of developing and agreeing a new way forward.
C. May’s deal fails, and MPs vote for a fresh referendum, the wording and execution of which occupies most of 2019, the EU extend Article 50 to facilitate. Whether or not the agreed wording will allow for the option to remain in the EU will be the sticking point. A fresh referendum opens a new vista, remaining in the EU but I don’t see this happening easily despite the polls.
D. This is a derivative of B, May’s deal fails, the Government lose a no confidence motion, but Parliament cannot still agree to coalesce around a common position to engage with the EU and a General Election is triggered. The EU extends the Article 50 deadline to facilitate. After a General Election the new Government decides to go for a fresh referendum or changes the red lines to reopen negotiations with the EU.
E. May’s deal fails, Westminster simply cannot agree on any way forward neither a cross party agreement, an extension or a vote for a General Election and the UK crashes out on March 29th by accident rather than by design. This is looking more unlikely after the defeat on Jan 8th 2019.
Post Brexit what then for the UK?
This is largely unexplored territory because of the narrative spun that the UK regains sovereignty, the skies brighten and the old empire twinkles in the sunshine. Unhappily it is very far from the truth. Firstly, the UK cannot escape its geography, it is bound to Europe and thus is a member of the Eurosphere whether it likes it or not. This is just economic reality.
The Eurosphere is the region around Europe that is required from economic necessity to adopt European standards to do business from the outside with EU consumers inside and access its Single Market with or without tariffs. Let me give you a few examples;
A Hobbs Financial Practice Limited client who certifies new electronic equipment including small additions or attachments to existing products (e.g. house alarm panel) for adherence to EU sound radiation introduced me to the EU technical manual. It runs into over 800 pages without adherence to which the product cannot be sold within the EU.
On Jan 1st, 2018 the EU adopted 1.5 million paragraphs of financial services law known as MiFiD II, changing everything from dark pools in stock markets to the consumer advisory point and brings a new level of transparency and disclosure to EU consumers. Any UK financial services firm that wants to trade with EU consumers must adhere to MiFiD II and, post Brexit, to the rules of the UK Financial Conduct Authority as well. This means staff having to comply with two regulators, two sets of rules, doubling up lawyers and compliance staff and passing on the cost to customers.
Last year the EU introduced GDPR a new charter of consumer rights on Data Privacy that is fantastic for consumers but puts very onerous compliance on data processors and has some pretty scary fines. Any British firm processing EU consumer data must comply with GDPR regardless of its location.
What hasn’t been explained is that there is no escaping the EU, not if you are within the Eurosphere which extends East towards Asia, South into the Middle East and North Africa and West into the UK. It is that simple.
Trade Agreements are not Cricket
The UK whatever the shape of Brexit, will emerge as a third country, outside the club but economically bound to the EU’s regulatory rules and standards. The idea that the UK as a modest sized economy, suffering from subnormal economic growth for at least a decade after Brexit and desperate to do trade deals, will be afforded a fast track to better or equitable trade deals, is a fantasy. Negotiators for the other side will leverage on UK weakness and its desperation to free itself from being a rule taker within the Eurosphere, an impossible task in itself without sailing the island mid-way between Asia and the USA.
The notion that trade with dispersed Commonwealth countries will bridge trade lost with the EU is a self-deception. The Single Market is the richest and most densely concentrated economic region in the world, the commonwealth is a club. Moreover, the EU is the world master at projecting soft power as distinct from US hard power. New members are required to adopt over eighty thousand pages of EU law, changing countries from the grass roots up in preparation to join the EU. It is what makes leaving the EU so difficult and costly.
What Third Country status means
In its trade with the EU as a non-member, UK firms will be subject to EU courts in resolving disputes whether with trade partners or regulators, not British Courts. This is just a statement of fact. As a third country the UK will always face a united EU front on any matter that effects a member, the Backstop is merely the beginning. In the trade negotiations to come the UK will find 27-member states backing France and Spain on fishing or on Gibraltar and backing any member on any matter that might otherwise diminish the EU.
No amount of ballyhoo, such as adopting Churchillian defiance and aggression in fresh negotiations, will lead to better outcomes. It won’t. Nothing will change. The EU as a Single Market will exercise its raw economic power as it is mandated to do by members, putting the UK in a constant state of negotiation with it, a lopsided relationship that ignores British exceptionalism.
This is already evident to anyone caring to look, the EU boxed in the UK to its model of exiting, kicking trade negotiations out beyond the Withdrawal Agreement, where the real action starts and resisting UK efforts to negotiate British exceptionalism; outside the club but with most of the benefits of being in it. The UK Red Lines were a fantasy for domestic consumption, a reality well known to British civil servants and ought to have been clear to politicians, had they been prepared to lift the scales from their eyes.
This rather sobering summary overarches any fantasy you care to choose, the WTO rules favoured by the hard Brexiteers or Canada++. It is not logical to argue that the UK must extract itself from the deepest and largest free trade zone in the world in order to negotiate better deals elsewhere, but this is the argument made. Neither is it logical to argue that negotiating trade agreements somehow bolsters sovereignty when its very essence is to cede control, reduce or eliminate barriers and diminish protectionism.
Goods and Services are bound at the hip
As pointed out here before, one cannot separate goods from services, they are inherently intertwined, but this has been attempted at national level. Take the example provided of a car rolling off a Japanese production line in Britain, most of its parts will have been sourced from the EU and beyond with countries like Japan with whom the EU has trade agreements and pass through complex, just-in-time chains where services will have supplied insurance to underwrite transport and credit risks, FX to deal with currency and accountancy and compliance services to keep records in order. The UK services industry will only be able to defeat the impact of tariffs and barriers after Brexit by locating branches in the EU. Let me be clear, local regulators like the Central Bank of Ireland will insist on authentic new enterprises, not boilerplate operations. This poses dramatic change and costs for UK service companies especially in heavily regulated areas like finance.
The reality is that the UK will fight at its weight level in trade negotiations. It is not a heavyweight and will be treated accordingly. It is how the world works and why small countries like Ireland see the EU less as an issue of losing sovereignty but gaining projection through pooling it with other members, benefiting from the strength of the many.
It is hard not to escape the vision of a divided UK stumbling into complex trade negotiations still fighting internally about what kind of relationship it wants with the outside world. Unlike the EU which has been crystal clear from the outset, the UK has been at war against itself, unleashing forces, including English nationalism, that threatens the cohesion of the union itself.
Quite how the UK can get the genie back into the bottle I think is not a question that will be answered for many years but one outcome is clear, the UK in the future will be nothing like the UK of the past in or out of the EU, it is embarked on the biggest project in self harm of any first world country and risks its society and economy for a generation. The only question that remains is how much harm it is prepared to inflict on itself.
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Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) #educratsweb
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) is a scheme launched in July 2004, for setting up residential schools at upper primary level for girls belonging predominantly to the SC, ST, OBC and minority communities. The scheme is being implemented in educationally backward blocks of the country where the female rural literacy is below the national average and gender gap in literacy is above the national average. The scheme provides for a minimum reservation of 75% of the seats for girls belonging to SC, ST, OBC or minority communities and priority for the remaining 25%, is accorded to girls from families below poverty line.
The scheme is being implemented in 27 States/UTs namely: Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. 2578 KGBVs were sanctioned by Government of India till date. Of these, 427 KGBVs have been sanctioned in Muslim concentration blocks, 612 in ST blocks, 688 in SC blocks. As on 31st January, 2009, 2423 KGBVs are reported to be functional (i.e. 94%) in the States and 1,90,404 girls enrolled in them (50,630 SC girls (27%); 58,682 ST girls (31%); 50,161 OBC girls (26%); 18,206 BPL girls (9%); 12,725 Minority girls (7%). Out of the total 2578 sanctioned KGBVs, 547 KGBVs have been constructed + 1262 are in progress and 769 have not been started. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme is merged with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in the XIth Plan with effect from 1st April, 2007.
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The National Evaluation of the KGBV scheme was undertaken between 29th January to 20th February 2008 in 12 States of Gujarat, Jharkhand, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Orissa, with 12 independent experts in girls education and another joint Evaluation of NPEGEL & KGBV scheme was also undertaken between 19th November to 14th December, 2007 in States of Assam, Manipur, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Mizoram, Tripura and Dadar & Nagar Haveli.
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Empire “Outspoken King” Episode 2 Review
Reviews, TV Series Episodes/Premiere
Pictured L-R: Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. ©2014 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Michael Lavine/FOX..
The show’s first episode introduced an excellent set of characters for the rest of the series. Lucious Lyon, king of hip-hop and head of Empire Entertainment whose three sons (Hakeem, Jamal and Andre) and ex-wife Cookie all battle for his throne. It was a great starting point for the audience. It could be easily one of best drama drama pilots in tv history. From the pilot, it’s clear that Empire has the potential to be a 2015’s groundbreaking TV drama.
After an exciting pilot, the second episode seems quiet. However, it did a good job of continuing the storyline while remaining fairly passionating. It is still raw and gritty as well as realistic such as publicity stunts to appeal to public (sexuality, lack of respect to personalities). Lucious has certain values while Andre is not as perfect as his father hopes.
Everything is here. Lies, secrets and plots. The very charismatic Taraji P. Henson confirms her incredible ability to fit her character. Glad to see more depth to her character than on Person of Interest.
Cookie is determined against his ex-husband Lucious. She seems to want to use his son Jamal against his father Lucious who does not accept that Jamal is gay and doesn’t hesitate to blackmail him. However, People who hold the rules do not seem to be the ones you think. One of best parts of this episode is, when Lucious ’s two sons Jamal and Hakeem perform together on the stage, the excellent song No Apologies, tribute to Cookie’s closest cousin, Bunkie (who was shot by Lucious Lyon) . Two artists, different but complementary at the same time. Even, Lucious is happy. The second best part is the final act where Cookie meets a mysterious character called Agent Carter..
All in all, if you have not watched Empire yet, do it now. It airs Wednesdays at 9 PM on Fox.
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Our Boys: Raising strong, happy sons from boyhood to manhood
By Feedback@dadsontheair.com.au .
Dads on the Air
Contributed by: Daveyone ( 28 articles in 2018 )
The world’s longest running radio program on fathers’ issues
With special guests:
Richard Aston & Ruth Kerr
On this program we get to talk to good people who are making a difference in our society. Our guests today, Richard Aston and his wife Ruth Kerr, fit this category and they speak to us from across the ditch in New Zealand.
For fifeen years Richard and Ruth through the Big Buddy program have been providing fatherless boys with a buddy, someone who can show them the way to manhood. These buddies are volunteer mentors who are carefully chosen by going through a detailed screening. The boys know they can rely on their buddies to turn up when expected and listen to what is happening in the boys’ lives. And they get to do fun things.
Having seen up close and personal what makes boys tick Richard and Ruth have distilled for us what works and what does not work when the aim is to develop our boys into adults. This is practical and down to earth advice set out in their new book Our Boys: Raising strong, happy sons from boyhood to manhood.
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Are Fathers Important for Adolescents?
With special guest:
Dr William (Bill) Fabricius
Most studies in the area of children and families concentrate on the influence of mothers. Fathers are understudied in this area. For this reason we welcome the results of a paper on the role of fathers and we have the opportunity today to speak with one of its lead authors, Associate Professor Dr William Fabricius who joins us from New York. The title of the paper is Effects of the Inter-Parental Relationship on Adolescents’ Emotional Security and Adjustment: The Important Role of Fathers.
This new study looked at hundreds of adolescents, a balanced mix of those living with biological dads and those with stepdads studied in three waves from Grades 7 to 12 across ethnic and gender lines. The research measured the effect of non-violent parental conflict, Intimate Partner Violence and demonstrated affection. The findings revealed the importance of marital quality, namely the level of parental love and closeness, and interestingly “mattering to father.”
Fight Like A Pro
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Today’s show is a knockout! Our guest is Gavin Topp and he tells us about his training program called Fight Like a Pro which he runs on the Gold Coast of Queensland.
It is not an overstatement to say that the program has changed lives because on top of the physical aspects of training hard with a group of fellow amateurs Gavin looks for the mental changes in his charges. You might not expect to hear life lessons from a professional boxer but as numerous testimonials on the website of Fight Like a Pro will confirm Gavin is a bit of a philosopher as well as a hard physical taskmaster.
Source: http://www.dadsontheair.com.au/shows/the-fathering-project-1.html
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Beasts of the Southern Wild: film review
matthew walsh Fine Art
Having spent the majority of 2012 hovering up accolades at numerous worldwide festivals, Beasts of the Southern Wild arrives in blighty to compete for yet another award at the London Film Festival (the Sutherland award for first feature) before its general release on Friday. Seen as one of the trending ‘green issue’ films when it premiered at Sundance in January, Benh Zeitlin’s is a startlingly assured debut and one that will mark him out for bigger projects and budgets.
His take on the environmental issue is not littered with numbers or facts choosing instead to go for the emotional jugular, hitting his mark with a near folkloric tale of 6 year-old Hushpuppy and her sick yet strong father Wink…yes the names are a bit much. The two live in ‘the bathtub’; a flood risk plain of the southern delta of America and home to a drinking rabble of idealists, drop-outs and elderly couples all instilled with a joire de vive that allows them to celebrate rather than fear their unusual homeland.
Zeitlin plunges us into the mud, dirt and maggots of the bathtub and all its creatures – human, farmyard and sea, unafraid of getting our fingers dirty. This living, breathing squalor lies alone, cut off from the mainland by a great barrier allowing Zeitlin to create an almost mythical community detached from the worries of ours and fill it instead with a world of magical realism and no little style.
Hushpuppy’s near Buddhist take on the Universe being a finely balanced place dependent on ‘everything fitting together jus right’ creates a heartbeat for the film – one made overt with the throbbing pulses of the many creatures held to Hushpuppy’s ear. It’s when a storm threatens to ruin her homeland for good that the earths impact starts to turn her zen like view into a tale of survival. The weather turns, water rises and Hushpuppy is quickly forced to make the most of the skills her ailing father has taught her. Brought with it are the beasts of the title; pre-historic giant boars set free from their ice-capped tombs and free to plunder all before them.
The inevitable backlash may already be underway – the vague, poetic one-line musing narration, elements of poverty porn and the music video qualities of the pre-credit sequence all feeling the ire of some but there is far too much wonder in the whole to focus on the minute. The sense of community in the bathtub may not ring particularly true but it’s one conjured up with real affection. Beautifully lit and photographed, this rough and ready backdrop becomes a character of its own as, aided by his own score, Zeitlin successfully creates a tone unseen in American cinema away from a Terrence Malick film.
Much of the plaudits are coming the way of 8 year old star Quavenzhane Wallis, with talk already turning to a possible Oscar nod – an understandable if slightly knee-jerk reaction to the capabilities of a minor holding her own in such an inventive film. Surely, however, much of the praise must be attributed to Zeitlin himself. He has crafted a visionary, rich and warm feature that belies his relative novice and, in the shadow of Katrina’s clouds, forced an issue as important as environmental concerns almost subliminally into screens around the globe.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm - Quotes, Memories, Episodes, Etc.
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Post subject: Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm - Quotes, Memories, Episodes, Etc.
Posted: Thu October 26, 2017 12:03 am
RM Elitist
given2trade wrote:
you know the "even bad pizza" thing?
well the worst curb episode this season is better than any other comedic TV show in the last 5 years. i'm excluding dramedy shows like Atlanta, Louie, etc.
That's not even remotely close to true. Episode 2 was good, 1 was awful. 3 was okay. And like Jorge said... 4 was weird.
dimejinky99 wrote:
Hang on I check on my Grindr
given2trade
Posted: Thu October 26, 2017 1:24 am
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
@SkitchP wrote:
please tell me what comedy TV show is better than this season and do not include dramedy shows or sketch comedy or cartoons. thx
edit: ok VEEP and Silicon Valley are better
Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 7:17 pm
i dunno, silicon valley seemed like its pedaling faster towards a cliff
The latest season of Veep kind of sucked.
Who knew Matty was the stip of CYE?
Posted: Thu October 26, 2017 12:45 pm
oh yah.
Posted: Thu October 26, 2017 1:09 pm
Mecca wrote:
Agreed. I love all things Mike Judge, but this is getting stale fast. I mostly blame the Richard Hendricks character; the actor is annoying AF, and his character's arc is shitty. They should have killed him off and let Danesh, Gilfoil, Erlich, Jared, and Jin Yang fight over the remains of Pied Piper.
tragabigzanda wrote:
I said "last 5 years" and wasn't specifically referring to the last season of SV or VEEP.
This thread is now about critiquing Thomas Middleditch, try to keep up.
theplatypus
"You kids quit having fun with the word filter!"
I've never seen this show.
It is really good. I think you'd like it a lot.
This latest season hasn't been that great but it's not bad. They're probably just rusty after 7 years off the air or however long it was
Posted: Fri October 27, 2017 12:21 am
I will also weigh in on S7 and say that it's one of the weaker seasons (along with S3), but still funnier than most anything on TV.
The litmus test is simple: Did you enjoy Seinfeld (particularly the S3-S5 era, when they had hit their stride but before they got super wacky with the plots)? If so you will enjoy this show about the same as you did that era of Seinfeld.
Also, the cinematography change they rolled out this season doesn't bother me at all. It's fairly minor; all the lighting, camera movement, and and angles/framing are identical. It's really just the textural quality of the image that's different.
Posted: Mon October 30, 2017 3:59 am
it amuses me that people still associate with larry
Posted: Mon October 30, 2017 12:03 pm
I liked last night's episode enough as typical Curb but the Revolutionary reenactment got a bit too convoluted for me.
Posted: Mon October 30, 2017 7:40 pm
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 11:15 pm
Simple Torture wrote:
"Larry David's office; who the fuck is this?"
i almost choked on my beer at this line
I love Larry investigating the face that the chef made, and confronting the waiter with his lie. Larry is my hero; I wish I could just spend all day confronting people about their bullshit.
"I didn't hit it, I didn't tap it, I didn't tear into it, and we still get no mail. Unbelievable!"
Joined: Fri July 12, 2013 9:11 pm
Finished season six on my rewatch today.
Season 1: Don't think I have ever seen this season before. Despite that, this may have been the least enjoyable on my rewatch. The last episode, The Group, was a standout though. Larry helps an ex, by joining her survivors of incest group. Controversial and hilarious, the way humour should be.
Season 2: Loved this season. I believe I saw it when it was new in the very early 2000s. Still remembered several of the episodes well. The Doll still caught me by surprise. Difficult to explain, but I was rolling around on the couch in part embarrassment and part laughter.
Season 3: Wonderful season, that I had fond memories of. Curb had really hit its stride here. It felt like the one season where all the key characters found their place, and where the production felt just right. The Krazee-Eyez Killa episode, is one of my all time favorites.
Season 4.: This I only remembered a few episodes from when doing the rewatch. The Car Pool Lane and Opening Night were great episodes, and the scenes with the hooker in the car and at the stadium once again had me laughing out loudly. Really nice seeing Mel Brooks have an important part this season.
Season 5: I had seen most of this from before, but still had weaker memories of it, than from earlier seasons. The Ski Lift was easily the best episode of the season, absolutely top class.
Season 6: I remembered this so vividly, it constantly felt like rewatching something I recently saw. I love the episodes where Nick Nervies played an important part, I felt Daryl brought out a different side of Larry. Favorite episode of the season was The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial.
Season 7: I don't actually think I have ever seen this, which is going to make it extra interesting for the next few days. Looking forward to seeing the Seinfeld cast.
Season 8: I highly enjoyed this when it came out, although I think I missed a couple of episodes. Look forward to completing the set here.
Season 9: Here I will finally get with the times.
Posted: Tue October 31, 2017 1:28 am
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
tonight, the clerk at the liquor store asked if my peacoat was authentic, then said his cost him six years of his life. i had no urge to thank him for his service.
Posted: Wed November 01, 2017 9:41 pm
Finished season 7. I had never seen a single minute of this season. I don't even know why. It was on tv in 2009, years after I became a Curb fan. I lived where I live now, worked a similar job, but somehow it never entered my mind to see it at the time. The eight season was in 2011, and I've seen that one. Anyway, season 7 had some fun episodes. The main Seinfeld episode about the reunion and the Denise Handicapped episodes were the best. Really enjoyable. Now I'm looking forward to rewatching season 8, and especially the Palestinian Chicken and Larry vs. Michael J. Fox episodes.
Posted: Fri November 03, 2017 10:50 am
I feel like this, sorta
They've really gone out of their way to make Larry a total unbearable asshole this season. I don't remember feeling like this when I rewatched it last time. He was always oblivious and obstinate and selfish but there's a certain something this time around... an air of malice that I never really felt before
(I have not watched the latest episode)
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2018-19 Schedule (PDF)
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DIVERSE GROUP OF COACHES LEADING WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO RECORD START
SACRAMENTO, Calf. - Starting just a month prior to the commencement of the Sacramento State women's basketball season, head coach Bunky Harkleroad and his staff worked tirelessly to rebuild and adjust to an unfamiliar staff, program, and team. Despite the limited time given, the new additions to the staff have proven to be a perfect fit at Sacramento State as the team ended the non-conference portion of the schedule on Saturday with an 8-1 record.
Harkleroad, Kim Stephens, and Derrick Florence joined third year assistant coach Bill Baxter to collaborate on how to approach a team that needed to adapt to a coaching style they were unaccustomed to. Baxter said although it hasn't been the simplest transition, the chemistry between the four of them has made it easy in the midst of what could've been a challenging start to the year.
"Considering we've known each other for about two to three months, it's like we've been friends for life. Somehow we connected and landed up in the same place," Baxter said. "They're very organized, yet very easygoing and accepting of input; it's made it easy for me to feel comfortable in the somewhat different role that I am playing."
The up-tempo, aggressive coaching style of Harkleroad has been different than what the team was used to after four seasons under former head coach Jamie Craighead, using the similar frenetic pace employed by Craighead but pushing it to a new level. As the season has progressed, the successful results of all their hard work has improved communication amongst the team and the coaches.
Harkleroad, who was a finalist last season for NCAA Div. II Coach of the Year in his fourth term at Glenville State College, was contacted mid-September and jumped at the offer to be the head coach despite the short time he had to make the move.
"It was a no brainer. It turned out to be a great opportunity to coach at the Division I level and a great fit in the campus community," Harkleroad said. "It all happened really quickly and it's crazy with how the timing was – it might've been perfect."
In an immediate move to Sacramento from Glenville, W. Va., Harkleroad dived into his role with as much grace as possible. Harkleroad said the transition has been smooth given the assistance of Coach Baxter as a resource in all aspects of the position.
Harkleroad also had former assistant and player Kim Stephens join him at Sacramento State just nine days after his announcement as head coach. Stephens was his only assistant coach last season and played under him for three seasons, which has been beneficial for both Harkleroad and the team.
"We had to simplify and modify things because we had four weeks until our first game. When we were in Glenville we were working with a veteran team, so we kind of had to start over," Stephens said. "It reminded me of when he took over when I played for him my senior year. I've had to dial back to when he was first putting his system in and remember how hard it is for some players to make the adjustment of playing his style."
With a former player who has been in their shoes before, Harkleroad said that he is fortunate to work with someone who is familiar with his system, his demeanor, and his temperament to help bridge the understanding between coaches and the team.
Coach Florence is working to help establish that trust and respect bond as well, though he just joined the program on Nov. 25. As a former assistant coach at Cal State L.A., six-season head coach at Centennial High School in Compton, and holding inner city coaching roles at various organizations, Florence is adjusting and learning from the new coaching style as well.
"It's new for me and different than anything I've used in Southern California, so it has allowed me to learn more about the game of basketball," Florence said. "To see someone else's style and watch it be successful has been a really good experience, especially with the support it's warranting and the response it's getting from the kids and the school community."
Although the four coaches all come from different backgrounds and experiences, they all have the same focus of being openly available the team and helping them grow as individuals on and off the court.
The diversity of the group has helped create networking opportunities in different channels as everyone brings what they have to the table. Harkleroad is using each of the coaches' connections to branch out and cover as much ground as possible in preparation for recruitment in the coming seasons, especially in-state with Baxter's immense connections in northern California and Florence's in the southern part of the state.
"Everybody is involved and it doesn't fall on one person's shoulders. I love the fact that our staff all has master's degrees with some background in education. That really excites me for our program and for our ability to teach and relate to different demographics," Harkleroad said.
While Baxter already has a good understanding of the players and their tendencies, the other three are still working through the process of getting to know each individual. Harkleroad said that his method is to be honest and give them constant feedback for open communication with the players.
"He demands the most of you. He will set the bar high for each individual player that he coaches. He has high expectations of his players," Stephens said. "Because I've been there before, when they don't understand something I pull them aside and try to explain it a different way. It took a while for them to warm up but I try my best to let them know that we're on their side."
Harkleroad is well aware that trust is not earned overnight. He said he looks forward to progressing in the season with his coaching staff and team. With the successful start they've had thus far, the mentality is to play hard and approach every game as an opportunity for another win.
"You have to earn trust and respect both ways and you can't fake that. You have to go through a lot together and experience a lot together as coaches and teams do," Harkleroad said. "You can't rush the process of earning trust and respect with each other. We have to let our players know that we're here to serve them and help them get to a place that they can't get to on their own."
After equaling the program record for the best start to a season at 8-1, the Big Sky portion of the schedule kicks off on Thursday with a home game against Montana State before the squad hosts defending conference champion Montana on Saturday.
"It's not easy to win games, especially in conference," Baxter said. "I see continued success but at the same token none of that will come easily. It's through hard work; you have to be fortunate, you have to have a little luck. With all those things combined, it could be a fantastic year."
May 27, 2014 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM CAMP COMING JUNE 20 AND 21
May 22, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SIGNS SEVEN FOR 2014-15 SEASON
May 1, 2014 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES EARN 35 WINTER ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS
March 31, 2014 HARKLEROAD NAMED FINALIST FOR DIVISION I ROOKIE COACH OF THE YEAR
March 13, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS TO SOUTHERN UTAH 86-78 IN BIG SKY QUARTERFINAL
March 11, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEADS TO GRAND FORKS FOR BIG SKY TOURNAMENT
March 10, 2014 HILLIARD NAMED ALL-BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HONORABLE MENTION
March 8, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS AT MONTANA STATE, ENTERS BSC TOURNEY AS #7 SEED
March 6, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BREAKS NCAA 3-POINT RECORD BUT FALLS AT MONTANA
March 5, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLOSES REGULAR SEASON IN MONTANA
March 1, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RALLIES TO BEAT IDAHO STATE, CLINCH BIG SKY BERTH
February 28, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLOSES HOME SCHEDULE SATURDAY ON SENIOR DAY
February 27, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GETS BY WEBER STATE 76-60
February 26, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS WEBER STATE THURSDAY TO OPEN FINAL HOMESTAND
February 22, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS 87-57 AT NORTH DAKOTA
February 20, 2014 COLD SHOOTING DOOMS WOMEN’S HOOPS IN 62-55 LOSS AT NORTHERN COLORADO
February 19, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEADS EAST TO FACE NORTHERN COLORADO, NORTH DAKOTA
February 15, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS PORTLAND STATE 84-80
February 13, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RALLIES BUT FALLS SHORT 79-73 VS. EASTERN WASHINGTON
February 11, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS EASTERN WASHINGTON THURSDAY IN PINK GAME
February 8, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPPED BY SOUTHERN UTAH 93-74
February 6, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS NORTHERN ARIZONA 99-91
February 4, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS SECOND HALF OF BIG SKY PLAY ON THE ROAD
February 1, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS BIG SKY RECORD AGAIN IN 111-104 WIN AT WEBER STATE
January 30, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS 62-53 AT IDAHO STATE
January 28, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS ROAD STRETCH AT IDAHO STATE AND WEBER STATE
January 25, 2014 HILLIARD BREAKS ASSIST RECORD, WOMEN’S HOOPS TOPS NORTHERN COLORADO
January 24, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BACK IN THE NEST SATURDAY VS NORTHERN COLORADO
January 23, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS NORTH DAKOTA IN 110-104 SHOOTOUT
January 21, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS TO THE NEST TO HOST NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY
January 18, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STIFLED IN 78-65 LOSS AT EASTERN WASHINGTON
January 16, 2014 LATE PORTLAND STATE RALLY DOWNS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 83-80
January 15, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL’S HILLIARD NAMED TO LIEBERMAN AWARD WATCH LIST
January 14, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HITS THE ROAD AT PORTLAND STATE, EASTERN WASHINGTON
January 11, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS TO SOUTHERN UTAH 97-79
January 10, 2014 WOMEN’S HOOPS HOSTS SOUTHERN UTAH, SPORT CHALET KIDS DAY SATURDAY
January 9, 2014 HUGE SECOND HALF LEADS WOMEN’S HOOPS PAST NORTHERN ARIZONA 104-79
January 7, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS TWO MORE HOME GAMES THURSDAY AND SATURDAY
January 6, 2014 HILLIARD NAMED BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
January 4, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TAMES LADY GRIZ 91-81, IMPROVES TO 10-1
January 3, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS DEFENDING BIG SKY CHAMPION MONTANA SATURDAY
January 2, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS MONTANA STATE 107-95 IN BIG SKY OPENER
December 31, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS BIG SKY AT HOME VS MONTANA STATE, MONTANA
December 30, 2013 DIVERSE GROUP OF COACHES LEADING WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO RECORD START
December 28, 2013 BURSE POWERS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO 84-78 CAUSEWAY WIN OVER UC DAVIS
December 27, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS WITH CAUSEWAY CLASH AT UC DAVIS SATURDAY
December 14, 2013 MORENO TOPS 1,000 POINTS, LEADS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAST UC IRVINE 99-94
December 11, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLOSES NON-CONFERENCE HOME SLATE VS UC IRVINE
December 9, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SENIOR MORENO EARNS MULTIPLE WEEKLY HONORS
December 7, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS SAN JOSÉ STATE IN SHOOTOUT, 103-99
December 6, 2013 WOMEN’S HOOPS HOSTS FORMER COACH CRAIGHEAD, SAN JOSÉ STATE SATURDAY
December 5, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UPENDS PREVIOUSLY UNDEFEATED SAINT MARY’S 94-92
December 4, 2013 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HOSTS UNDEFEATED SAINT MARY'S THURSDAY
November 27, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS UTAH VALLEY 87-84
November 25, 2013 DERRICK FLORENCE NAMED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ASSISTANT COACH
November 25, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS TO THE FLOOR WEDNESDAY AT UTAH VALLEY
November 19, 2013 SMITH NAMED BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
November 17, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STUNS OREGON, DOWNS DUCKS 97-85
November 15, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DOWNED BY OREGON STATE 102-80
November 13, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEADS NORTH TO FACE PAC-12 FOES OREGON STATE, OREGON
November 12, 2013 MORENO NAMED BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
November 10, 2013 MORENO BREAKS 3-POINT RECORD, LEADS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO 93-89 WIN
November 8, 2013 GENNETT LEADS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO 92-71 WIN OVER CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE
November 6, 2013 FANS CAN WATCH FRIDAY’S BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEADER FOR THE PRICE OF ONE TICKET
November 6, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS AT HOME FRIDAY VS CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE
November 3, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ROLLS TO 119-71 EXHIBITION WIN OVER UC SANTA CRUZ
November 1, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS SEASON SUNDAY WITH UC SANTA CRUZ EXHIBITION
October 29, 2013 GET TO KNOW WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH BUNKY HARKLEROAD
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The art of ‘losing faith’
October 30, 2014 by Guest author
Where does one find meaning when they have lost their faith? That is a question that has been posed to me on numerous times as someone who was once a fully signed up member of an evangelical church who now lives within a non-religious, humanist spiritual setting.
It is only as I approach my fourth decade of life, 20 years after leaving the church that actually I realise this question has a lot wrong with it. So much so that it has possibly contributed to my taking so long to get comfortable within my own skin as a human being without a god.
The problem with the term ‘losing faith’ is that it originates from where you have come and from those whom you have left. It is all too easy to make the assumption that this is an adequate description of someone whose previously deep belief system has been rocked and shattered to the point of non-existence. It is a term which potentially prolongs the bereavement process that a person goes through when they leave the structure of their religious community; their friends, and sometimes family, along with an underlying belief structure. A term that focusses on loss and distracts from the fruits gained.
The big misunderstanding here is that both parties i.e. those leaving and those who are being left behind, put faith in the notion that he or she who leaves religion is abandoning a bedrock of holistic security to jump into a chasm of chaos on every level. The ‘stray sheep’, ‘prodigal son’, or ‘fallen’ has left behind meaning, a moral compass, cosmic stability. Often the feeling that is ingrained in someone leaving a religion is that they are disobeying the laws of the universe itself and are therefore no longer allowed to play a part in it.
This however is just not the case on many levels. Doubt in a belief or a theory or anything you rely on is not unhealthy. It is not a sign of lack of faith but of intelligence and spiritual maturity. When someone who has come from years of adopting their parents’ faith suddenly wake up one day to find they do not believe it, it doesn’t mean they have been cosmically neglected. It means they are entering into a realisation that to continue in life with someone else’s projection of the universe is unwise, unreal, and dishonest.
My point is that faith actually is not ever lost in this process. Faith is a tool we use to gauge personal surety of the things we trust. When we redefine the parameters of what deserves our faith, when we scrutinise what we know and how it can be applied to the universe around us, we are actually tending to ‘faith’ in a diligent and mature way. We are certainly not losing it.
The other assumption is that when you leave a religion, you have to leave everything behind. A bit like leaving your company and all the bonuses and perks right down to your beloved stapler. Leaving religion doesn’t work like that because no religion, regardless of what it professes, holds the monopoly on morality, ethics, kindness, or truth. Indeed it is only on leaving some of these groups that it becomes clear that they have little grip on any of these things. Often people leave the faith of their birth because they realise that they cannot fulfil the full extent of their sense of compassion towards their fellow humans or indeed animals. Religion doesn’t give you your license to be kind or be compassionate. In fact should there be a god, then surely your existence at his/her hand is authority enough for you to promote kindness without needing to use their name to do so. Surely you are already an expert in compassion if you have been made, as some beliefs profess, in the image of an all compassionate being.
Often one leaves their religion because it’s a coat that just doesn’t fit any more. That may be because of what you do or don’t believe, but often it is simply because you are no longer able to respond to the language of that faith.
Sat here now, I honestly cannot recall the time I stopped believing in God. I suspect I never believed in one. Rather, I realised gradually that the language used to portray god and respond to the universe was a human construct and not a cosmic or divine one. Man makes his god in his image. It is never the other way around. Islam in part recognises this by not allowing images of Allah; Judaism recognises this by restricted the names given God. I didn’t stop believing in God so much as the language and the concept surrounding God merely became impotent. It lost its relevance to the point that to even question whether or not such a being existed was irrelevant. God, if you like, imploded as much linguistically as philosophically.
The trick then of moving up and outwards in your faith is not to find another set of beliefs but merely to find a language which you find you can respond to fully. That may involve another set of beliefs, it may not. Belief or lack thereof is so much less important than the community in which you embed. Often a person moves from their religion because, for them that community is no longer fit for purpose. It no longer bears the fruit of compassion and love that it professes to deliver. That has nothing to do with belief but everything to do with the human qualities of compassion. If a community lives with a language of love and compassion but then uses it as a set of euphemisms for oppression, staleness both in its human interaction and its language sets in. ‘Falling away’ then becomes a noble act rather than a sinful one.
A few of us have found some sort of home within Humanism. I like not knowing. I like testing everything I think I know is true. I like my world being rocked if at the end of it it makes me a better person. My embedding within Humanism is not to embrace the certainty of science but certainty of its processes. The aspiration to be humble enough not to assume knowledge but wrestle with it until it’s the closest thing that resembles the truth for that brief moment in time. It is the excitement that comes with being proved wrong only to find something more true. It is the fruits of doubt. Humanism doesn’t fulfil that in itself. It’s not a package you sign up to and find sudden fulfilment. It’s a process and an attitude one can adopt. It is a tool to help you aspire to being the best person you can be. Humanism isn’t the answer, it just demands you ask the right questions whilst showing compassion and respect to those around you. That approach leaves me free to respond to the world around me with a language and creativity which is true to itself whether its in the way I act or whether I’m blurting out beatles songs on my ukulele. These are my voice, my actions, my accountability my blank canvas. At this stage then it is difficult to recall what it was I ever thought I’d lost.
Matt Hicks is a nurse in the Royal Navy as well as being one of the RN Service Representatives for the Defence Humanists. In his spare time, Matt can be found touring Devon with a bag full of songs and his ukulele. He blogs at The Wooden Duck.
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David McKnight says
How about convincing yourself and others that one is not losing faith but transferring it from a supernatural entity to ” Faith in Humanity”
You are speaking my language – in the essential HUMAN use and need for faith and in the importance of science.
So do not lose anything. Redirect and enhance. The potential for great works of faith is vast in many Humanists.
Faith is NOT a toxic word -it is one which we need to put to our own uses.
Matt Hicks says
Thanks David. I think we very much speak the same language. Thank you.
Phil says
Thank you for this article. I have been on a difficult journey and have certainly moved on from my upbringing as a Catholic. Your explanation of not having to lose the concept of faith is very significant. I am a scientist by training and do have faith in the continuing extension of human knowledge – BUT also have faith that there is very much more about the universe that we don’t yet know or understand.
Thanks for your kind words Phil and I’m glad my piece helped in some way.
Gabriel Martindell says
I am nihilist and so I don’t see any meaning in life whatsoever. As for worrying about other’s surely that is just logical to remain a part of society. But humanism to me smacks of Christianity by another means.
Surely you realise that Jesus (pick one of three possibles) was a human. He just got his conclusions about the afterlife wrong.
Clive Aruede says
If there is no god, then there cannot be a son of god, hence a historical Jesus never existed. Therefore Christianity is just man-made mumbo jumbo, (the dictionary definition of which is “an object of superstitious awe or reverence”). Humanism is not a superstition and therefore cannot be Christianity by another means.
Gabriel, do true nihilists feel the need to define themselves as such?
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By Dr Paul Severn 22 June, 2017
St Anthony was born in Lisbon towards the end of the twelfth century and by tradition on 15 August 1195, and was baptised Fernando. He was born into a reasonably well to do family, his father may have had connections with the royal court and he was educated at the school attached to Lisbon Cathedral. At the age of seventeen Anthony entered the Augustinian priory of São Vicente outside Lisbon’s walls where he remained for one or two years before transferring to the Augustinian monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra – the Portuguese mother house of the day.
The Calling of St Anthony by Aertgen Claesz van Leyden painted during 1530. Anthony hears a sermon to sell his property and give to the poor. At top right Saint Anthony is giving bread to those in need.
His first encounter with Franciscan Friars
He remained in Coimbra for about eight years studying and developing and it was during that time Anthony was ordained as a priest. He became acquainted with a group of friars from the new Franciscan order who came to beg for alms at the monastery door, and he was deeply moved when in 1219 the bodies of the five Franciscan protomartyrs were returned from Morocco for burial at Santa Cruz. Dom Fernando saw a sharp contrast between his own comfortable cloistered life and the heroic self sacrifice of the preaching friars, and he petitioned to be released from his Augustinian Order and straight away joined the Order of Friars Minor taking the new name Anthony.
Franciscan Novitiate
The Franciscan novitiate was imposed by Pope Honorius III in September 1220 and it is generally thought that St Anthony joined the order in the summer of 1220 and therefore did not serve a novitiate. Additionally we may well suppose that a vowed and ordained religious seeking to join the new order at that early stage would not be required to serve his novitiate. St Anthony was clothed, professed and at his own request sent to Morocco to preach the Gospel.
The trip to Morocco was a disaster: St Anthony fell ill, and was unable to preach at all. He passed the winter in Morocco until the spring of 1221 when he set sail to return to Portugal. The ship in which he was travelling became caught in a violent storm and he was blown hundreds of miles off course, eventually landing on Sicily. He was cared for by the friars at Messina in the north-east corner of the island, and having been informed by them of the forthcoming Franciscan general chapter he set off north for Assisi.
The Chapter Of Mats 1221
The Pentecost Chapter of 1221, known as the Chapter of the Mats as there were so many friars the beds ran out and the brothers had to sleep on mats (!), was the occasion perhaps when St Anthony first met St Francis, but there is no record of any such meeting. St Anthony went largely unnoticed at the chapter and as his brethren were given tasks to do he was left unassigned. Finally he was noticed by the provincial of Bologna, Gratian who on discovering St Anthony was a priest asked him to go to a small hermitage in Montepaolo to celebrate the Mass for a small group of lay friars there.
Leaf from the manuscript “Images de Madame Marie” dating to 1285-1290. Manuscript 16251 at the National Library of France
Forli – St Anthony’s First Experience of preaching
Anthony spent his days at Montepaolo doing menial tasks and in prayer no doubt reflecting on the considerable transformation from promising Augustinian Canon to anonymous Franciscan Friar. But unexpectedly this all changed. St Anthony and his brethren descended from the hills to attend a joint Franciscan/Dominican ordination at Forli. The tradition was that at a big Dominican event a Franciscan would be invited to preach and at a big Franciscan event a Dominican would be invited to preach. At this was joint even there had been a mix up nobody had been assigned to the task. In some desperation Friar Gratian asked St Anthony to say a few words, but he protested that he was only fit for sweeping floors and washing dishes. However, compelled under obedience, he began to preach, nervously at first, but rising to the task he preached with great accomplishment, so that as the Assidua [the first biography of Saint Anthony] tells us “the friars [were] struck by wonder and admiration…Indeed the unexpected depth of his words increased their astonishment; but, to no lesser degree, the spirit with which he spoke and his fervent charity edified them”.
Continued Preaching & Teaching
The secret of St Anthony’s learning was out and he was relieved of his position at Montepaolo and sent to be preacher: firstly in and around Forli, later in Bologna where he was permitted by St Francis to teach the friars of theology, and subsequently as far afield as France. St Anthony is recorded as being at the Chapter in Arles in September 1224. From there he went on to Montpellier, Toulouse and Le Puy en Velay where he was elected guardian. He established a new Franciscan foundation in Brive around 1226 and he spent the end of 1226 and the beginning of 1227 in Limoges.
Saint Francis died in October 1226 and in mid 1227 St Anthony returned to Italy where he was appointed as provincial of Emilia-Ronagna. At this time he took up residence in Padua. He carried out his provincial duties, continued to preach across the region and also lead a delegation to Rome and preached before Pope Gregory IX.
St Anthony preaching before Pope Gregory IX – Artist unknown probably 18th Century, Peruvian.
Exhausted by this work he resigned his office in May 1230, and ‘retired’ to Padua. The Assidua tells us that at this time he enjoyed the hospitality of a certain nobleman named Tiso who had an estate north of Padua at Camposanpiero, and St Anthony spent much time praying and writing in a cell or tree house built for him in a nut tree. St Anthony was assisted by his secretary and faithful friend Blessed Luke Belludi. Recurrent poor health, which some think can be traced back to his illness in Morocco, took its toll again in May 1231, and in June recognising that his end was near he asked to be taken back to Padua. He died on the way at Arcella some seven miles north of the city on 13 June 1231.
Miracles surrounded his death as well as unseemly squabbles about who should have custody of the body! Anthony was finally buried in Padua. He was canonised the following year on 30 May 1232 by Pope Gregory IX. Under the direction of Blessed Luke Belludi a great basilica was built in Padua to which St Anthony’s mortal remains were transferred in 1263.
Perugia Polyptych – St Anthony is on the left next to John the Baptist. Francis and Elizabeth of Hungary are on the right.
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Cosmo Kramer Chronicles Part 3
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It is the early morning of the 24th day of March, of the year 1257.
Cosmo Kramer and his horse Rusty roam the countryside with a Nord villager looking for groups of looters. Cosmo sees a group of 4 looters having a discussion with a army of roughly 80. Cosmo approaches and lends his aid to the commander of the large army, Lord Aedin to fight the 4 looters. Cosmo is thinking, heeeey I can get some loot out of this.
Cosmo captures a looter and a thief that were knocked unconscious during the battle.
Cosmo looks around the area for more looters to fight but can not find any.
Cosmo returns to Tihr and tries to get in to the arena but it is closed for the night.
It is the morning of the 23rd day of March, of the year 1257.
Cosmo visits the nearest location of interest, Zendar Palace. Cosmo talked to Constable Hareck who told Cosmo that the Archduke Arrasies has offered to pay 100 denar for every group of River Pirates a honest, law-abiding subject kills.
Cosmo sold his crossbow and bolts to Henrick the weapons dealer for about 17 denars to help pay for food.
Cosmo heads south to Zendar a town of 1,400. There he talks with a villager from Zendar who expressed the need for tools. Maybe Cosmo can help out these villagers after he has come up in the world.
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Cosmo visits the Zendar tavern where Cosmo meets Ramun, a slave trader who buys slaves from “individuals” for a galley, Cosmo thinks this could be a way for him to help pay for his means.
Cosmo visits a merchant in Zendar who has high prices for her items. Cosmo will have to eat his smoked fish for while.
Cosmo visited the Zendar blacksmith and weapon smith. He had his eye on a cracked light lance but it costs 89 denars and he only has 86. The weapon smith is selling a similar crossbow to the one Cosmo sold for food for over 100 denars.
Cosmo rides out from Zendar and meets a traveling peasant who talked about a town called Tihr west of Zendar along the coast. She mentions the city hosts tournaments from time to time with an award for the winner. Thinking that this might be a source of income, Cosmo starts to follow the coastline to the west.
Cosmo spots a group of looters across a bridge and heads back toward Zendar. Cosmo meets with a group of farmers from Zendar who are heading west, Cosmo follows the farmers and they pass by a lone adventurer at the bridge who is attacked by River Pirates. Cosmo attempts to appeal to the farmers to help the adventurer, but the farmers ignore his words.
Cosmo crosses the bridge and follows the coast, he soon notices a city to the south that looks poor and neglected.
Cosmo talks with the Village Elder and asks if there are any tasks that he needs done. The Village Elder says that the town is suffering at the hands of a group of bandits. He is looking for a experienced warrior to teach the villagers how to fight. But Cosmo does not wish to delay his journey to Tihr for he fears that if he does not acquire some denars, he will die from starvation along with the towns people.
Cosmo returns to the coast and continues to travel west.
Cosmo arrives at Tihr of the kingdom of Nords in the early evening and seeks the arena which the adventurer mentioned.
Cosmo fought the gladiator champion in five one on one matches and won two out of five. He received 500 denars and 400 experience.
Cosmo bought a bent pitchfork for 24 denars.
Cosmo talked with the guild master of Tihr who says he can offer offer a job with for people looking for honest work. The guild master explained that Warchief Aedin is the town’s Lord and protector. He lives in the castle and sometimes resides there and collects taxes from the town.
The guild master says town could use help getting rid of looters around the town area. Cosmo accepts the duty of helping the town remove the looters and in return gets 40 denars for each group of looters captured or killed.
Cosmo heads west along the coast to Fenada of the kingdom of Nords to recruit help in fighting the looters. No villagers are willing to join Cosmo.
Cosmo headed south east to Haen of the kingdom of Nords and recruited 2 villagers for 20 denars.
Cosmo then roamed around Haen and fought a group of looters and thieves.
The only thing of value to Cosmo that the looters had was a +6 head armor woolen cap, it does get quite cold at night you know.
Cosmo Kramer was born years ago, in a land far away. His father was a veteran warrior. As a child his family scrabbled out a meager living from his father’s wages as a guardsman to the local lord. It was not an easy existence, and Cosmo was too poor to get much of an education. Cosmo learned mainly how to defend himself on the streets, with or without a weapon in hand.
Cosmo started to lean about the world almost as soon as he could walk and talk. Cosmo spent his early life as a page at a nobleman’s court.
As a boy growing out of childhood, Cosmo was sent to live in the court of one of the nobles of the land. There, his first lessons were in humility, as he waited upon the lords and ladies of the household. But from their chess games, their gossip, even the poetry of great deeds and courtly love, Cosmo quickly began to learn about the adult world of conflict and competition. Cosmo also learned from the rough games of the other children, who battered at each other with sticks in imitation of their elders’ swords.
Then, as a young adult, life changed as it always does. Cosmo became a squire.
Though the distinction felt sudden to him, somewhere along the way Cosmo had become a man, and the whole world seemed to change around him. When Cosmo was named squire to a noble at court, he practiced long hours with weapons, learning how to deal out hard knocks and how to take them, too. Cosmo was instructed in his obligations to his lord, and of his duties to those who might one day be his vassals. But in addition to learning the chivalric ideal, he also learned about the less uplifting side — old warriors’ stories of ruthless power politics, of betrayals and usurpations, of men who used guile as well as valor to achieve their aims.
But soon everything changed and Cosmo decided to strike out on his own adventurer.
Only he knows exactly what caused him to give up his old life and become an adventurer. He’s not even sure when his home became a prison, when the familiar became mundane, but his dreams of wandering have taken over his life. Whether he yearns for some faraway place or merely for the open road and the freedom to travel, Cosmo could no longer bear to stay in the same place. Cosmo simply went and never looked back.
Cosmo arrives at Calradia, a land torn between rival kingdoms battling each other for supremacy, a haven for knights and mercenaries, cutthroats, and adventurers, all willing to risk their lives in pursuit of fortune, power, or glory… In this land which holds great dangers and even greater opportunities, Cosmo will leave his past behind and start a new life. Now, on a rise above a distant training field, Cosmo feels that he holds the key of his destiny in his hands, free to choose as he will, and that whatever course he takes, great adventures await him and his horse Rusty.
Screenshot of the day – April 17th, 2009
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Trapping Beaver in Multi Theft Auto on the Team NIR Cops and Robbers server.
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I beat the elite four in Pokémon Leaf Green and got the ruby and sapphire for the Network Machine. Now I can trade to my Emerald game, woohoo 😮
Now I might start training pokémon, specifically pokémon that have good resists to attacks like Skarmory.
The start of my Pokémon adventure
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Today I start my Pokémon Leaf Green adventure
I think I’m going to choose Squirtle as my main pokémon, and possibly use a move set from Smogon or try the move set used in a speed run I found on the Speed Demos Archive. That move set uses Surf, Bite, Brick Break, and Blizzard.
I intend to catch a bunch of pokémon along the way for my collection, and then trade to and from Emerald.
Maplestory Christmas Tree
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My friend FMJ and I decorated a Christmas tree in Maplestory.
Screenshot of the day – October 15th, 2006
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Renegade and I taking time out to rest while playing NHL 07.
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74k gold, 71k from trade in Age of Mythology: The Titans.
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Preschool Music Classes
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Piano Lessons at FunKey Music Academy are not your typical piano lessons!
We have A LOT of FUN and like to learn through many avenues: from one on one instructions, to group lessons, flash cards, games, white board activities, apps, computer software, etc…We are always incorporating new ways to learn music.
We also like to play a variety of styles including pop, rock, classical, and jazz. I love to teach songs from students favorite artists, TV shows, video games and movies! If students like the songs they are playing, they will practice more, progress more, and get more enjoyment out of making music!
Our weekly private lessons focus on the fundamentals of music including:Reading Musical Notation
Private lessons also include time in our technology lab.
Each year, we have six group lessons and students are sure to have a blast at these! Check out some benefits of group lessons:
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Check out this video from one of our group piano lessons!
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Tag Archives: Socialist Alternative – Red Flag
Israel’s Eurovision win pinkwashes genocide by Tess Lewis
But the Basque and Crimean flags are deemed political, and therefore are forbidden. So is the flag of Palestine. For Europe, having Israel as a Western-aligned “watchdog” in the Middle East is far too important to allow a Palestinian flag to be seen on camera.
Winning Eurovision has been part of a long, cynical project by Israel to promote itself as a feminist, gay-friendly utopia – which has included a very literal instance of pinkwashing when it painted fighter jets pink – to distract from its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people.
Hosting Eurovision next year will be a further boon for that project. Artists from around Europe (and Australia) will descend on the country, posting to social media snaps of their carefully stage-managed tours.
Continue reading at https://redflag.org.au/node/6334
Tagged Adama Dieng, Australia, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, EBU, European Broadcasting Union, Eurovision, Eurovision 2019, Fatou Bensouda, Gaza Genocide, Genocide, ICC, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Israel, Israel Genocide, Israeli Genocide, Palestine Genocide, Palestinian Genocide, Pinkwashing, Socialist Alternative - Red Flag, Tess Lewis, UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Debunking the myths of Israel/Palestine by Kim Bullimore
Settler colonial societies are a distinct type of imperialist formation, which are premised on the racist elimination of the indigenous population through various means, including ethnic cleansing, genocide and/or assimilation.
Unlike other forms of colonialism that centre on the exploitation of resources, settler colonialism is primarily concerned with the control of territory and the elimination of the indigenous population in order to replace it with a settler population. As the late Australian academic and leading settler-colonial theorist, Patrick Wolfe, notes: “settler colonialism destroys to replace”.
Before, during and after Israel’s foundation, the Zionist movement sought to control as much of historic Palestine as possible, establishing a permanent settler population by eliminating and replacing the indigenous Palestinian Arab population.
Tagged Adama Dieng, Australia, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Fatou Bensouda, Gaza Genocide, Genocide, ICC, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Israel, Israel Genocide, Israeli Genocide, Kim Bullimore, Palestine Genocide, Palestinian Genocide, Settler Colonialism, Socialist Alternative - Red Flag, UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
New Hamas charter codifies a dead-end strategy by Omar Hassan on Red Flag
The Israeli government and its allies refuse to accept the sincerity of this or any of the other changes to the charter, and continue to insist that Hamas is a terrorist organisation to be crushed without pity. What else could be expected from a racist state committed to the genocide of the Palestinian people?
Tagged Adama Dieng, Australia, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Fatou Bensouda, Gaza Genocide, Genocide, Hamas, ICC, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Israel, Israel Genocide, Israeli Genocide, Omar Hassan, Palestine Genocide, Palestinian Genocide, Socialist Alternative - Red Flag, UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Victoria
Israel no model for Aboriginal people by Kim Bullimore
The similarities between Australia and Israel should come as no surprise. Settler colonial societies are a distinct type of imperialist formation, which are premised on the racist elimination of the indigenous population through various means, including ethnic cleansing, genocide and/or assimilation.
Tagged ABC, Aboriginal, Adama Dieng, Australia, colonialism, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Fatou Bensouda, Gaza Genocide, Genocide, ICC, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Israel, Israel Genocide, Israeli Genocide, Kim Bullimore, Palestine Genocide, Palestinian Genocide, Recognition: Yes or No?, Socialist Alternative - Red Flag, Stan Grant, UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
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Tag Archives: Williams Initiative for Israel
Articles about Genocide and Israel, Education and genocide, Genocide denial
Joseph Moore: It wasn’t WIFI that was denied free speech on The Berkshire Eagle
WIFI’s leadership responded to this student by saying that this and other clear attempts at ethnic cleansing against Palestinians did not constitute genocide. When asked why the intentional displacement and killing of an ethnic minority would not be a textbook example of genocide, WIFI’s leadership pointed to the slight increase of the Palestinian population in recent years. The United Nations Genocide Convention specifically defines genocide as “acts intended [emphasis mine] to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Population decrease or increase has nothing to do with the definition of genocide, and attempts to redefine the term to protect a narrow political interest and invalidate the lived experiences of Palestinian students should be beyond the bounds of reasonable debate.
Continue reading at https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/joseph-moore-it-wasnt-wifi-that-was-denied-free-speech,576190
Tagged Adama Dieng, Fatou Bensouda, Gaza, Genocide, ICC, Incitement to Genocide, International Criminal Court, Israel, Israel Genocide, Israeli Genocide, Joseph Moore, Palestine, Palestine Genocide, Palestinian Genocide, The Berkshire Eagle, The Crime of Genocide, UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, WIFI, Williams College, Williams Initiative for Israel
Articles about Genocide and Israel, Education and genocide
Student group ignites tension over free speech at Williams College on The Berkshire Eagle
A request by students to create a group supportive of Israel was rejected by the student government, the College Council, in late April, amid accusations that the group’s beliefs did not fit the moral values of the student body. In the face of complaints from national right-leaning news outlets, Jewish organizations and free speech groups, the college’s president and administration intervened, ultimately reversing the rejection in mid-May. When the campus comes back to life this fall, the Williams Initiative for Israel, or WIFI, will be a registered student organization, having full access to funding and services available to official student groups. But along the way, its birth sparked debates over pro-Israeli thought in the United States, scrutiny of how student groups win approval and the nature of campus political debate and free expression… Mohazzab Abdullah, a student who spoke against WIFI at meetings, said such rhetoric is similar to treating free speech like a “buzzword.”
“Free speech arguments need to be qualified,” Abdullah said. “I think that this campus should exclude and suppress pro-genocide discourse.”
Continue reading at https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/student-group-ignites-tension-over-free-speech-at-williams-college,575240
Tagged Adama Dieng, Fatou Bensouda, Gaza, Genocide, ICC, Incitement to Genocide, International Criminal Court, Israel, Israel Genocide, Israeli Genocide, Massachusetts, Mohazzab Abdullah, Palestine, Palestine Genocide, Palestinian Genocide, Pittsfield, The Berkshire Eagle, The Crime of Genocide, UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, WIFI, Williams College, Williams Initiative for Israel, Williamstown
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Why we opposed WIFI: Challenging WIFI’s complicity in state violence by Joseph Moore and Jesus Payan
one member of WIFI leadership asserted the Israeli state routinely killing Palestinians in order to displace them from their land did not constitute genocide because the Palestinian population as a whole had not declined, due to a high fertility rate. This is totally inconsistent with any definition of the word “genocide”, either provided by a dictionary or defined by international law and deeply offensive to Palestinians who have suffered repeated attempts at ethnic cleansing by the Israeli government.
… If the conversations that were had in the two College Council (CC) meetings are any indication of the positions that WIFI intended to promote on campus, then we ought to celebrate their proposal being denied. Williams ought not to provide a platform to groups that, when provided with first-hand testimony from Palestinian students about the violence of the occupation, attempt to redefine terms like genocide and colonialism to suit their own ends.
Continue reading at https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/why-we-opposed-wifi-challenging-wifis-complicity-in-state-violence/
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Thanks to my Broadway lovin' daughter Annie and her friend Brock for this review of the TONY AWARDS. The Lakers beat the Celtics 103-98 by the way. I'm sure no one was watching the game. All of America was glued to the TONYS.
Well the Tony's have sold out this year (and I do not mean in terms of seats). Here are some ways that the Tonys tried to up their ratings:
1) Having the show hosted by a Tony and Oscar winner…unfortunately it was Whoopi Goldberg. So I think those awards are canceled out by Hollywood Squares.
2) Beginning the evening with the big opening number of the Lion King…for no particular reason.
3) During the “Look Back at the Year of Plays” they kept showing movie stars and identified them. For example, the clip they showed from Cyrano was just a shot of Jennifer Garner. I mean the play is named after the title character, you could have at least showed him. Or his nose.
4) Only the big awards were on CBS. Even categories like choreography and orchestration were done earlier.
5) TEN performances. Including ones from musicals that weren’t even nominated for best musical!
I have to say that I didn’t think there were any real surprises this year. In the Heights, South Pacific and August: Osage County were the big winners, and they were all well deserved.
Brock pointed out that every time they went to commercial break and said “The 62nd Tony Awards” it sounded like “The 60 second Tony Awards” (as in one minute long). This was probably just another ploy to get more viewers.
Patti Lupone was really wonderful, and that is saying something coming from me as I already have a bias against anyone who earns a career by starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.
Passing Strange was…strange. I will leave it at that.
The commercials were all for Cadillacs, Dog Shows, and Medications. Hmmm I wonder what their target audience is? Not a lot of Chevy truck spots.
In the Heights seemed like a lot of fun. I love how the writer rapped his speech. Do you think the Tony committee paid him to do that so they could have yet another performance?
Now I am a huge fan of Harvey Fierstein. But after seeing the clip from A Catered Affair, I think that he needs to stick to playwriting.
The most ridiculous part of the night was when Whoopi went through the sets of plays that were nominated for Best New Play. Why didn’t they just have the cast members perform clips instead of teasing us with the furniture?
Also during that section Whoopi said something like, “Remember that Hitchcock movie with the spies?” Oh yeah, THAT one.
Yay Anna Shapiro! The second American Female to win for direction of a straight play. AND they’re both Northwestern professors. The other one just gave me a C on a paper.
I like how Mandy Patinkin grew out his beard so he could look like Stephen Sondheim while speaking on his behalf.
I love Sondheim. Even when he’s not there, he gave the best speech of the night.
The projections for Sunday in the Park with George were amazing. They deserved an award of their own.
Great to see the Grand Dame of Broadway -- Julie Chen present a Tony. When is she going to get her lifetime award in the theatre? Who else on the American stage can sing, dance, act, and host Big Brother?
Wow. I loved when Glenn Close gave that oh-so-heartfelt speech about how musicals can change the world, and then the first nominee she introduced was Grease. I know I personally have never been the same since I first heard “shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom”
I would like to end by saying how great it was to see the incredible Adam Kantor (A soon-to-be former Northwestern student) starring as Mark in Rent. He certainly puts the rest of us “Seniors to Watch” to shame.
Hmmm... seems this is the only commenting are that doesn't do this, so...
Yeah and since nobody seems to be complaining about spoilers here either:
YOU SPOILERED THE RESULTS OF THE GAME FOR ME!
Ken there are so many people reading your blog from all over the world that you can not expect us to all to have stayed up until 5 am local time to watch the game.
I recorded it. You just ruined my evening.
Maybe not if Germany bearts Austria in the European Championship of Soccer tonight but still...
Nice job, Annie. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree etc.
rob b said...
Remember when they used to have short scenes from the nominated straight plays in addition to numbers from the musicals? I was complaining about them not having that any more to a friend of mine, and all he said was "Musical numbers bring ratings."
In fact, when I complained about stunt casting, the same person said "Movie stars put butts in chairs."
It's sad.
But I still love the Tonys. It's the only awards show I watch.
A. Buck Short said...
Viewers were glued to the set; the Sardi's take-out business must have been phenomenal -- excuse me I mean "fabulous." Which begs the question, "Can't we come up with less ambiguous terminology than "straight play?"
I’m also surprised at you kids. The spy movie Whoopi’s writers couldn’t think of was North by Northwestern. (And if that hasn't been the name of a student production on at least 57 occasions, I'll eat my front row tickets.)
You guys did miss one Tony sellout. Do you think the director gets Andy Roonean tenure for capturing a beaming Leslie Moonves in the very first audience shot of the show?
Incidentally, as another viewing demographic, the Tonys had Andy Rooney as a lead-in. (Now I like Andy Rooney, but his final sentence was something to the effect that if he were rich, he wouldn’t have to be coming up with something to say at the end of 60 Minutes every Sunday. I ran to the computer and emailed, “On behalf of the American viewing public, how much would it take?”
You do have it wrong on Sondheim. Patinkin grew the beard for Patti Lupone so he’d look like Che Guevara. I'm crying for her --and milking this post.
It was an opportunity to showcase a lot of real talent; with any luck even for nonbasketball-fans who don't go to legitimate theater and might now dip a toe in the south Pacific. [Great, now it's bothering me I can't think of a less ambiguous term than "legitimate."]
Loved your observation on the commercials. Now come out one more time, hold hands and take a bow.
Eats Shoots and Leaves said...
It's Tonys, not Tony's, unless the late Mr. Randall owns the awards.
Wouldn't normally pick nits, but from a Northwestern alum, I expect more.
That's bullshit, Tony Randall owned The Randys. An unfortunately named second-fiddle awards show for actors whose career has gone so far down the showbiz toilet they only appear in shows with often run too long skits that twist some obscure pop reference into a probable "joke" nobody gets which inevitably goes nowhere... I hear the current cast of SNL are top contenders this year.
Brock said...
a. buck short,
North By Northwestern, by my count, is the titles of several smaller student films in the time I've been here, our student film publication, and (by all accounts) better than the original title: The Man In Northwestern's Nose. Also, my article in the URSA quarterly at the start of the year about my disappointment in the program and the confusion of the faculty was entitled "South by Northwestern". So yeah... we get a lot of mileage out of it.
Tom Ehrenfeld said...
If you really love Sondheim (which you should) how about posting on him every now and then?
KEN LEVINE said...
Re SPOILER ALERTS
If I waited until every country aired every show I mentioned the story would no longer be timely for American audiences. And since I'm in America. as are most of my readers, holding off until a show airs in the west coast is pretty much my SOP.
My suggestion for the future would be when you see the title of the post, if it's referring to a show you haven't seen yet, don't read it until you have.
Great job Annie! You were so right on everything. Sondheim in absentia still better than all the rest!
Lion King? Why?
The HUGE deal made about reuniting the RENT cast just so they could sing for :45 seconds?
Whoopie... I hope she is in seclusion today. It's sad to watch a career careen downhill.
What is this basketball of which some speak?
To Eats Shoots and Leaves
Actually while I did make a mistake in not writing "Tonys." The show is named after Antoinette "Tony" Perry, so it could just as well be Tony's.
EJ Leonard said...
Passing Strange was "strange"?! That's all you could say about it?
And while I thought it was annoying, they opened the show up with the Lion King because it was the tenth anniversary, though i have to agree with your other friend...they should have sliced that crap out and put up scenes from the plays instead.
Overall, I think that the Tony Awards is evolving into almost as big of a joke as Broadway is right now.
I wonder if Fight Club the Musical will be nominated next year. (Oh yeah! That shit is real!)
When you mentioned straight plays, I thought you were saying they were plays that weren't about homosexuals. It is Broadway, after all.
Jon Delfin said...
Annie must have blinked at an inopportune moment. Just after Jennifer Garner's three seconds of airtime, there was a glimpse of Kevin "Cyrano" Kline.
And let's be kinder to Julie Chen. Could *you* act like you were in love with Les Moonves?
Mike in SLO said...
Your daughter is one sharp, funny, and gifted writer... Takes after dad, I suppose!
Her words accurately echoed my thoughts when watching the Tonys last night.
Send her "kudos" for me (and Brock as well)
annie: "eats shoots and leaves" might have at least pointed out that you only got the plural of Tony wrong in your first sentence. It was correct in the second. Maybe "eats" is not such a nitpicker after all. I hope his/her alma mater isn't too disappointed. :)
Annie, I was only pointing out a small mistake, and while I appreciate the retroactive "just as well" explanation, I can tell it was not your intention. The explanation is worthy of a law school exam answer, though. (that is not a slam)
jbryant, there was no nit to pick in the second sentence, so I did not mention it.
As for my alma mater, it is a Big Ten school that up until recently had a great basketball program.
As for spoilers: Woods wins, and Rosebud is his sled.
re show: not the show.
Lakers - Celtics.
Or do you really expect me to expect to see that game's result under the heading "Tony Awards"?
What's next? Lost spoilers on the American Idol heading?
Tallulah Morehead said...
Ken, you know the new law on spoilers: Until everyone on earth has seen something, no one on earth is allowed to discuss it. Next you'll be revealing who won the 2004 Presidential Election. I do wish people would keep quiet about what happened on season 4 of LOST until at least next January, because a friend of mine is waiting for the DVDs in December, and it will then take a couple weeks for him to watch them all, so NO DISCUSSION OF ANYTHING is allowed until then.
Honestly you "No Spoiler" Queens, it's a basketball game; guys in their underwear running around a room for a couple hours, bouncing a ball and periodically tossing it through a hoop. How does one stay awake? And not even a championship game, just some play-off. Anyone interested in it was watching it (Unless they had to work at Dodger Stadium), and anyone deeply not-interested nonetheless would be assaulted by "THE LAKER'S WON!" shouted at them on newsbreaks at the commercials. That spoiler ship sailed.
Meanwhile, I was enjoying the Tonys, where people sang and danced, and folks who even I, after a century in the theater and movies, had never heard of thanked other people I'd never heard of, for roles in plays I haven't seen.
So was this OSAGE COUNTY "Straight play" some sort of August Wilson show, only done with a white cast, like a reverse on Debbie Allen's version of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, which she set on the only black-owned southern planatation on earth? (It's like a version of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS where the Hebrews keep the Egyptians as slaves.)
Notice how, when Whoopi Goldberg is announced as an award show host (WHY does she keep getting these gigs? She's never good in them.) people never say "Whoopi!", they always say "Whoopi?"
I finally realized that the joke in Whoopi's running gag of popping up in plays she wasn't in was "Wouldn't this show have just been RUINED if Whoopi had been in it?" So maybe her whole hosting gig was just a gag on the audience.
I too was wondering "What the...?" When THE LION KING opened the show. Just as I'd said aloud, "Is this the Tony broadcast from 10 years ago?" they said it was celebrating ten years of THE LION KING. That's reason to celebrate? How about noting that a MUCH BETTER show that opened 10 years ago, RAGTIME, didn't run anywhere near that long, apparently because it wasn't a cartoon acted out.
Then they THANKED it for "Bringing families back into the theater." even though this is what has populated Broadway with cartoons acted-out and fluff like LEGALLY BLONDE, while killing "Straight" plays. You know why there were so many plays in that straight plays montage? Because most of them ran a week. Thank you THE LION KING.
BTW, WHY are the animals all so happy that another lion has been born? Wouldn't most animals in the area prefer FEWER lions, rather than more? Does the Lion King ever say "Thank you my loyal subjects and future meals." or "Hey you, Lunch, c'mere"?
When did Best Book of a Musical become a category too minor to be on the show? At least when they did the first hour on PBS, you saw all the awards.
To me, the RENT tribute was "Remember when this show didn't seem tired and dated? No? Me neither."
“The 60 second Tony Awards” Very funny, and I was embarassed not to have noticed it on my own.
I agree, Patti LuPone was thrilling and scary, and I am so not a fan of hers.
I did not like the rapped acceptance speech. By the end of it, I knew I would never see that show or listen to it's cast album. and I was struck that, while holding a Tony for Best Music and Lyrics, which should represent the highest standards of lyric-writing, he was forcing some non-rhyming words into pretending to rhyme. Sondheim that guy ain't.
Mark Rylance reading a completely-non-pertinent piece from a tourist guide was hilarious. I was only disappointed when he vitiated it slightly by actually saying "Thank you" at the end. (In 1983, Rylance became the second male to play PETER PAN in England on stage. A man in his 30s playing the small boy usually played by a middle-aged woman. What an innovation!)
Yes the "Remember the Hitchcock movie with the spies" remark left me saying "Well that narrows it down to 30 movies. Remeber that James Bond movie where he defeats the villain's plans?"
If only Mandy Patinkin (Is he playing Tevye?") had brushed his beard upwards, we wouldn't have had to see his face at all. (Thank heavens he didn't sing. That man overacts even when asleep.)
Sondheim has known about this tribute for months, and he couldn't clear his schedule? Boy, he must never have forgiven Whoopi for her gender-blind Pseudolus.
Julie Chen. When the Great Names of Broadway Memory are spoken, she will say them. For a moment I thought she was going to announce a competition for a Tony, and we would have then seen Carol Channing, Maggie Smith, John Lithgow, and Harvey Fierstein, all in Speedos, rolling about in spaghetti sauce, hitting each other with nerf bats.
Harry Potter is gettng therapy from his nasty uncle who hates him? No wonder he becomes inapproriate with horses. But at least that casting will bring a lot of tween girls over from seeing WICKED and LEGALLY BLONDE 30 times each to seeing EQUUIS 30 times.
Thanks Annie. Good piece.
ajmilner said...
It's Stephen Sondheim's world. We only live in it. And it was nice for him to thank his (usually unsung) librettists in his acceptance speech, including MASH's own Larry Gelbart.
I wonder if Fight Club the Musical will be nominated next year.
Why do visions of a "The First Rule of Fight Club" production number suddenly haunt my nightmares?
Wow. How dead is Tony viewing?
I just glanced at the ratings for last night. Now I know The Tonys are always a ratings loser, but this year IT WAS SOUNDLY BEATEN IN THE RATINGS BY GOLF!!!
GOLF!!!
The MOST boring sport to watch of all, Mark Twain's famous "A good walk spoiled," and it beat out The Tonys.
How does golf even outrate "OFF"?
Hey Annie, you’ll be happy to hear I just found out which Big 10 college eats went to – University of Illinoi’s.
Brock, thanks for the additional info; it’s great that the art of the pun has not been lost on those of the millenial persuasion. Was the chair endowed in the name of Bennett Cerf (another excuse for your writing partner to call her father)?
And for all you Patinkin fans currently detoxing, her's another image Milner won't be able to get out of his head: Update of The Mod Squad series, only this time, instead of Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, and Clarence Williams running at you in the opening, you've got two aging Jewish boomers and one who probably thinks he is: Mandy Patinkin, Sandra Bernhard, and James Caan. Working title, “Grizzled.” Sorry, still just a concept.
(You’ll have to forgive the manic euphoria. Stopped at the market on the way home from work and realized we can finally afford POISON TOMATOES.)
>Hmmm I wonder what their >target audience is?
Sounds like your friend Brock is among them.
No one has mentioned the GOOD NEWS at last night's Tonys: No ONE DIED!
There was no obituary montage. Apparently no one involved with Broadway theater died last year! Good news indeed.
Of course, that may be news to the families of Kitty Carlisle Hart, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Robert Goulet, Michael Kidd, Gretchen Wyler, Alice Ghostley, Myoshi Umeki, Tom Poston and Charles Nelson Reilly.
eats: I guess I'm the one picking nits now. Since Annie got "Tonys" wrong once and right once, I gave her the benefit of the doubt that the wrong one was merely a typo. And since it's a blog post and not a term paper, I don't think she has to worry about Northwestern revoking her diploma. I bet she doesn't even get a "tsk tsk" voicemail from her favorite English professor. :)
Cap'n Bob Napier said...
The movie is NORTH BY NORTHWEST, not NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN.
Oscar, Oscar, Oscar said...
Don't forget the Oscar at the Tony's /Tonys. k When Jack Klugman appeared, I had a "Gosh, I thought he died," moment.
I think Jack originated the Herbie role (which multiple Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines is currently doing)in "Gypsy." Originally the Herbie character had a featured number, but Klugman (even pre throat cancer) was such a poor singer that they cut it.
Yeah tell the "go away with your spoiler complaints" to a former friend of mine. He started talking about Lost Season 4, how he saw this and that which seemed he was up to the snuff - and then I talked about the recent episode two days after it aired on his blog.
Seems he was only able to watch episodes a week after they aired. Also he did not listen to the podcast or read any news about San Diego Comic-Con.
So I talked about stuff that happened last week and a couple of months earlier and his reaction: he banned me from his blog. And since he's kind of a famous computer magazine writer, he's - of course - right. Because he runs the blog and to be legally on the safe side, he has to read everything that's posted and if it's not, he has to delete the comment. Resulting in me forcing him to spoiler himself the "african-american-guy-centric" episode in season 4.
So who's right now? Or is the rule of thumb now STFU?
I mean seriously. 60 second annual Tony Awards.
John Locke is in the coffin.
There. I bet my ass somebody is going to complain about what I just said. And I was free to do so since ... ah whatever.
I guess there is no way to win the spoiler discussion anyway.
tallulah morehead, it actually WAS a Championship game. A damn good one, too. It's no Tony Awards, though. Now THERE'S excitement, for you.
"Illinoi's"... now THAT's funny.
UI Alumnus, Class of '79
as a foreigner I'd say that the superbowl results (or whatever it is that Ken "spoiled") are fair game outside of the US, since nobody else in the world gives a shit about baseball (or whatever weird american sport they play at the superbowl.. maybe some kind of water sport that's played on a lake?). It's true and you know it.
Pigeon Sister said...
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/high_school_tony_awards_honor
From Melissa Rose Bernardo's recap in Entertainment Weekly:
In Memoriam, Off Air?
The video tribute to those the theater industry lost during the past Broadway season was broadcast on video screens inside Radio City Music Hall, but, sadly, not on the telecast.
So CBS was essentially saying "Life is for the living. They' re dead. Screw 'em!"
Brings a tear to my eye.
"tallulah morehead, it actually WAS a Championship game. A damn good one, too."
tim darling (I'd have capitalized "Tim" but if caps aren't good enough for my name, yours can go lower case too.), I lie (With my feet in the air) corrected. It apparently was a final, which is excellent news as it means that, by next week, I won't have to hear about basketball ever again forever. (You do mean "Final" as in "Last Game For All Time," don't you? Please say yes.)
However, for me to accept that it was "a damn good one too" I would first have to accept the concept that there is such a thing as a "good" basketball game, damned or otherwise. I'm afraid that's too great a stretch even for me. It's still just skinny gladular cases in tank tops running around bouncing a ball. Which means to me, it will always come in well after the Watching Paint Dry Channel. But you enjoy it dear. That's what freedom of choice is all about.
Why I even know people who prefer gin to vodka. It takes all kinds to make a world.
And the American Psychiatric Association has declared that being a basketball fan is not a mental disorder. In fact, in California, basketball fans can even marry, at least until November.
Cheers darling.
I was most disappointed by no musical tribute to Sondheim! And I'm worried that he didn't show. Is he okay?
I was thrilled w/ Patti's win until she started talking, and talking, and talking. It's days later, and I think she's still trying to finish her acceptance speech.
Gee, what's Amy Winehouse up to today?
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Dark Cloud Rising
By: Dyna Dee
Disclaimer: I don't own any part of Gundam Wing nor it's characters. My stories are written for my own pleasure and not for any legal tender, darn it!
Warnings: AU fic, fantasy. Yaoi, though it doesn’t happen for quite a while. If you must know, an eventual 2x1x2 pairing with a tiny bit of 2 plus 4 friends with some benefits action. Several of the GW characters have been changed to fit the story. You’ll soon see what I mean.
“Duo. Wake up. Are you all right?” Quatre’s concerned voice sounded far away, but the hand shaking his shoulder told him the blond was actually very close. Taking one arm out from under his head he batted at the offending touch. “Go away,” the fledgling groused in a muffled voice.
“The server is here with your meal. Can you eat?”
He shook his head in answer to Quatre’s question, regretting the slight movement when pain shot through his aching head. He buried it deeper into his arms with a groan of agony.
“How about something to drink?”
“Leave me alone, Quatre,” the suffering boy moaned. He heard someone snickering from close by but didn’t bother to look up and glare at who ever thought his misery was funny; it would take just too much effort to do so.
“Hello, Trowa. Heero,” the blond called out a cheerful greeting.
“How is he?” Trowa asked, sounding concerned, and from the nearness of his voice Duo figured the taller boy was standing just behind him. He felt the light brush of fingertips over his loose hair. At the moment he didn’t care, as long as they didn’t pull it, he wasn’t going to protest.
“Not well, as far as I can tell.”
“How did he end up in Skeer on his own?” Heero questioned, his voice low.
“I don’t know,” Quatre answered. “I can only guess that he finished his lessons with Jan and set out with Wu Fei. I’m sure he didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to go to Skeer unaccompanied.”
The sound of platters being placed on the table was heard by the boy who had been listening to the conversation, though the pounding in his head kept his head down and eyes closed. The smell of food filled his nostrils and set his empty stomach to painfully churning and a slight moan escaped his lips.
“Will the young master be eating?” A deep voice asked and Duo could only guess it was one of the servers.
“He says he’s not hungry,” Quatre answered.
“Is he ill?”
“Too much drink last night in Skeer,” Heero supplied.
The deep chuckle the miserable boy heard did nothing to endear the server to him. “Perhaps a cup of cool water will help him feel better,” the deep voice suggested.
At that point, Duo let the conversation fade, but it didn’t feel like much time had passed before a hand on his shoulder woke him again. “Sit up and drink the water.” Heero. “I’m told it helps with the aftereffects of the ale.”
He had enough energy to manage a slight moan, but the simple task of raising his head from its resting place on his arms seemed just too difficult to accomplish. Then gently, he was eased up by hands firmly gripping his shoulders until his back came to rest against the firmness of someone’s body. The cool rim of a cup was placed against his lips. “Drink,” Heero softly commanded.
A bit of stubbornness and rebellion from being told what to do surfaced, but once the cool water touched his lips Duo realized he could either drink it or his clothing would get wet when it dribbled down his chin. Reluctantly, he swallowed at least six times before the cup was pulled away and he was able to catch his breath.
“A little more.” Heero’s voice was now above him and he welcomed the warmth of the other boy’s body against his back. The cup was set on his lips once more and he obediently swallowed more of the cool liquid. He was grateful when the cup was removed once again and he leaned heavily against the body supporting him in an upright position, finding comfort in the unfamiliar sensation of having someone hold him so securely.
“I think you’ve made a new friend.” Trowa sounded amused. Duo didn’t know if the taller boy was addressing him or Heero, but he wasn’t going to open his eyes to find out.
“Can you sit on your own?” Heero asked softly as a hand combed through the long hair that draped over his forehead. A cool palm was placed over his forehead for just a moment and Duo sighed at the pleasurable touch.
“Yeah,” he answered, his voice sounding deep and scratchy. The warmth against his back began to ease away. It was replaced almost immediately by hands grabbing hold of his shoulders, catching him as he swayed, struggling for balance.
“It might be easier if you open your eyes,” Heero suggested.
Bleary and bloodshot eyes reluctantly opened, and from across the table Duo could make out the blurred outline of his blond friend. “Hi, Quatre,” he said and managed to lift a single finger and wiggle it a few times at his friend.
“Are you alright, Duo?” Quatre asked, looking and sounding concerned.
“No, but I think I’m going to live.”
The hands on his shoulders lifted, causing Duo to quickly reach out and grab the edge of the table to steady himself. Just as the tilting world straightened and his eyes regained focus, another firm hand, one that felt quite different from the ones that had touched him moments before, called his attention to the person behind him.
“If you’ve finished, I would have a word with you.” Sim’s gruff voice came from above him. Duo tilted his throbbing head back to gaze upside down at the frowning man and swallowed nervously. It wasn’t hard to see that he was in trouble... again.
That evening, Quatre entered the long-haired boy’s room to find Duo lying on his bed with a cool, damp cloth resting over his forehead. “Feeling any better?” he asked.
“Yeah,” came the dejected answer.
The blond boy moved to sit on the edge of the bed. “Can I do anything for you? Get you anything?”
“Yeah, now that you mention it, I lost the last of my dignity in the dining hall today. Think you can figure out a way to get it back?”
“Surely it’s not that bad,” Quatre said, a smile twitching at the corners of his lips.
“I’ve only humiliated myself time after time since I got here,” Duo said, sounding miserable while recalling the scene in the mess hall that afternoon. With clarity he remembered rising from his seat at the table to follow Sims out of room for the lecture he knew was coming. The simple act of standing, however, had caused the room to spin again, and without warning he’d thrown up the water he’d just swallowed with Heero’s help, barely missing the older rider’s boots. He’d never had this much trouble with his stomach in the past, and wondered if perhaps he was the dark cloud of trouble his village used to call him. He’d certainly been in enough trouble since his arrival at the Halls.
“Everyone make mistakes, Duo. You just didn’t know about Skeer, its customs or their strong drinks.”
“I’ve now vomited twice in front of Sims and the other riders,” Duo moaned, his cheeks heating up with the memory of his humiliation.
“Three times,” Quatre corrected, unable to keep the corners of his mouth from twitching upwards. Duo lifted up one end of the cloth to look questioningly at his friend. “Heero and Trowa saw what happened at the blacksmith’s dwelling.”
“Great,” the braided boy moaned as he dropped the cloth back in place and followed the move with a defeated exhalation of breath. “Now my humiliation is complete.”
“I wouldn’t say that,” Quatre said. “To my knowledge there’s not another fledgling or rider in training who managed to drink more than one, maybe one and a half cups of Skeer’s ale for the first time before they became ill, and you managed three before you succumbed.” Quatre’s smile was one of admiration as he said, “You’ve become something of a legend already in the Halls and made friends in Skeer as well, which, I’ve been told, usually takes several years to accomplish.”
The cloth was lifted from the odd-shaded blue eyes that peered out from beneath. “Really?” Duo was unsure if he was being told the truth or if this was merely an attempt by his new friend to comfort him.
“Trowa told me the whole story,” the blond continued. “He and Heero were quite impressed, and the tale of your drinking Skeer’s ale in a contest has spread to everyone. For a fledgling, and the newest one at that, your name is on everyone’s lips.”
“Is that good or bad?” Duo asked warily.
“Hum...” the blond paused to consider that for a moment. “Probably a bit of both. I wouldn’t be surprised if the older riders keep a closer watch on you since you seem to unintentionally and repeatedly land yourself into trouble. On the other hand,” the blond’s grin widened, “the riders in training will undoubtedly hold you in higher esteem than a newcomer usually receives.”
Duo removed the cloth from off his forehead and set it on the table beside his bed, next to the cup of mint tea he’d finished earlier. “Did Trowa happen to mention what happened after my last drink? I don’t remember anything past that moment.”
An amused grin grew on Quatre’s face. “As a matter of fact, he did.” Seeing he had the braided boy’s undivided attention, he continued. “They... Heero and Trowa, arrived at the blacksmith’s dwelling in time to see you finish your second drink, astounding the larger man by finishing before him. The third and last contest ended in a draw, and not a moment later you emptied your stomach into the bucket and passed out. Heero carried you over his shoulder while Trowa gave the blacksmith’s woman a coin for your meal and drink. They then retreated to their dragons. Wu Fei was anxious for your welfare and had to be reassured by Relena that you were fine. He flew back to your lair alongside Relena while Heero carried you in his arms. His dragon landed in Wu Fei’s nest and Heero brought you in and put you to bed.”
Duo covered his red face with his hands, thoroughly embarrassed.
“Why Heero?” he groaned. “He must think me the greatest fool.”
“On the contrary,” Quatre said with a knowing grin. “I think he likes you.”
Duo removed the hands covering his face and asked, “You’re serious?”
“I watched as Heero cared for you in the dining hall. He was unusually gentle and his face softened when you leaned against him and he helped you drink the water. I’ve only seen such a tender expression on Heero’s face when he’s with Relena.”
Quatre’s account of what happened earlier that day lightened some of Duo’s embarrassment and an unexpected feeling of happiness rose within him, bringing a small smile to his lips. And then it was gone the instant he remembered his anger at the dark haired rider. “No matter how he acted today, he humiliated me on my first day in training,” he reminded his friend, reaching for the anger that he’d felt towards the other boy since that incident. “I’m not ready to forgive him.”
“Duo.” Quatre gave him a look of disappointment. “Surely Heero’s apologized, and the bigger man forgives when it’s asked of him.”
The braided boy gave his friend an odd look, then shook his head. “No, he hasn’t. Heero has not said one word about that day nor has he apologized.”
“He hasn’t?” Quatre asked, surprised.
“No.” The braided boy’s eyes narrowed. “And don’t go running off to Trowa to tell him. I don’t want Heero to give me his apology unless it’s sincere.”
“I’m sure Heero would apologize if he knew you blamed him for your embarrassment. After all, he was just doing what Sims asked of him, and he did control his hit, not intending to hurt you. Is it his fault that your stomach was too full from breakfast? Tell the truth, Duo, you don’t really want to stay mad at him, do you? I can tell you like him.”
The newest fledgling’s eyes widened before narrowing suspiciously at the blond. “How can you tell?”
For a moment, the blond looked startled by the question. His eyes dropped to the blanket beneath him, and in an unusual display of discomfort he replied, “Well, you see, I can sometimes sense the emotions of other people, especially those I closely associate with.” He touched the area over his heart, indicating that was where this talent came from. “My mother called it the sensitive touch. She also had the gift and passed it to me at birth. It didn’t manifest until I was chosen by Sandrock and it seems to be slowly growing stronger.”
The braided boy looked skeptical. “I’ve heard of people having such gifts, but I thought they were merely tales for entertaining told by traveling traders and bards. You can really do that?” The blond nodded shyly. “So when you say you think Heero likes me, are you sensing it from him or merely guessing?”
The blond tilted his head as he thought about his answer. “Both, I suppose. Heero is more difficult to sense than most people because he keeps such a tight control over his emotions. I think I’d be able to tell if he hated you, and I don’t sense that from him at all.”
Duo frowned at his friend. “So because you don’t sense he hates me, you’ve decided he likes me?”
The blond smiled and shrugged. “I was right about you, wasn’t I? You like Heero.”
Duo’s face flushed. “I don’t know,” he admitted, embarrassed yet again. “I’m always aware of his presence, and when his eyes are watching me. I honestly don’t understand his interest. I haven’t made a very good impression, have I?”
Quatre’s eyes lit up with excitement. “I knew you liked him! You realize this is perfect, don’t you, Duo? I like Trowa and you like Heero.” The blond chuckled and shook his head. “And here I was so worried that you might be attracted to Trowa and I wouldn’t have a chance with him.”
“Why would you think that?” Duo asked, perplexed by his friend’s worry. “It’s obvious he likes you in return.”
The blond smiled a bit shyly. “You’re very handsome, Duo. I’ve already heard several of the riders of female dragons saying they wouldn’t mind if their dragons mated with Wu Fei so they could be your partner.”
“Really?” Duo’s voice cracked along with his incredulity, causing the blond to snigger.
“Yes, really. You shouldn’t be so surprised.”
Duo didn’t know what to say in reply. He was more than surprised that others would desire him as a mate. It made him feel a bit uncomfortable because he just wasn’t ready to think about having a mate yet. Howard had told him several times that he had been a bit slow to mature, but that one day soon his body would crave the touch of another, and then he would yearn for further intimacy. Of course he was curious about how one went about the intimacy between two people and what it would be like. Howard did his best to explain the act of mating, though the older man seemed a bit uncomfortable when addressing the topic, describing how animals mated more easily than the specific details of a man and another man being intimate, or a man with a woman. His mentor ended each awkward conversation by sighing deeply and telling Duo that when the time came nature would be his guide. Howard often admonished Duo to be very selective with who he shared his body. He’d also advised that the joining of one’s body with another should not be taken lightly but as a symbol of love and commitment. Duo had every intention of following Howard’s advice.
Unbidden, the image of Heero came to the boy’s mind. He envisioned the dark haired boy standing up to Zechs in the hallway during their altercation, refusing to let the older rider intimidate him into a physical relationship. Duo couldn’t help but feel a grudging respect for the boy who appeared to hold to the same values as Howard with regards to intimacy.
Duo sighed and turned to the other boy. “I’m not ready to think about having a mate yet. I don’t have any... experience in having someone like me that way.”
“Neither do I,” Quatre confessed with a look of longing on his face. “I’m rather afraid that if Trowa ever does decide he likes me and tries to kiss me that I’ll be horrible at it. My sisters told me there is an art to kissing and that to drool is the absolute worse thing you can do.”
“Really?” Duo blinked, taking in all this friend was saying on the subject of which he had very little information.
A gleam entered the pale blue eyes. “I just had a brilliant idea, Duo.”
“Why don’t we practice kissing.. with each other. That way we’ll know what we’re doing when someone comes along who makes our hearts leap within our chests.”
“Leap?” Duo questioned, canting his head to the side. “Do you mean how I feel when Wu Fei tucks his wings and dives towards the ground?”
“Well, yes, I think so, at least that’s what my sisters say it feels like.” The blond looked fairly confident that what his sisters had told him was the truth. “I know my heart does funny things when I’m near Trowa.”
Duo frowned. “I don’t know, Quatre. I don’t want to be hurt like you said Zechs had been. We both have male dragons and can’t be mated to each other.”
With a shrug of one shoulder, Quatre dismissed his friend’s concern. “All we have to do is keep that in mind. We’re friends, and I have every intention of Trowa’s green choosing Sandrock as her mate. I’m not going to lose sight of that goal. Besides,” he continued brightly, “we can agree to what we’re willing to try. I for one don’t want to... you know, become too intimate.”
“I don’t want that either,” Duo shot back quickly, embarrassed to be discussing this with his new friend. “Howard said that the act of mating should be saved for my mate, that is if a female dragon should choose Wu Fei.”
With a question in his eyes, Quatre asked, “Do you agree to practicing with me?”
Worrying his lower lip between his teeth, Duo took a moment to contemplate his friend’s suggestion. Would practicing kissing with Quatre hurt anyone? His friend’s reasoning seemed sound and, truthfully, Duo didn’t want to be found lacking when the time came to kiss his future mate. The memory of kissing the unknown girl in Wu Fei’s shed came back to him, accompanied with a feeling of embarrassment when recalling her disappointment at his inability to kiss. Of course he hadn’t known what he was doing, and he must have been pretty bad because she had even offered to teach him. He certainly didn’t want to be found lacking again, and since neither he nor Quatre knew much about kissing, maybe practicing with each other wasn’t such a bad idea after all. Looking up at his friend he asked, “Can we keep it just between us?”
“Absolutely,” the blond boy answered eagerly. “Being discreet is essential. I wouldn’t want Trowa to think we’re a couple and that I don’t want him.”
“That makes sense,” Duo said thoughtfully. He had been thinking more of not being the topic of gossip than of a future mate finding out about his ‘practicing’ with his friend.
Quatre smiled nervously and shrugged. “Okay. I take it you agree?”
“Um... okay.”
The blond boy shifted his position on the edge of the bed so that he could lean more comfortably over the boy still lying on his back and looking up at him with eyes filled with trepidation.
“What do you want me to do?” Duo asked, feeling a bit apprehensive.
“Just lie there and I’ll initiate the kiss.” Quatre cleared his throat and licked his lips, then nervously dried them with his finger tips. “My sister, Tria, said you have to tilt your head to the side in order to keep your noses from bumping.” He lowered himself down, bringing his face close to Duo’s, both boys eyeing each other. The braided boy’s eyes closed slightly and he puckered up his lips in anticipation. “I don’t think you‘re supposed to purse your lips together like that, Duo. Just relax them.”
Duo nodded and realized the ache in his head had considerably diminished as he turned his focus on what he was about to share with his friend. He jumped slightly, startled when Quatre’s warm and soft lips pressed gently against his own and held them together for a moment before parting.
When Duo opened his eyes to gaze up at the boy poised above him, he noted Quatre’s dissatisfied frown. “I think it’s supposed to be better than that,” the blond said thoughtfully. “I used to spy on my sisters with their intendeds. Their lips moved across each others and then they put their tongues into each other’s mouths.”
Duo’s nose crinkled with distaste. “I thought you said drooling was wrong. Can it be helped if you mate tongues with each other?”
“I don’t know. I guess we should try,” Quatre answered, still looking thoughtful. “Lets try moving our lips against each other’s first, then do the tongue mating. Close your eyes.”
Duo complied and a moment later his friend’s lips were on his own once more. This time kissing did seem more pleasant, and when the blond’s tongue pushed between his lips, he opened his mouth and let him in. At first, it was odd, to have another’s tongue inside his mouth, with a lingering taste of the meal the other boy had eaten that evening mixing with the soothing mint tea he’d finished before his friend’s arrival. Quatre then began to move his lips around and the tongue inside his mouth began exploring and brushed up against his own. Not sure if it was the right thing to do or not, Duo pressed his own tongue against the invading one.
A short while later Quatre sat up and wiped off the spit surrounding his mouth. “I think we need to swallow.”
Duo nodded as he too wiped the excess moisture from around his mouth. “It’s hard swallowing while lying on my back with your tongue in my mouth.”
“We’ll just have to practice more in order to get it right,” the blond concluded. “I’d be mortified if I spit all over Trowa’s face. Do you want to try again?”
“All right, but let me sit up first. Maybe it’ll be easier.”
Quatre offered his hand and helped the other boy to sit up in his bed. They were sitting close to each other now and their coming together was initially awkward as Quatre followed memories of his sisters and their soon-to-be husbands by putting his arms around Duo and pulling him closer. Their lips touched each others once again, and this time they moved more easily against each others. Quatre’s hands shifted and began moving up and down Duo’s back in a manner that the braided boy found very pleasing. In return, lifted his own hands to copy the movements and the kiss became more involved. Duo was surprised by how pleasurable this contact with another person was. He felt oddly excited and craved for the affection to continue. In the back of his mind, the thought came to him that he hadn’t felt this way with the girl who had kissed him in Ha’ber.
When they broke apart, both boys were breathing a bit heavily. “Much better,” Quatre said while catching his breath. “I think that’s enough for tonight.” He stood and turned so that the slight bulge at the front of his pants was less noticeable and shifted them to a more comfortable position.
“Mmm.. All right,” Duo replied, a bit breathless himself.
“See you in the morning.” Quatre said disappearing quickly out of the door.
“Goodnight.” Duo eased himself back down to rest his head upon his pillow and tucked his arms under the covers and brought his right hand down to touch himself with the hope of easing the ache between his legs. How was it that the kisses he’d shared with his friend had affected his lower body in such a way? His touch only seemed to make the aching worse, so he withdrew his hand, rolled over to his side and blew out the candle, plunging the room into darkness. Opening his link to his dragon, he spoke to Wu Fei of his day and skirted around the particulars of his visit with Sandrock’s rider. With a yawn he bid his dragon a good night and quickly fell to sleep, dreaming of soft kisses that left him wanting more.
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1. Teen injured by rock thrown at car in Limassol
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/teen-injured-by-rock-thrown-at-car-in-limassol
23/05/2019 | NEWS
A teenage girl was injured Wednesday night in Limassol when an unidentified person threw a rock at a vehicle following a football match that rallied the southern town...
2. Nicosia residents speak up against firecrackers
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-residents-speak-up-against-firecrackers
Concerned citizens are alarmed over the illegal use of firecrackers outside APOEL football club in Nicosia, where reports said teens were having fun with firecrackers ending up in the busy street...
3. Football diplomacy in divided Cyprus
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/football-diplomacy-in-divided-cyprus
4. You know why
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/you-know-why
07/03/2019 | OPINION
'You know why' was the nuanced slogan of DIKO party MP candidate Fytos Constantinou who was running his election campaign in 2011. The catchphrase was simple and smart according to communication experts, sending a message to all those who benefited from his presence in the Defence House committee...
5. Officials alarmed over deactivated reservists
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/officials-alarmed-over-deactivated-reservists
Thousands of Greek Cypriot men do not show up for reserve military service, with the auditor general sounding the alarm over a vast majority of cases not being properly documented...
6. Rudolf arrested in the north
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rudolf-arrested-in-the-north
Police in the north arrested Balazov Miroslav, known as Rudolf, who is also wanted in the south in connection with a drive-by shooting in late November...
7. Hourican spells it out
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hourican-spells-it-out
8. Sifis booked into jail in the north
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sifis-booked-into-jail-in-the-north
One of Cyprus’ top wanted, 40-year-old Greek Cypriot Josef “Sifis” Josef, has been remanded in custody for seven days by a Turkish Cypriot judge...
9. Cyprus issues European warrants for Sifis, Rudolf
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-issues-european-warrants-for-sifis-and-rudolf
Cyprus police have issued European arrest warrants against Sifis and Rudolf, in connection with the Nicosia drive-by shooting in late November...
10. Bosnian man to be extradited to Belgium
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bosnian-man-to-be-extradited-to-belgium
Cyprus police arrested a foreign national on Wednesday as part of a secret international operation against fraud and match-fixing in European football...
11. World’s largest offshore wind farm opens off northwest England
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/world-s-largest-offshore-wind-farm-opens-off-northwest-england
07/09/2018 | BUSINESS
12. Irish student’s death shocks community back home
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/irish-student-s-ayia-napa-death-shocks-community-back-home
There are still questions over the death of a young Irish national in Ayia Napa, who appears to have fallen to his death early Sunday, sending shockwaves in his local community back home...
13. Spaniard Emery named as new Arsenal manager
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/spaniard-emery-named-as-new-arsenal-manager
Arsenal named Spaniard Unai Emery as their first new manager for 22 years on Wednesday following Arsene Wenger’s departure at the end of the last campaign...
14. German football stars under fire for posing with Erdogan
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/german-football-stars-under-fire-for-posing-with-turkey-s-erdogan
Germany’s DFB soccer federation and several German politicians have criticised two top national soccer players for posing for a photo with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, whose policies have come under fire in Europe...
15. APOEL Nicosia win sixth consecutive Cyprus championship
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/apoel-nicosia-win-sixth-consecutive-cyprus-championship
APOEL Nicosia has won its sixth consecutive Cyprus championship after beating Anorthosis Famagusta 2-1 at home....
16. Cyprus pin hopes on show-stopper Eleni Foureira
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/cyprus-pin-hopes-on-show-stopper-eleni-foureira
12/05/2018 | LIFE
Perennial makeweight Cyprus hopes to raise its flag over the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with Greek singer Eleni Foureira red-hot favourite to wow audiences with her show-stopping song 'Fuego'...
17. Hodgson hopes Wembley still home for England after buy bid
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hodgson-hopes-wembley-still-home-for-england-after-buy-bid
Former England manager Roy Hodgson has backed the Football Association’s (FA) decision to sell Wembley but hopes the stadium can be retained as the national team’s main ground...
18. Wenger to leave Arsenal after two decades in charge
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/wenger-to-leave-arsenal-after-two-decades-in-charge
Arsenal are currently a distant sixth in the league but are in the semi-finals of the Europa League...
19. Bomb explodes outside referee’s home
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bomb-explodes-outside-referee-s-home
A bomb explosion rocked the Larnaca residence of football referee assessor Costas Kapitanis, destroying his car and causing the housemaid to go into shock. CFA says this was an act of terrorism. ...
20. Fighter jets guarded RAF Akrotiri in case of Putin revenge attack
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fighter-jets-guarded-cyprus-raf-base-in-case-of-putin-revenge-attack
RAF chiefs had the warplanes at "high readiness" on the runway in case Vladimir Putin planned to launch his own jets...
21. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson says he has struggled with depression
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-says-he-has-struggled-with-depression
He was 15 when he watched his mother, Ata, walk into oncoming traffic on Interstate 65 in Nashville shortly after they were evicted from their apartment...
22. Winnie Mandela tainted anti-apartheid leader dies at 81
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/winnie-mandela-tainted-anti-apartheid-leader-dies-at-81
She died peacefully surrounded by her family following a long illness that kept her in and out of hospital since the start of the year...
23. Gun-totting PAOK president gets 3-year ban
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/gun-totting-paok-president-gets-3-year-ban
Greek club PAOK Salonika’s president Ivan Savvidis was banned from all soccer stadiums for three years ...
24. Dust won’t budge despite predictions
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dust-won-t-budge-despite-predictions
Despite authorities excepting that dust would have gone away by the weekend, it is still a problem on Monday, prompting officials to respond to complaints by saying it is time to learn to live with this phenomenon. ...
25. New divisions
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/new-divisions
26/03/2018 | COMMENT
This division is already evident in politics which has sunk to a new vulgar low...
26. The thin white line
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/the-thin-white-line
PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis’s armed intervention on the playing field makes him the personification of our inability to respect limits...
Neo Plaza construction up for grabs
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ITP On-Site: Minnesota Golden Gophers at Maryland Terrapins
October 17, 2016 Leave a commentMaryland Terrapins, Minnesota Golden GophersBy Mark Schofield
There’s nothing like catching a football game on a Saturday in early autumn. Getting to see the young talent live instead of evaluating it on film is a very different experience. Mark Schofield attended the Minnesota Gophers at Maryland Terrapins tilt and has his breakdown of the game from what was a sloppy affair.
This autumn Saturday afternoon was dominated by yellow. From the helmets and pants worn by visiting Minnesota, to the yellow in the Maryland state seal that was visible from all angles of the press box, down to the colors of the flags that haunted the Terrapins on play after play. In a game that featured two freshman quarterbacks starting, including walk-on Conor Rhoda for the Golden Gophers, it was the visitors who emerged victorious, downing the Terrapins by a final score of 31-10.
The game started slowly, with both teams going three and out on their opening drives. The Golden Gophers caught the first break of the afternoon when Maryland freshman quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome was flushed from the pocket to his right and tried to throw a corner route on a Flat-7 smash concept, but failed to account for the cornerback peeling off the flat route, who stepped in front of the throw for the interception. The Terrapins defense responded, forcing a field goal attempt from Emmit Carpenter that was off the mark.
Minnesota caught the next break of the game, when Maryland punt returner Will Likely muffed a punt inside his own 20-yard line, setting the visitors up with a 1st and 10 on the Maryland 16-yard line. Three plays later sophomore running back Rodney Smith punched it in with a short touchdown run, showing impressive change of direction ability, capped off by a spin move around the left edge for the score. Smith and classmate Shannon Brooks, another running back, were the two offensive weapons for the Golden Gophers on the day. Both runners showed the ability to operate in space and to make defenders miss with the football in their hands, and showed good vision in the zone blocking game. Brooks in particular had a nice cut on a split zone play. Both players showed some versatility in the passing game as well. Brooks caught a screen pass for a touchdown late in the first half on a well-timed play call, and Smith also showed his route-running ability earlier in the first half on a beautiful Texas route.
The Brooks touchdown gave the visitors a 14-0 lead right before the half, and from my vantage point it was unclear if the Terrapins had the offensive firepower to mount any semblance of a comeback. Maryland’s coaches must have felt the same way, as third-string signal caller Caleb Rowe, a senior, came out to handle the kneel-down before halftime. Maryland’s two biggest offensive plays of the opening half fail to even appear on the stat sheet. Pigrome kept the football on an inside zone option play and caught the defense in a cornerback blitz, bursting into the secondary with a huge gain, but that was nullified by a holding penalty. Later in the second quarter Terrapins freshman RB Lorenzo Harrison ripped off a beautiful run on a 3rd and 20 play, picking up the first down with a 21-yard gain where he showed great footwork and vision, only to have the play come back on another holding penalty.
Minnesota started the second half with possession, and faced a 3rd and 5 near midfield. But Rhoda was able to find wide receiver Drew Wolitarsky on a mesh concept to extend the drive.
A few plays later the Golden Gophers faced a 3rd and 8 on the Maryland 36-yard line, and Rhoda looked for sophomore WR Rashad Still on a slant route. The pass fell incomplete, but yet another yellow flag fell as the officials called defensive pass interference on freshman cornerback Tino Ellis. With the drive extended, the Golden Gophers moved into field goal range, and a few plays later Carpenter redeemed himself from the earlier miss, splitting the uprights on the 37-yard field goal try.
With 8:21 remaining in the third quarter, the hosts trailed 17-0, and looked to be down to their third option under center. But it was Pigrome who started the second half for the Terrapins, and instantly hit wide receiver Teldrick Morgan in the slot on a quick out route, his most decisive read and throw of the day, on a play that moved the chains.
On second down Pigrome lost 7 yards on a botched quarterback keep, and then he was tackled behind the line on 2nd and 17 for a loss of 3, setting up a 3rd and 20. His long throw on third down fell incomplete, and Maryland was forced to give the football right back to the visitors.
Later in the third quarter, Maryland seemed to catch its first break of the game when the Minnesota gunner interfered with Morgan as the senior WR was trying to field a punt. That gave the Terrapins the football at midfield, their best starting field possession of the afternoon. But Pigrome overthrew Morgan on a post route to start the drive, and then a holding penalty backed up Maryland. Pigrome was sacked on third down, and the Terrapins punted yet again.
As the third quarter became the fourth, the audio visual staff at Capital One Field played a montage of clips from movies including “Friday Night Lights,” “Remember the Titans,” and “300” to try and inspire the more than 40,000 fans to make some noise. Unfortunately for the staff, the student section was largely empty by this time, as the beautiful weather and other Saturday activities seemed a wiser decision for the student body at large.
But maybe it inspired the offense. In a few plays the Terrapins were in Minnesota territory, thanks in large part to two great catches from wide receiver Levern Jacobs, who showed impressive hands on the first catch, which was a very low throw on a comeback route, and later on an out route where the pass was thrown high and outside, but Jacobs pulled it in and cut upfield to convert on a third down. In addition, now that the offense was focusing on the passing game to try and pick up the pace it seemed that the freshman QB was starting to settle into the game and make things happen both with his arm and his feet. With just more than 11 minutes remaining, the offense faced a 3rd and 9 on the Minnesota 15-yard line. Pigrome stood in the shotgun and tried to throw a slant route, which was nearly intercepted for a disastrous pick six. Facing 4th down, head coach DJ Durkin called on kicker Adam Green to convert the 32-yard try for three points.
Now it was up to the defense to get the ball back for its offense. The Terrapins seemed to be in position to do just that, as they forced a 3rd and 1 on the Minnesota 30-yard line. But Smith took the third-down handoff off the right side and went the distance, breaking an upper-body tackle attempt by the free safety in the open field and tacking on six more points for the visitors. The extra point extended the Minnesota lead to 24-3, sending all but the most die-hard Terrapins supporters for the exits.
In the closing act of the contest, a few of Maryland’s skill players showed some individual ability. On a gain of 31 yards, Morgan flashed two very impressive moves after the catch in rapid succession to evade tackles and keep the play alive. Jacobs made another nice catch on a low throw, showing the ability to extend his catch radius and help his quarterback out. For his part, Pigrome showed great aggression and anticipation on his only touchdown throw of the day, an 11-yard score on a post route to D.J. Moore where he made the throw under duress and before the receiver had made his break.
But it simply wasn’t enough on this day. The story of the afternoon was the Minnesota ground game, led by Brooks and Smith. Smith finished with 149 yards on 18 carries with the two touchdowns, while his fellow RB tallied 88 yards on 22 carries. In these two backs, the Golden Gophers look stout at this position for the near future. In addition to those players, the Minnesota offense also has some emerging young players in wide receiver Still and tight end Brandon Lingen, who only had one catch on the day but was impressive blocking on the edges in the ground game, especially when acting as the cross blocker on split zone running plays. With this young core, the Golden Gophers look to be in contention in the years to come in the Big Ten.
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Otay Water District Sues for Overcharges
Otay Water District administrative building. Photo/Otay Water District
The Otay Water District filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego on May 30 which challenges the amount of money the City charges the provider for reclaimed water and recycled water.
Otay is seeking damages in excess of $16 million of overcharges from the City.
In 2015, the City doubled the rate at which reclaimed water was being sold from $350 per acre foot to $753 per acre foot and was placed in effect January 2016.
The rate change includes the cost of the City’s two plants – the North City Water Reclamation Plant and the South Bay Water Reclamation Plant, but the Otay Water District only purchases from the south plant.
General Manager of the Otay Water District Mark Watton said they do not receive reclaimed water from North City because there is no physical delivery from North City to the Otay Water District.
Otay purchases 99.7 percent of the reclaimed water produced at the City’s South Bay Plant.
Due to the City’s increase in rates, Otay raised their customers general rate to cover the new costs.
Mark Robak, Otay Water District Board president, released a statement regarding the lawsuit and an explanation to the Writ of Mandate.
According to the statement, making Otay pay for the cost of the North City plant is a breach of contract and a violation of the California Constitution Proposition 13, 218 and 26.
Watton said they spoke to city staff, lobbied the City Council and reached out to a mediator but the City still went through with the rate increase.
“It became very clear that the City just wasn’t interested in changing their methodology and at that point you’re kind of at a dead end,” he said.
The City adopted a unitary rate but Otay suggested a zonal rate structure instead, because the costs associated with the north plant would be paid for by the customers that benefit from the system and vice versa for the south plant, according to the statement.
The statement also includes that the City’s own rate consultant, Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc., concluded that a zonal rate structure would more closely align the rate charged to the cost of operating each individual facility and system.
Watton said he expects general denial from the City regarding the lawsuit but won’t have a specific answer for several months.
City of San Diego, lawsuit, Otay Water District
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We are watching. City of San Diego paying their bills on the backs of ratepayers, taxpayers and now their customers. Drain time?
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The integration of Brazilian retailer Pão de Açucar-CBD led Casino to post the highest revenue growth among multinationals and become the largest retailer in Latin America. (Photo: Pão de Açucar)
Latin America’s top 50 foreign multinationals.
Spain-based Telefonica is Latin America’s top foreign multinational by revenues but French retailer Casino leads the way in revenue growth, according to the Latinvex 500 ranking of the region’s largest companies.
Keywords: AB InBev, Adidas, AES, American Airlines, Anglo-American, Avon, Baker Hughes, Barrick Gold, Brenntag, Brink's, Carrefour, Casino, Caterpillar, CNH, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Diebold, DirecTV,Dufry AG,DuPont,Electrolux,Emerson, Endesa, Ericsson, Fiat, Ford, G4S, Gas Natural, General Motors, Goodyear, Halliburton, Iberdrola, Ingram Micro, Kellogg, Lafarge, Level 3, Nestle, NII Holdings, Nokia, Owens-Illinois, Pacific Rubiales, PepsiCo, Praxair, Schlumberger, Southern Copper, Telefonica, Unilever, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Weatherford, Whirlpool
Latinvex 500 (2013): Top Foreign Multinationals (By Alphabetical Order)
Latinvex 500 (2013): Top Foreign Multinationals (Revenues)
Latinvex 500 (2013): Top Foreign Multinationals (Revenue Growth Winners)
Latinvex 500 (2013): Profit Growth Winners & Losers
Latinvex 500 (2013): By Sector
Latinvex 500 (2013): By Country
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Commitment to retain community police welcomed
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Head of the Metropolitan Police has committed to keeping Police Community Support Officers after announcements earlier in the year that the support officers would be cut across London.
Cllr Martin Newton, Haringey Lib Dem Police and Crime Spokesperson, comments:
“Our streets will be safer with these bobbies on the beat and I welcome the decision by the Met not to axe community policing.
“Liberal Democrats across London and locally here in Haringey have been campaigning to save Police Community Support Officers from these cuts. The petition the Lib Dems launched was signed by thousands of Londoners who wanted to keep local neighbourhood policing.
“I am delighted that the Metropolitan Police have seen sense and that Police Community Support Officers will be maintained in London and not cut as planned."
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9,899 people per square mile, about average for Southeast and about average for the county
The percentage of Latino people is high for the county.
Moderately diverse for Southeast but not especially diverse for the county
$61,504 median household income (2008 dollars), high for Southeast but about average for the county
In Los Angeles County, Pico Rivera, San Gabriel and Glendale have the most similar household incomes.
8.6% of residents 25 and older have a four-year degree, about average for Southeast but low for the county
In Los Angeles County, Sun Village, Vermont Square and Vermont Knolls have the nearest percentage of residents 25 and older with a four-year degree.
The percentages of residents 25 and older with a high school diploma and less than a high school diploma are high for the county.
The median age is 29, about average for Southeast but young for the county
In Los Angeles County, Athens, Commerce and Cypress Park have similar median ages.
The percentages of residents ages 11 to 18 and 10 or younger are among the county's highest.
Average household size of 3.5 people, about average for Southeast but high for the county
Ladera Heights, Topanga and Mayflower Village have the most similar percentage of homeowners in Los Angeles County.
Check where West Whittier-Los Nietos falls in a county ranking.
There are 650 families headed by single parents. The rate is 11.5%, low for Southeast but about average for the county
There are 1,407 veterans, or 7.9% of the population, about average for Southeast and about average for the county overall
7,381 (28.5%) of residents are foreign born, low for Southeast but about average for the county. Mexico (82.8%) and El Salvador (3.7%) are the most common foreign places of birth.
is an unincorporated area in the Southeast region of Los Angeles County.
The neighboring communities are Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier.
West Whittier-Los Nietos is one of the 272 neighborhoods in Mapping L.A., The Times’ resource for crime, neighborhoods, demographics and schools.
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Pimm's to launch 'spider'
By Christine Boggis
| 23 March, 2015
Pimm’s is targeting the burgeoning fruit cider market with a new spirit cider – or “spider” – that blends the brand’s strawberry and cucumber flavours with British cider.
Pimm’s Cider Cup is designed to be served in a pint glass over ice and is set to launch in April.
It has 4% abv and comes in a 50cl brown glass bottle.
Brand owner Diageo will back it with £1.1 million worth of above-the-line support this summer, including PR and events.
A spokesman said: “Pimm’s will take cider to the next level, infusing it with the classic spirit, and opening a potential sales opportunity of over £14 million across the total trade.”
Pimm’s will also release a frozen pouch called Pimm’s Summer Crush, as Diageo predicted the frozen cocktail category would continue to grow and reach new consumers.
The releases were announced as part of a raft of innovations from Diageo, including Gordon’s Frozen Cooler, a blend of the gin with apple and elderflower flavours; Captain Morgan White Rum, which aims to revitalise the white rum category; a pineapple flavour for vodka brand Cîroc, and a new Smirnoff-based RTD, Smirnoff Ice Double Black with Guarana.
Each of the launches is to be backed with above-the-line support.
UK managing director Andrew Cowan said: “Today we are launching innovations on brands that have a cumulative heritage of over 650 years. We own an amazing portfolio of brands of which we are the custodians. In 2015 we will write the next chapter, all the while ensuring that we do justice and stay true to their heritage.
“We recognise that innovation needs to be at the heart of our commercial strategy, and at Diageo we want to grow our business by getting people to drink better, rather than more. Today nearly 13% of our business comes directly from innovation. My goal is that in the next five years innovation will account for 20% of our business.”
Louise Robinson, head of GB innovation, added: “As the industry leader with a portfolio of household name alcohol brands, we have a duty to continually reinvent, refresh and excite consumers. With the new innovations we’re launching today, it will be difficult to find a barbecue, picnic, garden party, festival or wedding this summer without one of our brands there helping adults to celebrate.”
Age of innovation
Corte Molino Prosecco launches "Willy Wonka-style" golden cork competition
GBBF opens up to craft kegs for first time
Trinity25 is latest lower alcohol spirit to hit UK market
Crave Drinks secures loan for Virgin Mojito launch
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"It could be a bit of a shootout"
Cork's Alan Cadogan gets set to pull the trigger against Kilkenny
Former Kilkenny star Jackie Tyrrell says Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final showdown between the Cats and Cork has the potential to develop into a shootout.
Speaking to RTE Sport, the nine-time All-Ireland winner says fans could be in for a spectacle at headquarters come 2pm on Sunday.
"Cork like to play an open expansive game, Kilkenny like the open ground. It could be a bit of a shootout, the strongest facet of Cork is their attack, they have put up high scores,” said Tyrrell.
"They probably have three or four of the deadliest forwards in the country in Patrick Horgan, Alan Cadogan and Seamus Harnedy, they are guys who love space, Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Kingston, and Aidan Walsh too. They will try open up the Kilkenny defence.
"Likewise with Kilkenny there will be a temptation to throw TJ Reid in at the start on the Cork full-back and maybe pull the corner-forward out and have Colin (Fennelly) and TJ in there and just try to bypass their half-backline, which launches a lot of their attacks. It will be a bit cagey from that point of view.”
He added: "The big question about Cork is their defence it has been shored up since the first game against Tipperary, they have turned that around with Mark Ellis back."
A case for the Kerry defence
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38-year-old, Joseph Budna is wanted by the Guatemalan authorities and was captured this morning in Camalote Village, Cayo District, as he made a quick trip to a nearby shop. Budna is a Belizean man who had been serving time in a Guatemalan prison prior to his escape from a hospital on Monday, May 27. This is Budna’s second escape since his 6-year sentence was handed down for several crimes including kidnapping and extortion; crimes he says he did not commit. Budna had given Love News an interview on May 30, appealing to the Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams to have mercy on him and don’t hand him over to the Guatemalans. For reference, we bring you this interview done with him a few days after his escape in late May.
Joseph Budna: “I am just hoping that the Government of Belize, I am calling upon the Government of Belize to please give me the assistance that I need. If you are in that position as Commissioner of Police Mr. Chester Williams I have nothing against you my brother but if you are in that position and the Deputy Commissioner of Police and those that head the Police Department in Belize as well as those in Congress and the Government of Belize. Please don’t try to even make an attempt to send me back to the Guatemalan prison because I would be a dead person returning back. I tried to make complaints but instead of them listening to my complaint what they did was punish me. They did not take me out for sun, they kept me in a little cell 4 x4 locked down like a dog. There was sometimes that they gave me food when they wanted, sometimes they give me water, one time or two times for the day when they are in their thing, that is like when they are mad. This happens in the Peten Prison and I did not get any help from human rights authorities. There was nothing much that I could do but when I had a chance to get loose from these people it was just to make my way either to Belize or somewhere that I am going to be safe until my Government receives me because I am a born Belizean you know and sooner or later I will be stepping home but I will need to get in contact with the authorities and also with the human right activist personnel in Belize, also I will need some sort of identification that will be able to assist me. My human rights have been violated over and over in prison, I was beaten. I want you to recall about two or three years ago I was brutally beaten when a young boy I think he was eleven or twelve years old was allegedly shot in the back by a BDF personnel and when that occurred and it was published in the Guatemalan newspaper and on the Guatemala radio, media and television, I was the one that was sent to prison in Granja Cantel, Texantinal. I was brutally attacked, I was almost killed. My head got 28 stitches, what does Joseph Budna have to do with that incident? I have absolutely nothing but just to be a black Belizean in that prison with all these colored skin persons and Guatemalan persons, I was brutally beaten and left to die. The ambulance took me out of that prison and took me to the hospital you know and nobody did anything. I tried to get assistance from Margarett at that time from the Belize Embassy but they just left me there on my luck so how could I continue to stay in that prison like that in Guatemala when there is no security, there is no security for inmates and worse for Belizean inmates in that prison.”
Prior to speaking to Budna, Police Commissioner Williams had briefed the media on the situation, saying that they are on the lookout for him and that in the absence of an extradition treaty other avenues could be sought to get Budna back to Guatemala.
Chester Williams – Commissioner of Police: “We were alerted yesterday by Foreign Affairs that he had escaped from some hospital in Guatemala or somewhere in Guatemala and is currently being sought by Guatemalan authority so yes we have also put up an all point bulletin here in Belize with a view to apprehending Joseph Budna. Once he is apprehended then we will go through the necessary protocols through Foreign Affairs to see where it goes from there.”
Reporter: “Do we have extradition protocols with Guatemala?”
Chester Williams – Commissioner of Police: “We don’t but we can have some agreement, there is no Extradition Treaty but by way of the protocol we can make arrangements.”
Reporter: “Is there any information from the counterparts on the other side that he is indeed trying to head to Belize?”
Chester Williams – Commissioner of Police: “He is a Belizean and so we will anticipate that he is trying to make his way back home with a view to elude the justice system in Guatemala. I will say that Guatemala for the most part, especially our counterparts in Melcher have been very helpful to us in Belize whenever we have Guatemalans who are wanted here in Belize. They have exercised that diplomatic channel with a view to assist us in getting those persons to Belize and so I think that as a matter of reciprocity that if he is apprehended it will be a matter for the Ministry Foreign Affairs and the Government as to how we will move from there.”
Budna was captured at around ten thirty this morning. His mother was at their home in Camalote Village and found out of his recapture when officers showed up at her home with Budna in cuffs and a team to search their house. Ms Williams spoke to our newsroom this evening with an appeal of her own.
Ms. Williams – Mother of Joseph Budna: “I though he was around because he went out. I thought he went to the shop to buy and then when I saw them coming with him handcuffed to the back.”
Rene Trujillo: “So he was caught in Camalote?”
Ms. Williams – Mother of Joseph Budna: “Yes but not at home here where he lived, then the men brought him here to search the house.”
Rene Trujillo: “So what is your message that you want to send to the Government and to the Commissioner of Police?”
Ms. Williams – Mother of Joseph Budna: “I would just want to ask them if they can consider him and not send him back over there because if they send him back over there it is just for them to kill him. I worry about him because I would not want them to take him back over there and then if we don’t move fast and try and do something they will kill him over there.”
Rene Trujillo: “Have you reached out to anybody? Have you spoken to anybody in authority that can help you?”
Ms. Williams – Mother of Joseph Budna: “Today in the morning Chester Williams was not here so I could not talk to him today so I don’t know whom to go to right now. The only thing we plan to do is to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tomorrow if we meet him. I think he spoke to the Ombudsman.”
Rene Trujillo: “Do you have any idea what the Ombudsman said to him?”
Ms. Williams – Mother of Joseph Budna: “He told him to write a letter about what happened and send it to him but we haven’t done it yet.”
Rene Trujillo: “Ma’m do you believe that he is innocent of the charges brought against him in Guatemala?”
Ms. Williams – Mother of Joseph Budna: “Joseph went along with some other friends and after all only Joseph was the one that they held for these things, just him alone is being held and the others got away so I don’t know what really happened but then I wouldn’t want them to send him over there because the amount of mark that Joseph have on him I wouldn’t want them to send him to send back over there.”
The Belize Police Department held its bi-weekly press brief today but they offered no further details into the Budna case other than to confirm his recapture. We’ll keep following this story
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22-Day Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Loves Conducting Interactive Presentations to Writers and Publishers
November 10th, 2013 | Author: admin
Here are 3 things you can do for yourself and tell a writer-friend about:
Go to http://writingcoachTeresa.com and watch Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s interview on CBS “Bay Sunday” as she demonstrates “What is a platform and how to create your platform statement”
Go to Amazon’s page “Look Inside” for Coach Teresa’s workbook and do the 2 exercises from Day 1 of her workbook — build and fortify your platform and fanbase NOW.
Submit comment to this post OR email Coach Teresa and let her know what YOUR platform statement is! She’s at gmail.com Her address is WritingCoachTeresa
More photos on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Teresa.LeYung.Ryan
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan and NCPA members role play – What happens when an author journeys through finding an agent, agent lands an acquisition editor. . . then that editor pitches author’s intellectual property to sales team who may or may not recommend publisher’s offering of a contract to the author. Marketing, you ask? Publishers focus their attention on their best-selling authors and celebrity authors because those authors have huge fanbases. Yes, that’s probably Tom Kando’s notebook on the right as he takes notes to recap the presentation. Thank you, Tom! Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “You CAN compete for attention when YOU know how to grow YOUR fanbase by articulating YOUR platform statement and training your fans to promote YOU. Reach out, not stress out!” Coach Teresa is the
author of Build Your Writer’s Platform and Fanbase in 22 Days
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NCPA Program Chair Norma Jean Thornton, dear Margie Yee Webb, Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Laurie Hoirup, Sherry Joyce, Margo King Lenson -- photo by Dennis Potter. Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: "Cheers to authors and publishers!"
Via facebook, Ken Umbach of Umbach Consulting & Publishing says: “Very fine, energetic, inviting, participatory presentation today by Teresa LeYung-Ryan at the NCPA meeting today.”
Author Laurie Hoirup, author of I Can Dance: My Life with a Disability, says: ”What I value most about Coach Teresa’s workshop was learning about ideas regarding nametags and creating my platform statements and ways to put it out there.” Here’s my platform statement: “Through my book, I increase people’s awareness in regards to life with a significant disability.”
Coach Teresa here… Inviting everyone to subscribe to Laurie Hoirup‘s Blog. We all know someone who lives with a disability and can gain more inspiration; after you subscribe and receive announcements that Laurie has written a new blog post . . . forward the new post to your friend or family member. Anyone can subscribe. Share. Connect. Thrive.
With this YouTube video . . . Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cheers for NCPA members and colleagues . . . says she is a big fan of author Frances H. Kakugawa.
“I am on a high from presenting ‘Build Your Writer’s Platform and Fanbase in 22 Days’ at the Northern California Publishers & Authors… such talented and successful folks. I love conducting interactive presentations – today the focus was ‘making connections and having fun.’ Thank you NCPA board, committees, and the entire membership.
Special thanks to my pal author & documentary film producer Margie Yee Webb (for taking great photos & movies at the workshop), Norma Jean Thornton, Ken Umbach, Secretary Tom Kando, Treasurer Laurie Hoirup, VP Dennis Potter, President Ted Witt (he was promoting his book and couldn’t be there… Cheers, Ted!), Kimberly A. Edwards and The Frances H. Kakugawa. Frances, did you know that I bragged about you on page 6 of my workbook? You are one of the authors whose books I do read again and again. Go, Wordsworth! Your being there today and leaving me that lovely glass vase with rose means the world to me. I thank you from my heart.”
All you talented NCPA members, broadcast your platform statements to the world!
author Frances H. Kakugawa shares wonderful news! Her book Teacher, You Look Like a Horse will be translated into Chinese--photo by Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan and NCPA members role play – What happens when an author journeys through finding an agent, agent lands an acquisition editor. . . then that editor pitches author’s intellectual property to sales team who may or may not recommend publisher’s offering of a contract to the author. Marketing, you ask? Publishers focus their attention on their best-selling authors and celebrity authors because those authors have huge fanbases. Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “You CAN compete for attention when YOU know how to grow YOUR fanbase by articulating YOUR platform statement and training your fans to promote YOU. Reach out, not stress out!”
22-Day Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Coach Teresa says: “Wear the dual hats of writer and promoter. Reach out, not stress out.”
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (the workbook)
Love Made of Heart (the mother-daughter novel used in college classes; book is archived at the San Francisco History Center)
Answer Me Now (the award-winning short play)
and speeches advocating mental health and end violence against women and children
Click here for a list of Coach Teresa’s event.
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How do I Self Publish? Is It Difficult? Is it Costly?
August 12th, 2010 | Author: admin
Hi Teresa,
Thought you may be interested in this self-publishing article in the Sac Bee. Ken Umbach is in the article and gives great advice!
Margie Yee Webb
Thanks, Margie! What a helpful article by Allen Pierleoni at The Sacramento Bee. . . which answers the questions “How do I self publish? Is it difficult? Is it costly?” beautifully.
After you read the article, please check out these organizations
Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) http://www.baipa.org/
Northern California Publishers & Authors (NCPA) http://www.norcalpa.org/
California Writers Club 18 branches in California http://calwriters.org/
Women’s National Book Association http://www.wnba-books.org/
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ZEN AND THE ART OF THE BOOK DEAL
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Self-publishing gets easier with online tools
By Allen Pierleoni
apierleoni@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1D
Last Modified: Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 – 1:09 pm
You, too, can be an author.
In print and online, self-published authors have never had so many choices of where and how to place their memoirs, novels, cookbooks, essays and poetry.
Among those there to help them is Bob Young, co-founder of the giant online publishing company Lulu. Young says “the new publishing model” will not be dependent on best-sellers – the lifeblood of traditional publishing – but on niche publications.
“Our most successful authors generally fit into specialized knowledge-based categories,” said Lulu spokesman Jonathan Cox. “They write about business, economics, computers, the Internet, art.”
Among the major players accommodating aspiring writers – in a few cases, established authors as well, such as John Edgar Wideman (“Briefs”) – are Amazon (CreateSpace and Digital Text Platform), Author Solutions (parent company of AuthorHouse, Xlibris and iUniverse), Barnes & Noble (PubIt!), Apple (iBookstore), Lulu, Smashwords, Scribd and Fastpencil.
Profits from sales are split between publisher and author, with publishers getting 20 percent to 30 percent and writers getting 70 percent to 80 percent.
Self-published authors can choose to have their finished products as e-books downloadable to a variety of e-readers (including Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad), other mobile devices and PCs, or in traditional book form, or both.
They’re doing so in viral numbers. Last year, 764,448 self-published titles appeared – an increase of 181 percent from 2008. That compares with 289,729 titles from traditional publishing houses, according to the R.R. Bowker Co., which compiles bibliographic data.
Ideal for untested writers; not great for literary stars
E-books account for an estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of all U.S. book sales, according to book industry consultants, but within five years they could account for up to 25 percent.
On Friday, Dorchester Publishing announced that it will abandon its traditional print publishing business in favor of “an e-book/print-on-demand model.”
The decision came after sales of its mass-market paperbacks, its specialty, fell by 25 percent last year and have been even worse in 2010.
Jim Milliot, co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, said the self-publishing movement “isn’t making any of the big publishers nervous, but they’re certainly watching it.”
“If they have a fear, it’s that one of their large-name authors will go out on his or her own,” Milliot said. “But what keeps the big authors tied to their houses is big advances. You’re not going to see a John Grisham go running to Smashwords.”
As e-readers, e-books and e-bookstores become more ingrained in our culture, the digital self-publishing model gets the most buzz.
Usually, the digital model works in conjunction with print on demand, in which a paper book isn’t physically printed until it’s been presold. That’s a double whammy for an author – an e-book and a paper version of the same title.
How does a writer turn an electronic manuscript into an e-book? The process is simple.At www.barnesandnoble/pubit, for instance, the directions for the digital self-publishing template advise: “Set up your account (with us), then start loading files and cover art for … your e-books. PubIt! converts digital files to ePub format, the most widely accepted format for e-reader and mobile devices. … Now millions of readers can buy your e-books” through online bookstores.
Kenneth Umbach of Citrus Heights uses Lulu as a publishing platform for paper and digital books.
Through his Umbach Consulting and Publishing, he has produced his own titles (a collection of columns from the weekly newspaper Senior Spectrum, and a how-to-publish handbook) and those of others. Sales have been “modest,” he said.
Probably his company’s biggest seller was “Capitol Crimes,” a collection of mystery stories by members of the Sacramento chapter of Sisters in Crime, published partly as a fundraiser.
Umbach advises aspiring self-publishers to be aware of add-on services for sale by tech publishers, from editing to promotional packages.
“Hire someone with expertise in laying out your book, and have a set of competent eyes editing it,” he said.
Publishing is just one step
One of the conceits of self-publishing is that it democratizes the process, allowing anyone to put a book in the marketplace and name his or her price. There is no longer the need for an agent, an editor or a monolithic publishing house.The nature of success changes, too.
“For successful authors, writing the book is the beginning,” said Cox of Lulu. “They maintain blogs, speak at conferences, stay active in online forums that potential readers are likely to visit.”
“Success is different for every author,” he added. “Some just want to share an idea with the world, so they give away their books or sell them at cost. Others want to build a personal brand. Many want to make money.”
Lulu has paid “millions of dollars in royalties to our authors,” Cox said. “Some earn a couple of dollars over the lifetime of their books. Others earn thousands of dollars every year. We have one author who has earned more than $196,000″ from a technical book.
“The market is broad and diverse,” said Amazon spokeswoman Sarah Gelman. “We think that our Digital Text Platform makes it possible for authors and publishers to offer more titles, at better prices, to Kindle customers. We also think this will allow more authors to make a living at their craft.”
Milliot of Publishers Weekly cautions: “For a new author with no established audience, the chances of succeeding are not very high.”
Some find fame
But there are success stories.Unable to break into traditional publishing, Boyd Morrison placed “The Ark” on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Sales were so great that Simon & Schuster – one of the publishers that had rejected the thriller – bought it and printed it in hardback.
Frustrated by publishers who turned down her novel “A Scattered Life,” Karen McQuestion published it online. The e-book sold nearly 40,000 copies and now McQuestion has a movie option.
J.A. Konrath says he’ll make $100,000 this year from Kindle sales of his thriller “Whiskey Sour.” That despite book critics calling the title “formulaic” and “cliché-ridden.”
Which brings up the issue of quality. If anybody can publish anything, how good will most of it be?
“In the ‘old days,’ after 30 rejection letters, you’d stick the manuscript in a drawer,” said Milliot. “Today you send it to (an online publisher). By far the lion’s share of self-published material – both print or digital – would never be published (in a traditional way) because, frankly, it’s not professional grade. That said, there is some good stuff out there.”
Laura Miller, co-founder of the online magazine Salon.com, took self- publishing to task from the perspective of a former book editor who worked in the mainstream New York publishing industry.
In a brutal yet telling essay for Salon.com, she wrote in part, “Civilians … can talk as much trash as they want about the supposedly low standards of traditional publishing. They haven’t seen the vast majority of what didn’t get published. Believe me, if you have, it’s enough to make your blood run cold, thinking about (it) being introduced into the general population.”
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Category Archives: MacInSchool
Personal Victories in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Daniel Knight, Low End Mac, MacInSchool - 2001.05.30 -
May 2001 – Back in 1998, the new Director of Management Information Systems at the Grand Rapids (MI) Public Schools (GRPS) decided to move the school system to Windows. Mac using parents and teachers fought back (see Grand Rapids (MI) Schools Standardizing on Windows).
Adoption Notice for an SE/30
Steve Wood, Low End Mac, MacInSchool - 2000.01.03 -
2000 – No, Annie and I have definitely not adopted a child. We haven’t given one of our many up for adoption either, although, on any given day, we might rent any one of them out cheap. 🙂 This is the short tale of an abandoned Macintosh SE/30 that I found sitting on the floor […]
The Required New Year’s Column: Avoiding Complacency
Steve Wood, Low End Mac, MacInSchool, View from the Classroom - 1999.12.28 -
1999: A year ago at this time, I found myself doing one of the “required” columns that seem to emanate from all columnists around this time. It’s just sort of expected in the Mac community that a columnist will have something to say about each MacWorld Expo, an end-of-the-year review, a “look ahead” column for […]
A Mini-Tour of My Mac
1999 – Early last Monday, the teacher across the hall poked her head into my classroom and said, “Last Monday to teach of this millennium,” and closed the door before I could begin chuckling. We get two weeks off for Christmas vacation. There are some advantages to being an educator.
Katy (TX) Independent School District Going Windows
July 1999 – A teacher in the Katy Independent School District sent the following: Katy ISD, in Katy, Texas (a suburb of Houston), is phasing out Macs. Over the coming years, installed Macs will be replaced by Dell computers running Windows.
Letter from Chancellor’s Office re: Cal State Going Windows
July 1999 – More comments on the situation at CSU, as noted in CSU Going Windows.
Letters on Cal State Going to Windows NT Exclusively
June 1999 – I’ve received many letters in response to Cal State Is Going Windows. They raise some very good points you might want to make when contacting CSU administrators – or others.
Cal State Is Going Windows
June 1999 – An employee of Cal State informed me that the final decision has been made: The California State University (Cal State, CSU) Chancellor’s Office has put a freeze on future Macintosh purchases and will begin buying Dell PCs over the summer.
Microsoft Exchange Mail Server ‘a Nightmare’
February 1999 – This letter was written by a system administrator in the U.S. Army, who wishes to remain anonymous, after hearing how Cal State was planning on adopting Microsoft Exchange Mail Server.
Cal State Going Windows NT Exclusively
Feb. 1999 – This letter was written by an employee of Cal State who wishes to remain anonymous.
Apple Is a Leader
January 1999 – The following letter was sent to the technology coordinator and members of the school board of the South Kitsap (WA) School District in response to Macs Under Fire in South Kitsap (WA) School District. A few clarifications have been added between [brackets].
Follow Up Report: Macs Under Fire in South Kitsap (WA) School District
January 1999 – Response to the article Macs Under Fire in South Kitsap (WA) School District is really great! Unfortunately, the district has just recently approved their course of action in the matter. I’m just hoping that the school board gets enough email to possibly reconsider changing the policy. It’s never too late with this […]
York County (VA) Schools Going from All Apple to Only PCs
November 1998 – Steven Bauer sent the following letter about the York County, Virigina schools moving from an all Apple district (at least in grade school) to only Windows PCs.
Time to Let the Big One Go
Mick O'Neil, Low End Mac, MacInSchool - 1998.11.13 -
“Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general […]
The iMac: Perfect for Schools
Daniel Knight, iMac Channel, Low End Mac, MacInSchool - 1998.07.05 -
July 1998: Apple has introduced the most appealing educational computer since it introduced the Macintosh LC in 1990.
Grand Rapids (MI) Schools Standardizing on Windows?
June 1998 – The Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) appear to be standardizing on Windows, if their current $795,000 purchase of Windows-based computer systems is any indication. This may mean they will phase out millions of dollars worth of Macintosh equipment (estimated at 2,000 computers), some of it installed as recently as the 1997-98 school […]
Keep Macs in the Grand Rapids Public Schools
June 1998 – As a Mac user and proponent, a taxpayer, and the father of four children enrolled in the Grand Rapids (MI) Public Schools, these news tidbits about our school system migrating to Windows got my attention.
Not Thinking: University of Texas Business School
April 1998 – You’ve probably heard that the University of Texas McCombs School of Business will require students to purchase or lease a specific Dell laptop running Windows NT beginning in the Fall 1998 semester. (Special thanks to thessaSource for following the story.)
Macintosh, a Long Term Solution
March 1998 – This letter was written in response to news reports that the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, was considering phasing out Macs in favor of Windows computers. This letter should be appearing soon in Imprint, the university newspaper.
Macs Under Fire in South Kitsap (WA) School District
A source in Kitsap, Washington, writes, “I read the articles about the Grand Rapids (MI) Schools trying to go to PC only, and I couldn’t help but relate to the problems in Grand Rapids. The South Kitsap (WA) School District, where I live and where my wife teaches, is going through the same horror. I […]
Macintosh Support at Yale
April 1998 – The following editorial was written some months after the explosion caused by a letter from Dan Updegrove, Director of Information Technology at Yale, advising incoming students to buy Windows computers instead of Macs. In light of an article in Rumpus (no longer online), the Yale student newspaper, Low End Mac reprints the […]
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Sky Betting & Gaming
Online gambling and gaming
Sports betting, online poker, online casino, online bingo, odds comparison service, fantasy football and football predictor game
The Stars Group
Sky Betting & Gaming is a British-based gambling company, owned by The Stars Group, with headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire and offices in Sheffield, London, Guernsey, Rome and Germany. Sky Betting & Gaming consists of five core brands: Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Poker and Sky Bingo. It also owns online betting odds comparison site Oddschecker. Sky Betting & Gaming also operates popular, free-to-enter football prediction game Soccer Saturday Super 6 and Sky Sports Fantasy Football.
In 2015, Sky plc sold an 80 percent stake in the company to CVC Capital Partners for £600 million,[1] with Sky retaining a 20% stake in the company and agreeing to a long-term licence of the Sky brand.[2] In 2018, CVC and Sky agreed to sell Sky Betting & Gaming to The Stars Group for £3.4 billion.[3]
Sky Bet is the sports betting division of Sky Betting & Gaming, with the majority of its operations run from Leeds. The company allows betting via its website, telephone, mobile apps and interactive television through Sky. In August 2011 Sky Bet launched its Apple iPhone and iPad app and all markets are also available via Android devices. It remains one of the few sports betting companies in the UK not to operate traditional high street shops. The company was formerly known for the slogan 'It matters more when there's money on it'. In October 2011, a major new Sky Bet advertising campaign introduced the slogan ‘Nothing’s certain, that’s why it’s exciting’ and the concept of ‘What if?’, used by Sky Bet to advertise topical, sports betting special markets.
Sky Bet is licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) (GCB).
Sky Bet had a dedicated TV channel of the same name on Sky channel 864, which closed on 13 February 2012.
Sky Bet's origins lie in BSkyB's acquisition of Sports Internet Group in July 2000[4] which included the small telephone and online sports betting based company Surrey Sports alongside two other companies; Planet Football and Opta Index. Surrey Sports was rebranded in July 2002 to create Sky Bet. The company grew in December 2006 when established online betting companies totalbet and ukbetting were consolidated into Sky Bet after BSkyB's purchase of 365 Media Group.[5] Sky Bet features heavily (through advertising and shared content) on the former 365 Media Group sites, as well as skysports.com thanks to their common ownership and proximity (they are based in nearby Leeds). Sky Bet's success has prompted Sky to branch out within the betting and gaming industry. Former professional footballer and Sky sports pundit Jamie Redknapp is the face of Sky Bet's football betting product.
Fast Withdrawal™
In October 2017, Sky Bet became the first online bookmaker in the world to offer instant withdrawals from its online platform into customers‘ bank accounts. The technology was built in-house and is called Fast Withdrawal. Withdrawals reach the customers’ accounts within two hours, but the process can also take as little as a few seconds. Upon rollout, the service was only available to Sky Bet customers with a Barclays bank account, although it will be compatible with other banking providers and payment processors in the near future.
Sky Bet Group Betting
In 2018, Sky Bet unveiled a new option that allows friends to create an accumulator bet together. This is one of the first online options to offer accumulators between people who know each other. In the past, friends have typically done group bets in person or through social media platforms.[6]
Sky Vegas
Sky Vegas is the company's primary online casino division. It currently offers an online casino website. The company's online casino offering is distinguished from the majority of its competitors in that it now plays in-browser rather than requiring a software download (currently being flash based, formerly distributed on CD). The company uses the slogan 'All the best games, all in one place'.
Sky Vegas is licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) (GCB).
Until 12 April 2011, Sky Vegas had a dedicated TV channel of the same name on Sky channel 864 (which was formerly called 'Sky Vegas Live'), when it was rebranded Sky Bet.
'Sky Bet Vegas' was created in March 2003, initially with only 3 fixed odds casino-style games called 'Juicy Jackpot', 'Top Spin' and 'Super Keno'.[7] As its name indicated, it was then part of Sky Bet but has since been made separate and rebranded to simply 'Sky Vegas'. When limitations on broadcasting Casino games through IDTV were lifted, the company began to offer games through its interactive facility alongside the Sky Vegas Live channel, which showed betting opportunities such as Virtual Horse and Greyhound races. Both the online casino and the television channel re-branded as Sky Vegas in January 2008, with the television channel later being renamed the Sky Bet channel in April 2011.
Sky Casino
Sky Casino is the company's premium online casino site, with a focus on live table games.
Sky Poker
Sky Poker is the company's online poker division, which allows users to play poker on their website using a browser, or via their download client. Like Sky Vegas, the company offers its service in browser as well as through the downloadable software. Sky Poker also has a mobile app, enabling users on the IOS platform to play poker on the go. Compatible with both iPhone and iPads, the tablet app was launched in May 2014, with the phone version following a few weeks later.
The company uses the slogan 'Up Your Game,' which tries to encourage players to increase their poker skills and knowledge through providing them with strategy articles and videos, alongside regular content from their Ambassador Neil Channing. Since 2007 Sky Poker had its very own TV channel which broadcast live coverage of hands that had been played at the Sky Poker tables. A presenter would talk through the show with a Poker Analyst present, who would give feedback and tips to help players improve their skills. The latest channel that Sky Poker TV broadcast on was Sky channel 861, although this ceased activity in March 2015. Due to Sky Betting & Gaming becoming an independent company, Sky Poker since had to review its options going forward. Sky Poker TV still remains, broadcasting a live show every Tuesday on Sky Sports. The channel will still continue to produce popular content such as the Sky Poker Cash Games and the UK Poker Championships coverage.
In 2014, Sky Poker announced that poker professional Neil Channing would be their new brand Ambassador. Neil will support Sky Poker by appearing on Sky Poker TV, writing blogs and strategy articles and appearing at their very popular live event, the UK Poker Championships (UKPC) held at Nottingham based casino, Dusk Till Dawn.
Sky Poker is licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) (GCB).
Live: Sky Poker used to run the Sky Poker Tour, although these have been put on hold until further notice.
Live: Sky Poker is the official sponsor of the UK Poker Championships, in partnership with Nottingham-based casino Dusk Till Dawn. The £1,000 buy in event has attracted some extremely well known faces within the poker industry including November Niner James Akenhead, Barny Boatman and Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott. The UKPC are held bi-annually, with a full ring event in February, and a 6-max version in August. In February 2015 Sky Poker managed to successfully meet their biggest live guarantee of £1,000,000, with the winner, Fraser Bellamy taking away £200,000.
The Super Roller - Sky Poker's biggest weekly tournament held on Sundays.
Bounty Hunters - Sky Poker's most popular form of tournament, whereby players can win money for eliminating opponents.
The Turbo Open - Tuesdays tournament sees a quicken the blind structure for fast paced and action packed poker.
The Rebuy Open - Wednesday's are the home of the Rebuy Open, whereby players have the option to re-enter if they lose all of their chips, along with an optional add on.
Sky Sports Bounty Hunter - A £33 buy-in tournament, which is also shown on Sky Sports. The action is action-packed and some of the guests who have featured in the studio to cover the tournament include Luke Schwartz, Neil Channing, Ian Frazer (poker player) and WPT champion McLean Karr.
Players can also "satellite" into a tournament, which means qualifying through a series of smaller tournaments, for a small amount of money. Prize pools are subject to change. Sky Poker also offers Cash Poker, Sit & Go's and Omaha games.
Sky Poker TV
Channel 861 concluded in March 2015, although live shows still take place every Tuesday 10pm-midnight on Sky Sports 3.
Sky Poker School - Analysts and Team Sky Poker members discuss the play from viewers who submit hands for analysis. The aim is to educate poker players in skills such as position, bankroll management and bluffing.
Master Cash - A show dedicated exclusively to cash games. The biggest pots of the week are aired, along with live play from the cash tables each Saturday night.
Top of the Pots - A countdown of the 10 biggest hands in cash poker that week.
YouTube - Sky Poker also has a dedicated YouTube channel where users can watch episodes of the UK Poker Championships, alongside brushing up on their Poker skills using their strategy videos.
Sky Bingo is the company's online bingo division. The company uses the slogan 'Believe in Better Bingo', echoing Sky's 'Believe in Better'.
Sky Bingo is licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) (GCB).
Oddschecker is an odds comparison website, which compares the odds offered by the most popular betting companies that cater to British and Australian customers, including Sky Bet. It forms part of the betting content of some other sites, such as Bettingzone. The company also offers reviews and comparison of online gambling websites through its 'Casinochecker', 'Pokerchecker' and 'Bingochecker' sections.
Oddschecker was established in 2001 and acquired by Sky in 2007.[8]
Soccer Saturday Super 6
Soccer Saturday Super 6 launched in 2008, is a free-to-enter online prediction game, whereby players must correctly predict the score lines of 6 selected matches in order to win the weekly jackpot of £250,000.[9] There is a £5,000 consolation prize for the week's best performer if the jackpot is not won. Gillette Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling is the face of Soccer Saturday Super 6.
Sky Sports Fantasy Football
Sky Sports Fantasy Football in association with Gilette was improved and relaunched in 2011. Players choose and manage their own 'dream team' and score points according to the real-life performance of footballers. It is free-to-play and offers £100,000 in prizes. Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling is the face of Sky Sports Fantasy Football.
Acquisition of GoldBet
In April 2004, 365mediagroup or ukbetting as it was known at the time, the UK’s leading sports content and online gaming business, announced the acquisition of GoldBet SportWetten GmbH ("GoldBet"), the European online sports betting company, for a maximum consideration of €4.5 million, dependent on the achievement of certain performance criteria. For the year ended December 2003, GoldBet had recorded EBITDA of €260,000 on revenues of €8.5 million, with a net asset value of €246,415, and no bank debt.
Trevor Beaumont, ukbetting’s Managing Director of Gaming, believed Europe represented a significant growth opportunity for ukbetting and sought to leverage the European market, a market that he was familiar with as former Racing and Trading Director of Coral and Managing Director of Eurobet.
BSkyB then owned GoldBet in December 2006 after the purchase of 365 Media Group.[10]
↑ "Sky completes sale of Sky Bet to CVC Capital Partners". Sky plc. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 2018-04-21 – via Financial Times.
↑ "Sky sells majority stake in Sky Bet". BBC News. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
↑ Lee Mottershead (21 April 2018). "Sky Bet snapped up by Canadian betting giant Stars Group in £3.4bn mega deal". Racing Post. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
↑ "An introduction to Sky Bet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
↑ "VNUNet: Sky gambles on 365 Media Group". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
↑ Butler, Megan (August 3, 2018). "Sky Bet Introduces New 'Group Betting' Option".
↑ "Media247: New interactive Sky betting service". Retrieved 2009-01-22.
↑ Marketing Week, http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/analysis/data-strategy/people-are-requesting-a-much-more-personalised-experience/4006185.article
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The Golf Club 2019 brings the majesty of the sport to modern consoles and PC, setting a new franchise benchmark for authenticity and realism through improved gameplay and visuals, and featuring licensed PGA Tour courses. The all-new officially licensed PGA TOUR career mode takes players on an authentic journey through Q-School and the Web.com Tour to earn your right to play in a 32-tournament PGA TOUR season that includes beautifully precise replicas of PGA Tour courses that are accurate down to one-meter of resolution of the real-life courses.
Bring your golf fantasies to life with virtually endless customization options for both your courses and characters. Compete online against friends or the world in two all-new modes – Alt-Shot and Skins – that have been highly requested by The Golf Club community. And finally, back by popular demand, the Online Societies feature has expanded to allow for greater accessibility and customizability.
HB Studios, PGA TOUR, and 2K have joined forces as industry-leaders in sports, golf and gaming to deliver the deepest, most comprehensive virtual golf experience yet.
SIGNATURE AUTHENTICITY AND REALISM: The Golf Club 2019 sets a new franchise benchmark for authenticity and realism through improved ball physics, swing mechanics, swing feedback and other core gameplay mechanics. The game delivers unparalleled visual fidelity powered by award-winning and industry-leading SpeedTree® technology used in top blockbuster games and films. A completely overhauled user interface gives the entire experience a new look and feel.
PGA TOUR CAREER MODE: For the first time in the franchise’s five-year history, players will experience an all-new officially licensed PGA Tour career mode takes you on an authentic journey through Q-School and the Web.com Tour to earn a Tour Card and play in a 32-tournament season featuring beautifully precise replicas of well-known PGA Tour courses. Players will complete challenges against rival players to earn points throughout their careers, complete sponsor goals to earn licensed rewards from brands including Under Armour, and work towards the goal of ultimately competing for the FedEx Cup.
PLAY ON LICENSED PGA COURSES: In addition to the more than 170,000 user-created courses already available, players can now compete in a complete PGA Tour season over 32 events featuring fully licensed tournaments on TPC Courses including TPC Boston, TPC Southwind, TPC Summerlin, TPC Sawgrass, TPC Deere Run and TPC Scottsdale. Each course is intricately mapped using high detail terrain data powered by SpeedTree® technology, for a lifelike, immersive experience that’s accurate down to one-meter of resolution of the real-life courses.
NEW GAME MODES AND EXPANDED MULTIPLAYER, SOCIAL CAPABILITIES: The Golf Club 2019 features three different playlists including two new game modes – Alt-shot and Skins. Track results across each playlist on a leaderboard tracking Wins, Losses, Draws and any virtual currency earned.
Head to Head matchplay – Compete in match play format against other players
Teams – Play 2-4 player strokeplay, Fourball and the new mode, Alternate Shot
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SOCIETIES: Players can create online or solo groups of golfers known as societies. Like owning a golf clubhouse and course, the game allows players to start a clubhouse, grow their members, upgrade their clubhouse, and run tournaments with control over event requirements, conditions, entry fees, payouts, bonus purses and even alternative events for members who don’t qualify for the society’s main events. Society owners can now add other players as Admins and earn virtual currency from their societies.
COURSE DESIGNER: The award-winning course designer has returned to this installment of the Golf Club and is bigger and better than ever. Players can design, build and share courses online using cutting edge procedural generation and with powerful terrain editing tools. New features include optimized autofill options when drawing splines and painting surfaces, and an extensive library of 400+ props for designers with which to create. Players can share their courses across platforms so any player can access it, no matter what platform they play on.
FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE CHARACTER EDITOR: The Golf Club 2019 features a robust and expanded character editor. Some of the new character customization options include licensed apparel with brands like Under Armor, as well as the ability to select new club heads, complete with membership selection, Clubhouse enhancements and tournaments. All character customizations are cosmetic and do not influence gameplay, allowing players to customize their characters however they like without any consequences to their golf game.
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Kernel swells land bank by 190,000 ha
Ukrainian farmer and leading sunflower oil producer Kernel (KER PW, KERPW) announced on June 2 that it has completed an acquisition of a 92.1% interest in Russian-owned Ukrainian Agrarian Investments, which manages about 190,000 ha of leasehold farmland and has about 0.2 mmt of grain storage capacity. Kernel expects to complete the acquisition of the remaining 7.9% interest before July 1, 2017. The company said it will pay USD 155 mln in cash for the complete stake in the business, which has positive net working capital and a net debt in excess of USD 30 mln.
Our view: Following the acquisition, Kernel’s total land bank will reach about 575,000 ha. The acquired land bank of 190,000 ha is more than the 150,000 ha that Kernel initially planned to purchase at a price of about USD 150 mln. We estimate that this land bank acquisition can potentially add up to USD 50 mln to the company’s annual EBITDA, and we do not rule out the possibility that Kernel might announce more land acquisitions soon.
We think that a most likely target would be the acquisition of Agro Invest Holding, which belongs to Serbian businessman Miodrag Kostic. The company cultivates around 40,000 hectares of land producing 175 kt of grain annually, and operates two grain elevators with a total capacity of 174 kt. As a sign of Kernel’s interest, the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine granted the company permission last month to acquire Agro Invest Holding.
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Largest Tour Ever
Sacramento's Roberts Family Development Center Brings 500 Kids to Experience a Taste of College Life
Sonoma State University Provost Lisa Vollendorf asked the 500 children visiting the campus from Sacramento's Roberts Family Development Center on July 13 how many students attend Sonoma State. "It's more than a thousand," she replied to one. "No, it's less than 5 million," she told another. "It's about 10,000. This is a school where the faculty and teachers know your name," she told the largest group ever to visit Sonoma State for a tour.
This was the second annual "I Am the Future Day" visit by RFDC, who was also invited last year by President Judy K. Sakaki to experience a taste of college life. The K-8 students were treated to lunch in the student cafeteria The Kitchens, activities and demonstrations with faculty and staff throughout the day, and dinner and a movie al fresco on Weill Lawn at the Green Music Center.
Vollendorf, who officially began her tenure as Provost about two weeks prior on July 1, encouraged the children to envision themselves as college students. "As you walk around, think about becoming a student here and think about telling your brothers, sisters and friends that if they work hard in school, Sonoma State is a place for them too," she said.
RFDC serves mostly African-American youth in underserved areas of Sacramento. Most of the children in the program would be the first in their family to go to college, so having an experience like this is important to plant the idea of college in their minds, say RFDC program coordinators.
President Sakaki has made diversity and inclusivity a priority throughout her higher education career. Since beginning her tenure as President at Sonoma State, she has continuously supported initiatives and programs with the message that everyone can go to college, including attaining federal recognition for Sonoma State as a Hispanic Serving Institution earlier this year.
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SSU hosts 400 kids to highlight higher ed
Inside Sonoma State University’s Person Theater, hundreds of K-8 students from the Roberts Family Development Center fidgeted in their seats while echoing a familiar phrase. “G-O-O-D M-O-R-N-I-N-G, good morning, good morning, good morning,” chanted the students in unison, following the mulitude...
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Hosting the Next Generation
Sonoma State University hosted the largest visiting group of young children in the school's history on July 22 when President Judy K. Sakaki welcomed more than 400 elementary and middle school students from the Roberts Family Development Center (RFDC) in Sacramento to the University to...
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Joy of Discovery
When a Sonoma State University chemistry student asked a crowd of curious third graders if anyone knew what yeast was used for, the response was accurate, but not quite expected. “Yeah, my dad uses that stuff to make beer,” replied a girl, who giggled along with her peers and the parent...
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The Political Dimension of Facebook and Firearms
Judith Harris (April 25, 2019)
Salvini Holding a Machine Gun
Luca Morisi
Facebook in Italy is as much a political power tool as anywhere else. Now meet the informatics genius who lurks behind the country's most popular politician Matteo Salvini.
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The Easter holiday is normally a time to speak of peace, but not at the Roman party we attended. Matteo Salvini, who is Italy's Interior Minister, Deputy Premier and the head of the rightist Lega party, had just appeared in a Facebook photo embracing a machine gun, and few spoke of anything else. "He's right," enthused (now former friend) Maria over dessert. As the rest of us looked on blankly over strawberries and cream, she smiled. "When I was a little girl we didn't need anything similar, but times have changed. Today having a gun is a necessity."
As this indicates, Facebook in Italy is as much a political power tool as anywhere else. What struck many was that Salvini himself did not post the photo, though some reports claimed he did. It seems that it was his clever spin doctor, Luca Morisi, 46, who is described as the "man behind Salvini's social network." When Salvini was criticized for clutching the gun, Morisi responded that the critics "are doing everything they can to cast mud" on the Lega. "We are approaching the European elections, and they are inventing all they can to stop the Captain [Salvini]. But we are armed and wearing helmets!" wrote Morisi in his own Facebook site.
Morisi is considered by many to be the brains behind Salvini's victory at the elections. Until four years ago Morisi taught courses at the University of Verona in such subjects as "The Web Sites of Philosophy" and the "Philosophy Laboratory of Informatics." Born in Mantua, he edited a regular weekly page on informatics for its local daily "La Voce di Mantova". Morisi had been a Lega Nord provincial counselor from 1993 to 1997. He says that his relationship with Salvini came about because of Facebook: "I had a kind of falling in love," he told Milan journalist Matteo Pucciarelli, "due to my realizing his enormous capacity to manage a talk show. I recall that Salvini was the first ever seen with an iPad on [the TV show of] Bruno Vespa, and this made me curious since I am passionately interested in communication." Salvini, Morisi went on to say, "mixes the dimension of the private and of amusement with the political, that is his anti-political strength. He pays no heed to palazzo ritual."
Joining Salvini's staff, Morisi set out to use social media to promote the man he dubbed "Il Capitano." His Facebook postings for Salvini included a competition to see how many "mi piace" (likes) the Captain's supporters could churn up. From 2 million prior to the national general elections last year Morisi almost doubled the post-election likes, which soared up to 3.5 million. Offered as the prize for the supporters who invoked the largest number of "likes" was the chance to enjoy "private phone conversations and meetings" and even photos with Salvini, that would naturally be posted on Facebook. Facebook shots of Salvini with admirers in cheering selfie crushes are routine. Morisi himself now has over 13,000 Twitter followers and 24,000 on Facebook, according to the financial daily Il Sole-24 Ore.
Promoting easier gun laws has a long history. Founder of the Northern League, the local party that Salvini transformed into the nationwide Lega, which is now Italy's largest single political organization, was the largely disgraced Umberto Bossi. A decade ago Bossi called for "300,000 armed people in the valleys of Bergamo." Until recently, however, Italians save for hunters were not usually armed for self-protection. But as CBS News reported March 16, "Analysts say a growing sense of insecurity... are bringing a shift in Italy's gun laws." In fact, last September new and less restrictive legislation was passed, making gun purchases easier. Gun owners can now possess up to 10 long firearms (double the previous five) and in the clip 29 short firearms bullets. Ownership of a gun license requires only reporting it directly to Carabinieri or police by certified email.
In summer 2018 Salvini publicly supported the Italian gun lobby, already backed by fellow European gun lobbies. Albeit far less powerful than the NRA in the U.S., one of the most prominent of the European gun lobbies is FACE (European Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation), with 11 full-time lobbyists and a $1.2 million annual budget, according to the EU transparency registry. Meantime the EU is attempting to make gun laws, including over semi-automatic firearms, more restrictive in Europe.
Terror attacks as in Belgium and France are not the sole reason behind EU proposals for tougher gun laws, said an EU Commission spokesperson. "We cannot ignore that legal firearms have been used in other tragic events where children were killed in a school or young people massacred in a holiday camp. This directive is not about terrorism, but about firearms and public security." But FACE is battling this.
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Lessons Learned from the NRA
I wonder how long it will be before the articles come out about the Italian gun lobby being a conduit for Russian money laundering the same way the NRA is in the United States. https://www.csis.org/blogs/kremlin-playbook-spotlight/kremlin-playbook-spotlight-intersection-italian-state-media-and
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Ryan will release two years of tax returns; says he gave Romney team 'several years'
CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – Rep. Paul Ryan said Sunday he gave Mitt Romney's vice presidential vetting team "several years" of personal income tax returns, and that he would release two years of those returns to the public – the same number as Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee.
Democrats, as well as some Republicans, have called on Romney to release more than his 2010 and 2011 information, saying the voting public is entitled to know more about a candidate's financial history. Romney has consistently responded by saying his level of disclosure is beyond the legal amount and that two years give a good reflection of his tax situation.
"It was a very exhaustive vetting process," Ryan said on CBS' "60 Minutes." "It's a confidential vetting process, so there were several years. But I'm going to release the same amount of years that Gov. Romney has."
A spokesman for Ryan later confirmed that the presumptive vice presidential nominee would release two years of income tax returns "as soon as we're ready."
Romney has disclosed his income tax returns from 2010, and released an estimate of his 2011 tax information in April. He has vowed to release 2011's full return one it's completed by his accountant.
Democrats say the lack of disclosure puts Romney at odds with a precedent for presidential candidates set by his father, George, the former Michigan governor who released 12 years of his tax returns when running for president in 1968.
Some Republican observers, including the editorial pages of the National Review and the New Hampshire Union Leader, have urged Romney to release more of his returns to quiet the political debate.
Ryan said Sunday that voters weren't interested in his or Romney's taxes, and were looking for the two presidential campaigns to return to substantive issues of economic policies.
"What I hear from people around this country, they're not asking, 'Where are the tax returns?' They're asking where the jobs are. 'Where's the economic growth?' Those are the issues that matter," Ryan said.
The calls for more disclosure "are more or less distractions to try and take us off the fact that the president has given us failed policies that aren't working," Ryan said, saying the Republican campaign would instead "focus on what it takes to turn this country around and get people back to work."
CNN National Political Correspondent Jim Acosta contributed to this report.
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Romney is not standing down the Russians or something. Why will he not just show us his tax returns?
Paul Ryan is going to do a terrific job distracting people from Romney's tax returns. It's a shame because I'd like to see an economic wonk like Ryan defend those returns. It would be very telling of the Right's POV.
Larry L
Ryan says "voters aren't interested in hir or Romney's tax returns". You WISH voters weren't interested in your tax returns! All we know about your returns now is you're hiding information from the American people you feel would cost you the election. Do you believe Americans don't have a right to know the honesty of their leaders? You plan to trash Medicare and Social Security and you just say "I wouldn't be dishonest... trust me... don't look at the man behind the screen..."
kdbroom
I find it awfully hypocritical that Romney demands "several years" of tax returns from Ryan, but is only willing to give us one year (with a promise of a second sometime down the road). Nice "Do as I say, not as I do" leadership approach there Mitt. We always hated that while in the military.
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@ Paul.... if it is indeed a 'distraction' as you claim... tell Miit to release his taxes for at least 12 years like his Father... and 'We The People' will sort out whether it is a distraction or not...
Has the left demanded Four yet????
bobusa
Mr paul u getting it all wrong buddy it seems you need to understand that u want american citizens to hire u as our president of this great nation so if u want to be consider a position my friend with all due respect u better polish ur resume which off course includes ur uncle sam returns bcus d position u are applying for covers all those areas so i will not trust u to govern me and my income if i do not see ur full record bcus to me is like asking a mouse looking after peanut butter so american peoples are politically and economically aware so coming in to this race like you own us is totally wrong where were u whenMr Bush put us in to this economic sunami ? U did not propose ur socall Rhyan buget bcus its the same one under mr BUSH so explain urself fully to the american peoples that ur plan and mr BUSH plans are different and more over half ofMr Romneys economic advisers all cross capeted from George w bush cabinet so this are the same folkes that crafted this economic crises and u still want to put us inan abyss
Why did Romney want to see more than 2 years of income tax info, just to be VP?
Whenever I read a quote from the R/R campaign I fell like i'm being talked down to. Whether it's the "we've realeasd all you people need to know" statement from the Mrs. or the "as we soon as we are ready" statement from Ryans people in reference to Ryans taxes. Mitt also required more than two years worht of returns from Ryan, however Romney/Ryan decided that only releasing two years worth would lend credibility to MItts refusal to release more. Thier campaign thinks we're dumb and that they are fooling us. Ryan says that no one cares about thier tax issues which proves he too is out of touch with us 99%ers because thats all anyone's been talking about for months. They shouldnt expect that scrutiny to stop any time soon. Who knows, maybe they BOTH have something to hide. Romney can't represent us because he's never been us.
Redmustang03
Well if Ryan can give several years of tax returns to Romney and only TWO years to the public then it just shows how secretive the campaign is. At least Ryan is giving more than one year which two years is still weak sauce. I checked out he Obama site and he and Biden put out tax returns dating back to 2000. Still with Mitt, basically to release even ONE year of tax returns basically everyone from the media to his opponents had to twist his arm.
I think that is okay that Ryan does that. Romney needs to release more because Ryan and other members of Congress have disclosures that they need to make.
This will come back to haunt them !!!
Well, I'm interested in Romney's tax returns. Who is this "no-one" he speaks of ?
Yeah, sorry, but you're wrong. The request for taxes is because we want to see if Gov. Romney observes the spirit of the law or only the letter of the law. Is he a patriot doing all that he can for America, or is he hiding his money offshore, doing all that he can for himself? It's not a distraction – it's a valid point of assessment of the man who wants to lead our country. Funny how the same people who demanded a birth certificate won't demand Romney's taxes. What a bunch of self-serving hypocrits.
Blayze Kohime
So wait; Romney requires that his running mate give him their tax returns, but will not give up his OWN tax returns? Double standards much?
I can't believe how arrogant the Romney-Ryan duo are to think they can get away without showing more of their tax returns. This shows they are trying to hide the fact that they paid less in taxes than the middle class! My friends and I would never vote for someone without knowing if they are honest and trustworthy to lead this country! America will vote against you on election day!
fullclarity
No, Paul and MItt, we are interested in full disclosure of your taxes. Perception becomes reality, and, in your cases, the reality is that both of you are hiding something from the American people. Now is the time to be honest with us.
IndTexas
is it possible that the only reason Ryan is NOT hearing for tax returns of Romney during his travels is because he is only speaking to groups that support Romney? I'm just saying! Wouldn't logic suggest that those who are trying to decide if he is hiding something would be the only undecided voters they are trying to convince to vote for Romney/Ryan?
alexpdx
That's too funny. I've been wondering if Ryan would show solidarity with Romney and release only 2 years – and in turn make BOTH of them look bad, or if he would release more and make Romney look worse!
Shame on the Romney camp but have at it! This issue will not go away, the thorn in their side will only grow.
It's nice to see Romney and Ryan aren't playing into the games of those insisting on seeing more then is required by law. It's clear that to show more would only play into the hands of those who are looking for fodder to distract people from the horrible job Obama has done for 3.5 years. Go Romney/Ryan! 🙂
nmmell08
Ryan's taxes I can't see having too many issues, he has been working in DC since he was 28. Where is Romney's though, I and a lot of people want the dispcrepency b/c his statements and the FCC cleared up
Ryan said Sunday that voters weren't interested in his or Romney's taxes, and were looking for the two presidential campaigns to return to substantive issues of economic policies
LISTEN VERY CLOSELY REPRESENTATIVE RYAN...AS A VOTER I AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS ARE ASKING WHERE ARE THE TAX RETURNS. how arrogent of you to say otherwise.
tocheat
for mortgage, i give three years tax returns and the person who runs the country will give two...
If Mr. Ryan is for smaller government why would he run for two offices at one time?
Things have gotten bad since the 2008 election, so how can he justify running for two offices at one time and if they win the people of Wisconsin would have to hold a special election to replace him at a cost of millions of dollars.
I hope that he and Mr. Romney will do well this election, but if he is the real conservative then put it all on the line?( health care and salary to fight the pre
Americans are not the morons the Republicans wish we were.
Of course Romney insisted on seeing several years of Ryan's tax returns before he gave him his vote of confidence.
What kind of moron wouldn't?
I'm holding Romney and Ryan to the same standard Romney held Ryan.
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Dresden Enterprise Apr 24 1896 - The Illustrated Edition Part 2 "A Dead Town"
This is the second in a multi-part series featuring the April 24 1896 edition of the Dresden Enterprise. If you missed the previous post you can find part one here. The following segment was written tongue in cheek by an unknown contributor and is entitled "A Dead Town."
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A DEAD TOWN
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Eleven years ago, when the effort was being made to abolish the charter of Dresden, and thereby drive the saloon from the town, the economics of the movement urged with zeal and eloquence, with argument and invective, that the result of success would be the destruction of the business of the town----a wiping out of all public spirit, and end to progress, in short, that Dresden would soon be a "dead town." In spite of these doleful predictions, in the face of the convincing arguments thus offered, with the certain prospect of ruin before them, a majority of the people rushed heedlessly to their doom, and Dresden ceased to be an incorporated town, the majority, in its blindness, deciding that the absence of a police and no whisky was more tolerable than the presence of both.
Eleven years have now elapsed and our citizens are able to see the effect of their greivous (sic) error, in the
fact that new residences have been built in the village by only the few persons whose names follow, at an average cost of not exceeding one thousand dollars, towit: Gus Atkins, V H Davis, R T Overton, J F Brinkley, G Landres, Wm McCuan, B Jackson, W.J Reavis, Nat Moore, E H Ayres (e), Joe Nanney, G W Winstead, R G Maloan, the Methodist Parsonage, J A Irvine, G A Dowd, J G Thomason (2), G S Boyd, T A McElwrath, C P Meadows, John McGlothlin, J E Jones, A V Boden, T M Little J W Moran, T L Woods, (3), J B Jolly, C A Bailey (2), Joe Loyd, G I Baxter, J W Killebrew, A E Gardner (2), J R Thomason, T A McElwrath, H W Paschall, W H Riddle (2), W T Mangum, Jeff Harris, H L Hill, C M Ewing and J W Rogers, besides the remodelling and rebuilding of the residences of J A Gibbs, Lea
Harris, W C Holt, and Will Fuller, and among the colored people Cullen Edwards, Nancy Bondurant, Ike Fowler, Bledsoe and Ruffan Rogers, and several others whose names we do not now recall.
The business houses erected are, six iron fronts, one by J.M. Meadows on lot that stood vacant since the great fire here in the 60's, three by J.W. Moran, one each by J.A. Gibbs and B.D. Irvine, and the two-story Brick hotel, on north side of the square.
The brick banking houses of the Henry County Bank and Weakley County Bank, the brick livery stable of J.A. Paschall and the iron roofed and weatherboarded livery stable of E.A. Maloan; while two story frame buildings have been built A.V Boden, B.D. Irvine and E.L. Rogers. The J.W. Rogers frames, The Enterprise Office and T.L. Woods' business house have been remodelled. Wm. McCuan built a business house near the depot, and McCuan's and Fuller Bro's., tobacco warehouses and the spoke factory, giving employment to fifty men and supporting as many families, complete the list of business houses.
Irvine & Scott
The public buildings are limited to two churches, two school houses and the new depot. To be strictly just we must not omit the establishment of the Weakley County Bank and the Dresden Bank, neither of which has during the long continued depression failed to meet promptly every demand, and both of which have paid fair dividends to the stockholders.
As a striking contrast to this doleful record of sloth, inertness and decline, let us now look at the rapid growth, striking progress and marked prosperity during the ten years preceding the suicidal act of its citizens in repealing its charter, during which time residences were erected by the following persons, greatly to the delight of every lover of the town, towit; M.D. Cardwell, R.N. Irvine, S.P. Scott and J.M. Meadows, at an average cost of probably not less than $1,500. The Irvine& Scott flouring mill was also built during this period, but has been entirely refitted with new machinery of the latest construction and most approved styles within the last few years.
Of public buildings, there was built during that ten years, THE JAIL.
In the face of these startling facts, of this record of decline and degeneration, of rapidly approaching death there are, strange as it may seem, men in our town who are not ashamed to admit that
they assisted in the fatal act which has brought such ruin and destruction upon our town, and obstinately assert that they have no regrets for what they have done. There are even some blinded, hard-headed and misguided individuals, who go so far as to say they would like to see the town "ruined some more," on the same lines.
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part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve, part thirteen, part fourteen, part fifteen, part sixteen, part seventeen, part eighteen, part nineteen, part twenty, part twenty-one, part twenty-two, part twenty-three.
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Home » Africa » Monkeypox update: Eight cases reported in CAR
Monkeypox update: Eight cases reported in CAR
by News Desk
In a follow-up on the monkeypox outbreak in Bambari district, Central African Republic (CAR), a total of eight cases with zero deaths have been reported as of Mar. 25 since the start of the outbreak.
CAR Ministry of Health declared an outbreak on Mar. 17 in the sub-district of Ippy.
Four of the eight cases (50%) were male; all cases were over 5 years of age. As of 25 March 2018, three patients were hospitalized.
Laboratory samples were collected from all patients and have been tested by Institut Pasteur in Bangui. Six of the eight suspected cases have tested positive for monkeypox virus. One contact of a case developed suspicious lesions and laboratory confirmation is pending.
Monkeypox is a largely self-limiting disease i.e. a disease that resolves itself. Generalized vesicular skin rashes, fever, and painful jaw swelling are characteristic symptoms associated with an infection. Although there is no specific medicine to treat the disease, when intensive supportive care is provided virtually all patients recover fully, as we have seen with the current outbreak.
People at risk for monkeypox are those who get bitten by an infected animal or if you have contact with the animal’s rash, blood or body fluids. It can also be transmitted person to person through respiratory or direct contact and contact with contaminated bedding or clothing.
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PA Scale Donates Floor Scale to Water Street Rescue Mission
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New scale simplifies food donation weighing
LANCASTER, PA (January 2018) –Pennsylvania Scale Company, a leading U.S. manufacturer of scales and scale indicators, recently donated a Model 6600 Platform Floor Scale to the Water Street Rescue Mission in Lancaster, PA, to simplify weighing of food donations. The Water Street Rescue Mission is a non-profit organization that offers food, shelter, and health services to the homeless. The Mission accepts hundreds of thousands of pounds in food donations annually and serves more than 400 meals each day.
“The Mission will use the floor scale to weigh incoming food donations,” explained Amy Bartholomew, Water Street Rescue Mission director of partnership development. “It will save volunteer staff valuable time that can now be spent on other important Mission needs.”
The new scale was installed in the Mission’s loading dock area where it will weigh food donations as they arrive. The 48″ by 48″ scale platform allows dock receivers to easily place and weigh a wide array of box or container sizes and can also accommodate bags or other randomly shaped items.
Pennsylvania Scale Company is a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty weighing and parts counting products. Proudly made in the USA, Pennsylvania Scale’s products are reliable, accurate, durable, and easy-to-use. With an anticipated lifespan of 20+ years, Pennsylvania Scale products are known for their Sustained Accuracy™ and are backed by the longest warranties in the industry. For more information, visit www.pascale.com.
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JUDr. Jitka Kupcova
Date of birth: in year 1952
Constituency: Southern Bohemia
Elected on the slate of: ČSSD
Seznam činností
member from 15. 6. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
vicepresident from 11. 7. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
Organisational Committee, member from 16. 7. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
Organisational Committee, vice-chairwoman from 16. 7. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
Subcommittee for the preparation of Law Amendments concerning the Rules of Procedure of the Chamber of Deputies, member from 13. 11. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
Temopary commission on the Constitution, member from 18. 4. 2003 till 15. 6. 2006
Temopary commission on the Constitution, chairwoman from 18. 4. 2003 till 15. 6. 2006
Political group Czech Social Democratic Party, member from 21. 6. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
Interparliamentary Friendship Group
Czech republic - Czech Republic - United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Group, member from 11. 12. 2002 till 15. 6. 2006
Czech republic - Czech Republic - Slovakia Inter-Parliamentary Group, member from 5. 3. 2003 till 15. 6. 2006
The Supervisory Board of the General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic, from 9. 5. 2006 till 9. 5. 2010
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Russia Signals OPEC and Allies Could Raise Oil Output From June
One of the key Russian officials to foster a supply pact with OPEC, Kirill Dmitriev, signaled on Monday that Russia wanted to raise oil output when it meets with OPEC in June because of improving market conditions and falling stockpiles.
Dmitriev, head of Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF, was the first Russian official to predict a deal with OPEC in 2016 and since then has become a key defender of the pact despite pressure from domestic oil firms to drop the agreement.
Dmitriev, an envoy for Moscow in the Middle East in general and Saudi Arabia in particular, had in recent months said it was still too early to terminate output cuts, echoing the position of OPEC’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia.
But in an apparent change of position, Dmitriev said on Monday supply cuts may not be required after June.
“It is quite possible that given the improving market situation and falling stocks, [OPEC and its allies] could decide in June this year to abandon supply cuts and subsequently increase output,” Dmitriev told a conference in Moscow.
“This decision will not mean the end of the deal, but a confirmation that participants continue their coordinating efforts when it is important not only to cut but to increase output depending on market conditions,” he told the conference.
Speaking to reporters on Monday evening, Dmitriev added that it could be appropriate for Russia to increase output by 228,000 barrels per day, by which it had previously cut production, “and maybe even further.”
“It is possible that as part of the June [meeting] a decision may be taken, subject to market conditions at that time, that it is necessary to remove these reductions,” he said.
Dmitriev and energy minister Alexander Novak have come under increased pressure over the past year from firms such as Rosneft , whose boss Igor Sechin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has said Russia should abandon output cuts.
Sechin is arguing that Russia is losing market share to the United States, which is not participating in production cuts and has hence been boosting output to record levels of some 12 million barrels per day.
Russia and Saudi Arabia produce around 11 million and 10 million barrels respectively, but could raise output fairly quickly if needed.
In January, Dmitriev said Russia should not unleash an oil price war against the United States but rather stick with output cuts even at the cost of losing market share in the medium term.
Saudi Energy Khalid al-Falih has also said it was important to extend oil cuts until the end of the year.
But on Monday he said the market was moving towards balance and added that the picture would become clearer in May.
Global oil markets have tightened despite booming U.S. production after Washington imposed new sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, reducing their output and exports and effectively grabbing their market share.
OPEC and its allies had to cancel their meeting in April and will now convene on June 25-26 as officials said they needed to see first what new sanctions Washington will impose on Iran in early May.
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Bell on Bell's theorem: The changing face of nonlocality
Brown, Harvey R. and Timpson, Christopher Gordon (2014) Bell on Bell's theorem: The changing face of nonlocality. [Preprint]
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Between 1964 and 1990, the notion of nonlocality in Bell's papers underwent a profound change as his nonlocality theorem gradually became detached from quantum mechanics, and referred to wider probabilistic theories involving correlations between separated beables. The proposition that standard quantum mechanics is itself nonlocal (more precisely, that it violates `local causality') became divorced from the Bell theorem per se from 1976 on, although this important point is widely overlooked in the literature. In 1990, the year of his death, Bell would express serious misgivings about the mathematical form of the local causality condition, and leave ill-defined the issue of the consistency between special relativity and violation of the Bell-type inequality. In our view, the significance of the Bell theorem, both in its deterministic and stochastic forms, can only be fully understood by taking into account the fact that a fully Lorentz-covariant version of quantum theory, free of action-at-a-distance, can be articulated in the Everett interpretation.
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Pullman 43-CX #801
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Ave. Colon. World`s oldest regularly operating trolleybus (manufactured in Dec. 1946) continues its everyday service on Valpo`s streets.
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Place: Valparaíso (Valparaíso) | Owner: TCSA Valparaíso | Transport Authority: TMV Valparaíso | Route: 802
NAW BT 5-25 / Hess #269
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Ave. Argentina. Since 2014, Valparaíso received a total of 18 NAW/Hess trolleybuses from Luzern (Switzerland). They fully replaced older Swiss units (including all artics) as well as the few Chinese Norinco-Shenfengs.
14 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Blanco. Rebuilt Pullman just a few blocks before finishing its westbound trip at the Aduana terminus.
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Edwars. Unit #276 just passed the Victory Sq, located in the middle of the line and separating its western section, running on one-way streets through the oldest part of the city, from the two-way eastern section on Colon and Argentina avenues.
Pullman TC-48 #709
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Condell. In the city core, trolleybuses compete for passengers with privately-owned minibuses, which reminded me of many ex-USSR cities ;)
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Blanco Sur. Swiss trolley passing by the statue of Manuel Blanco, Chile`s first president.
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Ave. Argentina. One of the 10 oldtimers currently serving Valparaiso`s only trolleybus line. Few more units are stored in the company`s parking lot.
14 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Ave. Colon. The 1.6 km / 1 mi two-way section along Columbus Avenue encompasses approx. one third of Valparaiso`s trolleybus system.
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15 february 2018 - Valparaíso metro area, Villa Alemana - Sargento Aleda. The 43 km/27 mi long metro line in Chile`s second largest city commenced operations in 2005, based on a former commuter railroad. This picture shows the first out of 27 Alstom 100 units delivered along with the metro`s opening.
Place: Valparaíso (Valparaíso) | Owner: Metro Valparaíso | Transport Authority: TMV Valparaíso | Route: Metro
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Av. Espana, Puerto - Bellavista. The first section of Valpo`s metro line runs along the city`s container port. The terminus, called simply `Puerto` (Port), is located on the ground level of the rainbow building seen in the background.
Alstom X`Trapolis Modular #31
14 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Portales - Recreo. One of the 8 recently delivered Xtrapolis trains illuminated by the setting sun.
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso metro area, Vina del Mar, Miramar station. One of the four underground stations on the metro`s only longer tunnel section(4 km / 2.6 mi), which runs under the central street of Vina del Mar, the area`s major seaside resort.
Place: Viña del Mar (Valparaíso) | Owner: Metro Valparaíso | Transport Authority: TMV Valparaíso | Route: Metro
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso metro area, Quilpué - El Salto. Running towards the suburbs, metro trains ascend from the sea level up to 375 m/1200 ft, cutting through several hills.
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso, Portales - Baron. There are several cities on the Western Hemisphere`s Pacific coast served by urban rail systems (e.g. Los Angeles, San Diego, Lima), but only in Valparaíso you can shoot a train running along the ocean.
15 february 2018 - Valparaíso metro area, La Concepcion - Villa Alemana. During the peak hours (0630-0930, 1300-1400, 1700-2000), selected trips are operated with two-unit trains.
Place: Villa Alemana (Valparaíso) | Owner: Metro Valparaíso | Transport Authority: TMV Valparaíso | Route: Metro
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Home > N° 8 (2013) > Campolmi
Approaches to Sustainable Development in Contemporary Museology
Irene Campolmi
Sustainable development has become a leading value of the 21st century society. Throsby’s and Hutter’s recent studies on inter and intra-generational equity, diversity maintenance and interdependence have demonstrated that sustainability values promote a different perspective on cultural institutions. Particularly, they incite to reorganize the production and consumption patterns, and rethink about the construction of meanings in permanent displays. The paper wants to explore how sustainability principles are an approach to develop a “sustainable museology”, which cares about making visitors more critic and aware of the political, sociological, epistemological and cultural implications that lay behind the making of exhibitions. Museums undertaking a sustainable development of their narrative making processes overpass the Foucauldian idea of art museums as heterotopy, (space of otherness), and approach that of archétopy. This model offers rooms to rethink about narratives as stakeholders’ collective processes capable to “meet the needs of the present without compromising those of the future generations”, as stated in the “Brundtland Commision” Report of 1987. The last display done by the Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie is analysed as a case-study for archétopy.
Il paper analizza il concetto di sostenibilità nelle politiche governative dei musei d’arte. Lo studio osserva tale valore da un punto di vista sia teorico che pratico e cita l’esempio dei grandi musei europei, facendo più volte riferimento al caso della Tate Modern di Londra. Se da un lato l’argomento è esplicitamente collegato ai musei d’arte in quanto essi operano per la sostenibilità del bene comune, dall’altro i musei europei hanno basato le proprie politiche culturali adottando il così detto approccio “three bottom” già intrapreso dalle grandi aziende e dalle business companies. Tale approccio si basa sull’elaborazione di politiche attente alla sostenibilità ambientale, economica e sociale che i musei scelgono di adottare per incrementare i propri finanziamenti. Ne risulta che l’attenzione alla sostenibilità delle politiche governative di un museo è legata a questioni economiche piuttosto che culturali. Tuttavia, la sostenibilità delle politiche culturali nei musei d’arte moderna risiede non solo nel seguire strategie economiche e ambientali, ma principalmente nel creare iniziative che offrano nuove prospettive curatoriali e idee manageriali. Il modello di museo attento alla sostenibilità delle proprie politiche oltrepassa la nozione foucauldiana che il museo d’arte sia “eterotopia”, e cioè spazio dove l’arte viene presentata come un fenomeno che accade lontano dalla realtà. Al contrario, tale modello agisce come “archetopia”, ovvero come luogo in cui l’elaborazione di decisioni, narrative e significati legati alla collezione e alla storia dell’arte coinvolge tutti gli stakeholders (curatori, visitatori e trustees) sin dal principio (archè) del processo creativo.
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Musk stunned Wall Street last week when he said on Twitter that he meant to take Tesla private at $420 per share, and added that funding was secured. At this point, it is unknown exactly what information the SEC wants to obtain from Tesla, as the subpoena itself has not been made public, however the likely materials sought would be material proof supporting the claim that funding had been secured for taking the company private.
The subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission demands information from each of Tesla's nine directors, according to a story published on Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.
Musk on Monday explained in a blog post that his statements about financing were based on his conversations with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and other investors.
Tesla's board of directors has been scrambling to contain any potential damage caused by Musk's August 7 tweet.
Saudi Aramco said last month it was working on a possible purchase of a strategic stake in SABIC from the PIF's 70% holding of company estimated at $70bn, but that deal needs months to develop.
Analysts said the watchdog's issuing of subpoenas against a company normally indicated it had begun a formal investigation into an issue.
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", Martin Tripp tweeted on Wednesday evening, before sending out dozens of photos that he alleges came from inside of Tesla.
The "Saudi sovereign fund has more than enough capital needed to execute on such a transaction", he suggested.
According to Bloomberg, the Saudi Fund disclosed in March that it hired Washington law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to lobby for approval of acquisitions in the USA, with a focus on CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.).
That tweet may have violated U.S. securities law if he misled investors. President Donald Trump's administration is stepping up scrutiny of foreign investment in American technology. However, as of Tuesday, Goldman was still negotiating its terms of engagement with Musk, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Tesla says it has formed a special committee of three independent directors to asses any proposal from Mr Musk.
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Ohr is linked to a dossier on Trump's campaign and Russian Federation , compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy. In his Friday comments, Trump said he had gotten "tremendous response" for his action against Brennan .
Turkey court rejects United States pastor Andrew Brunson release appeal
Standard & Poor's is scheduled to release a review of Turkey's sovereign credit rating after market close on Friday. Referring to Brunson, Trump said: "They have a great Christian pastor there, he's a very innocent man".
Pakistani opener Nasir Jamshed banned for 10 years over spot-fixing scandal
Jamshed has been accused of non-cooperation, contact with bookies, persuading other players for spot-fixing and concealing facts. The 28-year-old batsman had played just 2 Test matches, 45 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 18 T20 Internationals for Pakistan.
British Columbia declares state of emergency over…
The federal government has approved the deployment of about 200 members of the armed forces to help with firefighting efforts. During the 2017 wildfire season, B.C. was in a provincial state of emergency for 10 weeks, from July 7 to September 15.
United States announces 'Action Group' to coordinate anti-Iran efforts
In his new job, Hook is to oversee implementation of the administration's entire Iran policy, the officials said. Ambassador to the United Nations under Republican President George W.
Interim information minister departs for Vajpayee’s funeral
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Death toll rises to 42 in Italy bridge collapse ahead of funerals
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Celebrations begin for Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas' engagement
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Australian Teenager Reportedly Hacked Apple's Network
The Age reports that prosecutors told the court that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) raided the teen's home previous year . According to Australian newspaper The Age , the hacking tools and instructions were saved in a folder named "hacky hack hack".
Majesty and Urgency: Aretha Franklin Remembered, By Her Peers and Her Heirs
She also recalled receiving a call from Franklin, who wanted to have her nephew or grandson send her his music. Hopefully the show can help all of Franklin's fans grieve while also celebrating her life to the fullest.
Weed-Killing Chemical Linked To Cancer Found In Some Children’s Breakfast Foods
In California, the chemical found in the popular breakfast foods, bars and oats is listed as a chemical known to cause cancer. EWG is working to get companies like General Mills, Quaker and Kelloggs to take glyphosate out of their products.
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Tom Arnold stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live and trashed President Donald Trump as well as Apprentice producer Mark Burnett . Matthew Chapman is a video game designer, science fiction author, and political reporter from Austin, TX.
Several Injured During Argument At Walmart
Footage captured by 6 ABC shows Cheltenham police taking in the battered and bruised suspect, who is handcuffed. NBC News reported that none of the victims suffered severe or life-threatening injuries.
Manafort judge says he's received threats, won't name jurors
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Man charged in connection with more than 100 synthetic marijuana overdoses
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Nick and his parents arrive in India
Check out the picture! "She wants everything to be traditional to respect her family's values, and definitely an Indian wedding". Now that he has come down with his family to meet her and we do have here the first pics of the future Chopra groom's arrival.
Met Éireann warns Storm Ernesto will bring 'high intensity' rainfall to Limerick
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Independence Day releases ‘Gold’, ‘Satyameva Jayate’ storm the box office
Tthe film's earnings is expected to show an upward graph from Friday as it is a holiday in many parts of the country. Even the Reema Kagti film saw a steep drop on Thursday, doing only marginally better than John's film at Rs 8 crore.
Disney just dropped a trailer for its new Star Wars Resistance show
Star Wars Resistance will land on Stateside Disney channels on 7 October, and rolls out worldwide after that. My grandfather was a pilot and my uncle flew and restored planes, so that's been a big influence on me.
Confidential Mode comes to Gmail Android app
Notably, Google added a lot of features to the new Gmail some of which included Snooze, smart reply and many more. The company today launched Confidential Mode for emails on Gmail , letting users protect the emails they send.
Tyson Fury Weigh In Result Ahead Of Pianeta Fight - Huge Weight Loss
Wilder got into a weird shouting match with Fury's father John and then clashed with Tyson himself as the pair traded insults. Barring a shocking upset this weekend, Tyson Fury vs.
Google Coach: Google's new health system for Wear OS revealed in leak
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Brennan fires new shot at Trump: ‘He’s drunk on power’
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Starbucks Releases High-Protein Vegan Cold Brew Smoothies!
Aretha Franklin's Death Certificate Confirms She Died Of Pancreatic Cancer
Scarlett Johansson is now the highest-paid actress in the world
Turkish lira falls against the dollar as Trump hints at further sanctions
Trump brushes off McRaven jabs after yanking ex-CIA chief's clearance
China Project "Unclear", Sundar Pichai Tells Google Staff After Concerns
How to get free McDonald’s fries using your iPhone
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Miami Dolphins release former top draft pick DE Mario Williams
by Corey Lynch
According to a report from Miami Herald reporter Armando Salguero, along with other media members, the Jacksonville Jaguars are interested in acquiring Albert from the Dolphins.
The team is "hopeful but not necessarily optimistic" that they will be able to trade Albert, according to Salguero. Sherman has two years, $22 million in base salary left on his existing deal; Talib is due $30 million over the next three.
It's potentially an interesting move because the 32-year-old Albert, who will be four years older than Beachum when the 2017 season begins, is at the back end of his career and is clearly not the long-term answer at the position. He allowed just four sacks in the 13 games he played in the regular season and playoffs despite playing with a ligament tear in his wrist for the second half of the season.
In protecting Goff, he is not so much an experiment as it would be to draft and develop a rookie - especially when the Rams do not have a first round pick.Robinson, meanwhile, is the most penalized player in the National Football League over the last couple years. Joseph can use Albert's veteran presence on the field and leadership in the locker room in his first season with the Broncos.
Malaysia arrests female suspect in death of Kim Jong Un's brother
However, National Intelligence Service (NIS) soon appeared to backtrack from the report, saying that Hyon might still be alive. He had also once told a Japanese TV station that he was personally opposed to a third generation of Kims ruling North Korea.
The team has also waived cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu. Scheduled to count $4.5 million against the Dolphins' salary cap, his release saves the Dolphins $4 million on their cap, with $500,000 in dead money left over.
The duo of Albert and Williams had dwindling performances in South Florida during the 2016 season. Albert is going to lose his job to Laremy Tunsil, and it seems like Williams has become less and less useful as time goes on. He spent last season on injured reserve after injuring his knee.
Williams, 32, will likely only receive one-year offers after a disappointing campaign. He barely made a splash, registering 1.5 sacks in just five starts.
The Dolphins get a head-start on free agency by trading for a big-name corner.
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Purge: Trump Prepares Major Overhaul of Intelligence Apparatus
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ME chefs, restaurants nominated for coveted James Beard Awards
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Genie Bouchard goes on date to pay off Super Bowl bet
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Trump seeks to end legal fight with revised travel ban
Former Acting Attorney General Yates had the clear authority to determine which presidential orders the DOJ will defend in court. Trump has said his directive, issued last month, was necessary to protect the United States from attacks by Islamist militants.
'Dreamers' Fear Deportation After DACA Recipient Detained
In the past four-plus years, an estimated 1,500 Dreamers have lost their DACA status because of gang links or serious crimes. Department of Homeland Security , according to the petition , which says Ramirez has never been convicted of a crime.
Nicole Kidman Was Once Engaged To Lenny Kravitz
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Jakarta's Christian governor heads for tough run-off
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Justin Bieber mentioned in newly filed Cleveland police report
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Karlie Kloss apologises for controversial geisha photoshoot in Vogue
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Person Mode Confirmed For Street Fighter On The Nintendo Switch
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Verizon/Yahoo to share breach liability; Discount could be $300M
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Kazakhstan postpones Syria talks by a day
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Man, toddler killed, pregnant woman injured in Chicago shooting
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More than 200 whales swim away after New Zealand stranding
It has a long protruding coastline and gently sloping beaches that make it hard for whales to swim away once they get close. About 1000 whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands in 1918 and 450 near Auckland in 1985.
Former Chicago Cub Travis Wood Agrees to Deal with Royals
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Ride log: The new steed
April 8, 2011 — I started riding two-wheeled vehicles in late 2007. Looking back on my perception of riding, of bikes in general, and of motorcycles in particular, I simply can’t believe where I’ve come to. When I bought that 1979 Vespa P200E, a large part of its appeal was precisely that it wasn’t a motorcycle. The last thing I could possibly imagine myself riding was a big, heavy motorcycle. Which is why I still can’t really believe that I just bought an ’83 Honda GL1100. That’s right. I bought a Goldwing.
Now this comes as no surprise to regular readers, as I’ve been yacking about a naked GL since February. This particular bike has been in the works for about a month. While I had another bike lined up, I switched gears when this ’83 GL Standard showed up for sale on Craigslist. Spec for spec, this bike was nearly equal to the bike I passed on. Both are 1983 models. Both have just under 50k miles. Both have upgrades to the suspension and both lack all the touring nonsense that I don’t care about and hate the look of. What made me abandon my $100 deposit on that bike in Illinois was two very unique pieces of plastic: this GL’s art deco engine covers. There was a price advantage as well, but parts of that wash out with the lack of rear luggage and the decent amount of work this GL will need before I’ll fully trust it.
There are a lot of things this bike is going to require to be fully road worthy, and honestly, I don’t even know the full extent of the bike’s needs yet. Next week Jeff and I will go over it top-to-bottom and get a full picture of what needs fixing and what needs upgrading. Whatever the bike needs, I know I’m in for it. These GLs are not simple machines. The engine with its shaft drive — the very things that makes this motorcycle so brilliant — makes it complicated to work on. Four cylinders in boxed pairs are fed by four carburetors through a four post archway of an intake header. A pair of chrome pipes trail behind, giving the GL a very satisfying rumble. Where most motorcycle fours are a rather mechanical-looking row of fins and bolts, the GL mill is almost architectural. The cylinder pairs hang below the frame like the trusses of some dieselpunk lift bridge out of a graphic novel. Industrial design aesthetics aside, this gives the GL a very low center of gravity and that’s central to the best part of the GL: how it rides.
I lined myself up to buy a naked GL without having ever ridden one. I did a lot of reading, and a lot of asking around. The fully-dressed GL Interstate and Aspencade models are very well spoken of as powerful, “surprisingly agile” and reliable well over 150,000 miles. But truth be told, I had no idea what to expect and I was a bit nervous when the seller delivered my new ’83 GL Standard on Thursday night. Before we signed all the paperwork, I took the GL out for a quick test ride. Dropping into 1st gear, I gave the throttle a gentle twist. My CB650 would rev easily, but was absolutely dead in the low revs. That above anything else is why I sold it. I originally wanted a twin like my wife’s bike, but here I was on another four cylinder bike. The GL’s engine indeed revs effortlessly and smoothly, yet it’s actually got torque like a steam locomotive from very low in the revs. The 640 lbs of GL tear away from a stop with no drama and seemingly no effort. The clutch is very forgiving, even as badly out of adjustment as this clutch seems to be.
Going forward is only part of the equation though. How hard would it be to keep such a hefty bike upright navigating the parking lot? A piece of cake, actually. The GL is so solid, so stable and so planted that even at very slow speeds, the bike is completely manageable and doesn’t feel heavy at all. With some practice, I think I might be able to win a slow race no problem. With slow speeds very, very promising, what would happen when I really opened the taps? Tilting out onto the main road, I screwed on the throttle. The GL rocketed forward like the space shuttle off the launching pad — powerfully, smoothly and without drama. The tall gears of the ’83 meant that 3rd gear had me at nearly 60 mph in three halves of an instant. It’s fast. Properly fast. Faster than a 640 lb motorcycle has any business being. The shaft drive also meant the GL was smooth like a jet-engine powered sewing machine.
My test ride was brief, because it didn’t take me long to figure out I’d made a very, very good decision in buying this GL. I gave the bike a quick weave in my lane and had to stuff my jaw back into my helmet. I expected the GL to handle like an over-filled shopping cart with a bad wheel. Not at all! It’s precise. It’s responsive. It’s downright nimble. You can tuck it deep into a corner and it’ll track like it’s on steel roller coaster rails. Fantastic. The brakes are pretty great too, even though they’re linked and far more fussy than they ought to be. That’s easily sorted out though. In under a mile I was sold. Money changed hands, papers got signed, and I was then the proud owner of a rocket powered super sled.
I spent about half the next day getting to know the bike before I dropped it off at Bluecat Motors for inspection. At every turn and every straight, the GL is very impressive. It’s a big bike that doesn’t feel like a big bike. It feels, actually, a bit like all the best things about a motorcycle, and all the best aspects of a car. Not too surprising, given it’s got all but a car engine in it for power. I’m smitten. It’ll be a lot of work simply correcting the bike back to baseline (removing the harley headlights/blinkers, swapping out for the correct front wheel, and more), but it’s going to be worth it. I see some epic journeys ahead on this bike, and I know I’m going to enjoy the ride.
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Retro Ode to Fair Haven Firemen
Image April 22, 2015 Elaine Van Develde Leave a comment
Firefighters from several area municipalities swarmed to the scene of Monday’s fire at the historic Blithewald mansion in Rumson.
All are volunteers. The fire took roughly six hours to quell at the hands of hundreds of area firemen.
Yesterday, we took a look back at the 2015 Rumson Reorganization and its firemen at the ceremony.
Today, we take a look back at the Fair Haven Reorganization and the first responders sworn in and offer another thank you to all of those who volunteer to protect us.
The other fire companies that responded to the Blithewald fire were: Sea Bright, Little Silver, Shrewsbury, Highlands, Atlantic Highlands and Asbury Park.
Have you thanked your local firefighter lately?
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Police Report Contempt, Probation Violation
April 22, 2015 Elaine Van Develde Leave a comment
The following recent arrests on contempt of court and violation of probation charges were reported by Middletown police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.
• James Georgianna, 23, of Port Monmouth Road in Middletown, was arrested on April 14 by Patrolman Stephen Greenwood of the Anti-Crime Unit on a contempt of court warrant issued by the Middletown Municipal Court.
He was held on $4,416 bail.
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Fair Haven: Poised for a Park
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By Elaine Van Develde
The Fair Haven house that Charles Williams built is gone.
But the historic significance of the freed African-American slave’s family homestead at the foot of DeNormandie Avenue has not been forgotten as the borough preps the swath of Navesink riverfront property for it’s new life as a park.
Fair Haven officials have said all along that once the transformation to passive recreation park takes hold, a plaque commemorating the Williams family and its Robards descendants will be anchored on the site. The plaque will include a brief history of the land’s significance.
For now, though, getting set for some major landscaping is the priority.
“The DPW is finishing up with clearing the property of any remaining bits of debris from the demolition,” Fair Haven Mayor Ben Lucarelli said. “The borough’s arborist has assessed the trees on the property and made a determination of which can be cut down and which must be saved. Becker Tree Service, which has a contract with the borough, will soon remove the trees that cannot be saved.”
After that, the property will be readied for turf and landscaping.
Taxpayers contributed roughly $200,000 to the acquisition of the $1.2 million plat. The remainder of the money to purchase it came from state, county and non-profit grants — all of which were contingent upon a commitment to eternally preserve the land as open space.
Take a look at the above slideshow for a glimpse into the property’s history, from borough acquisition to the home’s demolition.
— Photos and slideshow/Elaine Van Develde
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Sea Bright Fire Company’s Focus on the Rumson Blithewald Fire
Video April 22, 2015 Elaine Van Develde Leave a comment
The Sea Bright Fire Company has shared its view from a head cam of Monday’s Rumson fire at the Blithewald historic mansion via a post on its Facebook page.
In the post, the company’s representatives said that the release of the video on YouTube, they felt, would “not only give the public insight on what we do but will allow our brothers and sisters of the service an opportunity to better both themselves and ourselves in the future.”
No cause has been as of yet determined. The fire is under investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, Rumson police and the county fire marshal.
Take a look for a glimpse into the life of a local firefighter on the job. Firefighters have asked that the public excuse their language at some points.
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I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its User Agreement, and Privacy Policy. It's been three months since The Mindy Project's midseason finale, which ended with Mindy Lahiri taking down the "For Sale" sign in her apartment and contemplating life as a single mother without Danny.
At the beginning of the week, an entire TCA session with Fox chairman and CEO Peter Rice went by without anyone asking about Rice's thoughts on The Mindy Project (former Fox CEO Kevin Reilly, who recently departed, was a big advocate of the sitcom). Mindy Lahiri est une trentenaire qui mene une brillante carriere de gynecologue au sein du cabinet Schulman et associes. One day in 2003, my father brought home a copy of Bend It Like Beckham, which he said was a hit overseas. Given Bend It Like Beckham’s international success, I thought it would be the catalyst for more South Asians in starring roles.
The Mindy Project, on FOX, follows Mindy Lahiri, a successful doctor who can’t quite get her personal life together. In a way, it is.The last woman of colour to create and star in her own comedy series was Wanda Sykes, whose 2003 show Wanda At Large—about a stand-up-comic-turned-political-correspondent—was cancelled after only two seasons. Maybe it’s a testament to changing on-screen racial politics that Mindy’s ethnicity is rarely discussed on The Mindy Project.
Mindy is also the antithesis of the South Asian woman we regularly see in film and television; in fact, she’s the kind of kooky but lovable character Caucasian women have been playing for years. Perhaps the best part about The Mindy Project, though, is that Kaling—as the show’s creator—is calling the shots, much like Dunham and Fey. If the backlash Dunham received following the premiere of Girls last April is any indication, Kaling will only encounter more scrutiny as The Mindy Project enters a new season. In the final part of our six-piece Mindy Project series, we're bringing Chris Messina to you guys, who I'm convinced needs to be with Mindy, even if that union might be short-lived. Everyone’s heckling drives Mindy straight into the arms of the definitely a loser and you know it character from the begining of the episode. Danny invites Mary, popularly known as hummus girl, on the most awkward double date with Mindy and Graham.
Jeremy and Peter come to blows at their birthing class, where Jeremy unfortunately tears a leg off the prop baby in frustration. The foursome on the still disastrous date jump over a gate except for Mindy, who possibly has tetanus and finally calls it quits with the sk8er boy. For fans, it was a harsh wake-up call that this isn't your typical rom com (not that we ever doubted that) that moves past traditional weekly obstacles and into more serious, dramatic territory. As far as I was concerned, Rice wasn't going to get out of the Beverly Hilton ballroom without me finding out his thoughts on our beloved sitcom. Encore une serie qui a ete ecrite par une comedienne frustree de ne pas avoir de role a sa mesure. Je me suis pas mal reconnue dans le personnage de gaffeuse looseuse de Mindy qui cherche le grand amour et, pour le trouver, enchaine les relations les plus foireuses les unes que les autres.
Les gags sont des fois un peu gros, mais l’ensemble reste quand meme digeste et agreable. Clarissa may have explained it all, but she sure didn’t have any Sri Lankan friends, and even Boy Meets World was lily-white until season five. I was rubbish at sports, and only knew David Beckham by way of Posh Spice, but I must have watched Gurinder Chadha’s film about Jess (Parminder Nagra), a young Sikh girl crazy about soccer, at least twenty times. But despite growing visibility in shows such as House, Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock, these actors were still supporting characters—vital but secondary.
The actress and writer, who is of Indian descent, had been around since 2005, most recognizably starring as the airheaded Kelly Kapoor on NBC’s The Office.
Mindy sits squarely between Lena Dunham’s listless Hannah Horvath and Tina Fey’s semi-adjusted Liz Lemon: she’s on the verge of being a real grown-up but still believes life should play out like a Nora Ephron movie. I make plans around it, I break plans for it and I’m the annoying girl who live-tweets every episode.
In 1994, Margaret Cho’s short-lived All-American Girl, which centred on an American (Cho) living with her traditional Korean family, was famously replaced by The Drew Carey Show. Though she makes the occasional joke—“It’s a scientific fact that black guys love Indian girls,” says Mindy, on her way to a nightclub—these quips are few and far between, and ethnicity is never the focus of an episode.
So often, a South Asian actress is cast as the docile beauty who blends quietly into the background or the steely-eyed overachiever with the personality of a lampshade. While these writers’ successes shouldn’t be evaluated based on their gender or ethnicity, Kaling’s achievement does resonate, particularly in the South Asian community. In response to a photo of The Mindy Project’s writers, the New Republic’s Noreen Malone pointed out that, though Kaling has spoken extensively about the challenges of being a female writer on The Office, men dominate her own writing staff. Mindy gets run down by in-his-fourties skateboarder Graham Logan (Timothy Olyphant), who wants to get a burrito with her at nine a.m.
After sending Danny away to his actual assigned seat next to the hummus-enthusiast, Mindy discovers that she’s been put at the couples table instead of the singles table at the party, and the hosts have given up setting her up with anyone. Graham climbs through the window of Mindy’s apartment right at eight for their date, and he wastes no time in flopping himself down on her sofa. Jeremy gets ridiculed for trying to lose weight that his father already commented on with derision earlier, and this is probably the most boring subplot The Mindy Project’s used yet. And then he explains why he doesn’t have health insurance for the dumbest reason ever. Alors son projet est, en vrac, de perdre du poids, se trouver un mec bien, se cultiver un peu plus et devenir un peu moins depensiere.
My heart skipped a beat whenever South Asians showed up on ABC’s TGIF, but, instead of regular kids who liked cartoons and make-believe, they were often stereotyped poindexters hell-bent on academic annihilation. I could relate to her struggle to abide by a tradition-bound culture when she only wanted to be a regular British girl with a cute boyfriend (pre-rehab Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and scrappy BFF (pre-corset Keira Knightley).
In 2010, there were high hopes for the NBC sitcom Outsourced, which centred on office employees in India, but the show’s South Asian actors were subject to offensive stereotypes and the comedy was cancelled after one season. But what most people don’t realize is that the thirty-four-year-old was one of the show’s most prolific writers, penning twenty-four episodes, including the Emmy-nominated “Niagara.” Her collection of essays Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? I sing its praises to anyone who will listen and I secretly judge them if they say they’re not interested.
Alarmingly, Cho said ABC producers insisted she lose weight and act “more Asian” to draw ratings.
After decades of blatant tokenism, it feels almost unsettling to have such a de-racialized character in primetime comedy—until you realize that this should be the rule, and not the exception.
And the comments on blog posts about the show usually include at least one reader wondering why there aren’t more characters of colour. I don’t have that much time to do that.” Ultimately, it’s us—the viewers—ascribing our own values and expectations on Kaling and her show. The hardworking Messina (he's pulling double-duty directing a movie while shooting Mindy) called me from the car to chat about life on and off the set, and, of course, what he thinks is in store for him and Mindy. Mindy patches up Graham’s injured elbow and we hear a lot of stories about how his scars are all related to drunken skateboarding escapades.
The episodes ends with the date that could have, maybe should have, happened with Mindy and Danny back at the restaurant with their still charming banter. Was it totally unreasonable to hope for a South Asian-helmed show without ugly stereotypes? I have no hand in the production of this series outside of “liking” all of Kaling’s Instagram photos, and yet her success almost feels like my own. So how can women of South Asian descent aspire to have thriving entertainment careers if these roles are missing from television screens? Certainly not all women of South Asian descent have to like, or even care about, The Mindy Project.
But if you’ve been waiting a lifetime for a television character with whom you identify, then Mindy is kind of a big deal.
I hope that it continues to be written at the quality that it does, and I hope that it finds an audience. We have tried to construct a night now where we think it can bring a little bit more compatible flow through it, so my hopes are very high. People are so invested in this relationship, so was there an inner struggle for you about where to take the story? Mindy Kaling: Well, I think that we've been given this gift with Hulu where we don't have restrictions when it comes to content. I've said this so much, but I love movies, and I said, "Let's make this very real." Chris [Messina] came from drama and knows how to do that. When you're on episode 67, 70, 75, what is the strife between two people who in many, many ways, do not belong together? Tell everyone what we've known for a long time now: This is one of the best sitcoms currently on the air.
Peter Rice is behind it, Fox and NBCUniversal love it, but if there's going to be an increased episode order for season three (currently at 15), then ratings need to tick upward. A lot of people who watch the show for wish-fulfillment reasons were not happy with the way that Danny behaved, but that is how that guy would behave.
He's very romantic when he was courting her, and she was also trying to be like a homemaker, and then it blew up. If you thought season two was good, get ready for this next season to blow your socks off (or whatever's the equivalent of a Chris Messina butt grab). This [upcoming] bunch of episodes is the fallout aftermath of that and how they deal with it. I know a lot of people that watch the show think they should never be together, and then others want it, but I really trust the writers, so I’m good either way.
It would be an entirely different show if they were together, which would be really interesting. We’ve had the pitch documents and everything for pretty much all but the finale, so we're going to talk about it. You got the cutest bob a couple months ago, but you’ve been wearing extensions lately. Mindy: The overwhelming feeling from my writing staff, from actors on my show, from my manager, Howard, is that they like my long hair.
Mindy: Sal [Perez, costume designer on The Mindy Project] found them, so I took them for the night.
These are the earrings that were actually in the Christmas episode when [Chris] Messina does the dance.
I was following your Instagram account, and talk about the best boss ever, because you took your entire writing staff to Las Vegas.
We’re hoping for more episodes, so hopefully [Fox's] Dana Walden, Gary Newman, and Peter Rice will want to add more. I still go back to the music and Chris running through the streets of New York, and it was one of the most magical things ever. I love writing for [people] like Glenn Howerton [Cliff], Anders Holm [Casey], and people that aren’t normally seen that way. They had to work so hard to get to the point that they’re at now, and I want to see two people together working hard to make it work than breaking up.
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Rick Kriseman to hold fundraiser — in Tampa
Published on June 7, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry
Rick Baker held a fundraiser in Clearwater last week, leading some to chortle that he had to travel all the way to North Pinellas to help boost his coffers in his bid to return as St. Petersburg mayor. Democrats said there weren’t enough Republicans in St. Pete to prop up the former two-term mayor. But Baker is not the only mayoral candidate who is venturing beyond the city limits to soak up campaign cash. On June 20, Rick Kriseman will…
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Darden Rice on St. Pete’s campaign finance ordinance — it’s ‘by no means over’
Two days after the St. Petersburg City Council passed an ordinance limiting campaign contributions, which is expected to be legally
Leading nation, St. Pete Council is 1st to ban corporate campaign cash
After hours of debate, the St. Petersburg City Council approved a campaign-finance reform measure Thursday, which could have national implications.
Now a CFO candidate, Jeremy Ring to publish book on his experience at Yahoo
Published on June 6, 2017 in 2017 by Mitch Perry
Former state Senator Jeremy Ring, the only official candidate in the 2018 race to be Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, has just completed a book about his experiences working as a founding member of Yahoo. Ring said Monday he plans to publish his book this fall. “We Were Yahoo” will describe how the Silicon Valley-based company changed the world twice, Ring told a couple of dozen supporters who gathered to learn more about him at an appearance at the University Club…
Raises will be provided to 16 upper-level and mid-level employees of Enterprise Florida, as the state’s business-recruitment agency does away
Siemens, Chromalloy joint project to bring 350 new Hillsborough jobs
Two global engineering companies, Siemens and Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation, have chosen Hillsborough County for the headquarters of a new joint
A Broward County nursing home has expanded a lawsuit challenging moves by Gov. Rick Scott‘s administration that effectively shut down
Popularity is part of the problem for Straz Center, with a serious lack of parking
Published on May 25, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry
As the Straz Performing Arts Center celebrates its 30-year anniversary, it has never been more popular. That’s part of the problem. With three new museums, a busier-than-ever Curtis Hixon Park, and area construction continuing, the Straz — in the heart of downtown Tampa — is suffering from a serious lack of parking, a problem that’s only getting worse. It’s become so bad, longtime patrons are telling the Straz they will no longer attend events there. “We are truly and deeply concerned…
Harry Cohen says Tampa budget vote will ‘set the stage’ for years
Tampa City Councilman Harry Cohen warned the city’s budget vote Friday will have long-term effects. Cohen’s compromise proposal to have
After 7 hours, Tampa City Council votes to raise property taxes
Shortly after midnight Friday morning, the Tampa City Council voted 4-3 to raise property taxes for the first in 29
Tampa City Council poised to raise property taxes tonight
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Tampa City Council wants lawmakers to explain bill that would have gutted CRA’s
A proposal by Lithia Republican Jake Raburn (HB 13) calling for an end to all community redevelopment agencies (CRA’s) died in a legislative committee in the Florida House last month. And members of the Tampa City Council are happy about that. Raburn’s bill didn’t go as far as a related proposal by Brandon Republican Tom Lee in the Senate (SB 1770). That bill would have placed much stricter requirements on CRA’s, but it also stalled in a committee as well. At Thursday’s Tampa…
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Bill would rein in community redevelopment agencies
A measure to overhaul community redevelopment agencies (CRAs), a priority of House Speaker Richard Corcoran, has been filed for the 2018 Legislative Session.
Rick Kriseman, Cross-Bay Ferry get mixed reviews from Tampa City Council
Published on April 27, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry
A year ago, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman requested and received $350,000 from the local governments of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Pinellas County and his own City Council to help fund the Cross-Bay Ferry public-private pilot project that ends Sunday. While those local governments won’t get close to that money back — they were never expected to — but final totals could end up bringing as much as $30,000 back to those local governments. Speaking before the Tampa City Council today…
Frank Reddick worries that community members are getting ‘paid off’ to back TBX project
In an effort to retool and “reset” the troubled Tampa Bay Express project, the Florida Department of Transportation led a coalition of local public officials and members of the community this week to St. Louis, where it spoke with officials there about how they worked with the community to rebuild a highway construction project. Speaking before the Tampa City Council on Thursday, Bill Jones with the FDOT gave an update on TBX, and discussed the trip and how officials will meet next month to…
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Yolie Capin elected chair of Tampa City Council
Published on April 6, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry
If you blinked you would have missed it. Unlike a year ago, when it took 14 ballots and over a half an hour to select a chair, Yolie Capin was elected the next chair of the Tampa City Council on the first ballot Thursday morning. The voting began with Councilman Harry Cohen, who some speculated was himself interested in becoming chair, nominating Capin. Luis Viera, the newest member of the Council and a longtime friend of current Council Chair Mike…
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Delhi’s water requirement is 900 million gallons per day, but it is falling short by about 50 MGD since this May, according to a senior Delhi Jal Board (DJB) official. At this rate, it is predicted that the summer ahead is going to get harder with many areas in Delhi facing an acute water shortage. With groundwater depleted and other small water bodies either dried up or reclaimed by construction companies, Delhi has no natural sources of water.
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Julia Gillard is a good stateswoman
Mmmm I know, praise for Julia Gillard on this blog…unusual isn’t it.
Seriously though, I was quite impressed with her speech to the US Congress this morning. She portrayed her nation and herself very well and delivered a speech befitting of a close ally of the United States.
The speech can be seen on the ABC News website however for reasons best known to the ABC, there is no easy way for me to embed the video here, so you’ll just have to click the link if you want to see more than just the moon-landing bit which seems to be grabbing most of the media attention at the expense of the more interesting and substantial bits of the speech.
Julia did her country proud today, and it got me thinking, she might be an utterly hopeless administrator, but she is very good at representing the country. Perhaps the best role for her would be that of Governor-General, a role in which she has no real power, but can represent our country positively to the rest of the world.
Tony Abbott for PM and Julia for GG: it’s a good combination in my books.
March 10th, 2011 at 04:35pm
Barry’s stance on Pauline
An email to 2UE’s Jason Morrison
G’day Jason,
I think you’re right that Barry O’Farrell’s stance of ostracising Pauline Hanson and not ostracising The Greens is a peculiar one and not the message that he should be sending to conservative voters, although I think it’s wider than just conservative voters. Ten News had a phone poll last night asking whether people would be willing to vote for Pauline Hanson which I believe they started after their 6pm interview with her…by the time the late news came around, 86% of Ten News viewers were saying “yes” they would vote for Pauline Hanson.
Perhaps the Ten News core demographic has changed in recent times, but I see the typical Ten News viewer as being less likely to vote conservatively than viewers of the other commercial networks’ news services, so needless to say, the result surprised me. I’m hoping that it also surprised Barry O’Farrell and he changes his stance to reflect community attitudes by denouncing the Greens and supporting some of Pauline Hanson’s positions.
I can understand why Barry doesn’t want to denounce the Greens…he’s worried that disenfranchised Labor voters may swing to the Greens. Well if they’re that silly to think that the Greens would do a better job and they’re that committed to vote for the left, then they deserve what they get, and Barry shouldn’t be risking the support of the overwhelming majority of sensible voters by targeting Greens voters.
All the best from a rather wet Deniliquin!
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March 10th, 2011 at 07:23am
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Charlamagne tha God’s HBO Talk Show in Jeopardy
Feminists continue to vent their outrage at troubled radio jock Charlamagne tha God who issued a half-hearted apology for his rapey 2015 podcast.
The 40-year-old Twitter star described drugging and raping a woman in a 2015 "Brilliant Idiots" podcast with co-host Andrew Schultz.
In the podcast, Charlamagne laughed hysterically as he described putting a sexual stimulant, Spanish Fly, in a woman's drink and having sex with her while she was incoherent.
"You can give a girl Spanish Fly as long as she knows she's taking it," Schultz scolded Charlamagne. "I don't know why I'm explaining this to you, and it makes me a little bit worried," said Schultz.
In a new Podcast on Monday, Charlamagne changed his story and now claims the woman knew her drink was spiked with Spanish Fly.
Charlamagne, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, was arrested on July 2, 2001 and charged with “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously engage in penile/vaginal intercourse with a fifteen year old female child."
The victim, Jessica Reid, now 32, asked South Carolina officials to reopen her case, but her request was refused.
Last month, HBO announced it was teaming up with the troubled radio jock to air a new interview series titled "The Gray Area".
But the show might be in jeopardy of cancellation before it even airs.
On Monday an HBO spokesman told Page Six: “HBO is taking a serious look into the information that just surfaced."
Angry bloggers have vowed to boycott the show if it debuts.
One Rhymeswithsnitch.com reader wrote:
"He didn't just buy the woman a drink: he put a drug in it... with the intent of getting her so inebriated that she let down her guard with him. Further, once she was drunk/drugged, he admitted to knowing that she wasn't all that coherent and functioning at 100%. He then proceeded to laugh and make jokes during the video/podcast about what he did to her. So yes, not only is that some "freak shyt" it's also rape."
CAUTION: Video contains adult sexual situations and offensive language that might be disturbing to some.
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FukkFolks2018
He deserves it bc he won't shut up about sexually abusing women.
I don't wish anyone's downfall BUT there is no way someone can trivialize abuse and not have to answer for it in some way, in this life or the next.
dru and neil
That’s one big reason I don’t feel sorry for him. Why did you give a whole interview incriminating the sh*t out of yourself? Makes no sense.
I bet Mo'Nique is somewhere feeling somewhat vindicated because she checked him good on the Breakfast Club. I wonder what she has to say.
MookieFly
When Wendell made a pact with the devil to become famous, Charlemagne went along for the ride. Now their dastardly deeds are being exposed. Her marriage is a sham and Chi-Chi is being exposed as a serial rapist. Pitty
The epitome of arrogance!
Mama Dee’s Wig Maker
Like I said on another blog, folks have to understand that their past will catch up with them and bite them in the ass...messing up their present and their future
People are going waaaaaaay back to get some folks canned, which is why it's best to keep quiet. If a person's life has really changed, there's no need to keep rehashing it, especially if other people were hurt. He seemed to take pleasure in retelling those stories.
At first I did. Felt Like they were doing a witch hunt on him over old stuff. And I never even liked him. But he is still yapping. STILL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lo6u-UIbo Nancy Drew-Natural & Luv’n It!
i've never paid much attention to this guy, and first heard of him here. i've watched a couple of breakfast club interviews (but only a couple, because i don't like ANY of the hosts). now that i am seeing more about him, he strikes me as kinda weird (and an azzhole). if he still finds it funny, he's not remorseful And he's immature. i'm sick of him already, and if he did what she claims, i don't care what happens to him. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/16192fdc61f10ea0e85c64a5c68ffcada626e5c7a9764a7592d68ef5a33dfbcb.gif
RaginB
He’s such an asshole...talks shit about celebs/lowkey shades em on the air.?
...I love when the bully gets his ass beat.
Applebootay
I just don't like this nig....never did...he is so the raping type too...like Cosby...writing books...talmbout black power and success all the while drugging heaux...smdh
same thing I said...
He should have taken that as a warning but nooooooooo!
the interview was only a couple years ago...the actual incident was over an decade....but what you described is defined as KARMA in the dictionary.
Oh yeah...she was saying he didn't like black women.....hmmmmmmm
EGO...PRIDE...= Downfall
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But his life hasn't changed. He repeatedly talks about these incidents over the years. Like someone else said, a serial rapist always relives his crimes.
Kbellaluvvs
He was just getting on my good side because lawwd knows I hated him since he had Lil Mama crying on the show..
Then he's a full blown narcissist and sociopath.
ZRoJoTheLezBeyond
I can't stand him and the others on the BC show either. He's the main one I can't stand to listen to talk. Aside from his lisp, he's f'in annoying and yes, an azzhole.
I thought she was tough on him in that interview. I was too quick to take sides. Now I see where she was coming from.
I'd love to hear what she has to say..
I'm thinking, in his mind he thinks he's invincible. That's why he just won't STFU.
If we could be two flies on the wall in her house right now! I would not be surprised if she spoke on it sometime soon.
Tis be us sis..
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LMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm the one on the left flapping slow 'cause I just ate.
right!
maybe i came to the show late, because none of them seem to have much personality (which actually matters in radio, IMO). the lady on there has THE most irritating voice, and the other guy is dry. the just seem snarky & messy (but not in an entertaining way).
(i see they got some act right with Gucci though, LOL!)
Blaque Mahogany
Did you watch the episode where he and Tank talked about how they love getting their azz ate??
THIS! Why was no one outraged when he went after that little girl and her mom had just passed? That was enough for me!
That was enough for me!
I was BIG MAD when I saw that interview.
('scuse me a minute....) https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/de0f47bde315fc3a4d5c8bee62fe5685aaad1ab5dbcc2ec505fe4cfb88826c58.gif
Yes, Angela Yee's voice is irritating. I can't think of the other guy's name but you're right on the money on all 3 of them.
they either have a loyal following, or some good azz contracts, LOL!!!
Miss Thang
he needs to be CANCELLED
Quitedeliteful
Whelp,,, C. Tha Gawd bought this upon himself. It's all shyts and giggles until it's no longer shyts and giggles...
Pitty Patty
Damn....Charlamagne done talk his self out a of a gig.
It’s Real Talk! Period!!
Now he is Donkey of the Day!!
Welp, it finally caught up with him. All those years of shittin on people, that energy waited until you got to a high point in your career to come back.
Mal form the Joe Budden Podcast said that Charlamange and the Breakdfast Club was in trouble a couple of months ago. He said that Charlamagne's downfall was coming. I wonder if he knew about all this coming.
Charlamagne got too cocky. I also think Andrew Schultz low key set him up. Cause all Schultz be wanting to talk about is nasty stuff. Even when Charlamange tries to change the subject Schultz always manages to bring it back to sex, fucking men, or rape. Every damn episode.
Hush!!!
go 'head hun, i'm listening.... https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96b91ce0cf4d1b1096df2493bd56e88573aa6ea598ec972e4f5de6a142f25a42.gif
Ni Ni
?? see that's one reason I'm in retirement. I ain't kept myself all these years to get a dude that's eating azz and getting theirs ate out (eww). I'm content just to go to the upper room a chaste woman?.
ALSO, the powers that be hate that he calls white people cracka ass cracka and mayonnaise. They sure as hell don't wanna see him get an even better platform on HBO.
Charlamagne needs to do some damage control and apologize to the woman/women he may have hurt. At least ACT like you sorry, nigga. Damn.
Has Charlamagne given himself Donkey of the Day? If this had been anyone else he would be ripping them a new one. He seems really calm on his show. He's not so cocky now...
Yep, I'm listening also.
you said they gonna have some UN-met expectations?!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Jefferey Franklin
He may be an asshole, but he is a black INTELLIGENT man with a massive platform and perhaps someone deemed that he is growing to big too fast and decided to clip his wings. The thing about Hollywierd is there are no secrets, just people who use your "secrets" to destroy you if ever given a reason too.
IF you thought NBC didn't know about Cosby back in the day you a damn fool.
Exactly. That's what his ass gets. It's been a long time coming. Karma waited until he got a taste of what he's been wanting all his life before she came to shit all over it.
People are really acting like this ninja stole candy out of the store, or went joyriding in his neighbors car without her permission. This grown man is accused of drugging and r.ping a teenager. He admits to drugging and r.ping another teen. I'm confused as to why people think that this is something that someone should even get a pass for. If he apologizes, it will be ok? He should keep his tv shows, etc? Tf?
A slice of humble pie will do that to a person, lol.
Won't it tho???
Schultz is a disgusting pig as well. He is absolutely vile. I watched a few clips of that show and they are two pigs in a pig pen. I hate hearing grown people talk like that! It's not funny in any way. Find a damn interesting topic. Ugh just locker room talk and toilet humor. Absolutely VILE!!!
Lmao just nasty
Girl, Tank got real excited. Threw his legs up on the desk in the V position and everything.
Renee26
Goodt
He has a platform that he uses to demean black women, so I don't give a fuck how black his ass is, in my house he is CANCELLED.
In your household all men are cancelled, foh......
That part.
There are hundreds of thousands of intelligent black men that respect women that can easily step up and take CTG's place. These people are going to have to miss me with the "yt man is out to get a brother" rhetoric.
i am HOLLERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rofl.
If that were the case, then he wouldn't have the platform he does. I mean you can't please everybody, but I often question "black women" who bash black men then they do to uplift them. Not to say you do this, but there is ALOT of that that goes on on this board.
I don't get it. You can't be a supporter of black empowerment while targeting or tearing down black men who for the most part appear to be good men. Nobody is perfect out here, but if yall really listen to Charlamange on a daily basis, you would see the dude has his issues, but he is not that bad. P
Please spare me...
The conversation is about CTG. Not black men. Why the heck should anyone uplift a man that assaults, disrespects and disparages black women on the regular. The problem isn't black women's failure to "uplift" black men, the problem is black men failing to take accountability...for anything. A lot of black men don't want to be accountable for the community, the safety of the black woman, or for holding black men accountable for their actions. That's the problem.
Junkanoo
I never cared for him but let the man eat sadly a lot of people in the entertainment industry have done and said some fucked up stuff .
thank you! How about a respectful, intelligent brother! I want a young Cornel West to get a platform!
lol, as you were, sis.
yeah, i didn't realize he was "the representative" ...still, sometimes you gotta call a spade a spade
Are you serious?!!?
i wasn't ready... https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/615d380290005c75f2b73b61063d678adb00cb683258e4273a2f5c12b8d5723d.gif
You mentioned black men
And assaults and disrespects black women on the regular? Yes he is Ike Turner reincarnated. Get a grip lady.
This is trumped up controversy fueled by dimwitted low informed outrage people who throw insults against the wall hoping they stick.
Its not about holding people accountable. There was an alleged crime that he was not convicted of. Not one of you have come forth with the reason why he wasn't convicted and yet you still attach the label of rapist to the man.
Its like since its on the internet its real. When REAL LIFE doesn't work like that. This is another case of biter black women using sensationalized news to cement their already overly biased opinions on black men.
The black male ain't here for you. Especially when you not here for us. Get off our feminist soap box and stop looking scapegoats.
What in the entire hayul....
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I like the show because I like to hear men talk about men stuff. Thats why I love the Joe Budden Podcast. But Schultz takes things too far. Its like he baits Charlamagne and because Charlamagne don't wanna look weak he takes the bait. I like it when they have guest and Schultz has to tame himself (sometimes). I remember when Angela Rye was on the show and he was being so sexual aggressive towards her it was disgusting. It came off very rapey...
Jefferey Franklin • 27 minutes ago
Ding, ding ding. NBC paid off a bunch women in the 80's for Bill Cosby. They were complicit in everything he did.
Jive Records BEEN knew R.Kelly like lil kids.
The powers that be sit back and wait til you've done something they don't like or you dont shuck and jive for them anymore and then BOOM they drop a dime on that ass.
Charlamange better hire some good PR people to help him. His ship is sinking real real fast...
This is my last response.
1. I'm not a feminist.
2. The man admitted to r.ping his wife when they were dating. Apparently that's ok with you.
3. He ADMITTED (out of his own mouth) that he drugged and r.ped another girl.
4. You sound ignorant. YOU seem to be uninformed. This is not hyperbole or unfounded accusations. HE, himself, admitted to these things.
5. I don't know what uninformed/uneducated demographic you are referring to. I have enough letters behind my name for you to play a couple of rounds of Scrabble with.
6. Black men ARE here for me and other black women. It's you castrated, small testicle, cowardly, low-achieving black men that aren't.
missmiami305
I just saw the video of the man going HAM on Dumps star. Lawd hammercy!!!! He's man of the year lol.
I haven't followed this. However, he raped his wife and she still married him? WTF!!!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92889c8c87c494548b7b7556dc6993ecdac82203a0c2510635c6ca9901d5e177.gif ....TTYL!
I have to admit that I crack up when he calls someone the two aforementioned.
Well, according to his story. They had been dating and she wasn't having s.x with him. So he got her drunk to the point that she didn't know what was going on and he had s.x with her. I can't remember if he said she passed out or not. But, he did say that they had a conversation about it later and he asked her if he r.ped her. And she was like, "Yeah, technically you did."
I think the issue is that rape culture wasn't really a thing back then. Hell Rick Ross put it in one of his songs, that he slipped a girl a molly and she didnt even know it....
I grew up with boys just like Charalamagne, They legit thought what they was doing was cool. If you listened to their show you hear Chralamagne say that HE IS LEARNING WHAT RAPE CULTURE IS. He even had someone come on the show to explain to him what it was. Men think rape is forcing themselves on a woman, ripping her clothes off and having sex with her. NOW we realize there are other factors. Hell going by these new definitions of rape, I've been raped alot. Cause I've gotten drunk with niggas and woke up like WTF happened. IMO, I don't see that as rape ESPECIALLY if both parties were drinking and getting messed up.
I think all this is new to people and its gonna take a minute for us to get it all figured out. If we got rid of all the stars and celebs that have gotten females high and drunk to fukk then the whole music, movie and sports scene will be dead. The best thing we need to do is edu ate our black men on exactly what rape culture is.
After all when you know better, you SHOULD do better..
1. Okay, I don't know you so what ever
2. His wife admitted that it was consensual and he used poor wording(which again if you listen to the dude on a daily basis, you can see that being possible cause he's a dumbass)
3. His "admittance" was more of a joke not an actual confession to a crime
4.I seem ignorant and uninformed, You call the man a rapist even though you have no legitimate proof that he is one. But okay........since its on the internet it must be true.
5.Uninformed pertains to you AGAIN attaching labels and insults to a man based on loosely based information that for one is highly questionable and 2 comes from absolutely nothing but your own biased and disdain you already had for the brother......keep it a buck.
6. No we are not and that is your problem. You think the black male owes you something when we don't owe you or any other black woman who is not our sister, mother, woman, or daughter SHIT. You a grown ass person out here. If your relationships don't work out or you biter because you chose the wrong man to be with, that's on you. The black male doesn't have to step up to your imaginary standards because you have shitty taste in men........or whatever wrongs you feel have been done to you.
Yup! He loves dragging entertainers who have fallen off. Lawwwd forbid if they got into any kind of trouble.....whew child he would slaughter them.
Enoughsaid2020
He needs to be shut-down, along with RKelly,put into prison, and let them drop the soap!
They both were drunk. She admitted that. It wasn't "rape." At least I dont think so.
dontgetblocked
It's disturbing!
She said she was sober enough to pull her panties down and lift her hips so he could enter her. She said in hind sight according to the rape culture NOW she said "technically it was rape"
I can dig your outlook Pitty Patty. I think there are alot of brothers out here who know what is wrong and what is right.
I do disagree with one thing though. Men in America in general are raised with the presumption that women are fine with being called hoes and bitches, or treated like sex objects. Part of that reason is because so many women show that they are.
And that comes with age and maturity on both sides. Men of all races could do better with respect for women, but women could also help with learning to have more respect for themselves(I say that respectively as well) this is not a one way street.
I'm not putting R.Kelly and Charlamange in the same category. Thats taking it too far.
I believe Charlamagne has taken advantage of women for a long time. Through his own admission, his buddies wanted to run a train on the girl and he said no (that time) but he let them see her naked. Plus, this was his buddy's girl...that was angry at her boyfriend so he drugged and raped her. He admits to raping his wife the first time they had sex and she agreed he did. Same MO...drug or alcohol and rape the incoherent victim. Allegedly, he participated in the rape of the 15 year old lady who was drugged and gang raped by either Charlamagne and/or his partners. This is a man who set up rape trains or raped victims by himself. HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!
listen to Charlamange on a daily basis, you would see the dude has his issues, but he is not that bad.
He's a loudmouth and he's really harsh in his assessment of women in general. He's also very intelligent. At the time he laughingly admitted to these actions men were not held accountable for this type of behavior towards women. Times have changed. If he knew this would come back to bite him in the arse he would have been mute on the subject. He may not end up a casualty though. He is a brand that brings in a lot of money for corporate america but the days of bragging about this type of stuff are over....
Over the weekend my husband and I took a road trip to Mississippi. We were listening to all the old school 90's rap and good Lord the shyt we used to listen to. "Bust a nigga head, slap a hoe, shoot the club up" I was like got damn the shyt we listened to was HORRIBLE. I mean it went hard, but it definately conditioned men to be comfortable to disrespect woman and us to accept the disrespect. We MUST reprogram ourselves.
In hindsight, Gangster rap, might have been the worse thing to hit the black community outside of crack and heroin...
Not only did he commit these moral and legal crimes, but he bragged about it. He thinks it's funny to rape and set up gang bangs on women. FIRE his cocky bleached rapist azz!
He is a brand that brings in a lot of money for corporate america but the days of bragging about this type of stuff are over....
That's where he messed up.
He's in so much hot water right now he just might switch sides. (Those beauty treatments he gets are really working for him...)
Is it new to the women who were victimized in the past? Or are they scarred by a rapist behavior? No excuses. Rape is rape. Be it 1955 or 2018.
A lot of what you are saying is being taken out of context. His wife said that according to rape culture NOW, not back then...it was rape. Rules, laws, and society views change.
PEOPLE CHANGE too...
The messages were far and few between, but it elevated the black race to mainstream success as well ushered in waves of multi millionaires. I appreciate the fair and unbiased response though.
I liked Charlamagne. Although, I think he went too far making fun of Mayweather being illiterate. But those interviews revealed his true nature. He's a self-admitted rapist who thinks it's funny!
So you mean to tell me my uncle who married my aunt when she was 15 raped her. My grandma gave her permission. It was normal back then, it was accepted back then.
Mary was a teenager when she was with Joseph. So he raped her too. WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONTEXT OF THINGS. We cant put everything in one box...sheeshhh
WOW!!! Just wow!!! Smh. Doesn't he have 2 daughters??/ Hell, what kind of example is their mom setting if she married and conceived with that monster. I am blown away. I haven't followed this story nor have I ever watched his show. Sounds like his big mouth got the best of him.
Unfortunately, his behavior was commonplace and at the time he joked about this men were not held accountable for doing these things to women. Times have changed and now he's got to pay the piper...
If he stays on the radio it'll be interesting to see how he acts because the next time he goes for somebody's neck they are gonna call him out as a rapist...
NOTHING HAS CHANGED! She said he technically raped her..period. Rape has ALWAYS been rape but NOW these nasty azz rapists are being held accountable. Now they're trying to learn what rape is. Yeah right. Meanwhile, how many women have been tramatized and had her life ruined by a rapist. Sorry no tears for Charlamagne and his fellow rapists. He set up gang bangs, drugged, and got women drunk and raped them. And then he laughed about it in intevriews. Dumb nygga! FIRE HIM IMMEDIATELY!
NeverSurprised
Here he is stating that both HE AND HIS WIFE SAID HE RAPED HER.
mobile.twitter.com/loveelly24/status/1019197954815475712
Now that the heat is on, he is changing his story. Was he lying then, or is he lying now?
Here he is:
Seriously! I am blown away. Like yooooooooooooo if this isn't rape culture IDK what is. Dayum!!!! I just googled her and it says they got married in 2014. She is 36 and more than likely was grown as hell when this happened.
Charlamagne is worse. He set up a gang bang on a 15 year old and he brags about drugging and raping women.
Lady_Elle
Absolutely... folk will lay in wait for him to clown!
The comments in that thread are disgusting!!!! Mannnnnnnnnnnnn I have daughter's and son's. I wish a mofo would!!!!
cleopatra04
Anything he's involved in should be cancelled. We have to stop tolerating this type of degrading behavior toward women. I don't support him or anything he does.
He's not getting fired...sorry sis...
I hope everyone in here is perfect. I know that I'm not the same person I was at 23. If people were judging me on the things I did back then, I'd probably be in jail.
It is illegal to have sex with someone incapable of giving informed CONSENT. It was illegal then, it is illegal now, and it will be illegal tomorrow.
He said she was so drunk she PASSED OUT and he had sex with her in that condition. After getting in trouble, he and his wife are now changing his story. But he said what he said:
They sure will!
Preach!!!!
Readytochokemothernatureout
He's gonna know how Bill and them feel now.
Marlika
I’m tired hearing about this donkey and story.
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I don't know about you, but jail is EXACTLY where this REPEAT RAPIST who LAUGHS about drugging a woman and then having sex with her while she's "BLACKED OUT" needs to be.
Alextra Ballard
...Somebidy take that shovel away from this charlamagne.
So, for those still defending this REPEAT RAPIST, are you also ok with him ADMITTING to BEATNG WOMEN? Here he is bragging about beating the crap out of a 15 year old girl because she had sex with someone else.
And according to him, ALL men have beaten a woman or two in their lifetime.
https://hollywoodstreetking.com/charlamagne-tha-god-brags-about-beating-women/
Their probably more victims out there. Not to mention his own wife.
•…B??MA …•
He should’ve kept his skin black, now he getting his Paul Mooney Ni99a wake up call!!
LithiumHaitianFlower
People WILL still defend him. It’s our society. They don’t care. It’s women. Women are the niggers of the world
Your mama a ngga
Alicia.Ashe
I’m tired of this and he should’ve kept his mouth shut.
CocoBabe88
Nope never done anything that would land me in jail and definitely never violated another human being sooo you're on your own.
lol yesss that nigga wake up call is a mutha!!
His jewish lawyers are frantically scrubbing incriminating comments from his twitter feed, but WE STILL HAVE THEM.
Here he is talking about dating underaged girls.
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If you are defending this man's actions and words JUST because you LIKE him and he ENTERTAINS you, you are a fool with no integrity. And you're just like him so your idiotic comments get no respect.
Like a serial predator, Lenard gets immediate gratification from reliving his crimes. He embellishes his story every time he tells it -- adding more detail to get a reaction from his audience. He's an idiot and he's a liability to his employers.
He always has an audience when he drugs and rapes girls.
Lol at Lenard and his wife trying to change the definition of rape.
Ted Bundy was very intelligent too.
They waited til he got good and settled down and comfortable at the height of his career to attack! They might take everything and send him back to Monks Corner where he started... smh. He was becoming an uppity ni99a, and kept flapping his gums about that girl and now this. Make em and break em.
Fodderwing
...bye Felicia...miss me with this ole nonesence...
Dude. I cannot even believe the audacity of Char...he is so dang entitled...he doesn’t even see the trap he walked himself into.
Kinda like that Greek god, narciccus...who loved his reflection in the water so damn much he drowned himself trying to kiss it.
#themicdroppedu
Deep!
It's Narcissus, and your analogy is absolutely correct.
...as if his paltry admissions will somehow garner the empathy of “the larger audience”...who the actual hale does he think he’s relating to...
Good job posting those interviews. That's what did it for me. He gonna sit up there laughing and bragging. Talked himself right out of a job!
Kudos and love for the spellcheck...my rage blinded my typical need for accurate spelling.
You watch and see. The Metoo movement is more powerful than you think. MTV is about to make a move and the rest will follow.
This may be the end for him. He's 40 and there's always a new one ready to replace him. They're already looking for his replacement.
He admitted his crimes on tape. What a fool! What decent man admits he raped his wife and says she agreed he did? It's like he wanted to be stopped. I believe he's a Bill Cosby Jr.
He's sick!
I recognize your point, Sis. However, I believe the major issue people have with him is that he continues to discuss what happened, and does so in a way that makes light of it. With all that's going on with #MeToo, he should be more sensitive to women and cautious about how he would be perceived saying such things. I don't see any value in him repeating what he did back then when he should be aware that it would be seen as rape in 2018. Innocent or guilty, everything in his mind doesn't have to make it out of his mouth.
His interview with Akademics was pure fiction.
https://youtu.be/zY8ELayRhyA
*That nonsense about VOLUNTARILY going to the police station the next day to take "full responsibility";
* Claiming they didn't have a warrant, that he just strolled in on his own;
* Saying they only arrested him later because he had gone to the station to "take responsibility" ;
* Claiming he only got 4 or 5 mos probation - - ALL LIES. Every word a lie, as the police report, the arrest warrant, and court records show. He is a sociopath who, when cornered, just MAKES CRAP UP. He is both a rapist and a nut job.
He might be a pathological liar.
Then talked his wife into lying for him.
Amilia A Lee
I honestly think he has some confusion about who he really is sexually. The skin bleaching, the constant reference to men’s parts on his show....he has talked about being abused as a child. He has some serious demons he is fighting with. However he is a disgusting individual and deserves exactly what he is getting now. Karma is undefeated.
Um. Yes. And yes! Walk in the light Ms. Rose!
Listen, 90% of the populace knows nothing about Greek Mythology. YOU knew both the god AND what he was famous for, so the spelling is not an issue.
hottlanta
He gets a reaction from the audience while he gets an erection for himself.
Lol...that’s why WE ARE WALKING ON THE WATER!
She admitted to being drunk when they had sex for the first time and you expect more from here. Turn in your Everest medical certificate right now.
So was the Unabomber he was from Stanford. The bar is set so low to call someone intelligent it is a shame. If someone completes a sentence they are deemed intelligent.
How old was your uncle. It might have been accepted but it is still rape. They had this preacher name Rev. Allen in the 90's little girls to Alabama to marry old perverted men. It might have been legal but it is still rape.
Y’all Jealous Cuz I’m Prudy
I wonder how many more underage or inebriated women, he did this to. The only reason he's apologizing now, is because of the backlash. I think he really do not see, anything wrong with what he did. It's like he's proud of it. Him raping his wife and that underage girl, is the "real" him. And I can't believe, she married him afterwards. Smh.
Wtf are you even talking about...
The devil don’t dress himself up as such for a reason
I 100% agree!!! Today's society act like they don't know how to seperate the real person from their craft. The REAL char is a proud råpist, who just happen to be a radio personality too.
Very sick and proud to be that way.
The church is the worst thing to hit the black community. The first time I heard a man calling a woman a whore was in the black church. If she had on makeup or wore a blouse that showed her arms she had to stand up while the minister and deacons belittled her while the church mothers said NOTHING. Yet they ACCEPTED it. Whereas Brother Charles got 6 kids by 3 women and he is never made to stand up in the church and shamed for the error of his ways. The Bible is one of the most violent books ever written and yet we knock ourselves out to sit on the pews every Sunday. Everything we do know is in the Bible it is not nothing new.
The same women overly upset over this are the same ones holding thier pillows to help them sleep at night wishing it was a human being....#yougottarelax.....
Got ya blood pressure up nailing this false narrative into the ground...if they didnt convict stop the shit.....
Well this explains why he would give that interview incriminating himself I suppose. Otherwise it just doesn’t make any damn sense!
Well ill be d***ed..Smh. What really boils my blood is, look how many powerful people knew the truth about him and still gave him opportunity after opportunity to shine, while refusing to give his victim closure, by not reopening the case. But I've seen this kind of behavior before from society and people in charge.
God he’s an idiot.
He tried to be an uppity negro by moving to the white suburbs and saying he didn't want to live around low-class nyggas. This is true because most of us want a nice clean peaceful neighborhood but you don't announce it on a syndicated radio show. Plus, he spreads colorism by calling Envy ..yellow and beige all the time. Now we know he's a serial rapist. SMDH!
What the f*ck was that. Please TAKE your lithium and balance yourself out.
And women need to stop being dâmn cherry pickers. We are always ready to throw another woman under the bus, for these men and thats why they don't see anything wrong with ráping, abusing and disrespecting women.
I’m embarrassed about some of my behavior in my 20s but never committed a heinous crime.
In the interview, he says his buddies wanted to run a train on the passed out girl. He says he said..no but let them see her naked. Why would your friends ask to run a train unless they had done it to other girls. Charlamagne is getting what he deserves!
His wife’s story is a good example of how any of us can become a victim of rape. Clothes don’t matter, the way you “carry” yourself doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter if you are only around men “you trust,” doesn’t matter how “chaste” you are (because she was celibate at least a year that we know of), doesn’t matter if you are at home, or at a party passed out. You can still get violated by a sicko.
Money is on the line so I’m sure she was glad to lie for him and cover this mess up.
Nah! We are the women traveling the world and saying NO TO F’boys ??https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8062696a4b8b74c99690126f047268e8264e5a8a17860a9143a7f804dd6e42b6.jpg
By the end of the week we will be reading about either his removal from the radio or HBO show.
I bet he’s been shaking in his boots wringing his hands in fear of that interview resurfacing since the me too movement. Times up.
??????Say it for the folk in the back
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Does she have a career because if she does.....lawd hammercy
He has two daughters and that is what baffles me.
Yep, when I listened to the interview, I litterly got sick to my stomach. How does someone justify;
*slipping a drug into someone's drink?
*giving an underage girl alcohol?
*having sêx with her, without her knowledge?
*Let numerous men, look at her n?de body?
*bragging to the world, that not only did they râpe a teenager but also their WIFE?
If this isn't another level of cockiness, arrogance, and narcissist behavior, then I don't know what is.
Pure joy ???
He needs to stop the shit. Talking about the SHIT. They didn't convict so Stop the shit... applies to his ass too!
*I sleep with a 6'3 pretty massive sized man at night. He is my pillow.
Gn.
Listen... As I search for flights at this very moment.
It would have been best for her to remain quiet. Sit this one out. Someone needs to call CPS ASAP.
Just like R. Kelly. They have daughters, but dont see anything wrong with how they're treating women.
I wonder if one of his daughters came to him and told him, that she had been râped, and the råpist was bragging to the entire school and neighborhood about it, how he would feel.
Smh. And he said "this ONE time" as if there are multiple instances to choose from.
Whiplash(lacejagger)
He’s so unattractive, with his fake New York accent.
I'm dying at all of Sandra's posts referring to him as "Lenard". Reminds me of Monique. ???
That accent drives me fukkin BONKERS. You are a SC Geechie sir!
Yes life is better single cause you can fly coach when you want too.
What people tell themselves to get by.
He's repeatedly admitted to liking them UNDERAGED. His jewish lawyers are removing the evidence, but WE SAVED IT!
He really has been ?
But you saw how he was laughing hysterically while talking about it, as if drugging and raping a woman were something to be proud of. I'm telling you, he is a sociopath.
gellie
It's because he did it to black girls. Nobody values us, not even black people. White people look on like, 'If they don't care, why should we?' At some point, we have to show some willingness to take out our own trash.
No one is free from sin, it will always catch up to us(when we least expect it) . That's why we must repent/change from our wicked ways, but you can't ever hide what you've done ,the Creator knows and see's all. The consequences always come when you think you've gotten away with it, and you're in a better position. Never forget those that exalt themselves will be humbled, and the humble will be exalted . #scripture, we Never get away with anything!
U know what tho...he states in this interview that it was a white girl he popped that shit on...
TooMuchTea
I have never cared for this dude.
Really??!!! CharlaFraud has a fluid relationship with the truth and has been known to embellish things. But if that's true, he's even dumber than I thought. He was in Niggaville for real thinking he could violate a white girl and get away with it. I dunno...I'm skeptical.
Anyone who has not yet signed the petition for his firing please do so. We are just shy of 20,000 signatures.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/558/350/663/we-demand-that-charlamange-the-god-of-the-breakfast-club-be-fired-for-sexual-assault/
Miss K
That’s why I took Humanities in high school. Loved it!!!
The relationship with the wife is interesting. They both claim they dated a FULL YEAR with no sex and NOT EVEN A KISS. Then, after a year of NOTHING, she suddenly decides, ON HER OWN, to get "sloppy drunk" to the point of passing out. Who believes this?
He admits spiking the other woman's drink, and Jessica says he spiked the drinks of her and her friend, but somehow his FUTURE WIFE suddenly got "blackout drunk" ON HER OWN. Again, who believes this?
She's a Beard
Something is definitely wrong with him. Especially if he believes this behavior is “no big deal.” Do men have to think about another man drugging and raping them to be able to relate? How can so many men not see the harm in this.
exlurker
This guy never had respect for women. I will never forget how his radio show made Lil Mama cry. She had lost her Mum, and the whole bullying from social media with the Jay-Z situation, the poor girl was stressed.
Now that he thinks he has made it, this is his KARMA!!!!
Like he was the bish?. Then again, i guess he is.
You still have at least one WOMAN on this site making excuses for him (see comments below). A WOMAN!!! After hearing his misogyny from his own mouth. Go figure.
Cosby has several daughters. Russell Simmons has daughters. I believe Harvey has daughters. These men compartmentalize women. Their own daughters are worthy of respect, but other women deserve to be used and discarded. Very sick view of women. And even on his show it's clear to see that Charlemagne thinks some women are worthy of respect (Angela Rye), and others are to be mocked and ridiculed (lil Mama). HE is all-powerful in deciding the treatment. He clearly enjoys exerting power over women.
I just happily signed the petition.
Yes, he is. Lived in a trailer and all! Trying to act uppity. He can't even pronounce most words. Just a bumbling fool who even Wendy Williams had to kick to the curb.
Hmmm. Or could it be that we're mad because he's a proud and loud RAPIST???!!!
I noticed that. Not sure what her deal is. Hope she doesn’t have any sons to raise up.
Ylizaa
Monique is somewhere saying "I told you so" https://youtu.be/YmaMjyWIOOw
Wow!!! I never saw that clip before. Just wow! I have a newfound respect for Monique.
DAYUM, DAYUM, DAYUM. I was there last year and had a BLAST. Why are you punishing me like that Life isn't fair.
Monique saying another one bite the dust. I saw this and it was epic.
Or we can be like C-fake God's wife and marry the man that raped her.
She said my babies after she checked him the same way Iyana says beloved. Ole skool women got a way of checking you without cursing.
BingBangBoom
Dude is donezo! Over with! sicko
They weren't dating. In the past he's said that he pursued her and she wasn't interested. I think they were friends and he got her drunk and raped her. She was supposedly a popular cheerleader that he admittedly stalked.
He's not even cute and bleaches his skin!
Yep that karma will hit you when you least expect he has got away with so much he thought he was invincible, his own loose lips will sink him
He's a dangerous short man!
Wow!! We gots to be careful.
Guest©
Agreed but why do you use a capital "g" for his blasphemous name?
Checkmate!!!
Louisville Is4TheBirds
If he was done, ClearChannel woulda dumped him from Breakfast Club... the HBO show just got hella promo from this, they not gonna kill that show now
Remember how he treated lil mama? In due time we all reap what we sow.
Craziest thing is, all the ppl that dont fool w him dont realize their feelings literally increase his worth to media! He is the definition of "polarizing", and the ratings say it all...
iWasteTime
Then it's another case of him telling multiple versions of the same story, because on the tape he clearly says "Me and my wife dated for a whole year and she wouldn't give me no pu$$y".
I purposely absconded myself from the social networking dimension around a decade ago...it was a painful conscious choice I made...after I tempted the oft quoted saying...be careful what you wish for...and like Icarus...I found myself too close to the sun...and exited stage left just before it was too late...nowadays you could not pay me to be famous.
I actually signed the petition, NeverSurprised. And it feels good.
I think he's told so many lies that he can't keep them straight. I know people who abstain from sex while dating. But I don't know of any who don't kiss for a whole year. In his mind, he was dating her. In her mind, he was just that ugly short guy friend. We all had an ugly guy friend!
Yeah...he said it was a white girl his boy “couldn’t claim” bc they were living in N.C. (back in the 90’s?? I presume) and it was just against the cultural norms there, at the time.
This man got away with raping a 15-year-old black child whose life was forever changed at his hands. He got away with it then, but perhaps, like the Greek Goddess Hera, those of us who believe in divine retribution can make sure he pays now, by losing his public platform. (See, you got up here referencing Greek Mythology, like you ?)
rodt
rapist. thing is he has done it alot like Cosby
He's a black man charged and arrested for raping a minor in the past. He's on tape bragging about drugging and raping women. Cosby condemned himself by admitting his crime on tape and so did Leonard!
OvertheMississippi
Yeah, those four banks that I robbed at 23 should be all forgiven and stuff.
JENNYJONES1
B/C THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS HAS RUN OUT SO HE KNOWS HE CAN'T GO TO JAIL BUT THOSE COINS ARE ANOTHER THING. I REALLY WISH IF THERE IS DNA EVIDENCE THAT EXIST LIKE HE SAYS WHICH PROVES HE DIDN'T HAVE SEXUAL CONTACT W/THE 15 YR OLD COMES OUT TO PROVE HIM INNOCENT SO ATLEAST THAT ISH WILL BE PUT TO REST. REGARDLESS HE NEEDS TO STFU. HE THINKS TALKING HELPS PROVE HIS INNOCENCE BUT IT'S ONLY MAKING THINGS WORSE AND HE'S TALKING HIMSELF OUT OF JOBS AND MONEY, DUMMY!!!.........JENNY JONES!!!!
Yes I remember! He was merciless smh
You are correct about Hollywood’s intent to destroy black men by harboring then exploiting their secrets.
The best PR for Lenard are his own actions and attitude.
If he was at least capable of demonstrating an ounce of humility, then he would never have used his platform to mock his victim and rape victims.
This happened with Nate Parker too. These men are allergic to humility. After participating in rapes, both were given their freedom and they went on to mock and insult their victims, publicly at that.
What Charlamagne needs to do is extend humility and amend to his victim through his lawyers. She is fighting to reopen the case because she is distressed from his deplorable promotion of rape.
He also needs a presidential level speech writer to write him a history making speech demonstrating his sincere humility and sympathy for victims of rape, and formally announce his new commitment, mission, and organization established to educate young men against rape.
THIS will save his freedom and career. But do we want to save him? I mean he is a braggadocious and unrepentant rapist.
Not all promo is good
Bingo. This is what I know this sick azzhole for!
It NEVER matters though, don't forget these mofos has mama's FIRST and came out a vagina.
Nathan Hastings
He's innocent...
Yeeeeeessssss. Glad you caught that.
Angela Rye was the first one to jump to his defense, declaring that he "never raped anyone" ( wonder how she feels now that HE clearly admits he did) and she actually called Jessica names. America's black "feminist" , Ms. Rye.
VanillaCaramel2shotsExpresso
Meanwhile Howard Stern made a whole career of being a “shock” jock. He encouraged nasty raunchy behavior . He was oftencritized and boycotted but he just became more popular and more disgusting . Oh then he did a few years on America’s Got Talent....
Zeta Phi Beta 1920
So what? Char is a rapist. Society can not have demons walking around with no consequences. Just because a white person "got away with it" does not mean Black people should turn a blind eye. We need garbage uprooted and disposed.
He said he did it.
http://batman-news.com Roderick2011
Sandra Rose----FBI profiler.
Not only got away but also BRAGGING about it. I pray that doesn’t send his victims down spiraling
jeniefrumdabloc™
chile stop.. . Some including myself have been raped ... If you don't shut da fawk up .... Now I wasn't going to say shyt bout this lame azz Ninja but fuggas like yo azz that has never been raped can't say shyt about the subject... Until you have had innocence stolen then say something until then fawk off with this bs.. If folks don't miss me with the got damn bullshyt ..... You don't know these people stories and this sucka azz Ninja openly admits to raping women.. . And you give that cat a pass .... Foh ! Fawk that ninja real talk. ... I hope someone fawks that gay Ninja with a rusted pole with acid .... I ain't ever giving a rapist a damn pass ... Miss me with this shyt here ... Get a clue know when ya vouching for a simp ?
Let me log all the way off... got on here had to cuss someone slap da fawk out .... Fawk this simp up top. . Sucka ninja more Karma coming for that lame and he deserves every single bit of it with his ain't shyt azz. .. Peace out y'all have a good one ?
Scromes1212
I don't really understand what HBO is "looking into" smh get rid of the show. It's funny how all his super liberal metoo female friends have zero to say about this issue. It's clear that he is employed by very powerful people cause you hardly see this story on any major outlets smh
Braxton P. Hartnabrig
Plenty Of Garbage in the BLACK community need to thrown down the incinerator. But unfortunately the garbage that needd to thrown out are the love of black females heart. Thugs, D boys, convicted felons and Blue Oyster Club fucbois.
BeUtFullSoul
oh well.... He can go on the "chitt-er-ling circuit" w/ R.Kelly and be his opening ACT!
It has.
Jessica was a sweet girl. He groomed her, made her, her mother and her brother (all of whom he met before raping her) believe he was her "friend". The night of the rape, he picked her and a friend up and first took them to a function where she met his family members, including his father.
Everything seemed innocent and above-board, so there was NOTHING to prepare that 15 year old for what he did to her. Then he publicly LIED and LAUGHED about what he did to her for the next 17 years,. Imagine how you would feel.
She is hurt but not broken. Each time a new person learns the truth about him, it hgives her new strength. All she wants is for the world to know who he really is.
Do you know that as soon as she did her interview with Starr, Charlemagne's JEWISH lawyers immediately had it taken down from youtube? I believe it is back up now, after a week or so, but why go so far to silence her if he is so "innocent"? He has been telling his FALSE NARRATIVE for years, but she gives ONE interview and is immediately silenced. Why?
?.....there are facts and there are emotional reactions to false narratives...your entire post is a emotional reaction to a false narrative. Therefore I don't take it serious.
Secondly either cuss or dont...but dont straddle the fence...whole post read like one of those old BET voice talk overs...mikifiki and son of a biscuit talking ass...
Yardgirl
Oh girl, I am so sorry that happened to you. You are a light that I can depend on to show compassion and empathy on this blog. Blessings to you queen and sending positive vibes your way.
Darkandlovely617?
Sorry you endured that, am happy for your continued strength ??
He hired Marty Singer, the most powerful and most expensive lawyer in LA. His real talent is keeping unflattering stories off of sites like TMZ (he's very close to Harvey Levin). That's why it was crucial that black bloggers like Sandra post the tapes.
But the fact that Page Six ran the story (after thousands of us have been posting it everywhere for a full week) is the real game changer. A mainstream publication over which Singer has no influence. And by the end of this week we will make sure other mainstream publications and all conservative bloggers have the tapes AND the damaging tweets which Singer's team removed from Twitter. (BUT WE SCREENSAVED).
Right now, I guarantee that Singer is making Charlemagne BLEED MONEY. And the good news is that even Singer, who was originally hired by Cosby to spin HIS story, couldn't save him. And he won't save Charlemagne either.
Speak for yourself. The women I know LOVE Black Men who are Confidant. Masculine. Strong. Resourceful. We do not look nor "chill" in the hood , so therefore we do not know hood people.
God bless you sis.
It's all good... But shid to sit up here and vouch for a rapist .... Thanks for your kind words... I went through that experience to help others bew ... Everything that is put on us is for a reason ... Either wallow in it... Or help someone ... I choose to help... And enlighten.... Much love love sending strength to you as well...
Much love bew.... Sending light to you as always ....
Love you bew.... Bring some laughs today... Sick of the mess now... Much love ??
WHAT is so false about this narrative? I was one of the ones who was like I cant stand this witch hunt crap YEARS after the fact. Bc I felt Nate Parker was done the same way. I dont even LIKE CTG but I hate witch hunts on our people. But the FACT remains that yes he was punished... but he WILL NOT HUSH. His smug ass KEEPS talking about it. If I was raped or violated and my violator had the GALL, nerve, and audacity to not only keep speaking on the topic...but to do so in such a brazen bragging ass manner...I would be pissed. Imagine how SHE feels. Or the plural she's. So THEY. This fukka is out here bragging about it. He is not just speaking on it to clear his name. He out in these streets laughing on it. Speaking on it on REPEAT. That is a no. That is a fukk no. Why cant he just sit down, and STFU on the topic PERIOD?
Imma try! Damn bf swiped the wrong damn sandwich off the counter this morning lmao. I get to work and pull a YOU (eat my lunch as breakfast like you used to) and its one of his sandwiches lmao. Day already started off crazy lol.
???? hell I want a steak or something this morning you know how do... Dinner for breakfast ??
Owww76
When she kept calling him Lenard LOL! I love Mo'nique got his ass right on together!
It's cool, the only sista B. Smooth would consider is an AKA. CAN I get a SKIEEEWEEE?
Phillybruh
He was never charged with that, he was under investigation and cleared with DNA testing and plead guilty to supplying alcohol at a party she was at.
Thank u. Every since lawyer fakedrea4 married felon apolla for some dumb azz reason they think all of us are like that.
PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US FOR DEAD !!
Much respect to you.
You and I went at it early on over this because I am so invested in helping this young woman seek justice. Although we were at odds, I respect the fact that as more information was revealed you have the integrity to look at that info and say facts are facts -- especially when HE keeps vomitting information non-stop
We will likely be at odds on other issues in the future, but know that you have my RESPECT.
Get us out of this fukked up country ass post.
RoniV
Thank you for sharing the petition. I have signed and shared.
Not only that...he was speaking on it this WEEK with his wife on the show. Like sir....SIR. He done really made me angry. Respect and peace and light to you too.
SingleGalCrazyWorld
Been listening to Charlamange since he was in Philly with Wendell and Im not shocked by this. He knew he was the ugly one growing up...short, discolorations on his face with butter teeth...At this point he played himself by saying those things on open radio and not thinking he would have consequences. Now the alcohol to a minor thing was real IDK if he raped her or not but he did plead guilty to supplying alcohol to a 15 year old. Char did lie about his probation because he said numerous times it was for 3-6 months when it was 3 years. Now the Spanish fly thing is despicable as well as him talking about when he first had sex with his brainwashed wife...they called her on TBC the other day so she could say "her truth" but honestly what kind of woman are you if your man is admittedly on radio saying he's cheating for years smh...while I dont want him to go away because he's entertaining this just boils my blood....
Please read the ACTUAL COURT DOCUMENTS which prove you wrong in every regard.
hollywoodlife.com/pics/charlamagne-tha-god-court-docs-police-reports-pics-sexual-misconduct-case/
Y'all kill me with this liberal shit like conservatives ain't out here doing the same shit.
Trace da Ace
damn....and he had NOTHING to say to that.....I usually do not agree with Monique...but she is right....on this one...
It's crazy how little information about this is on mainstream sites smh most of my initial information I got from you and the links you posted.
This is not a witch hunt. This is a story that he talked about a few times and even wrote about it in his book. His arrest report is open to the public. This is not some covert cover up that no one knows about. For the most part all the information that we (the outsiders looking in) want is available.
The false narrative is the rapist accusation when there is no solidified proof that he is actually guilty of doing that. Which makes all this built anger and fake outrage seem over the top and quite frankly just plain dumb.
As far as the bragging all I ever saw was the story about his wife....which he ended up marrying. So its like fake outrage over a story that even his own wife came out and stated was told incorrectly. So again what are people upset about.
Sandra you would have been a hell of a profiler...
"In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.
In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories" .
His wife is weak af...she knowingly let him cheat and disrespect her for years. Power probably made them do it to try to deflect but it didn't help. Char admitted this year that he finally stopped cheating on his wife in 2016...
hell...fucking....yeah.... ALL OF THIS....ALL OF WHAT YOU SAID....people piss me off condoning this rapist behavior....and the fact that he admits it....makes me sick to my stomach.....THIS is why shit still happens....fuckers want to laugh it off like oh its nothing....but HE RAPED HER! ugh....I gotta get off this post before I snap the fuck off today....
The gag is his wife is named Jessica too smh...
Your post speaks volumes for many, thank you. I'm not sure what's going in the world, but I believe something is happening spiritually, and cosmically that's fortunately causing many people and things to be revealed. So glad this callous, arrogant losers time has come.
It doesnt make it any better that he married her. Hell Luke raped Laura at the Campus Disco in 1978 and they been married since 1981. Doesnt mean Luke Spencer is not a rapist. Shit probably where he got the idea from. FOH.
Karma will be returned mandatory and it is in the cosmos ... In fact this judgement... This one is marked... He will continue to fail... God ain't got time no more for mess down here... They will all fall now and this will shock a lot of people some of folks favorites skeletons bout to fall out... All the way out... They are in the spotlight for one specific reason ... Public humiliation .... Because their egos are through the roof.. Opportunities blocked.... Finances in the tanker ... All thieves will be caught and sent back to their maker but not before receiving hell in the physical plain .. Hell it's only fare... These people have raped stolen abused... Power in a despicable way... This is and was fated to happen... Astrology will back or up... The Bible will back it... Folks actions will tell it all.... They will display it and actually tell in themselves .... Want have to work hard to find out the truth ... The mask is off... Now if people want to be sheep and remain sleep fall with them... Much love ??
Mr.LeBrickJames
"I dont want him to go away because he's entertaining"
There's lots of other people who can be just as entertaining if given the chance. He's definitely replaceable.. and hopefully will be replaced.
lol....dats my show!!!
I read it, it clearly has the request for DNA test in the link posted and he was eventually charged with what was provable. I get the emotions about rape. But it wasn't provable. You should re-read what you posted.
Kanyade
lol country a**
Don’t ever stop!
If he does get replaced I hope its a black female...what HBO may do is try to bring in a white in your face type for that show but it wont work...
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fck him just for that alone.
Logan Roberts
He looks real zesty uptop ?
His whole entire career needs to be cancelled. Just put together a compilation of the disgusting rapey comments that he has made to guest on his show calling them vintage vagina or talking about smelling their sets and he is finished.
Pill Cosby was entertaining too and so was OJ...
I mean if Luke(a fictional character from 40 years ago) did it, then I guess all is fair game........stop talking to me......
Phil, you are wrong (I thought you were married to an attorney)
You didnt read the documents, which are as follows:
Two INDICTMENTS (an indictment is a formal charge) for:
#1. Criminal Sexual Conduct w/a Minor (where Lenard McKelvey "did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously engage in penile/vaginal intercourse w/ a 15 y.o female")
#2. Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor ("did knowingly and willfully encourage aid or cause to do acts which were intended to cause or influence Jessica Nicole Reid to deport herself in a manner so as to willfully injure or endanger her morals or health").
Those were the two CHARGES. Indictment #1 was eventually dismissed but NOT because of dna exoneration. READ THE DOCUMENTS.
3. NOTHING IN THE COURT RECORD STATES THAT A DNA TEST WAS EVER CONDUCTED ON THE RAPE KIT. The only document in the file is an order for a blood test. The drawing of blood alone is NOT the same as conducting a DNA test against the rape kit. Where do you see a document stating a dna test was conducted. Where do you see a document stating the date the blood test was actually conducted and the results of the test? An ORDER for a test is not the same as actually conducting a blood test, and a blood test is not the same as a subsequent dna test.
4. A DNA TEST IS NOT THE SAME AS A BLOOD TEST. A dna test is conducted against a rape kit. Where do you see a document stating that such test occurred?
5. S. Carolina has NO LAW requiring that every rape kit be tested for dna, and currently has hundreds of untested rape kits dating back to 1989.
https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/sex-crime-evidence-ignored-several-hundred-charleston-area-kits-remain/article_182035e5-7099-52e9-9d82-2e207e391c58.html
6. On the Dismissal Form, the SOLE reason given for the first charge being dropped was "VICTIM UNCOOPERATIVE." Look at the LAST DOCUMENT ENTITLED "INDICTMENT/WARRANT STATUS CHANGE FORM." Look at the REASON for the dismissal. Where do you see DNA? It only says "VICTIM UNCOOPERATIVE." If a dna test exonerated him, why would victim cooperation be an issue, and why wouldnt "DNA EXCLUSION" be stated on the form as the reason? It isn't. It says NOTHING about the case being dismissed because of dna. READ IT. It is handwritten in BIG letters.
Tell me the title of the document that YOU see that states he was exonerated by dna evidence.
He was arrested for that, yes. They request for blood work is in the documents posted. First shot to the case was that it came back not matching him. So then all they had was her testimony, she didn't want to go forward so ultimately he couldn't be charged with rape but he could be charged with the delinquency of a minor ( Provable). If his DNA matched they wouldn't need her. And they tested his blood against any rape kit that was taken they probably ran it against others they had on file as well. NO DA is going to trial without doing that. And they aren't going to re-open it because she has a change of heart because he got money now.
"He's a dangerous short man?" ?????????
Singer is CRAZY powerful in the industry.
SMDH. Anybody trying to help him excuse this kind of behavior, is just as sick as he is. But I've seen this before. I'm never surprised when people protect rápist and abusers. People will die protecting them before they ever protect the victim. That's why so many râpist and abusers, go on to live successful lives. They've got big time People, protecting them.
She's an dingbat anyway, so her opionion don't count.
Conservative or liberal it's wrong
Really?????
Lolly Asher
He doesn't seem to know she read him.
No, thank you. You posting that link gave awareness and access for many, and a voice for others. Have a wonderful day:)
Sure want... Same to you bew ???
lol i got about halfway through reading your comment before I realized where it's from lol
WutizstillHERE!
See his story about slipping his now wife a mickey and her collaborating it would have been successful IIIIIFFFFF he didn't go on to say in the podcast that she was out cold and OTHER dudes saw her naked and ASKED to fuck her but he wouldn't let them..soo either you are lying sir and you did slip her that mickey without her knowledge OOOR she is a heaux who knownly subjected herself to the possibility of gang rape by taking a drug that can produce coma like results...So which is it? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9eb2b76e506e38d5072dd1cf3ad262774eb5ffcb7856de93eefa3205f33fbcb1.gif
RKelly...
http://www.instagram.com/yeuphonic @yeuphonic
Did you just try and use the famous tone deaf phrase from John Lennon and yoko ono? It doesn't work in any context especially in regards to the pedophile rapist radio rat or his numerous victims.
Thank you, beloved for realizing it was a quote. A quote from John Lennon smh. No need for the other attacks I saw up there wow
I meant to emphasize on the lack of justice towards women. How women specially those of color don’t get the proper justice for these crimes. I hope more people sign the petition
This is deep.
He’s a bully and predator
1. Not arrested, INDICTED. You said he wasn't CHARGED. An Indictment is a CHARGE. What you mean is he wasn't CONVICTED on the rape charge, but he WAS Indicted. READ THE DOCUMENT. It's the one that says "INDICTMENT."
2. YOU: "First shot to the case was that it came back not matching him."
WHERE DOES IT STATE THAT IN THE RECORD? Stop making up things that you THINK happened. We have ACTUAL COURT DOCUMENTS IN FRONT OF US.
An order for a blood test was filed on August 28. 2001. The NEXT DAY, on August 29, 2001, the Grand Jury handed down an indictment for rape in the 2nd Degree (Criminal Sexual Conduct w/aMinor). Since you seem unable to inderstand the difference between a blood test and a dna test, I will go with your language here -- if the blood test came back as " not matching him", why did the Grand Jury indict him for rape AFTER the blood test was ordered, and not before?
READ THE DOCUMENTS. LOOK AT THE DATES. The Rape Indictment is the one that says "INDICTMENT FOR CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONDUCT WITH A MINOR".
They "probably" did this and they "probably" did that? Are you serious? It was a RAPE case involving a CHILD. The prosecutor is duty bound to fully document EVERY procedure taken in the case. It is called " preserving the record." If it's not in the file, it means it didn't happen.
This isn't a game of tiddly winks. There are no dna results in the file because, like hundreds of others in the state of S. Carolina, her rape kit was never tested. READ SOMETHING FACTUAL AND STOP SPECULATING. This is beneath you intellectually.
If dna exonerated him, give ONE REASON why the dismissal form wouldn't STATE THAT!! That's a hell of a lot more important that "victim non-cooperation," don't you agree?
You are confusing his wife with another of his many rape victims. Quite understandable since the list keeps growing. The audio that Sandra posted is of another woman whom he drugged and raped. Here is his admission about raping his WIFE.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Loveelly24/status/1019197954815475712/video/1
An indictment is not a charge. It simply bolsters an already weak case. Well Grand Jury's almost always do what the prosecutor wants. No matter how you slice it, you can type until your fingers fall off, the case isn't being re-opened. You already said why it wasn't in the reasoning for dropping that charge, it is not law in SC one be done.
Misslaydj
So which is it. He did or didn't. Both videos r conflicting stories
TheOwley
You are never too big to fall. Why can't people live a clean life and keep their blessings?
So, what's the point of mentioning "super liberal"?
Thats the faces in the media that represent the metoo movement
Merkaba morris
The way he treat people on the Breakfast Club when he interview them fuck this Queen .......I stop watching the show after the way he treated Monique he is very disrespectful and a uncle Tom ass nigga .they gone show him all that ass kissing didn't mean nothing ....
samuel severino
On CDAN they said he gave his wife $50,000 in cash to go on the air and tell fake stories about the time he admitted to raping her before they got together.
He lied repeatedly about that case with the 15 year old because 1) he never thought it would come out and 2) his state has a clause that you can’t re-open a case once there is a plea deal.
However, no one gets 3 years probation for buying a minor alcohol and the court records said that they actually used his DNA in the proceedings. Why would they need his DNA for an alcohol purchase? Not to mention that the victim insists that it was him on top of her AND he introduced her to his parents. A 21 yr old introducing a 15 year old to his family????
So they're all Liberals???? None of them could possibly be conservatives? Says a lot about conservatives then, especially with how y'all leader think about women.
Not it my eyes. These are just known things he has done, one is too many!
That state SC is in slavery times. It’s a mentality that supports rape and all kinds of injustices.
Listen, this May sound harsh but it’s true. Nine black people had be in a church in a bible class be elderly and clergy and youth for that state to feel sympathy for them being shot and killed.
That state turns a blind eye to and colludes with cover ups of injustice all the time. Charlamagne obviously is from SC.
Speak!!!!
Trump is the leader of the free world, not just conservatives
Maybe he used a condom or maybe he just set up the gang bang rape. He was connected to a minor, alcohol, and rape. He then went on to taunt the victim and talk about it for years.
Overpower Radio
He got off on a rape charge, because the under aged girl's parents didn't want her to suffer through a trial and moved her from South Carolina to Virgina. He couldn't be charged if the victim's family didn't cooperate with the authorities................but then that podcast!! He basically admitted to buying a date rape drug and having sex with the girl when she was too out of it to know what was going on. He lucked out again, because that girl was interested in him enough that when he told her they had sex, she didn't flip. HE DIDN'T HOWEVER, share on the podcast whether or not he told the girl he put the date rape drug in her drink, or if she thought she had just gotten drunk and gave it up while wasted.
The Brilliant Idiots podcast where he talked about date raping that girl, the others saw naked, and that his own cousin (lied on his D* allegedly) and claimed he hit it ...........that girl is not his now wife.
Thanks hun. ??
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Six Sentence Sunday ~ Glamour Blade
{eBook Tour} Excerpt: WiSpY by Rob Andrews
{eBook Tour} Skater Boy Book Barrage
By Mistress Anya in Blog Tours, Book Spotlight
Title: Skater Boy
Author: Mari Mancusi
Publisher: NLA Digital Liaison Platform LLC
Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary
Length: 50,000 words
Source: CBLS
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Dawn Miller is sick of being good. Her parents have scheduled her to within an inch of her life and her popular friends can only think of hooking up and shopping. She’s ready for a serious boyfriend, and it’s definitely not the obnoxious rich boy everyone wants her to date.
Then she meets Starr, the headmaster’s punk rock daughter who refuses to play by the rules. The differences between them are night and day but Dawn is fascinated. Starr introduces her to a world she didn’t even know existed: hip indy record stores, all night raves, and cute skateboarders who hang out underneath a parking deck downtown.
Skateboarders like the gorgeous Sean, who’s sweet, smart, and curiously serious –everything Dawn’s always wanted in a boyfriend. Soon she finds herself head over heels and doing the unthinkable, lying to her parents and friends. Deep down she knows her parents will never approve of this boy from the wrong side of town…and her secret life is finally catching up to her. Will Dawn be forced to choose between the girl she was and the girl she is meant to be? And if she chooses, will she lose her skater boy forever?
"Mancusi has scored a hit. Dawn is likeable, and any teen girl–wealthy or not–should identify with her typical problems. From boys to friends to parents, the author covers it all. She even manages to include one or two deeper messages in the form of "straight edge" teens and a "perfect" wealthy boy who turns out to be a real jerk."— Alexandra Kay, RT Book Reviews
EXCERPT #1:
“Hey, Dawn, whatcha writing?”
I slam my notebook shut and force a wide smile as my friend Ashley approaches the lunch table. I can’t believe it. She’s five minutes early. Five minutes! After I’ve already gone and used up one of my three-bathroom-breaks a-semester chemistry class privileges for a few precious moments of writing time. And now Ashley has shown up and ruined it all.
The early bird gets the chance to tick Dawn off. . . . “Nothing,” I say, forcing a casual shrug. “Just a birthday wish list. You know how The Evil Ones are. Left to their own devices I’d probably end up with some itchy Harvard letter sweater for my sweet sixteen.”
I’d actually been working on a poem, not a birthday list. One I plan to enter in a contest sponsored by Faces, a local Massachusetts literary magazine. But I am certain ly not about to inform our head cheerleader of that little technicality. I mean, writing poetry? How geeky can you get? And The Evil Ones (aka Mom and Dad) are terrible in the presents department, so it’s not like I’m telling a total lie. . . .
“Oh cool.” Ashley flounces onto the chair beside me, her wool plaid skirt puffing up and then settling back down over her perfectly sculpted thighs. We all wear the same skirts here as sophomores at Sacred Mary’s, but Ashley’s skirt usually falls at least two inches shorter than regulation and it constantly gets her in trouble with the Sisters. “You should ask for those Seven Jeans we saw at Nordstrom the other day.”
“The ones with the crystals on the back pocket?” I look up and see that Ashley #2 has arrived at our lunch table. Like Ashley #1, she’s blond and lanky and wears her skirts too short. Her claim to fame is being picked as homecoming queen last fall, even though she’s only a sophomore. “Those are completely lame. When shopping for jeans, I say go James every time. They’re scientifically designed to make your butt look smaller, not draw attention to it with crystals.”
I stifle a groan. I love my friends, don’t get me wrong. But there are times I’m not quite sure I fit in with them. I mean yeah, I’d rather be here than at the loser table discussing games like Magic: The Gathering, but is it really necessary for us to debate the pros and cons of designer denim every single lunch? Doesn’t anyone talk politics anymore? Not that I know anything about politics, but maybe I could start learning if someone brought them up once in a while. It’d probably prove more useful in life than the Fashionista 101 sessions we seem to hold every lunch period.
“You guys are crazy!” Oh, there’s Ashley #3, making our lunch group complete. She swings her Kate Spade messenger bag off her shoulder and plops it on the floor. We consider Ashley #3 the brainy one. She’s president of the student council and wants to be a TV anchorwoman when she grows up. I think she has a good shot at the job. She’s already got the brilliant white capped teeth and perfect hair. “Obviously Levi’s makes the best jeans known to mankind.”
The other two Ashleys groan in sync. “No way would I be caught dead in Levi’s,” says Ashley #1.
“That’s ’cause you’re a lemming,” Ashley #3 explains, using the big word with a smug pride. She knows for a fact Ashley #1 won’t know what it means and she’s right.
“Hey! What did you just call me?”
“Girls, girls! Let us not fight over fashion,” Ashley #2, the peacemaker, coos. She took a yoga class once and has been all Buddha-on-the-mountain ever since. “Our differ ent tastes in denim make the world go round.” She holds her palms out and smiles demurely. For a minute I think she’s going to actually break out into an “Ohmmm.”
Instead she says, “What were we talking about again?” “Dawn’s birthday wish list.”
“Ah. How about a side of Brent Baker, served on a silver platter?” Her demure smile morphs into a lecherous smirk as she watches the senior from across the room. We all turn and look. The Ashleys sigh, again in sync. They’re good at that.
“No way. He’s on my birthday list,” declares Ashley #1. This obviously strikes them as funny, and all three break out into giggles.
You know, I’m pretty convinced I’m the only girl in school not lusting after Brent Baker. Brent Baker the Third, that is. Born with a silver spoon wedged up his butt. His parents and my parents go to the same country club, so I’ve known him since my playpen days and he’s been after me almost as long. But I’m so not interested in him. I mean, sure he’s got the blond, blue-eyed jock thing going on, but his huge ego negates any points he’s chocked up in the looks department.
The Ashleys can’t understand why I think he’s repulsive, but they don’t rock the boat. After all, that means he’s fair game for any one of them.
You know how normal kids go through their teen years? Wake up at seven, go to school, take some easy classes like basket-weaving or drama and then go hang with their friends and listen to music? Well, imagine my day. You’re up at five to go to crew practice, rowing down a river in the freezing Massachusetts air. Change quickly to make it to school in time for the first bell. Then have a school day cram-packed with AP and honors classes. Last bell rings and you’re off to gymnastics practice or yearbook or school paper or ballet or whatever and then straight to your language tutor where you’re learning Japanese in case you want to be a foreign business leader someday (which you don’t). You get home at seven o’clock and go up to your room to do all your excruciatingly hard AP and honors homework. Go to bed after homework is finished, then wake up the next morning to do it all again.
Basically, every second of my life is booked solid ’til I retire. (The Evil Ones have probably already pre-registered me for a nursing home, too.) Doesn’t sound like fun? Too bad, ’cause I’d love to trade places with anyone who envies me.
I open my Algebra II textbook and my half-finished poem flutters onto my bed. I glance over at my closed bedroom door. Will Dad really come up and check on me? The poetry contest deadline is tomorrow, and I have no idea when I’ll be able to finish writing it if I don’t do it tonight. And I really want to enter, too. The prize is a hundred dollars and publication in the magazine. Of course, I’d have to use a pen name, but that’s okay. I’d know it was mine.
But just as I’m about to put pen to paper and become one with my writing muse, a knock sounds on my door. I groan and stuff the poem back into my Algebra book. So much for sanctuary.
“Come in.”
My mother enters the room, all pearl necklaces and Chanel No. 5, as usual. Before she became an English teacher and mother to me, she was a fashion-magazine model, which is more than likely how she nabbed my rich, older father back in the day. Once when I was spy ing in her bedroom, I found her old modeling scrapbook stuffed in her underwear drawer. She was beautiful back then, I’ll give her that. A smooth-skinned, dark-eyed Italian beauty. Very Sophia Loren. I bet she was super disappointed when I came out of her womb all Irish and freckled, like my dad.
She frowns disapprovingly at my sprawled-out position on the bed.
“You know, you have a very nice desk,” she says, gesturing to the mahogany nightmare on the far left of my bedroom. Like I said, she was a model, so she’s big on the whole posture thing.
“I sit at a desk all day, Mom.” I tug on a blond braid in frustration. Why can’t she just leave me alone? I mean, what does it really matter whether I study on my bed or at a desk?
Her frown deepens, but she doesn’t pursue the subject. “Well, I just came up to tell you that Magda should have dinner ready in about five minutes.”
Magda, our housekeeper/cook, is from Mexico and makes the best meals known to mankind. Spicy Spanish dishes that deliciously burn my lips when I take a bite. The Evil Ones are constantly nagging her that she’s going to give me heartburn and to make my meals milder, but I can usually convince her to add extra spice when they’re not looking. Magda’s cool like that. In fact, she’s the only person in this household I can respect.
But right now, though my stomach is growling, I really want to finish this poem.
“Can I eat up here?”
Yet another frown from Mom. I wonder if I should mention the wrinkle potential of all this scowling on her delicately aging complexion.
“That is up to you,” she says stiffly. “However, I think it would be nice if you decided to socialize with your family.”
Socialize. Right. Is that what they’re calling being lectured to
these days? ’Cause I know from experience that’s all that’s going to happen during dinner if I attend.
Don’t chew with your mouth open, Dawn. Use your napkin. Do you really need so much butter on that roll? After all, you don’t want to start gaining weight.
But again, this is a battle I won’t win. So I close my
Algebra book and nod my head. “Fine. I’ll be there in a minute,” I say, purposely using my most exasperated tone.
My mother droops her shoulders, as if I’m some awful burden she has to bear on a daily basis, and exits the room. When the door closes, I pull out my half-finished poem and read it through one last time. It’s really good. One of the best things I’ve ever written.
Somehow I have to find a chance to finish it before the deadline.
“Hey, that’s pretty good!”
I look up with a start. I’ve been so wrapped up in my world that I hadn’t realized the new girl, the supposed Satan-worshipper who drinks snake blood, has sat down at the desk beside me and is eyeing my paper.
Up close, I realize she has several piercings to go along with her already punk-rock look—a diamond stud in her nose and a silver hoop embedded in her eyebrow. Her face is pale white, almost as if she’s powdered it, and her eyes, a striking blue, are rimmed with a ton of black.
“You read my poem?” I ask, feeling my cheeks flush. I mean, sure, I realize that if I win the poetry contest lots of people will end up reading it, but still, her peeking over my shoulder without permission seems a grave invasion of privacy. And what if she goes and tells everyone that I, Dawn Miller, friend of the Ashleys, was seen writing poetry in detention? I might as well put in my application for the loserville lunch table right now.
Then again, she said it was good. Since I’ve never shown my scribblings to anyone before, I’ve never gotten an unbiased opinion on them. I mean, sure, I like them, but obviously I’m a bit prejudiced.
“Are you just saying that?” I ask. “ ’Cause you so don’t have to.”
She shakes her head, causing her straight black hair to flip from side to side. “No way,” she says. “I never say things I don’t mean. Life’s too short.” She pauses, then adds, “I was assuming it’d be bad, actually. But I guess you can’t judge a Barbie by its cover.”
I frown. “I’m not a Barbie.” I just hang out with them. She shrugs. “Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t. Honestly, I don’t care either way. But you are a good writer.”
A good writer. She thinks I’m a good writer. No one’s ever told me that before. I feel a warm pride settle over me and I decide to ignore the Barbie comment. Or at least prove her wrong.
“Thanks,” I say. “There’s this poetry contest I want to enter it in and—”
“Oh, the one in Faces?”
I stare at her in shock. “How do you—?”
“I read Faces all the time. It’s a great mag.”
Wow. She actually reads literary magazines. My friends wouldn’t be caught dead reading literary magazines. In fact, we have a saying: If it’s not Cosmo, it’s crap.
“I’m Dawn,” I say, extending a hand.
“Starr.” She shakes my hand. I notice she has on black fingernail polish that’s half flaked off.
Starr. What a cool name.
“You’re the headmaster’s daughter, right?” I ask, assuming at least that part of the Satan-worshipping, snake-eating rumor is true.
“Yeah. Got kicked out of my European boarding school and so I’m stuck in this hellhole now.”
Wow. I wonder what she did to get kicked out. It had to be something pretty bad, I’d think. What would it be like to be a bad girl? Not to care what people think of you? To break the rules and buck authority? I bet her parents don’t dare schedule her life. And if they try, she probably laughs in their faces and then goes out and gets a new tattoo, just to spite them.
“. . . and first day here, Sister Wart Nose catches me smoking in the bathroom and sentences me to detention,” Starr is explaining. “I mean, for smoking! In Europe, everyone our age smokes. Massachusetts is so puritanical. It drives me absolutely insane.”
I nod sympathetically, not sure how to respond. Of course I’m not a smoker, so I can’t relate. But suddenly, I have the undying urge to impress her somehow. Make her see I’m more than just an airhead who happens to be able to write. Which is odd, since most people at Sacred Mary’s do everything in their power to try to impress me and my crowd, not the other way around. But Starr doesn’t seem to care that I’m one of the Populars. On the contrary, that status seems a negative in her book. Which makes her seem even cooler, somehow.
“That ring rocks,” I say at last, noting the silver spider on her index finger. One thing I’ve learned from the Ashleys—when stuck for something to say, compliment their wardrobe. Works every time.
She smiles and waves her hand in the air, allowing the ring to catch the light and sparkle. Evidently even punk rock chicks aren’t immune to flattery. “Thanks. I got it at this really cool thrift store in Boston.” She pauses for a moment, as if deciding something. Then she says, “You know, I’m planning on heading there a
fter detention, if you want to come.”
I raise my eyebrows. “You’re going to Boston? How are you going to get there? Do you have a car?”
“Nah.” She shakes her head. “I’m only fifteen. No license. But there’s a train about a block away.”
She planned to hop a train? I try to imagine what The Evil Ones would do to me if they found out I’d hopped a train to the big city. Would they kill me quickly or devise a slow, torturous death to make sure I’m really, really sorry I disobeyed?
“Come with me!” Starr says eagerly. “I know some killer used record stores.”
I shake my head. “I’m already missing gymnastics ’cause of detention. My parents will totally kick my butt if I miss my Japanese tutoring as well.”
Starr raises a pierced eyebrow. “Oh,” she says, her tone a bit colder than before. “I understand.” But she doesn’t sound like she understands. In fact, she sounds more like she thinks I’m the lamest girl on the planet.
Boring Barbie, that’s me.
It’s so not fair. I never get to do anything fun. Run off to the big city on a whim. I suddenly envy Starr and her laissez-faire attitude on life.
Envy her and want to be her.
Maybe I could call my tutor and tell him I’m sick. And then call The Evil Ones and tell them I’m going over to one of the Ashleys’ houses to work on a class project after my lesson. That should buy me at least ’til nine o’clock. Plenty of time to hit Boston and get back before they realize I’m gone.
I feel a strange thrill well up deep inside. You know what? I’m going to do it.
For once, I’m going to be a bad girl.
“Maybe I will go to Boston with you,” I say, trying to keep my voice casual as my excitement takes hold. “Sounds like fun.”
Two time Emmy award winner Mari Mancusi used to wish she could be a vampire back in high school. But she ended up in another bloodsucking profession–journalism–instead. Today she works as a freelance TV producer and author of books for teens, including the award winning Blood Coven Vampire series published by Penguin Books. When not writing about creatures of the night, Mari enjoys traveling, cooking, goth clubbing, watching cheesy horror movie and her favorite guilty pleasure–videogames. A graduate of Boston University, she lives in Austin, Texas with her husband Jacob, daughter Avalon and dog Mesquite.
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Jennifer Lowery (Kamptner) on April 1st, 2012 at 7:43 am
Sounds like a wonderful book! Gonna read it! Thanks for the preview!
Mistress Anya on April 1st, 2012 at 2:59 pm
It’s the premise fun? Hope you enjoy!!
Maggie O'Malley on April 1st, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Nice excerpt.
Toni Kelly on April 1st, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Dawn sounds like she’s got a lot of spunk, making this a fun read. Thanks for sharing the great review and excerpts.
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Nato calls for calm after boats seized in Russia-Ukraine clashes
Thread: Nato calls for calm after boats seized in Russia-Ukraine clashes
Nato has joined a chorus of western calls for Russia and Ukraine to show restraint as the UN security council prepares to meet amid a dangerous new crisis between the countries and fears of a wider military escalation.
Russia reopened the Kerch strait separating Crimea from the Russian mainland early on Monday after its FSB security service said border patrol boats had fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval ships a day earlier, wounding several crew members.
Kiev said the two small Ukrainian armoured artillery vessels and a tug boat, heading to Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov, were observing international maritime rules. Moscow said it had not been notified in advance of the flotilla’s passage and the boats ignored warnings to stop.
Nato said its ambassadors and Ukraine’s envoy would hold emergency talks in Brussels on Monday at the request of the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, after he had spoken to the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.
Stoltenberg had expressed Nato’s “full support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, including its full navigational rights in its territorial waters under international law”, the military alliance said.
It called for “restraint and de-escalation” and demanded that Russia “ensure unhindered access to Ukrainian ports in the Azov sea in accordance with international law”. Kiev has accused Russia of military aggression over the incident and asked for the international community to punish Russia.
Senior officials from Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France are meeting in Berlin on Monday for previously scheduled talks on the broader situation in Ukraine and will seek a “collective solution” to the latest clash.
Russia-Ukraine relations have been severely strained since Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula and its support for a pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine. In May Vladimir Putin opened a $3.69bn (£2.7bn) bridge over the Kerch strait that links the Russian mainland and the peninsula.
MORE. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-kerch-strait
Neverna
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Behind a rhododendron bush
Is Ukraine in NATO now?
The Fool on the Hill
alone on a hill
Originally Posted by Neverna
Haven't looked in a long time. Think they're one of the "partner" countries.
At present, NATO has 29 members. In 1949, there were 12 founding members of the Alliance: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The other member countries are: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), and Montenegro (2017).
NATO – Ukraine cooperation within “Partnership for Peace”
“Partnership for Peace” (PfP) – is a program of practical bilateral cooperation between NATO and individual partner countries, through which, these countries can develop relations with NATO, independently determining their own priorities for cooperation.
The essence of PfP is the partnership between NATO and a partner country, which is formed on the individual basis, according to the individual needs of the country, and is implemented jointly at the level and with speed, chosen by the government of each participating country.
Ukraine joined PfP on February 8, 1994 after the signing of the relevant document.
Right in time for the US to start shooting at brown people.
taxexile
The Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement is a European Union Association Agreement between the European Union (EU), Euratom, Ukraine and the EU's 28 member states (which are separate parties in addition to the EU and Euratom). It establishes a political and economic association between the parties. The agreement entered into force on September 1, 2017, and previously parts had been provisionally applied. The parties committed to co-operate and converge economic policy, legislation, and regulation across a broad range of areas, including equal rights for workers, steps towards visa-free movement of people, the exchange of information and staff in the area of justice, the modernisation of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and access to the European Investment Bank. The parties committed to regular summit meetings, and meetings among ministers, other officials, and experts. The agreement furthermore establishes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area between the parties.
The agreement commits both parties to promote a gradual convergence toward the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy and European Defence Agency policies.
send in macrons EU army. that'll put the wind up ivan.
^Typical eu language for social engineering.
reddog
Putin is just following the same type of action as China wants to do with the South China Sea.
China builds military bases on the reefs to say we own all movement there.
Putin builds a bridge over the Kerch strait to control the movement of ships to the Sea of Azov then he owns the sea,no more
Ukraine ships allowed to go to Ukraine ports and stuff right of navigation,win win for Russia.
foobar
NATO are using Ukraine like a stick to poke the bear. And wont give 2 fucks when the stick ends up broken.
Klondyke
Originally Posted by reddog
The thread #8 said it all...
Bettyboo
^^^ that does seem rather perverse.
WTF is NATO gonna do about it? Nothing, I think, but agree with Tax this is an ideal opportunity for the European Army to flex their muscles...
sounds like the Americans were testing the water using traitorous Ukraine as a bait,
FAILED !!!!
Maanaam
Yes. At least Ukraine has NATO supporting it's right to navigate the waters, unlike the wimps in the UN who do nothing to curb China's encroachment.
harrybarracuda
Originally Posted by foobar
Oh don't be so fucking silly. There's only one person doing the poking and he has a veto on the Security Council. Time for more sanctions, because that's all they have.
The situation began ramping up in May, when Russia opened a 19-kilometer, rail-and-highway bridge over the Kerch Strait connecting mainland Russia with the annexed Crimean Peninsula. The bridge's low height restricted the types of merchant ships that could pass, decreasing traffic to service Ukrainian ports in Mariupol and Berdyansk. For those cities, their ports are economic lifelines.
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said free passage of the Kerch Strait was guaranteed by the 2003 treaty signed by Russia and Ukraine.
https://www.rferl.org/a/explainer-ke.../29621909.html
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
WTF NATO? They do not have enough exercise space in Mexican Gulf or in front of Koreas...
Perhaps you should read this:
Lavrov: Russia will not allow NATO ships to enter the Sea of Azov
“Now Ukraine wants to invite NATO to conduct joint exercises in the Sea of Azov, but this will not be possible because our agreement with Ukraine requires mutual consent for the passage of warships into the Sea of Azov,” said Lavrov in his interview with RT France, Paris Match and Le Figaro.
“But they want it, and they are actively encouraged by others,” added Lavrov.
According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the NATO actions near the Russian borders are provocative.
"The accumulation of weapons on our borders, the intention to modernize Europe’s transport infrastructure so that American heavy machinery and likely weapons of other NATO countries would have easy access to our borders – openly provocative exercises, not like ours with China in the middle of Siberia, but in Ukraine, in Georgia and in the Black Sea,” said Lavrov.
The Russian minister added that the deployment of the American division on a permanent basis on the territory of Poland would be a direct violation of the Russia-NATO Founding Act.
https://uawire.org/lavrov-russia-wil...he-sea-of-azov
Kerch Strait standoff: Ukrainian Navy consciously ignored orders to stop, FSB says
Published time: 27 Nov, 2018
Ukrainian sailors, interviewed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) after the standoff near the Crimean coast, admitted they deliberately violated Russian borders while trying to pass through the Kerch Strait.
The FSB has claimed in a statement that the naval standoff in Crimean waters was a “provocative act of the Ukrainian Navy executed upon direct orders by the government in Kiev.” The clash took place on Sunday in the Kerch Strait, which connects mainland Russia and the Crimean peninsula. It involved Ukrainian ships and Russian coast guard vessels.
FSB noted that the territorial waters entered by Ukrainian vessels belonged to Russia even before 2014, when Crimean citizens voted to reunify with the country. It also said two officers from the Ukrainian Security Service, or SBU, were embedded with the intruder ships to coordinate the incursion.
The Federal Security Service released footage of three men identified as Ukrainian service members who had been on the ships. Speaking on camera, the men who look strained but not injured, said their crews deliberately violated Russian maritime borders and ignored repeated orders to stop.
Previously, the FSB said they had detected the Ukrainian flotilla early on, long before it tried to enter Russian waters. Under a maritime protocol, all ships passing through the busy, narrow Kerch Strait should send notifications and report their route. While Kiev says it notified Russian authorities in advance that its navy ships would be sailing through the area, Moscow denies that it was given warning.
While some Western politicians and pundits habitually framed the incident as Russia’s attempt to escalate tensions, there are others who are less convinced.
Commenting on the incident, Virginia Senator Rickard Black said both sides have “some merit to their claims,” because Ukraine and Russia enjoy the freedom of navigation in the strait under a 2003 treaty. However, the Ukrainians “were perhaps a bit reckless and perhaps there was an intention to create a provocation.”
He also noted that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has “an 80-percent disapproval rating” and he is up for re-election in 2019. “I don’t discount the fact that this may have been tied in to the 2019 Ukraine elections,” Black stated.
On the heels of the incident, Poroshenko has imposed martial law in the country – a move which could allow him to call off scheduled elections and remain in power. Moscow has accused Kiev of provoking the entire incident to win sympathy in the West and to help Poroshenko to remain in office.
https://www.rt.com/news/444948-fsb-i...rainian-ships/
Ukraine’s state security service says that its intelligence officers were among the crew on Ukrainian naval ships seized by Russia in a standoff near Crimea.
The SBU agency said in a statement Tuesday that the officers were fulfilling counterintelligence operations for the Ukrainian navy, in response to “psychological and physical pressure” by Russian spy services. It didn’t elaborate, but demanded that Russia stop such activity.
Russia’s FSB intelligence agency said late Monday that that there were SBU officers on board the Ukrainian ships, calling that proof of a “provocation” staged by Ukraine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...10c_story.html
I really don't know why Putin bothers, it's not like anyone is going to war over it, and all it does is increase the risk of more of his filthy lucre being appropriated.
In 1994 Russia signed the treaty called the Budapest Memorandum that guaranteed Ukraine's international borders.
In some of those Wikileak cables, the former Polish foreign minister,Sikorski said Putin and Russia looked at Ukraine
as a rebellious colony so it is no wonder Putin is flexing his power and does not give a stuff what West thinks.
But like Harry said,it will piss off his cronies when more sanctions bit.
On the heels of the incident, Poroshenko has imposed martial law in the country
I am puzzled, how can a martial law inside the country help to calm the conflict on the high sea?
But perhaps somebody will have a clue (please no names here)...
Originally Posted by Klondyke
Control the media in Ukraine, ban demonstrations if they want, stuff like that. Maybe mobilise forces quicker too?
Stop Putin organising some fake protests and put men of military age under warning of call up.
Because Putin has control of the press, he can't use them as his imaginary "enemy of the people", so he's using Ukraine.
Before that it was Georgia and Chechnya. He basically nicked bits of them as well. He's a bit of a c u n t, that Putin bloke.
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Yes ...you're so right once again Harry. I bow to your unrivalled objectivity in all Russian/Chinese geopolitical matters.
NATO would never ever threaten Russia's borders. NATO are a force for good and care very deeply for their Ukrainian cousins while Russia are just being aggressive, expansionist, downright undemocratic and unfreedomy right?
NATO border in blue. Russia border in red.
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It's really a shame how the Russians are expanding, threatening the peaceful Europe...
Putin should not organize the "fake" Maidan...
And not control the press in Ukraine...
Important that the announced Ukraine's election in January will be now better controlled with the martial law, won't be?
why are you even arguing with Harry? he is a blind nutter, a typical English fool who fall for government lies
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Monash Marketing Student Society
Monash University forms the world’s largest University team in the 2018 Wings for Life World Run.
The 5th edition of the Wings for Life World Run saw Monash University form the World’s Largest University Team with 215 runners registered under the Team MONASH banner.
The University’s team was also Australia’s largest team and made its presence felt at the World Run Melbourne hub where 3000 participants ran along the one of the main road arterials Monash Freeway in one of the most amazing night time community experiences.
Team MONASH also ranked 16th globally for average distance covered per team member and for the amount raised for the Wings for Life charity (AUD $13,000) which is founded with the purpose to find a cure for spinal cord injury through supporting research globally and also right here in Australia. Impressively the Wings for Life World Run globally this year had 109,000 runners take part in 203 locations, over 66 countries with over $4.6 million AUD has been raised globally so far from this year’s event.
"At heart of this campaign was the university spirit of making a difference and with over 200 Monash University students, staff and alumni participating this year the positive feedback from the runners has been extraordinary with many already looking to join the team for next year’s event," said Paul Loughran Chair of the Team MONASH Wings For Life Organising Committee and Manager Department of Marketing Monash Business School.
Notably, Team Monash runners Anna & Erica ran 44.29kms and 36.9kms respectively - placing 2nd and 4th for female runners in Australia. In addition to the runners the Team MONASH support crew were on hand to help with bus transport from campus to the start and at the event assisting with event administration.
The University campaign was a great team effort with the student leaders from the Monash Marketing Students Society (MMSS), Department of Marketing and Team MONASH all pulling together with the Red Bull Student Brand Managers in what was a very short lead time to achieve such great outcomes.
"This year we’ve played a key role within the university in creating the biggest team we can possibly create," says MMSS Committee Member David Ni.
MMSS Committee Member Daphne Saropoulou said the event was underpinned by Monash University’s belief in the importance of raising awareness among students saying "We are inspired by the quote from Sir John Monash to make this greater difference in our global communities, not just as a corporate undertaking but as our fundamental responsibility."
"In the true spirit of Monash University we are already gearing up for next year to defend our title as the world’s biggest University team and are already gearing up raise even more funds through next year’s run," said Martin Doulton Director Team MONASH.
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Apple Unveils New TV App for Apple TV, iPhone & iPad
October 28, 2016 March 13, 2019 technuter 0 Comments Apple, iPhone & iPad
Apple today introduced the new TV app, offering a unified experience for discovering and accessing TV shows and movies from multiple apps on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad. The TV app provides one place to access TV shows and movies, as well as a place to discover new content to watch. Apple also introduced a new Siri feature for Apple TV that lets viewers tune in directly to live news and sporting events across their apps. Watching TV shows and movies across Apple devices has never been easier.
“Using apps on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad has become the primary way for so many of us to watch television,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The TV app shows you what to watch next and easily discover TV shows and movies from many apps in a single place.”
Key Features Within the TV App Include:
Watch Now: Watch Now is where viewers will see their collection of available shows and movies from iTunes and apps. From Watch Now, viewers can then go to Up Next or Recommended to choose what to watch.
Up Next: Users can enjoy the shows and movies they are currently watching, including recent iTunes rentals and purchases — all presented in the order they are most likely to watch first. For example, when viewers finish an episode, the next one will automatically appear at the start of the Up Next queue, as will any new episodes as they become available. At any time, users can simply ask Siri to continue watching a show and immediately pick up where they left off.
Recommended: Viewers can explore a great selection of curated and trending shows and movies, including collections handpicked by Apple’s curators, and dedicated categories and genres such as kids, sci-fi and comedy.
Library: Viewers can access their entire collection of iTunes movies and TV shows that they have rented or purchased on iTunes.
Store: If users are looking for something new, they can check out the Store to discover great new content across video services that they have not yet downloaded or are not yet subscribed to, along with the latest releases on iTunes.
The TV app will be available for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad and always stays in sync so that when users begin watching on one device they can easily continue where they left off on their Apple devices.
Live Tune-In With Siri
Siri continues to gain powerful new capabilities, including making it really easy to tune right to live news and sporting events on Apple TV. Siri is now aware of live sporting events across apps so users can simply say things like, “Watch the Stanford game” or “Which games are on right now?” Siri knows additional details of the games, can provide live scores and can take viewers directly to the live stream within the app that’s carrying it. Viewers can also tune directly to live video by just saying the name of the app, for example “Watch CBS News” without having to navigate to the live stream from within the app.
Single Sign-On for Pay-TV Apps
In addition to the new TV app, customers in the US will have a simplified way of enjoying their pay-TV video apps by using single sign-on. Starting in December, subscribers to DIRECTV, DISH Network and more will just sign in once on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad to enjoy immediate access to apps that are part of their pay-TV subscription.
Since its introduction just a year ago, the latest Apple TV has revolutionized the experience in the living room with 8,000 apps, including 2,000 games and 1,600 video apps, across categories such as sports, news, fitness, education, kids, lifestyle and more.
The TV app and single sign-on will be available in December as free software updates for Apple TV (4th generation), iPhone and iPad customers in the US. Live tune-in with Siri is available today.
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1909 W Steinbeck Drive, Anthem, AZ
$279,000 - 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,760 Sqft .15 Acres
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Mountain views from front & back make this favorite Acadia (Durango) model in the gated Anthem Country Club a great find for year-round living or the ''lock & leave'' lifestyle. N/S exposure, backs to wash! With its split master & second bedrooms, two full baths + a den that can easily be converted to a third bedroom, this home is flexible, practical, convenient. Eat-in kitchen has breakfast bar, stainless appliances, pantry + honey-maple cabinets w/pullouts. Unloading groceries is a breeze as garage opens through laundry into kitchen. Room in laundry for 2nd fridge/storage. W/D included. Great room equipped with surround sound. Clay tile pavers at entry and covered patio add charm. Roller screen on patio. Berber carpet in bedrooms + den. Quick access to Ironwood Clubhouse and manned gate.
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3 Dividend Stocks To Watch In December
By Dan Caplinger | November 29, 2018 |
Income investors love dividend stocks, because they offer healthy amounts of current income as well as the prospect for share-price growth. That powerful combination can lead to extremely strong long-term returns over time.
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Some dividend stocks have so much success with their underlying businesses that they're able to boost their dividend payouts on a regular basis. In fact, a select few have turned dividend increases into a science, almost always announcing annual increases at the same time of year. Below, I'll look more closely at why income investors should look closely at AT&T (NYSE:T), ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM), and Erie Indemnity (NASDAQ:ERIE) to see if they deliver a nice holiday gift to their shareholders in the form of higher quarterly dividends.
Connect With Dividends
AT&T needs little introduction for most investors, with the ubiquitous wireless network provider having roots dating back more than a century to the invention of the telephone. Along the way, the company has become one of the highest-paying dividend stocks among blue-chip companies, sporting a nearly 7% current yield.
From a fundamental perspective, investors haven't been entirely happy with AT&T. Concerns about price wars among major carriers have weighed on the share price. Yet AT&T has gone through similar cycles before, and that hasn't stopped the company from boosting its dividend every year for 34 straight years. Moreover, the telecom giant usually makes its announcement in mid-December, and a higher payout could calm nerves among shareholders worried about competitive pressures in the industry. Investors in AT&T shouldn't expect more than a minimal boost, but even that could restore confidence that the wireless provider's stock's in better shape than many think right now.
Building a strong foundation
ABM Industries is far from a household name among investors, especially compared to AT&T. Yet the company's an important player in the business services industry, providing services related to buildings and grounds ranging from HVAC and mechanical systems to janitorial and landscape work. The New York-based company dates back to the early 20th century, and it remains an important player in helping businesses make the most of their space.
ABM sports an even longer track record of dividend success than AT&T, with 51 straight annual increases helping to support its current 2.3% yield. The company usually reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings in mid-December, and last year's dividend increase announcement came then, with a boost of 3%. A similar increase, likely to $0.18 per share, is probable this year, and if results remain strong, ABM could get a nice boost going into 2019.
Insuring Shareholder Income
Finally, Erie Indemnity is another relatively obscure company, but the insurance provider has done a good job of ensuing that its shareholders get consistent boosts to the income that they receive from owning the stock. The insurance industry is a good place for dividend investors, and for 28 years, Erie has given investors annual dividend increases, most often coming in December. With a dividend yield of 2.5% already, an increase would be icing on the cake for Erie shareholders counting on its income.
This time last year, Erie delivered the goods for dividend investors, with a more than 7% boost to the quarterly payout in the second week of December. A similar boost this year would bring Erie's dividend to $0.90 per share every three months, signaling another vote of confidence in the insurer's ability to continue its dividend growth streak well into the future.
Enjoy The Holidays With Higher Dividends
Top stocks with a history of dividend growth are often predictable in when they'll spring good news on their shareholders, and by recognizing that fact in advance, you can be prepared when companies make their dividend announcements. Investors in these three stocks should look forward to more good news in December -- along with larger quarterly dividend payments through 2019 and beyond.
This article originally appeared on The Motley Fool.
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Located in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu, Yokohama is the capital of the Kanagawa Prefecture, and second largest city in Japan after Tokyo. As of 2007, Yokohama had an estimated population of 3,625,000.
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Japan: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need To Visit [Booklet] (Tokyo,Yokohama,Osaka,Nagoya,Kyoto,Kawasaki,Saitama) (Volume 1)
By 10 Tips Travel Guides
Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need To Visit
Japan, the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’, has a glorious past, present, and future. It has a mix of ancient samurai traditions and an extraordinary history with a modern-day persona and cutting edge technology. This is a land of contrasts; Japan is an enthralling destination for visitors. Combining the appeal of an ancient and unfamiliar culture with all the trappings of one of the world powerhouses in knowledge, entertainment, fashion, and innovation, Japan is an expedition of discovery wherever you go. Japan has an enthralling and versatile culture; on the one hand it is sharp in the warm of traditions dating back thousands of years; on the other it is a civilization in a continual state of rapid change, with constantly shifting fads and fashions and technological progress that continuously pushes back the limits of the possible. This is part of what makes it such a mesmerizing country to visit.
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
By Leslie Helm
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"A lovely, unsettling family story and a vivid traversal of modern Japanese history that will impress the jaded Japan scholar and inspire the curious general reader or memoir fan." Library Journal
Helm was the Tokyo correspondent for the Los Angeles Times when he realized that the majority of the articles he had written were "critical of Japan in some way." This was surprising considering Helm was born in Japan and is part Japanese himself. In this lovingly researched memoir, he sifts through five generations of Helms living in Japan...history buffs will relish Helm's painstaking detail and impressive command of the material. Publishers Weekly
"Yokohama Yankee is a marvelous and eloquent work of family history. What makes it more remarkable is this family's history also sheds light on the political, economic, cultural, and racial interactions and tensions between Japan and the United States for more than a century and a half, right up to the present day. This is a humane and insightful book that will be read many years from now." James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of China Airborne
Like a sword cleaving a bittersweet fruit, Leslie Helm’s saga of his mixed-blood family in Japan cuts to the inescapable isolation of being white in a country where blood still means so much. Yokohama Yankee is a painfully intimate story that spans more than a century and brings the wrenching history of modern Japan into a focus that is both razor sharp and deeply human.” Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14 and former Tokyo bureau chief of The Washington Post
Leslie Helm has written a lively and engaging account of his remarkable family history and its intertwining with Japan ... It is a warm and human story that will charm its readers.” Kenneth B. Pyle, Henry M. Jackson professor of Asian history and Asian studies, University of Washington, and recipient of Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun
One of the finest correspondents to have reported on Japan, Leslie Helm tells the riveting, sometimes painful story of his multinational, biracial merchant family. Living in Yokohama for generations in war and peace, the Helms are at the heart of Japan's long modern history without ever actually becoming Japanese.’” Sheldon Garon, Nissan professor of Japanese history at Princeton University
"Helm mines the many treasures of his family's past, and the multicultural futures of his adopted, Japanese children, to investigate the mysteries of identity that are locked away inside all of us. The family fortune disappears, and relatives scatter in the winds of war and reconstruction. But this lovely story remains, about an erudite man trying to make sense of the world, of the past, and of himself." Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist
[A] wonderful work full of pathos, insight and humanity.” Fred G. Notehelfer, emeritus professor of Japanese history at UCLA and author of Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, 1859-1866
Leslie Helm's decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family's 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family's poignant experiences of love and war help Helm overcome his cynicism and embrace his Japanese and American heritage.
This is the first book to look at Japan across five generations, with perspective that is both from the inside and through foreign eyes. Helm draws on his great-grandfather's unpublished memoir and a wealth of primary source material to bring his family history to life.
A Complete Guide to Yokohama
By Beautiful World Escapes
Independently published
A Complete Guide to Yokohama provides you with all the information you need to plan your trip to Yokohama in Japan. Dive into a fascinating journey through several thousand years of history, as you plan your trip, you will be enthralled with such sites as the Sankeien Garden, Shomyo-ji Temple, and the Yokohama Marine Tower. Learn about lesser known attractions such theTaya Caves, Gumyo-ji Temple, and the Cup Noodles Museum. With a useful phrase guide, A Complete Guide to Yokohama Prefecture is the only guide you will need.
Japan Travel Guide: Culture, food, experiences, sights, buildings, museums, shrines, temples, parks, areas and more in Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kobe and Mt. Fuji
By Alec Nowell
Are you planning a trip to Japan? Are you in love with Japanese culture culture and food, and dream of visiting Japan?
Then this book is for you!
This book is a great travel resource about Japan and everything Japanese. The East Asian country of Japan has a lot to offer to all types of travelers - nature-lovers, foodies, architecture enthusiasts, admirers of shrines and temples, festival-goers, cherry blossom and everything else. From the futuristic cityscapes of Tokyo and the coffee culture of Kyoto, to Osaka's love of beer and baseball and the magnificentness of Mt. Fuji, Japan is a joy to any tourist. Imagine all this sprinkled with sushi, geishas, tea ceremonies, breath-taking views, unique experiences, interesting festivals and polite people everywhere. Welcome to Japan!
I am Alec Nowell - adventurer, survivor, nomad, traveler and writer and I would like to present to you the beautiful country of Japan.
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Fodor's Japan (Full-color Travel Guide)
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Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
Over a million Americans visit Japan each year to experience this land of exquisite beauty, and recent fluctuations in the yen have made it more of an affordable destination than ever. In stunning full color, Fodor's Japan illustrates the country's eternal draws, from ancient temples and gardens and the deliberate pace of the tea ceremony, to the dizzying, frenetic pulse of its high-tech cities.
This travel guide includes:
· Dozens of full-color maps
· Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks
· Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and what’s off the beaten path
· In-depth breakout features on the intricacies of Japanese cuisine, traditional Japanese crafts, and Mount Fuji
· Major sights such as Tsukiji Fish Market, Senso-ji, Tokyo Sky Tree, Mt. Fuji, The Daibutsu, Sanjusangen-do, Ginkaku-ji, Fushimi-inari Taisha, Kinkaku-ji and Osaka-jo
· Side Trips from Tokyo including Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Nikko, Kamakura and Yokohama
· Coverage of Tokyo; Nagoya, Ise-Shima, and the Kii Peninsula; The Japan Alps and the North Chubu Coast; Kyoto; The Kansai Region; Western Honshu; Shikoku; Kyushu; Okinawa; Tohoku; Hokkaido
Planning to focus on Tokyo? Check out Fodor's travel guide to Tokyo.
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Kyoto: Cities, Sights & Other Places You Need to Visit (Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama Book 1)
By Writing Souls' Travel Guides
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Summer School in Celtic Studies
8-WEEK INTENSIVE GREEK AND LATIN SUMMER SCHOOL, UN...
Within the conference of the International Society...
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third A...
Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney...
SCRIPTO IV at Erlangen starts in May
Newberry Library Symposium
The Sons of Constantine
MAKING HISTORIES The Sixth International Insular ...
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian ...
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM
CFP: Conference: Graduate Students: Paper Prize
Ordo 8th Annual Symposium of the International Med...
Jim Falls Paper Prize
Latin and Greek in the Summer
11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval ...
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND R...
Sixth North American Syriac Symposium
PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V
New HA Issue and Share postmedieval cluster
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND...
The Newberry Library Anglo-Saxon Seminar
Vagantes
POST-ICONOGRAPHY, BEYOND INFLUENCE
Shifting Frontiers
Imbas 2010
RBMS Regional Workshop: Latin for Rare Materials C...
CFP: Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference...
38th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium April 8-9, 2011
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference...
OCS (or Old Slavonic) resource
CALL FOR PAPERS: COLONISING, DECOLONISING AND POST...
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNU...
CET Academic Programs
New England Medieval Conference
32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Medieval Chronicle Society
Comitatus: CFP
Carolingian Images
Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Editions and E-ditions...
Early English Laws publishes online bibliography
BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting
Medieval Devotion: A Roundtable Discussion:
"Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spi...
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MAN...
Cultures, Communities and Conflicts in the Medieva...
CFP: Shifting Frontiers
Vagantes 2011
Plymouth State University 32nd Annual Medieval and...
Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in th...
Crises of Categorization
CALL FOR PAPERS: “INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES”
ISAS New Voices
American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS...
SCHOOL OF CELTIC STUDIES,
DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
Details of the Summer School are now available on our website
(http://www.celt.dias.ie).
The final date for registration is 31 January 2011.
SCOIL SHAMHRAIDH
SCOIL AN LÉINN CHEILTIGH
INSTITIÚID ARD-LÉINN BHAILE ÁTHA CLIATH:
18-29 IÚIL 2011.
Tá eolas faoin Scoil Shamhraidh anois ar fáil ar ár suíomh idirlín
Is é an dáta deireanach le clárú a dhéanamh an 31 Eanáir 2011.
Iarrtar orthu siúd a gheobhaidh an fógra seo é a chóipeáil agus a
scaipeadh ar dhaoine eile a mbeadh spéis acu ina bhfuil ann.
COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. Submissions should be in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 42 (2011): 1 FEBRUARY 2011.
The Comitatus editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011. Please send submissions to Dr. Blair Sullivan, sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.
8-WEEK INTENSIVE GREEK AND LATIN SUMMER SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND
June 27th – August 18th 2011
Director of the Summer School: Dr Konstantin Doulamis
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html
Within the conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies Neoplatonism in the East - ex oriente lux, to be held in Haifa, 22-24 March 2011, we invite abstract submissions for the panel session Platonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages :
The relationship between Platonism and Christianity, and philosophy and theology, in late antique and medieval thinkers has been a subject of a wide range of studies in modern scholarship. However, the positions on this issue are not as uniform as one might think. While one party argues that what happened was just a conventional use of Platonic features by Christian thinkers, the others seem to embrace a true interaction between Christian theology and platonic philosophy.
What did actually happen – was the Platonic element just a mere convenience as to the language and philosophical tools, or was there a genuine unification between Platonism and Christianity? Was the “collaboration” between the two limited to simple borrowings of linguistic and logical tools, or can there be traced an essential influence of one on another? These are the questions on which the papers included in this panel should try to elaborate.
Papers should be concentrated on, but not limited to, some of the following themes: relationship between philosophy and theology; specific authors (such as Augustine, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, etc.) and their use of (neo)platonic doctrines; the use of the same language by Platonists and Christians – similarities and differences; new shapes and meanings of Platonic doctrines in the Christian context…
Abstracts of no more than a single page should be sent to:
Filip Ivanovic
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters"
April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
From the nuclear to the royal to the holy, families fill the Middle
Ages. As a dominant structuring principle of society, the concept of
the family knits together the prevalent social, political and economic
relations attending the formation and development of the medieval
subject. As an ideological construct, the family motif pervades all
spheres of cultural _expression, from theological and philosophical
debates to literary creations, visual productions and musical
compositions. As a taxonomizing unit, the notion of family organizes
our understanding of language, of material texts and of literary
categories. This year’s theme asks us to probe and complicate the
questions of gender, structure and power raised by the idea of the
family in order to illuminate the complex discursive relations at the
heart of medieval society.
Our conference invites submissions concerning one or more formulations
of the idea of family. Proposals might look at actual families,
whether functional or dysfunctional, real or supernatural, or seek to
theorize more abstract concepts of family in relation to linguistic
groups, manuscripts and textual transmission. As per our group's
mission, we welcome a plurality of perspectives from across all fields
of study in recognition of the profound interdisciplinarity of our
common object of inquiry: the Middle Ages.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
text and manuscript families
families of believers
divine families, the Trinity
monastic orders
supernatural/monstrous families
genre and canon formation
marriage as economic transaction
kinship structures
nontraditional/non-nuclear families
conduct manuals, didactic texts
wills, legacies, inheritances, posterity
ruptures, estrangement, long distance
childbearing and childrearing
Please send 300-word abstracts to pennmedieval@gmail.com by January 15, 2011
Historiography & Antiquarianism Conference, Sydney (12-14 August 2011) Information & CFP
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA) 12-14 August 2011
CFP: Title and a 150 word abstract due 15 January 2011
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.
For further information see http://classics.org.au/haconference/
email: antiqua2011@gmail.com
The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Palaeographical Tools) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the framework of a uniquely innovative course, at the end of which each candidate will be awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander-University.
- History and principles of cataloguing
- Text typology (philosophical and theological texts; literary texts; liturgy; music; law, medicine; medieval Latin)
- Book illumination (technology, stylistic history, illustrational typology, iconography); palaeography
- Codicology; incunabula studies
- Informatics (use and construction of databanks for the interpretation, drawing up and administration of information about manuscripts; preparation of printed catalogues).
SCRIPTO IV offers research seminars by Guglielmo Cavallo (La Sapienza, Rome), Nicole Bériou (IRHT, Paris) and Rudolf Gamper (Vadiana St Gall).
SCRIPTO sessions will take place in Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek) and Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek) at a fee of 1080 € (which includes travel and accommodations for seminars outside of Erlangen (Munich; four days in Prague; Wolfenbüttel) per participant. Further information may be obtained online:
SCRIPTO IV will run from 2 May 2011 until 13 July 2011. Applicants should write enclosing a full CV to:
The application deadline is 4 April 2011. The language of instruction is German. Foreign participants, however, will be able to take German language courses at Friedrich-Alexander-University if they so wish. They should mention this in their application.
Those applicants accepted for the course will be charged 1080 € Euros and will receive a document stating the terms of agreement and detailed information about the course, including the timetable.
Mechanisms of Exchange: Transmission, Scale, and Interaction in the Arts and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean, 1000 to 1500
Organized by Heather E. Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Alicia Walker, Washington University in St. Louis
This symposium will bring together scholars working in art and architectural history to consider the mechanisms of cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean world and specifically the question of how styles, motifs, and techniques were transmitted in the architecture and the monumental arts versus the portable arts. Speakers include specialists in western European, Islamic, and Byzantine art and architectural history.
Preliminary program:
"Conveyance and Convergence: Painting and Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus"
Justine M. Andrews, University of New Mexico
"Coveting Greciscos: Byzantine Cloth and the Luxury Textile Market in Early Medieval Iberia"
Maria J. Feliciano, University of Washington
“Art and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean following 1204. Byzantium diluted or rejuvenated?”
Maria Georgopoulou, Gennadius Library, Athens
"Drawing, Memory, and Imagination in the Wolfenbüttel Musterbuch"
Ludovico V. Geymonat, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
“Translating Texts and Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean World between the Tenth through Thirteenth Centuries”
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University
"Imported versus Native Medicine in a Thirteenth-Century Grave"
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
"Portable Palaces? On the Circulation of People, Objects, and Ideas in Medieval Anatolia"
Scott Redford, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul
The symposium will conclude with a roundtable discussion. Audience participation in the conversation will be warmly welcomed.
While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance with the Newberry Library.
Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions are eligible to apply for travel funds to attend this event. Contact your Representative Council member for details.
A one-day colloquium at Cardiff University
Date: 19th January 2011, 10am-5pm
Place: Room 2.03, Humanities Building, Colum Drive
Provisional Programme:
Nicholas Baker-Brian, Rehabilitating Constantius II: Ancient and Modern Views
Jill Harries, Constans the Hunter: A Late Roman Murder Mystery
Mark Humphries, The Year 350
Michael Saxby, The Coinage of Constantine I and his Sons: Symbols of Power
Alexander Skinner, Constantius II and the Senate of Constantinople
Shaun Tougher, Imperial Blood: Family Relationships in the Dynasty of
If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to either:
Baker-BrianNJ1@cardiff.ac.uk or TougherSF@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Shaun Tougher
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Humanities Building
Cardiff CF10 3EU
MAKING HISTORIES The Sixth International Insular Art Conference
MAKING HISTORIES
The Sixth International Insular Art Conference
The art of the insular world has been the focus of specific study through the International Insular
Art Conference meetings for over 25 years. The result has been a body of scholarship that has
advanced our understanding of the material on many fronts. The forthcoming Conference aims
to continue this trend, by addressing the various ways in which the art, in all media, can be
understood, as well as the ways in which that understanding itself has been constructed.
‘Making Histories’ thus invites papers that consider the processes involved in ‘making art’ (in
the broadest sense) in the early medieval, insular, world, as well as those that consider the
historical legacy of the scholarship on that art.
Abstracts of 350 words should be submitted to Dr Jane Hawkes (jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk) by 15
December, 2010.
Further queries should be address to: Dr Jane Hawkes
Department of History of Art
York YO10 5DD, UK
E-mail: jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion
7-8 January 2011. “Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: From Justinian
I to the Coeur de Lion,” an International Conference to be held at
CAARI (the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute) in
Nicosia, Cyprus. This event will commemorate the 50th year
anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and the researchers who have
endeavored to study its Byzantine history. An international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars will present on current knowledge
of Byzantine archaeology and art history on Cyprus.
Attendance is free and open to the Public. Program is attached.
Ms. Vathoulla Moustoukki,
C A A R I
11 Andrea Demitriou Street
Email: admin@caari.org.cy
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUARIANISM (sponsored by CCANESA)
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from
Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars
interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the
ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded
significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier
centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now
beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that
historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build
systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of
historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary
value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in
the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this
conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern
historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both
To all graduate students in medieval studies (in any discipline):
The Jim Falls paper prize is awarded each year to the best paper
given by a graduate student at the Mid-American Medieval Association
In order to be considered for the prize, graduate students must first
submit an abstract to the conference and have it accepted by the
program committee. (See below and on the MAMA website for more
info.) Then, the paper itself - 20-minute maximum, so the actual
conference paper not an article or chapter -- must be submitted
electronically to Dr. Shona Kelly Wray by February 1, 2011. Her
email is wrays@umkc.edu.
Mid-America Medieval Association Annual Conference XXXV: Medieval Recycling
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University,
"Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European Poetry"
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Deadline for one-page abstracts is December 15, 2010
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its
annual conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference
topic or any medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers,
with or without a chairperson - are also welcome.)
MEDIEVAL RECYCLING:
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images,
materials and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere
throughout the span of a thousand years. We would like for this
conference to explore the re-use and re-imagining of both material
objects and ideas in a variety of domains, from things like tropes
and citations used in texts and charters, to the copying of images,
to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for instance, the
discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding fragments),
architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible ways
to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission
of ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and
Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to:
Dr. Kathy M. Krause
Email: KrauseK@umkc.edu
Ordo 8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris CALL FOR PAPERS
8th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society - Paris
Dates: 30 June – 2 July 2011
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2011
The International Medieval Society in Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions
for its 2011 Symposium organized around the theme of ordo in medieval
In the Middle Ages the Latin term, ordo, designated all kind of
concepts for classifying realities or ideas. Divine order as well as
various human ordines created a certain stability which had to be
reaffirmed time and again in order to retain its validity. Social,
ideal, iconographic and other orders were established, maintained,
and sometimes overturned, but even then the order had to be invoked.
What are these orders, these ways of thinking and ordering?
Particular emphasis will be placed on the question of knowing how
this medieval knowledge was ordered and classified.
We welcome papers on the following topics, and others:
• ordering, arranging, classifying
• organisation and reorganisation of knowledge
• envisioning an ordo and visual/pictorial strategies
• divine ordo and human ordines
• liturgical ordo and secular order
• musical ordo
Papers should focus on France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul, but are
not limited exclusively to this geographical area.
We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines including, but
not limited to, anthropology, history, urban history, history of
science and medicine, art history, gender studies, literary studies,
musicology, philosophy, religious sciences, and theology.
Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute
paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 15
In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information,
a CV and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required
for your presentation.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2011. The IMS will
review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February 2011. Titles
of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web site.
Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel
costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for
students, free for IMS members).
The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who
research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information
about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see
our website: www.ims-paris.org.
IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize
This year the IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best
graduate student paper proposal. Applications should consist of:
1) Symposium paper abstract/proposal,
2) current research project (Ph.D. dissertation research),
3) names and contact information of two academic references.
The prizewinner will be determined by the board and a committee of
honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the
Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international
travel/accommodations (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the
Symposium.
8e symposium annuel de la Société Internationale des Médiévistes - Paris
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Dates : 30 juin – 2 juillet 2011
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 15 janvier 2011
La Société Internationale des Médiévistes de Paris (IMS-Paris)
sollicite l’envoi de communications et de thèmes de sessions
complètes pour son colloque 2011 portant sur le thème d’ordo dans la
France médiévale.
Le terme latin d’ordo désigne au moyen âge toutes sortes de concepts
visant à classer différentes réalités ou idées. L’ordre divin, mais
aussi les différents ordines humains créaient ainsi une stabilité qui
devait être réaffirmée de temps en temps afin de garder sa vigueur.
Un ordre social, idéel, iconographique etc. était établi, préservé et
parfois renversé, mais il fallait alors l’évoquer. Quels sont ces
ordres, ces façons de penser et d’ordonner ? Un accent particulier
sera mis sur la question de savoir comment ce savoir médiéval était
ordonné et classé.
Nous accueillerons volontiers des interventions sur les sujets
suivants ou autres :
• Ordonner, ranger, classer
• Organisation et réorganisation du savoir
• La visualisation d’un ordo et les strategies visuelles
• Ordo divin et ordines humains
• Ordo liturgique et ordre profane
• Ordo musical
Les contributions doivent porter sur la France, la Francie, ou la
Gaule post-romaine, sans être exclusivement limitées à cette aire
géographique. Nous encourageons les propositions de communications
provenant de disciplines variées comme l’anthropologie, l’histoire,
l’histoire urbaine, l’histoire des sciences et de la médecine,
l’histoire de l’art, les « gender studies », les études littéraires,
la linguistique, la musicologie, la philosophie, les sciences
religieuses, la théologie…
Les résumés de 300 mots maximum pour une communication de 20 minutes
devront être addressées par courriel à contact@ims-paris.org au plus
tard le 15 janvier 2011. Merci d’inclure également vos coordonnées
complètes, un CV, et une liste indicative de tout équipement
audiovisuel nécessaire pour votre présentation.
La date limite pour l’envoi des résumés de communication est le 15
janvier 2011. L’IMS-Paris examinera les propositions et fera
connaître sa réponse par courriel au 1er février 2011. Les titres des
communications retenues seront disponibles sur le site internet de
l’IMS. Les auteurs dont les communications auront été retenues
prendront en charge leurs dépenses personnelles de voyage et leurs
frais d’inscription au colloque (35 € par personne, tarif réduit pour
les étudiants, gratuit pour les membres de l’IMS).
L’IMS-Paris est une association interdisciplinaire et bilingue
(français-anglais) créée pour favoriser les échanges entre les
médiévistes qui effectuent des recherches, travaillent ou étudient en
France. Pour plus d’informations sur l’IMS et le calendrier des
colloques des années passées, merci de consulter notre site internet:
www.ims-paris.org
SIM-Paris Prix pour doctorants
Cette année la Société Internationale des Médiévistes (Paris) propose
un prix qui sera décerné pour la meilleure proposition de
communication par un(e) doctorant(e). Le dossier de candidature
consistera en
1) la proposition de communication,
2) une esquisse du projet de recherche actuel (thèse de doctorat),
3) les noms et coordonnées de deux références universitaires.
Le lauréat sera choisi par le bureau de la SIM et un comité de
membres honoraires ; il en sera informé dès l’acceptation de sa
proposition. Une prime de 150 euro pour défrayer une partie des coûts
de transport et d’hébergement à Paris depuis la France (350 euros
depuis l’étranger) lui sera versée lors du Symposium.
Attention Graduate Students,
papers accepted for the 35th Mid-America Medieval Conference can be
submitted for the Jim Falls Paper Prize. Send an electronic copy of
your presentation--it MUST fit within the 20-minute time
limit--including university affiliation and degree program to me, the
Treasurer-Secretary of MAMA by February 1, 2011. Don't forget the CFP
deadline is December 15, 2010 (copied below). See the MAMA website
for a list of previous winners and more information on MAMA 35.
The Department of Classics offers an intensive 8-week summer school
for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Greek. The courses
are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines
who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for
further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like
to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum.
In each language 6 weeks will be spent completing the basic grammar
and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading simple, unadapted texts.
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/summ_sch.html
or contact Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College
Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277,
email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The 11th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals that engage broadly with the notion of community. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions ranging in historical focus from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Our topic is intended to be expansive rather than limiting; papers may conceive of community as a social, economic, intellectual, political, religious, ethnic, regional, or familial entity. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: patronage, readership and interpretive practice, scientific or medical communities, family and kinship, faith communities, identity and subjectivity, membership and exclusion, manuscripts and printing, relations within or between groups, or the rhetoric of community.
This interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 18 and 19, 2011. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Deborah McGrady, professor of French at the University of Virginia and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, delivering a paper on French patronage and literary production during the Hundred Years War. The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies is a cooperative venture between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The time limit for essays is 20 minutes. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to ncmems@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010.
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
IMAGINING EUROPE - PERSPECTIVES, PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM
ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS - LUICD Graduate Conference 2011
Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines
27 and 28 January 2011
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's
elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander
Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted
statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a
geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more
often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere
geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul
Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness
acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of
the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical
coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different
representations. Europe has always signified different things to different
people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe
meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste
d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a
century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.
This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been
imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from
classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the
historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and
Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and
Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the
institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic
perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular
attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these
images were created and the media and genres in which they have been
Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing
perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore
the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in
the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically
European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the
humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands
and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and
interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that
Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our
invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions
during the conference.
The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s
interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes
proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the
humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The
conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe
(from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working
in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to
submit a proposal.
Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual
and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-
colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues.
Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such
as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old
versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role
does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What
ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept
of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism
compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have
individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres,
such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a
particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures? Is
it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing
perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the
changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to
C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl . The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected
before 15 November 2010.
After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or
in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
A conference website ( http://hum.leiden.edu/icd/imagining-europe ), with
more information about the programme, speakers, accommodation and other
conference matters, will be launched later this autumn, but if you have
any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not
hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
Duke University is hosting the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium on
June 26-29, 2011. Information can be found at the following link:
http://syriacsymposium.trinity.duke.edu/
The organizing committee now invites paper proposals on any topic in the
field of Syriac studies. Standard papers are 25 minutes (15 minutes + 10
minutes discussion). Paper proposals will be accepted until January 1,
2011, but early submissions are very much encouraged. To submit a paper
proposal, please use the form on the website.
The website also contains information about Registration and Travel &
Lodging.
INFIRMITAS
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CURE, CARING AND HEALTH
August 23 – 26, 2012
University of Tampere, Finland
Department of History and Philosophy
Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health
and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability.
These topics are of major importance for communities and societies
both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still
fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are
rare.
We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions,
communities, families or individuals – and have a sensitive approach
to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, the focus lies
on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and
similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the
expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental
disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social
consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in
caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families,
communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or
technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them
in a larger social and cultural context.
The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but
also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and
Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having
themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective.
If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification
of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers
may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with
English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not
English. The registration fee is 100 € (post-graduate students: 50 €).
For further information, please visit
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by
e-mailing to passages@uta.fi. The registration opens in November 2011.
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari
Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto
It is with very great pleasure that I announce the publication of The Heroic Age Issue 14.1! This issue marks a number of rather exciting firsts. It is the first, so far as I know, joint publication of a shared cluster of essays between two different organizations, with two different emphases in the field, in two different formats (one entirely online and the other chiefly [though not exclusively] in print. For us at HA it is also the first of a series of new practices: in this case, guest editors putting together a section of essays in their areas of expertise. In this inaugural issue, we have Eileen Joy of postmedieval and the Babel Working Group has put together a cluster of essays published in both HA and in postmedieval: Essays by Elaine Treharne, Gillian Overing and Clare Lees, and Mary Dockray-Miller appear in HA at http://www.heroicage.org. At the Palgrave website for a limited time, essays appearing in the postmedieval authored by Jacqueli!
ne A Stodnick and Renée R Trilling , Kathleen Davis, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M. C. Weston and appear at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v1/n3/index.html#Critical-exchange-II:-The-State-of-Early-English-Studies-(Editor:-Eileen-A.-Joy). In addition, John Sodeberg contributes the first of a new column for us in the field of late antique/early medieval archaeology.
Another first for HA is that we have an embarrassment of riches. So we have split the issue slightly in order to give each section its due and recognize each set of authors for their excellent work. 14.2 which will appear later this month is guest edited by Andrew Rabin on Anglo-Saxon Law. We are pleased to have Kathryn Powell, Lisa Oliver, Nathan Breen, Jay Paul Gates, Rebecca Brackman, Daniela Fruscione. Along with these fine articles, we are quite pleased to have a review essay by Marijane Osborn. A full table of contents is available at: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/toc.php
I'd like to thank Deanna Forsman, Eileen Joy, Andrew Rabin, and Brad Eden for their hard work in helping all this come to fruition. I would also like to mention and thank Bill Hamilton, Kris Vetter, and Heather Flowers for editing and copy editing; without them performing this task, this issue would not appear. Thank you all. I hope you, the reader enjoy the issue(s), and as always, commentary is welcome.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK—TEXTS AND RECEPTION
I am pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Comitatus Graduate
Student Medieval Conference will be held at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, on Feb 4th-5th, 2011.
9th Comitatus Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Feb. 4-5th, 2011.
Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies Graduate Student Organization,
is pleased to announce its ninth annual Graduate Conference on
Medieval Studies to be held on February 4-5, 2011. The theme of this
year’s conference is "The History of the Book: Texts and Reception,"
and it will feature a keynote address from Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, The
Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Kerby-Fulton has written many works on manuscript studies, religious
writers and visionaries, and textual reception, and is author of
_Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing
in Late Medieval England_ (Winner of the 2007 Snow Prize from the
North American Conference on British Studies, as well as the Medieval
Academy of America Haskins Gold Medal in 2010).
We invite submissions of abstracts for papers on any area of the
history of the book and its reception in the medieval to the early
modern period. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
1. Textual studies of manuscripts and early printed books
2. The material culture surrounding the text
3. The history of textual dissemination and its impact
4. The contents of libraries
5. Textual illuminations, artwork, and its relationship to text
6. Cultural support for literary production
7. The relationship between the text and the reader
8. Reception theory
9. Book or textual fetishism
10. Trust in the written record
11. Religious and secular theories of the book
12. The social life of texts
13. Marginalia and glosses
14. Medieval literacy and the text
15. Sponsored educational and literacy programs and the use of the text
16. Renaissances and renewals, and their impact on readers and texts
17. Political uses for the text and literacy
18. Writing and memory
Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to
cjudkins@purdue.edu by Dec. 1st, 2010.
Please see http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~comitatu/conference.html for
further details and for registration.
Having attended a few of these in my graduate student days, including one by Allen Frantzen, I can only highly recommend these to any grad student in the consortium.
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar:
Masculinity and the Anglo-Saxons
2010-11 Graduate Seminar
2:00-5:00 pm Fridays, January 7 – March 11, 2011
Professor Allen Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago
The class will focus on models of
male identity and various scales of
masculinity as they emerge from a
selection of the most famous Old
English poems, including “The
Wanderer,” “The Seafarer,” and
“The Battle of Maldon,” and from
Old English prose texts. In addition
to some supplementary texts
(handouts), reading will include
excerpts from Clare A. Lees, ed.,
Medieval Masculinities.
Class meetings will be divided
between Old English—reviewing
the basics of grammar as we
translate—and analyzing the cultural
and theoretical aspects of
masculinity in our readings. Advanced skills in Old English are not required,
just familiarity with the basics acquired in an introductory course. Two papers,
one at the mid-point (6-7 pp.) and one at the end of the course (10-12 pp.);
Loyola students and others on a semester calendar will have until mid-April to
complete the final paper requirement.
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Old English.
Enrollment is limited. To register, contact the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. To
receive credit you must also enroll in either a Newberry course at your campus (available at several
Chicago-area schools) or an independent study; the course is cross-listed at Loyola University Chicago as
as English 540. Please contact the consortium Representative Council member at your home institution
for your university’s policies and to apply for travel reimbursement.
See www.newberry.org/renaissance
Call for Papers for the
Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
http://vagantesconference.org
Vagantes is one of the largest conferences in North America for
graduate students studying the Middle Ages. Vagantes aims to provide
an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval
studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four
student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. Each
year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature,
Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English,
Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies come
together to exchange ideas. In this manner, Vagantes fosters a sense
of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and
because the conference does not have a registration fee, this
community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited from graduate students
working on any medieval topic. E-mail a brief curriculum vitae and
abstract of no more than 300 words by 25 October 2010 to:
Karen Adams
kda9@pitt.edu
Department of French and Italian
A session on method and medieval art research, IMC 2011
Sponsored by the AHRC Research Network “Postcolonising the Medieval Image”
Twenty years ago, the Index of Christian Art hosted a conference
titled, in an ironic homage to Panofsky, “Iconography at the
Crossroads”. More recently art historians have begun to question both
the value and meaning of terms such as “iconography” and “influence”.
The convenors of the IMC session “Post-Iconography, Beyond
Influence”, Catherine Karkov and Eva Frojmovic, invite papers that
explicitly interrogate and probe the limits of iconographic research
on medieval art. What are the limitations of a text-centred approach
to medieval art? What are the alternatives? We would welcome both
theoretical papers and case studies showcasing colleagues’ own
current research “beyond iconography”. In addition, what exactly do
we mean when we use terms like “influence”? Are encounters between
cultures, artists or works of art really as passive and
unidirectional as the term implies?
We invite paper proposals (title, short abstract) to be received by
email to post-col-med@leeds.ac.uk by
Eva Frojmovic & Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds)
Please see our website for further
details of the research network's activities.
Deadline: November 15, 2010
The Society for Late Antiquity announces the Ninth Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Penn State University (University Park) from June 23-26, 2011. The conference will explore the theme of “Politics in Late Antiquity, ca. 200-700.”
Along with the cultural and religious transformations of the late Roman and post-Roman eras, the political culture of the empire was transformed, from the aristocratic and senatorial monarchy of the early empire to the equestrian and military government of the third and fourth centuries to the emerging Christian monarchy of the Theodosian empire and beyond. Each of these traditions had a long afterlife in the post-Roman West and Byzantine East. The Program Committee seeks contributions that address any aspect of the political life of late antiquity, with particular emphasis on 1) the functioning of Roman and post-Roman government and the tensions between center and periphery 2) the gap between rhetoric and reality in the practice of politics 3) the material _expressions of politics and government, as reflected in art, architecture, and archaeological evidence.
As in the past, the conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for ancient historians, philologists, art historians, archaeologists, and specialists in the early Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European, Middle-Eastern and African evidence for cultural transformation in late antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference theme, stating both the problem to be discussed and the nature of the presenter’s conclusions.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, for 20-minute presentations, should be sent as email (attachments in MS Word only) addressed to:
Professor Michael Kulikowski
c/o Tiffany Mayhew
108 Weaver Building
Dept of History
Email: ShiftingFrontiers2011@gmail.com
We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas 2010, an interdisciplinary postgraduate medievalists’ conference, to be held on 12th – 14th November 2010 in NUI Galway, Ireland. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including languages, history, literature, art, archaeology, palaeography and philosophy.
The theme for 2010 is Representations: Image, Word, Artefact, and we are delighted to announce that Professor Michelle P. Brown of the University of London will be our keynote speaker.
Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive, and all variations on this theme will be welcome.
A selection of papers will be published in our peer-reviewed Imbas Journal. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts.
Abstracts of 250 words for a twenty minute paper must be submitted before September 30, 2010. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Trish NMhaoileoin, c/o Roinn na Gaeilge, as na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na hreann, Gaillimh, re.
Further information can be found at our website http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63 and on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=324841995338&ref=ts .
Posted by: Imbas Committee (imbasnuig@gmail.com).
RBMS Regional Workshop: Latin for Rare Materials Catalogers
Friday, October 22, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Herman B Wells Library, Room E174
Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
This workshop is intended for rare materials catalogers with little or no familiarity with Latin. The workshop will provide tools for navigating the title page, identifying the key verbs and inflected forms of nouns for persons, places, and things, in order to accurately record title and remainder of title information, author(s) and other names, editions, publication information, and privilege statements (i.e. DCRM(B)/AACR2 descriptive areas 1, 2, and 4), and any related notes. Among the issues addressed will be identifying and expanding contracted forms, Latin terminology used for illustrations and publishing, and other issues unique to Latin materials.
Jennifer Nelson, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
Jennifer MacDonald, University of Delaware Library
Deadline is October 1, 2010. Limited to 30 participants.
Register online at: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/rbmsworkshoplatin.cfm
ACRL member - $189
Nonmember - $239
Contact Jane Gillis, Yale University Library, Jane.gillis@yale.edu or 203-432-2633
CFP: Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce:
Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010
Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011
www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html
We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.
We hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.
Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school’s faculty representative for details: www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center’s main web page is: www.newberry.org/renaissance.
on the theme of Voice, Gesture, Memory, and Performance in Medieval
Texts, Culture, and Art
Plenary speaker: Bruce Holsinger, UVA; also TBA
We invite 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of
voice, gesture, memory or performance. We also welcome proposals for
3-paper sessions on particular topics related the theme. Please
submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., electronically
if possible, no later than 1 October 2010. If you wish to propose a
session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in
the session. Commentary is traditionally provided for each paper
presented; completed papers, including notes, will be due no later
than 1 March 2011. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize will be
awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD
recipient (degree awarded since July 2008). For further information
on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium,
seehttp://www.sewanee.edu/Medieval/main.html.
February 26, 2011 at the University of Missouri‹Kansas City
³Recycling the Troubadours: Quotation and the Development of European
Poetry²
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its annual
conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference topic or any
medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers, with or without a
chairperson - are also welcome.)
The medieval world saw the creative recycling of ideas, images, materials
and practices from classical antiquity and elsewhere throughout the span of
a thousand years. We would like for this conference to explore the re-use
and re-imagining of both material objects and ideas in a variety of domains,
from things like tropes and citations used in texts and charters, to the
copying of images, to the re-using of materials such as parchment (for
instance, the discoveries found in things like palimpsests and binding
fragments), architectural elements, or building materials. Other possible
ways to think about the topic might include focusing on the transmission of
ideas or techniques through different cultural lenses and perspectives.
Email:KrauseK@umkc.edu
At long last my OCS (or Old Slavonic) resources are ready.
This is the URL:
www.biblical-data.org/OCS/Slavic New testament.htm
or also go to my "Ancient Versions" Page and navigate to the pages.
Focus is upon Slavic palaeography. Lots of good maps, tools, fonts,
and an essay upon the value of the OCS version for NT textual criticism.
CALL FOR PAPERS: COLONISING, DECOLONISING AND POSTCOLONISING THE VIKING AGE
17–19 March 2011
Colonising, Decolonising and Postcolonising the Viking Age seeks to
revisit the Vikings through the lens of postcolonial theory, in order
to open the period to new research questions on such topics as
Viking-age aesthetics, the role of art in cultural translation and
identity formation, cultural hybridity in the Viking age, gender,
history and the landscape of memory, the work and preservation of
tangible and intangible heritage, the Vikings and historical/national
Papers are invited from all fields on any aspect of these or related
topics. Submissions from graduate students are particularly welcome,
and we do have a limited number of bursaries to support both UK and
international students.
Two days of the conference will be devoted to scholarly papers, with
the third day reserved for general discussion and workshops centred
on enhancing both funding and postgraduate resources.
Please send paper proposals or expressions of interest to:
Professor Catherine E. Karkov
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Old Mining Building
LS2 9JT
c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk
The deadline for paper proposals is 31 January 2011
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: COURAGE AND COWARDICE
http://www.aema.net.au
AEMA's seventh annual conference will be held from 18-19 November 2010 at the Old Senate Room, Irwin St building, The University of Western Australia. This symposium will explore the subject of courage and cowardice in the early medieval world, c. 300-1100, across a range of disciplines.
Registration is now open and forms are available on the conference site, together with the full conference programme.
Convenor: Shane McLeod - conference@aema.net.au.
CET Academic Programs announces its upcoming October 15 deadline for
the spring 2011 Crossroads of Islam, Judaism and Christianity study
abroad program based in Avila, Spain. Students study Spain's
medieval history and immerse in an authentic Spanish environment.
Program highlights include a core course from a local historian with
access to Avila's archives, traveling seminars to Andalucia and
Morocco, and housing in a Spanish student dormitory that is attached
to a monastery dating back to the 15th Century. For more information,
please contact Rachel Howard at
rhoward@academic-travel.com or
visit http://cetacademicprograms.com/?go=Avila.
It is my pleasure to call your attention to the program and registration
information for this year's New England Medieval Conference "Other Worlds
and the Otherworldly," to be held at the University of Connecticut 6-7
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/default.htm
Please note that the conference registration is free to students, so do
encourage your students to take advantage of the opportunity to hear these
papers and the Saturday night concert.
Friday and Saturday April 15-16, 2011
*Call for Papers and Sessions*
"Love, Friendship, Marriage"
We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how
secular and religious love, affection, and devotion were perceived and
expressed in a variety of contexts.
Papers need not be confined to the theme, but may cover many aspects of
medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy,
theology, history and music. Student sessions with faculty sponsorship
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Luxon, Professor of English
and Cheheyl
Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of
Learning at Dartmouth College. Dr. Luxon has published widely on Milton,
Shakespeare, and Early Modern England. He is the author of *Single
Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship **(*Duquesne University Press,
2005), and *Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in
Representation **(*The University of Chicago Press, 1995), and the
creator/editor of *The Milton Reading Room*, a web edition of Milton's
poetry and selected prose.
The conference will conclude with a lesson in Renaissance dance and a
performance by the Ken Pierce Dance Company.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
For more information visit
www.plymouth.edu/medievalhttp://www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Posted by theswain at 8:13 PM 100 comments:
The next conference to be hosted by the Medieval Chronicle Society
will be held in Peć on 25 to 30 July, 2011. The call for papers was
sent out some time ago, but I think it didn't receive as much
attention as it should have done, so I am taking this opportunity to
give it another push. You can find details online at
http://chronicle2011.pte.hu/menu/38. Despite what this website says,
however, the deadline for abstracts has not passed, and it would
still be possible to attend. If you have any difficulty with the
website, please contact me for help.
For details of the Society itself see: http://medievalchronicle.org/.
Membership of the society is free of charge - mail me off-list if you
are interested.
COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published
annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate
students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance
studies. We prefer submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in
Windows format. Please include an e-mail address.
The editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2011.
Please send submissions to sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or to Dr.
Blair Sullivan, Publications Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 302 Royce Hall, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA
90095-1485.
After two decades teaching medieval art history and doing photography
for my own use, I have started a photography business. As part of
that project I am posting my archive of images online for all to use
without charge. So far I have posted about 950 images, and I am
adding more all the time. The archive includes material from all
periods of western art starting with the Neolithic, but its greatest
strength is in late Roman and early medieval art. I am posting all
images at the right size for classroom use (PowerPoint friendly).
I am sharing my images partly out of loyalty to academe, and partly
in the hope of exchanging their free use for exposure. My web site
becomes increasingly visible to potential paying clients via Google
and other search engines as more people visit and link to it. I also
license my photographs for publication, so of course I want scholars
to know that they exist.
I am sending this message now so that people can use my archive
during the new academic term. Also, I am currently planning a
research/photography trip to Europe in October. I will be in London,
Paris, Mainz, Ravenna, Budapest, Szekszárd, and Kaposvár. Anyone who
needs images from places in or near the cities where I will be
working could piggyback a request on to the trip without having to
pay major travel expenses.
My general web address is www.KornbluthPhoto.com .
To go directly to the historical archive, the address is
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/archive-1.html .
Best regards to all,
Genevra Kornbluth
Kornbluth@KornbluthPhoto.com
Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Editions and E-ditions: New Media and Old Texts" February 4–5, 2011
Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Editions and E-ditions: New Media and Old Texts"
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Fifth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday,
February 4 and 5, 2011, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville;
the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics)
and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
In this year’s workshop we hope to consider how the tools we use to
study texts have shaped, and continue to shape, our practice of
editing. Do the editorial principles we adopt arise from the reality
of medieval texts, or do they construct that reality? Does our choice
of one convention of presentation over another predispose us and our
readers to certain kinds of interpretations? Are concepts like
‘variant’, ‘apparatus’, even ‘text’, a reflection of the material we
study, or the social history of printed editions?
Meanwhile, changing technology for presenting and organizing texts
and images make it seem that the most venerable principles might
suddenly be negotiable and the most basic conventions unnecessary;
whatever can be imagined can be achieved. But do new tools for
studying manuscripts require new rules for reading and making
editions? What are the new principles and conventions used to create
electronic editions? And if these new tools free us from the
constraints of traditional printed text, do they impose other
constraints not yet apparent to us? We welcome presentations on any
aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any
field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or
epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each
project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its
context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and
exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in
previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a
conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and
unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to
offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work
together towards developing better professional skills for textual
and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of
works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical
difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or
representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of
$500 for their participation.
The deadline for applications has been extended to October 15, 2010.
Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter
describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to
, or by mail to the Department of English,
University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.
The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do
not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a
lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies.
Further details will be available online later in the year; meanwhile
please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.
[The Marco Manuscript Workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee,
with support from the Hodges Better English Fund and the Office of
Research in the College of Arts and Sciences.]
Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is pleased to announce the publication of its online bibliography. The bibliography is compiled and continuously updated to include items relating to any aspect of English legal history in the period between c. 600 and 1215. It is also searchable by category, author and date of publication. To access the bibliography, simply follow the link: http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/db/bibliography
Can I also remind everyone that we are still offering bursaries worth £2,000 each, designed to support scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of the AHRC-funded EEL project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website. If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk
he full program
for BABEL's Inaugural Biennial Meeting, to be held at the University
of Texas at
Austin from 4-6 November 2010, is now online:
http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABELAustinConference_Program.htm
Full details about how to register, where to stay, etc., can be found here:
http://www.siue.edu/babel/BABEL_Biennial_Meeting_AustinTX.htm
MEDIEVAL CLUB OF NEW YORK
Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:30 PM (followed by wine and cheese reception)
Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sara Lipton, SUNY, Stonybrook
Michael Sargent, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Room 4406 (English Department Lounge)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.)
"Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early Middle Ages."
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Announces a Colloquium
at UC Berkeley
"Mind, Soul, and In-Between: Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early
Middle Ages."
10 a.m.—3 p.m.. Wheeler Hall 306
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of English
Leslie Lockett (The Ohio State University), Emily Thornbury (English,
UC Berkeley), and Frank Bezner (Classics, UC Berkeley)
will lead a wide ranging seminar on theories of mind and soul in Old
English and Latin texts.
Pre-circulated materials will be available to participants.
Please RSVP for access (Thornbury@berkeley.edu).
Luncheon will be served. There are a limited number of places for
the seminar. Please sign-up early to ensure your place.
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song
In partnership with the Rare Book
Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of
Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence
J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and
early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to
music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it
pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and
performers who will examine the ways the written text of music,
especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as
prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most important
technology – its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital
technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today.
The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of
Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early
music duo Asteria.
On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will
present papers on various topics relating to the history of music
manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable
to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and
related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval
musicology.
Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions.
Participants include:
Jane Alden, Wesleyan University
Julia Craig-McFeeley, Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge
Anne Stone, City University of New York
Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania
For program and registration details, go to:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html
Cultures, Communities and Conflicts in the Medieval Mediterranean
University of Southampton (UK), 4-6 July 2011
Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Keynote Speakers: Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds)
Dr Anna Contadini (SOAS, London)
The University of Southampton is proud to host the 2011 second
biennial conference of the Society for the medieval Mediterranean.
This three-day conference will bring scholars together to explore the
interaction of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of
the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly
represented as divided by significant religious and cultural
differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the
extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of
conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people,
goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and
societies. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in the fields of
archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography, history (including
the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages,
literature, music, philosophy and religion. Submission on the
following topics would be particularly welcome:
• Activities of missionary orders
• Artistic contacts and exchanges
• Byzantine and Muslim navies
• Captives and slaves
• Cargoes, galleys and warships
• Cartography
• Costume and vestments
• Diplomacy
• Judaism and Jewish Mediterranean History
• Literary contacts and exchanges
• Material Culture
• Minority Populations in the Christian and Islamic Worlds.
• Mirrors for Princes
• Music, sacred and secular
• Port towns/city states
• Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
• Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics
• Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics
• Seafaring, seamanship and shipbuilding
• Sufis & Sufi Orders in North Africa and the Levant
• Sultans, kings and other rulers
• Trade and Pilgrimage
• Travel writing
• Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders
Please send any enquiries and abstracts of papers of 300 words
maximum together with a brief CV to the organisers, Dr Francois Soyer
(f.j.soyer@soton.ac.uk) and Dr Rebecca Bridgman (rmb77@cam.ac.uk). We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 October
> Call For Papers
> Deadline:November 15, 2010
> The Society for Late Antiquity announces the Ninth Biennial
> Conference on Shifting
> Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Penn State University
> (University Park)
> June 23-26, 2011. The conference will explore the theme of “Politics in Late
> Antiquity, ca. 200-700.”
> Along with the cultural and religious transformations of the late Roman and
> post-Roman eras, the political culture of the empire was transformed,
> from the aristocratic and senatorial monarchy of the early empire to the
> equestrian and military government of the third and fourth centuries to the
> emerging Christian monarchy of the Theodosian empire and beyond.
> Each of these
> traditions had a long afterlife in the post-Roman West and Byzantine East.
> The Program Committee seeks contributions that address any aspect
> of the political
> life of late antiquity, with particular emphasis on 1) the
> functioning of Roman and
> post-Roman government and the tensions between center and periphery
> 2) the gap
> between rhetoric and reality in the practice of politics 3) the material
> expressions of politics and government, as reflected in art,
> architecture, and
> archaeological evidence.
> As in the past,the conference will provide an interdisciplinary
> forum for historians,
> philologists, art historians, archaeologists, and specialists in the early
> Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds to discuss a wide range of European,
> Middle-Eastern and African evidence for cultural transformation in late
> antiquity. Proposals should be clearly related to the conference
> theme, stating
> both the problem to be discussed and the nature of the presenter’s
> conclusions.
> Abstracts of no more than 500 words, for 20-minute presentations,
> should be sent as email (attachments in MS Word only) addressed to:
> Professor Michael Kulikowski
> c/o Tiffany Mayhew
> 108 Weaver Building
> Dept of History
> Penn State University
> University Park,
> PA 16802
> Phone: (814) 865-1367
> Email: ShiftingFrontiers2011@gmail.com
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Plymouth State University 32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Call for Papers and Sessions
“Love, Friendship, Marriage”
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Thomas Luxon, Professor of English and
Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement
of Learning at Dartmouth College. Dr. Luxon has published widely on Milton,
Shakespeare, and Early Modern England. He is the author of Single
Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship (Duquesne University Press,
2005), and Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in
Representation (The University of Chicago Press, 1995), and the
creator/editor of The Milton Reading Room, a web edition of Milton’s poetry
and selected prose.
For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Please submit abstracts and full contact information (email and post mail
addresses) to PSUForum@gmail.com
Or via US mail:
Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director
Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Dept. of English MSC 40
Abstract deadline: January 21, 2011
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2011
Please send any further inquiries to:
PSUForum@gmail.com
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age . This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to music’s materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and performers who will examine the ways the written text of music, especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as prescriptive; the multiple functions of music’s most important technology – its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today.
The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early music duo Asteria . On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of music manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval musicology.
For program and registration details, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html
Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West
A new website:
http://handley-inscriptions.webs.com
It is devoted to Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West (roughly A.D. 300-900) - ranging from Ireland, to North Africa, to the Balkans, and all regions in between.
The website has two main functions:
1) Regionally-specific pages of links to articles, books, PhDs, websites, and databases on late antique and early medieval inscriptions covering:
* Britain / Anglo-Saxon England / Ireland;
* Gaul and the Rhineland;
* Iberia;
* Italy;
* North Africa; and
* the latin-speaking Balkans.
This is limited to what is freely available on-line, but currently there are over 470 live links to scholarly and reference material; and
2) A New Publications page, devoted to trying to list all new publications in the area. So far this covers the years 2008-2010, and has about 100 publications.
Feedback off-list is very welcome.
Mark Handley.
The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Crises of Categorization"
The University of Toronto, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Seventh Annual
Graduate Student Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
"Crises of Categorization."
Marjorie Garber defines crises of categorization as the “failure of
definitional distinction, a borderline that becomes permeable, that
permits of crossings from one (apparently distinct) category to
another,” in her work on the challenge of defining transvestism. This
recognition of the permeability of boundaries is particularly useful
in thinking through issues in the history and literature of
Anglo-Saxon England. For the 2011 ASSC Graduate Colloquium, we are
seeking papers which interrogate Anglo-Saxon systems of
categorization, both as they appear within the literature and
historical documents of the period and in terms of modern popular and
scholarly practices. In particular, the conference hopes to explore
points of cultural anxiety about and resistance towards hegemonic
practices of categorization.
Potential areas of investigation may include:
— Anglo-Saxon conceptions of time
— periodicity and historiography
— genre and stylistic practices
— negotiation of linguistic boundaries
— spatial discourse and practices
— representations of gender and sexuality
Please submit 250 word abstracts for 20-minute papers by 15 November
2010. Please include academic affiliation, e-mail address, street
address, phone number, and audio-visual requirements. Abstracts may
be sent to TorontoASSC@gmail.com.
— Peter Buchanan and Colleen Butler, conference organizers
Sponsored by: Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of English,
For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference,
please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures at the University of California,
Irvine invites submissions for its Third Annual Graduate Student
INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES
Friday & Saturday, January 21-22, 2011
Keynote Address by Paul Strohm (Anna Garbedian Professor in the Humanities
at Columbia University)
Our contemporary understanding of interiority is tied to a sense of
domestic life, personal psychology, and the separation of public and
private spheres, all which suggest a model of human existence and
interaction that hinges on the delineation of what is ‘inside.’ This
conference revitalizes notions of the interior in premodern contexts,
ranging from the ancient era, through the medieval and early modern
periods, and into the eighteenth century. We define “interiority” loosely
as any terrain, such as conscience, mind, psyche, soul, or spirit, that
positions itself within a subject. Given this openness, we invite papers
across a variety of disciplines that investigate interiority in any of its
manifestations—literary, historical, visual, dramatic, legal, spiritual,
or philosophical—in early cultures. Fundamentally, we seek to question and
mobilize the borders between the interior and exterior as vital spaces of
containment and definition.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Religious Interiors: How do the concepts of the sacred and profane hinge
on an inner life? Can spiritual interiors conflict with one another? Do
dream visions and experiences of the sublime affectively challenge the
delineation of the interior?
Interior Bodies: Are interior spaces altered in concert with new
discourses of the body, disease, anatomy, and medical knowledge? Do
seemingly ‘exterior’ changes in consumption practices (food, goods,
clothing) rework internal awareness? How is queerness performed or
experienced within premodern interiority?
Political Interiors: Through what means do royal, national, and local
subjects construct interiorities? Does state power depend on constructing
interiority in its subjects? How do indigenous and colonial tensions
engage with sovereign interiority?
Textual Interiors: Do literary works contain interiorities through the
incorporation of authorial voice, as in memoirs or confessions? Are new
interiorities modified through translation?
Metaphorical Interiors: In what ways do material containers, such as
chambers, closets, or caskets, stand in for psychic interiors? How do
performed scenes gesture to, or create, a sense of interiority in their
spatial configuration?
All interested graduate students, from any university and discipline, are
welcome to submit a one-page abstract on any topic related to the self.
For more information. please visit the conference website at the Group for
the Study of Early Cultures at
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/
Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2010
Please limit the length of abstracts to no more than 300 words. Send
abstracts and CVs to earlycultures2010@gmail.com.
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures focuses mainly on fields that
investigate pre-modern societies, including but not limited to: Classics,
Late Antiquity, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, 18th Century
Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Islamic Studies.
We are also interested in a wide range of disciplinary approaches to Early
Cultures, including literary studies, history, art history, drama, visual
studies, sociology, culture studies, anthropology, political science,
philosophy, and religious studies. For more information about our
organization, please visit our website:
Attention all graduate student supervisors! The International Society of
Anglo-Saxonists is sponsoring two sessions at the International Medieval
Congress at Leeds in 2011. Proposals are welcomed from all areas of
Anglo-Saxon studies and on any topic. The conference theme in 2011 will
'Rich.Poor' and we particularly welcome proposals on this theme. Check out
the IMC conference website for more information on the theme:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. If you have promising graduate
students with interesting papers, please encourage them to submit
to me (crec1@york.ac.uk) providing details of name, affiliation, title and
100 word abstract by 1 September 2010.
Katy Cubitt
Graduate Coordinator
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of York, UK
American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) and The Heroic Age CFP
The American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) seeks to engage a diverse group of medievalists in broad scholarly conversations about Ireland and its relationship to Britain and the continent. To that end, we have collaborated with The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe to co-sponsor an interdisciplinary session at the 2011 Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo.
Navigations Through Medieval Ireland: Physical, Mythological, and Virtual Journeys.
This session examines medieval voyages. We interpret the idea of voyages broadly to encompass literary themes of wandering, the idea of travels to other-worldly?locations, the actual movement of things and people among physical locales, the transmission of ideas across landscapes, and the material culture that facilitated voyaging. In addition to the geographical reality of Ireland as an island, the culture preserves a long history and tradition of actual and legendary sea-faring voyages. This interdisciplinary panel will offer a range of scholarly perspectives and case studies on the topic, addressing both the reception and adaptation of European models and uniquely Irish contributions.
We welcome submissions in any area of Medieval Studies. Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a completed Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) can be emailed to the organizer: Maggie Williams, William Paterson University, williamsm11@wpunj.edu no later than September 15, 2010.
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Black Lightning’s first season sets itself apart in the DCTV universe by focusing on one unique element–family
The Show: Black Lightning
The Network: The CW
The Genre: Superhero
The Challenge: Give a show four episodes with which to draw you in, impress you, challenge you, make you feel something deeply. Four episodes for the chance to find out if you care what happens to the characters you’re watching enough to become invested in the story. If after all that, it does none of those things for you? Then no biggie. You gave it a good shot and you can move on. But if you love it, you’ll be glad you stuck around.
The Premise: Black Lightning follows the story of a retired superhero/high school principal, Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams), who returns after a nine-year hiatus to fight for his community, Freeland. His electrifying return to the world of vigilantism is due to a local gang known as the 100 that is wreaking havoc in Freeland. Although his family was the reason he left this dangerous life behind, he decides that they and his community need the protection he can provide as Black Lightning–a superhero that possesses the ability to use electricity as a weapon. Jefferson’s daughters, Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China McClain) and ex-wife, Lynn (Christine Adams) are his driving force to protect the world around him. Little does he know, his daughters possess superpowers of their own.
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The inaugural season of Black Lightning has been a thrilling and exciting addition to the CW’s DCTV universe. While it tells the tale of a superhero, it also embraces the idea of family life in a way the other shows do not. The core of Black Lightning is based on Jefferson’s love and desire to keep his family safe. This innate inclination is what leads him to promise his ex-wife that he will leave this world behind. However, this desire to protect his own trumps his well-being and brings Jefferson back to the streets fighting crime once again. This is an extremely beautiful aspect of Black Lightning that shines through in the first four episodes. Every moment and action Jefferson executes is for the good of his family and the people around him. This series not only embraces family but unapologetically incorporates diversity into its plot and characters. Black Lightning consists of a primarily African American cast and puts issues such as police brutality in the spotlight. With family in its heart and the call for justice running through its veins, Black Lightning has become a strong voice of inspiration for its audience.
Black Lightning’s incredible characters bring forth an exhilarating yet uplifting feel to the first season
In the world of superheroes, we are often hard-pressed to find individuals we can relate to and connect with. This is an aspect that Black Lightning excels in flawlessly and what sets it completely apart from the other CW shows. Jefferson Pierce plays a high school principal who fully devotes his time and energy to his students. This devotion carries into his family life–an element this show celebrates through and through. Cress Williams’ portrayal of this family man is endearing, moving, and heart-warming. These emotions fail in comparison to the dynamic he shares with his ex-wife Lynn. Despite being exes, the two emanate relationship goals based on the love and support they provide for their daughters. Whether it is Jennifer’s need to rebel or Anissa’s love for activism, Lynn and Jefferson stand by their side every step of the way.
“I’m just really grateful to tell the story for young lesbians — and black lesbians in particular — who don’t really see themselves on TV. My hope is that when you watch Anissa, a young lesbian is inspired to walk boldly as who she is and to love herself and to love herself exactly how she looks. –Nafessa Williams (actor, plays Anissa)
The most relatable characters in this show are Jefferson’s two daughters, Anissa and Jennifer. Anissa’s character is a strong, fierce, and outspoken female that brings an extra “oomph” to this stellar cast. It’s a welcome change to see a show embrace diversity not only in race but in sexuality, as well. Anissa’s character is a young, black lesbian who fights for the rights of her community–and will soon fight as a superhero, aka Thunder. This level of diversity is precisely why Black Lightning has made a place for itself in such a short amount of time. It is not afraid to embrace race and sexuality within its story and characters. Jennifer is the youngest of the two siblings and represents the epitome of every teenage kid wanting to live life on their own terms. The series thus far has shown a slow, but interesting arc for Jennifer as she grapples teenage life–boyfriend, school, and sports. She is a character the younger audience can relate to and identify with, which is a testament to Black Lightning’s ability to create such a connection. In the first four episodes, we have seen Jennifer begin a self-identifying journey that will surely lead her to discovering her powers, just as Anissa has–and we can’t wait.
The thrilling soundtrack, the electrifying suit, and stellar visual effects make up the heart of Black Lightning
As a show, Black Lightning represents a heartwarming story, but it is brought to life by the music, costume, and set design. Thanks to Black Lightning composer, Kurt Farquhar, the series employees a bold and upbeat feel with each and every scene. The premiere episode, “Resurrection” introduces the energizing, thundering theme song by Godholly. This theme song depicts the character’s return to life as a superhero and sets the stage going into each episode. The music that encompasses the feel of Black Lightning is truly the heartbeat of the show–whether it is original music or throwback tracks by Aretha Franklin, the music encapsulates the narrative of Black Lightning. In moments of intense fighting or family bonding, the music of Black Lightning keeps us engaged and tuned into every scene.
Unlike the other CW superhero shows, there is something unique and enticing about the costumes and backdrop of Black Lightning. Jefferson’s costume, designed by his dear friend Gambi (James Remar), represents his character quite literally, with blue and yellow lightning bolts across his chest. His electric vision goggles, alongside his ability to shoot out electrical currents, make for one hell of a costume–unlike anything we’ve seen in The Flash or Arrow. Laura Jean Shannon is the creative genius behind Black Lightning’s suit and has put thought into the tiny intricacies of it. While the other CW superheroes are younger in age and more agile, Shannon’s creation of this suit takes Jefferson’s age into consideration–making us appreciate the thought process that has gone into the costume design of Black Lightning. In the episodes to come, we look forward to seeing Anissa’s transformation into Thunder and what her suit will represent.
“What’s amazing is the stories are growing and growing, and going into different places, so it’s allowing us to go into different places while we’re kind of feeling out what this overall sound is going to be. There’s new characters that are getting introduced, new themes, and I’m more excited about letting the audience tell me what was the best one.”- Kurt Farquhar (music composer)
Black Lightning may take a place in a fictional town (filmed in Atlanta) but emits the feeling of a close-knit community that wants the best for one another. This aspect of the series is embedded in the surroundings we constantly see the characters in–school, community gatherings, church. It is a welcome change for a show to take the audience deep into the plot of a show like this. Not only are we watching Jefferson fight off criminals, but we see the people he is fighting so hard for. The show is doing a phenomenal job of incorporating this element of his personality by using set design and location to represent it.
The narrative of Black Lightning depicts the reality of today’s world–and a superhero willing to fight it
The villains and threats that are a part of Black Lightning aren’t aliens from another planet or metahumans with abilities. Instead, they consist of gang members and its leaders that want to wreak havoc on the local community of Freeland. This is the standout element of Black Lightning–and what makes it so unique in its storytelling. Instead of the hero fighting an impossible tech-savvy villain, Jefferson is fighting those who distribute drugs to the kids of his high school or those that look to hurt the wellbeing of the public. At the forefront of the 100 gang is leader Tobias (Marvin “Krondon” Jones III), who plays a frightening role in the story of Black Lightning. Tobias and his gang are the people Jefferson wants to take down–and who depict just a glimpse of the unfortunate reality of many communities today.
“We haven’t seen any superheroes in the ghettos of America. So, with this character at least you have a superhero who’s sort of going into this era that needs it most of all, but you also have a man who’s educating that community as well. That’s how it’s different.” -Salim Akil (showrunner)
In the first moments of the series premiere, “Resurrection”, Jefferson has a run-in with the cops when he is unlawfully pulled over due to the color of his skin. Almost immediately, Black Lightning explores another topic that riddles the African American community and has been the saddening crux of many recent police brutality cases. It is this brave storytelling and unapologetic representation that makes Black Lightning one hell of a show to watch. It doesn’t hold back and explores and unravels complicated layers of an issue few shows have dared to discuss. The all too real threats and violence that plague many communities today resonate through the voice of Black Lightning and its underlying plot–leaving us in awe of this CW superhero show.
The writers of Black Lightning produce relatable storylines that resonate with the audience
The creative writers behind Black Lightning have made a series that truly extends beyond the story of a superhero. Embedded deep within the heart of the show is a man’s desire to care for the world around him, and those that live in it. It is quite simple in its purpose but captures the heart of those who find themselves relating to it, The writers that pen the stories we’ve seen thus far try to explore the paranoia and fear that exists in the African American community and give a character like Jefferson multiple facets to his personality. While he may possess powers as Black Lightning, he is also a principal who wants to educate kids and give them the means to live a life devoid of the external struggles their community faces. This beautiful storytelling is what makes Black Lightning so worth of watching. It has somehow managed to create a culmination of lighthearted superhero antics, diversity within race and sexuality, and real-life violence. This is quite the difficult feat to achieve but the episodes thus far show it can be possible–with the Akils and co. at your side.
I wanted you to feel like you were just watching a movie, from episode to episode. I knew that I could do things, as a writer and director, that another director probably couldn’t do. To me, the details of our lives and the culture really matter. Yes, it’s black culture, but it’s American culture. That’s what I’m trying to present this as. Of course, they’re black, but it’s also American culture, with the music and the lingo. I think it’s time for people to say, “That’s us, and I’m proud of this shit! This is my culture!”- Salim Akil (showrunner)
The writing behind Black Lightning has been absolutely genius and addicting to follow. Some of the standout episodes of the first four episodes thus far have been 1×01, “Resurrection” and 1×03, “Lawanda: The Book of Burial”. “Resurrection” takes the audience front and center into the issues that plague the community of Freeland and highlight prejudice through the scene where Jefferson is pulled over. It is quite the introduction into what sets the stage for the story of Black Lightning. The writers took us through Jefferson’s journey as he is in the present while simultaneously giving us a glimpse into what turning into Black Lightning means for him. In “Lawanda: The Book of Burial” the writers weave in a peaceful protest gone bad that results in Tobias shooting at the innocent Reverend. The writing of this episode stood out in the desperate moments of fear and terror and really brings life to these emotions through the dialogue.
Final Verdict: Black Lightning defies expectations with its daring plot, brave characters, and family values
Black Lightning is a courageous, intoxicating show that epitomizes the phrase, “family show”. Because that’s what it is through and through, a family show that explores the complicated dynamics, the limitless love, and the responsibility to protect your loved ones. The foundation of this show is seen in Jefferson’s relentless need to fight for his family, his students, and his community–at any cost. Black Lightning doesn’t falter or struggle in telling a story of a diverse community that faces the obstacles of daily violence via gangs, drugs, and shootings.
The writing thus far has been top-notch and poetically relevant to the nature of the world. Salim and Mara Brock Akil have put together a creative team, cast, and crew that works together to tell the dramatic story behind Black Lightning. We have to applaud the Akils along with Oz Scott, Mark Tonderai, and Michael Schultz for writing the first four epic episodes of Black Lightning so far. The writers have taken the Akils’ vision and helped it transform into the heartwarming, brave story we bear witness to today–and we thank you for that.
The season continues to explore important social issues while balancing Jefferson’s journey as Black Lightning. We look forward to seeing Annisa and Jennifer’s powers get stronger and their transformation into the superheroes they will become. It will be quite the exciting superhero family dynamic that we have not seen fully come to fruition in the other shows. Black Lightning is said to not be in the Arrowverse, and while this may feel disappointing, this show is absolutely strong enough to stand on its own. It will be no surprise if this decision changes in the future, but for now, we are happy with Jefferson and his world of family, electricity, and his quest to fight for it all.
Black Lightning returns Tuesday, February 13th on The CW at 9/8c!
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Sega Saturn: We Salute You
Discussion in 'Reviews and Articles' started by tweakmonkey, Feb 1, 2008.
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Blue, blue, skies![/align]If there never was a Sony Playstation, we would never read an article called Why the Saturn was the worst major console of all time. It's no secret that the Saturn was a market failure in the United States and the Sony Playstation triumphed. And that's why we've got a Playstation 3 and not a Dreamcast 3. Sadly, Sony vs. Sega fanboyism still exists years later, and those who still cling to their anti-Sega dogma (much like Nvidia vs. 3dfx or the modern Nintendo vs. Sony or the old) still don't get it -- so I decided (as a Saturn owner) to share my own biases on the subject. *ahem*
[digg]http://www.digg.com/software/Sega_Saturn_We_salute_you[/digg]Perhaps the biggest letdown in my gaming life was Christmas day of 1987, when I unwrapped the Atari 7800 my uncle bought for our family. At this point, I had been playing Atari 2600 since I was four, and was already enveloped into the worlds of Jungle Hunt, Breakout, and Kaboom. I did not know much about the Nintendo yet, but I knew from the expression on my disappointed brother's face that we didn't get the good one. If you owned an Atari 7800 in the late 80s and your friends all had an NES, you were at a severe disadvantage, to say the least.
I've always rooted for the underdog. I owned a TurboGrafx-16, and years later found another Duo in a clearance bin for $20 (<3 TurboZone Direct). I've owned two Saturns now. I played it last night, and perhaps that's why I felt the urge to reply to the article linked above.
I purchased my Sega Saturn at Good Guys in Silverdale, Washington. I had saved up fifty bucks or so each month from my paper route and decided to buy a next-generation game console one night at about 9:30 PM, after I had counted up over $80 in change. My dad rushed us down to the store, which closed at 10 PM. We stuck around the store past the time it had closed while they counted the dimes and quarters for me on the counter.
If my mom knew I spent $400 and change a Saturn over a Playstation after reading a site like Cnet, she would probably be upset with my decision. But she had never played Virtua Fighter 2 in an arcade.
[nq]Almost every game on that system had Sega magic in it.. Almost every one felt unique from what was on the PSX or n64.
-James K[/nq]
Despite poor sales numbers, criticism, and an overwhelming opposition by all that is Sony, the Saturn had a few crowning gems and should never be brushed under the bed as “worst” anything. Why was the Sega Saturn a great console? Here's my abbreviated list: Baku Baku, Panzer Dragoon, Virtua On, Dragon Force, Virtua Cop 2, Virtua Cop (dual guns), Shining Wisdom, Iron Storm, Sega Rally (checkpoint), Bomberman, Clockwork Night, Daytona USA (hey, you're driving the wrong way), Panzer Dragoon Saga, NiGHTs, Virtua Fighter Remix, Virtua Fighter 2, Decathalete, Fighters Megamix, Fighting Vipers, and even the CD player feature was cool... dammit.
Saturn game cases are about the size of an eeePC.
The game I was playing last night was Iron Storm. I just replaced the watch battery in my Saturn because the save games were not working anymore, but I often leave it on for hours on-end, even if it's older than most cars on the road and has probably seen more miles. It squeaks a bit when loading, but it's never had a hiccup. If all consoles were built like the Saturn, our most popular guide wouldn't be our Playstation 2 Repair Guide.
As a teenager during what I consider to be on of the best times to live for a gamer, going from the Atari 2600 through the SNES, having owned a TG16 and played a handful of arcade games, the Saturn was an epic success. Playstation aside, it had great graphics, 3D models, the compact disc format, and had one of the most amazing arsenals of legendary games ever released upon the world. There's a reason why a search on Ebay still finds Sega Saturns going for upwards of $100, and some of the better games are worth hundreds. This console offered something, some kind of magic, that's been missing in many game consoles since.
While it certainly was not the best game console in history from most respects, the Sega Saturn was another crowning achievement in the archives of gamer history and we should salute Sega with respect for their noble efforts.
-Dan Kennedy
tweakmonkey, Feb 1, 2008
Torx Indigenous Nudist
nice little article.
makes me wanna pull my saturn out. I modded mine with a mod chip that i bought from lik-sang years and years ago. I never played it much, mainly because the graphics give me a headache real quick.
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THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM, by Charles Carreon
Physical and Mental Equilibrium Founded on Healthy Operation of the Vestibular System
Thanks to the operation of the Vestibular System, located in the semicircular canals of the inner ear, we are able to orient ourselves in three-dimensions. The sense of equilibrium allows us to walk, swim, fly and move about, retaining a sense of orientation with respect to the sky above, the earth below, as well as knowing what is in back of us, what is in front, and how parts of our body are oriented with respect to the rest of our body. Meditators can develop awareness of the flow of neural information being piped directly to the perceiving brain from the tiny cilia that serve as “angular accelerometers” detecting all movement in the head, keeping our vision from blurring by making tiny adjustments in our eye muscles to maintain a static focus on the objects of attention even when our heads are in motion. Furthermore, when a person’s body settles into stillness, the vestibular system continues producing "resting discharge activity" to indicate the lack of movement stimuli. It is hypothesized that this “resting discharge activity” signals to the perceiving mind that it is safe from threat and may settle into rest. It is further hypothesized that the activity of meditation may be simplified by realizing the concrete, physiological benefit of consciously attending to this “stillness signal,” thus generating a feedback loop that allows for deeper and deeper stillness in both body and mind. Quotes from scientific literature to sustain this hypothesis are provided below.
The following quote is from http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hb ... chlea.html
The semicircular canals are the body's balance organs, detecting acceleration in the three perpendicular planes. These accelerometers make use of hair cells similar to those on the organ of Corti, but these hair cells detect movements of the fluid in the canals caused by angular acceleration about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the canal. Tiny floating particles aid the process of stimulating the hair cells as they move with the fluid. The canals are connected to the auditory nerve.
The following information on the primacy of the Vestibular Nerve as the first to develop in the foetal body is quoted from Kay Hogan's online essay "The Ear and The Alexander Technique" at http://www.kayhogan.com/articles_ear.htm, quoting Hannaford, C. (2002), Awakening The Child Heart. Jamilla Nur: Hawaii.
Nerves myelinate (fully develop) in order of their importance for survival. The first cranial nerve to myelinate in utero is the vestibular nerve (sensory nerve with some motor nerve functions) whose primary functions are balance and energy. A two-month-old embryo hears and reacts to sound by opening and closing the arms and legs, these movements are the Moro reflex. "The newborn hears and moves in rhythm to the mother's voice in the first minutes of life. There are no random movements; every movement of the newborn has meaning, with particular movements being linked to particular sounds. For example, with a sudden loud sound the baby will throw out its arms and legs in a Moro Reflex. In response to his mother's voice, he will turn toward her. Studies done using high-speed film show that newborns and infants have a complete and individual repertoire of body movements that precisely synchronize with syllables or sub-syllables of a speaker's voice. This important matching of movement to words, or "entrainment", starts in utero at about four and a half months and leads to full development of the vestibular systems and the ability to language successfully."
The Vestibular Nerve begins to myelinate in utero by registering the movement of the fetus and its environment (mother). After birth the vestibular system is necessary for the infant's survival in the new environment, which is gravity. The vestibular nerve is involved in the sense of equilibrium, maintenance of posture and muscle tone. The other purpose of the newly myelinated nerve of the hearing organ is the electrical charge that the brain receives from sound and that is crucial for brain development. In these early stages, it is the mother's voice that the baby has entrained to, and in particular to the high frequencies that are most enriching for the infants' brain development. "We instinctively talk to babies with a higher voice, called "Parentese", which we now know energizes the baby's brain, making it more alert to all sensory input and able to take in specific patterns and rhythms, thus aiding leaning."
MOTOR NERVES MYLINATE BEFORE SENSORY NERVES
It is the motor nerves that myelinate before the sensory nerves, meaning that movement awakens the senses. We need movement and that includes sound in order to sense or perceive our environment and ourselves. Movement is crucial to learning in both the internal environment and external environment. Both sound and movement are crucial to the early developmental reflexes.
From The Origins of Human Love and Violence, by James W. Prescott, Ph.D. • Institute of Humanistic Science, from Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal, Volume 10, Number 3: Spring 1996, pp. 143-188, available online at http://www.violence.de/prescott/pppj/article.html
[M]y quest to understand the origins of human love and violence was partly rooted in my doctoral training in developmental neuropsychology and psychophysiology at McGill University, Montreal, P.Q. Canada where I was made acutely aware of the extraordinary importance that the early sensory-social environment has upon brain development and behavior. The pioneering studies at McGill in the 1950s and 1960s documented that social isolation rearing of puppies results in not only aberrant adult emotional-social behaviors but also in abnormal brain development and functioning.
In 1966, I joined the newly formed NICHD where I created the Developmental Behavioral Biology Program (NICHD) to establish basic research programs on brain-behavioral development. During my tenure at the NICHD (1966-1980), I formulated a novel developmental brain-behavioral theory of emotional-social regulation to explain the pathological depression and violence that results from maternal-social deprivation or the social isolation rearing of infant animals.
I redefined "maternal-social deprivation" as a special case of Somatosensory Affectional Deprivation (SAD) and identified somesthetic processes (body touch) and vestibular-cerebellar processes (body movement) as the two critical emotional senses that define the sensory neuropsychological foundations for maternal-infant affectional bonding. Sensory deprivation in the other sensory systems (vision, hearing, smell and taste) do not result in the maternal-social deprivation or SAD syndrome).
My reconceptualization of the maternal-social deprivation syndrome which involved cerebellar-limbic-frontal lobe brain functions was made possible by the pioneering studies of Mason (1968) and Mason and Berkson (1975) who demonstrated that the isolation rearing of infant monkeys on a "swinging mother" surrogate (vestibular-cerebellar stimulation) prevented the development of the classic maternal-social (SAD) syndrome. This behavioral study opened the "vestibular-cerebellar" gate to brain structures and processes not previously implicated in these emotional-social disorders and represents, in my view, a scientific study of such importance that is matched only by the original contributions of the Harlows. The implications of the Mason and Berkson "swinging mother surrogate" study for human development is profound but, unfortunately, remains unappreciated despite the fact that its dramatic effects can be seen in the Time Life documentary film "Rock a Bye Baby" (Dokecki 1973) and which has been one of the most successful documentaries of Time Life.
It is important to emphasize that in terms of SAD theory, the different sensory-emotional systems of the body provide the neuropsychological foundations for different psychological states. Specifically, the vestibular-cerebellar sensory system provides the primary neuropsychological foundation for "Basic Trust"; the somesthetic (touch) sensory system provides the primary neuropsychological foundation for "Affection"; and the olfactory (smell) sensory system provides the primary neuropsychological foundation for "Intimacy". In normal development these emotional-sensory systems are combined in rich patterns of complex sensory stimulation which results in the development of a "neurointegrative" brain where "Basic Trust", "Affection" and "Intimacy" are integrated with one another to form an emotional brain gestalt that can be called "Love"– long before the infant can understand the spoken or written word which is mediated by the auditory and visual cognitive senses.
The following information is from http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/cu ... vest1.html
The vestibular system is phylogenetically the oldest part of the inner ear. It is situated in the petrous part of the temporal bone, in close proximity to the cochlea. The vestibular system responds to movement of the head relative to space and gravity, using inertial-sensing receptors which are activated by forces arising from the acceleration of mass in accordance with Newton’s law: Force = Mass X Acceleration.
In order to determine the absolute movement of a body in three dimensional space, reliable information is required about movement in each of the 6 "degrees of freedom" permitted in three dimensional space, i.e. three translation or straight lines (up-down, left-right, fore-aft), and three rotational (in one horizontal, and two vertical planes at right angles to each other) movements. There is one vestibular system on each side of the head, in close approximation to the cochlea.
Each side of this bilateral system consists of two types of sensors:
1. the two otolith organs (the saccule and utricle) , which sense linear movement (translation),
2. a set of three semicircular canals, arranged at right angles to each other, sensing rotation movement in three planes.
Introduction to the Vestibular System
The Otolith Organs
The utricle and the saccule are two sac-like structures each of which contains a specialized region (the macula) which is made up of a ciliated sensory epithelium (the vestibular hair cells). In humans, the hair cells in the vestibular system differ somewhat from those in the auditory system, in that each vestibular cell, in addition to having a number of thin stereo-cilia, also has one thicker longer kino-cilium positioned at one end of the cell’s hair-bearing surface.
The hair cells of the vestibular system also exhibit a constant "resting discharge activity" even in the absence of a stimulus. Thus, stimulation is sensed by the central nervous system as a change in this resting, "spontaneous" discharge rate. The cilia which emerge from the hair cells are embedded in a gelatinous matrix containing solid CaCO3 crystals (the otoconia) which overlies the cells. During linear acceleration, the crystals (being denser than the surrounding fluid) will tend to be left behind due to their inertia. It has been demonstrated that the resultant bending of the cilia causes cell excitation when the bending is toward the kino-cilium (with a resultant increase in the firing frequency of the innervated afferent sensory fibres of the VIII th nerve), and inhibition when away from the kino-cilium (with a resultant decrease in the firing frequency of the innervated afferent sensory fibres of the VIIIth nerve).
Since they are sensitive to acceleration, the otolith organs detect the direction and magnitude of gravity, as well as transient linear accelerations due to movement (for example: tilting the head produces a transient linear acceleration which is reflected in changes in the firing frequency of afferent fibres innervating the sensory cells).
The Functions of the Vestibular System
The information from the vestibular apparatus is used in three ways:
To provide a subjective sensation of movement and/or displacement in 3-dimensional space.
For example, the hair cells of the utricle provide a sensation of head tilt based on the direction in which the cilia are bent by the gravitational force. When the head is tilted in the direction of polarity of a given cell, it depolarizes and excites the afferent fiber. Alternatively, when the head is tilted in the opposite direction, the same cell hyperpolarizes and inhibits the afferent fiber.
To maintain upright body posture (balance). A variety of reflexes of the limb musculature, are mediated by activation of the otolith organs and semicircular canals. When the vestibular system is activated these reflexes result in the stabilization of the head's position in space (vestibulospinal and otolith-spinal reflexes).
To control the muscles that move the eyes, so that in spite of the changes in head position which occur during normal activities such as walking and running, the eyes remain stabilized on a point in space . The eye movements which are generated by activation of the vestibular system are called vestibulo-ocular reflexes and are discussed in greater detail on the next page.
The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
Unblurred vision is only possible if the eye is stationary (fixed) with respect to a viewed object. The vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) is an important mechanism by which unblurred vision is made possible during head movements that are generated during everyday activities such as walking and running. For example, if the head is turned to the left, this reflex causes the eyes to move to the right (i.e. in the opposite direction of the head movement). The oppositely directed eye movement occurs at the same velocity as the head movement, and therefore generates an eye movement which keeps our line of sight fixed on the same point in visual space both during and following the movement.
During short head movements, these compensatory eye movements remain well within the mechanical limits of eye rotation. However during large amplitude head rotation, the eye can reach its limit of excursion long before the head movement is completed. Consequently, during this condition, an additional feature is added to the VOR: when the eye reaches an extreme position, it is rapidly flicked back to a new starting position. From this new starting position, the eye then continues a new cycle of compensatory movement during continuing head movement. The resulting "saw tooth" pattern of slow compensatory/ rapid resetting eye movements (slow phases and quick phases respectively) are referred to as vestibular nystagmus.
"THEY'RE ALL DIABOLICAL BOZOS!", by Charles Carreon
The Dickies are a classic of the LA rock scene who repeatedly opened acts for The Ramones when we lived there during the mid eighties through nineties, especially for the gigs out in the Valley. Their big hit was "Manny, Moe and Jack," yes, as in the three fraternal founders of Pep Boys Auto Parts, a southland tradition. If you ever hear this song, you will notice it sounds a lot like Killer Klowns, but the lyrics are a little more down to earth:
The Dickies in Manny Moe & Jack wrote:
Once you're inside
they won't take you for a ride
they got a good deal for you and your automobile
for the right price
they will sell you fuzzy dice
and leather hand grips for your steering whee-al
Killer Klowns came out on an EP with just three other songs. Two of them are totally forgettable, but "Booby Trap" is a classic, with spooky lyrics that complement the Krazy Karnival Kalliope sound of Killer Klowns with a little Transylvanian Rapture. This song always reminded me of Elvyra, Queen of the Dark, another LA original.
The Dickies in Booby Trap wrote:
Estelle is a vampire ...
She has a novel way of leaving her calling card.
Sing along by the campfire,
She'll leave her mark while stealing your heart.
Forget her lies about not drinking wine,
You love though you're gonna turn blue.
Her madness grows like the thorns on a rose...
I'd wear a cross if I were you.
If you want to date her,
You better get her home before she sees the first light of day,
But sooner or later
The best laid plans of mice and men go astray
She's the kinda girl who'll put your head in a whirl --
She's bound by traditional victorian rules,
The daughter of the devil and the mother of hell,
I'd let her alone if I were you.
Don't look back!
It's a trap!
It's a fact!
It's a booby trap!
Booby trap!
Booby boob-booby trap!
She'll get your love like a hand in a glove,
The fangs of a bat and the heart of a dove...
From hell below to heaven above,
I wouldn't let her in if I were you.
One night we saw The Ramones at the Country Club out in the Valley. No booze 'cause they'd just gotten popped for underage sales, so I went out to the place next door to grab a brew after the Dickies finished their set and before the Ramones came on. The bass player was having a burger in this place. Still wearing his dress from onstage. He looked at me like he thought I was interesting and displayed his left shoulder in a provocative way. I think we chatted a little but I can't remember. Looked like a fun guy, sorta.
TIBETAN TWO-STEP, SHUFFLE & SLIDE, by Charles Carreon
(Perform while wearing seersucker suit and straw boater hat with ukelele accompaniment.)
There's a sucker born every minute
In the good ole USA,
I got here through religion, and here I'm gonna stay.
Just stand right there
Don't scare the crowd,
I've got wisdom teachings, so gather 'round.
It's true you've heard tales of monastery life
How it's filled with depravity and extra wives
But where we gonna go? It's cold outside.
The spiritual path is hard to travel,
But in an antique Rolls
The miles just unravel.
So whaddaya expect a guru to do
But pass the crumpets,
Wouldn't you?
So listen up kids,
Not many can boast
That they told you the truth before they ate your toast
And before you say no, remember first
I'm the best of what's left
And you could do a lot worse!
TIM LEARY, STARFLEET COMMANDER, by Charles Carreon
Timothy Leary famously blew his cranium on mushrooms in an experience that he recites in "Your Brain Is God" as follows:
"Many years ago, on a sunny afternoon in a Cuernavaca garden, I ate seven so-called sacred mushrooms given to me by a scientist from the University of Mexico. During the next five hours, I was whirled through an experience which was, above all and without question, the deepest religious-philosophic experience of my life. And it was totally electric, cellular scientific, cinematographic."
That experience opened the door to a lifelong search for truth, beauty, and the secret of human existence that Leary confidently proclaims to have solved in "Your Brain Is God." Leary embraces the Gaia hypothesis, seeing the biosphere as a thin bubble of self-creating order that generates ever-more complex and capable living organisms. Leary promises human fulfillment for those who master the "Eight Crafts of God," which might be thought of as harmonizing all human energies into a single harmonious spectrum of being. Of course, psychedelic yoga, the practice of one LSD session per week, is inseparable from making progress toward skill in plying God-craft.
Leary's vision has historic content, as all scientific visions do. Think of the Grand Canyon, of the tales of physicists, about worlds infinitely distant in both space and time, visible through powerful telescopes. So also the LSD voyager often experiences the grand sweep of history, recapitulating, as Leary would have it, the long journey of life up from the primeval swamps, through amphibious and reptilian and mammalian life forms, until we became game-playing simians. So for Leary it is clear that we exist, this universe is in process, human life and all life is on a unified trajectory with the general flow of the universe, and within that flow there are optimal and suboptimal outcomes for living beings resulting from our level of consciousness.
Tim is big on what I like to call the tautological nature of the mind, the tendency of the mind to reflect whatever appears within it. Tim talked about having good set and setting. He talked about the outer set, the difference between being at Esalen, or in a seedy motel. He also described the inner set, harder to change, which is simply the mental disposition you've been developing since you were born, probably before. Set and setting condition your experience. Tim’s lifework was creating set and setting for ecstatic experiences, which he thinks you can get the vast majority of the time for the majority of people.
Tim differed in this regard from other LSD therapists, somebody like Stan Grof, who calls LSD a non-specific neural amplifier that allows you to hear your entire subconscious mind sometimes singing, sometimes shrieking, at high volume. A high-dose trip with Grof could be like lancing the pus out of a painfully engorged ego. Unbelievably scary, and very relieving. By contrast, Leary never designed a philosophy of cathartic tripping. He was an ecstatic revelationist who believed the best use of LSD is to induce ego loss. This ego loss is very far from a state of nonexistence. Rather, it is direct connection without mediation to the source of the all-creative universal mind. From the place of egolessness, each individual can practice the eight God crafts.
Set and setting, says Leary, perfectly mirror one's inner state. Dead people live in dingy cities, he says. When you realize, through LSD practice, that you need to be in a vital, wholesome, esthetically pleasing environment, you'll put yourself in one. So you have to be ready to make those changes. He's seen it time and again. People don't want to make those changes, they stop taking their LSD. Leary doesn’t mention that there are economic and other penalties for following the dictates of your increasingly-sensitized God-mind. Penalties that he of course paid when he was in prison for a half a joint. He puts it this way: “To continue to use LSD, you must generate around you an ever-widening ring of ‘tuned-in’ actions. You must hook up your inner power to a life of expanding intelligence.” Most people, the large majority of the 5,000 who undertook LSD yoga with him, “could not harness their activated energies to a more harmonious game.” Tim’s yoga, however initially attractive, appears to produce as few adepts as the old systems. But every guru can get grumpy.
Leary hazards a guess that The Tibetan Book of the Living, the first trip-manual he produced with Richard Alpert, introduced more people to Buddhism than any mainstream publication, while noting that few "Buddhist professionals" would admit this. Leary describes how the popularity of the book became a problem: "The Tibetan Book of the Living , our first venture in updating old neurological-trip maps, was so successful we became alarmed. Thousands of people began using the Tibetan jargon of Bardos, and a definite fad-trend toward Buddhism was developing. To head off this Oriental renaissance, we quickly sought another, less parochial text for describing and guiding brain astronauts. The advantage of the Tao Te Ching was that this Taoist text was almost content-free. There are no pious monks, shaved heads, red hats, yellow hats, orange robes, or specific levels of heaven, purgatory, and hell in the Tao Te Ching."
Leary’s hostility to an “Oriental renaissance” taking root in his psychedelic movement discloses more ambivalence than real hostility, however. Earlier in the book he regards Hinduism as the nearest neighbor of his own philosophy, and lumps Jainism and Buddhism together as “life-affirming philosophies” that will make possible the “Scientific Paganism of the 21st Century”. Then, in the book’s last chapter, “A Holy Mess,” he recalls that the “religious metaphor” for psychedelic experience “boomed.” A “holy mess” resulted from telling people that they were gods, to which “only the young listened,” causing us all to look to Eastern holy men for guidance. As Leary builds up speed, he begins enjoying tossing a little invective. He’s talking about real people that he can remember:
“It worked because it was so seductive. There was a lot to learn back-East – the barefoot grace, the body-control sinuosity of yoga, the wiry elastic mind-trick of seeing everything from the standpoint of eternity. The ultimate cool of fatalism. The junky-hindu grin of pompous, self-satisfied passivity. The comforting babble of mantra nonsense-syllables. New colorful, bizarre Hindu Lord’s Prayers to monkey-mimic.”
Having gotten up some steam, Leary continues:
“Oriental philosophy is profoundly pessimistic, cynical, stoic, and passive. Before modern scientific technology expanded the scope of human perception there was, indeed, no place to go and nothing new. The same old body cycle – circles of birth, aging and death. Stay detached from the outer world, because there is nothing you can do about the relentless leveling entropy of age.”
Here, Leary ascribes the dead-end view of earthly life that is characteristic of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy to a lack of scientific insight. Examining the other side of the tautological equation may reveal another truth, however – that the adoption of a dead-end view of earthly life stifles the development of scientific insight. Either way, of course, the Orientalist view that one should “stop the world and get off” seems ill-adapted to humanity’s future, which places us in control of spaceship earth, in control of our genetic future, and powerfully in need of a vision that accommodates wholesome, unlimited growth.
UBIK: PHIL DICK'S ANSWER TO DEATH AFTER LIFE, by Charles Carreon
Joe Chip has a problem. He went to the moon with his boss, and got killed in a terrorist bomb attack. Or his boss was killed. He’s not sure, but either way, it’s a problem. It’s 1992 in a world a little different from ours. It’s still earth, and earth is still populated by people. But there are lots of psychics on the planet now, and the moon is colonized.
If Joe himself is dead, he must be in cold-pack in a Swiss half-life “moratorium,” where dead people can spend their half-life in a dreamlike space, and occasionally visit with relatives through a sort of psychic intercom. It’s a common thing to have relatives in cold-pack, and Joe’s boss, Glen Runciter, still meets to discuss business matters with his lovely dead wife Ella, who half-lives in the exclusive Beloved Brethren Moratorium, a Swiss facility that is supposed to be among the best. Ella Runciter died in her twenties, but Glen Runciter thinks so highly of her that he has never considered remarrying, despite his wealth.
Runciter Associates is a psychic security company, and Joe Chip is Glen Runciter’s top man. Although Joe was always broke, his life wasn’t entirely crazy until he met his new girlfriend, Pat Conley. Everything went crazy shortly after Joe introduced Pat to Runciter. Although both Joe and G.G. Ashwood, a renowned psychic talent scout, agreed that Pat had a powerful psychic talent, Runciter questioned whether he should even hire Pat, because he usually hired “inertials,” who block the psychic talents of “precogs” and “teeps” hired by Runciter’s nemesis, the Hollis organization of criminal psychics. But Pat wasn’t a psi-blocker. She displayed a new type of talent, the ability to change the future, not just foresee it. She could send people on alternative reality trips, to places a lot like the present, but with important differences.
Runciter had always refused to take jobs on the moon because of the security risks inherent in being away from earth, far from help. However, ever the businessman, he broke his rule to pick up a big contract job working for Stanton Mick, a plum client Runciter was eager to sign up for a very fat fee. Stanton Mick had told Runciter he needed immediate, massive assistance to block the efforts of a band of psychic spies who were invading the privacy of his lunar planned community. But shortly after Runciter and his inertials arrived, Mick came to meet Runciter in a conference room. Mick acted and talked strangely in a metallic voice in a grandstanding manner, setting everyone on edge. Slowly, it dawned on Runciter and Joe Chip that this wasn’t Mick; rather, it was an android made in his image. Alas, they didn’t figure this out until the android floated off the floor to gain destructive altitude, and an instant later, detonated.
Immediately after discovering that the blast had apparently killed Runciter, Joe Chip assumed control of Runciter Associates. He chartered a rocket and flew the survivors to Switzerland with Runciter’s body, where they booked him into the Beloved Brethren Moratorium, and tried to set up a half-life session. But Runciter wouldn’t revive into half-life, and Joe experienced the pain of losing his father figure.
After Runciter’s death Joe struggles to run the company, but he has some impediments. Like Philip K. Dick, Joe Chip finds himself habitually broke, and regularly abused by the his coin-op apartment door, which won’t let him out without depositing a poscred, and makes nasty remarks when he loses his temper. Sometimes he has to call friends to come by and visit, and pay to get in. Then he can borrow money from them to get himself out. But these problems are small, because one by one Joe’s friends are dying, turning into mummified ragbags of bone and hair. This horrific transformation occurs within a few hours after each individual quietly separates themselves from the group, seeking solitude and stillness.
Not only are Joe’s friends turning into mummies, all mechanical objects, except his apartment front door, are regressing to older models and falling apart. His TV turns into an old tube radio. The elevator in his building regressed from a modern self-serve box to a tiny lift with an accordion steel grate, and seemed to silently suggest: “Take the stairs.” Joe’s car turns into an old car, and even as he negotiates to sell it, the car ages into an even older model of jalopy that is virtually worthless. When he goes to the airport, all he can find to fly is an old biplane.
Due to a series of messages from Runciter that mysteriously appear on bathroom walls and elsewhere, Joe Chip learns that he is probably dead and merely half-living in the Beloved Brethren Moratorium, where Ella Runciter is also in half-life. To reverse the decay of all forms, and prevent himself from turning into a mummy, Runciter tells Joe to get UBIK in the aerosol can. Unfortunately, every time Joe is close to getting a can of aerosol-spray UBIK, he finds only old-fashioned, regressed versions of UBIK that contain toxic ingredients, or in one case, a substantial quantity of pure gold suspended in mineral oil. Fortunately, this last form of UBIK is worth a lot of money in the half-life realm, and Joe is able to trade it for a plane flight for Demoines, Iowa, where Runciter’s funeral is happening. Joe is still not sure that he is dead, so he of course wants to attend Runciter’s funeral.
After Runciter’s funeral, one by one, Joe’s friends just keep disappearing, hiding themselves from their friends so they can turn into psychic tumbleweeds and blow away into the void. The only one who isn’t dying is Pat Conley, Joe’s strange girlfriend. She thinks she’s doing the whole weird trip with her powers, thinks she’s immune from the death that’s stalking him, and drenches Joe with passive-aggressive cruelty while observing Joe’s painful effort to just go to his room and die. But Joe makes it to his room, where Runciter is waiting for him with a can of UBIK aerosol:
“Opening a drawer on the vanity table, he hastily brought out a spray can with bright stripes, balloons and lettering glorifying its shiny surfaces. ‘Ubik,’ Runciter said, he shook the can mightily, then stood before Joe, aiming it at him. ‘Don’t thank me for this,’ he said, and sprayed prolongedly left and right; the air flickered and shimmered, as if bright particles of light had been released, as if the sun’s energy sparkled here in this worn-out elderly hotel room.”
Shortly after this rejuvenating Ubik experience, Joe meets his true antagonist – Jory, a malevolent psychic juvenile delinquent who haunts the moratorium’s half-life realm. Jory is a projective psychotic who generates deceptive “realities” that seduce half-life dwellers into unreal realms and consumes the dregs of their half-life vitality. Dick’s description of Jory’s psychic attack on Joe Chip is bluntly physical and eerily frightening:
“Snarling, Jory bit him. The great shovel teeth fastened deep into Joe’s right hand. They hung on as, meanwhile, Jory raised his head, lifting Joe’s hand with his jaw; Jory stared at him with unwinking eyes, snoring wetly as he tried to close his jaws. The teeth sank deeper and Joe felt the pain of it throughout him. He’s eating me, he realized. ‘You can’t,’ he said aloud; he hit Jory on the snout, punching again and again.”
Shortly after the Jory encounter, from which Joe barely escapes with his life, he sees a pretty girl going down the street, and in a desperate hope to have one last pleasant moment, he strikes up a conversation with her and asks her to dinner. You can almost see Phil Dick counting his Dexedrine pills, getting hungry for a burger after days of speeding and typing, and figuring out he’d better finish this story up quick, before he consumes the last of his inspiration. The story picks up pace immediately after the unexpected encounter with the girl, which leads to the hasty revelation that she is Runciter’s dead wife. Ella Runciter tells Joe that his friends have been killed by Jory, but that, good news – he’s been granted a perpetual supply of UBIK. She explains to him that an aerosol can of UBIK is actually “A portable negative ionizer, with a self-contained, high-voltage, low-amp unit powered by a peak-gain helium battery of 25kv. The negative ions are given a counter-clockwise spin by a radically biased acceleration chamber, which creates a centripital tendency to them so that they cohere rather than dissipate.” UBIK, at 212 (Vintage 1991).
Immortality in a spray can? What else would we expect from Phil Dick?
"VEE HAVE VEYS OF MAKING YOU LOVE SENTIENT BEINGS" -- NAZI METHODS OF INDUCING "BODHICITTA"
by Tara and Charles Carreon
"Afterward we watched a documentary of animals being tested in labs, kittens being injected with flea spray, monkeys struggling against restraints while medical researchers smashed their skulls with a giant cow puncher as a way to study head trauma. After that there was a movie about lambs being slaughtered."
-- "The Buddha From Brooklyn," by Martha Sherrill
If you wouldn't do it to your kid, why do it to yourself? Jetsunma was using these insanely violent images to induce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ("PTSD"). According to the American Psychiatric Association, "psychological damage ... can result from experiencing, witnessing, or participating in an overwhelmingly traumatic event."
There are two types of horrible events that can cause PTSD when witnessed:
1. Seeing another person violently killed or injured;
2. Unexpectedly seeing a dead body or body parts.
Dr. Manaan Kar Ray
Jetsunma used this Nazi mind control trick to isolate her prey from sources of support. As the APA says, one of the symptoms is "Avoidance [which causes] the person [to] avoid close emotional ties with family, colleagues, and friends."
The symptoms of avoidance may also create a stunned mental state, much-desired by spiritual seekers, who hate emotions and crave a peaceful mental state. The APA describes this symptom of avoidance resulting from witnessing trauma: "At first, the person feels numb, has diminished emotions, and can complete only routine, mechanical activities. Later, when reexperiencing the event, the individual may alternate between the flood of emotions caused by reexperiencing and the inability to feel or express emotions at all."
Dechen, whom Jetsunma immediately identified as afflicted with low self esteem, was predisposed to PTSD by identified risk factors:
"The psychological history of a person may include risk factors for developing PTSD after a traumatic event:
• Borderline personality and/or dependent personality disorders;
• Low self-esteem;
• Neuroticism;
• Pre-existing negative beliefs;
• Previous trauma.
"People with borderline personality disorder often have a history of physical and/or sexual abuse, neglect, hostile conflict, and parental loss or separation. Dependent personality disorder is characterized by low self-esteem, fear of separation, and the excessive need to be cared for by others. All of these features may predispose someone for PTSD after experiencing a traumatic event."
According to Dr. Ray, "People who have experienced previous trauma(s) are at risk for developing PTSD. Repeated exposure to trauma causes hyperactive release of stress hormones, which may be instrumental in creating symptoms of PTSD." Dechen was in a perfect condition for being thrown into acute PTSD after the automobile accident. Setting up the tribunal in the dark house, dressing in black leather, assaulting her victims in front of an audience of sycophants: it is a textbook case of brutalizing a vulnerable person into mental hell.
Dechen was forced to witness the brutalizing of her monk-boyfriend, and also to directly experience additional trauma. The types of directly experienced traumas that are known to cause PTSD are:
1. Combat;
2. Kidnapping;
3. Natural disasters (e.g., fire, tornado, earthquake);
4. Catastrophic accident (e.g., auto, airplane, mining);
5. Violent sexual assault;
6. Violent physical assault.
Dechen had just been in a car crash, in which she suffered severe concussions and cranial lacerations requiring stitches (number 4). She was effectively kidnapped and abandoned by her mush-brained mother, who obediently delivered her directly from the hospital into Jetsunma's clutches (number 2). Jetsunma shows up dressed in combat gear, black leather (evoking number 1). She then subjects Dechen to a violent physical assault (number 6). Hey, four out of six ain't bad.
After these traumatizing events, Dechen was subjected to social ostracism, forced to do only menial tasks like toilet cleaning and floor scrubbing, required to pray many rounds of penance (Vajrasattva), and otherwise kept in a traumatized state.
Of course, all the monks and nuns who participated in this horror show were also being given a booster shot of trauma for themselves. These repeat inoculations of trauma help maintain the submissive character that is so desirable in a devotee. Still capable of performing routine activities, they remain productive. Alienated from their families, they are unlikely to break away from the group. Stifled in their emotions, they are unlikely to develop distracting relationships that diminish their dedication to the guru. Well-developed devotees of course enjoy imbibing another dose of trauma, which is considered good discipline. The Christian flagellants, Hindu faqirs, and Tibetan ascetics raised the self-administration of trauma to the level of high art. But Jetsunma's muscled celibates did not intend to be outdone. Devotees of pain are like no others.
THE BUDDHA FROM BROOKLYN: THE GREAT BLESSING, by Martha Sherrill
copyright 2000 by Martha Sherrill
You have to see through the luster of all the things you play with. You have to take the inner posture of leaving the party. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Dechen borrowed her mother's white minivan the next morning and drove to the town house in Darnestown where the Monk was living with five other monks. She parked on the street and went inside. "I'm going to see Khenpo," she told the Monk, "and I think you should come, too."
On the drive together there were long periods of silence. When directly confronted on the phone, Dechen had told Alana about the affair. And when Dechen insisted that she had not "broken her vows"--meaning her root vows--Alana had accused her of obnoxious hairsplitting. "You were together alone on a bed in a hotel, and you say you didn't break your vows?" There were several rounds of this until Alana simply said, "I can't talk to you anymore," and hung up. Dechen then called the Monk and told him what happened.
"You told Alana?" he said, in horror.
But later that night Alana called again to say that a meeting with Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso had been scheduled for noon the following day and that Jetsunma would see her in the evening. Nobody had suggested that Dechen bring the Monk along. That was her idea.
The drive to the temple seemed very long, and dreadful. Now she saw that it was a mistake not to have confessed. This was the worst possible outcome -- to be found out by Alana and dragged before Khenpo, the venerable Tibetan scholar. She had memories of India, of having gone before the very same man once before with news like this. The irony staggered her.
Dechen and the Monk walked inside the temple together and found Khenpo upstairs, in a suite of rooms he always used when visiting. He ushered them inside and sat down on a purple sofa in his bedroom. Khenpo was a short man with a small mustache and a perfectly round head. He was younger than most Tibetan scholars -- still in his fifties -- and while he seemed easygoing and simple, he was also known for having one of the best minds in the Nyingma school. There didn't seem to be an esoteric point that he couldn't elucidate or a question he didn't have an answer for. More than anyone, the Monk had been awestruck by Khenpo's intellect and wisdom, by his subtlety and clarity. The Monk had hoped to stay by Khenpo's side and keep working on translations with the scholar. As a teacher he was revered in both the United States and India, where he ran the monastery in Bylakuppe and the large university as well. For the last couple of years he'd been coming with greater frequency to Poolesville to give teachings and instruction. For a while now the Monk had suspected that Khenpo's trips to KPC were designed to keep Penor Rinpoche informed of the students' progress there, and--in light of some of the New Age overtones to Jetsunma's teachings--make sure that her students were also offered something more traditional.
Dechen sat at Khenpo's feet. The Monk sat farther behind, in a display of great humility and modesty. Khenpo seemed to want no further details--he'd already heard enough from either Jetsunma or Alana--and launched immediately into an angry diatribe. His face looked pained.
"How could you do this?" he said to the Monk. "You've been a monk for twelve years! . . . You may have some realization, but without moral discipline you have nothing."
"And you!" he said to Dechen. "You knew! You knew you needed to confess!" She looked back at the Monk. He said nothing.
Khenpo explained that it was true: their root vows had not been broken. They had broken a branch vow, which would now remain forever broken. But he was clearly appalled. "The hiding! The secrecy!" If they had come forward and confessed, the negative karma could have been purified. But because they didn't come forward and were found out after a confrontation, the vow would forever be broken, and forever unpurified.
Dechen listened very hard for instructions and advice from Khenpo during the twenty-minute meeting. "Do Vajrasattva practices," he finally said, but he didn't suggest an amount. They could try to purify the karma, but, basically, "Nothing can be done at this point."
Driving home, Dechen said, "I won't say I told you so."
"Good, " said the Monk. They said nothing else.
Dechen didn't mention the meeting she had scheduled that evening with Jetsunma. She assumed it would be one on one, and assumed she'd be reamed out. The Monk came from another school of Tibetan Buddhism, and it wasn't really Jetsunma's place to reprimand him. He had already pondered this himself. Technically, Khenpo was the only person in Poolesville--besides perhaps Alana-who should ever know what had happened between the Monk and Dechen. When vows were broken it was a private matter. If it became public it would be an insult to Khenpo, suggesting that his advice alone wasn't enough--and showing a lack of respect for his ability to handle the situation properly.
Still, the Monk had a bad feeling about this vow breakage. He had a feeling it wasn't going to remain a private matter. Jetsunma didn't seem to care about doing things in a traditional way. And Poolesville wasn't like the other Dharma centers; it didn't feel like the other Dharma centers. It was the kind of place where anything could happen.
After she dropped the Monk at the town house, Dechen began the drive back to her mother's. She felt small behind the wheel of the lumbering minivan, and the burgundy robes felt heavy on her skin, a demanding weight that engulfed her small body. She drove on Quince Orchard Road and began thinking about whether she should remain in Poolesville. But she worried. If she couldn't make it as a nun at Kunzang Palyul Choling, the largest concentration of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in America, where could she?
The sky was dark, the color of fresh wet concrete. It was about two o'clock on the afternoon of February 9, 1996. She made the left-hand turn onto Longdraft Road and never noticed the small beige car in the oncoming lane. It was going fifty miles per hour. When the two vehicles collided, the minivan was totaled. So was the other car -- its front end was flattened up to the windshield.
Dechen was dizzy when she squeezed out of the minivan, and she brushed the broken glass off her robes. She stepped over to the small beige car. "Are you okay? Are you okay?" she asked. The driver was a middle-aged blond woman in a business suit. She looked dazed. "I can't really feel my leg," the driver said. Dechen stood next to the car and worried--until other cars began to stop and their drivers told Dechen to get back into the minivan. Her face was covered in blood. When the paramedics came, they put her in a neck brace and carried her to the ambulance, where the driver of the other car was already stretched out. Together they were taken to Shady Grove Hospital in Gaithersburg. The driver of the car had a sprained leg and a bruise on her shoulder. Dechen had lacerations of the face and head from the broken windshield glass--she had forgotten to wear a seat belt--and after receiving fourteen stitches and being given Vicodin for pain, she was told that she was still in shock and needed to rest.
Sherab and Dawa arrived at the hospital--they'd driven by Quince Orchard Road and recognized the crushed white minivan as Ayla Meurer's. At first the two nuns assumed that Ayla had been in an accident, but once they realized that it was Dechen who'd been driving -- and that she was going to be okay -- both nuns turned critical. "How could you get in a car accident?" they asked her. It was more evidence of the negative karma that Dechen had been accumulating lately. They immediately called Alana from Dawa's cell phone. Dawa spoke with Alana for a moment, then handed the phone to Dechen.
Alana's voice was cold and stern. "Don't think that this means you can get out of tonight's meeting," she said quickly. "Jetsunma says you aren't hurt that badly."
By the time Ayla arrived at the hospital, her daughter was being released. As they drove, Dechen felt her shame and despair drifting into numbness. Scattered around her face and short, dark hair were shaved marks and cuts, and the thread of the stitches. " I already heard that you're fine," Ayla said, "so I can say that I'm really mad at you. How could you break your vows?"
Ayla handed Dechen a folded bundle of yellow robes -- the robes the ordained wore for ceremonial and special occasions. She'd been called by Alana and instructed to get her daughter out of the hospital, give her the yellow robes, and take her directly to Ani Estates. There was going to be a meeting. In the car with her mother, Dechen stared straight ahead at the road. A meeting. She felt nothing. She never got hysterical when unexpected things happened like this. Her reaction was always delayed. And, anyway, the last thing she was going to do was cry.
"You know," Ayla said as she dropped Dechen off, "you're in serious trouble."
It was about four-thirty when Dechen arrived at Ani Estates, the large, beige stucco-and-wood tract house on Spates Hill Road where five nuns--Dawa, Dara, Aileen, Alana, and Dorje--lived. Dechen walked into the house alone and saw that activity had already begun. Several nuns were in the kitchen washing large offering bowls. Atara was standing in the middle of the living room, repeating Jetsunma's instructions. "Jetsunma says there should be chairs lined up in here, like this," she was saying. "And Jetsunma says there should be an offering out for the ordained" -- so pretzels and chips and other refreshments were to be set out. The table in the dining room was to be removed, "and under here," where the dining room table was, "Jetsunma says there should be two chairs."
Dechen had been inside the house many times, for all kinds of reasons. She'd come frequently to borrow movies there from Aileen's video library. She'd exercised on the Health Rider. She'd helped with some Tibetan translations there. She'd even lived there for a week once, when she had no other place to live--and she had cleaned the house to make money. When Jetsunma and Sangye got together, their Consort Engagement Party had been there. And over the summer Dechen had attended the meeting of the ordained at Ani Estates where everyone was asked to sign a paper relieving the temple of any responsibility for taking care of them. But never had Dechen--one of the mousiest of the nuns -- been the center of any attention like this. She sat on the floor in the corner and watched the preparations. She watched Atara stage- direct and everybody follow her orders. She noticed that the vertical blinds were drawn.
The house grew darker as night fell. As the monks and nuns began to trickle in, it was clear most of them had very little idea of why they had been called to Ani Estates. The meeting was mandatory for all ordained. Only Sangye Dorje--later admitting that he had a sense of what might transpire--quickly volunteered to take the prayer shift and remain at the temple. As the rest of the nuns and monks arrived, they saw a table of food and began picking at the snacks. Dechen had moved to a spot on the carpeted stairs that overlooked the room and tried to keep her head down. She was feeling a bit woozy. She kept touching the stitches on the top of her head, and it was weird that they didn't hurt. One cut on the left side of her face kept tickling her. She overheard whispers among the monks--they were always the most clueless. "What's going on? Do you know?"
The Monk was among the last to arrive. He came with Konchog and was told to sit away from Dechen until the meeting began and not to speak with her. He sat on the floor in the front hallway and furtively looked up to the stairs, trying to catch Dechen's eye. She only looked away.
Then Atara led them to the dining room and told them to sit on the chairs under the lights. Dechen found herself looking around the room, and at the monks and nuns in the chairs lined up facing her. One by one she looked at their faces. She had known many of them a decade, since she was seventeen. She had sat beside them, prayed beside them, learned to prostrate beside them, been ordained beside them. It felt like they'd been through the wars together. They'd followed the voice of Jeremiah, made the move to Poolesville, enthroned their lama, watched Michael's leaving, built the stupa garden, and seen Jetsunma marry Karl. They'd done all-night prayer rounders together, floated through the exquisitely beautiful White Tara retreat and the amazing Rinchen Ter Dzod, and sat together through last summer's Nam Chu empowerments. They'd kept a twenty-four-hour prayer vigil going, without a break, since it started in the dark basement of the little brick house in Kensington ten years before.
Here was the largest collection of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in America. They were kind people, good people. Dechen admired so many of them, for wanting to dedicate their lives to something good, for building such a beautiful Dharma center. For trying to live by their ideals.
A broken vow wasn't a small matter. The results would be profound and long-lasting. The bad karma would spill inevitably into the path of everyone in Poolesville and create obstacles. It would cause ripples that would produce more suffering. Dechen and the Monk had not just betrayed themselves and their own Buddha nature but defied the guru and hurt the entire sangha. Why hadn't Dechen been able to see that all along? Why hadn't she come forward months ago?
Most of the lights in the house were dimmed. And the lights in the living room were shut off. Only the lights over Dechen and the Monk were kept brightly lit. Alana was wearing burgundy robes and stood in the dining room before her fellow ordained.
"There has been a vow breakage," she said.
The room became utterly quiet. "Nobody is ever to speak of what happens here tonight. And remember, everything you see is compassionate activity." Alana looked squarely at the Monk. "You are not to speak--either of you--or defend yourselves in any way."
Some headlights flashed behind the windowpane in the front door. Dechen saw that Jetsunma had arrived. The front door flew open, and the room of ordained rose to their feet. Jetsunma quickly pulled off her black overcoat in the foyer and tossed it to Atara. Underneath she was dressed entirely in black, too-black wool and black leather.
"You fool!" she shouted at the Monk, as she ran toward him, then struck him hard on the head with her open hand. The Monk lost his footing and staggered momentarily. When his balance was regained, he realized that his wire-rimmed glasses had been knocked to the floor and he couldn't see.
Jetsunma studied him briefly. With his glasses off the Monk looked like a mole-soft and blind. "Sit down!" she yelled. The Monk and Dechen began to drop onto the seats of their chairs, and Jetsunma yelled again. "No! Sit on the floor! You don't deserve to sit on the same level as these other ordained!"
Dechen sat on her knees. The Monk sat cross-legged on the ground, with the large lights swinging overhead. "I brought you into our hearts!" Jetsunma yelled at him, then bent down to punch the Monk again hard on the side of the face. "We took you into our homes! And this is how you repay our kindness? I should throw you through that sliding glass door but you don't have the merit."
The ordained were quiet, barely moving in their chairs. Dechen looked out into the living room; in the shadows she could see the outlines of a few nuns who were holding their stomachs. One monk had his hand over his mouth.
"This is a stain on all of us--and has harmed all ordained forever." Jetsunma yelled, continuing to punctuate her comments with blows to the Monk's head. "This has shortened my life, the lives of our sangha, and made it harder for all future ordained to keep their vows. And it's shortened their lives as well. They worked so hard to keep their vows purely, and now you've made it so hard!"
Dechen looked up again and heard Tashi sobbing.
Jetsunma turned to face the little nun. Dechen stared up at her. "And you!" she yelled. She struck Dechen across the side of her head with the heel of her hand, not far from a few stitches. "I've taken you into my heart! I've done everything I could for you!" She slapped her again on the forehead." There are words for women like you, but I won't use them!" she yelled. "It disgusts me to see you in those robes. It disgusts me to see your face!"
Dechen looked up into Jetsunma's face and never broke her gaze. Jetsunma had a look that Dechen never remembered seeing before. She was almost. . . smiling. But it wasn't a smirk as much as a leer. "What you said happened to you in India before, what you told me," Jetsunma shouted, "that isn't what really happened, is it? You lied to me." She backhanded Dechen again.
Jetsunma began listing instructions for Dechen to follow. The young nun felt herself focusing on all of Jetsunma 's words, all her advice and instructions, hoping to remember every moment. Dechen was never to look at or speak to the Monk again. She was to put her yellow robes on her altar and prostrate to them every day. She needed to get a job and payoff all of her debts. She had to stop "leaning on" the other ordained. She needed to do one hundred thousand Vajrasattva practices, but Jetsunma wasn't sure that was enough. As a punishment, she and the Monk were going to clean the temple every day--the bathrooms, the floors, the kitchen. And every moment that Dechen wasn't either cleaning or working to pay off her debts, she was to be practicing. As for reading or TV or any other "enjoyments," there were to be no more than four hours per week. She talked about how little remorse Dechen had. "You have never done a single thing that I have ever told you to do," Jetsunma yelled angrily, "so I have no confidence that you'll do it now."
Dechen followed her lama's eyes. She soaked up her lama's words. These were blessings, she told herself. Each word was a great blessing. Each slap and slug, a great, great blessing. Dechen tried to be as submissive as she could be and tried to find a posture of accepting all the blessings as they came her way. This wrathful display--as it was called--would only help to purify any negative karma that had been created by her contact with the Monk.
The Monk had been very still, but he turned slightly to see if Dechen was okay. She was cowering. She was humiliating herself: He wanted to yell at her, "Get up! Get up!"
Jetsunma turned to him again. "You may keep your robes but not wear them," she said, "and if you were in better health, I'd make you clean every toilet at the temple eighteen times a day with a toothbrush." She pointed to the crowd in the chairs. "Their toilets!"
Dechen was to clean toilets, too, she said. "I can't tell you not to come to teachings, but if you do, sit behind an umbrella or something. I don't want to see your face. . . . And I've talked to Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso about this--you may not keep your robes!"
At this Jetsunma walked out. The room remained perfectly still. Alana returned to center stage. She announced that Jetsunma wanted the ordained to tell Dechen and the Monk how this evening had made them feel--sharing their anger and outrage would help Dechen and the Monk "with their remorse."
Ani Rene spoke first and addressed her comments to the Monk, with whom she had studied. "Driving in the car with you one time," she said, "you criticized some lamas and poisoned my mind with gossip!" she said, shaking with rage. "I felt sick for an hour, and I could have just ripped you apart. " Tashi was so overcome with emotion that he could barely get the words out. He was horrified by what had happened, particularly by the fact that Jetsunma's life would now be shortened. Then came Konchog, the young monk who did press relations for the temple and who was a scholar. He also addressed his remarks to his friend, his housemate, his fellow monk. "I had so much faith in you, " he said, fighting back tears. "You kept your vows for so long. And you talked about how the Dharma texts were more important than Jetsunma, and you almost turned my mind away from my teacher."
The nuns of Ani Farms each spoke to Dechen. Palchen said that Dechen needed to face her total irresponsibility and lack of thought for anyone but herself. Alexandra mentioned Dechen's thoughtlessness. She had never contemplated how her breakages would affect anybody but herself. Sherab was the angriest. "You're always rebellious, and everything has to be Dechen's way!" she yelled. Another nun talked about how she'd helped Dechen out when she broke her vows last time, how supportive she'd felt. This was different. "Countless sentient beings," she said, "will be hurt because of this."
But most of the comments were directed at the Monk, and they continued for forty-five minutes after Jetsunma's departure. In the following ten days there were two more meetings--where Dechen and the Monk were required to confess the details of their affair to the entire ordained sangha. At one point, as Dechen tried to give an account of exactly what had transpired between them sexually, the Monk began shouting; "Shut up! Shut up! It's none of their fucking business!" And it was this attitude, his indignation and pride, which seemed to fuel the anger of his peers. One by one in all three meetings, the ordained told the Monk how they really felt about him, how egotistical he was, how deluded, how he lorded his knowledge of Tibetan and all his studies and retreats and expertise in Tibetan Buddhism over everybody and made them feel bad, how he'd tried, with all his talk of tradition and other teachers and other Dharma centers, to turn them against their lama. He had taken many empowerments, but he'd somehow missed the boat.
The Monk didn't know these people well--he had been in Poolesville only eight months--and it shocked him that they would have such intense hatred for him. It also surprised him that Jetsunma should feel so strongly--to scream at him, and slug him, to threaten to throw him through the sliding glass door. He had refused to give her instruction in some high teachings, and he'd ignored what he felt had been her romantic advances: was that the explanation for her rage? But what had he done to the rest of these people to make them so angry? The attacks on his character were personal, and brutal. This is like something out of the Spanish Inquisition, he was thinking. He knew what Jetsunma would say, of course, that to strike a student was to give him a great blessing. There was a long tradition of teachers hitting students in Tibetan Buddhism. He had heard that in Tibet students were sometimes beaten unconscious with logs and clubs. Penor Rinpoche himself, the legend went, had cured one of his students of cancer by beating him to a bloody pulp--then collapsed outside on the grass and sobbed. But hitting a student in this country, wasn't that a great risk? Was this monastery life in Tibetan Buddhist America?
In the following weeks Dechen went overboard to live by Jetsunma's edicts and purify herself. She spent two or three hours a day cleaning the bathrooms or floors or whatever Rinchen told her to do. She did her Vajrasattva. She went to the bank, consolidated her debt. With credit cards, back-tithing. and what she owed Palchen in rent, the total came to four thousand dollars. She found a job right away, as a secretary in a publishing house. And since Jetsunma didn't want to see Dechen's face, she listened to her lama's teachings on Wednesday nights while scrubbing the solarium floor. She was largely shunned by the sangha but felt soothed by her mother.
They stayed up late at night, talking about how Dechen had come to veer off her intended path, how she felt dried up spiritually--and did not trust the words of her lama. Ayla Meurer spent hours with her daughter after the night at Ani Estates. going over every detail of the evening, and every word Jetsunma had spoken. Ayla admitted that she'd had difficult times at KPC over the years, too. Michael Burroughs had said and done many things to hurt her. She'd sometimes felt rejected and ignored by the inner circle. But to her Jetsunma was like Jesus Christ, a miraculous savior of the entire planet. And over the years she had felt great blessings flow from Jetsunma and she'd been able to find her own path, her own way of studying Tibetan Buddhism. She encouraged Dechen to find her way, too.
Dechen spoke a great deal with Ani Catharine Anastasia, her assigned mentor in the ordained community. Catharine Anastasia helped her see that the Monk was not her friend and had never truly cared about her; he'd only planted poison in her mind. He'd come into her life and turned her against the guru, turned her against Poolesville. In a moment of guilt and renunciate fervor, Dechen threw out all the robes that she wore while she had been with him, and she returned all the Tibetan texts and manuscripts he had given her.
The loss of her robes was too much even to consider. If Dechen wasn't an ani anymore, who was she? As Jetsunma instructed, she put the folded robes on her altar and prostrated to them not just three times a day, as Jetsunma had instructed, but nine. She continued to keep her vows assiduously, even after Alana made a point of reminding her several times that she was no longer a nun, and Sherab left an angry voice mail for her when she wore burgundy jeans and a burgundy T-shirt to clean the temple. "How dare you wear burgundy!" Sherab said. "You aren't a nun anymore. " But Dechen was determined to earn her robes back, and Ayla encouraged her. She told her daughter that anything was possible, if she paid back her debts, lived responsibly, practiced Vajrasattva, and kept practicing and practicing. In every spare moment of the day, Dechen did. "I was very remorseful and sad," she said later, "but I was trying to get myself together."
When Chris Finney called her one day in late February, Dechen was surprised to hear her cheerful voice. It seemed like a long time since anybody from the temple had called her--and sounded friendly. Chris had a small business making prayer beads that were sold in the temple gift shop, and she was calling to offer Dechen her supplies. She could make some decent money stringing the malas, and Chris said she knew that Dechen probably needed it.
"You're not making malas anymore?" Dechen asked.
"I'm not coming to Poolesville anymore," said Chris.
"You aren't?' Dechen asked. This seemed unimaginable. Chris was one of the founding members--one of the First Wavers.
"No, " Chris said, and then she mentioned something about seeing a lama in Frederick, Maryland, now. "We're just going on with our life in another direction."
Dechen didn't inquire further and, frankly, didn't want to know any more. The repercussions of Chris's departure were too horrible to think about. Dechen would rather break her vows a hundred more times than break samaya.
Chris didn't offer any explanations, either. She just made plans to give Dechen all her beads and wire and wire cutters. The truth was, through the Dharma grapevine she had heard about the night at Ani Estates and was wondering how Dechen was holding up. News can travel fast in a temple when something unusual happens. But when Chris asked Dechen how she was doing, she said, "Great! I'm doing great."
And that was truly how Dechen felt. Her mother was being kind and helpful. Dechen was paying off her debts. She liked her new job at the publishing house. Her boss, a woman, was supportive. "You don't know what you're worth, do you?" she said. And Dechen was already looking at the classified ads--to see if she could afford a studio apartment in Gaithersburg.
A few nights later Dechen was dusting the Guru Rinpoche altar in the prayer room when the sangha gathered in the Dharma room for a teaching from Jetsunma. Dechen had moved into the solarium to begin cleaning tables when she heard Jetsunma's voice. "If you could sample Your teacher's mindstream," she said, "if you could sample the nectar of what your teacher actually has to give you . . . it is contained within this teaching."
Dechen could hear Jetsunma 's voice almost too clearly, coming from a loudspeaker in the kitchen. "I hope that all my students who intend to remain my students are here tonight," she said, "and those who are not here, I'm afraid I'm sorry to say that it may be due to causes having been created that make it not possible or not easy for you to receive what comes directly from the mind and the intention of your teacher."
She began to read a poem she'd written to the sangha, which she explained had been inspired by the activities of two of her students. It was called "War Cry:"
Bitch,
I have seen you.
I have heard your voice.
I have smelt your smell.
And died with you.
I know your name. . .
Samsara.
Bitch, whore,
Whatever garment you wear
I will know you.
Your smile is no seduction
You will appear
In lovely forms,
Seductive, caressing, singing songs
Filled with promises.
It is then I will appear
Far more beautiful than you
Adorned with garments
Of pure aspiration
Resplendent with gold and gems
Of pure bliss.
From my mouth will come
The ambrosia of Dharma
And from your
Grasping arms
I will steal my children away,
Like a thief
In the night. . .
And lead them to
Paradise.
Dechen felt herself sinking to the floor. She put her hands over her face. She felt her breath stop. More than the night at Ani Estates, more than anything, this poem hurt her, like a knife in her stomach.
Be warned,
Whore-mother of suffering,
I am coming.
I am relentless!
Not one of my children
Will I abandon to you.
I will meet you on
Every hill and mountain.
In every ocean, in every country.
In the sky, in the six realms,
In form and formless lands,
No hell or heaven will
Hide you from me.
I will never stop.
Like a tigress
I will come,
Mouth dripping with blood,
Claws extended.
I will come and slay you,
I will rip you apart
Cut up, shredded,
Sliced and diced,
No one will know
Which part to call Samsara.
I will finish you.
You will not enslave my children.
Then I will shed tears
To heal you.
I will scoop you up
In my arms,
Tenderly I will hold
Your head.
My eyes will shine
Wisdom and compassion upon you.
My body will be your home.
My speech will sing lullabies
Of pure virtue.
Then you will remember
You are my child too.
Yes, you too.
Then, beloved child
Who is never separate from me,
We will depart together.
We will be in Paradise.
Jetsunma began explaining the poem, line by line. Of course, it wasn't literally about two students, it was about the entire sangha, and it was about samsara. "Whore indicates an awareness that samsara is completely unwholesome," she said. "Samsara is just simply filled with degradation and unwholesomeness, with shit and garbage. There is nothing here but garbage, and so whore is a word that indicates the complete unwholesomeness of it."
She kept reading.
I will steal my children away;
"Skillful means are indicated here," Jetsunma said. "The bodhisattva will come like a thief in the night. And I'll tell you that there have been many times that I have stretched the truth, quite a bit, in order to hook sentient beings, that I have elaborated in order to hook sentient beings, that I have put on my chicken suit and danced in order to hook sentient beings, and I know that if I have done that, my humble self, then I know that the great bodhisattvas have done it much more. Whatever means are necessary! . . . When bodhisattvas meet with their students, whatever skillful means are necessary are legal!"
Dechen stayed on the floor, unable to get up. She felt a bit light- headed and confused. How long would this punishment go on? "There are many, many stories of great bodhisattvas who did not even follow the norms and traditions of the society in which they were born," Jetsunma said, "or the society in which they practiced. They threw all that out the window. And they did so because skillful means were necessary to overcome such a terrible demoness as this whore samsara."
Dechen slipped into a back room of the temple until the teaching was over and then found a ride home with Bob Colacurcio. She mentioned nothing to him about the poem. A few days later she got up the courage to talk to Catharine Anastasia about "War Cry."
"That poem--was it about me?" she asked over the phone.
"I was sure you were going to think that--you're so self-centered," Catharine Anastasia said. "It's not about you. It's about Wib and Jane."
by admin » Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:09 am
VOIDSUCK THIS!, by Charles Carreon
Charles Carreon’s Review of Riding The Torch by Norman Spinrad
In this novelette, published some years back, the august chronicler of imaginary odysseys was hammering away on his piece of malleable mindstuff, refining the themes that became more fully fleshed out in The Void Captain’s Tale and Child of Fortune.
As the story begins the hero, Jofe, is put out. A skillfully-timed announcement from the Pilots have upstaged the premier of his latest production, “The Wandering Dutchman,” a direct-to-the-senses media extravaganza that is sure to wow his fellow shipmates on the torchship Brigadoon. Never mind that the Pilots claim to be hot on the tail of another earth-like planet. These false alarms have gotten to be a bore, and he tells the leader of the Pilot’s union just that, getting the better of him in a jeering match in front of the ship’s high society.
The Pilots are an austere cult of “voidsuckers” who man the diffuse outer edge of the torchship convoy, scouring the galaxy for a replacement for earth. On his way out, the Pilot tells Jofe that he ought to come out and see what it’s like to face the interstellar void, away from the entertainments of the ship lifestyle, with its psychic Internet of sensory-jaunting and endless stimulation. Jofe’s just pissed enough to take the challenge, thus condemning himself to six months in deep space with a small crew of voidsuckers, without psychic email. But it’s a publicity bonanza, and he tells everyone he’s gonna make a movie out there.
No sooner is he out there than he figures out there’s something weird here. He knows they’ve got a secret, but they won’t share it with him until he sucks void. He soon finds out what that’s about. Every now and then one of the crew gets “the call” and they go hang out in a small ship way out beyond where they can't even see the light of their little scout ship. Hang out there for three days or so and suck void. So Jofe wants to wire one of ‘em up and get their psychic experience on tape, but they all say no. Finally, he decides he’ll go out and suck void, and wire himself to get the movie. His voidsucker friends are all like, “You’ve heard the call!” And he’s like “Whatever – you guys just wouldn’t help me out, so I have to do it.” And they’re all “It comes to everyone in a different way.” Then he’s off to suck void.
He rattles around in empty space in his tin can for many hours, and it’s a heavy trip, it seems like forever, it seems like stillness and clarity, then it gets jumbled up again, and then there’s more peace and clarity, and then he comes back. So he’s like, “Okay, cool. I sucked void. What did you call me out here to tell me?” And the head Pilot explains that they’ve been lying for 200 years to humanity. They know there’s no habitable planets. Apparently we nuked and poisoned the only fucking one in the whole galaxy. They pretend to know less than they do. They suck void because it’s the only thing that calms them down. They’re void junkies. And they want him to make a new senso so great, like The Wandering Dutchman but better, that will help humanity get a grip on the fact that they’re just out there in space forever and unlikely to enjoy the basic planetary benefits of free air, gravity, fertile soil and nontoxic precipitation ever again.
So he goes home and tries to make his senso, but he’s just using tricks. The public is starting to clamor for the big voidsucker epic, so he locks himself up in his studio and turns on the tape of his voidsucking experience, puts it on an endless loop, leaving himself the power to come out of it whenever he wants. He drops into the loop, and it goes on and on and on, and he realizes after an eternity that isn’t moving anywhere at all, that this is really painful, a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and he asks himself, “Why am I doing this to myself?” Then he realizes that he’s just sitting in his room playing a tape, so he turns it off. Then gets up and creates this ass-kicking senso that tells everyone that, what the hell, we’re riding the Torch, we’re humanity, the lonely badass exiles of the one and only Eden, using the power of the stars to make our worlds one atom at a time. We’ll fucking kickass forever, and the void can fucking suck itself. And planets? Planets? We don’t need no stinking planets!
WE BE TRIPPIN' WITH UMA'S DAD, AKA BOB THURMAN, "THE MONK", by Charles and Tara Carreon
Did you ever notice how nobody ever heard of Bob Thurman, even though he was the first monk ordained by the Dalai Lama, until a short time after Uma showed her tits to the world in Dangerous Liaisons? You remember that scene, where John Malkovich, long before "Being John Malkovich," writes Glenn Close a nasty letter using Uma's perfect spine, as in naked, for a handy writing surface, complete with quill and nasty remarks. We had to wait until Geoffrey Rush chased Kate Winslett through an insane assylum for a scene of similar power. But I'm getting distracted from the main point -- Uma's tits. These are the spheres from which Bob really launched his assault on reason and sanity, and well empowered for the task they were. Just one look and we all knew that monk-shit was bull-shit. This man has great taste in ass.
Okay, Charles composed the foregoing, but now the torch passes to me, and I want to burn this little pig right in his house of sticks. Yes, this is the big bad wolf of liberation here to call Bob Thurman out. No, I don't need to, which is what this post is all about. Over a year ago I posted my expose of the truly empty nature of Bob's book "Inner Revolution," the "Brother Where Art Thou?" feel-good hit that everybody bought, nobody read, and for which we were none the worse.
Frankly, I was disappointed when all the spit-ballers on the Trike board did nothing to defend Bob. I thought they'd feel like I was torching their huts, but they displayed little or no concern about my revelation of the vacuity of Bob's life work. Comments like "Who cares what Thurman thinks anyway?" rained down hard and fast, drenching my parade. I had to move on to other issues that had more incendiary qualities.
But I dare say, like a stray marijuana seed that will poke its little serrated leaves up in the dirt outside the teacher's lounge, my irreverent critique of Uma's dad seems to have taken root. I mean, it's not every day a major cult monthly that retails in the food coop for $8.95 devotes eight precious full-color pages that could be devoted to Elizabeth Clare Prophet's global campaign for cash concentration to a cartoon that seems to lampoon the hell out of "The Fantastic Buddhaverse of Robert Thurman."
I loved it so much, I've transcribed it here for you from the Fall/Winter Issue of Andrew Cohen's "What is Enlightenment" magazine. Check it out, but before you walk through the grocery line. It will take a few minutes to read, or rather to "experience" what the author calls "another dimension, an alternate reality in which contemporary notions of spiritual transformation...mix and mingle with the mythic, the miraculous, and the other-worldly." Which is just what Charles says about Uma's tits.
Fantastic Buddhaverse of Robert Thurman
What is Enlightenment?, Fall/Winter 2002
Illustrated by Nadir Balan
WHEN YOU BECOME A BUDDHA, YOU'RE NO LONGER JUST A BEING INSIDE THIS SKIN...
SO FOR EXAMPLE, I'M A TEACHER, AND I HAVE TO GO TO SOME CRAPPY COLUMBIA CLASSROOM...
...AND I GOTTA TALK IN A MICROPHONE, AND YOU STUDENTS SIT IN SOME CRAPPY CHAIRS,
BUT IF I WAS A BUDDHA, THE CHAIRS WOULD TEACH YOU, THE ROOM. THE SHOES, THE CLOTHES, EVERYTHING!
I WOULD SURROUND YOU WITH PEDAGOGICAL DEVICES. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?!
BECAUSE I WOULDN'T JUST BE STUCK STANDING UP OVER HERE ON THE STAGE GIVING A TALK; I WOULD BE A WHOLE CLOUD OF THINGS!
THE MOMENT IN A BEING'S EVOLUTIONARY CONTINUUM WHEN THEY DECIDE THAT THE UNIVERSE HAD BETTER HAVE A HAPPY ENDING, AND THEY'RE GOING TO SEE TO IT...
...AND THAT HAPPY ENDING IS FOR THEM AND EVERYONE ELSE TO BECOME A COMPLETE BUDDHA, THEN THEY TAKE THE BODHISATTVA VOW. "I'M GOING TO BECOME A BUDDHA AND I'M GOING TO SAVE BEINGS." I'M GOING TO DO IT!" IT'S NOT JUST A LITTLE SELFLESS THING. "I'M GOING TO DO IT!"
AND IT'S KIND OF AN EGOTISTICAL ALMOST MEGALOMANIAC THING THAT A BODHISATTVA DOES. THEY GET SO PASSIONATE THEY CAN'T STAND TO WAIT FOR A LONG PERIOD OF EVOLUTION TO SAVE OTHER BEINGS...
...SO TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS, THEY SHIFT INTO THIS VERY DANGEROUS, SWIRLING VIRTUAL REALITY, IN ORDER TO CHANGE FAST.
THIS IS TANTRIC HIGH-TECH METHODOLOGY!!
IN THAT REALM, YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THE SELF-TRANSFORMATION OF GIVING YOUR LIFE TO OTHER BEINGS.
LIKE A THOUSAND TIMES IN A NIGHT.
A GUY LIKE THE TIBETAN YOGI, MILAREPA, HE'S IN A CAVE THERE, BUT ACTUALLY HE'S IN A VIRTUAL PLANE AND IT'S LIKE HE'S DOING ONE OF THOSE TRAINING PROGRAMS FROM THE MATRIX.
AND IT'S INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS. YOU'RE DOWN THERE SWIMMING IN YOUR UNCONSCIOUS AND YOU'RE BRINGING UP THESE DEEP ENERGIES AND YOU'RE SORT OF REDESIGNING YOUR GENES...
...AND YOU COMPRESS YOUR EVOLUTION IN THIS INCREDIBLY HIGH-TECH WAY.
YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH A DEATH-REBIRTH, WHICH MEANS TO DEVELOP THE FORM BODY OF BUDDHAHOOD, AND INSTEAD OF THREE INCALCULABLE EONS OF EVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE AND SELF-TRANSCENDENCE...
YOU CAN DO IT IN ONE LIFETIME--IF YOU'RE A SUPER-DUPER PERSON!
BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE FOUNDATION FOR TANTRA, WHICH IS KNOWLEDGE OF SELFLESSNESS, THE ABILITY TO LET ANY STRUCTURE OF SELF DISSOLVE--EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL, THE MOST MAGNIFICENT, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE OF SELF--
--YOU'LL BE REBORN AS A TITAN OR A DEVIL OR SOMETHING.
THE BODHISATTVA COMPLETELY MASTERS THE WHOLE ART OF MANIFESTATION THROUGH THE MAGIC BODY...
...WHICH IS LIKE A DIGITAL RESIDUAL SELF-IMAGE IN A VIRTUAL, SAMADHIC REALM WITHIN A MANDALA, WHICH IS A PROTECTIVE FORCE FIELD IN WHICH TO VOYAGE TO INNER UNIVERSES. AND THIS IS ALL A REHEARSAL FOR DEALING WITH THE OUTER UNIVERSE.
SO, SAY YOU WANT TO GO AND REHEARSE SAVING SOME BEINGS FROM HELL. THEN YOU MIGHT WANT TO MEDITATE ON SOME FIERCE DEITY WITH MANY ARMS AND WEAPONS AND DIFFERENT HEADS LOOKING IN ALL DIRECTIONS...
...AND THEN, IN YOUR IMAGINED BODY, LIKE A PEACE WALKER WEARING THE MISSILE MAN SUIT...
YOU GO INTO HELL,
AND GET THOSE DEMONS OFF THE BACKS OF PEOPLE
...AND COOL THINGS DOWN--BRING A FIRE HOSE, WHATEVER IT TAKES!
OR YOU COULD BE A BEING THAT IMAGINES ITSELF AS FOOD,
AND WHERE THERE ARE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY PEOPLE, YOU'D STREAM CARROT JUICE AT THEM FROM YOUR FINGERTIPS, OR POTATOES, AND WOULD COMPLETELY FEED THEM. BY DOING THAT YOU FEED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND YOU GAIN THE MERIT OF FEEDING ALL THOSE BEINGS.
SO YOU'RE ACCELERATING THE ACCUMULATION OF MERIT THAT WOULD OTHERWISE TAKE LIFETIMES TO ACCUMULATE AND YOU'RE DOING THIS IN THE NIGHT IN YOUR DIGITAL MAGIC BODY.
WHEN YOU GET THAT KIND OF MERIT...
...YOU DEVELOP THE STABILITY OF MIND AND HAVE THAT LEVEL OF ART AND CREATIVITY TO BE ENGAGED WITH THE WHOLE WORLD SYSTEM.
THEN YOU BECOME A BUDDHA!!
A BUDDHA CAN MANIFEST ALL KINDS OF INCARNATE FORMS AND SEEMINGLY INDIVIDUATED FORMS, TO BECOME A DISCREET MANIFESTATION THAT OTHER BEINGS CAN PERCEIVE. THEY EMANATE AN INDIVIDUATED FORM THAT ANOTHER PERSON CAN THEN RELATE TO IN ORDER TO GET THAT PERSON TO REALIZE THEIR OWN TRUE NATURE.
BUDDHA WILL BE A PARROT IF THAT'S WHAT IS NEEDED.
IF SOMEONE IS SO FRIGHTENED OF THE WORLD THAT ALL THEY CAN DO IS PET A DOG, THEN THE BUDDHA WILL BE A DOG, AND JUST GO AND GET PETTED. THEY WON'T EVEN SAY THE DHARMA OR ANYTHING.
AND TO BE A REAL GURU YOU HAVE TO BE CLAIRVOYANT, BUT NOT FOR YOUR OWN SAKE.
LET'S SAY THE GURU WAS TEACHING SOMEONE AND AT THE SAME TIME THEY WERE AWARE OF EVERY WAY THAT PERSON WAS PERCEIVING THEM...
...A REAL GURU WOULD BE AWARE OF EVERY THOUGHT IN THAT PERSON'S MIND....
...AND OF HOW THAT PERSON WAS INTERPRETING EVERYTHING THEY WERE SAYING...
IF YOU WANT TO BE A TRUE TEACHER YOU HAVE TO DEVELOP THOSE ABILITIES.
SO ENLIGHTENMENT IS WHERE YOU CONSCIOUSLY INHABIT WHATEVER LEVEL OF BEING YOU WANT BECAUSE YOU'RE NO LONGER A PRISONER OF ANY PARTICULAR BODY.
YOU CAN FORM BODIES OUT OF AIR, OUT OF MOLECULES, OUT OF COSMIC RAYS, AND YOU'RE TOTALLY INTERFUSED WITH EVERY BEING---
--TO AN INFINITE EXTENT! YOUR BODY IS LIKE A BACKGROUND RADIATION, NOT PERCEIVABLE BY OTHER BEINGS, YET IT'S INTERFUSED IN THE CELLS AND BEING OF OTHER BEINGS.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT ETERNITY OR IMMORTAL LIFE IN SOME NICE SENSE, LIKE UP ON GO'D SHELF, DANCING IN THE CHOIR WITH BEATRICE, LIVING IN THE BRAHMA REALM JUST LOUNGING AROUND IN ENERGY FIELDS, I MEAN BEING EMBEDDED FOREVER IN THE NITTY-GRITTY OF LIFE WITH EVERY OTHER BEING.
ACTUALLY, IF THE LUNATICS HAD ALL-OUT NUCLEAR WAR TODAY...
...BUDDHA COULD PRODUCE ANOTHER PLANET IMMEDIATELY IN A NEIGHBORING GALAXY AND FUNNEL EVERY SOUL THAT WAS DESTROYED!
SO THE WHOLE WORLD BECOMES AN EXPRESSION OF THE BUDDHA'S WISH TO TEACH BEINGS, AND THERE ARE ENDLESS BEINGS, SO THE BUDDHA WOULD BE A WHOLE CLOUD OF THINGS...A BUDDHAVERSE!!
AND THE BUDDHA WOULD BE ACTUALLY UN-LOCATABLE. TOTALLY UN-LOCATABLE, AND TOTALLY PRESENT AT ALL TIMES WITH ALL OF US COMPLETELY RIGHT HERE AND NOW, FOREVER ENGAGED.
THIS IS WHAT THEY SAY. IT'S A LOT OF FUN TO THINK ABOUT ACTUALLY. BUT I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE INCREDIBLE. IT'S SUPER SCI-FI!
WE CAN DO THIS: PRAJNAPARAMITA SUTRA REVEALED
by Baksheesh the Madman
Come join me on the Ocean of Experience!
Author’s Dedication
May those who read this recognize it as their own understanding.
Go Straight To the Heart
Let’s go directly to the heart of the Heart Sutra:
"Therefore Sariputra, because there is no attainment, Bodhisattvas abide relying on the Perfection of Wisdom, without obscurations of thought, and so are fearless."
In order to understand the deep significance expressed herein, repeat after Baksheesh three times: “There is no attainment.” Now rest with that thought just a minute and consider the implications for your Buddhist spiritual life. Pretty confusing, huh? Don’t feel bad. Orthodox Mahayana Buddhists usually honor this statement without understanding, continuing on their merry way, seeking attainment. Scholars explain it away. Of course most American-born Buddhists think it’s pathetic that Christians bury their most cherished beliefs, like the injunction to eschew homicide, under a pile of corpses and political justifications, but they don’t turn the mirror on themselves to observe how little they understand their own doctrine.
What is the usual response to this authoritative statement from a top Buddhist disciple that “there is no attainment?” I suppose Zen masters do talk about it some, but if they carved it over the entrance to the monastery, they’d probably be retired as altogether too esoteric in their approach. Can you can imagine the anxiety of the rank and file priests if this truth of “no attainment” were popularized: "Suppose the faithful believe it and go away? Worse yet, suppose we ourselves come to believe it, and abandon the Dharma?" Such a fearful attitude may guarantee future employment, and protect the outer tradition from extinction, but it also dooms one to a coward’s fate, and the Bodhisattvas are the heroes of enlightenment, not deserters. We must rise to the challenge of understanding, or perish as ignorant as the rest.
No Attainment
Although many Buddhists avoid this truth that is clearly written for their benefit, I, Baksheesh, adjure you to return to the Heart of the Heart Sutra, and not turn your gaze for one moment from this thought: “There is no attainment.” Why? Because you must grasp this nut to loosen the bolt on your mind. Then, let your attention encompass the rest of the statement:
The thrust of the statement is that “because there is no attainment,” Bodhisattvas don’t plan on achieving anything, and instead rely on “Perfect Wisdom,” which removes “obscurations of thought,” leaving them "fearless." In other words, instead of applying themselves to something unachievable, an “attainment” such as the extinction of desire, Bodhisattvas apply their superior perception and understanding to eliminate fear. Eliminate fear of what? All the usual fears, plus one more – fear of not achieving enlightenment -- which bedevils all Buddhist amateurs.
It might also be said that by “no attainment,” the sutra means no static attainment. A static attainment is a credential, a mark of achievement, like having attended many meditation sessions, or having received many tantric empowerments, having donated many dollars, or free sexual favors, to the guru. These static attainments are like money amateur Buddhists acquire in order to spend it assuaging the fear that they are making no progress, because the true attainment they crave remains far-off, apparently entirely out of reach. The Perfection of Wisdom is not a static achievement, yet the Bodhisattvas rely upon it, and only upon it.
The Heart Sutra is like a surfboard. You can buy a surfboard on any day, and throw it into the curling waves, and it will bob about aimlessly like the unaware piece of flotsam it is, never catching a single wave. But if you have knowledge within you, you can get on it and surf, riding a rolling wall of water all the way in to shore. A surfer rides the waves relying not on static achievement, but rather by listening to an internal gyroscope that understand the waves. However many waves she’s ridden, she rides each one anew, relying on no static achievements, because this wave is different, has never been ridden before, and can only be ridden spontaneously, now.
Like a surfboard, the words of the Heart Sutra may give you a place to stand on the waves of endless change, but it is the Perfect Wisdom within your own heart that will keep you balanced there, standing straight and tall against the rolling horizon, a miracle of intelligence conquering chaos.
Why are the Bodhisattvas fearless? They are better informed about reality, but that isn't a static attainment based on a general assertion like “life is impermanent.” Bodhisattvas have a thought-achievement, a knowledge-triumph, every moment. They see it right, they get it right, and they don’t make the mistake of relying upon what they learned yesterday, or what empowerments they received, what vows they’ve kept, and who has patted them on the head for being a good boy.
Thus the direct, true understanding of present life is called The Perfection of Wisdom. That's Wisdom as in "True Knowing," not as in "The Absolutely Right Answer." The latter would be a static attainment, suitable for doctrinal adoption by the masses. The former is a view attainable by everyone who sees clearly -- a much more select group.
Most Buddhists, of course, have renounced the search for personal experience of The Perfection of Wisdom. Having disqualified themselves from the search by virtue of their unworthiness, they do not cherish personal, direct understanding of doctrinal formulations. Repeating crystallized formulations of the "truth" that are easily grasped as thoughts, they collect souvenirs of their visits to Buddhaland. Trudging on their pilgrimage to final attainment, they miss the light of the sun, the fragrance of the flowers, the passing of their mortal hours, not realizing that to grasp the meaning of these experiences directly, presently, is Perfect Wisdom.
The Mahaprajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra
Thus have I heard at one time.
The Lord was dwelling at Rajagriha, on Vulture-peak mountain,
together with a great host of monks and a great host of Bodhisattvas.
At that time the Lord was composed in the concentration on the
course of dharmas called 'Profound Illumination.'
At that time also the noble Lord Avalokita, the Bodhisattva and
Mahasattva, in the practice of the profound Perfection of Wisdom,
looked down; he beheld but five skandhas and that in their own-being
they were empty.
Then, through the inspiration of the Buddha, the Venerable
Sariputra said to the noble Lord Avalokita, the Bodhisattva and
Mahasattva: "How should any child of good family train, who wishes to
engage in the practice of the profound Perfection of Wisdom?"
And the noble Lord Avalokita, the Bodhisattva and Mahasattva, spoke
to the venerable Sariputra as follows.
"Sariputra, any son or daughter of good family who wishes to engage
in the practice of the profound Perfection of Wisdom should look upon
it thus: he or she beholds but five skandhas and that in their own-
being they are empty.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is form.
Emptiness does not differ from form, and form does not differ from
Emptiness.
Likewise feelings, recognitions, volitions and consciousnesses are
So, Sariputra, all dharmas are Emptiness, without differentiating
marks; they are not produced or stopped, not defiled and not
immaculate, not deficient and not complete.
Therefore, Sariputra, in Emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no
recognition, no volitions, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose,
no tongue, no body, no mind; no visible form, no sound, no smell, no
taste, no tangible, no mental object; no eye-element, and so forth, up
to no mind-element and no mental-consciousness-element; no ignorance
and no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, up to no aging and death
and no extinction of aging and death; likewise there is no Suffering,
Origin, Cessation or Path, no wisdom-knowledge, no attainment and non-
attainment.
Therefore Sariputra, because there is no attainment, Bodhisattvas
abide relying on the Perfection of Wisdom, without obscurations of
thought, and so are unafraid.
Transcending perverted views, they attain the end, Nirvana.
All Buddhas existing in the three times, relying on the Perfection
of Wisdom, fully awaken to the highest, perfect Enlightenment.
Therefore one should know that the mantra of the Perfection of
Wisdom is the mantra of great knowledge, the highest mantra, the
unequalled mantra, the mantra that allays all suffering, the Truth,
since it has nothing wrong.
The mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom is proclaimed:
TAD-YATHA; GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA!
In this way, Sariputra, should a Bodhisattva and Mahasattva train
in the profound Perfection of Wisdom."
Then the Lord rose from that concentration and commended the noble
Lord Avalokita, the Bodhisattva and Mahasattva, saying: "Well said,
well said, O son of good family!
So it is, O son of good family, so it is.
Just as you have taught should the profound Perfection of Wisdom be
practiced, and the Tathagatas will rejoice.
Thus spake the Lord.
The Venerable Sariputra, the noble Lord Avalokita, the Bodhisattva
and Mahasattva, and the whole world, that assembly with devas, human
beings, asuras and gandharvas, were delighted and applauded the Lord's
speech.
WHAT DOES ANDREW COHEN KNOW ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT?, by Charles Carreon
Quite a lot, if you take his magazine, What is Enlightenment?, at face value. The title of the magazine of course begs the question of whether there IS enlightenment, which is a skillful marketing device. As a teacher once pointed out to me, Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors in order to overcome the first question -- whether to eat ice cream at all? By rushing right past "Is there enlightenment?" and speeding ahead to tell us what it is, Cohen is just doing what most New Agers do, which is to take "the great spiritual traditions of mankind" as an implied backdrop for the strivings of modern day miracle men like himself.
If Descartes was being overly modest when he claimed he saw farther because he "stood on the shoulders of giants," Cohen suffers from no such restraint when placing himself in the pantheon of the world's spiritual heroes. And if you think about it, why should he?
The Ascended Masters, widely advertised, but never seen, could hardly hold a candle to Cohen's magnificence, blaring from a thousand newsstands. Jesus died unknown in Jerusalem, barely displacing a pebble in the world capital of Rome. Mohammed probably never got the sand out of his bed, no matter how many infidels he'd put to the sword, and new converts he took to wife. Buddha made a splash in his day, but nothing Cohen hasn't replicated already with his bright, incisive, up-to-date version of the wisdom of the ages.
Let's just look at it in terms of sheer numbers. You may not be a Christian or mark time on Nostradamus' calendar, but you've got to agree there's a hell of a lot of us crammed on this planet and enough weapons to make us all quiet for a long time. It is at times like these that a great leader arises, one capable of holding up the sky with muscles of brass, one who will comfort and shelter within his vast arms, the lonely, terrified multitudes. The mission is so vast.
Since the big question is resolved first -- there is enlightenment! -- we can move right on to the fun stuff, defusing the bomb of ordinary consciousness that seeks its own destruction in mindless, materialistic self-annihilation. Who of noble heart would not be drawn to this venture, who would not lengthen their footsteps, lift their chin, feeling strength returning to their heart as they close the distance between themselves and this great man? Who would not say, "Where do I join? How can I serve? What is this enlightenment of which you speak? Give it to me, that I may conquer evil, within and without, put my heel on the head of the snake of egotism, lift my sword in heroism to still the threatening sky."
So you see, it's like Funky Winker Bean said, "Should I deny myself a delicious hot pepperoni pizza? No!" It's all a matter of asking the right question.
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Report on Manam (Papua New Guinea) — 27 October-2 November 2004
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 27 October-2 November 2004
Global Volcanism Program, 2004. Report on Manam (Papua New Guinea). In: Mayberry, G (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 27 October-2 November 2004. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (27 October-2 November 2004)
4.08°S, 145.037°E; summit elev. 1807 m
The eruption that began at Manam on 24 October continued through at least 31 October. According to RVO, during 27-28 October there were occasional emissions of ash-laden brown clouds and projections of incandescent lava from Manam's Southern Crater. Fine ash from the eruptions traveled NW, and was deposited between the villages of Jogari and Baliau. Main Crater released occasional weak-to-moderate emissions of white vapor, and sometimes brown ash. Weak, fluctuating incandescence was visible from the crater at night. During 28-29 October, at Southern Crater there were occasional emissions of moderate, thick, dark ash-laden clouds that rose above normal atmospheric clouds. The ash clouds drifted NW, depositing ash between the villages of Yassa and Baliau. The Alert Level at Manam was at Stage 1. By 31 October, the eruption at Main Crater consisted of Strombolian activity, with ash and scoria emissions. Scoria of ~1 cm diameter and ash was deposited in Warisi village on the SE side of the island. Small pyroclastic flows were generated and fresh lava flowed into the NE valley. The lava flow followed the Boakure side of the valley, covering older flows from the 1992-1994 eruption. Beginning on the morning of the 31st, the amount of continuous volcanic tremor increased to moderate-to-high levels, so the Alert Level was increased to Stage 2. Villagers near the four main valleys near Manam were advised to remain away from the volcano.
The Darwin VAAC reported that a SE-drifting plume from Manam was visible on satellite imagery on 31 October during 0813-1449 at a height of ~13.7 km a.s.l. The Aviation Color Code was at Red, the highest level. According to a news report, about 4,000 villagers living near the volcano were moved to safer areas. Reportedly, "about 1 ft [0.3 m] of ash with hot pumice" landed on the roofs of houses, and ash drifted as far W as Wewak, ~100 km from Manam Island. On 2 November around 2325 a possible eruption may have produced a plume to a height of ~7.6 km a.s.l. that drifted SE.
Geologic Background. The 10-km-wide island of Manam, lying 13 km off the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, is one of the country's most active volcanoes. Four large radial valleys extend from the unvegetated summit of the conical 1807-m-high basaltic-andesitic stratovolcano to its lower flanks. These "avalanche valleys" channel lava flows and pyroclastic avalanches that have sometimes reached the coast. Five small satellitic centers are located near the island's shoreline on the northern, southern, and western sides. Two summit craters are present; both are active, although most historical eruptions have originated from the southern crater, concentrating eruptive products during much of the past century into the SE valley. Frequent historical eruptions, typically of mild-to-moderate scale, have been recorded since 1616. Occasional larger eruptions have produced pyroclastic flows and lava flows that reached flat-lying coastal areas and entered the sea, sometimes impacting populated areas.
Sources: Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC), Rabaul Volcano Observatory (RVO), The Sydney Morning Herald
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Most of these troops probably knew little more about the movement they had joined than that a prophet had promised them riches in this world and paradise in the next, in exchange for their willingness to engage in jihad, fighting in the way of God, to van- quish the evil empires of Byzantium and Persia. Shortly thereafter, in C. One of the very few ways to move up donnr society was through the imperial service, particularly the army— some soldiers of peasant origin even rose to be emperor— but this route was only open to a small number of men.
Sign In Forgot password? Some say that Muhammad only turned against the Jews and Christians for failing to accede to his claims later in his muyammad, but using Donner’s research it could be this never occured, beginning only a century after his death with the emergence of Islam as an independent religion.
By the fourth century, Axum had been converted to Christianity and for that rea- son was sometimes allied with Byzantium; but in general our knowl- edge of Axum is very limited, and in any case, Axumite culture did not contribute much to Islamic tradition, whereas both Byzantium and Sasanian Persia did.
Its most extreme practitioners indulged in spectacular— sometimes theatrical— forms of self-denial. In Muhammad and the Believers: Most Arabian oases are small, but a few large oasis towns can be found in northern and eastern Arabia: Harvard University Press Amazon.
And what was the exact nature of their activities?
In donneer Oman, they not only allied themselves with the local rulers, the Julandas, but estab- lished a more direct presence, appointing a Sasanian governor, with a permanent garrison of Sasanian troops based in Rustaq, to keep an eye on this region of strategic and agricultural importance.
The Believers’ eventual full separation from Christianity comes when it is clear the Christians will not abandon their trinitarian views.
The mountainous districts of Lebanon and northern Syria were almost impenetrable and remained for decades untouched. In their view, these passages seem to reflect a concern for the here and now, not for the afterlife. This is a stellar, accessible, and carefully-argued history of the rise of Islam. Published May 15th by Belknap Press first published Donner does not suggest this, possibly because as an ecumenical movement there was no need to augment a new, separate religion when none was needed.
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Some Zoroastrian communities, like Jewish and Christian ones elsewhere, may have tendered their submission and may have been integrated in some way with the community of The Expansion of the Community of Believers Believers. And these notions would have posed few problems for Christians or Jews.
The most celebrated campaigns of the ridda, however, were those of an army of Emigrants and Helpers led by Khalid ibn al-Walid.
Shortly after concluding it, Muhammad or- ganized a large expeditionary force and marched with it on the Jew- ish oasis of Khaybar; this town had long been a key ally of Mecca in its struggle with Muhammad, but it was not explicitly protected by the agreement.
Hoyland, Seeing Islam,slightly modified. And upon those who are able to do it [but do not], redemption is feeding a poor person; but whoever does a good deed of his own accord, that is better for him, and that you fast is better for you, if you could know.
Moreover— and again in sharp contrast to Renan and many subse- quent Western and Muslim scholars— I see the rulers of the Umayyad dynasty not as cynical manipulators of the outward trap- pings of the religious movement begun by Muhammad but as rulers who sought practical ways to realize the most important goals of the movement and who perhaps more than anyone else helped the Be- lievers attain a clear sense of their own distinct identity and of their legitimacy as a religious community.
Then he organized several other forces under reliable com- manders, most of them drawn from Quraysh. Realizing that most of Quraysh would not soon be won over, Muhammad began to preach his message at periodic markets outside Mecca in order to find other supporters.
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If you want some insight bellevers the earliest history of Islam, give it a go. In some respects the exact extent of its control at this time remains unclear, but there can be no doubt that it was much larger than even a few years before.
Muhammad and the Believers – Fred M. Donner – Google Books
Particularly noteworthy were large communities of Jews in Iraq Babylonia frd, which with its famous Jewish academies was prob- ably the greatest center of Jewish life and learning in the world at this time. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Southern Iraq generally constituted a distinct front. Much of Arabia consists of sandy or, more com- monly, rocky desert— the main exceptions being the Yemen in the Arabian deep south and parts of Oman in the southeast, which are blessed with some moisture from the Indian Ocean and water from mountain springs.
It is possible, then, to conjecture that they thought that the events leading to the Last Judgment were actually beginning to unfold before be,ievers very eyes.
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
With Abd al-Malik gaining eventual supermacy over the Empire by the defeat of al-Zubayr, and consolidation of the Marwannid brach of the Umayyad family as rulers of the empire, we see the inchoate emergence of Islam as we know it today.
Most of the larger towns of northern Arabia had a haram at their core— as well as a good supply free fresh water. Donner does not elaborate on whether odnner form of religious pilgrimage and any fast is acceptable according to the Qur’an, but if it is, then Jews and Christians had no trouble abiding by even five pillars of Islam remembering that Muhammad’s name was not used in the shahada in the early years of Islam, in spite of the horatory in the hagiographic film ‘The Message’.
A clear and persuasive account of the origins and early development of Islam, especially the inclusive nature of the first community. This immediate crisis of leadership seems to have been settled quickly: Muhmamad he was sent with a core force numbering around four thousand troops, including sizable contingents from the Najd, and more troops from the Sarat region and the Belkevers.
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Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming expansion Shadowbringers looks to be a dark tale full of dimension-hopping and cosmic threats. The expansion releases June 28 in early access for those who pre-order, and July 2 for everyone else. It adds two new classes and revamps nearly every old class as well. I had a chance to play the expansion last week, and what I saw left me excited as hell.
I only had one day to cram as much Shadowbringers into my brain-hole as possible. This meant peeking at every old class and spending a lot of time with the new ones. Shadowbringers’ general philosophy is focused on streamlining classes to fulfill their role in the group. That doesn’t make things boring, though; there’s a ton of exciting new abilities and revamped mechanics that made playing each class really enjoyable.
The biggest additions are the two new classes. Gunbreakers are a tough new tank class, using a gunblade to smack enemies senseless. Dancers can hit at long range and buff their teams with different steps and special dances. Both classes are great additions to the game, each offering a fresh and fun change of pace from what dedicated players know.
When I first started playing Dancer, I was intimidated by the amount of meters and abilities to track. It is an incredibly active class that became easier once I leapt into a dungeon. Once you take a few bruises and learn the tricks of the trade, Dancer opens up into a reactive class where random chance and improvisation create a fun sort of organized chaos.
Dancer’s main action is to perform one of two “step” sequence, the standard step or technical step. Whenever these abilities are selected, players need to perform a mini-game in which they select the right colored dance step in order. A standard dance is two steps; the technical dance is four. The more steps you perform correctly, the more damage your final dance step will do. Completing a dance sequence boosts your attack and that of your teammates. The standard step buffs the dancer and whoever they mark as their dancing partner, while the technical step buffs the whole party. The buff lasts a full minute, after which players need to perform a new sequence. It’s easy to lose track of this buff in the middle of battle, but after a while it became second nature to me to perform my steps and keep my party boosted.
Dancer can also attack using a variety of long range single-target weapon skills and close range area of effect abilities. These abilities have a chance to trigger new attacks in a combo chain or, in the case of certain attacks, grant a resource called Fourfold Feathers. These feathers can be spent on powerful abilities that use the Dancer’s fan to strike with a magical burst. The idea is to attack and run through combos as they trigger, using Feathers on special abilities whenever you gain them. As a result, attacking as a Dancer is partially driven by random chance. You have a 50% chance of gaining Feathers on most abilities, so Dancers are required to react in the moment and improvise based upon their luck. A high level ability called “Flourish” enables all attacks regardless of if they’ve triggered, but it has a one minute cooldown. This means that you can sometimes cut loose and do whatever you like, at least from time to time.
Dancer’s attack rotation is based on random procs, which can be frustrating. However, it’s team buffing potential is huge and great for group content.
That’s already a lot to keep track of, but there’s one final meter that Dancers need to watch. Whenever a buffed player or teammate lands a weapon skill attack, it builds up resources in a small bar called the Espirit Gauge. Once the gauge reaches 50 or above, a powerful finishing attack becomes available. There’s also an ability called Improvisation that slowly builds the meter without the need to land attacks.
Here’s how fighting as Dancer might go: you mark a fellow player as your dance partner and open by performing a simple step sequence that boosts both of your attacks. You do a series of basic attacks until your gain a Fourfold Feather and spend that on a special attack that hits all enemies. You follow that up with another attack that happened to trigger, then you repeat the process a few times and go where the flow takes you. When your first dance’s buff period runs out, you perform a technical step to buff the whole party. Everyone’s attacks fill your Espirit Gauge, allowing you to use your big finishing skill.
Here are the Dancer abilities. For some reason, Kinja made these really big?
Playing as Dancer feels like a juggling act. You’re always reacting to something, be that the need to reapply buffs or change up your attack based upon how many Feathers you manage to get. On top of all this, there are special abilities to boost your team’s defenses or perform a modest amount of healing to your dance partner. Where classes like Samurai or Black Mage focus only on damage, Dancer is a much better team player. Players looking to contribute in a lot of different ways will find an active and rewarding class once they rise above the initial difficulty curve. Players who dislike randomness and prefer having reliable skill rotations will probably bounce off the class.
The second new class, Gunbreaker, felt more natural than Dancer, with easy to understand attack rotations and fun rough-and-tumble animations. Gunbreakers are armed with gunblades, weapons made famous in Final Fantasy VIII. The gunblade’s schtick is that you can pull the trigger when you swing it in order to do extra damage. In fact, “trigger-action” was the word producer Naoki Yoshida used when I asked him to describe the class in one word. To capture the sense of trigger-action, the Gunbreaker uses a unique mechanic called the Powder Gauge.
The Powder Gauge can store “cartridges” that are spent on special attacks. You earn cartridges by performing basic attack combos. Cartridges can be used on boosted versions of normal attacks—for instance, the circular Demon Slice can be replaced with the explosive spinning slash Fated Circle—or you can use them to access a long combo chain. That combo chain is what made Gunbreaker incredibly rewarding to play. This is thanks to an ability called Continuation.
Gunbreaker was super flashy, had a really customizable rotation, and is easy to pick up and play.
Continuation changes into a new attack ability depending on what attack was used before it. If you run through your abilities correctly, it’s possible to hit certain attacks, hit the continuation attack, hit another attack, and then hit a fresh continuation attack. Basically, you’re linking together an explosive combo by carefully timing the abilities you use. Instead of a basic three or four hit combo, the end result might be a powerful flurry of seven attacks. Choosing when to spend cartridges on special one-off attacks or the Continuation combo makes moment to moment decision-making a lot of fun.
Of course, Gunbreaker isn’t just about attacks. This is a tank class, which means a lot of mitigating abilities to keep you and your teammates alive. Chief among these is Heart of Light, a massive protective spell that gives everyone a defense boost. There’s also Heart of Stone, which grants a teammate the benefit of getting healed whenever you perform your basic combo. Top that off with heal over time spells, and you have a class that can look out for overextended damage-dealers or, if you’re the off-tank, protect your main tank.
Here are all the Gunbreaker abilities.
Gunbreaker is incredibly accessible. A few encounters with enemies was enough for me to understand the basic attack rotation and some of the key defensive abilities. Folks looking for a stylish class will find a flashy, explosive experience, while anyone nervous about becoming a tank will enjoy how easy Gunbreaker is to learn.
There’s a ton of changes to the old classes as well, and I’d be here all day if I outlined all of them. The video above has some of the noteworthy changes, but the most important thing to know is that Machinist, a class that pretty much no one played, has been completely overhauled. (Side note: if you want in-depth breakdowns of every single class’ nitty-gritty, consider YouTubers like Mrhappy1227 or Larryzaur.) Machinist feels like an entirely new class and is packed with gadgets and robots that are a lot of fun to play around with.
I was rushing to meet deadline, so I guess this video just kinda.. ends? There’s still a lot in here from Machinist changes to a White Mage rundown.
Machinist now uses two resources: heat and batteries. Both of these resources build up when using special attacks. Batteries are used exclusively to power your Rook Auto-turret or, once you reach higher levels, a robot buddy called the Automaton Queen. Basically, you fight until your meter is high enough, then you’re able to use some cool mechanized pals. Heat is a bit more complicated and ties into Machinist’s identity change from “dude who uses a gun” to full out gadgeteer.
It’s clear the developers took big influence from Final Fantasy VI’s Edgar when redesigning the class. When you build your heat gauge, you can use an ability called Hypercharge. Hypercharging your gear allows you to use a handful of special gadgets like the auto-crossbow and heat blaster.
In addition, you have abilities like the poisonous bioblaster and restrictive air anchor use on unsuspecting enemies. Instead of just shooting your gun a lot, Machinists use a variety of machines and tools to even the odds on the battlefield. It’s hard to say how desirable this class will be in the long run, but these changes give it a much stronger, sillier identity than before.
Players worried that healers would be forced into a strict healing role will be glad to know I still found plenty of time to contribute cool buffs and damage output as a White Mage.
In an interview with producer Naoki Yoshida (the full transcript will be available this afternoon), he opened up about the tensions of simplifying Shadowbringers’ classes. After so many years of new abilities and skills, the Final Fantasy XIV team felt it was time to trim the fat and return classes to basics.
“We took a bold step this time,” Yoshida said. “We mustered up a lot of courage and decided to revisit and really clean things up. It’s simplified, yes, but we did it to make jobs easier to grasp. That was the first big step we took in redesigning all the jobs. It’s still subjective though. It’s a matter of asking: Is this comfortable? Is this still fun for us to play?”
If my time with Shadowbringers is any indication, I’d say that Yoshida and the team mostly succeeded. The two new classes bring their own fun quirks, and while some players might lament losing extra skills, streamlining the old classes made it easy to leap in and fulfill their roles in group content. I was cautiously optimistic about Shadowbringers before. Now I’m excited to play more of the new classes, and waiting for launch day is going to be a serious test of patience.
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