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The Australian Video Art Festival
Video Visions unveiled
Still image from Soda_Jerk Undaddy Mainframe (2014) 1:18 minutes
Explore the spatial aesthetics, look deep into the video vortex and experience the new world – these are the video visions of artists experimenting with the medium today.
Spatial Aesthetics
Georgia Robenstone I’m trying (2014)
I’m trying considers the language and politics of adult bodies engaged. In a broader sense, the video explores what it means to try and articulate that which eludes being spoken about, of grappling for meaning and finding none, but nevertheless trying to see this doubt as a constructive device. The Sisyphean nature of the action, wherein a single task is repeated ‘ad infinitum’, may be considered constructive in the sense that each failed attempt opens up a space for endless new attempts, new understandings and new opportunities; for the tragic, the comedic, and the absurd. As Samuel Beckett writes in Worstward Ho: ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better’.
Alex Cuffe Omega/Static/Automatic/Nature (2014)
This work holds the ability to convey an anxiety, a sense of impending, with no further conclusion. Nothing in the video gives the viewer enough information to determine its origins. The personal content holds little importance to decoding the work. Within the experience is a series of symbols, that if understood would allow a deeper reading into the circumstances surrounding the work. This understanding does not matter. The ecstatic realisation, or synthesis is, simply, there is no further truth or meaning. It is a representation of a reality, manipulated through editing and sound to give a projection of meaning, of purpose. A crushing and ecstatic realism.
Joe Hamilton Regular Division (2014)
Regular Division is a looping spiral of meticulously layered scenes built from video shot in a number of indoor gardens in Europe and Asia. The geographically disconnected locations merge to form a hybrid panorama of foliage under a canopy of gridded glass. The piece directly references histories of landscape painting via expressive paint marks lifted from famous paintings by artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Arthur Streeton and layered over a high-resolution filmic landscape.
Jolene Mok & Troels Primdahl FÓLK. HREYFINGAR. STAÐIR. (2014)
This choreographic documentary shows a series of ‘Interrelational Field Recordings’ from Siglufjörður on the Northern coast of Iceland. Through an artless concept of repetitions and bodily gestures an anthropological portrait of the inhabitants in a small fishing village gradually emerges. Each of them is articulating their own person, not in the dimension of lingual communication, but simply through the similarities and differences that only the viewer is able to comprehend.
Mona Kakanj, ELEPHANT (2014)
Elephant is an experimental short film, focused on perception. A young woman is swinging between two walls in an open space. Next she fights with herself in a boxing ring. The video conveys the inexpressible nature of an action in a situation, where there is deficit of information.Elephant is a film that questions one’s perception of the existence (Dasein) in relation to his identity.
Yongho Moon 5 Studies For Small Space (2013 – 2014)
Ongoing studies for performance based video within the context of the human element in small space.
Daniel Froidevaux and Elisa Gonzalez The Quiet Zone (2013)
The Quiet Zone is an evolving multimedia project by artists Elisa Gonzalez and Daniel Froidevaux, documenting the unique relationship between a community of electro-refugees and the radio astronomy observatory at Greenbank in the heart of the National Radio Quiet Zone. The NRQZ is a federally mandated radio quiet area that has become a refuge for an emerging community of electrically sensitive individuals. Fascinated by an area that is both a centre for scientific discovery, and a refuge for those seeking to escape effects of technological progress, the project contemplates the role of place in creating possibilities for resistance to the permeation of communications technology, and poses questions about what quiet means in the digital age.
Video Vortex
Amelia Johannes Family crockery (whiteness) (2011)
Family crockery (whiteness) is constructed from found family videos, originally recorded on VHS tape. The video content has been edited to create patterns concentrating on the object of white crockery, the occurrence of food and the influence of Colonial tradition within the South African family. This abstract piece has been choreographed to create a sequential video and directed by the materiality of the VHS tape. The final piece conceptualises the significance of repetition as what defines tradition.
The raw VHS footage illustrates recorded memories captured in the late 1980s to early 1990s. This footage has been visually experimented with during the editing process by cropping frames and the collating of repetitive patterns. Family crockery (whiteness) investigates the artist’s mixed South African heritage by visually exploring footage of the family to experiment with perspective, perception, recognition and uncertainty of the video image, analogous to the blurriness of memory and messiness of cultural traditions.
Emma Hicks Intentions (2014)
Intentions is part of an ongoing series of work that began on residency at The Banff Centre in Canada in 2013. Participants of the Our Literal Speed residency were asked via email to submit a how to / instructional You Tube video that related specifically to their art practice.
As Intentions unfolds, the screen becomes a multiplicity of moving images, yellow text is used to identify each participant as twelve You Tube videos become locked in a battle for recognition. Each video vying for attention becomes part of an ongoing performance. Working simultaneously with digital interfaces whilst also addressing these interfaces Intentions becomes not only an archival and indexical representation of artistic intention and production, but also an object to be exhibited and documented across various spaces.
noviki The Displacement (2014)
We are living in times when the displacement takes place simultaneously on many levels.
the displacement of power, force, in the political word,
the displacement of people as sociological phenomenon
the displacement of aesthetic we witness as internet users
the displacement of roles and responsibility of artist / designers
Video has two narratives – conducted equivalent. First is tracking graphics, made for the needs of the group DDG which is placed on my blog aestheticblog.tumblr.com and has been displaced by other users for a dozens of times. I travel to unknown places discovered by the rebloged links of other users to see where my work wandered – in what context my work is shown. Second narrative concerns a problem of internally displaced people. There is no legal definition of this, despite the fact that it is one of the most significant and symptomatic issues of our time, still accumulates and remains unresolved.
These shifts overlap and identify each other, are devoid of boundaries, boundaries of legal, moral, aesthetic, state, political, human, escape into the unknown.
Soda_Jerk Undaddy Mainframe (2014)
Undaddy Mainframe revisits the feminist malware of pioneering Australian art collective VNS Matrix. In this recombinant work the collective’s seminal text ‘A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century’ (1991) is recoded via instructional computer videos of the 1990s. Materials: A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (1991), HD Green Screen Hand Gesture For iPad Animation (2013), Kids Guide to the Internet (1997), Komputer Tutor: Komputer Kindergarten (1993), The Exorcist (1973) and Googled internet images. With thanks to VNS Matrix: Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt. This project was commissioned for Forever Now, a 21st century collection of artworks created to communicate to outer space. This sequel to the 1977 Voyager Records is curated by Willoh S. Weiland, Brian Ritchie, Thea Baumann & Jeff Khan.
Kym Maxwell Nasa and Moonglow (2015)
This four minute video developed in conversation with Claire Lambe appropriates the pre-code film ‘Just Call Me Savage’ (1932) starring ‘IT’ girl, Clara Bow. The footage accentuates the unusual behaviours and dialogue of characters Nasa and Moonglow and utilises simple double screen editing techniques to draw attention to Nasa and actress Clara Bow and she performs a hysterical overwhelmed state. Within the context of feminist critique her rage offers the vice of ownership over hysteria in light of the provocations of her father and Moonglow the male victim of her juvenile behaviour.
Heath Franco & David Capra Dream Sequence (2015)
In their new work artists Heath Franco and David Capra explore concepts of the Hollywood-style dream sequence, making reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Walt Disney’s Dumbo amongst other classic examples. Interested in the moving-image’s ability to represent psychological landscapes, the artists revel in the freedom this storytelling device allows, blurring boundaries between reality and imagination.
Tina Willgren The Movement (2014)
A movement with an as-yet-unidentified cause. An opposition of the future, of the mind or of another dimension.
Michael Robinson The Dark, Krystle (2013)
The cabin is on fire! Krystle can’t stop crying, Alexis won’t stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.
Deborah Kelly & Christian J Heinrich Earthlings Greeting (2014)
A collaboration between Deborah Kelly and Christian J Heinrich, this one-minute long video artwork was made to be sent into deep space as a message to our future friends.
Lotte Meret Effinger Supernature2014
The video work Supernature is an audiovisual analysis of the correlation between patriarchal structures and the media representation of female power. Symbolic figures are artistically reformulated and therefore removed from their historical and ritual context of meaning. By that the artist gives the symbols a new identity to expose mechanisms of patriarchal structures, power and control. Protagonists, toys, and cosmetics transform to unreal creatures: a female bodybuilder adorns herself with a pink veil, Demons running through the woods, a blonde girl is playing with a glittering ball, manicured hands arrange cosmetic products as an occult ritual, strands of hair fluttering in the wind. In abstract and increasingly concrete tangible movements over textures, skin and objects: people and material falling seamlessly into one another as consumer products. The imagery is alienated by slow motion, producing a dream-like and sacred atmosphere. This impression is intensified by an unsettling soundtrack starring drops, breaking wood and squeaks. The different lengths of the video and audio track played in loop continuously produce ever new and unpredictable constellations which open up a multitude of possible associations.
Pilar Mata Dupont The Embrace (이상적인 포옹) (2013)
After visiting North Korea, undertaking an Asialink Residency at the MMCA National Art Studio in Seoul, and consulting with North Korean communities in Seoul, the artist studies two reunification monuments in North and South Korea: The ‘Three Charters for National Reunification’ near Pyongyang, and the ‘Statue of Brothers’ at the Korean War Memorial in Seoul (appearing in the opening titles). The two figures from the ‘Three Charters for National Reunification’ monument embrace in joy, only to have their bliss dissipate and a new, and unexpectedly uncomfortable, era to emerge.
Xiaowen Zhu Terminal Island (2013)
Terminal Island is a visual and psychological journey inside a recycling company in the Port of Los Angeles, where the world of materials restarts. Through nuanced manipulation of documentary footage, the film presents an alternative perception of time and space in a physically specific yet philosophically ambiguous environment.
Michael Meneghetti Scartato (2015)
My performance work ‘Scartato’ means discarded in Italian and is a durational work that involves me collecting rubbish I encounter on expeditions in public places. I tape these bits to my body until I gradually transform into a human monument of litter.
Anja Loughhead The Australian Screen (2015)
The Australian Screen is a satirical video work by emerging photographer and installation artist Anja Loughhead. Once idyllic ‘documentary’ footage is overlapped to reveal an alternative perspective of the migrant processing at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre active in Victoria, Australia from 1947-70. Phrases such as ‘over the sea in a ship’ and “they look tired” deviate from their initial purpose as the words are repeated and distorted throughout the piece. ‘The Australian Screen’ is a tongue and cheek commentary on the way in which Australia continues to capture, record and transmit national immigration policy information through the television screen.
Caroline Garcia Primitive Nostalgia (2014)
Primitive Nostalgia is a unique voyage through Hollywood cinema, featuring some of the most memorable dance numbers ever to be captured on film. In the assemblage of these cinematic samples, which explicitly record portrayals of cultural dances performed by various ethnic troupes, a concern for the construction of cultural identity emerges. Through Garcia’s simple intervention of appropriation, in which she collages herself into the existing footage using green screen technologies and costuming, there is an immediate transformation of familiarly nostalgic dance scenes into a peculiarly humorous and disorientating montage that exposes and interrogates the complexities of the representation of race and otherness. It is her attempt to reclaim the colonised self, to provide an alternate history and to challenge an institution of filmmaking shaped by alterity under Western hegemony.
Chloe Cheuk Waiting for Another Round (2015)
Waiting for Another Round is about the wheel, a symbol of the ruthless encroachment of urbanization. After the clearance of occupied sites, Cheuk patrolled the streets and documented the process of wheels devouring every inch of the remaining trace of the protest over 20 days. As the wheels roll on, different protest sites join together and fall apart endlessly.
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Maeklong Railway News 2003-2005
Also: Fate of the ex-Maeklong railroad stock
Also: More Maeklong railway stock
Also: Riding the Maeklong Railway
Also: Rail pier: Maeklong
Also: History of the Maeklong Railway
Transit history notes: Seizing the Maeklong Railway - September 29, 2005
Transit history notes: According to the data from National Archives, the Supreme Commander Headquarters applied Article 12 of the Martial Law Act of BE 2457 (AD 1914) to seize control of Maeklong Railway Co.Ltd., electricity generation, and tram services of the Thai Electricity Corporation on January 26, 1942 (a day after the war declaration). Supreme Commander Headquarters told the Minister of Interior to send officers from Samsen Power Plant to take control of Thai Electricity Corporation.
Supreme Commander also asked Royal Railway Dept. to send officers to make a supervision on the government control of Maeklong Railway and report the conditions and current status of Maeklong line--two sets of trams on the railway tracks, some steam locomotives, passenger bogeys, and other types of bogeys. Even though the company could install the power line for the tram from Klong Sarn to Bang Bon (Wat Singh - Bang Bon, approved by Prince Boriphat in 1931), the actual implementation could reach Wat Singh.
Supreme Commander Headquarters also asked the Royal Power Plant (AKA Samsen Power Plant) to send the head of engineers to take control of Wat Laib Power Plant and tram services. Most workers in TEC were Thai people (Chinese workers became the majority in the maintenance section which was directed by a Chinese engineer graduated from Belgium).
Even though the concession of Thachin section expired on November 23, 1942, the government at that time refused to pay any single penny as the compensation to Maeklong Railway even though the company asked the government to purchase Thachin section at the price of 1,020,000 baht.
The talk about the compensation dragged on until the concession of the Mae Klong Section expired on August 14, 1945.
On May 16, 1945, the Supreme Commander Headquarters allowed a raise in the tram ticket price from 6 satang/3km to 10 satang/2.5km.
The Army Headquarters (replaced Supreme Commander Headquarters in August 1945) terminated the controls imposed by Martial Law on Thai Electricity Corporation on October 25, 1945 and Maeklong Railway on November 2, 1945 (the peace declaration was on August 16, 1945). After that, the government at time paid 2,000,000 baht to purchase all sections of the Maeklong Railway, even though the company estimated the price of the railway line to be 4,000,000 baht in 1945.
(Photo: Nils)
Above: Maeklong Market
Closing down Maeklong Station! - translated and summarized from Matichon, June 9, 2005
10:30am, June 8, 2005 - There was meeting of the committee on the relocation of Maeklong Station to solve the traffic problem and the mess and danger from the market along the railway track at Samut Songkram Provincial Hall. The Mayor of Samut Songkram Municipality [Somkiat Saengwanit] and SRT Assistant Governor [Mr. Sayan Rohitarattana] has come up with the resolution that
1) The new Maeklong Terminal Station must be moved to a new place 2 km away before reaching the old terminal next to Lad Yai stop.
2) Preserve the Maeklong Terminal Station which is 107 years old.
3) SRT must improve the area along the railway tracks within Maeklong Municipality.
4) SRT must regulate the stalls along the railway tracks with the Maeklong Municipality.
It is a fortunate that they decided to preserve the old Maeklong Terminal Station instead of demolishing it because a termination sign can be posed on the single paper while preservation is very hard to do so.
Reaction to Mae Klong Station closure plans - June 15, 2005
Wisarut reports: I visited Mae Klong Station and told the railwaymen about the plan to close Mae Klong Station by Maeklong Municipality. They exclaimed that "that must be a dirty scheme of vested interests within Maeklong Municipality. They even dare to violate the decree of Princess Sirindhorn who asked Samut Songkram Provincial Hall to preserve the whole Mae Klong Line."
Above: Maeklong Market after the train has passed through.
Sunday train ride: Plans for the Mae Klong & understanding SRT anger - August 25, 2004
Wisarut reports: I visited the Architecture Department of KMITL (King Mongkut Institute of Technology - near NBIA) to make a photocopy of the OTP report about the plan for the Mae Klong railway track. There are two versions of the plan: The summary version for the cabinet and the complete version. I made a full photocopy of the summary version and partial photocopy of the complete one.
I got the information that after the full project is completed, Mahachai Station, Ban Laem Station and Mae Klong Station have to be moved to other places while the old ones will be abandoned or revived for those who want to make a short trip to Mahachai and Mae Klong.
From KMITL, I walked a long way to Hua Takhae Station (a station still inside KMITL campus but too far for students to walk so SRT has to set up Phra Jom Klao stop for KMITL student which is 850 meters from from Hua Takhae) to ride the train to Phetburi stop.
I asked the SRT officer how I could visit Makkasan Depot & Maintenance center. SRT officers said "You must get a permission only from the SRT Director!" It must be a lot of red tape to try to make contact with the SRT Director.
After SRT opened the double track from Hua Mark to Chachongsao, the riding quality improved since the new double track use concrete sleepers with steel fastenings produced by Italian Thai Development PCL. Furthermore, it uses 100 lb/yard type A welded rail (20 yard/bar)--the heaviest rail type available.
This 100 lb/yard type A must be used for modernizing Mae Klong Railway since Mae Klong Railway uses only 70lb/yard rail (Wongwainyai - Mahachai section) and 50 lb/yard (Ban Laem - Mae Klong section). The latest improvement of Mahachai section was done around 2002 while the earliest improvement of Mae Klong was done in the 1960's.
According to the proposed plan for Mae Klong Railway, the track must be 100 lb/yard with concrete sleepers. Furthermore, the electrification of the new Maeklong EMUs will be 1.5 kv DC power since the relatively short distance with frequent stops for commuters has restricted the application of 25 kv AC 3 phase power. Using electric locomotive is not a good deal for commuter systems. Only the intercity rails will have electric locos to pull the unpowered bogies.
When I ride the regular train No 286 (Chachoengsao - Bangkok), I could see the white signs that read "The space for the construction of Suvannabhumi Airport linking Phayathai - Suvannabhumi Airport" along the tracks.
However, this No 286 train also shows the strong prejudice of SRT railway workers toward both BTSC Skytrain and MRTA Subway--the train refuses to stop at Phyathai Stop while the train does stop at Ratchaprarob stop.
The prejudice against MRTA is quite understandable. Even today, SRT workers are still angry that MRTA has robbed them of the permanent way from Bangsue to Klongtan even though it was SRT that got the land from Bangsue to Klongtan (now, Ratchadaphisek, Thiam Ruam Mitr Road and RCA Road).
Furthermore, the Skytrain route is not going to Makkasan Railway Station and have an interchange as once planned. This has caused serious face losing to SRT as their supremacy has be challenged by BTS and MRTA. Not a surprisingly, SRT workers keep ranting against MRTA and BTS without making any improvement to their stations to serve both Subway and Skytrain.
Since the train did not stop at Phetburi, I have rode all the way to Hua Lamphong...
The plan for improving Mae Klong Railway - translated and summarized from Akharn and Thee Din Weekly, Vol.5, No. 249, February 28-March 5, 2004
The Traffic Policy Office has come up with a plan to connect Hua Lamphong with the Southern Railway (Pak Tho Station) via mae Klong Railway with total distance of 91.6 km. Mae Klong Railway has to be electrified and laided with double track. This will allow the Red Line commuter to be extended to Mae Klong and Pak Tho and cut down the distance of Southern Railway by 45 km.
There will be 3 services for this link
1) Standard Commuter Train
2) Express Commuter Train
3) Long Distance Train
There will be 3 section for this Railway:
1) Hua Lamphong - Mahachai -> 35.5 km with a bridge across Chao Phraya at Si Phraya
2) Mahachai - Mae Klong -> 35 km with a bridge across Tha Chin
3) Mae Klong - Pak Tho -> 21.1 km with a bridge across Mae Klong
The power line will be 25 KV Catenary.
The routes will be:
Section 1) Elevated Railway Line from Hua Lamphong to Talad Ploo (one end of Bangkok Southern Transportation Center) and there will be a new station between Talad Ploo and Chom Thong to be the center of the Bangkok Southern Transportation Center.
Section 2) The line will follow Mae Klong Railway until it reaches km 31 (between Ban Khom and Klong Chak) and the line will be elevated across Ekkachai Road and then go along Rama 2 Highway from km 26.8 to km 32.16 and turn left to go back to Mae Klong railway.
Section 3) The line will go along Mae Klong Railway to reach km 66 after passing Bang Kraboon Station to go parallel with Highway 325 and then go across Mae Klong at km 40.85 of Route 325 before going along Route 3093 to reach Pak Tho. The total budget for this project is 42.423 billion baht.
There will be 3 options for Mae Klong railway Improvement:
1) Hua Lamphong - Pak Tho -> 2006 - 2010
2) Hua Lamphong - Mahachai -> 2006 - 2010 and Mahachai - Pak Tho -> 2006 - 2010
3) Hua Lamphong - Mahachai -> 2006 - 2010, Mahachai - Mae Klong - > 2011 - 2015, and Mae Klong - Pak Tho -> 2016 - 2020
A trip on the Maeklong Commuter - August 2, 2003
Nils Rennenberg writes: As an old railway aficionado, I decided to make a trip with the "Maeklong Commuter" to Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram last weekend.
It was quite nice. Actually you don't go from Bangkok to Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram if you take the train, but the terminal stations of the first section are of course called Wong Wian Yai and Mahachai, then the line is disrupted because there's no railway bridge across the Mae Nam Tha Chin and you have to take a ferry boat to the other side of the river if you want to continue from Ban Laem station to Maeklong station, which, quite logically, is situated besides the Maeklong River in Samut Songkhram. And more often than not, the locals also like to refer to the two cities like that, Mahachai and Maeklong.
I thought maybe you want to post the station names and timetables on your site, as they are quite hard to come by:
Mahachai Line (18 stations)
Wong Wian Yai - Talat Phlu - Khlong Ton Sai - Chom (Jom) Thong - Wat Sai - Wat Sing(h) - Bang Bon - Kan Keha - Rang Sakae - Rang Pho - Sam Yaek - Phrom Daen [=border to Samut Sakhon Province?] - Thung Si Thong - Bang Nam Juet - Khok Khwai - Ban Khom - Khlong Chak (Jaak) - Mahachai
Maeklong Line (15 stations)
Ban Laem - Tha Chalom - Ban Chi Pha Khao - Khlong Nok Lek - Bang Sikhot - Bang Krajao - Ban Bor - Bang Thorat - Ban Ka Long - Ban Na Khwang - Ban Na Khok - Ket Muang [=Samut Songkhram city limits?] - Lat Yai - Bang Krabun - Maeklong
Note: these are the official station names taken from a timetable in Thai language; the trains don't necessarily stop everywhere, though, it seems.
Timetables (as of July 2003)
Maeklong - Ban Laem
Ban Laem - Maeklong
>6:20
Mahachai - Wong Wian Yai
Wong Wian Yai - Mahachai
5:55*
10:40*
* denotes air-conditioned trains
One more remark: of course the times in my first timetable referred to departure from Maeklong and arrival at Ban Laem, and the other way round. The second one shows only departure times.
Dr. Volker Wangemann writes (September 1, 2003): For all the railway enthusiasts who are interested in that line I can give you the official station names with the exact kilometers.
WONGWIAN YAI KM 0.0
TALAT PHLU KM 1.78
KHLONG TON SAI KM 3.35
CHON THONG KM 4.13
WAT SAI KM 5.76
WAT SING KM 7.15
BANG BON KM 9.76
KHAN KOHA KM 10.23
RANG SAKAE KM 10.53
RANG PHO KM 14.25
SAM YAEK KM 15.83
PHROM DAEN KM 17.29
THUNG SI THONG KM 18.76
BANG NAM JUED KM 19.97
KHOK KHWAI KM 22.99
BAN KHOM KM 26.76
KHLONG CHAK KM 29.76
MAHA CHAI KM 31.22
BAN LAEM KM 0.0
THA CHALOM KM 0.84
BAN CHI PHAKHAO KM 3.71
KHLONG NOK LAK KM 5.41
BANG SI KHOT KM 6.72
BANG KRACHAO KM 8.68
BAN BO KM 10.72
BANG THORAT KM 13.64
BAN KA LONG KM 15.60
BAN NA KHWANG KM 17.76
BAN NA KHOK KM 19.79
KED MUANG KM 23.55
LAD YAI KM 27.48
BANG KRABUN KM 29.98
MAE KHLONG KM 33.57
I don't think these schedules will change very often. In order to find out for sure, you would have to go to one of the stations and have a look at one of the big timetables or try to get a printout in Thai language from a friendly SRT employee.
Both sections are approximately 30 km in length, as already mentioned somewhere in your tramway articles, and serviced by Diesel Railcars, with the ride taking about 1 hour and costing 10 Baht in each case. Ticket booths in the terminal stations open about half an hour before the trains depart, or tickets can be bought right on the train. The ferry in Samut Sakhon costs a whopping 2 Baht. Well, if that isn't a trip for Cheap Charlies!
Soon after you leave Wong Wian Yai, the high building density (partly very close to the tracks; even more so near Maeklong station, where the final 500 m of the line run right through a busy market and the stalls are within 10 cm of the rumbling cars!) quickly decreases, and you'll find yourself in a quiet rural landscape mostly made up of khlongs and orchards. (Of course there's still the occasional factory or Western Outer Ring Road...) In the section behind Samut Sakhon the landscape is of course much more open, with all those fields and saltworks - not really that beautiful, but the view still being nicer than the one from the nearby motorway, I'd say.
The trains aren't all that slow. They accelerate to a maximum of about 45 to 50 kph after all, and at most stations they stop for just about 10 seconds. And there are no traffic jams. Plus they are astonishingly punctual! Other than on the SRT main lines, they actually leave the stations on time. And as there's not so much traffic on these routes, they don't have to wait for oncoming trains very often, though of course there's only a single track. Certainly an old and worn-out (though charming) system, but still a practical (and cheap) alternative to road traffic for many people from the southwestern suburbs.
The only inconvenient and somewhat silly thing is that the timetables of the two sections are not synchronized. Most of the trains reach Mahachai and Ban Laem at about the same time (or five minutes earlier, or ten minutes later) the second train leaves on the other side of the Tha Chin River, meaning you cannot get a direct connection, but have to wait for 45 minutes, 1 hour or even more. Of course you could spend some time in Samut Sakhon (probably eating noodle soup or buying something from the shops near the station), but it's not utterly interesting there... one stopover should be enough for most people in any case, so on the way back you might consider taking one of the busses that leave frequently from the main road down to the pier at Mahachai, which I did.
Here's a scan of the tickets from my Maeklong trip... Please note that I am NOT a woman; they seem to print it on all the tickets.
The two cities themselves are not really worth a visit, except in case you like fish (which I don't), then maybe Samut Sakhon is good for you. But as far as I am concerned, the most pleasant thing is that in both towns, you feel like being far away from Bangkok (note: I like Bangkok very much, too!), partly due to the quiet pace of life there, partly because no foreigner ever seems to go there! (Many supposedly remote places, like Kanchanaburi, OK, maybe not a very good example - well, let's say Nongkhai, are much more touristy.) Accordingly, the local people are very laid-back and friendly and don't hassle you at all. That's especially true for tuk-tuk and samlor drivers. No "hey you", "where you go", they just leave you alone. In general, people rather seem to regard you with a sense of curiosity: What the heck is that Westerner doing here? Heads turn around and children might stare or point at you, and you hear people whisper, "farang, farang." Just as if you were in some Isaan village. Well, of course you could also go to Chachoengsao - also by train! - , for that matter. Close to Bangkok, but with a "provincial" flair, unlike Samut Prakan or Pathum Thani provinces (though the capital of the latter is a very small and sleepy town on the right bank of the Chao Phraya, by the way).
I saw only one other farang during the whole trip. I stayed in Samut Songkhram for the night (in a shabby 150 Baht hotel, which had friendly employees, though; don't know if something better is available there - at least not in the town center, for lack of tourists).
Plus I met some nice people during this journey. It started with the taxi driver who brought me to Wong Wian Yai, a smart guy from Loei who had taught himself to speak English and was quite good at it (though I have to say my Thai was still a bit better). Had a funny and very entertaining talk with him all the way. Then in Samut Songkhram I came across a very nice middle-aged lady when I bought some clothes from her shop inside the market. And on the way back to Bangkok, I met a young couple who handed me their printed timetable after watching how I took notes of the station names! Needless to say they were curious as to what I did in Thailand and, more specific, in that train, and they accompanied me all the way to Ban Laem, on the ferry and on the final leg by bus to Sai Tai Mai.
More comments on the "Maeklong Commuter" - August 4, 2003
Ian Brooker writes: What a great article by Nils Rennenberg! The Maeklong branch has always fascinated me. When I arrived in Thailand in 1988 to work for SRT I kept on coming across references to the line, which were always separate from the main accounts of the railway. I used to ask about it, and I was told with absolute certainty that it had closed.
After a few months of this, I decided to go for a look myself by car. When I got to Samut Songkhram I found the station, but it was pretty clear that the railway was indeed closed as the station was surrounded by a market. I was about to leave when I heard the whistle of a train, and the market parted to see a DMU work its way in straight through the middle. The market closed up again behind the train!
Many years later, in fact about two years ago, I got my ride on the branch. At Wong Wien Yai I was told that it was impossible to get a ticket or train to Samut Songkhram, and it would be better to take a bus (true!). I persevered and got my ticket, and took the train anyway. I confirm what Nils says - the two timetables do not coincide. It is better to spend your time in Samut Sakhon than cross and wait as there is nothing the other side apart from a noodle stall!
The line on the Samut Songkhram side is in very bad repair, and the DMUs look clapped out to me - not surprising given the isolation of this branch.
However, I would say both Samuts are worth visiting. I found them both incredibly vibrant - possibly it was market day and I was lucky. The river crossing is also fascinating, with kites and terns fishing around you. I know Thailand pretty well, and as Nils says, you have to go a long long way to see places as unspoilt as these. Make the most of it - its pretty clear that SRT would love to close the line or convert it to a modern route, and all the charm will be lost.
A wonderful but grueling day trip!
Still more comments on the "Maeklong Commuter" - August 4, 2003
A reader writes: Thank you very much for your positive response and additional remarks about the Maeklong Railway. I especially liked the way you described how the market in Samut Songkhram "opens" and "closes" around the trains. And then you also reminded me of something..... you know, when I went to Wong Wian Yai a week before actually taking the train, just in order to check the timetable, the taxi driver insisted that the station was closed and the trains didn't run anymore! Having been there once before, I knew he couldn't be right, simply replied "Oh, yes?" and went there anyway. And of course the station was bustling with life; there was a board which stated that there were about 15 trains every day; and one of them was just arriving (on time!) from Mahachai......
Very strange, isn't it? Hundreds or even thousands of people use these trains every day, yet some people in Bangkok are convinced the line is dead (and has been for many years already)! It is indeed a very special railway, disconnected both in the middle and from the rest of the Thai railway network, and most people don't seem to know much about it - apart from the Thonburi commuter community. One final message to everyone: use the opportunity to take these trains now! They could REALLY disappear in the future, at least in the current (charming) form.
High-speed Mae Klong rail line map from 2000 - July 30, 2003
With high-speed railways in the news lately we thought we would remind our readers of this proposal we first reported in March, 2000. The Thai-language map (70 K) of the proposed high-speed Mae Klong rail line. We hope we live long enough to see it made a reality! Click here for more info on early ideas for this project (February, 2000).
A ride on the Maeklong Commuter - November 11, 2003
Nils writes: Wisarut posted this link in the forum. If you scroll down, you'll find a photo story about a trip on the Maeklong Commuter in 1998. My comment: "...this Japanese guy (Takashi Koto) also has a complete photo story of the Mahachai and Maeklong lines! Including the procedure where the train passes through the busy market in Samut Songkhram. And he writes a funny English..."
Want a sample? "Small red sheet is attached at the top left side on the front window. It describes Buddha. Maybe it is a prayer of safety. Shop masters often open the parasol near the railroad very much. And most people, both children and adults, often throw garbage to outside of the train through the window during run. Many stations keep clean but there are much garbage near the railroad. Garbage sometimes returns into the car from other window then we have to be careful."
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YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video — And Puts It Back Up Again
November 15, 2012 at 7:22 am PT
Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as a weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf.
The idea is familiar to anyone who has a message to push in 2012: Instead of relying on middlemen like the press to convey your story, you can go over their heads, and right to your target audience.
But Internet services themselves are still middlemen, with the ability to block content if they want or need to.
Google, for example, has yanked a video posted by the Israeli military yesterday, which apparently recorded a “pinpoint strike” which killed Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari in his car.
A message on the world’s largest video site says the clip has been removed because its content violated YouTube’s Terms of Service. “Sorry about that.”*
Update: That was a mistake, YouTube now says. Here’s a comment from a company spokeswoman, via email: “With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it.”
What that means in real world terms, according to someone who knows how YouTube’s takedown system works: At some point yesterday, YouTube users “flagged” the video, which triggered a review process, and at some point early this morning, someone at YouTube made the call to take it down. Later on, someone else decided to put it back up.
I don’t know how long the video was off the site, but it was at least three hours, because that’s how long it took me to get the post up after first noticing the clip was gone.
I’ve asked YouTube executives to elaborate. They usually don’t talk about specific takedowns on the record, but I’m hopeful they will in this case, since assassination videos published by military spokespeople are a new YouTube use case.
The company did go into a bit more detail when it blocked an anti-Islam video in Egypt, Libya and other countries in September.
In the meantime, you can peruse the YouTube TOS yourself, and will likely want to pay attention to the part on “community guidelines,” which ban “graphic or gratuitous violence.” A “tips” primer goes into a bit more detail:
“Don’t post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making. Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don’t post it. YouTube is not a shock site. Don’t post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies or similar things intended to shock or disgust.”
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*Meanwhile, the Twitter messages Israel initially used to promote the video have been altered, and a new video has been inserted in their place. Can’t figure out who made this choice, or what they’re trying to say:
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Dutch astrophysicist Dr Fred Jansen is no stranger to the difficulties of space exploration. He led the team that put an X-ray observatory in orbit in the 1990s, and has since overseen exploration operations to Mars and Venus. But the Rosetta mission manager described his latest challenge as the most difficult yet.
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“The comet and Rosetta are flying through space at 60,000km an hour,” said Dr Jansen, “In many, many aspects this is an absolute first.”
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“With Rosetta this wasn’t the case,” he said, “It’s like the mission impossible because you are trying to achieve something at an object, where you don’t know what the object is like.”
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Vickers Wellington Mk.1C
by: Rowan Baylis [ MERLIN ]
The Wellington (or Wimpy, as it was affectionately known by its crews) is something very unusual - an aircraft arguably as famous for how it was constructed as for what it achieved. The reason lies in its use of a geodetic structure, used previously by designer Barnes Wallis for the pre-war Wellesley. The geodetic structure disposed of traditional ribs and stringers and, instead, took the form of a "woven" basket-work. This proved both light and immensely strong - with the consequence that many wartime Wimpys returned safely to base with large areas of their fabric-coverered fuselage and wings torn away by enemy fighters or flak - not surprisingly earning the Wimpy a place in the hearts of grateful crews.
The Wellington embodied the RAF's pre-war philosophy of precision daylight bombing, with the belief that tight formations of heavily armed (by the standards of the day) bombers would be able to fly unescorted and successfully defend themselves against enemy fighters. Early encounters with the Luftwaffe soon brought a rude awakening and despite the replacement of the original hand-held guns in the nose and tail with power-operated turrets, the Wellington still received a mauling.The ventral turret proved very problematic and was often removed in service, being deleted altogether in the Mk.1C which fitted beam-guns positions in its place and included other much-needed improvements such as self-sealing fuel tanks. Nevertheless, the early losses forced a profound rethink of Bomber Command tactics and, most significantly, a switch to night-bombing.
Wellingtons of No.s 99 an d149 Sqns were among the aircraft dispatched on Bomber Command's first raid on Berlin in August 1940, and the Wimpy formed the backbone of Britain's bomber force until the 4-engine "heavies" were available in sufficient numbers. To give some idea of it's importance in the early/mid years of WW2, of the 1,046 aircraft which mounted the first "Thousand Bomber Raid" against Cologne at the end of May 1942, no less than 599 were Wellingtons.
Although replaced in Bomber Command's assault on Germany, the Wimpy continued to give important service with Coastal Command and as a bomber overseas, flying offensive sorties until late 1944 in the Far East and right up to the end of March 1945 in Italy. The Wellington was built in huge numbers compared with its contemporaries - 11,461 as against just 1,432 Hampdens and 1,814 Whitleys - and far outlived them in service, remaining in production right through WW2. The last Wimpy, a Mk. X transport version, was handed over to the RAF in October 1945.
The kit
"A sense of dread" might sound a bit harsh, but after the dubious accuracy of their SM79 and Fw 200, I wasn't holding out much hope for a decent Wellington from Trumpeter. My chief worry was about how they'd handle the fabric surfaces; both the earlier kits feature grossly exaggerated "fabric" effects, so what on earth would the all-fabric Wimpy turn out like?! Based on my experiences with the previous kits, I was actually determined NOT to buy the Wellington - but, as any modeller knows, those sort of resolutions are hard to keep once a new kit hits the shelves! My resolve evaporated entirely when I sneaked a peak inside the box at the LHS and saw... quite a decent representation of the geodetic structure!
But more of that later! What do you get in the sturdy and massive box? Well, for once, I'm not doing my usual piece-by-piece count of the parts. Why? Because the box states that there are 644 of them! The main sprues are packed into separate plastic bags while the clear parts and other details are bagged and protected in a cardbox box at one end of the main package. The contents include:
13 x Pale grey styrene sprues
2 x Clear sprues
13 x Etched parts
1 x Printed fim for the instrument panel
3 x White metal u/c legs, plus steel pins for axles
3 x Vinyl tyres
Decals for 2 colour schemes
As you'd expect with a new kit from one of the "majors", the parts are crisply moulded with little sign of flash. The fuselage includes a geodetic structure moulded throughout the interior, but there's no sign of any sinkmarks due to this on the kit I bought.
The external finish is what's going to make or break the Wimpy - and thankfully Trumpeter have listened to their critics and completely revised how they represent fabric-covered surfaces. The grotesque "lumps" that marred earlier kits have gone and the control surfaces here have delicately depicted ribs. The fuselage is done a bit heavier, but wartime photos of the Wellington show quite a pronounced structure through the fabric, so I don't think it's too OTT. The wings and tail are a bit different - the geodetic effect is definitely overdone, but let's face it, many modellers would complain if it wasn't exagerrated a bit! Personally, I'll knock it back somewhat by applying a few heavy coats of gloss enamel as a "filler" and then gently sanding it to reveal the geodetic ribs again.
One of the biggest surprises is that, at first glance, there aren't any ejector-pin marks inside the fuselage. Closer inspection reveals that they are there - but Trumpeter have been very clever and used rectangular pins matched to the size of the intenal structure. Unfortunately, other areas of the kit aren't so lucky and items like the floor, bulheads, bomb-racks etc. are covered with pin marks. To make matters worse, the mould makers also seem to have had an unerring knack of placing them where they'll be hardest to fill.
Some of the clear parts are rather on the thick side, but they are all beautifully clear and there was no sign of any flow marks.
Test fit
I dry-fitted the fuselage halves and they match up very nicely. Mating surfaces need cleaning up, but the halves are straight with not too much flexing. Surprisingly, even the interior geodetic detail matches at the roof! The wings are perfectly straight, but I wasn't able to attach them to the fuselage at this stage (see below).
Construction breakdown
The instructions are printed as a clearly illustrated 20-page booklet and the assembly is broken down into 35 stages. Trumpeter have packed a lot of detail into the kit, but the painting instructions are disappointingly sparce. Mr Color references are given, but they are few and far between for the interior - and strangely (when Mr Color include RAF Grey-Green in their range) the instructions suggest a mix of RLM 02 and white...
Stages 1-17. With so much detail on the inside of the fuselage halves, it was a fair bet that Trumpeter would devote a good deal of attention to supplying a well detailed cockpit and crew areas. A total of 41 parts are supplied, including a 5-part pilot's seat, a clear instrument panel with foil backing (odd that Trumpter didn't supply an etched panel). Some items, such as the throttle quadrants are very basic, but the foundations are there for a well-detailed office and it almost guaranteed that after-market details will be available to improve matters.
One disappointment, especially as the kit includes an etched fret, is that no seat-harness is provided. Similarly, details like throttle levers would have been neat additions to take advantage of the fret.
A huge variety of bombs is included with a clear loading diagram for the following combinations:
2 x 1000 lb + 6 x 250 lb
2 x 2000 lb AP
18 x 250 lb SAP
6 x 250 lb B
18 x 250 lb GP
9 x 500 lb GP
9 x 500 lb SAP
The turrets are very nicely detailed - probably the best yest in a 1/48 scale injected kit. The kit includes an FN25 ventral turret and herein lies something of a mystery for me. The kit is described as a Mk.1C, but most of my refs state that the ventral turret was deleted on the '1C and beam positions added instead. The exception is 4+ Publictions superbly detailed profile, which states that the turret was fitted to early Mk.1Cs (but the book doesn''t include photographic evidence to back up the statement). I'm tempted to say it best represents a Mk.1A (or an early '1C if you believe 4+). What is clear from period photos is that many Wellingtons captioned as Mk.1Cs didn't have the beam positions - but they weren't fitted with ventral turrets either. "British Aircraft Armament Vol. 1" (PSL, 1993) states that the FN25 turret was only fitted to the first batch of Mk. 1As and those units not used were stored and later became the mounts for Leigh lights.
Stage 18. The engines also look well done, with no less than 14 parts each, including engine-bearers.
Stages 19 & 21 cover the tailplanes which feature separate elevators and trim-tab actuators.
Stages 20, 22 and 23 return to the fuselage interior, adding more items like flares and ammunition storage and feeds, plus the afore-mentioned turrets. The tailwheel is made up from a metal leg and axle with a vinyl tyre. Stage 23 sees the fuselage halves joined.
Stages 24 and 25 assemble the main undercarriage. The wheel wells are a bit unusual as they are lined with etched parts. The main legs are cast in white metal and will need a bit of a clean-up, but at least they should be suitably sturdy to support the finished model. The tyres are again supplied in vinyl, which is never a great favourite of mine, but I must admit they are well moulded, with no flash or other exterior marks to clean off, so they should look fine after painting or with a light sanding to dull them down a bit. (Be careful of allowing vinyl parts to touch unpainted styene as there have been many reports of disaster over the years due to a chemical reaction causing the styrene to melt.)
Stages 26 and 27. Next come the wings, complete with separate ailerons attached by etched hinges and a choice of raised or lowered flaps.
Stage 28. Attaching the wings to the fuselage is rather unusual. Trumpeter supply large blocks with locking clips which must be glued to the fuselage to act as stubby "spars". The instructions don't say so, but obviously these must be allowed to dry firmly before going further. Once they're dry, the wings clip into place. I'm sure the intention is to cement the wings on but, if they clip on firmly enough, it does open up the intriguing possibility of building the kit with detachable wings if storage space is an issue.
Stages 29-35. With the airframe finished, the last details ike the canopy and side glazing go on. Then you must decide whether to display the bomb-bay open or closed. With all those bombs, I doubt that many modellers will go for the latter option - but be warned... if you display the bomb-bay open, be prepared to be patient attaching the doors... there are no less than 30 of them!
Painting and decals
A separate sheet includes colour illustrations of the two featured aicraft. Both are camouflaged with Dark Earth / Dark Green Uppers and Black undersides, with Mr Color matches provided.
The decal sheet is surprisingly small for such a large kit, but reasonable quality with roundels printed in good register. The decals are thin and glossy with minimal carrier film, but the red used is a bit on the bright side and, on my example, there is a very slight "bleeding" of the blue.
Markings are included for 2 aircraft:
1. BL-D - X9889 of 40 Sqn., Malta, 1941
2. AA-C - T2835, 75 Sqn., Norfolk, 1941
Unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a problem with both schemes - and I'm not sure either is appropriate for the kit as supplied. I found a shot of X9889 in "Bomber Squadrons Of The RAF" (MacDonald, 1964) when it was based at Gibralta in late 1941. It's captioned as a Mk. 1C and clearly has beam gun positions and no ventral turret. The squadron codes also seem to be Grey. T2835 is included among the artwork of the 4+ Publications profile, but I haven't been able to find a photo of it. . A sister aircraft - AA-N was photographed at Feltwell in the spring of 1941. Any beam positions are hidden, but the a/c has no ventral turret and, again, seems to be wearing Grey codes. This matches the 4+ rendition of T2835/AA-C which is shown with Medium Sea Grey Codes and Dull Red serials - and no beam positions or ventral turret.
The Wellington is undoubtedly a massive improvement over Trumpeter's earlier 1/48 scale bombers! Apart fom my doubts over whether it really represents a Mk. 1C and the accuracy of the decals, it is a beautiful model, packed with detail. I haven't been able to compare it with scale drawings yet, but I'm sure most modellers will be delighted with it as it stands. It's pretty good value for money - yes, £50 - but you do get a heck of a lot of model for your cash. It's big too! Don't let the fact that it's "only a twin" mislead you - it seems to match up to published dimensions pretty well, which means it's just over 15 inches long with a wingspan of over 21 inches - so make sure you have plenty of space to build and display it. With FM's Halifax on my workbench, I couldn't help but compare the two kits... suffice to say, it's like the difference between night and day in terms of fit and detail! Recommended.
Some Useful References
Vickers-Armstrong Wellington - 4+ Publications, 2003
British Aircraft Armament Vol. 1 - PSL, 1993
Bomber Squadrons Of The RAF - MacDonald, 1964
British Warplanes of WW2 - Grange Books, 2000
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Hi Dave Me too! :-) :-) Common sense said I shouldn't have bought it, because I really just haven't got the space to build anything this big - but since when did common sense have anything to do with modelling?! All the best Rowan
I doubt that they would paint most of the interior as it would add considerable weight for no good reason. Red dope was used to shrink and seal the fabric and only needed on the outside.
Hi again Antoni My thoughts precisely; and as if to back us up - guess what was waiting for me when I got home... yes, the 4+ Publications book! I've hardly started to digest the detail in it - suffice to say, it is phenomenal! - and I'd say to anyone who's goung to build the Trumpeter kit - Don't even think of starting without getting hold of this book. If ever there was an essential reference - this is it! The colour section of the interior is superb. In some places, there's no red-oxide visible at all, in others it soaked through quite strongly (but I'm still convinced this is the result of an external coat): Now - just to throw confusion on whether Mk.1Cs had ventral turrets, the book states that they were fitted on early machines of this version! This contradicts every other reference I've read and, although the book says this, none of the photos it includes show it. What is does include is artwork of T2835/AA-C (the second decal option) showing it without the ventral turret and Medium Sea Grey codes. All the best Rowan
SEP 01, 2006 - 12:16 AM
Thanks for this Rowan, I can't wait to get mine. It will be a while as all my modelling tokens are used up but my LHS promised to get one in for me when they were available, I just hope that he will keep it for me Who will be the first to enter one in the MOM. Mal
Here's a Wellington project for you Merlin LINK Page down and find the 14th and 15th photos of BH.Z. Microstrip or will you wait to see if Eduard produce a PE set?
SEP 02, 2006 - 05:17 PM
Hi Antoni I'll certainly try to review whatever sets Eduard release. There's no chance of me tackling the Wellington this year - I only bought it as a new release to keep us up-to-date in the Reviews department. With so many builds piling up, it'd be sheer disaster if I were to start the Wimpy just now, hard as it is to close the box and put it out of reach; I already tempted fate badly by just test-fitting parts! :-) All the best Rowan
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.. you've just answered my question - a build would have been nice ...no doubt it'll feature in one of the mags .. my local model shop (Hythe Kent models ) has one on the shelves - its taking up an awful lot of room - I was briefly tempted to liberate it ... thanks for the refs ..
Hi Neil I'd love to build the Wimpy straightaway, but there just aren't enough hours in the day. Of course, there nothing to stop someone else submitting a full-build Review... All the best Rowan
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Well, I just got the model today. I got it off ebay, the starting bid being 10 bucks! I won the bid at something like 35.00, with an additional 9 dollars for shipping. But, enough of that. This will be a few firsts for me. My first British bomber, and my first Trumpeter kit. And looking at the kit(I went through the kit before I came here to read the review and get a feel for the reactions of others), I find that I have a lot of ground to cover before I start clipping parts from sprue and embark on the path to a completed model. Being that the engines are radials, they are in front, and very exposed. And I like to pay particular attention to the engines(mostly from the fact that a lot of my experience as an A&P had to do with engines, so it kinda rubbed off). A couple months ago, I bid on a Pegasus manual on Ebay. And won the bid. At the time, I wasn't sure when I'd be getting a model that had a Pegasus, but at the time, it seemed like a pretty good idea to have it on hand, just in case. Well, that time is approxmately now, since this Wimpy has a pair of Pegasuses(Pegasi?), so now I'll be able to give the engines a tad better detail than just building it right out of the box. As to the rest of the model, let's just say that I have my work cut out for me with respect to getting more information. But still, at first glance, a very nice kit.
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Emitai (Senegal: 1971)
Ousmane Sembène
Robert Fontaine: Commandant
Michel Remaudeau: Lieutenant
Pierre Blanchard: Colonel
Writing Credits: Ousmane Sembène
Cinematography: Michael Remaudeau
The film, Emitai, is the story of the silent resistance among a Diola tribe in West Africa in early World War II. Desiring a strong army, the French tear through villages rallying up men to be transported to France while leaving the women behind to tend to children and the elderly. The tension between the army and villagers grow when the French demand access to their rice crop. The village resistance ends in violence and uproar because rice is not only essential but also sacred to the village.
David Murphy, Fighting for the Homeland? The Second World Ware in the Films of Ousmane Sembene, Project Muse
Robert Greenspun, Screen: 'Emitai' a Tragic Vignette from Senegal: The Program, The New York Times
Academic Articles:
Petty, Sheila. “Postcolonial Transformations: From Emitaï (Sembène 1971) To Moolaadé (Sembène 2004).” International Journal Of Francophone Studies 14.4 (2011): 323-338. Film & Television Literature Index. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
Baum, Robert. “Tradition And Resistance In Ousmane Sembène’s Films Emitai And Ceddo.” Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen. 41-58. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2007. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
Peters, Jonathan A. “Aesthetics And Ideology In African Film: Ousmane Sembène’s Emitai.” African Literature in Its Social and Political Dimensions. 69-75. Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1986. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
Pfaff, Françoise. “Myths, Traditions, And Colonialism In Ousmane Sembène’s Emitai.” College Language Association Journal 24.3 (1981): 336-346. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
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Perth based entrepreneur Bill Withers reflects on the value of long, strong relationships and good culture after selling his global mining business.
Narelle Hooper MAICD
I grew up in Kununurra, on the edge of the Kimberley, in north-east Western Australia. In the 1960s and ’70s, my parents ran a number of small businesses and were very conscious of the stakeholders in the community — although this is not a word they would use. I was educated more by my mum and dad than by school. Mum would read British philosopher Bertrand Russell while we watched the thunderstorms roll in.
My parents were genuine about having a go and giving a fair go. They had an understanding that business and life are part of the same thing. Watching my parents operate had a big impact on my building and running a business.
I got a cadetship in surveyor mapping and computer science with (then) Australian Anglo American. Following graduation, I spent about 12 years as a software engineer, solving mining problems for Metech, which became acQuire. We founded acQuire in 1996 in Perth. At the start, it was Andy Schoemack, Colin Legg, Geoff Forbes and me, but eventually acQuire grew to have 31 employee owners.
We had discovered that geoscientific data collected by resource and mining companies was not well managed, yet was the foundation for every economic and safety decision these companies made. So we built an information management system for geoscience data. We were typical of a technical niche software company. We were never going to be Google, but acQuire grew to have more than 120 people in seven offices in six countries and our software was deployed in more than 50 countries.
I wanted to work in a company with a high level of personal responsibility — one of which was the sustenance of the system that supported us. Business operates in a system and that system’s health is important to the company. It took me time to recognise that the foundation architecture of organisations has a significant impact on how the company evolves and behaves.
Boom & bust
The foundation customers who started with us in the late ’90s are still acQuire customers today. We saw that companies tended to pay the market in a boom and reduce their workforce in a bust — and did the same to us as a supplier. One large company wanted us to reduce everything by 20 per cent; another time, they tried to stretch payment terms from 30 to 90 days. They would be demanding and destructive in a bust and forget how supportive we were of them in the past. They seemed to have no organisation memory and were missing a fundamental point — you are building and nurturing relationships over time.
I did not want to end up in the same situation as my customers. We survived on the sum of the intellectual property held by our people, therefore building a team that could collaborate for a long time was essential. Also, the succession of knowledge became one of the challenges for the team. A lot of people talk of innovating around product and services. We took our entrepreneurial craft and innovated around the organisation and stewardship. In 2006, we set up a small team that we called commercial R&D — as distinct from product R&D. This team helped in our understanding of how we were going to govern acQuire.
The craft of entrepreneurship is just running truckloads of experiments and being able to process the data. What dictates success is timing, team, funding and then the idea. There’s always luck and serendipity, but relentless experimentation and the discipline of listening to the data is the thing.
Changing the model
In 2008, we started an employee ownership scheme for acQuire. To be a Total System Leader, you had to be in the company for at least three years and invest $25,000 or more. We had a proprietary limited structure that worked well for building our Willing Buyer, Willing Seller model. The idea was for me to sell out of the company to employees by the time I was 60. We won awards for our succession model in 2014.
We made lots of mistakes as we changed our governance approach. We decided to collapse our executive and board into one, a peer-to-peer team running the business, akin to executive directors. If we wanted external advice, we paid for it. Business is about building robust high-trust relationships. Everyone has a responsibility for the sustenance of the system and should be trained to look after it like a founder.
The most important thing a leader can do is be focused on culture. How do you build culture as a system? How do you ensure it persists across boundaries and lives beyond your tenure? This is all about working on the business.
In 2013, I stepped back to start ADAPT by Design, a platform to help entrepreneurs and company leaders build sustainable companies based on adaptive business principles — aspiring to fairness for all stakeholders. I sold out of acQuire (to Vela Software) in 2018 and this is now my life’s work.
We help companies build capabilities so that they can take the hits and bounce back. Based on our desire to build ADAPT by Design as a value-creation company, we’re providing the foundation capital through a debt rather than an equity model (the debt funding provided by Andy and I). The intent is to then provide distributions to the value-creating network (employees, customers and suppliers). A key benefit of this is that we don’t need succession of ownership and can sustain for a long time without ownership churn or exit mindset. We want to work on our purpose for decades and this provides the infrastructure.
We help founders build leadership, culture and team frameworks that enable succession of the total system. By doing this, the founder can hand over knowing that the philosophy and knowledge have [also] been handed over. We help them mitigate this risk of this transition, and build a more resilient organisation in the process.
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Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) have a different set of characteristics that can be consciously harnessed. A lot of business education tends to group publicly listed corporates, not-for-profits (NFPs) and SMEs into the one category. However, they are distinctly different types of organisations, which need appropriate governance models. Being big was a requirement in the 1970s; today it’s a distinct disadvantage.
SMEs have an incredible opportunity to harness the characteristics of their business and build for resilience. To do this, we need governance models that recognise the SME as a system. Systems thinking is holistic; it attempts to derive understanding of parts from the behaviour and properties of the whole, rather than derive the behaviour and properties of whole from those of their parts. Twenty-first-century SMEs have the right characteristics to use systems thinking to underpin their governance. We can create companies that build rather than extract value.
We need to innovate different stewardship models for corporations, NFPs, co-ops and SMEs. Their architecture is completely different.
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See Why New Signing Riyad Mahrez Has Left Man City’s Pre-Season Tour (It’s Bad)
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Manchester City’s new signing, Riyad Mahrez has left the club’s pre-season tour of the US to return to Manchester.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the Algerian international returned to Manchester wearing a protective boot on his left ankle.
Mahrez was forced off midway during the first half of City’s 3-2 win over Bayern Munich in their third pre-season encounter played on Sunday.
City paid a club-record £60milllion fee to sign Mahrez from Leicester earlier this summer, but he’s now a serious doubt for the start of the English Premier League season, which kicks off on August 8.
The Premier League Champions will clash with Chelsea in the Community Shield on Sunday and Mahrez has now emerged as an early doubt for Pep Guardiola’s men.
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Written By:Drew Mendelson - 1981
A future concept you never read before!
As far as anyone knew, all mankind live in The City. The City, a self-enclosed towering single building, had always moved generation by generation across the vast empty landscape.
Brann Adelbran met destiny when his family sector found itself at Tailend. Already the Structors were planning to dismantle his ancestral apartment high on an upper floor of that colossal metropolis. Brann would have to make the pilgrimage to Frontend to re-establish his family there for the generations to come.
But when tradition was suddenly shattered, Brann was forced to flee, not on the established routes and hallways, but down the forbidden shafts into the lost chambers, corridors, and basements which even legend had forgotten.
His pilgrimage became an odyssey of terrors, mysteries, and scientific marvels—leading to the end of the world.
"Of course there are lands!"
Brann exclaimed. "What of the Farmy Fields. what of the mountains?"
"You interpret it incorrectly, young man," the Hegman answered. "You begin from the most erroneous premise, taht there is an inside and an outside to the city, a city and a planet, I suppose, upon which it rests. All that, of course, is nonsense.
"The eye will fill what is empty, young Brann. If there were lands, there would certainly be folk to fill them, and if such folks then we would have seen them. True?"
"True," Brann answered, reluctantly.
"Have we seen such folk?" asked the Hegman.
"No," said Brann.
"There is the city, there are the mountains and the fields. They are one, and all beyond their unity is only the vision of things and this vision is nothing more than that, for the eye abhors emptiness and will fill it always. When you learn the true answer, you must stop questioning and begin to learn," said the Hegman. "And that is that."
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Beauty, ghd, Industry, News August 1, 2017
Does Your Hair Care?
GHD is encouraging women to show that 'Their Hair Cares' in a new photoshoot featuring ghd ambassador Pia Miller. Miller posed in a wig cut and styled by ghd Australia & New Zealand creative director Richard Kavanagh. Kavanagh transformed the actress's long locks to a bob for the My Hair Cares campaign which calls out to users to show their hair cares and provoke conversations about breast cancer awareness. The wig from the shoot will be gifted to breast cancer patient Kelly Faulkner to enhance her confidence at this stage in her treatment. Specialised wigs can cost thousands and is something many women find a daunting experience. Excited to receive her new wig from ghd, Faulkner hopes the campaign reaches those who aren't informed about breast cancer in Australia and New Zealand.
As part of ghd's pink blush collection launch and campaign, ghd is aiming to provide information to women recovering from treatment-related hair loss on how to style their grow back or their wigs easily though a range of hair styling tips and tutorials.
ghd has supported breast cancer charities in Australia and New Zealand for over 14 years and every year creates a limited edition range of stylers and hairdryers where a percentage of the sales goes to breast cancer foundation partners. Funds raised by BCFNZ allow for the latest technologies and equipment for hospitals, access to treatment, research, training for doctors and nurses, support for clinical trials and lobbying for wider access to trials of new drugs.
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2019-06-16 - Sanno Tea Ceremony
Title: Sanno Tea Ceremony
A tea ceremony is hosted for the youth of Tokyo during Sanno Festival.
Rei Hino, Usagi Tsukino, Steven Universe, Kasagami Araki
.***************************** Yamanote High City *****************************.
*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Tokyo Tower +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
This television broadcast tower is also perhaps the most iconic building in
Japan. A lattice giant inspired by the Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower looks much
like the French building, but has a more rounded, modern style, and is
painted in a red-orange tone. Bright white bands punctuate its height,
including one for the cylindrical observatory nestled near its peak. At
night, it lights up brilliantly: a cool white during the summer, a warm
orange for the cooler months, and various colors for special occasions. Once
the tallest building in the world, it remains, at 315 meters, the second
tallest in Japan, and is a popular tourist attraction.
Tokyo Tower straddles a four-story building aptly named FootTown, containing
museums, art galleries, and restaurants. Around its middle is the Main
Observatory, which contains a restaurant, a Shinto shrine, and a club for
live music. Near its peak is the Special Observatory, accessible for an
extra fee, which provides a spectacular 360 degree view of the urban
skyline.
Whether it be attributed to its iconic nature, its ability to transmit
long-range signals, or its sheer height, be warned: Tokyo Tower is a
frequent target for supernatural events.
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<Pose Tracker> Rei Hino [Ohtori Academy (10)] has posed.
The morning dawned red -- red like robes, red like phoenixes, red like lanterns. Sanno Festival is really a series of celebrations; some small, some large, in Tokyo's shrines and in festival food on the streets. The gardens arrange flowers, musicians bring out their drums, and priests set up large thatched straw rings on the grounds of their shrines. These are tools of purification -- step through one with a doll, rubbing it on your body as you pass, and it will absorb your sins throughout the last six months.
Somehow, with light hearts, many citizens don't seem to have an an abundance of problems to absolve as they step through. It's been a good year. ("Oh, Gods, forgive me!" A boy in glasses known in Juuban as Umino declares, as he strides through one. "I burned the shrimp I meant to offer to Naru-chan..! ... phew, does this mean I'm forgiven?!")
On even-numbered years, a parade rolls through Hie Shrine on a route through Yamanote to the palace; here, now, in 2015, the mikoshi are not brought out on display. But even if the festivities are lesser than they will be next year, there's still plenty to do. It is an elegant affair, marked by dignity and pageantry in the ceremonial dances and songs sung.
It is a festival which has stood for over three centuries; with all that history, the people behind it know how to bring it forward into the current generation, too. After school, there is an event particularly designed for the youth of Tokyo to enjoy the day: a modified tea ceremony hosted in the venue of Tokyo Tower, not so far from Hie Shrine itself.
(There is a small shrine here, too, on the second floor of the Main Observatory -- particularly popular for its assistance both in love and school exams. The ceremony isn't quite so high up, but many students make the trek up the tower to visit, emboldened by the spiritual strength of the day.)
The venue itself has been transformed, with hanging scrolls, lanterns, and a hundred little chabana flower arrangements -- most consisting of only a single tilted flower. Stone basins called 'tsukubai' have been placed by the entrance, to allow visitors to purify themselves by washing their hands and mouth. There are several groupings of mats, to allow friends to drink together; assistants move through the congregation, instructing younger participants on the particulars of the ceremony. A raised stage hosts traditional drummers, providing a counterpoint to the sound of rain which has begun pattering outside.
Still in her red-and-white shrine maiden's robes from the events of the day, Rei Hino sits attentively at one of the host mats. There is a single hydrangea in a glass vase, tilted away from her, and tea equipment still arranged in its bowl. The guest mat is arranged to allow for her visitors -- and their questions, as is proper.
<Pose Tracker> Usagi Tsukino [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Snap goes the picture with the flash of Umino. Tap tap go the fingers of the text to Naru. Work work goes the text bubble.
Naru-chan: him burning the fried shrimp in my bento has nothing to do with it! Naru-chan: he knows what he did Naru-chan: So he'd better not bring the gods into it! >:| >:| >:|
Usagi slowly asides to him, "I don't think you scorching her fried shrimp is the problem."
Then in an attempt to console him raises a finger, "It's your sacred duty as Naru-chan's boyfriend to figure out why she's upset with you. If you can't figure it out then it means you probably haven't been listening to her closely enough. A doll cannot save you from your sins when it's between two people in love. Take responsibility for them - rather than trying to shove them on someone else!"
Cue Umino's dramatic tears behind his glasses.
Usagi is wearing a pink sleeveless top and a teal mini-skirt as she lowers herself down in front of Rei's host mat onto her knees. At first she kneels properly, but then her pose shifts, her legs drifting out beneath her. Her expression taking on this jittery thoughtfulness, like she's working herself up to whatever she's thinking. Tapping her fingers on a thigh, her palm against her chin, looking away.
Until-
"Okay Rei-chan I'm just going to ask."
Usagi shifts into a cross-legged position, putting a hand on either thigh.
"Do you think the gods feel left out on the years when there's no parade? I'd feel pretty left out."
<Pose Tracker> Steven Universe [Juuban Public School (6)] has posed.
Steven... absolutely loves these traditional events like this!
Don't get him wrong. He misses the community Fourth of July and Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. But those were casual parties and get-togethers. This type of festival was a whole different kind of beast. There is something about the quiet, the pleasant, the meditative styling that is quite remniscent of the interior of Rose's room. Where everything can bleed away and you are free to shape your thoughts proper.
More metaphorically at the festival, of course.
The child is at the festival, and is actually wearing a hakama sized for his little portly self! It is white that bleeds into light, slightly reflective silver as it follows gravity, with a swirl of pink petals and yellow star-like shapes. To heck if he didn't need to wear it, these outfits are fun and comfy! He will take any loose excuse to wear one.
The boy has been running about at Tokyo Tower, taking photos of practically everything. This ends him at his destination, a tea ceremony spot where he was told to partake, though is surprised to see some folks he recognizes! "...!" Excitement crosses his face as he nearly hustles past them, but quickly backs up, looking toward Rei. "H... Hey! What's up, Rei? Is this the right place for the tea thingy?" he asks, eyes full of wonder as he looks about the room at the decorum. But he feels like he forgot to do something before he sits down. What could it have been? Someone told him to do something before sitting down...
He seems lost in thought, but not before Usagi also gets a wave. Now what was it...
<Pose Tracker> Kasagami Araki [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
Kasagami Araki doesn't participate in the ritual to absorb all of her sins. Is it because she thinks she's without any wrongdoings to repent for?
Nah, she's going to own those sins. Some of them are too precious to let go of. Or so she tells herself anyway. Thus, she leaves the little strawman nicely in front of a gate, with a little note attached.
"To another year of love and beautiful mistakes" Beneath? A 'KA <3 SM' is scribbled. The one it's addressed to might not find it, but maybe the gods will send it her way.
The text with a picture five seconds later might help that.
And so after the parade, she finds herself at Tokyo Tower and this youth event. Someone from the Student Council has to show up, and rather than the man that probably knows something about proper tea ceremonies, Kasagami Araki has shown up. Mostly to show off her reinstated state, and maybe because she heard something about one of Ohtori's own miko were having something to do with the event.
Thus, her gaze is scanning the crowd for reds and whites. The Duelist hasn't taken off her coat. Surely because she doesn't need to, being a well respected member of the Council. It definitely isn't because she's not sure of protocol here!
"Look at all of this! You really did put some effort into this ceremony, Hino-san! I'll bet your Father must be proud." Yeah, sorry Rei, sorry Usagi, she's sitting down. You can't escape.
A brow rises and she's grinning. "Feel better? Ready to face the rest of the year, sin free? Tabula rasa, and all. ....Though I hope you've both been working hard on your academics, the gods and Jesus both can't help you there." She looks like she's about to say more, but up comes Steven. Kassie gives a wave. "Steve-kun! Soaking in some culture today I see! Come on, this will help. I'm sure Hino-san here, as a member of the most prestigious Ohtori Academy, will have you performing tea ceremonies like an expert in no time flat!" No pressure, Rei-chan!
Traditionally, Rei would expect to answer questions about the tea set, the flower arrangement, the scrolls hanging on the walls. But this is an event designed to draw in the youth of Tokyo, and with the pressures of exams and love, not everyone knows the protocol of a tea ceremony.
Enter: Usagi Tsukino, who, give her credit, at least lasts a few moments in proper seiza before she shifts out of it.
Rei raises a finger, a quizzical expression crossing her face. This is how Kasagami, whose coat is surely a fashion statement, finds her; Rei laughs, the gesture turning into a wave of her hand as Kasagami sits. (Of course she'd mention her father.) "Araki-san, please," because she is very polite to her Ohtori seniors, "I had only a small hand in these arrangements! This is the effort of many representatives!" With something this large, of course, anyone would be expected to defer their contributions to the group.
(If it had been Usagi, she might have been much more boastful.)
Steven, too, is here, in a delightful starry hakama. "Steven-kun! Yes, this is the right place," she gestures him to sit. "You look great."
She looks around, but finding no one else to save her from the philosophical questions of a novice, Rei puffs out a breath. "Don't worry, Usagi," she comes back to her question, "the gods wouldn't feel left out! We celebrate by the shrines because that is where they live. The parade is for us, to bring them out into the city they're protecting." Well, for the imperial family, particularly, but that's beside the point.
"As for my academics," she adds, quite proper, "I always strive for greater excellence." And not being held after class to clean erasers because she fell asleep. Look, it only happened the one time! "... but Usagi, you might want to visit the shrine here."
With precise motions, she arranges the tea set out of the pot it's held in, and sets to brewing a pot. "What about you, Araki-san? Is your new position helping you with your classwork?" As Secretary, of course. "And Steven-kun," she smiles to him, less removed, "how have you found things so far? Is this your first Sanno festival?"
Kasagami shows up, and there's a moment where Usagi looks at Kasagami in surprise, then looks thoughtful. You see. Usagi Tsukino hadn't know the idea of parents being proud of her in a long time. Yet Rei Hino's father never shows up, and Usagi is around her all the time.
"I don't know what Rei-chan's father has to do with anything." It's not adversarial. In fact if anything it's said with a sort of gentle confusion. "Rei-chan is just a really hard worker."
She says that as if she feels the idea of Rei being a hard worker is completely disconnected from her father.
Then crossing her arms, she leans back, "Hmmmm-! I'd rather not be a blank slate though. I'd like to have a lot written on mine." There's a sort of cheerfulness to that, "Even the bad things." Before Kasagami mentions the academics, "Well maybe not all of the bad things..." She murmurs in reply.
Before she then takes a quick look at Steven, "Oh! You're really getting into living here Steven!" And she offers a high five to him for his attire.
"Step right up and accept some of Rei-chan's hospitality! She's got more than enough for everyone!"
Fortunately Rei lays out that the gods wouldn't feel left out, and Usagi nods thoughtfully, "Oh sorta keeping them - down to Earth." And it's like all confusion melts away, and understanding dawns. "That's a really good tradition."
Perhaps some part of her instinctively wonders if such traditions were inspired by other former kingdoms.
"New position? She's still on the Student Council?" Usagi sounds pleasantly surprised, "Wow I thought she lost that election but I guess I heard completely wrong!"
"Oh my god I forgot to wash my hands at the thing!" the boy says, tearing off to the stone bowls. He comes back shortly thereafter. His hakama glints in the light given off by the hanging lanterns. "Okay, better."
"Hey Kasagami! How are you?" he asks nicely. He hasn't got to catch up with the young lady in some time since everything, but is good to see her in higher spirits! As goes for everyone. A weight upon the heart lifts a little more. "I have! It looked really fun from the flyers and stuff, and I don't know a bunch about my new home's culture, so I wanted to get in on the business!"
"Thanks a bunch! I like your shrine outfit! Ah, do they have a special name or is 'shrine outfit' okay?" he asks her nicely, finding a small sitting mat to place himself on, like a cute little dumpling on a grape leaf. "I have! I been taking pictures of all the streamers and bells and lanterns... they are everywhere!" A pause. "Yeah, I dunno what it is about just yet except for one piece, which is that shrines are there to help with academics and romance."
"While I am sure I am quite the eligible bachelor," he says matter-of-factly, with a hint of his usual joking demeanor. "...I need help with something important with school and language use."
OOHHHH HIGH FIVE. Steven totally takes the chance! "Thank you Usagi! I just really like these hakamas...?" 'Hakama' is said in that typical questioning inflection, as if he is unsure if he said it right. "I really like tea! With honey and uh, these things at the store that have something sweet on these stirrer things. But I have been meaning to try tea events now. They seem very refined!"
A look to Rei "It okay if I do join?" Best to ask the actual server as well! "What kind of tea is it?" he asks, curiosity overtaking him.
The 'humility' of Rei and her grades, Kasagami gives several firm nods of approval. "Good, good! Now that's what I want to hear out of an Ohtori student! Constantly striving for self improvement, while respecting the work of those around them. ...Though!"
Kassie leans in, staring right in Rei's eyes. "There's nothing wrong with celebrating your own accomplishments. Looking down from where you've climbed by your own two hands and seeing how far you've come? I say enjoy the view." Then she's leaning back into the mat, taking up the seiza pose herself. This, at least, the kendo artist knows how to do perfectly.
That intensity is broken by a laugh. She makes a motion with her hand. "Well, my penmanship isn't as good as my hand with a blade, but it's improving! So that's something. I am, as ever, striving to be an example of grace, academic excellence, and athletic perfection in my field! And as such, I'll be happy to help you with anything you need. I'm sure you can learn much from my example, Hino-san!" Smiiiile! Ignore the fact about her quitting kendo club.
Kassie does blink, eyeing Usagi briefly.
"I'm not teasing. She's taking the time to show us all how a miko properly does a tea ceremony. That shows hard work and a willingness to teach others. It's something any parent would be proud of." Offers the Duelist firmly to Usagi. There's a light frown to her face, and then she looks away from the blonde haired girl. For a few moments, she's ignoring the ceremony at hand, gaze latched onto a teacup.
At least, until Usagi mentions the election. A brow twitches. She looks like she's bitten into something rotten. She tries to look pleasant. "Don't worry about it so much. Ohtori politics is complicated, and I assure you, I was fairly elected to the position." 'Elected' is a stretch here. More like appointed.
Tamping down the urge to give Usagi an involuntary pixie cut with the nearest sharp object, she's peering over to Steven.
The smile he gets is a softer one. "Better. Better than they've been for a while." Is her sudden, honest answer. With a little sigh, she listens to the young man's questions, gaze flitting between newcomer, miko, and Usagi.
"Yes, show us all the beauty of a proper tea ceremony, Hino-san!" Encourages Kassie, making a mic tossing motion.
"Don't worry, Steven," Rei assures the boy as he scrambles back in. "Now you're all set." She's not about to blame him for forgetting -- he's a kid, and he's not even from Japan. He remembered eventually!
It's certainly true that Takashi Hino is absent in Rei's life, and equally true that Rei finds little occasion to mention him. Knowing that, Rei shouldn't be surprised to hear Usagi catching onto the discomfort in her dismissal. Her confusion might be gentle, but it still loosens any tightness in Rei's smile as it comes, leaving something more genuine, if a little embarrassed for it.
Even Kasagami, in the typical Ohtori dance of one-upmanship, seems to appreciate that it's Rei's work which got her here. "If I need anything, I will be sure to come to you," she says, meeting her eyes. "I am sure we can learn from each other." Diplomacy!
She smiles to Steven, with his honest questions. "I'm wearing a hakama and a kosode," she tells him. "And this festival celebrates the spirits from the Hie shrine who protect Tokyo. It's been going on for hundreds of years. Different shrines can help with all sorts of things... for instance, visitors often visit Hikawa shrine for help with their romance!" Takashi Hino might not be involved in Rei's life, but her Grandpa certainly is. "It's okay to join," she encourages him, "and we'll help you with any of your questions!"
Kasagami announces her, and Rei smiles, before she looks to her blonde friend. "Usagi, you really should learn how to do this," She points out, evasive in her own praise. "You have talent in making people feel welcome, if only you'd learn the tradition... here, let me show you. We bow," she demonstrates, and pauses to let the others try too, before continuing: "And I hand you this bowl of tea -- don't drink from the front -- and you take a sip, and wipe the rim, and hand it to the next guest, and we go around like that..."
It's kind of skipping a few steps, but don't tell anyone: Rei didn't always pay attention during tea ceremony classes, either. Children are easily-distracted, especially a child like Rei in an academy like Ohtori.
"Oh hey cool!" the boy says, looking at the teacups and teapot. Such lovely designs on them! He watches as Kasagami picks up a cup. "Thats... really good to hear," he comments toward the Duelist. It has been a bit of an adjustment, but it was nice to not hav badguys and evils baring down everyone's back. "Come by the beach house sometime and we can catch up, yknow? I'm all the way out there on a beachfront begging to do picnics on it!"
He would also love to ask her how Sailor Pluto was, but he can't in good conscience ask that in public.
The boy claps his hands excitedly, knowing he managed to get everything right! At least he thinks he did. Rei seems to think so, and she is a shrine lady! If she didn't know, who would?!
The boy listens intently to Rei's explanation as though she we describing the meaning of life itself. Eyes are fixated on her, and more than once he has to force himself to pull his elbows off the table. "Yeah! I came to get help with my academics as there's a thing I needa get according to my teacher. I gotta get the honorifics right." He purses his lips. "Fuu was helping me but, like, I found out that if you use them wrong you insult people! So I am kinda scared to use them..." He looks down for a moment, but perks badk up. "I was hoping the shrines could help somehow!"
Rei shows Usagi how the art of the ceremony is done, and the boy takes any queues to try it out! Even the bowing! Sampling the tea and sharing it seems to be quite the joy as well! He has a bit of trouble tasting the tea from the correct side and holding it right but there is earnest trying there.
"Such a cool tradition..."
"Too young to date makes you the most eligible bachelor." Usagi beams with a sort of wisdom that only an adolescent girl can offer. Like that of a big sister to a little brother. "Mmm-mmm! I'm a little too casual for this right now." As she puts a hand next to her face and whispers, "Don't take from your senpai's example."
Normally she'd put on her Kimono for this but she's not any good at that unless Ikuko is helping her - and Ikuko was out for the day.
"I didn't say you were teasing - it's just - you keep saying that." Before she prompts, "About whether her father would be proud of her. And I just don't think of Rei-chan as working to make him proud." There's this tiny shrug, and a cheerful little smile, "Rei-chan is just Rei-chan on her own."
Before she then taps a finger to her temple, "Hmmm - if you say so!" Because she has no reason at all to disbelieve her.
Before Rei mentions that she needs to learn how to do this, and Usagi actually has something glimmer in her eyes, "I'll try my best Rei-chan!" Before then bowing. However as Rei starts to hand her the bowl of tea.
And Usagi reaches out - and then hesitates.
Then glances up, and looks Rei Hino in the eyes as she asks anxiously, "You're sure it's okay right? I once got told these bowls can be really expensive and I don't want to end up breaking it and working to pay off a debt at Ohtori for the next twenty years..."
Usagi continues to defend her, and really, it's kind of touching how much she's noticed. So, of course, Rei insists: "Rei-chan is the best Rei-chan!" With all the bravado of someone who doesn't really care. (She cares a lot.)
To Steven, Rei smiles. "Cool, huh? Yeah, festivals are pretty cool." It's something of an odd turn of phrase to describe ancient traditions with, but there's nothing wrong with blending the modern and the traditional.
Or, in fact, with local tradition and people abroad. Rei presses the bowl into Usagi's hands, though she'll make sure she's holding it before she lets go. "Don't worry," she assures her. "You'll be okay, Usagi." Even if she did break the expensive bowl, there's no way Rei would let Usagi Tsukino be indebted to Ohtori. Her father is useless, but she'd still exploit his wealth to get one of her best friends out of that.
Once everyone is done tasting the tea, Rei begins the process of cleansing the equipment. "You could pray to a shrine for courage," she suggests, "or for politeness. You could buy a charm to carry with you, to help you remember. But the most important thing is to practice!" She insists, bold. "Getting things wrong is the first step to getting them right, and each success is built on five mistakes!"
Well, maybe she listens to Kasagami's speeches more than she lets on.
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Bleach: Eve of Eternity :: Character Creation :: Character Profiles :: Approved Arrancar Share
Ayane Mai Hoshi
Rank : Cuarta Espada
Exp : 580
Weapon Skill : Master
HSM : Untrained
Reiatsu : Master
Hakudo : Master
Subject: Ayane Mai Hoshi Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:56 pm
"Without cruelty there is no festival."
~~~Arrancar~~~
Name: Ayane Mai Hoshi
((Ayane - means Kimono Design, Mai - Dance, Hoshi - Star.))
Alias: Aya, Princess Kaguya, Ice Princess
Visual Age: 18
Reiatsu Color: White
Hollow Hole Location: Left Hip
Affiliation: Member of The Espada
Rank: Espada Number 4
Aspect of Death: Vanity
--------------------Persona--------------------
With skin the color of milky translucent porcelain, her ever so long deep mahogany hair accentuates her play complexion. If in a upright position her hair would descend down to her knees, flowing down into corkscrew curls. The hair that would to have framed her gentle face is fashion into loose braids that fall down both sides of her face. Undisclosed to most persons if you were to lift up Ayane's hair and look at the nape of her neck a recognizable four is scrawled on her flesh.
Taking a general review of Ayane's body is rather petite standing stature of five foot six inches tall. In regards to her chest size it is rather generous as it being cupped at a C. Her appendages are fairly sylphlike in size even her fingers follow suit to this. ((Definition of sylphlike - slender and graceful)) Her waist appears to be dainty and her hips being voluptuous, upon her left hip a extensive circular gap can be found this in turn is her Hollow Hole. Now upon looking at her face it appears to look almost like china being almost fragile to the touch. Her lips soft and subtle the color of them is almost but isn't bleached out completely moving up we would find her nose which is both thin and acute. Again moving upwards we approach her eyes first we see her eyelashes which are robust. Finally we come to her eyes which shine like a vivid emerald with a flex of gold inside.
Now in regards to embellishments which Ayane embodies quite a few of. One of which she favors greatly is a beaded tourmaline bracelet that lays around her right wrist the beads follow a pattern of large small large small, the reason she favors this bracelet is do its color which is a pale yet clear pink with specks of red in it. Another embellishment that she wears is usually the first thing a mans eyes will go to, it is located just above her cleavage this embellishment is fastened to her chest. It consists of a coral red five petal flower inside the flower directly in the center is a yellow tourmaline gemstone. A short green tassel hangs down from underneath the coral flower gently resting between her breasts. Her most recently received embellishment is a hair clip that is located on the crown of her head, the cheapest yet well liked piece is designed from amber. The amber is shaped liked cherry blossoms, there is three of them placed next to each other the three flowers are cushioned on top of a bed of white feathers. The last embellishment she wore was a permanent fixture upon her it was in the shape of a crescent moon laying horizontally with the pointed ends of the moon pointed upwards. This moon was the color of ivory and is placed between her eyebrows on the bridge of her nose the tips of the moon itself were not ivory colored but golden. This moon in every aspect was the very remains of her hollow mask.
When it comes to clothing Ayane appears usually in her kimono but unlike the normal way a kimono is to be worn she wears it in a more sultry manor. She only wears three part of the kimono when technically a kimono has a total of seventeen parts. The parts that she wears consist of a nagajuban which is the under kimono which consists of the haneri collar that is normal sticking out and being seen when wearing a traditional kimono. Next part she wears is the kimono itself. And finally a obiage which is normally a scarf wrap the goes over top a obi itself.
Ayane's nagajuban is of sheer lavender color with a white ornate haneri collar, normally no one would be able to see the kimono itself but only the haneri collar but since she casually wears her kimono down past her shoulders one could easily see this kimono without any trouble. Over top of the nagajuban you see her favorite kimono which is both a pale baby blue and royal blue. The royal blue would be found around what would her collar, ends of her sleeves, and the very bottom of her kimono. Around the edges of the royal blue you see a piping of gold thread these same gold is present within the royal blue, inside of the blue there are small gold five petal flower designs. Beside that part the rest of the overall kimono is a pale blue. Keeping her kimono in place Ayane has a deep rich purple obiage wrapped around her waist multiple times and tied in the back with a giant bow.
The kimono is kept in a very casual manner showing a lot of Ayane's skin, firstly it is draped off her arms exposing a lot of skin from her shoulders, back, chest and arms. Then near the bottom of the kimono she splits it open a inch above the knees showing off her bare legs. With most kimonos one is to wear a special pair of socks and shoes known as zori and tabi, but Ayane disregards this and is usual found barefoot. The reason as to why she wears this instead of that of a arrancars outfit is simply due to the fact of the class of beauty that of a arrancars outfit she finds it dull and unappealing being the aspect of vanity beauty always comes first.
Though barefoot most of the time Ayane barely places her feet down upon the ground but instead manipulates reishi underneath her in a form of a platform. She sits upon this platform and floats around she in turn uses this reishi as her means of transportation.
Overall looking at Ayane and all aspects she herself looks almost as if she was a traditional ornate japanese doll.
Ayane is a very honest women when it comes to those she are close with but when around those she is unfamiliar with she seals herself up like a closed book not letting a word out to the other person. She does not judge people for what they say but what they do, she can easily read others simply by their body language and can tell if they are a person she wish to occupy or not. If my chance from reading the body language they appear hostile she won't hesitate to smite them with her powers to the point they put themselves out of their misery.
She can be rather ruthless when it comes to battle, she will show no remorse as one dies if even a friend of her were to die she wouldn't show much remorse the reason for this if they died on the battlefield they either die doing something they love or protecting something the wish to have protected. This at times can be contradicted as she has the very caring side to her to those she is close to. But this is not forced if she were to see someone being slaughtered on the battlefield she would not run up to them and drag them out of the battlefield and bandage them up. They would need to have the common sense and step off the battlefield themselves before she would tend them. In a manner of speaking this was how she came to care for Gabriel.
She also can be negative at times thinking why does one have to fight if they know very well they are gonna lose and die. Why fight and die when you can live tomorrow. This does not mean she will run away from a battle if challenged and she fears she might lose. But she doesn't like the thought that people going into battle know they might just very die in battle and be okay with it.
Laziness is a major issue with Ayane, if she doesn't have to do anything she won't. Plain and simple a example is she floats on a reishi platform as her means of movement instead of walking. I guess this was psychologically implanted due to the fact she doesn't even need to lift a figure while using her ress to kill someone.
She can also be emotionally unattached in the aspects of love due to a past events she simply locked this feeling up thinking there is no such thing as love and never again touch the feeling. Except a small amount of this feeling is leaking out of the dam she place up protecting this emotion when it comes to when she hangs out with Gabriel, we will have to wait and see how this comes to light.
And finally Ayane is vain, almost to vain for one single person. She cares almost to much on material things and appearance that she can overlook certain things in her life. When it comes to encountering another women Ayane would look her over and if she fells as if she might be a threat to Ayane's beautiful she would make the women swiftly kill themselves.
--------------------History--------------------
Human Life -
As a human Ayane was born into a family of kimono makers that personal made kimonos for the royal court of Japan. She was raised rather well never missing a meal and being able to eat healthy, unlike many others. She was born having both parents there and also having a older sister who she looked up to very much. Her sister was only three years older then herself and she usually watched over and protected Ayane. While growing up one could see that Ayane was rather popular amongst that of the neighborhood boys simply due to being very beautiful. What set her apart from that of other girls in the neighbor was her almost flawless complex and vibrant emerald green eyes.
Her eyes even brought the attention to older men and even the royal court. Men came to the family asking her parents if they were ever to want to sell her, of course the answer was no they loved Ayane very dearly. By this time rumor was spreading of Ayane that it even reached the ears of her sister who was at the moment working within the royal court as a ladies maiden to the queen. Thinking nothing of it at the time she wrote to Ayane that her name was appearing within the court in good favour and that when she was age she should head to the palace and ask for a place within the court.
Like her sister recommended she joined the court when she became of age having not seen her sister face to face in a total of three years she was finally resaw each other after so long. To Ayane's sister surprise she had grpwn into a real women that three years she had changed from the little girl she once was. Like when living at home her appearance drew alot attention to those of the men within the court. Ayane would normally ignore this but the crown prince, the king and queen's only son started to fall for her as well.
Within a year she was engaged to the prince, her parents where ever so happy to marry their daughter off to the prince. But this made Ayane's sister isanely jealous to see her younger sister to be married before her. The part that annoyed her the most was the fact Ayane was only there for a year and she herself was there for now four years, working on the prince. While Ayane did nothing and he came for her instead. A week before the wedding Ayane and her sister went to one of their families cottages, this cottage was beside a beautiful river that the two of the used to play in when they were young. Feeling nostagic Ayane stepped into the river and beckoned her sister to join her which she did.
As her sister came in she turned away looking into the clear river. At this point a very sharp pain started radiating from her head and she found herself laying in the river. This pain was caused by that of her sister though she didn't know that until rolling over and looking at her sister as she was holding a rock. What happened next was to fast for that of Ayane to understand. Her sister dropped the rock and came rushing towards Ayane pushing her down with a tackle. She then mounted up ontop of Ayane chest pressing down onto Ayane's ribs knocking out Ayane's last breath, she took her hands and wrapped them around Ayane's neck pushing her head under the water. Having no breath to hold she grasped for air but being underwater all she was taking in was water itself so within a minute died with water having completely filled her lungs, Ayane was only fourteen at the time of her death.
Early Spirit Life -
Having finally reopening her eyes she found herself laying down in a river. Like any normal person she tried standing up but couldn't a sudden heaviness weighed on her. She looked and saw chains wrapped up and down her body and located its origin which was her chest. Her first instanct was to call for help but to no aww no one ever came to rescue. The growing fear that was to drown in this river, for some reason something clicked in her that she had already done that having never knowing why she was here the fear that she had died finally hit her.
She had finally come to grips of her death within a weak of be stuck in the river but she be damned if she were to stay here. She tried wiggling out of her chains after of endless wiggling after two weeks she got her arms out of the bondage of the chains. She had to get out of the chains and the only thing she could think of was to go for the source, so she started tugging at the chain coming out of her chest. She realized that doing this was gonna cause her great pain and she could feel it running all through her body but she could feel the chains start loosening up little did she know the chains weren't loosening up but disappearing and becoming shorter.
She did this for over three months none stop screaming the whole time by doing this once almost reaching for months she could finally move. What was left of her chain as only that of three inches. Thinking she could finally relax cause she could move she gets out of the river and sits on a rock on the riverside. After taking a few days to relax from all the pain she experienced it was to late the chain was gone and what appeared where the chain was? It was a gaping hole. Once seeing the whole a rush of energy sparked up inside and outside of Ayane engulfing her in a bizarre light.
Newborn Hollow -
Once the engulfing light disappeared there Ayane stood as a small sprite like creature with a rose shape appendage and wing attached to her back. She was in a daze she didn't know who or what she was but all she could regonize was a hunger brewing within her. What she hungered she wasn't sure of but she knew she needed to satisfy it. Using her newly made wings she takes off to look for food after hours of fly she came across a delicious smell she then followed this smell for a while and came across a young man. The young man was a traveling swordsman not fully sure who to eat she sat upon his shoulder, after a few minutes something happened small like vine appendages came flying out of rose and entered the nape of the mans neck. Unsure of what was going on the answers started to come forth the hunger she had been feeling was then starting to die down. Put as soon as it started to die down she became even hungrier. Soon within a hour the man collapse down on the ground dead from his soul being eaten, as Ayane was off looking for her next victim.
This way of feeding keep going for twenty years, she had a few chance encounters some with fullbringers, Shinigami and other Hollows. But thanks to her size was able to avoid being killed by any of them. But one day the feeding of humans no longer help deal with Ayane's hunger so at this point she knew she needed to find large pray to feed on. The only thing she could think of to eat was other hollows she knew if she wasn't careful that she would be easily eaten herself. Being small came to her help when eating other hollows she could sneak up behind them and sit on their back and they would never notice. Just like she thought this did help weaken her hunger. She used this same tactic for five years until she was so full she started to transform into a menos, before becoming a menos Ayane could eat two or three hollows a week.
Gillian Arc -
Ayane had then awaken to a new found hunger a hunger she herself had never had experienced with this hunger she was now taken form into a new being. This being was the next step in the evolutionary chain of a hollow, she was reborn as a gillian or to some called a menos grande. This part of her history is hard for Ayane of the present day to remember details as it being very vague.
When in this stage Ayane was not the size she was accustomed to being sprite size she was now a towering beast that only hungered for more. Staying with the other Menos in the forest of menos you would be able to be noticed even with a swarm of other menos. How she stood out was her mask unlike the others who had the same mask matching masks with the long pointed out nose hers was rather flat mask with small hints of gold designs upon it. As a beast she took the opportunity to fill her hunger the best she could possibly do and by that she had resorted to cannibalism by eating her fellow menos grande and even at times taking the treat of a rare delicacy of freshly made Adjuchas who might be lurking within the menos forest.
Though hard to kill the Adjuchas within the menos forest is only targeted the one that freshly made, ones who were sure of what was going on. Though in comparison in strength the Adjuchas were stronger then that of a Gillian using her overwhelming size she would try stepping on them as if they were bugs. At times she might get lucky and be able to get them in one go but if they were to run off would disregard them and let them run off. She knew though if she were to step on them they would be crushed under her foot if not to the point closest to death but one choose enough to paralysis them for a moment which gave her just enough time to grab them and throw them into her gaping mouth.
Though the process of killing the Adjuchas were hard she had only gotten two whole Adjuchas in her whole time as a menos. Though spending at two hundred years as a menos that was all she could ever to get her hands on. The rest of the time she spent hunting her fellow brother menos.
Adjuchas Arc -
After many years Ayane finally reached past of the Menos/Gillian level and entered the Adjuchas level, within this level she started to learn what her true power was. But firstly when firstly being recreated as a Adjuchas was a new feeling for her. She was no longer huge like when she was a Menos she took a more human like appearance, her golden tinted mask was located where it would be upon her face but her body color that was once black was now a dull gray and a large white rose grew from her shoulders up all the way to her neck. Giving her a collar like look her hands took a wooden like branch appearance up to her elbows.
Again like before in the previous stage her hunger started to grew even more causing her to stay a cannibal eating her own kind. Being elusive Ayane stayed within the Menos Forest as the prey was more aboundate having menos and freshly made adjuchas there. In the beginning she mainly targeted menos taking bites of them here and there after a few years of doing this the Menos could no longer help the hunger she had. It was like a pebble being dropped in a lake of water completely useless in the attempts of filling it.
So she needed a better prey and which she started going after newly made adjuchas, to her surprise the feeling of eating them greatly filled her hunger but once the hunger died down it came back twice as hard. During this period of eating Adjuchas she noticed something when she would attack someone instead of them attacking her they would jump a few feet away and started attacking something but nothing being there, later she learned that she could inplant images into someones mine making them seeing things that were never there.
As time came when her hunger was getting harder to fill up she knew she could no longer stay within the Menos Forest why well because yes there were Menos by the hundreds in here but they wouldn't do the trick. Adjuchas themselves were hardly seen within the forest unless they were freshly made but that only happens very rarely maybe once in a few years. Adjuchas once coming to their senses usually head upwards to the desert of Hueco Mundo usually in groups of three or four. Ayane thought about it and decided to head upwards to Hueco Mundo thinking of the possible groups being three times the amount of what she was normally used to when it comes to meals.
When coming up topside she was surprised at how vast the land was and how open it was. It was nothing like what the forest was like being a slightly used to the forest she knew she needed to quickly adjust to her surrounds if she were to live in this world. After about twenty years she was able to be completely in tone with her surroundings though she didn't come across alot of prey when she did she happily devoured them.
The lands within the vast Hueco Mundo was dull not much happened, until one day she caught view of a battle between what she believed where called arrancars she only learned this word from a prey she kicked many years ago. They were hollows but at the same time not hollows in a aspect as they didn't look like what a hollow would normally look like. Amazed as the match she watch it from a careful distant from what they could tell they were fighting over a position, not sure what that meant she continued watching them. How they fought made Ayane feel weak in comparison, they used moves that she had never seen before and before long the battle was over only one stood as victor a young man. Not thinking she clapped her hand in applause of his fight.
Having heard the clapping the man appeared before Ayane and looked straight at her. Scared at how the man looked at her she feared he was gonna kill her. Using her ability at this point having mastered it escaped leaving the man in complete confusion. Once getting a decent distance away from him she reviewed the battle within her mind and she decided she want to be strong just like him. Admiring him she worked hard for about one hundred and fifty years.
During this time she worked hard on fighting other Adjuchas, she kept doing this to the point she learned to fight exhaustion even when presented with fighting a adjuchas that were far harder then her. After a fifty years into her training she learned that it was becoming harder and harder to find a worthy opponent and near the end of the the one hundred and fifty year she was finding it hard to find any adjucha opponents even worthy to fight.
Birth of the rare Vasto Lorde -
Skipping ahead after hundred and fifty years we see Ayane having come to a new level, no longer a adjuchas but that a vasto lorde. This transformation came from her desire to be stronger. Taking the rank of Vasto Lorde came with a new look as well for Ayane. She looked similar to shape of that of the arrancars looking like a human. Firstly her hollow mask now formed fit upon her face unlike before her body which was once gray in appearance is now white the overall look gives her a more female appearance showing her curves. The rose that was once place around her neck like a collar was no longer apparent instead a long opening front skirt connect to her waist wrapping around her back had become the most out standing feature. The skirt still similar yet not to the collar had a flower based look to it, unlike before it looking like it rose it looked as though it was over whelming amount of flower petals that were connected together forming the skirt. The final added which was show was her hair, which flowed down her back whimsically the hair color was the a glistening silver color.
Having fallen in love with her appearance she hoped that she would meet the arrancar once more in the attempts to show him she was so weak anymore. That opportunity came and on that day she was amazed to see him again since it had been a long time since she had seen him she wasn't sure he was even still alive. He recognized her and told her he was impressed on how she used her ability to escape him, she in turn told him after seeing his fight she was inspired to good stronger. He nodded and stated he could see that but he also stated since they last met he had gotten stronger himself. Back then he told her he was only rank as Espada ten and now he was espada four.
Amazed out how he had got stronger she asked if the two could spar together she wanted to know how much further she needed to train. Not telling him it was so she could stand beside him on the battlefield. He agreed to this and so they begun a sparring match between them the match was hardcore to the point that it could be seen for over a mile away. The match was heated in a way that ceros were being set off ever three seconds. Though Ayane knew she couldn't even compare to the arrancar she held her own for a little while against him using illusions to constantly confuse him which in turn made her exhausted as Ayane panted on her knees the man walked over to her.
Once finally appearing in front of her he asked if she would be his fraccion. Confused she as to what means she asked him what it was, he told her that she would basically work beside him. Surprised at his request though out of breathe still was able to scream out yes. With a smile he told her she couldn't go there looking the way she did now and told her she would have to rip off her mask. Scared off what might happened if she were to rip her mask took the word from the man that she would be alright. Reaching upwards grabbing it my the jaw line she ripped it off in a upward movement leaving behind a small piece of it.
Life of Servitude -
Once removing the mask like the man said to do, everything changed first the pain of the mask hit her in they way that tears came rolling down her face. But ultimately her appearance changed she no longer looked like what she need before as a vasto lorde firstly all the skirt she was fashioned in degenerated into what looked like a fine white powder, then her skin took a different look it was no longer white and firm but a very peachy color and soft in a way. Finally her once sparkling white hair was now the the color of brown. Completely confused she looks up at the man with tears still in her eyes.
The mans face completely puzzled her even more he was smiling, why was he smiling was he smiling because the pain she was feeling shortly she figured why he was smiling. It was because she now had joined the race of arrancars. He extended his hand to the naked Ayane and brought her up to her feet wrapping one arm behind her back, he told her that he was gonna take her to los noches to live in the castle with the other arrancars.
Like a lost puppy she followed him to the castle once there he handed her clothes and showed her to a room saying this was to be where she would live from now on. Happy for being able to be with him she started living as if a maid for him always trying to make him happy, as she had fallen in love. But though she tried to her hardest to make him happy he she could never do so he was always mad at her and showed it by hitting her and beating her to the point of deaths door.
She could never understand as to why when he was once so nice to her, and now so mean to her. She started noticing things when she first arrived he told her that other arrancars live within the castle but to her understanding she never once saw any. She loved the man and even a few times told him, even knowing that information he never showed her the kindness of saying it back. It finally dawned on her after piecing it all together he was simply using her almost like a slave.
Rise of a Espada -
Once it all dawned on her Ayane was furious she couldn't understand as to how and why she respected him. She was filled with the urge to kill him and nothing was ever gonna stop that. So took this drive and started training to learn how to expertly use her resurreccion, know full well not to show it to him. The reason as to why she wouldn't show him this simply cause she wished to surprise him with it as to his knowledge he didn't know that she even knew what a resurreccion was. The only reason that she knew what this was, was when she watched his battle back when she was a Adjuchas.
The one day after spending three years training herself he asked her to do something for him and she then quickly responded with do it yourself caught off guard he turned to her with anger in his face but as he turned to her she was already within her resurreccion. He went to draw his blade but when looking down it was gone wondering what had happened to it he looks up and Ayane was holding it. But truthfully it was always beside him this was merely a illusion.
This was the very first time she had ever used her resurreccion so both of them was not sure what to expect, her resurreccion was more or less a powering up of her original abilities but given it harder chances of breaking it. She threw the sword back towards him this time unsheathed at this point he figured it was nothing but a illusion so he didn't dodge it. As the sword came shooting at him it stabbed its way right through his shoulder in turn the man felt it as if it was really in him. He would try to pull it out but no matter how hard he tried it wouldn't budge not even a inch.
The struggled kept going as Ayane watched him with a smile, with each time he would now pull the further it went into him, as if feeling all this pain he screams in agony. At this point vines started to grow up his legs binding them together cause the man to fall forward onto his stomach hitting his head at the same time onto the ground. The vines were but mere illusions but the falling was his own fault but not knowing what realty was anymore it was figured he would fall. Upon impact of the ground he happened to crack his head open on the ground. With blood rushing down his face and in agony he tries to push up off the ground at this point two giant thorns come down piercing both of his hands. At this point his screams were ever so violent.
Having given up fight her he pleads to be released and that he will be nice to her from now on. She said with a gentle smile if u wish to be released bite off your own tongue and drown in your blood. At this point the man started coughing up blood why you may ask while he may be looking at Ayane he wasn't really looking at her at all, he was looking merely at a illusion using misdirection she really slipped behind and grabbed his sword and stabbed once into both lungs. So the reason he was coughing up blood was cause his very lungs were filling up with blood. He died within minutes in agonizing pain though if he could had seen passed the illusions he would have lived but being ignorant it spelled to his demise. After dying Ayane took the liberty to devour his soul. Shortly after having killed him Ayane was given the rank of Espada Four.[b]
Blue Moon War & Post War Time -
[b]By the time the war hit which would be called the Blue Moon War that mainly was between both the shinigami and arrancars Ayane was position as espada four many years. The war itself was brutal having lost three espadas ranked sixth, seventh and tenth. Ayane was worried that moral of the arrancars would soon drop and they would lose the war. Just as she thought the moral of the overall espadas dropped and they were being pushed back to the point that the Shinigami won the war.
Though in the beginning it wasn't all that hard as Ayane dealt with waves of young shinigami with ease and without much effort at all. The longer the war went it she would start to get exhausted as any person would. Upon a battle with a captain and his lieutenant Ayane was easily being over powered but with clever illusions and misdirections took the moment to flee and head towards the ruins of los noches till the end of the war.
Nearing the end of the war she came across a wounded arrancar, this in turn was the first espada named Gabriel Zeil. Gabriel was in very bad condition to the point he was closer to death then he was to living. To most arrancar this would be the time to kill him and take his rank but Ayane could care less for his rank but more for his health, carefully caring for him Gabriel was brought back from the brink of death.
After he was healed Gabriel and Ayane both parted, this was not the end of the two after taking care of him Ayane started to fall for him not having felt this way since she first met the previous fourth espada it was odd to shake. It didn't help when Gabriel popped in once in a while. The two started to become what might call friends neither of the two really knowing what that might me. One day though Gabriel came to visit her and gave her a present the present being a pink tourmaline bracelet. Falling in love with the bracelet Ayane even to this day always wears it where ever she goes.
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BJP reneges on its 2014 poll promise with lacklustre education budget
by Asians Voice February 6, 2018, 12:44 am
The Modi government’s last budget ahead of the 2019 election was a mixed bag for the education sector, which is plagued with many serious issues aside from the overall lack of funds.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley allocated Rs 85,000 crore (US$13.26 billion) for education, with Rs 50,000 crore for schools and the rest for higher education. This was an increase of just 8% over last year. The allocation for secondary education rose by a similar ratio, from Rs 3,900 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 4,200 crore for the 2018-19 fiscal year.
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In his budget speech, Jaitley expressed concern about the quality of education and announced an extensive training program to upgrade the skills of 1.3 million untrained teachers.
He also proposed treating education “holistically without segmentation from pre-nursery to Class 12”. This could only be possible by extending the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 up to the higher secondary level – something Jaitley did not address, seemingly because it would require huge funding.
Instead, he increased the 3% education tax to a 4% ‘health and education’ levy, which should bring an additional Rs 11,000 crore to government coffers. This shows the government is in no mood to prioritize education and has shifted that responsibility to the public.
Strangely, the levy collected in the past was mostly unused. A report by Hindu Businessline said more than Rs 830 billion lay idle in government coffers last year.
India spends least among BRICS nations
Despite the deeply concerning state of education in India, the sector still accounts for only 3.8% of gross domestic product (GDP). In fact, India’s overall allocation to this important sector over the last decade has hovered between 3.8-4.0% of total expenditure.
In its election manifesto for the 2014 election, the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party had promised to allocate 6% of GDP for education, yet India’s outlay on education remains the lowest among peers. A statistical publication put out by BRICS in 2015 reveals that Brazil spent 5.5% of its GDP, Russia 4.4%, China 4.3% and South Africa 6.5% on education in the year 2013.
“The demographic dividend will decide if India will emerge as the fastest growing nation over the next decade. But to ensure that it happens, Indian youths need a conducive regulatory framework and policy support,” educationist Dr Milind Wagh said.
Jaitley’s budget, however, failed to do this. Funds allocated for the government program to universalize elementary education – the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan – increased by just 11%. Funding rose from Rs 235 billion to Rs 261 billion, but that is still far below the resources required.
The midday meal scheme, aimed at improving school-age children’s nutrition, also saw a negligible increase.
No measures were announced either in regard to higher education loans despite Indian banks getting increasingly skeptical about disbursing funds, given the rising number of defaulters.
Jaitley did announce a new “Prime Minister’s scholarship” project, with the aim of keeping highly skilled engineers in the country. However, activists called it an “eyewash” as a large number of scholarships were abolished last year.
Public education grappling with serious issues
Overall, the budget allocation seems minuscule considering the issues the education sector faces. According to Census 2011, there are around 84 million children not even getting to school.
A quarter of public schools lack classrooms, electricity and/or toilets – and 200,000 government schools across the country have been closed. In some states, schools have even been handed over indiscriminately to private players under public-private partnerships.
According to the Annual Survey of Education Report (ASER) 2017, enrolment in secondary schools almost doubled from 11 million to 22 million over the last decade. But children demonstrated poor learning outcomes despite years of schooling. One in four in standard-eight were unable to read standard-two level text. And 42% children could not carry out basic tasks like reading simple sentences in English, division or subtraction.
Pre-primary children have also been neglected. Prof Wagh said: “Despite repeated demands, the government has not bothered to address the needs of pre-primary education. This would require political will and huge money, as the government will have to strengthen its anganwadis [rural shelters] too.”
The number of positions for government teachers that remain unfilled at the secondary level is a staggering 17.5%.
More funds are also needed to implement the basics of the RTE Act in schools but this has largely been ignored, with budget focused more to catchy announcements.
The higher education sector faces similar quality issues with the mushrooming of private institutions, poorly paid under-qualified teachers and a lack of regulation. This has lead to unemployment and under-employment of most graduates.
Sadly, major initiatives announced in Budget 2017 such as a National Testing Agency to conduct all entrance exams and a major push for quality of education are yet to take off.
“Slogans like ‘Upgrading education infrastructure by 2022’ and from ‘blackboard to digital boards’ will [only] work when fundamental concerns of public education are addressed first,” CS Kulkarni, a professor at Mumbai university said.
For the BJP, already struggling to provide jobs to millions of youths, the education budget could be a millstone around its neck next year.
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TMC activists attack cars of BJP leaders and after ransacking burn down 3 BJP offices on fire
BJP workers chased away Trinamul activists flashing black flags at a car ferrying two BJP leaders and ransacked two offices of the Bengal ruling party in Cooch Behar.
Trinamul leaders said the attack had come as a surprise as the party had gradually gained control in the district by elbowing out the Forward Bloc.
After the attack on the car of BJP leaders Locket Chatterjee and Jayprakash Majumdar and the ransacking, Trinamul activists set three BJP offices on fire.
Sources said the BJP had been gaining in strength in several pockets of Cooch Behar near the Bangladesh border, especially among the erstwhile enclave dwellers. Unlike in other districts, sections of minorities seem to be backing the BJP in Cooch Behar.
Several cars - including two police vehicles - two-wheelers and battery-operated autorickshaws were damaged by supporters of both parties.
Locket later said if Trinamul attacked the BJP, "we will reply in the same language".
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Brunello di Montalcino, the Pure Expression of Sangiovese
1 Early Origins – Biondi Santi
2 Internal strife: traditional vs modern styles
3 Riserva vs normale classification
4 Location is everything
5 The flavor of youth, and other tasting notes
6 Serving tips
7 Pairing food with Brunello
Brunello di Montalcino is, without a doubt, one of the most highly regarded wines in the world. Adored by critics, collectors, young and old, casual and serious drinkers alike, this Italian red is like a classic Porsche 911. It never goes out of style.
Early Origins – Biondi Santi
The first traces of Brunello di Montalcino as we know it occur in the 1870’s. Il Risorgimento, the unification of all Italian regions into a single state had just occurred, and heralded the return of a young soldier by the name of Ferruccio Biondi-Santi to his home in Montalcino. He began managing his grandfather Clemente Santi’s estate, the Fattoria del Greppo and developed wine-making techniques that would soon spread all over Tuscany.
Wine Spectator included a 1955 Riserva Biondi Santi on their list of the 12 most memorable wines of the 20th century.
Biondi-Santi refused to mix his Sangiovese grapes with other varieties, as was the custom in Tuscany at the time. Instead he kept his Brunello completely separate from any other variety on the estate – from planting through a single fermentation (winemakers at the time also traditionally put their wine through a second fermentation process). The result was a pure, artisanal expression of Sangiovese that was virtually unheard of and quickly caught the attention of wine makers far and wide.
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Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino is still the benchmark producer of this wine today. The traditions of Signor Biondi-Santi are still implemented in its creation, and sampling a bottle of this traditional wine is a goal for many wine connoisseurs today. If one was to be truly lucky, they might sample a Biondi that has been aged for a half century or more. There are Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino wines that date back to the late 1800’s, and tasters all agree that the fruit is still very much present in these rare vintages.
Internal strife: traditional vs modern styles
Santi introduced one other tenet to his unique repertoire, and that was to age his Brunello in large Slavonian oak casks for extended periods of time. In fact, it was not uncommon for a barrel of Biondi-Santi’s Brunello di Montalcino to have been aged for over a decade. Upon emerging from the barrels, the wine was remarkably lively and fruity, but also tremendously delicate and complex, unlike anything made in Tuscany to that point.
The larger Slavonian casks are neutral, imparting very little flavor to the wine. The result? A pure expression of Sangiovese. Wines fermented entirely in these large casks are also quite tannic and that’s why they need many years in bottle to soften soften and become enjoyable.
A cluster of ripe Sangiovese grapes at La Fortuna
As modern winemaking techniques became in vogue over the past few decades, many producers in Montalcino ditched the giant wood casks in favor of smaller french barrels. They did this for a few reasons. Consumer tastes were changing. They wanted immediate gratification, and didn’t want to wait ten years before enjoying a wine. Fermenting in smaller french oak also delivers a much different version of Brunello – one with more chocolaty, vanilla, and brown sugar notes and a softer mouthfeel with less abrasive tannins. In short, a wine that’s a little more flashy, fleshy, fruity, and easier to enjoy upon release. But perhaps not as suitable for long term aging.
Of course, the old guard of Montalcino absolutely hated this modern Bordeaux-influenced approach. They felt like the french oak smothered the delicate nuances of Sangiovese. Franco Bondi went so far as to say the small french barrels should be abolished entirely.
Today you’ll find the debate over the “right” way to make Brunello still rages on. Some producers use only Slavonian oak. Some, like Domenic Clerico for example, prefer small french barriques. Others use a mix of the two.
Riserva vs normale classification
DOCG laws require Brunello to be made from 100% Sangiovese grapes with absolutely no blending. While the composition remains the same, the aging process can differ.
Brunello wines fall into two classifications:
Normale requires aging for 5 years after harvest, with a minimum of two years in oak, and four months aged in a bottle.
Riserva requires aging for 6 years after harvest, with a minimum of two years being aged in oak, and six months aged in a bottle.
Violation of any of these requirements results in a very hefty penalty. Winemakers who cut any corners or misrepresent the aging process of their Brunello di Montalcino can be imprisoned for up to six years on charges of commercial fraud. Not to mention lose their reputation.
Brunellogate
In 2008 a scandal rocked Montalcino. As darker and more jammy Brunello started becoming commonplace on the market, and some questioned whether these examples were in fact 100% Sangiovese. A major Italian newspaper speculated that some producers were adding other varietals like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon to round out their Brunello and make it more fruity, and thus immediately appealing to the masses. No conclusive proof was ever found but several producers were shamed into declassifying their Brunello into the lower Rosso di Toscana wines to move their inventory.
Location is everything
One of the most fascinating aspects of Brunello’s production is the way that terrain, temperature and micro-climate affect this wine. In fact, the perfect vineyard conditions only come around every so often. The most recent exceptional vintage was 2010, but 2015 and 2016 are shaping up to be excellent as well. In the worst years some producers choose to declassify their Brunello grapes into the lower quality Rosso wines – on the upside this can bring some incredible value to consumers.
Vineyards must be planted on exposed hills that do not rise above 1968 feet above sea level. Vines are pruned short and kept low to ensure smaller yields, which means the clusters that do remain are packed with power. This ensures ripeness and flavor in the grapes, as higher elevations will make for cooler climates.
Even the slope of the hill will change the flavor of the grapes, which is why many producers own vineyards on multiple faces in the finest locations and then combine the grapes for different wine styles. The northern slopes of Montalcino ripen slowly, while the southern and western slopes produce powerful and complex flavors after exposure to extra sunlight and the ocean breeze.
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The flavor of youth, and other tasting notes
“Young” Brunellos, or those that have been aged under a decade have a markedly different taste than older vintages. From a young Brunello, you can expect bold fruit flavors, extreme tartness and a sharp finish in the mouth that may leave you licking your lips! You’ll detect subtle flowers like violets and potpourri, fruits like cherries, wild strawberries, blackberries and cranberries and earthy notes of soil and espresso.
With at least 10 years of aging, the fresh tartness of the fruit flavors recede and reveal sweeter notes coupled with chocolates and hazel. The acidity mutes and the finish becomes less sharp and striking in older Brunellos as well. You’ll taste figs, sweet cherries, hazelnuts and the notes of leisurely sun-baked leather.
Both young and old will be prone to high tannins, high acidity and prominent fruit flavors that do not recede but merely soften with aging. It can easily age several decades or more.
Serving tips
Any bottle of Brunello di Montalcino should be uncorked well in advance to serving in order to allow it to breathe. Prior to serving, the bottle should be stored in a cool, dark place lying down. It should be served ideally between 64 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and if you are serving an older vintage that has been aged ten years or more, the wine should be served in a crystal carafe. Many enthusiasts will let the wine breathe in the carafe overnight to ensure proper aeration and display of its flavors.
Pairing food with Brunello
Brunello di Montalcino, being an Italian wine, naturally has a home at the dinner table.
It pairs best with heavier dishes, such as red meat, game, mushrooms and truffles. Any dish that consists of meat with heavy sauce coverings will be well-paired as well. To give you some inspiration, consider pairing your Brunello with these rosemary lamb chops or a dinner of roast duck.
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The masters of Brunello: Manzone
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JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012)
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Director: Don Coscarelli
Writer: Don Coscarelli, David Wong
Producer: Brad Baruh, Don Coscarelli, Andy Meyers, Roman Perez
Stars: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck, Paul Giamatti
Two friends and a dog must save mankind from an otherworldly invasion after a sentient drug called Soy Sauce infects users by granting strange psychic abilities.
Through a voice-over, Dave Wong asks a riddle whose answer will reveal the awful secret behind the universe. Dave uses an axe to behead a zombie, but breaks the axe handle in the process. Dave repairs the axe with a new handle from the hardware store. One morning, a small creature appears in his kitchen and he uses the axe again. This time, the blade breaks. Dave repairs the axe with a new blade from the hardware store. Back at home, the zombie Dave killed in the opening scene returns with a new head and says, “that’s the axe that slayed me!” Dave asks, “is he right?”
Reporter Arnie Blondestone meets with Dave in a Chinese restaurant, and Dave begins telling his story. While watching an infomercial for psychic spiritualist Doctor Albert Marconi, Dave receives a phone call from John. At John’s request, Dave goes to John’s place. The two friends meet with a girl named Shelly who says her undead boyfriend is harassing her. The trio goes to the basement of Shelley’s house to investigate. While talking to each other, Dave and John realize that each of them sees Shelly with a different physical appearance. Shelly appears and turns into a bundle of snakes. The doorknob turns into a penis, preventing the two friendss from turning it and leaving. A cooler of meat products assembles itself into a sentient meat monster and mistakes the duo for Marconi. They offer to put the monster on the phone with Marconi and Marconi dispatches the creature over the phone.
Back in the restaurant, Dave accurately predicts the change in Arnie’s pocket and identifies the dates on each coin to prove his heightened abilities. He then accurately describes Arnie’s dream from the night before. Dave then tells Arnie that the story begins two years ago when he went to see John perform with his band Three Arm Sally at a party. Dave talks to his friend Fred Chu by the keg. Justin White plays a joke on Amy Larking by taking her prosthetic hand and throwing it over towards Dave. Amy tells Dave that she has to find her dog because it just bit a Jamaican guy. Dave finds the Jamaican guy, who is impressing partygoers by levitating. The Jamaican guy tells Dave about his last dream and explains its meaning, which mystifies Dave. Dave returns to his truck and finds Amy’s dog, Bark Lee. He takes the dog home.
That night, Dave receives a frantic phone call from John. Dave goes to John and finds him behaving erratically. On the table is a shipping slip. John has no recollection of calling Dave. Dave decides to take John to a hospital. In John’s pocket, Dave finds a syringe. The two friends go to a coffee shop. John says the syringe is filled with a strange drug called Soy Sauce that he got from the Jamaican guy at the party. Among other things, the drug gives John the ability to remember events that have not yet happened. Dave receives a phone call from John even though he is sitting across from him.
Back in the car, Dave calls a priest named Father Shellnut for advice. During the call, Dave accidentally pricks himself with the needle. He sees that the drops from the syringe are alive and he begins hallucinating. Later, a man named Roger North suddenly appears in the backseat. Roger attaches a creature to Dave’s chest and forces Dave to drive. John is passed out. Roger cryptically speaks of an adversary named Korrok and Dave’s important role. Dave uses the car’s cigarette lighter to burn the creature from his chest and then points a gun at Roger. Dave exits the car to finish killing the creature and finds Roger has disappeared when he returns. Detective Lawrence Appleton then appears next to the car and takes Dave and John to the police station.
Appleton interrogates Dave about what happened at the party by the lake. Appleton tells Dave that nine people went to the One Ball Inn after the party. Three of them are missing, five are dead, and John is the only known survivor. Appleton is called from the room. When he returns, he tells Dave that John died.
At the restaurant, Dave takes Arnie outside and shows him a creature in his car to prove that he is telling the truth about all of the strange happenings. Continuing the story, Dave receives a phone call from John, even though John is dead, telling Dave to leave the police station. John tells Dave that the police officer in the room with him is not real. Dave fights the man, whose mustache turns into a creature, and eventually escapes. John proves the surreal nature of their situation by having Dave purchase a bratwurst on the street and using it like a phone.
Dave is directed to the trailer park home of Robert Marley, the Jamaican guy from the party. Inside, he watches footage of himself on the television being shot by Detective Appleton. In the kitchen, Dave finds two pills of Soy Sauce that turn into flies. One flies into his mouth while the other burrows into his face. Dave has a vision of distracting a man at a munitions factory. Appleton enters with a can of gasoline. Appleton tells Dave that when he came to Marley’s to investigate the deaths, he found gangsta wannabee Justin White being consumed by small creatures, but he was untouched when Appleton returned with a shotgun. Appleton just wants to destroy everything. He shoots Dave but the dud bullet from the munitions factory bounces off his chest. With the trailer on fire, Bark Lee drives the truck into the wall and rescues Dave.
John speaks to Dave telepathically through Bark Lee. The Soy Sauce creatures are taking over the planet by hatching inside the host bodies. Justin White waits for Dave at his home. Justin is now consumed by a creature who calls himself “Sh*tload.” Justin captures Dave.
Dave awakens in the back of a truck with John, Fred, Amy, and Bark Lee. Justin takes them to The Mall of the Dead. Inside the abandoned mall is a ghost door. John sees the package that he sent to himself earlier. Justin opens it and the note inside the box leads him to a trashcan outside the mall. When Justin goes to investigate, Appleton appears and kills him. Appleton then captures the group, but he explodes when the creatures hatch inside of him. Freddie is then consumed by the creatures and Dave shoots him. Back in the mall, Amy uses her phantom limb to open the ghost door, but only Dave, John, and Bark Lee make it through.
On the other side, Roger North meets Dave and John. Marconi also appears and explains that Dave and John have the ability to pass through to the other side of the portal in front of them. They are needed to defeat Korrok. Marconi gives them “The Tripper,” a C4 bomb with a hallucinogen, and the duo goes through the portal with Bark Lee to incapacitate Korrok.
In an alternate universe, Dave and John are met by a Largeman surrounded by naked men and women. Everyone is wearing a mask. Dave and John are taken to a shrine in their honor as their coming had been foretold by legend. Largeman explains that their two worlds were on similar timelines that separated with the birth of Cyrus Rooney in 1848. In Dave and John’s world, Rooney died in Tennessee at the age of 17 when he was gored to death while trying to crossbreed a bull with a Clydesdale. In Largeman’s world, Rooney lived and continued his experiments in beastiology. This led to breakthroughs in creating insectile flying machines and a thinking machine from the brain of a pig. When Rooney died, his creation of a bio-organic computer gained sentience and named itself Korrok. Korrok carried on Rooney’s work to advance mankind. Those who did not conform underwent re-education, which is the term for using giant spiders to kill them.
Largeman takes Dave and John to Korrok’s chamber. Those with special wisdom are sacrificed to Korrok so that Korrok may assimilate their knowledge. Largeman plans to serve Dave and John to Korrok so that Korrok can learn how to travel through the portal and conquer Earth. Dave and John resist the henchman but drop the bomb in the process. Bark Lee picks up the bomb and sacrifices himself by jumping into Korrok while Dave and John escape. Back in their world, Marconi explains that Dave and John were actually Bark Lee’s escorts. Bark Lee was psychically connected to Marconi ever since he bit Marley at the lake party. Dave and John were used because they were innocuous and would not be seen as a serious threat.
Dave finishes telling his story to Arnie. Dave realizes that Arnie is actually an old black man, even though Dave sees him as a balding white man. They go outside and find Arnie’s dead body in his car’s trunk. Someone killed Arnie after Dave contacted him and he now exists only in Dave’s imagination. Dave blinks Arnie out of existence.
Dave and John are shooting hoops when their basketball goes through a portal. On the other side, men appear claiming that Dave and John’s coming had been prophesized and they are needed to save this other world. Dave and John say that they have to retrieve some items first and then just go back to their own world, leaving the men on their own.
“John Dies at the End,” or “JDATE” for those who prefer an affectionate abbreviation, is such a psychotropic joyride through horrifyingly imaginative ideas about time, space, and multidimensional alien takeovers that describing it in the limited terms available on this Earth does it a disservice. JDATE begins by posing a hypothetical question about a resilient zombie, a grotesque space slug, and a hand axe that just cannot keep it together. Anyone left scratching his/her head after these first three minutes will still have that itch for the next hour and a half. But anyone cracking a smile when the riddle is revealed can buckle up for that aforementioned joyride.
Describing buddies Dave and John as slackers would not be quite accurate. Regardless of their slightly disheveled college kid appearances, they know how to step up when it comes time to battle interplanetary forces and demonic veal cutlets. A sentient alien drug dubbed “Soy Sauce” has the somewhat desirable side effect of granting transcendent psychic abilities such as remembering events that have not yet happened. What the drug’s users do not know is that they are actually playing host to the machinations of an otherworldly monster determined to rule the planet. Guess who stands in that monster’s way?
Rob Mayes plays John as a more manic Jerry O’Connell while Chase Williamson’s Dave is a more subdued Topher Grace. Together, the duo takes the reins of a sometimes unsteady jalopy and grounds the far out fantasy with a touch of reality that is surprisingly relatable.
Writer/director Don Coscarelli paces the script, based on Justin Pargin’s novel, with a staccato mania that hardly takes a breath. Save for a brief musical interlude during a party scene, there is rarely more than a 10 second gap between lines of dialogue, exchanged at a rate of witticism that would make Trapper and Hawkeye proud. Even scenes of Dave recounting his tale for reporter Arnie Blondestone (Paul Giamatti) while seated in a Chinese restaurant take on a frenetic urgency. Their sweat-beaded foreheads stare each other down while sorting out impossible revelations that Arnie wants to believe, even if his rational mind tells him otherwise. His rapt attention echoes the audience’s while everyone eagerly anticipates the next brain-teasing tidbit of mindbending forbidden knowledge.
JDATE is brimming with ideas that it literally cannot afford to realize. Sadder than the prospect of an impending apocalypse is the dawning notion that JDATE is felled by the arrow of its production checkbook. That Coscarelli even attempted such a broadly imaginative narrative despite missing a zero in the bank account is admirable. Though there are places in the story where wild thoughts burst at seams that are quickly sewn up due to necessity. A good film could have been exceptional if it had the ability to take off its leash and run in every direction it pointed.
Being no stranger to wild ideas on restrictive budgets, Coscarelli still shows his talent for making lemonade by finding inventive ways to wring out a penny like a soaked sponge, and uncovers humor in the process. The meat monster with a turkey head and hot dog sinew is one of the most memorable and original creatures in any recent horror film. Substituting a giant spider massacre with a creative cartoon not only tackles the visual presentation challenge, but the animated diversion adds unique opportunities for comedy. In some ways, the budgetary drawbacks evident on certain FX almost fit the movie’s tone. Green screen halos that would make George Lucas cringe have a charm befitting Dave and John’s rough-edged personalities. And the personality of JDATE, as well.
Like Dave and John, “John Dies at the End” is so likeable that it is hard not to forgive it for being occasionally unreliable. Ire at good friends is usually short-lived, and that is the case here, too. Keeping with that metaphor, “John Dies at the End” is like that friend who shows up at midnight and says, “get in the car” without telling you the destination. Although annoyed by having to get out of bed and entertain a borderline mental case, part of you is thankful that you even know someone out of the ordinary who can inject a breath of adventure into an otherwise dull life. Sometimes you just have to throw average to the wind and take a chance on experiencing something uniquely entertaining.
March 27, 2013 by Ian Sedensky.
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Movie audiences reliably enjoy just about every ingredient involved in Bend It Like Beckham, an East-meets-West comedy about an Indian family living in London’s Hounslow borough. It blends the cross-cultural and familial dynamics of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the cultural accoutrements of Monsoon Wedding, the underdog-athlete-overcoming-obstacles plot of every sports-themed movie from The Rookie to Rocky, and the feel-good milieu of all these films.
Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi. Fox Searchlight (2003 US).
Teens & Up*
Sporadic crude language and sexual references; sexual themes including implied nonmarital sex and references to characters’ suspected and actual homosexuality; girls’ locker-room footage (no explicit nudity); occasional profanity; frequent lying to parents; characters praying to the founder of Sikhism.
It also features a love triangle, teenage rebellion and coming of age, comic misunderstandings, and as tidily happy an ending as anyone could wish. As an added bonus, American audiences unfamiliar with football culture abroad (that would be the world of soccer to us) will learn who David Beckham is (an English Premiereship superstar) and what "bending it" means (kicking the ball to curve it past the goalkeeper). So what’s not to like?
On the other hand, Bend It Like Beckham is less inspired and more formulaic than any of the films mentioned above. There’s nothing here to compare to the subtlety, beauty, and moral depth of Monsoon Wedding, the endearing eccentricities of Greek Wedding’s characters (e.g., Toula’s father with his Windex and improvisational etymologies), or The Rookie’s genuine love of its sport and positive Christian background.
Where those movies celebrated family relationships, Bend It Like Beckham is much more a celebration of individuality and pursuing one’s dreams in spite of family opposition. Granted, this is a matter of degree and emphasis; and of course pursuing one’s dreams in spite of family opposition isn’t necessarily bad. Yet the film’s mantra that parents don’t always know what’s best for you, that you have to live your own life, etc., is repeated so often that it becomes tiresome, and overwhelms any positive appreciation for family life, except perhaps appreciation for parents who give children room to Be Themselves.
Jesminder Bhamra (engaging newcomer Parminder Nagra) spends too much of the film running around deceiving her traditional Sikh parents (Bollywood star Anupam Kher and Shaheen Khan) in order to play football after being recruited for a local girls’ team by the team’s star player, rail-shaped Juliette (Keira Knightley, Star Wars: Episode I).
The two girls, androgynously nicknamed Jess and Jules, quickly become fast friends, a relationship that’s always more palpable than the romantic tension either is supposed to have with the team’s brooding coach, Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ride With the Devil), an Irish lad whose own footballer days were ended by a knee injury.
Besides this rote romantic triangle, the story is overpadded with sitcom misunderstandings, including subplots in which Jess is believed to have been witnessed kissing a blond boy, Jules and Jess are thought by Jules’s overwrought mum (Juliet Stevenson, Nicholas Nickleby) to be lesbian lovers, Jess is caught in Joe’s arms by her father (though he’s actually only comforting her after a racial slur from an opposing player), and a supporting character who is thought to fancy a member of the opposite sex turns out to actually be gay.
In a twist on formula moviemaking convention, it’s the mothers who are unreasonably intolerant of their daughters’ interest and the fathers who are more sympathetic or flexible. Jules’ dad (Frank Harper, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels) bends the ball with her in their back yard while her mum frets that "there’s a reason why Sporty Spice is the only one without a fellow."
Jess’s mother is similarly disapproving, contrasting Jess unfavorably to her sugar-and-spice older sister, the delicately nicknamed Pinky (Archie Panjabi), who is already engaged to a nice Indian boy, while Jess — Guru Nanak preserve us — cannot even make chapattis. Jess’s dad retains some dignity as a proud immigrant wounded by memories of exclusion from English clubs after first emigrating to the UK, fearful lest his daughter suffer similar ostracism, but open-minded enough to slip into the stands and try to appreciate her talent.
The broadest caricature is Jules’ mother, who lapses into Indian-themed free association whenever she sees Jess ("I made a lovely curry the other day") and creates a humiliating scene over the suspected lesbianism of her daughter and Jess. She’s relieved to finally learn that the girls are not in fact lesbians, though she’s also quick to agree with her daughter’s "not that there’s anything wrong it" disclaimer. ("I was rooting for Martina Navratilova as much as the next person.")
Although it’s not a Bollywood film, like many Indian films Bend It throws in a traditional wedding with lots of color and activity, though director Chadha lacks the visual poetry that Mira Nair brought to Monsoon Wedding. Also, the movie never really lets us care too much about Pinky — and about her fiancé not at all — so there’s no emotional depth to the wedding footage; it’s just an interruption in the football sequences, which are what really matter.
In spite of these weaknesses, the three Js (Jess, Jules, and Joe) are appealing enough to keep things watchable, predictable as the story is. But was it necessary for the film to take such a clear interest in all the locker-room clothes changing? All the closeups of girls in sports bras slipping into and out of their street clothes seem intended to gratify guys accompanying their girlfriends to a girl-empowerment chick flick. Speaking for myself, I would rather have seen more football, well played and well photographed.
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Roundtrip from San Francisco, California
No matter where you sail, you'll enjoy the star treatment on board the sparkling Star Princess®. From her relaxed ambiance to tantalizing dining options and incredible features like the piazza-style Atrium, Movies Under the Stars® and The Sanctuary, a tranquil retreat reserved for adults, you're sure to feel indulged every moment of your stay.
No matter where you sail, you'll enjoy the star treatment on board the sparkling Star Princess®. From her relaxed ambiance to tantalizing dining options and incredible features like the piazza-style Atrium, Movies Under the Stars® and The Sanctuary, a tranquil retreat reserved for adults, you're sure to feel indulged every moment of your stay. Less
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Special Needs Notes
Designed for wheelchair maneuverability, with widened doorways into both the cabin and its bathroom; wheel-in showers, hand-held showerheads and bath distress alarms; as well as lowered closet railings, sinks, and handrails; and removed or revamped thresholds. Additional equipment is also available on request, such as toilet seat raisers, shower stools and bed boards. Elevators have generous 36- to 42-inch doorways, and wheelchair seating is available in show lounges and other public spaces.
All Princess ships have wheelchair-accessible staterooms, but we highly recommend collapsible wheelchairs, as the widths of the stateroom doors vary. Passengers utilizing mobility devices with batteries are advised that the batteries must be a dry cell type, and must be stored and recharged in the stateroom. Mobility devices of any kind, like any other items, may not be left outside the stateroom. Because of staffing limitations, we recommend you be accompanied by someone who is physically able to assist you both onboard and onshore.
Travelers with disabilities should check in with the onboard Tour Office to ensure all shore excursions can accommodate them. Not all port facilities are accessible for those using mobility devices. Ports may be accessed by a variety of methods including a ramped gangway, a series of steps or by tender. In some cases, you may be able to access the tender, but the shoreside facility will not be accessible. Many ports of call use a mechanism known as a “stair climber” to assist passengers up and down the gangway. Passengers must transfer to a Princess wheelchair, which is connected to the stair climber and operated by the ship’s personnel. If you cannot transfer or your personal mobility device cannot be easily disembarked, you may be precluded from going ashore. With your safety and comfort in mind, the decision to permit or prohibit passengers from going ashore will be made on each occasion by the ship’s Captain, and the decision will be final. Ports that normally use tenders to access the shore are noted on the itinerary.
The maximum weight of the wheelchair including guest cannot exceed 600 lbs. on transportation lifts. If you have purchased a Princess Transfer at the start or end of the cruise, be aware that lift-equipped transportation may not be available in your port of embarkation or disembarkation.
Entry regulations for service animals vary by port. Passengers are advised to consult authorities at each port prior to departure for more information. Princess does not have food onboard for animals. The choice of dog litter material is limited and varies by ship.
Princess ships are equipped with “All-in-One Kits” with TTY that can be used in most passenger cabins and at Princess wilderness lodges. Most televisions onboard provide closed captioning and most onboard theaters have assisted listening devices. Electric outlets in most staterooms are limited to one and it is helpful to travel with an extension cord for electrical equipment. Princess also offers JAWS Professional software with a KOSS-TD/80 headset on one terminal in each Internet Café on every ship.
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One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises first set sail in 1965 with a single ship cruising to Mexico. Today, the line has grown to become the third largest cruise line in the world, renowned for innovative ships, an array of onboard options and an environment of exceptional customer service. Princess carries 1.7 million guests each year to destinations around the globe ranging in length from three to 114 days, allowing them to
One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises first set sail in 1965 with a single ship cruising to Mexico. Today, the line has grown to become the third largest cruise line in the world, renowned for innovative ships, an array of onboard options and an environment of exceptional customer service. Princess carries 1.7 million guests each year to destinations around the globe ranging in length from three to 114 days, allowing them to see the world and come back new®.
A recognized leader in worldwide cruising, and favorite among guests and critics alike, Princess has won multiple awards, including:
“Best Cruise Itineraries” – Recommend Magazine (over a dozen times!)
“Best Cruise Line In Alaska” – Travel Weekly (over a dozen times!)
“Highest Customer Satisfaction” – TravelAge West
“Best Ocean Cruise Line – USA Today
Princess Cruises was catapulted to stardom in 1977 when its ships, Pacific Princess® was cast in a starring role on a new television show called The Love Boat. The weekly series, which introduced millions of viewers to the concept of a sea-going vacation, was an instant hit and both the company name and the iconic Princess logo have remained synonymous with cruising ever since. The show, which can still be seen around the world, has been widely credited with fueling the dramatic expansion of the industry.
Since its beginning, Princess has frequently paved the way in the cruise industry, evolving to meet the needs of vacationers. In fact, a number of Princess concepts have since been adopted by the entire cruise industry.
The company has long been the leader in building ships specifically designed to provide a most sought-after shipboard luxury: the private balcony. In the 1980s Princess pioneered the concept of the affordable veranda, once an exclusive feature available only in the most expensive suites. Today, Princess' fleet offers one of the highest percentages of balcony cabins in the industry, across all cabin categories.
In the mid-1990s the company pioneered the concept of putting passengers in control of their own cruise experience with the introduction of a wide range of flexible onboard facilities, amenities and services in order to create a personal vacation experience. Dining options were further revolutionized in 2001 as Princess became the first cruise line to offer passengers a choice in their main dining room experience – either the traditional seating or a restaurant-style Anytime Dining, in which diners could eat when and with whom they chose.
Today, guests are enjoying The Seawalk®. This first-of-its kind, 60-foot glass-floored walkway offers an unparalleled vision of the waves below, and was inspired by the captain’s view through the floor of the ship’s bridge.
In another industry first, Princess raised the bar for shipboard entertainment by partnering with Broadway’s Stephen Schwartz, composer of Godspell, Pippin and Wicked. Stephen created the spectacular production show Magic to Do exclusively for Princess.
Adding even more spectacle to an already dazzling slate of exciting entertainment, is Princess Watercolor Fantasy Show, a fountain show displaying cascading water illuminated with colored lights and choreographed to music.
Other Princess innovations over the years include the first wedding chapel hosting modern-day weddings at sea, the unique Times Square-style Movies Under the Stars® poolside movie screen, and The Sanctuary, an adults-only oasis that has become exceedingly popular with passengers looking to relax.
Into this tradition of innovation comes Ocean Medallion™, a personalized vacation that lets guests do more of what they love. These cruises lets guests enjoy hassle-free arrival and boarding, easily stay connected with traveling companions and do everything from ordering drinks to booking excursions and specialty dining from wherever they are on board.
Your comfort zone
Princess strives to provide unsurpassed guest satisfaction on every sailing. To achieve this goal, Princess works hard to provide onboard programs and shore excursions that give guests the opportunity for meaningful travel and truly enriching vacation experiences.
Part of guests’ enjoyment of their cruise is being assured of their family’s comfort and security, which is why Princess has made a point of being able to accommodate additional guests in the same party with interconnecting staterooms, allowing families to stay together and feel more connected.
With guest comfort in mind, Princess offers invigorating treatments in The Lotus Spa, encouraging health and wellness as well as rejuvenation and relaxation, featuring a range of services from facials to massage to acupuncture.
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Daniel Hudon
A Visit to the Great Auk
What do extinct species have to tell us?
A short hike along the coast out of Joe Batt’s Arm on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, stands a five-foot tall bronze sculpture of the Great Auk. The sculpture was created by artist Todd McGrain for his Lost Bird Project in which larger-than-life sculptures for extinct North American birds were placed where they last thrived. On my visit to Fogo Island this past August, I knew I had to visit the sculpture.
The story of the demise of the Great Auk is among the more tragic of the recent animal extinctions. They were flightless birds but strong swimmers that occupied rocky, isolated islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years for mating and breeding. The largest colony was at Funk Island, about 50 kilometers northeast of Fogo Island. When European fishing vessels came to Newfoundland for the abundant cod stocks in the early 16th century, they seized on the Great Auk as a source for fresh meat as well as oil for lamps. Their feathers were used for pillows and mattresses and their eggs were collected for food. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the tame, penguin-like birds being guided up gangplanks onto boats. Evidently, it was a wholesale slaughter. As their numbers plummeted through the 1700’s, extinction warnings went unheeded. And when auks replaced eider as the down of choice, their fate was sealed. The last pair of great auks was strangled off Iceland in 1844 while incubating an egg.
At the head of the path out of Joe Batt’s Arm, a handmade sign showed the way for the Great Auk sculpture. It was only an hour’s walk along a grassy trail with a view of the once-molten coastal rocks, the harbor, and the ritzy Shorefast Inn across the small bay.
I was with a friend and soon we climbed a large granite outcropping and made our way to the sculpture.
Waves lapped at the rocks below and a steady but mild breeze blew. A few terns cried as they swooped over the waves. The sculpture stood about five feet tall and faced the direction of another Great Auk sculpture in Iceland. With its smooth lines and elegant curves, I couldn’t help but run my hand over it.
The Great Auk, by Todd McGrain
It was well placed, so solitary among the elements. Perhaps it was too solitary. They were social birds and their colonies like Funk Island must have been incredible gatherings, full of squawking mates protecting their eggs, taking turns splashing and into and out of the water to fish. It would have been great for the sculpture to have companions. I wished I could populate the site with a group of Great Auks, like Errol Fuller’s painting. And I thought about how different the hike would have been completely different if Great Auks were still wandering and swimming about. (See Brandon Ballangee’s “Framework of Absence.”)
Errol Fuller’s “A Last Stand”
We took photos then sheltered in the crevice of some boulders and sat with the sculpture for awhile. It felt special to be alone with it, while thinking about why the sculpture was there in the first place.
When we continued the hike further down the coastal trail and stopped to have our sandwiches, a strange feeling gnawed at me. Something was missing from my visit with the Great Auk. I felt like I needed something to signify our visit, some sort of ritual. I said to my friend that I wanted to stop again at the Great Auk on the way back and we set off again to the sculpture.
I remembered the scene in the documentary film, The Lost Bird Project, when after the sculpture is installed, McGrain anoints it with water. Back at the sculpture, I poured some water from my water bottle into my cupped hand and let it drip onto its head. In that moment, the ritual caught me and suddenly felt significant. It was a moment of honoring the memory of the Great Auk and grieving its loss. Thinking about it afterwards, perhaps it wasn’t me blessing the sculpture, but it was the Great Auk blessing me?
As we learn the stories of recently extinct animals, I wonder what they will teach us. It was strange for me to form a sort of bond with a bird that has been extinct for a century and a half. Every animal has its own tale, and as Todd McGrain told me when I interviewed him, it’s up to us to pay attention.
Author Daniel HudonPosted on October 10, 2018 Categories artists, extinction, natureTags Brandon Ballangee, Fogo Island, Great Auk, Newfoundland, Todd McGrain
Remembrance Day for Lost Species 2017
The reasons we need Remembrance Day for Lost Species are the same reasons I wrote my book, “Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader.” The introduction to the book follows below. (You can also find audio and video versions.)
“Forgetting is another kind of extinction,” artist Todd McGrain said to me when I interviewed him in 2012. For ten years he had been creating larger-than-life sculptures of birds formerly common in North America, such as the passenger pigeon, to memorialize them. “These birds are not commonly known,” he has written elsewhere, “and they ought to be… It’s such a thorough erasing.”
Since the year 1500, nine hundred species have become extinct, yet their stories are not being told. This loss is a crisis in human values, as our relatives on the tree of life are disappearing under our watch and because of our actions. Aside from a few high profile extinctions, like the passenger pigeon and the dodo, most lost species are unknown to the general public, and the danger of forgetting part of our biological heritage is great. There are no historical parallels here. Aldo Leopold said, “For one species to mourn another is a new thing under the sun.”
The recent animal extinctions include twenty-eight reptiles, thirty-four amphibians, sixty-three fish, sixty-three insects, ninety-two mammals, one hundred and sixty-six birds and more than three hundred mollusks. Who are these animals? Where did they live? What do we know of their biology and natural history? Each animal had its own evolutionary history, ecological niche and characteristics that made it a unique form of life. But they have disappeared from the Earth due to our actions and without proper recognizance. The beginning of wisdom, the Chinese say, is to call things by their rightful names. In many cases, the names are known by scientists and what little is known of the animal’s habits is hidden away in scientific papers. These details need to be brought to light to make the species come alive, at least in our imagination, to help bring the enormity of what has and is happening within our grasp.
Evidence abounds that the present species extinction rate is more than one thousand times the historical rate measured in the fossil record — an indication that we are in a mass extinction. Life on Earth has seen five mass extinctions, the most recent being sixty-five million years ago when the dinosaurs were wiped out. This sixth extinction is human-caused with habitat alteration, over-exploitation, introduction of invasive species and pollution the major factors.
Naturalist William Beebe wrote in 1906 that, “when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.” Our heaven exists now and by memorializing and celebrating what is now gone, we can perhaps keep what we still have.
Author Daniel HudonPosted on November 30, 2017 Categories animals, books, extinction, natureTags Brief Eulogies, extinction, lost animals
Three short films about extinct animals
Urania Sloanus — described as the most beautiful moth in the world
How to raise awareness about recently extinct animals? We need to know and see what we’ve lost, both to remember and celebrate them even as we mourn them.
There’s something about an image – a photograph or even a film clip – something that recreates the likeness, that helps to bring the subject alive.
Here are three short films from my book, “Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader” (available at the Pen and Anvil website).
The Song of the O’o. The Kauai O’o was known as one of the finest singers in all of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Laysan Rail. This rail, from the island of Laysan, in the NW Hawaiian Islands, is one of the few extinct birds for which film footage exists.
Urania Sloanus at Sunrise. Urania Sloanus lived in Jamaica and was often described as the most beautiful moth in the world. This film, based on eyewitness reports, hints at why.
More about my book can be found here.
More films to come soon!
Author Daniel HudonPosted on October 16, 2017 November 6, 2017 Categories animals, extinction, natureTags Brief Eulogies, Laysan Rail, O'o, Urania Sloanus
Reviews of “Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals”
Two reviews have been published of my book, “Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader,” with more to come.
Over at Neon Books, writer and publisher Krishan Coupland lauds the “sheer poetry” of the writing and “the power of these vignettes… to render these animals real.”
Read the whole review at neonbooks.org.uk, and while you’re there, check out the other cool things that Krishan is up to at Neon Books.
A second review was written by biologist and writer, Mike Shanahan, who asks, “Can eulogies for lost species help prevent future extinctions?” Read Shanahan’s thoughtful response at his e-home Under the Banyan.
Other reviews are forthcoming. Get in touch if you would also like to review my book.
Author Daniel HudonPosted on September 15, 2017 Categories animals, books, natureTags reviews
The Tree on My Block — Films
I didn’t notice the tree right away. I’d lived on the block for several years and it took me awhile to tune into it. But once I did it became my favorite tree. It took its time with its autumnal leaf changing, a month or even six weeks. In 2015, I was able to record the transition, though my photos were haphazard. I vowed the next year to be more consistent, get the photos from the same location, the same time of day and so on. But I never got a chance. The tree died in September 2016, when it dropped its leaves suddenly several weeks before it usually did. I didn’t know it was dead until I saw that it didn’t bud again in the spring. It stood dormant on my block for another year and was removed in April 2017.
I wrote several short prose pieces between the time the tree last dropped its leaves and when it was removed and have now made films out of them. They’re collected in the album on my Vimeo page, a memorial to a great tree. Still some tweaks to do here or there, but let me know in the comments what you think, which one is your favorite and so on. Thanks for watching.
The Tree on My Block — A Cycle
Author Daniel HudonPosted on June 10, 2017 June 10, 2017 Categories nature, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags film, nature, poetry, trees
Responding to Loss in Nature
How do we as citizens and writers respond to loss in the natural world? Since I began to write my book, Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals (now available), several years ago, loss in nature has been frequently on my mind. I gave my first-ever poetry workshop on this theme at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival last weekend, and judging by how early the session filled up (soon after the schedule was announced, back in April), people are hungry to engage the topic.
Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry Workshop at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, May 2017
What have we lost? I asked the participants at the beginning of the session.
They answered:
the flight of the monarch
the night sky
the sounds of nature
A formidable list, which I supplemented with elephants, tigers, rhinos, pangolins, sharks, orangutans, bluefin tuna, songbirds, amphibians, mangroves, wetlands, neighborhood trees, sea grass beds, glaciers, mountain tops, and diversity in nature (see the work of Bernard Krause).
Our task as writers is to engage challenging issues and I would love to see poets take on loss in nature more frequently. Whether to grieve and lament, honor and eulogize, forewarn and remind (not to mention rant and rave!), our responses in poetry can help others process their own feelings regarding environmental change. Look at Mary Oliver’s poem, Lead . After the two inciting incidents (the loons dying over the winter and the friend’s description of one in its death throes) she folds in all the things she loves about loons – the things we all love, including its wild and uncanny call. Her response is our inspiration, a heartbreak that reminds us not to withdraw but to engage. “Here is a story/ to break your heart” she begins. And she ends the poem with:
I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.
Without this frame, the poem would be incomplete.
Historically, loons nested in Massachusetts but were extirpated in the late 19th century. In 1975, a pair of loons was discovered nesting at Quabbin Reservoir. Today, there are approximately 32 nesting pairs of loons on 14 different lakes, ponds and reservoirs in the Commonwealth. Loons are listed on the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act list as a Species of Special Concern. In general they require 1000 acres of water per nesting pair, islands for nesting and limited human disturbance, which makes the Quabbin Reservoir ideal.
However, loons are being poisoned by ingesting lead fishing gear – hence the title of Mary Oliver’s poem – this is the leading cause of mortality of loons in New England. They do this either by eating the minnows used as bait, then swallowing the hook, line, and sinker or by scooping lead sinkers off the bottom when they ingest small pebbles. Lead sinkers and lead weights less than one ounce are now banned in all inland lakes in Massachusetts in an attempt to curb the problem.
We had a lively discussion about the poem and it seems I could have based my entire session on it. But we also looked at a handful of other poems, chosen from Earth Shattering , a terrific anthology of ecopoems edited by Neil Astley, The Dire Elegies: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America, the Amsterdam Quarterly, The Lost Species Day website and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis.
While journalists and scientists have to tell stories and present evidence when they write about loss in nature, poets have an advantage in being able to draw from seemingly unrelated events – or from their own experience — in order to evoke particular feelings.
One of the shortest poems we looked at was Condor from The Dire Elegies, by Massachusetts poet Susan Edwards Richmond:
When there is no sky left
big enough
to hold that bird,
let it die.
Then dig my grave close by.
So terse, and yet so evocative at the same time. I love the prophetic voice she adopts in the first section of the poem. My hunch is that she took a simple detail like the ability of condors to soar, a detail that she loved, and turned it inside out to make it sound fresh and authoritative. Her real response follows in the last line Then dig my grave close by. As one of the workshop participants said, the success of the condor is our success, and its failure, should that occur, will be our failure too.
In a writing exercise, we tried to get at the prophetic voice she uses in the first section, but we didn’t have time to share responses. Still, I feel we accomplished a lot in that one hour frame. My blurb on the festival website promised, “By challenging ourselves to engage important environmental problems, you’ll come away both with new material and with renewed connection to the natural world.” Ambitious, to be sure. But if only it were that easy to connect with nature!
Nevertheless, given the engagement and energy of the participants and the response to the theme, I’m looking forward to doing more such workshops soon.
Author Daniel HudonPosted on May 12, 2017 May 13, 2017 Categories nature, poetry, writingTags endangered, wildlife
The Maple Tree on My Block
The maple tree in the fall of 2014.
Every autumn, the maple tree on my block put on a terrific show of color. These displays lasted for several weeks. It was a beautiful tree and through the summer, I would look forward to the brilliance coming in the fall. But at the end of the summer of 2015, my anticipation turned to sadness when the tree’s leaves suddenly turned yellow and dropped. I waited anxiously all winter to see if it would bud again in the spring, but it did not.
It has been standing barren since then and today I made a short video about the tree that I loved so much. This week it is being taken down.
https://youtu.be/g6wZk7yRSM0
It’s not everyday that one loses a favorite tree so I’ve written a fair bit about it. These writings will be published soon and with accompanying photos and video.
Author Daniel HudonPosted on April 8, 2017 April 8, 2017 Format VideoCategories nature, writingTags trees
Artists and Extinction V: Brandon Ballengee
How can artists convey the idea of disappearance and extinction of species?
This has long been a question for Brandon Ballengee, a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator based in Louisiana, whose many art installations have been inspired by his ecological field and laboratory work.
Initially, Ballengee wanted to use silhouettes to show something as there but disappearing. But while experimenting with blacking out extinct animals in old nature magazines, he recalled that Robert Rauschenberg once created a work that was an erased de Kooning drawing. So, rather than erase extinct animals from books, he began to cut them out with an Exacto knife (as long as there were multiple copies of the book).
This led to the creation of his installation, “Framework of Absence.” Ballengee created the works from real historic artifacts that were around while the animal was fading into extinction. After the animal was excised from its source, the depiction was burned and the ashes were placed into black glass funerary urns etched with the names of the lost species.
At installations, viewers were asked to scatter the ashes, an act that Ballengee hoped would connect participants to the lost species and help prevent further extinctions.
A few examples show the power of the exhibit. Here is the Great Auk, missing from the North Atlantic:
2008Ð9.
Extinct by the late 19th Century.
Artist-cut print from the Bowen Editions Royal Octavo Birds (1840Ð71).
Eighth edition printed and hand-colored in 1871 (just prior to plates being burned in warehouse fire).
6 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches.
Photography by David W. Coulter.
Here is the Spectacled Cormorant, missing from the Kamchatka Peninsula:
1869/2014. Artist cut and burnt hand-colored stone lithograph, etched glass urn, and ashes. 30 5/8 x 74 5/8 inches. Species last observed 1850s.
Photo by Casey Dorobek.
Here is the Guadalupe Caracara, missing from Guadalupe Island:
1860/2014. Artist cut and burnt wood engraving, etched glass urn, and ashes. 9 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches. Species last observed 1860s.
And here is the Sea Mink, missing from the rocky coasts of New England and Atlantic Canada.
1849/2014. Artist cut and burnt print hand-colored stone lithograph, etched glass urn, and ashes. 13 5/8 x 16 inches. Species last observed 1870s.
More of Brandon Bellengee’s work can be found at his website.
Previous entries for my series on artists and extinction can be found starting here.
Author Daniel HudonPosted on March 17, 2017 March 24, 2017 Categories animals, artists, natureTags artists, biodiversity, extinction, wildlife
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Becky Lynch Thinks Ronda Rousey Will Quit If She Loses At Wrestlemania
Lynch doesn't think Ronda has it in her to keep going.
Wrestlemania 35 is a special event as it will be the first time a Female Main Event will headline the weekend. This time around, it will be a three-way title match between Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, and former UFC fighter Ronda Rousey. Rousey has become Lynch's biggest rival and heading into the weekend, Lynch has some pretty damning words for Ronda. In fact, Lynch is putting Rousey's desire to be a wrestler into question, saying she'll probably retire if she doesn't win on Sunday.
"She won't be able to hack it," Lynch told TMZ. "She won't be able to take it. She won't be able to look defeat in the face and say I can come back from this."
Lynch also explained that Rousey is easy to beat when she feels as though she's on top of the world. In fact, Lynch says Rousey is notorious for being a bad loser.
"When Rhonda feels untouchable, that's when she gets put to sleep. That's when she gets knocked out," Lynch explained. "And, we all know what happens to Rhonda when that happens, she goes and she cries under her blanky for a year or whatever. The only thing she knows how to do is either be invincible or be gone."
The match will go down on Sunday, April 7th at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey.
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Three Shorts By Barbet Schroeder
Bulle Ogier in La vallée (1972)
Last week I reviewed the new BFI release of La vallée, a spiritual odyssey through the Papa New Guinea jungle by underrated Gallic filmmaker Barbet Schroeder (More, 1969). The DVD has the usual strand of extras; trailer, original ending and an accompanying booklet of essays. But what really drew me to the package was the inclusion of three ethnographic shorts shot by Schroeder and cinematographer Néstor Almendros, comprised of footage filmed while scouting locations in 1971. They were shooting footage of tribal ceremonies and the day-to-day lives of the clans that live in Mount Hagen and the surrounding area, and when they returned home Almendros persuaded Schroeder to edit the footage into three short films. The footage became Le cochon aux patates douces (1971), Maquillages (1971) and Sing Sing (1971). Filmed in the same year as Nic Roeg's Walkabout (1971) - itself a fascinating foray into unknown tribal territories, except in the Australian bush - the films provide a beautiful glimpse into a lost way of life...
Le cochon aux patates douces opens with a Hagen tribe killing pigs in order to offer them as compensation for a murder of a clansman from another tribe - the murder happened when a fight broke out at the cinema, at a screening of a Louis de Funès picture. The pigs are beaten over the head and then skinned over fire. Bamboo is sharpened so that the women of the tribe may cut away the organs in the animal (the narrator tells us that sharpened bamboo is "sharper than any knife") as the men put together a huge oven. For this a hole is dug in the ground, layered with banana leaves and then heated rocks are thrown into the pit along with the meat, wrapped in leaves tied by string. It's fascinating to see the entire community band together and spend the whole day preparing a meal that would only take a few hours for us - and they won't even get to sample it. This says a lot about jungle politics, poverty and currency, spirituality and its attachment to animals - and peculiarly highlights the fact that Mount Hagen has (or had) a pretty good distributor of French cinema, yet the people can't even afford a lighter to better start the fire for their compensatory meal.
Maquillages documents the importance of art and expression in the Hagen area, especially during two important ceremonies - the mourning of a deceased tribal member, and a celebratory victory dance in Gokora (a village near Hagen). For the commemoration clansmen cover their bodies in yellow clay, and for the victory dance the clansmen choose grey clay. We spend most of the 12 minute film with the mourners who chant, sing and pray around a fire. Music is played, and we are told this is the only form of art in the Hagen area, along with jewelry and makeup - the latter of which is a form of true expression and each tribe member may create their own patterns and designs to reflect their feelings. Again, what may seem like a simple observational document actually says a lot for the way the tribes approach culture and appreciate beauty as a form of purely individual declaration. It shows a fair society and one where everybody is involved in the passing of a member - they are tightly knit, and stronger for it.
Sing Sing is the shortest of the films (5 minutes) but no less profound. It opens on a special ceremony that sees tribe members performing a dance, wearing makeup and beautiful headsets of colourful feathers (which would be adapted in La vallée; they are the reason for Viviane's (Ogier) presence and a symbol of her Westernized greed). The latter half of the film is most interesting, however, as it sees the gift of a pig offered from one tribe to another, as they do not speak the same language. This exchanging of animal again displays the importance of deep roots in nature, but it is also somewhat an insight into trader politics in Hagen; several years later a gift shall be given in return. It's an act of goodwill one might say, a peace offering - and all without the burden of language. The films are beautifully photographed by Almendros and edited by Denise de Casbianca, providing yet another reason to buy the new edition of La vallée - a true forgotten gem of world cinema.
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Automatic ICD-10 multi-class classification of cause of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection
Mujtaba, G. and Shuib, L. and Raj, R.G. and Rajandram, R. and Shaikh, K. and Al-Garadi, M.A. (2017) Automatic ICD-10 multi-class classification of cause of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection. PLoS ONE, 12 (2). e0170242. ISSN 1932-6203
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170242
Objectives Widespread implementation of electronic databases has improved the accessibility of plaintext clinical information for supplementary use. Numerous machine learning techniques, such as supervised machine learning approaches or ontology-based approaches, have been employed to obtain useful information from plaintext clinical data. This study proposes an automatic multi-class classification system to predict accident-related causes of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection with supervised automatic text classification decision models. Methods Accident-related autopsy reports were obtained from one of the largest hospital in Kuala Lumpur. These reports belong to nine different accident-related causes of death. Master feature vector was prepared by extracting features from the collected autopsy reports by using unigram with lexical categorization. This master feature vector was used to detect cause of death [according to internal classification of disease version 10 (ICD-10) classification system] through five automated feature selection schemes, proposed expert-driven approach, five subset sizes of features, and five machine learning classifiers. Model performance was evaluated using precisionM, recallM, F-measureM, accuracy, and area under ROC curve. Four baselines were used to compare the results with the proposed system. Results Random forest and J48 decision models parameterized using expert-driven feature selection yielded the highest evaluation measure approaching (85% to 90%) for most metrics by using a feature subset size of 30. The proposed system also showed approximately 14% to 16% improvement in the overall accuracy compared with the existing techniques and four baselines. Conclusion The proposed system is feasible and practical to use for automatic classification of ICD-10-related cause of death from autopsy reports. The proposed system assists pathologists to accurately and rapidly determine underlying cause of death based on autopsy findings. Furthermore, the proposed expert-driven feature selection approach and the findings are generally applicable to other kinds of plaintext clinical reports.
Algorithms; Autopsy; Cause of Death; Clinical Decision-Making; Databases, Factual; Death; Humans; International Classification of Diseases; Models, Theoretical; Support Vector Machine
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Happy Abortion Wellbeing Month! The danger of the single abortion story
Yesterday on the Community site, Leah reminded us that this April is the 2nd annual Abortion Wellbeing Month. Organized by the awesome pro-voice folks at Exhale, it’s a time to recognize and respect each person’s unique experience with abortion.
As someone who has written publicly about having an abortion–and about speaking about having an abortion (so meta!)–I’ve been a big fan of Exhale’s work for awhile.
The hostility of the extreme anti-choice movement makes sharing abortion stories rare. Even after working in reproductive rights for nearly three years, the near-total absence of the voices of women who’ve had abortions in the public discourse still sometimes astounds me. I mean, when Rep. Jackie Speier spoke of her own abortion on the House floor back in February, it was called “shocking” and “brave.” To talk about making a choice that 1 in 3 American women will make in their lifetimes.
That shouldn’t be brave–and yet, of course, it was. Because the rhetoric around abortion really is that charged–and the silence surrounding it really is that deep. After all, we live in a cultural environment where the #Ihadabortion hashtag created a huge stir last fall and Angie Jackson, the woman who live-tweeted her abortion, was criticized even by some within the pro-choice movement.
In such a context–with a polarized issue and a scarcity of personal stories–it becomes nearly impossible to speak publicly about having an abortion without it being treated as a political act. As Exhale found Aspen Baker wrote in the aftermath of #Ihadanabortion:
“Given how polarized abortion is in this country, women’s experiences with abortion become just another tool to make a political point. Unfortunately, this may actually make women less likely to share their personal abortion stories in such a public manner in the future because they don’t want their stories to be manipulated or misunderstood.”
The problem reminds me of Chimamanda Adichie’s amazing TED Talk on “the danger of a single story.” She’s talking about something else entirely but she explains, “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
In order to break the single story of abortion, we need more women to speak honestly about their experiences. We need to hear from diverse women who had abortions for many different reasons and who feel happy, sad, relieved, carefree, regretful, empowered, ashamed, unconcerned, conflicted, joyful, or any complex combination of emotions. At the same time, with so few stories of abortion comes the heavy weight of representation; the pressure to make your story fit into a certain narrative–as well as the risk that it will be manipulated, judged or rejected–is heightened. It’s a tough catch-22.
That’s why the space that Exhale provides for women to speak openly about their experiences–away from the politicized public sphere–is so valuable. Because telling your story–and feeling heard–can be important for individual wellbeing after an abortion. And all women deserve that–regardless of how our fucked-up political context currently limits our ability to tell these stories as freely as we should be able to.
As for me, I will continue speaking publicly about my abortion as a consciously political act. In the hopes that someday other women will be able to do so and it won’t be political. It will just be an experience they had–perhaps similar to a lot of other women’s but an experience that’s, ultimately, theirs and theirs alone.
Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.
Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.
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Ohio isn’t an anomaly—the anti-choice movement is about punishment
By Kylie Cheung
Why don’t we believe women’s warnings about Roe v. Wade?
Here’s How You Can Join the Fight Against Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule
By Amanda R. Matos
By Kylie Cheung • @kylietcheung • 7 months ago
Earlier this month, the Ohio state House passed a bill that would ban abortion with virtually zero exceptions when the fetus develops a heartbeat at about six weeks, which is before many women realize they’re pregnant. And as of last week, Ohio’s state House is considering another bill, HB 565, which would confer personhood upon fetuses and criminalize abortion.
Violation of this law, either by offering abortion care or receiving it, would warrant punishment ranging from a prison sentence to the death penalty.
HB 565 is still under consideration by the House health committee and likely ...
Earlier this month, the Ohio state House passed a bill that would ban abortion with virtually zero exceptions when the fetus develops a heartbeat at about six weeks, which is ...
Last week, The Atlantic reported that a popular, Netherlands-based online group that ships medication abortion pills anywhere in the world has officially begun shipping to the United States. Women on the Web’s sister site, Aid Access, has already shipped pills to more than 600 U.S.-based women as of last week, after originally citing concerns of opposition from powerful American anti-choice groups.
Women on the Web’s creation of Aid Access to provide abortion access in areas where it could soon become (even more) severely restricted couldn’t have come at a more critical time. Women and reproductive justice activists have been sounding the alarm about the inevitable implications of Donald Trump’s presidency for the Supreme Court and abortion ...
Last week, The Atlantic reported that a popular, Netherlands-based online group that ships medication abortion pills anywhere in the world has officially begun shipping to the United States. Women on the Web’s sister site, Aid ...
By Amanda R. Matos • @@Amanda_R_Matos • 1 year ago
Activists are responding to Trump’s abortion gag rule in full force.
A quick refresher: The abortion gag rule — also known as the “Protect Life Rule” — would block federal Title X funding from any healthcare center that provides or refers patients for abortion care. By attempting to bar providers from sharing medically accurate information about abortion, Trump’s proposal is a direct attack on people’s reproductive choices, especially low-income and uninsured patients who rely on providers like Planned Parenthood and local healthcare centers for affordable and essential healthcare.
Title X grants support family planning services like contraception, testing, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, cancer screenings, and general reproductive health exams. If ...
A quick refresher: The abortion gag rule — also known as the “Protect Life Rule” — would block federal Title X funding ...
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THERE AND BACK AGAIN 2019
Lives of Ipswich women, 1850-1950
My books: histories of Ipswich
Work with Ipswich Museum
My other research
Paul's Place
This year's travels are dedicated to John and Sarah Rixon
We are leaving home on Wednesday 22 May and will be travelling through France, Belgium, the Neths and Germany to spend most of our holiday in Denmark. Back on Wednesday 3 July.
Episode 1: From Ipswich to Tondor, Denmark
Wednesday 22 May
Arrived safely at Petit Port Philippe on the northern coast of France. Lovely walk on the huge sandy beach then ...
And Thursday 23 May
And Friday 24 May -
We take possession of our emergency hire car and weekend chalet. Van still being worked on. We are still in northern France, not in the Netherlands as planned. All quite (very) stressful.
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May
Van still not fixed. We are still living in the emergency chalet till tomorrow. Then? Have been exploring the immediate area: first Ste Cecile Plage out of season, then a Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery for members of the Chinese Labour Corps (WW1). Who says we don't know how to enjoy ourselves?
Monday 27, Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 May
Six nights of emergency accommodation in various places, a hire car, three lots of roadside rescue and an immense bill from the Mercedes-Benz garage in Boulogne - and now the van is fixed and we are back on the road. We are on the outskirts of Bruges in Belgium and ready to start out holiday. Sadly though, we can't be arsed to go and see Bruges.
Nazi blockhaus, ruined and graffitied, on a beach at Equihem Plage, near one of our emergency sleepovers.
Aah, back in the van.
Sunday 2 June
We have just finished an extensive study tour of Dutch and German motorways and and are now relaxing fjord-side in Schleswig in the very north of Germany. Van is going like a good 'un.
No, I'm not having lofty thoughts - just waiting for my pint (Dortmund)
Paul followed up his pint by cooking himself an omelette studded with local blood sausage (still Dortmund)
Brought this first photo (taken in the 1930s) with us to see if we could find the same street - which we did and so took the second photo. Lest we forget. (Thedinghausen near Bremen, Germany).
Lazy Sunday afternoon (Schleswig, Germany)
Tuesday 4 June
Spent a great couple days in Schleswig (above) cycling around checking out Viking villages and mummified bog people. We also went to a huge warehouse on the border where Danish people come to buy trolley-loads of cheap(er) alcohol, vats of sweets and the biggest Toblerones in the world. Hideous. But today, at last, we've arrived in Denmark!
Small Viking boat on the Schlei fjord (Schleswig, Germany)
Episode 2: Tondor to Copenhagen and then the southern islands
Thursday 6 June
We are on a small Danish island in the North Sea for a couple of days. Huge sandy beaches stretching for miles, windy and flat.
That look like east Suffolk, don't ut? (Romo Island, Denmark)
The highest peak on the island stands at a towering 19 metres. (Romo island, Denmark)
And just for people with a special interest in container ships, here is the ancestral church of yer actual Maersk family (Romo island)
Back on the mainland of Jutland now. Tomorrow, we start heading slowly towards the eastern islands and Copenhagen.
View from the top of the cathedral tower in Scandanavia's oldest town (Ribe)
So farewell Slimming World (Ribe)
Ours, all ours - but only till tomorrow. We are the only people camping here in this beautiful place. The grass is even cut by a robot. (Near Jelling with its ancient connections with the first known Viking kings, Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth - this is not a joke)
And so we say goodbye to Jutland but not before seeing these pricey waterfront flats, known as The Wave (Vejle)
Spent last few days on the magical south coast of Funen island in a place we picked only last Monday and almost at random. Parked at a lovely low-key harbour overlooking little islands. Biked, walked and lazed around. Village mostly empty of people but full of posh and beautiful thatched houses, including a Michelin starred restaurant where diners arrive by helicopter and seaplane.
View from our front window (Falsled, Funen island)
'in vacant or in pensive mood' (Falsled, Funen island)
Paul has decided to keep his holiday beard
Storms followed us here to Roskilde, over the Great Belt Bridges from Funen to Zeeland (11 miles of bridge over the sea). Paul absolutely loved the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum - and actually I found it interesting too.
Believe it or not, Paul is crewing this ship on Roskilde fjord. Shame I haven't got a zoom lens!
Arrived in Copenhagen on Tuesday, via Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. In our few days here in the capital we have also seen statues, the Baltic Sea, palaces, canals, beaches ... My abiding memory though will be cycling out of central Copenhagen with a peleton of home-bound commuters - what a fearsome and fearless bunch. Glad I lived to tell the tale. Paul's top moment was going for his run this morning followed by a swim in the sea.
Giacometti's Walking Man placed in front of beautiful gardens (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art).
The Danish Parliament is in recess for its three-month summer break. This closed door was the nearest we could get. (Copenhagen). (PS Brexit still going well, isn't it.)
Lined with colourful houses, now mostly restaurants, this must be one of the most famous streets in Denmark (Nyhavn, Copenhagen)
On the Danish island of Moen. A very inauspicious start. We arrived at the tiny and unoccupied campsite I'd earmarked only to see a taxidermied sheep's head dangling from the lintel of the woodshed. We high-tailed it out before anything wierder happened and found a beautiful beach campsite which has been perfect.
Paul has been swimming every day here, mostly in the 'naughty, naked nude'.
Our last sleepover in Denmark. Anyone else thinking it looks like the Norfolk Broads on a sunny day? (Sakskobing marina, Lolland island)
Episode 3: Home to Ipswich
Got the ferry today from Lolland in Denmark to Fehmarn island in Germany. Lolland's claim to fame is its sugar beet. Fehmarn, on the other hand, is where Hendrix played his final gig. Despite this, we have come straight on to Lubeck, capital of Gothic brick architecture. Much of the old town had to be reconstructed after WW2 air-raids and, in fact, some of this postwar redevelopment does looks like Coventry. Today we are sweltering with the rest of nothern Europe in 30 degrees plus.
We noticed this graffiti when we went to see Lubeck Synagogue, one of the very few pre-war synagogues still functioning in north Germany. Good news - the Synagogue seems to be expanding - a restaurant and community rooms are being added. Bad news - there is a large police portacabin in the grounds.
Spent the last few days driving through Germany. Visited Bergen-Belsen. Now camping peacefully in a very large national park in central Netherlands, as recommended by John Rixon last year. Miles of cycleways and tracks through woods but the crowds of people round the nearby art museum are a challenge. For a kick off, most of them, being Dutch, are a good deal taller than us. We look like the Diddymen.
Our neighbours one night in Germany were two old boys from Bonn with their beautifully restored 1963 Massey Ferguson tractor (made in Banner Lane, Coventry) towing an equally classic Eriba caravan.
This old boy is Meneer Jacques (Mr Jacques) (Sculpture Park, Kroller-Muller Museum, the Netherlands)
Spent our penultimate night tucked up right in the north west corner of Belgium, nestled between a canal, a biscuit factory and a land-fill site - all of which contributed to the intriguing aroma at our end of town. And so we came to our last night. We decided to go back to the very place where the van had broken down six weeks before. Tempting fate, we parked up on the same spot in the carpark, went to the same cafe, sat in the same seats there - but all was well. Engine started next morning and we were back in Ipswich in time for Afternoon Theatre.
Home to Ipswich after a great adventure and a lovely holiday.
If you have been, thank you for reading. And to Linda - a special thank you for being so enthusiastic about our trip. See you soon xxx
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CORY BRANAN
ADIOS is Cory Branan’s death record. Not the cheeriest of openings, but like all of Branan’s mercurial work, it’s probably not what you think. As funny and defiant as it is touching and sad, this self-dubbed “loser’s survival kit” doesn’t spare its subjects or the listener.
Not even Branan’s deceased father is let off the hook. In the tender homage “The Vow” he drolly cites his father’s favorite banality “that’s what you get for thinking” as “probably not the best lesson for kids.” For most songwriters that would be the punchline but Branan pushes through words and, in his father’s actions, finds a kind of “genius in the effortless way he just ‘did’.” Not all the death on ADIOS is literal mortality. “Imogene” is sung from the wreckage of a love that once “poked fun at the pain, stoked the sun in the rain” but ends with the urgent call to “act on the embers, ash won’t remember the way back to fire.”
The trademark lyrical agility is mirrored sonically. Never a genre loyalist, ADIOS finds Branan (much like his musically restless heroes Elvis Costello and Tom Waits) coloring outside the lines in sometimes startling shades of fuzz and twang. While unafraid to play it arrow-straight when called for (“The Vow,” “Equinox,” “Don’t Go”), ADIOS veers wildly from the Buddy Holly-esque rave up “I Only Know” (sung with punk notables Laura Jane Grace and Dave Hause), through the swampy “Walls, MS” to the Costello-like new wave of “Visiting Hours.”
The blistering punk of “Another Nightmare in America” bops along daring listeners to “Look away, look away, move along, nothing to see here” (the song is written from the point of view of a racist killer cop). And as the mourning singer on “Cold Blue Moonlight” shifts from paralysis to panic, the song’s jazzy drone shifts to an almost Sabbath fury. The tonal shifts are always deliberate and not just simple genre hopping; while the turns can be jarring you can trust Branan to take you somewhere unexpected.
The 14-song album was self-produced and recorded in the spring of 2016 at Tweed Studios in Oxford, MS with a tight three piece: Branan on lead vocals and guitar (both electric and acoustic); Robbie Crowell (formerly of Deer Tick) on drums and percussion, keys, and horns; and James “Haggs” Haggerty on bass. Additionally, Amanda Shires contributes on fiddle and vocals, and Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! and Dave Hause provide guest vocals.
Cory Branan has four previous full-length releases: The Hell You Say (2002, Madjack Records), 12 Songs (2006, Madjack), Mutt (2012, Bloodshot Records), and The No-Hit Wonder (2014, Bloodshot). His music has received critical praise from the likes of Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone Country, NPR All Things Considered, Noisey, Wall Street Journal, Paste Magazine, Oxford American, Consequence of Sound, Southern Living, and many others.
Events Featuring this Performer
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AMERICAN AQUARIUM 'Things Change' Tour
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Ed Amann
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Jul 17 Uncorked Wine Bar, Akron, OH
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Here's the latest!
Had a great time playing at Uncorked Wine Bar Friday. The return to Mastropietro Winery on Saturday was a great success. Many thanks to the friends who come to Uncorked Wine Bar and the many new fans from Mastropietro.
Next Saturday I return to The Sub Station for The Art in the Alleys, First Friday Celebration at The Sub Station. Wednesday, the 17th I will return to Uncorked Wine Bar for what I hope will be the start of a residency.
Watch this space for updates and new shows.
Thank you all so much for your support and for supporting the venues where I perform.
Be well, stay safe and have fun.
Another quick update to announce a new show at Mastropietro Winery on Saturday 6/22/19 at 7:00 it will be good to be back there again.
Had a really great show at Sonnets on the 14th and a lot of fun on The PLX live show Sunday night.
Getting ready for the show at Uncorked Wine Bar tomorrow night.
Quick update to add a Summer Solstice show at Uncorked Wine Bar. Show is Friday 6/21/19 at 6:30 Pm. First time in downtown Akron. Should be a fun night.
Busy weekend this week. Friday the 14th I’ll be returning to Sonnets in Wadsworth to record a live show. Saturday I have a private event. Sunday the 16th, I will be on The PLX Live podcast video show. Here’s a chance for folks farther away from Akron to see my show.
The Spring Into Action fundraiser was a blast. Could have used a few more folks but Indivisible did okay. Good show at The Sub Station on the 25th. Noticed a fair increase in new folks in the room, always a good thing. Had a great morning at The Louisville Farmer’s Market. Good turnout for early in the season.
“Vagabond” is here. There’s a well worn saying that “chicks dig jerks” “Vagabond” explores the other side of that coin.
Ed Amann and Podunk are back to lead the investigation. More of a country rock feel on this track with lots of six string slamming.
Podunk is Ed’s virtual band. Yes, it’s all Ed but with the goal of conveying the feel of a live performance in a familiar dive where a vagabond might walk up and introduce herself.
I’ll be playing a short set at the Barberton Indivisible “Spring Into Action” fundraiser at Nauti Vine Winery on Tuesday 5/21. I’ve added a couple private shows in June and August too.
The Sub Station show on the 27th was a blast. Playing for a whole room full of old and new friends. Many thanks to all who stopped in for the music and food.
“Vagabond" will drop next Friday, the 17th. It’s a little bit of country rock about how a guy sometimes falls for the wrong kind of woman. Just a bit of fun music, I’ve been with a great woman for many years now.
I’ve added some Farmer’s Market shows for the Summer season. I’ll be at Louisville Farmers market on June 1st at 9:00 Am and returning to Allinace Farmer’s Market on August 10th and September 7th.
“Gratitude” is here. Just a thing about the importance of counting one’s blessings.
I’ll be joining author Cat Russell at the Barberton Library to provide some musical interludes between her great poetry.
I’ll be adding shows at the Alliance Farmer’s Market with my next update.
The Wadsworth First Friday Superheroes Unite show at The Sub Station was super. Lots old and new fans and friends came in to help me stay young. Thanks to all of them.
“Gratitude” drops next Friday, 4/19/19. Just a grateful nod to my grandmother who used to tell me “count your blessings”.
I’ll back at The Sub Station on April 27th. I’ve added a show at Sonnets on June 14th.
No shows this fortnight so I’m working on recordings again. I’ve got a couple brand new songs in the works. “Gratitude” is slated to drop on April 26th. “Vagabond” will be out a little later.
Visited a cool open mic last night at The Tiki Underground. Did a few songs solo and strangled the 6 string a while with the Kahuna Kings. Fun night.
Looking forward to the First Friday Superheroes Unite show and The Sub Station on April 5th. This show will have an extra hour to share more tunes.
The show at Trust Books was a unique one with more spoken word and audience engagement. After that I did my first Irish show of the season at Wayne College for an appreciative audience. The Saturday show at The Sub Station was great with most of my regulars and quite a few new folks in the house for somewhat Irish evening.
Probably no more public shows this month but I’ve added a First Friday show at The Sub Station on April 5th. Until then check out my songs on the audio page.
“Headed Back To Erin” is here. It’s my American Irish song. A mostly acoustic and very loosely biographical tale.
Tonight I’m at Trust Books in Northside Cellar. I’ve added a new show at The Sub Station on April the 27th.
Just a very quick update to note the 3/1 release of “Headed Back To Erin” my American Irish song.
I’m looking forward to show at Trust books on 3/2.
Quick update to apoligize for the failure of the radio show. I showed up, the host showed up, we started on time but the link from the studio to the station failed and we lost the first 20 minutes of the show. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to appear on a different station in the future.
On a happier note The show at The Sub Station wne very well.
I have added a new show at University of Akron, Wayne College on March 7th at 12:45 pm. This will be a mostly Irish show.
The second private show went well even with some challenging weather. Tonight, the 9th, I’m at The Sub Station.
On Monday the 11th at 9:00 pm, I’ll on the air live at WCFI fm for an hour. You can listen anywhere on line, see link on the home page.
On Saturday March 2nd, I’ll be at Trust Books in Northside Cellars for truly uplugged show in an intimate listening environment. On Saturday the 9th, I’ll start getting my Irish on at The Sub Station.
The first private show went very well. I hope to be back there very soon.
The show at Summit Artspace was great success. It was the opening for a juried show and lots of people stopped by to check out the art and enjoy the music.
The show at The Sub Station went well but the house was a little light due to weather. As always many thanks to the folks who did stop in and the Reed family for hosting. I’ve added two new shows there on the ninth day of both February and March.
“Fly Away Some Time” is here. It’s one of my earliest songs, presented in a fully produced format for the first time.
Took some downtime for the holidays. The last show for the year ended up being the private one on the 18th. Good Christmas feast with extended family. As usual, if I don’t have a New Year’s Eve show I’ll enjoy a quiet evening at home.
In the downtime I’ve put my virtual band, Podunk, back together to record a new single version of one of my show favorites, “Fly Away Some Time”.
I’ll start next year with the shows at Summit Artspace and The Sub Station. I have several private shows booked throughout the year.
Hard week this week. The community here lost one its finest souls on Sunday with the passing of Michael Wilsterman. He was a friend to all he met and all were better in his presence. He made it his life’s mission to be kind and loving to everyone he met.
The show at Summit Artspace on Tusc in Barberton ended up being cancelled. I have a show at Summit Artspace in Akron on January 11th now. That will be followed by my show at The Sub Station on January 12th.
The show last night at The Sub Station went pretty well abeit a little light on attendance. Many of my local fans are musicians or artists themselves and had show of their own to mount.
The “Heresy” release went pretty well. I might consider doing some more less produced acoustic tracks.
2019 is shaping up to be a pretty good year with 13 private shows on the books already. I’ve just started booking public shows with the first so far being at The Sub Station on 1/12/19. Before that, I’ll play my last public show of this year at Summit Artspace on Tusc in Barberton on December 28th.
“Heresy” released 11/9/18. You can hear it on Spotify and iTunes and buy it on CdBaby.
The Sub Station show was really special. The First Friday crowds filled the place up twice and my fans and friends kept the fun going in between. The following Saturday I returned to Mastropietro Winery for a well attended indoor show where I gained some new fans.
My next public show is a return to The Sub Station on December 1st. I will be at Summit Artspace on Tusc in Barberton on December 28th.
“Heresy” is coming. A brand new recording of one of my early songs. This version is acoustic, recorded in a single take, just me and my guitar.
Tonight I’ll be at The Sub Station for the Wadsworth First Friday Chocolate Walk. I’ll be starting the show half an hour early. Next Saturday, the 10th, I’ll be returning to Mastropietro Winery in Berlin Center. Saturday, December 2nd, I’ll return to The Sub Station.
Added a short notice show at Mastropietro Winery on the 5th. The show ent very well and I’ll be back there on November 10th. The Sub Station show on 15th went very well with a good number of fans, friends and others.
Tonight I’m at The Houston Pub for a solo show. November 2nd I'll be at The Sub Station for the First Friday Chocolate Walk. Show starts half an hour early. I’ve added some new private shows now into 2019.
The monthly email has become a casualty of the new privacy rules. I hope to bring it back but I will have to set up a way to document the clear consent of each person on the list.
I will be making a sudden appearance at Mastropietro Winery this Friday 10/5/18. I will appear there again on 11/10/18.
The Alliance Farmer’s Market show got rained out. It happens once in while with outdoor shows.
The Sub Station show on the 15th went well. It was a return to the four guitar format that I had to forgo last month. Lots of friends and fans came in to enjoy the music and edibles.
Next month I will start getting ready for Halloween. Starting with a return to The Sub Station on the 13th. The following week Houston Pub will host the return of Ed Amann.
The Sub Station show went great. Lots of new folks came in to enjoy the show along with familiar fans and friends. The Fourth Friday show at Kave’ went well after a shaky start when I found that the street had been blocked for the event and I had to haul some of my stuff a couple blocks.
Next month I have two public shows. On the 8th I’ll return to The Alliance Farmer’s Market for a morning show and on the 15th I’ll be back at The Sub Station
I ended up with back to back private shows on July 31st. Both went pretty well. On the 3rd I returned to Mastropietro Winery for an outdoor show. The dog days heat thinned out the crowd a bit but the folks that stayed enjoyed the evening.
It dawned on me that I should add an audio clip about how to pronounce my name. I’ve put the link right on the home page.
August is shaping up pretty well, I added a show at Kave’ on the 24th. This one coincides with the Firefighter’s Pub Crawl for Muscular Dystrophy.
I’ll still be at The Sub Station on the 18th for an evening of music fun and friends.
Wine and Music night at Kave’ was a great show with a real “listening room” audience. The Sub Station show was a great gathereing of friends and fans. Had a great time playing for the folks at the Wadsworth Relay For Life.
“Singin’ About a Brown Eyed Girl” is out in the world. You can find it on the audio page here and on most streaming stores.
On August 3rd I will return to the beautiful Mastropietro Winery in Berlin Center. On the 18th I will be at The Sub Station in Wadsworth.
The Mastropietro Winery show was a blast. The weather was perfect and lots of friends showed up to enjoy the evening. The show at The Sub Station the next night went well too. That one being indoors, the nice weather and early time lightened the crowd a little but all in attendance had a good time. The show at Alliance Farmers’ Market had some weather issues but was mostly complete.
“Singin’ About a Brown Eyed Girl” is set to release this Friday, the 29th. I held it up a little to get better set up for the release.
I July I’ll be making my first appearance for Wine and Music at Kave’ on the 7th. The following week, I’ll be at The Sub Station on Friday the 13th and making an appearance at Wadsworth Relay for Life on the 14th.
Show at Houston Pub on the 18th was a pretty good debut. Charlie puts on such a good feed that folks were too busy chowing down to react much but they more than made up for it at the end of the show.
Returned to The Sub Station for an evening of friends and music on the 19th. Always a great place to play.
Sometime around the middle of June I’ll be releasing “Singin’ About A Brown Eyed Girl”.
In June I’ll be at Mastropietro Winery on the 15th for what I hope will be an outdoor show in their beautiful setting. The next night I’ll bring the musical mayhem to The Sub Station. On the 23rd I’ll do a morning show at Alliance Farmer’s Market.
Getting ready for debut show at The Houston Pub. Just a fun little bar out in the countryside. Low prices, friendly folks. The next night I’ll return to The Sub Station in Wadsworth for another night of good friends and fun.
On the 23rd I’ll be doing a morning show at The Alliance Farmer’s Market. Come on out and get some farm fresh produce.
In July I’ll be at The Sub Station followed by a short set on the square for the Relay For Life.
My latest single was released today. “When Imagination Comes To Play” enters the world this sunny Friday.
I’ll be at Mastropietro Winery in Berlin Center this Friday (4/20). Always a fun place to play. I do a bit longer show there so I can do more songs for my Youngstown area fans.
I’ll be performing for the May Summit Artwalk on Saturday May 5th. Always a fun show where people can come in for the music and the art and to watch the artists at work.
I make my debut at the Houston Pub on May 18th. The following night I move farther West to return to the Sub Station.
Just added a show for the artwalk at Summit Artspace on Saturday 5/5/18. This is always a fun show with a whole floor full of artists at work.
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You came this way: Home > Curator: KEXP > Fitz & The Tantrums
Fitz & The Tantrums (3 Albums, 3 Tracks)
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It all started with a phone call. The X. Best to let voicemail pick that one up! YOU HAVE 1 NEW MESSAGE: “Hey, sorry to call but my neighbor has got to leave L.A in a hurry, he’s selling everything including this old church organ for 50 bucks. Do you want it?” This was worth the pain of calling the heartbreaker. “He’s got someone coming later today to see it, I don’t know what kind it is, if it works…it’s gigantic” “Pay him, pay him now! Put the 50 dollars in his hand!”. “Okay but the landlord says it has to be out of the basement tonight”. 13 phone calls to piano movers and 50 dollars later four guys were trying to fit this thing through the front door. That was the beginning. “Breakin’ the Chains of Love” was written that night and the inspiration for the record was born. All the pain of splitting with someone poured out into this 5 song EP of 1960’s inspired Soul music. SONGS FOR A BREAK-UP VOL.1 was recorded entirely in Fitz’s living room, using one crappy old mic. The songs are influenced by ’67 AM radio, Motown and early Hall and Oates records. Fitz was born in France and moved to L.A. as a child. This half French, half Irish kid fended off the California rays with a lot of sunscreen to emerge as an artist with a vision. A soulful voice with infectious songs, Fitz’s music makes you wanna’ grab a tambourine and dance.
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Ten Most Recent MIT World's Video Lectures
This month I present to you ten most recent MIT World's video lectures. Actually this is a guest post and it was written by Alexis Bonari. She is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at onlinedegrees.org, researching areas of online universities. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.
Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution in the Making
Video of Capitalism 3.0
C. Otto Scharmer, a senior lecturer in Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, presents this lecture on the latest emerging version of economics. He gives details about his theory of capitalism 3.0, referred to as an intentional ecosystem economy, and advocates collective (rather than individual) economic leadership mindsets.
Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
Video of Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
Andrew Lo is MIT’s Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance and Sloan School of Management Director. He delivers this lecture on comparisons between physics and economics, highlighting some unexpected results.
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Merton
Video of Robert Merton
The Nobel Prize-winner, whose areas of expertise consist of financial engineering and innovation, as well as risk management, describes his breakthrough work on derivatives. Audience members’ questions direct Merton toward a discussion of the role of derivatives in the current financial crisis.
The Culture Beat and New Media
Video of Culture Beat
The “golden age of arts criticism” has arrived with substantial economic implications, despite a decrease in print journalism. Art discourse translates well to the Web as entertainment shifts from the broadcast model to an interactive form. MIT professor Douglas McLennan and online arts forum editor Bill Marx describe the challenges of developing a working business model for this growing economic field.
Are You Ready for IPO?
Video of when to go IPO
A group of four panelists gives fresh and sincere insight into the realm of entrepreneurship. With straightforward and honest advice, start-up company owners can take what they need from this candid, no-frills forum. MIT moderator Robert Buderi discusses the bumpy but rewarding ride of business ownership with two CEOs, a Managing Director, and a Managing Partner from four different companies.
Anthropogenic Climate Change: Science, Economics, and Policy
Video of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Ronald Prinn, MIT’s TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Center for Global Change Science, uses his expertise on global warming to show the audience how human activity affects climate change. Because there are significant economic consequences to making changes in human activity, Prinn invites the science of economics to join natural sciences in an effort to improve the future.
Climate Change: The Economics of and Prospects for a Global Deal
Video of Climate Change and Economics
Describing climate change as “the greatest market failure the world has ever seen,” the London School of Economics IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Sir Nicholas Stern, makes a case for natural science in the realm of economics. He discusses measures to curtail the future long-term effects of global warming, citing climate change damage to the global GDP as he suggests practical action.
News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
Video of News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
Participatory culture and the economics of production combine to form a compelling discussion between Harvard Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Yochai Benkler and Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities Henry Jenkins. Mediated by MIT’s William C. Uricchio, the production and dissemination of information and social patterns is discussed within the context of current “apprenticeship” mentalities and inevitable future activism.
Economics: Regulation and Deregulation of Energy Sectors
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Paul Joskow delivers a substantial mountain of information on the history of energy industries in the U.S. as Management Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Tracing the complex regulatory phase changes in all energy sectors, Joskow analyzes the outcomes and identifies key challenges for economists.
Ending Global Poverty
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Muhammad Yunus advocates that banking convention be overturned in poverty-stricken circumstances, giving highest priority to those with the fewest resources. As the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, Yunus details the transformation of his academic economics experiment into a life-changing personal crusade.
That's it for this month. And thanks again to Alexis Bonari for putting this post together!
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HomeContactThe StationStationNewsTicketsGalleryLinksFriendsFOGSStation BuildingDatesFOGS GalleryFaultsGoostrey
The Old Building
The London Midland Railway Society identified it as a Victorian modular railway building of a type built between 1860 and 1920 and only a handful remain.
A photo from 1891 with the six station staff standing on the platform clearly shows the current building on the Manchester side and a similar one on the Crewe side.
It will require significant funding and more support from our community to ensure that the building survives to give a distinctive character to our Station.
Without it Goostrey Railway Station would become "just another stop" on the line between Manchester and Crewe...
‘The six year long struggle, by FOGS, to persuade the railway companies to renovate the historic, Victorian (1891) old ticket office at Goostrey Station is about to be rewarded with Network Rail, aided by funding from the Railway Heritage Trust (RHT), being about to commence the work with a planned completion by May of this year.
The plan is to bring the building back to its original appearance in ‘heritage colours’ rather than in the livery of Northern Rail. The Railway Heritage Trust are hoping that the restored condition will be such that the building can be entered for a National Rail Heritage Award which would really put Goostrey Station onto the railway map. These images of the current condition of the building, both inside and out, have been taken by the Railway Heritage Trust so that we have a comparison of ‘before and after’.
FOGS is now engaging with Northern Rail, the current franchise holders for the station, to determine how the building can be used in the future and under what lease/rental terms. FOGS/Northern will then be seeking occupants for the building and anyone who would be interested in occupying the whole or a part of it should please contact Mike Jarvis at this stage.
Currently we have one interested party who would like to use the building as an Art Studio and Art Education Centre for local schools.
Our sincerest gratitude to Railway Heritage Trust for their generous donation and support!
You can learn more about the work they do by visiting their website.
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< Toy Chat ~ has everyone seen this?
I posted this to KR, and I'm still waiting for a response. Was wondering what everyone else's thoughts were..
Has KR read Jeremy Brautman's open letter to KR?
I was wondering what their response is...
Originally found at http://www.spankystokes.com/2010/01/dear-kidrobot-its-been-while-since-weve.html
Dear Kidrobot,
It's been a while since we've spoken. How've you been? Not so great? Yeah, I know. A lot of us have been wondering basically what the hell happened to you since we met.
In January 2004, Wired ran an article called "The New Cubicle Commandos" that really resonated with me. You were mentioned in the story, which led me to visit you on Haight Street in San Francisco. Six years ago, the tiny Kidrobot shop was a cool place to go. Back then, you sold Qees, and I'd pick them up regularly. You had these glass cases in the middle of the shop, and the contents were like a mini museum. I chatted with Frank Kozik as he signed his first range of Labbits that year. He was grouchy. It was cramped. But it felt like something was happening. Something interesting...
I went to Kidrobot just once in 2009 as a favor for a friend. As I stood in line, catching whiffs of piss and patchouli, I felt embarrassed and out of place. I found one adult among the queue of kids, and he turned out to be a cool guy named Nate. He cracked me up with a comment about how he'd given away an all-over print Kidrobot shirt to a newly stylin' homeless dude. We were processed through an assembly line to meet the artist. Afterward, I told my friend, "You owe me."
How did this happen to you, Kidrobot? When did you become a punchline and a punching bag? If toy collecting was punk rock, you were Good Charlotte. On one particular forum, "Dunny" became a filtered swear word.
I guess our paths diverged in 2007 with Sketbots, and by 2008's Zoomies, we had gone our separate ways. Your toys--and there were a ton of them--looked like kids' toys with designer toy price tags. It wasn't until later that I learned you had been making these toys for children. Happy Meal toys effectively replaced Cubicle Commandos. But you didn't communicate this new direction to your fans. We all just assumed you had gone soft and were making crappy, commercial "collectible" toys.
You had an interesting 2008. There were high-end handbags and questionable clothing and overpriced jewelry. Though I could never help you with Peecols or your terrible case ratios, I did my best to defend the other stuff. I even proposed to my girlfriend with one of your Kozik rings. At the start of 2009, you were riding high with a Cartoon Network makeover, endorsements from Rosie O'Donnell and Martha Stewart and rumors of new stores. But things were already slipping. A warehouse error (where a fan received an entire case of Huck Gee APs worth enough to buy a car) was mishandled into a nice-sized scandal. Fans were threatened and banned from your forums; entire threads were summarily deleted. There was a growing sense that insidious maneuvers were being made behind-the-scenes by people who didn't know what they were doing.
2009 was a rough year for you. You seemed to entirely forget about media relations and the niche who'd had your back. Instead, you showed off photos of celebrities in your shirts and namechecked hype blogs who'd given you cursory write-ups. You seemed to taunt us with the discrepancy between your "core contingency" and your new fame. Who were you, Kidrobot? We didn't know you anymore. There was that debacle with Taco Bell, but some folks thought maybe the "face off" was arranged. Afterall, Kidrobot is part of Wildbrain which is part of Disney which is partners with Yum Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell...
Next came a series of affronts to the retailers in our communities. As you evolved from local toy store to global brand, new neighborhood toy shops had entered the picture. You sold them your merchandise, but there were strings attached. There were different rules and varying stock for online and brick-and-mortar shops, and you made the selling of open boxes contractually forbidden. Rumors of acquisitions and monopolization began to circulate. Your own stores became distinctly unfriendly places, with inexperienced staff and apparently no ceiling on prices. Things had gone from bad to worse.
And yet, throughout all of this, you did occasionally release a good product. I've got all of the pieces you made with Jon Burgerman, and I was charmed when your #16 mascot picked up real punk records. When I spoke with artists, there was not so much as a single negative commentary about their working relationship with you. And that's more than I can say for many other toy companies. (I'm talking to you WheatyWheat and MINDstyle.)
Kidrobot, I know you're in a tough spot right now. Lots of people have lost their patience with you, and the scene is collectively waiting for you to do something, anything, to mitigate this public relations nightmare in which you appear to be firmly entrenched. Word around the watercooler says you're pushing the Return to Main Menu --> Restart Game button. Fingers are pointing to the mountains, with founder-turned-shareholder Paul Budnitz reassuming the reigns. Everybody deserves a second chance, even you Kidrobot. With all due empathy for the team you're leaving behind in New York, and full acknowledgment of past transgressions, I'm actually sort of rooting for you. This time, please remember the fans who buy your toys, the stores who sell them and the bloggers who write about them. And also: please bring the "art" back to art toys. Goodbye Kidrobot. Hope to see you rise again in 2010.
[Jeremy Brautman is a Bay Area-based writer and PR guy with a passion for pop culture and art toys. He has recently been called a "toy maven," a "truth talker," and a "bad rump." He lives with his wife, two cats and too many toys. You can find him on twitter. If you enjoyed this article, do him the favor of voting for him in the Shorty Awards as a Twitter Journalist. It would be a great honor, and if he happened to win, he wouldn't even have to wear elevator shoes to the Shorty ceremony.]
Saw it and laughed at the assertion that Disney owns Kidrobot and through some partnership were behind that Taco Bell crap. That's some quality reporting (sarcasm, if you're wondering) and completely bullshit.
The rest of it....well, let's just say I don't always agree with the way Kidrobot operates and/or what they decide to release, but I have always appreciated the overwhelming good that Kidrobot has done for the "designer toy" market.
They're damn good at getting products made to a generally high quality level and making it possible for stores like ours to exist...so you're going to have a real hard time getting me to say anything bad about them. I'd go so far as to say that without Kidrobot, we probably wouldn't have a store or be making toys.
I wasn't expecting/hoping to hear anything bad. Being an outsider to all of this I was just curious to hear everyones opinion. I haven't said anything myself on the subject because I really don't know anything about it. I've posted this to a few different forums to see what everyones reaction is. It's pretty mixed, but most people seem to agree with a lot of the stuff in it. I really don't care what kidrobot decides to do. It seem to me that there are plenty of other toy producers out there making quality stuff, and most of the artists that I enjoy don't even make things through kid robot (except for amanda visell.) I like kidrobot for what it is, and as long as they are treating the artists they work with well, that's all I really care about.
Oh and as a store front, I've never been to a kidrobot before. I'm lucky enough to be able to do all my shopping exclusively at roto (as long as you have what I'm looking for.) That is until I move to portland. Hopefully Grass Hut is just as cool (employees, toy, and gallery-wise.)
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We think that it is common for the everyone that can know this story. Even if to the PR guy and has a fashion from the toys, he could be needing to be a professional artist so that it can take an advantage to them. Without wearing elevator shoes in the short ceremony well can guess that he wants to be a simple.seo services
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Zmae wrote:
We think that it is common for the everyone that can know this story. Even if to the PR guy and has a fashion from the toys, he could be needing to be a professional artist so that it can take an advantage to them. Without wearing elevator shoes in the short ceremony well can guess that he wants to be a simple.
Not following you....sorry.
LoneCub
Roto Consigliere Joined: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:57 pmPosts: 1430Location: Chicago, IL
rotokirby wrote:
No, no, no, I agree completely.
LoneCub wrote:
You would.
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It really just reeks of sour grapes. So what if they're the toy equivalent of Good Charlotte? Really, I'd say they're more the toy equivalent of Green Day, if we're talking punk. They're bigger, and they're recognizable, and they've got mass market appeal.
And they're not street anymore.
Which is what some people NEED them to be. But it's one choice, and it's the choice they've made.
Let's take another example: you've likely heard of Ani DeFranco. She was big in the 90's, and she was on a major label. They were prepping her to be HUGE, and wanted to push her there. It wasn't what she wanted, so she got out, and started her own label, and she's very happy in Buffalo, NY making records and doing a decent profit while playing her music and going on tour.
She's made a different choice. Is it BETTER than selling a shit-ton of records and creating a Taylor Swift-esque ancillary revenue stream? The people who make Taylor Swift dolls and Taylor handbags and get all those licensing dollars will probably answer, "No, it's not better." But for Ani DeFranco, it's way better.
For that reporter, KidRobot has sold out, and is WAY worse off for it. But for Kirby and for the industry that surrounds KR, it's absolutely not even a question. Things are better for the industry because KR did what it has done.
Do I kind of cringe when I see labbits as happy meal toys? Maybe for a second. Then I say, "good for you, guys." I'm not saying I'd love to see Milo as a happy meal toy. But would I love to see him on an endcap at Borders with a ton of Milo the Cloud books and other merchandise? You bet your ass I would.
For now, I'm very happy he's on the shelf at Rotofugi. It's a good place for him. He's young yet, and the company he keeps is really nice.
Take care, all.
Milo floats on...
Milo Comics
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By League_Champion, June 11 in Fantasy Football
League_Champion 513
Really? WHY???
Kyle Rudolph is back with the Minnesota Vikings after agreeing to a contract extension that is set to pay him $36 million over four seasons through 2023,
purplemonster 111
He's kind of slow as molasses. I am not a huge fan to be honest. But it depends on the contract structure. If it is 9 million guaranteed I don't have a problem. If it is 16 million it is too much. I was hoping they'd just cut or trade him but maybe they want to run 2 TE sets with Irv Smith Jr. I don't know. Given our junky Oline they may want easy passes for Kirk. A little puzzling if they guaranteed him much money but I am still waiting on full contract details.
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Yeah, I don't get it. He's terrible if you ask me. It wouldn't take much to replace him.
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Huddler All-Pro
Location:Akron Ohio
Fan of the:Browns
Appears to be just over $9M guaranteed, Spotrac doesn't have a lot of detail beyond the first year, but does clearly show $9.25M, with about $7.6M coming in 2019.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/minnesota-vikings/kyle-rudolph-7762/
I wouldn't sign him for 3 million. I don't think he brings anything to the table. Just sayin.
stethant 271
Location:Boston, MA
Fan of the:Buccaneers
6 hours ago, League_Champion said:
Not saying you're wrong, but look at what Eric Ebron did when he finally got out of Detroit. Rudolph isn't bringing much for the Vikings these days in their system and he's not getting younger - can't disagree with you there. I do wonder if a free agent signing would've been better for both parties.
Yeah I would have preferred to just see him cut to be honest. Even for 9 million. But it's not a huge investment. I'd feel differently if he blocked well but he doesn't. I agree with League I think he's pretty easily replaced for what he produces
I've learned my lesson with drafting Rudolph. I released him mid season. He's a stiff. I wouldn't draft him in the 16th round, nope.
Bier Meister 161
Location:Sonoma County, CA
Interests:family, pets, food, booze, sports
Fan of the:49ers
I am a fan of his, but think they are overpaying. How do we think he ranks (non-ff):
kelce/ertz
kittle
Rudoplh/Ebron/Mcdonald
2 hours ago, Bier Meister said:
I think he's in that 3rd tier.
I have him at 9th in fantasy scoring last year, even though he played all 16 games. OJ Howard, Gronk, Evan Engram and others were not far behind and they missed multiple weeks. And on a team that threw 63% of the time. And now he has Irv Smith Jr who may take some snaps. The O line may be better this year but he's not a super attractive fantasy candidate to me.
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Location:Minnesota
Fan of the:Vikings
Maybe Cousins will wake up and find him more often. It's Cousins fault as much as Rudolphs. IMHO
3 hours ago, borge007 said:
I agree to an extent. Cousins was terrible at times.
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Paint on canvas and wood
Gavin Turk was commissioned by Opera Erratica to design the set of a three-part opera piece titled Triptych.This original opera consists of three seemingly unrelated plays, composed by Chris Mayo, Thomas Smetryns and Christian Mason, with librettos by Orlando Wells and Patrick Eakin Young.
Here, a selection of Gavin Turk's artworks are reproduced in a trompe l'oeil fashion as a simulation of the artist's exhibition, and reinserted into the context of the stage. In relation to Turk's oeuvre this presentation effects a double-distancing (a simulacrum of the simulacrum), or mise en abîme i.e a technique in which an image contains a smaller copy of itself.
The stage becomes an apt conceptual space for themes of representation, reproduction and recomposition - and also for the deconstruction of these themes. As a back-drop it prevents each play from sitting too comfortably on itself, acting as a doubly false setting that occasionally reverts into the real setting as the characters' roles shift and return to their original stance.
Homo Abyssus Occidentalis
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Gender inequality in the European Union
Written by Benjamin Hennig
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Benjamin Hennig
How are the EU member nations faring in the fight for gender equality?
It is a complex task to measure the progress that has been made in achieving equal gender rights. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals provide a framework for the global level that is targeted at the most pressing issues of gender-based discrimination. In addition to that, national governments as well as trans-national organisations such as the European Union have started concerted efforts to better understand the progress that is made in the different areas that relate to gender equality. This is often linked to developing new policies that aim to improve the situation in the different areas where gender issues matter.
The European Institute for Gender Equality has developed a Gender Equality Index that provides a measure for comparing member states over time in a range of areas relevant to European policymaking. The advantage of using an index is the possibility of using a single measure to monitor and track overall progress between the different countries. The combination of different indicators therefore does not prioritise a single issue of gender rights, but aims to support overall progress as an integrated challenge for achieving real change in thinking.
The above cartogram (click to enlarge) shows the state of progress that has been made by the 28 EU member states visualised on a population cartogram. A score of zero indicates total inequality in all areas, while an index value of 100 stands for full equality. In the most recent study, the EU-28 achieved an overall score of 52.9 with slow (but continuing) increases compared to the previous releases of the Index in 2005 and 2010. The index combines the areas of work, money, knowledge, time, power, and health, and also takes intersecting inequalities and violence into account.
The population cartogram shows that the countries with the highest progress are those with relatively small populations. Sweden currently is highest with an overall score of 74.2 (slightly down from its 74.4 score in 2010). The cartogram also shows there are distinct geographic patterns to gender equality across the EU, with the southern and eastern countries currently scoring worst. Romania is at the bottom with a score of 33.7 (down from 35.0), showing how these patterns that are emerging in the map are quite persistent and requiring considerably political efforts to change.
Benjamin Hennig (@geoviews) is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Iceland and Honorary Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is involved in the Worldmapper project and is author of viewsoftheworld.net
For more on the issue of tackling gender inequality across the world, read our in-depth Dossier in the November 2017 edition of Geographical magazine, available now in print and digital formats.
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Updating the world’s magnetic model as the North Pole moves
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Effect of diamond grain size on magnetic properties of cobalt phase in PCD
Presented by Mr. Tsholofelo Themba NGWEKHULU on 8 Jul 2014 from 17:10 to 19:00
Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) table comprises diamond grains, which are non-magnetic, a metal phase (cobalt-base), which is the only ferromagnetic component in the material and WC which is non-magnetic and which moves into PCD during cobalt infiltration. Experiments were conducted to determine the magnetic saturation and coercive field strength of PCD and relate them to image analysis results. Three variants of diamond powders were selected for this study. These had average particle diameters of 4.5µm, 12.5µm, and 25.3µm respectively. WC-Co substrates readily available and sintered at ElementSix (PTY) Ltd containing 13 wt. % Co were used to sinter the PCD table onto the WC-Co. These substrates were sintered at 1400°C and a pressure of 40mbar to form a dense body. The PCD tables were separated from the substrate, prepared for analysis and characterized for magnetic saturation, coercivity and microstructure, including image analysis. The magnetic values were correlated with analytical image analysis results. Clear correlations between metal phase content and magnetic saturation and cobalt mean free path and coercivity exists. It was found that magnetic saturation measurements are independent of the shape and size of the specimen. As the particle size of a non-magnetic material increases, the number of magnetic domains of the metallic phase increases, and therefore the coercive force decreases. It is found that the diamond starting particle size has large influence on the metallic phase microstructure and magnetic properties. Furthermore, the more fine grain diamond particles have higher sintered density over coarser diamond particles indicating a higher volume fraction of metallic cobalt. This is confirmed by the high values of magnetic saturation measurements for fine grain diamond over coarse grain one.
Mervin Naidoo mervin.naidoo@wits.ac.za
Mr. Tsholofelo Themba NGWEKHULU University of the Witwatersrand
Prof. Iakovos SIGALAS University of the Witwatersrand
Dr. Mervin NAIDOO University of the Witwatersrand
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ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
Post by Auks Ran Ova » Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:51 pm
ACF Nationals 2016 is clear for discussion. The packets will be posted soon, but until they are I or the other editors will be happy to post question text that you'd like to see.
A quick breakdown of who edited what:
Rob: American and British literature, fine arts, myth
Ike: European and world/other literature, other science, religion, philosophy
Ryan: all history, social science, other academic/geography/current events
Billy: chemistry, biology, physics
Ike and freelancers Jonathan Magin and Aaron Rosenberg also wrote a significant portion of the questions in my categories for the editors' packets, though I edited them as I did any other submission. I'd also like to specifically thank Magin, Eric Mukherjee, and Cody Voight for their invaluable assistance with proofreading and editing suggestions.
I think the tournament as a whole did a pretty good job meeting our goals from last year, which were largely focused on toning down some of the wildness (and avoiding dead tossups) a bit while still providing the difficulty and rigor required from ACF Nationals. I was also very pleased with the general quality of submissions--a variety of unforeseeable personal issues left me more crunched on this set than I really wanted to be (Ike deserves massive credit for being this tournament's rock) and the fact that so many submitted questions, at least in my categories, were very solid made my life much easier.
I'll let Jerry speak to the tournament-directing side of things specifically, but I do want to thank everyone who made the tournament possible, especially the yeoman's work done by Cody Voight.
All in all, despite any difficulties I really enjoy editing this tournament and hope to do it again in the future. Thanks to all the teams for coming out and playing, and I hope you enjoyed our work!
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
Post by Ike » Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:35 pm
I want to reserve this post to dispel a common set of misconceptions:
- We did not let tossups extend into the 10th and 11th lines outside of the finals. We blew up the font to be BIG this year due to a lot of moderator errors which I thought came from the font size. No tossup in the non-finals packets went over 9 lines I believe, and most were under 8. That being said, if I had more hours to work on the tournament, ensuring that every non-finals tossup was below 8 lines would have been the next thing on my list.
- Some people have pointed out the set to me felt harder than last year's. I think that that is almost a purely subjective assessment. If you look at the round report from Nationals 2014 and Nationals 2015, you'll find that this year's set was definitely easier in terms of ppg and ppb. I encourage future editors to keep with this trend and continue to make the set easier - especially with really dead and really hard tossups. (In my ideal world, some of the packets become a tiny bit easier by one tossup or so per a round.)
I'll post more in a second.
Edit 1: grammar
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Post by grapesmoker » Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:37 pm
Ike wrote: - We did not let tossups extend into the 10th and 11th lines outside of the finals. We blew up the font to be BIG this year due to a lot of moderator errors which I thought came from the font size.
The feedback from last year suggested that 10 point font was too small, so I blew it up to 12 points for easier reading (which is also why packets were an average 3-4 pages longer this year than last year).
Jerry Vinokurov
ex-LJHS, ex-Berkeley, ex-Brown, sorta-ex-CMU
code ape, loud voice, general nuissance
Okay, so I'll talk a little bit about what I did for this tournament.
- The biggest challenge for me was handling this tournament's religion. I honestly am a pretty terrible religion player and going into editing the set, I was kind of dreading editing it. I knew that I didn't want to produce standard, cookie-cutter questions and wasn't really sure how to make it innovative. But after reading quite a bit and thumbing through books at UIUC's religion and history library, it dawned on me that religion is perhaps the area of quizbowl where we could have the biggest overhaul: the tossups on yugas, the Ladino language, the history of _books_ as regulated by the Catholic church, as well as the bonus on kivas / sacred clowns / sweat lodges and the apologetics bonus were part of that approach. I encourage future editors in all tournaments to not just pick a holiday or heresy and ask about it at will, but to take a bit more time to see if you can ask about something fresh / innovative.
- The (1/1) world literature was reduced down to the following: .66/.66 world literature. .17/.17 genre literature + .17/.17 literary theory and criticism. That's technically within ACF's distribution - though some might argue that genre literature has no place at ACF Nationals - I disagree obviously, partly because there is already no trash at this tournament, and because all of the stuff that I asked about has literary value. Besides how else am I ask about Stuart Moulthrop's ~Victory Garden~?
- Special thanks to the following people in no particular order: Libo for writing the aliasing and groups tossups. Andrew Yaphe for writing 2/2 philosophy - Socrates, Davidson, virtue/Sextus Empiricus/Metaphysics, Paul Ricoeur/hemeneutics/evil bonus, to Jonathan Magin for letting me gchat with him for a long time to bounce off my ideas - he redlined a lot of my bad ones, and proofread a lot of the set, and also wrote the tossup on studying the Torah as well as the bonus on Vilna Gaon, and Eric Mukherjee for letting me run the religion and other science by him.
Not going to lie, this tournament kind of burned me out. For 5-6 weeks or so I put in about a 80-90 hours a week into this tournament and before that it was closer to 20-30 hours a week for like 2-3 months. As Rob hinted at / said, I wrote a whole bunch of questions for him, and in many ways this is the tournament I would have wanted to write if I were the head editor, including sneaking in references to ~The Longest Journey~ in two tournaments this year. As some of you may or may not know, writing nationals is one of those things that consumes your life: even in the shower you're thinking about the next great idea you can have so that you can write about something. So because of those combination of factors, I've decided not to seek editorship of Nationals next year, though I may be back in the future - after all, I still have so much more to know.
The longest journey is the journey inwards.
Edit 1: Forgot that Jonathan wrote me some Jewish religion bonuses!
Post by Mike Bentley » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:21 pm
Snap Wexley wrote:
I could have done without the justified text which did weird things such as automated hyphenation which split words across multiple lines in a way that a professional editor never would have done. This random site also claims that Rag Right is easier to read (something that I think I also heard in some typography book I read): http://www.fonts.com/content/learning/f ... -rag-right
Post by vinteuil » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:30 pm
Ike wrote: - Some people have pointed out the set to me felt harder than last year's. I think that that is almost a purely subjective assessment. If you look at the round report from Nationals 2014 and Nationals 2015, you'll find that this year's set was definitely easier in terms of ppg and ppb. I encourage future editors to keep with this trend and continue to make the set easier - especially with really dead and really hard tossups. (In my ideal world, some of the packets become a tiny bit easier by one tossup or so per a round.
I'll probably post more later, but my biggest comment was going to be that I appreciated the reigning in of difficulty this year—many more gettable hard parts, fewer craaaazy tossups, and a little bit less of "middle part is the new hard part." So I'm not sure where that perception is coming from. Anyways, thanks to the editors for focusing on making the tournament more accessible!
EDIT: Also, the length reduction was noticeable and appreciated.
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Post by The Stately Rhododendron » Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:01 pm
Two minor corrections:
The lovely TU on Kieslowski mentions in the first line a scene in Bleu where Juliette Binoche's character watches a man play the recorder while stirring sugar into her coffee. A truly lovely scene and an excellent choice for a lead-in. However, she stirs coffee into a bowl of vanilla ice cream during this scene (which is putting sugar into her coffee in a way, I suppose). Loved the film in this set.
The bonus part on Dogs of War (great idea, I assume this was part of the genre lit distro?) mentions it being inspired by Mark Thatcher's coup attempt. The real story is 10 times as hilarious: Forsyth seems to have based the story on an earlier coup attempt that he (Forsyth) was involved in. Thatcher then read the book, loved it, and, along with his South African mercenary friends, decided to plan a coup that mirrored the plot of Dogs of War very closely (and failed quickly, of course).
Ike, I really liked the yuga TU and thought the religion was very decent in this set (though a serious lack of Buddhism, I only counted the Shingon TU in the finals). My dad loved the citation in the nacreous clouds TU, too.
Anthropology was pretty meh, though the Taussig/Spivak bonus was fun. Think Chagnon was the only anthropologist tossed up and the others mentioned in bonuses were usually dead (and male). They were relevant dead ones, though. Big ups for not mentioning Ruth Benedict a single time!
IKD
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Post by theMoMA » Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:56 pm
This was a hard set, but as I told Rob and Ike, I thought it was a very good and fair one. I'm not sure I did the calculations right, but it appears that 1,291 tossups were converted out of the 1,340 tossups read to the top-bracket teams, which is an excellent 96%. Some of the middle parts were perhaps a bit ungenerous, but I thought it was a fairly consistent set of bonuses otherwise. Congrats to the editors for putting together a good set, and to Michigan for navigating through it to the title!
From a typographical perspective, I much prefer ragged right with no line-end hyphenations. The latter were particularly difficult to contend with on the fly.
Andrew Hart
Minnesota alum
Post by Mewto55555 » Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:36 pm
I already mentioned this to Eric, but I've noticed across tournaments that there doesn't seem to be a consistent standard of leniency when it comes to what to accept for questions on pathogens/the disease they cause. In particular, I was quite aggravated at this tournament by the tossup on Toxoplasma that (I think) referred to it exclusively as this genus throughout, but also accepted answers of toxoplasmosis. In game, after realizing it was on the agent that causes toxoplasmosis, I threw out a guess for what the genus name would be -- since I'm a big doofus it was incorrect, but the other team got points for their answer of toxoplasmosis. Obviously my incorrect answer didn't deserve points, but it would be nice when editors decide to generously accept a better-known formulation of the answer that isn't clearly specified in the question, that they include a "WARNING: either genus name or disease name acceptable," or something*. Quizbowl seems to be moving away from the direction of "let's bone players who only kind of know stuff about the answer" in other categories by clearly specifying what the question wants (such as the "description acceptable" warning that's become ubiquitous in history); there's no reason we shouldn't here too.
* I guess in some cases this might make things more transparent, but certainly in this one it felt like most of the clues were on Toxoplasma-as-disease-causing-agent, so it wouldn't have made a difference.
EDIT: To be clear, this post was less a "lol Eric's question sucks", and more a "everyone should be careful about this in the future, and not play fast and loose with acceptability!" I know I've probably made this mistake a dozen times in my own writing.
Post by Sima Guang Hater » Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:48 pm
Mewto55555 wrote: I already mentioned this to Eric, {stuff about Toxo question}
This was in fact my question and my fault. I considered just making it a tossup on "toxoplasmosis" but for some reason I thought the genus might be easier to remember; then I thought adding "toxoplasmosis" to the answerline was just being generous. I apologize if this screwed anyone else over.
I also wrote the tossups on melanoma and the optic nerve and the bonus on mRNA/Q/Variant Calling, in addition to suggesting a bunch of edits elsewhere.
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Muriel Axon
Post by Muriel Axon » Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:50 pm
The Stately Rhododendron wrote: The lovely TU on Kieslowski mentions in the first line a scene in Bleu where Juliette Binoche's character watches a man play the recorder while stirring sugar into her coffee. A truly lovely scene and an excellent choice for a lead-in. However, she stirs coffee into a bowl of vanilla ice cream during this scene (which is putting sugar into her coffee in a way, I suppose). Loved the film in this set.
This isn't a mistake; she does watch a sugarcube soak up coffee at least once. I think there may have been multiple scenes where she orders coffee.
Shan Kothari
Plymouth High School '10
Michigan State University '14
University of Minnesota '20
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Post by No Rules Westbrook » Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:11 pm
Ike's not kidding when he says this Nats was his baby. He put in such a massive amount of work all across the set, and was a fantastic editor to work with throughout.
On social science, I'd say the amount of both anthro and econ was probably a bit on the low side - with a slightly heavier focus on psychology, sociology, and linguistics - but I tried my best to use reasonably good submissions.
I'll probably post more later. Thanks for indulging my unpopular insistence on having a bonus part on Vassall Morton.
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Left here since birth...forgotten in the river of time...I've had an eternity to...ponder the meaning of things...and now I have an answer!
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Post by Steeve Ho You Fat » Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:12 pm
Mike Bentley wrote:
I agree that the right justification was needless and annoying from a reader's perspective. However, as I told Rob, the hyphenation in chemistry words was very helpful and greatly appreciated. I hope more tournaments begin doing this, as it's a way to provide a pseudo-pronunciation guide that doesn't throw off someone who actually knows how to say the word.
Joe Nutter
Walnut Hills High School '11
Location: Richmond
Post by Cody » Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:37 pm
For what it's worth, justified and hyphenated is the default way LaTeX does things so it's not like Jerry went to the trouble of doing it. I personally didn't even notice it when I was reading PADAWAN but many others were annoyed so I changed it for future mirrors.
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Adventure Temple Trail
Post by Adventure Temple Trail » Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:04 pm
There must be some sort of prospect theory-like effect where the appearance of greater text length makes it seem to moderators like they're reading questions that are longer than they actually are. I was quite surprised to find out that what seemed like 11-line monster tossups and 3-line bonus parts were actually originally 8 lines and 2 lines respectively in the traditional 10-point TNR! Anyway, that's cool I guess.
I also really like how prompts in this set were merely underlined (in contrast to acceptable answers, which are underlined and bolded); I would like that to become the new standard for all mACF packets from here on out, since the current waffliness between displaying prompts between "quotes" (much like unacceptable answers) or in bold-and-underline (much like acceptable answers) greatly contributes to moderator error.
It definitely seemed while I was reading that the editors did a statistically significant amount to control difficulty compared to last year's set; bonus conversion is up across the board, and far fewer tossups went dead in the upper half of the field. However, I still saw tons of tossups even in top-bracket matches go really really late, with relatively little buzzing on middle clues occurring. Some of this was due to really top-heavy tossups on really hard people or concepts which probably only have one or two notable clues (I'm thinking most about the tossup on Swadesh here; can cite other examples when the set is posted). So while less of the tournament's tossups consisted of "ten line speed checks"/"have you heard of this bowl" as last year, and more people had in fact "heard of" that at 2016 Nats, I still think next year's editing team could be a bit more judicious about which spicy new topics to ask as tossups and which to save for use as bonus parts or clues. In my opinion, the best matches at Nationals are battled out on the middle clues, and that could stand to happen a bit more in future years.
Matt J.
ex-Georgetown Day HS, ex-Yale
Sailing away on my copper boat
Muriel Axon wrote:
Ah! You are right. I was thinking of this one. My bad, Shan.
Adventure Temple Trail wrote: I also really like how prompts in this set were merely underlined (in contrast to acceptable answers, which are underlined and bolded); I would like that to become the new standard for all mACF packets from here on out, since the current waffliness between displaying prompts between "quotes" (much like unacceptable answers) or in bold-and-underline (much like acceptable answers) greatly contributes to moderator error.
Yeah I like this. I'm going to add something like this to QEMS2.
Inifinite Jest
Post by Inifinite Jest » Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:08 pm
I really enjoyed this set. The editors did an admirable job of controlling the number of crazy answerlines, and making sure every bonus had a definite easy part. I do think the middle parts could've been a little gentler, and I wasn't a real big fan of the social science and philosophy which seemed to be heavily skewed towards historical figures that aren't super-relevant in their fields nowadays. However, these are pretty minor quibbles. Thanks to all the editors and staffers who made my first ACF Nats a blast.
Oklahoma '18 Norman North '15
Yeah, I'm a pretty big fan of asking about crusty old dudes like Lester Ward and Patrick Geddes who have very limited relevance to actual study in the modern sense (or easier examples like Henry George or William Graham Sumner). I realize that's not everybody's cup of tea.
I think the "quizbowl as a reflection of the classroom" movement has always been misguided, pernicious, and boring.
Red Panda Cub
Post by Red Panda Cub » Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:54 pm
This tournament was a lot of fun and I can't immediately bring to mind many clunky questions beyond the unfortunate couillarde clue in the Cezanne still life tossup and putting Korsgaard in line one of a Kant tossup.
No Rules Westbrook wrote: Yeah, I'm a pretty big fan of asking about crusty old dudes like Lester Ward and Patrick Geddes who have very limited relevance to actual study in the modern sense (or easier examples like Henry George or William Graham Sumner). I realize that's not everybody's cup of tea.
The Patrick Geddes question was one of the highlights of the tournament (along with, to name a couple other unexpected appearances, Jaako Hintikka and Nell Zink's pen pal) for me, but only because of his special relevance to the contemporary question concerning the use and presentation of architecture in Tel Aviv as a political tool. I can get behind people like him coming up in connection with things like that.
The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote: I also wrote the tossups on melanoma and the optic nerve and the bonus on mRNA/Q/Variant Calling, in addition to suggesting a bunch of edits elsewhere.
George (a medical student) on my team buzzed early on the optic nerve tossup and said "spinal cord" and maintains that his answer was correct for the clue he buzzed on because the condition described affects the spinal cord, so it might be good to see that question if possible.
Joey Goldman
Oxford '17
City, University of London '19
No Rules Westbrook wrote: I think the "quizbowl as a reflection of the classroom" movement has always been misguided, pernicious, and boring.
Next year I'll be sure to submit a biology tossup on Trofim Lysenko and a chemistry tossup on phlogiston.
Post by Cheynem » Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:38 pm
Those things routinely come up in the science history part of the distribution; since there really isn't a social science history or philosophy history part of the distro, it's a little harder to figure out where some older, at one time heavily influential, thinkers go. I tend to agree with Ryan's viewpoint for what it's worth.
Short-beaked echidna wrote:
The Question wrote: Hypoplasia of this structure can be diagnosed by noting a DD to DM ratio less than 0.35. Because it can cause inflammation of this structure in children under 6, ethambutol is avoided to treat TB in that age group. A disease in which this structure becomes inflamed is caused by autoantibodies to aquaporin-4. An increase in intracranial pressure can be diagnosed by the swelling of the “head” of this nerve, which is also called its namesake “disk”; that swelling is called papilledema. The superior colliculus and lateral geniculate nucleus eventually receive input from this nerve, which decussates at a structure that can be compressed by large tumors in the pituitary gland, its namesake chiasm. A mitochondrial disease named for Leber affects this nerve, which receives axonal projections from retinal ganglion cells. For 10 points, name this cranial nerve that carries visual signals from the eye.
ANSWER: optic nerve [or cranial nerve II or CN II or CN2]
He was probably buzzing on the clue about neuromyelitis optica ("A disease in which this structure becomes inflamed is caused by autoantibodies to aquaporin-4"), which inflames both the spinal cord and the optic nerve. His buzz is ruled out by the previous clues, but I probably should have put a caveat in there. Mea culpa.
Also Ryan's completely wrong about the classroom thing, but I'll note I did ask him to put the "conurbation" clue in that Patrick Geddes question because I think urban planner Chris White told me about it.
Post by Auks Ran Ova » Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:48 pm
I wouldn't necessarily go as far as Ryan, but I think quizbowl absolutely has a place for both the hot new academic thing and its somewhat musty historical counterpart.
I don't know what Caleb is referring to in SS/P but if it's my questions on stuff like John Locke's Essay or Alcibiades from Plato's Symposium, those are not "super relevant in their fields" or whatever. People actually do read parts of the Theory of Moral Sentiments and Emile for undergraduate classes, old or not.
Post by Inifinite Jest » Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:15 pm
Ike wrote: IJohn Locke's Essay
This was an excellent tossup and I actually just read the Essay like two weeks ago for a class.
Alcibiades from Plato's Symposium
I seriously doubt that you would ever read the Symposium in a philosophy class because it's not even really a work of philosophy! Certainly, if you take a class on the history of ancient philosophy you would probably read Timaeus or Parminedes, both which are central to understanding Plato's weird metaphysics, but I have no idea why on earth you would ever read Symposium.
Essentially, I think quizbowl needs to ask more things about people like Crispin Wright and William Lycan (that bonus part on Jaako Hintikka was pretty dope btw) and fewer questions on Thomas Bradwardine or John Sallis or whatever other random person someone finds while skimming through Wikipedia, though others will probably disagree with this opinion and that's fine.
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Post by Adventure Temple Trail » Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:21 pm
Inifinite Jest wrote:
I seriously doubt that you would ever read the Symposium in a philosophy class because it's not even really a work of philosophy! Certainly, if you take a class on the history of ancient philosophy you would probably read Timaeus or Parminedes...I have no idea why on earth you would ever read Symposium
I dunno, man.
Adventure Temple Trail wrote:
I mean I would argue that Yale has a really weird continental-based philosophy curriculum that is probably not reflective of what you're average undergraduate at a normal analytical-focused department is exposed to
Post by grapesmoker » Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:38 pm
I mean, I love me some abstruse analytical philosophy, but I don't think claiming that the Symposium is not a work of philosophy is going to advance this discussion very much. Also, the assumption that the analytic tradition is the default of what counts as philosophy is unjustified.
Inifinite Jest wrote: I seriously doubt that you would ever read the Symposium in a philosophy class because it's not even really a work of philosophy! Certainly, if you take a class on the history of ancient philosophy you would probably read Timaeus or Parminedes, both which are central to understanding Plato's weird metaphysics, but I have no idea why on earth you would ever read Symposium.
Essentially, I think quizbowl needs more to ask more things about people like Crispin Wright and William Lycan (that bonus part on Jaako Hintikka was pretty dope btw) and fewer questions on Thomas Bradwardine or John Sallis or whatever other random person someone finds while skimming through Wikipedia, though others will probably disagree with this opinion and that's fine.
This post is pretty misguided, I think. The assertion that Plato's Symposium isn't "really a work of philosophy" is just silly--even something as simple as the wikipedia article can shed some light on its current relevance. The idea that you'd never read it in a philosophy class is even sillier--googling "syllabus plato symposium" brings up all kinds of relevant results, and if that doesn't do it for you, a quick hour's jaunt to the other side of Oklahoma City will give you the opportunity to see an ancient philosophy class doing the unthinkable. Now, I don't want to be too harsh on you specifically, Caleb--this is just a general reminder that one's own personal experience is not necessarily universalizable.
Just because a person is old or not in current academic fashion, let alone because you didn't specifically cover them in a class, doesn't make them irrelevant or unaskable, nor does it mean that someone just found them trawling Wikipedia. One of the great joys of quizbowl is that it covers not just the academic hot topics but the full breadth of intellectual history and human accomplishment. It shouldn't be all dead discredited white men, of course, but neither is it beholden to exclusively cover the cutting edge of academia. There's ample room for both.
Post by Ike » Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:41 pm
I guess "cognitive nihilism strikes ACF Nationals" as well.
Edit: I've also asked about Crispin Wright before as well - twice!
Auks Ran Ova wrote: one's own personal experience is not necessarily universalizable.
This is a fair criticism. Also I think I've come off in thread as snarkier/angrier than I actually am. That said I look forward to writing a tournament's worth of philosophy someday very soon.
Auks Ran Ova wrote: a quick hour's jaunt to the other side of Oklahoma City will give you the opportunity to see an ancient philosophy class doing the unthinkable.
BTW, the Symposium listed on the syllabus, according to UCO student Tracey Hickman, is actually referring UCO's Liberal Arts Symposium, a conference where students present the papers they've written. UCO, in fact, doesn't even teach Plato's Symposium.
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That sounds exciting and you should definitely do that. I would enjoy playing such a thing very much.
Post by Cody » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:02 pm
I am a strong supporter of the back-to-the-classroom method, but Caleb's post here and Isaac's in the ICT thread are not only wrong about what is actually taught in the classroom, but dangerously proscriptive. By God, faced with such views - I'd have to agree more with Westbrook, who is in polar opposition to my beliefs!
Believing quizbowl should be informed by the classroom curricula is a sound attitude (more so in science than any other subject). But that does not mean that you can't venture outside the classroom, which should be encouraged (after all, no one ever got all their knowledge from the classroom). If you want to see more questions informed by the classroom, yelling at people on the Internet for writing on extremely famous and gettable things is definitely counterproductive to your viewpoint (also, crazy!).
Unrelatedly, I thought Ike's forays into new conceptual ground with his "literary theory" questions, especially the tossups on "endings" and "genre," were excellent and I'd be happy to see more questions like that from regular difficulty on up.
Post by No Rules Westbrook » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:19 pm
I'm sorry, I rather purposely derailed this thread by making a pointed ideological comment. I've always felt that quizbowl at its best is something sui generis - and that it doesn't need to rely upon, or have continual reference to, a concept of an academic curriculum in order to maintain a reasonable set of standards about what is important or interesting or askable (though a typical curriculum can be one guidepost to look to, it doesn't need to be any sort of anchor).
Fear not, though - I will lose that battle handily, and quizbowl in 2025 will certainly demand that all tossups contain citations to major university syllabi. The lamps are going out all over the Canon, and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Post by vinteuil » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:26 pm
No Rules Westbrook wrote: I'm sorry, I rather purposely derailed this thread by making a pointed ideological comment. I've always felt that quizbowl at its best is something sui generis - and that it doesn't need to rely upon, or have continual reference to, a concept of an academic curriculum in order to maintain a reasonable set of standards about what is important or interesting or askable (though a typical curriculum can be one guidepost to look to, it doesn't need to be any sort of anchor).
As someone who's fairly recently promoted a "curricular" approach to question writing, I'll say that I enjoyed many of the "unfashionable" clues that Ryan is promoting (e.g. the history clues from people like Bemis and Parkman). On the other hand, it's obviously a false dichotomy to oppose clues about "history of ___" to "back to the classroom" questions, since academics also study stuff that is interesting, even if it isn't in vogue.
Post by The Stately Rhododendron » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:29 pm
Cody wrote: I am a strong supporter of the back-to-the-classroom method, but Caleb's post here and Isaac's in the ICT thread are not only wrong about what is actually taught in the classroom, but dangerously proscriptive. By God, faced with such views - I'd have to agree more with Westbrook, who is in polar opposition to my beliefs!
Maybe the reason why people like me and Caleb get upset is that SS is not only a small part of the distro (which is totally reasonable by itself), but when it is asked about, the answerlines usually have no relation to what we actually learn about in school! I am definitely not alone in thinking that the state anthropology (my major, if you didn't know) in quizbowl, for example, is some real shit. It results in people like me and Caleb writing (no offense Caleb) angry and unreasonable posts because hearing questions that subscribe to an outdated view of what our discipline is (in a high stress tournament setting) make us feel angry and unreasonable. Obviously, these are kind of counter-productive, but I wouldn't call them "crazy."
When it results in someone saying we should replace an extremely easy (and presumably well-executed) answerline at what most would agree is a too-hard tournament -- yes, I'd say that's crazy. When it results in you and Caleb arguing that the things asked about are never taught in class (when they are) -- yes, I'd say that's crazy.
Ultimately, nearly everyone has their tiny slice of the quizbowl distribution that they feel isn't representative of the things they learn or are important in their field. But one of the great things about quizbowl is that such questions can and should still be engaging -- and that quizbowl is fluid and ripe for change (see Ike's post about his tact for religion, for example; see also Jake Sundberg's post about math in the CO thread).
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Post by Skepticism and Animal Feed » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:47 pm
No Rules Westbrook wrote: Fear not, though - I will lose that battle handily, and quizbowl in 2025 will certainly demand that all tossups contain citations to major university syllabi. The lamps are going out all over the Canon, and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
And yet even in this dystopia, Plato will be asked about.
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Post by Muriel Axon » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:47 pm
Not to beat a dead horse, but Thomas Bradwardine is great, and contemporary logicians like Greg Restall and Catarina Dutilh Novaes still look to him as a source of fresh ideas for solving philosophical problems.
This brings me to a more serious point, which is that in philosophy, old ideas are always returning in new guise. Timaeus may be pretty kooky, but those ideas got recycled into Plotinus, and the Italian humanists, and hey, some philosophers may find it profitable to look to them today, too. (I have no problem whatsoever with the fact that, for example, Ike allowed three Plato TUs into ACF Nationals 2015, just because he's so core to the philosophy canon.) I suspect, but can't prove, that this becomes less true in more scientific fields -- anthropologists might give an obligatory nod to Benedict or Turner in their ethnographies, but tend to move on quickly, while biologists and chemists almost never even read primary sources for 100+ year old ideas. Which is why we ask questions about Aquinas but not Lysenko (or even, say, Thomas Hunt Morgan, who was actually right). Philosophers have a lot more to gain from reading to former than we scientists do from reading the latter, and what's more, our training just doesn't include that kind of attention to primary sources, even if it is valuable.
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chem was great as usual. Lots of anal. chem. that wouldn't come up elsewhere
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Post by Ike » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:03 am
Oh yeah, my idea and innovation! I'm going to take credit for this as well. The problem that I've noticed is that some moderators either don't read answerlines specifically enough, especially when they are monstrosities or just assume that bold and underlined means "acceptable answer." Anything that makes moderators able to do simple pattern matching so that they know immediately whether to prompt, neg or accept is something I support.
I guess I'll note some of the quesetions in nationals didn't do this since it's still a habit that the editors were all getting used to, but I too suggest that all mACF tournaments adopt this for the future.
Post by Charbroil » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:17 am
Auks Ran Ova wrote:
Not that it matters, but the Symposium (the work) is in that syllabus right below the "LA Symposium" (the conference).
Post by Auks Ran Ova » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:20 am
yeah, "Week 9: Plato, Symposium"
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Post by Picasso's Middle Name » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:28 am
[/quote/]yeah, "Week 9: Plato, Symposium"
This is my bad. I told Caleb wrong. Not that it really matters what is taught at UCO. I did take that class for the hell of it last Spring, however, and we did not read that work, so I just assumed it was still left off the syllabus. When I just glanced and saw "LA Symposium", I assumed that's what was seen by everyone. That class was a joke, BTW.
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Post by touchpack » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:29 am
I'd like to extend special thanks to Eric Mukherjee for writing questions, finding extra clues, and generally providing valuable commentary on my stuff. (especially the biology!) It was immensely helpful during a time where I was very busy with real life obligations, ICT, and nationals all at the same time, and the set would have been much worse if not for his help. I'd also like to re-emphasize that Ike put an ENORMOUS amount of work into coordinating production, writing, editing, and proofreading for the set, and the set was much better off because of it.
I don't think my stuff had the same level of polish as it did last year, (I especially apologize for the misplaced clue in the mice tossup, the factually incorrect giveaway on the atomic number tossup, and the ambiguous early clues in the phase tossup) but I still think I did a reasonably good job of finding interesting topics to ask about and I hope people enjoyed playing it!
Muriel Axon wrote: Not to beat a dead horse, but Thomas Bradwardine is great, and contemporary logicians like Greg Restall and Catarina Dutilh Novaes still look to him as a source of fresh ideas for solving philosophical problems.
I think this post gets a lot of things right re: classroom study of science vs social science vs philosophy. I'd also like to emphasize that when you go far back in science, you get a lot of stuff that doesn't have ANY standards of rigor with regards to coming up with testable hypotheses, robust experimentation, etc. Stuff like Lysenko and phlogiston would make for terrible science questions, since, well, by any modern definition, they are not science! However, science history can still be a valid topic to write about when written well--see, for example, my tossup on vitamin B12 for this tournament (chemistry distribution) and Ike's bonus on astatine / IUPAC / Segre (other academic distribution).
I can't speak for SS/phil since I know very little about them, but I'd wager that 1) the SS/phil "classroom canon" is MUCH more heterogeneous among different universities than the science canon is and 2) the ss/phil "classroom canon" incorporates many more historically important ideas than the science "classroom canon."
Also, to Caleb/Issac, if there are things coming up in your classes that you think are important that quizbowl is neglecting, just write about them yourselves! Eventually, they'll worm their way into the canon, and maybe you'll get to hear them in ACF nationals 2020 or whatever. I've certainly introduced tons of things into the canon in my relatively short writing career.
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Post by ThisIsMyUsername » Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:10 am
Ike wrote:
Oh yeah, my idea and innovation! I'm going to take credit for this as well.
Then you're going to have to go back in time and stop me from doing it in RILKE first, last summer.
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YES! A new recruit!
EDIT: intellectually curious youngsters frustrated by quizbowl's lack of representation for anything remotely like what is taught, let alone researched, by contemporary professional practitioners should battle on and not be intimidated by the cabal of ancients who routinely set about stomping out any challenge to the body of pseudoknowledge they acquired decades ago. And I have now satisfied my annual required contribution to the ACF Nationals discussion thread.
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US-Led Sanctions Contribute To The Destruction Of Syria’s Millenary History.What a difference a week can make. The heaviest snow in Syria in a quarter-century, some claimed, last week’s storm closed for a time even the main highway from Damascus to Beirut.
But that was then and now its spring in Damascus, or so it feels to those of us used to New England Januarys. It’s nearly downright balmy here. Spring flowers are bursting out all over and the city parks are crowded with mothers pushing baby carriages, kids playing and young lovers cooing softly on the park benches. Park workers are raking the dead leaves and others trimming the palm trees and piling the branches neatly on flatbed trucks.
What “civil war”? What “crisis”? One is tempted to ask himself even though there continues to be intermittent “thuds” and a jet streaking overhead now and then en route apparently to one of the suburbs where clashes erupt intermittently.
UN report says at least 60,000 have died in Syrian war - Irish Times, 030113
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UN report says at least 60,000 have died in Syrian war
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Syria’s uprising has claimed the lives of at least 60,000 people, according to a comprehensive UN study, significantly raising the estimated death toll and adding to pressure on world powers to stop the bloodshed.
Following what it described as “an exhaustive analysis carried out by data specialists” using seven sources, the UN human rights office compiled a list of 59,648 people killed since the start of the initially peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 until the end of November 2012.
Entries that did not give the victim’s full name and the date and location of their death were excluded.
“Given there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013,” said Navi Pillay, UN human rights commissioner. “The number of casualties is much higher than we expected and is truly shocking.”
Where now for Syria as revolution for democracy becomes sectarian civil war? 30 December 2012 Patrick Cockburn Syria
Where now for Syria as revolution for democracy becomes sectarian civil war?
30 December 2012 Patrick Cockburn Syria
The furies of civil war grow ever fiercer and the war has long ago reached the stage of what in Northern Ireland we used to call "the politics of the last atrocity".
By Patrick Cockburn
"Shame on you! Shame on The Independent!" boomed the voice of a Syrian intellectual in my phone half an hour after I had returned from Damascus to Beirut.
He was so incoherent in his rage that it was difficult to know his precise objections, but my sin seemed to be that I had been in Damascus, talked to members of the Syrian government and concluded that it was not going to collapse any time soon.
Our conversation was not of a high intellectual calibre. After an acerbic exchange, I asked why, if he felt so strongly, did he "not stop being rude to people like me, go to Aleppo and fight beside the rebels instead of spending all your time in the cafés of Beirut".
Shortly afterwards, there was a mutual clicking-off of mobiles.
Driving the short distance between Damascus and Beirut is like shifting from one planet to another. What seems obvious and commonsensical in the Syrian capital becomes controversial and a minority viewpoint over the border in Lebanon. Outside Syria there have been repeated media and diplomatic forecasts of imminent victory for the rebels and defeat for Bashar al-Assad. Ignored in this speculation is the important point that Assad's forces still hold, wholly or in large part, all the main cities and towns of Syria.
Syrian air strike kills dozens at bakery - Irish Times, 241212.
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Syrian air strike kills dozens at bakery
Free Syrian Army fighters and residents carry the bodies of people killed by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian airforce fighter jet from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad at a bakery in Halfaya, near Hama, yesterday. photograph: reuters/samer al-hamwi
Dozens of people were killed in an air strike while queuing for bread in Syria’s central Hama province yesterday, activists said, with some residents giving an initial count of 90 dead.
Such a toll, if confirmed, would make it one of the deadliest air strikes in Syria’s civil war.
Videos uploaded by activists showed dozens of bloodstained bodies crumpled in the street among piles of rubble and shrapnel.
“When I got there I could see piles of bodies all over the ground. There were women and children,” said Samer al-Hamawi, an activist in the town of Halfaya, where the strike hit a bakery. “There are also dozens of wounded.”
The west's intervention in Syria risks blowback and regional war. 19 December 2012, Seumas Milne, Syria
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The west's intervention in Syria risks blowback and regional war
19 December 2012 Seumas Milne Syria
Not only will more intervention by the western powers increase the death toll, it may not give them the control they crave either.
By Seumas Milne
THE SIGNS ARE UNMISTAKABLE. Once again, the west is preparing to escalate military intervention in the Arab and Muslim world.
This time the target is Syria. Since the US presidential election, the warnings have multiplied. First, in a breathtaking reprise of the falsehood that paved the way for the invasion of Iraq, US and British leaders claimed the Syrian regime might be about to use chemical weapons against rebel forces, and threatened dire consequences.
Then the US authorised the stationing of Patriot missile batteries along the Turkish-Syrian border. Ostensibly intended to protect Turkey from stray Syrian artillery fire, they could rather more plausibly be used to help enforce a Libya-style no-fly zone.
There has since been a flurry of media briefings about increased covert US arms supplies and rebel training, along with plans for intensified intelligence and special forces deployment, or even all-out air and naval power support. Direct intervention, US and British officials are reported to insist, is "now inevitable".
Next Britain followed France in recognising the new opposition Syrian National Coalition, stitched together under Nato and Gulf tutelage, as the "sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people". Since the coalition clearly isn't the sole representative of Syrians, the declaration (which goes beyond even what was said during the Libyan war) sets a precedent that is likely to come back to haunt them. But it was followed by only a slightly less sweeping statement from the US and around 100 allies.
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A CONSPIRACY THEORIST SAID:
Dr. Humes' *admission* that he burned some of the most vital evidence in the assassination of the President *does not* exonerate him from a cover-up, be it benign or perfidious.
Therefore, all CTers will choose to believe the "conspiratorial" line of thought regarding Dr. Humes' note-burning (quite obviously). Even though the innocent explanation always given by Humes should hold the same weight as the CT version. (But it never will, because CTers are paranoids and MUST believe the "shady" option even if they have to put the "shady" intent in the theory themselves...and they have, of course.)
So, to do a little table-turning regarding "things people say" --- Oswald's saying "I'm just a patsy" does not make him a patsy automatically and does not erase the mile-high stack of physical evidence supporting his lone guilt in two murders on 11/22.
I cannot wait to see Vince Bugliosi rip to shreds the weak-ass CT argument of Oswald being a mere unwitting "Patsy" (with many CTers ACTUALLY taking the word of the accused double-murderer, at face value).
Vince will demolish the notion that Oswald was (or even could have been, or WOULD have been) an innocent "Patsy", set up by a group of always-unknown plotters, using XX number of guns to pelt the target with obvious non-Oswald evidence.
VB will have no trouble destroying that CT myth. Heck, I can even do that...and I'm not even close to being in Vincent's league on this subject.
ANTHONY MARSH SAID:
I can't wait to see the look on your face when it is announced that Bugliosi's book has been canceled.
It looks like Marsh's prediction didn't quite come true.....
People get lucky, but what I am saying is that your scenario requires as many, or more, presuppositions as most CTs.
It requires NO "presuppositions" in point of fact.
Because the physical evidence left behind by the murder weapon TELLS US that Oswald's rifle (crappy as it may have been) was the ONLY weapon that fired any bullets that hit anyone in JFK's car on 11/22.
Similar to the useless CT arguments regarding the Tippit murder (that argument being: Oswald couldn't have gotten to 10th St. in time to shoot Tippit) .... a similar type of CT argument proves to be totally useless and moot with respect to the JFK murder weapon as well (with that invalid CT argument being: Oswald's rifle could not possibly have been the gun used to kill JFK because it was a rusty, defective, mis-aligned POS that only cost $21.45).
Neither of the above arguments is worth a hill of beans ... because of OTHER HARD EVIDENCE that trumps both CT arguments 100%.
There is still, to this day, ZERO hunks of physical ballistics evidence that indicates any weapon other than Oswald's M-C rifle hit anyone on Nov. 22nd.
Which, therefore, still indicates to this day that if a multi-gun conspiracy existed in Dealey Plaza (as virtually all CTers believe), there was a wide-sweeping, comprehensive, grab-every-non-LHO-bullet cover-up job performed by XX number of conspirators after the fact -- including the EXTRA, unexpected task of getting rid of XX number of bullets that hit a person (John B. Connally) other than the intended target.
And these plotters did it all just perfectly, per most CT accounts, even though Connally and Kennedy could very well have had XX number of missiles stuck inside them when they arrived at Parkland.
And they DID have multiple NON-OSWALD bullets inside them too, per CT accounts of events --- e.g., JFK's neck bullet, caused by some oddball low-powered weapon....plus JFK's back-wound bullet, again caused by a low-powered weapon evidently, since it only goes into him a couple of inches; these wounds make NO sense from the assassins' POV, because why on Earth would any pro assassins shoot TWO dum-dum type of non-fatal bullets at the target; that's pure stupidity....plus the XX number of bullets that CTers say pelted Gov. Connally, which were all never seen by any non-plotters either.
The hide-the-bullets-before-somebody-gets-wise plot only gets sillier and sillier the more any logical person thinks about it.
But the LHO/LN/3-Shot scenario fits perfectly, to a tee, right down the line -- from the TSBD evidence (rifle/shells), to the fragments inside the limo, to the witness testimony, to the SBT alignment, to CE399, to the autopsy report, and to the fact that NO OTHER BULLETS were found anyplace that could be connected with the victims' wounds.
And to think that this amount of LHO-hanging stuff could have possibly ALL been "faked" and/or "arranged" by evil plotters after the fact in such a short time period is to believe in magic (literally).
To repeat a quote I've mentioned before from Larry Sturdivan's well-done book "The JFK Myths" (and it's a quote every CTer should jot down and stick to their refrigerator for future reference, because it makes so much logical sense) ----
"While one of the pieces of physical evidence could conceivably have been faked by an expert, there is no possibility that an expert, or team of super-experts, could have fabricated the perfectly coordinated whole, with superhuman abilities to fake physical evidence that is in complete agreement with all the other faked evidence." --- "The JFK Myths"; Page 246
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CMBA Blogathon: Kitty (1945)
Posted on February 17, 2013 by Jim LaneFebruary 15, 2018
This post is Cinedrome’s contribution to the Classic Movie Blog Association‘s first blogathon of 2013, Fabulous Films of the 1940s. (Now there’s a topic; CMBA could probably do five such ‘thons, with all members taking a different title, and never exhaust the possibilities!) Go here for a complete list of entries; you’ll find my colleagues holding forth on a mouthwatering array of movies legendary and obscure, long-remembered and half-forgotten.
Before I get into my own contribution to the blogathon, here’s a bonus: I can’t make it an official entry because I’ve already posted on this picture before. But if we’re talking about Fabulous Films of the 1940s, I can’t forgo mentioning one of my absolute favorites, Henry Hathaway’s Down to the Sea in Ships (1949). As I said in my post (which you can reach at the link), I simply don’t understand why this one isn’t one of the best-loved movies of all time; sooner or later (and if I have anything to say about it), I’m sure it will be. (UPDATE 2/18/13: Reader David Rayner of Stoke-on-Trent, England, whose admiration equals my own, has written to tell me that Down to the Sea has been released on Region 1 DVD in the US and is available here from Amazon. Don’t miss it!)
But now, getting back to the blogathon at hand — drumroll, please — here’s another one of my particular favorites from that embarrassment-of-riches decade…
Paulette Goddard is one of the great also-rans of movie history. As she never tired of saying, she was the front-runner for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind — that is, until some pert little nobody from England came along. In an interview late in life, Goddard told how she had been finally offered the role and, understandably excited, decided to throw a party to celebrate. Selznick came, she said, and so did the English actor Laurence Olivier, in town shooting Wuthering Heights for Sam Goldwyn. Olivier (again, according to Paulette) brought along his girlfriend Vivien Leigh, Selznick took one look at her, and that was that.
The story is nonsense, of course. Goddard never had Scarlett nailed down, certainly not enough to throw a party over it. David Selznick’s first sight of Leigh is well-documented, and it wasn’t at Paulette’s house. Just about everybody knows that story, so I needn’t go into it here; suffice it to say the near miss on Gone With the Wind haunted Paulette Goddard for the rest of her life — through her 1940s peak at Paramount (when she never quite made it into the top rank of Hollywood stars), and especially through the long years before her death at 79 in 1990, years during which GWTW‘s fame grew even as her own dwindled.
There’s another sort-of connection with Gone With the Wind in Goddard’s career. It’s a bit of a stretch, I admit, but here goes: As you probably know, during the second half of the 1930s, Scarlett O’Hara was the most coveted role in Hollywood, and the novel’s millions of fans waited breathlessly for the movie David Selznick would make of it. Warner Bros. decided to cash in on the moss-magnolias-and-the-old-plantation fever by dusting off a 1933 Broadway flop by playwright Owen Davis called Jezebel, which also happened to be about a flirtatious and headstrong southern belle. Warners worked it up as a vehicle for Bette Davis and triumphantly swept it to the screen a year ahead of Gone With the Wind.
Fast-forward a few years to 1944. Another novel has set the hearts of America’s female readers a-flutter and got every actress in Hollywood rubbing her hands. The book is Forever Amber by 24-year-old Kathleen Winsor, about an ambitious village girl’s sexual exploits during the Restoration of Charles II of England, up to and including a liaison with the king himself. (Like Gone With the Wind, Forever Amber sparked a vogue for naming newborn girls after its heroine that endures to this day.) When this racy, titillating book by an unknown housewife sold 100,000 copies the first week (on its way to 3 million), Darryl Zanuck at 20th Century Fox wasted no time nailing down the movie rights. Undaunted, the boys at Paramount decided to steal a march on Zanuck the way Warners had on Selznick, and the beneficiary of their ploy was Paulette Goddard.
The book they chose was Kitty by Rosamond Marshall, which had been published the year before Amber, but without gaining anywhere near the same amount of sales or notoriety.
Born in 1902, Rosamond Marshall wrote some 16 novels altogether between her first, None But the Brave: A Story of Holland in 1942 and her last, The Bixby Girls, published in 1957, the year she died. Her books sold pretty well during her lifetime — especially in paperback reprints with semi-lurid covers and titles like Duchess Hotspur, Rogue Cavalier and The General’s Wench — but only two of them ever made it to the screen: The Bixby Girls (filmed in 1960 as All the Fine Young Cannibals with Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner) and Kitty.
Actually, though, not quite all of Kitty did make it to the screen. Marshall’s novel was what we now call a bodice-ripper, the tale of a 14-year-old London prostitute blithely sleeping her way up the social ladder during the days of King George III. As the story opens, Kitty — she doesn’t have a last name, or at least doesn’t know it — lives with and works for Old Meg in the wretched slums of Houndsditch. Old Meg sold Kitty’s virginity when the girl was only nine, and now Kitty spends her days thieving and her nights whoring, turning her loot and her earnings over to Old Meg in return for squalid shelter and crumbs of food.
One day Kitty indulges a common ploy: stealing the shoes of a gentleman as he’s being carried piggyback on his footman across a muddy street. When she’s caught and brought back to the man’s doorstep, he finds her face interesting and invites her in. He’s the painter Thomas Gainsborough, and he wants Kitty to pose for him. Once he’s had her washed and decently clothed he’s surprised to see that she’s not a child but a rather attractive young woman; she in turn is overawed by his studio, especially one portrait, which she impulsively dubs “Blueboy”.
Kitty also catches the eye of a visitor to Gainsborough’s studio, Sir Hugh Marcy. Sir Hugh is an impecunious ne’er-do-well, impoverished but charming. In time, through the picture Gainsborough eventually paints of her — “Portrait of an Anonymous Lady” — Kitty becomes the talk of London society. During the same time, Sir Hugh and his gin-sodden aunt Lady Susan take her under their threadbare wings, passing her off as Miss Kitty Gordon, the orphaned child of a dear friend. Day after day, they subject her to a crash course in proper speech and manners — while at night, Sir Hugh schools her in the unsuspected pleasures of orgasmic sex.
As years pass, Kitty blooms under their tutelage and her prospects improve. She marries a wealthy shipping merchant, bringing a welcome dowry to Sir Hugh and Lady Susan — although Lady Susan soon succeeds in drinking herself to death. Not long after, Kitty’s husband dies and Hugh arranges a second marriage to the aged Duke of Malminster. Kitty thus becomes a duchess, and she soon gives the duke an heir. The old boy never suspects that “his” son is really Sir Hugh’s; Kitty’s affair with him has continued throughout both her marriages.
That’s as much of the novel’s plot as we need go into here, because that (aside from the endless rounds of sex with Sir Hugh) is what remains in the movie Paramount released on October 16, 1945. Between publication and premiere, however, Rosamond Marshall’s story had to undergo a major overhaul at the hands of writers Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware and director Mitchell Leisen.
Darrell Ware had been a prolific journeyman since 1936, turning out an array of dramas (A Yank in the R.A.F.), comedies (Charlie McCarthy, Detective) and musicals (Down Argentine Way, Orchestra Wives, My Gal Sal), none of which were particularly praised for their writing. Karl Tunberg’s career lasted longer, and he at least has the distinction of receiving sole screenplay credit for the 1959 Ben-Hur; his script was heavily doctored by Gore Vidal, Christopher Fry and others, and was conspicuous for being the only Oscar nomination that Ben-Hur didn’t win. Still, in Kitty, both Tunberg and Ware rose to the occasion with what was easily the best screenplay of their otherwise rather undistinguished careers. (Both men received associate producer credit on the picture — although their producing duties may not have amounted to much, at least not in Ware’s case: he died at age 37 in May 1944, nearly a year-and-a-half before Kitty‘s premiere.)
Their task with the novel’s plot was daunting. To begin with, of course, the idea of a prostitute as a heroine, let alone a 14-year-old one, was obviously out of the question. So Kitty was advanced to somewhere beyond the age of consent — and relieved of the need to have anything to consent to.
More important, Tunberg and Ware (with perhaps the collaboration of director Leisen) realized what Rosamond Marshall evidently did not: that next to Kitty herself, by far the book’s most interesting characters are the rakish cad Sir Hugh Marcy and the alcoholically haughty Lady Susan. In the novel, Lady Susan is dead halfway through; Sir Hugh disappears from Kitty’s life with far too many pages left to read, while Kitty rather unconvincingly transfers her affections to the now-adult subject of Gainsborough’s “Blueboy”. In the screenplay, both Sir Hugh and Lady Susan are kept around, to far more satisfying effect.
By the way, there’s a curious side note to this business of the painting: In reality the subject of Gainsborough’s famous portrait is not known for certain, but is believed to be one Jonathan Buttall, son of a wealthy London hardware merchant. In Marshall’s novel, this is the name of Kitty’s hot-tempered first husband, while the Blue Boy (a more accurate rendering of the portrait’s title) is named Brett Harwood, a cousin of Buttall’s. In the movie, all this was changed. The importance of the painting in Kitty’s life is downplayed, and Brett Harwood becomes a rival to Sir Hugh for Kitty’s heart. Meanwhile, her first husband is renamed Jonathan Selby — no doubt to avoid offense to any living descendants of the real J. Buttall.
Ware and Tunberg’s solution to Kitty‘s story problems — and its glaring conflicts with the Production Code — was elegantly inspired: They expanded and emphasized the scenes of Sir Hugh and Lady Susan schooling Kitty in ladylike comportment, thus changing Kitty‘s plot from the meteoric rise of an adolescent whore into an 18th century adaptation of Shaw’s Pygmalion, with Kitty (Paulette Goddard) as Eliza Doolittle, Sir Hugh Marcy (Ray Milland) as Henry Higgins, Thomas Gainsborough (Cecil Kellaway) as Col. Pickering, and Brett Harwood (Patric Knowles) as the sweetly besotted Freddie Eynsford-Hill. Shaw’s Mrs. Higgins, of course, became Lady Susan, and the role was entrusted to that grand dowager dragon of the British and Broadway stages, Constance Collier.
Bernard Shaw’s reaction to all this is unrecorded. I like to think the old boy would have been amused, but he may never have even seen the picture — and he almost certainly never read Marshall’s novel.
In addition to the “associate producers” credit for Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg, Kitty is also billed as “A Mitchell Leisen Production”. In the mid-’40s Leisen was Paramount’s reigning arbiter of elegance, having begun his career as a set and costume designer for Cecil B. DeMille, the only Paramount director who outranked him in prestige. Leisen (it’s pronounced “Leeson”, by the way) has taken a beating from auteurists in recent decades. I suspect this is mainly because those two auteur darlings Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges both claimed to have turned director out of dissatisfaction with Leisen’s treatment of their scripts. But an unbiased look at the pictures Leisen made of Sturges’s screenplays for Easy Living (1937) and Remember the Night (’40), or Wilder’s (and Charles Brackett’s) for Midnight (’39) and Hold Back the Dawn (’41), makes them sound like a couple of whining prima donnas. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad and grateful that Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges moved into directing their own stuff; but they had no grounds whatever to complain about Mitch Leisen.
David Chierichetti’s 1995 book Mitchell Leisen: Hollywood Director does much to correct this injustice to Leisen, but its information on Kitty is sketchy and unreliable. Chierichetti calls it the story of “a filthy cockney street waif of Restoration Era England”; in fact it takes place in Georgian England a full 125 years after the Restoration in 1660. Leisen himself, interviewed, says: “I spent two years researching Gainsborough and the way he painted. We determined that the picture took place in 1659, and there’s nothing in the picture that was painted by him after that year.” Au contraire, Gainsborough wasn’t even born until 1727, and this frame from the picture states explicitly the year the story opens. Clearly, Leisen (who died in 1972) had not seen the picture recently when he discussed it with Chierichetti, nor had Chierichetti when he wrote about it. Leisen’s claim of spending two years in research is also plainly implausible: Kitty was ready for release by the end of 1944 but was held up a full year by Paramount’s backlog of product; two years of research would have had Leisen beginning in 1942, a year before Rosamond Marshall’s novel was published. Altogether, these facts cast doubt on much of the information in the seven pages Chierichetti devotes to Kitty.
But there is one point on which Chierichetti is absolutely right: Kitty “was precisely the kind of picture Leisen could do better than anybody else, and its mixture of mannered comedy and gutsy drama suited him perfectly”. The picture is a sumptuous feast for the eye, evoking 18th century London’s riot of teeming streets and Rococo decor as sharply as a series of engravings by William Hogarth. It’s a pity the picture couldn’t have been made in Technicolor — thus evoking Gainsborough rather than Hogarth — but Paramount was notoriously frugal on that score; among the major studios, even cheapskate Universal was more generous in their use of color. But even as it stands, Kitty richly deserved its Oscar nomination for art direction — for Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; the production design was by Raoul Pene Du Bois. (Kitty lost; the award went to Anna and the King of Siam.)
Over and above its gorgeous look and elegent style, and entirely in keeping with it, Kitty gave Paulette Goddard the opportunity to deliver the performance of her career, and she came through with a performance nearly as good as Wendy Hiller’s in 1938’s Pygmalion (and considerably better than Audrey Hepburn’s in My Fair Lady). Always a conscientious actress rather than an inspired one, Goddard worked hard on her cockney accent. According to Chierichetti, Leisen credited Phyllis Loughton and Connie Emerald (mother of Ida Lupino) for this, adding that for Goddard’s diction as the new-and-improved Kitty, “we moved Connie Emerald out and Constance Collier in”, and the old girl coached Goddard/Kitty as much off screen as Lady Susan did on. There’s not a false note in Goddard’s performance, nor in any of the rest of the cast, which was surely one of the largest and best either she or Leisen ever worked with: Milland (against-all-odds charming as Sir Hugh, a more unsympathetic rotter than Henry Higgins ever was), Collier, Knowles, Kellaway, Dennis Hoey (as Kitty’s first husband), Reginald Owen (as her second), Sara Allgood (Old Meg) and the ever-popular Eric Blore as Sir Hugh and Lady Susan’s querulous manservant Dobson. (Blore has one of the picture’s best lines, which I hereby spoil for you: On Kitty’s first night in Sir Hugh’s household, Dobson hands her a tea tray and orders her to take it up to Lady Susan. Kitty: “‘Ow will I find ‘er?” Dobson: “Drunk, as usual!”)
Kitty is another of those pre-1950 Paramounts now owned by Universal. Like others I’ve written about before (MissMiss Tatlock’s Millions, Alias Nick Beal, Night Has a Thousand Eyes), it was often available in TV syndication during the 1960s and ’70s. Unlike them, however, Kitty hasn’t entirely vanished into the Universal vault. It’s turned up recently on Turner Classic Movies thanks to TCM’s agreement with Universal, so it’s out there somewhere for you to find, and to savor Leisen, Goddard, Milland et al. all at their best. There’s no “official” DVD yet — only ones of varying quality available here from Amazon and here from Loving the Classics. A full-scale DVD transfer, doing justice to those Oscar-nominated sets and Daniel L. Fapp’s cinematography, is long overdue. We can only wait, and hope, for Universal to come through.
UPDATE 2/14/18: Universal has come through. Kitty is now available in a very nice DVD transfer from the Universal Vault series (Universal’s answer to the Warner Archive). It’s bare-bones, of course, like all such issues from Warner, Universal and Fox, with no extras (if Universal is interested in adding a commentary, I’m happy to volunteer), but well worth having. You can get it here from Amazon.
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CMBA Blogathon: Kitty (1945) — 22 Comments
The Lady Eve on February 21, 2013 at 12:32 am said:
Jim, I thoroughly enjoyed learning what seems to be everything I ever wanted to know about "Kitty." So entertaining and informative! I had no idea, for I haven't seen the film. Well, I will find it now. You certainly covered a lot of ground here and none of it less than fascinating. Thank you for a great read and for alerting me to a film I've somehow managed to overlook. I did want to add somewhat on Preston Sturges' behalf that he seemed to be the type who liked being in charge of every aspect of everything. I suspect he could barely tolerate anyone else 'tampering' with his work. Leisen did a marvelous job on "Remember the Night," one of my favorites.
Jim Lane on February 21, 2013 at 1:12 am said:
Eve, I'm sure you're right about Sturges; I suspect the same is true of Wilder. I've never read any of Wilder's scripts, but I have read Sturges's for Remember the Night, and there were minor changes between that and the finished picture that were no doubt Leisen's work on the set. They in no way altered or diminished the text, but may have been just enough to ruffle the feathers of a control freak. Writers are a touchy bunch.
Java Bean Rush on February 21, 2013 at 4:50 pm said:
Wow! What background material! You tell it well. I'd never heard of it before this, but I'm looking forward to watching KITTY.
Jessica P on March 18, 2013 at 1:11 am said:
I really enjoyed this film and I'm glad you selected it to write about.
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A Time-Travel Studio Tour
A Treasure Trove of MGM Shorts, Part 1
A Weekend With David O. Selznick
A-a-a-and We're Back...!
Addio, Cinevent 42!
After a Brief Intermission..
America's Canadian Sweetheart, 1921-2013
Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012
Auditioning for Immortality
Ave Atque Vale, Fairy Princess!
Bright Eyes, 1928-2014
Browsing the Cinevent Library, Part 1
C.B. Gets His Due
Camera Beauty
Catching Some Rays
Catting Around
Cinedrome Does Its Part
Cinedrome Wins 2012 CMBA Award
Cinerama-Rama!
Cinevent 2016 (Continued)
Cinevent 2016, Concluded
Cinevent 2016, Part 3
Cinevent 2017 - No. 49 and Counting, Part 1
Cinevent 2017 -- No. 49 and Counting, Part 2
Cinevent 42
Cinevent 50 - Day 1
Cinevent 50 - Day 3 (Part 2)
Cinevent 50 - Prelude
Cinevent 50 -- Day 3 (Part 1)
Cinevent 50 -- Day 4
Cinevent 51 - Day 1, Part 1
Cinevent 51 -- Day 1, Part 2
Cinevent Turns 50
Cinevent, Day 2
CMBA Blogathon: Come Next Spring (1956)
Crazy and Crazier, Part 1
"Don't Stay Away Too Long..."
Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011
Films of Henry Hathaway: Brigham Young (1940)
Films of Henry Hathaway: Down to the Sea in Ships
Films of Henry Hathaway: Prince Valiant
Films of Henry Hathaway: The Shepherd of the Hills
First Comes the Phone Call
Five-Minute Movie Star: Carman Barnes in Hollywood -- Epilogue
Five-Minute Movie Star: Carman Barnes in Hollywood, Part 1
Flo Chart
"Glamour Boys" Begins...
"Glamour Boys" Continues...
Harlow in Hollywood
"Here's a Job for You, Marcel," Part 1
Lost & Found: Alias Nick Beal
Lost & Found: Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Lost and Found: Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
Luck of the Irish: Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Part 1
Merry Christmas from Cinedrome!
Mickey and Judy -- Together at Last
Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Part 1
Movie Playing Cards: 3 of Hearts - Geraldine Farrar
Movie Playing Cards: 5 of Spades - George Walsh
Movie Playing Cards: 9 of Diamonds - Mary Miles Minter
"MOVIE" Souvenir Playing Cards
Moving Right Along...
Mr. Stewart Goes to War
Nuts and Bolts of the Rollercoaster
Our Mr. Webb
Please Stay Tuned
R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013
Remembering the Night
Returning to Lost London
Returning to Lost London (Reprinted)
Rex the First
Rhapsody in Green and Orange - EPILOGUE
Rhapsody in Green and Orange, Part 1
Say, What Ever Happened to Carman Barnes?
Shirley Temple Revisited, Part 1
Shirley Temple Revisited, Part 10
Silent Weekends
Silents in Kansas 2011, Part 2
Songs in the Light, Part 1
Speak of the Devil...
The 11-Oscar Mistake
The Bard of Burbank, Part 1
"The Best of Us", Part 1
"The Best of Us," Part 1
The Could-Have-Been-Greater Moment
The Duke of Hollywood
The Fog of Lost London, Part 1
The Kansas Silent Film Festival 2011
The Man Who Saved Cinerama
The Museum That Never Was, Part 1
The Rubaiyat of Eugene O'Neill
The Shout Heard Round the World
The Stamm
Tony Curtis 1925-2010
Tragedy in Nevada, January 1942
Ups and Downs of the Rollercoaster, Part 1
"Who Is the Tall Dark Stranger There..."
Wings, Again
Wyler and "Goldwynitis"
Wyler and "Goldwynitis" (reprinted)
Wyler Catches Fire: Hell's Heroes
Wyler's Legacy
Wyler's Legacy (reprinted)
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Ksenia Solo Fan / Gallery Archive
Welcome to Ksenia Solo Fan, a fansite dedicated to Latvian-Canadian actress Ksenia Solo, best known for her role as Kenzi on the groundbreaking TV series Lost Girl, opposite Anna Silk. You may have also seen Ksenia in Life Unexpected, Renagade Press, or Orphan Black, opposite Tatiana Maslany. More recently, Ksenia has been playing the role of Peggy Shippen on AMC's TURN: Washington's Spies, which has been renewed for a 4th and final season, due to air in 2017. The site is currently a gallery archive, but it is being continuously updated with HQ screencaptures from Ksenia's television & film career. Feel free to look around & enjoy your stay here!
Home > Studio Photoshoots > Session 029
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Amber Heard • Amy Acker • Anna Silk • Caitriona Balfe • Charisma Carpenter • Charlize Theron • Dakota Johnson • Gillian Anderson • Jensen Ackles • Jennifer Garner • Keri Russell • Marc Blucas • Sarah Gadon • Tatiana Maslany • Wentworth Miller
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..leinir :: fuzz :: life :: love :: smooth
Bundle Up, It's Time To Discover Some Apps
The Short Of The Long
(or tl;dr)
Would you like to try out Discover's AppImageHub integration? Sure you do! You'll need Discover from git master, and you'll want to install the storekdeapps.knsrc file (which you for now can get by installing the bits found in this scratch repository). Then all you need to do is start up your shiny, new Discover and navigate through Applications to the KDE Store Apps category. Early days, but there you go!
The Long of the Short
(or gimme all that juicy stuff)
And now the long version with me writing about history and stuff, accompanied by a bunch of screenshots and old videos and doodads and whatnot!
2009: The Gluon Years
Once, in the long ago times, before i had finished attending university, i and a few others got together to describe what we then called Gaming Freedom (thanks archive.org for providing us with a functioning link, there, as we've shut down the original site). Some of you reading this will remember a project called Gluon, which was designed as a (primarily) 2D game engine, which would use QML as both the UI language and the internal scripting system, and envisioned as a way to easily create, distribute, play and interact with games, as both creators and players of games. Have a video of me talking about this idea for a while:
Social Games Presentation at Akademy 2010 from Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen on Vimeo.
2010: The Age of Bretzn
Later on, straight out of university, i was hired by then opendesktop.org front person Frank Karlitschek to work with him and a few others on Project Bretzn, which was envisioned as being a way to close the loop and provide a fix for the questionmark on the number two step in the following three-step process:
Build app using some IDE
have users download app from e.g. opendesktop.org's software categories
You might notice a similarity between this and the concepts we described in Gluon's vision. In this project, however, we did indeed achieve the goal, at least for some Linux distributions, by using the then newly renamed Open Build Service to do the heavy lifting of actually building packages. We did this through creating a plugin for Qt Creator which created a set of basic OBS instructions, upload sources, and then once OBS had created packages, distribute those automatically using the Open Collaboration Services API, for which we created an extension supposed to interact with OBS directly. You might be forgiven for not having heard too much about this effort; while it did in fact work, it was perhaps a little more like a proof of concept than an actual, finished product, and after six months of work, we ran out of funds and i had to find somewhere else to pay my rent.
2016: Splitting Frameworks
Since then, i have been working on Open Collaboration Services and KNewStuff on and off, and in the autumn of 2016 i fronted a project to split KNewStuff's UI logic from the logic of its core. Initially this was aimed at allowing the use of KNewStuff entirely without having to link to QWidgets and the like, but it also resulted in a much more sleek engine, which reduced the requirements of the KNewStuffCore to a strict minimum (that is to say, while the KNewStuff Framework is Tier 3, if you only require KNewStuffCore, you can consider it effectively a Tier 2 Framework).
As a result of this work, in addition to being able to build store support into the Peruse comic book reader, it meant that the shiny new software manager Discover was able to finally start allowing users a central location to manage the Plasma extensions and addons which were previously managed in all sorts of varied locations throughout the Plasma Desktop UI. It further, and very rapidly, ended up also showing literally all Application extensions provided by any KNewStuff configuration file found on the system, again in one central location.
2017-2018: Folksonomic Adaptations
One thing which has, arguably, been missing from the Open Collaboration Services API is the ability to filter on types of information which are highly tied to the specific type of content found in some category. The reason this feature has been missing is that OCS itself is designed very explicitly to be content type agnostic. What that means is that if some piece of information is not generally applicable to the vast majority of content, then it isn't exposed through the API.
A couple of examples describe fairly simply how this might be less than great: Say you have a category which is supposed to contain electronic books. This might cause problems for clients consuming this content, as while that might be interpreted to mean anything like epub, mobi, cbz, cbr, dejavue, pdf or indeed any other number of assorted formats used to distribute electronic book content, not all clients are going to be able to actually consume that content. So, being able to filter out bits that you don't support would be very handy.
Since the end of 2018, both the KDE Store, and the Attica and KNewStuffCore frameworks support filtering by a variety of bits of information which are defined per category, rather than directly in the API. See also this maniphest task for the proposed OCS extension (and if anybody reading can help me get my fdo account credentials back so we can get it ratified, do get in touch ;) ).
2019: Bundles of Discoveries
With the ability to filter things based on any arbitrary number of things, it was finally time to get all of this tied together and put a nice bow on top. We had always had the ability to show the applications in Discover, ever since the KNewStuffCore split, but they would invariably show up in a huge bunch listed simply under the name of the configuration file representing them, and underneath the Application Addons category rather than Applications, and you would also get shown literally everything in the categories as well, rather than only the applications you'd be able to actually download and run on your particular device, as well as a few other little annoyances (like the Launch button saying Use instead).
As of now, while things are not rosy and there is certainly more work to be done, we are a very great deal of the way there, and i think it's time i did that thing where i ask people to try it out and tell me which bits are absolutely totally wrong and where i can then see who is wrong (likely me) and how to fix it (hopefully easily).
Thank you to the one or two people who've read until now, and i hope you've enjoyed reading about my personal journey through software distribution :D
You promised me screenshots!
I absolutely did, and here you go! The culmination of ten years of scheming and plotting has come to fruition, and we finally have a way to deliver software in a more social fashion. Now, I realise you are going to scream at us all and say distributions are great at this. They totally are, and that's not the point here, and i would like if we could aim that discussion elsewhere (you will notice how Discover still very much has all the distribution packages up front and centre, particularly in the last screenshot).
That's a whole lot of applications there, in a whole lot of nicely nested categories, you might say, and you'd be right, thank you so much for noticing that!
Oh look, SuperTux, i know that game! Nice screenshots there, think I might just click install on that one.
Oh hey, now that it's installed, guess I'll just click launch...
Nice, let's do this thing, time to do a bit of running and jumping with our favourite, lovable chubby penguin mascot!
Hey, look, it's right there alongside all the other bits of software I've installed, how handy!
The word of the day is: Sunshine. Because we seem to have it now, yay! :)
Labels: kde, qt
posted by leinir at 4/23/2019 03:03:00 pm 0 comments
Cleaning up the KDE Store
In August of last year, i wrote a blog entry about my experience at Akademy 2017 in the amazing Almería, and in that blog entry, amongst many other things, i wrote about an effort which had been slowly brewing, conceptually, for about a year by then: Tagging support in the Open Collaboration Services API. Now, what does that have to do with the KDE Store, you might say? Well, that is the API used by the KNewStuff framework to interface with the store, and that in turn is what is used in the many various places in our software which show shiny, new content for downloading (or to put it in a different way: used by our software to let users Get Hot New Stuff).
For Your Immediate Consumption
I am proud to announce that as of KDE Frameworks 5.51.0, a major patch for KNewStuff was merged, which expands substantially on some basic tag data handling functionality previously added to the Attica framework. One thing it includes, amongst others, is a test tool. Have a screenshot, because those are shiny and make people look at blog entries ;)
A usable test tool for KNewStuff would make testing KNewStuff easier, you say? Well, in that case, have a usable test tool for KNewStuff.
Some of you brave people running Frameworks from Neon's nightly packages saw an explosion when using Discover a few weeks ago, and i'd just like to also extend an apology to you, as that was my fault for temporarily introducing a binary incompatibility in the first merged version of that patch. Thank you, also, for actually running this, as without you we might have not found this bug before releasing, at which point it would have been too late to fix. So, thank you for your invaluable testing and reporting work! This double merge of the patch is also why you might notice two entries of that patch being mentioned in the changelog.
Immediate Culminations
So, apart from shiny new test tools, what sort of shiny things can you, as a user or developer of KDE software, expect when running it on top of KF5.51? Well, one important thing you will notice (or, rather, hopefully not notice too much) is that the content offered to you in for example Plasma's Get New Wallpapers dialogue or KDEnlive's templates are going to be both installable and usable. This does require intervention by the KDE Store's moderators, who are the ones that can mark content as something KNewStuff should hide by default, and is why a call went out for assistance there a couple of months ago, so we could prepare for the arrival of this patch. Incidentally, if you find anything off on the store, please do tell us about it and we'll get right on it!
One very important point i feel i need to make before continuing: The basic filtering functionality I'm about to describe is entirely backward compatible, with no side effects other than the filtering just not happening if an application using it is run on top of an older version of KNewStuff. This means if you want to add this to your software, you won't need to wait for your favourite distros to get all up to date with Frameworks.
As an example of something slightly more involved than just hiding those bits explicitly marked as unwanted on the server, have a couple of screenshots of a bit more of the functionality in this patch. On the left we have the test category Comics on share.krita.org, with one comic (supplied as an ePub file in this case), one non-downloadable comic (still technically a comic, but it's a link to a website - technically fine for this category, but not downloadable), and one spam entry (fairly sure this stuff isn't a comic book of any kind...). On the right, the same data is shown in Peruse, but with the two non-usable entries filtered out for having either no comic to download, or for being spam and explicitly excluded by a moderator.
No modifications were done in Peruse's code itself either, only the knsrc configuration file, which had the following line added to it:
DownloadTagFilter=data##mimetype==application/x-cbz,data##mimetype==application/x-cbr,data##mimetype==application/x-cb7,data##mimetype==application/x-cbt,data##mimetype==application/x-cba,data##mimetype==application/vnd.comicbook+zip,data##mimetype==application/vnd.comicbook+rar,data##mimetype==application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp,data##mimetype==image/vnd.djvu,data##mimetype==image/x-djvu,data##mimetype==application/epub+zip,data##mimetype==application/pdf
This somewhat unsightly chunk means, fairly simply, that there should be a filter on the content item's download items, which should accept only entries in which at least one of those download items had one of the listed entries for the data##mimetype tag. The documentation for the filtering of content items can be found right over here and here for download item tags, alongside KNewStuff's other API documentation.
If you want to do something more involved than what is possible using a static list of tags like that, you can absolutely add the filters manually through code. Do this by calling the KNSCore::Engine::addTagFilter and addDownloadTagFilter functions, using the formats listed in TagsFilterChecker's documentation.
What does the future hold? Well, for KNewStuff itself, the functionality as it stands now is pretty powerful already, but if you have ideas for enhancements, please do get in touch, either directly to me (i'm not difficult to find, to the best of my knowledge i'm the only leinir around), or on IRC (i'm leinir on many of KDE's various channels on Freenode and on our Telegram groups, on Twitter and so on), or even better, surprise us with a patch over on Phabricator.
What are all these AppImage being filtered by architecture? Well, then, that's certainly something we should perhaps be doing more of now that it's possible to do so... ;)
One future prospect which is very immediate is going to be enhancing the KDE Store support in Discover. Right now, Discover's support for content coming through KNewStuff is limited to, effectively, just showing the items offered by all the knsrc files on the system and managing their installation and removal. This is already lovely, but enhancing this functionality by adding such things as explicit, user specified filtering or browsing through tags supplied by the creators, or by computer architecture and the like for things which require running would be very handy (for example for supporting downloading and installing AppImages from the AppImage section on the store).
The future, then, is very much full of shiny possibilities, and while i am under no illusion that anybody is going to be quite as enthusiastic as someone who has been working (on and off) on this functionality for over two years, i do hope that some of my excitement might have rubbed off on you.
The word (/abbreviation) of the day is: SABA (because having supplied air breathing apparatus would be handy with the bitumen removal chemicals being used in our house at the moment)
posted by leinir at 10/19/2018 01:49:00 pm 0 comments
Services Collaborating Openly at Akademy 2017
At the recently concluded Akademy 2017 in the incredibly hot but lovely Almería, yours truly went and did something a little silly: Submitted both a talk (which got accepted) and hosted a BoF, both about Open Collaboration Services, and the software stack which KDE builds to support that API in the software we produce. The whole thing was amazing. A great deal of work, very tiring, but all 'round amazing. I even managed to find time to hack a little bit on Calligra Gemini, which was really nice.
This blog entry collects the results from the presentation and the BoF. I realise this is quite long, but i hope that you stick with it. In the BoF rundown, i have highlighted the specific results, so hopefully you'll be able to skim-and-detail-read your specific interest areas ;)
First, A Thank You In Big Letters
Before we get to that, though, i thought i'd quickly touch on something which i've seen brought up about what the social media presence of the attendees looks like during the event: If you didn't know better, you might imagine we did nothing but eat, party and go on tours. My personal take on that is, we post those pictures to say thank you to the amazing people who provide us with the possibility to get together and talk endlessly about all those things we do. We post those pictures, at least in part, because a hundred shots of a group of people in an auditorium get a bit samey, and while the discussions are amazing, and the talks are great, they don't often make for exciting still photography. Video, however, certainly does that, and those, i hear, are under way for the presentations, and the bof wrapups are here right now :)
Nothing will stop our hackers. And this is before registration and the first presentation!
Presenting Presentations
Firstly, it felt like the presentation went reasonably well, and while i am not able to show you the video, i'll give you a quick run-down of the main topic covered in it. Our very hard working media team is working on the videos at the moment, though, so keep your eyes on the KDE Community YouTube channel to catch those when they're released.
The intention of the presentation was to introduce the idea that just because we are making Free software, that does not mean we can survive without money. Consequently, we need some way to feed funds back to the wildly creative members of our community who produce the content you can find on the KDE Store. To help work out a way of doing this in a fashion that fits in with our ideals, described by the KDE Vision, i laid out what we want to attempt to achieve in five bullet points, tongue-in-cheek called Principia pene Premium, or the principles of almost accidental reward:
Financial support for creators
Not pay-for-content
Predictable
Almost (but not quite) accidental
The initial point is the problem itself, that we want the creators of the content on the store to be financially rewarded somehow. The rest are limiting factors on that:
Not pay-for-content alludes to the fact that we don't want to encourage paywalls. The same way we make our software available under Free licenses of various types, we want to encourage the creators of the content used in it to release their work in similarly free ways.
Easy means easy for our creators, as well as the consumers of the content they produce. We don't want either them to have to jump through hoops to receive the funds, or to send it.
Predictable means that we want it to be reasonably predictable for those who give funds out to the creators. If we can ensure that there are stable outgoings for them, say some set amount each month or year, then it makes it easier to budget, and not have to worry. Similarly, we want to try and make it reasonably predictable for our creators, and this is where the suggestion about Liberapay made by several audience members comes in, and i will return to this in the next section.
Finally, perhaps the most core concept here is that we want to make it possible to almost (but not quite) accidentally send one of the creators funds. Almost, because of course we don't want to actually do so accidentally. If that were the case, the point of being predictable would fly right out the window. We do, however, want to make it so easy that it is practically automatically done.
All of this put together brings us to the current state of the KDE Store's financial support system: Plings. These are an automatic repayment system, which the store handles for every creator who has added PayPal account information to their profile. It is paid out monthly, and the amount is based on the Pling Factor, which is (at the time of writing) a count of how many downloads the creator has accumulated over all content items over course of the month, and each of those is counted as $0.01 USD.
Space-age looking crazy things at the Almería Solar Platform. Amazing place. Wow. So science.
Birds of a Feather Discuss Together
On Wednesday, a little while before lunch, it was time for me to attend my final BoF session of the week (as i would be leaving early Thursday). This one was slightly different, of course, because i was the host. The topic was listed as Open Collaboration Service 1.7 Preparation, but ended up being more of a discussion of what people wanted to be able to achieve with the store integration points we have available.
Most of the items which were identified were points about KNewStuff, our framework designed for easy integration of remote content using either OCS, or static sources (used by e.g. KStars for their star catalogues).
Content from alternate locations was the first item to be mentioned, which suggests a slight misunderstanding about the framework's abilities. The discussion revealed that what was needed was less a question of being able to replace existing sources in various applications, so much as needing the ability to control the access to KNewStuff more granularly. Specifically, being able to enable/disable specific sources was highlighted, perhaps through using Kiosk. It might still make sense to be able to overlay sources - one example given was the ability to overlay the wallpapers source (used in Plasma's Get New Wallpapers) with something pointing to a static archive of wallpapers (so users might be able to get a set of corporate-vetted backgrounds, rather than just one). This exact use case should already be possible, simply by providing a static XML source, and then replacing the wallpapers.knsrc file normally shipped by Plasma with another, pointing to that source.
A more complete set of Qt Quick components was requested, and certainly this would be very useful. As it stands, the components are very minimal and really only provide a way to list available items, and install/update/remove them. In particular two things were pointed out: There is no current equivalent of KNS3::Button in the components, and further no Kiosk support, both of which were mentioned as highly desired by the Limux project.
Signing and Security was highlighted as an issue. Currently, KNSCore::Security exists as a class, however it is marked as "Do not use, non-functional, internal and deprecated." However, it has no replacement that i am myself aware of, and needs attention by someone who, well, frankly knows anything of actual value about signing. OCS itself has the information and KNS does consume this and make it available, it simply seems to not be used by the framework. So, if you feel strongly about signing and security issues, and feel like getting into KNewStuff, this is a pretty good place to jump in.
Individual download item install/uninstall was mentioned as well, as something which would be distinctly useful for many things (as a simple example, you might want more than one variant of a wallpaper installed). Right now, Entries are marked as installed when one download item is installed, and uninstalling implicitly uninstalls that download item. There is a task on the KNewStuff workboard which has collected information about how to adapt the framework to support this.
But KNewStuff wasn't the only bit to get some attention. Our server-side software stack had a few comments along the way as well.
One was support for Liberapay which is a way to distribute monetary wealth between people pretty much automatically, which fits very nicely into the vision of creator support put forward in my presentation. In short, what it allows us to do
One topic which comes up regularly is adding support for the upload part of the OCS API to our server-side stack. Now, the reason for this lack is not that simply adding that is difficult at all, because it certainly isn't - quite the contrary, the functionality practically exists already. The problem here is much more a case of vetting: How do we ensure that this will not end up abused by spammers? The store already has spam entries to be handled every day, and we really want to avoid opening up a shiny, new vector for those (insert your own choice of colloquialism here) spammers to send us things we want to not have on the store. Really this deserves a write-up of its own, on account of the sheer scope of what might be done to alleviate the issues, but what we spoke about essentially came down the following:
Tight control of who can upload, so people have to manually be accepted by an administration/editors team as uploaders before they are given the right to do so through the API. In essence, this would be possible through establishing a network of trust, and through people using the web interface first. As we also want people to approach without necessarily knowing people who know people, a method for putting yourself up for API upload permission approval will also be needed. This might possibly be done through setting a requirement for people who have not yet contributed in other ways to do so (that is, upload some content through the web first, and then request api upload access). Finally, since we already have a process in place for KDE contributors, matching accounts with KDE commit access might also be another way to achieve a short-cut (you already have access to KDE's repositories, ability to publish things on the store would likely not be too far a stretch).
Quality control of the content itself. This is something which has been commented on before. Essentially, it has been discussed that having linting tools that people can use locally before uploading things would be useful (for example, to ensure that a kpackage for a Plasma applet is correct, or that a wallpaper is correctly packaged, or that there is correct data in a Krita brush resource bundle, or that an AppImage or Flatpak or Snap is what it says it is, just to mention a few). These tools might then also be used on the server-side, to ensure that uploaded content is correctly packaged. In the case of the API, what might be done is to return the result of such a process in the error message field of a potentially failed OCS content/add or content/edit call, which then in turn would be something useful to present to the user (in place of a basic "sorry, upload failed" message).
For OCS itself, adding mimetype as an explicit way to search and filter entries and downloaditems was suggested. As it stands, it could arguably be implemented by clients and servers, however having it explicitly stated in the API would seem to make good sense.
The proposal to add tagging support to OCS currently awaiting responses on the OCS Webserver phabricator was brought up. In short, while there are review requests open for adding support for the proposal to Attica and KNewStuff respectively, the web server needs the support added as well, and further the proposal itself needs review by someone who is not me. No-one who attended the BoF felt safe in being able to review this in any sensible way, and so: If you feel like you are able to help with this, please do take part and make comments if you think something is wrong.
Finally, both at the BoF and outside of it, one idea that has been kicked around for a while and got some attention was the idea of being able to easily port and share settings between installations of our software. To be able to store some central settings remotely, such as wallpaper, Plasma theme and so on, and then apply those to a new installation of our software. OCS would be able to do this (using its key/value store), and what is needed here is integration into Plasma. However, as with many such things, this is less a technical issue (we have most of the technology in place already), and more a question of design and messaging. Those of you who have ever moved from one Windows 10 installation to another using a Microsoft account will recognise the slightly chilling feeling of the sudden, seemingly magical appearance of all your previous settings on the machine. As much as the functionality is very nifty, that feeling is certainly not.
Solar powered sun-shade platform outside the university building. With fancy steps. And KDE people on top ;)
Another Thank You, and a Wish
Akademy is not the only event KDE hosts, and very soon there is going to be another one, in Randa in the Swiss alps, this year about accessibility. I will not delve into why this topic is so important, and can only suggest you read the article describing it. It has been my enormous privilege to be a part of that several years, and while i won't be there this year, i hope you will join in and add your support.
The word of the day is: Aircon. Because the first night at the Residencia Civitas the air conditioning unit in the room i shared with Scarlett Clark did not work, making us very, very happy when it was fixed for the second night ;)
Labels: calligra, kde, qt
Peruse 1.2 "The Winter Wonderland Release"
My sister, with a cup of gløgg and some
æbleskiver, reading Wasteland Mutants in Peruse.
Today marks a very interesting day: Near enough to six months after its initial release, this will be the final release (minus any potential minor revision work) of the 1.x series of the comic book reader Peruse.
Why is it the final release, you say? Well, easy - there will be a 2.x series, which will be based upon Kirigami 2, and further have a bunch of new features and behavioural changes which all together makes it sensible to make a big version number change. So, no, this is not the final release of Peruse itself, only the 1.x series - rest assured that there is a very bright future indeed for your favourite comic book reader built by and powered by the KDE community!
Where can I get it?!
Don't want to wait? Well, certainly, don't let me stop you! Hop right over to the Peruse website and grab yourself a copy of whichever version best matches your needs.
What's in this?
While you wait for your download, let's have a look at what you can find in this shiny, new version of Peruse. The same features you found in 1.1 are still there, of course: CBZ, PDF and ePub support, alongside a few other less common ones. A handy continue-where-you-left-off feature with support for multiple books. A collection system with filtering options based on author, title, folder structure and so on. Full screen mode, with both touch and keyboard controls. All that stuff you already know.
As for new things, however, we have done some major overhauling of the PDF and ePub support, which is now considerably more solid, with less glitchy rendering and a more usable view. Still based on Okular, but using a more Peruse-like navigation system, which makes the whole thing feel more at home.
A whole bunch of little annoyances have been ironed out as well, and using Peruse is now more pleasant as a result. Things like using a more natural title for title-less comic book archives, and supporting basic ACBF information will come in handy when browsing your collection, and when reading.
What about shinies?
This version is not all just cleaning and polishing, you also have a preview of things to come: There is now a (very basic) shop, which you can find in the sidebar with the title "Get Hot New Books", which is by no means the final name, and is more alluding to the name of the technology underneath. Clicking on this entry will let you download and read comics from the share.krita.org comic section, which is currently quite low on content - something which the second thing being previewed in this version might help with.
Peruse Creator is a partner application to Peruse Reader, designed to allow the many creative people out there to easily produce comic book archives, for use not only with Peruse, but with any other comic book readers out there. The version shipped with this release is an initial, basic version, a sort of proof of concept. Even then, it already has support for creating comic book archives with ACBF information embedded, including not only titles and other basic information like that, but also genres and the like. Important to note is that comic book archives made using Peruse Creator will, even though they have ACBF information embedded, work just fine with applications which do not support this: They will simply not have the information available, and really just work like any other cbz file you might come across.
Bear with me as I go slightly fluffy for a moment: The next step for Peruse is to close the cycle between creation and consumption. We want to make it as easy for the readers and the makers to achieve their goals, which here is, of course, to let the readers read the things the makers make. This is not simply a case of creating a store that people can put things on and get things from, it is about creating the tools which allow the readers to read the content they want to read, in the most comfortable manner possible, and for the makers to make the content they want to make, in the most comfortable manner possible. That all sounds nice and logical, right? But, what, more precisely, does it mean?
For the readers, it means creating a place where they can get that content, the store which is previewed in this version. The version in Peruse now is extremely simple, and really, it would be great to hear what you all want out of it. We have ideas of our own, like showing you what's next in a series where you have downloaded and completed reading a book, and there are more books available on the store. And to show various categories and the like in the store, to let you find things you want to read. Most of all, though, we want to hear what you want to be able to do.
For the makers, it means letting you create comics not only comfortably, but efficiently as well. The creation tool is currently simplistic, but we want to support all the features that ACBF allows for, to allow our makers to make comics which can do things they could not do on paper alone, such as frame based navigation instead of simply page-by-page navigation. Again, we want to hear from you what you want to be able to do.
We in this case are myself and the KDE Visual Design Group, and we would absolutely welcome input from everybody out there, because you are the people we want to be able to make happy. So please, get in touch and we will greatly enjoy listening to your amazing ideas, so we can create the best Peruse possible.
The word of the day is: Boiler. Because we are having a new one installed right now. Have been without heating for over a week now, so getting that sorted is nice ;)
posted by leinir at 12/28/2016 06:00:00 am 14 comments
The Past and the Immediate of the Future, For Your Perusal
Why hello there! Gather round, and i shall spin you a tale of sadness and joy and the hard work of many, many proud and capable people.
Once upon a time there was a small community of people who wrote computer code. They had many great pieces of software, and lots of people were excited about them and wanted to make new stuff for them, like icons and templates and extension scripts. They despaired, however, when they realised it was really hard to get these new things to other people. They tried to staple them to trees, or to send floppy disks to people in the mail, but this was just not good enough.
Finally, one decided that this was just not right, and created the website kde-look.org. All who saw it were astonished and decided it was really great. The one who made it did not agree, and decided it was not good enough. Together with others, they created the GetHotNewStuff library, which was able to get those hot new things on kde-look.org directly from inside applications, and finally they were satisfied as well.
Many years passed since them, and eventually things grew and became much more than it once was. Many other sites joined the first, and the library expanded into a framework, and the babbling conversation between the website and library turned into a real language, the Open Collaboration Services standard.
The one who built this large amount of lovely stuff then became distracted with vast, new plans of malevolent world domination, trying to help people take back control of their own data, and ended up leaving his previous baby to simply exist on its own. Without the close attention of earlier years, it continued to work but did not grow or change to fit the changing world around it.
This was known by many, and many were sad but unable to do much about it. Attempts were made to at least reproduce functionality, if not content, but even those were not quite the right fit for what was needed. Then, suddenly, not long ago, another found themselves in the right place at the right time, and spoke with the first. Finally, things were moving again, and store.kde.org was born!
Comics For All By All
Why am i talking about this on a blog which is normally more about a comic book reader? Well, this is where you might want to watch the video below, of me on stage at QtCon 2016, talking endlessly and way too fast about the work i am currently doing to be able to get comic books into Peruse.
The gist of that presentation, which expands on the hints dropped in my previous blog about how Peruse Creator is becoming a thing, is that we now, with the new KDE Store site, have an actively developed digital content store again, and that this means the client libraries also need some work again.
Over the last couple of months, ideas were hatched and plans were laid, and finally code was produced, which means we now, in addition to the existing KNewStuff functionality people know as the Get Hot New Stuff star buttons in the wallpaper dialogue and many other places, have the beginnings of a set of Qt Quick components, named KNewStuffQuick, and a core library containing the majority of the non-ui dependent functionality named, cleverly, KNewStuffCore, if neither of the two ui options fit your needs.
In Peruse, what that means is that we are able to show the comic books available on the KDE Store very easily, with very few lines of code. When reading comics that you have downloaded from there, we are also able able to show those comics which are related and in the same series as that comic book, so that when you get to the last page and think you would like to read more of that comic, and there is more of it available, we can show that to you in the list, and let you download it directly from there without having to go into the store and break from your reading, alongside the rating and reviewing options available in the same place.
All in all, this is all (i think) terribly exciting stuff, and we are fast approaching the point at which we need to ask some of those makers of amazing works to help us out, so we can help them more. Nothing like a positive feedback loop to make people happy, when the positivity is both the topic and the function of the loop :)
Peruse Reader Peruse Creator
The word of the day is: Laptop (because i left mine in England, which was silly when going to a place to do much hacky type stuffs)
posted by leinir at 9/06/2016 10:18:00 am 2 comments
Peruse 1.1 "The Cuppa Release"
Slightly later than the 21st of June this year, the inaugural release of the Peruse comic book reader was made, and received with while not wide spread excitement, then certainly with mostly positive comments (and some very good suggestions). If you are a software developer yourself, you will know exactly how much this means to me. If you are not: This is what sustains us, what encourages us to continue working on the things we do. Thank you all very much!
Today marks the day at which some of those suggestions have been turned into reality. Obviously by no means all of them, some will take longer to surface than others, but even then, today marks the official release of Peruse 1.1, entitled The Cuppa Release, because hey, who doesn't like a nice cuppa, with their comics, eh? ;)
Get Peruse Now
During the last month or so, a fair few little bits changed in Peruse, but perhaps the biggest change was not Peruse itself, but rather the Kirigami framework on which the user interface in Peruse is based. This has now also had its inaugural release, and the 1.0 release announcement included mentions of Peruse (and a quote from yours truly). Not only that, but Heise.de decided to use Peruse as the pull-in, and had a screenshot of that as their image. So, you know, that's pretty neat.
Peruse itself, of course, has not sat still while waiting for that to happen. It would not be worthy of a 1.1 version if that were the case, then it would have simply been version 1 with updated libraries. What follows is a condensed list of the changes in Peruse itself, in no particular order (since people of course will consider different things more important):
More natural keyboard controls (f to enter full screen, escape to exit, book details closed with escape, and navigation through the book details screen now functions as expected as well with arrow keys changing the book and enter opening the book)
Settings page is now a top level page, same as the bookshelves and so on, making it feel much more natural
The sidebar now shows which page you are currently on
Make the context drawer able to host subitems, and use that for the first view option (Right To Left and Left To Right navigation, aka Manga Mode)
Fullscreen enter/exit is now more solid (and ensures the current page is restored when switching, as that would fail sometimes)
Fix the page-change animation (which was never stopped like it was supposed to, causing a certain amount of heaviness where none needed to exist)
Don't allow dragging the pagestack around when there aren't any controls (as that's simply jarring)
My sister Liv, reading a comic, with a nice cuppa, in mum and dad's garden.
Yup, i'm visiting the parents ;)
And finally, we have another couple of options for people who want to run the application:
Firstly, people asked about packages for Arch, and a it was within the abilities of the Open Build Service to create Arch binaries, we are happy to say that such packages now exist.
Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly for a larger number of people, and part of the reason it has taken so long to get 1.1 out the door: We now have an AppImage of Peruse, available right beside all the other options on the website. Don't want to install Peruse packages, or don't have them available for your distribution? Well, if it's modern enough, you should be able to run Peruse without needing to install anything. And the size? Well, with more space optimisation to be done, and considering the sheer amount of dependencies that Okular brings with it, at 86 MiB, i don't think that it's at all bad.
So, what is next for Peruse? Well, other than making it better, faster, smaller, stronger and all those lovely things that might be considered a bit fluffy, there are still plenty of items on the Work Board over on the project page. One item, however, which is missing from that board right now is a little tool which is slowly taking shape in the git repository, called Peruse Creator.
Having talked with people who make comics (both hobbyists and self published full timers), one thing they've mentioned is that while they would certainly like to make it easy for people to get their comics for use in something like Peruse, and while it is fairly straightforward to create cbz archives (literally just a zip file with pictures in it), the problem remains that it is still not quite point and click easy. So, enter Peruse Creator, a tool which initially just creates those cbz files with a sprinkling of useful metainfo, the format of which is hinted at in this task. Initially that work will not include the viewports - but if we don't build the foundations, castles in the sky tend to fall down rather hard. Since that is where we are headed, let's get that foundation nice and solid, and ready to hold up all our dreams.
So, what happens now? The future? The future is full of speech bubbles and beautiful vistas and tight closeups and, above all, amazing stories told by creators throughout the world. Watch this space (and drop by QtCon if you want to know something more).
The word of the day is: Green (because that's the colour of all the pretty things in my parents' garden i can see through the window i am sat next to ;) )
Peruse 1.0 "The Birthday Release"
One day, about half a year or so ago, it came up in a discussion that while we in KDE have a lovely document viewer named Okular, we don't have something that is well suited to actually reading things, comic books in particular. So, a project was hatched to fix this. I've blogged about it before, and made a few tweets on the topic, but today is special. Today, 1.0 happens.
(Alright, so it technically happened yesterday. But it's still special. At least, i think it's kind of special - it's called the birthday release for a reason, donchaknow ;) )
Meet the Peruse comic book reader. This little application is based on KDE Frameworks 5, and is designed with the same principles as Plasma in mind: It should get out of your way and let you read your comics, comfortably. The user interface was designed and built using the Kirigami components, which the famous diving tool Subsurface also uses, and which is being developed by KDE's Plasma and VDG teams.
The welcome page, where you can pick up reading where you left off last time, or navigate your way through your library in a range of different ways. Or, just open a file the way you might do it in other applications, if you've not got the thing you want in the library locations.
The navigation sidebar you have available when reading your comic. In full screen (click the button in the middle), with the controls hidden (tap the comic view), you can show this by swiping in from the side, or with a hook gesture by swiping up from the bottom (because Windows eats the sideways swipes).
When you reach either end of the comic and tap to try and continue past the end (by tapping the sides of the view), this drawer shows up to let you switch to other books in the same series. Because you don't want to be stuck on that cliffhanger ending, right?
So, what is next for Peruse? Well, apart from fixing bugs which have made their way into the release, and pushing various bits of code upstream that need to be upstream (such as the karchive rar support, which i discussed with the karchive maintainer last week; more on that in a different blog post), there are some big things that need doing (and some not so big things, obviously, as well).
The things which are already planned can all be seen on the Peruse work board, but i feel that i should highlight the task entitled "Get Comics Online". Right now, the way you get comics is that you open your web browser and point it at some website where you happen to know comics can be found, such as Archive.org's Comic Books and Graphic Novels site, and then download things from there, which you then open Peruse to read. Now, that's all well and good, and that, basically, works. However, it just isn't good enough. The experience is jarring, and it really is just a bit silly when there are ways of making that much more pleasant.
Enter KNewStuff, a library created back in the olden days when the K in KDE still stood for Kool, and KDE was a bunch of software rather than a bunch of people who make software. The library was built to make it possible to get new stuff, specifically Get Hot New Stuff, into your applications, and to do so in a semi-social manner. Fast forward some ten, fifteen years, and we have a framework which, while it certainly functions (every tried getting new wallpapers using that little button in your desktop settings?), has a design which doesn't quite fit with how software tends to be built today. So, the next couple of months is going to be spent turning the functional framework into a modern, modular one which will work for a wider range of use cases and workflows. The work has already begun, and a plan was hatched at the Randa Meetings 2016 for how to proceed.
What does KNewStuff have to do with Archive.org, though? Well, honestly not a great deal. However, the plan for Peruse is to have a system which will allow you to have both KNewStuff capable sources (such as opendesktop.org, which things like Parley and KStars use in various forms), and non-ocs based ones, which will require more intervention in code form by yours truly. Archive.org's archive as linked above gives us a nice target for that: Lots of content to get, with licenses that means we can actually suggest people use it (read: it's not illegal content), and it is well structured, but not ocs based. So, having Peruse able to use those two types of sources means we should cover a fairly nice amount ground.
Ideas and Bugs
What if you have more ideas than those on the work board? Well, i would love to hear from you in that case! No idea is too crazy or far out. No, really, they're not - they may just not happen immediately ;) Anything that isn't small should likely not go on the bugtracker, though, but rather directly to me. If you want to catch me, either comment here, or get a hold of me on any number of various platforms, such as freenode irc (where i'm leinir and hang in a fair few channels), or twitter or, or, or... Basically, if you run into someone called leinir out there, it's fairly likely it'll be me.
As with all such first releases, Peruse 1.0 is a bit rough around the edges and there are plenty of features that would be great to have in there - for example, there are no visual clues to suggest you can tap on the sides of the viewport to change pages when reading, and pdf and epub support feels very different to cbr support (and much less comfortable). If you come across any of those issues, please make sure to tell me about them - submit a ticket on the bugtracker for anything you run into that isn't right (though, please, and this goes for reporting on other products as well: check and make sure it hasn't been reported before. Help us help you :) )
Even More Awesomer!
On the note of helping us help you: The final sprint towards the release happened in part at the Randa Meetings 2016, and many other amazing things were achieved there. Not only that, but other sprints that KDE has through the year consistently yield both some heavy, intense coding sessions, and a lot of decisions which are just too difficult to make when you are not face to face with the people you need to talk with. So, if you want us to keep going and make more amazing stuff, click the banner below and donate what you can. If you can't donate, spread the word instead, help us raise enough to have the sprints we need to make KDE's software even better!
The word of the day is: solstice - because this is the longest day of the year and that's pretty neat :)
Perusing Progress at Randa Meetings 2016
Over the last couple of days, the 40 or so people here in Randa have been, amongst other things, been learning how to pronounce the name of the village correctly, treated to some lovely food and chocolate, and most importantly, been very, very busy learning from each other and producing great amounts of both code and plans, and as you can see from the picture below, smiles.
One of those who have been learning new things is Chris, aka Makenshi or chaz6, my better half, who has gained KDE developer access, and is now hard at work on adding GDAL support to Marble. As you can see below, it is coming along very nicely! Not only that, the initial version of the plugin has been submitted as a review request.
For my own part, i have been hard at work getting Peruse whipped into shape for release, which has meant the getting the series navigation done more pleasantly, and the addition of translation contexts to all strings in the application. As you can see below, the drawer with book information isn't that pretty, but it works, and it pops up when you try and move past either end of the book you are reading, just like you might recognise it from your ebook reader.
It has also meant building packages for a distribution i have very little experience with. While i may be a fairly proficient user of the open build service, which i have used a great deal for rpm packages over recent years, the creation of deb packages has always been something of a dark art to me. Over the last couple of days, however, that has become much more clear. A painful sort of clarity, certainly, but clarity none the less.
The end result is that i now have, on the Peruse website, a repository of deb packages for Peruse, and for Kirigami and the Okular frameworks branch both of which it depends on, all still built on obs, which means that updating the packages is very, very simple for me, and they're shipped to the users moments after they are built. In the words of Jazz Show host Louis Balfour: Nice.
Help us keep going, at this and many other sprints, clickety-click! :D
The word of the day is: peruse - because i'm a silly person who likes that word, and thinks that perusing is the most sensible way of describing the experience of consuming comic books and graphic novels :)
Randa Meetings 2016 is go!
After a nice, mostly uneventful trip to Randa, which involved picking up David on the way to the airport and then a long train trip on the very pleasant Swiss trains, we are now settled into the computer room and ready to get on with this year's meeting.
So, what will i be doing this year? Well, a few things, really:
Hopefully we (that is myself and my better half Chris Hills, who has come with me this year) will succeed in getting him embedded in one of the teams, which is something we've wanted to do for ages, and this year it just seemed the time to get it under way for reals yo(tm). This is already well under way as i write these words, and that's pretty neat :) Thank you for being such a welcoming community! :D
Get the first real release version done of the Peruse comic book reader app, which is based on KDE Frameworks 5 and the Kirigami Qt Quick 2 UX components
Begin work on the content store support in Peruse.
Hopefully get the Gemini microframework whipped into some semblance of usable shape (it would be nice to be able to use Calligra Gemini 3.0 for writing). This, however, is less critical than the others, for reasons which will become clear in the hopefully not too distant future. Very positive reasons. Keep your eyes peeled ;)
Points 3 and 4 above are... well, if you have followed me since i left university, and in part even during, you will know i've been involved with a fair few of the odd supporting fringe bits of the KDE community, and... it seems like i am going to be able to tie a few of those together into something coherent and functional. So, yes, watch this spot ;)
Now, do you like what we do at these sprints? Help us keep going! Sponsor it with any amount you can, or if you can't spare any funds, spread the word :)
The word of the day is: tea. Because that is totally a thing we can have here :)
Gemini at Randa 2015
Last year, I wrote a blog entry about the iminent release of Calligra 2.9 and the Calligra Gemini application which became a fully fletched member of the suite. In the latter half of that entry, I touched on what the future might potentially hold, and I mentioned the possibility of extending the concept from the application level to the complete system.
This future has, finally, arrived: We are now approaching the KDE Randa Meetings 2015, whose main topic this year is bringing touch to our software. In the spirit of KDE's software being something which integrates deeply between applications and with everywhere the applications run, the Gemini concept is in my personal, and of course biased, opinion a perfect match. In a world where our software runs on devices which, effectively, fit into three basic categories (that I will outline below), it would seem silly to not attempt this adaptation.
Create, Edit and View Presentations with Calligra Gemini
by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
The Gemini Device Categories
On the first, we find what we have become used to calling "the desktop", but which seems to be mostly laptops these days. These are devices where we have very detailed and fine grained interaction available, with a mouse and a keyboard, or some variation on those. In short, these are devices where we can perform intricate motions with a high level of precision; the sort of interaction required to create new content from scratch. These are devices in the Create category. In Plasma terms, this is the Plasma Desktop shell.
On the second, we have our various touch based devices. Recently there has been a great many attempts to create solutions to create content on these devices, but except for a very narrow range of situations, it turns out to be awkward and cumbersome. I am not talking about the attempts where you use a stylus to paint on a tablet screen, or a bluetooth keyboard to write text here. All that does is turn the previously simple-interaction device into a precise-interaction device as described above. What I mean here is a device with only a touch screen available, be it a tablet or a phone. These do not lend themselves well to creation of new content, but what they do lend themselves to is modification of existing content, which puts them very nicely into the Edit category. For Plasma, this would be Plasma Mobile, the shell created for phones, but which runs just fine on larger touch devices as well.
The final category are those devices which have extremely limited interaction available. There are a fair few of them out there, but without getting too deep here, let's say these are devices like an eBook reader (with the slow screen refresh and in some cases very limited input in the form of arrow keys and a select button), or TVs (where we can really only depend on input in the form of numbers and sometimes not even the arrow keys and select button that we might otherwise expect). Fairly obviously, these devices are not suitable for creation of new content, and really they are not well suited to even editing of it. They are, however, uniquely suited to consumption of content. This, in Gemini terms, puts them into the View category. This would be Plasma Media Center in the Plasma world.
What can you do to help?
In essence, as you can tell, we already have the bits available. Plasma is even able to switch its shell at runtime. Thought need to be put into getting the transitioning to work right. Not on a technical level, but on a human level. How can this be done without getting in the way? It is doable, but discussion must happen, and it is exactly the sort of thing which is done best face to face, and with prototypes made with pencils, paper and scissors, not with digital tools, simply because, well, once the code is written, people get attached: Paper is simple, and clearly not supposed to be final. This is why sprints and meetings like those held in Randa are so important.
As other blog entries on Planet KDE and elsewhere have suggested, the most immediately effective way to ensure that we can do this is to help with the fundraiser, which will allow the Randa Meetings and other sprints to happen in the best way possible. As i write these words, we have currently raised €10690 of our €38500 goal, so please, donate what you can, and spread the word far and wide. This year's hash tag is #KDEsprints, if you like that sort of thing - let's try and get this thing trending! I like aiming for the stars, won't you join me? :D
Donate to the KDE Sprints 2015 fundraising campaign
The word of the day is: Donations (because we need them!)
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Sales and Marketing Align at Revenue Summit
March 6, 2017 Mark Emmons
This week’s Revenue Summit conference will feature 50 sponsors, 85-plus speakers, about 2,000 attendees and . . . some cats and dogs? Well, at least there was one idea to bring some of those four-legged friends to the sales-and-marketing show.
“Because cats and dogs traditionally don’t get along,” explained Nikki Nixon, one of the event organizers.
You know, sort of like marketers and salespeople.
Revenue Summit, which is being held Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco, brings together those two famously squabbling tribes. The idea is that business has irreversibly changed and that sales and marketing teams must be real partners in this new, emerging world. The Civil War must end, once and for all.
“We’re all beginning to realize there are no longer any silos, and the importance of working together is greater than ever before,” added Nixon, the director of #FlipMyFunnel. “It’s almost like when you were a kid and your parents made you play in the same room with your brother or sister. It was like, ‘Get along. I don’t want to hear any more nonsense.’ That’s what it’s like for sales and marketing today. They have to work together. It’s not a choice.”
Nixon and Max Altschuler, the founder and CEO of Sales Hacker, had both come to that same conclusion last year. They were talking at the Dreamforce conference about finding a way to stage something that would appeal both to #FlipMyFunnel’s Account-Based Marketing community and to Sales Hacker’s audience. It turned out that both organizations were already trying to book the Pier 27 site on the same week for their own separate events.
“So we decided that this was clearly meant to be,” Nixon added. “We merged our proposals together.”
A lasting alliance between sales and marketing seems destined as well. Historically, the two teams have been more likely to angrily point fingers at one another rather than shake hands. It has always been an uneasy relationship. But the rise of account-based strategies, which require hand-and-glove cooperation between the departments, has begun to chip away at their historical differences.
Christine Maxey, the director of enterprise solutions at LeanData jokes that it used to be that the only time sales wanted anything to do with marketing was “to get cool tchotchkes and T-shirts.” But times have changed.
“Think how much more powerful you can be when you join forces,” said Maxey, who will be participating in one of the Revenue Summit panel discussions. “The line between sales and marketing is just gray now. It’s simply not two different groups anymore. Alignment isn’t just a lofty ideal. You need to be aligned at the execution level. You really, really have to be aligned.”
Matt Heinz, the president of Heinz Marketing, said he was recently talking to a sales leader who told him that marketers who are fixated on MQLs as their primary goal simply don’t understand what it means to be synchronized with the sales team. While that might be a bold statement, Heinz added, it’s also true.
“The sales team’s goals are the marketing team’s goals, period,” said Heinz, who is a featured Revenue Summit speaker. “The better these organizations are aligned, the more likely they’ll achieve and exceed their revenue targets.”
ABM recently has been one of the hot trends as more businesses embrace a strategy of concentrating their efforts on select target accounts that have a greater likelihood of becoming customers. #FlipMyFunnel, which was founded by Terminus Chief Marketing Officer Sangram Vajre, has been on the leading edge of the movement. But while that account-based approach is relatively new to marketers, enterprise sales teams always have been focused on accounts rather than individual leads.
So it makes sense that sales and marketing should now reach a mutual understanding.
Revenue Summit is also a fitting name for the conference. Revenue is what both teams seek. And this represents something of a peace summit.
“I hope we see more events where sales and marketing are gathering together to solve common problems,” Heinz said. “Sales doesn’t need to know how Facebook ads work, and marketing might not care about optimizing comp plans. But ideally, these two organizations share the same objective, the same metrics, and the same strategies.”
#FlipMyFunnel is known for some silly antics. (After all, they’re marketers.) At past conferences, they’ve staged “Lead Graveyards” — complete with tombstones — to symbolize the passing of outdated, MQL-centric thinking.
That helps explain the notion of having cats and dog at Revenue Summit. There will be some canines, courtesy of Rocket Dog Rescue. Alas, organizers couldn’t come up with felines on short notice. So maybe next year there will be a cats-and-dogs theme, Nixon said. But more importantly, marketers and salespeople will be rubbing elbows this week.
“The concept is they need to be in the same room,” she added. “That’s the best way to really drive alignment. We’re just doing it on a really big scale.”
Mark Emmons is the staff writer at LeanData. He previously was a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register and Detroit Free Press. He can be reached at mark@leandatainc.com.
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Israel Folau donations soar past $2m – as Australian Christian Lobby cashes in
June 27, 2019 998 views
A campaign to raise funds to support Israel Folau’s legal stoush with Rugby Australia could soon be suspended after donations reached $2m.
The Australian Christian Lobby, which set up the Folau fundraiser on its website, called the flow of donations overwhelming.
“We have decided we should stop at $2m and raise more money if and when we need it,” the ACL head, Martyn Iles, told the Australian on Thursday. “The sheer scale and pace of the response from donors has just been overwhelming.”
The ACL appears to be seeking to cash in on publicity generated by the Folau case, asking supporters to chip in for a separate religious freedom fighting fund to raise $1.6m by the end of the financial year.
The outpouring of money for Folau’s legal battle comes as the former Wallaby, RA and their lawyers prepare for a conciliation hearing on Friday with the Fair Work Commission.
An RMIT University law school professor, Anthony Forsyth, said it was unusual for lawyers to be involved at this point. “Normally people are self-represented at the conciliation stage,” he told Guardian Australia.
Forsyth said the presence of lawyers could mean two things – either the desire of both parties to settle or an indication that Folau wanted to “go in all guns blazing, to show how serious he is”.
He expects the conciliation hearing to be held in person rather than by phone hook-up.
The Rugby World Cup kicks off in Japan in September and runs until November. Forsyth doesn’t think the Folau legal saga will be concluded by then, particularly if it progresses to the federal court.
“It’s a fairly typical pattern that parties don’t settle at these conciliation hearings but the closer you get to the actual [court] date … that’s when you start to see people focusing a lot more on settlement and it’s quite common to settle even up to the day or the morning of the hearing,” he said.
Folau wanted to raise $3m to fund his unfair dismissal claim, saying the termination of his contract amounts to discrimination on religious grounds. But employment lawyers have raised eyebrows at that figure, saying if he were hiring the most expensive legal team in the country $3m would be hard to spend – even if his case progressed to the high court.
The players is seeking $10m in damages from RA and wants his multimillion-dollar contract to be reinstated.
RA took issue with a social media post in April in which Folau paraphrased a Bible passage, saying “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolaters” would go to hell unless they repented.
He took to Instagram on Wednesday to thank his supporters: “I am humbled by the support I have received from so many of you since Rugby Australia terminated my employment contract after I shared a religious message on social media.
“To those who have criticised me, I bear no ill will towards you. You have every right to express your own beliefs and opinions. To the thousands of you who donated to my GoFundMe campaign, I am forever grateful.”
By Thursday morning, Folau had raised $2.1m.
The ACL’s fundraising effort began on Tuesday, replacing the rugby star’s appeal on GoFundMe that was taken down by the crowdfunding platform for breaching its terms of service.
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You have arrived in the LEXXVERSE where the spirit of Lexx lives on. > Main Lexx Discussion > Lexx Cast Members Projects and Appearances > Michael McManus Myspace site page
Michael McManus Myspace site page
Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 02:32 am
Ok, there's been several people posting at certain blogs and message boards about a Michael McManus Myspace page, and making innuendos as to whom it belonged.
THIS is to set the record straight once and for all.
I got an email from Michael PERSONALLY on APRIL 9th, and he asked me about a Michael page up on Myspace and if I knew anything about it. I checked on the site, told him that it was indeed NOT something I'd put up, and he said he'd take 'action accordingly'.
NOW the weird thing this was this space was attached to the Timeless Destinations site at Myspace, that is being run by a couple of 'fans' for Bill W at Timeless, who I"m sure had no idea this site was attached to that page.
The site was taken down sometime late this past week, either by Myspace or the owner. Now there are people saying they 'talked to the man himself'. (I'm sure) and that he said it was not his site. We all KNEW that. We also knew that the only folks that were attached to this site are the same ones that had NUMEROUS Kai and Lexx sites for their alternate 'identities' on Myspace.
Now I haven't said anything about the page, because there's no reason to call attention to it if Michael is going to handle it himself. He didn't ask me to post about it, he didn't ask me to 'investigate' it, and I think if anyone is taking it upon themselves to do that, is not doing it on his behalf, but on theirs for some kind of agenda.
I think the facts should speak for themselves, and use your common sense and figure it our for yourselves. Interesting that it was not attached to ANY other Lexx fan except this Timeless Destinations site at Myspace, isn't it? Who are now claiming it was 'bogus'....well they should know.
So if anyone makes any statement that I had anything to do with putting that page up, I'll contact the appropriate parties. Seriously.
Oh one more important thing. The owner of a Myspace site that announced there are 'several' fake Michael Myspace pages up there (again, more exaggeration) should realize that their OWN Kai page, shows Michael's information(Male, 45 years old, Ontario Canada) as their OWN...and they are celebrating said birthday as their own.
So unless you've had a sex change and change of address honey, I'd correct that to reflect your own information and not Michaels.
BTW, as far as I know, there was just ONE fake Michael Myspace page up, not 'many'....the others are not associated with "Lexx's Michael, but people whose names really ARE Michael McManus. Need to get the facts straight and not embellish there folks, it has a tendency to kill your credibility...
sorta like you do what I say and not what I do scenario...very suspect ifn' you ask for my opinion..seriously.
. You got that right, pendejo.
Now I know why I never go to Myspace...
Posted: Tue Apr 24th, 2007 09:59 pm
I noticed what seemed like a bogus Michael Mcmanus MySpace site relatively recently as well....Perhaps it is the one that you mentioned. I came across it while looking for peeps who had attended Megacon and posted pics and blogs.
Posted: Thu Apr 26th, 2007 04:52 am
Well that's probably it. I only found one actual site called that in reference to the Lexx's Michael McManus. The only other ones I found doing a search were real guys with that same name, one a musician and one a surfer or something.
:thordin:
Posted: Fri Apr 27th, 2007 03:14 pm
Well d'uh!
Apparently someone associated with TD myspace page admitted online that they've known about that fake MM page for months, but for some reason has kept silent about it until Mr. McManus found out about the fake page and apparently contacted someone at TD about that page being associated with that site. Now all of a sudden they are ranting about the page.
Wouldn't common sense had told them to ask someone who would know if MM had a myspace page up? But yet they kept silent all those months..hummm? Interesting..wonder what the reason was?
The only reason I'm mentioning it here is because this information regarding this announcement will be taken down elsewhere as soon as they read this..
Last edited on Fri Apr 27th, 2007 05:04 pm by Ketana
Posted: Sun Apr 29th, 2007 11:05 pm
Was there supposed to be a pic there? I think the page dropped it or something.
Posted: Mon Apr 30th, 2007 01:45 pm
uhh yeah Maya but being the BRILLANT one that I am...NOT..i kinda deleted the piccy from my photobucket..want me to put up another one of my wonderfully sarcastic and biting piccy's?
Nah, I think your point was made...hehe.
Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 01:31 am
I am sure there is a whole realm of fake celebrity my space pages. It's probably more of a teen idol thing though.
The "Kai, last of the brunnin G." page has a lot of unicorns and faeries on it, and while I can happily picture Kai riding along on a unicorn I really feel that in terms of the character it is a bit off.
*pictures Kai riding into the sunset on a unicorn*
Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 03:39 pm
I envision Kai as more of a pegasus riding dude
Ha Ha! On the show, the only pet Kai ever had was that baby cluster lizard. If it had gotten big enough he could have ridden that! I might have to watch that movie again-- that was really cute.
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On The Lips Of Children Author Mark Matthews answers the question, How Do Children Survive?
12th September 2018 Gavin Kendall Reviews Feature 1
“I only have one subject.
The question I am obsessed with is:
‘How do children survive?’”
Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are”
How do children survive? A question worth asking twice. The answer for at least three of these children is in my novel, “On the Lips of Children.”
I consider my novel a near adult retelling of “Where the Wild Things Are.” The dark is a little darker, the rumpus is a little wilder, the dinner may not still be hot when you return home, but I was fully guided by the book which made a psychological imprint on my psyche as a child.
It is certainly one of my favorites, and once my own children came of age I dutifully read the book and had them memorize the first few pages. I would say out loud; “THE NIGHT MAX WORE HIS WOLF SUIT” and my daughter would follow with “AND MADE MISCHIEF OF ONE KIND AND ANOTHER.” She would look at the monsters on the page during the wild rumpus and name off relatives who looked like them in real life.
The story speaks to all of us, but particularly boys dealing with primitive urges of aggression and anger and the need to channel the wildness to make it acceptable. Like Max, we all need to find the magic within us to become the wild emotions ruler. The reward for this is finding the love we need, just like Max who wants the comfort of his mother. For “mother is the name for God on the lips of all children.”
Instead of the private boat that Max uses to sail off through the night and day, in and out of weeks and almost over a year, it’s a trail run that transports the characters in my novel. The run down the trail towards the beach from their hotel is, to me, just like Max sailing his private boat off to where the wild things are. A child character in a jogging stroller says as much during the story.
My worship of “Where The Wild Things Are” doesn’t stop there. The characters in the novel, Erin, Macon, Lyric, and Max, are chock full of references.
Erin has named her son Max based on the boy in the book. And she actually gets a Max character tattooed on her navel.
Erin’s second child, Lyric, is able to recite the book from memory she has heard it so much, and in fact, tries to ‘tame’ the wild things with a magic trick she learned from Max while they are being chased in the novel.
And then there’s Macon, who, like Max, suffers from an out of control aggression and faces a passage where he is challenged to become its ruler. Tattooed on Macon’s skin is the phrase, “Attack life it’s going to kill you anyway.” It’s his mantra, and propels him through life but tends to get him in trouble. Macon is a grown up Max, always trying to handle his overactive aggression to win the love he wants.
Any good journey to the dark places is really just a journey inside of us, where we learn to face the wild things and become their ruler. In the children’s book, when we come home, Mother is there to love us and make us feel safe. When Maurice Sendak died and arrived at his final resting place, you can be assured that he found his supper waiting for him. And it was still hot.
As for the end of “On the Lips of Children,” you’ll have to read it to see. All I can promise is a wild rumpus.
“A sprint down the path of high-adrenaline terror. A must read.”
-BRACKEN MACLEOD, author of Stranded
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Meet Macon. Tattoo artist. Athlete. Family man. He’s planning to run a marathon, but the event becomes something terrible.
During a warm-up run, Macon falls prey to a bizarre man and his wife who dwell in an underground drug-smuggling tunnel. They raise their twin children in a way Macon couldn’t imagine: Skinning unexpecting victims for food and money.
And Macon, and his family, are next.
A harrowing, twenty-four hour test begins for Macon to rescue his family. Their love will be tested in horrific measures. Family meets family, and mother meets mother, in a world where the saying is confirmed: “Mother is the name for God on the lips of all children.”
“Matthews is a damn good writer, and make no mistake, he will hurt you.”
-JACK KETCHUM, author of The Girl Next Door
You can buy On The Lips Of Children from Amazon UK & Amazon US
Mark Matthews
I am a graduate of the University of Michigan, an avid hockey fan, and live near Detroit with my wife and two daughters. I have been in recovery from addiction for 25 years, and in this time have run 13 marathons, including Detroit 5 times, Chicago 3 times, the 2010 Boston, and the 2013 New York City Marathon.
I am also a licensed professional counselor who has worked for many years as a therapist, but many more years as a writer. My latest releases are MILK-BLOOD and ALL SMOKE RISES and feature heroin addiction in a way that I am confident you have never seen before. A contract for film rights has just been signed.
My first novel, STRAY, is based on experiences working in a treatment center with an animal shelter right next door within barking distance. My second novel, THE JADE RABBIT, is the story of chinese adoptee who runs marathons to cope with lingering trauma and stress.
My third novel, ON THE LIPS OF CHILDREN, was published by Books of the Dead Press and has received incredible reviews. I have one piece of non-fiction, based largely on material from previous blog posts, titled: CHASING THE DRAGON: RUNNING TO GET HIGH, also available on Amazon.
Finally, perhaps my penultimate project is the anthology of incredible writers included in GARDEN OF FIENDS: TALES OF ADDICTION HORROR now available on Amazon.
On The Lips Of Children
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Successful Hospitality Design and How It Relates to Multi-Family
One team for KEPHART’s annual Research and Development Day 2018 was focused on hospitality. The mission of this team was to visit four hotels in and around downtown Denver to determine what makes them successful from the perspective of the guest, and how they relate and respond to the surrounding community. Over the course of the day, this team visited the Maven, Aloft Downtown, Moxy Cherry Creek, and Halcyon. Each of the four hotels were unique in mission and brand, yet they all shared the same level of commitment to experience. As we strive to deliver a memorable experience in the multifamily communities we design, we took this opportunity to assess how each of these hotels craft experiences, so that we can artfully provide the same in our designs.
Critical to each of the hotels we toured was the mission to create an experience unique to the location and neighborhood. By virtue of their boutique nature, the Maven, Moxy, and Halcyon have the flexibility to develop brand around location; Aloft is a national chain constrained by a corporate brand strategy. Appropriately though, Aloft’s mission is to serve the business traveler – the traveler by necessity – while the others court travelers by choice – stay-cationers, wedding parties, and local over-nighters. While a strong tie to the local neighborhood may be low on the business traveler’s list of requirements for travel lodging, Aloft nonetheless strives to integrate itself in the community. The bar and lobby are open to the public in the evening, and the hotel hosting live performances and holiday parties reinforces the notion that this is a locals hangout, not just reception and registration.
As a part of the vibrant Dairy Block, the Maven feels more like a result of circumstances than an anchor of place. Much like the Crawford at Union Station, the Maven is tertiary to the activity found elsewhere in this mixed-use redevelopment. The hotel lobby is a shared space surrounded by coffee, restaurant, and bar – making it as likely to be populated by local professionals as hotel guests.
Moxy and Halcyon are Cherry Creek North hotels and both are suitably designed to respond to that neighborhood. Moxy trades on eclecticism and whimsy – the trendy bar on the ground floor is also the check-in desk and feels like the spot where hipsters marooned in Cherry Creek would hang-out. Halcyon, on the other hand, embraces the upscale and exclusive nature of the neighborhood – swanky roof-top bar, Quality Italian, and B&GC – a by-reservation-only speakeasy for those in the know. A drink or meal at any of the three is a likely stop for a Denverite in Cherry Creek for a night out, which ensures the hotel guest feels a part of the community and the hotel an integral piece of the neighborhood.
Beyond integration in the community, each of the hotels we visited reinforced consistency in experience throughout the shared and private spaces. Aloft has a strong brand identity – efficient, contemporary, and urban. The lobby hosts a food-on-the-go station rather than a restaurant, the corridors are sleek and purpose-driven, the rooms compact and basic. Similarly, the Maven embraces its urban nature with rooms that provide the necessities but encourage guests to spend time out of the room, exploring the city. That exploration starts and stops at the Dairy Block, which encourages analogue social interaction at Milk Market and digital social interaction with its many made-for-Instagram opportunities. Moxy embraces playfulness and quirk – in addition to the bar, the lobby features a chairlift for faux ski selfies and an up-to-the-minute social media sharing wall. The corridors follow suit with provocative finishes and furnishings, ironing stations, and playful artwork. Rooms are thoughtfully designed to be efficient while not feeling Spartan, with funky furnishings and accessories uniquely on-brand.
Halcyon is a luxury brand, and the luxury begins when checking in with a barista who will also prepare you a latte. The rest of the main lobby is modern and understated, allowing for a quiet moment of transition between the room and the street. Corridors continue the classic and subtle color scheme of black and gray on beige and white and provide thoughtful conveniences like water stations offering hot and cold, still and sparkling. Rooms here are the largest and most luxurious of those we visited with brushed brass fixtures, upright record players, coffee bars, and private terraces.
Each of the hotels we visited had a clear and passionate commitment to brand and community. Achieving consistency in experience for each was founded with a deep understanding of mission and location and reinforced with design that was reflective of both, from lobby to room. Those qualities need not be unique to hotels, and we ended the day with renewed vigor in ensuring we work with our clients to create places to live that provide unique, thoughtful, and memorable experiences.
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BARN Brisbane Area Rescue Network
Last Updated on 30 September 2012
BARN Brisbane Area Rescue Network is an active WILDLIFE CARERS group rescuing and rehabillitating wildlife in western Logan. You woud be amazed at the number and range of animals needing assistance. They provide some great tips that we can all adopt to help reduce injuries, trauma and fatalities on their FACEBOOK page.
The list is by no means exhaustive or in a particular order and suggestions or ideas of what others are doing to help are welcomed.
HELPING INJURED OR DISPLACED WILDLIFE and other animals
Wildcare Australia Inc is a non-profit organization situated in South East Queensland. The organization was originally formed as the Australian Koala Hospital Association Incorporated in late 1993 by Dr Jonathon Hanger. It became an Incorporated Association and registered charity in 1994 and is listed on the Register of Environmental Organizations.
Wildcare Australia volunteers man a 24 hours 7days a week Emergency hotline for SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND 07 5527 2444
http://wildcare.org.au is a very comprehensive website and essential reading to understand more about how you can help in any wildlife rescue situation.
Other victims of flooding
HELPING THE ANIMALS AFFECTED BY 'NATURAL' DISASTER
The flooding in Queensland has been pretty devastating - thousands of families have lost homes or possessions. If you'd like to donate money or supplies, please do so here: http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
The losses of pets, farm animals and wildlife remain untold. Continual emergency broadcasts are urging South-East Queenslanders to seek higher ground amidst further devastating rises in flood levels, but for millions of animals in affected regions there can be little or no warning. Animals Australia gives coverage here
Wildlife pets and farm animals also need our help. If you'd like to help buy supplies and food for displaced animals, please do so here: https://donate.rspcaqld.org.au/flood. to support services organised by RSPCA for domestic animals, farm animals and our native wildlife. Please read this page to see how much various items cost.
RSPCA's Townsville and Fairfield Shelters sent crates to help authorities deal with domestic pets stranded in Theodore and have now set up a temporary Shelter at the evacuation centre at Central Queensland University. They have also set up a data base of foster carers in the area who can look after pets and livestock during the crisis. There are three Inspectors plus a boat and a volunteer ambulance devoted to animal rescues. To date their efforts have been encouraging, particularly in regard to livestock and native wildlife
Queensland Wildlife Rehabilitators Council QWRC have wildlife rehabilitators who have been affected by the floods with many who are currently isolated and unsure of when they can get supplies in. In addition, power outages may cause loss of food stocks for wildlife in care - with more animals coming into care. Should any rehabilitator be in need of assistance please contact your local QWRC representative or the QWRC Chair Annie Saunders (Ph 07 4975 6281) who will do all in their power to get you the assistance required.QWRC is continuing to monitor the flood situation across QLD as it relates to wildlife and wildlife rehabilitators.
A trust fund is set up to receive donations. Donations can be made to the wildlife disaster relief fund by direct deposit to the QWRC Trust Fund account BSB 814-282 and account number 30932248 using your surname as a reference. QWRC will ensure all funds are distributed where they are most needed.
Wildcare Australia Inc is a non-profit organization located in South East Queensland dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of native wildlife and then release once fully rehabilitated. Be prepared and if you find wildlife in distress please find comprehensive information on this website on how you can assist the animal in need. The home page of Wildlife Australia also explains several ways for you to help financially during this flood crisis situation. Many wildlife volunteers are directly impacted by the floods as well as the wildlife already in care. Emergency Hotline - 24 hours / 7 days 07 5527 2444.
Donate to Koalas, Pademelons, Gliders, Birds......Who really cares? Go to this page to make donations to Wildcare Australia.
Why survey local fauna in Munruben Greenbank North Maclean areas?
Logan and Albert Conservation Association aka LACA president, Anne Page, is spending her holidays visiting residents in the areas Murnuben Greenbank North Maclean. She is doing this to collect the much needed data about wildlife or fauna presently living in these treed or vegetated areas.
She will leave a letter if residents are not at home when she visits. Why you may ask does one volunteer to talk to walk around these areas in the hope of gathering local residents' sightings of native animals seen on properties in these areas?
Anne intends to start on the southern side of Stoney Camp Rd and do the perimeter properties around the large farm at Greenbank east of Teviot Rd first. Then she will go North Maclean area and work through properties adjacent to Wearings Reserve in Munruben . Each interview will probably take a minimum of 30 mins (as per experience) . She hopes to do as many as she has time for in the next 2 weeks and then keep going after the school holidays.
Wildlife Sightings Form - why bother?
Why bother to report wildlife sightings?
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In South East Queensland especially there has been - and continues to be - a huge influx of people.
Australia's wildlife is threatened by many natural changes. These usually take place over long periods of time. However actions of humans can have a more sudden effect on wildlife and lead to extinctions if continued. These threatening actions include:
Habitat destruction and change
Clearing of an animal's natural ‘home' - its habitat - is the greatest threat to its survival. Habitats can also be changed by fire, stock, soil compacting, road widening and dam building.
GOING BATTY FOR BIODIVERSITY at Canungra
2010 SPOTLIGHT ON WILDLIFE IN SCENIC RIM - series of community workshops sponsored by SRRC
To help celebrate the 2010 United Nations International year of Biodiversity , the Logan and Albert Conservation Association will be hosting a series of free public workshops entitled 'Spotlight on Wildlife in the Scenic Rim'. The workshops have been funded through a Community Environment Assistance Grant from the Scenic Rim Regional Council.
The first 2010 WORKSHOP will be held in Canungra where there is a significant colony of bats and where recently there was a crisis to save the babies after a storm devestated their usual bat family nursery habitat. The workshop will help us all to become more aware of the signifigant contributions this family of flying marsupials makes to our shared environment and how we can all live safely and harmoniously together.
The Canungra workshop will include guest speakers Louise Saunders from Bat Care Brisbane Inc, Janet Gamble from the wildlife section of the RSPCA and local zoologist Ronda Green.
Community misconceptions based on fear of bats
Professor Jonathan Hill, the head of the school of Veterinary Science at the University of Queensland, says once a Hendra virus quarantine has been lifted, any concern about any of the horses on property where Hendra virus had been is misplaced. It is indeed uncessary misfortune to have sound horses devalued as a result of exposure. When people who contact or walk into infectious diseases and don't get the disease, we know that they are not infected. Professor Jonathan Hill says the horses are not damaged goods just because they have been on a stud which had horses that had Hendra virus. In fact you could say that they have been tested to be 100 per cent certain of being clear, which puts them in a unique spot.
Professor Hill says such misconceptions stem from a lack of knowledge about Hendra virus, which need to be addressed with research.
Memorial for Queensland naturalist Ric Nattrass
A public memorial for passionate Queensland naturalist Ric Nattrass will be held at the Queensland Museum at South Bank on Saturday morning, 24 October 2009.
Ric founded the Queensland Frog Society in 1990, also the Australian Dragonfly Society and the Ipswich Koala Protection Society.
Ipswich City Council named a stand of old growth forest at Bellbird Park the Ric Nattrass Environmental Park in honour of his advocacy work and recognition of his enormous contribution to conservation and the environment.
The Australian Frog Society's president Glen Ingram paid tribute to him in the society's Spring newsletter. "Over his life Ric has made thousands just as passionate about the living world as himself," Mr Ingram wrote.
The memorial will be held in the Whale Mall at the Queensland Museum from 11am.
Copies of his book and posters will be available, with proceeds going to his estate.
Ric was held in very high regard by the many individuals, groups, associations, and government bodies he met with on a regular basis. People from diverse walks of life - indigenous, government, conservation, science, tourism, as well as the wider community - will miss Ric's incredible depth of knowledge, larrikinism, laughter and sense of ethics. Read more at his website http://drivingyouwild.net.au/
South East Queensland's unique biodiversity is under threat and needs your help
1 September - 16 October
Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat and needs your help.
Tiwest Night Stalk runs from 1 September to 16 October with the aim of getting members of the community out into nature to do some spotlighting for wildlife.
In previous years, this community action program has focused on marsupials and introduced species but now its scope has been broadened to include all animal species, native and introduced. Each year will focus on a particular group of animals. In 2009 Perth Zoo is asking Tiwest Night Stalkers to keep a keen eye out for unique bird species.
Tiwest Night Stalk is easy, fun and something everyone can do. All you need is a torch and the Spotter's Log. Choose a night or number of nights between 1 September and 16 October and spotlight in your local bushland. Record all the mammals, birds, bats, reptiles and frogs that you find and then send your Spotter's Log to Perth Zoo or email it in via the online form.
The information will be collated and made available online for interested members of the community. It is also sent to conservation agencies to help determine the number of animals still living in the wild, especially near urban areas, to better direct conservation efforts. This regular monitoring can provide a valuable record of changes to the distribution of animals over time and help the community realise which species live in the various habitats surrounding them.
Tiwest Night Stalk is a great way to become involved in community conservation action and to learn about our native animals, their habitat and their threats.
Get involved and more information can be found on Perth Zoo website.
Wildlife in Scenic Rim
Last Updated on 09 April 2012
A group of Scenic Rim residents have been meeting to discuss matters relating to wildlife in Scenic Rim Regional Council area - all 4000 square kilometres of it. They are investigating forming a branch of WPSQ in the future.Some of the group are members of WPSQ as well as a member of Logan and Albert Conservation Association LACA.
Meanwhile one of the members is hosting a website page.
You can find that here http://hennievandyk.bravepages.com/ScenicRimWildlife/index.html
Coming events will be listed on calendar as much as possible. This page has events for October - November 2009.
Contact Ronda Green (55454 1283 or platypuscorner@bigpond) for more information.
LACAs website be inclusive of this group's activities and members of both groups are welcome to participate at activities meetings etc for each group.
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Franklin Guide:
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Franklin Minnesota Community Guide
Franklin (city)
Population 557 512 441 498 510 +12 +2.41
Density (persons per sq. mile) 506.36 595.35 416.04 458.56 467.89 +933 +2.88
Housing Units 193 217 226 217 230 +13 +5.99
Households -- 204 196 195 207 +12 +6.15
Persons Per Household -- 2.23 2.25 2.37 2.46 +0.09 +3.79
Franklin is a city in Renville County, Minnesota, located on Minnesota State Highway 19, east of U.S. Route 71. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.08 square miles (2.80 km2), all of it land. The elevation is 1,010 ft (308 m) above sea level.
As of the census of 2010, there were 510 people, 207 households, and 120 families residing in the city. The population density was 472.2 inhabitants per square mile (182.3/km2). There were 230 housing units at an average density of 213.0 per square mile (82.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 93.1% White, 0.2% African American, 1.4% Native American, 1.6% Asian, and 3.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.8% of the population.
There were 207 households of which 28.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.0% were non-families. 38.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.98.
The median age in the city was 47.1 years. 24.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 15.8% were from 25 to 44; 32.1% were from 45 to 64; and 21.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.4% male and 50.6% female.
FRANKLIN is a city in sections 1, 2, 11, and 12 of Birch Cooley Township, platted in 1882 and incorporated as a village on April 24, 1888. Holder Jacobus was postmaster, 1869-82; the village had a station of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. Eighteen townships in so many counties of Pennsylvania, and also townships and villages or cities in 29 other states, bear this name, with counties in 24 states, mostly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
Main Street, Franklin Minnesota, 1921
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Franklin City Hall
320 2nd Avenue E
Franklin, MN 55333-0326
2nd Monday of the month at 7:00 pm
Mayor 12/31/2020 Todd Sherman
630 1st Street S
Franklin, MN 55333 (507) 557-2482
Clerk/Treasurer appointed Wendy Pederson
320 2nd Avenue E - PO Box 326
Franklin, MN 55333-0326 (507) 557-2259
Council Member 12/31/2022 Jerry Deming
Council Member 12/31/2022 Curt Scharfencamp
511 3rd Street S - PO Box 224
Council Member 12/31/2020 Robin Kokesch
330 4th Street - PO Box 1
Council Member 12/31/2020 Corey Gruendemann
Electricity Xcel Energy (800) 895-4999
Wastewater City of Franklin (507) 557-2259
Water City of Franklin (507) 557-2259
Telephone Minnesota Valley Telephone Co. (507) 557-2275
Franklin Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center Nursing Care Facilities 82
Cedar Mountain Elementary School Elementary & Secondary Schools 45
FRANKLIN WEATHER
Minnesota State Highway Map of the Franklin Minnesota area
Catfish Derby Days
Catfish Derby Days is an annual three-day city celebration held on the fourth weekend in July. Events include a Fishing Contest, Street Dance, Square Dance, Sunday Parades, Co-Ed Volleyball Tournament, Men's 12 Team Softball Tournament, Queen Contest/Variety Show, Horseshoe Pitching Tournament, Chess Tournament, Flea Market, "Kiss the Catfish Contest", Music at the Park, Fear Factor - Kid's Style, Raffle, Church Services, and Fire Department Water Fight.
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Cedar Mountain Schools
Independent School District #2754
310 Somerville Avenue
Morgan, MN 56266
Web: www.cms.mntm.org
Cedar Mountain High School
Cedar Mountain Elementary School
231 4th Avenue E
Franklin, MN 55333
Central Lutheran Church - ELCA
64268 430th Street
Web: www.lutheransonline.com
Pastor: Karen Scherwin
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Pastor: Rev. Jeffrey P. Horejsi
Sunday Mass: see website
St. Luke's Lutheran Church
Pastor: Ed Glimpse
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Buff's Daycare
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261 3rd Avenue E
Centennial Apartments
Corey Gruendemann Construction
250 1st Street W
Crain Gravel
480 3rd Street E
281 3rd Avenue W
Duck Insurance Agency
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Farmers Union Insurance
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We want to be your "insurance team" and will provide you with the quality products and service that you deserve. At the The Harmoning Agency -- Farmers Union Agency, Inc. we want you to feel welcome whether you stop by or give us a call. You are important to us. You will be treated with respect and greeted with a smile. Our clients are why we are in business. We want to be your Insurance Partner.
Franklin Auction Company
Web: www.franklonauctionconsignment.com
Franklin Auction opened its doors in March 2003. We are located just off Hwy. 19 in Franklin, MN. in the scenic Minnesota River valley.
Franklin BP
350 State Highway 19
Franklin Cafe
Franklin City Offices
Franklin Depot
Franklin Fire Department
Franklin Labels
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Franklin State Bank
Web: www.franklinstatebank.com
The Franklin State Bank is located in Franklin, Minnesota on the scenic Minnesota River Valley. We are a family owned community bank with a focus on customer service and convenience while providing competitive deposit and loan products. The Franklin State Bank provides banking products and services throughout the State of Minnesota. This web site and our internet banking product are examples of our commitment to provide our customers with safe and convenient ways to access information that they need. Our goal is to be "Your Family's Bank for the 21st Century".
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Gary Freitag Trucking
Golden Living Center - Franklin
Web: www.goldenlivingcenters.com
We are a skilled nursing facility located in Franklin, Minn. Our LivingCenter resides on 15 acres of gorgeously landscaped grounds, overlooking the beautiful Minnesota River Valley. At Franklin, we serve the behavioral needs of our residents as well as the short-term rehabilitation needs of patients whose goal is to return home as quickly as possible. We understand how important it is to maintain interests and hobbies, so we offer a wide variety of activities, including group outings to different locations and events.
Greenslit Farms
Grejtak Mowing and Snow Removal
160 1st Street N
Gronau Farms
Harvestland Rieke
Harvey Dahms Farm
Hilltop Supper Club
37035 State Highway 19
J & D Pickles
Jeff Distad Farms
Jerry Weldy Farm
Jerry's Cats and Gravel
John Goelz Auctioneer
Junior Farms Inc.
Kay's Carpet Cleaning
Larson Utilities Inc.
Lone Tree Ridge Farms
Longbranch Saloon
Lund's Auto Recyclers
McCorquodale Farm
McCorquodale Trucking
Meadowland Farmers Co-op
Mid-Minnesota Ag LLC
Minnesota River Valley Sanctuary
Minnesota Valley Granite
Minnesota Valley Telephone Company
Web: www.mnval.com
Your local telephone company that has been here for over 100 years. Serving the communities of Franklin, Lucan, Milroy, and Winthrop with telephone and high speed internet. We offer competitive rates. Contact us to see what we can do for you
Nan's Van Service
Palmyra Farmers Mutual Insurance
Web: www.palmyrafarmersmutual.com
Palmyra Farmers Mutual Insurance Company has been a Minnesota township mutual insurance company since 1886. As a Minnesota Township Mutual, Palmyra provides fire and extended coverage for the Farm and Home to area residents and surrounding communities. We are an insurance company that contracts with skilled agents specialized in providing Farm Insurance that covers all areas of a farm’s operations. Our independent insurance agents can also assist you and your family in developing a Home Insurance policy that covers all of life’s unexpected disasters, tailoring the policy to your specific needs and budgetary concerns.
Pumpkin Patch Daycare
Randy's Plumbing and Heating
Ray's Repair
Redwood Valley Real Estate
Ruff's Farms Inc.
Sullivan Farms Inc.
Valley View Apartments
Wayne's Wood Shop
Wiese Day Care
Willmar Poultry Company
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Home > All Posts > Lumberton Chevrolet Goes to Bat for LYBA
Lumberton Chevrolet Goes to Bat for LYBA
- March 6, 2018 July 10, 2018
Lumberton Chevrolet Goes to Bat for Lumberton Youth Baseball Association Inc.
Lumberton Chevrolet to provide Lumberton Youth Baseball Association Inc. with new equipment, monetary contribution and instructional clinics
Lumberton, Feb. 20, 2018 – Lumberton Chevrolet is partnering with the Lumberton Youth Baseball Association Inc. in Lumberton. Lumberton Chevrolet has joined forces with the national Chevrolet Youth Baseball program to provide new equipment, invitations to FREE instructional clinics, and an opportunity for community members to earn donations for their league via a Test Drive fundraiser.
“Playing the game of baseball helps kids develop skills like leadership, cooperation and sportsmanship while bringing families and communities together to show their support. Lumberton Chevrolet and Chevrolet Youth Baseball are proud to participate in a sport that brings so many smiles to kids and families in Lumberton.” said John Franklin, General Manager for Lumberton Chevrolet. “Chevrolet believes that in play, there are possibilities and supports the spirit of teamwork that baseball instills in its players.”
2018 marks Chevrolet’s Youth Baseball program’s 13th year, and since its introduction has helped aid local teams, benefiting more than 12.4 million young people in communities where Chevrolet’s customers live, work and play. In 2017, more than 1,500 Chevrolet dealers participated across the country.
Lumberton Chevrolet will present an equipment kit that includes useful items such as bat packs, scorebooks, industrial-strength batting tees, ball buckets and T-shirts. The sponsorship also includes youth clinics featuring current and former MLB/MiLB players and coaches, or instructors from Ripken Baseball.
In addition, Lumberton Chevrolet will present a check representing a one-time monetary contribution to Lumberton Youth Baseball Association Inc. Sponsored leagues across the country will have the chance to earn additional funds as community members take test drives at their partnering dealership to help support the league.
In addition to its commitment to youth baseball, Chevrolet also is the Official Vehicle of Major League Baseball™.
“Chevrolet vehicles are designed and built for families, safety and fun, so we encourage young people and their parents to make a Chevrolet the official vehicle of their household,” said Franklin.
For more information about Chevrolet Youth Baseball, please visit www.chevrolet.com/youthsports.com.
Lumberton Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadillac is your trusted Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac dealership in Lumberton and the reason why our loyal customers keep coming back. From the time you enter our showroom when you service with us, you can expect to be treated like family, each and every visit. We offer an extensive inventory, as well as our competitive lease specials, finance options and expert auto service. We are dedicated to providing exceptional customer service and being an integral part of our community.
Founded in 1911 in Detroit, Chevrolet is now one of the world’s largest car brands, doing business in more than 115 countries and selling more than 4.0 million cars and trucks a year. Chevrolet provides customers with fuel-efficient vehicles that feature engaging performance, design that makes the heart beat, passive and active safety features and easy-to-use technology, all at a value. More information on Chevrolet models can be found at www.chevrolet.com.
Axtion Photo Named Official Photographer
Lumberton Chevrolet Donates to LBYA
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Argentina Cancels Pre-World Cup Match with Israel in Jerusalem
CPI / June 7, 2018
A friendly football match between Argentina and Israel that had been scheduled to take place in Jerusalem this Saturday, June 9, has been cancelled, according to Argentinean and Israeli media. The match which was to take place in Jerusalem’s Teddy Kollek Stadium was to be Argentina’s final game before they kicked off their World Cup campaign against Iceland on June 16 in Russia.
The match faced calls for a boycott from various groups following Israel’s brutal repression of Palestinian demonstrators along the Gaza border fence during the past two months.
Argentina Don’t Go! A call to a demonstration that was held in Buenos Aires outside the offices of the Argentine Football Association on Thursday, May 24, against Argentina’s national football team holding a friendly match with the Israeli national team in Jerusalem.
Last week, Hadash MK Yousef Jabareen (Joint List), sent a letter to Argentina’s ambassador to Israel and asked that his country cancel its participation in the match. “I stressed that holding the match, in the wake of the killing of the Palestinians in Gaza and the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem, sends a dangerous message to the Israeli government that the world ignores its gross human rights violations. [Lionel] Messi cannot turn his back on the Palestinian victims.”
Responding to the annoucement that Argentina decided to cancel its partcipation in the match, Joint List leader MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) said that “the Israeli government might win over Trump, but it is losing the rest of the world… It is impossible to enjoy games when millions of Palestinians don’t enjoy human rights.” Odeh continued: “There is only one way to win – ending the occupation and having a real peace treaty, which is still possible.”
The Argentinean branch of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel ran a campaign to cancel the match which included sending letters to Argentinean sports figures. A letter from the Argentinean Committee of Solidarity with Palestine to the Argentinean National Secretary of Sports and the Argentine Football Association last month said that canceling the match “would represent the value of solidarity of the Argentine people towards another people’s victimhood to oppression, apartheid and colonialism.”
June 7, 2018 in Society and Democracy. Tags: BDS, boycott, solidarity, sports, “The Gaza war”
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History of Terrene
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Aviron Campaign Guide 1st 1,000 Years
In the first recorded year, the Va-Kesh emerged from the fruit of the tree of life. In a harsh desert island, they began their lives. They quickly adjusted to the heat, and they learned to plan ahead for both food and water as the years went by. They would meet as a community and make plans. They moved all over Fizzbin island and lived their lives. When they found the coast, they found the island was more tolerable, and they found fresh water and food was more abundant. Their number was growing, and it was a fortuitous find. This is believed to be the first city in Aviron, it is called Talos, in the Va-Kesh tongue, it means home. Some of the Va-Kesh don’t stay and continue to wander the desert
In the legend of the Va-Kesh fruit coming to Aviron; it is said that it rolled down the purple edge of a rainbow before landing on Fizzbin Island, and this tainted their skin purple.
As the first city was starting on Fizzbin Island, and first generation of Va-Kesh were passing away from old age, the Jotnar were emerging. Their home is quite different from the Va-Kesh. They landed in a wide and wet marshland that include fens, swamps, and a bog or two. The Jotnar being tall, helped them navigate the wetlands, and they found life there easy as they adapted quickly to the watery environment. Their skin turned to a color that was similar to the water and they developed physical characteristics that helped them in their water realm. They used the large trees to create homes above the water. Although not truly a city in the urban sense, they established their community in what is now the Groven Wetlands and their small community has only changed a few times over the centuries it is called Lochglen. Its foundation dates back to the year 122.
The second generation of Jotnar was having children when the dwarves arrived. Their fruit landed in the volcano of a small island off the northeast coast of Regnum Eon. There was a subsequent cave in, and the dwarves were buried alive. That was in the year 225. It took 105 years for them to dig their way out. They found small crevasses, tunnels and made many of their own. They finally found a cavern they could call home. It was located in the Mammoth Mountains. The day they arrived they called the cavern Kandar, and this was now their home. This was in the year 330. The dwarves have a tradition commemorating the journey, when coming of age. The would-be adult dwarf will take some dirt and chew on it and spit it out to remind them of what the first dwarves had to go through to find a home.
The world was quiet while these three races grew old and became what they were to become. The dwarves with a slight Closter phobia after being buried alive found and built three more cities, Moria, Siginzar, and Starshine. They also built boats to travel the underground waterways. All the while, the Jotnar were building homes and boats of their own. The First Fathers of the dwarves pass away and while five generations of Jotnar pass away. The Va-Kesh begin to study the stars, oceans, and weather. They thought about things and are studying how the world around them works. Each of the three races thought themselves alone.
Then the world all at once found humans scattered all over the world. This was around the year 700. The myth is; that while Dara was on one of her travels. She threw a rock to see if she could deflect a falling fruit’s trajectory. When the rock hit the fruit, it burst, and humans flew out in every direction. They landed in various locations all over the world. She asked Scyndar and Andor to help her fix the broken creatures. But after all, their work they were still damaged. The humans now have shorter lives and have wanderlust, much like Dara. The humans listened to Scyndar speak about tradition and family and listen to Dara talk about the road and that every rule can be better, every law has an exception. Andor teaches them of death since it will be on them soon and they will need to prepare. It was these first humans that saw Dara and Scyndar fall in love. Andor takes an interest in the humans, they will live many lives before the other races are reborn once.
With the humans now everywhere. They did not have the benefit of large groups to start their race and be protected while they grew. They built communities to better protect themselves and to trade the different things they gathered and produced with other communities. Many skills were shared, and their societies not being limited by a type of geography was spreading across the many lands.
Although the birth of the Colubrine is greatly debated, it is said that they too were born of the Tree of Life. The legend or myth (depending on who tells the story), says that Glasya was able to taint the next fruit that fell; using some of the secrets, she learned from her time in the Palace of Light. This tainted fruit landed in a remote marshland now called the Valley of Misery. The Colubrine emerge here. This was sometime in the late 700s, but no one seems to know for sure. The humans were the first race to meet them, and it was not a good meeting. The colubrine, looking like snakes, the humans instantly thought them hostile and venomous. Whether this meeting created the adversarial nature between the Colubrine and the rest of the world is also unknown. But this animosity has lasted for three millennia now.
The Legend of the gnomes birth still has a lot of lore that permeates the gnomish culture. It goes like this: Quitari is playing his great harp for Allyra while sitting on a branch of the Tree of Life. He plays a song that fills Allyra’s spirit with wonder. The vibrations from the harp loosen a fruit, and it falls toward Aviron. The fruit lands on Dara’s head and then to the ground. Quitari and Allyra start laughing hysterically. In her anger, Dara kicks the fruit away, and it lands in the bowl of a tree. Allyra makes a hasty exit, she has no desire to face Dara’s anger. The gnomes emerge from the fruit. This was in the southern are of the Fertile Lands, they called the forest Gnome Home. It later became the Black Shore Forest.
As the gnomes emerge, they see Dara both angry and beautiful. Now it is said that every gnome when they are first born, sees Dara’s face, and this is why all gnome babies smile just after their birth. It is a sad omen for a gnome child to cry right after its birth. The gnomes are short because they bounced off Dara’s head. They are filled with inspiration hearing Quitari’s harp as they were emerged.
Finally, in the year 888, the elves emerged from their golden fruit. It was like they stepped out of a carriage and arrived. Their fey heritage gave them a preferred birth. They did not miss a step. They began weaving their magic into the forest, assembling both magic and nature to build their homes and works spaces.
Over the next 100 years as the races grew and the first races to meet were the humans and the Jotnar, they grew to be friends quickly. The humans needed wood and the Jotnar were capable woodsman. The Jotnar enjoyed the many things the humans brought to trade from around the land.
The next meeting was the humans and the Colubrine. That meeting did not go well. The human instinct to fear snakes made them apprehensive and fearful. The Colubrine quickly felt the human’s fear and assumed they were weak. They tried to press them to work for them. Instead the humans ran, and rumors quickly spread.
The humans then met the Gnomes and were excited to meet such a happy and interesting people. The Gnomes enjoyed the human spirit of barter and they quickly became engaged in many dealings and they became fast friends.
The humans then met the dwarves at the Mountains edge of the Mammoth Mountains. Both were weary groups and neither had the time for the other. They greeted and parted and had few dealings.
About this same time the Elves had wandered out of their homeland to look around and found a small community of humans. Their fey nature made them suspicious and they spied the humans for a long time before revealing themselves. The elves looked down on these very primitive humans and the Elves had no desire to trade, thinking What could these primitives offer us? After a brief meeting the humans were mesmerized by the elves, but the elves were far less impressed and decided to go home while the young race matured. They figured 1,000 years aught to be enough. Any incursion into the Elf Lands were at first scared off and then chased off. The rumors spread fast among the humans that the Elves were not all that friendly.
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Lost and Found Fine Art
I'm Your Biggest Fan
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan" in the press!
Art & Soul: Star portraits shine at new exhibit at Location Gallery
Over the past 18 months, Juliana Peloso has painted portraits of more than 70 celebrities, from Dolly Parton and Mr. T to Lady Gaga and Andy Warhol.
“I'm Your Biggest Fan,” the inaugural exhibit at Austin Hill Realty’s new Location Gallery, showcases dozens of Peloso’s small-format portraits, carefully crafted in oil paint.
Best known for intimate narrative works with a dark, gothic edge, Peloso turns her attention to sunnier, more accessible subject matter in her latest exhibit. Favoring ’80s musicians like Boy George, Morrissey, Prince, Michael Jackson and Cindy Lauper, “I’m Your Biggest Fan” offers a quirky, curated gallery of cultural icons.
A portion of the proceeds from the exhibit benefit One Love Animal Rescue, a local nonprofit dedicated to finding homes for abandoned, abused and unwanted pets. Peloso recently shared her fascination with star power and fan culture with the Savannah Morning News.
When and why did you start painting celebrities?
I got into painting birds, other animals and still life objects as a form of doing studies. This then led to my current series of celebrity portraits about a year and a half ago.
It’s a way to explore all types of facial features, hair and skin color without worrying about making a meaningful statement. This process has been a lot of fun, and after about 70 celebrity paintings, I can definitely say I learned quite a bit. Craftsmanship and respect for the medium are very important to me.
My subject matter is constantly evolving. My real passion is for my larger-scale narrative works. Although I may be criticized that I jump around subject-wise, it’s all a long-term learning experience for me to become a better oil painter.
What makes celebrities such an appealing subject for you to paint?
It’s been really great to see people’s reactions and to hear their personal stories about each painting – not to mention, it’s an endless source of subject material. Without the fans, then there is no “celebrity.”
What’s the secret to nailing a portrait?
It all comes down to the subject’s eyes. If you miss the mark on that, it will never look right.
How did you decide which people to paint? Are these your personal favorites or not necessarily?
Naturally, I’ve picked several that appeal to me, but I picked them based on facial features, age and skin tone as a learning process. I'll admit there are a few thrown in for popular demand.
Can you talk about your process for creating these paintings? Were you always working from photographs?
I would love to work from real life, however, it is unlikely that I could get any of these celebrities to sit for me. Therefore, I have to work from a series of photographs. I try not to just go for the Wikipedia image, but find references that maybe have the vibe that they are sitting for me in my studio.
Do you hope your exhibit encourages viewers to reflect upon the nature of celebrity or do you just want them to enjoy seeing portraits of some of their favorite actors, singers and artists?
Basically, I really just want to have fun with the work. Any thought-provoking or meaning behind the paintings comes from the subjects themselves, not from me. I, as the artist, become secondary, in a sense, to the subject.
I would like people to enjoy my process and skill. I think the work is very approachable. By removing the intimidation factor of trying to figure out my “intentions” or meaning in the work, I hope to gain a wider audience.
Juliana Peloso is an award-winning artist who has exhibited her paintings in galleries and museums across the country. She earned a BFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and lives in Savannah, where she also works as the gallery director at Gallery Espresso.
What: “I'm Your Biggest Fan,” celebrity portraits by Juliana Peloso
When: through May 7
Where: Location Gallery at Austin Hill Realty, 417 Whitaker St.
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and by appointment
More information: 912-354-2100 or www.locationgallery.net
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan"
"I'm Your Biggest Fan" Officially opening April 8th 5-8 pm
Exhibition runs April 8- May 7, 2016
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Location Gallery Grand Opening Group Exhibit "Welcome" (There Goes The Neiborhood)
Categories: fine art, savannah, oil paintings, location gallery, group exhibit, eighties greaties
Telfair Museum Rooms WIth A View
Great Ending for 2015 with Savannah's newest gallery Location Gallery representing me and involving my work in this year's Telfair Museum"s Room with a View installation. The Telfair Academy Guild presents the Second Annual Rooms With A View: Holiday Impressions exhibit. This two-week-long show features local interior designers along with the internationally acclaimed designer Mary McDonald. “Rooms” will be constructed in the Jepson Center atrium, transforming it into a dazzling showhouse.
Categories: installation, buy fine art, telfair, jepson, interior design, musum, mary mcdonald, location gallery
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World Cruise of the British Special Service Squadron 1923 - 1924
Back in March 2017 a military enthusiast came across this website & subsequently contacted Mike. He told of a photo album he had
purchased containing a large number of photographs of the Royal Navy during a Round the World Cruise that took place in 1923-1924.
A deal was arranged & Mike purchased the album. Below are a selection of the best pictures. To appreciate the full extent of this historic
document arrange to visit the museum by contacting Mike as shown on the "Contact Us" page
Miss Marshland Maritime Museum
Jo and Mike's granddaughter Liz proudly displays the Special Service Squadron World Cruise album
Scroll down to view some of this unique albums contents
HMS HOOD and the Cruise of the Special Service Squadron
The Special Service Squadron sailed from Devonport on 27 November 1923, returning on 28 September 1924, having sailed around the
world on The Empire Cruise,
It was a highly successful public relations demonstration, serving to remind friends (and also potential enemies) that Britannia still ruled
the waves and could bring potent force to defend (or attack) even the most remote parts of the world.
The squadron sailed over 38,000 miles, mainly cruising at speeds of 10 - 14 knots but exercising daily on passage.
The Royal Marines bands and guards honed their performances of Beating Retreat and ceremonial march pasts for VIPs. They also
conducted exercises ashore with friendly forces of the territories visited.
The fleet separated at various points of the cruise with the battlecruisers passing through the Panama Canal, while some cruisers carried
around Cape Horn.[1]
Ships involved:
• Battlecruisers under Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Field -
HMS Hood (Captain John K Im Thurn)
HMS Repulse (Captain Henry Parker)
• Light cruisers under Rear Admiral Sir Hubert Brand
HMS Delhi (Captain J Pipon)
HMS Danae (Captain F Austin)
HMS Dragon (Captain B Fairbairn)
HMS Dauntless (Captain C Round-Turner)
HMAS Adelaide
Africa and the Indian Ocean
Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Cape Town, Durban, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam (Danae), Trincomalee
Port Swettenham, Singapore
Fremantle, Albany, Western Australia, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Jervis Bay, Sydney (Adelaide joins),Brisbane, Wellington, Sydney (2),
Lyttleton, Bluff (one ship),Dunedin (Dunedin), Auckland
Fiji, Honolulu
West Coast of Canada and the USA
Vancouver, Esquimalt/Victoria, San Francisco, Panama, Colón, Panama, Jamaica, Callao
Valparaiso (Delhi, Danae), Talcahuano (Dauntless, Dragon), Punta Arenas, Falkland Islands, Bahía Blanca (Dragon), Buenos Aires
(Delhi, Danae), Montevideo (Dauntless, Dragon), Rio de Janeiro
East coast of Canada and Newfoundland
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Sir Frederick Laurence
Field KCB GMG
Vice Admiral Commanding Special Service Squadron
HMS Hood
The Hon. Hurbert Brand KCMG KCVO CB
Rear Admiral Commanding 1st Light Cruiser Squadron
HMS Delhi
Captain John K. Im Thurn CBE RN
Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer Commanding HMS Hood
Displacement 41,200 tons. HP 144,000. Main Armament 8 x 15" guns, 12 x 5.5", 4 x 4" AA & 4 x 3 pounder Guns. Built by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. Completed May 1920
HMS Repulse
Commanding Officer Captain Henry W Parker CB RN
Displacement 26,500 tons, HP 112,00, Main armament 6 x 15" guns, 17 x 4", 2 x 3" AA & 4 x 3 Pounders. Built by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. Completed August 1916
Commanding Officer Captain James M Pipon MVO OBE RN
Displacement 4,650 tons, HP 40,000, Armament 6 x 6", 2 x 3" AA & 4 x 3 Pounder guns. Built by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company, Jarrow & Hebburn, completed 1918.
HMS Danae
Captain Francis M Austin RN
Displacement 4,600 tons, HP 40,000, Armament 6 x 6", 2 x 3" AA& 4 x 3 pounder guns. Built by Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Elswick Shipyard, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Completed July 1918.
Captain Bernard W M Fairbairn OBE RN
HMS Dragon
Displacement 4,650 tons. HP 40,000. Armament 6 x 6", 2 x 3" AA & 4 x 3 pounder guns. Built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Greenock. Completed August 1918
HMS Dauntless
Commanding Officer Captain Charles W Round-Turner RN
HMS Dauntless Displacement 4,600 tons, HP 40,000. Armament 6 x 6", 2 x 3" & 4 x 3 pounder guns.
Built by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow & Hebburn. Completed December 1918
Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa
Governer General of New Zealand, with Vice Admiral Sir F L Field on the bridge of HMS Hood
A selection of photographs that were taken during the World Cruise that appear in the album showing various events that took place during the voyage can be seen by a
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Reviewed by David Vineyard: BRADLEY SPINELLI – The Painted Gun.
BRADLEY SPINELLI – The Painted Gun. Akashic Books, trade paperback, March 2017.
The author’s previous book, Killing Williamsburg, was called by someone, “… the first visionary neo-Romantic novel of the twenty-first century,” and there’s the problem right there.
This one is a surreal take on Chandler with an overabundance of plot and almost no understanding of what Chandler, Hammett, and the original Hard Boiled school of writers were trying to do in the first place, the equivalent of trying to write the great New York novel and setting it in Manhattan, Kansas.
What we have, is David “Itchy” Crane, a knebbish who runs an information consultancy business, not exactly likely to crack the Fortune 400 since it is 1997 and the age of the Internet has begun. Alcoholic ex-reporter Itchy gets an offer of $50,000 dollars from a shady eye to find a missing girl named Ashley who painted a portrait of Itchy having never met him.
So far so good. Itchy starts on the trail and of course the cops try to scare him off, goons beat him up, and he’s framed — none too believably — for the murders of a Guatemalan hitman. Itchy has to get tough then and find the girl and clear his name.
The problem is Itchy is never for a moment believable. Despite the fact that Spinelli can write, and there are good bits in the book, he makes the mistake of most writers with no grasp of what Chandler and Hammett were trying to do with the language of the crime novel — he concentrates on what the words say, and not whether they sound authentic..
He almost lost me on page one with this overheated bit of sophistry disguised as a metaphor:
“By 4:19 the cigarette was burning out in the brown glass ashtray, sending a lone last tendril of smoke in a sacred mission to the ceiling.”
“Sacred mission”? What the hell is he talking about? And so it goes, by turns a fair dinkum Chandler imitation then turning into once of Eliot Paul’s absurdist Dadaesque mysteries, then gaudy pulpese, and too arty by half, then … well some of it I can’t describe.
I didn’t and don’t dislike the book, only that despite one blurb calling the plot a “Swiss watch” that “explodes like an RPG.” It’s simply too much and too little at the same time.
Of Ashley’s artist biography, It “… read like a ransom note from another dimension.”
It doesn’t help it’s 1997, and Itchy sounds as if he fell out of bus in 1950 and cracked his noggin open absorbing a slightly distorted version of Spillanese.
“His face was a pinched melon of embarrassment …” Again, what the hell does that mean?
“…Al wasn’t a cautious kind of guy. He threw the door open and, not seeing anyone, stuck his fat face out. I shoved my .45 into his pug nose.”
“… a plump blonde was waiting, wearing glasses with the geeky black-plastic birth-control frames that had inexplicably come into fashion forty years after never having been fashionable in the first place ..” Who works that hard for a metaphor and a wise crack? At times I could swear Spinelli is trying out for a chapter in a third volume of Bill Pronzini’s Gun in Cheek series.
Other times he reverts to a stream of consciousness that makes no sense, as this one while he is having sex in a parked car: “Better times, before the alcoholism began to take its crippling toll, when I still fantasized about winning a Pulitzer, when Herb Caen was still alive and kicking, on the page and off, before he died and I wasn’t even invited to the wake.” That isn’t even a sentence really.
Thomas Pynchon did this better, so did Thomas Berger and Jonathan Lethem, and they managed surreal and absurdist without prose that stops you dead on the page like a grammatical stubbed toe.
There are good things about the book. Itchy had potential as the protagonist, the essential mystery when you get down to it makes more sense than many of Chandler’s, there is a pretty good ending, and surprisingly he is good on dialogue. I just wish he hadn’t made me work so hard getting there. All I could think reading it was, this is why Thomas Wolfe needed Maxwell Perkins.
And they aren’t all misfires:
“There are always birds chirping in the trees, strange, alien birdsongs, and on the rocks, near the lake, the sporadic skitter of lizards.”
You can believe the man that wrote that read his Chandler and maybe his Macdonald as well.
4 Responses to “Reviewed by David Vineyard: BRADLEY SPINELLI – The Painted Gun.”
It’s easy to imitate Chandler’s style… not so his brilliance.
Chandler, Hammett, Whitfield, and the whole lot were exploring a new uniquely American language. Even Millar got that wrong concentrating on the melody of the language but missing the rhythm, doing a lovely jazz riff but not fully comprehending why the music was that way to begin with, at least early on. Later, he was pursuing his own music.
Spinelli isn’t just aping Chandler. He’s repeating second and third hand tough guyese from films, television, and radio. He doesn’t seem to understand, as others have, why that language is so effective, why Chandler is so addictive.
Chandler, at least the mature one, never was unauthentic. Marlowe never sounded as if he was anything more than an ex DA’s Special Investigator with maybe a little college.
Bill Pronzini Says:
Excellent analysis, David.
“Marlowe never sounded as if he was anything more than an ex DA’s Special Investigator with maybe a little college.”
Exactly. A product of his times, as Chandler was. That in a nutshell is what the imitators simply don’t get.
Matt Paust Says:
Geez, now I’m beginning to wonder if I should have my hick town Tidewater Virginia gay, hardware-store owner/P.I. stop saying “youse guys” more than once or twice in the same conversation. Enjoyed this review and the comments.
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EU starts legal action against 4 states over VW emissions
by Jacquelyn Byrd
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"But national authorities across the European Union must ensure that vehicle manufacturers actually comply with the law".
Thursday's cases are a sign that the Commission, under pressure from the business-sceptical European Parliament and shaken by the rise of eurosceptic populists, is determined to show it can protect consumers.
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R&B SONGSTRESS CHANTE’ MOORE RELEASES HER NEW SINGLE “REAL ONE” FROM HER FORTHCOMING 7TH STUDIO ALBUM “THE RISE OF THE PHOENIX”
Now with her 7th album, prophetically titled “The Rise of the Phoenix”, dropping September 2017, the wait is over. The world will experience the first collection from the master songstress in nearly four years!
“The Phoenix is a powerful mythological symbol of renewal,” she says. “It lives a long life, burns to ashes, but reemerges more beautiful and more powerful than ever. I relate to that.” ~Chanté Moore
Moore’s most personal album yet, “The Rise of the Phoenix” is rich with emotion and personal revelations about Chanté’s life and feelings. Infectious dance tracks, sensual ballads and anthems of heart-and-soul capture Moore’s impressive vocal dexterity, songwriting skills and production ingenuity to thrill her legion of avid fans and quench the soul music lovers longing for real R&B.
“This album reflects where I am now in my life. I am perfecting myself. I continue to learn how to burn away the old mindset, the negativity that weighed me down so I can become the best me. I am the Phoenix rising and I’m living my life again!”
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Bolton Preview in Association with EZE Group
Gary Rowett takes his players north to the Macron Stadium for the final game of the Championship campaign today. Over 3,600 Blues fans travel with them in a celebratory mood in direct contrast to the despair of this time last year.
Neil Lennon’s men lie in 18th place, seven places and nine points behind Blues. They are far enough ahead of Reading in 19th to know that they won’t drop any further regardless of a result while a win could see them push into 16th. They haven’t won in four games and won only one in eight; at home their record is also poor with just one win in five games.
Dorian Dervite is suspended while Matt Mills and Max Clayton are both carrying ankle knocks. Loanee Adam Le Fondre could make his final appearance for the Trotters.
Rob Kiernan misses out through injury while the first team players from Thursday (Mitch Hancox, Nikola Zigic, Matt Green and Reece Brown) definitely won’t travel.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some changes and some experimentation; I have a suspicion that Paul Robinson could come in against his former club as a swansong at the back (maybe in a back three) with Wes Thomas maybe joining Clayton Donaldson up front.
Strange things happen on the last game of the season, and I’m going to go for Robert Tesche (who has looked dangerous in front of goal of late) to score two or more at 66-1.
Tags: Bolton Wanderers, Paul Robinson, Rob Kiernan, Robert Tesche, Wes Thomas
33 Responses to “Bolton Preview in Association with EZE Group”
I’m going to have weird flashbacks all afternoon to this day last year. Would be great to go out in style with a big win, but i’m not expecting it.
Fair Dinkum says:
Dan, this is my first time commenting on OP and as it is almost season end I would like to thank you for your tireless work and commitment in keeping all us Bluenoses well informed. Whenever I want to find real news on Blues I first go to OP because it is very often first with the news, concise, accurate, informative more than any other media and it is composed by you who has a great understanding of the important issues. Your interpretation of events is first class as is shown in your excellent book, a great read. I think it would make a great film, have you secured the rights yet?
Please, I beg you, write about the news of a takeover very soon! We just can not go through another season with a feeling of helplessness.
I think we will beat Bolton today, I think the lads are up for it while Bolton look a sorry side at present.
Thanks Dan and please keep up the very good work.
Thanks for your kind words.
No word on a film yet but if anyone is interested I’m all ears :)
Looks like your on the money Dan, Tesche has got one already.
Shirley Blue says:
Another great win. To finish tenth is a fantastic achievement from where we were. What might have been if GR had been in from the start rather than wasting the first 14 games of the season.
Oldbluenose says:
At the start of this season, Who would have thought we would finish in tenth place,??.
Our perennial question was answered — Being of course, How would L,C’s, players fare under a different manager,!!.
Well riots at Bloomfield road, What would Mathews, Mortenron have thought.?
Morterson
Richard Granfield says:
Mortensen is the correct spelling for the record.
The Oyston’s as owners and LC as manager. Hardly surprising there are riots. What a terrible combination.
A real thank you Dan for your hard work keeping us Bluenoses well informed. You deserve a lot of credit and I look forward one day to an update on your book when the owners change hands!!!
PS If you are ever in Victoria Canada bring a book and I will pay for it. As an old age pensioner I refuse to pay the shipping charge (I got screwed once by buying something from the Blues store). Failing that I will buy book next season when I come over for a few games…
AussieBlue says:
Great result again and an honourable 10th place finish! Looks like as many fans as possible made the trip….would have loved to have been there.
Thanks goodness we won’t have to tolerate Blackpool idiot fans next season.
Cheers all and have a great off-season. I expect there will be news on the BIHL front though.
SuperKRO says:
A massive thank you Dan for keeping us all up to date with everything blue at Birmingham City. I hope the club award you in some way for the time and effort you put into this website. In regards to the footy, who would have thought 10th is where we would have ended up. Credit to LCs scouts as they brought these players which GR galvanised into a very promising and enjoyable side; next season looks exciting. KRO and fingers crossed for good news from HK.
Raymondo says:
Thanks for a great service almajir, I hope you’ll keep us informed on any important happenenings during the close season. KRO and Up The Blues!
I’ll second that Raymondo. Dan’s done a marvelous job during difficult times so he can be forgiven for getting cranky sometimes.
(PS: AussieSheila’s heading over to UK for summer…I have given her your contact details. No problemo amigo…anything to help a mate and fellow Blues fan!)
Mitchell says:
Good win in final game which makes impressive reading for GR CV. My only advice I would give him is this.. Consider not signing Kiernan, but keep Edgar. Next season we need to be stronger at the back and to me Edgar is far more superior to Kiernan. Caddis ok,but needs serious competition. Morrison, Edgar, Spector decent enough,with Gunning in the wings. Key player Tesche I suspect will start for Forest next term in view of his class. Gleeson and Davis decent but not capable of securing a regular top 6 place in the league. Depending on finances, I would imagine GR will make midfield a priority with a bit of physical presence about the place. Give Charlie Adam( Stoke) a 2 year deal. He would be a good asset and just the elder type that would fit nicely with GR.
Hillfield Blues says:
Agree on Edgar and don’t know why he was loaned out anyway. Gleeson and Davis are steady players in this league but Teache and Fabrini are a step up and emphasis has to be on keeping them for next season if we are to improve. A more consistent right sided midfielder than Cotrill would be an area to look at.
I would prefer Kiernan to Edgar. Kiernan is young and quick and will get better and potentially a good partner for Morrison. Edgar lacks pace and can be clumsy. I think the fact that GR sent Edgar out on a non recall loan suggests how highly he rates him and I would think he will be at another club next season. I havnt seen Gavin Gunning play yet so will reserve judgement until I do. I was a bit surprised Robbo got another contract. He can’t get into the side now and the chances of that are not going to improve with age.
StaffsBlue says:
Apparently, Edgar was allowed to go out on loan because he insists that he prefers to play holding midfielder rather than centre back. No point playing a player in a position he’s not happy with I suppose… although, he’s not much cop in midfield tbh. So, the either or with Kiernan doesn’t really matter. I’d prefer Kiernan anyway. Expect Edgar to be on his bike this summer.
Dave Mann says:
Great day out yesterday and again the blues fans did us proud and again Bolton were very appreciative so fair play to them .. Should have won by more but to finish the season with three wins and three clean sheets and 8 games unbeaten at home is brilliant going into the summer and the start of next season.. We all hope there’s change in ownership before next season but ime not counting on it but keep what we’ve got including the loans in the first team and add 4or5 better players than the ones were be shipping out and I for one will be looking to push on next season and maybe push for the playoffs .. The next three months without blues games for me is gonna be a bit boring but there is the friendlies with Kidderminster and Bolton to look forward to so it’s onwards and upwards and all enjoy your summer. Lol & kro & dnm
There are the play-off games to come over the next 3 weeks. Should be a fair bit of entertainment there.
If Gary had been manager from the start of the season we would, extrapolating the results from the last 32 games, have finished 9th instead of 10th on 75 points.
This confirms that we need to add 5 or 6 quality players to mount a viable promotion push next season.
I get your point, but it’s just supposition. Rowett has done marvellously well since he took over, but there’s no proof that he would have started the season any better with these players. We could easily have had a similar start to the season whoever the manager was at the start. I think most of these players have grown into the division as the season has gone on, which was always going to be the case, with a lot of them coming from lower divisions. Maybe we wouldn’t have done so well with the previous manager (I personally don’t think we would) or maybe we would. But it’s not a fact that we would have done better with Rowett at the start, just opinion based on the games since. :)
We might not have got 22 points from the first 14 games but all the evidence from the last 32 games indicates we would have done a lot better than 11 points and being second bottom. 32 games is not a flash in the pan – we have been very consistent. I hope Tesche hasn’t done a little bit too well and come to the attention of other clubs or Forest themselves. Certainly the best central midfield player we have had at the club since we got relegated.
Unfortunately, if they do well, it’s a double-edged sword where loan players are concerned. If they do well, either their parent club re-integrate them back into their squad (which is very likely with Tesche,) or they put themselves in the shop window and the attention of clubs with higher wages than us.
For me, Tesche will be the hardest to get, but having enjoyed his time here, you never know, it could just put us in the driving seat. Fingers crossed.
Rowetts taken 52 points from 32 games that’s fact.. If you say that In those 14 games before he would have taken 22 points is a guess and what could have been with 74 points ..so lets see what he gets from the first 14 games of next season and then we can all get exited if he gets around 22/23 points so bring it on . Kro
He may well have had an excellent start to the season if he’d been here… but the players were adjusting to the higher level, so, in my opinion, the start of the season would still have been very up and down. I think most of us expected that period of adjusment tbh.
Exactly staffs, we can all guess and say IF rowett was manager from the start then things could have been dlfferent but I don’t think so and were never no so guessing from the start is all speculation , we finished above forest so as you say there propably want Tesche back but fabbrini with Watford being promoted is a definete chance to keep in .. As you rightly say mate there’s a difference between fact and opinion though some people seem to not no why !! Kro
Congrats to Carl Robinson and mk dons for promotion .. That means I will be going there twice next season in the championship and the rugby World Cup , lovely jubbly . Kro
Gavin Betteley says:
Second that on mk dons living 5 miles from there ground I’ve been waiting for this fixture for a while now. And.a.massive.well done to GR and the team for giving me a team I can be proud of again.
Forest website reveal Tesche to be given another year contract. Integral to their plans. As previously reported always a double edge this. Do well and parent club want you back. Nevertheless, likes of him have prevented us playing Port Vale,Walsall etc,
BhamCityJulian says:
That’s to protect the value of hid registration. It doesn’t mean he’s in their plans. Just means they choose the fee to sell
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Book Review - Double Cross by DiAnn Mills
An FBI: Houston Novel book 2
by DiAnn Mills
-From the back cover-
SHE PUT HIM IN PRISON.
NOW HE'S THEIR ONLY LEAD
IN A DEADLY NEW CASE.
FBI AGENT LAUREL EVERTSON'S INVESTIGATION into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to a felon she arrested on her last undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Morton Wilmington – and what she sacrificed to put him away – he is now her best lead.
Houston Police Officer Daniel Hilton dears his grandparents ma be the scammers's next targets, and he'll do anything to protect his family, including force interagency cooperation. But he's quickly drawn to Laurel's zeal and agrees to follow her lead . . . even if it means teaming up with a felon.
As the unlikely trio uncovers disturbing evidence suggesting the scam is more deadly than they imagined, Laurel and Daniel find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer. Together they must decide if they can trust Wilmington's claims of redemption, or if he's leading them straight into a double cross.
Who can they trust?
I picked up Double Cross and a could hardly bear to put it down. DiAnn Mills had me me so drawn into the story that even when I had to put it down I was still thinking about it, still trying to figure it all, out.
DiAnn Mills knows her craft well. I usually have fairly decent instincts about characters but I had NO CLUE if Wilmington was genuine or not, sometimes he seemed so honest and I was sure he was doing the right thing and then a couple pages later he had 'GUILTY' written on his forehead in three-foot high letters. A dozen times I almost flipped to the end just to find out, but, each time I managed resist the temptation and the ending came as a bit of surprise.
This Book received a 4 Bark rating.
Double Cross is a great romantic suspense story with some rather emotionally complex characters. Of those characters my favorite actually wasn't the hero or heroine, it was Abby who just happens to be Daniel's grandmother. Abby is is smart, feisty, and loves her family more than anything except God. I had to admire both Laurel and Daniel for the patience and respect they show to the elderly victims of the scam.
I only had one small problem and that is that once again the Christian character gets romantically interested in a non-Christian. But that aside, Double Cross is a great suspense story and I can't wait to find out what DiAnn Mills has in store for readers in the next book.
Double Cross is a great story that any suspense fan will be sure to enjoy!
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Double Cross by DiAnn Mills a 4 Bark rating.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (March 20, 2015)
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WORD Wednesday 4-29-15
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,
and whose hope the Lord is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river,
and shall not see when heat cometh,
but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 KJV
Book Review - Bachelor To The Rescue by Lorraine Beatty + Giveaway
Contemporary/Romance
Bachelor To The Rescue
Home To Dover book 5 – Love Inspired
by Lorraine Beatty
Building a Romance
Young widow Lainie Hollings will do anything to protect her daughters – even if it means accepting help from Shaw McKinney. Though she blames Shaw for her husband's death, he's the only one she can turn to when a robbery forces her to take shelter in his home. Soon she's surprised by the handsome contractor. He's kind, charming and determined to protect her and her girls. Being with Lainie makes Shaw want to give up his bachelor life and become a family man. But he'll need to win over the pretty librarian and prove to her he's the right man for her future.
HOME TO DOVER:
A small town with a big heart.
Love, forgiveness, and 2 little girls...
I had all six of the May Love Inspired contemporary releases sitting in front me. All equally good books but I had to start somewhere so I chose one at random. I'm glad I picked Bachelor To The Rescue first, it's about a librarian and the Friends of the Library play a big part in some important scenes. Now, I love librarians but I am also a Friend of the Library so this book was a little extra special.
Lorraine Beatty has written a sweet romantic tale of love, forgiveness, and moving on. Tragedy binds Lainie and Shaw, circumstance brings them together. Forgiveness can mean the world to them both.
Sweet story, perfect for an evening when you want a light read with a happy ending. Read Bachelor To The Rescue to find out what happens when you mix two little girls, a willing dog, a princess club, and a guy who can't say no...
Lorraine Beatty
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Monday Movie - Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's
Peter Finch ■ James MacArthur
EXCITEMENT...DANGER...SUSPENSE as this classic adventure story sweeps across the screen.
Robert Louis Stevenson's exciting saga of a young man's quest for his rightful inheritance bursts upon the screen in this faithful Disney adaptation. Award-winning actor Peter Finch stars as the daring rebel, Alan Breck, who joins forces with young David Balfour (James MacArthur) to do battle with scurvy sea dogs and ruthless Redcoats. A strong supporting cast features the memorable screen debut of Peter O'Toole. Filmed in the majestic Scottish Highlands, Disney's KIDNAPPED, with its swordplay, storms at sea, and heroic bravery, is a classic adventure of epic proportions!
I grew up on Disney live action films, I can't tell you how many times I've seen The Swiss Family Robinson, and have become quite a fan as evidenced by the VHS rack and box of DVDs.
One of the best things about the film is that it was mostly filmed in Scotland which is where it takes place. A lot of Disney movies were filmed on a sound stage so that makes the scenery even more interesting and little bit special.
Kidnapped is one of my absolute favorite of the Disney adventure films. It is the story of young man as he tries to maintain the gentle Christianity that he was taught, while living through the experiences that will forge him into a man. Years ago boys, and even girls, thrived on books filled with derring-do, later on that morphed into adventure movies, with Kidnapped you get the best of both. As one would expect there is some nearly bloodless violence.
A little history + some adventure = a really great Disney film for the family to watch.
Peter Finch...Alan Breck Stewart
James MacArthur...David Balfour
Bernard Lee...Captain Hoseason
John Laurie...Ebenezer Balfour
Niall MacGinnis...Mr. Shaun
Finlay Currie...Cluny MacPherson
Miles Malleson...Mr. Rankeillor
Duncan Macrae...The Highlander
Andrew Cruickshank...Colin Campbell
Peter O'Toole...Robin MacGregor
Alex Mackenzie...The Ferryman
Oliver Johnston...Mr. Campbell
Filming Location(s)
Ardgour, Highland, Scotland, UK
Ballachulish, Highland, Scotland, UK
Fort William, Highland, Scotland, UK
Glen Coe, Highland, Scotland, UK
Glen Nevis, Fort William, Highland, Scotland, UK
Highland, Scotland, UK
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(studio)
Robin MacGregor: [when it is suggested that he and Alan Breck Stewart battle it out on the pipes instead of with the sword] Well Sir, have you music?
Robin MacGregor: [after Alan Breck Stewart has taken his turn to play the pipes] It's the God's truth. You're a creditable piper - for a Stewart.
Alan Breck Stewart: [when Robin MacGregor starts to play the pipes] Enough. You can play the pipes. Make the most of that.
[MacGregor smiles and continues playing]
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Prism Book Tours GRAND FINALE BLITZ for Becky Wade's A Love Like Ours + Giveaway
We're blitzing the GRAND FINALE for:
A Love Like Ours
By Becky Wade
Did you miss any of the excerpts or reviews for this tour? There's still time to check them out and to order your copy of A Love Like Ours by May 17th to have part of your proceeds go to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (more details on the Launch).
Launch - Letter from Author Becky Wade
"I'll be giving a percentage of my earnings on A Love Like Ours from whenever the book starts selling through May 17th to IFHF."
Babs Book Bistro - Review
"...this is the first book I have read by this author and it will not be the last."
Min Reads and Reviews - Excerpt
Turning, he squinted beneath the brim of his black Stetson and tried to make out who was coming toward him. A small woman with long, wavy blond hair. She wasn’t on the barn staff; that he knew. He angled toward her more fully.
And then, very slowly, recognition began to slide over him. The hair on his arms rose.
It couldn’t be her. Not after all this time. And yet the rational part of his brain understood that it could be. He knew she’d moved back to Holley. His mom had been nagging him to see her ever since, but he’d wanted no part of that, no part of her.
Yet here she was.
Bookworm Lisa - Review
"Jake was a marine. The wounds he carries from his time in Iraq are not all visible to the eye. He has a scar on his face, but his real battle is in the PTSD that is a part of his everyday life. I really liked that the book looked into a topic that is the battle that extends long after a soldier leaves the military. The book looks at how everyday situations can impact a person struggling with PTSD."
Wishful Endings - Excerpt
Jake’s poor face. His poor, ravaged face, both undeniably handsome and unbearably exhausted. As big and strong as he was physically, he was also wounded. He needed someone to care about him.
Following pure instinct, she stepped forward and reached up to place her hands on either side of his face.
“No,” he rasped, trying to pull back.
“Shh,” she replied, firm. She’d purposely placed her hands in the same position on both sides of his face, favoring neither the perfect side nor the scarred.
Katie's Clean Book Collection - Review
"Tackling a serious issue that many in our military face is no easy feat, but Ms. Wade does it well. The story isn't too heavy, as it's balanced with romance, fun, family, horses, and religion. I love reading about this Porter Family and can't wait for more!"
Pieces of Whimsy - Excerpt
He had only two goals where Lyndie was concerned: to interact with her as little as possible and to keep her safe.
Whispering Creek Horses took every precaution with their exercise riders. In the past, a few had sustained minor injuries but none had been seriously hurt. There was no reason to worry about Lyndie.
He should be more concerned about himself. He couldn’t afford to let a pretty blonde mess with his head.
Getting Your Read On - Review
"The slow progression for Jake is so satisfying to read. I loved the flow of the book and I loved learning in bits about both Jake and Lyndie. This is one of those "feel good" books leave you so content in the end. It's a great addition to this Porter Family series. I loved it!"
I Am A Reader - Excerpt
How long had it been since she’d experienced a stirring of desire for anyone? Ages. A couple of years at least. It was fun and harmless to . . . tingle . . . over someone again. It wasn’t as if Jake was in danger of returning her feelings. Or as if this altered her intentions toward him.
She was determined to help him and his horse. The kind of help she had in mind for Jake had nothing to do with Valentine’s Day emotions and everything to do with God’s power to redeem.
Mommabears Book Blog - Excerpt
Jake stopped at Silver Leaf’s stall. The horse had his head down, chewing hay. It took Jake a moment to spot Lyndie’s small form in the dim space. She sat to one side, her back against the wall, her knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around them. She must have heard him coming because she was already gazing up at him. Her lips tipped into a gentle smile.
For a long moment Jake stared at her. Foolish woman, sitting in a horse stall for hours every day. Even more frustrating, looking at him as if she liked him and trusted him. Looking at him as if she believed he was worthy of her friendship and trust. Raw pain gathered in his chest.
Christian Bookshelf Reviews - Review
"A Love Like Ours was another special read from Becky Wade. I loved the characters and finally reading Jake's story...which was such a sad, yet beautiful story."
Worthy2Read - Review
"Character-driven, A Love Like Ours was a joy to read — and re-read. As Lyndie and Jake get to know one another again, Lyndie breaks through the walls Jake has built (and those surrounding Silver Leaf) to be an instrument of hope and healing. Wades characters are flawed individuals, ones the reader can relate to and cheer for. Her novel captivates the reader from the prologue."
My Devotional Thoughts - Spotlight
(Porter Family #3)
Christian Contemporary Romance
May 5th 2015 by Bethany House Publishers
Deeply scarred from a day he wishes he could forget during his military service, Thoroughbred trainer Jake Porter has given up on love. He struggles against symptoms of PTSD, lives a solitary life, and avoids relationships.
When Lyndie James, Jake's childhood best friend, returns to their hometown of Holley, Texas, Jake cautiously hires her to exercise his Thoroughbreds. Lyndie is tender-hearted, fiercely determined, and afraid of nothing, just like she was as a child. Jake trusts her with his prized racehorse, Silver Leaf, then battles his hopes for his horse against his increasing fear for Lyndie's safety.
Though Jake and Lyndie have grown into very different adults, the bond that existed during their childhood still ties them together. Against Jake's will, Lyndie's sparkling, optimistic personality begins to tear down the walls he's built around his heart. A glimmer of the hope he'd thought he'd lost returns. Will Jake ever be able to love Lyndie like she deserves, or is his heart too shattered to mend?
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During her childhood in California, Becky Wade frequently produced homemade plays starring her sisters, friends, and cousins. These plays almost always featured a heroine, a prince, and a love story with a happy ending. She's been a fan of all things romantic ever since.
Becky and her husband lived overseas in the Caribbean and Australia before settling in Dallas, Texas. It was during her years abroad that Becky's passion for reading turned into a passion for writing. She published three historical romances for the general market, put her career on hold for many years to care for her kids, and eventually returned to writing sheerly for the love of it. She’s delighted to be penning warm, wry, and heartwarming contemporary romances for the Christian market. She's the Carol Award and Inspirational Reader's Choice Award winning author of My Stubborn Heart, Undeniably Yours, and Meant to Be Mine.
These days Becky can be found failing but trying to keep up with her housework, sweating at the gym, carting her kids around town, playing tennis, hunched over her computer, eating chocolate, or collapsed on the sofa watching TV with her husband.
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Book Review - Buried Secrets by Irene Hannon
Men Of Valor book 1
by Irene Hannon
THEY BOTH WANTED QUIETER, SAFER LIVES.
BUT CRIME NEVER SLEEPS . . .
AND KILLERS KEEP KILLING.
After years as a Chicago homicide detective, Lisa Grant is ready for the kinder, gentler life of a small-town police chief. But the discovery of a human skeleton by a construction crew at the edge of town taxes department resources. Enter ex-Navy SEAL Mac McGregor, the detective sent by the county to assist on the case. As they work to solve the mystery behind the unmarked grave, danger begins to shadow them. Someone doesn't want this dead person telling any tales – and will stop at nothing to make certain a life-shattering secret stays buried.
Lies, manipulation, and murder!
This is only my second Irene Hannon book but I can guarantee it won't be the last. I really enjoy her brand of suspense, a little technical, a little spooky, and always keeps you guessing.
Buried Secrets was a little different than most suspense books, in that, instead of the big reveal at the end, the reader knows pretty early on who did it and we get to follow along with Lisa and Mac while they piece things together and prove it.
Buried Secrets is all about motivations and the darker way the human mind works when in self preservation mode. That psychological edge really made the story in my opinion. It kept me on the edge of my seat and trying to guess what might happen next. There was a lot more in the romantic arena, which surprised me. But all in all it was pretty good.
Irene Hannon
You have to pay attention to the special cover that Buried Secrets has. The designers added some texture so that when you hold it at the right angle it appears 3-D. It gives some delightfully spooky connotations to the booted foot digging the shovel into the dirt. The Revell design team really outdid themselves.
Irene Hannon has started off the Men Of Valor series with a bang and I eagerly await the next book.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Buried Secrets by Irene Hannon a 4 Bark rating.
Publisher: Revell (April 7, 2015)
Blog Tour - Unplanned by Alana Terry + Free Gift from Alana
A first-year college student adjusting to life in the States.
A brand-new pregnancy center desperate for new volunteers.
A mysterious phone call from a girl who's far too young to be pregnant.
from award-winning suspense novelist Alana Terry
After volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center, Kennedy Stern finds herself a pawn in a deadly game of intrigue, at the mercy of those who consider a few innocent lives a small ransom to pay for victory.
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Book Review - Every Bride Needs A Groom by Janice Thompson
Every Bride Needs A Groom
A Brides With Style Novel book 1
by Janice Thompson
SOMEWHERE IN A SEA OF TULLE
AND TAFFETA, SATIN AND CREPE,
KATIE FISHER NEEDS TO FIND A KEY INGREDIENT OF THE PERFECT
WEDDING – THE GROOM
Small-town girl Katie Fisher is busy planning her fairy-tale wedding. Sure, her boyfriend hasn't managed to pop the question just yet, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't enter a contest in Texas Bride magazine to win the dress of her dreams, right? Anyway, she's sure he'll be getting down on one knee any time now. And a one-of-a-kind designer dress doesn't just fall out of the sky right when you need it. But when Katie's boyfriend takes a job in another town and breaks up with her – on the very same day she wins her dream dress – her world is turned upside down. Dare she go to Dallas to claim her prize? And will the hunky pro basketball player who runs the beyond-swanky bridal shop – yeah, you read that right – discover her humiliating secret if she does?
Janice Thompson at her best!
Janice Thompson does it again! Every Bride Needs A Groom is hysterically funny while still bringing truths, sometimes a little irreverently, forward. I'm a fan of Janice's, especially the Weddings By Design series, so I was thrilled to see she had a new series coming out. Then I saw the title. Boy, did it strike my funny bone. I just HAD to read it!
Every Bride Needs A Groom introduces readers to the Fisher family in all of their predictable, routine..... zaniness. Katie leads a safe, boring, predictable life, she even has every detail of her wedding planned out before her boyfriend has even proposed. But God doesn't leave Katie in comfort zone any more than He leaves those of us in real life. Nope, He takes Katie, and us, in totally unexpected directions.
The cover is pretty and matches the story. But, Oh! It's the pages inside that are so deliciously fun to read! This book is like a filled cupcake, pretty decorations on a mound of frosting but the real treat is in the middle. Janice Thompson is a master at romantic comedy, she knows how to catch reader's attention and then keep them giggling until the last page.
I really enjoyed Every Bride Needs A Groom and am definitely looking forward to book two! But can I manage to wait THAT long???
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Every Bride Needs A Groom by Janice Thompson a 4.5 Bark rating.
Publisher: Revell (April 21, 2015)
Free Friday - Another Stab At Life by Anita Higman
Another Stab at Life
(Christian cozy mystery)
The Volstead Manor Series Book 1
by Anita Higman
She has nowhere to go, except the dilapidated mansion she's just inherited from her Granny Minna. Unfortunately, Bailey discovers the house has a history as shadowy as its hidden passages and finds the neighborhood overflowing with some rather quirky folks. Bailey suddenly feels like she's trapped inside the pages of a gothic novel - but with a comedic twist. In order to honor her grandmother's wishes and stay at Volstead Manor Bailey must unravel a string of mysteries and secrets, which all seem determined to stay happily ever buried.
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Publisher: Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications (March 5, 2015)
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Book Review - Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey
Alaskan Courage book 5
by Dani Pettrey
Finally Returned Home, Reef McKenna
Finds His Beloved Alaska
Facing Its Greatest Threat
GROWING UP, GOODY-TWO-SHOES KIRRA JACOBS AND TROUBLEMAKER REEF MCKENNA WERE ALWAYS AT ODDS. Now as they work search-and-rescue together for Alaska's arduous Iditarod race, a growing attraction seems to be forcing aside old arguments. Then Reef catches Kirra sneaking from camp in the middle of the night.
Kirra's uncle, a musher in the race, has disappeared. Kirra and Reef quickly track the man, but what they discover is harrowing: Frank's daughter has been kidnapped. Kirra and Reef, along with the entire McKenna family, are thrown into a race to stop a shadowy villain who is not only threatening a girl's life – but appears willing to unleash one of the largest disasters Alaska has ever seen.
Romance & suspense on the Iditarod trail!
Iditarod. What a magic word. And when you pair it with the name Dani Pettrey you have the winningest combination on the trail. If I hadn't already fallen in love with Dani Pettrey's suspense stories, and the McKenna family, I would have picked this book up solely based on the cover. I had been looking forward to this book since the cover and blurb were first revealed to fans. Believe me, it didn't disappoint.
Sabotaged was such a fun book to read. Not only was it my favorite genre and from a favorite author, but it also features my favorite sporting event of the year. It was so neat reading those oh-so-familiar checkpoints. And the suspense? Sabotaged is full of Dani's trademark adventure and romance. I found myself breathlessly turning pages as they edged closer and closer to probable disaster and the final showdown. If you've read any of the previous books in the Alaskan Courage series you will know how much of a nail-biter they can be.
Wonderful cast of characters, I really liked Reef and Kirra, with appearances from all of the McKenna clan. I'm just sorry that Sabotaged is the last book in the series, I really don't want to say goodbye. One of the things that really stood out to me is how people often don't, and won't, fit into the boxes we create for them. Just when you think you've really got them pegged, they surprise us. Past mistakes, thoughts, and attitudes, are just that, past.
Sabotaged is a wonderful tale of adventure and suspense set in the Alaskan bush during one of the toughest and most exciting races in the world. Iditarod!
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey a 4.5 Bark rating.
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (February 3, 2015)
Fun with #TiffanyGirl
From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive “New Woman”—the girl behind Tiffany’s chapel—and the love that threatens it all.
Tiffany Girl
by Deeanne Gist
Author Deeanne Gist has put together some fun things to do while waiting
for the May 5th release of her much anticipated novel Tiffany Girl.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity,
I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV
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Monday Movie - Witness To Murder
Witness To Murder
Barbara Stanwyck ■ George Sanders ■ Gary Merrill
No one would believe what she saw that night ... not the police ... not her friends ... no one -- but the murderer himself!
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer ('George Sanders'), who first takes steps to convince police she is crazy, but she has ally in a sympathetic policeman (Gary Merrill).
I found this movie while skimming around Netflix bored and looking for something to watch. And even though I'm not really a fan of Barbara Stanwycke I decided to give it a shot. I as quite pleasantly surprised, in fact, I think this is now easily my favorite movie with her in it. Yeah, it's pretty predictable. But there are still some tense scenes, like the entire section in the psych ward.
One of the most impressive things about this film is the use of shadows to add drama to the scenes. Sometimes what you don't directly see is what actually makes a scene, or a movie.
I've been a fan of mysteries, suspense, and Film Noir for years and am always in search of another good book or classic movie. Witness To Murder fit the bill perfectly. An enjoyable way to spend an hour-and-a-half.
Barbara Stanwyck...Cheryl Draper
George Sanders...Albert Richter
Gary Merrill...Lawrence Mathews
Jesse White...Eddie Vincent
Harry Shannon...Captain Donnelly
Linda Vista Apartments, 939 S. Serrano Ave., Los Angeles, CA(Cheryl Draper's apartment building)
Miramonte Terrace, 3400 San Marino St., Los Angeles, CA (Albert Richter's apartment building)
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Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA (studio)
George Sanders and Gary Merrill had previously worked together on All About Eve.
Released less than a month before Rear Window (1954), to which the film bears plot similarities.
When Cheryl Draper is reading the newspaper article about the dead girl's body being discovered, the top part of the article is about the girl; the rest of the article is about the stock market.
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Jul 24, 2015 › Categories: Keep on Moving, Music
Alt-Nation: VulGarrity’s Afterlife
by Marc Clarkin
On their 4th release, Afterlife, VulGarrity conjures up another batch of supernatural-themed thrillers. VulGarrity are a brother/sister team composed of Shawn and Tracy (Vul)Garrity that are known for swapping instruments back and forth and being obsessed with horror movies and the supernatural. They even used to have their own web series that delved into skits involving all kinds of paranormal stuff and Santa Claus. For this obsession, some (or one) in the local media have referred to them as the sinister siblings. Afterlife is no different from the cover artwork depicting the sinister siblings in a graveyard dressed as ghosts from another era to the tunes with titles like “Dead Dance,” “Maniac Shuffle,” and the infectious lead single, “Stygian Night.”
VulGarrity are tough to pin down because there are elements of so many different rock formats going on including everything prog-metal to post-punk while still touching on everything from ’80s pop, synth-funk and classic rock riffs while circling the bases. This time around, they expand to include what I think is their first straight out acoustic ballad to the heavens in “Dear God.” It has more of a “We Are the World” feel than the XTC tune of the same name. Things shift fast in VulGarrity’s universe, though. The next tune, “Flight Simulator,” sounds like an ’80s funk recreation center dance floor banger in the vein of Morris Day. I’d love to quote the lyrics, but what I think I hear is usually wrong; Shawn VulGarrity is spitting gold here. “Wait Here for You” has a synth-tinged heavy rock verse before melting into an ’80s pop chorus. Afterlife goes cover to cover without losing any momentum as the closer, “West Coast Broke,” is so simple and so damn catchy that it is my favorite of the bunch. Not since Tupac has any musician managed to continue to crank out grave rave and roll party classics in the Afterlife.
Records are nice, but the real measure of any band is to experience them live. VulGarrity has earned their stripes there, becoming the first band to win the WXIN and WBRU Rock Hunts against some pretty stiff competition in some of those rounds. VulGarrity is a trip because on one song Shawn will be drumming while controlling a guitar loop pedal that was recorded at the start of the song while Tracy is on bass. Next song, Shawn might move to keyboards while Tracy mans the drums. It makes for different sounds on different songs that keep everything fresh. I asked Shawn VulGarrity a few questions about what is shaking in the VulGarrity universe and also about School of Rock: Seekonk where he is music director. School of Rock is another must-see act. They played the Motif Music Awards not too long ago and the sight of these 15-year-old kids slaying Earth Wind and Fire was mesmerizing!
Marc Clarkin: Afterlife is VulGarrity’s fourth release. Is there anything you tried to do differently on this release?
Shawn VulGarrity: We added an electronic drum pad into the mix while writing/recording this album with the intention of adding it to our live show. It didn’t pan out because we found we were getting all the electronic drum sounds we needed from our keyboard and the drum pad wasn’t adding much, so we took it out of the live show.
MC: VulGarrity songs and photos have always played with a horror/paranormal theme. What are some of the things that influence your songwriting?
SV: Horror movies and novels are a huge influence on a lot of what we do. Even the personal experiences we write about tend to be colored by the horror genre because we grew up fascinated by (maybe even obsessed with) it. It continues to be a large part of our lives.
MC: Does being a two-piece ever affect your songwriting as far as creating something that can be performed live by just the two of you?
SV: Absolutely. All of our songs start out live. We add very little to them in the studio so that our live show is not too far off from the recordings. I imagine our music would be wildly different if we had more people in the band.
MC: How did you get involved in the School of Rock?
SV: I was toying with the idea of opening a school and then I was approached about coming on board as the music director for the School of Rock: Seekonk in September 2012. I took what turned out to be my dream job — a challenging but highly rewarding job. We teach our students songs and then book performances for them at real venues so they get to experience all that goes in to putting on a concert — lights, sound, hair, makeup … the works. They perform on the same stages as some of their heroes and become better musicians in the process.
MC: There are some amazing musicians in School of Rock. What has the experience of mentoring been like?
SV: Being a part of the experience is truly amazing. Many of our students barely say a word when they first sign up, and by the time their first show rolls around they are different people. Spending several months preparing for a performance with your peers changes you, makes you better at your instrument, communication, social interaction, and life in general. I get to see that every day. Words can’t express how awesome it is.
MC: Do you have one favorite moment or moments that stand out as a musician?
SV: Winning the WBRU Rock Hunt, and all of the shows that came as a result of that, was pretty special and probably had a great deal to do with Tracy and I continuing down this road. Playing Foo Fest in 2013 was pretty amazing, too, as it was the biggest audience we’ve performed to thus far.
Midday Records Release features releases and performances by VulGarrity, Latin Metrics, Hwuevo, Nate Cozzolino, Global Crash, and Far Below at Firehouse 13 on July 25.
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Fintech firm eyes Vis-Min expansion
By Carmelito Francisco on February 26, 2019
GCash, a financial technology platform of Globe Telecom and partner Ant Financial, is looking at tapping more micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the countryside of the Visayas and Mindanao as it wants to increase usage of the system.
Officials of Mynt, the company behind the platform, said it is launching a system which will enhance the penetration of GCash in the countryside and that this will also enhance the tourism industry.
Although he did not want to preempt the program that the company will launch in March, Reyner Villasenor, vice president for corporate communications at Mynt, said over the weekend that the plan is to enhance the penetration rate of the platform to reach areas that are supposed to be underserved or unbanked by financial institutions.
In December last year, the platform expanded its reach in Boracay, a top tourist destination in the country, by tapping vendors who sell ice cream and other goods through the use of quick response (QR) codes that are printed on the merchants’ shirts.
“Chinese and other tourists who wanted to buy from these merchants need only to scan the QR codes to pay,” said Villasenor as he singled out Chinese tourists because Ant Financial, which owns about 45% of Mynt, is the subsidiary of Chinese giant company Alibaba. Of the remaining shares, about 45% is owned by Ayala-led Globe Telecom and the remainder is owned by its parent company Ayala Corp.
At present, of about 60,000 merchant partners of GCash, about 2,200 are in the city and that GCash officials said there is a huge potential for expansion because the use of smart mobile phones have expanded.
He added that the influx of Chinese tourists in the country will also enhance the expansion of the use of GCash especially in the tourism industry. “Chinese tourists usually go to merchants that are recognized by Unionpay, Alipay (the financial technology platform of Ant Financial) or Wechat,” he added.
In the GCash platform, merchants can be paid both through the use of QR code for offline purchase as well as online.
Joseph Albert Lim, Mynt vice president for Financial Institutions and Strategy, said the expansion is aligned with the broad partnership of GCash with other financial institutions like banks.
“At present, it is easier to move cash between GCash and its partner banks,” said Lim as GCash has partnered with about 30 banks for fund transfer as part of the Instapay strategy of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Lim said instead of lining up in banks to send cash to relatives, clients can use the GCash platform to transfer funds for free through accounts of the receivers in banks.
Carmelito Francisco
Managing Editor at Mindanao Times
Council looks into tax sharing of TSI
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Here with a guest post is our Redskins-Giants Predictions winner JDP.
Ted Leonsis is either fraudulent or incompetent.
His constant “be patient” mantra to fans and media on the Capitals’ lack of postseason success is getting old. Ted loves pumping his own tires and telling everyone how great the Caps are. He loves promoting the image that the Caps are great because they are built from within through their strong AHL affiliate. But that is a joke.
The team is dwelling in mediocrity. And they are mediocre because they were built that way. Ted continues to tell everyone to be patient though. It’s been six years — time to show up or shut up. In any other “hockey city” (Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh) that would not stand.* The Stanley Cup window is closing and he does nothing to remedy the problem because he is making money.
* You could say, “Oh, well this isn’t really a hockey city. You should be happy with what you get.” No! Leonsis specifically markets Washington as “America’s Hockey Capital.” We are a glorified San Jose.
Leonsis is a businessman first and foremost. And that is perfectly fine. I wouldn’t want to own a team that is constantly losing money. But hold this guy to the same accountability that Dan Snyder is slammed with.** Leonsis won’t risk anything until the team loses money.
** I am not a Dan Snyder fan. Please let this be clear.
His lack of risk with the Capitals can be traced to his refusal or inability to part with GM George McPhee. McPhee has outlived his expiration date. Congrats on getting the first overall pick and not screwing it up. That was a really tough one. The Ovechkin era is going to be for naught if the team continues to be built the way it has been. The team is soft and lazy. This is the same story every year now. Lulls in goal scoring lead to an identity crisis. But nothing has changed.
A commenter on Capitals Insider put it well:
Ted thinks the fans who complain are impatient idiots. Well, for several years we have pointed out ad nauseum no 2C, no 1 defensive defenseman, the coach was clueless and the GM was almost as bad. Many posters here have decried the lack of toughness and grit, the lack of team cohesiveness and the unwillingness of the players to stick up for each other.”
We hear the same criticisms of the composition of this team every year, yet no changes.
It’s funny how Boudreau got the ax for the failings of a McPhee-built team. Boudreau didn’t cause the lackluster hockey on the ice. The “country club” atmosphere was as much a result of McPhee’s coddling as anything else. I am sure if you asked around the league you would find front offices mocking McPhee.
If Leonsis wants to run a serious hockey team he needs to let McPhee go. Boswell put it best when he said, “When you fire your coach, that’s a failure.” The Caps have been failing for too long. It’s time to try a new approach, which means a new architect.
I’d also like to criticize Leonsis on the Wizards, but since nobody really cares about them I’m going to keep this short. The same criticisms of Leonsis for keeping McPhee can be applied for Ernie Grunfeld, maybe worse though. Leonsis had a real opportunity to clean house when he bought the team, but he kept the GM who had put them in the hole they were in. I get that the Arenas extension wasn’t entirely his fault because Pollin was in love with Agent Zero. And to be fair, Arenas was awesome. I loved him, but come on man. Hindsight is 20/20, but that contract was bad at the outset.
Leonsis really has me ticked off with the comments he made at media day. I recommend reading the whole thing due to how blatantly he is lying to the media. Also, the fact that nobody called him on it. Leonsis at one point called Javale McGee “erudite.” This had been made fun of enough, but (and this gets back to Grunfeld being an idiot) the Wizards are going to extend this guy. Yes, he is freakishly athletic and yes, he makes highlight-reel plays. But anyone who has watched him play a full game instead of just the highlights knows he is a disaster. The Wizards are going to sign him to some mega-extension. The lockout has done nothing to stop this overpayment. I am depressed. Please don’t do this Wizards, please.
Leonsis also said the Wizards are a top-two or -three team in new-ticket sales. Jesus Christ, how did nobody call him out on this bullshit? Oh yeah, the fan base is super-energized by a 23-win season. Again, I’m depressed.
Finally, Leonsis is dishonest about the philosophy for the team. Or rather, I hope he is. Leonsis is trying to “build” the team with young players, not overpay for aging free agents. The problem is the Wizards aren’t going to luck into another John Wall again. And the Wizards had a prime chance to do some movement with the amnesty clause of the new CBA. Bill Simmons proposed amnestying Rashard Lewis and making a run at Wilson Chandler and Aaron Afflalo. That team makes a lot more sense than the current composition. And it still maintains youth.
But no, Leonsis builds through the draft and sits on who he has. This “Destination D.C.” crap that he keeps spewing is not going to come true. Players go where the money is. Leonsis is dishonest because of his failed experiments through the years. Yi Jianlian. Josh Howard. Mike Miller. Randy Foye. These guys don’t scream youth or building a core to me.
Leonsis is always praising these guys, though. Beyond the “erudite” McGee he has lately been praising the new maturity of Andray Blatche. The only way this season can be redeemed is if Andray Blatche follows through on his promise. This team is garbage and Leonsis knows it. “I’m more concerned with process right now than output, though we’re here to win,” he said. Well, get ready for a season without output and wins.
Seriously, what does it take to lose your job under Leonsis if you’re a GM or a player? This is a semi-serious question. He has never blown up a team, he has never traded a star (the Arenas move doesn’t count), he has never fired a GM. If Leonsis ran the Redskins we’d still have Vinny running the show. At least we’d still have Jason Campbell though.
Everyone is always genuflecting before Leonsis for giving this town a taste of winning. But this is the guy that can’t take criticism. It can’t be summarized better than his attempt to choke slam a Caps fan who brought a mean sign to a game. Oh wait, you forgot about that episode? Seriously, Leonsis attacked a fan of his own team! That is in the pantheon of crazy owner moves! Even Dan Snyder only had his workers go try to confiscate signs.***
*** Again, I am not a Dan Snyder fan. This is not defending him. I’m sure he has done other mean things to fans like suing them and such.
Leonsis is always praised for his openness, especially on his blog. But the blog is just another sign of his arrogance. The blog is the most self-serving thing of all time. His game recaps show how little he knows. He never lets an opportunity to gloat pass by while always pleading with fans to remain patient. Also, the way he subjectively chooses to link only positive articles to reinforce his “organizational methods and philosophies” about his teams fools no one.
One of my friends, a season ticket-holder, emailed him an article from On Frozen Blog that offered some criticism. I’m pretty sure it was this article. Leonsis responded but dismissed the article, saying, “I know the writer well, he is a one-note guy.” Oh, tell us what you really think, Ted! Yeah, that’s the type of media-friendly owner that you know and love. Leonsis is only friendly when you’re kissing his feet.
Ted isn’t all bad. He is engaging with media and fans. He’s not Donald Sterling. He seems to be a decent human being. But his arrogance and incompetence is ignored. It’s always the coach’s fault, or the talent not coming through, or some other excuse. Leonsis deserves his share of the blame. I’m sure he will take this criticism well.
(Ted Leonsis portrait taken with love from Sam Hurd Photography Getty).
Doesn’t Sam Hurd make enough money slingin’ coke and weed? Now he’s in the photo business as well?
Sam Hurd
Hey there…. I do appreciate the link back, however I have to request this photo be removed. It’s not licensed for use here and is not freely available.
Feel free to contact me directly for details
Okay, I’ll use another.
Fushezzi
If Leonsis is to blame for anything, it is for babying Ovechkin too much. Ovi doesn’t care and it shows. You can see it in the games. He gets frustrated now that teams have caught on to his cherry picking act. You can see it in practice. Both times I’ve gone to Kettler he’s easily the most lackadasical on the ice. And that’s the Captain? Until someone lights a fire under Ovi’s ass he’ll continue to go thru the motions – taking what is given to him instead of taking what he wants. And that’s why the Ovechkin era is going to be for naught.
SethB
Using quotes from Capitals Insider and linking to OFB immediately and irrefutably destroys any and all credibility of this post.
Ted cares more about the 41 home regular season dates than he does the playoffs or anything else. Rock the red, unleash the fury, build the brand. It’s an entertainment operation, nothing more, nothing less.
Ted’s always been thin-skinned, ask anyone who used to e-mail him back during the pre-lockout “Five-Year Plan.” Anything remotely critical or questioning of the team’s direction was met with dismissal at best, if not outright condescension. Not to say there were never cordial or informative responses, but if only he thought you were toeing the company line. “We know what we’re doing.” Really Ted? How’d Jason Doig and Joel Kwiatkowski work out?
Same GM back then, of course.
SkinsaneAsylum
I think Bruce had the right idea about trying to have a locker room where everyone is held accountable, the problem was that this came 3 years too late. You cannot have a laid back, “player friendly” locker room and then flip a switch to the hardline philosphy…we saw the results of such an attempt and it cost BB his job.
GMGM is an excellent GM IMHO. He fleeces people in trades (see Varly to Colorado for most recent example)and seems to add quality depth when needed. I would argue that the Caps this year have the deepest, most talented roster in the League.
I think the fact that the Caps have not reached the level they had hoped to reach by now is more of a reflection on the players. It is a generally young team with a few veteran exceptions. This team was immature the last two years and it showed in the playoffs. This year has just been wildly unpredictable due to the multiple changes in philosphy at the end of BBs tenure, now a new system with Huntsy. I suspect things will shake out soon and play will become more consistent, but until OV takes the leadership role seriously both on AND off the ice, it will be difficult for this team to take the next step.
“Seriously, what does it take to lose your job under Leonsis if you’re a GM or a player? This is a semi-serious question. He has never blown up a team, he has never traded a star (the Arenas move doesn’t count)…”
I’ll agree that Leonsis has never fired a GM, but saying this is crazy. Leonsis and McPhee blew up the 03-04 Capitals, trading away such luminary names as Peter Bondra, Jaromir Jagr, Sergei Gonchar, and Robert Lang (who was, at the time he was traded, the leading scorer in the NHL). Leonsis didn’t negotiate the trades, but he did authorize George McPhee to make them.
By the way, the result of those trades? Brooks Laich, Tomas Fleischmann, Shaone Morrisonn, and the draft picks used to select Mike Green and Jeff Schultz, all of whom were solid contributors to the best regular season in Capitals’ history and the deepest postseason run of any DC team in the past 10 years.
The valid criticisms about Ted’s arguably excessive patience with his team’s leadership and his reaction to critiques are lost in the generally reactionary and short-sighted nature of this post.
Ted’s “openness” blog is now no longer accepting comments to his posts; yet, he sees fit to call out other bloggers for the number of comments they get.
Bradford (comment No. 9) makes a good point about the ’03-04 Caps. I should’ve caught that in edit.
And thanks for all the feedback, everyone. Keep it comin’.
@mathewbrown
Rashard Lewis staying on the team with amnesty staring him in the face was a huge let down, but necessary to stay above the new CBA’s salary floor. A better GM could have been prepared for this, but it’s hard to criticize Ernie for not knowing the new rules he’d be playing under.
I actually like the direction of the Wizards and don’t think it’s that big of a deal that they didn’t amnesty Rashard Lewis and then immediately spend that freed-up money. I’m find with building around John Wall and seeing what happens this season with guys like McGee, Blatche, and some of the young players and rookies.
JDP
How does linking to OFB remove credibility? Am I missing something? Are you a RMNB troll? ’03-’04 Caps note is true.
@mathewbrown It’s true he didn’t know that amnestying a player would be available. But once it did why not use it? I don’t think Rashard is in this team’s long term future and I sure hope that Blatche isn’t either. Why not amnesty Rashard and use that money that could help long/longer term?
@JDP (Comment 16): The CBA has a salary floor for teams’ total payroll that rose to $49M from $45M. Amnesty on Lewis would have put the Wiz below that floor for 2011-12 without any free agents available worth spending it on. Forcing them to do one of two things: pay a player inferior to Lewis a contract that is close to his in value, or pay the difference to players already under contract. Both of those options are terrible business, so the Wiz kept him.
You don’t seem to have a firm grasp on the payroll side of NBA teams’ rosters. Maybe move out of your glass house before you hurl stones at Leonsis?
@mathewbrown The Wizards could have paid more than one player the amount of Lewis’ contract. I agree there isn’t a player that was a FA that was worth $16million a year. But could we have gotten two? Yes.
I like that Ted’s army has come out in full force to attack me.
Matt Lilly
@mathewbrown and JDP
Amnesty salaries still count towards the salary floor. But we still have the amnesty, so I think it was a good move to wait and maybe use it next year. There wasn’t anyone worth spending money on.
I really disagree with Bill Simmons on the Wizards this offseason. A Wall, Afflalo, Chandler core is not going to be a championship contendor. The idea is to suck, hit on draft picks, and let them develop. I’m buying into it and it looks good so far for the Wiz IMO.
@Matt Lilly (19): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/sports/basketball/each-nba-team-can-waive-one-bad-contract.html
That article says otherwise.
“Some teams are so far above the cap that removing one player will not provide room to sign free agents. A few teams have such low payrolls that they would dip below the minimum-payroll requirements. At least 10 teams have no obvious candidates for amnesty.”
Jim Ed
While I’m no fan of Ernie Grunfeld, if you think Aron Afflalo and Wilson Chandler were going to make the Wiz contenders, you’re smoking crack. Seriously, I can’t even imagine how handcuffed this team would be with Afflalo getting 5/45 from the Wiz. And the Foye/Miller move was a last gasp at salvaging a contender out of the Big 3. It was a riverboat gambler move, and no one in their right mind thought Rubio would be available at 5.
This is a 66 game schedule, and as far as I can tell, it serves one purpose for the Wizards: To see if they have anything worth keeping between Blatche, NY, McGee, and Crawford. I’d imagine only 2 of 4 at most would be back next season unless they miraculously click and catch on fire. This is how rebuilding works. This comes off kind of like a Jason Reid anti-Shanahan screed.
As far as the Caps are concerned… I live and die with DC sports, but a little part of me way deep down inside my spleen sparkles with delight at watching the Capitals flail like a landed tuna every post season. While I’d love to see them stick it to Crosby and Pittsburgh, the johnny come lately, m3 driving, pink hat wearing, Arlington Yuppies that seem to constitute a large chunk of the new season ticket base have completely soured me on the Caps. Hey, you like the Caps? Thats awesome. So why don’t you come watch the Wiz play so I’m not sitting in a mausoleum with 8,000 others? On the other hand, a lot of my friends fit this profile and got their Caps tix through the combo pack with Wizards tickets, and they pawned them off on me for pennies on the dollar, which was nice.
/slow work day
//putting in two weeks notice at end of week, so not like it matters.
@JimEd
Embarrassed that I am being mentioned in same breath as Jason Reid. I like what Shanahan/Bruce have been doing with the Skins. I think the attitude difference is just that the Caps were what seemed like on the verge of a championship. Now? Not so much. Maybe its growing pains but I think it’s something deeper.
As for the Wizards, NY is not coming back, he just isn’t. Not with this one year contract. He’s going to be playing for his next one. As for McGee and Blatche, that’s sort of my point of my criticism. It’s been the “patience” mantra for awhile now. I think we know what we have in McGee, a supremely talented and athletic big man providing a unique skill set but lacking maturity and focus. Is he suddenly going to change this year? I hope so but I think thats really wishful thinking. As for Blatche, he is scum and I want him gone.
I like your Caps fan elitism though. “I was here first!” I mean, I get that. I don’t like the pink hats either. It’s like the Red Sox bandwagon. But then is there any situation where a new Caps fan would be welcome? Caps fans more than any other sport here (probably because they are the only successful one) shun newcomers. Just kind of silly.
Also, I don’t think Afflalo/Chandler are going to make us into championship contenders. I think that they could get us into the playoffs now. East is weak. Might as well gun for it.
Jaime, how can you say Ted has taken no risks. In addition to blowing up the team in the face of a lockout in a city not exactly “Hockey Town”, he is probably the only owner of a professional hockey team to have signed two different players to the largest contracts in league history (Jagr and Ovi).
Also, I really doubt other front offices are “mocking” GMGM. Partcularly those in Ottawa, Columbus, Colorado, etc who probably wish they hadn’t done deals with him. I also don’t believe GM spends much time in the locker room so any “country club” atmosphere came from elsewhere.
Lots of good points here, just missed on a couple, IMO
5.SethB Says:
Oh really? So where do you get your Caps news from? Ted’s Take?
OFB is one of the most credible sources for REAL Caps analysis. The main writer actually understands the sport of hockey and doesn’t sugarcoat the inherent problems that have plagued this organization for years, unlike most of the media outlets in the area that just perpetually help to “promote Ted’s brand” by putting a positive spin on everything.
Maybe you are just overly sensitive and can’t handle the truth about our overrated hockey club.
ThisGuy
Hooooo boy. That’s quite a venting session. This post has so many logical flaws and contradictions that my head is about to explode.
And though I do think Ted is basically a jackass, I agree with SethB’s comment wholeheartedly.
SkinsaneAsylum Says:
“I think the fact that the Caps have not reached the level they had hoped to reach by now is more of a reflection on the players. It is a generally young team with a few veteran exceptions. This team was immature the last two years and it showed in the playoffs.”
So you kind of just contradicted yourself. If it’s the players’ faults, it’s the GM’s fault by extension. After all, McPhee is the one who drafted, traded for, and signed the players that ultimately make up this ridiculously mentally weak roster.
You are right that it is a young team, but that’s not an excuse for failing to win. The Penguins and Blackhawks were built around a YOUNG core and won Cups.
Crosby, Malkin, Letang, Staal all under 25 when they won. Toews, Kane, Keith and Seabrook all in their 20s. Even the Bruins had Lucic and Marchand who were 22.
The Caps’ young core lacks leadership, and the veterans brought in (with the exception of Fedorov) haven’t made a strong impact. And for every Varly trade, there is a Joe Corvo trade to match.
And if you honestly think the Caps have the “deepest and most talented roster in the league”, then you clearly don’t watch ANY hockey outside of Caps’ games. The Bruins, Pens, and Flyers run laps around the Caps in terms of organizational depth. Watch these teams play, and you will see how inadequate our roster truly is.
@ JDP
My apologies for accidentally omitting this initially, but I’m not really a hockey fan in general. I want the Caps to do well as they represent the city, but I didn’t grow up playing/watching hockey, so I don’t feel that attachment or affinity that I do to the other big 4 sports in the city. I think my loathing (and perhaps that of Caps fans as well) has more to do with the segment of the population that seems to make up a bulk of the new fans. I’m generalizing, for sure, but an awful lot of them seem to love out of town teams for other sports, but LOOOOOVE OVI!!!11!
Is part of it bitterness? Sure, spending enough time in your own personal section at Nats Park or the VC for Wiz games will do that to you. But I’ve spent enough time in Clarendon bars to develop a bad taste in my mouth for people who “bleed red” but don’t watch the Wiz because the NBA is just too urban/ghetto/thugged out/other white person code for too black for their personal tastes. I wish the Caps well, but there’s some definite schadenfreudean delight mixed into their failures for me.
As far as the Wizards are concerned. I’d prefer they not make big deals in hopes of getting the 7 or 8 seed in the east and being cannon fodder for the Heat or Celtics or whomever. This season will be painful, but at least it will be quick, and give us a real off season to work with heading into next year.
This season, more than any since Abe died, needs the Wizznutz to make a triumphant return to raise the spirts of the fanbase.
OnFrozenBlog
“SethB Says:
JDP and ZL, we owe you a beer to thank you for your support.
I suggest you look into who is responsible for what in a hockey club and then look again at your criticisms.
PS as you say you’re sure if you asked around you’d find NHL front offices are mocking George McPhee – then how about asking around and letting us know how that goes?
Ron Wall
Amnestying Rashard Lewis would be the worst thing to do. His deal basically expires after this year. After this season he’s eligible for a $10M buyout which saves you $12M OR next season when his contract is expiring it will be the biggest asset the Wiz have. They’ll be able to leverage it as the third team in a mega deal sign and trade for a superstar. WORST case scenario He plays two more years and after being in the lottery this year the Wiz enter the 2013 off season with a team of Wall, Vesely, McGee, Booker, Crawford, Singleton, Young? and insert college stud here AND $22 M to spend.
Second- If the Wiz really want to make this Wall’s team and change the chemistry it makes more sense to amnesty Blatche. He is the ringleader of the knuckleheads and is under contract for far too long. The worst thing Ernie did, at Ted’s behest, was to extend him for going on a month long tear two years ago.
You have to re-sign McGee you don’t let young 7 footers walk. Depending on where we finish this year which will be near the bottom of the league we’ll have the opportunity to draft a stud 2 guard to replace Nick Young if we’d like.
Look at what Ernie has done since getting the Wall pick. Everyone mocks the Skins for not building through the draft and Ernie has acquired 6 FIRST ROUND PICKS IN TWO YEARS!!!
@OnFrozenBlog While you do have some quality posts from time to time, most seem to be based more upon emotion and gut feelings rather than stats and reality. The Schultz loathing and Finley adoration is a perfect example of this.
So yup, SethB is a RMNB troll.
BigNed
I think I side with the “screed-like nature of the post covers up some valid points” crowd on this one. To whit:
Ted Leonsis never wanted to buy the Caps. He had to buy the Caps to get the chance to buy the Wizards, remember? He came in guns blazin’ Fantasy Danny style and made GMGM sign Jagr to put points on the board and butts in the seats. After that failed brilliantly he focused his attention on the butts in the seat end and gave GMGM reign over the players pretty exclusively as far as I can tell.
So he learned his first lesson: Ted don’t know players. But because Ted also didn’t know hockey coming into ownership, he has nothing to gauge GMGM’s performance against except previous Caps teams. Under GMGM and Boudreau the Caps far exceeded the vast majority of their prior regular seasons. The Bears won 3 of 5(?) Calder Cups. They’ve got talent that most experts agree is topnotch, unless the word superstar is only linked to salary, with young guys like Kuznetsov and Galiev waiting in the wings.
(Side note: having lived in Kansas City for a time and seeing the Royals produce outstanding prospects year after year for bigger market teams to snag in free agency right when they peaked makes me very grateful that Ted puts the money down to keep good players.)
So Ted’s had no flameout experience with GMGM that shows he’s the problem with the team. The two recent playoff series losses were hard to take, for sure, but they also were at the hands of teams who advanced far into the playoffs behind freakish goaltending, among other things. Still, I can see how someone still learning hockey like Ted is would reasonably believe that the whole organization is learning with him. No one on the team has won a cup except Kanoobs, technically, (why oh why isn’t Fedorov working with the team in some capacity?) so there is no one internal to say “I know how it’s done, follow me.” So he gives people breaks because they’ve never done it before just like he’s never done it before.
In my opinion, the worst mistake Ted made was in conferring with GMGM and BB after the Montreal collapse and agreeing as a group that they were going to change their style to something the rest of the league said they needed to do to win the cup. GMGM had built a team designed to score like crazy and win 6-5, with goaltenders that could cut that back to 6-2 or 6-3 on any given night. BB’s coaching style matched the attitude of the players in that sort of system, which is by all appearances a very fun system in which to play. Suddenly, BB puts the brakes on to switch to the dump ‘n’ chase and the whole team got out of sorts. I’d have loved to see what might have happened with the wide open style of the President’s Cup Caps when the hot goalie in the playoffs was rocking the red.
However, despite disagreeing with that move, what it shows me is that Ted and GMGM listened to their critics and in bringing in Dale MFing Hunter as coach they are taking steps to alter the structure of the team from one geared to win Calder Cups to one geared to win Stanley Cups. So the Ovechkin Era has had to take a hard left at Albuquerque halfway through and that’s got the fans steamed. Well, I get that, but it doesn’t mean Ted isn’t learning and getting better as an owner.
Plus, those fill from the bottom beer dispensers are pretty sweet.
I don’t follow basketball like I do hockey, but I think the same sort of process (except for directing Ernie to sign a particular player) will play out with the Wizards. Until Grunfeld proves conclusively that he can’t bring in a good coach or good players, Ted only has Wizards history to work with and let’s face it, that’s not hard to beat. For what it’s worth, I think that it’s too early to close the book on Blatche and McGee but not by much. You can’t wait forever for people to grow up.
That being said, the Wizards have 6 “bigs” 25 and under (Blatche is the only 25 year old) that are still somewhat of a mystery. Keeping Lewis and picking up Turiaf finally give that group some veteran leadership. As much as I want Blatche to be a leader he came into the league at 18 and who has been their to mentor him really? If having a dedicated professional like Lewis on the team helps mold those guys into serious ballers, then he’s more than worth the money.
Finally, there are three players still on the Wizards’ roster from 2009-2010. THREE – Blatche, Young, & McGee. HOW MUCH MORE BLOWN UP CAN A TEAM BE?
CapsNut
I argee with the overall point here that Ted is a master showman who loves to soak up the praise and adjulation but has very thin skin when it comes to any kind of criticism. I wouldn’t go as far as to call him incompetent or a fraud but if he were held to the same standard as Dan Snyder, Ted wouldn’t be nearly as loved and adored as he currently is.
But as I’ve always said “Please load brain before shooting off mouth” and it certainly applies here. Ted only took over full control of the Wizards last season. That’s hardly enough time to gauge his stewardship of one of the worst run NBA franchises. And the turnaround of that franchise will not be done in one offseason alone let alone one where the CBA rules were changed.
Furthermore, getting easily verified facts simply wrong (such as the Caps 2003-2004 firesale for starters), using as support for your screed here reprobates such at CI Commentators and the On Frozen Bozos (who are such keen hockey minds, they BAN FROM READING THEIR MISSIVES people who dare to question their hockey and general overall brillance to speak of people with thin skin…), and making asserations with little if any backing (Really, “I am sure if you asked round the league you would find front offices mocking McPhee.” You know this how??? How about the next time you are in the Press Box at the Phone Booth ask some of the professional scribes what they think about the On Frozen Bozos? It would be rather illuminating) completely undermines the valid points that you are trying to make here.
Fauxrumors
1) Great post!! Nice to see someone else has the ability to see through the bullshit the Caps are trying to peddle their fans.
2) The window isn’t just closing its shut tight!
Excellent POST! Leonsis is the biggest fraud in town but the media won’t go after him because he kisses their butts.
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Jane Tesh is a retired media specialist and pianist for the Andy Griffith Playhouse in Mt. Airy, NC, the real Mayberry. She is the author of the Madeline Maclin Series, A Case of Imagination, A Hard Bargain, A Little Learning, A Bad Reputation, and Evil Turns, featuring former beauty queen, Madeline “Mac” Maclin and her con man husband, Jerry Fairweather. Stolen Hearts is the first in the Grace Street Mystery Series, featuring PI David Randall, his psychic friend, Camden, Randall’s love interest, Kary Ingram, and Cam’s career-driven girlfriend, Ellin Belton, as well as an ever-changing assortment of Cam’s tenants. Mixed Signals is the second in the series, followed by Now You See It, Just You Wait, Baby, Take a Bow, and Death by Dragonfly.
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Saugerties, NY - On Friday, the Saugerties Stallions defeated the Watertown Rapids 11-3 at Cantine Field in Saugerties, NY.
What seemed to be a pitching duel on paper in the first inning was quickly changed. The Rapids opened up the scoreboard after a couple of hits by Julian Kurych (Wilmington) and Kenny Bergmann (University of Connecticut) in the first inning gave them an early 2-0 lead. Stallion Easton Bertrand (University of Minnesota) cut the lead in half in the first inning, with a single to center field.
Watertown’s pitching fell apart in the second inning. After walking the bases loaded, a James Gargano (Butler) sacrifice fly brought home Andrew Taft (LeMoyne) to tie the ballgame. Jacob Hitz (University of Minnesota) and Herman Alvarado (Nyack) would cpome into score on walks later in the inning to give the Stallions a 4-2 lead.
The Stallions bats came alive in the third inning. After a pair of RBI singles by Cameron Comer (University of Virginia) and Tyler Kelder (St. Bonaventure), the Stallions took a 6-2 lead over the Rapids. A pair of wild pitches allowed the Stallions to widen the lead to 8-2. In the fourth, an Alvarado ground-out brought home Taft to push the lead to 9-2.
The Rapids did not score again until the sixth when Andrew Bacon (Northern Kentucky) singled, scoring Bergmann to make it a 9-3 ballgame.
The Stallions tacked on a couple more runs in the eighth after a single by Justin Tuey (LeMoyne) followed by another single from Comer, making it 11-3.
Noah Stone (Arkansas State) earned the win for the Stallions, while Nick Cowen (Wayne State) took the loss. The Rapids play next at home on June 23rd against the Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs and the Stallions play next on June 23rd at the Oneonta Outlaws.
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Dog injures Peabody man
A Peabody man was bitten on the face by a dog Monday night but refused medical treatment for profuse bleeding.
Peabody police chief Bruce Burke said police were summoned to the 300 block of Vine St. at 7:45 p.m. An ambulance also was summoned.
“He was under the influence of alcohol and was irate toward both police and paramedics,” Burke said. “We spoke with the owner of dog at 802 N. Olive St. Animal control was notified, and the officer quarantined the dog.”
State law requires the dog to remain quarantined for 10 days, Burke said. Burke said no citations had been issued yet.
“Any citations issued will be by animal control, and, yes, I anticipate citations will be issued,” he said.
Dispatchers said the dog was a pit bull while sending police and an ambulance. Burke said the breed of dog is not listed in the report.
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By Essam Osman Skin Care 0 Comments
A brief history of skin care & cosmetics. Part 1: Ancient times
Skin Care & Cosmetics: Then, Now, and in the Future. This BFT series will start at the beginning and explore the ancient world first. Subsequent postings with discuss more current times and conclude with what can be expected in the future. Our hope is to educate and place today’s products and science into a longer timeline and larger context.
Although written recorded history dates back only six millennia, the history of skin decoration and care is likely much longer, perhaps as long as mankind itself. Using facial decoration to gain attention or intimidate enemies in battle are cultural constants throughout history. Looking one’s best to improve social standing, denote superior rank in society, or improve the chances of coupling with the most attractive members of the opposite sex, also seem to be timeless concerns. Whether learned behaviors or something embedded in our genetic code (probably right next to the shopping gene), there is ample evidence that proves skin care and cosmetics have long been with us.
The basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter are apparently only slightly more important than rouge, lipstick and eyeliner. After all, the mirror was invented for a reason and sending distress signals using reflected sunlight is not it. The record shows the earliest mirrors (after reflecting surfaces of still dark water) were polished obsidian stones used in Anatolia (modern day Turkey) as long ago as 6000 BC. Similar polished stones have been found in the Americas and date back to 2000 BC. Reflective copper discs date back to 4000 BC and the first metal backed glass mirror is 2000 years old. Apparently, people have been peering at themselves before the big night out on the town for a long, long time.
Egyptian cosmetology
The first archaeological evidence of cosmetics usage is from Ancient Egypt about 6000 years ago. Not only was it an important aspect of their daily culture, it was deeply incorporated into their mummification and burial traditions. Archaeologists have found small clay pots of makeup in even the most humble tombs. Yet, as important as beauty was to the Egyptians, cosmetics served another purpose – protecting them from the elements, warding off the sun’s burning rays, and repelling insects. Application of makeup also served as a ritual to honor their gods or goddesses.
Ancient Egyptians had a variety of make-up formulations. Metal ore, copper, and semi-precious stones were ground into powder for eye-shadows. Adding water, oil, or animal fat aided in adhesion and made the color darker, giving the eye a more dramatic look. Kohl, the dark eyeliner depicted in Egyptian statuettes, paintings, and mummy cases is a mixture of lead, copper, burned almonds, soot, and other ingredients. .. For lips, cheeks and nails, a clay called red ochre was ground and mixed with water. Makeup was stored in special jars that were kept in special makeup boxes. Women would carry their makeup boxes to parties and keep them under their chairs. The Egyptians believed make-up could ward off evil spirits and improve the sight so even the poor wore eye make-up
Henna is a natural dye still used for body decoration and hair coloring. It comes from a particular shrub whose dried crushed leaves create a deep orange-red powder. When mixed with water a paste is formed that is a temporary dye that colors the skin or hair for several weeks. Both women and men also used henna to stain their lips a deep red. Archaeologists report discovering traces of henna on the fingernails of mummified pharaohs. Today henna is used to decorate the skin of brides in many cultures, most notably India.
With no FDA around to ensure safety, the ancients created products using dangerous materials like mercury and white lead. According to findings published in the journal Analytical Chemistry the use of lead may have aided in combating eye infections like conjunctivitis.
Ancient Hebrews
The ancient Hebrews employed fragrance to consecrate their temples, altars, candles and priests. The book of Exodus (approximately 1,200 BC) provides a recipe for the Holy anointing oil given to Moses for the initiation of priests. It contains: Myrrh, cinnamon and calamus mixed with olive oil. Although the Mosaic Law decreed severe punishment to anyone who used Holy oils or incense in a secular fashion, some aromatics were less restricted. Two biblical references to perfume include Proverbs 27:9, “Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart,” and Song of Solomon 1:13-14, “A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; he shall lie all night between my breasts. My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire [henna] in the vineyards of En-gedi.”
The Greeks invaded Egypt with an interest in their medical knowledge. Egyptian priests were unwilling to divulge the “secrets” of sacred Egyptian oils. Under pressure from Alexander the Great, the priests released disinformation and half-truths to prevent the knowledge from falling into the hands of the great unwashed masses [I know, sounds like some of our favorite online anti-aging sites]. Although, to be fair, the Greeks seemed to be more interested in the aphrodisiac qualities of the sacred oils than their medicinal value. In Greece, precious oils, perfumes, cosmetic powders, eye shadows, skin glosses, paints, beauty unguents, and hair dyes were in universal use. Export and sale of these items formed an important part of trade around the Mediterranean.
In ancient Rome, cosmetics were usually produced by female slaves called Cosmetae, hence the name.
Middle and Far Eastern Practices
Cosmetics were also used in Persia and what is now called the Middle East. After Arab tribes converted to Islam and conquered those areas, cosmetic use was regulated in order to prevent people from disguising themselves for deceptive purposes or causing uncontrolled desire. There was no prohibition against cosmetics per se, only restrictions on their improper use. Deliberately using them to look “hot” was one of them.
So extensive was the use of cosmetics and fragrances in the Middle East that an early 24-volume medical encyclopedia, the Al-Tasrif, had an entire volume dedicated to cosmetics. It was later translated into Latin and used in the West. Cosmetics were considered a branch of medicine – “The Medicine of Beauty.” The text also dealt with perfumes, scented aromatics and incense. There were descriptions of ingredient rolled and pressed in special moulds, perhaps the earliest antecedents of present-day lipsticks and solid deodorants.
Around 3000 BCE, Chinese people began to stain their fingernails with gum arabic, gelatin, beeswax, and egg. The colors used represented one’s social class: Chou dynasty royals wore gold and silver; later royals wore black or red. The lower classes were permitted to color their nails but forbidden to wear bright colors.
Beauty “painting” became all the rage in ancient China when legend has it a plum blossom drifted down onto the forehead of a princess, leaving a floral imprint. Ladies of the court were so impressed they too began to decorate their foreheads with delicate little plum blossom designs and soon it became commonplace. (Apparently, fashion fads started long before Madison Avenue began to create sophisticated campaigns to convince people they “needed” the latest trend in designs for jeans, shoes, purses, dresses, make up, etc. The author’s opinion is that men are less susceptible to being swayed that they “need” something, but when they do, it just might be a red $200,000 sports car.)
In medieval Japan, geisha used crushed safflower petals to paint their eyebrows, edges of the eyes and lips. Sticks of bintsuke wax, a softer version of the sumo wrestlers’ hair wax, were used by geisha as a makeup base. Rice powder colored the face and back white while rouge contoured the eye socket and defined the nose. The geisha also used bird droppings as the base for lighter colors.
(You may say “yuck” but wait until you read what current thinking is for possible cosmetic and face cream ingredients in an upcoming BFT post).
Stay tuned for Part 2: Cosmetics from the dark ages to the 20th century.
In medieval times, many church leaders in the Europe thought makeup was sinful and immoral. Women adopted the fad anyway. From the Renaissance until the 20th century, lower classes worked outside in agricultural jobs resulting in darker, suntanned skin. The higher a person was in status, the more leisure time one could spend indoors, which kept their skin pale. To raise their perceived “status”, some people attempted to lighten their skin using white powder. Other products were used including white lead paint which contained arsenic. Many women died as a result. Queen Elizabeth I of England, often depicted in paintings as having a very pale complexion, was a well-known user of white lead. Her so-called “Mask of Youth” is seen in nearly all her portraits. Women in the 16th century went so far as to undergo “bleeding” to achieve pale skin.
Reminds us of the opposite trend today, where women line up to have UVA and UVB skin irradiation in order to achieve (the current standard) darker (tanned) tones. Seems like we are chronic malcontents with regards to skin coloration.
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OBJECTIVITY AND THE SILENCE OF REASON
WEBER, HABERMAS, AND THE METHODOLOGICAL DISPUTES
IN GERMAN SOCIOLOGY
Introduction: The Social Construction of Methods:
Rethinking Social Science with Weber and Habermas
Methodological Disputes in the Nineteenth Century:
Neo-Kantianism, Existentialism, and the German Historical School
Chapter 1: Neo-Kantian Epistemology and the Construction of Historical Objectivity:
Kant and Rickert
Kant's Theory of Knowledge and the Critique of Reason
Kantian Revolution in Time and Space: The Transcendental Aesthetic
Understanding and the Subjective Constitution of Objectivity: The Transcendental Analytic
Neo-Kantian Understanding of History and Nature
Rickert's Theory of Value and Objectivity
Values and Indifference
Culture and Meaning in History
Critical Understanding and Historical Reconstruction
Rickert's Critique of Positivism and Foundationalism
Search for Universality and Validity in Historical Science
Chapter 2: Kantian Existentialism and the Warring Gods of Modernity:
From Schopenhauer to Nietzsche
Schopenhauer and Kant
Contributions in the Kantian Theory of Knowledge
Schopenhauer's Reconstruction of Kant and the Primacy of the Subject
From Subjective Idealism to the Ethics of Existentialism
Lange and Kant
Fischer and Kant
Radicalizing Kant in Nietzsche
Discovering Agnosticism and Nihilism in Kant
Greek Tragedy and the Critique of Reason
Chapter 3: Max Weber and the Kantians: Epistemology and Method
in the Wissenschaftslehre
Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Science
Interpretation and Causality in Historical Sociology
Kantian Nihilism and the Critique of Reason
Rationalization and Disenchantment of Science and Method
German Historical School and Nineteenth-Century Methodenstreit
Methodological Dispute Continues with Knies
Integrating Understanding and Explanation
Structure and History
Methodological Disputes in the Twentieth Century:
Rationalism, Hermeneutics, and Critical Theory
Chapter 4: Critical Rationalism and Critical Theory:
Popper, Adorno, Habermas, and Albert
The Popper-Adorno Debate on Objectivity and Method
Adorno's Dialectical Method and the Limits of Empirical Research
Forms of Rationality and the Habermas-Albert Debate
Critical Rationalism of Hans Albert
Chapter 5: Reintegrating Science and Ethics: Explanatory,
Interpretive, and Emancipatory Sociology in Habermas
German Idealism, Epistemology, and the Critique of Foundationalism
Social Construction of Kantian Epistemology
Rationalization of Methods and the Repression of Methods
Science as Cognitive Interest and Political Ideology
Understanding and Meaning in Interpretive Hermeneutics
Repressed Meaning and Explanatory Understanding in Freudian Psychoanalysis
Depth Hermeneutics and Critical Historical Sociology
Epistemological Pluralism and Methodological Integration in Critical Science
OBJECTIVITY AND THE SILENCE OF REASON:
This work examines the methodological and philosophical debates in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German sociology as it focuses on the writings of Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas. Both sought to study the nature of the historical and social sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) and their relationship to the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften). To this end, they inquired into the nature of objectivity, empirical reality, concept formation, methods of science, and the relationship between values and science. In the early part of the twentieth century, Weber wove together the competing strands of epistemology in his famous series of methodological essays, known as the Wissenschaftslehre, with his integration of the German idealism and existentialism of Kant, Lange, and Schopenhauer, the neo-Kantianism of Windelband, Simmel, and Rickert, the radical Kantianism and nihilistic critique of reason and decadence of Nietzsche, and the Historical School of Economics of Roscher, Knies, and Schmoller. At the other end of the twentieth century, Habermas in his philosophy of social science integrated the systems theory of Parsons and Luhmann, the hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer, the historical structuralism of Weber, the functionalism of Marx and Freud, and the critical theory of Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse.
As the perception and knowledge of the phenomena and external reality (nature and society) are mediated and transformed by consciousness, language, culture, and values, analysis of the role of objectivity in the social sciences becomes more complex and problematic. The application of Kant's theory of subjectivity and consciousness to sociology has potentially placed the latter on a slippery slope towards historicism and relativism. Since reality is a subjective construct and constituted by means of linguistic and cultural concepts, knowledge of what lies behind the concepts -- the thing-in-itself -- is inaccessible and meaningless. There is no longer a neutral arbiter, no third party mediating between conflicting claims to truth, no original or objective source of knowledge, and, therefore, no God's eye-view of the world. There is no privileged access to reality through empirical facts (empiricism) or natural or predictive laws (rationalism), and, thus, no scientific justification for any particular conceptual framework or theoretical paradigm. The traditional views of epistemological, ontological, and methodological objectivity have collapsed. Weber's neo-Kantian theory of consciousness and values leads to the conclusion that there is no objective knowledge and no objective reality, although, at times, he appears not to want to go that far. The words of Richard Rorty regarding the philosophy of science of Willard van Quine and post-analytic philosophy are quite relevant here for understanding Weber's theory: "Epistemology and ontology [concepts and reality] never meet." Facts and laws are social constructions and cannot ground experience and knowledge, especially knowledge of culture, history, and social action. This helps explain Weber's turn to an alternative sociological method using the conceptual tools of "ideal types," "objective possibility," and "adequate causality" found in the writings of Johannes Kries, Gustav Radbruch, and Eduard Meyer. According to G. Wagner and H. Zipprian, with interpretive social science the meaning of nineteenth-century historical causality and sociological explanation is grounded in the ideas of German civil and criminal law, judicial hermeneutics, and the rules for legal culpability and causality, not positivistic science.
The epistemological basis for truth claims in empiricism -- comparison of concepts to reality -- and its justification of science become difficult, if not impossible, to maintain. The traditional notions of objective truth and an independent, external reality are discarded. By rejecting Hume's empiricist theory of impressions and causality, as well as the rationalist's (neoclassical economics) theory of explanation and prediction, Weber begins his epistemological analysis of objectivity in the cultural and historical sciences by turning instead to the neo-Kantian theory of historical consciousness of Heinrich Rickert and the relativism and perspectivism of Friedrich Nietzsche. Weber's methodological reflections in his Wissenschaftslehre permit him to develop his own critical epistemology, rethink the value of Kant's critique of pure reason for a philosophy of social science, and respond to the deficiencies of both empiricism and rationalism. His theory of knowledge anticipates in exciting ways many of the epistemological discussions in the late twentieth century.
Some have noticed that there is an apparent tension between the early methodological writings of Weber with their emphasis on interpretive science, subjective intentionality, cultural meaning, and historical significance and his later works which stress issues of explanatory science, natural causality, social prediction, and nomological laws. There appears to be an unresolved and unresolvable clash between Weber's neo-Kantian epistemology and his later positivistic methodology. His goal was to develop a sociological method that joined together these apparently different and conflicting approaches -- understanding and explanation -- without falling into a positivist metaphysics of realism (belief in an objective reality) or naturalism (general method and laws of natural science). That is, Weber rejected the distorted and reified objectivity of positivism in ontology (existence of an objective reality), epistemology (objective truth mirrored in theories and concepts), and methodology (application of natural science and value neutrality). However, he failed to develop and integrate fully his alternative ideas. The tensions between interpretation and explanation, consciousness and objectivity, and social meaning and historical causality always remained in his works.
Also at the methodological level, there is an unexplained and unexamined difference between Weber's earlier sociology of religion and his later structuralist and historical analysis of rationalization. Finally, there is some confusion over the relationship between his theory of value relevance (Wertbeziehung) and value freedom (Wertfreiheit) in social science. At times, he appears to argue for a value-free and objectively neutral science; at other times, he accepts Kant's theory of subjectivity and Rickert's theory of value as he criticizes the disenchanted and meaningless world of technical reason and the iron cage. The inconsistency is resolved when we realize that "value freedom" does not mean neutrality or technical objectivity, but "freedom from" the unconscious metaphysical values and unarticulated assumptions of natural science itself (Herrschaftswissen). With his neo-Kantian critique of positivism and rejection of science as domination, Weber challenges the traditional separation of values and science, emphasizes the importance of values in constructing sociological concepts and research methods, and rejects the silence of positivist reason and objectivity in the face of economic rationalization, political domination, and modern bureaucracy. In modern society, positivism becomes just another form of formal reason and political ideology.
Habermas attempts to resolve these apparent epistemological and methodological tensions found in Weber's writings by showing the interrelationships in his critical theory between the methods of subjective interpretation and objective causal explanation. According to Habermas, sociological methods develop not on the basis of a universal or transcendental philosophy of science, but rather, they develop in response to critical questions raised within social theory. The theoretical perspective comes first and the methodology follows thereafter. Although sociologists may want to study the subjective intentions and cultural meanings of social action, this may not be possible in a society characterized by technocratic utilitarianism, administrative rationality, and ideological repression. The individual reasons and intentions behind social action maybe neither rational nor intentional. Functionalism is thus a method required by sociologists in order to explain social action within the reified and unconscious structures of alienation and rationalization in modern industrial society. Methodology and theory are intimately linked in this discourse on modernity.
Habermas begins his earliest methodological writings by continuing the "positivist dispute" of the 1960s with his criticism of the empirical-analytic method of critical rationalism (Popper and Albert). He views positivism not as the epistemological standard of science and truth, but as a product of the social process of reification (Marx), rationalization (Weber), and repression (Freud). At stake in these interesting questions is nothing less than the nature of our knowledge of the social world and whether social science can make evaluative judgments about it. Habermas believes that science cannot remain silent in the face of the social pathologies of modernity: alienation, false consciousness, the oppression of technological and administrative rationality, and the loss of existential meaning and individual freedom.
As the culture of narcissism and decline of the public sphere intensifies; as the market economy and monopoly capital are uncoupled from the cultural lifeworld and unrestrained by the values of social justice and fairness; as science and technology legitimate and direct the institutions of capitalism and the social system as a whole; as substantive reason (Wertrationalität), with its political ideals and social dreams, is emptied of all critical and normative content and, in the process, repressed; and as the political concepts of "democracy," "freedom," and "social justice" are split-off and separated from their original meanings and cultural traditions, a new iron cage is created. The result is a cultural wasteland depleted of all social meaning and without a collective memory. Positivism creates a science that is methodological unable to explore these social changes or reflect upon their implications. This form of science can only blindly reproduce the given conditions of power and formal rationality (Zweckrationalität) within society. It can measure only what is, not what was or what could be; it is itself a product of rationalization and alienation, and cannot think beyond them. On the other hand, a critical science must incorporate a variety of methodological approaches, such as historical, interpretive, explanatory, and emancipatory sociology in order to examine and evaluate the complex system of modern society and the functional interconnections among its key constitutive elements --
LABOR (economy and production), POWER (bureaucracy and welfare state),
and LANGUAGE (communications, self, cultural lifeworld).
Epistemology, philosophy of social science, and methodology are all interconnected to the broader ethical and political questions of the day. How we form our concepts, verify our empirical findings, justify our research methods, and articulate reason help expand or limit the manner in which we define and act in our socially constructed lifeworld. Assess to the structures of labor, power, and language -- the economy, state, and lifeworld (culture, personality, & society) -- requires the use of different sociological methods, including functionalism, historical sociology, symbolic interactionism, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Habermas develops a comprehensive and critical theory of modernity by explaining and expanding upon the functionalism and systems theory of Talcott Parsons using the theories of social pathology and structural crises of Marx, Weber, Freud, and Durkheim. He replaces analysis of the conditions and norms of social action, institutional roles, cultural pattern maintenance, social solidarity, and systems stability with a structural and functional examination of the following: internal colonization of modern consciousness and culture, systems uncoupling of the political economy from the socio-cultural lifeworld, transformation of the public and private spheres, displacement of class conflict through the welfare state, and evolution of economic and legitimation crises in advanced capitalist society.
In Habermas's social theory, methodological issues are fundamentally political and ethical as they involve specific normative and social interests. The instrumental and technological assumptions of a positivist theory of objectivity and science are rejected since they can only result in a silencing of reason -- reason without history and an understanding of the meaning of social action, reason without philosophy and an appreciation of the epistemological discussions about knowledge and truth, and reason without social justice and the ethical possibilities of a free society. Positivism does not permit sociological inquiry into these types of structural, historical, ethical, and hermeneutical questions. Reason cannot speak to them, reason cannot reflect upon them, and reason cannot evaluate them.
Issues of objectivity and rationality, as well as issues of methods and logics of inquiry, are intimately connected with issues of labor, power, and political oppression. Different methods give voice to alternative ideas, multiple views of science, forgotten dreams, the potential hidden in exploited social structures, and repressed human needs. Consideration of the institutional and historical nature of reification, unconscious repression, distorted communication, and economic exploitation requires different methodological procedures which Habermas investigates in Knowledge and Human Interests (1968) and in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967 and 1970). But, it is in his major metatheoretical and methodological work, The Theory of Communicative Action (1981), that Habermas, leaving behind his earlier Kantian and transcendental approach to sociology, attempts a comprehensive integration of theory and methods by borrowing from the diverse literature of classical and contemporary sociology through his phenomenological reconstruction of the history of Western social thought from Marx to Parsons.
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Science says!
Any time you're using the construction "science says..." as a way of being debate-endingly authoritative, you're pretty much an idiot. Because there's no "word of science," it's not one thing. There's just a community of scientists. A lot of them disagree, some of them do crappy research, and a ton of them do research on something very limited that gets turned into a huge generality in the popular press. A study titled "Daily cycles of mating frequency and melatonin levels in female mice" almost inevitably turns into "WOMEN ARE HORNIER AT NIGHT, SCIENCE SAYS."
Which is why, even though I love Cracked dearly and have nothing but respect for their handsome and brilliant writing staff, I'm really annoyed by this:
6 Absurd Gender Stereotypes (That Science Says Are True)
So what does Science really say?
Women Can't Drive and Park For Shit
Actual research: "In one [test], volunteers had to swim through an underwater maze to find a hidden platform, while the second involved exploring radial arms projecting from a central junction to receive 'rewards'."
Men Are Freaking Slobs
Actual research: "Female subjects whose odour sensitivity was tested many times, were able to detect the cherry-almond smell of benzaldehyde and a few other odours at progressively much lower concentrations. Male subjects taking part in similar tests never improved their ability to identify odours with experience."
Women Are Wimps
Actual research: "Scientists tested analgesic drugs on mice unable to produce the GIRK2 protein. [...] male mutants had lower pain thresholds than normal male mice. Female mutants exhibited a tolerance comparable to that of their normal counterparts, however, suggesting that GIRK2 is responsible for sex differences in pain sensitivity."
Women Love to Talk (and Talk)
Actual research:"The volume of the superior temporal cortex, expressed as a proportion of total cerebral volume, was significantly larger in females compared with males (17.8% increase; P = .04). This was accounted for by 1 section of the superior temporal cortex, the planum temporale, which was 29.8% larger in females (P = .04). In addition, the cortical volume fraction of the Broca area in females was 20.4% larger than in males (P = .05)."
Women See Mauve, Men See Purple
Actual research: "The current study presents nucleotide sequence analyses and tests of neutrality for a 5.5-kb region of the X-linked long-wave “red” opsin gene (OPN1LW) in 236 individuals from ethnically diverse human populations. [...] Our results suggest that subtle changes in L-cone opsin wavelength absorption may have been adaptive during human evolution."
(Also, see xkcd's amateur but actually-relevant take on the subject.)
Women Are Lightweights
Actual research: The renowned scholars at www.bloodalcohol.info. No derivable link to published research.
Science doesn't say this shit. People get preconceptions from eighth-graders and sitcoms, selectively look for research that says something sort of relevant to the general topic, then feel free to say ridiculous shit and back it up with "it's not an opinion, it's a FACT because SCIENCE SAYS."
Let me put it this way: if you had absolutely no preconceptions about male and female driving, and you read the study about people swimming through underwater mazes, would you spontaneously cry out "Why, this must mean women can't drive!"?
If your logic doesn't work forwards... you're a sexist idiot and you also eat poop. I know that might sound harsh, but it's not me saying that, it's SCIENCE.*
*Pervocracy, H. (2010). Coprophagy, verbal reasoning, and appreciation of Gloria Steinem in the domestic guinea pig. The Massachusetts National American Northeast International Journal of Science, 531-8008.
Tags: evopsych, feminism, someone is wrong on the internet
Eve May 10, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Comrade PhysioProf May 10, 2010 at 8:37 PM
If your logic doesn't work forwards... you're a sexist idiot and you also eat poop.
Yep. This is exactly why "evolutionary psychology" as currently practiced is a complete load of total horseshit. (BTW, found your blog via belledame of Fetch Me My Axe.)
belledame222 May 11, 2010 at 4:21 AM
Ev Psych Bingo
"Women like pink things, possibly because of berries in a forest."
elmo iscariot May 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM
A big part of science misapplication may simply be that so many people underappreciate the amount of time it takes for the really solid conclusions to shake out from all the chaff. The scientific method is the best tool we have for investigating the world, but it can take a generation or more to get a really confident understanding of the core principles of a contentious field of research. But many people want to start drawing conclusions (or worse, setting legal policies) "based on the science" while the debate's still in relative infancy.
Drawing broad conclusions from individual studies may just be an extreme form of the same principle.
jfpbookworm May 11, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Every time I read something like "science says," I can't help but hear it in the voice of Magnus Pyke from that Thomas Dolby video.
artsynomad May 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Thank you! I had a pretty similar reaction. Also, regarding female drivers - a lot of companies give women a small car insurance discount because they statistically get in fewer accidents than men. Sooo... Cracked is wrong or insurance companies are and I'm willing to bet insurance companies do more research considering their profits are on the line.
aebhel May 11, 2010 at 8:16 PM
artsynomad--
Well, yeah, but that's just because women are more cautious drivers, not because we're better ones. It's 'cause we're to cowardly to drag race down busy streets at 80 mph.
...or, you know, too smart.
Evolutionary psychology as practiced by amateur scientists makes me want to beat my head against a wall.
Dw3t-Hthr May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Language Log on women talking.
For, you know, ACTUAL SOME NEARLY SCIENCE.
Mary Kaye May 14, 2010 at 7:58 PM
It's not limited to gender studies, alas.
I worked in a lab trying to understand the genetics of insulin-dependent diabetes. (The one that can't be considered a "lifestyle disease," so it's pretty apolitical as medical topics go.)
One day we heard on the radio that insulin-dependent diabetes had been solved by a group at Stanford. We were, to put it mildly, surprised. Why hadn't we heard?
Then we saw the paper. It didn't solve IDDM. It hardly even scratched the surface. But oh boy, it was linked to a *patent application*, so sexy! And you could squint at it and say, maybe this is going to be the solution. (Though as it turns out, it wasn't.)
Science reporting occasionally rises to competence but most of it is frightfully bad. I can't read _Psychology Today_, I just want to throw things. Hard pointy things. At the authors and editors.
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1st Prague (Czech Republic) Scout Group z.s. is an international Scout Group part of British Scouting Overseas.
It is an officially registered Czech Republic spolek (Association) Id Number 04755057. Equivalent to a UK charity.
The group provides Scouting to international English speaking young people based in Prague the capital city of The Czech Republic.
We have had members from a number of countries including Britain, Finland, USA, Iceland, Italy, France and Libya.
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It was started in 2014 and is run entirely by adult volunteers who give their time for free to support the group.
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All the adults in the group are volunteers and do not get paid for the work they do supporting young people in the group.
The Group Scout Leader manages the Group and is responsible for its support and development and the programme of activities it offers to young people.
The Group Chairman and the Group Executive Committee support the Group Scout Leader and ensure the effective administration of the Scout Group. The Group Scout Leader nominates the Group Chairman and the relationship should be one of partnership and mutual support.
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Through the Uprights: Mike Lavieri 8/18
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By Mike Lavieri PrepsKC staff writer
Posted: August 18, 2015 - 6:12 AM
I don’t know about you, but I’m elated for Sept. 4 to arrive.
There is nothing like Friday Night Lights, and see communities come together to watch the local high schools.
When I left the Shawnee Dispatch and Bonner Springs Chieftain nine months ago, I knew I would miss being on the sidelines, but I didn’t know how much until I didn’t cover any basketball in the winter or baseball in the spring.
My love is writing about sports and I’m happy to be back at it after a way-too-long hiatus.
Before we get into why I’m excited about this year, a little about myself. I’m a 2012 journalism graduate from the University of Kansas. I covered Kansas basketball and football while in Lawrence, and have spent much of the last few years since I graduated around the high school sports scene in Kansas City, specifically the Sunflower and Kaw Valley leagues.
This season marks the beginning of the end.
Next season we’ll see Mill Valley High leave the Kaw Valley for green pastures in the Eastern Kansas League. St. James Academy will join the Jaguars, as it will have a league home for the first time in school history.
With MVHS’s departure, this will be the final season where every team will be playing for second place, even though Mill Valley is playing an independent schedule.
This season also marks the final season for Class 5A and 6A where there is district play the last three weeks of the season.
I’ve never been a fan of districts and I voice that in one of my final columns at the Shawnee Dispatch.
Districts don’t reward teams for playing well for six weeks only to go 1-2 in the final three weeks and miss the playoffs. A team goes 7-2 and misses the playoffs, but a team that goes 0-6, then 2-1 makes the playoffs? Something isn’t right, and I’m happy to see KSHSAA finally do something about it.
The playoffs are reserved for the teams that play consistently throughout the year, not the final three weeks. It will be interesting to see in 2016 how ties are broken.
But until then, we’re going to see the broken system for one more year. Let’s hope the trial run in 5A and 6A goes well so the lower classes shackles of district will become undone.
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US stands with India on fighting terrorism, Pompeo tells Gokhale
Last Updated: Tue, Mar 12, 2019 10:25 hrs
New York: The US stands with India in fighting terrorism, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale during their discussions on the "urgency" of Pakistan taking action against terror groups, according to an official.
In the first high-level face-to-face India-US encounter after the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, Pompeo "affirmed that the US stands with the people and government of India in the fight against terrorism", State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino said on Monday after the talks in Washington.
He said that they discussed "the importance of bringing those responsible for the attack to justice and the urgency of Pakistan taking meaningful action against terrorist groups operating on its soil".
Gokhale is on a three-day visit to Washington for diplomatic consultations and strategic security dialogue with the US. He is scheduled to meet Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson. He will also hold talks with other US lawmakers.
The Indian Embassy in Washington said in a statement: "Pompeo expressed his understanding of India's concerns regarding cross-border terrorism. They agreed that Pakistan needs to take concerted action to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure and to deny safe haven to all terrorist groups in its territory.
"They also agreed that those who support or abet terrorism in any form should be held accountable."
Gokhale "conveyed appreciation to the US government and to Secretary Pompeo personally for the firm support that India received from the US in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Pulwama", the statement added.
The two leaders appreciated "the significant progress and the quality of the India-US Strategic Partnership", following Pompeo's visit to India last September for the first Ministerial 2+2 Dialogue of the foreign policy and defence leaders.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence Minister Nirmala Seetharaman and then-US Defence Secretary James Mattis were at the meeting.
He also apprised Pompeo about the recent developments in the region, it said.
Last month, the Pulwama terror attack carried out by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel.
India launched an attack on terrorist camp in Pakistan and an air skirmish between the two neighbours followed during which an Indian MiG-21 was shot down and its pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was captured by Pakistan. He was later released after Pompeo's intense diplomacy.
Through the crisis, US President Donald Trump, Pompeo and US National Security Adviser John Bolton backed India's opposition to cross-border terrorism.
Later on Monday evening, Pompeo said at a news conference that during their talks he had asked India to join the US-led boycott of Venezuela's oil.
"I'm confident that they too understand the real threat to the Venezuelan people.
"We're asking the same thing of India as we are of every country: Do not be the economic lifeline for the Maduro regime," he said.
He declined to say what Gokhale's reaction was. "I certainly won't characterise the conversations; they're private conversations."
The US and its allies have derecognised Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's President following the nation's upheaval over last year's elections that the National Assembly has declare invalid and recognised Juan Guaido, who proclaimed himself as the country's interim President in Jnauary, as the country's leader.
Palladino said that Gokhale and Pompeo "noted the strength of our partnership and discussed ways to further enhance cooperation, including on counter-terrorism".
Gokhale and Pompeo "discussed our complementary visions for the Indo-Pacific, US-India defence cooperation, and the growing US-India economic partnership, including joint efforts to expand bilateral trade in a balanced and reciprocal manner", he said.
Responding to Pompeo's reference to bilateral trade matters, Gokhale "underscored the significant reduction in trade deficit in the last three years and conveyed India's willingness to remain engaged with the US for a meaningful and mutually acceptable package on trade issues" the embassy said.
The Gokhale-Pompeo meeting took place against the backdrop of Trump ending tariff concessions worth $5.6 billion top India last week under the General Scheme of Preferences citing what he called New Delhi's failure to provide "equitable and reasonable access" for US to its markets.
The embassy said that Afghanistan also figured in their talks.
At the height of the tensions between India and Pakistan last month, Pompeo had spoken by phone with Swaraj and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in an effort to tamp down the rising hostility.
(Arul Louis can be reached at arul.l@ians.in and followed on Twitter @arulouis)
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Travis served with the Fort Lauderdale Christmas Pageant from 1984 to 1997, the last eight years as Production Manager. In 1995, God gave Travis the vision to take a similar production to Russia and through Revelation Ministries has shared the gospel with music and drama locally in South Florida as well as in the Ukraine, Russia, England and Israel. To date, Revelation Ministries has produced and performed seven original productions to include He Lives!, Devil or Angel?, The Scarlet Thread, and Everlasting Joy– at churches, universities, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, performing arts centers and retirement homes.
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Doujin Shmups #8
Ray-Hound (2007)
By: Hikware Software Genre: Shooting Players: 1 Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Featured Version: PC First Day Score: 160,800
As usual, the hi-res graphics don't like being resized...
Since beginning coverage of the immense ocean of fan-made games here at Red Parsley I've discovered some impressive but somewhat generic titles, but also a few creative, slightly more unusual efforts. The oddly-named Ray-Hound is definitely one that falls into the latter category. While technically a shmup, it also contains strategic and puzzley elements, and even features mandatory mouse controls! There are no intros or options or anything like that though - when you start the game you'll find yourself in control of a small rocket which starts the game in the middle of a circular 'arena' featuring a hexagonal honeycomb pattern and measuring approximately three screens in diameter. Somewhere within this arena are several gun turrets which automatically track your ship and fire lasers at it in a repeating pattern. The object on each of the many stages is simply to destroy all the gun turrets within the time limit. The only problem is, your ship has no weapons!
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Lynx Round-Up #1
Not long ago I spent a good while playing many arcade conversions on Atari's bulky handheld which culminated in a list of what I felt were the best ones - the Top Five Lynx Arcade Conversions. However, if there's any system that's famous for how much of its back-catalogue is made up of games of this type it's the Lynx, and, as I learned, there are more than just five good ones! To that end, here's a random selection of five more including, I hope, some corkers:
APB (1990)
This overhead cops 'n' robbers game was was an eye-catching and intriguing title in its day which saw you, as 'Officer Bob', charged with taking down a set quota of wrongdoers per stage. There were a few conversions (including an excellent Speccy effort) but, like most Atari coin-ops of the day it also saw a release on the Lynx where, to my surprise, its vertical view is not used. This means the action is confined to barely two thirds of a horizontally-viewed game area and accordingly things are quite a bit slower than the nippy arcade game and feature less-complex stages as well, but that doesn't mean it's any easier! Indeed, you're not playing a rogue cop so anything you do remotely wrong earns you a 'demerit', and enough of these can swiftly result in you being fired and therefore game over. APB is tough and can often be frustrating, but it's a decent conversion all things considered, and also proves to be a fairly original and rather addictive overhead racer... 7/10
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Overhead Racers #14
Championship Sprint (1986)
By: Atari Genre: Overhead Racing Players: 1-2
Difficulty: Medium Featured Version: Arcade
Also Available For: Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Download For: PlayStation Network
'Super' and 'Championship' - both great title screens...
It was a long time ago now but I'm quite confident the first time I ever played an example of an overhead racing game was when I received a a shiny cassette copy of Super Sprint for my Speccy sometime back in the late 80's. It ruled and it wasn't long before I sought out - and found, surprisingly - the mighty arcade machine from which it was derived. This ruled even more as it came equipped with three whirly steering wheels with which three players could wage an asphalt-based war. However, later the very same year that Atari released this instant-classic, they also released another game called Championship Sprint which was far less well-known. It even came bundled with my Speccy version of Super Sprint but I don't remember ever getting around to playing it. As with so many other such related matters though, it's lingered somewhere in my mind until today when this very blog gives me the chance to finally see just how different it is from its big brother.
Labels: Company - Atari, Game Reviews, Games - Overhead Racers, System - Arcade
3DO Games #5
Return Fire (1994)
By: Silent Software Genre: Strategy / Shooting Players: 1-2 Difficulty: Medium
Featured Version: 3DO
Also Available For: PlayStation, PC
The culmination of RF's dramatic title sequence...
As technically impressive as the 3DO was for its day, it's a sad fact that anyone who met the rather immense outlay required to own one had little in the way of high-quality games to play on it, and even less that actually made use of the new machine's impressive abilities. One game that appeared to do just that, however, was Return Fire, and it was an exclusive too! Well, until the 3DO started floundering at least, at which point it was also released on the PS1 and PC, but still - for a while, 3DO owners had something to show off, and it was a game worthy of envy. It's a simple military-based strategic frolic at heart which pits two forces against one another - green and brown. Player one controls the latter while a second player or the console itself controls the former, and the object is simply to seize your opponent's flag and return it to your base. As you might expect, however, it's not quite that simple.
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Adult Games #3
Gals Panic! (1990)
By: Kaneko Genre: Puzzle Players: 1-2 Difficulty: Medium
The more I look into these so-called 'adult games', the more I discover the same old formula. Take a liked, well-known, simple title, copy it, and add some naked (or at least scantily-clad) girlies while doing so. It's not a very complicated process and neither are the games that generally result from such unions. Arriving courtesy of the reasonably-prolific Japanese arcade outfit, Kaneko, this effort graced a small number of the world's arcades at the start of the 90's and followed a similar trend. The game on which it's based is Taito's classic 'space-filling' puzzler, Qix, and that means that, unless executed with exceptional incompetence, it should at least be a pretty darn addictive game!
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Top Five Master System Arcade Conversions
Some of the harsher critics of Sega's charming Master System might suggest that one of the few reasons to own one would be for the generally splendid quality of its arcade conversions. Many of these were conversions of Sega's own arcade games of course but, strangely, it wasn't the only place to find most of these. Games such as OutRun, Space Harrier, After Burner, Shinobi, etc, could be found on the NES, PC Engine, and other rival systems which meant the MS didn't always host the finest home versions of their games. It did still receive some spiffing conversions though, and here are five of the best:
5. R-Type (1988)
Considering its popularity, I've always found it amazing that R-Type was never converted to more systems, especially certain consoles. The PC Engine version is of course amazing (although split over two HuCards) but, unless you were lucky enough to own NEC's box of tricks, this MS version has long been widely regarded as the next best thing, and such a reputation is more than deserved. It suffers from the usual sprite-flicker, some sprites are a bit smaller, and the scenery and background graphics disappear to accommodate the large bosses, but apart from these points the MS has produced a splendid version of Irem's classic. The stages are well reproduced (and there's even a secret one!), the music is great, and the most difficult part of the arcade version to duplicate - the fancy graphics and large bosses - are also mighty impressive. A sterling effort then, and one of the best shmups on the MS.
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Shadow Dancer (1990)
By: Sega Genre: Platform/Fighting Players: 1 Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Featured Version: Sega MegaDrive / Genesis First Day Score: 395,200
It at least has a better title screen...
Sega's mighty MegaDrive was their most popular console and one of the reasons for that is the many ultra-spiffing arcade conversions it played host to. Among these must surely have been the second Shinobi game which had graced arcades of the world around the time the MD itself was being unleashed. Oddly, however, Sega instead opted to release a mostly-new game bearing the same name, but with the added subtitle of 'The Secret of Shinobi'. They seem to have had some trouble deciding whether to follow the same story or not though. The hero in the white pyjamas is either the legendary Joe Musashi in the UK version, or Hayate (Joe's son, as in the arcade game) in the Japanese version, both of which grace my collection. The objective in both versions is more akin to the original Shinobi than its sequel though, which sees you rescuing various hostages taken by evil terrorist organisation, Union Lizard, who have occupied New York City and run amok.
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Raiden (1990)
By: Seibu Kaihatsu Genre: Shooting Players: 1 Difficulty: Hard
Also Available For: PlayStation, PC Engine, FM Towns Marty, Lynx, Jaguar, Falcon, PC
For the longest time now I've been meaning to give the much-revered Raiden a thorough once over. I've played it a couple of times over the years and, while it never exactly blew me away, it did tickle me enough to leave this nagging desire to dissect it properly. Its name is arguably more famous than the game itself, which is understandable since, as well as giving rise to a long series, it also happens to mean 'Thunder and Lightning' in Japanese! A fearsome name like that certainly gives it a lot to live up to but you wouldn't know it from the story which is the usual nonsense: set in 2090, you (and a friend) are charged with seeing off some invading alien buffoons called the 'Cranassians'.
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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended . Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in her idyllic world was ripped apart as. Book Review. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Immaculée Ilibagiza. (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, ) Hardcover.
As unspeakable evil spreads around her, and she has to dig deeper and deeper to find compassion, hope, and ultimately the kind of genuine forgiveness that offers redemption.
Left to Tell will leave you breathless and falling to your knees with renewed faith. Would we allow fear and desperation to fill us with hatred or despair? And should we survive, would our spirit be poisoned, or would we be able to rise from the ashes still encouraged to fulfill our purpose in life, still able to give and receive love? In the tradition of Viktor Frankl and Anne Frank, Immaculee is living proof that human beings can not only withstand evil, but can also find courage in crisis, and faith in the most hopeless of situations.
She gives us the strength to find wisdom and grace during our own challenging times. You will never forget Immaculee and what it means to embrace life in the darkest of times. This book moved me in unimaginable ways, and reminded me once again about the immense grace that is born out of faith and forgiveness. This is a book that defies adequate description.
I marveled at her amazing faith and her willingness to forgive and love. It inspired me to serve more willingly, to be more informed, and to try to put my life in God's hands. Dec 03, Liaken rated it liked it Shelves: I haven't read much about the Rwandan genocide because it still feels so close. It hurts me too deeply to realize that this happened in my conscious lifetime.
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But a close friend of mine said she kept thinking I should read this book and then lent it to me. Well, I read it. And here is my review. I'll address it in two parts: The Story and The Writing.
The Story: It is terrifying to see an entire country collapse into rampant mob-murder. I can't really take it in entirely. It's too much to think th I haven't read much about the Rwandan genocide because it still feels so close.
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It's too much to think that people could kill their neighbors that they've loved. It is inspiring to see Immaculee hold on to God to make it through these atrocities. I'm amazed that she can look at the man who led the mob that killed several in her family and say "I forgive you. There's a problem here.
I can feel Immaculee's voice underneath it--her efforts to put this story into words. I can feel her desperation and horror, her peace and faith. She's there. But heavily on top of her voice is the "with Steve Erwin. Added to this is the very strange problem of using language from Western New Age ideas to describe her use of faith and prayer.
The term "positive thinking" and related terms and ideas are very heavy toward the end of the book. The preface is by Wayne Dyer, and in the acknowledgments, he is praised as the one who made the writing of the book possible.
And his deep fingerprints are visible in this book. This really cheapened the story for me and made me angry that some American would use this woman's survival to forward his own philosophies. Saying that prayer and "positive thinking" are the same, which the book literally does, collides thoroughly with the desperate, meditative, almost trance-like prayer that Immaculee holds on to through her hiding and even after.
It feels imposed and false. This really is my big hangup with the book: There is, of course, something to be said for positive thinking, but to have this extreme version of this concept in the middle of a story, a real story, where so many people died who may have been thinking positively, too, you know , it rings false.
I'm glad that she was able to tell her story. And I think it will help people. But I wish that others hadn't imposed their agenda on this book shame on you, Wayne Dyer.
Teri's pick for January Amazing survival story! Through her ordeal, she was isolated with 7 other women for 3 months in a tiny bathroom. She turned to prayer and meditation as she had no idea how long this ordeal would last. Through this horror, she became closer to God.
She listened to inspiration from God and it saved her life and the lives of those with her. It was a great reminder that money and power can influence people to do evil.
Slowly, people can be influenced to believe things that are not true or act inhuma Amazing survival story! Slowly, people can be influenced to believe things that are not true or act inhumanly based on subtle propaganda.
Her ability to forgive allowed her to move on with her life and help others. I brought him to you to question. Mar 06, Karin rated it really liked it Shelves: This story starts with her struggle to get to university, and then how that was torn away once the civil war and the enormous genocide in this small country began.
She spent three months hidden in a 3 foot by 4 foot bathroom along with other women. Although I didn't think I would give this book this many stars at 3. Although I didn't think I would give this book this many stars at first, it was a powerful tale of survival and one woman's account of how she survived this and later began to work for the UN, and how she seeks to help other survivors. Apr 28, Hafsah M rated it really liked it.
Imagine being in a closet sized bathroom with 7 strangers for 91 days. Most of us cannot even imagine this.
Immaculee Ilibagiza lived this horror during the Rwandan Genocide in I was very surprised upon reading this novel. Immaculee is brought up in a very religious household and being a minority never crossed her mind.
In Rwanda there are two tribes, Imagine being in a closet sized bathroom with 7 strangers for 91 days. In Rwanda there are two tribes, the Hutus and the minority: These Tutsis lived in the same neighborhoods, went to the same schools, churches etc but when the government calls for all the Tutsis to be killed, the extremist Hutus go at it. First the killers shot them with machine guns, and then they threw grenades at them.
Similarly in Nazi Germany, the minority is wrongly viewed and treated. I personally and disgusted by some of the things that people considered to be okay to do back in the day but we need to understand that this was just considered the norm.
Immaculee is inspiring in this beautiful story where she describes her relationship with god. I surrendered my thoughts to God every day when I retreated to that special place in my heart to communicate with Him. That place was like a slice of heaven, where my heart spoke to His holy spirit, and His spirit spoke to my heart. I personally really liked how Immaculee talked about how God gave her strength to get through such a hard time in her life.
She is truly an inspiration to women everywhere. She is like a bird, soaring over all her problems and eventually being free. This book is an eye opener to a horrific genocide that was forgotten in history. It tells the story of a smart young girl named Immaculee and her journey with forgiveness.
It reminds us the power of god and that shows us how a corrupt government can affect minorities. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone and everyone.
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It is a story about an event lost in history that needs to not be forgotten. At the end of the day, this book reminds me of how blessed and lucky I am to be living the life I am living in a free country. Jan 05, Oliver rated it really liked it Shelves: Reading this book is a pretty sobering experience. Like Anne Frank, Ilibagiza is not writing about the history, politics, or culture of her country, or of the genocide, but rather how it affected her although Ilibagiza's recount is obviously more Reading this book is a pretty sobering experience.
Like Anne Frank, Ilibagiza is not writing about the history, politics, or culture of her country, or of the genocide, but rather how it affected her although Ilibagiza's recount is obviously more intentional. Her story is despairing and hopeful all at once.
So what can one say about a book like this? The writing style is simple, and the book is pretty short, so it is a quick, easy atrocities aside read. But the events are not really what leaves the impression.
And then pretend that instead of walking of that bathroom after three months weighing a mere 65 pounds, might I add , strengthened in your faith and actively forgiving those guilty of slaughtering your whole family. However, this is neither the most appropriate time nor place for that debate. Suffice it to say that it feels like Ilibagiza is just short-changing herself - her persistence, resilience, and benevolence. Call it karma, or divine intervention, or simply getting out what you put in, or whatever you want; the fact remains that Ilibagiza is certainly one of the most impressive and inspirational people I know of.
Her story is honest, touching, and life-affirming; and readers can certainly learn something about love, equality, life, and passion from it, regardless of religion or race.
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Feb 28, Debbie rated it it was amazing Shelves: I've had this book sitting on my nightstand for several weeks, after checking it out from the library thanks to many recommendations from friends and acquaintances. I'm so glad I finally made the time to read it. It really is a page turner and doesn't take long to get through it. Once you begin you can't put it down, in part because you want the suffering to end. Left to Tell is the true and horribly detailed account of a tremendous evil that left over one million dead--most of them chopped to de I've had this book sitting on my nightstand for several weeks, after checking it out from the library thanks to many recommendations from friends and acquaintances.
Left to Tell is the true and horribly detailed account of a tremendous evil that left over one million dead--most of them chopped to death with machetes by their own friends and neighbors at the urging of the government, while the United States and the rest of the civilized world did nothing. The Rwandan genocide lasted only about one hundred days, but in that brief span of time, the ruling Hutus brutally murdered over their Tutsi countrymen.
Any Hutu who resisted or sheltered Tutsis was also brutally murdered. Husbands were made to watch their wives being gang raped before they were slaughtered. Mothers watched their babies being slashed to death, or had their babies left motherless on the road while they were killed. The atrocities that were committed are mind-boggling and left me feeling bitter and angry at the perpetrators and our own government for doing nothing. But the message of this book isn't about violence or atrocities or retribution or blame.
It is about forgiveness, love, hope, prayer and God's loving kindness. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
I know I needed a shot in the arm to remind me of the bounteous blessings I have living in this country. Despite my concern about the Obama presidency and their blatant anti-life agenda, their smug arrogance regarding global warming and their socialistic ideas of big government, I have it pretty darned good.
For starters, I can walk down the street without fear that my neighbors could chop me to pieces. She learned to connect herself to God and He gave her the strength she needed to endure the tremendous hardships of her bathroom imprisonment as well as facing the heart-wrenching horrors of apocalyptic proportions during and after the genocide.
Don't let the forward by Dr. Wayne Dyer distract you from the amazing book. I was a little put-off by his description of Immaculee as "Divine" and his comparison of her to an Indian woman "who some believe is the Divine Mother. Surely there are a host of Rwandan martyrs looking down on us from heaven. After reading this story, I'm convinced among them must be the family of Immaculee and that she may be a living saint. Sep 15, Kendra rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: I have to be honest, I don't really want to read this book because it hurts my heart too much.
I heard Immaculee speak at a banquet. I was captivated by her story while I sobbed , and found myself marveling at how vastly different our life can be, even in our modern world. I recommend this book to everyone even though I have not read it , because it is an unbeleiveable story.
From what I have been told it is mildly graphic and horrific as she describes the massacre of her own family and the at I have to be honest, I don't really want to read this book because it hurts my heart too much. From what I have been told it is mildly graphic and horrific as she describes the massacre of her own family and the atrocities of the Rwandan genocides, but also inspiring as she describes the nightmare, how she survived it, and how she forgave and moved forward. Overall, it's a book about learning to forgive, and not letting hatred rule your life.
Nov 26, Amy J rated it it was amazing. This book is much like "The Hiding Place" in its focus on forgiveness and God's love and support through such great trials. It is very difficult to get through, with details of the violence and horror that were a part of this genocide.
Very disturbing. Most distressing to me though, was how much about this event I didn't know. It's hard to imagine that we live in a world where things like this happen, and we don't tune in or send help. I think of W. Auden's poem, "Musee des Beaux Arts," and I am ashamed. Oct 25, Brooke rated it it was amazing Shelves: For all the books I have read in my lifetime, none have touched me and inspired me and challenged my faith as this one.
The reality and really words Ilibagiza uses to describe the horror that affected an entire country startled me. I cried through every chapter. I thought of God on every page.
I'll never be the same after reading this book. Anyone who reads my review, read this book. Read it! Read it with a compassionate and open heart and your world will be changed. May 01, Ron Wroblewski rated it it was amazing Shelves: Marvelous personal story of her being saved from a massacre. I did meet her at a conference where Wayne Dyer was sponsoring her as a speaker. Apr 28, Kimberly K added it. Lost, stuck and nowhere to run. This is what was happening to the Tutsi's in the country of Rwanda.
Everywhere they looked there was the Hutu killers swiping at them with machetes and rifles. Immaculee Ilibagiza takes us through her 91 day journey of being hunted because of what she was; a Tutsi.
Through her journey she discovered God, who got her through the 91 days of being trapped in a tiny bathroom with 6 other women. Left to Tell would be a 4 out of 5 stars. It shows what she is feeling and Lost, stuck and nowhere to run. It shows what she is feeling and I think that you can easily envision what is going on.
Immaculee Ilibagiza writes her story as a movie. You can really picture what is going on and you can connect with her based on what she is feeling or how she uses her faith to keep her going. I would take a star away because some parts of the book were bland or dry to read. I felt like i wanted to just skip ahead and just find out what happens next. The ending of the book reminds me of my life a little.
I have been through rough patches and all but I have lived in the moment and kept faith close to me. Immaculee cherishes her faith throughout the whole book and that is what keeps her going.
I understand her because when you're going through a tough time in your life, you may feel like there's nothing left for you. I have felt this way before but I rethought about it and got through the tough time.
Immaculee's faith has been tested throughout the whole book but it isn't until the end where it is truly tested. Faith is a big and challenging aspect in this book and it needs to be known. Notify me when this product is available: Left To Tell by Immaculee tells her miraculous story of surviving the Rwandan genocide.
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.
It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love-a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family's killers.
The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman's journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss. In this captivating and inspiring book, Immacuee shows us how to embrace the power of prayer, forge a profound and lasting relationship with God, and discover the importance of forgiveness and the meaning of truly unconditional love and understanding—through our darkest hours.This searing firsthand account of Ilibagiza's experience cuts two ways: her description of the evil that was perpetrated, including the brutal murders of her family members, is soul-numbingly devastating, yet the story of her unquenchable faith and connection to God throughout the ordeal uplifts and inspires.
Angelika It depends on the student. His faithful promises are your armor. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman's journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss. It is this unsettling tension between horror and faith that haunted me long after my tears and nausea had subsided. Barbara Bush spoke for many when she said of the Houston Astrodome Refugess: The killers came to the home she was hidden in regularly, calling her name.
The Nazi Holocaust took off from the nearly exact same foundation of social and class prejudice against the Jews. I wish they had published her words. The majority of the killing was done with macheties and in many cases the killers and victims knew each other, were neighbors, had grown-up together and gone to school together.
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A little known fact is the important role RAF Cardington played in the rebuilding of the Dutch Air Force towards the end of the Second World War and in the years immediately after. In May 1940 following both an aerial and ground assault the Germans overran Holland destroying much of its air fleet in the process. Some of the pilots of the Dutch Royal Flying Corps and The Naval Air Service managed to escape to France and many arrived in England to form two Dutch squadrons within the RAF. By 1943 the Dutch Spitfire Squadron 322 manned entirely by Dutch personnel was formed in England.
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Dutch military heads regrouped in London and began making plans to form a National Dutch Air Force when the war came to an end. In early 1945 Holland was slowly liberated and young Dutch volunteers were selected and sent over to the Recruitment Training Centre at Cardington for basic training. These young recruits spent almost 4 months at Cardington before moving on to other centres for specialised training.
*Peter's book detailing stories of the Dutch recruits who arrived at Cardington.
This photograph taken from Peters book, shows a victorious Dutch football team with their winning trophy at Cardington in April 1945 having triumphed over teams from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The man centre sitting down is Camp Commander Arnold in charge of the station at the time.
*The above information has been taken from a wonderful book written by Dutchman Peter J Huijskens (shown right) called “Cardington – A Pillar in the Development of the post war Royal Netherlands Air Force.” (shown left). Peter was one of the young men sent to Cardington for training after the war and has an obvious affection for Cardington. He went on to have a very successful career in the Royal Netherlands Air Force. His book has many first hand stories and photographs of some of the young recruits and their seniors who spent time at Cardington and the extraordinary routes some of them took to reach England during the war. I would love to show more photographs from Peter's book but I have been unable to contact him to seek permission to do so - but his book deserves wider recognition for the information he has presented and I hope he is happy to see his work recognised here.
Author Peiter J Huijskens - himself a recruit at Cardington in 1945.
*Many thanks to Eastcotts Parish Council for the loan of this book.
Ben Evenboer in uniform.
One of the men featured in the book is Ben Evenboer who has made contact. Ben recounts “I got my basic training at Cardington and was posted to 13 O T U Croft near Darlington. In 1946 and 1947 I served at RAF Langham (Norfolk) at the first Dutch school of RNAF and Royal Naval Air Service technical training. At the moment I am 86 years and a retired First Lieut. Royal Army.”
Thank you Mr Evenboer for getting in touch.
Searching for information about Dutch Airman Jan Verrijt - can you help?
Above standing second from the right Dutch airman Jan Verrijt. Do you recognise him or any other of the airmen in this photograph?
Dutch airman Jan Verrijt. Do you recognise him?
This month we have heard from Robert van Staveren in Holland who is trying to find out more information about his second cousin who arrived at Cardington in 1945.
“I'm searching for information about my second (Dutch) cousin who went to Cardington in 1945. His name was Jan Verrijt. He got of course his English wings, and later his Dutch wings, pinned on by Prince Bernard.
From May 1945 until June 1947 he was at R.A.F. Cardington and Bridgenorth for ground school, and Wolverhampton for Tiger Moth training, then Spitalgate (Grantham) for Texan A-6 (Harvard training) and combat flying. From June 1947 he was at Airbase Twenthe in The Netherlands for B-25 Bomber training and later was flying photo reconnaissance missions in Indonesia. In September 1949 he was discharged with honour as first Lt.
On the picture with the Tiger Moth, he is second standing from the right.
Those are the things that I know from the letters he wrote to me, I don’t have his military reg. number or a date of birth. I can’t ask him anymore, since he and his wife passed away a couple of years ago.”
If anyone remembers Jan Verrijt please get in touch so Robert can learn more about his cousin. Thank you.
Hank Helmink's story 1945
We were pleased to hear from another Dutch gentleman who found his way to the station in 1945.
Here is his story:
"Hello Jane – here is my story
Early 1945 I left home, Nijmegen in The Netherlands, and ended up in Blankenberg Belgium. Here we got a ride in an L C T. There were 6 of us, it was a rough night. We landed in England in the morning, where I don’t know. Dry clothes and a warm breakfast was a good start. We were interrogated for two days. Next stop, Cardington, there I got my basic training. Then a transfer in to the Dutch Navy Airforce, more training in Dundee Scotland. Next a cruise to Shri Lanka then back to a Dutch 321 squadron in the R A F, to get in to Indonesia.
Two years in Soerabaja. Return to the Netherlands. Next trip on a maiden voyage on the Dutch aircraft carrier The Karel Doorman. After a couple of airforce stations in 1949 I got my discharge as a p/o aircraft man OVW. Next two years as a civil servant in the Navy Airforce before I emigrated to Canada and became a Canadian citizen."
Thank you Hank you certainly are well travelled!
Jan ter Doest - RAF Cardington January 1943
We have heard from Ineke ter Doest who is trying to find out more about his father Jan ter Doest who escaped from Holland and made his way to Enlgand and arrived at Cardington in January 1943. Ineke has also sent in his fathers service record which gives us a fascinating record of the movements of a young Dutch serviceman after his arrival in England.
" Dear Jane,
I am currently doing research on the wartime years of my Dutch late father, Jan ter Doest.
My father arrived in Cardington on 20 January 1943, after he had travelled from Holland to England thorough occupied Europe. Within the RAF he was first trained to become a ground engineer on Spitfires and subsequently managed to get trained as a fighter pilot.
Jan in 1943 part of a group photo of groundcrew (mechanic.)
Jan in 1945 when he had just got his pilot ‘wing’.
Jan in 2004.
From his work-file (service record) I understand that in January 1943 he was 'put to work' or 'housed' at the Balloon Development Establishment (BDE) in Cardington. But I don't know what the abreviation "P.I." means.
Could you help me out and/or can you tell me what he did in Cardington and where he was housed? Or can you bring me into contact with any-one else who can give me more information? From internet I learned that the BDE stopped to function in 1943.
Looking forward to hear from you, kind regards, Ineke ter Doest. "
From the above* it can be seen just how many postings Jan had since arriving at Cardington in January 1943. The Dutch Royal Air Force regrouped in the UK during the war and Jon seems to have led a rather nomadic existence being reposted almost on a monthly basis. One must assume that this was typical for all the Dutch airmen at the time. His record shows that between Jan 1943 - July 1945 Jan had served at no fewer than 17 stations.
Thank you so much Ineke for the information about your father - if anyone recognises Jan der Duest please make contact. And can anyone tell us what "P. I." means as mentioned by Ineke earlier?
*My apologies for the poor quality of the image I will try to make it clearer - Jane
If you have any stories to tell of the Dutch personnel who arrived at the camp in these years please get in touch.
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A knock on the door from a bureaucrat has led to nightmare lasting more than two years: leaving the family matriarch alone, isolated, and drugged, her daughter accused of theft, and her other daughter on the brink of being removed from the family home.
In January 2013, Tivia Olson a representative of Montgomery County Aging and Adult Services (MCAAS) showed up on the front door of Lillian Gibson’s home telling her that MCAAS had received a complaint that she was being financially exploited.
Several weeks later, Gibson, who was living in a home she shared with her daughter, Jocelyn “Austin” Gibson, received a letter from Montgomery County Orphan’s Court stating that the elder Gibson was suspected of being incapacitated and a hearing was scheduled to determine if she should be placed into guardianship, the case wound up in the court room of Judge Stanley Ott.
In late February 2013, Gibson hired Gerald Clark, an elder law lawyer, as her attorney but Ott barred Clark from representing her instead appointing Diane Zabowski as her counsel.
In April 2013, Ott ruled Gibson to be incapacitated and placed her in guardianship. Rather than appointing a family member guardian, Ott appointed Kalpana Doshi of Adjustments, Inc., as her guardian.
Kalpana, Zabowski, and MCAAS, didn’t respond to phone calls for comment. Judge Ott’s office has previously told Rebel Pundit that he, as a matter of policy, doesn’t comment on ongoing cases.
Ott made this determination after Robert Slutsky, a local attorney who was acting as the solicitor for MCAAS, accused Gibson’s daughter, Dr. Alvianette Gibson-Kennedy, of misspending $136,000 of her mother’s money, said she was malnourished and being fed a steady diet of junk, and also claimed she was totally incapacitated.
Slutsky, according to a lawsuit filed by the Gibson family, then introduced testimony from Gibson’s family’s long-time physician Gerald Hansen.
Slutsky asked Dr. Hansen, “Do you think Mrs. Gibson could be financially exploited?”
“Yes,” Dr. Hansen replied, though that reply could apply to every human.
Slutsky, an attorney, then listed off a series of ailments which he claimed Gibson suffered from as further evidence she needed to be incapacitated.
Both Alvianette and Austin Gibson denied misspending their mother’s funds and mistreating her in multiple court filings.
“Reverend Kennedy refuted the ‘alleged bank/accounting documentation as being inaccurate and unsubstantiated, that is to say, that no element of the banking documentation was certified either by a CPA or other credible source,” according to a lawsuit filed by the family.
Though Slutsky accused Dr. Kennedy of major theft, his accusation was made strictly in orphan’s court and this evidence has never been presented to the county’s district attorney’s office.
In a previous Rebel Pundit expose from Chicago, the Cook County Public Guardian similarly accused Stacey Willis of theft of more than $30,000 of her mother’s money, but only made that charge during guardianship and didn’t report it criminally.
Initially while in guardianship, Lillian Gibson was allowed to continue to living in the family home she shared with her daughter Austin but in April, after the guardian complained that the elder Gibson missed repeated doctor’s appointments, Gibson was moved to a nursing home, Spring Meadows in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
But Austin Gibson said this is not accurate.
“It was me who missed the appointments not my mother,” she said, something she made note of to several of the players in guardianship.
Austin Gibson, who doesn’t drive, said she’s seen her mother only about ten times since she’s been moved; she said they speak on the phone nearly every day.
Lillian Gibson was also put on a cocktail of drugs: donepezil for Alzheimers, diltiazem for high blood pressure, and hydrochlorothiazide also for high blood pressure.
Because her mother was moved out of the family home, a reverse mortgage came due and now Austin Gibson is being threatened with being evicted.
A reverse mortgage, available exclusively to elderly like Lillian Gibson, is a loan which rather than having payments due, gives a lump sum payment to the borrower which comes due when the borrower passes away or moves.
The Gibson family said that there was over $100,000 in the reverse mortgage account which has now disappeared.
“Even more to the point, when this all began, $114,000 was in an account from RMS (Reverse Mortgage Specialists, the reverse mortgage company). They are a reverse mortgage company. I have requested time and again that those funds be returned. According to Judge Ott’s order two years ago, those funds were to be returned. Yet, I am being told that the amount of the foreclosure is $190,000. Where is that money? Why hasn’t it been returned?” Austin Gibson wrote to Judge Ott and Zabowski in an email from June 22, 2015.
Starting in December 2014, RMS has sent a series of threatening letters demanding payment of more than $130,000 and has started foreclosure proceedings in the last two months.
The family also said they’ve never been told how much the nursing home costs monthly or how much of Lillian Gibson’s money has been spent on her behalf.
“They have not given my mother even a dollar to buy stockings with her own money.” Austin Gibson said.
In the beginning of June 2015, Lillian Gibson was transferred to Addington Lansdale Hospital with stomach pains. Though she had been diagnosed with dementia, Gibson was moved to the hospital in an isolated room with no guardian.
After being informed by Spring Meadows, Austin Gibson frantically called all involved in her mother’s care until reaching Doshi later that day.
“I don’t have time for this, I’m leaving to go on vacation; I have a flight to catch.” Austin Gibson remembers Doshi saying.
After pressure from the family, Lillian Gibson was transferred to Presbyterian Hospital where she was diagnosed with blockage in her intestines.
But purportedly a surgery was out of the question because with her dementia the surgery would kill her, doctors said.
Austin Gibson said a family doctor diagnosed her mother with dementia in 2012 but attributed that dementia to depression caused by the death of her husband. Austin said that while the dementia diagnosis was not used as evidence to put her mother into guardianship, it was used to put her into a wing of the nursing home which was far more expensive.
With death near, Diane Zabowski sent the family an email stating that she intended to file an emergency motion making Lillian Gibson’s two daughters her medical guardian.
Dr. Robinson informed me that, unfortunately, your Mother has a mass in her colon which is most likely cancerous. The location of this mass means that it has created a bowel obstruction. Abington wants to transfer your Mother to HUP for further evaluation.
I intend to file an Emergency Petition with the court to request that both of you be given the authority to make medical decisions and any end of life decisions for your Mother. I intend to email a consent form to you for your review and signature.
On June 17, 2015, Zabowski followed up with an email with an attachment with the order which she intended to file the next day making the two daughters guardians.
Later that same day, inexplicably, the surgery was approved and performed successfully, putting into doubt the diagnosis which has put Lillian Gibson into guardianship in the first place.
Zabowski never filed the order as promised and instead an emergency hearing was held and guardianship was changed temporarily from Doshi to Sheila Weiner of Intervention Associates. Neither of Gibson’s daughters attended this hearing because they were with their mother still recovering from surgery.
Weiner didn’t respond to an email for comment. The elder Gibson has been recovering nicely but continues to be in guardianship.
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Merry July 15, 2015
Does anyone know who is funding Montgomery County’s Aging and Adult Services? This appears to be a corrupt organization.
Bill Pierce July 16, 2015
This is in my county and the first I’ve heard of this. Not surprised though.
Coz July 15, 2015
Check what else is going on in your county. https://www.facebook.com/ShenanigansinMontcoPA
disgusted July 16, 2015
Q~ who informed MCAAS that she was being exploited?
Q~ who can I Inform that these court appointed attorneys & guardians are exploiting these poor people?
They need someone knocking on their door!
Many of us have gone to the FBI, and filed complaints with Kathleen Kane. Complaints have been filed with the Montgomery Co bar in which they found no wrong doing. Complaints have been filed with every member of the Pa State Assembly…which Judge Ott put in for an early retirement a few days after that but he is still on the bench. So basically nothing is being done. Complaints have been filed with licensing boards still no one sees anything wrong with anything. Everything they do is legal because he is the Judge the people voted him in and he gets away with this. His day will come when he stands in judgement with the ultimate Judge and his sentence will last for eternity.
Mary Whitten July 16, 2015
Thank you Rebel Pundit for exposing these people. Are you going to have a three part series on Judge Murphy in Montgomery County, PA next???
Elaine Renoire July 16, 2015
This case follows a pattern we hear far too often. A “suspicion” of financial exploitation leads to full-blown financial exploitation by the very system that claims to be protecting the elderly and disabled. Unlawful and abusive guardianships dissipate estates under color of law; and when that happens, the very agencies who initiated the guardianship proceedings refuse to get involved and help the victim or the victim’s family.
Thank you Michael Volpe, for continuing to bring these cases of injustice and tragedy to the public’s attention. Awareness leads to reform. We appreciate each and every story you have reported.
Join the national movement for reform of unlawful and abusive guardianships. Join NASGA!
mike ference July 16, 2015
Thanks to Mike Volpe, yet another criminal enterprise run by PA government has been exposed. Sadly, it doesn’t matter. PA judges like Ott are bought and sold like stolen merchandise at an outdoor flea market. I call it Synchronized Crime. Every level of PA government is corrupt. You can complain to the FBI, AG’s Office, United Nations. It doesn’t matter. These people are immune from any type of prosecution.
http://mikeference.blogspot.com/2014/01/pittsburgh-crime-family-underboss.html
All you have to do is connect the dots.
John coffee July 19, 2015
in my opinion, the best way to exposes this nonsense is what is happening right here. The pen is mightier then the sword! Let your voice ring out, shout it out to the mountain tops.
Through out history we have seen human plight won by one persons refusal to accept their condition for their people and for themselvesMartin Luther king, Ross parks, ghandi, mother Teresa, Jesus. Etc. We live in a world full of dispare and human suffering. Yet today there are just as in Jesus time the ” Phar
isee”. It should be of no surprise this condition exist. We have evil that surrounds us daily. We also have the good around us in the form of those who fight the injustice in the world who see the wrong and take up someone’s cause. Psalms 37. Tells us do not Fret! Wait on God. Possess the land and do good. Fretting leads to evil. Injustice will be dealt with by God and we will see it. Let’s take our time and collectively do good. Helping the most vulnerable in our society. The young and the old with good deeds that will give us a favorable light in this world.
God help us all!!! July 21, 2015
Just another family added to the long list of railroading,deception, elder snatching,financial exploitating, innuendo against the families, threats and inaccuracies that spill out of Judge Stanley R. OTT’s courtroom. How many of our elderly loved ones have to be isolated, chemically restrained, depressed, and die at the hands of this disgusting mockery of a court? These individuals are clearly educated enough to know exactly what they are doing, this is simply about greed,money and a total disregard of one’s wishes. The only way we win is to continue to stand firm in what we believe and speak out.. Austin, Alvianette and Lillian, God Bless…
Thank you rebel for another story well written, hopefully people have opened their eyes to see, this is real, this is scary and this is happening right before out noses..
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I had a Lehigh County judge take my father away from me with no incident of abuse or neglect. My father had a stroke in June 2015. After that, he lived at my home for 4 1/2 months with no hospital stay in that time. In less than 2 months of a guardianship hearing my father was dead. He passed away April 19, 2016. He gave up. A woman from Lehigh County Office of Aging who told me she was not trained yet and my brother who lived in Florida, were the 2 named as co-guardians and they ignored his pleas both verbally and in numerous letters to them, to be allowed to come to my home if only for a visit. He had nothing left, they took it all from him.
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An Interview with Mona Wolf, President and CEO of Wolf Group, and a founding member of the Society of Sensory Professionals (SSP).
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BY: ALEX PIERCE & MACKENZIE HANNUM
How one woman started a sensory consulting business when there was no place for a woman in Corporate America.
Mona Wolf grew up in Southern Indiana. She was a part of 4-H, loved food, cooking, baking and had a strong instinct for hospitality. She also found herself drawn to food development but lacked the awareness that food science could be anyone’s future profession.
Throughout her childhood, a woman in food industry equated to home economist, and Mona knew she didn’t want that. She wanted to be a professional. And once she landed at Purdue, a food science professional she became.
Growing up, Mona was one of four daughters where family dinner conversations revolved around her future as a teacher or a nurse. Despite her family’s norms, Mona believes that “she was just rebellious enough to think she could be a doctor instead.”
“That’s what we were pre-programmed to be. I just didn’t pre-program well. I wanted something more, something professional. I wasn’t looking to be second. I was looking to prove myself to me, that I could be anything I wanted to be.”
After Mona reached college and found her way to food science…
Mona jumped right into employment for a government research position that consisted of mostly lab-bench research, only to find out she hated it….
Within three months she was quickly offered another position at RT French in Rochester, NY where she worked for 6 years in product development. Over time, Mona found product development too isolating and felt it was not a great fit. Ready for another challenge, she decided to get her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) to support her business acumen. She fancies her drive was inspired by her grandmother who had been the “brains” behind her grandfather’s hardware business.
It just so happened at the time RT French was going through a period of layoffs, and Mona was one of them. So, with just couple of months remaining before receiving her MBA, a friend let her stay on their couch until graduation.
After graduating with her MBA, Mona interviewed with The Kroger Co. for a leadership position – Sensory Leader for quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC). Mona was candid about having minimal sensory experience, but Kroger claimed they would teach her everything she needed to know. They honored their word by training her and supporting her attendance to short courses, where she continued to learn outside of the company. Mona’s career in sensory science had begun. This position turned into a 10-year stay, but after a decade, with children at home, Mona found herself torn between being a full-time mother and a professional.
The beginning of the Wolf Group
“You have to be willing to take risks!”
Taking risks was a reoccurring theme in our conversation. It was especially apparent when Mona went through her second bout of layoffs. Kroger relieved much of the R&D department and a unique situation allowed Mona to take 6 months pay upon resignation. This was the ultimate opportunity for her to explore new career options and be the mom she wanted to be, so she ran with it.
Driven by the belief that there was not much of a place in Corporate America for a woman, she started her own sensory consulting business to carve out a place for herself. She told her husband she would try it for 6 months and if she did not make her annual salary from Kroger she would flip hamburgers, wait tables—anything to support her family.
And after six months, Mona created work and made her salary from Kroger.
How was she successful, you ask? “Half of the R&D department was laid off and these people went all over the country for new jobs,” Mona explained. “Layoffs were the best thing that happened to me.”
Her network suddenly exploded. She had formed relationships with many people now placed in multiple companies that wanted to contribute something new to their employer, at least in Mona’s opinion. “My theory is new employees want to make a good impression and bring in something new that helps the business,” and she was that help. Many companies didn’t have sensory capabilities at that time or were extremely elementary.
“When I first started my business, I had a vision that women could have a job that could flex around the family, not flex the family around the job. So, you could be a mother and a wife and still be a corporate professional.”
The Wolf Group grew through relationships in Mona’s eyes. One of her prime examples was a story about spending time with a graduate student at a conference surrounded by industry professionals. Later, that student worked for a company that hired Mona based off that student’s recommendation. Mona’s relentless appreciation for students paid off!
“I believe in the next generation and what they’re going to develop.”
What is it like to work at the Wolf Group?
It’s not easy! The work load is very dynamic. Mona described how, often times, the industry reallocated money in and out of sensory research. It can make it difficult to maintain a predictable work flow. But that’s what keeps the work interesting – it’s never boring!
“The business is cyclical. Unless a project comes in, there is no work. At one moment you might have 3 or 4 projects to organize, implement and analyze or there might be days with no projects.”
And it can be risky. For example, Mona described a scenario where a standard client of hers was over budget in another sector of the company and thus could not do business with the Wolf Group for the time being. Things can happen with clients out of the consultant’s control, which can dictate if there is a project or not.
This is also the reason Mona never agrees to exclusively work with one company. “This was too risky due to the nature of food industry,” Mona explained. If a company dropped her, she would be out of business.
What products does the Wolf Group work with?
Anything! Anything a consumer puts their hands on is applicable to this group. The Wolf Group has worked with food: ice cream, cookies, craisins, shrimp scampi, cheese sticks, steaks beverages of all sorts…etc.!
Of particular interest is non-food sensory work on sunscreen, shampoo, body washes, razors, shoe inserts, feeding tube material, over the counter (OTC) appliances for back pain…etc.! Non-food sensory work does not receive much attention in Food Science departments…well…because it’s food science. But non-food sensory is critical to QA/QC, product development and more.
“It is very important for students and budding sensory scientists to understand that any consumer product must undergo sensory testing. Non-food products make up a large part of the market and present its own unique challenges, demanding a creative approach to testing methodology development.”
This part of sensory has received less attention such that a committee was formed within the Society of Sensory Professionals (SSP—of which Mona is a founder) called Beyond Food to encourage more research and sharing of methods in this area.
How much impact can a sensory consultant have?
Sensory testing can save a company a lot of grief…and money!
Mona described a scenario in which a company without prior experience with sensory testing wanted to optimize acceptance of their mozzarella cheese sticks. To answer this client’s request, the Wolf Group performed a Design of Experiment1 (DOE) and defined the ideal profile for the cheese sticks. Within 18 months it was chosen by Consumer Report as the best cheese stick on the market.
This was just one scenario among others. Her descriptive panel also determined a change in the wine used in a shrimp scampi sauce was due to the procurement officer sourcing from a different vineyard. Another time, consumer complaints of off-tasting vanilla ice cream drove a quality control team to Mona to figure out what was going on. Through rigorous tastings and evaluations, Mona’s descriptive panel was able to determine the taint in the vanilla ice cream was due to adding food-grade machine oil to the formula instead of vanilla extract. Later, they found out it had been because these substances were contained in similar looking bottles, confusing those on the factory floor.
After hearing these stories, we felt mighty grateful for sensory science and its ability to figure out what went wrong! Sensory science is a satisfying sector of food science professions. It plays a high stakes role in QA/QC and many of a company’s product development decisions.
Other good reasons to be in sensory science include a decreasing wage gap between men and women age 20-29 in the U.S.,2 something Mona Wolf would be very glad to hear.
In summary, what all did we learn from Mona Wolf?
You can be a mother and a corporate professional
You need to pay your dues. Put in 10-15 years in industry, if not longer.
Explore, explore, explore!
Learn as much as you can about different parts of the industry when you are in school (internships, shadow, etc.)
Relationships are critical
Support the students
Don’t be afraid to take risks.
“You can’t be timid… You have to be willing to fail. Without some risky decisions, I wouldn’t be where I am today.” – Mona Wolf, CEO Wolf Group
1 Granato, Daniel, and Verônica Maria de Araújo Calado. “The use and importance of design of experiments (DOE) in process modelling in food science and technology.” Mathematical and statistical methods in food science and technology (2014): 1-18.
2 Kuhn, Mary Ellen and Malochleb, Margaret. 2017 IFT Employment & Salary Survey Report: Earnings Grow, Wage Gap Shrinks. Survey. 2017
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Sep 12 Sherman Ave Freshman Guide: Living in CCS
Reverend Doctor Dee Dee Turlington, Esquire, Attorney at Law
Dorms, Freshman Guide
It’s a lazy summer afternoon: the sun is beating down on the lush greenery outside, the birds are chirping almost lyrically, the wind is sweeping the aroma of flowers and freshly cut grass through the air, and you just finished whacking it in your fucking hot-as-shit room. As you’re cleaning yourself up, you notice a little “(1)” on your Northwestern email tab that you have open for some reason. As you throw away your gross tissues, you click the tab and navigate to your inbox to read your new email. It’s from “Residential Services – University Housing Administration,” and the subject line reads, “Your Housing Assignment.” You open the email and read: Dear Student,
Congratulations! You have been assigned the College of Cultural and Community studies as your living arrangement for the upcoming 2014-2015 school year.
You sit there for a second, and then realize that your pants are still down. You redress yourself and look at the email again. A single thought runs through your head:
What the fuck is the College of Cultural and Community Studies?
Don’t worry. You got assigned a pretty good dorm. Here’s the 411 on CCS:
Rooms: Chapin is known-ish as having the biggest rooms on campus. CCS’s rooms, however, are pretty sizeable as well. Being a fucking try-hard civil engineering major, I actually measured my double last year, which turned out to be 12’ x 20’. Many of the doubles in CCS used to be two singles before some shit happened and the walls between them were knocked down.
Bathrooms: The bathrooms are works of art. The dorm was renovated a few years ago, and the restrooms look like they belong in Elon Musk’s house*. A few of the bathrooms are male/female, so guys can expect to see tampon/pad disposal bins left open for the whole fucking world to see and ladies can expect to see sinks literally caked in shaved-off facial hair.
Lounges: The lounges, albeit recently renovated, look like they were designed by a 3-year-old. Rumor has it that the interior designer of CCS was fired after she completed the lounges. If this is true, she was fired for good reason: the lounges look like day-cares, and she bought marble-topped tables for one of the lounges that cost $3,000 a piece. That combined with the thousands of dollars she overpaid for the couches and chairs could have been put to better use by purchasing virtually anything else, like hot tubs or a CCS Bentley. That being said, the 60” (?) TVs in the lounges are pretty nice.
Facilities: Facilities include a kitchen that’s completely unventilated in one of the two basements, a laundry room that used to eat quarters but now can’t because laundry is free, and a storage room that I’m, like, 40% sure residents are allowed to use to store their bikes in the winter.
Food: Sargent has a dining hall and conveniently located about 45 seconds away from CCS. Elder also has a “dining hall,” but for an establishment to qualify as a dining hall, it has to serve food. And the stuff served at Elder is more akin to charcoal and surface runoff than to food. A café, Lisa’s, is also located nearby.
Location: CCS is located in the frat quad, which has its ups and downs. It’s about a two-minute walk from Tech and a three-minute walk from Frances Searle Hall, which is great for STEM and communications students. It’s also close to some relatively all right food options. On the other hand, it’s in the frat quad, and some of CCS’s neighbors are, errr… less than desirable**. Get placed in the wrong room and you’ll be kept up by delinquents until 3 AM.
RAs: I legitimately left a bottle of absinthe, a bottle of Bailey’s, and a bottle of sloe gin on my end table right next to a coffee maker (also a banned item), all in plain sight. I invited my RA in for a drink on a few occasions. She never accepted, but also never wrote me up because she was #fly. Be nice to the RAs, and they’ll be nice to you.
Community: The CCS community was the only part of the dorm that I took issue with while living there, albeit relatively minor. Many facets of the community are great; residents are very friendly, the dorm is pretty quiet, and the college often paid for excursions into cultural areas in Chicago for food***. The dorm is only home to about 50 people, which I enjoyed as well. We share a building with GREEN house, which is something that many CCSers seem to dislike, but I’ve never really had an issue with it****. However, I, like most people, like to do something with my Friday and Saturday nights, and many residents of CCS were a bit judgmental about that. Many times when I would go out, I wouldn’t even be drinking or going to a party. Nevertheless, I got a reputation as a “party animal,” despite that fact that there probably isn’t a less accurate way to describe me.
All in all, CCS is a pretty great dorm. Having been recently renovated is a big plus, and the residents are very likable for the most part. There’s a reason I’m going back as a sophomore to live there again, and it’s not because I like doing my work on a $3,000 table.
* …should he ever feel the need to put stalls and 3’ x 3’ showers in his bathrooms.
** See: Shitty (adj.). Also, keep in mind that not all of CCS’s neighbors are bad. I’m not going to name names because, well, we wouldn’t want to ~*offend*~ anyone, now would we?
*** These trips are how the college honors its “culture and community” theme. As you can see, it’s a pretty sweet deal.
****PROTIP: For whatever reason, nobody knows where the crap CCS is located, but people know where GREEN house is. If someone asks where CCS is, just say that it’s in the same building as GREEN house.
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WALLER, MARY T. was born 14 November 1910, received Social Security number 302-40-9777 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 21 January 1994 159552967
WALLER, MARY T. was born 25 January 1924, received Social Security number 228-44-8862 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 07 July 2002 159552968
WALLER, MARY T. was born 25 July 1943, received Social Security number 546-68-4681 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 11 November 1982 159552969
WALLER, MARY V who was 26 (born ABT 1947) married 15 DEC 1973 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named JURGEN H FUNK who was 30 (born ABT 1943). 159552970
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WALLER, MARY V who was 35 (born ABT 1947) married 10 APR 1982 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named DAVID R BAKER who was 46 (born ABT 1936). 159552971
WALLER, MARY V. was born 02 October 1947, received Social Security number 510-54-4767 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 30 June 1993 159552972
WALLER, MARY V. was born 03 July 1917, received Social Security number 401-70-4286 and, Death Master File says, died 24 December 2005 159552973
WALLER, MARY V. was born 12 July 1921, received Social Security number 342-12-7262 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 08 November 2007 159552974
WALLER, Mary V.E. was born ABT 1847 in "; was in the 1850 census in Somerset County, Maryland. 159552975
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Waller, Mary Victoria died in 1895 according to a Massachusetts vital record for Brookfield, Volume 456, Page 567. 159552976
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WALLER, MARY W. was born 11 May 1907, received Social Security number 080-36-7601 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 15 November 1992 159552977
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WALLER, MARY W. was born 15 April 1917, received Social Security number 562-20-0116 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 21 September 2008 159552978
WALLER, MARY W. was born 16 February 1901, received Social Security number 426-09-7297 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died 20 September 1992 159552979
WALLER, MARY W. was born 19 December 1934, received Social Security number 227-40-9365 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 18 December 2006 159552980
WALLER, Mary Winecot married 20 Dec 1930 in Harrison, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named James W. Waller. 159552981
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WALLER, Mary Winecot married 23 Feb 1929 in Harrison, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named James Waller. 159552982
WALLER, Mary Wonycott married 12 Mar 1932 in Harrison, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named James Waller. 159552983
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WALLER, MARY Y. was born 31 December 1899, received Social Security number 413-17-3155 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 28 March 2000 159552984
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WALLER, MARY Z. was born 04 March 1910, received Social Security number 257-36-4601 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 25 August 1999 159552985
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WALLER, MARZELIA N. was born 12 December 1913, received Social Security number 257-72-0479 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 24 August 1990 159552986
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WALLER, MASON E. was born 07 February 1939, received Social Security number 459-56-1668 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 01 May 1999 159552987
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WALLER, MASON E. was born 09 July 1922, received Social Security number 231-32-5745 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 15 August 2009 159552988
Waller, Mason M. married in 1875 according to a Massachusetts vital record for Egremont, Volume 271, Page 38. 159552989
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WALLER, Mathersy was born ABT 1859 in MO; was in the 1860 census in Wayne County, Missouri. 159552990
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WALLER, Mathew was born ABT 1833 in Ky; was in the 1850 census in Union County, Kentucky. 159552991
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Waller, Mathew, Rank: T/5, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 12 February 1910, died 4 January 1975, and was buried in Section 299A, Row X, Site 010 in Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. 159552992
WALLER, MATHEW G. was born 04 June 1917, received Social Security number 324-18-3782 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 02 June 2004 159552993
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WALLER, MATHIAH married 7 Oct 1847 in WILLIAMSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named JAMES JR TANNER. 159552994
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WALLER, MATHIAS B. was born 08 October 1914, received Social Security number 299-09-7748 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 28 August 1990 159552995
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WALLER, MATHILDA married 29 Mar 1886 in COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named CHARLES W MCGINNIS. 159552996
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WALLER, MATHILDE was born 29 December 1896, received Social Security number 310-26-3410 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died December 1972 159552997
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WALLER, MATILDA married 27 Jul 1921 in Genesee County, Michigan, U.S.A. a groom named MICHAEL HUCK. 159552998
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WALLER, MATILDA was born 13 August 1903, received Social Security number 252-42-2243 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died April 1985 159552999
WALLER, MATILDA was born 16 October 1887, received Social Security number 499-14-9589 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died February 1965 159553000
WALLER, Matilda was born ABT 1839 in O; was in the 1850 census in Morrow County, Ohio. 159553001
WALLER, MATILDA ANN married 31 Jan 1839 in MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 159553002
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WALLER, Matilda B was born ABT 1844; was in the 1880 census in Wicomico County, Maryland. 159553003
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Waller, Matilda J. (Williams) died in 1897 according to a Massachusetts vital record for Worcester, Volume 474, Page 840. 159553004
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WALLER, MATILDA R. was born 04 June 1901, received Social Security number 147-16-0251 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died 07 March 2000 159553005
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WALLER, MATILDA T. was born 13 February 1923, received Social Security number 348-14-2167 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 12 February 2003 159553006
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WALLER MATTHEW S, who was 28 (born about 1984) married 29 December 2012 on a licensed issued in TOM GREEN COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named CARRIE A JOYNTON who was 27 (born about 1985). 159553007
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WALLER MATTHEW T, who was 25 (born about 1987) married 12 August 2012 on a licensed issued in FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named JULIE N ABLES who was 26 (born about 1986). 159553008
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WALLER, MATTHEW was born 09 August 1906, received Social Security number 229-01-4019 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died June 1974 159553009
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WALLER, MATTHEW was born 12 February 1910, received Social Security number 435-07-5010 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died January 1975 159553010
WALLER, MATTHEW was born 15 April 1912, received Social Security number 424-12-9657 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died June 1980 159553011
WALLER, MATTHEW was born 18 July 1916, received Social Security number 143-03-6893 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died December 1953 159553012
WALLER, MATTHEW was born 26 September 1995, received Social Security number 410-79-1099 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 01 April 2012 159553013
WALLER, MATTHEW was born 27 February 1882, received Social Security number 489-24-1394 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died September 1972 159553014
WALLER, MATTHEW was born 29 September 1880, received Social Security number 033-28-4188 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died July 1963 159553015
WALLER, MATTHEW was born 31 July 1895, received Social Security number 395-05-4127 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died February 1967 159553016
WALLER, MATTHEW A who was 31 (born ABT 1977) married 14 AUG 2008 in BELL COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named ZINDY M MEDINA who was 33 (born ABT 1975). 159553017
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WALLER, MATTHEW A, born ABT 1978, and his bride CECILIA N, born ABT 1981, married 29 MAR 2003, and they had no children under 18 when they got divorced in BELL COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 1 JUL 2008. 159553018
WALLER, MATTHEW A JR who was 24 (born ABT 1981) married 10 SEP 2005 in FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named JENNIFER L WELCH who was 24 (born ABT 1981). 159553019
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WALLER, MATTHEW F who was 28, (born 1980 or 1981) married 24 January 2009 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named HOLLI D HOLMAN who was 28 (born 1980 or 1981). 159553020
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WALLER, MATTHEW H. was born 26 April 1911, received Social Security number 487-03-8970 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 18 September 2000 159553021
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WALLER, MATTHEW L. was born 10 October 1970, received Social Security number 372-78-2826 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 27 February 1997 159553022
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WALLER, MATTHEW S. married MARANDA L. GROSS on 18 August 2018 using a marriage license issued in Ripley County, Indiana, United States of America. 159553023
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WALLER, MATTHEW S who was 26 (born ABT 1963) married 6 MAY 1989 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named MARY E SMITH who was 25 (born ABT 1964). 159553024
WALLER, MATTHEW T who was 31, (born 1978 or 1979) married 14 August 2010 in JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named RACHEL C SEFCIK who was 26 (born 1983 or 1984). 159553025
WALLER, MATTIE was born 01 July 1898, received Social Security number 458-17-7884 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died January 1984 159553026
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WALLER, MATTIE was born 04 August 1913, received Social Security number 437-96-8818 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died November 1985 159553027
WALLER, MATTIE was born 05 December 1907, received Social Security number 409-52-3892 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died January 1993 159553028
WALLER, MATTIE was born 06 July 1923, received Social Security number 235-34-7534 (indicating West Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died October 1993 159553029
WALLER, MATTIE was born 08 June 1928, received Social Security number 151-20-9514 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died January 1981 159553030
WALLER, MATTIE was born 09 May 1901, received Social Security number 257-08-0278 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died December 1975 159553031
WALLER, MATTIE was born 10 April 1895, received Social Security number 251-10-3949 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died May 1981 159553032
WALLER, MATTIE was born 10 August 1881, received Social Security number 434-22-1029 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died June 1967 159553033
WALLER, MATTIE was born 10 November 1915, received Social Security number 554-22-2137 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died November 1977 159553034
WALLER, MATTIE was born 14 July 1895, received Social Security number 432-28-1285 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died April 1978 159553035
WALLER, MATTIE was born 15 January 1887, received Social Security number 242-82-5362 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died August 1972 159553036
WALLER, MATTIE was born 21 August 1903, received Social Security number 109-26-9062 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died May 1983 159553037
WALLER, MATTIE was born 23 September 1885, received Social Security number 432-66-1418 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died June 1970 159553038
WALLER, MATTIE was born 26 February 1914, received Social Security number 246-01-3070 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died January 1967 159553039
WALLER, MATTIE was born 26 January 1898, received Social Security number 368-36-1418 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died January 1965 159553040
WALLER, MATTIE was born 29 January 1905, received Social Security number 514-05-0921 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died August 1983 159553041
WALLER, Mattie (daughter of Carolina Waller (mother) and B. F. Waller) was born 4 Oct 1873 in Barbour County, West Virginia, U.S.A.. 159553042
WALLER, Mattie married in 1933 in Hancock a groom named James Earl Johnston. 159553043
WALLER, Mattie (mother) , and Walter White, had a baby girl, Edith WHITE born 21 May 1901 in Washburn, Ritchie County, West Virginia, U.S.A.. 159553044
WALLER, MATTIE B. was born 18 February 1915, received Social Security number 427-80-2569 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died 11 March 2008 159553045
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WALLER, MATTIE D. was born 25 December 1905, received Social Security number 419-86-0049 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died 09 November 1997 159553046
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WALLER, MATTIE ELLEN married 12 Nov 1899 in WAYNE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named WILLIAM AUSTIN RILEY. 159553047
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Waller, Mattie Henrietta, whose mothers maiden name is Johnson, was born 27 October 1888 in Iowa, and died 13 February 1920 in Floyd County, Iowa, United States of America. 159553048
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WALLER, MATTIE J. was born 15 October 1925, received Social Security number 252-42-7683 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 11 December 1994 159553049
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WALLER, MATTIE J. was born 22 January 1928, received Social Security number 254-42-7048 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 11 November 2001 159553050
WALLER, MATTIE L. was born 18 December 1906, received Social Security number 550-13-9228 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 08 September 1994 159553051
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WALLER, MATTIE L. was born 27 June 1925, received Social Security number 350-16-2081 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 20 February 1998 159553052
WALLER, Mattie L. (mother) , and W. White, had a baby boy, Forest Franklin WHITE born 27 Aug 1903 in Washburn, Ritchie County, West Virginia, U.S.A.. 159553053
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Waller, Mattie L., wife of Samuel L. Waller, was born 9 May 1900, died 11 December 1975, and was buried in Section M, Site 4396-B in Marietta National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, United States of America. 159553054
WALLER, MATTIELEE was born 28 October 1918, received Social Security number 358-10-4206 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died June 1985 159553055
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WALLER, MATTIE M. was born 08 November 1922, received Social Security number 257-38-8313 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 01 December 1990 159553056
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WALLER, MATTIE M. was born 31 March 1929, received Social Security number 254-46-2454 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 28 May 2001 159553057
WALLER, MATTIE M. died 30 November 1990, and was buried in Block 0H Lot 040 Grave 20 of Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville, Georgia, U.S.A. by undertaker: GREENLEE. 159553058
WALLER, Mattie M. (mother) , and Walter White, had a baby boy, Carter WHITE born 14 Aug 1899 in Washburn, Ritchie County, West Virginia, U.S.A.. 159553059
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We’re driving back home from Basford United’s ground. The Groundhopper’s mood has darkened with the news that Lincoln City have been trounced by Dagenham and Redbridge. ‘The Skipper’ says he’d like to pop up ‘The Rec’ to watch some cricket.
We drive up Nottingham Road; there’s not a soul in sight. We must have been skittled out. We cruise up to the Salutation Inn. All the players will be getting sozzled. Nobody is in the pub. I phone up Bobby. He delivers the devastating news: all ten strips on the wicket have been dug up by vandals. Somebody didn’t want the game to be played. Mmmm.
The Twenty20 game on Bank Holiday Monday is in doubt. A willing army of volunteers give up their family time on a Sunday to repair the wicket with a broken-hearted groundsman. The pitch is turned around 90 degrees.
Sticky junior and I are on opposite sides. I stroll into bat and nurdle the ball down to third man for an easy single. Junior is bowling his final over. I finally get on strike. He has three balls left. The ball loops out of his hand. The Groundhopper plays down the Bakerloo Line, unfortunately the ball travels down the Waterloo Line.
I hear the death rattle click as the ball clips the bail. I walk back to the pavilion a disconsolate and sorrowful soul. The little rat has got me out two years in a row.
It’s a busy week. I have to ref a very ring rusty ‘Skipper’s’ team on Wednesday. On Thursday I make the short trip to Cotgrave Colliery Welfare to watch Notts County U15’s.
I don’t fall out my pit until 8.30am on Saturday morning. I had a few real ales with ‘The Nuclear Scientist’ last night. I smashed him out of sight at table tennis. I won the final game 21-19. He lost his temper and crushed the ping pong ball.
I broached the subject of my day ahead with Mrs P a few days ago. I was nervous to say the least. ‘Erm love, I’ll be leaving at 10am and won’t be back until 6pm. It was met with a wall of silence. “Perhaps we can watch X-Factor later this evening together?” It was a last gasp conciliatory throw of the dice. I think she fell for it.
I drive up the A60. A boy has been pestering me for weeks to go and watch him. I am as soft as shit and don’t want to let him down. I turn left down the A38. Danny Baker has a new phone-in on Five Live. The guy is a genius. His wit is razor-sharp. His callers are intelligent and comical.
I finally arrive in Sutton-In-Ashfield. The boy is way too tense. He knows I’m here. He tries too hard and is not on top of his game. It will be a ‘we’ll monitor his progress’ call. He’s not quite what we are looking for.
I’ve three hours to kill. I stop off in Mansfield Woodhouse and grab some snap at a local bakery. A steak pie, a cream iced bun and a diet coke are just the cure for a ravenous Groundhopper. I take a peek at the Manor Sports Complex to see if any games are being played but the place is deserted. It’s the same story at the impressive John Fretwell Centre. Although they are spinning up a coin for Bassetlaw League cricket match.
I drive through the village of Spion Kop. It’s named after a hill in South Africa, which was the scene of a battle in the Second Boer War. Football grounds used to name their terracing after the steep hill at Ladysmith, in South Africa where the battle took place. I know readers; I’m a fountain of knowledge (Wikipedia).
It’s been a wasted morning; you sometimes get days like these when you are scouting for youth. The good days outweigh the bad ones. At least I’ve got the Church Warsop v Bentley Colliery game to look forward to.
I park on the edge of the village, close to the river and church. Some fool is getting married. Fathers and sons fish the river. Sticky Palms takes a few snaps.
Church Warsop is one mile north of Warsop. It has a population of just over 2000 people. It was built in the 1930s by the Staveley Coal and Iron Company to house colliery workers and their families who worked at the nearby Warsop Colliery.
Sporting stars from the area include Notts and England wicket keeper, Bruce French and former Everton full back, Neil Pointon.
As I rock up on ‘The Fronts’ I notice to my right the old pit houses. They are dilapidated and in a state of disrepair. A pimped up Astra pulls up opposite ‘Sally Gunnell.’ Two houses are boarded up and abandoned. Sticky Palms puts the Krooklock on ‘Sally Gunnell.’
Sticky Junior phones me up. He’s loitering round Nottingham city centre. He’s laughing like a mad man down the phone. I ask him what’s his beef? He replies that he’s bought the ‘Big Issue’ off ‘some nutter.’
I have a quick mosey up the road. The Church Warsop Miners Welfare has been closed down and put up for sale. Good old Margaret Thatcher has killed another community.
It’s an hour before kick- off. I’m not too keen on strolling into a local hostelry around here and ordering a diet Coke. I listen to Radio Nottingham, instead, for half an hour. They have intriguing interviews with Notts County Chief Executive, Peter Trembling and Director of Cricket at Nottinghamshire CCC, Mick Newell.
They’re just setting up the trestles at the gate as I stroll up to the ground. A concrete fence hides the playing surface. It’s £2 admission and £1 for a very well edited programme. I’m the only paying spectator in the ground.
Two boys are playing football in the goalmouth. They start chattering away to me. They’re both ten years old. One is called Nathan, the other Charlie. They sound like Billy Casper off the film Kes. What a pair of chatterboxes they turn out to be. They amuse The Groundhopper.
They tell me that Didier Drogba and Shaun Wright Phillips both play for Church Warsop. When the teams trot out for a warm-up I see what they mean as they have a couple of dead ringers for the Chelsea pair.
Nathan and Charlie’s constant chitter-chatter has worn poor old Sticky Palms out. I retire to the Refreshment Bar. The lady in there is also up for a chat. What a friendly bunch they are up at Church Warsop.
I stand to the left of the Bentley Colliery dugout. The South Yorkshire team kick down the hill in the first period. I spot almost immediately that have a selected 4-5-1 formation. They have a nice balance about them and keep the ball on the carpet.
‘Shaun Wright Phillips’ has pace to burn. The Bentley full back is no slouch himself, but struggles to contain the wee man.
Bentley hit the crossbar with a glancing header from Devine. He doesn’t waste a second opportunity five minutes later. ‘Tilly’ flights a ball in from the right touchline, Devine peels off a ball-watching defender, takes a deft touch and smashes the ball into the bottom corner of the net.
But former Shirebrook Town forward, Simon Johnson, is a constant menace. Bentley Colliery struggle to cope with his movement. He makes no mistake from close range on the stroke of half-time.
I avoid Nathan, Charlie and the Refreshment Bar at the break. They’ve all worn me out. A groundhopper from Chesterfield comes ambling towards me. We exchange pleasantries for a short while.
Church Warsop replace their goalkeeper. He came out the worse from a 50/50 challenge earlier in the game. Their balding centre half takes over in between the sticks.
On 50 minutes I text Mrs P to see if Strictly Come Dancing is on TV tonight. She replies with a negative.
Church Warsop play a better game down the hill. The Bentley midfield look fagged out and fail to support their lone striker. ‘Tilly’ does hit the base of the post but they spend most of the second half pegged back.
The home team take the lead. Good work by the busy Johnson finds the ball at the feet of Daniel McLane, who strokes the ball home.
There is a frenetic finale. With two minutes to go the referee awards a penalty on the linesman’s say-so. The Bentley bench are furious. One individual, particularly, lets himself down. The resulting penalty is brilliantly saved by the Bentley ‘keeper.
A minute later another penalty is awarded to the home team. The reaction of the Bentley dugout is indescribable. Full marks to their charming and articulate manager, Mick Devine, for defusing the situation. Simon Johnson steps up and puts the game beyond doubt.
Bentley Colliery are furious with the officials. As a neutral I have to say that I thought the ref did quite well. He tried to give advantage where possible. His only downfall was failing to punish the Church Warsop players for constantly kicking the ball away in an effort to waste time.
Man of the Match: Nathan and Charlie.
Posted by Sticky at 9:51 AM
mini groundhopper said...
Love the blog sticky! Disappointed you couldnt come to the sheffield fc fa cup game- was looking forward to meeting you! Hope to see you somewhere else though!
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As a sax player
Paul has recorded and/or performed with Eddie Money (tenor sax soloist on the 1985 hit song “Take Me Home Tonight”), Boz Scaggs, The Temptations, Tower of Power, Steve Smith, Tom Coster, Randy Jackson, What It Is, Omar Sosa, dobroist Rob Ickes, sessions for Lucas Arts Electronic Games, Sony Music and many more.
In 2008 Paul was invited to create his own role as electric improvising bassoonist in Cirque Du Soleilʼs ZED-a resident show at Tokyo Disney Resort. This unique creation performed 380 shows a year from 2008-2011. Rarely if ever has the bassoon been utilized in such a fashion-to this day Cirque Du Soleil auditions bassoonists for the sole purpose of appearing on ZED in a role Paul helped develop and create.
Paul has traveled throughout Europe, Japan and the States. He has appeared as a bassoonist at Carnegie Hall, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Leverkuzen Festival, the INTERLINK festival in Japan, the California Edge Festival 2005 and at the 1999 NAMM show in Nashville.
As a performer/educator
Paul has performed and taught masterclasses at IDRS festivals from Rotterdam to Texas. He has given masterclasses at Ithaca College, Penn State University, Arizona State University, Oklahoma University, University of Wisconsin, Memphis State University, University of Northeaster Oklahoma, University of Arkansas and Portland State University-all specializing in modern performance techniques and improvisation for bassoonists and other classical instrumentalists. Paul has also been bassoon professor at Ithaca College School of Music in 2004. Paul was a featured clinician/performer at the 2013 IDRS Conference in Redlands CA.
AWARDS AND EDUCATION
Paul was the 1996 Grand Prize winner of JAZZIZ Magazineʼs WOODWINDS ON FIRE award-the first bassoonist ever to win. He also was the winner of the Robert Mondavi Woodwind concerto competition in 1984 in California. Paul was awarded an NEA Jazz Fellowship in 1995. Paul Hanson appears on Bela Fleck and the Flecktones album OUTBOUND which won a Grammy for best contemporary jazz recording of 2000. Paul has a BM in Bassoon Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
"..Over the past decade, Hanson has brought the double reed instrument into areas where it's seldom, if ever, gone before, combining a commanding improvisational sensibility with funk, classical and world music influences. Playing without electronic devices, Hanson produces a sound so full, lithe and flexible that it's easy to forget the mind-boggling intricacies of the instrument that's producing it. When he alters his sound electronically, the bassoon can take on eeire, jaggedly distorted or ethereal timbres. It's hard to overstate just how unlikely a quest Hanson has undertaken in transforming the bassoon from a symphony orchestra instrument into a viable workhorse for extended solos." -Andrew Gilbert, DOWNBEAT Magazine
"Not too often, musicians come along and invent their own instrument. More marvelous it is when someone takes an instrument you thought you knew, and tilts it just so - dazzling us with new reflections. Those folks are rare: Django Reinhardt, Lester Young, Bobby McFerrin, Edgar Meyer, Paul Hanson. All the adjectives are true, Paul plays at the very highest level surpassing most anyone's conception and ability on one of the most unforgiving instruments - ever. Think of playing Pagannini on the ocarina-or winning the Kentucky Derby on a camel." -Darol Anger, violinist, co-founder of the Turtle Island String Quartet
"The incredible bassoonist Paul Hanson..blew the entire audience away. The bassoon isn't supposed to be able to be played so fast but Hanson did it, digging deep into the changes, combining awesome technique and precise articulation with hot fire." - Glen Dour, California JAZZ NOW magazine
"Hanson's solos were strikingly agile; when 'unplugged', they brought to mind the boppish grace of Gerry Mulligan's baritone sax style, and when switched to 'plugged mode' ... (he) cut through the grooves with the power of a heavy metal guitar pyrotechnician." - Lee Hildebrand, East Bay Express
"Paul Hanson is an exciting and brilliant soloist - a distinctly original talent..." - Phillip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner
"Hanson is an especially facile, fire-breathing improviser on the bassoon, an instrument rarely, if ever, associated with jazz. His snake-charming lines set a distinctly Middle Eastern tone on the opening hip-hop flavored “Dirvish” while his use of electrified wah-wah effects lend a provocative edge to the odd-metered, Herbie Hancock-inspired “Blue Zardog” and open-ended blowout “Six Degrees.”.... heroic soloing ....deserving of wider recognition." -Bill Milkowski-Senior Writer, Abstractlogix.com
(Paul) seemed intent on showing that he could do it all: an unaccompanied bassoon break that was a cross between Monk and Stravinsky..”(Comments published in review of Jeff Sipe's TIMELESS album.) - Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
...Hanson's music talks passionately about who he is, who we are, and why we're here. He infuses some of his compositions with Eastern European melodies whose beauty and intricacies boggle the mind. Hanson's facility and imagination on the bassoon are unparalleled." - JAZZ IN FLIGHT, Oakland CA
"Expertly wielded by Paul Hanson...the bassoon may not be the most widely used instrument for fusion leads, but it sure works. The distinct character of the instrument brings a reedier, more earthy, live- and-up-close quality... Hanson handles its many colors with dexterity..."-Astro Boy Blues was noted in the Jazz Times (8/97, p.69)
.."I have been a professional saxophonist for 15 years and I guess I know a little about what he's doing in terms of dexterity. Easily for all to be seen on this album where he plays one number on the tenor. But he simply transcends technique to a point where you no longer have in mind that it's a BASSOON he's playing. Of course I love his sound on bassoon. His speechlike cadenzas, his yearning upper register cries. But most of all I'm drawn to what he has to say. There is such a complexity and density of emotions like in "We'll be Together Again" on his "Voodoo Suite" that I just can't turn away from it.
I have to admit I stumbled on his recordings in search of something a little odd. Something that proved the bassoon isn't capable of being played as jazz instrument. Heard some old recordings before by Illinois Jacquet playing the bassoon that impressed me somewhat less. But having heard the first piece of his "Voodoo" Album (Woods of Red) instantly made me ask myself why I had missed out on this superb music for so long.
As you may have noticed, this is not only a review of "Frolic". This is for all who read this to check out Hansons music. It would be hard to bear if a musician of his stature should go unnoticed..."
Michael Blue, reviewer for Amazon.com
ENDORSEMENTS AND "GEAR"
Paul is a Moosmann Bassoon Artist He currently uses Legere Bassoon and Saxophone Reeds. Paul uses Leitzinger bocals. He is currently using a Trent Jacobs Little Jake bassoon pickup and occasionally the FRAP pressure transducer for electric playing. Paul loves Neumann and B & K microphones for studio and live. For effects-Paul likes TC Electronic, Line 6, Boss, and Roger Linn gear.
OTHER INTERESTING PAUL HANSON FACTS
Paul plays a Selmer Mark VI Tenor Sax and a Selmer Mark VI Alto Sax. He plays a Yamaha Professional Soprano Sax, a Selmer Bb Clarinet and uses Logic Pro for his personal studio. He is a Mac user.
Available Compositions
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Arsenal legend Tony Adams involved in Aston Villa takeover bid
Tony Adams is reportedly involved in a takeover bid for Premier League strugglers Aston Villa. Adams has teamed up with former Chelsea executive Paul Smith to lead a consortium who will look to take over a club with massive potential.
The Villains, who have been resurgent of late following the appointment of Tim Sherwood as manager, are owned by American businessman Randy Lerner. It has been widely known for some time now that Lerner is looking to sell meaning that if Adams is successful in raising enough capital then a bid could very well be successful.
Adams and Smith have been seeking partners in the hopes of raising about 50% of the reported £150 million it would take to convince Lerner to sell up. Smith has reportedly already done a lot of the legwork involved in a potential deal after meeting with Lerner's representatives on a number of occasions.
Aston Villa are somewhat of a sleeping giant in English football with a large following and one of the biggest stadiums in the country. With the right owners in place the club has the potential to grow and stake a claim for a return to European football where the big money lies.
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Home » Entertainment » Movies » ‘Ang Araw Sa Likod Mo’ is a must-see for students
‘Ang Araw Sa Likod Mo’ is a must-see for students
May 6, 2017 | Filed under: Movies | Posted by: Tempo Online
Bong Cabrera in ANG ARAW SA LIKOD MO
At this time of geo-political conflicts and controversies, an emerging genre of independent films seeks to fulfill a new mandate of elevating film artistry and surfacing relevant issues, especially for the youth. A full-length feature film to hit the major cinemas starting May 24, “Ang Araw Sa Likod Mo” is a values-imbued film with an arresting tagline “Bawa’t Paninindigan, May Kapalit.” (Every conviction demands a sacrifice).
An award-winning advocacy film, “Ang Araw sa Likod Mo,” written and directed by Dominic P. Nuesa, is an action-filled story of two brothers reunited despite being separated by conflicting beliefs, and the sacrifices of Filipino soldiers, in the thick of the decades-old war against terrorism. It stars a talented, award-winning cast that includes Ping Medina, Bong Cabrera and Mike Liwag.
The film is notable in its research-based authenticity, and its handling of the delicate subject of the raging controversy in southern Mindanao, a very timely theme. It heightens awareness of the issues while taking great care not to polarize the audience. Inspired by the real stories of Special Operations soldiers in the country known as the Philippine Scout Rangers, “Ang Araw sa Likod Mo” is an intense film that introduces brothers Jamiluddin (Cabrera) and Omar (Liwag) along with Sgt. Benjie Calayan (Medina) within the terrorist infested island in Southern Philippines.
“Ang Araw sa Likod Mo” (The Sun Behind You) is also nominated in the prestigious week-long Nice International Awards (2017) this year in the most coveted categories such as Best Director – Dominic Carlo P. Nuesa, Best Lead Actor – Mike Liwag, Best Supporting Actor – Ping Medina, Best Editing – Javier Abola and Best Sound – Greg Rodriguez III.
Produced by independent outfit An Earth Below Productions, “Ang Araw sa Likod Mo” has already won five international awards – Best Film in Auckland International Film Festival, Global Award Winner at the Europe-based ARFF (Around Films International Film Festival), and Awards of Recognition for Feature Length, Best Actor (Bong Cabrera) and Best Supporting Actor (Mike Liwag) at the Accolade Global Film Competition in the United States.
The film is a tribute to heroism and sacrifice and challenges us to be more knowledgeable and understanding when trying to make sense of violence and national security. Fighting for a cause, or making a stand, one eventually must sacrifice something and ultimately asks if it was worth it.
A highly-recommended film for students, Mr. Francis Estrada, an educator (former President of the Asian Institute of Management) and Chairman of the AFP Multi-Sectoral Governance Council) vouches that “The film provides a real perspective of the conflict – from the ground. To our youth and students, it could be a useful segue to a serious discussion of the roots of the conflict – and its possible long-term solution.”
Rated PG by the MTRCB, “Ang Araw Sa Likod Mo” opens on May 24 in theaters nationwide from An Earth Below Productions, Overmind and HERO Foundation. Check the film’s trailer below.
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Useless Palace denials EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 12/09/2009
Useless Palace denials
Malacañang accuses critics of Gloria Arroyo of “speculating” too much with regard to the imposition of martial law (ML) as a means for attain her quest in the matter of political perpetuity.
That may be so, but at the same
Marcos SC ML redux?
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Now is time for Ampatuans to sing
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Philippine military wary of power vacuums in troubled south
Exchange deal
Martial law in Maguindanao
Marcos SC ML redux? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 12/09/2009
In 1972, when then President Ferdinand Marcos decreed martial law (ML) in the entire Philippines, Congress was ordered padlocked, opposition personalities were arrested, along with known media critics of the Marcos regime. Media establishments were also ordered closed, and press censorship was imposed, with the press having to clear its reports with the military officer assigned as censor in media offices before any news report could be published. Also, military officers took over the management and control of private establishments.
The only institution left, outside
Now is time for Ampatuans to sing ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/09/2009
Rudy Romero
The family of Andal Ampatuan Sr., the governor of Maguindanao, must be extremely unhappy with the treatment that the family is receiving at the hands of the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. I can imagine the Ampatuan family patriarch cursing and spouting epithets, from his military-hospital bed, at the Lakas-Kampi-CMD candidate for representative of the second district of Pampanga.
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Throw the book MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 12/09/2009
The Ampatuans own 23 mansions with four big ones in Shariff, Aguak, Maguin-danao and two big ones in Davao City, estimated to cost P700 million to P900 million. They also own big tracks of land. They own a big fleet of luxury cars totaling more than 50, mostly Ford Expeditions, F-150s, Range Rovers, Toyota Land Cruisers and GM Suburbans, all colored black, estimated to cost P200 million. It has been reported that the Ampatuans took away 17 sacks of money from their mansion’s vaults. It was also reported that in a trip to Mecca, he carried $6.3 million.
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SHARIFF AGUAK — The Philippine military is confident of quashing a rogue politician’s militia in the troubled south, but worried the offensive is creating power vacuums from which more fearsome forces could emerge.
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SERVICE FACSIMILES A lecture given on 12 September 1963
auditor » 28 дек 2015, 12:42
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SERVICE FACSIMILES
A lecture given on
This is the what?
Audience: The 12th of September.
12 September A.D. 13, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. And you're into the horrors of
hidden standards, GPMs, chronic PT problems, service facsimiles, non observation by the
PC, a postulate being where the PC ought to be.
How's it feel to audit a postulate? I mean, you always thought you had a PC in the chair and
you haven't. You got a postulate: a postulate which is designed to make others wrong and
themselves right. I think that's quite interesting when you get right down to think of it.
We've had all these things in the past. This is Scientology m I'm talking to you about, and as
it flips over into Scientology IV. We've had all these things in the past, and the difficulties
that a PC has in getting forward with his case are actually just those difficulties which I just
enumerated. I'll go over them again for you seriously.
PC has a hidden standard. Almost any PC that isn't making excellent progress, getting good
TA action, and so forth, has a hidden standard.
What do we mean by a hidden standard? Well, he doesn't even know what he is measuring
his progress by. But it's that which he measures his progress by. You say, "Did you make any
gains in this session?" and he consults this standard of some kind or another. And then he
says yes or no in accordance with whether or not this standard had shifted.
Now, this is your lower level of case that does this-not necessarily lower level, because you
can get a case into restimulation so that I suppose he does have temporarily a hidden
standard. PC's got a headache. Had a headache for a week, been processed for some little
time-a considerable length of time-and a headache has turned on Well now, he's liable to
measure his processing as to whether or not it turns off his headache. You see that all the
Well now, expand that. Of course you can take by gradients all kinds of aspects of things, and
you can see that these tiny little things can graduate into very serious, overwhelming
proportions. That is to say, any insanity or any complete spin condition is simply an
exaggeration, ne plus ultra, to the exclusion of all other exaggerations, of something that is
quite normal in most anybody.
You see, you eat. You see, you consider that normal. It isn't very normal, but you consider it
normal. And that somebody is eating, is not used by you as an auditor to measure whether or
not the individual is Clear or not. You just don't pay very much attention to it. This is
something you don't think about very much
But as a case gets a little bit worse off, why, you have to start paying attention to it because
this may become a very great exaggeration. And it can become an exaggeration: a not-eat or
an eat-too-much or something like this, you see?
Now, several other facets of life drop out at this particular time, and if you took this same
phobia at a lower-level case, you could get somebody who did nothing but eat-didn't do
anything else, see? And you say this person is crazy. See?
Supposing they just ate everything in sight, see? Pencils, razor blades, rose bushes. See,
you'd say they're crazy. And supposing they refused to eat anything of any kind
whatsoever-similar condition, see? If you want to understand what is an aberration, it is
simply an exaggeration of the positive or negative of the usual. You can take anything a
thetan can do and exaggerate it, In extremis, and it becomes an aberration. That's anything,
don't you see?
You'd say even exteriorization can become "extremis," see? Somebody always flies out of
his head; he is always out of his head; he cannot get near his body in any fashion or another;
he worries about it all the time; he can't contact his environment via the body or contact the
environment. Well, you'd say he's batty on the subject of exteriorization, don't you see?
Well, what is this then? It's simply an exaggeration of a condition which a thetan ought to be
able to do well. Well, everybody is a bit batty on this particular subject at this particular time
because practically nobody esteriorizes easily, or they're always exterior. See? There isn't
any halfway measure on this particular line of exteriorization. That's because they are
assisted to exteriorize by various means, don't you see? I mean, the implantation and other
means to exteriorize them.
But this is an aberrated condition. But you see people around, and they're not exteriorizing
easily, and you don't think this is odd. Then we look at that. So that's an accepted neurosis,
see? That neurosis is the common denominator of the society or the "normal." See, that's
"normal." Well, just because everybody is doing it . . . Man has an interesting way of
measuring up what's right conduct. He has it measuring up of what's "normal."
One day you get into a society where everybody in the society is terrified of spiders. You get
into this civilizations-everybody in this civilization is terrified of spiders. They're picking
spiders off of themselves all the time, you see, and they sleep in their beds surrounded by
spider traps, and they, you see, just go on and on. Well, there's practically no girl in the room
who isn't a little bit nervy on the subject of spiders, don't you see? You find a spider
crawling across your nose, you boys would be upset too, you see? But this society does
nothing whatsoever but fight spiders, see-nothing known in its activity but that one thing.
But this isn't crazy because everybody does it, you see? So, according to those blokes in that
society, they look at each other, and there's one guy there who isn't afraid of spiders, see?
See? One guy there, so they say he's batty. He doesn't use spider bait around his plate while
he eats, you see? Guy is crazy, see? Obviously!
So this shows you, of course, that a departure from the norm-I use an old clichй-a
departure from the "normal" is no indication of aberration. It is actually of no real concern of
the auditor. because you're bound, sooner or later, to find somebody who doesn't put spider
bait around his plate while he eats, you see?
This, by the way what I'm saying here-occasionally causes auditors trouble. And they'll
have trouble with the case-case runs too easily.
Supposing you found somebody just clipped off engrams in chains: bzzzzzp, bong!-that's
the end of that chain of engrams. Well, you have trouble with him, you see, because it's not a
normal auditing response.
I remember old Ray Thacker, she used to be worried about auditing me after lectures and so
forth. She'll tell you about it today, I think, and so on Changed too fast. It's upsetting.
Finally got this thing taped. It isn't that I'm so good, but I thought it was rather amusing, you
see? I run Havingness, and zing-bang, cognition's-brrrr- and that's the end of the long
chain of this and that sort of thing.
Well, that's a different auditing response from the normal, so you're not completely proof of
making a mistake as an auditor, so long as you accept this normal or this average, you see, as
the index as to whether or not a person is getting better or how he should behave in
processing, you see?
Well, this gets booby-trapped too, because you start processing somebody and he says he's
out of his head and he's on the moon and he's here and he's there and he's taken care of the
whole bank, and that sort of thing. And you're processing this bloke and you may find out it's
not true, you see? And this upsets you.
So a few weeks later you're processing somebody who is close to an OT and is doing it and it
is true, see? Well, it's just whether or not the guy can do the process-that's your thing-or
whether or not he gains and whether or not he can get tone arm motion. Now there's a good
index, see?
PC get tone arm motion, you know? PC stay in session. PC go on willing to talk to you as the
auditor. See, these are your indexes. And those indexes are constant. They have nothing to do
with the speed with which a process works or the slowness with which it works; doesn't leave
you, then, hung with this thing called "departure from the normal." You don't have to then
have a normal for the human race (God help us all) as an index, as to whether or not
somebody is making progress in processing.
I dare say, if you went through an insane asylum, almost any insane asylum in the world, you
would find in there somebody who was supernormal and who was not crazy. I dare say
there's probably one per asylum, see?
But if insanity-if insanity or neurosis, see, is measured by just this one thing: whether the
person is "normal," why, then you run into all sorts of trouble in trying to adjudicate it. So
what you'd stick with is your auditing tools, see? You find out whether or not this person gets
good TA, see, on what you're running on him, and whether or not this person can do the
process and can stay in session with the auditor, and if the expected gains and that sort of
thing are made on the thing. And that's your index, you see? His behavior his actual behavior
in life is not of any great worry to you.
Now, I give you that as a word of warning, because as you move up the line with modern
processes you very often go through periods of change-and particularly with a service
facsimile and so forth-you go through periods of change which may be very swift. And a
case does some sort of a flick of some kind or another and goes from A to Z without
bothering to stop at any other of the letters in the alphabet. Or does it momentarily and hits a
high and then does a slide back from the high, or something like this. And if you were
worrying all the time whether or not the PC had normal behavior, you've just added
something into the whole problem of auditing which you just haven't anything to do with.
That's all, see? And take it from me, it's of no value-no value at all. We don't care whether
they're normal or abnormal or supernormal or something like that.
You can define various states. And it's easier to draw up a scale of abilities in life and try to
measure somebody up against that, if you must study behavior, don't you see? Let's get a
scale of abilities, only let's take a whole row of abilities, you see, and let's find out how the
person measures up on each one of these ability lines, and so on. You might have some idea
of his condition as a thetan, see? But that again would have nothing to do with normal, see? ,
Nothing whatsoever.
You try to measure up thetan to thetan, why, that's rough.
Now, you get some case that doesn't behave well under usual conditions of auditing-and
you are having trouble under usual conditions of auditing, don't you see?-well, you've got
another problem staring you in the face here. And we don't care-that problem is not solved
by saying the person is normal or abnormal. It is solved by the condition of restimulation of
the case. That's how that is solved.
And I've given you a whole chart here which, by the way, has a great deal of value, and you
could put any PC on this, or monitor any auditing against this particular chart, and start
cutting down restimulation on the PC. And you can cut down environmental restimulation,
you see, and cut this and that down. And you can cut down session restimulation in numerous
ways, you see? Just don't give him anything new to audit, and that sort of thing- numerous
ways of doing this (anyway, those various zones I gave you there the other day), and you'll
pick up the necessary TA action at some stage or another, see?
Now, that's completely independent, you see, of what process you are running on the PC.
That too, that doesn't come into it either. You could probably make almost any PC get tone
arm action on almost any process, providing you reduce the restimulation in various fronts
and sectors till the PC's attention could be centered on it and the restimulation was at
minimum. And you could probably get, on almost any PC, tone arm action on almost any
process. But on some you'd have to be a lot more careful than others because the
restimulation is very great. You see these as the factors with which you, an auditor, handle a
Let's take a look, then, at the fact that there are some case peculiarities. And these case
peculiarities all come under the heading of the material you've -that I've just reviewed this
minute, see? Nothing in these things violate that. Now, that a person has a hidden standard
does not make him subnormal or supernormal or normal or anything else. It merely means he
has a chronic restimulation. That merely means he has a chronic restimulation of some kind
that is throwing on to the case an additional amount of charge.
Now, that was given in your chart I gave you here about what's in restimulation, see? And
that comes under the heading of that. And this thing is in restimulation; it's chronically in
restimulation. Now, in service facsimiles and other reasons and so forth, we get the reasons
why it's in restimulation. But we're not examining why it is in restimulation at this particular
time. We're examining wholly, totally and only that it is in restimulation. You got that? Just
reduce it to that simplicity. There's current stuff in restimulation. All right, if there's current
stuff in restimulation, it includes, in some cases, this thing called a hidden standard.
And you say to the PC, "Did you have any gains in this session? Did you have any gains in
this session?"
And the PC looks sort of hollow-eyed for a moment, and he looks back into his skull with his
eyeballs or something of the sort, and he says to you, he says-after a minute or two, he says,
Now, what-what brought him to say no? What brought him to say no? Well, the thing that
really brings him to say no is no tone arm action. So you can predict whether or not he's
going to say no.
But this hidden standard is terribly interesting as a little mechanism all by itself. And it's a
mechanism that you should look for. It's fascinating in its own gimmickry. It's in chronic
restimulation. It's some engram, some facsimile, you know; it's in chronic restimulation. And
if it was changed in the session, then he's had a gain. And if it wasn't changed in the session,
then he didn't have a gain. You understand?
Now, that's what makes the PC say whether he's had a gain or not a gain. And, of course,
there's the mechanical fact that if you get tone arm action, you must have been discharging
some of that restimulation. So, of course, it will have changed this thing and he will say he
did have a gain. See, it's as elementary as this. But, nevertheless? his gain is measured by this
thing called a hidden standard.
So there he is, there he is with something which tells him whether or not he has had a change.
He, actually, most of the time is not aware of this. Now, if that-if that was the only thing
that happened in the session with regard to a hidden standard you would be in clover, because
you could cope with that, because you just have tone arm action, see?
But that isn't all that happens. Unfortunately, that isn't all that happens. There is something
else going on during the session that you should be very interested in. And that is the fact that
he's taking this thing, whatever it is, into every facsimile, into every process, and is trying to
fit the process to this thing. He is always trying to find, hectically, scramblingly, and so forth,
what it is in the incident that you are trying to run on him, in the process you are trying to run
on him, in the picture he's just been presented with, which resolves this thing. You got that?
In other words, he takes this little red wagon everywhere he goes. And he doesn't look at the
picture. He says, "Did it wash up that little red wagon?" See?
Now, you're going to run-you're going to run some kind of an implant or something on this
fellow, you see? And the stuff is spitting and snapping and burping at him and so forth, and
he hasn't got really any attention on any of this stuff at all. He's trying to find out whether or
not it's doing anything to the paint on this little red wagon, see? Which in effect is what? It
gives a PC such an introversion in a session that he doesn't as-is anything and you don't get
tone arm action.
And time and the tone arm fit together. Now listen to this one because this is very important:
He drags this thing into every other incident or thing to fit it up, and therefore is misdating
something for the duration of the session and all sessions. He's always misdating something.
That's worth knowing, isn't it?
The fellow with a hidden standard, then, is always misdating, because he's dragging the
hidden standard-he's dragging the hidden standard into everything you're trying to audit.
And of course that isn't the date of it. That's a fascinating little set of phenomena. He's
dragging this red wagon, which may have the date of eight trillion-trillion years ago, you see,
and he's dragging it into yesterday and he's dragging it into the breakfast table this morning,
and so forth. And he's dragging it here and he's dragging it there. If you tried to run birth on
him, he would see whether or not it did anything to the little red wagon, you see? Wouldn't
do anything to him. So, in essence, he's put eight trillion-trillion years ago into birth, he's put
it into breakfast, he's put it here and he's given it a new date every time. It's the most
effective stopper of TA action there can be-the hidden standard. Misdate, misdate, misdate.
Now, there is a way of getting rid of it. A process which is called-was called 3T. Actually
should be called, now, 4T, but could just as easily remain as 3T. And until we do a complete
revision you can write it as "3T"-Routine 3T-which simply asks the PC (now, this is very
germane to your service facsimile, because this is very cute, very cute), you ask your PC for
his chronic psychosomatic, What does he mainly complain about in auditing?
Now understand, you have asked him bluntly and directly, "Hey, bud, what's your hidden
standard?" But all he knows about it is that he experiences it and that it is always present. So,
you ask him what he is experiencing and what is always present.
And he says, "This lumbosis, this . . . this lumbosis, this lumbosis."
And you slicker him. You slicker him. And that's just called R3T because the total action of
it is you date it You date it and let him get the itsa line in on it. And you'll find to a very
marked degree, in most cases, that's the end of the hidden standard.
What you have to know, in order to understand this completely, is the hidden standard always
expresses itself physiologically. The hidden standard Is never hidden physically. It's hidden
from the PC, and it'd be hidden from the auditor if he never inquired into it. It's that thing by
which the individual measures his gains in processing. But that's actually just about as hidden
as an elephant in the middle of a ballroom. It'll be what he complains about in processing.
And sometimes it's going to take you an hour or two of itsaing just to find out what it is. And
that too is very good auditing. What's this thing he's been trying to solve in processing?
What's the physiological condition which most worries him in processing and which he has
been trying to solve? And he will eventually lay it out on the silver platter. And he will say,
"It is my stomach pains."
Now he's got that all settled. Now, that, by the way, has already alleviated it to a marked
degree, and has given you some interesting tone arm action, maybe where you didn't have
any before.
R3T is one of these things you can use in extremis. You just put the itsa line in like mad on
the guy's chronic somatic, you see? "What are you trying to solve in processing?" see? He
gives it to you and he gives it to you and he gives it to you and he gives it to you. Now, the
only difficulty with this: if he starts giving you problems, you've sort of had it because that
problems isn't an itsa. You understand? So your question probably ought to lean in the
direction of "What physical condition are you trying to solve?"
He'll eventually isolate these gut pains. Gradually, gradually, gradually, you know? Itsa line,
itsa line, itsa line. It's good auditing, see? It's marvelous auditing. He'll gradually itsa this
thing out into view if he doesn't tell you at once. Sometimes he spoils the whole process. He
says, "Oh, it's my lumbosis!" see? I mean, you've had it, see? Then you'd have to go into it
on the basis, "Well, when has this troubled you in processing?" Then you'd probably get
some TA action out of it-sort of an anticlimax. But you could probably get some TA action
out of the thing, even so.
And that may be the only way you can handle it, you know, is "When has this troubled you
this lifetime?" or something, you see? But you can take that, with R3T, and you say "Gut
pains. Gut pains. Order of magnitude. Years ago? Tens of years ago? Hundreds of years
ago?"
Keep going, man, keep going. Don't stop just because you've hit a trillion. Some people get
allergic to this thing called a trillion. I don't know why. They got lots of them! You have big
problems in how to express trillions, and big problems in how to this . . . I've even had some
suggestions that we invent a new unit of time, some kind or another. I'm all in favor of that,
but I'm afraid it would have had to have been done some time ago for it to work on the
thetan. Thank God we aren't measuring it in numbers of heartbeats!
Anyway, you just get that order of magnitude, see? This is, by the way, good auditing to do
this. You date very alertly, and sometimes you say "I've got a read here; apparently it's in the
order of magnitude of trillions of trillions of years ago." And the gut pains go bbzzp brrp-
boom. And that's all you hear about it and that's the end of that process. That's the lengthiest
process in Scientology in terms of numbers of years covered but not in hours of auditing.
One warning here: you try to nail this thing too closely, and you get yourself in trouble. And
you find a PC is sitting in the engram, and you're going to have to shift to R3R right there.
He's so stuck. And if he was in a GPM you'd have to shift to 3N. And if he was in his own
GPM you'd probably-oh, well, 3M2. So therefore, you can make too much of a good thing
out of R3T. See, that can be too. So the dating-now get this-the dating is done with an eye
on the PC as well as the meter. And that's what makes it a process which commonly will fail
because it is simply overrun.
You find out this thing is thousands of years ago, and he goes dluk-glunktum! And you see
hhhp! It's almost as good as the meter, see? He'll go and you say, "All right, I had a nice read
on that. That was thousands of years ago. All right. Now, how do you feel?"
"Oh," he says, "I feel better."
And at that point you haul in the itsa line and go flank-speed ahead into your next process.
You hear this? Why? He is going to push himself into things.
Old-time Dianeticist, been around for Lord knows how long-he's down in Los Angeles
now-and he was in at 42 Aberdeen Road, and I was showing him what Straightwire was. I
was showing him, unfortunately, the difference between Straightwire and engram running.
Unfortunately, see?
So I took his chronic somatic and his worry about this lifetime, and I straightwired it out of
existence like that. I just spotted the time and somebody else had it and it blew, and that was
that, see? He was the happiest man you ever laid your eye on, you know? He was just
pleased, you know? He just was shining and pleased. And then I said, "All right, now we'll
pick that up as an engram," proceeded to do so and keyed it right straight back in.
But it was actually a terrible cruelty to do that to the man, and I actually wouldn't have done
it had I realized that he was setting so much store by it. So let that serve us as a lesson. It's a
mistake I haven't made again.
What's the essence of this, then? When the PC drops this one off, bail out. Too much of a
good thing here. You can even make up some homely platitude, you know? Something about
"A little auditing goes a long way if a long auditing goes a little way," or something like that,
don't you see? I know, it confused me too! But there's something about medicine, you see,
"If a little bit of medicine did a lot of good, why, a lot of medicine will do lots of good," and
you can actually get caught in between this on this little process.
So the process is not greatly advertised. Terribly effective-it's been with us forever-
because it's dating the somatic, you see, and getting rid of it. But in this particular case you're
not dating the PC's somatic. You're asking him what he's trying to resolve in processing.
You get the difference? And that's the only reason it has any importance at all, is because
once you've dropped that off the PC, he then won't consult it to find out if he's made his
gains, and he won't be dragging the thing into every facsimile or anything else you try to run
on him. So he's going to make some progress and he's going to make more TA action
because he's not always misdating something. You got it?
But a little of it goes a long, long way. Slippy, quick, fast. I daresay-I daresay when you
first use it, about 80 percent of the time you will overrun it, when you first start using it, and
then you will get very, very expert and about 50 percent of the time you will overrun it. See?
And you'll eventually, if you keep using it, time to time, why, you'll suddenly find out that
you're getting pretty slippy; you're getting pretty slippy. You see, if it disappeared on the itsa
line, you'd bail out. It isn't likely to, but if it did, you would.
You'll find out that some horrendous body masses come off of the PC by reason of this
The only thing-the only thing it's used for is this thing called a hidden standard. You got
that?
Now, a hidden standard is not always present in every PC to a point where it ruins the
auditing. But it is present in any PC who has a difficult or delicate tone arm. So on your
delicate-tone-arm cases you have another little weapon. And if you don't have a delicate-
tone-arm case-this character is just running fine with the tone arm action and that sort of
thing. It isn't always stop, you know, and isn't always this and isn't all that. And you find
yourself going around worrying about somebody's tone arm, that is your immediate and
direct answer.
If session after session you've worried about somebody's tone arm action and you're doing
everything reasonable in order to get the tone arm running and you have not made it, and so
forth, then you just remember this little point on the time track, or this little point on the tape,
when the old man said, "Delicate tone arm: probability-hidden standard. Remedy: R3T."
And remember, he also said, "A little of it goes a long way!" You can get enthusiastic with
this R3T; you could probably try to run a whole case with it.
All right-let's see how you can run a whole case with it. All right, now, "What are you
trying to resolve in processing? What pains, agonies, illnesses or sicknesses or physical
sensations are you trying to resolve in processing?" and so forth. PC gives it to you. Order of
magnitude: date it, date it to the second-you even have to do that sometimes-but you date
this thing to the second. Find the PC stuck in the engram-find out it is an engram-shift to
R3R, get that out. And then find the engram is stuck in the middle of the GPM, so you shift to
3N, you see? And you get that handled, you see? But then you find that this, in actual fact, is
part of one of the PC's own GPM's RI, so, of course, you have to shift to 3M-R31 I2. All
right, now you've shifted to R3M2, and you find out actually it's reaching up into PT, so you
run a service fac on it. Now, having run a service fac on it, you accumulated quite a few ARC
breaks during this auditing, so you . . .
A little of this goes a long way! And you'll finally get expert at hitting the silk.
But you actually could take everything the PC was worried about, see, and do this whole
thing. You could do R3T, even well done, on everything the PC was worried about in present
time. Now we're being sensible, see? This isn't ridiculous, this is true, see? You say, "What
are you worried about?" You know, "What are you being processed to resolve?" and so forth.
And he says, "Well, my gut pains."
"All right, that's fine." R3T gut pains. Order of magnitude. What's- where's the gut pain?
Well, to hell with that. That's the end of that, see? All right. "What else are you trying to
resolve in processing?"
"Well, my headaches."
"All right." R3T headaches. Pssheww! That's the end of his headache. "What else are you
trying to worry about in processing?" and so forth. "What are you trying to resolve?" and so
forth.
And says, "Husbands."
"All right, let's date husbands." And-fact, see? All right, pssheww! Order of magnitude on
husbands, you see? "Your worry is back there at trillions-thirty-five. That's it." Okay. No itsa
line. Ahw-u-u-uh! See? Trillions thirty-five. That'd be good.
"All right, anything else you're trying to resolve with processing?" and so forth.
"Well, I'm trying to resolve having a body-having a body. I'm trying to resolve having a
body. Get in my way-get in my way all the time. You have to wash `em, you know, have to
wash `em. And they dent, and they drip blood all over the place when you stick holes in
them, and so forth. They worry me, they worry me."
"All right, body. Order of magnitude, body..." Bzz-bzz-bzzz-bmp, zump, zump, zump, bop.
"Well, well, 208 thousand years ago. Very good, all right. That's it."
PC says, "Yeah, there's an interesting . . . interesting thing there."
"Well, good! Good! Thank you." That's when you want to get that TR 2 in there, see?
"Good! All right! Well, what do you know! Well, I'm certainly glad you found that! Very
fine. All right, I'm glad you found that! Okay. Now, what else are you worried about, in
actual fact, in processing?"
You see, you let his line go on the backtrack, and he's going to have you wrapped around into
every process you ever heard of, man. You're going to lose control of that session.
When you finally finished up, you'd have a Clear. That is a method of clearing. Got it?
Needle would go free, TA would come down, and so forth. Impossible as it seems, it is a
method of clearing. That'd be every hidden standard he ever heard of. Anything he could
dream up here. But don't let him pull any back from the backtrack. Ha-ha-ha! That return
journey-no payload. Return empty, see? Nothing, no baggage. Otherwise he'll start scraping
that track up and bring it up to PT, and the next thing you know, why, you're doing "Oh, my
God," see?
Now, the service facsimile-the service facsimile-has to be severely located on the time
track. And we say "this lifetime," but actually what you're doing is circumscribing the
duration. Your absolute limit of your service facsimile activity-R3SC-is the pair of RIs
he's currently sitting in on his own GPM line. Now, that can be a pretty broad sphere. But if
you limit it very severely to this lifetime, you could even work to key that out, don't you see?
But if for some reason or other this becomes so complicated and you can't get down to it, and
somehow or another it doesn't come, and they just can't make it out, and you get to
wondering why you ever came to the session in the first place, you see, why, you've still got
another string to your bow: You've got R3T-R3T clearing. You can still make a Clear; he
can't stop you from doing it. You see that?
Now, this is with the PC that you can't seem to find a service facsimile on that runs over any
period of time. You know, difficult, difficult. Now, I say you're going to get some difficult
PCs-it's impossible to say otherwise- because the hidden standard in this particular case is
the service facsimile. But it just happens to be, for some reason best known to somebody else,
completely undentable.
Well, there's one thing that will dent it, and that's to pick it up, wrap it in a small black bow,
wind your arm up around your head and pitch it with high velocity down the time track to a
place where it belongs. And that has a degree of workability.
Now, of course, this is all under the heading of destimulation. So, because it's under the
heading of destimulation, you have to be very careful not to run anything. See, that's why it
becomes absolutely ridiculous to start running things. Because you start running things on the
whole track on a case that you're already trying to destimulate . . .
Why are you trying to destimulate the case? You're trying to destimulate the case so that it
doesn't have PT problems and so forth to kick your auditing session to pieces. So therefore, if
you start a destimulation action-if you start an action of destimulation-what have you done
if you suddenly start running something on the backtrack? Hm? And if the PC's service
facsimile has in it "to make you wrong as an auditor," that's the first thing the PC's going to
do -"he gonna try to restimulate more than he already got."
Now, how do you keep the itsa line in on a PC who wants to restimulate more? That's your
problem! How do you keep from ARC breaking this PC? How do you keep him from actually
actively cutting the itsa line?
Well, the best way to do it, actually-and I will help you with this problem-is be awful
damn careful of your whatsits. Use that whatsit line with great skill. Knock out of your
auditing all social actions. That's the first thing you do. Avoid all violent attention shifts.
Avoid all attention shifts that you possibly can which are directed by a whatsit. In other
words, don't direct the PC's attention in such a way as to ARC break the PC so he starts to
get even with you by restimulating more, or some weird combination like this occurs. Just
avoid all that. See what I mean?
Be awful careful of those whatsit. Don't say "How have you been today?" You understand?
That's a whatsit.
Gives him an opportunity to say, "Well, actually, I was sitting in . . . up in the lounge at the
Bide-A-Wee Club, and so it occurred to me, you know, saw this figure in Roman armor."
See? You've had it Cot the idea? It isn't a matter of withholding something, unless you're
obsessively social. It's just don't use them.
Now, the type of Model Session that is employed on a case that is very prone to
restimulation-isn't getting much tone arm action anyhow-is your W Unit Model Session.
That's your zero social. Oh, let him discuss anything he wants to after a session-discuss
anything he wants to after a session-but he's aware of the fact you're no longer auditing him
and he actually won't plow it in. You get the idea? Now, don't keep putting the brace on him
and shutting him off and stepping all over his toes and that sort of thing. But in session:
"How did that go?" Hmmmm-you're walking along the edge of the precipice, don't you
Any delicate TA case, any case that you're having trouble with, any case that you're having
difficulties trying to stabilize them into a process, any case-you know, over restimulation
leads to self invalidation. You should know that. Case is invalidating his own case and he's
chewing himself up all the time, and he doesn't know, and he this and that. Well, actually, the
more you restimulate, the more he's going to self-invalidate and the more he's going to
invalidate Scientology and other dynamics. You understand? This is a symptom of over
restimulation.
You can actually classify aberration into these two classes. There's the symptoms and
reactions occasioned by over restimulation, and then there's the particular significance's
caused by the service facsimile and other things, you see? The significance's-the
dramatizations the person goes through- that's one channel, and restimulation is another
channel. Of course, restimulation gives you the degree of dramatization, too. If you raise the
restimulation on a case, you can raise its dramatization.
If you handle these problems in the guise and line of restimulation and monitor nicely with
destimulation, and handle a case very nicely like that, you can get the case up to a point of
discharging a great deal of stuff and you can get a case to discharge lots of charge.
But if you go at it so knuckleheadedly that everything you say to the case leaves the case
wide open to the restimulation of more actions, you see, on the track everything you do with
the case, and so forth, leads to more restimulation, and then if your queasiness in handling the
case also gets in your road and prevents you from really running a process-or the PC's
nerviness or over restimulation-then the case is just going to get less and less and less and
less and less controllable; less and less and less controllable. Do you see why? Restimulation
is catching up with you.
So, therefore, the destimulation of a case is an art, and it is a peculiarly positive sector in the
field of auditing. And most of you are on this sort of thing right now-service facsimile, see?
Now, the service facsimile, discharged, decreases the restimulation that the case is subject to,
even though it's just discharged right here in this lifetime-present time, a lot of action and
so forth. Case is subject to less restimulation because he pulls in less present time problems in
his environment, don't you see?
Now, the present time problem, the aspect of the present time problem, is another category of
upset to you. Case with a tremendous present time problem does not make good processing
gains If a person's graph remained the same throughout a week of auditing, you can assume
this case had present time problems. The way to handle present time problems is to handle
that factor in the case which causes the case to have present time problems. What causes the
case to have present time problems? There must be something in restimulation to the case
which pulls in present time problems.
I'll give you another method of listing for a service facsimile which actually nails present
time problems with magnitude. You realize that there are so many solutions in the zone or
area where we are operating at this particular moment-there are so many solutions to the
thing-that it'd be very hard to give you a total coverage of all of these materials. And you're
going to discover quite a few solutions in running somebody with an itsa line and handling
service facsimiles and that sort of thing, see? You're going to discover a lot of these things.
There are certain standard ones, and this could be classified as a standard one: "What's a safe
assumption about your environment? What would be a sate method of handling your
problems here and now in life?" Now, a question and a list of that particular kind is going to
drop into your lap, with a thud, the stable datum that the individual is holding at bay various
sectors of his existence. So it comes, in that wise, a method of destimulating the environment.
All you had to do is just list the list with some such question as I just gave you, and you'll
wind up at the other end with what he uses to handle his family, what he uses to handle his
job (that may be another one, see).
All right, now let's expand that process and let's take the PC's whole environment to pieces.
Let's take this big sector we call the PC's environment. Let's take that whole sector and let's
compartment it. Let's find out-in present time, let's find out where his life is in conflict or
contact with what. Let's find out the whole lot, don't you see?
Now, this is terrific itsa-line stuff. You're not saying "this lifetime," now you're saying now,
man. There's no opportunity to go restimulating something else, you see? It's now! And his
idea of now will probably go back to yesterday afternoon, or it might go back for a year or so.
Somebody living in a farm community or something like that and things are pretty calm, he
may consider his present time, you see, much broader. You ask a London city dweller what
his now consists of, and he will tell you about his sandwich at lunch, you see? That's about as
far as his time goes. It's very hectic.
But let's just take this guy's environment, just in a social sort of an auditing way, because
you've got such a terrific limiter on it, you see, that you can be very relaxed with your
auditing. See, you can ask him almost anything as long as you don't throw his attention on
the backtrack. All of your questions
have to do with right now, your present time.
"The life you are living at this particular moment: what have you been ill contact with?"
The person will say, "What period?"
"Well, you know, now. Now."
"Well, now I'm in contact with the session."
This guy's too sane to ask such a question of.
So you say to him, "Well, in the last thirty days, you know, what are you in contact with?"
That might not include his parents-say he hasn't had a letter for thirty days, something like
that-but it's part of his environment. Let's just get that environment all torn up, see? Let's
get him to tell us, you know, where each sector of this is. This is terrific Scientology I. The
guy's got the isness of his environment. How many people have ever sat down and seen
exactly what their life contacts consisted of here and now? You talk about orientation, man!
This is orientation. Well, that's going to throw you with TA action, and that's going to loosen
your needle-just that.
Little innocent questions from you, "Well, where are they?" see?
"Oh, and I know the Smiths. I know the Smiths. The Smiths. I know the Smiths pretty well.
She's pretty nice looking, and he makes awfully good rum nog and punches," or something,
you see? And, "Yeah, I know the Smiths."
Well, he's just liable to go on saying, "Well, I know the Smiths," you know, "I know the
Smiths." Your tone arm action will die down after a while.
Wake up. Well, what can you say? Well, it's like the questions you use in 2H, see? "Well,
where are they? Where are they?" see? Now there you're running the locational process on
him. You know, "Well, where are they?"
"Oh, they . . . they're . . . they're up at Eastbourne," see, "they're up at Eastbourne, and they
live at-they . . . they moved. They moved. Let's see, they used to live at-at-at 13 Galloway
Street, and they now live at 42 Yard Road yeah, at 42 Yard Road. I don't know quite where
that is. I was up in Eastbourne the other day..." and so forth and so on... "Let's see, uh ...
Yard Road ..." and so on. "I think you come up from the dock.... No, no, it's that one under
the hill. That's-that's-that's the one. Yeah, that's where they live. Yeah, I've seen the
place before. I haven't seen their new house, but I know where that place is. Yeah, I got that,
see?"
See that tone arm action go there, man. You watch that fly. You see, "Where are the Smiths?"
It's apparently got nothing to do with the price of fish, see? But now you've got the Smiths,
not only categorized, but located, see?
And he works for the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company, see? All right, that's fine. Of course,
you can reduce all this to a rote procedure that takes all the life out of it very easily. Bide-A-
Wee Biscuit Company-he's telling you very interestedly about the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit
Company. They get-they're located there, and he goes down there to work every morning,
and so forth. And there's a porter there by the name of George, and George has always got
his hand out for an apple or sandwich or something of the sort, and he's always got some
wisecracks and so forth, and there's a lot of people around there. And they're pretty good
people down at the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company.
Well, let him get away with this "down to the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company," you see, just
so long. And well, you want to know "Where is this Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company?" you
see? He's run the tone arm action out of what it is, you see? Well, let's get some tone arm
action, let's bleed it down with where it is, don't you see? And man, he gets the Bide-A-Wee
Biscuit Company park, and he's all of a sudden liable to have a terrific cognition. He all of
the time, because he goes in the underground, lost sight of the fact that it is actually twelve
miles from where he lives, see?
And then he realizes they got a lot of branch offices around here and there. And he's been to
several of these branch offices. And you can just see this Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company:
He'll start to expand . . . take place, and you see the tone arm start moving on the thing. You
get a lot of nice tone arm action out of it and so forth. And he finally-finally he gets down to
the personalities on the thing. And you'll notice, it will be the things which he's having a
gradient-scale difficulty of confronting. And you'll build up this gradient, see? And you'll see
his confront starts going up on his environment to the degree that you blow charge off of it,
see? And his confront starts up on his environment.
And you can notice this in his kind of answers if you're very clever about it. You'll notice
that he just goes down to the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company, don't you see, and he sees
George. You know, George-that's the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company, you know? That's
about all he's got of the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company, even though he goes there every day,
is George. And the only important fact about George is the fact that George has always got
his hand out for an apple. See? Something of that particular sort, see?
Now, however, he expands the fact that he actually works in a certain section of it and he has
certain associates there who are something-or-others, you see, and they work in a little bunch
of offices. And then he all of a sudden tells you all about George's family and where George
lives, see? He'll revert to that and do a wider confront, see? And then he'll go up and then he
tells all this and, of course, he finally can tell you who's managing director, and you'd
consider his confront is adequate then at that moment.
But you'll see how pinned down his attention line is in the environment. It doesn't take a
terribly clever auditor to do his, but it takes one that doesn't mind a PC being gabby. And
you're just putting the itsa line in: What's his present time consist of and where is it and
who's in it and where are they? Next thing you know, you got the guy permeating all over the
place, see?
This is a lot of auditing. This is a lot of auditing. It's a terrific HGC approach, see? After
that's happened to somebody in an HGC they'll know very well that the HGC has got their
good interests at heart. Well, they have, you see? But they know that because a good
Scientology T has been run here on the person's lifetime.
Well, when he's all through with this and he's got all of his environment laid out and his
wife's relations and how likely it is at any moment they're liable to come to visit him and
when he's got everything all taped every place under the sun, and you finally now decided
that you've got his present time. Because you've used this, you see, "present time," a lot of
times with him in the discussion-and you don't let him catch sight of that, otherwise he's
going to tell you his war stones. False itsa line. False line. You don't want anything to do
with that, see?
So what your lineup here consists of is his present time-got that all categorized-and then
you throw in that process I just gave you.
Now that you've got all sections of it . . . And you could actually lay out a plot of it and draw
a map. You now know where are his zones and sectors of problems and you know which one
he's most fascinated with, because he gets gloomiest whenever he talks about it. You don't
need an E-Meter to tell you that. Although if you kept talking about it very long, it's problem,
problem, problem, so your tone arm action would die down, you see? "Oh, well, there's my
parents. (sigh)"
About that time even the most imperceptive auditor would notice that there were problems in
that vicinity; he wouldn't even have to look at his E-Meter, see? But if he also looked at his
E-Meter, don't you see, he would see all of a sudden that it started to rise and it wasn't doing
any blowing down. Got that?
Well, that's a weird way to do an assessment. But that's a very accurate assessment. "There's
more problems there than he can confront." See, a rising tone arm is a no-confront-always,
you see? He can't confront this many problems, so he can't put any itsa into the vicinity.
Now, why can't he put an itsa into the vicinity? Well, you say you can explain that very well.
"Sons feel odd sometimes about their parents," you see, and so on. You can explain and
explain and explain, you see, and you can figure it all out and you can figure it all out and
you could worry yourself to death. But let me point something out to you: The longer you
spend worrying it out, you see, at breakfast, and that sort of thing-the longer you spend
doing that-if you catch yourself doing too much of this, realize that you are not, at the time
you are eating breakfast, putting an itsa line in on the PC. And even though you come to a
total conclusion with regard to the thing, you won't have moved his tone arm one bit. And I
point that out to you, see? You won't get any tone arm action on him at all.
Now, in your idea, you should be getting tone arm action on him; that's a reasonable
assumption, see? So, use this as your assessment line. Now, isn't that an interesting
assessment? It's not an assessment by tick and click and reading lists, you see? That's an
assessment of zone. And it's an assessment by "Oh, yes . . . yes." An assessment by rising
tone arm. And you've located a zone where he has a service fac in operation. Right like that,
see? Now we know. Now we know.
Now, why do you get a rising tone arm? He obviously isn't confronting it. Now, it's no good
for you to assume that there are lots of reasons why be can't confront it and it blows up in his
face every time he tries to confront it, you understand? That's nonsense for you to assume
that, for the excellent reason it's not true. You're going to find out he can't confront the Bide-
A-Wee Biscuit Company because "biscuits are no good." Stable datum. He never confronts
the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company; he confronts, and is, a biscuits-are-no-good, see? So as
long as he's got that problem totally solved in present time, he never has to look at the Bide-
A-Wee Biscuit Company. So now he will continue to have present time problems with the
Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company.
I'll give you the most elementary type of present time problem with the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit
Company: If he can't confront the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company at all, he's going to make
mistakes on the job, and it's going to make present time problems for him. Doesn't have to be
anything esoteric about it, you understand, because present time problems are in direct ratio
to the no-confront. The frequency of present time problems are the measure of no confront.
And here's the recent datum stated at a terrific simplicity at the service-facsimile level.
Here's this recent datum, service facsimile: No confront is caused by a substitute confront.
Now, that gives you a brand-new look at life. You always assume, you see, that the reason
the thetan isn't confronting is because he can't confront See, we don't care whether he can't
confront, but that statement doesn't lead to a solution of the problem. That's all we need to
know. See, so don't worry about whether he can't confront it or not.
Yeah, colloquially we speak all the time, as Scientologists we're always saying, "Well, well,
you know Joe, he's always in trouble, he just can t confront that," see? That's fine, that's
perfectly true, in its limited sense. But in actual fact, that doesn't lead to a resolution of that
guy's case, because it isn't factual. It isn't quite factual. The reason he's not confronting is
caused by the substitute confront which we call a service facsimile.
It's something like he has set up a little radio tower in the middle of the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit
Company on which has got "I hate biscuits," see? And that thing, that thing confronts the
whole Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company for him. And so help me Pete, as long as he's got that
thing, the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company is going to cave that guy in and is going to knock
down the case between sessions to a point where you're always having to handle the
restimulation of this case in his environment. And if you're only auditing this case two and a
half hours a week and the case is spending forty-some hours a week at the Bide-A-Wee
Biscuit Company, in that two and a half hours you're not going to even come close to
removing the gathered restimulation of the past week.
You add up the number of hours which you've spent with the case on the subject of the Bide-
A-Wee Biscuit Company, you'll find out that they will vastly exceed, in efforts to handle his
PT problems with the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Companies, the effort you would make to simply
compartment his environment with great care and find the stable datum that he uses for the
Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company. Find that and run it as a service facsimile with R3SC. See,
that'd be the smart thing to do.
Well, the opening gun on a case, obviously, if you've got the tools to do it, is to clean up his
present time problem so he isn't going to be accumulating, continuously, this.
Now, the present time problem which generated in his environment is a different thing than
this other thing I was talking to you about called a hidden standard, see? That's a different
thing. Now, it stems simply from a bigger zone, however, of restimulation. But it's being
pulled into restimulation arduously and forcefully by the PC, continuously, for some reason
best known to somebody else. And the reason it's in continuous restimulation is just all these
things are bits and pieces of the RI the PC is in. And it's interesting that you can put that RI
to bed and take the thing apart in this lifetime. That's what's fascinating: that you can do it at
But this thing of Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company, he does this all the time. It's one of the best
things a thetan does. He gets tired of walking down the halls, so he puts a postulate in the
hall, "I hate biscuits," and that's the end of the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company on his
confront. But the damn fool continues to stay on at the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company.
You can put right conduct down, is "Don't remain places that you don't want to keep
confronting." See, you can put that down as a little lesson in life, see, completely aside from
processing, is don't stay in places you don't want to keep on confronting, see? Because your
don't-go-on-confronting will then lead you to stick up a stable datum of some kind or another
to do your confronting for you in that vicinity and the next thing you know, this is going to be
a gorgeous piece of mass, and it's going to be giving you more present time problems than
you can ordinarily count. And your life is going to become very restimulative indeed. That's
a little social lesson I give you there, out of Scientology V.
Anyhow-how to get along in this universe, if possible.
Now do you see, in essence, the compartmentation of the environment and the selection of
these little odd bits and pieces, you see, that he's using as stable data in his environment?
And the knocking all these things out, you see, with your R3SC processes and so on, you will
find a very easy activity. That was what R3SC was originally designed against and for. It,
however, goes a little bit deeper in that it can take apart-a service facsimile. When R3SC is
running very, very hard and very arduously, and your PC is being knocked all over the place
by all of this sort of thing, recognize what you have collided with. You have collided with the
RI which is the current RI in the forming GPM of this particular lifetime. It's very, difficult
not to collide with it. Well, it also surrenders to the techniques of R3SC, but makes a very
much more arduous run of it, you see?
So you would say there's two versions of R3SC, see? But in view of the fact that they are
both handled in the same way, we classify R3SC in terms of what assessment was done in
order to find it. And we number the assessments. Regardless of what stable datum you find,
you are going to handle it by the steps of R3SC. You have those in a crude, rough form at the
present particular time. I gave you an amplification of it yesterday, in that you could enter the
thing at almost any of these levels. You can also enter it at a fourth level, solutions. "When
have you used it for a solution," see?
But you've got this pattern by which you address a stable datum-R3SC, see? Now, how you
arrived at that stable datum would be the assessment you did for R3SC, and there are several
of these numbered assessments.
Now, I've just given you a very simple one. A good Scientology I done by a Class II-type
auditor-but it's Scientology I, orientation and isness, you see? He just does this with the itsa
line in and everything running along gorgeously and he gets his environment all oriented on
the PC and he gets this thing all taped and he locates the most prevalent source of PTPs on
his PC by an assessment of mostly "Ohhh . . ."-an assessment also with a rising TA, but that
is less observable than the PC's attitude about it.
He's been talking about, you see, "Well, actually, I uh . . . I'm-I'm in contact most of the
time with airline companies. I go down to airline companies and deliver things and that sort
of thing and talk to a lot of people. Have to talk to a lot of passengers and so forth. And talk
to hostesses-a lot of hostesses to talk to down there too, you see? Once in a while I get to
talk to pilots. And uh. . . I get out to the airport quite often and go over there. There's a girl at
the magazine stand I like to talk to; she's . . . she's lots of fun, and so forth. And any of the
toys get worn out, why, she gives them to me for my kids, and so forth. We have a pretty
good time out at the airport, and I do that, and so forth."
Well, the real knuckle head of an auditor comes in after that dissertation and says, "Now,
what stable datum do you have for the airport?" He isn't going to have any.
He'll finally say, "The dispatcher's tower." See, he'll give you something in the airport. You
know, "The girl at the magazine stand." You see? "She's a good stable datum for the airport.
She always tells me what's going on." In other words, you won't get one, see? So you have to
be perceptive just to that degree, and. . .
Now, you're going along, and you say, "All right, now all right, we got all that taped and so
forth. Well, how about the socialist club that you belong to-you mentioned a moment ago.
What about that?"
"Oh. . . (sigh)"
Well, the auditor after a while should wake up and realize that what isn't being called on here
is another whatsit. What's being called for here is a safe assumption for the socialist club. He
must have landed right in the middle of it, because he obviously has a non observation. The
easiest way to look at it is, if the PC hasn't got anything to say about it, he isn't observing it.
Obviously, then, it's being observed for him. Well, who's observing it for him? What's
observing it for him? Well, that being, person, idea, thing, television set-that's a service fac
for that zone or area. What do you do with it once you've assessed it out and so forth? Why,
you've got it lying there and you-voila! Just run your R3SC steps on it. That's all. "How
would it make people right, and you wrong?" And the person said it wouldn't. "Well, how
would it dominate somebody . . . ?"
"Oh, well! Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ha-ha-ha. That's a different thing, huh? That's the most
dominative stable datum that you possibly could have. That-that's-that-that-that-that's the
most dominative that you could have. Yeah. That-that-that-that is. That is. Yep."
You keep sitting there waiting for him to answer the question. Well, hell, he's answered it
and he's blown the level, too. See? Here you've got to come back in there and say, "All light,
now, what's the-how does it get you to escape domination? Help you to escape domination
in any way?"
"Ho-ho, ha-ha. Perfect solution!"
That's the end of that level, see?
"All right, how is survival with regard to this thing?"
He's realizing things all the way along the line. It doesn't matter, you see, whether you flatten
any of these processes or not at the first run through. When you finally check them over, just
don't leave one of them hanging out unanswered, do you understand?
It doesn't matter how you chop these things up, see? Don't be neat, because it's not neat, see?
At the end of the thing, get neat. See, make sure you've got them all now and it's all
straightened out, and that sort of thing, see? Now be neat.
But he's-"What-what do you mean? What do you mean, `domination'? Dominate-how
would it dominate somebody, dominate somebody, dominating somebody? How would it
dominate? I don't know how it would dominate anybody. I don't have any idea at all how it'd
dominate anybody, you know? And it just . . . doesn't dominate anybody. And . . . haven't
got any idea."
Well, of course the auditor's a real knuckle head if he says "Well, yes. Well, the question
was-I'll repeat the auditing question for you. How would it dominate somebody?"
"But that's what I'm trying to tell you. Dominate somebody? It doesn't dominate somebody,
and so on." See?
You say, "All right, okay." Take his answer-it wouldn't dominate anybody. "All right, all
right! That's all right. How would it assist your survival?"
"Oh-ho! Well, that's a different thing. Come to think about it, it-it just is. It just is survival.
It is-is survival. It's-it's-it's-it's-it just is. It's just life to me, you know? I never really
looked at that before, but it is just-it's-it's life. Tha-that's what it is. It-it is. It's just life."
And the auditor who says at that time "All right, thank you. Now how would it assist your
survival?" is being a complete knuckle head. The guy has answered the question. He's not
answered the question, he's answered the whole universe of questions with regard to it. He's
given you the perfect answer, which it is. That is the most perfect answer there is about
anything! Thing you got to do is keep your tone arm moving. And you do that sort of thing
and you do it real slippily and only ask the PC what he can answer and only take it, and so
forth; don't start getting hard or tough on the PC till you finish it up, see?
"Now, let's go over these things. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Ah, that one ticked. That one
ticked. That one ticked, right there. All right, now, how would it make people wrong?"
"Well, I meant to tell you, but in actual fact I-I used to use this quite a bit, quite a bit on all
of my girls. I've been reluctant to mention it. But there it is." And he clears this thing up and
of course you're away.
In other words, you've got a variety of processes here that are all running more or less at
once, and the reason why you have a variety of processes all running at once is you're
running a variety of confusion. So it won't be very orderly. It won't get orderly till toward the
end. Most of the confusion is discharged. You see, that service facsimile held in abeyance all
the confusion that was there residual. It's that confusion running off which gives you the tone
arm action. Your tone arm action doesn't come from stable data flying off.
It comes from enunciating and as-ising stable datum's which then permit confusion's to fly
off which have been ht Id in abeyance by those stable data. So if your confusion flies off,
you're going to get charge releasing, because charge is in essence a confusion. That's all
there is to that, see?
It's elementary. You're going to untangle a ball of string, you're going to have string. If you
don't untangle a ball of string, you're not going to have string. I mean, that's all there is to t
lat. You untangle a ball of confusion, you're going to have tone arm motion. And if you're
not going to untangle a ball of confusion, you're not going to have tone arm motion, that's it.
There's two reasons why you don't get tone arm motion, then: You're not untangling the
confusion or there isn't any confusion there. That's the only two reasons.
So you enter into this problem at these various levels, and you'll find out there's a beautiful
assessment that gives you service facsimiles like mad.
Now, how you run the service facsimile after you've gotten it, I've just covered. But it's
always the same: You always handle a service facsimile in this particular line. You'll get very
slippy at it after a while. It's slippy auditing. But the number of ways that you can arrive at
what is the PC's service facsimile are practically uncountable.
Now, the very best method I know of, at this particular time, is the method I have just given
you-not the method of picking up the RI from a PC's goal, see? That's liable to restimulate
the whole GPM, particularly in very inexpert hands that couldn't rescue it, and list it out
anyhow, if it did happen, see? But this other one is a doll. This other one is a doll. I can see
you now, supervising auditing someplace or another, and you hand out this assessment sheet,
you see, that the auditor is supposed to fill in, see? And you hand him this assessment sheet,
you see, "Who are your parents?" and "Why not?" and all kinds of things, and they all go
down the line. And the thing has got about three pages and you've got this assessment sheet.
And you say, "Now, you're running R3SC. Make sure to keep the itsa line in very, very well
while you're doing this assessment sheet." And you give him this four-page sheet, see? Takes
care of his job and his profession and where it's located and all that sort of thing.
The auditor bounces up forty-five minutes later and hands you the sheet all complete. We
obviously have somebody there who "had to get something done," as an auditor, see? He just
blew the intensive, that's all! And I'm sure this is going to happen to you. Every one of you
that's supervising any auditing at all, this is going to happen to you. You just blew the
intensive, see, for the PC. Now what do you do? Now what do you do? Where do you go
from here? I mean, that's it. You obviously have to run some other process.
No, you can go off on to parts of existence and that sort of thing, but in actual fact, the
assessment sheet was never filled in, don't you see? You just said, "Who's your father?
Who's your mother? Mother's name? Mother's name? And brothers or sisters-got any
brothers or sisters? Thirty-three brothers, four sisters and eight cousins. All right, that's fine.
How old were you last birthday? Forty-seven.
"All right, thank you very much," so forth. And "Where do you live what's your address?
What's your address? All right, 933 North Elm. All right. Cincinnati. Very good. And what
company are you with? Oh, the Bide-A-Wee Biscuit Company. Very good. All right, thank
you very much. What's their address? Where are they located? What's the address? Oh, 29
Front Street. Thank you very much. Now, so . . ."
What's missing here? Well, the only thing that's missing is the total assessment. He isn't-he
just missed the whole purpose of what he's supposed to do. You want to know all about this
PC's present time and everything he's in contact with you see?
Well, in a matter of fact, you could come back to the question I just asked you before, if you
were scotched to that degree. You could come back to the question I gave you about
assumptions about your present-time environment, and that sort of thing. You could get a
stable datum and you could get the PC to run without the assessment, don't you see? Look at
all that gorgeous tone arm action that you missed out on, see? You might have missed out
there two sessions, three sessions of gorgeous tone arm action. Marvelous, you see? Thing
would be flying all over the place. The guy destimulated all over the place; the guy
practically Clear and flying, see? It'd just be in the difference of emphasis of the assessment.
So the understanding of the assessment and understanding that an assessment in R3SC is to
produce tone arm action, not data . . . We don't care anything about the data it produces. But
the tone arm action! Now that assessment's supposed to produce some tone arm action, and
you'll see that it's-an R3SC becomes a peculiar brand of assessment. And the individual in
Scientology m who has been carefully, carefully, carefully educated in doing an R3SC
assessment, keeping the itsa line in, keeping the tone arm running like mad, moves into
Scientology IV and does an assessment for a GPM goals list with the itsa line in wide open.
Uuhhh! Well, that's one case we wrote off, see?
R3M2, see, is done pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa, see? No itsa line. Data, data,
data, data, data. All of a sudden the PC cognites on something, you see? Oh, that's fine. He
tells you something about it and so forth, see? All right, good. Data, data, data, data, data,
see? Item, item, item. List, list, list. There th-th-thuh, "There's your item, bang! `A schnook.'
Got it. That's your item."
"Oh, yeah." Now let your itsa line go in a little bit. "In this lifetime I really had . . . Oh, yeah,
a schnook could really-would really . . . really mow a schnook down, man! That-that-that-
that-that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it. That's it."
"Fine, all right. Good! All right! Here's the next list. Who or what would a schnook oppose?
Tsk tsk! Rapidly, rapidly. Come on, come on, come on, come on! Come on! Give me the
data. Come on and so on and so on. Schnook oppose. All right. Good, good, good, got it, got
it, yeah. Your nest-come on, come on, come on, what would it oppose? Well, all right, you
can cognite. Give you thirty seconds to cognite." Something like that.
Give you the idea? That's 3M2. See, you could go dragging your heels doing one of those
assessments and you'd wind up five intensives later with two RIs found, see? PC in total
restimulation, everything gone to pieces. You wonder what's wrong. You get the difference?
This lifetime, present time, itsa line in, assessment:
"Well, I don't know, I don't know. I think we're going to have to get rid of Bill as an auditor,
because he had one of these present-time assessments and it only lasted him two intensives!
He found out all about the guy by the middle of the second intensive. Tsk. (sigh) Nothing else
to do on the PC. Finished. Wrecked the case. Wrecked the case. PC not Clear yet and he's got
the intensive filled. Now what are we going to do?"
See, there's a different end goal in progress here, isn't there? Entirely different atmosphere
involved in these assessments.
So you must keep in mind that there are two different moods of assessing. And if you don't
keep that severely in mind, you're going to make an awful flub, because it's another auditing
style. R3SC: leisurely, quiet, calm, drag it out endlessly, itsa line in. Because it's all guided,
you see, by present time and a lifetime and that sort of thing, see? R3M2: pocketa-pocketa-
pocketa-pocketa-pocketa! "Gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme! What is it? What is it? Let's make
it! Speed, man! All right! Oh, you only found four RIs in this session. Going to have to speed
it up in the next session," you know?
Assessment: Do a goal-oppose list. "We did-we did-we did a goal oppose list, and so
forth. All right, it's taken us two and a half hours to find this next goal."
"What's the matter with you? It took you two and a half hours to find the PC's next goal?
What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?"
Guy had been doing Scientology m all the time. "Well, I thought I had until the next
intensive."
"Oh, mans you're doing another type of process here entirely, and so on. Let's get that goal-
oppose list listed and nulled and that sort of thing, two hours. That's all you got. That's it,
that's it. No more than that. So you understand?"
Why? Because backtrack, you got to keep the itsa line shut. Got it? Otherwise you
restimulate the PC; your tone arm action disappears.
All right? I've kept you a little bit overtime. Start your sessions fifteen minutes late tonight.
Okay? Thank you.
Professional auditing in any place on the planet http://webauditing.org http://0-48.ru http://galac-patra.org Auditor class X, skype: timecops
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