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Former PM says France values China's interests
Source: Xinhua | February 11, 2009, Wednesday | Print Edition
A FORMER French Prime Minister said yesterday that France values relations with China and does not intend to infringe upon China's core concerns.
"France sticks to the one-China policy, respects and supports China's sovereignty, reunification and territorial integrity," Jean-Pierre Raffarin told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday.
The issues concerning Tibet were China's internal affairs, Raffarin said, noting that France fully recognized the sensitivity and serious consequences of related issues.
France attached great importance to China's positions and would take practical action to restore mutual political trust and promote the improvement and growth of bilateral relations, he said.
Raffarin said his country was ready to increase cooperation with China to jointly cope with the global financial crisis and other challenges.
Raffarin and his delegation are in China on a visit ending this Saturday at the invitation of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs.
Bilateral relations hit a low after French President Nicolas Sarkozy held a private meeting with the Dalai Lama last year in Poland. China postponed the 11th China-EU Summit and lodged a protest against the meeting, saying it "severely undermined China's core interests."
As to current difficulties in Sino-French ties, Premier Wen Jiabao said the blame did not lie with China.
"We will not change the basic principles of adherence to mutual respect, equality and mutual benefits and non-interference in each other's internal affairs," Wen said.
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Research & Analysis / FairVote Blog / The Trojan Horse Devil is in the Details: FairVote Responds to Delay of Voting Rights Act Renewal
The Trojan Horse Devil is in the Details: FairVote Responds to Delay of Voting Rights Act Renewal
by Abbie Hesse // Published June 21, 2006
Second in a series of guest blog posts by FairVote interns.
Today Republican leaders in the House of Representatives delayed voting on the Voting Rights Act (VRA), casting doubt on whether the landmark civil rights legislation would be renewed this year and before the looming 2007 deadline. Despite the bipartisan support for the VRA, the Republicans held a caucus meeting this morning and subsequently delayed the vote on the legislation. Their key concern? Section 5 of the VRA requires jurisdictions with a history of suppressing minority voter participation to obtain Justice Department approval of any election changes. Several GOP Representatives stated that the act unfairly targeted Southern states by requiring nine to obtain pre-clearance before changing voting laws:
The amendment's backers say the requirement unfairly singles out and holds accountable nine states that practiced racist voting policies decades ago, based on 1964 voter turnout data: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. - Associated Press
However, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution already investigated these areas and determined that discrimination could potentially occur based on their histories - and we need not dig back to 1964 to find justification for maintaining the VRA. Moreover, FairVote"s own experience with electoral systems design indicates that a great many American elections are currently conducted under winner-take-all systems that pose obstacles to fair representation, whether intentional or not. Moreover, in response to the question of whether nine states are being unfairly singled out --most states are affected by some section of the VRA; whether by the language provisions, oversight of jurisdictions, or the allowance of the federal government to monitor elections. If "fairness" is the issue then, perhaps the answer in theory is not to mandate approval of elections changes for 9 states, but for all 50 states (and the District of Columbia) instead.
Incidentally, some representatives, headed by Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), insist that the amendment singles out Southern states and should be extended to all or no states. But this is of course a solution in theory only, as such a clause would trigger a constitutional challenge given the narrow tailoring required when using racial classifications in legislation. A sweeping 50-state expansion of Section 5 would certainly beg such a challenge.
So trojan horse arguments aside, the Voting Rights Act should be renewed to ensure equal voting rights for all citizens. While it is true that the United States has come far with anti-discrimination policies, it is important to maintain this progress. Renewing the Voting Rights Act as it stands will ensure this maintenance and encourage states to continue making progress in civil rights - but the movement must continue beyond the VRA to embrace a right to vote constitutional amendment, proportional voting systems, and other key areas to create the real goal - elections where every vote is meaningful and counted equally.
[FairVote's VRA Renewal Page]
Abbie is a FairVote intern and a senior undergraduate English and Classics major at Truman State University. She is the author of Chick in the Czech, a daily blog which, in the Czech Republic, is as popular as Baywatch.
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10 things we’d like to see Tim Cook do in his next year at Apple
What's a little dreaming among the Ars staff?
Jacqui Cheng - Aug 24, 2012 1:40 pm UTC
Aurich Lawson / Warner Bros. Pictures
It's officially the anniversary of the day Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple and let Tim Cook take the reins. Yesterday, we gave you the five biggest things Apple has done since Cook took over last year, but his tenure has only just begun. So we put together a wish list of what we'd like to see Cook do in his second year—or five—as CEO of Apple. Some of the suggestions are admittedly more likely to happen than others, but with a new CEO at the helm who works differently than Jobs, we can't help but dream a little.
Without further ado, here's the Ars staff's wish list for Apple's second year under Tim Cook.
10. License OS X
We've all heard this one before. And although it's probably the least likely of the items on this list, it still remains in the fantasies of many users. But it doesn't have to be like a recreation of what happened in the '90s when Apple tried to license out the Mac OS last time—Ars contributor Chris Lee thinks a limited license for OS X on OEM would help to keep things in check while allowing professional users more freedom.
"If Apple took the same walled garden approach that it is doing with software, it could keep the Mac Pro alive, while reducing the overhead associated with the hardware development. It would also give professionals a reason to stay with the Mac," says Lee. "I know that many would see licensed sales as cannibalizing Mac sales, but, if Apple isn't interested in making a Mac Pro anymore, and it writes the license terms such that it gets to vet what is sold with an OS X license, then it would do very well, I think."
9. Bring some manufacturing jobs back to the US
You know all that hubbub over Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn? Some of those problems with working conditions and human labor might be better addressed if manufacturing wasn't handled entirely overseas by companies following (or not following) different laws. Social Editor Cesar Torres thinks even a token effort would be better than nothing.
"I'd like for Tim Cook to shift a small set of manufacturing jobs for Apple's hardware back to the US. We know that building a whole Apple product in the United States will never be cost-effective for Apple or consumers, but it would be nice if some more select parts could be made here," says Torres. "That way, Apple could keep its focus on high-quality components, and give a boost to the economy by providing it with a financial and psychological boost. Would this be just a symbolic move? Perhaps, but it could set a nice precedent in this current economic slowdown."
8. Invest in an independent research lab
Wouldn't it be cool if Apple used some of its giant cash pile to fund an independent research and development center that benefits the public good? We're thinking something like the level of R&D that goes into the iPhone, but not just for Apple to make use of in order to add to that cash pile. At least that's what Science Editor John Timmer wishes for.
"Use the pile of cash to open something like Xerox PARC," asserts Timmer. "Put aside a permanent endowment so it never has to be at the whims of corporate cost cutting. Recognize that the company wouldn't be there without it, and take the risk that some other company will eventually capitalize on the work done there."
7. More transparency on OS X and Mac plans
When Tim Cook told the world that "something really great" was coming for Mac Pro users in 2013, it marked the first time in recent history in which Apple actually hinted at anything relating to its future hardware plans. That's in addition to the advance notice given ahead of last year's WWDC that Cupertino was going to talk about iCloud and iOS 5—another freakishly rare acknowledgement from the company. Ars contributor Dave Girard likes where this is going, and wants to see even more of it for the sake of professional users on the Mac.
"I'd like to see less secrecy for the Mac Pro and OS X plans from now on. The smartest thing that Tim Cook did recently, from my standpoint, was break his vow of secrecy to say that there was a new Mac Pro coming in 2013. Otherwise, there would be a conga line of pundits crying 'the Mac Pro is dead' until sometime in 2013—and who could say it wasn't, since that's how it would have looked? Secrecy is very important in the crazy competitive world of phones, but the Mac Pro users, as well as developers like Autodesk, need clear commitments to make plans," says Girard.
"I've seen other developers like Onyx Tree drop their Mac products because Apple doesn't provide any plans that reassure developers they will have the tools they need to make their apps for OS X. Apple needs to figure out which features of OS X or the Mac Pro are secrets worth keeping (GUI, design aspects, etc.) and which are best made public knowledge to keep developers and users happy, and give developers that knowledge as early as possible, because they plan product timelines years in advance. Apple's commitment to pros can't just be a redesign of the Mac Pro—they need to do this."
6. Make the Apple TV more than a hobby
The Apple TV is actually selling relatively well—Apple recently said it sold 4 million of the set-top boxes during fiscal 2012, and that was with one quarter left to go. (The company said it sold 1.3 million during the third quarter alone.) That's not iPhone-level sales, but it's roughly the same as Xbox 360 sales during the same period. So what's up with the "hobby" status? Creative Director Aurich Lawson thinks it's time to shed the hobby moniker and go all out on the TV market.
"My wish would be for Apple TV to become a more serious product. By that I mean that it would cross over more aggressively with the iOS ecosystem and leverage the availability of apps. Easy example: HBO Go. It's on the iPhone and iPad, but not Apple TV," Lawson argues. "Now there might be some licensing issues (see lack of AirPlay for the app on said devices) but it's available right now on Roku boxes, Samsung TVs, and Xbox 360, so it's pretty obvious that the whole 'hooked up directly to a TV' thing isn't an insurmountable obstacle. I would guess the app is already 90 percent written, it just needs a little remote-friendly UI polish. Why haven't we seen that? Companies scramble to make iOS apps, but the Apple TV getting more content sources is an afterthought. Look how long it took for Hulu to come over."
5. Offer streaming, subscription music
It has long been rumored that Apple has been working on offering a streaming music subscription along the lines of what Lala used to offer (before Apple bought it, of course). But we have yet to see anything like that come to fruition, despite the recent launch of iTunes Match. iTunes Match is still highly dependent upon your purchasing downloads from the iTunes Store, whereas the new hotness when it comes to online music has largely been in the hands of companies like Spotify and Rdio.
So why isn't Apple staying up-to-date with what the kids like these days? Senior Business Editor Cyrus Farivar believes Apple hasn't even begun to capitalize on the technology or talent the company acquired when it bought Lala. He wants to see the company take a leap of faith with its iTunes music products and launch something similar to what Rdio currently offers, but with that signature Apple twist.
4. Inject some steroids into the Mac line
Sure, Apple makes updates to (some of) its Macs all the time, but in recent years, many of those changes have focused on reducing size and weight with moderate performance increases. Ars contributor John Siracusa thinks it's time for Apple to chest-thump again when it comes to the performance of its Macs, which would benefit not only Mac users, but also Apple's legions of iPad and iPhone users.
"Tim Cook needs to revitalize the desktop Mac product line," says Siracusa. "The shift to mobile and laptops has brought absolute performance increases in the Mac product line to a near-standstill in the past few years. Many believe that computers are far from 'fast enough.' In the same way that car makers create flagship super-cars or racing teams, with the technology slowly trickling down to their everyday products, Apple needs to resume pushing the performance envelope at the top end."
3. Diversify the iOS product line
Apple likes to keep things simple when it comes to its product lineup, but sometimes things can be a little too simple. There's currently one size of iPad (in several different storage size configurations), for example, and it took years for the iPhone to be available from any other carrier in the US besides AT&T. As evidenced by an internal Apple survey conducted in 2011, a fair number of people who bought Android devices did so because they didn't want to leave their current wireless providers just because of the iPhone, not to mention a wider variety of screen sizes. Apple has already seen some wild success with the iPhone and iPad, but what if the company added more options to its entire iOS product line in order to really rake in the cash?
That's what Siracusa wants to see, too. "Tim Cook needs to diversify the iOS product line in both directions, high- and low-end. The Mac never dominated the PC market, but the iPod did (and does) dominate the music player market," he says. "The iPod started as a $500 Mac-only curiosity but expanded to a market-spanning range of products from a $40 iPod shuffle to a $300 iPod touch. Domination requires diversity, and iOS stands a chance of dominating the mobile market. The iPhone eventually expanded to Verizon, but it was a long time in coming. Apple needs to move faster."
2. Make a larger commitment to OS security
Apple has been taking a bit of a beating lately when it comes to the security of OS X, partly because the company used to openly brag about its magical malware repelling abilities. The MAC Defender outbreak, followed by the much bigger Flashback scare, has opened the door for plenty of criticism from security researchers. Apple's slowness in patching the Java vulnerability that enabled the spread of Flashback didn't help, either. That's why Security Editor Dan Goodin thinks it's time for Apple to double down and get serious about security, and he's not just talking about Mountain Lion's new Gatekeeper feature.
"A lot of security people really want to see Tim Cook start a software development life cycle that's similar to what Microsoft and Adobe have. A comprehensive program that builds security in to each product from the very beginning," Goodin argues. "It should also involve a formalized response mechanism to quickly react to keep customers safe when security vulnerabilities or attacks are discovered.
"Over the years, Apple has steadfastly refused to publicly discuss security at all. Tim Cook would be doing his customers a big favor if he adopted the kind of SDLC program that Microsoft and Adobe currently have."
1. Cater to power users again
When I asked the Ars staff for their Tim Cook wish lists, this was by far the most commonly requested item. "Power" and professional users just feel ignored by Apple, and they'd really like to see that change in the coming year. As we mentioned earlier, Cook did throw power users a bone when he hinted that Mac Pro updates were on the way, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. People who are interested in some heavy-duty hardware want to buy Macs and iOS devices too.
"Whether it's OS X, iOS, or just about any other product that Apple sells, their strength is also a weakness," says Ars Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher. "By catering so heavily to everyday users, power users are sometimes left feeling like an afterthought in the Apple universe. To this day, power users lack features that are readily available in competing products. For instance, having one's phone on a timer, more custom power options for a phone or computer, or customizations to the user interface would all be a great start."
Ars contributor Iljitsch van Beijnum agrees wholeheartedly.
"After 'back to the Mac,' it's time to go 'back to the Unix power user.' In the early 2000s, many power users switched from other platforms—especially Unixy ones—to the Mac," says van Beijnum. "Here, they found a beautiful, simple, and fast graphical user interface on top of powerful Unix underpinnings, with AppleScript and the like to make software from different developers work together to get things done efficiently.
"Since then, Apple has been courting less tech-savvy users with much effect. And that's great. Simplifying the user experience where there are unneeded complications is also good for power users. But these days, Apple seems to be ignoring power users (see the state of the server product and the Mac Pro), and is getting perilously close to pushing them away by crossing the line between making OS X simpler and making it dumber. We want to tinker! We want to customize!"
John Siracusa | Associate writer |
has wrote:
John wrote:
Re. the power user stuff (10, 7, 4, 1). [...] Apple isn't a tech company, it's a mass-market brand. Its goal is to project a very specific mass-market image, and shift a ton of mass-market product (hardware, software, content, services). Anything that doesn't feed directly into that - like chasing narrow vertical markets - is a dilution of resources at minimum and a dilution of image at worst.
Re: item #4 - everything you wrote about Apple is also true of Honda, which spent a year or two in F1 and advertised this in the most recent Super Bowl.
Lots of people aspire to owning a grunty automobile. Very few aspire to owning a grunty Mac Pro.
Setting that aside (though I don't think it's true; look at all the "power"-focused ads for stuff like the Droid phone, even—a phone!), the more important aspect is how technology developed on the high end trickles down to consumer products. Examples in the car world are all over: anti-lock brakes, traction control, airbags, automated manual transmissions, run-flat tires, variable valve timing and lift, stability control, active suspension, and on and on.
The same thing works in the computer world. Say some new API needs 24 cores to be worthwhile. A high-end Mac can have 24 cores, and that API can be developed and polished on that platform in high-end apps for pros. Eventually, phones can have 24 cores and that API is mature and ready to go. That's basically what happened to OpenGL, which initially only ran on high-end workstations, but is now on your phone.
High-end products are not (just) a prestige and aspirational marketing ploy. Companies get real, tangible, far-reaching value from those efforts. If they did not, prestige and marketing alone would not justify the price tag for things like Honda's F1 efforts and niche cars like the NSX.
Now, you may say that Apple can get those benefits without doing that high-end work itself. Apple didn't sell $20,000 OpenGL workstations in the 90s, but it still benefits from having a mature API available for doing 3D on its phones today. But when a company invests in the high end itself, it has two big advantages over letting others do it.
First, it gains extremely valuable expertise in this new thing. If you wait to adopt a formerly high-end tech until it's ready for consumer devices, you are already behind all the other companies that have been working with it for years on the high end. That means your initial efforts with the tech may be pretty crappy—witness OpenGL in Mac OS X up to, well, about last year.
Second, and even more importantly, when you are the one to develop the tech on the high end, you can tailor it to your own specific needs. For example, you can design it with your own eventual use of it in your consumer products in mind. You can make sure it works great on the hardware you plan to deploy it on. You can choose the features and priorities that make sense for your business.
This is true even if you're not developing it alone. Apple's participation in things like the Thunderbolt standard and Intel's CPU/GPU efforts is a way to ensure that this tech will be suitable for Apple's products—all of them, not just the expensive models that it might first be deployed on.
Larrabee was another example, albeit one that didn't pan out. But Apple was in on that, and reportedly working hard on a high-end Mac incorporating the technology. Had it been a hit, Apple would have been ready with its Larra-Mac Pro, and would have had the drivers and OS support ready when it finally became feasible on its iPads, iPhones, etc. (again, assuming Larrabee had actually worked the way Intel hoped).
Yes, the high end is a risky market. The margins can be big, but the volume is always small. But that doesn't mean it's the right decision to ignore it, ceding the entire market to others. That's actually a terrible decision in most cases. Thus item number 4 on the list in this article.
Jacqui Cheng Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more.
Email jacqui@arstechnica.com // Twitter @eJacqui
dangoodin Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
A large percentage of what we've seen here is outright bullying. Another large percentage is commenters using their reasoning not to discover the truth or explore new ideas, but to find evidence to support what they already want to believe. Often, as was the case with with arguments about security, that reasoning is based on data that later turns out to be faulty or incomplete.
Discussions like these accomplish very little, other than to rile up virtually everyone who participates, regardless of what side of an issue s/he falls on. I hope people understand why some Ars writers might think it's not worth their time to participate in the discussions here.
JonnyO Wise, Aged Ars Veteran et Subscriptor
Solution to #1, #4, #7, and #10: license the OS to Oracle. There is proven demand for the Apple experience in the high-end market, which is squarely in Oracle's wheelhouse and beyond where Apple wants to be.
keath Ars Tribunus Militum
dangoodin wrote:
Keath,
How familiar are you with the SDL program that Microsoft developed and has now helped companies like Adobe to adopt? It's extremely comprehensive and aims to incorporate secure engineering from a product's inception all the way through to its end of life. It also formalizes the companies' response when vulnerabilities and attacks are discovered, so users can stay informed about them in real time and learn how to mitigate the problem.
ASLR and Gatekeeper are great initiatives, and Apple deserves a lot of credit for all the hard work it devoted to making those happen. But to suggest there's not much more Apple can do is, really, a pretty hard opinion to defend, IMO.
Once Microsoft and Adobe have built reputations for delivering secure applications, I suppose that will be something to emulate.
cc bcc Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Build in USA, why should the majority of the Apple customers care?
has Ars Scholae Palatinae
I'm not saying there isn't some value to be had from the trickle-down approach, just that I don't think building old-school general-purpose workstations for a niche, non-core market are an optimal way to obtain it any more.
"Revitalize the desktop Mac product line" does not necessarily mean "building old-school general-purpose workstations." I said that "Apple needs to resume pushing the performance envelope at the top end" meaning the absolute fastest or most capable [something].
An 'absolute fastest' midrange (i.e. iMac-level) system is still only a midrange system. It'll never stretch the power envelope you're talking about because there's a limit to how much hardware you can stick in a midrange product before it becomes prohibitively expensive for its target SOHO market, and the people who invest in 24-core workstations won't want a 24-core iMac because it doesn't fit their needs either. Other than getting into selling minicomputers or enterprise servers (not gonna happen either), workstation-class systems are about as top end as it gets on the product side. I strongly suspect Apple does all its real stretching internally now: i.e. its enormous server farms. Next to those, all of its desktop boxes are child's play.
I suppose it could be the fastest ever game console—though that's a more anachronistic goal these days than a tower Mac—but a desktop Mac that takes advantage of its massively bigger power envelope to trounce the performance of Apple's best laptop would be a much more logical choice, to start.
Games consoles are a funny old use case: they leapfrogged PC gaming, then sat back and waited while PC gaming passed them again before even thinking about a refresh. The reason I mention them is because they've a well-known lifestyle product that does allow the performance envelope to be stretched at certain points while still remaining firmly in the consumer product bracket, since their specialised nature means that - like phones - the true hardware costs can be heavily subsidised by software and service sales. (And who is good at selling software and services now?)
The average home user spends far more time in front of their phone/tablet/TV than sat at a desk, so a console (or console-like machine) with hardware costs subsidised through software and service sales starts to look a more interesting prospect than a desktop PC for those who need a bit more grunt than a tablet or smart TV can provide on their own. Especially when the traditional 'hardware unit = software+data silo' arrangement is one day swept away by seamless mesh/cloud integration that actually works. So I understand your 'anachronistic' jab, but I don't think you should discount it just yet.
The big three's tendency to staleness is a problem, but it's really mostly an image thing. I suspect all that's really needed is an evenly paced approach to console engineering that allows more modest refreshes more often, just so users never feel the hardware is too dated. Apple are good at keeping their marque products like iPhone and iPad from feeling too stale without turning over so quickly they never make a profit. Apple are also good at doing integrated product ranges, which means some responsibilities such as secondary storage could be delegated to a nearby NAS (a Time Capsule or 'iHub') would also allow further hardware simplification and cost reduction. And, of course, releasing an iOS-based smart TV would provide yet another free beachhead into the casual gaming scene. It's the sort of game Apple plays well: disrupt existing markets to become a player, keep products feeling fresh and exciting (even when they're not really) and integrate the crap out of everything so the customer is snared in a big integrated web of Apple-branded hardware, software and services.
That said, I can't see an Apple console coming to market within the next year or two, given the big three are all about to refresh. Better to release an Apple-branded TV (as in a real TV with a screen) that plays more casual iOS games and eat the established console industry's market share from the bottom-up. But as a longer-term strategy, being ready with a bolt-on to an already established Apple-branded smart TV that boosts its processing power to allow high-end gaming and other computing uses might be the sort of crazy disruption they could pull off. Especially if timed to hit right when the big three next fall asleep at the wheel. At the very least, Apple could eat Nintendo's entire market and not even blink.
Maybe that product looks nothing like an iMac or a Mac Pro. Maybe that's what Apple actually has in mind for 2013. After all, Tim Cook didn't promise a new Mac Pro that's exactly like the current one. He said, "Although we didn't have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today's event, don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year." Is that something even a Mac Pro as we know it today, or a Mac Pro at all? We'll see. But whatever it is, it's clearly aimed at people who liked the Mac Pro (i.e., those looking for the most power and best performance) and have been disappointed by Apple's performance stagnation at the top end.
This takes us into the recent story discussion regarding Mac Pro stagnation and PC alternatives. The problem is that the more Apple orient themselves as a broad mass-market consumer company, the less well they serve the narrow, high-end vertical markets like 3D, video editing and animation; folks who need all this secrecy, unpredictability and novelty like a shot to the head. So what market will these high-end systems really serve in future, other than a tiny number of rich, silly Mac fanboys buying outrageously powered vanity kit?
If you really honestly believe Apple have a serious future in high-end professional user kit, new hardware should be the least of your concerns. The whole ecosystem is the problem, especially with Apple's role as 800-pound gorilla crashing around in it, doing all sorts of long-term damage simply because it's not a world it's compatible with right now. You want a wishlist for that, start by wishing Tim would hire himself a really exceptional zookeeper.
mj@passos.net Seniorius Lurkius
Aren't you forgetting something? Mac OS X Server! At last WWDC there were no part dedicated to IT , that is: Mac OS X Server. And there is no more actual Apple Server (a MacPro is not a server), and the Server version gets simpler at each subsequent release.
The Xserve RAID team was laid out and now manufactures the excelent Active RAID products. It was a sort of non-spinoff spinoff. Perhaps Apple should — I believe they will not, it's not in Apple's book — spin off the whole Xserve/Server business so it would stay alive. They did it with File Maker years ago and it is still there, alive and well. But File Maker doesn't need a Mac OS license, as Mac OS X Server and a true server needs.
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John Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Games consoles are a funny old use case: they leapfrogged PC gaming, then sat back and waited while PC gaming passed them again before even thinking about a refresh.
You should start a Battlefront thread explaining how and when game consoles "leapfrogged PC gaming" in terms of performance.
hughmass Seniorius Lurkius
Well, for starters I would like to hear about him kicking some groups into gear, especially the iWork team, but also Aperture.
I really agree with those who say this is the time for Apple to stop doubling down on hiding what it is working on. This last court case showed that it can win in the courts, so how about letting us have a little guidance on how to save and spend our Apple allowance by telling us approximately when the new final cut, or Mac Pro, or iMac will be coming out?
Kaji01 Ars Centurion
For anyone familiar with Apple history, 3 and 10 should stand out as business practices from the period of Apple's decline that promptly got the ax once Jobs returned. Other than that, no serious objections. 8 is mostly feel-good fantasy that probably won't happen, but hey. And I certainly won't complain it they decide to cater a bit to power users again.
FoxDonut Smack-Fu Master, in training
VulcanTourist wrote:
I'd like to see him hurl some chairs at the wall. And shave his head.
Sterling Ambivalence Ars Tribunus Militum
Funny thing about that -- Microsoft does seem to now have a reputation for secure applications and practices. Far more than Apple right now. *Cough*Flashback*Cough*.
1857 posts | registered May 21, 2005
Sterling Ambivalence wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/new- ... java/11566
You funny. Some day you'll have to show me exactly where I said a console could outstrip a well-stacked gaming PC in terms of raw performance. Gaming is much more than just a big old GPU-waving contest; price point, user experience, excellent/novel controllers, appealing games, something you can play in the comfort of your sitting room rather than a bedroom or study... these things matter too. A complete gaming rig for about the price of a good-quality video card is a pretty good deal for mass market consumers, I think. Performance-per-dollar is a big factor in the games industry; the small boutique market of independently wealthy high-end PC gamers aside. Seriously, if you can show me a gaming PC from 2008 that outperformed a PS3 at the same off-the-shelf dollar price, I will go sit in the corner with a dunce hat for fifteen minutes.
It's only in the last two years that PC game sales have overtaken console game sales again, as current generation consoles grow excessively long in the tooth while PC rigs continue their smooth evolution. Meanwhile, both are being cannibalised at the casual end by iOS and Android. Gaming on devices that aren't even general-purpose PCs never mind dedicated games machines? Gracious, pass the salts!
The point I've been trying to make, which you're so determinedly ignoring, is that Apple didn't make a hundred billion dollars by building high-quality desktop PCs; they did it by burning traditional markets (mobile music, mobile telephony, general-purpose consumer computing) and building new markets on top, markets that played to their strengths, not their competition's.
Apple is, for want of a <ugh> less-hackneyed phrase, a post-PC vendor. And they're the ones who put the bullet in it, so I don't think that's by accident. So when you and other Ars writers say that you want to see Tim Cook building better PCs and other geek-friendly technologies, I have to ask if you're being motivated by a desire to see Apple double its market share and quadruple its profits, or kiss our geeky butts a bit more? ** Because I'm pretty damn sure Mr Cook knows exactly where his priorities lie.
** Not that having one's butt kissed by Tim Cook mightn't be an interesting - even pleasurable - experience, but I think the stockholders might talk.
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Quick postscript, because if you're going to fire up shitstorm you might as well employ an expert to do it...
John C Welch (a man who sprinkles fire ants in his asbestos underpants every morning just because he likes the tickle) weighs in over at his blog:
http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2012/08/ ... plete.html
In-between demonstrating how a wrecking ball should really be used, I thought he made very good points about #8 and #3 (even ol' John sometimes sees an idea he doesn't totally dislike):
- On the security issue, he pointed out that what's really needed is better communication with the security world. Sounds like excellent advice to me. Annoying as it may be, I can cut Apple a break on their obsessive secrecy over everything else - it's an essential component in their enormously sales schtick, after all. But a few issues are far more important than even that, like not allowing the malware industry time enough to breathe, never mind establish a beachhead on their platform.
- On the research lab idea, he pointed out that starting an internal lab wouldn't be playing to Apple's own best strengths, and suggested working with an existing external lab instead. ISTR that... oh, say... PARC likes to do work for hire nowadays. I suspect if Apple went to them with a cool billion (or, as Tim Cook refers to it, the three hundredth petty cash jar down the shelf) and said "invent brilliant shit for us", not only would they sort out a bunch of their current problems - creaky archaic deskop environment; incoherent software strategy; wtf is the cloud? - but all the Mac greybeards (grey polo necks?) would wet their pants with pure nerd delight too. I know I'd take that over a new Mac Pro any day; wouldn't you?
FoxDonut wrote:
Pff, s'nothing, any old meathead CEO can do that. Hey, how about getting up on stage and biting the heads off chickens? I bet even Steve Jobs couldn't have done that!
ScifiGeek Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
I'll quote one sentence(somewhat out of context by appropriate for the whole) that sums up my reaction to this lame top 10 BS:
"It just makes you look stupid, and normally, Ars is not stupid. "
Greasy Breakfast Ars Scholae Palatinae
Do to the Video entertainment industry what you did to the music industry. I think Apple is nearly there with the software and hardware, but they need that final killer app push.
I'm bugger all for what that is, but that's what they pay oth people big bucks for.
Most of all, don't screw it up. At this point in time, I'm very satisfied with the tools Apple has developed for me to do my work. I actually think my productivity has directly increased because of the seamless media sharing between my portable devices and my workstation.
Aurich Creative Director et Subscriptor
I'd craft a response to that stunning piece of writing by some guy I've never heard of but I'm too busy being a gibbering lackwit.
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Aurich wrote:
Don't worry, Aurich, we'll always love you for your excellent pictures.
Jim Z Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Ken Fisher wrote:
I don't think I've read a more asymmetrically hostile thread on Ars in a long time. I used to get so much out of these discussions.
seems the unfortunate downside of Ars's rising prominence- all of the 15-year-old aspies who are bored with fouling up YouTube have found this place.
I don't know about that. I have been reading here for about a decade, and this is one of the most derision worthy pieces I have seen on Ars.
Ars used to be about depth and thinking things through. A place for sober second thought.
If this piece is drawing 15 year-olds, that would be entirely appropriate as it seems aimed at about that level.
This top ten bubble gum list stuff, is what I expect from Gizmodo/Ziff, not Ars, well not Ars of old anyway.
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Seriously? Nothing you can say excuses the childish response this story received, sorry.
@Aurich: The worst I saw was sexist vitriol poured on Jacqui by obnoxious cretins who don't even know the difference between editor and author. That sort of behaviour is completely out of order and Ars should be temp-banning the perps to make crystal clear it will not be tolerated.
Beyond that, there's the usual vacuity and OT meanderings, coarse language, and quick, shallow criticisms that make no measurable effort to be constructive. Welcome to the internet, we hope you enjoy your stay.
The fact that much of the subsequent feedback was indeed sub-par has zero bearing on the quality of the article itself, however. The article stands or falls by its own merits, and since fully half the entries where of the form "what I want for Christmas" rather than "how Tim should make his first trillion", I'd say those merits were in unusually short supply compared to the vast majority or Ars writing. Sure, it's just a light-hearted opinion piece (or rather a collection of ten of them) for a slow news day, but you're all smart cookies who have already demonstrated you know how to engage your brains when you want to, so your readers inevitably hold you to a higher standard than, say, the average /. author. So when folk say it was disappointing, you should take it as a complement as well as a rebuke, you know. <g>
Once you've licked your wounds, perhaps you could always try again - say for an article titled "10 things Tim Cook should do to earn his [second?] trillion dollar cap". Lots of strong, tasty, unambiguous meat on that bone for all your brains to chew on.
I am not saying every cretinous comment was justified. I use "Add Foe" to filter multiple cretins/morons on nearly every visit here. Nothing anywhere justifies nonsense anon posters say on the internet. But increasing the level of nonsense in an article will likely bring an corresponding increase in nonsense comments.
But IMO criticism of mindless filler on Ars is justified.
Also, I don't want a "better" top ten list. If anything on this list, had any real merit, do an article on that alone. If none of it merits an article, then putting ten pieces of mindless filler in a list doesn't make it better. I also don't want sift a list of cast offs, hoping to strike gold.
Leave the top-ten bubble gum to Gizmodo/Ziff, and maybe they will attract more of the of the cretins to go with it.
1) Ars does not exist at the whim of ScifiGeek. What may be "mindless filler" to you may be enjoyable reading for a shitload of other people.
2) if it bothers you that much, you know you can send feedback to the staff instead of shitting up comment threads, right?
If my posts bother you so much, you can:
1) report them, have objectionable content/me removed.
2) use the filtering mechanism to never see them again.
3) ignore them.
I will continue to speak my mind.
A higher level of content, will bring with it a higher level of comments, and likewise lower caliber content, will bring lower caliber comments.
If you post Engadget/Gizmodo like content, you get Engadget/Gizmodo level commenting.
It is nowhere near that simple unfortunately.
Unfortunately, I agree, but there will be some correlation.
I thought I read there were new systems being developed to deal with what seems to be a degradation in commenting in general.
About systems to deal with it: Why is there a report post button, that doesn't work? It has been like that for years. People are lazy. Sometimes I read something out of line, and I try that button again. Nope still doesn't work... The sooner abusive comments get reported, the less fires break out...
I see some moderation after this story of the cretinous sexist comments. Were people given vacations for this? If so be clear so it serves as teaching moment that there will be zero tolerance of this. I see this kind of sexist stuff in other stories when commenter ask to see more video reviews from staffers because of there appearance. Again, there really is no place for that either.
chrontius Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
svdsinner wrote:
gypsumfantastic wrote:
Jacqui, do you in fact understand Apple *at all*?
That's a pointless list of things that aren't going to happen.
Or, more accurately, a list of reasons that if you want them, you should switch back to Windows based PCs.
This list is analogous to an anti-pickup truck zealot complaining that no one is making cars with enough cargo space, enough towing capacity and heavy-duty enough four wheel drive.
Dodge Magnum.
I'm just sayin'.
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Nearbuy co-founders to exit owing to tough conditions in the daily deals biz
Nearbuy hasn't taken off after its split from Groupon due to lack of demand and traction among consumers
Digbijay Mishra
September 14, 2016, 10:35 IST
Updated: September 14, 2016, 10:48 IST
Two co-founders of Gurgaon-based Nearbuy—Sachin Kapur and Ankur Sarawagi—are on their way out of the company amid tough conditions faced by players in the daily deals market, people familiar with the matter told TOI. Last year, NASDAQ-listed Groupon Inc's India unit broke away from its parent and rechristened itself as Nearbuy,but the business hasn't taken off due to lack of demand and traction among consumers after initial exuberance around the space.
Both Kapur and Sarawagi are likely to move to a consulting role for the time being and would exit from the SequoiaCapital-backed venture in a phased manner. Nearbuy, formerly GrouponIndia, has six co-founders including Ankur Warikoo who is the CEO of the company. Warikoo told TOI the proposal of Kapur and Sarawagi moving to a consulting role is being discussed and has not been finalised yet.
When we contacted Kapur, who is also the chief marketing officer of Nearbuy, over the phone, he said, "Yes, I am taking a break. I have some personal projects in mind that I have been trying to work on but I will still be involved with them (Nearbuy)”. Post the re-branding to Nearbuy we have pivoted (change of business model) to being a largely local commerce player.There has been an overall slowdown in the market and we are not insulated from that." Kapur said. Nearbuy had had picked up debt of Rs 15-20 crore from Blacksoil Capital.
Warikoo insisted none of the founders is leaving the company. “We are still discussing their (Kapur and Sarawagi) potential move consulting role,” Warikoo told TOI. He refused to elaborate on reasonsbehind the development. TOI has learnt that Nearbuy has also seen a churn in itsteam across the country and a bunch of senior-level executives have exited the firm.
Groupon is still one of the largest shareholders in Nearbuy even after the management buyout which was executed last year. This is when Sequoia Capital pumped in $20 million in the company for a majority stake. Nearbuy competes with the likes of Mydala, Coupondunia, which is majority owned by Times Internet, a part of the Times group which owns and publishes this paper, among others.
It's not any different globally, Chicago-based Groupon and its closest competitor Living Social which emerged as the poster boys of daily deals are struggling to stay relevant. Earlier this year, Living Social, which is backed by Amazon, fired 160 employees as it faces an extremely challenging business environment."There is very limited room to grow in this business here . There are too many players which emerged over the few years and none of them has really cracked the market. Groupon itself has not been doing well in US. So, some of the founders leaving company might have to do with overall business growth as well," Satish Meena of Forrester Research said. People privy to the matter said key metrics such as number of merchants, merchant locations, number of transactions per month have been flat for Nearbuy since April-May.
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Dias Toffoli’s decision releases sale of Petrobras’ deepwater areas in Sergipe
January 14, 2019 evan1313 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Petrobras is seeking a partner to develop the production of its deepwater projects in the state
The decision of STF President Dias Toffoli to overturn the injunction granted by Minister Marco Aurélio de Mello that suspended the effects of Decree 9.355 / 2018 and made it difficult to sell Petrobras assets releases the sale of three offshore fields in the Espírito Santo Basin and four exploratory blocks in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. The internal evaluation of Petrobras is that the measure also gives more comfort to the company to form consortiums to participate in the auctions of exploratory blocks scheduled for 2019.
In December last year, after the injunction was granted by Minister Marco Aurélio de Mello following a request from the Workers’ Party (PT), Petrobras disclosed a relevant fact stating that the measure “does not affect its disinvestment processes involving the assignment of rights in Exploration & Production (E & P) started before May 2018 ”
As a result, Petrobras has halted the launch of new E & P divestment projects. And it also put a halt to the sale of the fields of Lagoa Parda, Lagoa Parda Norte and Lagoa Piabanha, located in Espírito Santo, near the municipality of Linhares, launched on October 8, 2018, and the exploratory blocks BM-SEAL-4, BM-SEAL-4A, BM-SEAL-10 and BM-SEAL-11, in deep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, where six prospects were identified, in the final delimitation phase.
Petrobras intends to sell stakes in the Sergipe deepwater project, which provides for the installation of two new FPSOs, starting in 2020. Operator in all contracts, Petrobras is offering 20% to 50% interest, 35% of BM SEAL-4 ( 75%), 50% BM-SEAL-4A ( 100%), 30% BM-SEAL-10 (has 100%) and 20% BM-SEAL 11(60%). Indian companies ONGC and IBV are partners in part of the projects.
In practice, the state company seeks a partner to participate in the development of the project. Still pending a final investment decision, the teaser announces that the plan is to develop the future fields in two modules by installing the first FPSO. Until then, it will be necessary to complete the delimitation of the fields and declare the commerciality – a production test (TLD) was planned for 2018 but was not carried out. They are discoveries of light oil and natural gas, which required investments in the construction of pipelines and onshore treatment unit.
Petrobras intends to install a 128 km long gas pipeline to leach natural gas production from the Farfan, Barra and Muriú reservoir production projects in the exploratory blocks area BM-SEAL-10 and BM-SEAL-11, in deep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. The production of module 1 of the region will be made from a FPSO with first oil scheduled for October 2023.
The areas were contracted in Rounds 2 (2000) and 6 (2004), and underwent an extensive exploratory program, including the drilling of 26 wells, confirming the potentials of the prospects of Barra, Farfan, Cumbe, Muriú, Moita Bonita and Poço Verde. Petrobras’ business plan even anticipated the start of production in Sergipe, but the project was postponed amid post-2014 investment cuts.
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River City Virginia: A Beginner’s Guide to Richmond
By: Andrew Cothern
The Capital of the Confederacy and home to some of the most beautiful historic buildings around, Richmond, Virginia is famous for its abundant local history and culture. Otherwise known as RVA, or the River City, Richmond also offers a thriving music scene, a vibrant arts district, award-winning dining establishments and trails along the river, which winds its way through the heart of the city.
Richmond is home to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a three-story museum featuring more than 33,000 works of art spanning 5,000 years of world history. Collections range from Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Fabergé, and the art of South Asia. Travelling exhibits have included photographs of Elvis, the paintings of Picasso and costumes sourced from Hollywood films. Every month, Broad Street lights up with the First Fridays Artwalk, where more than 20 galleries, shops and restaurants host new exhibitions and events that bring the people of the city to the bustling arts district.
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Celastrus orbiculatus extract inhibits the migration and invasion of human glioblastoma cells in vitro
Hao Gu1, 2, 3,
Jun Feng1, 2, 3,
Haibo Wang1, 2, 3,
Yayun Qian1, 2, 3,
Lin Yang1, 2, 3,
Jue Chen1, 2, 3,
Feng Jin1, 2, 3,
Youyang Shi1, 2, 3,
Songhua Lu1, 2, 3 and
Yangqing Liu1, 2, 3Email author
BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201616:387
Accepted: 19 July 2016
Gliomas are highly aggressive tumors of the nervous system, and current treatments fail to improve patient survival. To identify substances that can be used as treatments for gliomas, we examined the effect of Celastrus orbiculatus extract (COE) on the invasion and migration of human glioblastoma U87 and U251 cells in vitro.
The effects of COE on cell viability and adhesion were tested using the 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide assay and cell adhesion assay, respectively. The effects of COE on cell migration and invasion were assessed by a wound-healing assay and transwell migration and invasion assays. The effects of COE on the expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related proteins and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) were evaluated using western blot and gelatin zymography, respectively. Finally, the effect of COE on actin assembly was observed using phalloidin-tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate labeling and confocal laser scanning microscopy.
We found that COE inhibited the adhesion, migration, and invasion of U87 and U251 cells in a dose-dependent manner. COE reduced N-cadherin and vimentin expression, increased E-cadherin expression, and reduced MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression in U87 and U251 cells. Furthermore, COE inhibited actin assembly in U87 and U251 cells.
COE attenuates EMT, MMP expression, and actin assembly in human glioblastoma cells, thereby inhibiting their adhesion, migration, and invasion in vitro.
Gliomas are primary brain tumors derived from brain and spinal glial cells. Because gliomas are highly aggressive, they represent 80 % of all malignant tumors of the human nervous system and are associated with a high rate of recurrence [1]. Current treatments for gliomas include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, but these treatments do not improve patient prognosis and have major side effects on brain tissue, resulting in median survival duration of only 9 to 10 months [2]. The current treatments do not completely remove tumor cells generated by the glioblastoma, invasion and migration major leading death [3]. Therefore, it is imperative to develop drugs that can effectively inhibit the invasion of glioblastoma cells to improve patient survival. Our previous studies show that COE inhibits the invasion and migration of tumor cells in liver cancer [4], gastric cancer [5], and colorectal cancer [6]. Here, using human glioblastoma U87 and U251 cell lines, we examined the effects of COE on the invasion and migration of glioblastoma cells and their underlying molecular mechanisms.
Cell lines and reagents
Human glioblastoma U251 and human malignant glioblastoma U87 cell lines (Shanghai Cell Bank of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China) were used. Reagents included Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM; Gibco Inc.), fetal bovine serum (FBS; Gibco Inc.), trypsin, MTT powder and transwell chamber (Corning), N-cadherin, E-cadherin, and vimentin antibodies (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 gelatinase kits (APPLYGEN, Beijing, China), and cytoskeletal staining kit (Millipore).
Preparation of COE solution
Terpenoids from Celastrus orbiculatus (Batch No: 070510) were purchased from Professor Wang Qiang’s research group at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute of China Pharmaceutical University (Guangzhou, China) [7]. To extract terpenoids from Celastrus orbiculatus, the stem of Celastrus orbiculatus was cut, crushed into powder, and dried. Reflux extraction was repeated three times using 95 % ethanol. A rotary evaporator was used to recover the solvent to obtain the extract. The extract was added to diatomite, dried in a vacuum at low temperature, heated and refluxed with ethyl acetate, and filtered to obtain ethyl acetate extract. Terpenoids made up 68.3 % of the extract, and the rate of obtaining extract was approximately 2 %. Concentrated COE solution was prepared by hydrotropy of the extract using dimethyl sulfoxide and culture in serum-free medium. COE solution was filtered and sterilized at atmospheric pressure for later use.
Instruments included a 5 % CO2 incubator (Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA, USA), automatic enzyme-mark analyzer, protein electrophoresis chamber, power transfer device (Bio-Rad Company, CA, USA), SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) gel imaging analyzer (Bio-Rad Company), inverted fluorescence microscope, and confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM; Olympus, Japan).
Cell culture and passage
U251 and U87 cells were cultured with DMEM in a 5 % CO2 incubator at 37 °C. Cells were observed under an inverted fluorescence microscope. All cells used in this study were in the exponential phase.
MTT assay of cell viability
DMEM containing 10 % FBS was used to prepare a single-cell suspension with a concentration of 3 × 105 cells/mL. The suspension was placed in a 96-well plate with 100 μL/well. After attachment, cells were randomly divided into the control group and COE groups. Cells in COE groups were treated with different concentrations of COE ranging between 10 and 320 μg/mL, with five wells for each concentration. After cells were cultured in a 5 % CO2 incubator at 37 °C for 24, 48, or 72 h, 15 μL 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) was added to each well in the dark. After 4 h, 100 μL dimethyl sulfoxide was added after the supernatant was discarded. The absorbance (A) value was read at 490 nm using a microplate reader. The experiment was repeated three times. The COE inhibition rate (%) was calculated as [1 - (A of cells in the COE group/A of cells in the control group)] × 100 %. The 50 % inhibitory concentration (IC50) was also calculated.
Cell-matrix adhesion assay
Serum-free DMEM was used to dilute type I collagen stock solution to 10 μg/mL, which was placed in a 24-well plate overnight at 4 °C. Type I collagen was blocked for 1 h using 1 % bovine serum albumin and washed three times with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). U87 and U251 cells in COE groups were treated with 20, 40, or 80 μg/mL COE for 24 h. Cells were starved overnight in serum-free DMEM, digested, centrifuged, and resuspended at a concentration of 3 × 105 cells/mL. Cells were then plated at a concentration of 3 × 104 cells/mL in the 24-well plate, with three wells for each concentration. Cells were cultured in a 5 % CO2 incubator at 37 °C for 1 h. The culture solution was then removed from the 24-well plate, and non-adherent cells were washed away three times with PBS. The remaining cells were fixed for 30 min with 2 % paraformaldehyde, stained with cresyl violet for 15 min, and observed under an inverted microscope. The experiment was repeated three times. Cell adhesion inhibition rate (%) was calculated as (1 – number of cells in the COE group/number of cells in the control group) × 100 %.
Cell migration and invasion assays
For the wound-healing assay, U87 and U251 cells were cultured in DMEM at a concentration of 5 × 105 cells/mL until cell confluence reached 90 %. Micropipette tips were used to make linear scratches, and the exfoliated cells were washed off three times with PBS. The remaining cells were starved overnight with serum-free medium to exclude the effect of proliferation on migration. Cells in COE groups were treated with 20, 40, or 80 μg/mL COE and cultured for another 24 h before images were taken. The experiment was repeated three times. The degree of wound healing (%), calculated as (scratch width of the control group - scratch width of the COE group)/scratch width of the control group × 100 %, was used to measure the migration capacity of cells.
In the transwell invasion assay, matrigel (1:8) was diluted with serum-free DMEM, and the basement membrane of the upper chamber of the transwell was coated. The solution was kept at 37 °C for 1 h to transform the matrigel aggregate into gel. Cells were prepared at a concentration of 5 × 105 cells/mL in serum-free DMEM. Two hundred μL was added to the upper chamber of the transwell, and 600 μL culture medium containing 20 % FBS was added to the lower chamber. Cells in the COE group were treated with 20, 40, or 80 μg/mL COE, with three wells for each concentration. Cells at each concentration were cultured in a 24-well plate in a 5 % CO2 incubator at 37 °C for 24 h. The culture medium in each well was then discarded, and the chamber was washed twice with PBS. Cells that did not migrate were physically cleared from the upper chamber with cotton swabs. The cells that migrated were fixed with methanol for 15 min, stained with 0.1 % cresyl violet, washed three times with PBS, and air-dried. The chamber was inverted on a microslide and observed under a microscope. Five fields (200× magnification) were randomly selected for counting the number of migrated cells, and images were taken. In the transwell migration assay, matrigel was not used, otherwise the procedure was the same as that used in the invasion assay.
E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and vimentin expression
U87 and U251 cells in COE groups were treated with 20, 40, or 80 μg/mL COE. After 24 h, total cellular protein was extracted. After bicinchoninic acid assay, SDS-PAGE was performed. Separated protein was transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane, kept at room temperature for 2 h with 5 % skim milk, and incubated at 4 °C overnight with the primary antibody (1:1000). The corresponding secondary antibody (1:1000) was added after membrane washing, and protein was incubated at room temperature for 2 h. ECL detection reagent was used to develop and detect specific protein bands.
Gelatin zymography for detecting MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity
Supernatant was collected and cultured. After mixing with buffer solution at 1:1, 8 % SDS-PAGE containing 1 % gelatin was added, and electrophoresis was performed for 2 h. The gel was washed with 2.5 % Triton X-100 twice at room temperature for 30 min and transferred to substrate buffer (10 mmol/L Tris Base, 40 mmol/L Tris-Cl, 0.2 mol/L NaCl, 5 mmol/L CaCl2, 0.02 % Brij 35, pH 7.6). After reaction overnight at 37 °C and fixation for 2 h, Coomassie blue staining was performed for 20 min. Eluent destaining was performed until clear digestion bands were observed. Image analysis was performed on the electrophoresis results.
Immunofluorescence and CLSM for detecting cytoskeletal organization
Cytoskeletal organization was visualized by using the actin cytoskeletal and focal adhesion staining kit (FAK100;Millipore,Billerica,MA). U87 and U251 cells were placed in a 6-well plate at a concentration of 5 × 105 cells/mL. When cell confluence reached 50 %, cells were treated with 80 μg/mL COE for 24 h and then washed twice with PBS. Cells were fixed immediately with 4 % paraformaldehyde for 15 min at room temperature, and then permeabilized in 0.1 M PBS containing 0.2 % Triton X-100 for 5 min. After being blocked with 5 % bovine serum albumin, the cells were immune-labeled with anti-vinculin (1:200) at 37 °C for 1 h. Then, cells were incubated with FITC-anti-mouse (1:200) and treated with 0.5 μmol/L phalloidin-tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate (TRITC), placed in the chamber’s cassette for 45 min, then washed twice with PBS, stained with 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) for 5 min, and mounted with anti-fade fluorescence mounting medium. The structure of actin microfilaments and vinculin were evaluated by using confocal microscope (Olympus, Japan). All images were obtained under the same conditions of excitation and registration.
Each experiment was repeated at least three times. Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance using SPSS 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation. P-values < 0.05 and P-values < 0.01 means difference were considered statistically significant.
Effect of COE on viability of human glioblastoma cells
Control U87 and U251 cells exhibited active growth in vitro, whereas cells treated with varying concentrations of COE for 24, 48, or 72 h showed significantly inhibited growth (Fig. 1; P < 0.01). The IC50 for U87 and U251 cells was 107.1 μg/mL and 186.4 μg/mL, respectively. Therefore, COE concentrations of 20, 40, and 80 μg/mL were used in subsequent experiments to exclude the cytotoxic effect of COE on cell adhesion, invasion, and migration.
COE treatment inhibited the viability of U251 and U87 cells by the MTT assay. Cells were incubated with the indicated concentration of COE for 24 h. Dose- and time-dependent curve of inhibition rate of COE on U251 and U87 cells by the MTT assay. Date were presented as the means ± SD of three independent experiments performed in quintuplicate. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, as compared with the untreated control
Effect of COE on adhesion of human glioblastoma cells
The number of adherent U87 and U251 cells in type I collagen-containing extracellular matrix (ECM) was observed after COE treatment for 24 h. COE treatment significantly reduced cell adhesion in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 2a-b, *P < 0.05 **P < 0.01).
COE treatment for 24 h inhibited the adhesion, invasion and migration of (a) U87 and (b) U251 cells in a dose-dependent manner. Cell migration and invasion were assessed after 24 h incubation by transwell assay. The cell adhesion ability was performed by the cell adhesion assay. Top: cresyl violet staining (200× magnification). Bottom: quantification data. Values are expressed as means ± SD of three independent experiments.*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, as compared with the untreated control
Effect of COE on invasion and migration of human glioblastoma cells
In the wound-healing assay, COE treatment for 24 h significantly inhibited the migration of U87 and U251 cells in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3a-b, *P < 0.05 **P < 0.01). Furthermore, in the transwell migration and invasion assay, COE treatment significantly and dose-dependently decreased the number of transmembrane cells (Fig. 2a-b, *P < 0.05 **P < 0.01), indicating that COE inhibited cell migration and invasion.
COE treatment for 24 h inhibited the migration of (a) U87 and (b) U251 cells in a wound-healing assay in a dose-dependent manner. Left: images of wound-healing assay (200× magnification). Right: quantification data. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, as compared to controls
Effect of COE on expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related proteins and MMPs in human glioblastoma cells
U87 and U251 cells treated with COE for 24 h showed increased expression of E-cadherin and decreased expression of N-cadherin and vimentin in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 4). Furthermore, COE treatment dose-dependently decreased MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression.
COE treatment U251 cells for 24 h altered the expression of EMT-related proteins and enzymes in a dose-dependent manner. a: vimentin, E-cadherin, and N-cadherin expression as shown using western blots. Bottom: quantification data. b: MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression as shown using gelatin zymography. Bottom: quantification data. *P < 0.05 **P < 0.01, as compared with the untreated control
Effect of COE on cytoskeletal organization in human glioblastoma cells
As illustrated by confocal microscope, both U251 and U87 cells were immunopositive to F-actin (red) and vinculin (green). Treatment with 80 μg/mL COE for 24 h resulted in a significant collapse in cytoskeletal cytoskeletal organization and reduction in the distribution of vinculin compared with control group (Fig. 5). After treatment with COE, actin broke progressively, and the control group maintained with stable and ordered structure.
COE treatment induced cytoskeletal collapse. The organization of the filamentous actin (F-actin, red fluorescence), the distribution of vinculin (green fluorescence), and the nuclear (blue fluorescence) were observed using confocal fluorescence microscopy (magnification, ×1000; scale bar, 10 μm).a U251 and U87 cells of control group. b 80 μg/mL COE treated U251 cells
Gliomas are common intracranial tumors. Gliomas demonstrate invasive growth and exhibit ill-defined pathological features, and due to their growth in areas of the brain that serve important functions, they cannot be completely removed by surgery [8]. The common invasion route of glioblastomas is along basement membranes and medullated fibers.
Invasion and migration are the main biological characteristics associated with tumor malignancy [9]. Liotta et al. proposed a three-step process of invasion by malignant tumors: tumor cells attach to the ECM, degrade ECM via proteolytic enzymes, and migrate into the degraded matrix [10]. This process can explain how glioma cells invade adjacent brain tissues in a single-cell manner, grow invasively along basement membranes and white matter fibers, rarely exhibit blood vessel or lymphatic metastasis, and lead to poor prognosis and patient survival rates [11]. Thus, it is of great significance to control the malignant invasion of glioma cells and thereby improve patient outcomes.
COE is the product isolated form the plant of Celastrus orbiculatus, a Chinese traditional herb. We found that the main effective ingredients extracted from COE, namely diterpenoids, triterpenoids, and alkaloids, inhibited tumor cell activity. Our previous studies demonstrate that COE exerts cytotoxic effects, induces apoptosis, and inhibits tumor cell adhesion and migration [12, 13]. Nevertheless, the most effective chemical which is exerting the anti-cancer function in COE is not clear, more research was need to find the biologically active components and corresponding function. In the present study, we examined the effects of COE on human glioblastoma U87 and U251 cell lines using various molecular biology methods to explore the mechanisms by which COE acts against human gliomas.
We used the MTT assay to assess cell viability and an ECM adhesion assay to assess cell adhesion, which may reflect the potential for cell migration resulting from an interaction between ECM forces and the movement of tumor cells. After treatment with COE U87 and U251 cells showed decreased growth and adhesion depending on the concentration and duration of treatment. These results indicate that COE could inhibit cell viability, ECM adhesion, and tumor cell metastases.
Glioblastoma invasion is a complex process that is a major contributor to poor prognosis. ECM degradation appears to be the most important feature of this process [14]. The ECM undergoes continuous remodeling in active tissues, during which many proteases, including MMPs, participate in the destruction of normal brain tissue. MMPs, which are cation-dependent endopeptidases with high homology, degrade most components of the ECM [15]. Due to their broad distribution in the human body and wide range of hydrolysis substrates, MMP-2 and MMP-9 are regarded as key enzymes for hydrolyzing the ECM and promoting tumor invasion. To explore whether COE could inhibit ECM degradation, we used gelatin zymography to observe MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression in U87 and U251 cells. Treatment with COE for 24 h decreased MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression. Thus, COE may inhibit MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity and ECM hydrolysis, thereby attenuating the invasion and migration of glioblastoma cells. Indeed, we also found thatCOE inhibited the invasion and migration of glioblastoma cells in various migration and invasion assays.
To further explore the molecular mechanism by which COE inhibits the invasion and migration of U87 and U251 cells, we assessed the levels of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and vimentin, which serve different functions in invasion and migration. E-cadherin, which is widely distributed in human epithelial cells and is a member of the calcium-dependent family of adhesion molecules, mediates intercellular adhesion to maintain the proper morphology and polarity of tissues, and participates in intracellular signal transduction [16]. Intercellular adhesion declines when E-cadherin expression decreases or is absent, and the removal of E-cadherin from primary lesions promotes cell invasion and migration [17]. By contrast, decreased levels of N-cadherin indicate the recovery of cell polarity and result in the inhibition of tumor cell invasion and migration [18]. Also, decreased levels of vimentin, are associated with decreased migration and invasion of tumor cells [19]. Thus, changes in levels of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and vimentin can serve as indicators of EMT abnormalities [20]. In the present study, we found that COE treatment increased E-cadherin expression and decreased N-cadherin and vimentin expression, indicating that COE may inhibit the process of EMT and the invasion and migration of glioblastoma cells.
Increased cell motility via cytoskeletal remodeling promotes tumor cell invasion and migration [19, 21]. The cytoskeletal usually connects to the cytomembrane, influences interactions between the membrane and ECM, and controls the activity of membrane receptors and adhesion plaques of microfilaments to regulate cell movement and adhesion [15, 16]. F-actin stress bundles (polymerized f-actin filaments) and focal adhesions are associated with cell migration and adhesion. Therefore, we evaluated them by using TRITC-phalloidin fluorescence intensity and FITC-vinculin, respectively. After treatment with COE, the F-actin broke progressively, and the focal adhesions declined dramatically compared with control group. The results indicate that COE had changes in the human glioblastoma cells cytoskeletal structure along with focal adhesions, thereby inhibiting cell migration and adhesion.
COE has dose-dependent effects on cell viability, adhesion, migration, and invasion, as well as the expression of EMT-related proteins and MMPs in human glioblastoma U87 and U251 cells. By inhibiting cell viability and the process of EMT and regulating cytoskeletal organization, COE could attenuate the adhesion, migration, and invasion of human glioblastoma cells.
COE, celastrus orbiculatus extract; ECM, extracellular matrix; EMT, epithelial-mesenchymal transition; MMPs, matrix metalloproteinases; TRITC, phalloidin-tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate
This study was financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project code: 81403232, 81274141, 81450051, 81573656), and the Plans of Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province to Postgraduate Research and Innovation (KYZZ_0370).
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The dataset supporting the conclusions of this article are included within the article.
H.G designed the research, H.G, X.Y.W, S.H.L, J.F, and X.Y.W performed and analyzed experiments. J.C, Y.Y.S performed computational analyses. Y.Y.C provided technical assistance Y.Q.L conceived, designed and supervised the study. All authors edited or commented on the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Yangzhou University-Yangzhou Cancer Research Institute, Yangzhou, 225009, China
The Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Treatment of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
Medical&Pharmaceutical Institute of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
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1986 Saab 9000
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Dead-Brand Madness: 10 Classic Car Ads from the 80s and 90s
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1981 DeLorean DMC-12
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1958 Panhard Ad
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The 5 Most-Forgotten Vehicles of 1981
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1981 Rover 3500
Cancelled after just 22 episodes, Mr. Merlin was a sitcom starring Barnard Hughes as the legendary wizard Merlin working as a mechanic in modern-day San Francisco. The show’s saving grace was the casting of the lovely Elaine Joyce as one of Merlin’s fellow sorcerers. Read more...
Equine Madness: Five Great Horse-Loving Vintage Ads
5 Best-Selling Vehicles (in Russia)
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ATEEZ’s ‘Treasure EP.2: Zero to One’ Album Review
by Luke Potter · Published June 7, 2019 · Updated June 7, 2019
This album was their second outing after coming out with their stellar debut album that shocked many and brought them a lot of fans, after this second album, they got so popular they even had a world tour, this in itself shocked them as well as they weren’t expecting such a thing anytime soon. I myself got to see them cause of it!
The amount of times I’ve gone through this whole album, I really think it deserves a proper review after all this time. One thing to keep in mind, I’ve also heard these songs live, so that might change my ratings or views a bit cause it really is different from just seeing a MV or hearing the audio.
Even though I’m an Atiny I hope to judge this as objectively as I can.
‘Zero to One’ Album Cover
01. “Hala Hala (Hearts Awaken, Live Alive)”
If anything, Hala Hala is a unique song, well-structured and balanced between chaos and harmony even if it delves into both throughout, from the slow start that tricks the listener to the absolutely hectic conclusion.
When the beat drops and the deep bass starts to hit, the song gives off a dark type of sound, adding to that is the second drop with the deep voice. Although it was jarring upon the first listen, it feels a lot more fitting now.
A flaw I have to bring attention to is the shouting in parts of the song where the melody is quite soft, which distracts from the feel of the song at those times. Some of the slow rapping feels displaced as well.
The headbang-worthy ending is a nice way to finish the song instead of simply repeating the chorus as is.
02. “Say My Name”
The synthesized flute is a really unique way to start a song off with as it isn’t used often and gives off a very tropical sound. This theme continues when the crescendo starts, everything gets that pirate-esque vibe, and the alarm-like sounds in the background also carries it well, really meshes well.
The moment of the drop itself is so well made with how the music stops for a split second and the chorus is literally dominated by the rappers. The melody in the chorus switches around which pulls you out of the song just a bit, it still ends up sounding really nice with how the deep bass and Mingis voice come together. It also has just enough variety every time it comes around.
A very nice thing in this song is that the vocalists and rappers compliment each other very nicely mostly in the bridge and the pre-choruses.
One particularly prominent problem is the ad-libing in this song, the ad-libs aren’t the best and are often misplaced and with so many of them they take out a lot of what the song could be without them or with different ones.
Slowing down after the second chorus was a really nice choice, just the voices and the piano greatly enhance what follows with how soft and easy it is on the ears. The dance break that follows with Mingis auto-tuned voice repeating and Hongjoong more or less singing, finishes the song better than just another chorus would similarly to Hala Hala, definitely meant to be a highlight and it really is.
03. “Desire”
If you only listened to this once you’d think it’s just a very sluggish song with not much to show in it. Some things do come to the surface as you listen more tho. The melody itself even though it seems slow (and can feel dragged out at times) doesn’t actually follow a single line, it’s constantly shifting and keeping your ears busy which is what gives it a giant + in my book, a rare thing really.
The chorus itself isn’t the actual focus point of the song, it’s the bridges as most of the highlights happen in between. The first bridge is accentuated with slower but heavier rapping and a transition from Mingi rapping to Hongjoong rap/singing to Jungho singing which is very smooth.
The second bridge is one of the best build-ups I’ve heard, with Hongjoong doing a brilliant job delivering the intensity of “Desire” alongside Junho’s singing and then Mingi’s deep “I love my desire” really sets the tone perfectly. Really a different song altogether.
04. “Light”
Probably one of their least special songs, it doesn’t have anything distinct I can highlight. It’s a very poor song musically when I look at it as a whole, the melody is quite uninteresting, it’s not bad, but it’s definitely nothing worth talking about.
The rapping is a slugfest, the singing is alright but the flow and melody of the song are so low-tempo it’s somewhat a bore to listen to. It doesn’t change it’s tempo at all during the whole song and well neither does anything else…
It’s supposed to be a sort of chill type of song but as chill as it is, it might just be too chill, to the point of boring. I will also say that it’s a song for the fans, which I understand, sentimental value, but I’m just rating it musically in this case.
05. “Promise”
And here we have my favorite song of the year, time to entirely dissect it!
“Promise” balances out a lot of things that might otherwise be very chaotic if it was overproduced, as is, the melody slowly shifts constantly, from very soft sounds to the electro-heavy chorus, and it does this a couple of times while also finishing it up with a very musically intricate “final act” where the voices and the melody have to align perfectly for it to sound nice. They pull this off successfully without taking you out of the song and/or over- stimulating your ears.
Another thing to note is how well the ad-libs are integrated within the chorus as well as the pre-chorus. In most songs (‘Say my name’ included) ad-libbing ends up either terrible or just plain annoying to hear, here it’s added in such a manner to not tamper with the flow of the song but add another layer to it all, a very signature thing with Ateez from their other songs ‘The hype-ing’.
I also can’t overstate their comfort zone singing, each of them is inside their preferred vocal range except Jungho at the very end with the high-note, and even that isn’t shouted but is actually delivered nicely. And San’s “You and I Promise” sounds beautiful as it’s sang with both emotion and grit. The rapping is also quite solid, in a song so differently balanced they managed to incorporate their raps very nicely especially Mingi in the last bridge.
The last thing I’d like to mention is the melody and EDM itself, it has a very mellow feel to it and yet in the chorus it’s upgraded with a constant thumping beat that instantly etches itself into your brain, a simple yet effective brain-worm type of song. And even though it’s EDM it still sounds very… delightful, cheerful and pleasant throughout without being aggressive, I’ll attribute that to it being Tropical House rather than a different genre.
All in all this would definitely be one of my favorite albums to listen to, with all but 1 song being something I’d regularly listen to and each being different from the other and even tho some of the freshness is gone, it’s still quite the album!
Tags: albumalbum reviewATEEZDesireHala HalaHongjoongJunghoLightMingiPromisereviewSanSay My NameSeonghwaTreasureTreasure EP.2WooyoungYeosangYunhoZero to One
Luke Potter
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$1.8bn arterial roads project in VIC calls for EOIs
Expressions of Interest has been called by the Victorian Government for the western package of the $1.8 billion Outer Suburban Arterial Roads (OSARs) Program.
"This is one of the biggest ever projects to update suburban arterial roads - and it's going to create jobs, cut travel times and congestion and improve safety," said Premier Daniel Andrews
The OSARs Program combines eight high-priority road upgrade which includes the maintenance of more than 700 kilometres of road that stretches from Werribee to Footscray. The works will ensure that motorists are benefiting from new high-quality roads while the existing network is being maintained.
"For people living in the outer suburbs, access to decent roads can mean the difference between hours stuck in the car or time spent with their family - that's why we're getting on with upgrading these roads out west," said Minister for Roads and Road Safety Luke Donnellan.
Local residents and commuters in the west will be able to benefit from this major road upgrade and maintenance works because it will help cut travel times as well as improve road safety and efficiently connect communities in the key growth corridors.
"We're building better roads for Victorian families to get them home safer and sooner to their loved ones," Premier Andrews said.
The project will involve a combination of widening and duplication works to western arterial roads including the following:
Dunnings Road and Palmers Road, from Point Cook Road to Princes Freeway in Point Cook
Palmers Road, from Princes Freeway to Western Freeway in Truganina
Derrimut Road, from Sayers Road to Dohertys Road in Tarneit
Leakes Road, from Fitzgerald Road to Derrimut Road in Truganina
Dohertys Road, from Fitzgerald Road to Grieve Parade in Laverton North
Dohertys Road, from Foundation Road to Palmers Road in Truganina
Princes Freeway/Forsyth Road interchange in Hoppers Crossing
Duncans Road interchange in Werribee/Werribee South
The package of works will be transforming the outer-western road network by increasing its capacity and improving the roads’ pavement conditions by upgrading intersections, road maintenance and duplicate about 30 kilometres of road.
The local community can provide their feedback and help shape the designs for the upgrades. VicRoads will also be engaging with local councils, planning authorities, freight operators and bus companies for their respective input on the project.
The upgrades on eight high-priority roads will be delivered within five years, with maintenance and rehabilitation works to continue for another 20 years thereafter.
Request for Proposals are expected to be released in early 2017 and construction to commence in 2018.
If you’re interested in submitting feedback for this project, you can do so through VicRoads here.
Watch this space for updates on this major road project by subscribing to the PlantMiner blog today.
Source: Premier of Victoria
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Second Thoughts About That San Francisco Mural
Robert KuttnerJul 08, 2019
You’ve probably read or heard about the controversy over a 1930s mural at San Francisco’s George Washington High School depicting the American founding as it really was—white men creating a republic that oppressed slaves, on land stolen from the natives. The 13-panel mural, created by a communist with WPA support, Victor Arnautoff, was seen as progressive revisionism, and in its day it rankled conservatives . Now, however, the San Francisco School Board, with a majority of people of color, has flipped that critique. They plan to spend $600,000 of taxpayer money to destroy the mural. Why on earth would they want to remove a mural that corrects a prettified founding myth? Why destroy art at all? The answer: the mural is seen as disturbing to many students because it reinforces a longstanding narrative of blacks being beaten down by whites. Isn’t it time for a narrative of blacks as heroic and resilient? Like a lot of white liberals, my reaction was that this is...
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The Mommy Files
Monthly Archive for March, 2012
: March, 2012
Barbie will go bald for kids with cancer
By moms@sfgate.com (Amy Graff) on March 30, 2012 at 11:25 AM
In response to an inspirational online campaign urging Mattel to make a Barbie for kids with cancer, the toy maker announced on its Facebook page today that it will introduce a bald Barbie. The doll, who will be a friend of Barbie, will be donated to h… …
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Dara-Lynn Weiss attracted national media attention by putting her obese 7-year-old daughter on a diet, writing about it in Vogue, and ultimately scoring a book deal. Her story is relevant in America, where 1 in 3 children are obese. There’s a nee… …
Dad leaves babies in hot car while he goes gun shopping
By moms@sfgate.com (Amy Graff) on March 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM
It’s one thing to leave your kid in the car while you run into the house for 2 minutes to grab the library books you forgot. It’s another thing to leave your two children in a hot car for almost an hour while you go shopping for guns. That&… …
George Clooney calls mom from jail
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A kid in Austin, Texas, became an Internet sensation when he wrote a letter to a local meteorologist. Flint sent a wonderfully imaginative note to KVUE-TV’s Albert Ramon, thanking the weatherman for visiting his fourth grade class. The note was m… …
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Hockey dad charged for aiming laser at goalie
By moms@sfgate.com (Amy Graff) on March 9, 2012 at 6:33 AM
The score was 1-1 in the third at a high school girls’ playoff hockey game in Massachusetts. You can only imagine the tension among the parents, coaches and players. Obviously both teams wanted to win—and one dad was so desperate for his daught… …
France might ban child beauty pageants and padded bras for girls
By moms@sfgate.com (Amy Graff) on March 8, 2012 at 5:27 PM
It’s not sounding good for a French version of the infamous reality show Toddlers & Tiaras. And Suri Cruise might want to cancel that trip to France, or at least leave her kitten heels at home Today, a French senator issued a report aimed at … …
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What Hong Kong Black Travel Warning?
The Philippines may still be in the black (severe threat) for travelers in Hong Kong, that may just exist in the Security Bureau’s website. That’s because everyone is open to defy the so-called advice. A prominent placement in The Standard’s ads section is the “More Fun in the Philippines” campaign of the Department of Tourism along with package tours to Bohol, Palawan, Boracay and other wonderful attractions.
Hong Kong defines “black” travel warning as severe threat that comes after the unfortunate outcome of the hostage-taking incident on August 23, 2010 that killed several Hong Kong tourists.
Serious hostage-taking incident happened in Manila on 23 August 2010, residents should avoid all travel to the country; those who are already there should attend to personal safety and exercise caution.
Can’t blame the government for exercising caution to its residents, but does that mean we will restrict people from making travel plans, at their own risk?
Paired with Syria, a country often mentioned in global headlines, the Philippines gets an unfair category. A red warning (significant threat) would have been more realistic. But what ratio of the population checks the Security Bureau’s website before making travel plans anyway?
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Oppose GE Salmon: Support Northwest Tribal Food Sovereignty (2- page backgrounder)
We recently hosted a Wild Salmon Cook-out to Stand with Northwest Tribes to Stop GE Fish!
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Genetically Engineered Salmon: A Profit-making Frankenfish for Whom?
Supporting NW Tribal Opposition to the Introduction of GE Salmon
Salmon is a cultural and ecological keystone species in the Northwest, making the approval of GE salmon a distinct point of concern for communities in this region. Muckleshoot Tribal Member, Native Foods Educator, and founder of Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project, Valerie Segrest (pictured in photo), explains that “the Coast Salish people have organized their lives around salmon for thousands of years” and “corporate ownership of such a cultural keystone is a direct attack on our identity and the legacy our ancestors have left us.” As a result, Northwest tribes and tribal members have voiced strong concerns around the potential impacts of corporations producing and distributing GE salmon, and have initiated political opposition at state and national levels in response to the biotech firm, AquaBounty Inc.’s submission for approval to market GE salmon in the U.S.
CAGJ’s campaign to stop genetically engineered (GE) salmon builds on our previous work highlighting the role of fishermen in the food sovereignty movement. In 2014 Niaz Dorry, Executive Director of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance gave the keynote at CAGJ’s SLEE Dinner, and Valerie Segrest spoke about the resolution she brought to her tribe opposing GE salmon. In 2015, CAGJ’s Food Justice Project chose GE salmon as the focus for our Local Producers Solidarity Campaign, and we worked with Friends of the Earth to pressure Costco to not sell genetically modified fish. In November 2015, on the same day that the FDA approved the safety of GE salmon for human consumption, Costco finally announced that they had no plans to sell GE salmon if it comes to market.
In 2016 CAGJ began collaborating with NW tribal members to raise awareness around tribal relationships to salmon, and the potential cultural, economic, and ecological impacts at stake for communities if GE salmon goes on the market.
Background on NW Tribal Opposition
The AquAdvantage Salmon is an Atlantic salmon developed by the biotech company AquaBounty Technologies by artificially combining growth hormone genes from Chinook salmon and DNA from the anti-freeze genes of an eel-like ocean pout. This modification causes the production of growth hormone year-round, creating a fish that the company claims grows at twice the rate of conventionally farmed salmon. Yet, Mike Crewson of the Tulalip Tribes Natural Resource Department has noted that “cheaper, quickly-maturing, genetically-engineered salmon grown in hatcheries are just another gimmick that takes the focus off of the need to protect and restore salmon habitat and rebuild self-sustaining wild salmon populations. Essentially, this undermines the Tribes’ and other’s salmon recovery focus on rebuilding natural salmon runs by restoring habitat and protecting the environment needed to support healthy natural and hatchery production.”
Virginia Cross, Muckleshoot Tribal Council Chair, has stated that “genetically engineered salmon not only threaten our way of life, but could also adversely affect our treaty rights to take fish at our usual and accustomed places.” To address these concerns, many tribes and tribal members have joined together to block the approval of GE salmon and prevent its market development since 2014:
The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) called on the FDA to deny all applications to distribute genetically engineered salmon in the U.S. without prior completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and scientific review that sufficiently consulted with Northwest Treaty Tribes.
The National Congress of American Indians joined this effort, and passed a resolution to “oppose the introduction of and sale of genetically engineered salmon in the United States if the FDA decides to allow it and requests tribal consultation on the matter before any action by the FDA.”
In July 2016, Quinault Nation joined the lawsuit against the FDA for approving AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon.
CAGJ is excited to partner with the Muckleshoot Tribe to raise awareness about the implications of GE salmon for our region, which is so strongly connected with this species, and to work together in service of the cultures, economies, and ecosystems of our region. We are grateful for a $5,000 grant from the tribe to enable CAGJ to raise awareness on this critical issue.
What is GE salmon?
Source: Friends of the Earth
Does the public support the approval of genetically engineered fish and animals?
Polls show that 91 percent of Americans do not want the FDA to allow GE fish and meat into the marketplace and 95 percent of consumers believe GE food animals should be labeled. To date, nearly 400,000 public comments and joint letters from over 300 environmental, consumer, health, and animal welfare organizations, along with members of Congress, salmon and fishing groups and associations, food companies, chefs and restaurants have been sent to the FDA demanding the agency reject this application and require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered fish if they are approved.
Will genetically engineered fish harm the environment?
FDA has not yet sufficiently studied the full range of risks escaped or released AquAdvantage Salmon may pose to the environment. Studies on Coho salmon with an engineered growth hormone similar to the AquAdvantage Salmon found that genetically engineered salmon were more aggressive when searching for food (the growth hormone made them hungrier), and in some instances resorted to cannibalism. The aggressive behavior evident in genetically engineered salmon led to population crashes and even the complete extinction of some wild salmon species in the study. Other research has shown that a release of just 60 genetically engineered fish in a population of 60,000 could lead to the extinction of the wild population in less than 40 generations. FDA must more thoroughly consider these and other potential risks before allowing commercialization of AquAdvantage Salmon.
AquaBounty’s egg production facility on Prince Edward Island was infected with Infectious Salmon Anemia in 2009, which it initially failed to report to the FDA. This virus is extremely deadly to salmon and has decimated the Chilean and Scottish salmon farming industries. If this or other diseases were to break out at genetically engineered fish farms and then those fish escaped, they could wreak havoc on wild fish populations. Declines in wild salmon could also cause massive harm to fishers and fishing communities on both coasts.
Is genetically engineered fish safe to eat?
Unfortunately, the FDA decided these fish will be safe to eat based solely on data provided by AquaBounty. Of potential concern to human health is the fact that, according to data submitted to FDA, overall all GE salmon have 40 percent higher levels of the hormone called IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1), which may increase the risk of certain cancers if absorbed and biologically active in the human body. In addition, the findings on allergy risk were based on only six fish. The fact is that the science is simply not there to say whether or not genetically fish are safe to eat and further studies are needed. Many people eat salmon because of its health benefits, but unfortunately it appears that genetically engineered salmon is less nutritious than other salmon. Genetically engineered salmon have been found to have a lower omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid ratio than other salmon, 15 percent less than conventionally farmed salmon and 65 percent less than wild salmon.
Will genetically engineered fish be labeled?
Probably not. The FDA has stated it will likely not require genetically engineered salmon to be labeled, providing consumers no way of knowing whether the fish sold at their grocery store is genetically engineered. This may lead to market confusion and people choosing to avoid salmon entirely.
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40-year-old lorac undressed in front of millions: “You’re a singer or a little girl show?”
magictr | May 15, 2019 | Entertainment | No Comments
Known Ukrainian singer Ani Lorak, who has been living and working in Russia, continues to shock fans with a Frank and sometimes vulgar images. These photos regularly cause a wave of negativity and criticism in her direction.
Recently, the publication of the singer forced the fans to think that she crossed the line, reports Clutch.
The lorac has published in his Instagram picture, which posing in his pyjamas. Shirt completely unbuttoned and put on display the bust and bare belly actress.
Many fans got pissed with excessive frankness. In the comments they wrote about the excessive thinness of the celebrity. Gone somewhere with her lush cleavage, and belly, literally, “some ribs are sticking out”.
“Who is it you want? You’re a singer or a girl show?”, “It’s not pajamas show…”, “Very skinny” — write in the comments.
There were those who were delighted with the new photos of Ani Lorak.
“You are perfect, I can’t”, “Awesome”, “Incredibly soft and incredibly sexy, what a combination!!”, “What You thin, I can’t, every time I see You and wonder! An example to follow!!!!”
Recallthat the scandalous Ukrainian singer Ani Lorak, who now lives and actively building a career in Russia, and also goes to concerts by Russian and foreign cities, presenting their show “Diva”, has decided to once again warm up interest of public to the person. On his page in the social network actress posted a new photo on which poses, obviously, somewhere behind the scenes, while it in an unusual way.
Ani Lorak
In the photo, which appeared in the account of Ani Lorak, she appeared on the overview of the audience in an unusual “dressed”. It is unusual because the last time fans saw on the page of the singer only photos and videos from concerts in which she poses in half naked outfits. Because that’s what her stage costumes, for which lorac is increasingly critical.
Previously portal “Znayu” reported that Ani Lorak disappointed even Russian fans.
Also, the portal “Znayu” wrote that Ani Lorak was lost in the woods before the next Russian concert.
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The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game (The Sports Beat, 5)
John Feinstein
New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein investigates a covert op at the Army-Navy football game in this exciting sports mystery.
The Black Knights of Army and the Midshipmen of Navy have met on the football field since 1890, and it’s a rivalry like no other, filled with tradition.
Teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol have been busy at West Point and Annapolis, getting to know the players and coaches—and the Secret Service agents. Since the president will be attending the game, security will be tighter than tight. Weeks and months have been spent on training and planning and reporting to get them all to this moment. But when game day arrives, the refs aren’t the only ones crying foul. . . .
John Feinstein has been praised as “the best writer of sports books in America today” (The Boston Globe), and he proves it again in this fast-paced novel.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NOV 22, 2010
Feinstein's fifth installment about junior sports reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson mines his adult nonfiction title, A Civil War (Little, Brown, 1996) for its setting: the annual Army-Navy game, a gridiron classic that traditionally ends the college football season. Considerable time is spent spinning a thread about security and racism because President Barack Obama plans to attend, but the real "mystery" unspools quickly, late in the story. Stevie and Susan Carol share a subtle but sweet chemistry stemming from their shared love of sports as well as their experiences as 14-year-old reporters, whose credibility as observant insiders is rarely questioned by adults. Feinstein's respect for both West Point's cadets and the midshipmen of Annapolis is evident, making this a good choice for kids with an interest in the military, but the most enthusiastic audience will be readers who devour Sports Illustrated the moment it arrives. Feinstein unloads on corrupt officiating and the professionalization of college sports, and he writes cameos for a parade of sports stars and the reporters who cover them, creating a rousing backdrop for this light but engaging read. Ages 10 up.
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Another thrilling book from Feinstein that captures the essence of a stellar rivalry while adding some fascinating fictional elements as well. Just as good as the other books in the series!
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Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (The Sports Beat, 1)
Moment of Glory
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (The Sports Beat, 6)
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open (The Sports Beat, 2)
Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl (The Sports Beat, 3)
Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series (The Sports Beat, 4)
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The Irresponsible Traveller : Tales of scrapes and narrow escapes EPUB
by Ben Fogle, Michael Palin, Jonathan Scott, Hilary Bradt, Simon King, Simon Calder
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Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. Over 40 years Bradt has built a reputation for publishing books covering the road less travelled, and this collection celebrates exactly the sort of writing and storytelling about 'unusual' travel experiences that has helped to establish the company as a firm favourite amongst adventurous travellers. Featuring contributions from Hilary Bradt, Michael Palin, Ben Fogle and Jonathan Scott, the title is a perfect tome to dip in and out of.
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November 21, 2014 by carolinefarrell/author and screenwriter
Time Standing Still
On a crisp winter morning such as this one, the view from Quinn’s bedroom window could be breath taking, but only if he looked straight ahead, keeping his line of vision over the tops of the grey slate and terra-cotta rooftops.
Quinn allowed his gaze to move across towards the smoke-hued mountains in the distance. Folding as they did and disappearing through the faded powder-blue sky, he could see the ice clouds knit together in that slow and lazy motion that calmed him like nothing else could.
A morning like this didn’t come very often these days, or if it did, he wasn’t in any state to appreciate it.
He leaned out now to greedily inhale the fresh dewy air and tried his best to take comfort from the scenic view that capped the cramped council houses, and the risen, empty blocks of apartments that overshadowed the last vestiges of open space, defiantly holding its own against the solidity of concrete that ebbed at its fragile borders.
“Are you up yet son?” his grandmother, Maggie, called from downstairs.
Quinn moaned quietly, his insides burning again, searing acid rushing at his throat. His head, heavy as lead, weighed down on his neck and shoulders, and how it pounded, relentlessly, like the dull ache in the pit of his belly. And that smell, that fucking smell kept clawing at his nostrils, seeping out from under his skin to keep him there, in that moment, in that memory; that moment.
He only managed to get in one drag of his cigarette when the sound of Maggie’s ascending footsteps prompted him to stub it out with licked thumb and forefinger. Carefully placing it back inside his precious pack of twenty, he stuffed the carton down the front of his tracksuit bottoms, hurriedly fanning away the last of the smoke that curled from his nostrils before she entered the room.
“Alright Nan?” he asked, without awareness that his tone, while emanating from such a tough and armoured expression, was so soft, so benevolent and gentle, that it could still surprise or unsettle the one person who knew him best, or at least, thought she did. With his ruddy, weather-beaten face and tightly shaved hair, the colour of hardened chestnuts, his features were too rough, too lived in, for a boy of seventeen; a fact that would have broken Maggie Quinn’s heart, if it wasn’t fractured irrevocably already.
Quinn studied her lined expression now, each deep wrinkle a scar-like testament to the toughness of her life. She was creasing her nose in suspicion, an accusing finger pointing at her only grandson, and he knew that she was weary at the impotence of yet another idle threat.
She nagged him constantly, wore that frown, pan-caked to futility, like a mask, her eyes screwed up and glassy to make her look constantly on the verge of tears. It was a face that could tug at his heart-strings and still manage to drive him up the fucking wall.
Quinn’s belly sometimes hurt with the deep feelings he harboured for her, but she could be such a pain in the bollix. Giving her opinion on everything, and mostly when least called for. Going on and on, about Monica and apprenticeships, and the state of his clothes; the company he kept.
And reminding, always reminding him. Like Quinn ever needed that.
He knew that she was trying to help, but sometimes it took more than a little self-control to stop him from telling her to piss the fuck off. He never did though. Avoided confrontation at all costs, after all, she was his family, and she hadn’t been the one to abandon him after his Da’s death, but Quinn never spoke of that other one, that dead-to-them bitch; and neither did Maggie.
In the cluttered, cramped kitchen now, Quinn watched quietly as Maggie prepared to go to her cleaning job. Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to poxy minimum wage we go.
“Your man the driver is always going sharp” she moaned as Quinn watched her hurriedly pull on that old trench coat that he hated, once beige or maybe pink, now an insipid shade somewhere in between, “It’s like a feckin’ race every morning to get to the bus stop before he does!” She wrapped a printed cotton scarf around her neck, the only splash of colour on her slight, shapeless form. “And I want to go to the grave before I start.” Quinn’s stomach churned now, his mouth dry and set in a grimace as he anticipated her pause. Even with her back to him, he could see her quivering lips pucker up with that question. “You know the date, don’t you son? And don’t waste that breakfast – and wash up the dishes after!” she called back on her way out the door.
Quinn held his breath, the sight and smell of the mixed grill she had cooked for him made him want to puke now. He pushed it aside, his heart heavy.
He wouldn’t be going to the grave, not today, not ever. He rolled his livid blue eyes towards the ceiling, knowing she meant no harm, knowing she couldn’t help herself, knowing she was existing in a hell that must be similar to his own
“Fuck it! Fuck it!” Quinn swallowed a lump in his throat, squeezing his eyes shut as he tried to erase the pictures in his head, the images that haunted his days and nights; that morning, a year ago now. The hammering on the door, the dull thuds of the shots, the growing pool of blood on the hall carpet as he cradled his father’s head in his arms, and time standing still as the car screeched away and the blood seeped into his jeans, and he waited for the ambulance. And waited, with this smell in his nostrils and that sound in his ears; the smell of a broken human being, bleeding out, and the sounds of the wretched gasps and gurgles as his father struggled to breathe, his precious gulps of air being sucked back out through the gaping, singed hole in his neck.
And afterwards, the silence, that terrible lull and the searing sense of loss.
Quinn held his finger on the doorbell as he peered through the frosted glass panel of Monica’s front door, his raw, bitten-down fingernails sliding off the glass as Robbie, a beautiful dark-skinned, chubby toddler, squealed, tugging with elation at his mother’s hand as Monica paused inside the hallway before opening the door.
“So you are not dead then?” Brushing past her to lift the wide-eyed boy high in the air to the child’s roars of excitement, Monica’s broken English helped to camouflage the tremor in her voice as Quinn wondered if she could hear the quickening of his heartbeat at the sight of her.
“Two weeks now — you go on holiday or something?” The sudden acute pain inside his ribs made him double over, ignoring her failed attempt at sarcasm as his legs quivered, and Quinn allowed Robbie to fall gently as he slumped, clutching his sides, onto a chair. Monica’s concern, her knowing, creased her expression to frustration.
“When you gonna quit doing that shit!” she yelled at him, “You made a promise to me!”
Quinn groaned through clenched teeth, “Don’t fuckin’ start Monica”, he winced, pain etched across his face, “Have you anything’ I can take – for the pain?”
Monica fell silent, turning away to compose herself. Quinn watched her from behind as she stretched up to reach the cupboard, his eyes travelling the length of her shapely body; the deep olive skin of her lower back and curvy hips showing from between her low-rise jeans and slightly raised sweater. A couple of years older than him, though she never told him her exact age, Monica was a fine thing, and he wondered now, and for the thousandth time, just what the hell she saw in him.
He was sorry he had snapped at her, Monica, of all people. He wanted to tell her that, among other things, but the words just were not there; few words, and even less courage to use them.
Quinn stood up and moved in closer to slip his hands around her waist, thoughts of his pain subsiding as he pressed his body against hers, his hands caressing that invitingly soft skin beneath her sweater, reaching for her warm breasts as he nuzzled into her hair. She smelled sweet and fresh, a clean soapy scent that he loved. It made him forget, it made him wish he could breathe her in so deeply that it would drown out that other smell.
Quinn turned her around to face him, tried to kiss her; she barely brushed his lips with hers. “Not in front of my child” she whispered quietly, “You know this”. She gently pushed him away and Quinn let his arms fall awkwardly, stepping back from her as his need to touch her, to be connected to her body, rushed through him; a craving, so like the other.
“Do you know who got picked up last night?” She asked carefully, “I heard there was a raid?”
“Should I?” he replied, and more defensively than he would have liked. Quinn did not speak to Monica of such things, neither confirming nor denying his involvement with anything that might sway her against him. No lies, no truth.
He was on eggshells as it was; if Monica knew where he had spent the night, how he had spent the night, in the burned out remnants of the community centre. And those scorched walls, barely providing adequate shelter from the creeping cold. Until dawn, until the last deal had been done and he’d finished himself off from his profit for the night after that fuckin’ psycho had come to collect.
And then, Quinn had been alone again, to float away on his powdered clouds, time standing still until they cruelly disappeared from beneath him, leaving him to fall, fall, and he was back there again, sprawled on the piss-damp ground, his veins throbbing from inside out, and praying that if those scarred walls would stop closing in on him, that if the contents of his stomach would stay down just long enough for him to get some dreamless sleep; he’d never touch gear again.
If Monica knew how he had spent the night.
Quinn had trouble now looking at her, meeting the disappointment in her eyes. Coal black, cutting into him, through him, causing him to suck air into his heaving chest as he baulked internally at the vacant promises he kept making for himself, his good intentions meaningless.
Monica cleared her throat. “I also heard some guy is dying. A bad fix.”
Quinn’s expression darkened. He stared at her, his mouth tightening. He knew that poor fucker, the one who’d just had his leg amputated after injecting his heroin fix, cut with wallpaper paste, straight into his veins.
“What are you tellin’ me this for, what the fuck has it got to do with me!?”
Instantly contrite, he sensed Monica’s turmoil bubble inside her now, sensed how she struggled to suppress it, her dark lashes sweeping down to conceal moistened eyes. No shelter though, from Quinn’s penetrating, needy gaze.
“Monica, stop worrying, okay.” Quinn relaxed a little as she nodded, the corners of her full lips lifting ever so slightly. Yet, the gnawing unease remained as he silently admired her prettiness, her courage, her sense of herself; her duty to her son.
What the fuck was she doing here? Monica did not belong in this shitty, low-rent council bungalow. Spending her days, her nights, waiting, and for what? Quinn had no illusions about himself. He didn’t even mind when his mates called him ‘the foreign bird’s bit of rough.’ She deserved better, better than anything he could offer her.
Robbie clambered up onto his lap, a broken toy in one hand, his other hand, with small sticky fingers, clutching at the hood of Quinn’s sweatshirt. “Fix it yada”, he warbled, dropping it onto Quinn’s lap. An uncomfortable smile escaped Quinn as the innocently mouthed implication settled on his brain. He felt the colour rise in his cheeks and couldn’t meet Monica’s mortified expression. Pushing the child away, tentatively, and not daring to look into the tiny puzzled face, Quinn became engulfed by a sickening panic.
“I have to go — have someone to see”, he stumbled, embarrassment, legs like jelly as he headed for the door.
Outside her house, and with the cool evening air to soothe his flushed cheeks and heated brow, Quinn hesitated, but it was only for a moment before he strode quickly away.
The psycho would be waiting for him, with another stash of gear. Quinn quickened his pace. That fucker wouldn’t wait all night, and if things didn’t go his way, he’d be pissed off. And he knew all about Quinn’s Da.
The psycho was always reminding him about it.
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When Did Wendell Berry Start Talking like a Christian?
March 9, 2019 Katy Wright-Bushman
By Jeffrey Bilbro
1979, or thereabouts. Granted, this answer simplifies a considerably more complicated story. But I begin with this date to foreground my claim that Berry’s use of Christian language does indeed shift. Though Berry’s Christian theology has received much attention, most readers assume its presence, conflicted though it may be, remains relatively consistent throughout his writings. This, however, is not the case, and focusing on when Berry began talking like a Christian sheds light on why Berry thinks Christian language is necessary.
It was in 1979 that Berry published his first essay on a biblical vision of stewardship, started writing his sabbath poems, and began drafting Remembering. At this time, he was also carrying on a remarkable correspondence with the Buddhist poet Gary Snyder in which he takes up, albeit uneasily, the defense of the biblical tradition. Berry’s revisions to his earlier work provide another window into his changing stance toward Christianity during these years; when he selects his poems for the 1985 Collected Poems, he omits several of his early poems that conveyed a kind of pagan, animist vision of creation.
What seems to underlie this shift is Berry’s growing sense that the Christian language of Creation was indispensable for rightly articulating the human place in the world. As he writes in his 1979 essay “The Gift of Good Land,” “the idea of the land as a gift—not a free or a deserved gift, but a gift given upon certain rigorous conditions” has far-reaching implications, and working out the implications of Creation-as-gift animates much of Berry’s later work.
As a young author, Berry sought a new language to name and articulate his sense of a sacred presence within the natural, material world. Dissatisfied with the terms handed down by his Christian tradition, Berry turned to poets working outside the bounds of institutional religion. He describes this quest most explicitly in a 1970 essay titled “A Secular Pilgrimage” in which he identifies a loose tradition of “nature poets” who “sensed the presence of a shaping and sustaining spirit within [nature].” Poetry written in this tradition, Berry argues, “arises out of a state of mind that could very accurately be described as religious.” But his use of the word “religious” seems to cause him some uneasiness, and he immediately clarifies that he means it in a “primitive” rather than institutional sense.
In this essay, Berry concludes that the dawn of a more ecologically harmonious era would require us to articulate this primitive religion in new language: “Such an era, like all eras, will arrive and remain by the means of a new speech—a speech that will cause the world to live and thrive in men’s minds.” This desire for “a new speech” motivates his readings of these nature poets, poets who are exploring new ways of naming the “mystery” that is immanent in the physical world.
Though Berry calls for “new” language in this 1970 essay, ten years later he had come to distrust the possibility of conjuring up some radically new language. Rather, Berry had committed himself to the difficult work of renewing the Christian language he had inherited. In a letter to Gary Snyder, Berry admits, “My own problems with the Bible go back to childhood. In a society even nominally Christian, the Bible is bound to be a source of cheap religious thrills and of a false and abusive authority. It also becomes a kind of ‘parent’ against which the rebellious will rebel. My own disgust and rebellion lasted longer than I wish it had. . . . I now think or hope there is a kind of critical love that can make our inheritance from the past usable and useful.” Such passages chart Berry’s growing awareness that his Christian tradition and its theological terms do not impose some false consciousness that obscures reality; rather, they provide a linguistic repertoire he needs to make adequate sense of nature’s complexity.
By 1980, then, Berry’s letters to Snyder evince his commitment to renew the language of his Christian tradition rather than to find some “new speech” that could name the divinity immanent in the physical world. Their correspondence on the Christian tradition was sparked by two manuscripts that Berry sent to Snyder in the fall of 1979: his essay “The Gift of Good Land” and drafts of his first fifteen sabbath poems. “The Gift of Good Land” represents Berry’s first extended engagement with the Christian theological tradition, and it develops the robust theology of Creation that informs Berry’s later writings.
The concluding sentences of his essay state his position in stark terms: “To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” In other words, Berry has come to believe that our lives are a continual participation in the Creator’s gift of life. This ontological reality obliges us to honor this gift in the way we sustain our lives.
Berry sent Snyder a draft of “The Gift of Good Land” in September 1979. In December, he sent Snyder a manuscript with the first fifteen of his sabbath poems. Snyder was rather skeptical about the merits of Berry’s sabbath project. He makes comments about particular poems, noting lines he likes and others he doesn’t, but his overall assessment is blunt: “I can enjoy the poems, but not the theology.” In his response, however, Berry defends his endeavor. He acknowledges that the institutional church has sadly abused Christian language, but Berry no longer wants to find a “new speech”; his hope now is that careful, imaginative poetry might help to redeem an abused yet necessary way of speaking:
Biblical concepts such as ‘sabbath,’ ‘incarnation,’ and ‘resurrection’ seem to me just particular names for general principles. That’s misleading. They do have their particular meanings. What I think the churches have done is use the particular meanings to obscure the general ones. . . . These poems are the result, partly, of a whole pattern of dissatisfactions: with my time and history, with my work, with my grasp of problems, with such solutions as I have found, with the traditions both of poetry and religion that the poems attempt to use and serve. That last dissatisfaction is the cause of all the immediate difficulties. There the traditions are, inextricably braided together, very beautiful in certain manifestations, but broken off, cheapened, weakened, encrusted, with hateful growths—yet so rich, so full of the suggestion of usefulness and beauty, that I finally can’t resist the impulse to try to lay hold of them.
Berry’s syntax indicates the tentative nature of his work; he begins with one statement, then calls it misleading and offers a more accurate one. He seems at once eager to take up these beautiful yet cheapened words and unsure of how best to go about this difficult task. Yet over the following forty years, his more than 350 sabbath poems demonstrate the rich fruit this approach has born.
In one sabbath poem, Berry states his theological convictions with remarkable boldness:
The incarnate Word is with us,
is still speaking, is present
always, yet leaves no sign
but everything that is.
The presence of the Creator in Creation may sound akin to pagan animism or pantheism, but Berry comes to understand this mystery in terms of the Christian doctrine of incarnation. The Word who spoke Creation into being becomes a member of his Creation. As Berry writes elsewhere, drawing on several Old Testament passages, “Creation is thus God’s presence in creatures.”
This incarnational understanding of Creation inspires the robust theology of Berry’s sabbath poems. As another of his poems has it, each sabbath is “the morning / also of the resurrection of Jesus.” We can rest, finally, because the Word who spoke the world into being became incarnate to redeem Creation, and Christ’s resurrection is the earnest of a redemption that is already inaugurated and in which we are invited to participate. Hence, as Berry famously writes, we can “practice resurrection.” Yet by the time he embarked on his sabbath poems, Berry had come to believe that it is only through Christ that we can be at one with the Creator and so enter into “the continuous, constant participation of all creatures in the being of God.”
The post above is adapted from the author's article, “When Did Wendell Berry Start Talking Like a Christian?,” published in Christianity & Literature 68.2 (March 2019). Read the full article by subscribing to Christianity & Literature or through your academic institution's academic database subscription.
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The Long Dusty Road
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I had no desire to go to Gettysburg this summer, I preferred to shed my tears at home.
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SWMODave
Southwest Missouri
Pennsylvania Lt Governor John Peter Shindel Gobin
former Brevet General Union Army
Civil War Nurse Georgeanna "Georgia" Wade McClellan
sister of Gettysburg civilian victim 'Jennie' Wade
While stories of reconciliation give us hope and warm our hearts, the reality of war is not everyone can 'forgive and forget'. At a get together of veterans in Gettysburg in July 1888, it became apparent the wounds were still very deep for some, including non combatants, when General John P S Gobin spoke to a campfire gathering of the Grand Army of the Republic.
A yellowed newspaper account of his remarks, preserved by the general in a scrapbook, evokes a vivid scene for the modern reader. "Gen. Gobin got warmed up and let himself out to the shouts of approval and cheers of delight from the listeners. He said he was tired of hearing so much gush about Pickett's charge, as though they were the only heroes of the day. He said they simply charged across the field and were met and repulsed by men as brave and reckless as they, and those who crossed the wall did so as prisoners, with their guns thrown away and their hands thrown up. He thought more distinguished deeds of valor had been performed by divisions of the Union army." .... Gobin rebelled at the sentimentality of the reunion.
The newspaper continued, "... He said the Grand Army of the Republic men were disposed to extend the hand of friendship to their old enemies, but they were getting tired of this gush and pretense for the glorification of a veteran simply because he wore a gray uniform with a Southern flag printed on his badge. That badge meant treason and rebellion in 1861, and what it meant then, it meant now. He thought the idea of reunion was overdone, and was being used only as a leverage to foist certain individuals into notoriety at the expense of the principles for which the North had fought to the elevation of the principles of disloyalty."
Gobin's oratorical finale inspired "wild cheers" from his audience of aging veterans. "The general concluded by saying, 'I want it to be distinctly understood, now and for all time, that the men who wore the blue and fought on this field were everlastingly and eternally right, and that the men who wore the gray were everlastingly and eternally wrong.' "
Gobin's sharp and unwavering expression of his patriotism no doubt jarred many who hoped that the Gettysburg reunion would be a salve to the nation's lingering war wounds. Though it is unclear whether he heard Gobin's fiery address on July 4, Gen. Henry Slocum, who commanded the 12th Army Corps during the 1863 battle, reflected on the reunion as he boarded a train in Gettysburg that same day. "It went off all right, I suppose, but it was a very delicate thing to handle. I hope they will not have it again. Once is enough for such reunions."
When reports of his remarks spread across the country, Gobin received expressions of support, including a letter from a woman with a deep personal connection to Gettysburg. The letter was written on official stationery of the Department of Iowa, Women's Relief Corps, and dated July 15, 1888:
"Dear Sir, Excuse the liberty I take in addressing you. Having been introduced to you at St. Louis last summer, I feel we are not entire strangers. I am the sister of Jennie Wade, who was killed during the battle of Gettysburg, and am very much interested in that battlefield.
"I have just received the Gettysburg paper given a full account of the reunion and the difference of opinions in regard to the meeting of the 'Blues and Grays,' also the reunion held at Round Top and your brave sentiments in the matter (please accept my congratulations).
"The mystery to me is how can the Union soldiers forget that horrid war and its sufferings and shake hands with rebels on so sacred ground as Gettysburg. They surely have more forgiving grace than your humble correspondent, or they have lost sight of the object for which they fought.
"I had no desire to go to Gettysburg this summer, I preferred to shed my tears at home. They can talk about the rebels being reconstructed, but give them a chance and we can whip them again. Hoping this may be received with the spirit it has been written, I remain the true friend of the 'Boys in Blue.' Georgia McClellan"
from The Daily Item Nov 11, 2008 by John Deppen
You can read the original newspaper article in the Butler Citizen July 13, 1888 (here)
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JPK Huson 1863
It's a valuable thread-after her sister was killed Georgiana handed that famous baby to her mother and walked to the hospitals to join most of the other civilian women nursing wounded. She never stopped and her nursing career was badly over shadowed by Jennie/Virginia's death and fame. I think the family finally left Gettysburg, tired of the attention, not sure Georgiana stopped nursing.
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Now this is a story you don't hear in the discussion of that Reunion. Thanks, Dave, an interesting thread,
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I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed in that letter ~ from the other side of course.
... and should I have the chance to reply I would offer these words spoken at Appomattox
“You may forgive us, but we won’t be forgiven. There is a rancor in our hearts which you little dream of. We hate you, sir.”
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RebelWeber said:
I don't like to appear rude, but I don't understand your thinking here. I can see this coming from a soldier who is bitter at having to surrender at the end of a war in which he fought, but that war ended 153 years ago. Why are you bitter? Don't you like being American? Do you hate the American government?
My great uncle was killed in the First World War, but I don't hate the Germans because of that. I had a cousin who died in the World War II but I don't hate anyone because of that. It is too far removed from me. The Civil War is well removed from your experience, so I don't understand your enmity towards anyone because of that war.
As I say, I don't want to cause a fight, I am just trying to understand why you feel this way.
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That war ended 153 years ago.
No it didn't ... I would take me days to expound upon my views on the subject but i will try to say it in short order.
I see how wrong and misinformed people are about that ( war ) and how my beloved confederacy is painted as this great evil upon the world.
and of courses with the name NORTHERN light i already know what you are going to say ... so spare me please.
This song may help you to understand my feelings
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JOHN42768
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Rebel Weber---So you are saying since the War didn't end the way you wanted it to, it is legitimate to hate hundreds of thousand people four generations later?
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JOHN42768 said:
Is there any war that was waged where you think the wrong side won ?
I didn't say "Wrong" side, I said War didn't end the way you wanted it to. People today had nothing to do with it, why hate them? Any war has one winner and one looser. The people involved would have a right to be darn upset, but that is ancient history. Both sides in any war suffer.
Ancient history ? ... No Sir ~ that war permeates our lives to this very day ... And the fact that I have to point this out to you makes me think you need to do a lot more research on the effect of your glorious Yankee victory !!!
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I am Canadian, I have no dogs in this fight. My ancestors were driven out of Connecticut and New York during the Revolution, had their property stolen and their houses burned, were exiled to an area that was wilderness and faced great hardships. I don't hold that against anyone. It happened, but not to me, just as the Civil War did not happen to you. That war is over, has been for 153 years.
Holding on to such bitterness and hatred must be really tiring for you.
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@RebelWeber, I think @Northern Light is right. Make your peace with the past.
You see, I have great sympathies for the South, both because it was the defeated side in your epochal conflict, like my people was defeated in WWII - and because I belong to the much loathed group of people who are convinced that the Civil War was not fought first and foremost about slavery. I think this would be by far too simple, even if slavery was one of those "States Rights" the war was fought over in my opinion. And I'm all against the notion that the Southerners were a bunch of traitors and criminals, just because they wanted to secede from the Union and were forced back. And I have often said, in my opinion a forced Union without including the right to leave is rather a shame than an achievement. So you see, I'm from northern Germany, but geography says nothing about sympathies. But I ask you to consider if the bitter disappointment of 1865 should not give way to the thought that the United States as they are now are a very good place to live? For everyone? Shouldn't the hostilities better be put aside than continue to lead to playing that terrible game of tit for tat: racist crimes leading to removal of monuments of Confederate leaders, leading to more adversity or beware, even hate, ad infinitum? Aren't you leading a good life, as a Southerner, now, 153 years after the war? As I am leading a good life 73 years after ours?
Northern Light said:
My great uncle was killed in the First World War, but I don't hate the Germans because of that. I had a cousin who died in the World War II but I don't hate anyone because of that.
Nor do I, although our cities were destroyed and countless families (mine included) lost everything, their home as well as all their worldly possessions.
Hate does not lead anywhere! I so marvel at the fact that here on this internet site the children of men who were enemies in World War II, who shot and killed each other, truly can become friends so that hopefully we will never again fight on different sides!!
Keep your Southern traditions alive, be proud of your Southern heritage, but remember that tradition does not mean guarding the ashes, but passing on the flame. Let it not be the flame of hate, but the warming fire of Southern hospitality and friendship!
(and now follows a line from the movie Gettysburg, when Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain said "Sorry. I didn't mean to preach!")
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FarawayFriend said:
You see, I have great sympathies for the South, both because it was the defeated side in your epochal conflict, like my people was defeated in WWII - and because I belong to the much loathed group of people who are convinced that the Civil War was not fought first and foremost about slavery. I think this would be by far too simple, even if slavery was one of those "States Rights" the war was fought over in my opinion. And I'm all against the notion that the Southerners were a bunch of traitors and criminals, just because they wanted to secede from the Union and were forced back. And I have often said, in my opinion a forced Union without including the right to leave is rather a shame than an achievement. So you see, I'm from northern Germany, but geography says nothing about sympathies. But I ask you to consider if the bitter disappointment of 1865 should not give way to the thought that the United States as they are now are a very good place to live? For everyone? Shouldn't the hostilities better be put aside than continue to lead to playing that terrible game of tit for tat: racist crimes leading to removal of monuments of Confederate leaders, leading to more adversity or beware, even hate, ad infinitum? Aren't you leading a good life, as a Southerner, now, 153 years after the war? As I am leading a good life 73 years after our
Thank you for your comments, FF. The past is in the past. Carrying a burden of hatred and bitterness only hurts the bearer.
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" I don't hold that against anyone. It happened, but not to me, just as the Civil War did not happen to you. That war is over, has been for 153 years. "
Tell that to the Jews about the holocaust ... and let me know the response you get
btw .. nice ad hominem attack - Good wording
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As I said, I really wanted to know your feelings, as they are incomprehensible to me.
"ad hominem attack" ? I was just observing that anger takes a lot of energy. If I wanted to attack you, it would not be ad hominem, you would know it.
As for the Jews, that is modern politics, so inappropriate for this thread.
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The war is over - its in the past - it didn't happen to me -( 150 years vs 75 years ) I'm done with this conversation anyway ... I'll let you have the last word because i know you simply must have it !
Why do I hate Yankees ... because they are Yankees !
Then why do you live in New Jersey?
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I belive my knowledge of wars in general tells me terrible things occur on both sides. So then, the Northener's did not suffer, men were not slaughtered in battle, limbs weren't amputated, children didn't loose their fathers, wives and family didn't loose their love ones, prisoners weren't mistreated or killed and all was roses for the North. Since that is your take on the Civil War, I leave you in your thoughts to think what you want and as a greater man then both of us said "Let There Be Peace"
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... and I will leave you sir with a quote from Jefferson Davis
" All we ask is to be left alone"
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Time to Get Listening: Philanthropy Podcast Roundup
December 15, 2015 Emily GiudiceUncategorizedNo Comments
As the holidays approach, many of you may have lengthy road trips and plane rides ahead of you. After wrapping up all your work on a busy year, maybe you’ll want to sack out and catch up on those six months of lost sleep. Or maybe you’re searching for a great listen to dig into as you head to your destination — or recline by the fireplace. Either way, we’d love to suggest some philanthropy-related listening entertainment to help you pass the time. We’ve listened to a number of podcasts focused on philanthropy and foundation work, and many others with stories that, while not about philanthropy directly, carry interesting messages relevant to funders and the general public alike.
Here’s what we’ve heard and loved:
Tiny Spark
Many of you may already be familiar with Tiny Spark — a podcast through which Founder and Managing Editor Amy Costello investigates the business of doing good. In case you haven’t heard the podcast before, here are a few great episodes to get you started:
“Charities: Flattering Reports, Poor Data” — Costello interviews nonprofit advisor Carolyn Fiennes, who argues that nonprofits are releasing only positive impact evaluations as a result of poorly-designed incentives, largely imposed by funders.
“Why Philanthropy Should Push Back against the Business Mindset” — CEP’s very own Phil Buchanan speaks out against the oft-repeated suggestion that philanthropy would benefit from adopting business-like practices.
Philanthropy Hour
Philanthropy Hour is a podcast produced by Greg Cherry, associate partner for Social Venture Partners Los Angeles. Cherry created the podcast to serve as an outlet for social good storytelling, providing tips to practitioners and raising awareness for the good work being done by philanthropy. Here are a couple episodes in particular we’d recommend:
Nike Irvin, California Community Foundation, on Models for Improving Communities — Nike Irvin, vice president of programs at the California Community Foundation, discusses the unique role community foundations play in supporting thriving communities — and touches on what the future of community philanthropy looks like.
Nell Edgington, Social Velocity, on Creating Lasting Impact — Nell Edgington is the founder and president of the nonprofit consulting firm Social Velocity. In this episode she discusses leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector and why the “overhead myth” is flawed.
Planet Money is a popular podcast from NPR that looks at current events to tell interesting stories about economic concepts, many with lessons that can help inform foundations’ work. These four episodes should be of particular interest to those working in the social sector:
“The Pickle Problem” — This one’s a fun one. Though not directly related to philanthropy, it carries an important message about what happens when you don’t ask those you’re helping about what they need.
“The Invisible Wall” — A man goes looking for an answer to the question of why so many people in Peru are stuck in poverty and finds an extremely unusual explanation.
“Why Raising Money for Ebola is Hard” — A look at the nuances and challenges of motivating people to donate money during times of crisis.
“How Do You Decide Who Gets Lungs?” — The philanthropic sector is familiar with working on societal challenges that business and government have failed to fix. This episode discusses a difficult issue — the fair allocation of scarce donated lungs for transplant — that lacks an easy market solution.
The Social Strategist Project
An initiative of the Georgetown University Center for Social Impact Communications, The Social Strategist Project is a collection of podcasts and interviews that aim to answer questions like how can you use effective communication strategies to improve the world, or, what individual traits and professional skills make people successful social changemakers? Don’t miss these two episodes of the podcast:
MacArthur Foundation’s Andy Solomon and the Evolution of Philanthropy — An interview with Andy Solomon, vice president of public affairs at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in which he discusses how the MacArthur Foundation employs communication strategies to further its mission
The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Holly Barkhymer and Communicating the Human Side of Research — In this interview, Holly Barkhymer, vice president of communications and marketing at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research reveals how the Foundation balances the value of Michael J. Fox’s fame with sustainability as a philanthropic organization — and how the foundation uses elegant storytelling to communicate tough and unpleasant messages.
Philanthropy Unfiltered
Out of The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania and hosted by Jacob Lief, founder and CEO of Ubuntu Education Fund, Philanthropy Unfiltered welcomes guests in each episode to discuss myriad issues in the philanthropic field, from innovative practices to controversial theories and strategies. We recommend you start with:
Episode 3: Jacob Harold — GuideStar President & CEO Jacob Harold talks about how in a world in which big data is the talk of the town in almost every sector, it is important to remember that there exist “no numbers without stories, and no stories without numbers.”
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Nose cone at the top of a launch vehicle that protects satellites during the launch campaign and during ascent through the dense layers of the atmosphere.
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Test that looks at the behaviour and performance of a vehicle or item of equipment to assess how it will perform in flight.
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The elements suspended underneath the envelope of a balloon.
Passage of a spacecraft within the vicinity of a star, without being captured into orbit.
State of a body moving freely in the presence of the gravitational attraction of a star. The laws of free fall established by Galileo state that in a vacuum all bodies fall at the same velocity independent of their mass.
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Free movement of bodies in a state of free fall.
Substance that burns in the presence of a source of oxygen (oxidizer) to generate thrust for a rocket engine.
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Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton crew conducts Hurricane Irma relief efforts
Sep 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton crew conducts Hurricane Irma relief efforts
Damaged observed during an assessment of the St. John’s River by the Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton crew in Mayport, Florida, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton began conducting Hurricane Irma relief efforts Tuesday on the east coast of Florida.
The Hamilton crew arrived off the coast of Jacksonville early Tuesday morning, after battling through the narrow band of more than 15-foot seas between Hurricane Irma and Jose throughout the weekend. Upon arrival, the crew began conducting a preliminary assessment of the entrance to the St. Johns River in Jacksonville.
The Hamilton crew deployed its 35-ft Long Range Interceptor small boat to survey the port, whose five man crew traveled up the river, assessed the status of aids to navigation, surveyed the waterway for hazards and made contact with Coast Guard Station Mayport, in order to provide a clear picture of the damage for Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville.
“The Hamilton, one of the newest National Security Cutters in the Coast Guard fleet, is already demonstrating its value and capabilities in its ability to provide helicopter support, small boat operations, medical support, and command and control from off-shore as the cutter and crew respond to the needs of Florida’s citizens following the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma,” said Capt. Mark Gordon, the commanding officer of the Hamilton.
Hamilton is one of two 418-foot National Security Cutters homeported in Charleston, S.C.
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FARC attack in south west Colombia kills nine
Nine soldiers were killed in a guerrilla attack on the town of Corinto in the south west of Colombia, reported media on Tuesday. Four others were seriously injured.
Guerrillas of the FARC attacked the Cauca town, 20 miles south west of Cali, Tuesday early in the morning, surprising the present troops. A local official told local radio nine soldiers died in the attack and another four were seriously injured. The official asked the Armed Forces to form a special force to protect the town from the ongoing guerrilla attacks.
Newspaper El Tiempo confirmed the attack and the casualties.
According to W Radio the attack was carried out by a group of 200 guerrillas.
The Cauca department has increasingly been under guerrilla attack for months.
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What You Might Have Missed In Marvel's June 2017 Solicitations
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Sreesanth reveals why he used towel while bowling in the IPL
The Kerala High Court has revoked the ban imposed on Indian pace bowler S. Sreesanth and now when he has started to aspire to play international cricket again, the news about the BCCI questioning the revoke surfaced the media.
Recently, as per the quotes in Hindustan Times, the pacer once again pleaded that he was innocent and had nothing to do with the spot fixing scandal of 2013.
Recalling the incident, Sreesanth asked the reporters that why would he lose his career for 10 lakhs or 10 crores? He further quoted that he never pleaded guilty in the court on the fixing issue and revealed that he is the greatest fan of Allan Donald who wears the towel during the bowling.
Sreesanth quoted that he loves to follow Allan Donald who is his favourite bowler. He further insisted that he did the same in his previous appearances with a towel tucked and a plenty of zinc oxide on his face, just as Donald did during his cricketing times.
“They said Jiju (Janardhan) apparently said I would either keep an arm band or towel or vermilion or something like that. I used to do all that because I love Allan Donald. I have done that before too. I would even wear plenty of zinc oxide on my face, like Donald. Does that mean those matches were fixed too? Is it a crime to be superstitious? I believed that wearing those things would help me when I was going through a bad phase in my bowling,” Sreesanth was quoted as saying.
Sreesanth further revealed that he actually sought the permission of the umpire Kumar Dharmasena to wear a towel.
“In fact, in the first over I asked Kumar Dharmasena (the umpire) if it was okay if I kept a towel. Surely, the stump microphones picked that up. I did that only because it made me feel like Donald. Why would someone fix for Rs10 lakh? If you’re accusing me, say Rs10 crore or something. Why would I jeopardise my career, my life for Rs10 lakh?” he questioned.
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Awesome Forgotten Noughties Games: Destroy All Humans
Callum Davies· January 24, 2015
Weird as it might sound, riffing on late 50s/early 60s Hollywood cheese was a popular trend in gaming for a little while. War of the Monsters was a free-roaming fighting game that riffed on the monster B-movie genre and Stubbs the Zombie had you playing as a shuffling undead salesman terrorising a retro-futuristic utopia. The best example of this odd, but amusing trope however was Destroy All Humans.
Developed in 2005 by the now-defunct Pandemic Studios, it was built around the same bones as their last free-roaming game, Mercenaries. This meant that everything exploded, the rag doll physics were ridiculously exaggerated and the map was vast. Instead of a grizzled mercenary sent in to kill your way though the North Korean high command however, you played as an archetypal ‘grey man’ alien sent to blast, vaporise and anal probe your way through an idyllic 50s American suburb. The concept actually originally came from Matt Harding, who shortly thereafter left Pandemic to travel the world and become Dancing Matt. Yep, that’s right, the concept for Destroy All Humans came from this guy:
The plot was fairly easy to grasp, you played as Cryptosporidium 137 (although you get the next clone in line every time you die), tasked with finding and recovering Crypto 136 from the US government, and extracting as many human brains as you could in the process. From their, unsurprisingly, a wide government conspiracy is uncovered relating to ‘Majestic’, a firm somewhere between the CIA and the MiB. The whole thing plays out like a fairly vicious spoof of 50s America, with a lot of the environment you explore looking like a 3D Norman Rockwell painting.
It’s far and away one of the funniest games I’ve ever played, with a lot of incidental Easter-eggs to find if you take the time to seek them out. A particularly amusing feature extends from your need to continuously read people’s minds in order to stay disguised as a human in populated areas. You’ll find people thinking about going home to take another Valium, how sexy Tupperware is, the appeal of barbecuing with Ike Eisenhower or just fantasing about Betty Page. It’s equally funny of course to just eschew the disguise altogether and run amok, as this was still a time in gaming when a vast array of nutty weapons was a foregone conclusion.
On foot (and strapped with a jetpack) Crypto could electrocute people, disintegrate them Mars Attacks style or anal probe them, which meant firing a blast through their rectum which would launch their brain into the air in a cloud of green goo. Failing that you could just telekinetically fling people, vehicles and objects around at your leisure. If you really had an appetite for destruction, however, you could get the flying saucer involved. Disintegration and general blasting were still on the menu once you took control of it, but you could also use a tractor-beam to hurl larger, heavier things than you could on foot and later in the game the ‘quantum destructor’ became available, a thermonuclear blast that wiped out everything within a certain distance.
Being able to actually destroy the environment at will within a sandbox might seem somewhat novel now, but at the time it was a huge deal and the idea of being able to trash something other than your standard grey, militarized wasteland was extremely appealing. As the missions progressed, more difficult enemies became the norm but unlike other, similar games they never created a barrier between you and all the fun, they just forced you to rethink your strategies.
The game enjoyed moderate success at the time and spawned one sequel, which put you on a more global playing field and had going after hippie stereotypes instead. It was more varied in terms of weapons and gameplay mechanics but no better overall. The sandbox genre has come a long way in terms of creative scope since GTA and Destroy All Humans was one of the first laudable examples of outside-the-box thinking. Games like Prototype and Infamous certainly owe a debt to it and it remains one of the crowning achievements of Pandemic’s short but impressive lifetime.
Callum Davies
Journalist, poet, crisps enthusiast.
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BREAKING: BBC Recasts 13th Doctor With Lab Grown White Dude
Chris Hansell· July 26, 2017
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In a move which has left the internet reeling, the BBC this morning announced the recasting of the titular character from their tentpole science fiction series Doctor Who. In a big set-piece announcement last week, the BBC had revealed Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker as the 13th incarnation of the Doctor – the first women to be cast in the role. Today, however, the BBC backtracked on the decision after a small contingent of butt-hurt white men on social media said they’d never watch the show again.
“Well, we’re actually not sure what we were thinking there,” an anonymous source within BBC Wales told Cultured Vultures this afternoon. “I mean, where in the canon does it say the Doctor can become a woman, anyway? This is science fiction, for god sake. It’s not like you can just go back and retroactively change the established lore of the show. We’ve certainly never done that.”
When asked about the upcoming Christmas special involving the first incarnation of the Doctor, the anonymous source spent a long time scrutinising his fingernails and ignoring the question.
The BBC were keen to point out this surprise move has nothing to do with sexism, and that the Doctor’s companions will continue to be conventionally attractive young women who have forced sexual tension with the Doctor himself.
Cultured Vultures’ insider source added: “The decision to backtrack came after our executive producers discovered Youtube had a comment section. It was a complete revelation! We found so much really constructive criticism on there. It really hit home when commenter LastOfTheEdgeLords63 pointed out to us: ‘What’s next? Are you going to have pink daleks now? Are they going to be obsessed with the drapes on the dalek mothership?’”
The bigger revelation, however, comes in the form of who will be replacing Jodie Whittaker as the official 13th Doctor.
“We wondered about casting a well known actor in the role, but then we had a breakthrough,” said Nardol, Head of R&D at BBC Wales. “We’ve been working on Project Gallifrey for decades now and we’ve finally succeeded in growing the 13th Doctor in a laboratory. Instead of giving him a name, we’re just calling him Middle Class White Dude 14.”
According to Mr Nardol, Middle Class White Dude 14 has been specifically grown from the hairs of Hugh Grant and the skin cells of Benedict Cumberbatch for the perfect balance of inoffensive British poshness and lightly condescending post-imperialist smugness. He added that the success of their last lab grown actor, Eddie Redmayne, has the BBC extremely optimistic about the decision.
Mr Nardol said: “Eddie was a great success. We agonised over Project Redmayne for a long time, but then we realised that his whimsical British poshness meant we didn’t really need to give him any personality.”
Doctor Who season 11 begins shooting in the Autumn, and we’re assured Middle Class White Dude 14 will bring all the middle class manliness to the role we’ve come to expect – nay, demand.
Chris Hansell
Head of TV for Cultured Vultures. Occasionally writes profound things, but mostly types garbage about Netflix.
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Doctor Who: Season 11 Episode 8 “The Witchfinders” REVIEW
Doctor Who finally gives us an adventure only the 13th Doctor could have.
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SIU football dominates in season opener
Junior wide receiver Jimmy Jones (20) runs onto the field Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, before SIU's home opener against the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils at Saluki Stadium. (Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz)
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By Nathan Dodd
The SIU football team started the 2017 season with a Saturday evening matchup against the Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils that ended with a 55-3 Saluki victory.
The excitement began as the Saluki offense took the field to begin the game. On the first play from scrimmage, junior running back Daquan Isom marched Southern down the field with a 46-yard run.
“I think that played a big role in the game,” Isom said. “Everybody else probably wanted to get in and make a play too.”
Southern continued to storm down the gridiron on its opening drive. Junior starting quarterback Sam Straub completed the six play, 75-yard drive when he connected with senior fullback Hans Carmien for a 17-yard touchdown pass. The extra point from sophomore kicker Matt Sotiropoulos gave SIU a 7-0 advantage early in the contest.
Mississippi Valley State was halted on their first possession by the Saluki defense with a quick three and out.
The Delta Devils’ defense stepped up to stop the Saluki offense with a three and out of their own. However, the Saluki defensive unit looked tough once again behind a sack of the MVSU quarterback by redshirt freshman defensive lineman Anthony Knighton.
After a short punt from MVSU, the Saluki offense went back to work. Sophomore running back D.J. Davis was able to find the end zone for SIU on a 30-yard touchdown run. Sotiropoulos made good on his next extra point attempt to further the Saluki advantage to 14-0.
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SIU senior wide receiver Connor Iwema (6) blocks Mississippi Valley's defensive back Adrian Campbell (22) during the second quarter of SIU’s home opener against the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at Saluki Stadium. (Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz)
Sophomore safety Jeremy Chinn kept the momentum on SIU’s side when the Salukis came to the field for their next defensive stand. Chinn plowed through the Delta Devils’ offensive line on first down to bury MVSU for negative yards before intercepting a second down pass to give Southern the ball on Mississippi Valley’s 41-yard line.
With one yard keeping the Salukis from scoring a third touchdown, junior running back Jonathan Mixon waltzed into the end zone for the score. Another extra point conversion gave SIU an early 21-0 advantage.
MVSU called on freshman quarterback Christopher Fowler to take the reigns of the Delta Devils’ offense to begin their fourth drive of the game. Marching into the red zone, MVSU threatened to jump back into the contest with a touchdown of their own.
Saluki sophomore linebacker Airan Reed and sophomore defensive tackle Blake Parzych ceased the Delta Devils attack with a sack on third down, forcing MVSU to settle for a 33-yard field goal, bringing the score to 21-3 in favor of SIU.
A 35-yard pass connection between Straub and Isom in the second play of SIU’s fifth drive of the game took the Salukis into the second quarter with another capable scoring opportunity.
SIU took advantage of their opportunity to score when Straub completed a seven-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Connor Iwema. A failed extra point attempt kept the Saluki lead following the touchdown at 27-3.
Knighton’s sack of Fowler for a nine-yard loss on third down ended MVSU’s fifth drive, forcing a punt to give SIU control of the ball for the sixth time within the first 20 minutes of the game.
Isom pushed the score to 34-3 after a one-yard touchdown run finished off the Saluki’s sixth drive of the game.
For the remainder of the second quarter both defenses held strong, until the Salukis’ D.J. Davis broke into the end zone from seven yards out one minute before the half for his second score of the contest. An extra point gave SIU a commanding 41-3 lead.
A last second blocked punt by sophomore defensive lineman Malik Haynes gave the Saluki defense a near score when Knighton returned the ball near the end zone before being brought down at the one-yard line as time expired.
Sophomore quarterback Tanner Hearn got his first taste of action for the Salukis in the third quarter. Hearn’s second pass attempt was intercepted by MVSU freshman linebacker Jared Emanuele.
The Delta Devils, under the leadership of freshman quarterback Dewayne Betts, moved into the red zone and threatened to inch their way back into the contest. Saluki redshirt freshman outside linebacker Victor Abraham stopped the MVSU drive with an interception in the end zone for a touchback.
Back on offense, SIU marched down the field to the red zone once again. The Salukis scoring attack capitalized with a touchdown reception by junior wide receiver Raphael Leonard on a seven-yard pass by Hearn to push the lead to 48-3.
The Saluki defense remained solid as freshman defensive lineman Chucky Sullivan recorded a sack and stripped MVSU’s Betts of the football. SIU was able to recover the loose ball and bring the offense back to the field.
SIU’s Hearn was able to scramble and escape a near sack and run the ball into the end zone from 26 yards out for the Salukis’ eighth touchdown of the game. Hearn’s score widened Southern’s lead over Mississippi Valley to 55-3.
Looking to score any way possible, MVSU decided to turn to an air attack in hopes of scoring its first touchdown of the game. Betts connected with junior receiver Quinn McElfresh for an 82-yard reception to put the Delta Devils back in the red zone.
After the long gain, the Saluki defense held strong in the red zone and forced MVSU to turn the football over on downs.
The Delta Devils had another strong scoring opportunity in fourth quarter, fueled by back-to-back Saluki fumbles, to move MVSU to SIU’s three-yard line. An illegal blocking penalty on first down pushed Mississippi Valley back to the 22-yard line, and the drive ended with no points after four straight incomplete passes from Betts.
SIU’s defense held strong after the mid-fourth quarter threat, allowing the Saluki offense to run time off the clock to secure a 55-3 victory.
The Saluki offense hit the ground running Saturday night, and never looked back. The passing game was led by Straub, who completed 12 of 20 passes for 191 yards and two touchdowns.
Southern’s Isom showed off his versatility in the running and passing attack, netting 135 total yards (97 rushing and 38 receiving) and one touchdown. Backfield-mate D.J. Davis added 58 yards of his own and two TD’s.
“I’ve been waiting for a game for five weeks,” Isom said. “It felt great to finally get out there and compete.”
Salukis Iwema and Carmien combined for 96 receiving yards while both recorded their first touchdown receptions of the 2017 campaign.
On the other side of the ball, Southern’s defense proved rock solid by limiting Mississippi Valley to three third down conversions. The Delta Devils were also shut out by the Saluki defense on all three of their fourth down conversion attempts.
Sophomore safety James Ceasar and senior cornerback Craig James each recorded five tackles in the game. Knighton added four tackles of his own, including two sacks and three tackles for loss.
“I just try to be physical and play a good pass rush,” Knighton said. “We just try to compete and bring out the best from each and every one of us.”
SIU was able to force two fumbles from MVSU, one of which the Salukis recovered. The Delta Devils converted only one of four red zone scoring chances, settling for a field goal to score their only points of the game.
“You can never take winning for granted,” head coach Nick Hill said. “Any time you can get a win it feels great.”
SIU (1-0) will travel to Cape Girardeau, MO on Sept. 16 to take on Southeast Missouri State (0-2) at Houck Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Sports writer Nathan Dodd can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.
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AOC’s big TBD: A bright yellow light on the Green New Deal
Lots of details to fill in. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images)
Down in Washington, a certain New Yorker has proposed a sweeping blueprint to attack climate change and transition to a clean-energy economy by weaning America off fossil fuels. Its name evokes the ambitious agenda put forward by another New Yorker in the depths of the Great Depression.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s acolytes are pressuring members of Congress to jump on board her “10-year national mobilization,” so far outlined in 14 legislative pages, without delay. A number of Democratic 2020 presidential candidates have already hopped on the high-speed train.
The planet is warming. The consequences are dire. Inaction is not an option. But we have a few wee questions about the bill.
Ocasio-Cortez’s materials call for meeting all the power demand in the United States through zero-emission energy sources. But the Green New Deal leaves out any mention of nuclear power. Why? That source produces a great deal of energy with no greenhouse gas pollution. When Vermont tried to make a hard turn toward renewables while leaving nuclear behind, the state saw its emissions grow.
Supporting documents since removed from Ocasio-Cortez’s website called for expanding high-speed rail to “a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”; the resolution makes no such commitment.
Clearly, even if rail can and should replace many plane trips, Seattle-to-Miami flights are going nowhere. And jet fuel-enabled flying is an economic and cultural imperative, and will be for generations to come, to connect our global community to the wider world.
The Green New Deal says the entire American power grid can go carbon-neutral within a decade. Many who agree with the goal think even doing so many years later would itself be an immensely heavy, economy-consuming lift.
And while we have no qualms whatsoever about the goal of delivering a job with “a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security” to every American, it’s exceedingly easy to do so in a nonbinding resolution, which is what this is. And exceedingly hard to get from here to there through concrete legislation that costs… — oh yeah, we have no idea how much.
Ocasio-Cortez is smart, passionate and driven. We will wait and see if she can translate this national call to action into pragmatic plans. That, after all, is the job of a legislator.
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Home » Politics » APC rejects Dasuki’s call for election postponement
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The All Progressives Congress has turned down the call by the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), for the postponement of next month’s general elections.
Dasuki had earlier made case for the postponement to give INEC more time to distribute all Permanent Voters’ Cards.
However, in a reaction, the APC warned that “under no circumstance must the elections be scuttled.”
In a statement in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the call by Dasuki, during an event at the Chatham House in London on Thursday, had “exposed the hitherto clandestine plot by the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to push for the postponement of the polls, using all sorts of cheap tricks.”
APC added, “Now that we have found the smoking gun, we are urging the international community, in particular, to urgently extract a commitment from President Goodluck Jonathan that the elections will hold as scheduled next month, and that he would respect the outcome, just as we have said.”
APC said Dasuki was only seeking to buy time for Jonathan’s campaign to gather steam by hinging his postponement call on the delay in PVC distribution.
“They know for sure that if they don’t postpone the elections, there is no way they can win. They are just terrified,” the party said.
It called on Nigerians to reject in its entirety the “ongoing orchestrated plot” by the Jonathan administration to postpone the elections, saying the constitutional crisis that would be triggered by such postponement was capable of undermining the nation’s democracy.
APC added, “After realising it will be rejected by Nigerians, who have borne the brunt of its mis-governance over the years, after realising that its campaign of calumny against our presidential candidate has failed, the Jonathan Administration has now started to play its last card, which is the postponement of the election.”
It said the importance of elections could not be over-emphasised.
“Election is the lifeblood of democracy, the mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates. It is the only way for the citizenry to renew and refresh the governing process so they can get the most benefits out of democracy.
“Therefore, anyone that tries to sabotage this mechanism is aiming a dagger straight at the heart of democracy,” the party said.
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a direct-to-video adventure film, a sequel to the animated Disney comedy film, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, starring the voices of Martin Short, Jason Alexander, and Barry Bostwick. It was released on January 21, 2003 and garnered DVDX awards for best animated feature, best director, best editing, and best musical score. Disney re-released it on September 16, 2008.[1] On June 9, 2015, it was re-released for the first time on Blu-ray.
The film tells the story of Patch, the loneliest Dalmatian, who felt "lost in a sea of spots" until he met his TV hero Thunderbolt. Unlike several Disney direct-to-video sequels that essentially retell the original film's story (such as The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea), it takes characters from the original film in some new directions.
In the film, Patch was accidentally left behind after the Radcliffes moved to Dalmatian Plantation located at Cherry Tree Farm, Little Tichfield Devon. Patch becomes a part of Thunderbolt's TV show and wants to know: is he one of a kind, or just one of 101? Now is his opportunity as Thunderbolt thinks he will be replaced when it is just a plot by his sidekick, Lil' Lightning, to make him quit once and for all and make a jealous Lightning the star. Patch becomes heartbroken when he finds out that his favorite wonder dog is just a TV actor.
Roger and Anita Radcliffe, and their canine clan are packing for the big move to Dalmatian Plantation, a home in the country with plenty of room for Pongo, Perdita, and the 99 puppies and far from the clutches of Cruella De Vil. The feistiest puppy, Patch, feels lost in a sea of spots and longs to be a one-of-a-kind wonder dog like his TV hero, Thunderbolt. While watching the The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour he hears about a chance to appear on the show while it is bring filmed in London. However, the move will interfere with his opportunity -- until he's accidentally left behind in the commotion. He runs away and heads for the audition to meet his hero. Thunderbolt's "trusty" sidekick, Lil' Lightning, tries to impress the ladies, but they turn him down as they are not interested in sidekicks. After the show, Lil' Lightning tells Thunderbolt the producers want to replace him with a younger dog. In order to save his job, he decides he will go into the real world and perform an act of true heroism to prove himself. A veritable reference book to Thunderbolt's many adventures, Patch provides the perfect guide for him in his attempts at real-life heroics.
Meanwhile, Cruella is back and more obsessed with dalmatians than ever. At first, she is able to calm her frenzy through an affiliation with a spot-fixated German artist named Lars. Meanwhile, Thunderbolt makes several attempts at "heroism", telling Patch he is giving him a "Junior Deputy Test" and will let him be on the show if he can pass. This "test" involves him unwittingly giving instructions on how Thunderbolt, who has no idea how to act without a script, should save the day. Back at his trailer, Lightning's true nature is revealed. Fed up with being second best, he cons the producer, who is both desperate and frantic over Thunderbolt going missing, into recasting him as the hero. Cruella soon discovers that Lars, despite his best efforts, is unable to recreate the look she desires.
In order to inspire him, she begins hunting for the dalmatian puppies, but is angry to find Anita's house empty. However, using a newspaper picture of Patch at the audition, she reads their new address off his ID tag. Meanwhile, he and Thunderbolt bond over their mutual fear of being "just another dog" and Thunderbolt begins teaching him how to bark properly. The Radcliffes finally become aware that he is missing as Cruella posts bail for her former cronies, Jasper and Horace, and sends them to the farm to steal the remaining 98 puppies by locking them in a stolen Kanine Krunchies truck. Lars becomes enamored with them and is inspired to paint, but Cruella announces that he going to make a masterpiece out of puppy fur. HE refuses, but she simply ties him up and goes back to her original plan of making a puppy fur coat.
The imprisoned puppies use the Twilight Bark to send an SOS, which is picked up by Patch and Thunderbolt, and they set out to save Patch's family. Lightning is horrified when he discovers Thunderbolt might actually become a hero and hurries to the warehouse where the puppies are being held. He convinces Thunderbolt not to use Patch's stealth plan, but to openly attack. However Cruella shows up and locks them in a cage. Lightning sneaks in and reveals that Thunderbolt is a fraud. Poor Patch is deeply hurt that Thunderbolt would lie, but soon realizes that their current situation was covered in one of the TV episodes and manages to escape. He releases his family, but Thunderbolt stays in his open cage. Jasper and Horace confess to Cruella the puppies are missing, but Patch tricks them into going downstairs while the dogs escape via the roof and get onto a double decker bus, which they accidentally start.
Cruella follows in hot pursuit as they race through the streets of London, crashing through the filming of the new "Lil' Lightning" show. She finally corners the puppies in an alley. Patch tries to hold off the trio as the others escape, but they are undaunted. Luckily, Thunderbolt arrives (having hitched a lift with Lars) and apologizes to Patch, saying he is not a hero, but he can act like one. He fakes a heart attack, distracting Cruella (and managing to have her knock out Jasper and Horace) while the puppies escape before collapsing. Patch puts the bus into reverse, forcing the four bad guys into the Thames River.
Patch and Thunderbolt survey the scene, both letting out deep, heroic barks. Lightning is arrested, along with Jasper and Horace, while Cruella, who has now driven completely insane, is sent to a mental institute. Pongo and Perdita arrive and tell Patch how proud they are of him. Thunderbolt confesses that he is just an actor, but Patch is "a real, one-of-a-kind wonder dog." A newspaper montage reveals the characters' fates: Lars, using a painting Patch accidentally made by throwing paint at Jasper and Horace, finally receives credit for his "genius"; Jasper and Horace open up a ladies' boutique with the motto: "Fur Bad, Nylon Good"; Roger's new song, "Seeing Spots", becomes a smash hit and Cruella is featured in an issue of "The Institution". A post-credits scene shows Thunderbolt, with his new sidekick Patch, in his TV show, with the other puppies serving as extras.
Bobby Lockwood as Patch: The main character, a small dalmatian puppy with a large black patch over one of his eyes; hence his name. He feels lonely and left-out oftentimes with his family, thinking that he is just one of the famous 101 dalmatians, and longs for a chance to become separate and leave the shadow of his brothers and sisters. He is a good pup, very adventurous, bold, and strong-minded. He quickly befriends Thunderbolt, the famous TV wonder dog whom he adores.
Barry Bostwick as Thunderbolt: As the movie opens, it is shown that Thunderbolt is not exactly bright, and very self-centered and rude to his sidekick, Lil' Lightning, which eventually provokes the Corgi to revolt. When Thunderbolt runs away, tricked by Lightning that the director of his famous show plans to kill him off, he runs into Patch, and the two quickly bond, trying to do heroic feats to prove that Thunderbolt is a real hero. As the film progresses, Thunderbolt becomes a father like figure to Patch, and loses his starry-eyed, naive ways to become a strong, brave, and faithful dog. Thunderbolt is a German Shepherd and his sidekick, Lil' Lightning, is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
Jason Alexander as Lil' Lightning: The Welsh Corgi of Thunderbolt's famous show. He is initially portrayed as Thunderbolt's little sidekick. Eventually, he becomes angry at always crawling in Thunderbolt's shadow, and tricks him into running away, then plots to manipulate the director into rewriting the show slanted towards Lightning. When Thunderbolt and Patch return, endangering Lightning's chance at fame, he reveals himself to be the traitor he is and has the two dogs locked away. In the end, however, he is overpowered and taken away by the pound. He starts off being a neutral character, but later becomes an antagonist in the film.
Susanne Blakeslee as Cruella De Vil: The villain of the original film, back once again to kidnap the puppies. Naturally, she serves as the main antagonist.
Martin Short as Lars: A stylish, but rather strange, French artist who loves nothing more than painting spots. It is suggested he had some romantic feelings towards Cruella, but when she captures the dalmatian puppies again and plans to break her rules of goodness and make coats out of them, he rebels, only to be tied up.
Samuel West as Pongo: Father (and adopted father) of the 99 Dalmatian puppies, he is loving but distracted, something here that forces Patch to feel lonely and just one-hundred and one, instead of standing out.
Kath Soucie as Perdita: Mother (and adopted mother) of the 99 Dalmatian puppies, Perdita is a gentle, loving soul who only wants the best for her children (and adopted children), and is horrified to find her children missing once again.
Tara Strong as Two-Tone: One of Patch's 98 siblings.
Kasha Kropinski as Penny: Another of Patch's 98 siblings.
Maurice LaMarche and Jeff Bennett as Jasper and Horace: Cruella's two bumbling henchmen.
Jodi Benson as Anita Radcliffe
Tim Bentinck as Roger Radcliffe
Mary MacLeod as Nanny
Michael Lerner as Producer
Jim Cummings as Dirty Dawson
Ben Tibber as Lucky
Rotten Tomatoes rating for the film is currently 67% "fresh" based on 6 reviews and with a 4.8 rating, but without a consensus.
The film was released direct-to-video on January 21, 2003. It includes the behind-the-scenes footage "Making of Dog-umentary". The film was re-released for a limited time only on September 16, 2008 on DVD.
The film was also released on Blu-ray in June 2015.
A video game of the film was made for the PlayStation. It was released October 21, 2003. it has 1 review, a 3/5, calling it hard to play and repetitive.
Trivia/Goofs
The 1990 Walt Disney Pictures logo has been customized for the film; dog barks were heard in the background as the music plays.
This is the first part of the franchise in which Lucky is voiced by an actual male (Ben Tibber), as normally he is voiced by a female (Mimi Gibson in the first film, Russi Taylor in the Animated Storybook, and Pamela Segall-Adlon and Debi Mae West in the TV series).
In the original film, Patch's siblings, including Lucky, have white ears. Also in the original film, Patch's right ear is black, but in the sequel, his left ear is black. Additionally, his patch is on the same side of his black ear in the original film, but in the sequel, it's on the opposite side.
Patch had no trouble barking in the first film; in fact, he barked more than any other pup.
When Thunderbolt does his bark to let the puppies know he is on his way, his head is pointed up, but when the scene cuts back to show Patch and Thunderbolt, his head and neck are at an angle.
When Thunderbolt either (a) does his bark or (b) tells Patch he is a one of a kind wonder dog, his ears always fall forward.
Whenever Patch barked, he is either laughed at and/or referred to as a "squeaky toy" by Thunderbolt.
During the "Twilight Bark" scene, the man walking the two Great Danes bears a similar resemblance to one of the band players in the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" number in Mary Poppins.
This story is somewhat similar to the 101 Dalmatians: The Series episode "Watch for Falling Idols", where Lucky learns Thunderbolt is just an actor.
Despite Roger having a different voice artist in this movie, when his song plays in Cruella's car, it is the original singing voice (Bill Lee).
At the start of the movie, the Dalmatians on the back of the moving van closely resembles the climax of the first film.
Amongst Lars' spot artwork is the Mona Lisa with a spot on her lip and a Mickey Mouse head.
This is the final movie Mary MacLeod worked on before her death in 2016.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians: Pongo • Perdita • Roger Radcliffe • Anita Radcliffe • Nanny • Cruella De Vil • Jasper and Horace • Thunderbolt • Dirty Dawson • Lucky • Patch • Rolly • Penny • Freckles • Pepper • Dalmatian Puppies • Danny • Scottie • Towser • Lucy • Captain • Sergeant Tibbs • Colonel • Prissy • Collie • The Cows • Labrador
101 Dalmatians: The Series: Cadpig • Spot • Tripod • Lieutenant Pug • Mooch • Mayor Ed Pig • Dumpling • Cornelia • Scorch • Swamp Rat • Cydne • Steven • Persian Pete • Vendella De Vil • Go-Go • Blaze • Cave Pup • Rebecca • The Vandercreams • Amber Dearly • P.H. De Vil • Cecil B. De Vil • Ivy De Vil • Malevola De Vil • Judge Dimsdale De Vil
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure: Thunderbolt • Lil' Lightning • Lars
101 Dalmatians: Herbert • Alonzo • Mr. Skinner • Jewel • Dipstick • Fidget • Two-Tone • Whizzer • Kipper
101 Dalmatian Street: Dylan • Dolly • Dawkins • Doug • Delilah • Triple-D • Dante • D.J. • Deepak • Diesel • Dorothy • Da Vinci • Delgado • Dizzy & Dee Dee • Dimitri Trio • Fergus Fox • Hansel • Roxy • Snowball • Clarissa • Pearl • Hunter De Vil • Spike
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102 Dalmatians: Chloe Simon • Kevin Shepherd • Jean-Pierre Le Pelt • Dottie • Little Dipper • Domino • Oddball • Fluffy • Drooler • Chomp • Digger • Waddlesworth • Ewan
101 Dalmatians: The Series
ABC Episodes: "Home is Where the Bark Is" • "He Followed Me Home" • "Love 'Em and Flea 'Em" • "Howl Noon" • "Easy on the Lies" • "Two for the Show" • "An Officer and a Gentledog" • "Bad to the Bone" • "Southern Fried Cruella" • "Swine Song" • "Watch for Falling Idols" • "The High Price of Fame" • "The Great Cat Invasion" • "No Train, No Gain" • "Rolly's Egg-Celent Adventure" • "Wild Chick Chase" • "The Dogs of DeVil" • "Dog's Best Friend" • "A Christmas Cruella" • "Out to Launch" • "Prophet and Loss"
Syndicated Episodes: "You Slipped a Disk" • "Chow About That?" • "Tic Track Toe" • "Lucky All Star" • "Shake, Rattle, and Woof" • "Cadpig Behind Bars" • "Leisure Lawsuit" • "Purred It Through the Grapevine" • "Our Own Digs" • "Goose Pimples (Goose Pamples)" • "Two Faces of Anita" • "The Fungus Among Us" • "Market Mayhem" • "Lucky to be Alone" • "Four Stories Up" • "It's a Swamp Thing" • "Roll Out the Pork Barrel" • "Alive N' Chicken" • "Prima Doggy" • "You Say It's Your Birthday" • "Oozy Does It" • "Barnboozled" • "Citizen Canine" • "Full Metal Pullet" • "Dough the Right Thing" • "Frisky Business" • "Cadet of the Month" • "Valentine Daze" • "Close But No Cigar" • "Invasion of the Doggy Snatchers" • "Smoke Detectors" • "Lobster Tale" • "Double Dog Dare" • "Mooove It On Over" • "Shipwrecked" • "Mall Pups" • "Shrewzle Watch" • "The Life You Save" • "Spots and Shots" • "On the Lamb" • "Treasure of Swamp Island" • "Lord of the Termites" • "Fountain of Youth" • "Walk a Mile in My Tracks" • "Cruella World" • "Hail to the Chief" • "Food for Thought" • "The Maltese Chicken" • "Film Fatale" • "My Fair Chicken" • "Snow Bounders" • "Gnaw or Never" • "Poison Ivy" • "Twelve Angry Pups" • "The Good-bye Chick" • "Robo-Rolly" • "Splishing and Splashing" • "Virtual Lucky" • "Cupid Pups" • "The Artist Formerly Known as Spot" • "The Nose Knows" • "K is for Kibble" • "Humanitarian of the Year" • "Beauty Pageant Pandemonium" • "Hog-Tied" • "Coup DeVil" • "Every Little Crooked Nanny" • "Cone Head" • "Channels" • "Un-Lucky" • "The Making of..." • "Best of Show" • "Walk on the Wild Side" • "Horace and Jasper's Big Career Move" • "DeVil-Age Elder" • "Jurassic Bark" • "My Fair Moochie" • "Dog Food Day Afternoon" • "Spot's Fairy God-Chicken" • "Good Neighbor Cruella" • "Animal House Party" • "Dalmatian Vacation, Part I - Road Warriors" • "Dalmatian Vacation, Part II - Cross-Country Calamity" • "Dalmatian Vacation, Part III - Dearly Beloved"
Shorts: "Merry Pups" • "Muddy Pups" • "Prank Pups" • "Ransom Pups" • "Target Pups" • "Yoga Pups" • "Jurassic Pups" "Space Pups" • "Disco Pups" • "Diva Pups"
Season One: "Dog's Best Friend" • "Boom Night" • "Power to the Puppies" • "Who The Dog Do You Think You Are?" • "Walkies on the Wild Side" • "May Contain Nuts" • "Winter Funderland" • "Snow Day" • "Perfect Match" • "All Fired Up" • "Poetry Scam" • "Crushed Out" • "Girls' Day Out" • "The Woof Factor" • "The Nose Job" • "My Fair Dolly" • "Flea-Mageddon" • "A Right Royal Rumble" • "Dal-Martians"
London • Regents Park • Hell Hall • Dinsford • Dearly Farm • Gruteley County • Cherry Tree Farm • House of DeVil
Films: Cruella De Vil • Kanine Krunchies • Dalmatian Plantation • Playful Melody • I See Spots • Try Again • You're the One • Digga Digga Dog • So Fabulous, So Fierce
Animated Storybook: I Love Fur • Puppies, Oh, Puppies • Twilight Bark • Up the Stair • Cover Yourselves with Soot
TV Series: 1-0-1 • Dalmatian Vacation • Surf Puppies • I Got My Pups With Me • It's A Dog's Life • In The House • Dolly Dilly Dog Do • Dogs Are Out For Summer Sun
Deleted: Don't Buy a Parrot from a Sailor • March of the One Hundred and One • Cheerio, Good-Bye, Toodle-oo, Hip Hip! • One Hundred and One • The Creation of Cruella De Vil
Cruella's car • Jasper and Horace's truck • The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour • The Disney Afternoon • House of Mouse • Once Upon a Time • The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 292, 2 March 2009
Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Last week saw the release of SimplyMEPIS 8.0, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution designed for both personal and business purposes. We take the live CD for a spin to see what it has to offer. In the news this past week, openSUSE develops Debian-like distribution upgrade functionality to their package manager, Red Hat looks set for a comeback to the desktop arena as it announces virtualisation plans that will centre on KVM technology, and Novell signs a virtualisation agreement with VMware over support for their products. Also in the news, the Linux Starter Kit from Linux Format magazine has been released for free and we link to interviews with lead developers of Linux Mint and Kongoni. Finally, we are pleased to announce that the DistroWatch.com February 2009 donation goes to Wolvix GNU/Linux, a Slackware-based desktop distribution and live CD. Happy reading!
First look: SimplyMEPIS 8.0
News: openSUSE gets system upgrade ability, Red Hat returns to the desktop, Novell signs with VMware, Arch drops ATI's Catalyst driver, interviews with Linux Mint and Kongoni developers, Linux Starter Kit
Released last week: Linux Mint 6 "Xfce", Dreamlinux 3.5
Upcoming releases: Mandriva Linux 2009.1 RC1
Donations: Wolvix GNU/Linux receives US$200
New additions: Estrella Roja, Maryan Linux
New distributions: dvd::rip Cluster live CD, Elementary OS, GUARA Linux OS, Hag GNU/Linux, Qimo 4 Kids
Listen to the Podcast edition of this week's DistroWatch Weekly in OGG (22MB) and MP3 (19MB) formats (many thanks to Russ Wenner)
Join us at irc.freenode.net #distrowatch
First look at SimplyMEPIS 8.0
I have been intrigued by MEPIS Linux ever since I first heard about it, but never actually got around to trying it. The distro was founded by Warren Woodford in late 2002 after he had tried several distributions of Linux, but found that they all fell short of his vision for how a Linux desktop should work. Inspired by his experience as a NeXT developer, Warren decided to try his hand at creating a Linux distribution that 'just worked'. The first version of MEPIS Linux was released to the public in May 2003. MEPIS is derived from Debian, one of the oldest and most stable distributions, with this latest version being based on the recent Lenny release. According to the website, "SimplyMEPIS just works! It is pre-configured for simplicity and ease of use, even for beginners." So, this distro is aimed at beginners and claims to be easy to use. What does it have to offer?
Live CD and environment
Although MEPIS is effectively a commercial Linux distribution, it does also release a freely available community edition in the form of the SimplyMEPIS live CD. This is what I downloaded and booted on my Dell Latitude X1 laptop computer (Intel Pentium M 1.10GHz CPU, Intel 915 video, Intel 2200BG wireless, Broadcom BCM5751 network, 1.25 GB memory). The first thing I noticed was the very nice GRUB menu and boot screen. There were plenty of options in the menu, but I think some should be moved out into a sub menu instead. If you are aiming your distribution towards beginners, then in my opinion there should be only two entries; the default which automatically detects the video settings and a basic option designed to work on everything. To illustrate what I mean, the default entry on this live CD is Default, but then there are also options for Alternate (try if Default fails), VESA (alternate display driver or for virtual machine), Failsafe (minimum options, small display), 60Hz (for digital monitors), and 75Hz which warns: "CAREFUL! May damage digital monitors." Why make it complicated? The inclusion of Memtest is always a good idea, but it's a pity there is no option to verify the contents of the CD.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 - live CD GRUB menu
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The live CD booted straight to a nice looking KDE desktop manager and presented two users to log in as, either demo or root. Unfortunately the system does not automatically log the user in and the password is not made clear. I guessed that the password is the same as user name, but why not just keep it simple and auto log in as the unprivileged user? If you're aiming this at beginners, especially those coming from Windows, they will not be used to putting in passwords. I'm not advocating this for the installed system, but for a live CD where they didn't ever set the password anywhere, how are they going to know what to enter?
On my system, all the hardware was correctly detected. This included the video card and resolution with 3D support, sound, network, wireless, CPU speed stepping, power management, touchpad with scrolling and Bluetooth (although I couldn't find any user space applications for this). Unfortunately the multimedia keys did not work. When I closed the lid, my laptop successfully suspended to RAM and resumed, which was nice. Unfortunately suspend to disk did not work. On the desktop sits an icon for the user manual, which is quite well written and comprehensive. The usual KDE applications are all there, including Amarok and K3b, but of surprise to me was OpenOffice.org version 3.0. Nice work! Debian and even Ubuntu's latest release ship the older 2.4 release. OpenOffice.org was also themed to use KDE style icons, which also makes for cleaner system integration.
A found a few annoying interface issues, which should perhaps be addressed. When my network cable was plugged in I could see the icon in the system tray showing the connection. Great. When I unplugged it however, the icon disappears completely. Getting it to stay was a simple matter of changing the configuration, but would be nice if this remained by default. Also, you can't configure the network from this icon, that's fair enough because it's just a monitoring program, but these days most other distributions let you configure the network this way via NetworkManager. By default, MEPIS uses their static configuration system over the automated NetworkManager, although the system can be configured to use it. While a few years ago it would have been brilliant, the MEPIS network management tool is a bit clunky for 2009.
I configured my wireless using it and then received a message saying: "The configuration has been updated. It should take effect if you restart the active Interface, but with some cards it maybe be necessary to reboot." This is not very helpful for a beginner. I can hear them say: "How do I restart an active interface? I've no idea. I do know how to reboot my computer though, I guess Linux is just like Windows after all." At the very least the system could offer to restart the network for the user. Nevertheless, I restarted the network myself and saw the system trying to get an address on my wireless network. Unfortunately, this never worked because it was still associated to some another random network. In my opinion, this is just not up to scratch when compared to other modern distributions.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 - network configuration tool
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So how did NetworkManager go then? Using the MEPIS network assistant I set the network to 'Automatic'. Once again I received a message telling me that I should reboot and that after doing so I may need to start the NetworkManager program from the Kmenu. Instead of rebooting, I just kicked up the NetworkManager program which loaded and sat in the system tray. I unplugged my wired connection and NetworkManager disabled the network. I right-clicked on the icon, saw my wireless network, selected it, typed in my passphrase and I was connected. Now this is more like it! Once switching to NetworkManager, the system works really well and it really should be the default. Now that I was online I loaded Firefox which, like OpenOffice.org, was using a KDE icon theme, albeit one different to the rest of the KDE system. The browser defaulted to the Mozilla development information page and I'd like to see it go somewhere useful like Google, or some kind of local page about MEPIS. Perhaps the brilliant user manual?
I noticed that by default there was no pager in the task bar - the applet which lets you switch between virtual desktops. I initially thought this was quite good, they want to keep it simple for beginners and most people aren't used to such a concept. However clicking on a program title bar I noticed they still had four virtual desktops enabled, so when I sent Firefox to desktop number two I had no way of getting it back! Either disable the other virtual desktops, or include the pager in the taskbar.
The system comes with KDE 3.5.10 by default so I kicked up the file manager, Konqueror, and tried to browse my local Samba network. It didn't work, saying that it could not find any workgroups on the local network and suggested a firewall might be blocking this. Connecting directly to a server with smb://[ip-address] did work however. I kicked up a terminal and as root ran the command iptables -L. OK, so they've enabled a firewall by default which is good to see, but not if it's going to block important local traffic! It took me quite a while to find the firewall management tool, which I found sitting under Kmenu, Applications, Browse All, Applications, System, Security, Guarddog Firewall. Looks like the Applications category has doubled up somehow. The tool appears quite powerful and the interface will probably suit those coming from a Windows background (of course there's always the iptables command if you prefer). Speaking of which, MEPIS does not include Wine by default which means beginners will not be able to install their basic Windows software out of the box. Whether this is a good thing I'm not sure, but I can see beginners getting frustrated either way.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 - firewall configuration tool
This brings me to another point, in MEPIS the everyday user is not in the Sudoers file and all system changes require the root password. Personally (and I'm sure many will disagree) I prefer handling this by disabling the root account and allowing appropriate users to administer the system with their own password via sudo. On a system which might have multiple users, it is nice to not have to give out the root password, but still let users run certain administrative tasks. You also get the additional security benefit of having the root account explicitly disabled.
As for the feel of the desktop, it is very clean, uncluttered and works very well. Actually, it's probably one of the nicest KDE 3.5 desktops I have encountered. I have not extensively tested MEPIS over time, but I did perform most of the tasks that I consider a new user would want to do. On my laptop, I connected my Canon IXUS digital camera but nothing happened. The camera did not switch over to 'PC mode' unlike when I plug it into my desktop. I was however, able to add the camera and successfully download the images using Digikam, KDE's photo manager. Likewise, plugging my SD card into the internal reader prompted no response from the computer and I was unable to see how to mount this using KDE. The kernel did see it however and I was able to manually mount the device on the command line. The same problem occurred for my USB memory stick and my iRiver media player. The kernel sees them just fine, but KDE doesn't know about them at all. Hmm... Obviously this is not very user friendly and can't be right. I booted MEPIS on another desktop computer, which worked as I expected with full KDE feedback. So this must have been a strange glitch on my laptop. The good news is, MP3 music files play out of the box, as did Flash content on sites such as YouTube, and Windows movie video files. My iPod also worked correctly with the Amarok media player. MEPIS appears to have a pretty good media support out of the box.
If you're using some hardware that requires a proprietary driver (such as ATI or NVIDIA video cards or NDISwrapper for wireless), MEPIS has some tools that can automatically configure these for you. One such tool is their X-Windows Assistant, which is available under the System, MEPIS category in Kmenu. This tool lets you configure things such as font DPI, type of mouse or touchpad, monitor specifications and then install and enable either the NVIDIA or ATI drivers. On an AMD64 box with an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT card, I used this tool to automatically download, install and configure the proprietary driver, which worked a treat. While it's not quite as simple as Ubuntu's Jockey program, which automatically detects that your hardware requires such a driver and prompts the end user, it's certainly a step in the right direction as far as ease of use is concerned.
Being based on Debian, MEPIS inherits their powerful package management which makes the installation and removal of packages a snap. Unlike Ubuntu, which builds all their own packages from source using Debian tools, MEPIS uses the official Debian Lenny tree alongside their own. Essentially, you are getting a customised, specialised and 'more-up-to-date' Debian system. The system comes with a graphical package manager to perform these tasks, or you can use the standard commands on the console.
To begin the installation of MEPIS onto your hard drive, simply click on the 'MEPIS Install' icon on the desktop. This will kick up the installer and the first thing you are faced with is a rather disconcerting Terms of Use, License and EULA. In a time where other distributions such as Fedora and openSUSE are replacing complicated legal agreements with a simple notification (not even a EULA), the fact that MEPIS still includes this sort of agreement doesn't sit particularly well. The license grants non-commercial only redistribution of the MEPIS live CD (this means unlike other distributions you cannot sell MEPIS CDs, even though they contain open source software). "MEPIS Linux contains open source components but MEPIS Linux is not 'freeware'. Unauthorized commercial distribution of MEPIS products is 'Theft of Goods' under US Law". This also makes me wonder what components of the live CD are not open source - presumably some of the MEPIS tools. It continues: "By using and/or installing a MEPIS collective work, you accept and agree to comply with these terms and conditions." Sound familiar? If it wasn't for the need to test this to write this review, I would not proceed any further.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 - installer EULA license agreement
The installer itself is quite simple and easy to follow. There is a help section on the left explaining each step, which should make it easier for beginners to complete the process successfully, although I saw no explanation of what 'hda' is. It does not use a built-in partitioner, but calls the GParted application to load externally which works very well. There are only options to use a root partition (/), swap and /home (but that's all most users need). Once you select these partitions, the installer formats and begins the installation. Next, it prompts to select the boot method, for which I chose to install GRUB to the master boot record. Interestingly, there was an option to disable the use of an initial RAM disk. If you take this off, the kernel must have drivers built in so that it can read your drive(s) to boot. I didn't test this, but I wonder why they give the option.
After this you get the chance to disable unwanted boot services, including Bluetooth, CUPS printing, dial up with PPP and the firewall. After this, the installer asks for a computer name and network to belong to, keyboard and language details, whether set the clock to use GMT or not, create a local user account and set the root password. As a side note, there was no option to set the time or zone of the computer, which meant the clock was wrong pre and post install. Setting the time zone to Sydney, Australia under KDE however fixed this, but it would be good to be able to set this in the installer. Finally, the computer is ready to reboot into your new MEPIS install. Overall, the installer is quite simple and effective.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 - installer
Perhaps it was just some glitch on my test machine that stopped external devices from working under KDE (perhaps D-Bus or HAL didn't start properly). If not, then some fundamental things seem to be broken in this MEPIS 8.0 release, but I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt. Either way, I'm not convinced that the built-in network configurator is the way to go. It would be much better to switch that over to NetworkManager by default, which actually works very well and is more user-centric. Aside from these things I've raised, overall the system works quite nicely and is pretty quick and responsive. It's also very pleasing to the eye, although there are no 3D desktop effects installed by default.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 comes with a good selection of applications, including KDE-themed Firefox and OpenOffice.org. It inherits all the greatness of Debian (which means experienced users can get in and configure things the way they like) and then adds some extra tools to assist not-so-experienced users configure important things like the network and 3rd party drivers. The package management system will be rock solid and I was able to update the system without any fuss. The multimedia support is very good as everything seems to just work out of the box. This distribution has the potential to be a very easy-to-use desktop for first time users, but I think some more work needs to be done before they get there. Nevertheless the distro is very solid and I highly recommend giving it a shot.
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 - default KDE desktop
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openSUSE gets system upgrade ability, Red Hat returns to the desktop, Novell signs with VMware, Arch drops ATI's Catalyst driver, interviews with Linux Mint and Kongoni developers, Linux Starter Kit
Package management is one of the most fundamental components of a Linux distribution (although some still do not include one). The openSUSE distribution uses RPM packages with their own manager called Zypper, which is very powerful and a huge improvement over many others. While it does a great job at managing packages for a particular release, one feature lacking is the ability to upgrade between releases. This has been a feature of Debian's package management system for many years and finally it will make its debut in the upcoming 11.2 release of openSUSE. Described as a "Debian-like dist-upgrade live system full version upgrade," the entry on the feature tracking system says: "With the 11.2 cycle, we want to offer users the ability to perform a live system upgrade in the manner of Debian's dist-upgrade. For the purpose of this cycle, we want to support dist-upgrade from the previous version (11.1) only, as this is a sufficiently complicated problem as is. From the user's view, the difference is between being able to update the system incrementally within the given version or service pack running, to being able to migrate with a system command ("zypper dup" or similar) to a higher version altogether." The ability to forever upgrade between releases should be a welcome addition to the popular distribution.
Is Red Hat making a comeback to the desktop? Early in 2008 they released a statement saying that "we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future." However later in the year they acquired Qumranet, which gave them control of the KVM virtualisation technology. Last week they announced an interoperability deal with Microsoft, while this week they have confirmed that KVM will form the base of their virtualisation strategy. Part of the new line-up will include a virtualisation manager for desktops, explained as "a new management system for virtual desktops that will deliver industry-leading VDI cost-performance for both Linux and Windows desktops, based on Qumranet's SolidICE and using SPICE remote rendering technology." While existing Red Hat Enterprise products can be used as a desktop, most of the new features are found only in Fedora, the community distribution which they sponsor and which has recently hit one million users. If Red Hat is moving back into the desktop arena, then we should see many more of these features make it into the official products. Interestingly, Fedora already has over 50 new features approved for the upcoming 11 release, which in some cases is double the number from previous versions.
It seems everyone is jumping on the virtualisation bandwagon, with deals being done left, front and centre. In 2008 Novell announced support for their products under the VMware Ready Program and last week announced further collaboration to "help independent software vendors (ISVs) build fully supported SUSE Linux Enterprise-based virtual appliances." Novell also announced a "broad collaboration agreement with VMware to deliver SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) as a fully-supported and optimised guest operating system running on VMware ESX, the industry-leading hypervisor. The two companies have signed a cooperative support agreement that enables Novell to provide enhanced support for customers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest on VMware ESX." The first ISV to bring such an appliance to market is Zmanda, who will produce an out-of-the-box product using their backup software, Amanda. With Red Hat backing KVM, Citrix going all Xen, Microsoft providing Hyper-V and Novell working with VMware, virtualisation is going to be one hot arena in the coming years!
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 - a "sneak preview" released publicly last week
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In related news, openSUSE community manager Joe Brockmeier has posted an address regarding the recent layoffs at Novell, and what it means for the openSUSE community: "Novell has recently laid off less than 100 employees. Some of the reports have greatly exaggerated the numbers, but again -- the number of people laid off is less than 100. So, how does this impact the openSUSE Project? Obviously, there will be an impact, but Novell remains committed to openSUSE. We will work on opening the project further and improving the infrastructure to allow all contributors to participate as fully as possible in openSUSE. We will continue to open our planning and decision making processes. We are going to concentrate on our strengths and focus on the areas most important to our community."
Since being bought by AMD in 2006, we were promised improved Linux drivers for ATI video cards. Recently AMD released a second batch of information on their hardware to the open source community, which helps to feed into the radeonhd driver, but their closed source proprietary driver still remains, well, closed. The driver has always been second rate, but now it has gotten to the point that Arch Linux developers have decided to dump it all together. Developer Eduardo Romero writes: "The ATI Catalyst drivers are in a pitiful state and AMD is doing close to nothing to improve the situation, they just take Linux as a joke. At least, that is the impression one gets when NVIDIA releases great drivers for Linux." He and Andreas Radke have decided to drop the driver out of the supported package trees and have pushed it back onto the community to maintain. They are instead going to concentrate on the free and open source radeonhd driver: "The radeonhd driver, which is in extra, shows some promise." After many years, the battle for open source graphics drivers is still ongoing.
Linux Mint is one of the most popular distributions which, like many others, is based on Ubuntu. Currently sitting at the number three spot on the DistroWatch main page it is bested only by its parent and openSUSE. From the About page: "Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories." Linux Magazine Italia has conducted an interview with maintainer Clement Lefebvre, of which a translation has appeared on his blog. If the idea of Linux Mint interests you then take a look, where Clement discusses how he got into free software, what Linux Mint is, why it is based on Ubuntu, and much more!
In last week's issue we introduced Kongoni, a new Slackware-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD out of Africa. The distribution comes with KDE 4 and uses a BSD-style architecture with a ports tree package management system. From their website: "Kongoni is the Shona word for a Gnu (also known as a Wildebeest) the animal which inspired the name of the GNU operating system. The name represents the spirit and history of Kongoni, a GNU/Linux operating system of African origin. Kongoni is a desktop oriented operating system with a strong belief in being truly free software. This means that Kongoni will neither include nor ship any software not under a license approved by the free software foundation." As a part of their '5 Questions Interview Series', free software site OpenSource Release Feed has conducted an interview with Kongoni's lead developer, A.J. Venter. In the interview he explains his background and how Kongoni came about, what sets it apart, how users can get involved, his thoughts on developing free software and more.
For those new to Linux and free software, it can be a daunting experience learning how to install and use it. While there are lots of good resources available online and commercial books to buy, the Linux Format Magazine guys over at TuxRadar have released their 130-page Linux Starter Pack on making the move to Linux, centred on Ubuntu, as a free PDF download: "New to the wonderful world of Linux? Looking for an easy way to get started? Download our complete 130-page guide and get to grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months. We show you how to install Linux onto your PC, navigate around the desktop, master the most popular Linux programs and fix any problems that may arise." Previously the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference was released as a free download. It is great to see such high quality content freely available, and hopefully we will see the emergence of similar products for other distributions.
Finally, something for those readers who like the idea of using FreeBSD on their desktops and are proud to display their operating system preference: - an excellent collection of FreeBSD wallpapers for every taste.
Linux Mint 6 "Xfce"
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 6 "Xfce" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 Xfce Community edition. Based on Xubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex', Linux kernel 2.6.27, Xfce 4.4.2 and X.Org 7.4, Linux Mint 6 'Xfce' comes with a brand new software manager, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows), and many other improvements. The Linux Mint 'Xfce' Community edition comes with the Xfce desktop and provides most of the functionality found in the main edition while taking fewer resources. This edition is ideally suited to laptop users with 512 MB of RAM or less as it represents a very nice compromise between a full-featured desktop and a fast and light operating system." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details.
Parted Magic 3.7
Patrick Verner has released another bug-fix update to Parted Magic 3.x series, a live CD with a collection of hard disk management utilities: "This is a bug-fix release for the 3.x series of Parted Magic. The package installer had a scripting error that wouldn't allow more than one package to be installed. Added /mnt/local so G4L works. Jason added some fixes and features to the wipe and mount scripts. The code for booting ISOs directly using GRUB4DOS was merged back in after the last round of major changes. The code for forcing devices at boot with uuid= and label= was also merged back in. The "unnamed window" problem fixed in Conky. Web links in GTK+ applications about dialogs launch now. Added Xfce files so help in Screenshooter works. List of updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.28.7, Coreutils 7.1, Firefox 3.0.6, FireFTP 1.0.4." Here is the complete release announcement.
Caos Linux 1.0.8
Greg Kurtzer has announced the release of Caos Linux 1.0.8, a high-performance distribution designed primarily for high performance computation (HPC), servers, and custom appliances: "The Caos team of developers and contributors from Infiscale are proud to announce the public release of Caos Linux NSA 1.0.8, an updated release to the NSA-1.0 tree. The NSA 1.0 release identifies the stabilization and validation of the core operating system, fully tested on some of the world's fastest public and private systems and architectures. And now with NSA 1.0.8, you get bleeding-edge security updates, the new 2.6.28 kernel, updated packages such as OFED 1.4 and GCC 4.3.3, a streamlined Sidekick system configuration toolkit, the latest Perceus 1.5 cluster management software, and Abstractual, Infiscale's cloud virtualization solution." Here is the brief release announcement.
Astaro Security Gateway 7.4
Astaro has announced the release of Astaro Security Gateway 7.4, a commercial firewall and gateway distribution featuring a web-based system administration utility: "After a hugely successful BETA program spanning several months and including thousands of comments and feedback, Astaro is proud to today release our version 7.400, making it generally available for all Astaro Security, Mail, and Web Gateway products. This release brings new features which will enhance the functionality and capabilities of your AxG installation. Most notable are the introduction of full WAN link balancing, HTTPS filtering, site-to-site SSL VPN, and Cisco IPSec client support, along with dozens of other exciting new features." Read the remainder of the press release for a more detailed list of new features and improvements.
PC/OS 2009v2
Roberto J. Dohnert has announced the release of PC/OS 2009v2, a Xubuntu-based distribution providing an easy-to-use, simplified user interface and out-of-the-box support for popular media codecs: "Today we are happy to announce the general availability of PC/OS 2009v2. The new release also introduces the new PC/OS WebStation 1.0. PC/OS OpenDesktop 2009v2 and PC/OS OpenWorkstation 2009v2 have been fully tested and are ready for broad consumer adoption. Changes include a slightly tweaked user interface and updated packages, and all important security updates. Some of the updated packages are Opera 9.63, Skype 2.0 and VLC 0.9.8." Read the brief release announcement for more details.
ZevenOS 1.1
Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 1.1, an Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution with focus on providing an easy-to-use system with BeOS-like user interface and support for older hardware: "We are proud to announce the brand new ZevenOS 1.1. It includes many new and updated features. We switched the base system to Ubuntu 8.10, including Linux kernel 2.6.27 and X.Org 7.4. That results in many new drivers and better netbook support. We updated our applications, MAGI 2 and Deskbar, to get a better user experience. Deskbar now includes a task switcher and MAGI 2 has MeCoI integrated. All in all, the system is much more reliable and still offers the best BeOS experience in the Linux world." Here is the brief release announcement.
ZevenOS 1.1 - now based on Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex"
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Dreamlinux 3.5
A new version of Dreamlinux, a modular desktop distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, has been released: "The Dreamlinux team is pleased to announce the release of Dreamlinux 3.5. The default edition is Xfce with a GNOME edition also available. This release concentrates on portability, with special attention paid to out-of-the-box wireless drivers, netbook and laptop installs, and USB pen drive installs. Dreamlinux builds on the now stable Debian 'Lenny' base, with a host of custom scripts and applications to make everything from installation to getting on the Internet a breeze. Dreamlinux's famous remaster tools are included, as is an OEM installer and the ability to install directly from an ISO and/or Flexiboost directory structure. Main features: Linux kernel 2.6.28.5, new init script in initrd written in Lua, new icons, redesigned stock icons, new default GTK+ theme." Read the complete release announcement for further details.
Dreamlinux 3.5 - a Debian-based distribution with a Mac OS X-like desktop
SystemRescueCd 1.1.6
François Dupoux has announced the availability of an updated release of SystemRescueCd, a live CD containing a variety of hard disk management and utilities. From the changelog: "Updated the standard kernels to Linux 2.6.27.19 with Reiser4fs and ext4; updated the alternative kernels to Linux 2.6.27.19 with Reiser4fs and ext4; updated NTFS-3G to version 2009.2.1; updated FSArchiver to 0.4.3 (file system backup and deployment tool); updated the speakup driver to version 3.0.3; fixed problems with the function keys in Midnight Commander in terminal; added crossdev to make it easier to compile 64-bit programs or kernels; added LXDE Terminal and Xarchiver (graphical file archiver); added Xfburn 0.4.0 (simple CD/DVD burning software, still in development); Updated GParted to 0.4.3.
Development, unannounced and minor bug-fix releases
Nexenta Core Platform 2.0-beta2, the release announcement
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop/Server 11-rc4, the release notes
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and Mythbuntu 9.04-alpha5, the release announcement
SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking-20090228, the release announcement
CDlinux 0.9.2, the release announcement
Zenwalk Linux 6.0-rc1, the release announcement
64 Studio 3.0-alpha2
APODIO 5.08-beta
Plamo Linux 4.6
Clonezilla LiveCD 1.2.1-41
BlankOn 5.0-alpha2
Estrella Roja 2.0
Summary of expected upcoming releases
2009-03-03: ClarkConnect 5.0 Beta
2009-03-06: Mandriva Linux 2009.1 RC1
2009-03-12: Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6
2009-03-15: Frugalware Linux 1.0rc2
2009-03-22: Frugalware Linux 1.0 (see roadmap)
2009-03-24: Fedora 11 Beta
2009-03-26: BlankOn 5.0 Alpha 3
2009-03-26: Ubuntu 9.04 Beta
2009-04-01: ClarkConnect 5.0 (see release schedule)
2009-04-16: BlankOn 5.0 Beta
2009-04-16: Ubuntu 9.04 RC
2009-04-23: Ubuntu 9.04 (see release schedule)
2009-04-28: Fedora 11 Preview
2009-04-29: Mandriva Linux 2009.1 (see development planning)
2009-04-30: BlankOn 5.0 RC
2009-04-XX: Musix GNU+Linux 2.0r0 (see roadmap)
2009-05-01: OpenBSD 4.5 (see release information)
2009-05-07: BlankOn 5.0 (see roadmap)
2009-05-26: Fedora 11 (see proposed release schedule)
2009-07-02: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (see release schedule)
2009-10-22: Ubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate
DistroWatch.com News
February 2009 donation: Wolvix GNU/Linux receives US$200.00
We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the February 2009 DistroWatch.com donation is Wolvix GNU/Linux, a Slackware-based desktop distribution and live CD.
According to the project's web site, Wolvix features "the Xfce desktop environment and a comprehensive selection of development, graphics, multimedia, network and office applications. It's mainly targeted at home users and strives to provide a balance between everyday computing tasks, creativity, work and enjoyment. By default, Wolvix only includes GTK+ applications. Though it is fast and has a low memory footprint, it's not specifically developed for old computers, as it features modern software, but it should perform well on systems which are not the latest and greatest." To learn more about Wolvix GNU/Linux, check out the project's About Wolvix page. The current stable release is the somewhat dated Wolvix 1.1.0, but the project is actively working on the upcoming version 2.0, with development builds available for public testing.
As always, this monthly donations program is a joint initiative between DistroWatch and two online shops selling low-cost CDs and DVDs with Linux, BSD and other open source software - LinuxCD.org and OSDisc.com. These vendors contributed US$50.00 each towards this month's donation to Wolvix GNU/Linux.
Here is the list of projects that received a DistroWatch donation since the launch of the program (figures in US dollars):
2004: GnuCash ($250), Quanta Plus ($200), PCLinuxOS ($300), The GIMP ($300), Vidalinux ($200), Fluxbox ($200), K3b ($350), Arch Linux ($300), Kile KDE LaTeX Editor ($100) and UNICEF - Tsunami Relief Operation ($340)
2005: Vim ($250), AbiWord ($220), BitTorrent ($300), NdisWrapper ($250), Audacity ($250), Debian GNU/Linux ($420), GNOME ($425), Enlightenment ($250), MPlayer ($400), Amarok ($300), KANOTIX ($250) and Cacti ($375)
2006: Gambas ($250), Krusader ($250), FreeBSD Foundation ($450), GParted ($360), Doxygen ($260), LilyPond ($250), Lua ($250), Gentoo Linux ($500), Blender ($500), Puppy Linux ($350), Inkscape ($350), Cape Linux Users Group ($130), Mandriva Linux ($405, a Powerpack competition), Digikam ($408) and SabayonLinux ($450)
2007: GQview ($250), Kaffeine ($250), sidux ($350), CentOS ($400), LyX ($350), VectorLinux ($350), KTorrent ($400), FreeNAS ($350), lighttpd ($400), Damn Small Linux ($350), NimbleX ($450), MEPIS Linux ($300), Zenwalk Linux ($300)
2008: VLC ($350), Frugalware Linux ($340), cURL ($300), GSPCA ($400), FileZilla ($400), MythDora ($500), Linux Mint ($400), Parsix GNU/Linux ($300), Miro ($300), GoblinX ($250), Dillo ($150), LXDE ($250)
2009: Openbox ($250), Wolvix GNU/Linux ($200).
Since the launch of the Donations Program in March 2004, DistroWatch has donated a total of US$20,233 to various open source software projects.
New distributions added to database
Estrella Roja. Estrella Roja (formerly Red Star GNU/Linux) is a Debian-based distribution and live CD for the desktop. Developed in Argentina, it is primarily designed for Spanish-speaking users.
Estrella Roja 2.0 - a Debian-based distribution with a KDE theme featuring Che Guevara
Maryan Linux. Maryan Linux is a desktop oriented distribution featuring the lightweight and visually appealing Enlightenment 17 desktop environment. LXDE, Fluxbox and pekwm are also available as alternative desktops. The project's first release (version 1) was based on Ubuntu, but the developers expect to switch to Arch Linux as the base system for future versions.
New distributions added to waiting list
dvd::rip Cluster live CD. dvd::rip Cluster live CD is an Ubuntu-based live CD with the dvd::rip cluster node.
Elementary OS. Elementary OS is a new desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
GUARA Linux OS. GUARA Linux OS is a Brazilian desktop distribution based on Kubuntu. The project's web site is in Portuguese.
Hag GNU/Linux. Hag GNU/Linux is a distribution based on grml. Its main ambition is to show the power of Fluxbox, with polished configurations of desktop environments, tasteful wallpapers and styles, polished keyboard shortcuts, and useful scripts.
Qimo 4 Kids. Qimo 4 Kids is a new distribution of Linux, derived from the popular Ubuntu distribution, customised for use by children ages 3 and up. It comes pre-installed with free and open source games that are both educational and entertaining, with many more educational titles available for download from Ubuntu. The interface to Qimo has been specifically designed to be easy to navigate by the youngest of users.
Qimo 4 Kids 1.0 - a Xubuntu-based distributions for children
Number of all distributions in the database: 598
Number of all active distributions in the database: 319
Number of discontinued distributions: 215
Number of distributions on the waiting list: 170
And this concludes the latest issue of DistroWatch Weekly. The next instalment will be published on Monday, 9 March 2009.
Chris Smart
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Tag Archives: UNC Tar Heels
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2018 Season Preview: North Carolina Tar Heels
August 25, 2018 Troy Jefferson Leave a comment
Season outlook
Larry Fedora will have to make do without 13 suspended players to begin the season. Nine of the 13 players including sophomore quarterback Chazz Surratt will miss four games. Since multiple players share the same positions, Fedora will have the option of staggering the suspensions. However, even with a fully equipped roster, it will be an uphill climb for the Tar Heels, who finished 3-9 overall and 1-7 in the ACC. The Tar Heels will be able to hang their hat offensively on their skilled positions. The trio of sophomore running back Michael Carter (5'9, 195), junior tight end Carl Tucker (6'2, 255) and junior wide receiver Anthony Ratliff-Williams (6’1, 205) will be the core of the offense. Defensively, the position most hurt by the suspensions will be defensive end. Sophomore Tomon Fox (6'3, 250) and senior Malik Carney (6'3, 245) will both miss four games apiece. Junior defensive back Myles Dorn (6'2, 210) is one player Fedora will be able to count on. Dorn finished last season with two interceptions and 71 tackles. Dorn has the skill to join fellow former defensive back M.J. Stewart in the NFL one day.
Troy's player to watch
17 Anthony Ratliff-Williams 6’1 205 WR-Junior
"Do it all" is the best way to describe junior wide receiver Anthony Ratliff-Williams. Ratliff-Williams, a former quarterback, has made the transition to wide receiver and kick returner over the past two seasons. In 2017, Ratliff-Williams averaged 26 yards per kick return and returned two kicks for scores. He added 35 receptions for 630 yards and six touchdowns. Look for Ratliff-Williams to once again be featured early and often on special teams and as a receiver in 2018.
Game of the season
October 20th at Syracuse
The Tar Heels won just one game last season in the ACC. Games against Virginia Tech and Miami could be tough, but North Carolina has to be able to win games against teams that finished with similar records as them last year. Syracuse finished with two wins in the conference a year ago. Both teams will need every victory to become bowl-eligible. Their midseason matchup could decide the postseason fate of both teams.
DraftNasty's Prospect Watch
36 Cole Holcomb 6’1 215 LB-Senior
Holcomb, pictured, posted a career-high 115 tackles in 2016.
Holcomb has always impressed in the weight room and he can notably squat nearly 600 pounds. He has decent foot speed and has even been used off the edge to rush the quarterback. In 2017, he turned in his second-best season and that produced 93 tackles and 2.5 tackles for losses. Equally adept in coverage, he has gotten his hands on a number of balls. While only adequate taking on lead blockers, he still needs to add slightly more mass. He injured his right shoulder in 2017.
Prediction: 5-7
DraftNasty's Troy Jefferson is predicting a slim improvement over last season. Fedora's team will win five games and narrowly miss out on bowl eligibility. The Tar Heels will fall to Miami, California, UCF, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, Georgia Tech and Duke.
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FCC CIO Bray to Lead Innovation Office at NGA
Bray will head the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's new Office of Ventures and Innovation.
Federal Communications Commission CIO David Bray will leave his post next month and become the leader of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's new Office of Ventures and Innovation, NGA Director Robert Cardillo announced Monday. In a speech at the GEOINT 2017 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, Cardillo said Bray is "a true change agent," and that he expects "big things from him."
The new office will be tasked with driving innovation, both internally at NGA and with the intelligence agency's commercial partners, Cardillo said. The NGA is in charge of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence, especially through satellite imagery, for national security officials.
Nextgov reports that Bray's position will be a "first-of-its-kind government position to advise the agency on the acquisition of emerging technologies, improving business processes and further developing new public-private partnerships."
Bray confirmed the move in an email to FedScoop, and said the transition to NGA has been in development for the past nine months. In a note to FCC staff about his coming departure obtained by FedScoop, Bray said that "the expectations for me in the new leadership role will be similar to what we collectively have accomplished at the FCC: encourage strategic change to meet evolving internal and external demands on the Agency." Bray said he will lead the "broad mission-focused adoption of automated and machine learning algorithms into the workforce, workflows, and acquisition pathways of NGA."
Christine Calvosa, the FCC’s deputy CIO for technology and resiliency, will move up to acting CIO when Bray leaves the agency. Bray has headed the commision's IT operations since August 2013.
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What is Fightback?
Our 10-Point Programme
Constitutional transformation based on indigenous self-determination and workers power. Indigenous and worker co-ops to operate as guardians over public resources.
Secure, appropriate and meaningful work for those who want it, with a shorter working week. The benefit system to be supplemented with a Universal Basic Income, removal of punitive sanctions.
International working-class solidarity. Close the Detention Centres. Open borders to Australia and Aotearoa, full rights for migrant workers. Recognise Pasefika rights to self-determination, Australia and Aotearoa to contribute to a ‘no-strings’ development fund for Pacific nations. Opposition to all imperialist ventures and alliances; neither Washington nor Moscow.
An ecosocialist solution to climate change. End fossil fuel extraction, expand green technology and public transport, and radically restructure industrial food production.
Freedom of information. End corporate copyright policies in favour of creative commons. Public support for all media technologies, expansion of affordable broadband internet to the whole country. An end to government spying.
Universal right to housing. Expansion of high-density, high-quality public housing, strict price controls on privately owned houses. Targeted support to end involuntary homelessness.
Fully-funded healthcare at every level. Move towards health system based on informed consent, remove inequities in accident compensation, opposition to “top-down” efforts to change working people’s behaviour.
Fully-funded education at every level, run by staff and students. Funding for all forms of education and research, enshrining indigenous knowledge as a core part of the curriculum.
More detail on this programme is available in our pamphlet What is Fightback?, available with all our other print publications here. For “trainspotter”-like detail on our organisation’s precursors, please see here.
Fightback is broadly sympathetic to the contemporary perspectives of the Fourth International, although not a member.
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VW said to reduce Passat output in Germany due to parts shortage
David Jolley
The Passat is a key model for Volkswagen.
FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen has been forced to reduce production of Passat cars at its Emden plant in northern Germany for four days starting Thursday because of a shortage of glove-box doors caused by a fire at one of its suppliers, a German report said.
Recitel suffered an extensive fire several weeks ago at its plant in Most in the Czech Republic and has been unable to deliver a number of urethane components used by VW and other automakers, Automobil Produktion reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, VW has managed to source some glove-box doors from another supplier in China, but the new supply is expected to last just a few days.
"It is not possible to quickly replace the tools needed by the [Czech] supplier," a VW spokesman was quoted as saying by the report.
As a result of the shortage, VW now has the problem of finding storage space for 20,000 new Passats that cannot be shipped until the missing part has been fitted.
"We are looking for a large parking space within 100 kilometers of the factory," the VW spokesman was quoted as saying in the report.
The VW Passat was the top-selling mainstream midsize car in Europe through November with sales of 190,736, a fall of 8 percent, according to data from JATO Dynamics.
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family business advice
Family Business, Family Business Governance, Family Business Growth, Family Business Management, Family Business Strategy
Family Business: Mails to my Clients – 14 – A Note prior to my 4th. Round of Individual Meetings: I do feel it is about time that ‘Real’ over-rides ‘Convenient , Friendly, Safe Opinion’ if we are to progress further (Raju Swamy: July 2012)
September 26, 2015 rajuswamy Leave a comment
Before starting my 4th. Round of individual Meetings, I need to set out some issues that keep bugging me…….it is not about what is right or what is wrong…..it is about reality…….I do feel it is about time that ‘Real’ over-rides ‘ Convenient Friendly/ Safe Opinion’ if we are to progress further:
There does appear to be a ‘Family’ Brand that all of you seem attached to, from a Social and Societal point of view, and are proud of, and which has evolved over 100 years.
However, I am not sure that the attachment to the ‘Family’ Brand is equally strong in the 4th. Generation, and is likely to weaken further in the 5th Generation unless ‘Re-Juvenation’ takes place right now, at the meeting point of the 3rd and 4th Generations.
When it comes to the ‘Family Business’, Business Brand Attachment as an Umbrella of Businesses appears to be weak, almost all across the board.
Concern for Individual Family, Individual, Individual Business as a permanent ‘right’ or ‘property’ or entity, appears to outweigh any considerations of thinking of the XYZ Group as a ‘Father Entity’ that nurtures individual companies or businesses for the overall mutual good…..on a Long Term basis.
I see a relatively ‘Soft Concern’ – almost bordering on defensive concern/ reaction to Market conditions, business performance, need for growth, need for change with the times, need to look medium and long term, need to be ‘aggressive’ when required…..
There is strong resistance to
6.1. ‘Exploration’ and the costs associated with it
6.2. Professional Networking,
6.3. ‘Sticking one’s neck out’
6.4. ‘Strategizing’ with clear focus and aspiration
6.5. Treating Business with an entrepreneurial zeal……..and enjoying the experience.
An analysis of Real Growth needs to be understood:
7.1. Over the last ten years, physical landed property value would have appreciated many times.
7.2. Business Growth percentage, for each business, would vary enormously if compared in Rupee Value, and in terms of sale of Physical Units, and in Number of actual off-warrantee equipment servicing. The same logic would also apply to the manufacturing business..
7.3. What therefore is the Net Growth in Business, or ‘Real Growth’? Are you really growing or is there an element of Stagnation?
Family Managers have a much larger role to play as ‘Entrepreneurs’ to promote success and Growth, and realize their own aspirations, within self and within Society. However, sensitivities within the Family in Business may not always bring desired results, and adjustments to mutual sensitivities may actually lead to FMBs – Family Members in Business – settling to a ‘safe’ pattern of business existence, and at the worst, start developing the traits of glorified employees with simple bureaucratic, hierarchical sensitivities. Obviously, this is also a reason for possible Stagnation.
The answer to the Above could be ‘Professionalization’: In a recent article by Harsh Mariwala, Chairman & MD of Marico Ltd. (Saffola and Parachute) in the Economic Times of July 14, 2012, titled “Professional managers can help family businesses grow” he makes a number of important observations based on his experience of being part of a Family Business:
9.1. “The transition towards professionalisation is crucial for a family business. In such an enterprise, typically, members of the family handle virtually all key aspects. They take most decisions with or without professional qualifications or business exposure. However, a mix-up between ownership and management could lead to conflicts in decision-making. I have seen organisations where relationships among owner-manager siblings get too complex.”
9.2. “Finally, the business wilts under emotional strain and lack of business focus. Interestingly, the seeds of such a decline are sown during growth itself.”
9.3. “Families could differ over the pace of growth and the investments required or eventual aspirations. This eventful phase in the scaling up of an enterprise is crucial and needs careful handling. A key institutional decision that needs to be taken is about the role of professional managers. My experience with professionalisation has been excellent. Since I stressed on professionalism, Marico’s business has grown 50 times — from Rs 80 crore in 1990 to Rs 4,000 crore in 2012.”
9.4. “The dilemma before owners is not whether to professionalise. It is about when to do so. Scaling up business requires scaling up the organisational apparatus and management.”
9.5. “Usually, there comes a point beyond which the owner family cannot meaningfully organise and manage the business. If a family business does not professionalise in time, it could end up restricting its growth orbit.”
9.6. “I do, however, reckon it is natural for family businesses to be and stay confused about the need, suitability and timing of inducting professionals.”
9.7. “I recommend that a family take time to get concurrence. It is also important to send out a unified and sustainable signal to build a good brand in the talent market, to attract the best possible hands. This strategic clarity on recruiting professionals enables the owner family to tap head hunters with a clear brief, precise needs and realistic targets.”
9.8. “A family business may have to struggle to overcome the initial challenges of the professionalization process. My experience is that it pays to be resourceful in this struggle. For instance, it could take time before one starts attracting quality talent. In the mean time, growth could reveal talent gaps. I filled up such gaps resourcefully, using individual consultants.”
Let me also quote what Mr. M. V. Subbiah of Murugappa Group had to say in the Economic Times of July 07, 2012 in an article titled “Five Lessons from Family Businesses: Cultural continuity, long-term vision and a more meaningful involvement with all stakeholders set family-owned businesses apart from non-family entities”. However, please appreciate that the Murugappa Group has been heavily professionalized over a very long time, back into the 1960s atleast:
10.1. “In a family business, culture evolves and becomes sustainable over time. It doesn’t change with the boss, as in a non-family business.”
10.2. Long-Term Vision: “For a non-family business, quarter-on-quarter growth is so important that the obsession remains even during extreme situations such as downturns. As a result, they can’t take bold decisions that may help in the long run. A family business, on the other hand, is rarely under such compulsions. It can invest even during a downturn. After all, the capital belongs to the family. There’s merit in it because a downturn is the best time to invest in capital goods, since that’s when their prices are weak. What is needed is a bit of patience, giving time for the market to recover and the investment to bear fruit.”
10.3. Family businesses are far more meaningfully involved with all stakeholders. The relationships forged by those running a family business with suppliers, customers and employees are family relationships, not transactional ones. It isn’t uncommon for a family to be doing business with suppliers for generations together. Trust is easily built in such relationships. The ties are so deep that a dealer in Ludhiana or Kanyakumari expects to be invited to a wedding in the business family.
10.4. Finally, members of a business family are trained to become stewards, not charismatic leaders. This ensures continuity of culture. There can be different personalities in a family, but that can be provided for so that the business isn’t affected. This is an aspect where non-family businesses struggle.
Before we have our 4th Round of Individual Meetings, I would urge each one of you to think carefully about my own observations, and the experiences of noted Family Business Leaders, integrated in this email, and try and arrive at what you consider as the best actions/ options/ strategies for the XYZ Group of Businesses, and for the FMBs as Entrepreneurs, in moving forward…….what you finally collectively recommend will provide the direction to the Executive Board…..I reiterate that if the entrepreneurial motivation levels of the Executive Board, as individuals and as a Team, do not scale up substantially, the future structure of the XYZ Group will be radically different…..
There is now an urgent need for a critical shift in the way business is managed, as a Family Business, into the 2nd Century, if XYZ is to be remembered for the good work of its First Century……
In about a week I will call each one of you for the individual meetings as per mutually convenient dates.
Raju Swamy
& Advisor to Family Business
PROMAG Consultancy Services
Apt. 206 Brigade Rathna
42 Ranga Rao Road
Bangalore – 560004 INDIA
Tel. +91-80-26676298/ Cell: 9845271498
Email: rajupromag@hotmail.com
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Family Business: People and Professionalism Promote Profitability…… (Raju Swamy/ January 05, 2017)
Family Business: Issues that most often need to be addressed…..(Raju Swamy/ February 08, 2016)
Family Business – Emotional Influences and Consequences on Decision Making in Family Business – Raju Swamy – September 17, 2015
Family Business – The XYZ Group: Family and Family Business Interaction Forum (Proposal)
Family Business – Mails to my Clients – 13 – Family & Business Agreements/ Constitution/ Protocol: Ground Rules – November 12, 2008 – Raju Swamy
Family Business – The reason for my Blogs on Family Business….. (Raju Swamy/ August 10, 2015)
Family Business – Mails to my Clients – 12 – To a Family Patriarch and Chief of the Family Business – A cautionary note on his ‘Joint Family’…….
Family Business – Mails to my Clients – 11 – My Advisory Road Map to a specific Family Business Client, before the actual work began……
Family Business – Mails to my Clients -10 – To a Family in (Serious) conflict: Performance Self-Appraisal-cum-Cost Benefit Analysis of waging a ‘Family War’…..
Family Business: Professional Employee Core Specs change with Business Competitiveness….( Raju Swamy/ PROMAG/ 1991/ Revised 2013)
Family Business – Mails to my clients – 9 – The Logic of Business is to Maximize Profit….Within a defined ‘Value’–based Operating System…..
Family Business – Letters to my clients – 8 – A Moment of Truth…. SWOT Analysis of a 120 years old Family Business currently managed by the 4th Generation…..
Family Business – Letters to my Clients – 7 – Keep employees out of your conflict zone…..
Family Business – Tensions and Disharmony rise proportionately with rise in Uncertainty and Stagnation…
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Back to Pennsylvania
Trail Nurseries
Trail Nurseries, York county, Pennsylvania, is a wholesale source for container gardens, vegetables and herbs, annuals, perennials, hanging baskets and more. Established in 2006 by family owners Mark and Karen Miller and Scott and Kathy Miller, the business’ mission statement is to be an efficient, high quality, sought-after plant producer for the Mid-Atlantic region.
The venture began when the Millers acquired one acre of greenhouses. “The first year was a learning curve,” says owner Mark Miller.
Over the next two years, Trail Nurseries increased their greenhouses and square footage, meeting demand by contracting with a local grower. Eventually, they purchased that grower’s Wellsville operation, doubling their sales.
In December 2011, fire destroyed the production facility. “Friends and family helped us salvage our poinsettias, moving them to our Wellsville location,” recalls Mark. “The fire was on a Saturday, and we shipped poinsettias to customers on Monday morning.”
Four years later, the family built modern greenhouses at the Dover production facility. Today, Trail Nurseries includes approximately four acres at three locations.
“As we’ve grown, AgChoice Farm Credit’s lending and business consulting teams have provided invaluable services to us,” Mark says. “It’s more a partnership than a vendor relationship.”
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ICE: “Operation Easy Check nets 39 arrests for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft”
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 28, 2013 released the following:
“SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As part of a criminal investigation into an alleged conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Puerto Rico Police Department and Puerto Rico’s Department of Treasury, arrested 39 individuals in nine Puerto Rican municipalities Friday during an operation dubbed Easy Check.
“These arrests are a reflection of the success that comes when federal, state and local law enforcement agencies work together to target criminal organizations and individuals in Puerto Rico,” said Angel Melendez, special agent in charge of HSI San Juan. “At HSI, we follow the money trail to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most complicated financial schemes and seize criminal assets. We will continue to aggressively investigate fraudulent financial schemes that put in jeopardy the integrity of our financial system and are often a gateway to further criminal activity.”
According to the indictment, those arrested devised a scheme to defraud Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Banco Santander de Puerto Rico, First Bank, Scotiabank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Doral Bank, all financial institutions whose deposits were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Since 2010, the organization headed by an individual named Kelvin Garcia-Oquendo engaged in bank fraud causing losses to several financial institutions of $580,089. The organization intended for losses at those institutions to exceed $1.2 million.
Individuals, operating as part of the organization, performed different roles in furtherance of the conspiracy. They were leaders, organizers, recruiters and facilitators who would either open bank accounts or lend existing bank accounts for the deposit of false and fraudulent checks. Some individuals would use ATM cards to purchase MoneyGram and U.S. Postal Service money orders with the proceeds of the bank fraud scheme. Others would go to different post offices to cash the money orders.
Throughout the course of the conspiracy, Garcia-Oquendo, Luis Luzunariz-Cruz and Ramon Lopez-Garcia acted as leaders for the criminal organization. The leaders would create fraudulent checks and have their co-conspirators deposit them. Then, they would determine how much money would be withdrawn from the bank accounts in which the false checks had been deposited. The leaders also played roles such as recruiting individuals and purchasing and cashing money orders.
Those arrested are:
Kelvin Garcia-Oquendo
Ramon L. Lopez-Garcia
Alejandro Rodriguez-Arce
Georgie Garcia-Oquendo
Joel Bezares-Cruz
Oscar Diaz-Maldonado
David Mestre-Cuadrado
Ernesto J. Bravo-Rivera
Jonathan Sierra-Coto
Angel L. Crespo
Carlos Delgado-Gomez
Alvin Rivera-Martinez
Ruperto Rijos Perez
Marie Grillasca-Battistini
Edwin Murillo-Rivera
Raul Martes-Colon
Maylee Garcia-Oquendo
Beatriz Nieves-Garcia
Yinairy Mediana-Castro
Sonia Rivera-Velazquez
Idalia Santana-Alamo
Gabriel Ramos-Rios
Jose G. Sanchez-Diaz
Hector Barbosa-Vellon
Jorge M. Agosto
Misha Rodriguez-Lazu
Hector e. Rivera-Ortiz
Felix Delgado-Velez
Brenda I. Ortiz-Echevarria
Wilfredo Moran-Castro
Ahmed D. Reyes-Vega
William Agosto-Diaz
Melitza Naveira-Sanabria
Maria del Carmen Garcia-Diaz
Alfonso Capestany
Kenny Quinones-Vazquez
Luis Ramos-Pacheco
Edgardo Castro-Santana
Ramon Matos-Santiago
Garcia-Oquendo, Luzunaris-Cruz, Sanchez-Diaz, Garcia-Oquendo, Marte-Colon, Lopez-Garcia and Delgado-Gómez face eight counts of aggravated identity theft. These defendants, while aiding and abetting each other, knowingly transferred and used the name, bank account number and information, as well as the ATM personal identification number belonging to another person. The defendants did so with the sole purpose of retrieving bank account funds that were proceeds of the bank fraud scheme.
Those arrested face up to 30 years in prison and fines not to exceed $1 million. Those defendants charged with aggravated identity theft face mandatory minimum sentences of two years in prison to run consecutive with the sentences imposed for the bank fraud charges.”
Federal Bank Fraud Crimes – 18 U.S.C. 1344
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For other uses, see Christmas card (disambiguation). For similar custom in less religious countries, see New Year Card.
Norwegian Christmas card
A 19th-century American Christmas card
A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to Christmastide and the holiday season. Christmas cards are usually exchanged during the weeks preceding Christmas Day by many people (including some non-Christians) in Western society and in Asia. The traditional greeting reads "wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year". There are innumerable variations on this greeting, many cards expressing more religious sentiment, or containing a poem, prayer, Christmas song lyrics or Biblical verse; others focus on the general holiday season with an all-inclusive "Season's greetings".
A Christmas card is generally commercially designed and purchased for the occasion. The content of the design might relate directly to the Christmas narrative with depictions of the Nativity of Jesus, or have Christian symbols such as the Star of Bethlehem or a white dove representing both the Holy Spirit and Peace. Many Christmas cards show Christmas traditions, such as seasonal figures (e.g., Santa Claus, snowmen, and reindeer), objects associated with Christmas such as candles, holly, baubles, and Christmas trees, and Christmastime activities such as shopping, caroling, and partying, or other aspects of the season such as the snow and wildlife of the northern winter. Some secular cards depict nostalgic scenes of the past such as crinolined shoppers in 19th century streetscapes; others are humorous, particularly in depicting the antics of Santa and his elves.
The world's first commercially produced Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843
Children looking at Christmas cards in New York 1910
Christmas card by Louis Prang, showing a group of anthropomorphized frogs parading with banner and band.
The first recorded Christmas cards were sent by Michael Maier to James I of England and his son Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1611.[1] It was discovered in 1979 by Adam McLean in the Scottish Record Office.[2] They incorporated Rosicrucian imagery, with the words of the greeting – "A greeting on the birthday of the Sacred King, to the most worshipful and energetic lord and most eminent James, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Defender of the true faith, with a gesture of joyful celebration of the Birthday of the Lord, in most joyand fortune, we enter into the new auspicious year 1612" – being laid out to form a rose.
The next cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on 1 May 1843.[3][4][5] The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor.[6] Allegedly the image of the family drinking wine together proved controversial, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier. Two batches totaling 2,050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each.[7]
Early British cards rarely showed winter or religious themes, instead favoring flowers, fairies and other fanciful designs that reminded the recipient of the approach of spring. Humorous and sentimental images of children and animals were popular, as were increasingly elaborate shapes, decorations and materials. At Christmas 1873, the lithograph firm Prang and Mayer began creating greeting cards for the popular market in Britain The firm began selling the Christmas card in America in 1874, thus becoming the first printer to offer cards in America. Its owner, Louis Prang, is sometimes called the "father of the American Christmas card."[8] By the 1880s, Prang was producing over five million cards a year by using the chromolithography process of printmaking.[3] However, the popularity of his cards led to cheap imitations that eventually drove him from the market. The advent of the postcard spelled the end for elaborate Victorian-style cards, but by the 1920s, cards with envelopes had returned. The extensive Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection from the Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards, printed by the major publishers of the day,[9] including Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card.[10]
The production of Christmas cards was, throughout the 20th century, a profitable business for many stationery manufacturers, with the design of cards continually evolving with changing tastes and printing techniques. The now widely recognized brand Hallmark Cards was established in 1913 by Joyce Hall with the help of brother Rollie Hall to market their self-produced Christmas cards.[11] The Hall brothers capitalized on a growing desire for more personalized greeting cards, and reached critical success when the outbreak of World War I increased demand for cards to send to soldiers.[11] The World Wars brought cards with patriotic themes. Idiosyncratic "studio cards" with cartoon illustrations and sometimes risque humor caught on in the 1950s. Nostalgic, sentimental, and religious images have continued in popularity, and, in the 21st century, reproductions of Victorian and Edwardian cards are easy to obtain. Modern Christmas cards can be bought individually but are also sold in packs of the same or varied designs. In recent decades changes in technology may be responsible for the decline of the Christmas card. The estimated number of cards received by American households dropped from 29 in 1987 to 20 in 2004.[12] Email and telephones allow for more frequent contact and are easier for generations raised without handwritten letters - especially given the availability of websites offering free email Christmas cards. Despite the decline, 1.9 billion cards were sent in the U.S. in 2005 alone.[13] Some card manufacturers now provide E-cards. In the UK, Christmas cards account for almost half of the volume of greeting card sales, with over 668.9 million Christmas cards sold in the 2008 festive period.[14] In mostly non-religious countries (e.g. Czech Republic), the cards are rather called New Year Cards, however they are sent before Christmas and the emphasis (design, texts) is mostly given to the New Year, omitting religious symbols.
Official Christmas cardsEdit
President Johnson's 1967 White House Christmas card
"Official" Christmas cards began with Queen Victoria in the 1840s. The British royal family's cards are generally portraits reflecting significant personal events of the year.
Despite the governing practice of the separation of church and state within American politics, there is a long-standing custom for the President and First Lady to send White House Christmas Cards each holiday season.[15] The practice originated with President Calvin Coolidge, who was the first president to issue a written statement of peaceful tidings during the holidays in 1927.[15][16] President Herbert Hoover was the first to give Christmas notes to the White House staff, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president to utilize the card format (rather than the previously used notes or a written statement) that most closely resembles the Christmas cards of today.[15]
In 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House card. The cards usually depict White House scenes as rendered by prominent American artists. The number of recipients has snowballed over the decades, from just 2,000 in 1961 to 1.4 million in 2005.[17]
Commercial Christmas cardsEdit
Tucker Corporation Christmas Card, 1947
Many businesses, from small local businesses to multi-national enterprises, send Christmas cards to the people on their customer lists, as a way to develop general goodwill, retain brand awareness and reinforce social networks. These cards are almost always discrete and secular in design, and do not attempt to sell a product, limiting themselves to mentioning the name of the business. The practice harkens back to trade cards of the 18th century, an ancestor of the modern Christmas card.
Charity Christmas cardsEdit
Christmas card promoting Royal typewriters
Many organizations produce special Christmas cards as a fundraising tool. The most famous of these enterprises is probably the UNICEF Christmas card program,[18] launched in 1949, which selects artwork from internationally known artists for card reproduction. The UK-based Charities Advisory Trust gives out an annual "Scrooge Award" to the cards that return the smallest percentage to the charities they claim to support[19] although it is not universally well received by the Christmas card producers.[20]
Christmas stamps and stickersEdit
Santa Coming Down the Chimney
Many countries produce official Christmas stamps, which may be brightly colored and depict some aspect of Christmas tradition or a Nativity scene. Small decorative stickers are also made to seal the back of envelopes, typically showing a trinket or some symbol of Christmas.
In 2004, the German post office gave away 20 million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell of a fir Christmas tree, cinnamon, gingerbread, a honey-wax candle, a baked apple and an orange.
Collectors itemsEdit
From the beginning, Christmas cards have been avidly collected. Queen Mary amassed a large collection that is now housed in the British Museum.[21] The University College London's Slade School of Fine Art houses a collection of handmade Christmas Cards from alumni such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton and are displayed at events over the Christmas season, when members of the public can make their own Christmas cards in the Strang Print Room.[22] Specimens from the "golden age" of printing (1840s–1890s) are especially prized and bring in large sums at auctions. In December 2005, one of Horsley's original cards sold for nearly £9,000. Collectors may focus on particular images like Santa Claus, poets, or printing techniques. The Christmas card that holds the world record as the most expensive ever sold was a card produced in 1843 by J. C. Horsley and commissioned by civil servant Sir Henry Cole. The card, one of the world's first, was sold in 2001 by UK auctioneers Henry Aldridge to an anonymous bidder for a record breaking £22,250.[23]
Santa Claus and his reindeer
Silk cord and tassels, c. 1860
Victorian, c. 1870
Christmas Card, 1880
Victorian, 1885
Postcard, c. 1901
Christmas postcard 1907
American card, c. 1920
Frances Brundage Christmas card, 1910
Home-made cardsEdit
Christmas card made on a PC incorporating digital photography.
Since the 19th century, many families and individuals have chosen to make their own Christmas cards, either in response to monetary necessity, as an artistic endeavour, or in order to avoid the commercialism associated with Christmas cards. With a higher preference of handmade gifts during the 19th century over purchased or commercial items, homemade cards carried high sentimental value as gifts alone. Many families make the creation of Christmas cards a family endeavour and part of the seasonal festivity, along with stirring the Christmas cake and decorating the tree. Over the years such cards have been produced in every type of paint and crayon, in collage and in simple printing techniques such as potato-cuts. A revival of interest in paper crafts, particularly scrapbooking, has raised the status of the homemade card and made available an array of tools for stamping, punching and cutting.
Advances in digital photography and printing have provided the technology for many people to design and print their own cards, using their original graphic designs or photos, or those available with many computer programs or online as clip art, as well as a great range of typefaces. Such homemade cards include personal touches such as family photos and holidays snapshots. Crowdsourcing, another trend enabled by the Internet, has allowed thousands of independent and hobbyist graphic designers to produce and distribute holiday cards around the world.
The Christmas card listEdit
Christmas Market in Nürnberg, lithography from the 19th century.
Danish Christmas card, 1919
Many people send cards to both close friends and distant acquaintances, potentially making the sending of cards a multi-hour chore in addressing dozens or even hundreds of envelopes. The greeting in the card can be personalized but brief, or may include a summary of the year's news. The extreme of this is the Christmas letter (below). Because cards are usually exchanged year after year, the phrase "to be off someone's Christmas card list" is used to indicate a falling out between friends or public figures.
Christmas lettersEdit
Main article: Round-robin letter
Some people take the annual mass-mailing of cards as an opportunity to update those they know with the year's events, and include the so-called "Christmas letter" reporting on the family's doings, sometimes running to multiple printed pages. In the UK these are known as round-robin letters.[24] While a practical notion, Christmas letters meet with a mixed reception; recipients may take it as boring minutiae, bragging, or a combination of the two, whereas other people appreciate Christmas letters as more personal than mass-produced cards with a generic missive and an opportunity to "catch up" with the lives of family and friends who are rarely seen or communicated with. Since the letter will be received by both close and distant relatives, there is also the potential for the family members to object to how they are presented to others; an entire episode of Everybody Loves Raymond was built around conflict over the content of just such a letter.
Environmental impact and recyclingEdit
Christmas card with holly
Jacques Hnizdovsky Christmas card
During the first 70 years of the 19th century it was common for Christmas and other greeting cards to be recycled by women's service organizations who collected them and removed the pictures, to be pasted into scrap books for the entertainment of children in hospitals, orphanages, kindergartens and missions. With children's picture books becoming cheaper and more readily available, this form of scrap-booking has almost disappeared.
Recent concern over the environmental impact of printing, mailing and delivering cards has fueled an increase in e-cards.[25][26]
The U.K. conservation charity Woodland Trust runs an annual campaign to collect and recycle Christmas cards to raise awareness of recycling and collect donations from corporate sponsors and supporters. All recycled cards help raise money to plant more trees. In the 12 years that the Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling Scheme has been running, more than 600 million cards have been recycled. This has enabled the Woodland Trust to plant more than 141,000 trees, save over 12,000 tonnes of paper from landfill and stop over 16,000 tonnes of CO2 from going into the atmosphere – the equivalent to taking more than 5,000 cars off the road for a year.[27] The scheme has had celebrity supporters including Jo Brand, Dermot O' Leary and Sean Bean and is the longest running scheme of its type in the country.[28]
International Christmas greetingsEdit
Christmas card made on a PC
The traditional English greeting of "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" as it appears in other languages:[29]
Albanian: Gëzuar Krishtlindjet dhe Vitin e Ri
Basque: Gabon Zoriontsuak eta urte berri on
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Весела Коледа и Честита Нова Година
Catalan: Bon Nadal i Feliç Any Nou
Chinese Simplified (China, except Hong Kong): 圣诞快乐，新年进步
Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong & Taiwan): 聖誔快樂，新年進步
Cornish: Nadelik Lowen, Bledhen Nowyth Da.
Croatian - Hrvatski: Čestit Božić i sretna Nova godina
Czech: Veselé vánoce a šťastný nový rok.[30] But mostly used is secular 'P.F.' standing for French 'Pour féliciter' (literally 'For happiness in the year...').
Danish: Glædelig jul og godt nytår! or simply God jul
Dutch: Prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar
Estonian: Häid jõule ja head uut aastat
Esperanto: Gajan kristnaskon kaj feliĉan novan jaron
Filipino: Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon
Finnish: Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta
French: Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année
Galician: Bo Nadal e Feliz Aninovo
Georgian: გილოცავთ შობა-ახალ წელს
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches/gutes Neues Jahr
Greek: Καλά Χριστούγεννα και ευτυχισμένος ο Καινούριος Χρόνος
Hungarian: Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket és boldog új évet or simply B. ú. é. k.
Icelandic: Gleðileg jól og farsælt nýtt ár
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru
Irish: Nollaig Shona Duit
Italian: Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo
Kashubian: Wiesołëch Gòdów i szczestlewégò Nowégò Rokù
Korean : 메리 크리스마스
Japanese: メリー・クリスマス
Latvian: Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus un laimīgu Jauno gadu
Lithuanian: Linksmų šventų Kalėdų ir laimingų Naujųjų metų
Macedonian: Среќна Нова Година и честит Божиќ
Malay: Selamat Hari Krismas dan Tahun Baru
Maltese: Il-Milied Hieni u s-Sena t-Tajba
Mongolian: Зул сар болон Шинэ жилийн баярын мэнд хүргье
Norwegian: God jul og godt nyttår
Persian: کریسمس و سال نو مبارک
Polish: Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku
Portuguese: Feliz Natal e um Feliz Ano Novo
Romanian: Crăciun Fericit și La mulți ani
Russian: С Новым годом и Рождеством Христовым!
Sinhala: Suba naththalak wewa, suba aluth aurudhak wewa
Slovak: Veselé Vianoce a Štastný Nový rok
Slovenian: Vesel Božič in Srečno Novo Leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo
Swedish: God Jul och Gott Nytt År
Vietnamese: Chúc mừng Giáng Sinh và chúc mừng Năm mới (acute accent over ơ in "mơi")
Ukrainian: Веселих свят! (Happy Holidays!) / З Новим роком і Різдвом Христовим!
Urdu:آپکو بڑا دن اور نیا سال مبارک ہو
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Christmas postcards
War-related, c. 1943
Rust Craft, c. 1950
Snow in the Netherlands
Christmas card Frances Brundage
Merry Christmas card
Christmas tree market
Christmas card with embroidery
Santa Claus clothes
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^ The Times (London, England), 26 November 2001, p.8 12 cards from the original print run are said to survive: one, sent by Henry Cole and his wife to his grandmother, was sold in 2001 for £20,000.
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^ Storm, Christian. "Happy Holidays from the White House". Business Insider. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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^ The Charities Advisory Trust – Killing a UK market in decline
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Message to All from the Author
Leaders – Governments – Corporate Sector Fraud
It is with regret that I have to cease my current activity due to the fact that my High Court Case at the Royal Courts of Justice in London is still ongoing.
My associate and I have turned the case around and won but we now believe the case may well extend into another closely connected criminal case involving the high society of London.which also extends into other countries.
Obviously I can longer continue in exposing my intended international fraud and corruption articles as it would interfere
with the current proceedings of this second pending court case.
My blog https://eyreinternational.wordpress.com
contains hundreds of hard hitting articles, in particular the series named Pandor’s Box Open up More Grime and Slime.
If you start reading back in 2010/2011 onwards you can see the very articles than landed Gordon Bowden and myself in the Royal Courts of Justice (London) on a charge of defamation which seven years later failed and became a win win situation.
Our case is still ongoing and a second possible criminal case is about to unfold that links high society fraud, corruption and associated assassinations to our case and for that reason alone we have to reduce our level of activity so as not to compromise the second case.
What is already out there in the public domain still stands and cannot be retracted (as that case is basically over) but as you will appreciate its contents now extends in a second criminal case.and therefore any activity/articles we both carry out could jeopardise the new case which is now in the hands of the Major Crime Squad and the Serious Fraud Squad etc.
If you read past articles you will see it names and shames many high profile Leaders, Senior Politicians and the Jet Set members of High Society and the Corporate Giants etc and covers the US, Canada, UK, EU, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and many other offshore havens.
Australia (All States) plays a major role in fake/virtual non existent companies especially in the Oil Gas and Mining Sectors with massive tax evasion all amounting too trillions of dollars.
All leaders and ministers of the mainline political parties, including the current One Nation Party ( Sen Hansen, Burston and Roberts have been informed, as have associated police departments all to no avial.
Legally speaker they are themselves now implicated by not taking appropriate action or by not representing their respective constituents in raising such issues in Parliament or Congress etc
All those implicated or informed of my many published articles (in the US, UK, India and Australia) are now to be named in a more “Substantial Legal War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity Report” which is also pending.
It is obvious that based on the fact that their alleged respective “National Debt” in each of the above countries are simply non existent and that their illegal “Black Ops – Military – Space – False Flag Budgets” are not known to their citizens makes them all guilty and accountable!!.
All of the above clearly makes their current severe “Austerity Measure” totally illegal and false!!
Thank you all for your ongoing support and please feel free to browse through my hundreds of articles…..they will not only shock you but also reveal the truth as to what is really going on
Peter Eyre 1015 Local time 07/08/2017
Middle East Consultant – Political Analysis – Investigative Journalist – Broadcaster
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The Myths of Global Warming Part 11 (Final)
Allowing the Earth to heal itself by natural cycles is all that is required
However, we can help by eliminating the ongoing very aggressive wars and conflicts and by the application of very simple and logical management of modes of available transport, traffic management and the release of “Nikola Tesla’s Technology.”
This final article will provide factual forensic evidence that almost all aspect of current day academic teaching is totally false and one could seriously challenge our respective Governments, Environmental Agencies, NASA, NOAA and many Scientist’s claims that Global Warming is primarily man made.
To some degree we as individuals have contributed in some small way but the fact remains that Global Warming and Global Cooling is a natural cycle and any real damage to “Mother Earth’s Environment” is caused by “Government Policies, Globalization, Massive Deforestation and associated “Clear Fell Mentality,” Military Wars & Conflicts. Major Multinational Companies thirst for profits (no matter what the cost) and the Oil, Gas & Mining sectors rape and contamination of the environment!
Let’s now focus on the North Pole and the Arctic and see how the natural cycles of mother earth continue to change its appearance since time immemorial.
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden.
Historically speaking Sea Ice forms in the Arctic Region and has varied in size and thickness since human records began and generally speaking is free floating, moving and obviously (subject to the severity of the natural cycle) does attach itself to nearby land masses such as Greenland etc.
Geologically speaking you may find it hard to believe that at some period in time the area relished in a climate that did sustain primitive humans, wheat and sheep etc and would have been totally void of ice in order for such a climate to exist!
From my perspective I have sailed in and around the Arctic Circle and made transit via areas that you could not transit today……such passages have continued to change over time……sometimes closed and sometimes open.
I have also flown over the Arctic Circle and found the area to consist of Semi Large Masses of Ice and lots of Pack Ice areas that are constantly on the move with no set pattern from year to year and at cruising level found it hard to believe that any Permanent Ice Cap Existed!
Where is the Arctic Ice Cap – One can see the Ice/Snow of Greenland but nothing else
Unlike the Antarctic one could say with a certain amount of confidence that there is “No Polar Ice Cap” and there is no assurance of “Mass Ice Formation or Thickness” as a direct result of Earth’s natural cycles and undersea volcanic activity etc……..obviously massive deforestation (Clear Fell Operations – Oil, Gas and Mining activity ) in tropical zones is dramatically interrupting the exchange of hot – cold sea current cycles and atmospheric hot- cold air masses i.e. South to North and North to South Flows, which coupled with the above and the Sun’s Cycles impacts on the Arctic Environment.
Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat:
Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal the Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. The updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims – that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/#f0d974d28921
Before closing this extremely large article I just want to place an emphasis on the balance of current CO2 and the fact that it has nothing to do with Global Warming and that at all costs must remain as is in order for life to exist…..it is also a natural cycle and interchange!!
Below a wonderful presentation given to the US Government by Dr. Easterbrook in 2013
One Slide from Dr. Easterbrooks presentation
More government grime and slime to follow along with hard forensic evidence on “Matters of National Importance”
Topics covered:
Government & Politicians Fraud – Financial Scams- Austerity Scams – Matters of National Security Scams – Intelligence Agency & Military Scams – Government & Intelligence “False Flag” Scams.
The many articles to follow will provide forensic evidence and will name and shame Prime Ministers/Leaders, Members of Parliament, Members of the House Of Lords, Corrupt Banking and Corporate CEO/MD’s/Directors (especially in the Oil, Gas and Mining Sectors.)
The legal War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Report will show
They will also prove that those that are put into office by the citizens of each respective country, once elected and in office, do not represent their constituents and fail in raising such important issues!
They also make a pledge of support to the New World Order/Illuminati/Israel who then financially support their respective election campaigns with “Strings Attached” and also become members of “Political Friends of Israel”……that Under Common Law is an “Act Of Treason” whereby no Country, Sovereign State or Government can hand over any aspect of power or influence to another Nation or Government!!!!
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The Myths of Global Warming Part 10
This short article is more of a pictorial presentation to show real time evidence of the current Global Warming Scam…….as they say “A Picture Paints a Thousand Words.”
Artic Ice Data
And “Hey Presto” a wonderful image of 2017 clearly showing the ice continuing to thicken despite our Governments “Scare Mongery Tactics/”
Now lets look at the Antarctic and see that the same applies as the ice continues to grow and thicken.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet has an average thickness of 2126m, and the deepest part is Bryd Glacier, the base of which lies 2870 m below sea level. The thickest part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is Astrolabe Subglacial Basin, where the ice is 4776 m thick.
The Antarctic sea ice has reached the normal level for the first time in three years. This fact has been confirmed using satellite imaging technology.
Groundbreaking 3D mapping of previously inaccessible areas of the Antarctic has found that the sea ice fringing the vast continent is thicker than previous thought.
Two expeditions to Antarctica by scientists from the UK, USA and Australia analysed an area of ice spanning 500,000 metres squared, using a robot known as SeaBed.
NASA says “Antarctic ice may be growing after all.”
A new study suggests Antarctica isn’t shrinking after all — it’s getting larger.
The latest data from NASA shows Antarctica is actually gaining ice mass thanks to snow and instead of driving sea level rise, may actually be slowing it down.
“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,”
So Mr. Al Gore stick that where it hurts!!
It now becomes clear as to why the US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement because anyone with one ounce of intelligence can see that “Global Warming is a Scam.”
Not only is it a scam it is also extremely dangerous for our leaders and politicians to play God and reduce CO2 emissions when CO2 does not even cause global warming.
CO2 is a perfectly natural cycle that must remain unchanged in order for humans, animals and plants to survive …….. “We So Desperately Depend On It”
It is clear than UN Agenda 21 and its replacement UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has not been created to safeguard Earth’s Environment and its Inhabitants but rather to “Eliminate and Depopulate up to 90% of Human Life.”
UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand Leaders and Politicians from the two main parties are still pushing UN2030 Agenda which constitutes “Mass Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity and the Environment.”
No Doubt our governments will blame climate change on Islamic Extremists which to some extent may well be true as they themselves (CIA – MI5/6 – DVD – MOSSAD – ASIO) created, funded, armed and taught them how to “Divide and Conquer.”
These “New World Order Imbeciles” will be exposed and brought to trial sooner than later but only those that put them in power can bring them down!!
Its the sun you idiots
The truth is rather the opposite that mother earth is currently going through a “GlobaL Cooling Cycle” which will plummet temperatures to all time lows so you the government should be addressing that aspect rather than generating “Stealth Taxes.”
More government grime and slime to follow along with hard forensic evidence
Antarctic Ice Data
The Antarctic Ice Sheet has an average thickness of 2126 m, and the deepest part is Bryd Glacier, the base of which lies 2870 m below sea level. The thickest part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is Astrolabe Subglacial Basin, where the ice is 4776 m thick.
The Antarctic sea ice has reached the normal level for the first time in three years. This fact has been conformed using satellite imaging technology.
NASA says Antarctic ice may be growing after all
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The Myths of Global Warming Part 9
The older we become and the more we go through life we start to see the truth
Sometime it comes before us but we do not see it or we choose to ignore it
We have all arrived at the most critical part of our life on earth as our respective governments deceive us in the most evil and satanical way.
The frequency of their very deceptive (almost daily) “False Flag Events” bombard us via their “Zionist Controlled Media” creating hysteria and fear at levels we have never seen before that challenge our own intelligence, many of which border on being totally absurd and pathetic!!
I have to date covered the Cancer Scam, Vaccination Scam, and this – Global Warming Scam currently being covered and I have to say that these few remaining articles on this latter topic cannot be challenged as they have been used to provide absolute truthful data and evidence in Canada and the USA.
After these final articles it will be time to turn up the heat a little and hit them where it hurts most (their own wallets and their own integrity)!!
I was going to reveal my current War Crimes – Crimes Against Humanity Report which will show all the “Slime and Grime” that has been handed down by our respective Governments on a “Name and Shame Basis” but before doing so I thought that after this current series I would cover “Major International Fraud and Corruption” carried out mainly in the United States – Canada – UK – South Africa – Australia (major player) and New Zealand.
The level of Fraud and Corruption in these countries amounts to many Billions, if not Trillions of dollars (not to mention the tax evasion) and will clearly show that each country really does not have, what they call, a national deficit but simply have allowed their leaders, politicians, and CEO’s in the Banking Sector, Commercial Sector (especially Oil, Gas and Mining) to siphon off “Trillions of Dollars” in their massive “Ponzi Scams” and in their Fake/Virtual non existent companies all of which disappear into offshore accounts in such places as Panama, British Virgin Islands, Channel Islands, Gibralter, Cyprus and many many more.
We talk today about the Panama Papers that caused the dismissal of some leaders and politicians around the world but believe me that was no where near the tip of the iceberg as your will learn from my future articles that have been copied and kept in many “Safe Houses” around the world!!!
“Yes you bastard you can look worried”
Pakistan Prime Minster Forced to Resign over Panama Papers
Our Leaders, Senior Politicians and CEO’s/Directors are not only fraudulent but also are bordering on carrying out ” Sovereign acts of Treason” and “Crimes against Humanity in their “Black Ops Activities” and “False Flags Plots” against their own respective countries and in imposing “Severe Austerity Measures” on the Old, Disabled and Poor citizens they are supposed to represent!!
These future articles will show forensic evidence that all leaders and their political parties have been made aware of the various articles contents and the appropriate authorities responsible for investigating crimes, fraud, finance and health.
They will show their appropriate automated replies such as:
“Thank you for taking the time to contact me.”
“I am sure you will appreciate that, given the overwhelmingly large volumes of emails I receive daily, I cannot reply immediately nor can I reply to all the emails that I receive. This does not mean that I haven’t carefully considered your email. I prioritise urgent emails as well as those from my constituents.”
What could be more important in the interest of any country such as Massive International Fraud/Corruption, Medical Cover-Up in relation to available cures, Harmful Vaccinations programmes that other countries have stopped or banned, Illegal Arms Trading (including missing Nuclear Weapons), Paedophilia, Major False Flag Events such as bringing down airliners etc!!
No Mystery as it didn’t crash into the sea off Western Australia
The Passengers ended up as preserved cadaver (formaldehyde) in the Ukraine…….MH17 was cancelled ex Amsterdam and the alleged photograph taken by a passenger upon departure was not the same aircraft that came down in the Ukraine but believed to be that of MH370!!
I have to say that some very rare actual replies have been received all of which has been to no avail and in some cases reveal a sort of New World Order Arrogance that makes them almost “holier-than-thou” i.e. sanctimonious, self-righteous, complacent, smug, self-satisfied and pious.
Its time to stop this “International Bullshit” and not only reveal the truth but also to bring those responsible to trial and clean up politics once and for all.
This article will show the remarkable work carried out by Davoud Tohidy, a very brave Canadian Citizen ,who not only gave a brief to the Canadian Government but also like myself and my associate filed a High Court Case.
You will note in his brief that he gives some reference to Honorable Ms. Ann Bressington (hereafter Ms. Bressington), an Independent Member of the Legislative Council, South Australia whom I met and discussed most of what is talked about in her speech…..she is one of many activists that are prepared to stick their neck, stand up and be counted some of whom have made the eternal sacrifice and are no longer with us…….”You know why”
Climate Change Ontario Consultation as given to the Canadian Government
Davoud Tohidy March 2015
This VITAL information is all you need to know about man-made Global warming fraud, Carbon Dioxide Fraud and the upcoming Ice Age 2030 – 2031 Please share it widely as there are some criminals who who do NOT want you to!!!
SENATE HEARING, 108TH CONGRESS – CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES: AGRICULTURAL SEQUESTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE
Davoud Tohidy:
I am a concerned Canadian citizen. I am the former EIT member of professional Engineers of Ontario. I hold a certificate in Interactive Multimedia Web Development program from Algonquin College in Ottawa. I also hold a diploma as a distinguished graduate in Honors Business Administration program from Willis College in Ottawa with an average mark of 98%. Since 2011, I have been conducting research on chemtrails, Geoengineering, aerosol, Carbon dioxide, man-made global warming, global warming and conspiracies that our people and our planet is facing.
Former white house space program adviser, consultant to NASA’s headquarter and shuttle engineer Mr. John Casey has confirmed that global warming has ended in 1998 and has predicted that we are heading to an ice age with the peak in 2030 -2031.
According to the study of Philippon Berthier et al, colder, drier conditions plus lower levels of carbon dioxide will result in 39% less terrestrial photosynthesis, 60% less forest cover, 30% less leaf area, 17% less grassland area, 69% less boreal forests and 286% more polar deserts. Not only Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide is NOT a pollutant but also it is the vital part of the earth’s ecosystem. Without CO2, there will NOT be a terrestrial life on earth.
To put it in simple words, Human inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide and plants inhale carbon dioxide and exhale Oxygen! This evidence based article uses formal testimonies of well-known NASA scientists and professors including US, Canadian and Australian experts and professors as well as other sources and proves that Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System and is the most dominant greenhouse gas with the highest effect (95%) on greenhouse effect NOT carbon Dioxide and that Carbon Dioxide is NOT a pollutant, Man-made global warming is the biggest FRAUD in the history and that Carbon dioxide is NOT the cause of global warming nor it can be the cause of global cooling. Therefore, implementation of policies to impose Carbon Dioxide tax and Cap and trade system and to mitigate the non-existent global warming effects via chemtrails and Geoengineering are all based on fraudulent science and must be stopped immediately and all the necessary precautions must be taken in order to deal with the upcoming ice age immediately.
MAFIA in Canadian Politics:
According to Mr. Ben Soave RCMP’s former chief of anti-mafia operations: “Mafia groups have a wide swath of influence from political figures, to law enforcement, to people in the criminal justice system and the manufacturing industries” (Mafia group top threat in GTA, RCMP says). “These criminals are behind man made global warming and CO2 Fraud and are taking all measures to prevent the government officials from accessing the real raw and untouched evidence which prove man made global warming is non-existent.”
Club of Rome behind global warming fraud:
The following quote has been made by Club of Rome on page 75 of the book “The first global revolution” “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….”
Major player of deceit – All Gore public arsehole No1
Al Gore and Maurice Strong are both member of the Club of Rome and both are the main individuals in promoting global warming and man-made global warming. (The Club of Rome and CACOR) (The First Global Revolution) Club of Rome behind depopulation agenda
The following quote has been made by Club of Rome on page 191 of the book titled
“Limits to Growth” Maurice Strong / global warming conspiracy James George Janos (Jesse Ventura) is the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He has a group of investigators and runs the “Conspiracy Theory” show. Jesse Ventura’s deep investigation uncovers evidence that could point to one man the Canadian “Maurice Strong” and promoter of One World Government being behind an entireglobal-warming conspiracy.
The following is a highlight of his show “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura “Global Warming” (Jesse Ventura Global Warming Maurice Strong).
A).
0:08 – Narrator:
“The global warming conspiracy a plot to use the hot button issue to control nations, your love life and ultimately the world” – “We are further convinced that demographic pressure in the world has already attained such a high level, and is moreover so unequally distributed, that this alone must compel mankind to seek a state of equilibrium on our Planet.” Jesse Ventura’s investigation has led to one man Maurice Strong, a UN official.
B).
0:57 – Jesse Ventura:
It’s not truly really about saving the planet from carbon dioxide. It’s about making money at international level…
C).
1:13 – George Washington Hunt (Former US naval officer):
Yes, we’re talking about a powerful immense aristocracy that is that has the intention of using the fear of the environment deteriorating, they’re going to use it to take over the world
D).
George Hunt was an official at the World wilderness congress when he met
Maurice Strong in 1987. The congress’s international forum for discussing the environment but Maurice Strong showed up to introduce a new player financier
Edmond de Rothschild the Rothschild banking dynasty and the proposal to create something called a World Conservation bank.
E).
1:58 – A recording by Maurice Strong at the 4th World wilderness congress Denver 1987 introduces Edmond de Rothschild.
F).
2:27 – George Washington Hunt:
Maurice Strong was in charge of the conservation movement but he was also Edmond de Rothschild’s right-hand man. You have money and the environment in one-person Edmond de Rothschild. Now Maurice Strong I found out during the conference was the point man the one that was making the decisions.
G).
Their aims are to create an anxiety about global warming.
H).
So this is really about like an all-world government is what you’re talking about.
I).
It is part of the One World Order
J).
6:24 – Robin… (Jesse Ventura’s member of Investigation team):
He [Maurice Strong] has been really working as an advisor for the Chinese government and helping them make money off global warming. He is helping china sell and trade carbon credits.
K).
We’ve discovered that hundreds of thousands of the experts can’t even agree on global warming but like I said I’m no scientist, the conspiracy here’s a scare tactic to control people, make billions even trillions in profit and the evidence we’ve uncovered makes it pretty clear money is at the root of this movement.
Honorable Ms. Ann Bressington exposes UN Agenda 21, Club of Rome, Maurice Strong and Global warming:
Honorable Ms. Ann Bressington (hereafter Ms. Bressington), an Independent Member of the Legislative Council, South Australia spoke at the Lord Monckton Launch on Feb 2, 2013 at the Adelaide Convention Center exposing UN Agenda 21, Club of Rome and Maurice Strong.
The video of her speech is located at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8f4RxGbP8
The following are some quotes from her speech (Ann Bressington Exposes Club of Rome, Maurice Strong, UN Agenda 21 and New World Order):
A)..
4:34 – Ladies and gentlemen the origins of the environmental movement as we see it began back in 1968 when the Club of Rome was formed. The Club of Rome has been described as a crisis think tank which specializes in crisis creation. The main purposes of this think tank, was to formulate a crisis that would unite the world and condition us to the idea of global solutions to local problems.
She then after pointing out the “Club of Rome’s quote in regards to pollution and global warming threat” states:
5:39 – That’s the origin of global warming ladies and gentlemen.
7:17- In1992, former President of the United States George Bush Sr. Said:
“The effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced. A major shift in priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action will be integrated into individual and collective decision making at every level.
8:20 – in1992 Maurice Strong secretary general of UN earth Summit and a member of Club of Rome said:
“It is clear that the current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving a high meat intake, consumption of a large amount of frozen convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, ownership of motor vehicles, small electrical appliances, home and work air conditioning and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Then Ms. Bressington states: Put those statements together with the previous one it must become clear that Agenda 21 is about controlling every aspect of our lives, how we ate, what we ate, how much we ate, how we move around, food production, the amount of food and where we even live.[This is part of the NWO Socialist agenda]
9:13 – Dixie Ray “former Washington State governor and Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affair” stated:
“Agenda 21 seeks to establish a mechanism for transferring the wealth from citizens to the third world. Fear of environmental crisis would be used to create a world government and UN central direction food production, the amount of food and where we even live.[This is part of the NWO Socialist agenda]
10:49 – J. Gary Lawrence, adviser to president Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development:
“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy fixated groups and individuals in our society. This segment of our society who fear one world government and UN invasion through which our individual freedoms will be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined the conspiracy by undertaking Agenda 21 so we will call our process something else. We will call it comprehensive planning or growth management or SMART growth. We ended up with sustainable development.”
12:21 – We see big projects spending that does not fit the message that we are in financial crisis but we the people have to tighten our belts while the government seems absolutely unaware and unconcerned of the amount of debt that is accumulating. This in turn means taxes and levies, fines and other penalties increase as well as cost of living rising exponentially and ordinary citizens ability to exist well is compromised with almost with every law that we pass.
13:44 – The intrusions into our property…will roll out into the suburbs and into the city because they have the “authority” to do that.
14:34 – This government has been working overtime to take over our rights under common law through many pieces of legislation. . Common law is what guaranties us an ability to correct injustices. This coming year I promise you, you will also hear the debate over a number of pieces of legislation that will further erode our common law rights and you have to get behind me on this ladies and gentlemen to stop this from going through.
15:00 – As Agenda 21 became more and more apparent to me I began using the line in the Parliament, “The government was now declaring war on its own citizens and that goes back far as 2008. This of course led me to be labelled as conspiracy theorist but here we are now openly talking about Agenda 21and the ramifications we will see in a short period of time if this is not stopped in its tracks.
17:02 – In 1972 the club of Rome published the alarmist limits to growth document warning worldwide over population, the need for sustainable development. This was the beginning of the slow process of social engineering and programming people to accept that the planet is struggling to sustain life
L).
17:19 – On the 8th of October 1973 New York times reported a quote from
Ted Turner also Club of Rome: “The social experiment in China under
Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful
in human history”.
M).
17:42 – In 1997 Gorbachev also a member of Club of Rome, said “We are
moving toward a New World Order, the world of Communism, and we shall
never turn off that road.” He also quoted in 1996 Monetary and Economic Review on Page 5: “The environmental crisis will be the international disaster that will unlock the New World Order, one world government”.
N).
18:09 – In1992 came the Earth Summit which produced the Earth Charter, this document was co-written by Maurice Strong long-time globalist the latest member of Club of Rome and Mikhail Gorbachev. Both Gorbachev and Strong stated that: “It was hoped that this document would be adopted as the new 10 commandments with environmentalism as the new one world religion. Out of this summit came Agenda 21.
O).
18:44 – Ted Turner who was also a member of Club of Rome was quoted as saying in 1996 “ The total population of 250 – 300 million people is ideal. That means a reduction of 95% from present levels would be even more ideal. Anyone who abhors the China one child policy is simply a dumb dumb.”
P).
19:08 – In 1998 the Baltimore Sun reported on July the 7th, “Most of Ted Turner’s first donation to the UN of 22 million went to programs that seek.” Another goal of the depopulation process is for the upcoming generation to submit to sterilization to save Mother Earth.
Ladies and gentlemen everything I’ve said here tonight can be verified by document searches and it is now time for soul to take off our blinkers and encourage your neighbours to take off their blinkers and also time for you to demand that every person you elect fully understands this policy that is being rolled out by local, state and federal government at a concerning rate.
We are not talking about decades we are talking about only years before this is fully implemented.
Q).
20:12 So the question that Lord Monkton asks “Carbon TAX, Climate Change and Agenda 21, Can democracy survive all three? needs to be answered and answered now.
NASA confirms Sun has entered into hibernation:
According to NASA sun has entered into hibernation and as we can see from the chart on the next page as we approach to 2020, sunspot counts is at its minimum level. This proves we are in a global cooling era and that we are heading to an ice age. (NASA Sun Hibernation Chart: Cycle 24 sunspot number prediction (2015/01).
I have decided to make this topic a top priority and make it not only a technical article but also extensive as the welfare of our planet and its citizens is at stake.
If we allow these government imbeciles to implement their Global Warming Scam we are truly playing “Russian Roulette” with Mother Earth…….. CO2 plays no part in global warming and is part of our natural cycle and must be left in its existing state otherwise all forms of human life, fauna and forma with be a risk.
More government grime and slime to follow.
The Myths of Global Warming
Do you think they are lying? Of course they are!
Could not miss the opportunity to point out to you the difference between Gaza and Israel
You can clearly see the green of Israel compliments of the Water from Palestinian Territory
In past articles we discussed the main offenders for the state of our planet, especially the G20 countries who are currently bullying the less developed nations. We also looked at the many variables in our climate resulting from oil, mining, logging, bio fuel and palm oil plantations etc. In this final article we will look at the many systems that keep our planet ticking over and recycling some of the damage made by the above offenders.
However, there are some things than can never be regenerated or recycled and that is the manufacturing and usage of weapons that contain uranium components. This evil ongoing act against humankind and our world eco-systems just won’t go away. The half like of Depleted Uranium for example is 4.5 billion years and so I guess we now have to live with it. What we must do as caretakers of this beautiful planet is to make sure that such weapons are now prohibited without delay and do what we can to stop any further impact. It is no good Obama saying he’s going to stop nuclear weapons when he continues to allow the manufacturing and use of these so called conventional weapons (which include depleted uranium and low yield nuclear bombs). I believe that is not only against the military weapons export policy of the US but also clearly against the Geneva Convention. The President is ultimately responsible for giving the final signatory for any weapons that could be considered questionable and as Commander in Chief that could implicate him in any future War Crimes investigations.
I just want to say that planet earth is truly a beautiful place and rather than show the standard picture of a burning planet I have decided to show our earth as it really is. What is happening to our planet is perfectly natural but we also have to accept that “The Axis of Evil” (the G20 countries) are themselves the guilty party and it is they that have to change and not the underdeveloped countries or the man in the street. I have spent some months investigating the gross neglect of State Government, Local Government, and Highway Authorities as well as commercial contractors etc in regard to Public Transport, Heavy Goods Vehicles and Traffic Light Sequencing. My findings revealed an unnecessary extra large carbon footprint that if fixed would save extremely huge amounts of fuel, energy, pollution and time savings. If my findings were multiplied in every Village, Town and City in the world we would have a saving so big it is beyond imagination. This issue would immediately start to reverse anything that we have already done to this natural cycle. The earth is in very good condition so don’t worry.
The first system we will deal with is that of air circulation or the movement of one air mass towards another (Hot or Cold). As you can see from the diagram above it looks straight forward. In actual fact this is assuming the earth does not spin. In reality the winds are not so easy to follow as they are diverted naturally by the rotation of the earth and also they divert or draw towards other pressure systems. I feel however this is sufficient information to keep it basic.
Within these air masses are complex systems of High Pressure and Low Pressure areas. These actually contain the good weather, bad weather, cloud, no cloud, winds, no winds and finally rain or no rain. They can bring us perfectly calm days or hurricanes. The cycle is very complicated and is constantly changing sometimes almost every minute. Try glancing upwards on one of those days when its hot and watch the small clouds come and go or watch the huge storm clouds develop…you can frequently see through binoculars the cloud rising up and curling out over the top. These storm cells are extremely powerful and if you are flying in a small aircraft you had better show great respect for them and avoid if at all possible.
When you look deep within a storms structure you realise that the power of nature is truly wonderful. Take a look at a good cyclone or hurricane above and you can see the sheer size of the problem. It’s hard to imagine that the total cloud area can span 1,000 miles.
We can now look at the sea current and how these directly affect the Polar Regions. We understand that up in the Arctic Sea the water column sinks and start to move along the ocean floor in a southerly direction towards the equator. Down in the equatorial regions we have another cycle that flows close to the surface in a northerly direction towards the Arctic and so in a way we can see a similar cycle like the atmospheric winds….it remarkable to see all these forces working together.
After these sea currents have done their work locally, regionally and been to the poles and back they also then undertake a far reaching journey around the world and in a way basically recycle themselves back to their point of origin. The same applies with upper wind air flows. As an example a Depleted Uranium Aerosol can leave its target area and drift off into the upper atmosphere and circle round back to the point it first originated from. This can be very scary especially when one associated the lethality of the aerosol. Then you again have secondary contamination as the wind picks up the dust and radioactive nano particles to starts the cycle all over again.
The diagrams above show the sea currents journey to the Arctic and back and on the right its long journey around the world.
We can now look at the plate activity and the volcanic activity that both work in close relationship with each other. Plates collide, separate, fold over and under and with tremendous force push upwards to form mountains etc. Weaknesses also occur such as ridges or fault lines and volcanic activity takes place at the weakest points. It’s all a question of pure force and pressure that releases this hidden energy and heat.
Most of us learnt at school that at one time continents were connected (Africa and Australia etc) and this movement still continues to this day. It is so interesting to note that even the plates are recycled as they fold over and under each other to sink deep into the earth’s hot mantle. It was also interesting to learn that up near the Arctic Circle, Ellesmere Island, rose 30 – 35 metres above sea level several thousand years ago which proves that the natural world is totally unpredictable.
Finally we have the combination of plate activity and volcanic activity all taking place at the same time. These events are caused by many factors which hopefully the diagram below explains. One of the most interesting areas in the world is “The ring of Fire” which stretches from the northwest tip of Indonesia round across to Papua New Guinea where it then tracks southeast deep into the Pacific. This area is one of the most dangerous for human beings with constant volcanic activity both above and below sea level and frequent Tsunami’s.
What has this to do with global warming or climate change? When nature really takes hold huge volcanic eruptions can blanket the earth with devastating effects. What was once a warm bright place to live can soon become dark and extremely cold. One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions took place in 1883 when Krakatau blew its lid into a catastrophic series of explosions that totally removed the island than once existed. In the weeks following the eruption, fine fragments of volcanic dust was propelled kilometers into the stratosphere and initially formed a ring around the equator. These particles remained suspended for years causing remarkable solar effects and atmospheric hazing. Enormous volumes of sulfur dioxide gas molecules were also blasted into the atmosphere combined with water to make sulfuric acid. These acidic aerosols blocked enough sunlight to drop the Earth’s temperature by several degrees for some years. This eventually spread to more that half of the Earth’s surface and for years these particles remained suspended.
So there we have it……a beautiful planet that operates its own natural cycles in every conceivable way. We should not be alarmed or panicked by our respective G20 governments because they themselves and the unscrupulous companies that rape and pillage this planet are the true polluters. If they leave the ordinary person alone and stop bullying the not so fortunate third world countries our world would be a much better place.
The earth is in a much better shape than during the cold war but apart from the natural global warming the only thing that is truly damaging our planet are these G20 “Axis of Evil” countries.
If the US, UK and EU Government along with the Multi National Corporations start cleaning up there act and if deforestation policies are changed the planet will recover itself. Then there is the question of public sector and commercial sector transport fuel wastage and unnecessary pollution with the added frustration of traffic light sequencing that truly is totally neglected by our governments. As I said before if one multiplies this in every village, town and city the carbon footprint is beyond imagination. Add to this the fact that the beef industry continues to expand (thanks to the fast food industry), oil and mining industries continue to rape someone else’s natural resources and the Bio Fuel Company’s clear vast tracts of native vegetation all in the name of economic greed.
We would all be surprised to learn that really there is no shortage of oil or gas in this world, the problem being where it is and how we use it.
If the G20 countries (or should I say the G8 countries) closed down their bases on Islamic soil, stopped all the wars and conflicts and more importantly stopped bullying the Middle East and Iran the world would be a much better place with peaceful trading of goods for oil etc. More importantly this act alone would reduce terrorism that was initially caused by our continue occupation of someone else’s land. Stop being aggressive. Stop the spin on climate change and start being sincere and transparent……..I guess that too much to ask?
So remember next time you hear Al Gore or some other government spin doctor talking about global warming and the need to act now, go tell them to stick there carbon tax where it hurts!!!
Before I conclude the current series I will provide hard evidence that shows that our respective governments are not only deceitful but are also badly informed……….you may be shocked to learn the truth that we are in actual fact not going through a global warming period but rather that of global cooling!!!
Before looking at the earth cycles we can look at what is going on in the Arctic. You may find the truth for yourself rather than the spin that Governments are portraying to us. We have looked at the value that oil exploration, mining and logging is adding to our planet and because of this deforestation major changes are adding to this current natural cycle of “Global Warming”
We finished the last part on the issue of volcanic and continental plate activity and the role it plays in changes to our atmosphere, the land and sea. As many of use are aware Iceland is noted for its cold climate but also for its volcanic activity with huge geysers. In Reykjavik they drill down to extract hot water to heat swimming pools and all the houses in the city. This free source of geothermal water makes Iceland a very unique place to live without having to rely of the importation of oil.
As we move closer to the North Pole we find exactly the same situation in Greenland with much more activity and huge natural geothermal pools/lakes for people to relax in. We can now venture well inside the Arctic Ice Cap and look at the geology beneath the sea and what we find is yet again more volcanic activity with fault lines, hot vents, huge undersea dormant volcanoes and surprisingly much upward force in the surround landscape (land rise).
Let’s now, in our minds, put these two factors together and see what could be one of the major changes in the Arctic Ice Cap. Deforestation changes the climate much further south which causes an increase in atmospheric temperature as well as sea temperature. Both these two factors alone when added to the earth natural global warming cycle can create this false illusion those governments are blaming us for. In reality we can see that the economic greed of the G20 countries are the main player in this game and not the third world countries.
If logging, oil, mining, palm oil plantations, cattle ranch development etc had not taken such a fanatical drive this natural process would have been able to ride along at its own pace. We can now see why such dramatic changes are added to this cycle. One has to blame many of the G20 governments that allow this to happen and the Multi National Corporations who pushes these huge projects ahead, right in the heart of such places as the Amazon Jungle.
Lets go back again to the undersea activity in the Arctic Sea area to understand the other activity that in its own way can also alter the status of the ice cap.
Adjacent Greenland reveals much of these hidden secrets….just look at the unlocked energy in this picture….people bathing and geysers steam in the background with hot vents here and there. That situation exists under the ice but on a much smaller scale. However, this has not always been the case and we have seen the formation of undersea mountains and the rise in adjacent land masses, which indicate not only volcanic activity but also plate activity.
It is a known fact that in one area under the ice there is much going on that can affect the sea temperature. We will talk about this further on but let’s bring in the actual climate in this region and what is going on. The amount of ice at a given time regulates the exchanges of temperature – moisture and salinity. It has the capacity to insulate the relatively warm ocean water from the cold atmosphere that sits above it. Obviously, from time to time this ice breaks up, huge channels may form or a type of floating lake and when this occurs there is an exchange of this heat/vapour mix. It is during this time that the local weather can greatly change i.e. cloud cover, rain or snow etc. This local weather cycle and changes to the ice directly affects humans and the wildlife in the area such as polar bears etc. They depend on the ice and therefore during any time in this cycle they can be at great risk of decreasing numbers.
The major cause of the apparent changes in the ice is increasing Arctic storm activity over the Transpolar Drift Stream caused by a shift of storm tracks toward higher latitudes. This shift is directly related to the deforestation taking place much further sound. Such dramatic changes take place after mans destruction of the forest etc temperatures change and air masses start to move around. We then get a mix of hot and cold air masses, some off the land and some off the sea which create in some case very big storms. These winds and storms directly increase the stirring of the ocean and cause other cycles to come into being. The Arctic water sinks and starts its journey (deep down) south and the warmer equatorial waters drift north towards the Arctic. It is during such active storms that the arctic comes under mush pressure. Add to this any possible undersea volcanic activity and we can now see how the Arctic Ice can be so dramatically affected.
There is in existence a normal seasonal cycle that takes place as we can see from these diagrams and it is proven that no one can predict with certainty how one year will be from the other. What we can say is we are still coming out of an ice age and returning to a warmer planet that could resemble the time I described during early Viking days when they grew wheat in Greenland and vessels could freely transit the North West Passage.
If I had the opportunity to participate at the UN Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 I would not be pushing for environmental taxes on the general public or forcing third world countries to change their existing energy needs but rather hitting the people responsible for the damage. The G20 are in control of their own destiny and meantime in the background the natural earth’s cycle is going through one of its many transitions. We certainly do not need this barrage of propaganda or scaremongery thrown at us via the media day after day to push for their own evil hidden agenda of opening up more markets and taking away the competitiveness of the third world markets. The Copenhagen conference served two purposes:
To discuss “Global Warming and Climate Change”
To talk about ways of opening up new markets
What they mean to say is lets offload our technology onto the third world at huge cost, force them into debt via the World Bank or IMF, get rid of any trade taxes or barriers and force their prices up with this new technology (nuclear power etc) and allow the G20 countries to take over their markets without competition.
What the underdeveloped countries should be saying to the G20 countries is that they should pay any environmental taxes and not ordinary people or third world countries. Force the governments to address this fanatical land grab for resources or their own economic greed and leave pristine regions such as the Amazon to carry on with its natural cycle of cleansing our atmosphere of CO2 and returning it with oxygen and moisture which is so vital to life. Create a better traffic management system and start a long awaited greener management of fuel wastage and unnecessary waiting times due to poor traffic light sequencing etc.
We can now look at a diagram as to what is really going on under the icy waters of the north and try to see in our own minds that we are at the mercy of nature itself and the many systems that control our climate. My initial question to the G20 governments would be……Why are you so concerned about “Global Warming” and yet so blatantly ignorant of the uncontrolled use of WMD’s in weapons that contain uranium components?
Why worry about our environment, our eco-systems and even life itself when you are donating a lethal dose of “Uranium Aerosols” around our planet with your extremely advanced “Mass Depopulation Plan” (Agenda 21 & 2030 Project) by way of Depleted Uranium weapons, WHO/UNICEF mass vaccination programmes in third world countries (with toxic additives) , unnecessary Swine Flu vaccines……..especially the current HPV vaccine being given to all school age girls around the globe……….could this be an indication of things to come i.e. mass infertility?
We can see from this image above that the seabed in the Arctic Sea is very much alive and active with fault lines, land rise and significant volcanic activity.
So a clear picture is now emerging to prove that the spin we are having to contend with from government sources, the Wall Street and London Bankers and the G20 brigade is a pack of lies.
Copenhagen failed and hopefully over time we can turn the blame back onto those who are truly responsible for this “Axis of Evil Propoganda.”
Yes we do have to make some changes but act in a transparent way with truth and fairness and stop these ruthless people from adding to their existing control of our planet.
Watch this space for more on the natural cycles of this wonderful planet and the concluding article with vital data to prove beyond doubt that Global Warming is not only anther government “Stealth Tax” but also a scam to generate private investment funds for involved politicians around the globe………Al Gore being just one of the founding members.
More Government “Slime and Grime” to follow.
Peter Eyre 1800Local time 20/07/2017
It is time to look at the wonders of all the different systems that control our mother earth. It is very complex and it all happens without us even knowing about it. Every cycle has a purpose to cleanse our atmosphere and our environment. As I have already pointed out do not be put off by our governments who want to scare us into believing that time is running out. It is the governments of the G20 themselves that have to change their own approach to our climate. It does not require taxes but rather just good old common sense. Many measures can be taken to not only save us fuel but also to make our journey much more efficient. Planning for the future plays a vital role and the efficiency of control systems adds to getting it right.
The suns energy is absorbed everyday and just dissipates into the ground and subject to the land mass is also reflected back into the atmosphere. There is so much energy from the sun and this also has degrees of fluctuation. Everything on Earth absorbs the sun’s energy, changes it into heat and the heat radiates back out into the atmosphere. The cycle is basically heating by day and cooling at night. Another cycle is automatically taking place in the jungle; water is purified by its evaporation and condensation cycle. Precipitation (rain) goes into overdrive in jungles but where the land mass has been cleared the cycle and conditions change dramatically.
The sun is the driving force for our climate. When the Sun is directly overhead, its rays strike Earth perpendicular to the ground and so deliver the maximum amount of energy. When the Sun is lower in the sky, a sunbeam strikes the ground at an angle and its energy is spread over a much larger area with a diluting effect on its energy. Therefore regions of our planet near to the poles are much cooler than the equatorial regions. Therefore areas at the equator and either side are tropical to sub tropical.
We have many natural cycles at work. The 24 hours rotational cycle of the earth, the orbital cycle of the earth around the sun, which is spring summer autumn and winter, and finally the earth tilting on its axis. Within our atmosphere we have exchanges of hot and cold air masses, which are directly affected by the intensity of the sun, the filtering of its energy through the atmosphere and the spin effect of earth. There are many hidden cycles also taking place hot and cold air currents, hot and cold sea currents and the cycle of the earth surface as they fold over, fold under or just collide and both rise up to form huge structures. Even fires are a natural occurrence from volcanic activity or from lightning. Many forests and jungles benefit from such occurrences. If one looks at the forest floor after a bush fire you will see so much energy coming out of the ashes. Even some plants have huge hard pods of seed that turn to dark brown or black and explode during moments of heat to shed their seed to earth.
The earth is truly a fascinating hive of activity. As I once said it is a huge washing machine that is self-cleansing, apart from when man unlocks its natural bonded crust of mineral etc such as uranium. When unlocked it becomes lethal and its waste remains with us for eternity. When the US started unlocking uranium, building nuclear powers stations and weapons its waste then became a major problem. The US found a convenient way of getting rid of some of this waste (depleted uranium) by using it in weapons as a strong penetrator, shaped charged liner or simply as a counter balance. Now it’s being used in all theaters of war and becoming a lethal aerosol to drift on the wind around our globe with fatal consequences. One cannot play with nature in such a way.
Getting back to this so called threat called “Global Warming” (which I totally disagree with) we can now look into the suns own ability to alter our atmosphere dramatically and how this affects each of the systems that recycle our planet earth. Sunspots and, solar flares etc are a common occurrence and the sun emits slightly more energy than during periods of low activity. During the Maunder Minimum, a period of diminished solar activity between 1645 and 1715, sunspots were rare on the face of the sun, sometimes disappearing entirely for months to years. At the same time, Earth experienced a bitter cold period known as the “Little Ice Age.” Now we are starting to see how and why natural cycles or occurrences cannot be predicted or mapped out by computer modelling. This also applies to those scientists who believe totally in a computer model as a means of determine events can sometimes have tragic consequences. The entire process of the movement of the Earth’s atmosphere, the distribution of its energy and the resultant global weather, and oceanic circulations is beyond man himself.
Sunlight energy also sustains plant and animal life. About half of the Sun’s energy is absorbed or reflected back into space as it passes through our atmosphere. Plants on land and phytoplankton in the ocean use photosynthesis for a power source. About 90% of the absorbed energy is used to stay alive, and remaining 10% gets stored as biomass. All other life on earth depends on this biomass. So let’s look at what happens when loggers move in the world’s rain forests or when a “G20” oil or mining company moves into the area. Can they cause major changes to our climate or weather conditions? It certainly does and in a very big way as we will see below.
About 30% of the suns energy is deflected by the outer atmosphere and returned to space the remainder reaches the earths surface and subject to if the surface has vegetation or not holds the key to some of today’s issues. The amount absorbed and reflected is critical in local conditions and weather patterns. That reflected energy is called infrared radiation that is slow moving. This upwards flow can become involved with water vapour (such as that from the jungle), Carbon Dioxide (exhaust/pollution from man i.e. industry, vehicles, forest back burning etc and natural events) and Methane from humans, cattle and rotting rubbish tips etc. As we can see again a very complex state of affairs!
Deforestation also contributes to global warming. Tree use carbon dioxide and give off oxygen it its place, which are basically the balancing mechanism for our planet. As more forests are logged for timber or cut down to make way for farming, oil/gas or mining there are fewer trees to perform this critical function. As we have already discussed the “Axis of Evil” are governments, oil/gas and mining companies, Trans National Companies, Bio Fuel Developers, Loggers and the huge contribution created by the military especially during such events as the wars in the Balkans, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza , North Pakistan and Libya etc.
So we come back to what are the truths behind “Global Warming” and are these events natural. A vast majority of mainstream scientists and the general public agree that global warming is a serious problem that is growing steadily worse. On the other hand there are many other scientist and people like myself who believe on the contrary.
Let’s look at deforestation for oil, gas, mining or just simply logging. What is the difference between a vegetated landscape and a moonscape created by these ruthless developers? The answer is simple…….. when the earth vegetation is left in its natural state the exchanges of the many cycles takes place uninterrupted. Hot and cold air masses, moist and dry convection currents, sea current both warm and cold, storms and cyclones etc. Other actions are taking place some of which can be catastrophic such as above and below land and sea. Volcanic activity and finally the movement of the earth’s plates all add to progressive changes over thousands of years.
When deforestation takes place nature becomes totally unbalanced. Areas that were once dense jungles full of energy, moisture, oxygen and life become totally void of all plants and life with extremely hot and arid conditions. Added to this is the fact that the oil and mining companies change the landscape totally into huge opencast pits or areas of toxic contamination. We can see from this image I have prepared that the result is totally the opposite. The temperatures can reach between 42-47 c with hot arid dusty winds. If one selects a flat surface on the ground it is extremely easy to fry an egg, which I once tried myself. The region is normally void of clouds although sometimes if moist air blows in over such areas, especially if there are small hills or mountain ranges, huge storm clouds can develop over the peaks. Generally speaking it is an extremely hostile environment.
Another major role is played by volcanic activity in both the atmosphere and under the sea that also influences our climate. The movement of plates and these enormous pressure release powerful eruptions as well as geysers, hot bubbling lakes and hot vents both on the surface of the earth and below our oceans.
I will cover this aspect in my next article along with the many cycles that naturally control our climate. It is also interesting to note that there are other issues beside rising sea levels such as rising landmasses. I have been very fortunate in my life to see an underwater volcano erupt and form an island. I have seen fossilised ancient trees in a desert environment that proves that our climate can change over time from jungle to desert and back to jungle. I have seen ancient middens (collection of seashells from ancient settlements) halfway up a hill indicating that either the sea level had dropped once before during a natural global climate change or that the land itself had risen. I will continue this Global Warming story in the next article……..could there be a connection between the melting icecaps in the arctic circle and sub sea volcanic activity?………….you bet there is!!!…….watch this space
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These Poems, She Said: Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst
April 28, 2013 5:50 pm / Leave a comment
Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst read together at Green College, at the University of British Columbia, on Wednesday, March 20, in the late afternoon: the last event in this year’s Play Chthonics series. I was set to introduce them to the 40-odd people who had come to hear them in the Graham House fireside lounge – a capacity crowd for a poetry reading, for that intimate space – and Jan reminded me about one of the first times we had met, which was in a two-term graduate seminar led by Don McKay at Western in the fall-winter of 1986-87. She was teaching philosophy at Waterloo, I think, but would come weekly down to London to audit the Monday evening class; her Wittgenstein Elegies had been published by Brick Books earlier that year. I was a master’s student, and was just getting underway writing what would turn out to be a thesis on the poetry and poetics of Robert Bringhurst, which McKay was supervising. The seminar was called “Poetry After 1945,” if I am remembering right, and each week was focused on a different book, a different poet – chosen, I’m pretty sure, not for any particular thematic or ideological reason, but because Don was interested in them, and he thought that theirs were poems that we ought at the very least to know about, to know: Robert Lowell’s Life Studies and For the Union Dead, Galway Kinnell’s Book of Nightmares, John Ashbery’s Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Ted Hughes’s Crow, Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies, and selected poems from Denise Levertov, Daphne Marlatt, Seamus Heaney, Charles Olson, others. One guy in the seminar was keen to do something with Sylvia Plath. (I remember also discovering, through Don, Charles Wright’s The Other Side of the River that year.) And, near the end of term, Don had put on Robert Bringhurst’s The Beauty of the Weapons.
I don’t know what had drawn or what was drawing me into Bringhurst’s work at the time, whether I had picked it out from McKay’s syllabus, or found it on my own and then taken the seminar to hear more about it and to encounter those poems more fully. There was something that spoke to me quite forcefully and seriously in those days, from Bringhurst’s writing, something important. And he was also one of the few poets I had discovered who had a rigorous interest in philosophy, in thinking. What caught my ear was that Bringhurst didn’t ever merely namecheck Heidegger or Levinasor the Pre-Socratics, never merely rehearsed Zen traditions (via Gary Snyder) or First Nations mythtelling; he took these inheritances up with a keenness, a self-awareness and a deliberateness that I had never met before, and he did it not simply in but through poems, as poetry. Bringhurst aimed to have his work converse, materially and essentially, with what Kinnell called(in his brief “Prayer”) “whatever what is is.” Later poems would make this conversation more formally explicit – his “Blue Roofs of Japan” had just appeared in Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music, Bringhurst’s just-issued collection from McClelland and Stewart. The way I remember, it was this kind of poetically-informed conversation to which I hoped that seminar aspired.
By the start of second term, after I had been working at Bringhurst’s books for some time and with the in-class discussion of his poetry fast approaching, I was certainly aware that both McKay and Zwicky had been somehow more directly and closely implicated in his writing than I might have realized at first (although I knew McKay knew Bringhurst personally, and had sent him a few questions on my behalf about sources for poems). “Sunday Morning,” from Pieces of Map, is dedicated to them both, and suggests a kinship of thought and approach – around listening, around wilderness, around alterity and ontology – that Bringhurst characterizes as an interest, an inter-esse, in “the musical density of being.” Their poetry, in many and various registers, aspires to sing, to attain the condition of song. They were concerned, in the late 1980s, to reactivate a particular trajectory of the lyric, its noetic intensities.
So, what happened in the seminar was: one of the assignments involved presenting a close reading of a poem. I had chosen to examine Bringhurst’s “These Poems, She Said,” partly in response to an emergent line of questioning in the class around gender politics. Bringhurst placed the poem first in his selected, to enact a distancing irony, and to suggest a self-awareness about the contingency of the seemingly sculptural monumentality, the mythic reach, of the texts that followed:
These poems, these poems,
these poems, she said, are poems
with no love in them. These are the poems of a man
who would leave his wife and child because
they made noise in his study.
[. . .] These are the poems of a man
like Plato, she said, meaning something I did not
comprehend but which nevertheless
offended me. (Selected Poems 75)
The gesture at Plato isn’t just a philosophy joke about an authoritarian metaphysian’s aversion to the erotic. (It’s worth comparing Zwicky’s recent Plato as Artist, which recuperates an alternative Plato.) Bringhurst creates a miniature Socratic elenchus, replete with self-deprecating irony. Uncharacteristically for Plato, however, the interlocutor in this poem is female; the text’s antithetical manoeuvres, shifting from iterated critique to discomfited reaction, both sustains the authority of the male poet’s voice – everything remains filtered through him, and he is the one who affirms, at the poem’s close, that the woman’s voice has spoken “rightly” – and also dismantles any grounds he might have, other than a kind of empty verbal aestheticism (“You are, he said,/ beautiful”), to claim argumentative high ground. He sounds like he wins, but he can win only by losing, since the love he craves entails receptive openness rather than the abstract and detached rhetorical management of a well-turned phrase or line. In the seminar, I think it was difficult for me to hear the conflictedness at the core of the poem, and instead I focused only its apparent claim to rightness, its mistaken feel of surety. This reading, as you can imagine, didn’t sit well with Jan, and she told me so. What she valued in the poem wasn’t any feint of attention or pretense of listening, but a deliberate, intentional disavowal of ego; the poem, for her, in the white space that slashes through its penultimate line on the page, opens itself to what remains otherwise, to its ungovernable outside. (As I write this, I don’t think those would have been Zwicky’s terms; this is me, I’m sure, re-casting her critique. But however she put it, her point was a good one.) She argued.
What came out wasn’t just a corrective for me. More importantly, it was the sense that there were real stakes here, that something in this poetry mattered. And what mattered was the honing and the intensification and the acuity of thinking, of thought as an exacting, lyrical unknitting of selfishness, of self. That debate about poetics wasn’t just a remedial exercise, but an enactment of this rigorous openness, one that takes itself seriously. “Knowing, not owning” as Bringhurst puts in what he then called “Thirty Words,” which he would incorporate into his “credo” in later editions of his selected poems: “Praise of what is, / not of what flatters us / into mere pleasure” (Selected Poems 159). Neither Zwicky nor Bringhurst takes this demand lightly; poetry is careful, serious business, and since that evening seminar in 1987, I have tried to learn from and through their work – and I continue to do so – to correspond with, to be responsive to and responsible for, that care.
Robert Bringhurst Reading at Green College
The Play Chthonics reading, for me, reactivated this commitment to a poetry that matters. Both Bringhurst and Zwicky presented principally new work, but their tactics and idioms were still closely and thoroughly enmeshed in the kinds of lyric thinking they have been practicing, in their distinctive ways, for decades, and for which I have, for decades, admired them. Bringhurst read from a set of what he called “language” poems, works that have little to do with idiomatic American experimentalism, but addressed themselves to the foundational becoming, the ontological pluralism, that he has pursued throughout his career. Zwicky’s poems, by contrast, focused elegiacally on the essential unknowability of things, on lost connections and on gaps and silences. But her poems also distill their music from that loss, a music that wants to draw out some of the human resonances with a world in which we are all implicated, to converse openly with the unvoiced plentitude of what we are not, which is also what we are. At different points, both she and Bringhurst coincidentally described encounters with a heron as an image of this attentive address.
After the reading, I picked up a copy of a CD that Zwicky had recorded (in June 2011) called, simply, Jan Zwicky Reads. I have been listening to it off and on for the past month. As at the live reading, I find that as I listen certain of her lines seem to hang in the air, to resonate: “that bare light not yet sweet with birds.” Zwicky’s melopoeic technique, her mastery of the phonemic music of language, evident here in the audible meshwork of consonants and gently modulating vowels, is more than “sweet” craft; what inheres in these voicings – I’m sure that’s the right term for this lyric practice – is more than the mere pleasures of listening. Zwicky offers in small, in lines such as these, a musical elenchus, a negation (“not yet”) that highlights the hiatuses and epistemological uncertainties that poetry seeks to bridge, as metaphor, but also construes as its substance, as its inevitable shortfall, again as metaphor, as approximation, as asymptote: a version, I’d say, of what Bringhurst has called, translating Paul Celan, “the caught light’s closeness / to audibility” (Selected Poems 143). The sweetness Zwicky’s poetry seeks out is never the sugary or the saccharine, but is consistently a resonance, a harmonic sweet spot, where the disparate textures of an unclosed world can briefly, barely, touch and argue, catch and hum, collide and sing.
A Short Take on Barry Long, Freedom in the Air
Freedom in the Air is a powerful suite for quartet, improvised to accompany a projection of iconic, historic photographs (by James Karales and others) of events in the American Civil Rights movement. A group led by trumpeter Barry Long, and including saxophonist David Pope, bassist Joshua Davis and percussionist Phil Haynes, performed the music at the Campus Theatre of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, on 23 February 2012; the performance was recorded on video, which can be viewed online through the university’s website. The compact disc or download is available for purchase from bandcamp.com. It’s a great recording, well worth buying.
The music is ekphrastic; sounds are keyed to visuals, sometimes providing auditory allegories – as in the fifth section, “Fifteen Minutes in Birmingham,” when the racial violence depicted in the photographs draws discordant, harsh responses from the players – but more often acting as reactive contemplation, a kind of aural commentary. For musical source material, Long draws on spirituals and protest songs, many of them from African-American religious and social traditions from the southern states, many of them performed by participants in the marches and protests to which the images bear historical witness. (Two pieces come from elsewhere than the American public domain, but both are deeply enmeshed in the civil rights soundscape: John Coltrane’s “Reverend King” – posthumously issued on his album Cosmic Music – and the song that provides the suite’s title, “Freedom in the Air” by Bernice Johnson Reagon.) Watching the video, you can see how attentive to and how focused on these images the members of the quartet remain, throughout the performance. The photos act not so much as score but as timbral palette, setting the tone.
Without the visuals, the music still works incredibly well, but as a meditative rather than a contemplative tone-poem. Things open with Long solo on flugelhorn, intoning Reagon’s melody as an autumnal taps, framing what follows from the quartet in a largely elegiac register. The music on the whole is consistently measured and self-aware, rarely venturing beyond a medium tempo, but it’s also deeply evocative, entrancing, awash in genuine pathos. I have been trying for a few days to think of an analogue for this group’s sound, and the closest I can come is, perhaps, Paul Motian’s trios with Charles Brackeen (whose firm, deliberate tenor saxophone tone David Pope sometimes seems to echo). Phil Haynes’s drumming can occasionally be subtly unruly, gently but firmly disrupting easy agreements. Collectively, the quartet tends to refuse sentimentality or nostalgia in favour of a lyrically incisive and open-eared historicism, giving difficult episodes in a shared national past a present-tense relevance, a contemporaneity. Improvisation creates a set of contingent segues between what’s been done and what still happens, and invites us to consider, to reconsider, how negotiating these cultural challenges can vitally matter to us even now, especially now.
The manoeuvres between the contemplative and the meditative, between the reactive and the expressive, that this performance undertakes can be better addressed, I think, by looking at the video, and paying attention to the intensity of the musicians’ focus – how they themselves look at the on-screen images. Three of the four members of the quartet are academics, and two hold doctorates: I mention this fact to suggest that, if this music is to be understood as scholarship, there is no sense of clinical detachment or analytic objectivity here. The historical engagements they undertake are, instead, consistently creative, vital and moving. It’s also worth noting – although it’s a bit presumptuous on my part – that none of the musicians appears to have a visibly African-American heritage; given that they are playing through such thoroughly racially-inflected terrain, they might tend to be positioned as outsiders or onlookers. But Long’s point in presenting this music, I’d say, is to suggest that we are all – regardless of where we might think we come from or how we look – implicated in this cultural history, and that we need not only to be self-aware of that enmeshment, but also to actively negotiate our social subjectivities, building communities not necessarily through unproblematic identifications – such as similarities of appearance or background – but through our encounters with difference, with our own inherent differences. Barry Long’s music makes one such set of encounters sing. The video ends with a minute-long spontaneous silence that the CD can’t include, but it’s also one of the most powerful musical moments in the performance: a space of thoughtful, respectful exchange onto which this fleetingly profound music opens, helps us open.
Improvising Diaspora: Fred Ho, John Coltrane and the Music of Radical Respect
Here is the principal part of the text of a fifteen-minute conference paper I delivered in September 2007 at the University of Guelph, speaking at the colloquium of the Guelph Jazz Festival, entitled that year “People Get Ready,” and focused on the community-building and political engagements of improvised musics.
Fred Ho wants a music that speaks, and he wants to speak through music: “The music,” he writes, meaning for the most part jazz-derived improvisation, “has to and will embody messages, either explicitly (in the form of lyrics and/or song titles) or implicitly (in the sound and in its spirit).” To start out, I think, there are at least two things to note in such claims, of which Ho makes many. The foremost is almost unremarkable for its transparency, as it’s probably intended to be: Ho writes and speaks about improvised music as much as he composes and performs. The series of manifestoes, polemics and mandates that he has delivered, in essays and addresses over the last two decades, are instances of musical embodiment, not just statements about what he thinks his music does, but language forms representing the state to which his own music aspires: it wants to say what it means, directly and transparently, to its audience, “the people.” Second is a stylistic and grammatical point, really, a feature of his characteristic language that tends to be read back, by listeners of various persuasions, onto his music, often as stridency or brashness: Ho’s language, if we mean to treat it as in any way poetically shaped, is inevitably cast in an imperative mood. My question today, which I want more to pose than pretend definitively to answer, is how concretely music works toward what we might take for meaning. I want to take Fred Ho at his word. Can a baritone saxophone solo, for example, of the sort you’re hearing now, be said to speak? [Fred Ho’s arrangement of “Naima” was playing in the background, as I presented.] How does music aspire, beyond obvious programmatics, to the condition of speech? What exactly is being declared?
Jazz journalist Bill Shoemaker has written, perceptively and with a somewhat troubling accuracy, that
There are many musicians throughout jazz history who have been labeled revolutionaries, but that’s usually because of their musical accomplishments. Fred is a revolutionary who uses jazz as his medium.
The presumption, coming out of Ho’s work as much as Shoemaker’s well-attuned audition, is that sound can carry political and social meaning directly, formally; that revolution isn’t a trope but an aesthetic practice, enacted both for and with audiences. Ho describes the reaction he wants from listeners as akin to those of a child, who can “be both spellbound and revolutionized” by a given performance; music at once enthralls and enables, two countervaling states of raised consciousness – piety and critique, mimetic wonder and diegetic detachment, in a sense – that inhere in his populist claims. To play for the people, if you think about it, is both to invite mimicry and to call for unruliness, to refuse that same invitation. How, if music means to speak, can “people” be empowered by the cultish image of the inspired soloist, by his polemic force, exactly to speak out, not to be silenced by the verbal or expressive force of that declaration?
There’s a deeply embedded formal contradiction here that speaks to the nature of a musical politics, and to the ways in which music operates, I think, as a cultural pedagogy, as instruction in democratic or revolutionary forms of critique. In a talk at the triennial conference of ACLALS on 19 August 2007, Henry Giroux spoke with some dismay about what he called “the politics of disposability” among American young people, calling for a renewed and hopeful cultural pedagogy, following Paolo Freire, a radical futurity that dignifies people “so that they can become fully free.” This is Fred Ho’s vocabulary. Not only is it necessary to foster critical engagement among students with the cultural materials in which they find themselves immersed, teaching how to “read critically,” but there is a pressing need, Giroux argues, “to prepare students to function as critical agents capable of understanding, engaging, and transforming those discourses and institutional contexts that closed down democratic public life” (119). They need to take part. Despite his deep suspicions of aesthetics, which he suggests is tainted by “the residue of nostalgia and elitism” and also “seems particularly out of date, if not irrelevant” given the pervasiveness of a largely debased popular culture (are there echoes of Adorno here?), Giroux insisted on moving beyond critical thinking toward enabling students as “cultural producers,” as makers, as co-participants. But what do such arts sound like? Should we still be cautious of aesthetics, given the barometers of taste and technique that tend to manifest in such contexts? How do we face up to the demands of a democratic or popular art, of its audience? We’re negotiating a tension over the declamatory and the formal here: the expressive and the well-made. Addressing the rigour of our engagement depends, if you think about it, on a set of standards against which the openness of that participatory dynamic mitigates.
Fred Ho’s music operates, I think, on versions of this tension, negotiating the uncertainties and challenges between naïve, expressive directness and aesthetic detachment. As a composer and improviser, Ho has pursued remarkable and effective fusions of Asian heritage and folk forms with African-American avant-garde jazz, and many of his ballets, operas and suites – as extended idioms adapted from their “legit” Eurocentric counterparts and re-imaged as culturally porous, collaborative events – have been realized in complex, poly-dimensional, multi-media productions. These structural and conceptual pluralities have become hallmarks of Ho’s creative enmeshment in the unsettled and unsettling irresolutions of his diasporic cultural status, as an Asian-Pacific American. Difference and contrariety are, in Ho’s work, not problems to be resolved but constitutive elements through which liberation, both as a raising of consciousness and as tangible political transformation, might be sought. At the same time, Ho openly acknowledges his debt to the social polemics of Black Nationalism of the 1960s. His work as a writer (represented, for example, in his contributions to the anthology Legacy to Liberation, 2000) remains seemingly bound up in identity-politics and Marxist apologetics, an often fiercely uncompromising discourse that appears, as I’ve noted already, stylistically and theoretically at odds with his radically destabilizing musical practices. At the same time, if you’ve been able at all to listen to the baritone solo and now to his arrangementof John Coltrane’s “Naima” playing in the background, you realize that his music, on the surface, is not premised on inaccessibility or difficulty, consistently, but repeatedly seeks out – through riffs, repetitions, allusions to popular idioms – to involve listeners in its unfolding. The baritone solo, while offered up as an extension of the lineage of Sonny Rollins, Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, doesn’t aspire to Gunther Schuller’s musicological complexities or to radical serialism. Similarly, Ho’s admiration for poets such as Amiri Baraka or Kalamu ya Salaam appears to have much more to do with the verbal directness of their political interventions, with their emphasis on declarative immediacy, than with their linguistic or formal innovations. The title of the suite from which this music is taken bespeaks the politics of verbal directness and transparent engagement that Ho craves: “Yes Means Yes, No Means No, Whatever She Wears, Wherever She Goes.” Meaning, while at issue, wants to be denuded equivalence, unmarred by subtleties or doodads. The lyrics by Ann T. Greene, Andrea Lockett and others for the suite, a pro-feminist anti-patriarchal work commissioned in 1993 by WHAM! (Women’s Health Action and Mobilization) and BWARE (Brooklyn Women’s Anti-Rape Exchange), pull no punches. While resolutely opposed to sexual violence, the work, for Ho, has its roots in reactive physical confrontation: “My mother is a survivor of domestic violence, and as a young teenager, I physically fought my father to stop him beating her. I now see this as my first
revolutionary insurrection and challenge of patriarchal authority.”
Still, when Ho asks, in a recent artist’s statement, “how does music free us?” he draws attention to sonic texture and to poetic structure as inherently, crucially political, focusing our ears on how that challenge occurs, physiologically and consciously, rather than simply what it might be about. Ho’s apparently naïve preference for uninterrogated declamation – what some critics have dismissed as crude stridency – actually involves him, along with his listeners, in a difficult dialectic, a deeply rooted tension over the nature and practice of expression itself: of the interconnections between doing and saying. Paul Gilroy’s discussion of jazz and diaspora in Against Race – where he argues for “new possibilities and new pleasures” enabled by the fundamental dislocations of diasporic non-identities – provides a starting point for re-thinking Ho’s indebtedness to racial nationalisms, and for a more careful and attentive reading of his mesh of sounds and words. Coming to Gilroy might seem problematic in this context, given Ho’s overt attachment to what Gilroy dismisses as raciology, but Ho’s frequently discussed but still largely uninterrogated adherence to black nationalism – particularly as a non African American – finds one of its moments of coherence in the context of diaspora. How can a Chinese-American seriously compose a Black Panther suite, for example? There’s no reason why he shouldn’t of course, but the racial politics explicit in this work certainly trouble that allegiance, although trouble is exactly, I think, what Fred Ho might be about.
Working to define “the distinctiveness of diaspora poetics” (335), Gilroy cites Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka’s (1967) poetic formulation of “the changing same”:
This changing same is not some invariant essence that gets enclosed subsequently in a shape-shifting exterior with which it is casually associated. It is not the sign of an unbroken, integral inside protected by a camouflaged husk. The phrase names the problem of diaspora politics and diasporic poetics. . . . Invariably promiscuous, diaspora and the politics of commemoration it specifies, challenge us to apprehend mutable, itinerant forms that can redefine the idea of culture through a reconciliation with movement and dynamic variation. (“Diaspora and the Detours of Identity” 336; Against Race 129-130)
James Clifford, among many others, criticizes this formulation inasmuch as it tends to abstract and to diffuse collective political and social agencies, the possibility of there even being a “people”:
diaspora discourses such as Gilroy’s refuse to let go of a “changing same,” something endlessly hybridized and in process but persistently there-memories and practices of collective identity maintained over long stretches of time. Gilroy attempts to conceive the continuity of a “people” without recourse to land, race, or kinship as primary “grounds” of continuity. What, then, is the persistent object of his history? How to circumscribe this “changing same?” (Clifford 320)
This is a serious issue for a version of what I’ve heard here start to be called social aesthetics, I think: how effective to locate and to speak to a popular audience.
Ho’s recording of John Coltrane’s “Naima” (1998) – with lyrics by poet and journalist Andrea M. Lockett – offers listeners an opportunity to address Ho’s deliberately conflicted relationship to the radical sixties, and also suggests how a dynamic critical relationship between Ho’s work and his multiple cultural and musical heritages – what he names a practice of radical respect – has the potential to enact a model for new and liberated human communities, an arduous and challenging idealism he calls, following Sun Ra, embracing the impossible.
Mixed Materials: Raymond Williams Meets Don McKay
April 23, 2013 3:13 am / Leave a comment
Here is another review-essay that seems not to have made it into the pages of Canadian Literature during my time there as an associate editor, although it was written – the date-stamp on the document file puts it at January 2003 – about unsolicited review copies of books sent to the journal. I hope you can pardon the datedness of some of the references, but I thought it might be worth getting it out into the world, making it a little bit worldly, if only to mark one of my attempts to get Anglo-American intellectual work to resonate with some of its less-obvious Canadian counterparts – in this instance, trying to set up a reading of Don McKay through an overview of some reissued Raymond Williams (and some new-ish, at the time, Edward Said).
New Contexts of Canadian Criticism, a 1997 Broadview Press anthology of cultural analyses collaboratively edited by Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee and J. R. (Tim) Struthers, offers more than an update of its namesake, Eli Mandel’s classic (and out-of-print) collection of cultural backgrounds; it also presents theoretically-informed forays, through a set of variously Canadian discursive lenses, into the concepts of context and worldliness: a spate of essays that gesture heterogeneously at the possibilities inherent in a distinctly Canadian materiality— which here suggests everything from historicism to autobiography, from socio-economics to bibliography. Still, the first name mentioned in the book – and a critic who, enmeshed in contradictions and pluralities of his own, appears to set the irresolute tone for the collection – is not a Canadian, but Raymond Williams, late professor of Modern Drama at Cambridge. In the last five years or so, Williams’s unstable and disputatious amalgam of Leavisiteformalism and Lukácsiansocial realism — which he had come to call “cultural materialism,” and which arguably gave rise to Cultural Studies in the English-speaking world — has undergone a recuperation that, national provenance aside, has a tangible, even material, bearing on practices of Canadian criticism, in its several and conflicted guises.
Before I come to any overtly Canadian content, I want to touch on Williams’s worldliness, to suggest how his method might start to be dislodged from its British sinecure and beach itself on the other side of the Atlantic. Williams’s influence is audible (despite a paucity of direct reference) in Edward Said’s finely crafted Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (from Harvard UP). Williams’s impact registers more than in Said’s style, which has the transparent surety of a public intellectual at his peak; Said reads Williams as the voice of “an emergent or alternative consciousness allied to emergent and alternative subaltern groups within the dominant discursive society” (244), and — perhaps surprisingly, given Williams’s rather ardent Oxbridge traditionalism — as a figure of critical radicalism closely akin to Antonio Gramsci (from whom the vocabulary in the passage I have just quoted is drawn), Michel Foucault and Theodor Adorno. Williams probably wouldn’t endorse this reading, particularly the Frankfurt School associations, but it does speak closely to the recuperation of Williams in recent literary criticism, criticism that concerns itself with addressing, and moving non-regressively beyond, the impasses and stalemates of a postmodern condition. Williams, for Said, has been “responsive to the real material texture of socio-political change from the point of view not of what Adorno calls identitarian thought but of fractures and disjunctions,” of the “non-identitarian” thinking that Adorno’s own negative dialectics pursue; Williams writing is not, like Adorno’s, an especially philosophical or conceptual interrogation of these critical alternatives, but instead offers their verbal enactment:
To Williams, quite uniquely among major critics, there is this capacity for seeing literature not as a Whiggish advance in formal and aesthetic awareness, nor as a placid, detached, privileged record of what history wrought and which the institution of literature incorporates with sovereign, almost Olympian prowess, but rather as itself a site of contention within society, in which work, profit, poverty, dispossession, wealth, misery, and happiness are the very materials of the writer’s craft, in which the struggle to be clear or to be partisan or detached or committed is in the very nature of the text. (469)
Williams, as writer, reworks this struggle as he reads and responds; like Said’s, his criticism is suffused with a public, pedagogical imperative. Teaching, for Williams, whether in postwar night-schools or rarefied universities, is a matter of social justice and of the redistribution of cultural wealth, of access to empowerment and to the contingent, pressing formations of identity and self-worth that circulate in the world, and that find themselves embodied, better than anywhere, in the literature of a national tradition. Not that Williams is parochial: for Said, he is the best example of a worldly thinker, one who seeks to restore “works and interpretations of their place in the global setting” and to “engage with cultural works in [an] unprovincial, interested manner while maintaining a strong sense of the contest for forms and values which any decent cultural work embodies, realizes, and contains” (383). Williams’s essays, like Said’s, aspire not to dispense high-blown wisdom but to “teach the conflicts,” as Gerald Graff put it: to enable readers to enter crucial debates in cultural politics and to contest meanings and values, rather than to acquiesce to the false gods of scholarly and cultural authority.
Peterborough’s Broadview Press has also reissued, as “encore editions,” two of Williams’s important works from the 1960s: The Long Revolution and Modern Tragedy. In both, Williams takes up challenges facing the public intellectual, and takes those challenges seriously. He aspires not only to transparency in his prose — framing questions of cultural value in a style accessible to the common literate reader — but also to putting at issue the dynamics of societal transformation — through emergent literacy, through public education and through political heuristics — in writing itself.
He begins Modern Tragedy (1966) by describing a conflict built into the term tragedy, a tension between its literary and its common meanings; he notes how theoreticians and literary scholars have tried to narrow into a “particular kind of event, and kind of response” that is not merely “death and suffering,” or accident, or “simply any response to death and suffering,” the sense commonly called tragedies “in ordinary speech and in the newspapers,” a usage regarded as “loose and vulgar” by academics (14). As long-term readers of Williams will recognize, he never tosses off a word like “ordinary,” and it soon becomes clear that he stands apart from the academics he parodies, finding himself impelled ethically to discover what scholars and theoreticians tend to dismiss, the “actual relations” we “see and live by, between the tradition of tragedy and the kinds of experience, in our own time, that we ordinarily and perhaps mistakenly call tragic” (14-15). The so-called mistakes people make in everyday language, for Williams, are not so easily put aside, but point significantly to literature’s relevance: why it matters and how it materializes in the world. He doesn’t cast critical scholarship aside — the second half of the book is a survey, revised from his lectures on modern drama at Cambridge, of innovations in modern European theatre, a thoroughly academic enterprise — but pursues instead the historical, cultural and institutional conflicts built into both the genre and the concept of tragedy, and transforms what might on first glance seem like a dry piece of literary exegesis into a compelling profession of revolutionary dialectics.
In the book, we oscillate between literary and political problematics, as opposed to progressing from one to the other; it’s significant that Williams concludes with, rather beginning from, literary exempla. Literature, for him, is not as creative work separable from everyday life — as he puts it in The Long Revolution, art neither attains a transcendent priority nor dawdles as secondary, leisure-time activity, both of which, he asserts, are “formulations of the same error” of dividing the creative from the ordinary (54). Literature is for Williams concerned instead with “communication,” by which he means not simply its “transmission” but the “social fact” of the aesthetic, its recognition and re-inscription of “reception and response,” of audience, into its own fabric: “Art is ratified, in the end, by the fact of creativity in all our living. Everything we see and do, the whole structure of our relationships and institutions, depends, finally, on an effort of learning, description and communication. We create our human world as we have thought of art being created” (46, 54). Material and last causes, poetic making and revolutionary disruption, interweave in Williams’s cogent syntax; his critical method is deceptively banal, but his argument, if we attend to it carefully, is as disturbing as it is affirmative — not to draw art down to some lower level of the everyday, but instead to perceive “creative interpretation and effort” in living, to attempt to abolish all such levels and stratifications, as embodiments of social and cultural imbalances. His methodology neither reduces art to sociology, nor detaches the aesthetic from the lived, but pursues the communicative processes that link text with social or historical context, to see “works and ideas in their immediate contexts, as well as in their historical continuity” (16), a social aesthetics. His historicism evinces a kinship to Foucauldian genealogies, as we trace, for example, the evolving conceptual shifts in the term “tragedy”:
The tragic meaning is always both culturally and historically conditioned [. . .]. The essence of tragedy has been looked for in the pre-existing beliefs and in the consequent order [of a society], but it is precisely these elements that are most narrowly limited, culturally. Any attempt to abstract these orders, as definitions of tragedy, either misleads or condemns us to a merely sterile attitude towards the tragic experience of our own culture. (52-53)
Despite a shared humanist vocabulary, Williams’s work on the genre is diametrically opposed to the archetypalism of his near-contemporary Northrop Frye, which pursues exactly those “abstract orders,” abstractions Williams understands as historical products, rather than as structural fixities of a verbal universe that is ultimately divorced from real human experience.
By historicizing even his own critical apparatus, Williams hopes to push through the aesthetic — here framed as tragic redemption — toward a broader ethics he names revolution. In Modern Tragedy he appears at crucial junctures to inhabit a moment of critical reflex, at which the generic structures of classical tragedy overlap with the social forms of their communication: tragedy provides the structural basis for its own interpretation and application. For example, he takes the Aristotelian apex of anagnoresis, or recognition, and overlays a Marxian rubric of emergent class consciousness as revolutionary flashpoint, to explain the gap between the ideal of revolution and its repeated ossification and failure in real human societies, as well as the epistemic break between the literary and the ordinary:
At the point of this recognition, [. . .] where the received ideology of revolution, its simple quality of liberation, seems most to fail, there is waiting the received ideology of tragedy, in either of its common forms: the old tragic lesson, that man cannot change his condition, but can only drown his world in blood in the failed attempt; or the contemporary reflex, that the taking of rational control over our social destiny is defeated or at best deeply stained by our inevitable irrationality, and by the violence and cruelty that are so quickly released when habitual forms break down. (74)
Williams attributes this impasse to a self-defeating liberalism, that he regards as “hemmed in on all sides” (73). His attitude is never defeatist, however, and by reading the modern European canon of tragedy, he projects — progressing from Ibsen through Ionesco to Brecht — a “new tragedy” that refuses to accept the contradictions of human injustice as inevitable, and moves through that “recognition” to break down the “fixed harshness” of any regime, revolutionary or not, with the ongoing “struggle [to] live in new ways and with new feelings,” and by “including the revolution” in “ordinary living,” to “answer death and suffering with a human voice” (103-4). Admittedly, this insistence on the potentially revolutionary character of the ordinary, as redemptive, remains something of a sticking point for Williams’s readers, because of his mystification of “experience” as resolutely unassimilated by abstract or literary forms, even as those forms seek either to contain or to unleash it. Williams’s theory of tragedy, for this reason, is largely anti-cathartic, not because it does not aim toward changing minds, but because he does not want the energy of that change to be dissipated in aesthetic experience: communication, instead, transmutes pathos into ethos, affect into responsibility.
The resurgence of a human voice in literary forms even as arch as tragedy produces revolution, however “long,” subtle and attenuated, because it speaks to the fundamental emotive substructure of community (an argument closely akin to Herbert Marcuse’s aesthetics of liberation): “A society in which revolution is necessary is a society in which the incorporation of all its people, as whole human beings , is in practice impossible without a change in its fundamental form of relationships. [. . .] Revolution remains necessary [. . .] because there can be no acceptable human order while the full humanity of any class of men is in practice denied” ( 76, 77; original italics). That revolution should “remain” and endure, rather than find a sudden, violent social articulation, is for Williams a consequence of his New Left mistrust of revolutionary regimes and of revolution’s essentially cultural character; culture, as he defines it in The Long Revolution , names a “creative” process — the “long revolution” locates itself not a fractal shock, but in “the essential relation, the true interaction, between patterns learned and created in the mind and patterns learned and made active in relationships, conventions and institutions. Culture is our name for this process and its results, and then within this process we discover problems that have been the subject of traditional debate and that we may look at again in this new way” (89). This Leavisite insistence on the rediscovery of tradition and an Arnoldian vocabulary of true pedagogy, of what must be “learned,” hardly appears revolutionary at all. But Williams’s rhetoric is designed not to shock but to educate, to forge connections between his own ethical imperatives and a popular status quo enmeshed in histories — such as that of literacy, which Williams explores in this book — that have been misrecognized as stasis, as tradition. When Williams writes, with calculated banality, that he wants to look at culture in “this new way,” he is not falling back into the reactionary radicalism of Thomas Carlyle or Matthew Arnold, whom he often quotes approvingly, but trying to engage with what he calls “a necessary tension in language,” particularly in its popular manifestations in organs such as the press, “between powerful impulses to imitation and to change,” a tension that he understands as “part of our basic processes of growth and change,” and of the human movement toward fundamental betterment. Simply put, you need to speak in a language that can be understood, or you will get nowhere, and no change, revolutionary or otherwise, is possible; you need to discover, in the commonplace or the “traditional,” a revolutionary moment (a critical tactic that is closely reminiscent of Antonio Gramsci’s work on the “national-popular”).
The Long Revolution closes with an extended meditation on “Britain in the 1960s” — a period that was only just about to unfold — which Williams clearly intended as a gesture toward critical immediacy, an attempt to historicize his own present and to map its socio-cultural tendencies (as he does early in the book for the 1840s, the remoteness of which from his own time offers a more rigorous and clear-sighted approach to the selective and accumulative processes of history and historicizing; it is difficult to step back from your own present, even contingently). His critical project, however, is not so much utopian — a concept he associates with a liberal idealism content to proclaim the virtues of such things as education, participatory democracy and “common culture” while still “leaving our training institutions as they are” (176) — as it is hopeful, that “unevenly, tentatively, we get a sense of movement, and the meanings and values extend,” that language, in other words, gets put into practice, “keeping the revolution going” (383). To this end, Williams precedes his social and historical reflections with a call for renovated literary form, what he calls a “new realism” that is “not the old static realism of the passive observer,” a writing inured in regressive objectivity that, though “nostalgia and imitation” merely reinforces oppression, but is instead “necessarily dynamic and active,” not so much the mere representation of social reality as one means of its continual establishment, by which Williams means that writing enacts “this living tension, achieved in communicable form,” the process he calls “culture,” a negotiation between pattern and practice, imagined ideal and lived reality: the “achievement of realism” in the contemporary novel, as praxis rather than telos , is for Williams both “a continual achievement of balance,” the temporary resolution of this tension, and “the ordinary absence of balance,” the dialectical resurgence of a lived asymmetry, an ethical call (316).
But Williams, sadly, does little better than gesture toward this form. The unavoidable conceptual haziness of “experience” in his work needs to be honed away, and the formal character of that realism more carefully articulated, if his hope is to be (no pun intended) realized. I think that Williams’s realism can be supplemented with a kind of late phenomenology to affect such a precising, specifically that of Emmanuel Levinas, and specifically its inflection in the work of a Canadian poet, Don McKay. There are certainly a number of significant caveats to such a claim: Williams had little sympathy for the privileged defamiliarizations of a phenomenological poetics, one that insists on personal consciousness-raising, poetic complexity or intellectual pretense; Levinas, at least in his work up to Totality and Infinity (1961, tr. 1969), expresses a fundamental distrust of the aesthetic, particularly poetry, and outright refuses any kind of socially or politically engaged writing; and McKay’s own poetics repeatedly discover their indebtedness to Martin Heidegger and, more recently, to Levinas himself, but leave Williams and other social realists largely unmentioned. Still, I think that a coalescence emerges from this conjunction, particularly when Williams is re-read in the way I have been suggesting, and on Canadian turf no less. McKay’s Vis-à-Vis (from Gaspereau Press) is a collection of essays and poems that ostensibly focuses on “nature poetry,” but in fact accomplishes this difficult conceptual mix, in discrete textual space.
McKay’s reflections gather around a set of recurrent concepts: wilderness, alterity, translation, apparatus, place. Poetry is not, for him, a form of apprehension — of consciousness as possession or appropriation — but a release, through language, into what cannot and ought not be completely grasped: a form of listening or attentiveness that honours, and pays homage to, what McKay calls wilderness, which he describes as “not just a set of endangered spaces, but the capacity of all things to elude the mind’s appropriations” (21). His work finds an imperative in the intersection of the ethical and the ecological, and seeks to revise our sense of home-making, as a collision of oikos with poiesis , to point to a fundamental form of human responsibility for the world, a revision and an extension of Heidegger’s shepherding of being. Where justice in Raymond Williams’s work adopts a human face, and seeks a better form of human society, for McKay justice must necessarily find a prehuman foundation, must at least gesture beyond its own narrow limits. While acknowledging the inevitable and obvious humanness of language and perspective — an echo of Heidegger’s insistence on the humanity of what the philosopher named Dasein — McKay rethinks this anthropocentrism in terms of response and responsibility, producing a version of what Levinas calls “l’humanisme de l’autre homme, ” the humanism of the other person: “nature poetry should not be taken to be avoiding anthropocentrism, but to be enacting it, thoughtfully. It performs the translation which is at the heart of being human, the simultaneous grasp and gift of home-making” (29). Writing nature, that which is outside or beyond the human, is an essentially human act for McKay, a practice he describes by taking up Levinas’s image from Totality and Infinity of the face — le visage , as in vis-à-vis — as wholly other ; McKay refuses the stalemated, dyadic archetypalism of Margaret Atwood’s “The Animals in that Country” (who have either human faces or “the faces of no-one,” a forbidding juxtaposition of mutual solitudes), and instead gestures toward an otherness that is both vital and responsive, as gift and grasp: “we can perform artistic acts in such a way that, in ‘giving things a face’ the emphasis falls on the gift, the way, for example, a linguistic community might honour a stranger by conferring upon her a name in their language. Homage is, perhaps, simply appropriation with the current reversed” (99). McKay doesn’t idealistically renounce human grasping — in the capacity of language, for example, to name and overwrite what it cannot finally possess, to give a human aspect, catachrestically, to that which is beyond it, making the stranger a familiar — but suggests that such forms of naming and writing, while unavoidable, need to be enacted thoughtfully, responsibly.
Heidegger’s definition of the tool, as that which is to hand, provides McKay with a crucial instance of how to produce such thoughtfulness, as he revises — in ordinary language, through anecdote and reminiscence — a defining human moment, the utility in taking up a tool, as an encroachment of the non-human, of wilderness: “That tools retain a vestige of wilderness is especially evident when we think of their existence in time and eventual gradation from utility: breakdown” (21). He describes the stuff we find at yard sales and in garages — a disused hand-turned meat grinder, for example — as evidence of this inevitable slippage, of what sounds like a vestigial otherness, as its apparatus, its techincal human contrivance, is foregrounded in its collapse into uselessness. (He attaches a military terminology for waste ordinance to this collapse: Matériel , a word that for him marks not only human appropriation but also, as apparatus, resurgent wildness, and that he defines as “any instance of second-order appropriation, where the first appropriation is the making of tool, or the address to things in the mode of utility,” an infliction of the human “rage for immortality on things, marooning them on static islands” as pollutants, as discards [20].) But McKay is careful not to slip into naive appropriations, by idealizing an otherness in language itself, whether common speech or poetry: “poetic attention is based on a recognition and a valuing of the other’s wilderness; it leads to a work which is not a vestige of the other, but a translation of it” (28). This, again, is a Levinasian claim, that hinges on a distrust of the illusion, within the aesthetic, of an incorporation of its outside, to make meaning of the world, to represent; poetry, for McKay, is an example of the foregrounding in language, lovingly, of its inability to represent, of its artifice, its apparatus, even as it describes the human necessity of representation or of making sense: “Poetry comes in here, as a function of language in its apparatus-nature, and not its crowning glory. Poetry comes about because language is not able to represent raw experience, yet it must; it comes about because translation is only translation, apparatus is apparatus” (65).
This separating off of language from world does not, however, occasion a move into post-structuralism, which McKay repeatedly acknowledges as his own philosophical reflex; but his writing takes up the Levinasian il y a (again, a revision of Dasein , there-ness) as opposed to the Derridean il n’y a pas (a accession to the pervasive texuality of the human), and language, for him, is not so much a giving in to limits as a gift, a gesture toward its outside: “The first indicator of one’s status as a nature poet is that one does not invoke language right off when talking about poetry, but acknowledges some extra-linguistic condition as the poem’s input, output, or both” (26). “They’re out there, the unformed ones,” he opens “The Canoe People,” a reworking of a figure from Robert Bringhurst’s Haida translations (77), linking that sense of place, there, to displacement, a floating outside, as these mythical strangers maunder “their wayless way/ among the islands, and now even/ into English with its one-thing-then-/ another-traffic-signalled syntax” (77-78). The point of Bringhurst’s complex work, he implies, is not and cannot be appropriation, but rather, as translation, it manifests an honouring of what it is not, and an insistence on that alterity as the foundational stuff of poetry: an offering of gifts, as thanks, as listening. Poets, McKay claims — and by these he must mean poets such as himself, since he excludes by implication much of the work of those inured in post-structuralism, from the language poetry of Christian Bök to the ideology-critique of Steve McCaffery, even as he shares their vocabularies — “are supremely interested in what language can’t do; in order to gesture outside, they use language that flirts with its destruction” (32). McKay’s terminology is, again, Heideggerian, and he echoes the concept of Destruktion , which Derrida translates into deconstruction ; that flirtation, however, is neither playfully ironic nor dead-ended in itself, but hopeful, a saving grace.
The image of lichens, with which the book concludes, offers a metaphor, which is to say a translation, a mutuality of word and world, as the rock plants both embody and represent “that tiny, shocking, necessary invasion; that saving of language from itself” (106). Poetic language — and this, for me, is how McKay both supplements and refines the problematic posed in Williams — materializes the attempt at what Williams calls “communication” and McKay writes of as gift, the responsiveness and mutuality that clings, like lichen, in words. Both Williams and McKay can be, as I have already pointed out, deceptively colloquial and quotidian. They seek out, in the everyday and in common speech, a “new way” that was always present, an ordinary revolution.
McKay, Don. Vis-à-vis: Field Notes on Poetry and Wilderness.
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau P, 2001. Print.
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stones that need not: Short Take on Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson
I’m starting out this post on my mobile phone app while waiting in line for Red Cat Records to open on this April Saturday morning for Record Store Day. So it seems like an appropriate occasion – standing iPhone in hand to pick up some new vinyl – to write about the copy I received by mail-order, yesterday, of the Rune Grammofon LP stones, a live recording of an improvised duo performance at the 2011 Vancouver International Jazz Festival by saxophonists Mats Gustafsson and Colin Stetson. It was their first meeting in this configuration, although both have played for years in similar alt-music circles, and seem to share a sensibility for mixing post-punk and avant-jazz in their playing. They also both have a well-established thing for low horns: on this occasion, Stetson plays alto and bass saxophones, Gustafsson the tenor and baritone. The concert itself was fairly brief, a 45-minute set at a packed Performance Works (there was no admission charge) on Granville Island, on a Sunday afternoon in late June. And I was there, too.
The four pieces on the record – which clock in between five and twelve minutes each – have been titled retroactively, and presumably by the Swedish Gustafsson, with fragments “inspired by” (adapted from?) the poetry of his compatriot, the modernist Gunnar Ekelöf: “stones that rest heavily”; “stones that can only be”; “stones that need not”; stones that only have.” I don’t recognize the references, but I don’t know Ekelöf’s poetry well enough, not at all. But even as a set of post hoc cues, the titles not only lend the slightly-edited set on record the feel of conceptual coherence, which it actually has, but also suggest something of the improvisational aesthetic at work here. I haven’t been able, with a cursory search, to locate any of the source-texts for the titles, but stones are a recurrent image in Ekelöf and are associated with enthropy and death, a trace perhaps held over from his early-career “suicidal” poetics, as in these lines from “The Sea is the Greatest Sculptor” (translated by W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg):
The sea and death
There is no stone so jagged
the sea won’t rub it smooth
or grind it to sand
or finer
But I don’t hear in the duo’s music either lapidary patience or worried foundations. The emphasis on low fundamentals, the long drones and overtones with which the first and longest track on the record begins for instance, gives way to tongue flutters and plunked finger-pads, vocalized growls and arpeggiated counterpoint: interruption and cross talk, as much as the meditative convergence of lines. The music is essentially dialogic, but that conversation is driven by antithesis as much as it is by accord, the verso of Ekelöf’s poetic, his “Non Serviam,” a biblical phrase which can translate a duplicity, a contradiction, meaning both I will not serve and I will not transgress, an amalgam of refusal and deference. Or, as Ekelöf frames this disavowal poetically, as a fraught relationship to identity and belonging,
I am a stranger in this land
but this land is no stranger in me!
I am not at home in this land
but this land behaves as if it where at home in me!
I cannot live in this land
but this very land lives like venom in me!
A version of this admixture of contrariety and ecstasy informs Stetson and Gustafsson’s interplay. The second track moves through echoes of Harry Carney-like Ellingtonia to sonic gesticulations at Roscoe Mitchell‘s angularities. The stuttering upper partials at the opening of the third cut recall Pharoah Sandersin Coltrane’s “The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost,” while fragments of a Mancini-like caper theme cycle through the fourth. The music is live, in situ and a little noisy; people murmur, a child speaks, other music from a distant outdoor stage thumps softly underneath one piece. But the duo only seems to draw more energy from the hubbub. They take possession of their bandstand, committed and aggressively vital, making the place speak, making it happen. Not as homecoming, no, but as an evocation of creative estrangements, the coincidence of resonant differences: the audible collisions of what need not and can only be.
An Unlikely Sameness, Alias Myself
April 16, 2013 10:08 pm / Leave a comment
She is importunate, indeed distract (Hamlet IV.v.2)
Michael Robbins has fast become the laureate of American culture trash. Fast, in the contrary senses that his work confronts both the disjunctive velocities of the non sequitur and the tenuous monumentality, the making fast, of whatever might still remain of the well-turned poem in these late, noisy days. Positioning himself, with the recent publication of a spate of reviews and of his own provocative poetry, as an ornery aggregator – an alien-predator hybrid, maybe – of media flows, commoditized tag-lines and discursive meshes, he repurposes packets of worn, oversold language into brutal, keen lyric, making out of the deliberate anachrony, the untimely music, of rhyme and of vestigial stanzaic form both a temporary stay against confusion and a plastic word-bin to hoard our swelling cultural clutter.
I say “our” with some trepidation, because I’m not even American. As a reader, I still want to stay a little outside of those ineluctable surges of images, music, and text stemming from the plugged-in United States, still want to maintain a bootless resistance to the manifest destiny of its whelming literacy. Robbins’s poems might be read as articulating just such a resistance, but from somewhere inside its pervious borders:
The coyote drives her in a false-bottomed van.
He drops her in the desert. The bluffs are tan.
She’ll get a job at Chili’s picking up butts.
I feel ya, Ophelia, I say to my nuts.
And there is pansies. And that’s for thoughts.
Erotic lyricism has degenerated to bathos, and here – in the final lines of the recently published “The Second Sex” – discomfiting literary pleasures (in the reiterated highbrow melopoeia of Shakespearean misogyny) collide with the craven vocabularies of yellow journalism around “illegal” immigration and the clichéd lyrics of YouTube pop bands. The disjunctive quotations echo Eliot’s technique in The Waste Land, and enact an ironic distancing of self – the fraught “I” that enounces this poem, and for that matter most of Robbins’s poems – from its own broken voices. From this angle, Robbins might be understood as a late modernist, in as much as his ostensive love poem consists of ventriloquized stock phrases and hollowed-out figures of speech, a brief constellation of fragments shored against itself, redeployed in the service of ideology critique, parodying the commodity fetishism of literacy itself, of our sense that we’ve been sold this wordy bill of goods before. “These love poets,” he jabs in “The Learn’d Astronomer,”
couldn’t write their way
out of a bag of kitty litter. The genitals, the heart,
the burning fantastical heavens themselves–
just junk in a Safeway cart I’m pushing
down to the recycling center. (Alien vs. Predator 31)
Any Romeo-and-Juliet-style romantic transgression of boundaries, any hint of the hyperbole of “love” and tragedy, degenerates in “The Second Sex” into exploited “illegal” janitorial labour, at best some recycled junk.
This contrariety informs the “vs.” of the title of his viral New Yorker poemand of his 2012 collection, Alien vs. Predator. Picking up cigarette butts at a Chili’s (even the restaurant name suggests mestizo-mestiza cultural commodification, capitalist appropriation) literalizes the work of gathering culture trash that I am associating with Robbins’s poetry; I’m suggesting that the resistance to commodification – again, from this particular reading’s angle of incidence – takes part in the remainders of a late modernism that emerges from, say, Theodor Adorno’s assessment of Samuel Beckett in “Trying to Understand Endgame” (from which I’ve poached the whole idea of “culture trash”):
The objective decay of language, that bilge of self-alienation, at once stereotyped and defective, which human beings’; word and sentences have swollen up into within their own mouths, penetrates the aesthetic arcanum. (281)
Or, as Adorno puts it otherwise, “because there has been no life other than the false life” (275), Beckett can do little but try to confront his own, and our, ontological impoverishment, and to shock us into recognizing, if only temporarily, that falsity. (“All of old,” he would write in Worstward Ho, some two decades after Adorno’s passing:“Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” [Nohow On 101].) Those small, particulate shocks, I’d say, are exactly what Robbins’s poems aspire to generate – like how, for instance, his Robert Frost gets bent backwards over an In Touch magazine: “I kiss your trash. My boobs are fake. / I have promises to break” (“Plastic Robbins Band,” Alien vs. Predator 15).
But this reading of Robbins as fusty modernist is belied in those same lines, because he doesn’t merely trash his literary forebears, but also kisses that trash, embraces it with what I read as genuine vigour. In a review of John Ashbery’s Quick Question for the Chicago Tribunein December 2012, Robbins implicitly acknowledges his indebtedness to Ashbery’s mixed technique, colliding cartoonish daftness with lissome lyric, concatenating “lucid sentences” from “marooned pronouns” and “mismatched adjectives.”Ashbery, he asserts has been replicating himself in successive publications, suggesting a certain self-parody in his work. But that auto-iterative tack, making poetry (new?) out of its own garbling memes, is what Robbins says he admires in Ashbery: “Lots of poets write the same book over and over, of course, especially as they age. Why complain about Ashbery’s sameness when it’s so unlikely?” Ashbery might be read as a latter-day modernist, a holdover, but it’s his recovery of creative disjunction from the relentless sameness of Anglo-American literary culture, from its overflowing virtual trash bin, that gives his poems their vitality. And it’s in this ardour for the unlikely that Robbins finds his own poetic purchase.
I had planned to say plenty about some of Robbins’s new poems, and as with all of his work there is probably too much to say. Instead, I’ll just return to “The Second Sex” for a moment, to its aphoristic opening line: “After the first sex, there is no other.” He’s toying with the cult-value of chastity, as a marker of moral or existential purity, and as a figure of authenticity (shades of Adorno, again?); he’s also gaming the gender-politics of the heteronormative love poem, front-loaded with patriarchal idealizations of a passive and commodified femininity, which Simone de Beauvoir criticizes in The Second Sex – the source of Robbins’s backhanded title – as a projection of masculine horror of the flesh. The poem precipitates into a set of gender-b(l)ending quips, but I want to hang on to the first line a little longer. The balanced cadence – it’s an end-stopped iambic pentameter – gives the line a monumentality, a closure that might seem at odds with making it the poem’s opening gambit. It also sounds like you may have heard it before; it sounds like poetry with a capital P – because it is, or rather, it’s an un-likeness, a turned echo, of the last line of a modernist masterwork, Dylan Thomas’s “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” (1946): “After the first death, there is no other.” Some might read Robbins’s substitution of sex for death – Freudian Eros for Thanatos, a very Thomas-like pairing – as crass, but what Robbins accomplishes with this detournement blurs lyric into trash, not to choose between them but to make them vacillate and phase. If I had to name this kind of intertextual figure, I’d suggest that it might be best understood not as epigone allusion but as distraction, as an unlikeness, a tangential negation that hangs unresolved in a hiatus of semantic duplicity, or even multiplicity. In a review-essay published in the January 2013 issue of Poetry, Robbins seems to trash Dylan Thomas by comparing his overcooked verbiage to the names of heavy metal bands:
The best metal undercuts its portentousness with self-awareness — if your major tropes include corpse paint and Satanism, you’d better not take yourself too seriously. In Thomas’s work, self-seriousness is the major trope.
But you have to remember that Robbins professes to love heavy metal. Apparently disavowing the influence of Dylan Thomas – alongside his early enthusiasms for James Wright, Rilke (“the jerk”) and Neruda – Robbins comes to recognize the impact of Thomas’s poetic clutter:
That’s what I hate most about Thomas: if you care about poems, you can’t entirely hate him. Phrases, images, metaphors rise from the precious muck and lodge themselves in you like shrapnel.
The love-hate, the un-likeness, which Robbins registers here as influence has a visceral, palpable and (I would say) shocking aspect, because it marks what remains, amid the distractions of too much to say and hear and register, of lyric impact, of language making something happen. I think there is a connection to be made with Walter Benjamin’s prescient juxtaposition of modern, mass-culture distraction and late romantic aesthetic concentration, in his investigation of media viewership in “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (1935-36). In the collision of art and commodification – in photography, in dada poetry, in newspapers and especially in film – Benjamin perceives a shift into distraction that ultimately politicizes the aesthetic (another modernist fantasy of redemption and recovery), but which nonetheless still entails a revitalization of perception rather than the anaesthetizing of viewership (and, I would suggest, of reading):
For the tasks which face the human apparatus of perception at historical turning points cannot be solved by optical means – that is, by way of contemplation. They are mastered gradually – taking their cue from tactile reception – through habit.
Even the distracted person can form habits. What is more, the ability to master certain tasks in a state of distraction first proves that their performance has become habitual. The sort of distraction that is provided by art represents a covert control of the extent to which it has become possible to perform new tasks of apperception. Since, moreover, individuals are tempted to evade such tasks, art will tackle the most difficult and most important tasks whenever it is able to mobilize the masses. (40)
Overcoming habituation is not simply a matter of the shock-work of ideology critique, but the discovery of a mode of apperception – a more fully and technologically mediated embodiment – that can master the uptake of aesthetic and cultural shrapnel. You can look, all the signs used to say, but you’d better not touch. On the contrary, yes, you’d better, says Benjamin. Touch this, says Michael Robbins. “A cheap knockoff, the night / proved to be,” he writes in “Be Myself” (a retooling the grandiloquent “multitudes” of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” into recirculated “platitudes,” an epigone diminishment, perhaps, but definitely a knockoff): “Nokla / not Nokia on the touchscreen.” The poem becomes touchscreen, rife with distracted tactility, rendered apparent – and apperceptive, if you read carefully enough – in the fracture that opens in an uncertain, ersatz, out-of-country brand name. Unenglished.
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Short Take on Brad Cran, Elizabeth Bachinsky and Jay MillAr
Nightwood Editions launched a trio of new poetry books in Vancouver tonight, with readings to a packed house at the Western Front. Publisher Silas White introduced Jay MillAr – himself a poetry publisher, helming Book Thug in Toronto – as one of the country’s underappreciated talents. MillAr set up half a dozen poems from Timely Irreverence by noting jokingly he’d seen a Green Day concert a few days ago and had now found a proper punk-inspired stance for reading poetry.
You can still see a little of the Green Day-inspired stance here.
MillAr’s writing foregrounds a wry self-awareness: most of the poems thematize themselves as poems, as avowedly contingent verbal artifacts (as in the title poem: “I’m tinkering with these lines . . .”). Another preoccupation in his work seems to be with collisions of representation and violence, as in “More Trouble with the Obvious,” where in a kind of dark comedy of innocence he describes how “kids” turn found objects into imaginary guns, which still – as mundane alchemies, blurring creativity into threat – have the potential to “blow you away.”
Elizabeth Bachinsky’s poems from The Hottest Summer in Recorded Historyhave a lighter touch, but draw on a similarly intensive, if playful self-consciousness, setting formal detachment and poetic “craft” (“Eliot was right, it’s useless to describe a feeling”) against confessions of personal investment, of getting her feelings hurt:
To dislike this poem, to dislike me.
Astonishing. Poets like this word.
I like this word. I’ll use it again. Astonishing!
How could you not like me? Not like this thing?
She reminds me at times of Colleen Thibaudeau, with her fearless attachment to expressive particulars and to the pleasures of major-keyed melodic diction. As with her other books, Bachinsky’s range of forms (from villanelle to sonnet) is impressive; her reading of the mono-rhymed “Nails” was a highlight (check it out, get the book).
Brad Cran read a set of four poems dedicated to Gillian Jerome. These, too, are personal pieces, but very different in tone from Bachinsky’s. Some of the pieces in Ink on Paper have developed into what Cran has characterized as essay-poems: long-lined, longer texts that combine a narrative plainness (“It was days before Halloween . . .”) with almost journalistic descriptions of personal history and contemporary politics, like open letters, cut through with occasional moments of melopoeic density: “Fear beat in our chests like second hearts.” These are poems designed to communicate, without pretense or highfalutin obscurity: civic poems. Moving and provocative, they work so well when read aloud.
Never Be Touched Enough
This morning, writer, DJ and Poetry Is Dead editor Daniel Zomparelli posted to Facebook a snapshot of himself lecturing – at Pecha Kucha Vancouver, on April 11 – in front of an unnaturally large PowerPoint slide featuring the front cover of a trade edition of Suzanne Somers’s only poetry collection, Touch Me. The photo garnered a slew of likes, mostly from people who seemed to regard the image as a kind of playful meme. But Zomparelli takes Suzanne Somers’s writing seriously, as poetry. And I want to think about why he might be right, because I do, too.
I own a hardcover copy of the first edition of Touch Me. Along with my Bruce Springsteen mirror and my Sex Pistols coffee mug, it’s been one of my prized possessions, for years. I’m not sure where or when I found it or bought it – probably in a remainder bin at Zellers, although it’s not struck or marked as a cut-out. I can’t imagine I paid full price, but it looks like I might have. At first, I must have thought of the book as a joke buy, but in the last decade, as it sat unblinkingly on my office bookshelf, I have come to think of her collection of poems as significant, and as worth reading properly, fully and well.
To take these poems seriously, to take Suzanne Somers at her word, you need to learn to read in a mode that the poems can support. While they present themselves as intimate, confessional lyrics, it soon becomes apparent that they will buckle and wilt under even the slightest pressure of a close reading, of trained formal scrutiny. But they’re not meant to operate as what Cleanth Brooks would have called, in the decades of his influence, the decades leading up to their publication, “well-wrought” literary artifacts. Touch Me is a key instance of what early 1970s, post-Jonathan Livingston Seagull American popular culture would have understood as aspirational self-expression: “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way” (Richard Bach wrote this, somewhere in the second part of his groovy fantasia). Furthermore, it’s impossible to separate poetic text from its intentional frame, from Suzanne Somers’s nascent public persona, her unabashed desire for celebrity, to make herself known, as human commodity.
Pages of the book are interspersed throughout with black-and-white images (re-textured to resemble canvas) of Somers in various wistful and contemplative poses; this isn’t, or isn’t only, a faux-naiffeint of authorial presence, but it also openly describes how that sense of intimacy can be simultaneously authentic and constructed, at once a fully-fabricated persona and the real “me” of the title, almost touchable. “I could be all those things for you,” she tells an absent lover in “Some Other Time,” or tells us as his reader/stand-ins; the line mixes the artifice of role-play with erotic candour and intentional deference—and she sustains herself, in these poems, for “him” (often, but not always, Alan Hamel, who appears in two of the photos), and, as his surrogates, for us.
The poems always, always direct themselves at concocting privacy: “I like the gentle quiet loneliness of being alone.” The redundancy here is all-too-obviously awkward – again, it bears repeating that these poems will easily crumble under too close, and to my mind too unfair, an analysis – but as a refrain it overstates the outcome that all of her poetry craves: a fiction of proximity. The untutored, off-the-cuff bathos of many of her lines – “House plants have a way of invading my privacy” – only further reinforces the sense that we keep drawing closer, poem by poem, to her unguarded self.
Wikipedia dates the publication of Touch Me at 1980, on the crest of Somers’s success on Three’s Company, but the book actually first appeared in 1973, when she had had only a handful of small roles and cameos in film and had been a regular on the TV show Mantrap. More to the point, in 1970, just prior to the composition of Touch Me, she had done a nude “test” photo-shoot for Playboy, but had refused to be photographed for the magazine the following year; those photos were eventually published in 1980 by Playboy, in response apparently to Somers’s repeated public denials that they even existed. Significantly, her disavowal of such intimate images points up the fakery, the constructedness of an all-too-close, masculine scopophilia, exactly the same sort of desire – to be looked at, and to be touched – that her book of poems unerringly affirms. Touch Me, it’s worth noting, contains a satiric poem “The Model,” which offers an extended critique of her exploitation (“The smiling girl obediently transforms . . .”) by the erotic image-mill.
But her acknowledgement that such representation, in word and in image, inherently offers falsehood and deception, is counterposed in a poem fittingly titled “Lies” to the ability of the body (“my hands, my mouth, my caress”) to deceive; corporeal “lies” are worst of all because they mark not simply an artifice but a failure of connection, a hiatus: “And now I know something is over.” The denuded body can still obfuscate and play false, but in candidly confessing her failure, Somers restores a vestigial connection with her readers, as if we were sharing a secret, her small shame. By admitting that her body lies, she strangely reaffirms its truth.
This is a kind of celebrity apophasis, a disavowal that nonetheless delivers, or at least implicitly claims to deliver, what it withholds. And it’s a confessional marketing tactic that Suzanne Somers has used throughout her working life, a tactic that a severely negative review of her failed 2005 one-woman Broadway career retrospective The Blonde in the Thunderbird (a reference to her cameo in American Graffiti), made abundantly clear:
Ms. Somers is undoubtedly sincere in her desire to bare her battles with insecurity and shame in order to serve as a model, and perhaps a healer, for those whose therapy cannot be subsidized by the sale of Torso Tracks. [. . .] Liberally laced with the bland jargon of self-help books, her story proves the peculiar truth that a victory over low self-esteem often comes at the price of a swan-dive into narcissism.
Maybe so. But it’s this inversion of “The Emperor has no clothes” – a baring all that leaves her fully veiled, publically private – that has informed her self-presentation since Touch Me first appeared. “This is a book,” it says in the one-page introduction, “about touching—about human hands and arms, eyes and mouths, lives and memories, all the instruments of touch.” Well, only in so far as Suzanne Somers can present herself as common, as typically human. “Touch me,” the title poem concludes, “For I was made to be touched. / I can never be touched enough.” This kind of self-making, this auto-poiesis, both depends upon and mitigates against that commonality; we know, after all, that what we’re actually touching, holding, is a book of poems and pictures, a surrogate. She can never be touched enough because she can never be touched at all.
The echo, hardly deliberate but real enough, is of the Biblical Noli me tangere, “Touch me not,” which the unascended Jesus says to Mary Magdelene (John 20:17), caught in a post-Easter hiatus between flesh and light, humanity and transcendence. In The Space of Literature (1959), Maurice Blanchotconverts and rephrases this distancing imperative, a metaphysical disavowal, into a figure of what constitutes literature per se, Noli me legere, “Read me not”:
La même situation peut encore se décrire ainsi l’écrivain ne lit jamais son oeuvre. Elle est, pour lui, l’illisible, un secret, en face de quoi il ne demeure pas. Un secret, parce qu’il en est séparé. Cette impossibilité de lire n’est pas cependant un mouvement purement négatif, elle est plutôt la seule approche réelle que l’auteur puisse avoir de ce que nous appelons oeuvre. L’abrupt Noli me legere fait surgir, là où il n’y a encore qu’un livre, déjà l’horizon d’une puissance autre. Expérience fuyante, quoique immédiate. Ce n’est pas la force d’un interdit, c’est, à travers le jeu et le sens des mots, l’affirmation insistante, rude et poignante que ce qui est là, dans la présence globale d’un texte définitif, se refuse cependant, est le vide rude et mordant du refus, ou bien exclut, avec l’autorité de l’indifférence, celui qui, l’ayant écrit, veut encore le ressaisir à neuf par la lecture. L’impossibilité de lire est cette découverte que maintenant, dans l’espace ouvert par la création, il n’y a plus de place pour la création — et, pour l’écrivain, pas d’autre possibilité que d’écrire toujours cette oeuvre.
Pardon the long quotation, but what Blanchot is getting at is pretty close, I think, to what Suzanne Somers manages to articulate, in a more popularly pitched and less obviously “literary” text, as the stuff of poetry, of her poetry: the paradox of touch, which Blanchot characterizes as an impossibility of and within reading itself, a kind of persistent secret, the remains of a refusal to be remaindered, to demeure: a fleeting horizon of experience, however immediate and however publically private it might appear.
Time Pressures: Short Take on Roscoe Mitchell with Tyshawn Sorey and Hugh Ragin
Roscoe Mitchell’s new, eponymous album on Wide Hive records presents him, as composer and as improviser, in shifting configurations: in a trio with himself on saxophones (alternately sopranino, alto and bass), Hugh Ragin on trumpet and Tyshawn Sorey at the drum kit; in duo (on flute and alto sax) with Sorey, who switches to piano for two of the three tracks; and solo with a set of percussion miniatures, played on what in his work with The Art Ensemble of Chicago used to be called “little instruments,” which would include everything from small tuned gongs to found objects. The album is sequenced as an extended palindrome, solo-duo-trio-[solo-trio-duo-trio-solo]-duo-trio-solo, creating an interlace of varying sound-textures while also suggesting recurrence, a cyclical symmetry.
Mitchell’s solos all involve delicately a-metrical plunks and tintinnabulations; he has recorded similar percussion pieces on previous solo projects, but here they feel artfully succinct and carefully realized. Striking his tabletop array of wooden blocks and metallophones with compact sticks and mallets, he produces fleeting, irregularly cadenced clusters of pulses and beats. Time takes on a certain plasticity in these brief performances, as Mitchell alternatively presses toward and draws back from an implied downbeat, a centred measure that never quite arrives. Time hangs between counted and uncountable, openings and distensions, small extemporaneities, spaces. His saxophone tone is always fully-blown, reedy and firm, but his pitch – like his rhythmic sense – often seems to skirt around its centres, as he deliberately manipulates micro-pressures of breath and embouchure to stretch and pull the notes just slightly sharp or flat, creating subtly thrumming layers of detuned harmonics. This plasticity is a hallmark of Roscoe Mitchell’s sound, as I hear it, his improvised lines pushing and tugging at their audible edges.
Tyshawn Sorey’s drumming develops a similar kind of temporal openness, and his sense of auditory space recalls for me some of the work of Paul Motian and Jerome Cooper, and – perhaps echoing a little of Roscoe Mitchell’s early Old/Quartet sessions – Phillip Wilson. I love his playing here, working a middle zone between pulse and arrhythmia. His piano is also compelling; his touch can be hard, but Sorey uses what could potentially be taken for an underdeveloped pianism to great advantage, treating the piano the way maybe it should be treated, as percussion. On “A Game of Catch,” he starts by thrumming and plucking inside the instrument, working the interstices of Mitchell’s melodic fragments. But I especially like his playing on “The Way Home,” where he develops waves and surges, dispersions and clusters, that feel reminiscent to me of Sam Rivers’s piano forays with his trios and with Dave Holland. Sorey’s playing evinces a compellingly nascent rhythmatizing – texturally, a marked contrast from his Morton Feldman-influenced “Permutations for Solo Piano” on his 2007 release That/Not (although, as sound conceptualists, both Sorey and Mitchell are not that far removed from Feldman’s interest in resonance and refrain, what a recent article in The Guardian called “the substance of sound”). And Hugh Ragin is excellent throughout the record, drawing on sonic vocabularies developed in his Sound Pictures for Solo Trumpet(Hopscotch, 2002, a CD that featured his own compositions as well as a suite by Wadada Leo Smith). A master of free improvisation, Ragin evokes at times in his tone and attack the clarion spectre of Louis Armstrong, at others the more laser-like inflections of Lee Morgan: his playing is that fine, that good. I could listen to him all night and day.
Centripetally and centrifugally, convergent and divergent, the music of Mitchell, Sorey and Ragin explores the elastic and uneasy verges of time present, wanting to make its ragged limits sing.
Fred Wah Speaking, and a Little “Ayler Music”
April 11, 2013 7:28 pm / 2 Comments on Fred Wah Speaking, and a Little “Ayler Music”
Thanks to Fred Wah, who gave a very fine and intellectually poised talk yesterday afternoon—“Permissions: TISH poetics 1963 Thereafter – ”—as the 2013 Garnett Sedgwick Memorial Lecture here at the University of British Columbia. He described the emergence of his own poetics alongside the founding of the mimeographed poetry journal TISH by a small group of student poets, studying with Warren Tallman and Ron Baker, among others, in the English Department here in the late 1950s and early 1960s. (The history of TISH is by now fairly well documented: see work by C. H. Gervais, Eva-Marie Kröller, Frank Davey and Keith Richardson. Those young poets—George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson, Jamie Reid and Fred Wah—would go on, along with others associated with the group including Daphne Marlatt, to have substantive impacts on English-Canadian poetry and poetics.) Wah’s title, “Permissions,” alludes to the first poem of Robert Duncan’s The Opening of the Field (1960):
Often I am permitted to return to a meadow
as if it were a given property of the mind
that certain bounds hold against chaos,
that is a place of first permission,
everlasting omen of what is. (Duncan 7)
Wah suggested that Duncan’s visit to UBC in the summer of 1961, following on the publication of The Opening of the Field, offered an opening for him into a set of poetic possibilities, and presented “a place of first permission” in as much as it directed his thinking toward place, and seemed to offer him permission “to engage the local,” to turn to his own locale, Vancouver in 1961, as viable source matter for poetry. He remembered the impact of Duncan reading this specific poem at the university that summer. (Extensive audio of three lectures at UBC by Robert Duncan, delivered from July 23 to 25, 1961, and attended by Wah, can be found hosted on the Slought Foundation website, in a cluster curated by Louis Cabri; Cabri has edited Wah’s selected poems for Wilfred Laurier UP. The Fred Wah Digital Archive provides open access to essential materials, ranging from manuscript to video recordings, from throughout Wah’s body of work.)
His lecture traced a trajectory of concern in his own poetics, over the course of at least 50 years now, from place to face to race, as he put it, coming to his more recent interest in cultural hybridity. But at all points, he suggested, he remained attentive to particular figurations of opening, with Duncan’s text serving as locus (non) classicus, coalescing in the “space of [creative] equivocation” marked by the hyphen, an equivocation between permission and restriction that gives rise to certain uneasy formal traits in his writing. He referred to the impact of Gary Snyder’s innovative diction (in “Riprap”), of Robert Duncan’s “tone-leading of vowels,” and of Charles Olson’s projective verse, a “poetics yet to be found out” in which prosody served as a musical, generative tool. I don’t want to give the wrong impression; most of Wah’s talk was historical and anecdotal, and he occasionally drew out members of the audience (such as W. H. New) who had also been studying at UBC at the time. But I think I was drawn, as I listened, to the more technical and formal claims Wah made, his disclosures – sometimes in passing – about how his own ear for language works. Jazz improvisation, he suggested, “flipped him into poetry,” and as in jazz, he liked to play around with the music of words. I asked him afterward during the question period if he could elaborate a little, and he said that he understood improvisation “as a way of questioning assumed structures,” drawing analogies in particular with the capacity for chafing at the strictures of composition (and overly careful composure, perhaps) in the awkward excess of “the long phrase, the long ad lib.” (“I never did do well at composition,” he admitted.) A trumpet player himself, he referred to Miles Davis and Chet Baker; I understand the subtle instabilities Wah suggests he hears in both of those players’ phrasings, although I’m not sure about the length of their lines. In any case, the sense of the poetic line as interrogative breath seems to me to be crucial here, and something at the core of how Wah’s writing happens.
I first came to Wah’s poetry in the early 1980s when I was an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario. I found a copy of his Breathin’ My Name with a Sigh (fresh and unopened from Coach House Press) on the shelves in the Weldon library, and I remember what struck me most were the indentations and spacings of the poems on each page, their typographical shapes. What caught my eye, too, was what I recall as a reference to Albert Ayler, to “Ayler music,” in one of the texts. I was getting deeper and deeper into Spiritual Unity and Vibrations and Witches and Devils at that point, and here unexpectedly, surprisingly, was someone writing poems that emerged, somehow, out of that open listening. It had been years, but before Wah’s talk I tried to search out the phrase, to find where it came from. It wasn’t, it turns out, from Wah’s book. It’s funny how lines can blur. I re-located it in George Bowering’s introduction to an earlier selected poems from Talonbooks, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek (1980):
What the referential-descriptive mind sees as disorder (Chinese or Ayler music, for examples) is really part of another order. & not a competitive one, either.
So Wah is essentially a musician. He does not write fiction because his aesthetic is not geared to construction. (Once, trying to build a cabin, he put the hammer thru his front teeth.) Rather his muse urges continuity, making a line of music that disappears as it goes, like mist thru the branches. He blows solos that derive their meaning from their con-text (see how many of his poems are “letters” to other poets), in the whole forest of the composition. With others he conspires to sound our world.
He is the most musical of us all. (Loki 17)
The disorder-order dyad, which Wah reframed yesterday in his talk as permission-restriction, still obtains in his thinking, and Bowering’s intro is replete with resonances and flares (although he doesn’t quite anticipate the “bio-fiction” of Diamond Grill, and he makes Wah’s partial “Chinese” background seem a little too unproblematic). But when he says that “with others”—and Wah is, preeminently, I’d say, a poet of shared and open alterities—Wah sounds our world, sounds us out and sounds out to us, I think Bowering has it exactly right. And it’s this improvisational word-music, which some of us years ago thought we might have heard in a kind of generative relation to Albert Ayler, that Wah continues to pursue, and to make happen.
Some Books I Cited
Duncan, Robert. The Opening of the Field. New York: Grove, 1960.
Wah, Fred. Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poems. Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 1980.
– – -. Breathin’ My Name With A Sigh.Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1982.
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Remarks for Hovering at the Edge (IICSI Guelph Colloquium, 13 September 2018)
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For Hovering at the Edge: Words, Music, Sound, and Song
IICSI colloquium at Guelph, 13 September 2018
(Panel with Sara Villa, Paul Watkins, Rob Wallace)
First Half.
I want to start by poaching a phrase from the title of Fred Moten’s hot-off-the-Duke-University-Press trilogy, which he admits to purloining from Christopher Winks’s translation of an interview of Antillean poet Édouard Glissant by the filmmaker Manthia Diawara. Here it is: “Consent not to be a single being” (xvi). The implicit network of voices caught up in that performative translation suggests, already, the layered irresolution, the refusal and the excess that Moten names, following on a reading of C. L. R. James, the “not-in-between.” For a good twenty-five years now, I have attempted fairly quietly to practice a plural and dislocated cultural pedagogy, both critical and (co)creative, that hovers in the sometimes appropriative, sometimes disjunctive interstices of the Eurological, the Afrological and the Indigenous. I lay claim to no particular belonging, although my appearance and heritage tend to do that for me, materially and obviously. My writing such as it is has striven, sometimes against its own tendencies and sometimes by embracing them, to inhabit and to enliven—and to be enlivened by—those unstable and conflicted contingencies, those dissolving and partial places where productive intersections can and do happen. “Join me down here in nowhere,” Claudia Rankine calls out in Citizen: An American Lyric. I feel like I have tried, in my teaching and in my writing, to answer (and to answer to) that fraught, rich, poetic invitation.
The hover I often find myself attempting to describe occurs—perhaps as a temporary suture, perhaps as an undoing, as a re-opened wound—in the liquid, motile collision of words and music that happens both in and as song, particularly improvised song. It’s the attenuation, the extemporal hysteresis, in one sense, that tugs lyrics toward the lyric. Drawing on Amiri Baraka’s concept of “musicked speech,” Moten begins to map in C. L. R. James’s sentences a “phrasal disruption” that he names lyric, a noisy “poetry” interrupting (“[n]ot by opposition; by augmentation”) James’s prose—inflecting Moten’s own parenthetical and iterative style, as well as my imitation here—and an aurality that “remains to be seen and heard so to speak, and in excess of the sentence because it breaks up meaning’s conditions of production,” serving “to disrupt and trouble meaning toward content” (3). At the same time, music asserts itself through and against the verbal “not only as a mode of organization but, more fundamentally, as phonic substance, phonic materiality irreducible to any interpretation but antithetical to any assertion of the absence of content” (31). Moten comes to offer his apologies for such theoretically and poetically dense passages as the ones I have just quoted: “I’m sorry if this is all a blur. I’m so used to my own astigmatism that maybe I can’t even talk to anybody anymore. To make matters worse, I’ve never been able to keep my glasses clean” (261). Still, he understands his own verbose blur (as the title of his book suggests) as constitutive and crucial, as inhering in the give-and-take word-music of song itself. This astigmatism, this arrhythmia, is the stuff of the improvisatory; Moten offers, as exemplary, the unsettled musicking of Charles Mingus: “He would protect the pulse, like any good bass player, while freeing himself from it,” and, I want to add, by singing, shouting, moaning, ululating, vocalizing as he plays (103). Protection, however, also articulates itself against the risk of hurt, in Moten’s terms, as both complement and antagonist, as augmentation and opposition. Moten thematizes this correspondent hurt in the transcribed/described “scream” of Frederick Douglass’s Aunt Hester; Michel Leiris evokes the “cri,” which he hears in “les sons râpeux . . . que les jazzmen aiment àtirer de leurs instruments àvents . . .qu’ils savent aussi faire gémir, grognier, se plaindre ou ricaner sur toutes sortes de tons” [the raspy sounds. . . that jazzmen like to shoot from their wind instruments. . that they also know how to moan, grunt, complain or snicker on all kinds of tones] (37). This pained and celebratory tonality—at once, for Leiris, derisive and sanguine—offers a moment of suture, of unruly translation, between what he calls paroleand chant, speech and song: “Peut-être est-ce quand les mots, au lieu d’être en position servile de traducteurs, deviennent générateurs d’idées qu’on passé de la parole au chant? S’ils se font chant, n’est-ce pas lorsque, cessant d’obéir seulement aux injonctions du dictionnaire, ils valent par ce que leur forme et point seulement leur sens official suggèrent (en quelque sorte ‘génèrent’)?” [Perhaps it is when the words, instead of being in a servile position of translators, become generators of ideas that we pass from the word to the song? If they make themselves sing, is it not when, ceasing to obey only the injunctions of the dictionary, they are worth what their form and point only their official sense suggest (somehow ‘generate’)?] (112). In some sense like me, Leiris comes to this music as an attentive outsider, hoping by staging, as audition, a close proximity to its song also to catch at (that is, to translate otherwise) some of its vitality, its deep cry. Moten, by contrast, necessarily resists such “an absolute nearness [to black vitality], an absolute proximity, which a certain invocation of suture might approach, but with great imprecision. . . . There’s no remembering, no healing. There is, rather, a perpetual cutting, a constancy of expansive and enfolding rupture and wound, a rewind that tends to exhaust the metaphysics upon which the idea of redress is grounded” (ix). “Jazz,” as he puts it, “does not disappear the problem,” or dress its wound, or offer healing sesames: jazz “isthe problem and will not disappear. It is, moreover, the problem’s diffusion, which is to say that what it thereby brings into relief is the very idea of the problem” (xii, emphasis in original). While attempting to describe my own practice of study, which I understand as the interrogation and elaboration of a certain conceptual arrhythmia, I have perhaps relied overmuch on quoting Moten in these few minutes, but I am also mindful that the work of reading, with as much acuity as I can muster, is also to develop a tenuous but palpable resonance, a hapsis, a pushback and a to-and-fro with what I hear presently in Moten’s sentences. I’m going to move on to try to give a more specific example of this practice of reading and listening, of listening as reading, but before that I want to look only once more to the early pages of Moten’s book, where he delineates what he calls “black study” as the stuff of discrepant song, as audible hurt and as a “lyricism of the surplus”:
This is why, as Wadada Leo Smith has said, it hurts to play this music. The music is riotous solemnity, a terrible beauty. It hurts so much that we have to celebrate. That we have to celebrate is what hurts so much. Exhaustive celebration of and in and through our suffering, which is neither distant nor sutured, is black study. (xiii)
My own practice of study cannot unproblematically or unchallenged suture itself to that terrible beauty or find even vestigially proximity to Moten’s “we.” Nevertheless, in the fraught translation between word and sound that manifests itself in improvised song, I do find myself, following Brent Hayes Edwards and, of all people, Raymond Williams, “hovering ‘at the very edge of semantic availability’” (16) trying to explain the blur.
Part Deux. Deuxième Partie, I Should Say.
I only have a couple of minutes, so I want to give a brief example of the creative blur, the hover I’ve been trying to describe in my own creative-critical practice by ventriloquizing some of Fred Moten’s recent work. I want to begin to listen carefully to Darius Jones’s and Emilie Lesbros’s Le Bébé de Brigitte, which is both an homage to and an extension of Brigitte Fontaine’s 1969 collaboration with Areski Belkacem and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Comme à la Radio. I want to take up two related tropes to understand how song and the improvisatory intersect in this work: the suture and, borrowing the title of the one wordless track on Darius Jones’s 2015 recording, the “universal translator.” Linking the Jones-Lesbros collaboration directly to the Brigitte Fontaine recording is from the get-go a bit misleading and an instance of mistranslation or of meaning lost in translation. If you dig a little (through the internet, for instance), you’ll discover that the “Brigitte” in Darius Jones’s title is not Fontaine (though named for her) but a maternal figure in his evolving personal cosmology (articulated in his unfolding series of “Man’ish Boy” recordings); unless you find your way to such notes, however, who Brigitte is will remain hermetic and likely miscued for listeners. The promise of universal translatability offers itself through Google or in Star Trekand Hitchhiker’s Guideutopianism (and has something to do with an Afro-Futurism here, though I have no room to engage or unpack it), but rather than transparency, the universality – the Benjaminian Reine Sprache– that Jones describes musically is an effect of contingent opacity, of difference and uncertainty, of the slipped suture: “In the process of creating this music, we often fell into moments of miscommunication because of differences in culture and language. I think this created a sense of mystery, and forced all of us to listen more deeply to each other’s nuances and subtleties, because we didn’t always have words to fall back on.” Words, despite what Jones appears to claim here, are not even a fallback for communicative or diegetic clarity, and even when they’re unsung, their tug and blur remain in play in the performance, the articulation, of these songs. Briefly put, the cosmology – the universality of an imagined universal translator – never closes or coheres, not even for its originator; instead it revises, remakes, re-writes itself, an extemporaneous diegesis. Which means, for me, that in the stitching, the verbal-acoustic suturing that happens when we sing, the lyric “problem” that Fred Moten describes tends to come into play, maybe even necessarily. Here are a few snippets from the (what I take to be) largely improvised lyrics by Brigitte Fontaine for “Comme à la Radio,” the eponymous opening track for her collaborative album:
Ce n’ sera rien
Rien que de la musique
Rien que des mots
Des mots
Comme à la radio
Tout juste un peu de bruit
Pour combler le silence
As she moves through the song, we realize that with her increasing tenacity what we’re hearing both is and is not audible “like” a song “on the radio.” Her words, her noise, fills in silences, but even with what we might mistake for self-deprecation (“nothing but words,” “nothing but music”), it inclines itself, by both suturing and cutting into itself and its musical accompaniment, to the “nowhere” that Claudia Rankine says she inhabits, an excessive and unruly soundspace that both fills semantic gaps and refuses to fill us in. Emilie Lesbros’s singing on, for example, “Chanteuse in Blue,” also darts in and out of any semantic purview (one critic, while asserting that her texts are mostly “suitably poetic,” found that these words “veer into the irritating”: I’d call them edgy, working the audio nerves to the edge, the abutment, of sound and sense, of the Eurological and the Afrological, let’s say, with her Aebi-Birkin-esque accent):
hah, wah, a-a-a-a-a, uegh
“Baby, let me tell you something.”
“Chanteuse in blue . . .”
“He said, ‘What? What are you talking about, sweetheart?’”
“I said, ‘I am suffering from the difference that people
think we have.’”
What’s both thematized and enacted here, meta-diegetically and subversively, as translated verbal excess, is precisely and necessarily the irritation of the lyric: the refusal to settle in; instead Lesbros (and Darius Jones’s dialogic saxophone lines, both miming and counterpointing, intensifying and cross-cutting Lesbros’s voice) presents an embrace—a fraying and a knitting up – of the discomfiting, the discrepant, the extramusical, the blur. I will have exceeded my time. My time’s more than up.
Texts Quoted or Name-checked (in reverse alphabetical order)
Fred Moten. Black and Blur. First volume of consent not to be
a single being. Duke UP, 2017.
Michel Leiris. À Cor et à Cri. Gallimard,1988.
Brent Hayes Edwards. Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary
Imagination. Harvard UP, 2017.
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NCPG to enforce engagement through new appointment
by Lucia Mouriño Business News, 02/10/201902/11/2019
Deanna Wilken is the new communications manager of the NCPG. Credits: NCPG
The council has appointed Deanna Wilken as its new communications manager.
US.- The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) has revealed that Deanna Wilken is its new communications manager, and is set to oversee all of the organisation’s external communications and outreach efforts, among other things.
Keith Whyte, NCPG executive director, explained that with Wilken’s capabilities they are targeting their communications efforts on increasing the depth and breadth of of their work, while continuing to engage with current members.
“We are very pleased to announce this new appointment with NCPG. Deanna will bring new ideas and build on the council’s existing structure, to carry forward our communications work on all platforms,” he added.
Wilken said that NCPG is already doing good work in communicating to a variety of stakeholders, and that she is excited to shape the efforts as new trends evolve in the gambling industry. “I look forward to working with NCPG’s team in their efforts to promote and expand their messaging on problem gambling and responsible gambling,” she said.
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Family: Girl Expelled after She Kneed Boy in the Groin in Girls’ Bathroom
Posted 9:41 AM, April 17, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire, Updated at 09:40AM, April 17, 2019
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — An Alaska school district is coming under fire for how it handled the discipline for a female student at North Pole High School who kneed a boy in the groin as he blocked her exit from the girls’ bathroom, KTUU reported.
“We had an incident last week to where some boys entered the girls’ bathroom, and a girl kneed a boy, feeling threatened. They were blocking her way. And she was suspended from school, because she used too much force,” Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-Fairbanks, said during a House Majority press conference last week.
According to Wilson, the boys were in the bathroom due to “some kind of protest.”
The Washington Post reported the boys were upset about a selfie snapped in the boys’ bathroom by a student transitioning from female to male. They walked into the girls’ bathroom to take their own selfie “as a [form] of protest,” the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District superintendent told The Washington Post.
Wilson told KTUU the reason they were there shouldn’t matter.
“If you ever feel threatened, for your safety, whatever force you think you have to go give, I will stand by you and so will your community, and not for those boys who were where they didn’t belong,” Wilson said.
Wilson said the girl was suspended and missed her prom, while the boys were allowed to attend, KTUU reported.
In a tweet, the girl’s sister said that she was actually expelled for what she did.
Superintendent Karen Gaborik would not confirm to The Washington Post whether the girl was expelled.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District released a statement:
“The district does not encourage students or staff to use force against students, staff, or visitors to school facilities. Students or staff who use force against another person on school grounds could be subject to disciplinary action, depending on the facts and circumstances of the incident.”
The district also said multiple students faced disciplinary action, KTUU reported.
Wilson said, “She did the right thing, and we should be backing her, not having her sitting at home wondering whether she made the right decision or not.”
According to The Washington Post, the girl’s family plans to appeal the disciplinary action.
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Label: Young Turks Recordings Ltd
FKA twigs operates like a hermetic, with her electronic R&B as much a state of emotions as a series of notes straggling across a computer screen. There's a marvelously unnerving quality about LP1. "Was I just a..." she sings on "Numbers" before breathing heavily and parodying sex throes, while "Video Girl" references her work as a dancer and satirizes the video model as pliant object. But she can be predatory, too -- check the rapturously erotic "Two Weeks" -- as well as empathetic. "I wish that you'd know that I'm here to stay," she sings, offering herself as an anchor amid a world of chaos.
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Colorado crazy
A Colorado state senator (a Republican from Colorado Springs, of course), Dave Schultheis, is pushing a draft of an absurd bill to open public schools wide to religious indoctrination, all in the name of the first amendment to the constitution. It’s a demand to create a “Public School Religious Bill Of Rights”, with a long list of religious privileges. Some of them are trivial: it ought to be OK for students to give each other holiday cards with religious sentiments (and of course, they already can), or greet each other with religious slogans (like, say, “Merry Christmas”…hasn’t the war on Christmas been done to death already?). Some sound innocuous but are prohibited for good reason; he wants teachers to be allowed to wear religious jewelry and decorate their classrooms to celebrate their religious holidays. That may be reasonable in moderation, like someone wearing a discreet necklace with a cross on it, but just wait until some fanatic demands the right to hang bloody crucifixes and portraits of Jesus all around the room — then it becomes a repressive sectarian doctrine to allow teachers to promote superstitions that are hostile to some of their students.
The general intent of the document is to clearly prioritize religion as the number one privileged subject of the school, which may not under any circumstances be gainsaid. The rah-rah for god is bad enough, but what I found most disturbing was the way it encouraged the use of religion to undermine good teaching. Here are examples:
Teachers may:
(VII) NOT BE REQUIRED TO TEACH A TOPIC THAT VIOLATES HIS OR HER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND NOT BE DISCIPLINED FOR REFUSING TO TEACH THE TOPIC;
School boards must set up policies that allow:
(a) A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO OPT OUT OF ANY CLASS OR THE USE OF SPECIFIC COURSE MATERIAL THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH HIS OR HER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS; OR
(b) A PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, OR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO EXCUSE HIS OR HER CHILD FROM ANY CLASS OR THE USE OF SPECIFIC COURSE MATERIAL THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH HIS OR HER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.
In other words, if someone follows a religion that says the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, you are not allowed to hand them a compass and take them outdoors early in the morning, and if you are a teacher with such a belief you can ignore basic astronomy, even if you are supposed to be teaching earth science. This is a common belief among these loons, that religious freedom means you are not allowed to confront them with reality. You can see where that has gotten this country so far.
Fortunately, other members of the Colorado senate say the bill doesn’t stand a chance of passing. That’s good, and not too surprising, but take heed: this is another strategy for getting creationism and who-knows-what into the schools, by cloaking it under the veil of first amendment religious freedoms.
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speedwell says
It’s even worse than that. It’s a move so extreme that anything less will sound reasonable merely by comparison.
Mike Haubrich says
I know you have come out against Wisconsin Rep’s bill to protect state standards from including science that is not recommended by the NCSE; I don’t see why Minnesota should wait until the standards are up for renewal before pushing strict standards for sciece legislatively. John C. West already claims that the section on how theories are developed allows the teaching of alternative theories in Minnesota’s science classes. I think it is time to take a clear stand for science in Minnesota and other states within the reach of Pharyngula.
I don’t know that her bill was re-introduced in the 2007 Assembly, last year’s was DOA in a Republican controlled assembly. That doesn’t prevent a similar bill from being introduced here in Minnesota, one that is appropriate to our process. I am willing to go to my rep, but I would like to have some lobbying support from science educators.
Here is Dembski’s reaction to last year’s bill:
“Unlike Dover, where the focus was on ID’s legitimacy as science, such a trial [in Wisconsin] would focus on the exclusive right of evolutionary theory to maintain its monopoly over the teaching of biological origins…. [T]his will be a much more difficult case for the ACLU to win. In Dover, ID needed to defend itself. In such a case [in Wisconsin], evolution will need to defend itself…. (emphasis mine)
“Dover certainly wasn’t ID’s Waterloo. Wisconsin may well be evolution’s Waterloo,” Dembski said.
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22610
As for the exclusion portions of the bill for students who don’t want to be confronted by classes that contradict their religious beliefs, it is sad to hold onto a faith that can’t withstand challenge.
The Catholic Hymn goes like this:
“Faith of our fathers, living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword!
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene’er we hear that glorious word!
Faith of our fathers! Holy faith!
We will be true to Thee till death!”
What is a little evolution in school compared to the Rack?
xenophobic says
So, could an atheist opt out of a class because of a fanatic Christian teacher? In my mind, and probably theirs too, atheism isn’t a religion. I don’t think that teens who do not believe would be given the same rights. Wow, seems almost as fair and balanced as Fox News!
I suppose criticisms of religion wouldn’t be tolerated in the schools if this passed.
I think some of these politicians need to remember that our country is supposed to have a “wall of separation” between church and state. Are they forgetting that we have these freedoms to prevent a religious monopoly in government?
Someone really needs to get the morons of this country to wake up.
hoary puccoon says
Oh, come on. This is a GREAT law! It takes all control away from employers. You can’t refuse someone a job because of their religion, but once on the job, you can’t fire them for refusing to violate their religious beliefs. So–
Muslim women will take all the stripper jobs and once on stage, refuse to remove their burkhas.
Baptists will become bartenders and hand out religious tracts instead of drinks.
Rastafarians will become cops and promote the use of marijuana.
and, of course, atheists will enter evangelical Christian seminaries, refuse all courses because they conflict with their beliefs, graduate anyway because the “Religious Bill of Rights” says they can, and then take ministerial posts so they can preach atheism from the pulpit every Sunday morning!
Why don’t you LOVE this law!??!!
George says
(III) EXCHANGE AN ITEM WITH A RELIGIOUS THEME WHEN
19 GREETING CARDS OR OTHER ITEMS ARE EXCHANGED AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL;
Rastafari!
There are two types of Rasta religious ceremonies. A reasoning is a simple event where the Rastas gather; smoke “ganja” (marijuana); and discuss ethical, social and religious issues. The person honoured by being allowed to light the herb says a short prayer beforehand, and it is passed in a clockwise fashion except in time of war it is passed to the right. A bynghi or grounation is a holy day; the name bynghi is believed to refer originally to an ancient, and now extinct, order of militant blacks in eastern Africa that vowed to end oppression. Bynghis are marked by much dancing, singing, feasting and the smoking of ganja, and can last for several days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement
Uber says
What is wrong with people? I mean seriously why would you spend your time promoting such things in a state senate? Is there nothing more important going on there?
quork says
What is wrong with people? I mean seriously why would you spend your time promoting such things in a state senate?
I think it’s called “consolidating the base.”
One Eyed Jack says
29 January 2007 at 10:04 am
This would be a wonderful step forward for religious freedom. If it passes, I hope the local pagan and satanic organizations take full advantage of it to organize and practice their particular religious beliefs on school grounds.
I’m sure this is precisely the religious freedom that the good senator had in mind. Certainly he doesn’t intend it to apply only to Christians?
OEJ
I mean seriously why would you spend your time promoting such things in a state senate?
The answer comes from Senator Bob Hagedorn in the story…
“I would have to question whether or not Sen. Schultheis is serious about passing meaningful legislation or whether he just wants to throw something inflammatory out there and get shot down and then go play the martyr”…
I’ll take persecuted martyred xians for $1000, Alex…
Mena says
They couldn’t complain about the kids reading the Harry Potter books-Satanism (their word, not a sane person’s description of the books) would also have to be protected, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t it? ;^)
llewelly says
Sweet! I’m goin’ to Colorado, and starting a safe-sex religion, which requires the handing out of condoms.
(well, not really)
Azkyroth says
While this is disturbing, the more verminous of the religious misconstruing enforcement of the 1st amendment as a violation of its provision for freedom of religion is hardly news; we see this from the less intelligent of the more verminous Christians on a very frequent basis.
Niket says
IMHO, this is just a ploy. Schultheis knows that this bill does not stand a chance of being passed. But, he can then come up with a milder version of the bill, so that it would seem that he is compromising on his position, expecting the other side to compromise too.
Its like I really don’t think I should sell my car for more than $2500, but I advertise “$3000 OBO” so that I have some wiggle room.
jre says
If I may point it out (ahem), Colorado now has Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature, a Democratic governor, and Democrats in one Senate and four (of seven) House seats. Granted, two others of those seven are the less-than-zero Marilyn Musgrave and the loathsome Tom Tancredo — but there is hope even there, since Musgrave is more vulnerable with every election, winning by only a few points in 2006. And Tancredo seems all set to serve as the Republicans’ Nader in 2008 by splitting off the nativist pinhead vote.
So — despite one conspicuous nest of fundamentalist ninnies in the Springs, Colorado is doing well and getting better all the time. That bill (as you point out) is DOA, and a few years from now I doubt that such foolishness will even come up.
29 January 2007 at 12:21 pm
Trying to raise a critical thinker is hard when people are shoving ultimate truths down their throats since birth. I decided to choose religious wackery when I was in my 20’s. I am perfectly happy to admit that my Heathen Gods might not exist. But the whole thing becomes much more complicated when you’re trying to explain religion a 6 year old.
I do not think religion belongs in schools. My husband and I are raising our great nephew. He came to us when he was 5 and had already been indoctrinated into the cult of Jesus. I’m not entirely comfortable telling him what I believe.
Our Nephew is mildly autistic (in a sort of socially awkward future genius way) He is curious about everything. He thinks in absolutes and he craves consistency. Since we can not undo his previous Jesus training, we are trying to teach him that no one really knows the truth but that many people all over the world believe different things about Gods and Goddesses and how the universe works. We back this up with science.
Science provides the stability and consistency that he needs. I can say “Well, I like to believe that I can talk to the sun and she listens but what we know for certain is that the sun is a big giant ball of burning gas.” We tell him that science has answers that are real and that religion is what people can’t prove but choose to believe because it makes them feel good.
I wish school would back this up. Instead we get “Christmas Vacation” and “Easter break” and a learning support teacher who’s first words to me were about how my nephews name (Emmanuel) translates to “With God”.
His mother is dieing of AIDS and we are trying hard to give him the tools to deal with this loss. I don’t want people filling his head with bullshit about heaven and hell. It will only make it harder for him to deal later on in life. If teachers are given more freedom to indoctrinate their students this type of insanity will only get worse.
If teachers of every faith were on a crusade to present their beliefs to their students then the focus would be drawn even further away from the things that kids will benefit the most from learning.
The only religion I would want taught at my nephew’s school would be the history of religion with a focus on all the horrible things done in its name.
My two little Heathen cents-
>>This would be a wonderful step forward for religious freedom. If it passes, I hope the local pagan and satanic organizations take full advantage of it to organize and practice their particular religious beliefs on school grounds.
OEJ<<
RedMolly says
So — despite one conspicuous nest of fundamentalist ninnies in the Springs, Colorado is doing well and getting better all the time.
And, er, um, the entire Western Slope. (Home of the inestimable lieutenant-governor-candidate Janet Rowland, whose “boys marrying boys! you might as well let people marry their German shepherds!” rant on public TV may have effectively put the nail in the coffin of Bob Beauprez’ gubernatorial campaign. Thanks, Janet… you rock!)
Lorne Ipsum says
JRE,
“…a few years from now I doubt that such foolishness will even come up…”
Nice dream, but that’s pretty much all it is. Foolishness like this will come up so long as Colorado Springs exists. Schultheis knows what it takes to keep his base happy, things like…
* Insisting that the state refer to illegal immigrants only as illegal “aliens”
* Blaming essentially all the state’s ills on said “aliens”
* Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the state from printing any forms in Spanish, and banning foreign-language books in libraries and public schools
* Publicly questioning the immigration status of the victims of a fatal car accident — all were U.S. citizens, but made the mistake of having a Hispanic surname
* Proposing legislation that a 1-year waiting period (with mandatory counseling) be enforced before a divorce can be granted to any married couple with children
* Shultheis is a member of the “Minutemen” pseudo-militia
* When a fellow member of the Minutemen sent a black legislator an email threatening to lynch him, Shultheis stated the resulting controversy was “blowing the issue out of proportion”
I’d like to think that nonsense like this will go away by itself, but the reality of the situation is that we’ll always have to deal with loonies.
Jade says
As other people have said, this might not be a bad idea, because then teachers can also teach yoga and some yogic philosophy, for which there is some evidence that it provides some physical, mental and emotional benefits…unlike the typical Christian philosophy.
They seem to be pretty set on hypocritically translating “freedom of religion” to mean “freedom to be Christian” though. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16859368/wid/11915773?GT1=8921
Brian X says
A “Minuteman”, huh? You know, it’s interesting how these people take the names of Revolutionary War themes and people… Michael Savage and his “Paul Revere” group is another example.
Personally, as someone from Massachusetts and a staunch bleeding heart, I consider such appropriations to be highly offensive and an insult to the history of the state where I grew up.
Nice dream, but that’s pretty much all it is.
Time, as they say, will tell. Call me an optimist, but I see the tide running pretty decisively against these bozos. Less than two years ago, John Andrews[1] was president of the Colorado Senate and waging war on leftist professors. Now he’s out of office and writing whiny editorials in the Denver Post about how his fellow conservatives won’t stand up for the causes that got them trounced in the polls.
It may be too much to say that one bucket of soapy water has caused all their beautiful wickedness to melt away, but right-wing mischief is having a harder and harder time getting support in Colorado.
[1] Evil twin of the other John Andrews.
kerry cunningham says
i neither have children nor live in colorado, but i did right this whack-job an email. it really is breathtakingly stupid.
bernarda says
As has often been said, reality has a well-known liberal bias. I would add that reality has a well-observed atheist bias.
Scott says
PZ, thanks for the coverage!
I live in Colorado and, among sending this ‘alert’ to many others, I sent an e-mail to another member of the state legislature. Here’s part of the response:
“…I am certain, however, that the bill will be killed in the Senate Education committee. Schultheis knows it too, and is just pandering to his extreme religious “wrong” base….”
We can only hope it’s not just killed in the Senate Education Committee, but Schultheis is laughed out the door!
Thanks for the support everyone.
Ed Darrell says
This is in Colorado? The state where it’s illegal for world geography teachers to post a flag of another nation for students to look at for a while? (No, I’m not kidding; remember last fall? See it here: http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/colorado-flag-flap-update/ )
Why can’t they just teach the facts?
I like the Rastafari movement…they’ll be allowed in school, won’t they?
All that needs to happen is a front page story on what things people can do, and just watch support for it melt away. Mel Gibson’s dad can go there and teach that the Holocaust didn’t happen. It’s a lot like that WorldNetDaily post PZ linked to awhile back, where the fundie went to Hawaii and was appalled at a Shinto priest saying the prayer before the high school football game.
Keith Douglas says
I’ve never been to Colorado, but it sounds like a great place to ski. Too bad these nutcases are screwing around there. I wish there was a good way to discourage frivolous bills in legislatures, without punishing small parties …
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A responsible gun owner
They do exist.
Politics, History, and Law
tbtabby says
Some people in the comments are claiming he’s committed a felony by making a short-barreled rifle.
johnhattan says
Wait. Are you suggesting that someone would say something stupid in a YouTube comment?
This is messing with my worldview.
John Fleisher says
Actually since the upper and lower receiver are still intact, all he needs is a new barrel (~$100)and he’s back in business. The cynical part of me says he had a damaged barrel and this was just a political statement. I hope not though.
scottmange says
I looked at doing something like this once. I thoughts the best way would be to take my guns to the police figuring they could safely dispose of them.
Ironically, in Virginia at least, there is a State Law that says the police CANNOT destroy guns.
Instead, the police are required to auction them off and use the money generated for the department budget.
Where I thought I was going to be doing a good thing, I would have been doing just the opposite of what I intended. I also find it odd that the police are required to put guns on the street that they may then have to defend themselves against.
Check your local laws before disposing of weapons or cut them up like the guy in the video did.
Also consider what will happen to your guns after you die. If you want them destroyed (a good idea!), make sure you specify the executor personally destroy them otherwise they might simply sell them or turn them in hoping the police will destroy them.
Caine says
Damn. That was good to see.
thirdmill says
Actually, there are lots of gun owners — including me — who hate the NRA as much as anyone else here. I own a pistol for sport shooting and personal protection, and I own a hunting rifle even though I haven’t actually hunted in years. I have no need for a military-grade weapon that gets off 100 rounds per minute and question the mental health of anyone who does think they need one. I support background checks, mandatory gun safety classes, mandatory safe storage for guns so children and burglars can’t get to them, limits on magazine size, and taking guns away from people who have demonstrated they can’t treat them responsibly. And I absolutely despise the NRA because it makes all gun owners look like loons.
MichaelE says
I believe I saw a picture on his facebook account where he had also cut through the firing mechanism, effectively destroying the gun.
iammarauder says
If you check the video at about the 1:15 mark you can see he also cut through the “body” right between the trigger and where the magazine would go. I am hazarding a guess, but I’d say it is pretty much out of action.
Erlend Meyer says
While he did end up destroying the gun thoroughly the first cut did leave a functioning gun with a short barrel. I don’t know much about US gun laws, but in theory that could be enough to get you into trouble. My advice would be to start by cutting the receiver (In the case of the AR-15 that’s the part with the trigger mechanism) first.
One can only be a responsible gun owner if they are a gun owner.
A gun owner is someone who owns at least one gun.
If that gun owner destroys their gun(s), then they are no longer a gun owner.
Therefore, those who destroy their gun(s) cannot be responsible gun owners.
PZ Myers says
I also approve of responsible ex-gun owners.
anchor says
There ain’t enough of ’em.
Sorry, PZ.
scottmange’s post @4 is interesting, in particular because I also noticed this story: Florida gun owner hands AR-57 rifle into [sic] police after Parkland school shooting: ‘No person needs this’
It’s in my will that, upon my death, my guns will be given to an artist, along with some money, with the charter of making art out of them. I am also currently in discussion (this is Pennsylvania: they are reluctant) with the machine shop to see if their CNC water-jet cutter can do tomographic cuts to some handguns, or cut them length-wise so they can be encased in lucite. The machine shop guys keep insisting that they’d rather have them, and that I am crazy.
All that said – ATF has authority to regulate destruction of guns and they publish a set of recommended guidelines for how to do it. The guidelines require the gun being chopped through the receiver in such a way that a substantial piece of it is missing. But do not obliterate the serial numbers because that’s a federal crime.
The fellow in the video chopped the gun at the barrel because the receivers of AR-15s are tempered aluminum alloy and it is extremely dangerous to chop-saw aluminum – it builds up on the saw wheel and can cause it to unbalance and basically explode. He should have used an oxy/acetylene torch.
I would not recommend giving a workable firearm to a policeman in the US. You actually have no way of telling if they destroyed it, or even if they sold it properly. There are too many incidents of cops “generously providing” weapons to suspects or people that they have shot; some cops allegedly carry a “drop piece” that they can plant on someone they shoot, so they can say they were a threat. It would really truly suck to have cops use a gun, which was turned in with the best intentions, in that manner. Remember: cops are not exactly the most responsible firearm user/owners, themselves – they have killed over 100 people this year so far and are on track to match their kill-rate for last year.
PS – the FBI is currently on record as having lost 350 weapons, including automatic rifles and submachine guns, in the last 2 years. Along with 150 laptops (10 carrying classified data). Worse yet, the FBI failed to report 20% of the losses – which is a nice way of saying “it was stolen from the FBI by the FBI.”
So, FBI: nope.
Meanwhile, regional police are much much worse. They “lose” guns all the time, in ridiculous numbers, and generally make sure they are not required to report the loss. That pretty much means that if the cops pick up a nifty submachine gun on a bust, it may go home with Officer Pork, and not to the evidence room.
Cops are, after all, the biggest exponents of gun culture in the US; they are probably the worst people to allow to handle weapons of any sort. They’re a danger to themselves and everyone around them. Obviously. This is a crazy bit of reality that Americans ignore: the absolute last person you want to give a sniper rifle to is a guy who joins the police so he can be a sniper; that is a person who wants to shoot people and who is going out of his way to be in a situation where they might “have to” kill someone.
Marcus @16:
the FBI is currently on record as having lost 350 weapons, including automatic rifles and submachine guns, in the last 2 years.
Do you have a reference for that?
tomh says
“Responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron. If you are a gun owner you are irresponsible.
Rob Grigjanis@#17:
It’s hard to get solid numbers for anything that can serve as a metric for FBI incompetence. But this is where I got the number I quoted. [abc news] I used that number because I thought it was probably generous to the FBI. When I was researching my homeland security book in ’02 I found references to the FBI having lost substantially more weapons than that. Unfortunately, I no longer have my clippings archives with my research from then.
I will say this much for the FBI: they’re the best of the worst. The army is pretty good at keeping its gear from leaking out (obviously) but that’s only because of very strict tracking and audit (I could probably remember my M-16’s serial # if I tried hard…) DEA has had bad problems losing guns, which is a problem because they seize lots of guns. Some cursory searches say DHS has lost over 200 between 2002 and 2007.
Ouch, I wish I hadn’t looked. An ICE agent lost a gun and it was used to kill someone [nbc]
What usually happens (to the FBI guys too) is they stop someplace, go inside to grab a bite to eat or something and decide to leave the gun in the car; it’s an unmarked car and someone bashes in the window and grabs the laptop bag. They’re a couple blocks away before they realize they just stole a cop’s laptop and gun.
Snarki, child of Loki says
OR, have them buried with you, with your “cold dead hands” wrapped around them.
Offer not valid for cremation with ammunition inside.
But this is where I got the number I quoted. [abc news]
The numbers in that article are for a period of 11-12 years, ending no later than 2005, since it refers to “Attorney General John Ashcroft”. So it’s still not clear where you got your “last 2 years” from.
rietpluim says
I can live with gun ownership for sports or hunting. But personal protection is utter bullshit. People being killed by guns vastly outnumber people being saved. I am glad that the man in this video understands that, and I salute him for it.
I can live with gun ownership for sports or hunting
When strictly regulated. (Added to avoid confusion.)
Lofty says
I am a responsible gun owner. My caulking guns live in a locked cupboard so little children can’t get at them and squirt sealant up their noses.
komarov says
Hm, it sounds like it can be tricky to sawing a weapon to bits in a legally approved and generally safe way. Perhaps it would be easier to fill the firing mechanism and barrel with something to freeze / block it permanently. Anything reasonably durable should work, from resins to concrete, and should prove pretty much impossible to remove once it has set. A plus it should be easier and cheaper to come by some of this than it might be for decent powertools otherwise needed. Or, if you’re inclined towards pyrotechnic displays, maybe you could make some thermite and see if it can burn through the mechanism. Whichever way one goes this should render the weapon into a true collectible, i.e. a harmless one.
Rietpluim, No. 23,the reason more people are killed than saved is that there isn’t mandatory training before people are allowed to buy a gun. There should be required coursework in gun safety that should include how to properly use a gun to defend yourself so that innocent people don’t get killed. If that happened, I predict you would see those numbers change.
And the one time I actually needed personal protection, I didn’t have to shoot anyone. The mere fact that I had a gun made the aggressor back off.
Rich Woods says
@thirdmill #27:
The mere fact that I had a gun made the aggressor back off.
Did you also have ammunition? Because you know what the statistics tell us about guns combined with ammunition. Maybe you (and your family) just got lucky that day.
Rich, a lot of those statistics involve people who have not actually been properly trained in how to use a gun to defend themselves. I will bet you anything that if people were required to have such training before they could buy guns, those statistics would change.
In my case, a bounty hunter showed up at my house looking for someone who apparently used to live there before I moved in, and said he was going to break down the door if I didn’t let him in to search the house. I told him that if he came through my door, I would aim for his head and empty my magazine. He left. Yes, I could have called the police, but by the time they got there the damage likely would already have been done. You know that when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
EigenSprocketUK says
I told him that if he came through my door, I would aim for his head and empty my magazine.
Why, who did you want to kill who was behind him?
thirdmill, so your bluff would have worked even without a gun?
Lofty, it wasn’t a bluff. I was prepared to use lethal force to defend myself and my home, and he knew I was prepared to use lethal force to defend myself and my home, and that’s why it worked. And I’m not the bad guy for defending myself against aggression.
That aside, it would not have worked in a world in which private gun ownership is illegal, because then I wouldn’t have had the means to defend myself, and he’d have known I didn’t have the means to defend myself.
Look, I would like to live in a world in which there is no aggression and it’s never necessary to engage in self defense. If I had magical powers, I would make such a world. But that’s not the world we live in. There are far too many people out there who don’t respect the rights of other people, and so long as they exist, I’m not going to deprive people of the ability to defend themselves. I am willing to require that they get proper training in how to defend themselves, and I don’t think anyone needs an AR-15 for self defense. My pistol worked just fine. We’re probably 90% in agreement.
speed0spank says
We also don’t live in a world where everyone will complete a training course (not that people with training don’t routinely murder people).
thirdmill:
In my case, a bounty hunter showed up at my house looking for someone who apparently used to live there before I moved in, and said he was going to break down the door if I didn’t let him in to search the house. I told him that if he came through my door, I would aim for his head and empty my magazine.
Amazing that you write as if you imagine you were being righteous.
Me, I would have negotiated/documented/explained/called the police/something — and then let him search the house. And then follow up as appropriate.
It would save me a broken door, anyway.
But then, I’m not American, so I don’t immediately think of trespass as a kill-or-be-killed situation. Different attitude here in Oz.
Yeah, well, I’d rather be in a situation where neither has a firearm than one where both do. Less lethal.
But then, I imagine you’d have a battle-axe or something right by the doorway, just in case you need to defend yourself.
PS to make it clear, you seem to think it’s perfectly reasonable to shoot someone in the head rather than let them search your house. And you further imagine that it would constitute self-defense.
Again: wow.
thirdmill @32:
We’re probably 90% in agreement.
Twixt 90 and 100 lie the corpses of innumerable children. I’m fucking sick of Americans.
further to Rob: http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/child-injured-killed
Rob:
I’m fucking sick of Americans.
Me too, and I’m smack in the middle of them.
FTR, if it was a bounty hunter at my house, I’d call 911, and inform bounty hunter the cops were on their way, and we could all have a little chat when they arrived.
Ichthyic says
OTOH, there’s no evidence to suggest that in countries that have enacted strict gun control laws, there is a rise in the amount of home invasions.
just the contrary, in fact.
while you might cling to your personal anecdote, and understandably so, it does not make a great statement about the validity of owning a gun for protection in general.
can you not see this?
It’s like if I said:
“I managed to protect myself from a shark attack by using a bang-stick on it and blowing its head off.”
does that mean my experience suggests we should equip all divers with bangsticks and simply kill the sharks? nope. overall it’s not a good idea.
but, if that had actually worked for me as a specific thing in such a traumatic experience, I could indeed imagine myself insisting I will be carrying a bang-stick with me whenever I go diving, good idea or not.
so, I think people here can understand your position, but still disagree that your experience is an indicator of what would be the best overall direction for everyone to take. in fact, far from it.
this is why we even HAVE science, to study issues just like this and come up with better recommendations than “this worked for ME”
lastly….
You know that when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
you really should avoid using inane, overused, cliches when trying to make a point.
it fails to impress anyone that you are actually thinking when you write.
thirdmill Yeah, nothing like a mandatory training to prevent people from using their guns when robbing, burgling, or assaulting.
BTW What sick kind of country has bounty hunters? And what even sicker kind of country allows bounty hunters to carry guns?
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Street Music conference, May 14-15, Norwich
The conference I am organising with my current postdoc Dr Lizzie Bennett is really taking shape. We have a great programme of around 40 speakers, from academic as well as industry, outdoor arts, festivals, busking and performing backgrounds. And we have a musician-in-residence, Pete Moser. You can read more about Pete’s one-man-band work here. The two-day conference is free to attend, but you need to book a ticket (there are very few left). It is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme, from the UEA. Other speakers include the following.
Dr David Atkinson, Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute Aberdeen, author of The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (2014), and co-editor of Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century: Producers, Sellers, Consumers (2017)
Chester Bingley, Director, Keep Streets Live
Nick Broad, CEO and founder, Busk.co
Mark Denbigh, Head of Production & Programme, Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Alex Gibson, Music and Creative Arts Regional Specialist (Bishop’s Stortford), Salvation Army
Prof Trevor Herbert, Emeritus Professor in Music at the Open University, author of Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013), and editor of The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History (2000)
Kate Jones, Programme Director, Busk in London
Stefano Montes, Researcher in Culture and Society at the University of Palermo, convener of People and Cultures of the World (2019)
Marcus Patteson, Executive Director of Norca and Sistema, Co-founder of Norwich Samba
Mykaell Riley, Senior Lecturer at Westminster School of Arts, Programme Director of the Black Music Research Unit and Principal Investigator for Bass Culture Research
Veronica Stephens, Executive Director, Seachange Arts
Dr Lucy Wright, Research Fellow at University of Leeds in School of Performance and Cultural Industries, artistic-researcher.co.uk
Gina Arnold, Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco
Andrew Green, School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
Samuel Horlor, Music Department, Durham University
Jaime Rollins, author of Lullabies and Battle Cries: Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland.
Kelvin Mason, Campaign Choirs Initiative and Campaign Choirs Writing Collective, who have recently published Singing for Our Lives: stories from the street choirs
Lotte Reimer, Campaign Choirs Initiative and Natural Voice Network
This entry was posted in Academic, Conference, Connected Communities, Music, project and tagged busking, festival, street music, UEA on April 29, 2019 by George.
Rhythm Changes 6 conference: Jazz Journeys
This week, at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz (KUG), we hold the 6th of our international jazz conferences, on the overarching theme of Jazz Journeys. There are around 180 delegates coming, which is we feel a big deal. I’m a member of the Rhythm Changes organising team, and have been since we first had EU project funding for our European jazz research. So looking forward to being back in Graz. You can download the conference programme here.
Jazz has typically been the music of journeys and mobility. Its history is inseparable from global patterns of migration and changing demographics, as well as new forms of media communication and cultural production. The music speaks as much to dreams of escape as it does to the desire to put down roots; it continually seeks new pathways to meaning, even as it reinforces old boundaries. Jazz Journeys seeks to critically explore how ideas of mobility, movement, travel, exchange, voyaging, border-crossing and odyssey have shaped – and continue to shape – debates about the music’s past and future. We welcome papers addressing the conference theme from multiple perspectives, including cultural studies, musicology, cultural theory, music analysis, jazz history, media studies, and practice-based research. Within the general theme of Jazz Journeys, we have identified several sub-themes.
Journeys: mobility and travel
This theme addresses hemispheric or global cultural movements in jazz, from the legacies of transatlantic slavery to the emergence of jazz communities throughout the world. We invite papers that engage with the different kinds of journeys that musicians undertake, from stylistic development to their involvement in the processes of migration and mobility, cross-cultural exchange, colonialism, and empire(s).
Journeys: journees
This theme explores jazz as a companion to everyday life in private and public spaces, in the light of changing modes of interaction with the music. Are new technologies and platforms such as Spotify and Facebook changing the way we deal with jazz? How does jazz feature as a soundtrack to our ordinary existence? How do such regular interactions (or the avoidance of such interactions) reveal ideas about the meaning and value of jazz?
Journeys: journal/diary: history, narrative, (auto)biography
This theme explores the ways in which the experience of music is captured and the story of jazz told, from dominant narratives to (auto)biographies, popular tales to hidden histories. We welcome papers that interrogate dominant forms of causal and linear narration and engage with the ways in which the stories of jazz are written, adapted and changed through time. The theme seeks to engage with the underlying values that shape understandings of jazz and influenced what is celebrated and what ignored.
Journeys: journals/research
Fifty years ago, the founding of Jazzforschung / Jazz Research and Beiträge zur Jazzforschung / Studies in Jazz Research in Graz positioned jazz studies as an important area of musicology and related disciplines. We invite papers that explore the gaps, limitations and tensions in our understanding of jazz research, as well as new directions in the field.
Journeys: journalism, media, technologies
This theme investigates the role of writing, mediatisation and technological change in the production, dissemination, and experience of jazz. We invite papers focusing on the ways in which ideas, sounds and images about the music circulate globally between artists, critics, audiences, and producers.
Journeys: time(s) and temporalities
This theme explores concepts of time and temporality in jazz, from the uses of multiple tempos and time signatures to theories and practices of repetition and revision. We invite papers that respond to the different times, temporalities, tempos, moments, instances, junctures, speeds, passages, and movements in and out of time that characterise jazz history and its practices.
The seduction of alliteration
This theme addresses the many journeys in language, sound, gesture, and image that shape our understanding of jazz, including spontaneous writing, creative writing from the Harlem Renaissance, and Beat literature. We welcome papers that experiment with how to get from A to B, that sound out new ways of speaking of and thinking about jazz, and envision new practices and processes of writing about, and performing with, the music.
This entry was posted in Academic, Conference, Jazz, Music, project and tagged jazz, KUG on April 10, 2019 by George.
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Reverorum Ib Malacht 'Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble'
Acherontas reveal details of 'Faustian Echoes'
Greek occult black metallers with ritual & 70's rock influences, ACHERONTAS, reveal details surrounding their new studio album titled "Faustian Ethos". The album is set to be released on May 18th in Europe and May 25th in North America via Agonia Records.
As previously reported, the follow-up to "Amarta अमर्त" (2017) was recorded in three different studios in Greece, UK and Germany between 2016 and 2017 with mixing and mastering done at Pentagram Studio by George Emmanuel (Rotting Christ, Lucifer's Child). The newly-released cover artwork presented above was created by George Zafiriadis (www.occulticons.com) and the "Faustian Ethos" sigil (available at the bottom) was illustrated by VisionBlack.
ACHERONTAS commented: "Faustian Ethos...a sacrament of Devil's Art and Magic. The Coven of Acherontas enters the indisputable paths of the unspeakable to transgress the Infallible traditions beyond the mundane perception. Originally crafted during the procreation of 'Amarta', the material of 'Faustian Ethos' was chosen to become a separate entity, following a different musical and ideological approach. Eight offerings to the great and everlasting Work, eight Keys to the deepest layers of the Abyss. Exploring multiple crossroads ,the Coven return to the Western path, two years after the Union release with Nastrond. Art, religion and philosophy blend within the spectre of straight-edged and razor-sharp Black Metal, devoid of ornamental elements, reaching the very core of irredeemable Black Magical, Devilish Art. The most intense, profound and apocryphal chapter of the musical/magickal "Ma-Ion" trilogy is taking form and, like a final element, completes the alchemy of this esoteric work. Rooted deeply into the substantial core of our tradition, it invokes the Faustian spirit once again, as the Sun sets into the ruins of modernity. The triangle shall be crowned with an oak wreath and the cycle shall be completed, yet for another one to begin".
Agonia Records label manager commented: "It’s certainly the best album recoded by Acherontas so far. It’s actually one of the best Black Metal albums I have heard in years! The spirit of 90's is alive".
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Τhe Fall of the First Pillar
2. Sorcery and the Apeiron
3. Aeonic Alchemy (Act i)
4. Faustian Ethos
5. The Old Tree and the Wise Man
6. The Alchemists of the Radiant Sepulchre (Act ii)
7. Decline of the West (O Ιερεας και ο Ταφος)
8. Vita Nuova
www.facebook.com/AcherontasCoven
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Altar of Perversion, details on Intra Naos
':She Weaves Abyssal Riddles and Eorthean Gates:' is the second song from the 'Intra Naos' 3LP or 2CD set by Italy's ALTAR OF PERVERSION.
Herein are 6 songs of profound introspection and honesty, unbridled by norms or trends, adhering to tenents of belief that should resonate with the seeker, the curious, the outsider. ALTAR OF PERVERSION emerges from the void after twelve years of searching, reflecting, shattering the known and invoking the unattainable in the quest for the numinous. Rather than scratching the surface, these songs reveal what lies beneath the surface and unravel the illustrious blackness within. This is the vision of Pan-European Satanism. This is timeless Black Metal as it was understood from it’s nascent core.
A co-release between The Ajna Offensive and Norma Evangelium Diaboli.
:Adgnosco Veteris Vestigia Flammae:
:She Weaves Abyssal Riddles and Eorthean Gates:
:Behind Stellar Angels:
:Cosmic Thule, Inner Temple:
:Subcosmos Archetypes:
:Through Flickering Stars, They Seep:
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Nocturnus AD demo track
"Demo version of 1 of 9 songs that will be on our debut album.
The song is called Aeon of The Ancient Ones and was recorded and produced by the band."
www.facebook.com/NocturnusAD
Void Eater second EP
The second release from VOID EATER, the creation of RKV (Obliteration).
Alien death metal in obscure sonic void.
II by Void Eater
duplicaterecords.limitedrun.com
W.A.I.L. sophomore album
W.A.I.L. (FI) " Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination and Lunacy vol. II" digibook cd
[Triumphant Transgressions]
Eclectic Doom/Black Metal.
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E-Mail Subject: Complacency vs. growth
Practical Tips: FLATLINING
Q & A: Sober For Long Stretches of Time
Daily Dose of Dov: Join an SA group
FLATLINING
By Internal Control
The phenomenon of Flatlining is discussed extensively on various internet addiction resources and forums.
Flatline is a period of decreased or absent libido following the initial withdrawal from pornography. Flatlining starts several days or weeks after initial withdrawal from pornography and can last several weeks or months. The complete lack of sexual desire during this period can convince a person that he has overcome his addiction and he returns back to his "old normal." However, after a couple of weeks or months, the flatline abruptly ends and libido comes back roaring. If the person is unprepared, he is bound to fall again and repeat the vicious cycle.
In my own experience, the "flatline end" is very dangerous and one must be fully prepared for it.
A Member Deals with Flatlining
By Joe (great writer!)
My first 30 days were easy. I was inspired by the challenge and my new-found freedom.
My body was releasing endorphin's just by staying clean. It was a natural drug. I would silently roam among fellow fallible humans and hold my head high, I was cured.
But then reality set in. I started to descend from the natural high of embarking on a secret challenge to reset my neural pathways. And now, 64 days into my quest, and I feel the constant struggle of reverting back to my default habits of pressing the "pleasure" button to wallow in a transient ecstasy for a few minutes.
If only I could race through this challenge faster than the speed of sound, using my afterburners for thrust, passing beacons of time with the swift resolve of a soul set on fire, a soul not tempted by the base drives of mortal men.
But that's not where the gold is. The essence of G-d doesn't flaunt its aura among the open spaces of a soul untethered. It's in the dark recesses of our struggle, in the conflicted moments of our pain, that we can uncover the gold, the very essence of G-ds kindness and divine assistance.
So now the challenge begins. This is the point in time when the inspiration fades and I rely on the momentum of my firm commitment to do this, just one single day at a time.
And then, when the light has dimmed from my eyes, I will dig, deep, into my soul and find the inner resolve not to succumb to the desires of my inborn animal, because G-d is walking by my side. Every single moment in time!
Sober For Long Stretches of Time
I can go for a long time without acting out, does that mean I don't have a real problem?
By GYE
It doesn't really matter how long you can stay clean for. The question is, why do you keep doing it if you don't want to? This is an indication that you may have some level of addiction. Now there are many levels of addiction, and some of the lighter tools on GYE can help for lighter levels of addiction (see the video on the homepage - blue, orange and red levels).
If you find that you don't act out when around other people, then make sure to stay connected! Indeed, many studies show that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety - the opposite of addiction is CONNECTION. See this video clip from TED for more on this amazing principle.
Daily Dose of Dov
Join an SA group
How do I get my wife to agree to let me join the SA groups?
By Dov
Someone wrote:
How do I reveal to my wife what I’m going through and get her to agree to let me join the SA groups?
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•March 12, 2019
•Charlie Minato
•Age Restrictions, Legislation
Illinois House Approves Raises Minimum Tobacco Purchasing Age to 21
Last year the Illinois General Assembly approved a measure that would have rasied the minimum age to purchase tobacco in the state from 18 to 21 only to see it vetoed by then-Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Now, the Illinois House has passed H.B. 0345 by a vote of 82-31. The bill will raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21. A similar measure in the Senate already has 13 co-sponsors, it would need 30 votes to pass. Last session the Senate voted to override Rauner’s veto, but the House did not meaning his veto stood.
Most notably though, Illinois has a new governor, J.B. Pritzker.
Six states have already approved measures to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21, as has Cook County, which includes Chicago.
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Charlie Minato
I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I handle the editing of our written content, the majority of the technical aspects of the site and work with the rest of our staff on content management, business development and more. I’ve lived in most corners of the country and now entering my second stint in Dallas, Texas. I enjoy boxing, headphones, the Le Mans 24-hour, wearing sweatshirts year-round and gyros. echte liebe.
Illinois Senate Approves Tobacco Purchasing Age Increase, Heads to Governor's Desk
Tobacco Purchase Age Raised to 21 in Peoria, Ill.
Patrick Lagreid
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BF2S Forums Recommend and Rate music!
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Recommend and Rate music!
CammRobb
+1,510|4383|Carnoustie MASSIF
So, new sub-forum, so I thought I'd make a nice new shiny thread.
If you hear a new song and think it's a bit awesome, post here, give a wee description, (or if you're Uzique, and dissertation) and give it a rating, maybe link to other songs by the same artist, or other songs of the same genre.
Here's one to get you started, it's Biffy Clyro's latest single.
Biffy are a Scottish 3 piece heavy rock/metal band from Ayrshire.
After 3 epic albums, and one slightly more mainstream album, they've decided to go back to their roots, and play some brilliant riffs, awsm choruses, and an epic ending. Here it is:
And thanks, Chuy!
Last edited by CammRobb (2009-08-29 04:15:21)
Ioan92
+337|3975
Awesome~
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|4880|UK
Ioan92 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5mRjAOCsY
As far as Dubstep remixes go, I think that one's pretty boring.
Unofficial video:
Shall work on a review of the new Arctic Monkeys album, Humbug in a wee while, only listened to it briefly, but it's gooood.
Noobpatty
ʎʇʇɐdqoou
+194|4607|West NY
That BSE track was pretty cool.
Some songs I've recently discovered that I like:
Antiform with MC Twincam - Crash thank you Ty
MyChildren MyBride - Headshot!
Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Back Door
Last edited by Noobpatty (2009-08-29 07:21:42)
Gooners
Wiki Contributor
This thread becomes hard to read when everyone just spams youtube vids.
Why not put it in url form such as this:
Burial - Ghost Hardware
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,618|4041|Catherine Black
Good idea Goonray.
+166|4378|Texas
Skream - Chest Boxing
Alaska & Seba - Back From Eternity
J Bostron - Skunk
Jenspm
+1,716|4985|St. Andrews / Oslo
CammRobb wrote:
surprisingly good, imo.
Also, the new Dodos album is great too.
.Sup
be nice
+2,646|4706|The Twilight Zone
any Jazz lovers here?
.Sup wrote:
Blues yes.
Jazz, not so much.
mcminty
Moderating your content for the Australian Govt.
+879|4974|Sydney, Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAzdQipMFQ
Yay Biffy!
I saw them in march when they performed in Sydney. God they are mental. I think it was last week when I went to their website to see their upcoming gigs.. and "That Golden Rule" starts playing. And I was like
They've got an album coming out soon, yeah?
Yup. I'm quite a fan of big band stuff (say Michael Buble for example), small jazz quartet kinda things... and also jazz that features someone playing the clarinet (it's what I get from playing the clarinet ).
Mm, I'll recommend you all some jazz - John Pizzarelli. He's an American guitarist, who is also part of his own jazz quartet. I remember seeing him at Yoshi's Jazz Club, in San Fransisco. Instant addiction to jazz.
Most of the videos on youtube are crap, so this will have to suffice:
Little BaBy JESUS
+394|4402|'straya
Dirge For November - Opeth
Porcelain Heart - Opeth
Even if you're not a metal fan these songs are simply amazing.
Check it out, seriously. Opeth is one of the most musically "intelligent" bands of our time. Their harmonies, their use of "light and shade" and their ability to convey the mood of the lyrics/images/progression so clearly is amazing. Also, their use of complex rhythms, poly rhythms, unusual time signatures and very their unique harmonies create a very distinctive sound.
I'm in love with these guys at the moment. They have an album for any mood I'm I can never get sick of listening to them.
(This is all just my opinion though)
Metal-Eater-GR
I can haz titanium paancakez?
Milburn were a four-piece outfit from the city of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
The band consisted of Joe Carnall (lead vocals/bass), Louis Carnall (vocals/rhythm guitar), Tom Rowley (lead guitar) and Joe Green (drummer). They produced ear-grabbing riffs and essential Melodies, underpinned by the raw tones of the mod-punk era, which epitomises the youthfulness and abundant potential of the band. Milburn’s sound has most recently been described as the aggressive riffs of the Jam, with a touch of ska mixed with the hooks and sound of modern contemparies such as the Libertines and Razorlight.
The Genius And The Tramp
What Will You Do (When The Money Goes)
Love their sound... also worth a check: Rubicon, Send in the boys, Sinking Ships.
@minty
Great album by Darren Rahn (Talk Of The Town)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXoRWjD … mp;index=4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9C0nFHV … p;index=46
I am now mellow as fuck.
And have a desire to play Sim City... so I can listen to the music.
Whoever left me karma at least leave your name. I'm open for discussion, you don't have to be an arse.
Molotov is a Mexican rock and hip hop band formed on September 23, 1995 in Mexico City. Their lyrics feature a mixture of Spanish and English, rapped and sung by all members of the group. Musically, Molotov blends heavy basslines, flamenco guitar riffs and turntable scratches. Molotov is heavily influenced by Rage Against the Machine. Many songs, such as “Gimme Tha Power” and “Frijolero”, are politically inspired.
Gimme Tha Power
This really isn't my kind of music but im loving the vocals. The language is great.
Spoiler (highlight to read):
PS: I excuse if I look like im trying to shove my music taste down your throats, though I feel like sharing these bands with you guys.
DonFck
Hibernator
+3,227|4884|Finland
I've been listening over and over again to an album called "Colors" by Between the Buried and Me. It's an epic Death metal / Metalcore / Progressive metal album which delivers all the way from start to finish.
White Walls part 1
I need around tree fiddy.
Hooch Pandersnatch
I like shoes
+26|4375|West Aus
Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
Those songs ain't bad but I prefer The Grand Conjuration and Demon of the Fall.
Nice description of the bands' musical styling.
DonFck wrote:
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee16 … Colors.jpg
In my mind, interesting to listen to. Until they start to sing. I'm sorry Don, but that just kills it for me. Guess that's why I prefer your so called "Hero metal" of Sonata Arctica and the likes.
Otherwise, the actual instrument playing is quite awesome. It reminds me a lot of Dream Theatre.
edit: re the singing.. the singing kills it.. ONLY when its that growling stuff at the beginning of your first video. Do not want. Sorry I was so quick to judge, lol
mcminty wrote:
Give it a chance, listen to the whole song (both parts), I think you may find it pretty interesting.
Can anyone recommend anything else in this vain?
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What Pro-Active Councils Do!
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Consultation/Communication, GE Governance, GE Open Space, GE Planning, GE Service Performance
Bayside council is currently undertaking community consultation on its draft C140 Amendment which will apply to areas zoned Neighbourhood Residential. Aside from the content, the methodology of this consultation stands in stark contrast to current practices in Glen Eira. Please note:
An online survey
An 8 page explanatory booklet in plain English
Clear explanations on the website – Glen Eira residents have to be ‘satisfied’ with the regurgitation of incomprehensible jargon contained in the public advertising and with only a link to the department as follow up!
Formal submissions
Links to documents
Source: http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/caring_for_bayside/6801.htm
This amendment seeks to:
Limit subdivision size to 400 square metres. Glen Eira has no minimal subdivision size. In fact, Council granted 487 Neerim Road permission for 8 subdivisions. These all ranged in size from 199 square metres to just over 200 square metres! With no minimal subdivision size, this means that it is hypothetically possible for landowners and developers to subdivide and then subdivide again. In other words – 4 dwellings on a lot instead of the much vaunted 2 dwellings per lot. We expect developers to cotton on to this loophole very soon.
Permeability of 35%. Glen Eira prides itself on achieving that massive percentage of a piddling 25% which has been in place since 2004 and we wonder how hard our ‘negotiators’ really tried to increase this quotient! Please remember that there are other councils with as much as 40% permeability requirements!
Private open space to equal 75 square metres – a minimum of which must be 60 square metres and 5 metres wide. In Glen Eira, residents are stuck with – “An area of 60 square metres, with one part of the private open space to consist of secluded private open space at the side or rear of the dwelling or residential building with a minimum area of 40 square metres, a minimum dimension of 4 metres and convenient access from a living room”.
Bayside is also basing its draft on a 2012 Housing Strategy and is currently reviewing its Planning Scheme. Again, compare and contrast with what Glen Eira is doing!!!!!
13 Responses to “What Pro-Active Councils Do!”
Every other council is pushing hard to get better results. Not our lousy bunch. They’re only good at “advocating” and not putting up decent amendments to correct their stuff ups.
Moody Racing Says:
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/vet-cannot-be-trusted-racing-victoria-cobalt-hearing-told-20150729-gimwf3.html Matt Stirling, for Peter Moody, told stewards that Moody trained 110 horses at his Caulfield stables and he employed 70 people and had a payroll of $50,000 a week.
And those people’s jobs would be terminated and Moody would face a termination payment of $200,000.
He would have to contact the owners of 110 horses to tell them their trainer of choice could not continue.
“And it is a $15 million business and Moody owns several horses in his own stable and the freezing of his percentages would not work,” Stirling said.
Moody said after his hearing that “every dollar the business earns is re-funnelled back into the business”.
Moody said he would continue as he has throughout, to work with stewards over being charged after Lidari returned a positive swab for cobalt.
Bailey told they Hopes and Moody that they would be advised of the result of Wednesday’s hearing shortly.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/horseracing/vet-cannot-be-trusted-racing-victoria-cobalt-hearing-told-20150729-gimwf3.html#ixzz3hGlSF3Te
Smart Aleck Says:
Great! and the mrc is tied hook line and sinker to these bods.
An astonishing economic justification for avoiding significant penalties if the case is proven.
I can’t help thinking how wonderful it is that the MRC (with assets of half a billion) has excluded the public from declared public parkland so that it can be used for early morning horse training without any legal right to do so and without paying a cent..It’s even more wonderful that the $15 million Moody empire gets to take advantage of this free crown land..
just watch them all walk away with a slap across their wrists with a feather, they know to much to go down
It should be of interest to note that two MRC Commitee men had a horse start at Wodonga on Wednesday 29th and the horse the Benefactor is trained by Peter Moody,
UNFORTUNATELY Glen Eira Council is in no position to make changes to the zones imposed on residents without any consultation in 2013. Glen Eira Council, unlike other Council’s, have simply failed to undertake any of the planning work they promised to do when the Housing Diversity/Minimal Change Areas (which are the basis for the “direct and neutral translation”) were introduced in 2003. Without that work (introduction of structure plans, overlays, traffic management, open space,parking precinct plans, drainage etc. etc. etc.) and without any analysis of what’s occurred in the intervening 10 years Glen Eira is unable to provide a substantiated strategic justification for making changes. Other Councils can but Glen Eira can’t.
FORTUNATELY, despite the residents clamouring (since 2003 and in particular since 2013) for changes to be made and a planning scheme review to be undertaken, Council has no intention of doing anything. Without any public announcement or decision being made in an open Council Meeting, Council has applied for and received from the Minister, an exemption to review the planning zones for another 12 months. I suppose some could interpret this as giving Council time to do what it should have done in the past but in the absence of anything that indicates a change in attitude from either the Administration and Councillors I doubt it. .
Carnegie Resident Says:
Correction: Council has not applied for exemption from doing a Planning Review. DELWP confirmed that two requests came from Council officers, without delegated authority or Council resolutions to give them authority. The Department “recognized their names”, and both Liberal and Labor Planning Ministers granted exemptions/extensions, despite the woeful justification those officers provided. David Davis just last week publicly supported the delaying of Reviews without transparency or accountability.
Not sure I follow this comment – are you saying that without appropriate authority two Council Officers (whose names were recognised by the department, ergo they aren’t low on the totem pole) requested exemptions based on woeful justifications and were granted extensions?
Yes. BTW some Councils did actually do the statutory planning review [Mornington Peninsula for example], having considered it inappropriate to delay indefinitely.
Perhaps the Bayside Council allocates more money towards Town Planning than GECC.
Have a read of page 8 in the August issue of the Glen Eira News.
It provides a 2015-16 ‘Annual Budget Breakdown’
“Services that Council delivers for every $100 of rate revenue (2015-2016)
1. Capital works = 30.64%
2. Recycling and waste = 12.79%
3.Parks and recreation = 17.15%
4. Family and children’s services = 6.71%
5. Urban maintenance = 13.76%
6. Community safety = 3.52%
7. Cultural services = 1.32%
8. Services for the aged = 6.42%
9. Libraries = 5.17%
AND, here’s the proof in the pudding!!!!!
10. Town Planning= 2.25%
It shows how low a priority ‘Town Planning’ is to the GECC., and explains the poor quality, sloppy work which is generated by that Department.
Perhaps they should allocate some of the fat pay checks given to the Council Administrators, and put it towards Planning, ensuring that this municipality doesn’t continue down the plughole!
gleneira Says:
These percentages of course need to be taken with a huge grain of salt. For example: how much of the 30.64% claimed to be spent on ‘capital works’ includes the carry over from funds not spent from last year’s budget? We recall a figure of close to $8 million that was cited as carry over. As for ‘parks and recreation’ – well, that could include anything from interest payments on a $25 million borrowing for GESAC, plus millions spent on concrete plinths. As we know – there are lies, damn lies, and finally meaningless statistics!
I absolutely agree with your assessment of poor quality and sloppy work generated by the planning department – in fact I’d extend the comments to a number of other departments as well Years of the planning department’s substandard performance is having a negative impact on the daily lives of all residents.
However, I disagree with the suggestion that the solution is to increase spending on that department. The substandard work is evident for all to see – it’s regularly on display at the planning counter, it appears in officers reports and at VCAT. It’s presented to and approved by Councillors after being pre-approved by the upper levels of the Administration.
Therefore, to change it, you need to start at the top – start with changing the Councillors. You need to get Councillors who actually represent residents by fulfilling their legal responsibility of overseeing the Administration rather than acting as a rubber stamp for that Administration. Only through them can you change the Administration – they are the ones deliverying the substandard performance.
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Posts Tagged ‘Mama’
Most Intriguing 2013 Trailers
Posted: 27/12/2012 in FILM
Tags: Ataque de Pánico!, Avengers, Bruce Campbell, Christopher Nolan, Cult film, Dark Knight Rises, Evil Dead, Gangster Squad, Goats in the Machine, Hitchcock, Horror film, Iron Man 3, Mama, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Pacific Rim, Prototype, RJ Bayley, Sam Raimi, Stand Up Guys, The Last Stand, zack snyder
2012 was a special year for fans of genre and franchise cinema. Sam Mendes gave us the appropriately excellent Bond adventure Skyfall for the secret agent’s 50th anniversary. Christopher Nolan made it a hat-trick and finished off his Batman trilogy with the stunning The Dark Knight Rises. Karl Urban delivered a rendition of The Law all comic fans were waiting for with the reassuringly violent Dredd. We were also treated to a return visit to Middle-Earth by the man who took us there in the first place via The Hobbit. And perhaps the most nerdgasm inducing of them all; that which I thought I’d never see on the silver screen, a cohesive (not to mention brilliant) comic-book universe culminating in the joyous Avengers Assemble.
But it wasn’t just good news for the superhero fans, the horror fans were well catered for too. Horror studio and British institution Hammer continued it’s triumphant resurrection with the rightly praised The Woman in Black. Tim Burton got back on form with the flawless Frankenweenie. Ridley Scott went back to the future with the retro Prometheus and Drew Goddard almost re-invented the horror-show with the showstopping The Cabin In The Woods.
Also there was blogger Louise Boyd’s must see horror of the year, Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead.
But now we’ve survived apocalypse and will soon be into Twelve Months of Terror then what have we got to look forward to?
Below are the trailers that have got Goats in the Machine most intrigued to see the films they’re flogging. (more…)
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Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of March 2019 [Best Recommendations]
Game Recommendations [Category]
RPG, Adventure Game, Fighting Game, Platformer Game [Genres]
justin-moriarty
Upon the drafting of this list, we’re just less than a few weeks away from March of 2019. Up until now, the industry has promised and delivered a quantity and quality of games on just about every platform and of various genres. As for March 2019, what are some games to be on the lookout for? Read our top 10 to find out!
10. Keiko no Kirby Plus (Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn)
System: 3DS
Developer: Good-Feel
Release Dates: March 8, 2019
Ok, so this game is a re-release/port of a Wii game from nine years ago going to the 3DS. The game is expected to be more or less the same as its predecessor but with some new features to keep it fresh. For starters, you’re getting new power-ups, and introduces a new mode called Devilish Mode, which has Kirby race a devil through specific levels. By winning these races, you can win prizes to decorate Kirby’s Pad with. Other new features include sub-games that features King Dedede, and another with Meta Knight. So for hardcore fans of Kirby, this is a must have regardless of owning the original release
9. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
System: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Developer: Massive Entertainment
Release Dates: March 12, 2019
If you love RPGs mixed with third person team shooters (maybe Honey can gain the copyright to the naming of this genre as American RPGs?), then Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is the game you’re looking for. From what we can tell, many qualities that made the first game a success is going to be brought back for this one. From what previews have offered, you don’t have to make significant improvements but just slightly expand on what made the original awesome. One notable improvement is that the game is going to offer subclasses for your character(s). Those specific subclasses still rely on certain weapons whether it would be let’s say sniper rifles, bazookas, or crossbows, and as you level up, you can eventually include skills beyond your base set. In other good news, The Dark Zone is confirmed to be back but at what capacity has yet to be confirmed. And that’s not all! For the first year, all expansions are going to be free!
8. Tokyo Chronos
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System: PC/PS4
Publisher: MyDearest
Developer: Sekai Project
With Shenmue III, Kickstarter’s most funded game being released this year, we have to make a shout out to another Kickstarter funded game, Tokyo Chronos, a VR visual novel. With the visual novel genre finally becoming progressively genre outside of Japan this past generation along with the rise of household VR peripherals, it was only inevitable that the genre would go VR. If you want to enjoy being an anime school student in Tokyo, Tokyo Chronos is the game you’re looking!
Based on the trailers, you’re getting a pretty accurate portrayal of Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district (with the crosswalk and Shibuya 109’s department store being highlighted in the trailers) along with a very energetic soundtrack. Also, we can confirm that big name seiyuus such as Yuki Kaji (the voice of Eren from Attack on Titan) and Romi Park (Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist) are featured to play some of the main characters. Though some Kickstarter games have fallen flat, Tokyo Chronos looks like it’s going to deliver despite not being subjected to numerous delays like (Mighty No. 9).
7. One Piece: World Seeker
Developer: Ganbarion
As the English version to “We Are,” the first opening theme to the One Piece anime would say, so come on board and bring along, all your hopes and dreams since that’s what World Seeker promises what you can do. With the dedicated involvement of the staff from the anime, we are getting the most immersive One Piece experience any One Piece otaku is promised to get. Considering the action-adventure nature of the source material, it’s only fitting that the game takes the modern open world approach and mix it up with some of the crazy gimmicks that the series is known for such as being able to utilize Luffy’s bizarre abilities of extending his body. Some other media sources that have already sampled the game are comparing this to last year’s Spider-Man PS4 game and if what made that game appealing can work with One Piece, then we’re in for a game of the year candidate. Of course, we mean it under the context of how the game excellently represents its source material for all gamers, whether they’re familiar with it or not, to enjoy.
6. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
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System: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Developer: From Software
Are you one of those gamers that wishes that the Tenchu series would come back? If so, Sekiro may be that game you’re looking for because it was actually conceived as a Tenchu game! Instead of being your typical Tenchu game, it’s Tenchu on steroids as you fight various freaks of nature! As to why the game is called Sekiro, meaning “one-armed wolf,” the titled character is given that name due to wearing a prosthetic arm with tools that will come into play in the game, most notably having extra weapons or grappling hooks to run across rooftops.
Just like how entertainment doesn’t exactly capture the realistic nature of guns, the same can be said for swords and this game wants to distinct that. The selling point to this game from the developers is that they want to capture sword fighting in a more realistic manner by using the clashing to create openings for the coup de grace. Considering how sword fighting is glorified in media, it’d be interesting to see how this game challenges that notion as we get to explore feudal Japan and it’s wonderful nature and architecture.
5. Total War : Three Kingdoms
System: PC, Linux, Mac
Developer: Creative Assembly
Some of you may be familiar with the Romance of Three Kingdoms, the story of pre-unified China when they were at war. From an Eastern perspective, it’s not exactly the most original story to adapt into a video game, but for international audiences, it may seem fresh and we can hope it can educate interested players. This game is part of a bigger franchise since Total War has also portrayed ancient civilizations of the Samurai, the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Mongols. Through this strategy game, you can learn a bit about Chinese history. Though it’s called the Three Kingdoms, you have eleven factions to choose from. Some of them include real life historical figures from that that time period you can lead as, and they each have their own distinguishing attributes as leaders. In addition to using traditional turn-based mechanics, you can have two generals engage in a classic duel to settle feuds so when the time is right, end it with some Chinese chivalry.
4. Left Alive
System: PS4, PC
When you look at the promotional art, you’ll instantly recognize the style of Yoji Shinkawa, the designer for the Metal Gear Solid franchise. If anything, some of you reasonably assumed that it may have been a Metal Gear Solid related game, but it’s not. It is actually a spin-off of Square Enix’s Front Mission franchise. The world of this game takes place in a Neo USSR. You know all those Soviet Russia jokes people like to make? Well, they’re a reality in this game as you fight against this Communist regime and have to save civilians from prison camps like it’s Red Dawn. Considering that the game also has stealth elements, it feels appropriate to have Shinkawa’s touch in this game as well. But not only do you have stealth elements, it also has the third person shooting elements of The Division and you can even get a mech to do some major damage (just like in Front Mission)! Considering how excellently rounded the game play is with the intense drama of Metal Gear, this is a must have! From the looks of things, you don’t need to have any familiarity with Front Mission to enjoy this game (unlike Kingdom Hearts III).
3. Yoshi’s Crafted World
System: Nintendo Switch
For some of you that love the Yoshi character and any game he stars in, then we can easily conclude that you’re looking forward to Yoshi’s Crafted World. Like many of its predecessors like Yoshi’s Island and its N64 sequel, Yoshi’s Crafted World is a 3D side-scroller but with a modern upgrade/gimmick that masterfully compliments the series. For this edition, players can flip the camera to see behind certain objects. For example, you have Yoshi inside a house. If you need to see something from an opposite perspective, then that’s what you flip the camera to see what’s going on. In addition, it has a cooperative two-player mode where each player can guide their respective Yoshi through the game. Other than that, most of the features that made its predecessors and the character an iconic hit that can stand the test of time are still intact, most notably swallowing enemies, and turning them into eggs which you can use as weapons.
2. Dead or Alive 6
Publisher: Koji Tecmo Games
Developer: Team Ninja
Reportedly coming out the moment it’s the first of March, Dead or Alive 6 is back and is (supposed to be) better than ever. For starters, some fans are concerned about the trademark physics for certain parts of the female anatomy but we shouldn’t concerned or be hyped about that. The new features of the game will focus more on the fighting aspects since characters will begin to bruise as they take more damage like someone would in a real fight. In addition, DOA6 is confirmed to introduce a “slow-motion” mechanic like in The Matrix for more dramatic gameplay. And after six games, players are finally getting a very long overdue costume customization feature. Last, Team Ninja has made it clear that it wants to make the game accessible for rookies to the series by introducing the Fatal Rush, where if a player pushes a button enough times, it will execute a simple and effective combo. So, if you’re not that good at fighting games, we hope this can be a great gateway for those interested in the genre.
1. Devil May Cry 5
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Capcom
Within the first 10 days of March, Devil May Cry, the originator of the hack ‘n slash genre, is releasing its fifth installment and everyone’s expecting it to be better than ever! Along with the return of Dante and Nero (can’t go wrong with Johnny Yong Bosch also coming back for the role in both as the voice and motion capture), it’s going to introduce V, the newest playable character. A lot of what makes the series appealing as a whole with its fast paced and exciting action is presented in the trailers, and V is definitely going to add a new element to keep the series fresh. Based on what has been portrayed in the previews, he can use two companions and a cane as his weapons, and the dynamic he brings is certainly going to add unique challenges we look forward to trying out. For Nero, he has a new weapon called the Devil Breaker, and it gives him some cool moves we can’t wait to try in a full version to kick some demon butt.
Though these games are slated to come in March of 2019, we can’t 100% guarantee that these games will be out by then. As gamers should learn to come to terms with, delays are not a very rare occurrence so it is possible that these games could be delayed to either a month or a year. We don’t mean to jinx the games on this list, but we feel it should be best to stay open minded to such instances. Other than that, what are some other games you are looking forward to in the coming weeks? Maybe some of you are looking forward to the long awaited sequel to ToeJam & Earl. If so or not, leave your thoughts in the comments.
Author: Justin "ParaParaJMo" Moriarty
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The Hilo Community Players present “The Last Princess”
Posted on April 7, 2019. Tags: hilo community players
The Hilo Community Players offers the riveting drama, The Last Princess, a world- premiere play about Princess Ka‘iulani that brings to life the heartbreaking loss of Hawaii’s independence. Written by Hilo playwright, Jackie Prell, the play will be performed from April 12 to April 21, with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., at the East Hawaiʻi Cultural Centerʻs Kahua ʻElua second-floor theatre. The final two performances of The Last Princess will be offered during Merrie Monarch Week, on Monday and Tuesday, April 22nd and 23rd, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available online at www.HiloPlayers.org or at Basically Books. Jackie Pualani Johnson is the director of this Hawaiian history, which features Tyler Dela Cruz as young Kaʻiulani and Ka’iulani Lum-Ho as the older version of the Princess. Playing opposite her will be Michael Kealoha Stevens as Archibald Cleghorn, Kaiʻulaniʻs Scottish father, with Desiree Moana Cruz, as Princess Likelike, her mother. Bob Duerr will play the pivotal role of King Kalākaua and Evette Ewalani Tampos will create Queen Liliʻuokalani, the Kingʻs royal sister. Neva Supe-Roque will appear as Miss Gardinier, Kaʻiulaniʻs guardian. The devisors of the overthrow will be portrayed by Ray Campainha as Lorrin Thurston; Dan Lindsay as Sanford Dole, and Brennan Low and Adam Zaki as co-conspirators. Rounding out the lead roles are George Kahao III as Koa and Reece Naukana-Christensen as Toby, Kaʻiulaniʻs contemporaries.
An array of other historical figures will be played by David Penhallow-Scott and Miariam Wilson (Mr. & Mrs. Davies); Jerry Terpak and Marnie Honeycutt (President and Mrs. Cleveland); Elsa Burbank (Eva Parker); and Jeffrey North Wilson (U.S. Minister Willis). The remaining cast, in an assortment of roles, includes: Jada Diamond Star Cathcart, Jenny Gardham, Chaske Harrison, Desmon Haumea, Sawyer Lewis, Carolyn Lee, Catherine McPherson-Tampos, Susan OʻNeill, Zoe Rose.
The Hilo Community Players was established in 1938 and is one of the state’s oldest amateur theater groups. It is an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 non-profit organization that produces Shakespeare in Kalākaua Park each summer, the oldest on-going Shakespeare tradition in Hawai’i. Director Johnson was born and raised in Hilo and her own Hawaiian heritage infuses her storytelling with passion and insight. The Last Princess is the latest in her long line of legacy performances that give life to our recent past. She informs her productions with her teacher’s fine sensibilities and her 38 years as the head of UH Hilo’s Performing Arts Department ring out in every scene.
As the last in the line of the Kalākaua branch of Hawaii’s royal lineage, Kaʻiulani was the perfect blend of two cultures, two countries, two blood lines. She was stunningly beautiful, sensitive, and highly intelligent. Her Scottish father sent her to finish her education in England, and to keep her safe from the Provisional Government intrigues in Honolulu. Hawaii’s last Princess embodied the painful struggles of her homeland. Kaʻiulani’s mother, Princess Likelike, died at the age of 36 and her dying words to her daughter carried a tragic prophesy. Her father, Archibald Cleghorn, loved his adopted home and he worked hard to defend Hawaii from the damage of the greedy sugar barons. He used his wealth and influence to protect his beautiful daughter, but her fate-and the fate of Hawaii-were sealed by the imperialistic ambitions of late 19th century America. The Hilo Community Players are happy to invite you to the first of many plays about Hawaiian history, a tradition the Players trust will enrich the festival of Hawaiian Culture in the Capital of Old Hawai’i, Hilo.
Note: The original slated opening date was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Anyone holding tickets for performances April 5-7th should contact the Hilo Community Players at HiloCommunityPlayers@Gmail.com for a refund or to transfer these tickets for use on another performance date. Hilo Community Players sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.
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One Response to “The Hilo Community Players present “The Last Princess””
Jose Martinez says:
why aren’t the queens and princess’s of the other island ever heard from?
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Wild Rohn: The Story Behind the Remote Checkpoint
Posted by Dorothy Olmstead in Iditarod
Date: March 7, 2018 2:21 pm
Planes parked at opposite ends of Rohn’s remote airstrip.
The Dalzell Gorge cascades down from the Alaska Range into a narrow river valley, which the Tatina river still carves at a geological pace. Down-valley, the river passes Egypt Mountain, an iconic cornerstone at the north end of the Alaska Range where the valley dramatically opens up into the wide expanse of the Alaskan interior. It remains open for hundreds of miles north, until it gives rise to the Brooks Range. But hidden between these environments, in the sub-alpine spruce forest, sits Rohn checkpoint.
Lisa checks in Tom Schonberger under the burled arch she helped build
This is an area with no humans inhabitants. Instead, it’s rich with wildlife. “Tonight if you’re here you’ll hear the great horned owl,” Lisa Jager tells me. “We think that there’s a couple that are mating because there are two of them that call.”
Lisa began volunteering at this checkpoint in 2002. Since then she’s seen wolves, bison, moose, caribou, fox and sheep in or round the checkpoint. It’s a wild place, with a cabin, no running water, and subtle remnants of Alaskan history.
In the early 1900s, the original Iditarod mail route came through this valley. There was a cabin then, too, though the Tatina eventually washed it away. For the ease of the mail carriers, shelter cabins and roadhouses were built about twenty miles apart, because people figured dogs could travel that far between stops. Eventually, a trapper built another cabin in the same stand of trees. Today, all that remains from that era is a crumbled trapper cache and handmade dog chains still attached to the platforms from the original dog houses. Right now, the latter is buried in snow.
Historical photos of the original Rohn shelter cabin
Because there is no community here, Lisa and several others put in many volunteer hours both on off-season to keep the checkpoint Iditarod-ready. As the race approaches, the pilots fly in straw and drop bags to a short, narrow airstrip. The trail-breakers bring down tents from Rainy Pass. Volunteers haul supplies from the runway, buck wood, clear downed brush from the dog yard, do trail maintenance, and set up tents. This year Lisa and a few others built a new burled arch to mark the checkpoint for the mushers. It’s a lot of work, but it’s those quiet days––before the race arrives, when it’s just a few people working together––that Lisa finds most special. “It’s just a nice place to come because I’m a firefighter now by work, and so I have no pager, no phone, and no Internet, so it’s just simple life here.” She smiles. “Plus it’s beautiful.”
The cabin at Rohn checkpoint
Though this valley is often a place of solitude, for a few days a year this little remote cabin becomes the epicenter of a small community. “It’s nice because we can make our own village. You not only get racers and media, but bison hunters and people that are just riding the trail. So you meet all these fascinating people, and then you have adventures because you never know what’s going to happen.” Community, nestled into remoteness and adventure, makes the trail for Lisa––and she’s not the only one.
While volunteering in Rohn that first year, Lisa met her husband, Terry, who has been running this checkpoint for 25 years. This chance meeting on the trail has opened the door to a marriage filled with adventure. Many years, the two of them snowmachine over the pass to Rohn to kickoff their Iditarod time. Fully aware of what the Dalzell Gorge can do to a sled, Terry brings with him a full tool kit and is ready to help any musher in need of repairs after a dicey run. The dedication they invest into this checkpoint keeps the excitement alive for the mushers, other volunteers, and themselves. For Lisa and Terry, this valley, hidden in the foothills of the Alaska Range is a celebration of the elements that brought them together.
Check out aerial footage of Aliy Zirkle mushing into Nikolai, the checkpoint after Rohn!
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‘Jersey’ Movie Review
Title: Jersey
CBFC Rating : U
Run-Time: 2 Hrs 40 Mins
Banner: Sithara Entertainments
Cast: Nani, Shraddha Srinath, Sathyaraj, Master Ronit, Praveen and Others
Music: Anirudh Ravichander
Cinematography: Sanu Varghese
Editing: Naveen Nooli
Producer: Suryadevara Naga Vamsi
Written & Directed by Gowtham Tinnanuri
Story :
Arjun (Nani), a talented ex-Ranji player struggles in his life after quits cricket and marries his girlfriend Sarah (Shraddha Srinath). To fulfill his son’s wishes Arjun decides to re-live as a cricketer at the age of 36. Can he change his lifestyle and will become successful in cricket forms ‘Jersey’
Natural Star Nani shows why he is called so with the performance of a lifetime. There is not a single false note, and the star carries the entire movie on his strong shoulders. The frustration of a non-achiever and later the person turning out to be a hero has been showcased brilliantly by Nani.
The scenes involving Nani and the kid and Shraddha Srinath are sensational. The way the relationship is built between the two forms the core of the film. Nani has supremely enacted them. The pre-climax scene before leaving to Mumbai is instantly classic and will be remembered for a long time to come.
Shraddha Srinath makes a terrific debut in Telugu films with Jersey. The actress picked up a challenging part instead of a regular heroine role, and it helps her create a substantial impact. All her scenes with Nani are dignifiedly done without any sort of over action when it could have easily veered into that zone.
Ronit played as the son of Nani is superb and is sure to win hearts. Another such lovable part is that done by Sathyaraj. He is clinically effective. Sampath and others do their roles with sincerity and shine.
Highlights :
Shraddha Srinath
Gowtham Tinnanuri’s Writing & Direction
Emotional Quotient
Drawbacks :
Gets slow at times
Gowtam Tinnanuri is back with a new outing after the much loved Malli Rava. The backdrop has changed to sports, but the style has not changed. There is a poetic touch and flourish in the direction of Goutam, and that comes across superbly in Jersey.
The biggest success of the movie is not the story aspect. it makes it all work. The colony, the time of the ’90s, the husband and wife relationship and the father and son track, they are so real that the story takes a backseat and we want to go with the flow and follow their journey. And what a beautiful and emotional journey Jersey has turned out to be.
Jersey works fantastically at two levels, as a family drama and success story of a struggle and at the same time as a sports drama. It is one of the most wonderfully etched sports drama in Telugu cinema. Needless to say, it is a must watch as a result.
The technical department has done an incredible job. First, we start with Anirudh Ravichander who has done a magical work with the music and the background score. The latter is electrical, to say the least. The cinematography by Varghese is brilliant. The mood of a middle-class locality and family are amazingly captured. The dialogues are realistically written. Producer Suryadevara Nagavamsi need to be appreciated for backing a content-oriented emotional drama without commercial trappings. The production values of Sithara Entertainments are grand and give the film a rich look.
Bottom-line: Nani’s Emotional Roller Coaster Ride
Rating:- 3.5/5
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Watch the terrifying moment a speeding van flies over a busy roundabout
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This amazing footage appears to capture a Dukes of Hazzard-style moment when a speeding van flies through the air after hitting a roundabout.
The silver Citroen van is caught hurtling along a dual carriageway before failing to stop and launching into the air as it strikes the cambered edge of the roundabout.
Motorcyclist Andy Daynes, 35, said he caught the footage on his helmet cam while driving behind the van on the A11 at Attleborough, Norfolk, earlier this year.
Andy, of Hingham, Norwich said: “I was actually on my motorbike behind him so I saw it all.
“I pulled over along with some other drivers to see if he was OK.
“He had to be cut out of the van – but he seemed to be alright, he wasn’t badly injured.”
Didn’t see it coming
“It is quite a bad roundabout, he just didn’t see what was coming because he was going so fast,” added Mr Daynes.
“He was on his own, he had a few cuts and bruises but the ambulance came straight away and took him to hospital.
“He just didn’t see the roundabout coming.”
Norfolk police today said it was trying to establish whether it had a record of the incident which Mr Daynes said happened in January.
This story first appeared in our sister title the Worthing Herald
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HomeNewsGREAT NEW POSTER FOR NEW ‘HELLBOY’
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This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious professional to join our team of committed staff who 'share a common sense of purpose and high expectations of what students can achieve' (Ofsted). Exceptional professional development opportunities, whatever your level of development and ambitions, exist within the academy itself and as part of the very successful Harris Federation.
We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment. You will be part of a Federation established in developing practitioners and nurturing excellent future leaders, with unrivalled opportunities for progression; whatever your aspirations as a teacher, middle or senior leader, our Teaching School Alliance provides a range of bespoke courses and qualifications, including our Aspiring Leaders NPQML and NPQSL programmes to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.
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An ambitious person with high expectations for yourself and your students
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About Harris Academy Purley
Harris Academy Purley is an oversubscribed 11-19 co-educational academy with currently 1050 students on roll, situated on the Croydon/Surrey border. Open since September 2009, we are judged Outstanding by Ofsted, and moved into a state-of-the-art new building in September 2012.
We are a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat on another with care and respect, combining traditional values of discipline and good manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. The academy's leadership team and staff share an expectation that each and every student who joins Harris Academy Purley achieves his or her "personal best". With an emphasis on Enterprise, the academy strives each and every day to create a culture and ethos which promotes curiosity, initiative and leadership in all our young people.
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The opportunity to be part of an oversubscribed, 'Outstanding'-rated academy
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Professional development and sharing best practice are a key part of the Harris Federation success, and we can draw on this to offer you top quality training at every stage of your career path, from Beginner Teacher to Middle Leader. We will invest in you with coaching, mentoring, and can offer a wide range of training programmes, delivered by our Teaching School Alliance.
We look for talented teachers who are passionate about their subject and making a difference. You can help us transform education in London, and create exceptional places of learning.
Please note: academies may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn at any point without notice. You will still be able to add information until the closing date, but you will not be able to submit your application. With this in mind, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
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Posts Tagged ‘manufacturing’
A good car while it lasted
Parked up and went for a walk on the beach on the Isle of Wight after Christmas. When we came back the car was not quite as we left it. There had been a small fire in the engine, of which there was no sign when we set off. The fire brigade, who kindly turned up while we were walking on the beach and wondering where all the black smoke was coming from, said it is not the first time they have seen this.
I had wanted to get rid of the car for some time, as I almost never use it. My wife is less pleased. Still, when it is time to go it is time to go, and I like to think that the Subaru’s soul is now in car heaven.
This post really isn’t about development, but I am hoping it might encourage me to start blogging again.
Tags:Japan, manufacturing
Is Indonesia different?
Below is a critique of How Asia Works with specific reference to Indonesia. Indeed there is a second part of the critique that you can track down via the Lowy site. I am just posting the first part and, underneath it, rejoinders to the main points it makes.
Indonesia’s development formula
by Stephen Grenville – 25 July 2013 11:10AM
I share Sam Roggeveen’s enthusiasm for the iconoclastic approach of Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works (his previous book on Asian Godfathers was a great read too). I also share Studwell’s scepticism about the ‘magic of the market’, his views on the IMF, and his admiration for the achievements of the South Koreans.
But I’m unconvinced by Studwell’s three-step development prescription, not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it is too hard to implement successfully.
The Koreans might have done so, but the strategy requires a level of sustained administrative competence, single-minded toughness and luck which are rare. Just as important, there are alternative development strategies, less demanding of skilled policy-making and administrative competence. The growth outcome won’t match Korea’s, but will be more feasible for countries like Indonesia (which Studwell sees as a development failure).
Let’s go through the three elements of the Studwell strategy. The first stage requires land reform and a boost to agricultural productivity.
It’s an old and sensible idea that agriculture has to provide the investable surplus which will propel the rest of the economy along the path of development. Fifty years ago, Clifford Geertz (Agricultural Involution) despaired about Indonesia’s failure to follow the example of Japan, which shifted surplus agricultural labour into factory work to create a modern urban/manufacturing sector. This failure would lead the excess population to atrophy, farming progressively more Lilliputian plots.
But things turned out better. With the average size of farms on Java around half a hectare, the opportunity for land reform couldn’t play the key role that Studwell advocates. But Soeharto, with his roots in agriculture, gave rice production high priority (extension services, high-yield seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and attractive terms-of-trade between agriculture and urban consumers via an active price stabilisation authority). Not very free-market, but big yield increases and self-sufficiency were speedily achieved.
What about a vigorous industry policy, the second Studwell requirement? Despite inheriting the usual disaster story of failed prestige projects from Sukarno, Soeharto was ready to have a go at ‘picking winners’.
Cement, fertilizer, textiles, paper production, food processing and petroleum refining all fitted Indonesia’s comparative advantage and made sense. Others were less defensible: Krakatau Steel,Tommy Soeharto’s national car and Ibnu Sutowo’s tankers. Habibie‘s IPTN aeroplane fits the Studwell strategy and might have succeeded if it hadn’t been stopped by the Asian crisis: ex-aeronautical engineer Habibie was well-qualified to lead this project, plane construction is quite labour-intensive (all those rivets) and the Indonesian archipelago needs lots of them (one airline recently ordered several hundred in one hit).
Whether IPTN would have succeeded is not the issue here: the point is that Indonesia, for better or worse, did try the sort of hot-house industrialisation Studwell advocates, and the IMF wasn’t able to stop this, at least until the 1997 crisis. Planning retained a central role, just as Studwell wants, and state-owned enterprises did the government’s bidding. Where Indonesia had comparative advantage, this often worked out well, and where the industry didn’t suit Indonesia’s attributes, generally it was a failure.
Indonesia’s development experience doesn’t fit the Studwell formula. Java’s rice production has done well without relying on his key element of land reform, and industry policy based on domestic entrepreneurship has been tried without much success.
Governments attempting to steer the process of development need effective administrative capacity; in a follow-up post, I’ll expand on the idea that market failure is common enough, but so too is government failure.
Joe Studwell’s response:
1. I doubt, contra Mr Grenville, that there is some arbitrary minimum land holding that makes land reform unworkable. If this were the case, then the micro-plots of a few tens of square metres championed by groups like Landesa would make no sense, when historical evidence around the world shows that privately-held micro-plots produce very high yields.
I am presently up my hill in Italy, and using a very slow Internet connection, and so cannot readily check the average Javan landholding. I assume Mr Grenville means that the average Javan landholding is half a hectare now, and would therefore be less after land reform. (The average land holding in most parts of China, Japan, ROK, and Taiwan after land reform was roughly half a hectare.) If my understanding is correct, my response is that Java has some of the best soil and climate conditions in the whole of east Asia, and so even smaller plots should be more than viable — if indeed size matters at all in a downward direction, a question which I think deserves real scrutiny.
Mr Grenville is correct that yields on Java are high by south-east Asian standards. The rice yield is over five tonnes per hectare. However this is still less than the average in north-east Asia. Given its soil and climate, it would not surprise me if north-east Asian style household farming could produce as much as 9 tonnes per hectare on Java — about as high as has been managed anywhere, because the growing conditions are so favourable.
Mr Grenville is correct that Suharto invested heavily (if patchily) in agricultural extension services and (eventually) used minimum price guarantees to promote higher yields. However he is wrong to say that self-sufficiency was achieved ‘quickly’. Rice self-sufficiency was not achieved until the mid-1980s, 40 years after independence, and wheat self-sufficiency never was. So I maintain my position that Indonesia is a real relative failure in agriculture.
2. On industry, much of my criticism of policy in south-east Asia focuses on politicians’ efforts to ‘pick winners’ rather than run industrial policy that periodically culls losers. I also talk at length about the need for ‘export discipline’ to anchor industrial policy. And I avoid traditional discussions of what is or is not a society’s comparative advantage because, to my mind, development is about changing (within reason) your comparative advantage. Economic development is about investing in a learning process in order to reap higher future returns.
Mr Grenville’s points about industry in Indonesia therefore seem to me to be based on a misreading, or mere scanning, of How Asia Works. He highlights industrial projects that were picked as ‘winners’, were not subjected to sufficient competition or pressure to export, and which consequently produced a poor return on industrial policy investment. His observations are essentially supportive of the policy requisites I highlight.
The one thing I think is truly misplaced in Mr Grenville’s comments is the argument in the third paragraph that, essentially, Indonesians are politically and administratively ‘not up to’ the task of accelerated economic development, particularly compared to people like the Koreans. Is this true? In 1945, South Korea was the rural backwater of a brutally colonised state in which Koreans had been allowed to play perhaps the most restricted administrative and economic role in any east Asian colony. I cannot see that the Koreans had much political, administrative or educational capital. Elite Indonesians, by contrast, held senior civil service positions under the Dutch, could win scholarships to study in Europe, and had much greater (formal) political, administrative and educational resources. The difference was not the endowments, but the change politicians wrought over 60 years of independent government.
Why was the peasant Park Chung Hee able to achieve so much more than the superbly educated Sukarno? Probably, I think, because Park focused on the basics and got them right.
Tags:agriculture, indonesia, land reform, manufacturing
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How Do You Turn on the Afterburner in "FSX"?
by Bjorck DiMarcoUpdated September 22, 2017
Microsoft’s "Flight Simulator X" (FSX) is the latest installment in Microsoft's series of flight simulation games. Although it has a free flight component, "FSX" also contains structured gameplay, including more than 55 missions, and includes both military and civilian aircraft. Many military aircraft, as well as supersonic aircraft, have an afterburner, an additional component added to jet engines to temporarily provide additional thrust during takeoff or in combat situations. As implemented in "FSX," afterburners were a working and useable feature. But when additional aircraft, created by other companies or by players, are used as add-ons to "FSX," some players experience problems getting afterburners for the new planes to work. Many such problems can be solved by following the steps below.
Download the SR-71 Blackbird from the Flight Simulator Talk website listed in the Resources section. Run the executable file to load the program. When the program is loaded, select Tutorial 1 from the main menu. Once you are airborne, push the throttle completely forward (go "full throttle") to automatically turn on the afterburners.
Press "I" and then "Shift+F4" to turn on the afterburner for the Concord, which is available as an add-on. Alternately, press "Shift+F4" to turn on just the afterburner, then press "I" if you wish to turn on both the afterburner and the smoke effects for the Concord.
Press "Shift+F4" to turn on the afterburner for the F-14 Tomcat, which is available as an add-on.
Fix afterburner problems with the F-18C and F-18E Hornet by downloading a patch from Abacus for the gauge file that controls the afterburner. "FSX" comes with the F/A-18 Hornet, but the F-18C and F-18E versions are provided by other companies as add-ons.
Download the add-on aircraft to the \SimObjects\Airplanes subdirectory of the folder in which you installed "Flight Simulator X." Open this directory in Windows Explorer. In it, you'll find each aircraft installed in its own subfolder. However, sometimes an effects file ends up in the wrong folder. All effects files should be located in the locations specified in the file "aircraft.cfg" inside each aircraft's base folder. Making sure that all effects files are in the appropriate effects folders should ensure that afterburner effects work properly. This usually fixes the problems with add-on aircraft.
Afterburner problems seem to mostly occur in aircraft that can be added into the game, rather than with the aircraft that come as part of the standard or deluxe editions of "FSX." Although Microsoft does offer a patch for the game at its website, afterburner problems do not seem to occur with aircraft that are packaged with the base game itself.
The link to the Abacus afterburners patch links directly to an .exe file.
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Tag Archives: Sky Sports
England’s youth and fringe to the forefront
This week England battled back from an early deficit to defeat a decent Denmark side in their own backyard. A great deal of resilience was demonstrated by a seemingly thread-bare England side in the wake of the rather standard international week drop-outs.
Notable absentees were captain Rio Ferdinand, vice-captain Stephen Gerrard, Adam Johnson, Jermain Defoe and 35 million pound-man Andy Carroll. It was perhaps these absences that provided the much needed spark and motivation that was evident in England’s approach to the match.
Start of something special?
It was as is often the case in international friendly matches, a chance for the youth and fringe players to impress, and that they did. Manger Fabio Capello handed Arsenal talent Jack Wilshere his full-debut and duly praised the youngster’s contributions in his post-match addresses. Though Wilshere was rather disappointingly withdrawn at half-time his replacement Scott Parker came on and impressed.
Parker has been omitted all too often given his consistency in club colours
Parker was referred to as one of the “unluckiest England players” of the current generation by ex-England international Paul Merson on Sky Sports’ punditry based coverage of the match. I for one also find it hard to believe that a player of Parker’s character and technical ability has only made four caps for his country. He is a player I admire greatly and I think he is more than deserving of a run in the side. His performance of great commitment and control against Denmark will surely have earned him further opportunities in the role of England’s midfield linchpin.
Other fringe players and young talent also impressed having been given a run-out. None more so than Ashley Young who at half time replaced the seemingly still out-of-sorts Wayne Rooney. Young filled the void in behind Villa team-mate Darren Bent with great aplomb and real attacking verve. His marauding runs caused the opposition serious problems all half and he was fittingly rewarded by scoring the winning goal, his first in international football.
So, was this encouraging display in a friendly the dawning of yet another era of failed promise or was it in fact the start of something a little special? We all hope that the latter is true but the jury is certainly still out in force.
One thing certainly transpiring from the game is that England do indeed have strength-in-depth, England’s so-called ‘dead-certs’ in the line-up should no longer be considered to be so. We have young and hungry players coming through the production line in addition to more experienced and match-ready options like Scott Parker and Darren Bent, and it seems they are ready to take the step-up whenever called upon.
In summary, it was a good match, a strong performance and their was certainly some indication of a new and more committed era in English football. Let’s all cross our fingers now in unison.
My England XI: (4-2-3-1)
Joe Hart
Glen Johnson
Ashley Cole
Wilshere
Squad:
Foster, Robinson, Jagielka, Cahill, Baines, Bentley, Lampard, Milner, Young, Carroll, Defoe, Bent
By Jack Hayward Posted in Enlgand Football, Football, Sport Tagged Andy Carroll, Ashley Young, Darren Bent, Denmark, England, Fabio Capello, Football, International, Internationl Friendly Matches, Jack Wilshere, Jermain Defoe, Paul Merson, Rio Ferdinand, Scott Parker, Sky Sports, Stephen Gerrard
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Prabowo Subianto, left, and his running mate Sandiaga Uno. (Antara Photo/Sigid Kurniawan)
Prabowo Considers Meeting With Jokowi; Sandiaga Congratulates Opponents
BY : BERITASATU TV & TELLY NATHALIA
Jakarta. Defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is considering a meeting with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in a reconciliatory move widely seen as crucial to repairing the rift that formed during this year's presidential election.
"Prabowo told me that he would make a decision [on meeting with Jokowi]," Sandiaga Uno, his former running mate, said after meeting with him in South Jakarta on Sunday.
Many hoped Jokowi and Prabowo would meet during the official announcement of the result by the General Elections Commission (KPU) in May, but the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) chairman and his running mate did not attend the event.
The Constitutional Court last week dismissed the Prabowo camp's challenge of the result, which showed Jokowi and his running mate Ma'ruf Amin winning by 55.5 percent of the vote.
In his acceptance speech on Sunday, Jokowi called on Prabowo and Sandiaga to work together for the future of Indonesia.
Separately, Sandiaga is seen congratulating Jokowi and Vice President-elect Ma'ruf Amin in a video that went viral on Monday.
2019 Presidential Election Prabowo Subianto Joko Widodo Sandiaga Uno
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29 - September - 2009
Amateur Radio, Emcomm, K9ZW, K9ZW Just Rambled
ARRL Speaks on Paid Employee Emcomm
A few days ago the ARRL released a position paper on Paid Employee Emcomm which supports the present interpretation that the rules as they are do not legally provide for Paid Employee Emcomm outside of during an actual emergency, and even then with caveats. Even if “off the clock” the FCC has said you cannot operate if it benefits your employer:
The ARRL release reads:
Commercialization of Amateur Radio: The Rules, The Risks, The Issues
From its founding in 1914 to the present day, the American Radio Relay League has fostered Amateur Radio public service and emergency communications activities. The League encourages organizations engaged in disaster relief to make appropriate use of Amateur Radio. Further, the League welcomes new, public-service minded licensees from all occupational and professional backgrounds.
The ARRL believes that the Amateur Radio Service and our emergency communications activities flourish best in an atmosphere of respect for and compliance with the FCC‟s Rules. These Rules provide for more flexibility than is typical of other radio services. They guide our operations and assist us in protecting the spectrum allocated to the Amateur Radio Service from encroachment by commercial interests.
This document is not intended to discourage anyone from becoming an Amateur or to discourage any organization from promoting an interest in Amateur Radio among its employees and volunteers. Nor does it signal any change in the League‟s long-standing devotion to public service and emergency communications. Its objective is to educate both Amateurs and the organizations we serve about what is permitted under the FCC‟s current Rules and to assist Amateurs in making reasoned decisions about the appropriateness of services we may offer to organizations in our communities.
In the Basis and Purpose section of Part 971, the FCC states that these Rules and Regulations “are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles,” the first of which is as follows:
(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.[§97.1]
The League believes that emergency communications and public service communications should be readily provided by Amateur Radio operators where the public is the principal beneficiary. The League also believes that, with forethought and understanding of the FCC‟s Rules, it is possible to provide emergency communications for many kinds of organizations in our communities without violating the Rules.
The ARRL‟s intention here is to present relevant excerpts from the FCC‟s Rules that pertain to communications on behalf of others, especially by employees on behalf of their employers, and to offer guidelines for safeguarding Amateur Radio from inappropriate use by commercial, non-profit, and government entities.
In 1993, in Docket 92-136, the FCC (in response to an ARRL request) relaxed the restrictions on business communications in the Amateur Radio Service. The reason for the change was “to give amateur operators greater flexibility to provide communications for public service projects as well as to enhance the value of the amateur service in satisfying personal communication needs.” The change made life easier for volunteer Amateur Radio communicators. However, there was no change to rules that prohibit communications in which the operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer. With very limited and very specific exceptions, such communications are now – and always have been – expressly prohibited.
In 2007, after a series of major disasters in the United States in which Amateur Radio operators made great contributions and attracted much attention from emergency responders, the ARRL‟s National Emergency Response Planning Committee‟s report2 to the ARRL Board of Directors noted that:
“We may be entering an era when a different kind of threat to Amateur Radio spectrum has to be dealt with, one which is directly related to emergency communications. In addition to protecting our spectrum from our enemies, sometimes we also have to protect it from our friends. These are entities which have become aware of Amateur Radio’s value during disasters, either from first-hand observation or from our effective public relations efforts.
“Some organizations are expressing interest in using Amateur Radio in ways that are not in the best interests of our radio service and that run contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the FCC’s Rules.
“We are hearing about agencies which, having heard that Amateur Radio works „when all else fails,‟ decide that the answer to their communications problems is to get some Amateur Radio gear. They have heard that in life-and-death situations the FCC’s Rule about having licenses goes out the window, so (their line of reasoning goes) it will be all right to just skip the licensing bit and plan to use Amateur Radio equipment for disaster communications.
“These organizations are not enemies of Amateur Radio. On the contrary, their interest in Amateur Radio exists because they admire Amateur Radio‟s proven emergency communications ability.
“However, they could become adversaries if the ARRL does not take the necessary steps to show them how they can use Amateur Radio within the spirit of the FCC’s Rules. For example, they could form agreements with existing Amateur Radio emergency communications groups. Alternatively, the FCC has stated more than once that the Rules do not prohibit Amateurs „who are emergency personnel engaged in disaster relief from using the amateur service bands while in a paid duty status.‟ [See Report and Order,
FCC 06-149, 21 FCC Rcd.11643, released October 10, 2006 at Paragraph 52, and the Order, DA-99-2654,14 FCC Rcd. 20595, released November 29, 1999 (WTB)]
The organizations which have shown interest in having their employees use Amateur Radio for such business purposes as interoperability and continuity of operations are not limited to charities, medical facilities, law enforcement and firefighters, or emergency management agencies. The ARRL has been informed that enterprises as diverse as insurance companies, federal agencies not engaged in emergency preparedness, city government, state government, and businesses offering continuity of operations services to clients may be using or may be planning to have employees use Amateur Radio. Some of these entities have even questioned the necessity for their employees to have licenses in order to use Amateur Radio frequencies.
Relevant excerpts from the FCC’s Rules
§97.7 states that when transmitting, each amateur station must have a control operator. The control operator must be a person:
(a) For whom an amateur operator/primary station license grant appears on the ULS consolidated licensee database, or
(b) Who is authorized for alien reciprocal operation by §97.107 of this part.
In other words, the idea that licensing is not necessary if a business‟s plan is to have employees use Amateur Radio when (in the business‟s opinion) there is an emergency is very much mistaken. As the National Emergency Response Planning Committee report said, “Imagine the chaos on the Amateur bands if all sorts of unlicensed, incompetent users were to go on the air during a disaster.” Planning for unlicensed Amateur operation during anticipated future emergencies is a clearly illegal end-run around the FCC’s Rules and the Communications Act of 1934. Perhaps, if an unlicensed person operates an Amateur station without a licensed control operator present during an actual emergency, he or she may not be sanctioned by the FCC after the emergency ends. However, whether or not the sanction is applied, unlicensed operation with no licensed control operator is never permitted by anyone at any time.
§ 97.111 Authorized transmissions.
(a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way communications:
(2) Transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs and to facilitate relief actions.
§97.113 Prohibited transmissions
(a) No amateur station shall transmit
(2) Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules;
(3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer.
(5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services.
§97.113 goes on to make two exceptions to paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3), as follows:
(c) A control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used by that teacher as a part of classroom instruction at an educational institution.
(d) The control operator of a club station may accept compensation for the periods of time when the station is transmitting telegraphy practice or information bulletins, provided that the station transmits such telegraphy practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours per week; schedules operations on at least six amateur service MF and HF bands using reasonable measures to maximize coverage; where the schedule of normal operating times and frequencies is published at least 30 days in advance of the actual transmissions; and where the control operator does not accept any direct or indirect compensation for any other service as a control operator.
The FCC‟s Report and Order, FCC 06-149, 21 FCC Rcd.11643, released October 10, 2006, clarifies the rules for employees by stating that “Section 97.113 does not prohibit amateur radio operators who are emergency personnel engaged in disaster relief from using the amateur service bands while on paid duty status. These individuals are not receiving compensation for transmitting amateur service communications; rather, they are receiving compensation for services related to their disaster relief duties and in their capacities as emergency personnel.”
This is not an “exception” to the “no communications on behalf of an employer” rule – it is simply recognition of the public benefit of Amateur Radio stated in the Basis and Purpose section of the Rules at §97.1(a) quoted above. Thus, paid emergency personnel who are licensed amateurs and who find themselves needing to use amateur radio in disaster relief operations can rely on the Commission’s statements that they may do so.
However, this clarification from the FCC does not give blanket permission for operators to communicate on behalf of their employers. It applies only to “emergency personnel engaged in disaster relief.” It does not apply to training exercises or drills. It does not apply to employees of entities that may encounter business disruptions but which are not in the business (either for-profit or non-profit) of providing disaster relief.
Some Amateurs believe that communications on behalf of one‟s employer are allowed if the business is not for profit, or if the communications are transmitted outside the employee‟s regular working hours – when he or she is, so to speak, “not on the clock.” The FCC‟s Rules do not distinguish between for-profit and non-profit organizations. Nor
do the Rules say anything about the employee‟s working hours or paid duty status. Rather, the rule prohibits all communications on behalf of one‟s employer, save for two very narrow exceptions [97.113(c) and (d)] quoted above.
The FCC’s Rules do not prohibit the recreational use of Amateur Radio by employees at a station located in the workplace, including club stations. Many companies, including the ARRL (W1HQ), provide stations for the recreational use of employees who have Amateur Radio licenses. As long as employees are not communicating on behalf of their employer, i.e., doing their employer’s business on the air, there is nothing illegal about the operation of these stations on the employer’s premises.
How do we know what is legal?
The FCC has declined to provide a list of permitted and prohibited transmissions, including those made in an emergency communications context, saying that because of the wide diversity in the types of communications in which Amateurs want to engage, there would have to be thousands of examples. We are expected to study the Rules and apply critical thinking to the facts at hand.3
How do we decide what is inappropriate, even though it is legal?
Communications for business entities by volunteers – that is, by licensed Amateurs who receive no direct or indirect compensation and who have no pecuniary interest in the communications – are legal as long as they are not conducted on a regular basis and otherwise comply with the FCC rules. Still, many volunteers are uncomfortable with providing communications for commercial enterprises and some other entities. There is good reason to be cautious.
It is a narrow path between (1) utilizing beneficial opportunities for public service communications and showcasing the continued relevance and importance of Amateur Radio communications to the public; and (2) allowing organizations to exploit Amateur Radio as a cheap and flexible alternative to the Land Mobile Radio Service, General Mobile Radio Service, or Commercial Mobile Radio Service facilities.
Amateur Radio should not be used as a substitute for Part 90 Land Mobile communications or other reasonably available alternate communications systems, including unlicensed services. Advance planning by businesses and organizations for business restoration communications should normally be done with reference to Part 904 or Part 955 communications facilities. That is to be distinguished from disaster planning or emergency communications planning for the benefit of the public, which should always involve Amateur Radio as at least one component. The fact that an organization may feel that using other radio services is too complicated or too expensive is not a justification for them to use Amateur Radio in ways that are contrary to the purposes of the Amateur Service. The fact that an organization is doing good work is not a justification for ignoring the FCC‟s Rules, including §97.113(a)(5), or allowing the exploitation of the Amateur Service.
An enterprise, whether for-profit or non-profit, which intends to use Amateur Radio communications on a regular basis for its own basic organizational purposes, but could reasonably use other radio services available to them, should be steered toward those services. A good rule of thumb when evaluating a particular request for communications support is, “Who benefits?” If public safety is the principal beneficiary, then §97.1 is being fulfilled. If the entity itself and not the general public is the principal beneficiary, then they should be encouraged to use radio services other than Amateur Radio.
Enterprises that become accustomed to using Amateur frequencies for interoperability, continuity of operations, and to avoid the expense and complications related to other radio services may, at some time in the future, decide to petition to have certain Amateur frequencies allocated to them outright. The belief that these are “our bands” in perpetuity and not subject to reallocation is mistaken. Our access to spectrum is a privilege, not a right, and something that is continuously under re-evaluation.
Reasonable people with well-developed ethical senses and long experience in public service may come to different conclusions about the appropriateness of providing legal volunteer communications on behalf of particular enterprises. Discussion and debate about ethical issues can be constructive rather than divisive and can lead to better decision-making by Amateurs involved in public service. One thing is certain: Our portions of the spectrum are, in commercial terms, of extraordinarily high monetary value to others. How we use them regularly determines our continued tenure.
Why not ask the FCC to decide for us?
Why should Amateurs avoid contacting the FCC to ask if this, that, or the other communication is permissible? There are several reasons. First, the FCC has, for the most part, very clearly put the determination of what communications are proper in the hands of amateurs themselves.
Second, the FCC has declined to give us a list of what events are legal. Devotion of the FCC‟s resources to detailed analysis and evaluation of hundreds of diverse projects and proposals is not a realistic expectation.
Third, with respect to communications “on behalf of an employer,” a subject which has triggered more speculation than any other portion of the rules governing prohibited communications, the rule on the books, which has not changed in many years, is straightforward and clear: Such communications are not permitted. If there is doubt about whether or not certain communications by a radio amateur who is an employee of a business, whether for profit or non-profit, are “on behalf of” the employer, the default should be not to do them.
Fourth, appeals by large numbers of well-meaning Amateurs to the FCC to tell us what the Rules say and what the Rules mean undercut our argument that the Amateur Radio Service should be trusted to experiment with a great degree of freedom, largely regulate
our own activities, and appeal to the FCC for regulation and enforcement only when all other options have been exhausted.
Finally, in the past, when the FCC staff has been informally asked detailed questions about what is and is not legal, the outcome has been inconsistent and on occasion undesirable. In some cases, restrictive interpretations have been given that hindered our freedom to experiment, innovate, and serve the public interest. In some other cases, permissive interpretations have been given that were later reversed by the FCC, causing confusion. Rather than ask FCC staff for interpretations, which are unofficial, Amateurs should rely on the text of the FCC‟s Rules and on official Report and Order documents.
How can the ARRL offer additional assistance to Amateurs regarding compliance with the Rules and promote reasoned decision-making about appropriate uses of Amateur Radio?
This committee offers the following recommendations:
The ARRL should help Amateurs to better understand the FCC‟s Rules at 97.113. The editorial in September, 2009, QST, is a good start and should be followed up with additional educational material in the ARRL‟s media and emergency communications courses.
The ARRL should prepare and disseminate an informational paper about other radio services, both licensed and unlicensed, which may be available to businesses and organizations. Some such information is already presented in the ARRL‟s emergency communications courses, and that is a good start. However, judging from the number and content of inquiries received by our Regulatory Information Branch, additional information and a wider distribution are needed.
The ARRL should encourage all license course instructors to thoroughly familiarize themselves with the FCC‟s Rules on business communications and to emphasize it in their teaching – particularly when instructing employee groups who might use Amateur Radio inappropriately in the absence of proper education about the Rules.
The ARRL should encourage all license manual publishers to increase emphasis on §97.113 and to include material explaining why it is essential to understand and follow the rules concerning communications on behalf of an employer.
The ARRL should provide assistance in the design of training exercises which comply with the FCC‟s Rules for community organizations such as hospitals. The Headquarters Staff and knowledgeable Field Organization volunteers can cooperate to develop ideas and promote critical thinking about how to meet community needs within the scope of the FCC‟s Rules. Presentations on the subject that are intended for non-amateur audiences should be developed and provided to the Field Organization through ARRL Headquarters.
The ARRL‟s media should endeavor to describe public service and emergency communications projects which demonstrate how Amateurs carefully factored Rules compliance into their planning.
These guidelines are not intended to, and should not, discourage anyone from sponsoring or taking Amateur Radio licensing classes, or from obtaining a license. Amateur radio involvement teaches skills that are valuable across a broad range of communications platforms and media, and makes one a part of a community of public service-minded individuals.
Nor are these guidelines intended to discourage or hinder Amateurs from participating in public service and emergency communications or from seeking opportunities to fulfill the purpose stated in [§97.1].
Rather, they are intended to remind us that our obligation to abide by the FCC‟s Rules applies as much to public service and emergency communications activity as to any other kind of Amateur Radio operation. They are also intended to challenge us to consider the appropriateness of using Amateur Radio to serve the needs of particular enterprises in our communities, even if the FCC‟s Rules may not be an issue. Finally, they are intended to suggest positive actions the ARRL can take to improve awareness of the FCC‟s Rules as they pertain to public service and emergency communications.
1 The FCC‟s Rules for the Amateur Radio Service are posted on the ARRL‟s Web site at http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/.
2 The complete National Emergency Response Planning Committee report is available on the ARRL Web site at http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports-2007/january/NERPC-32aa.pdf.
3 The ARRL‟s Regulatory Information Branch (reginfo@arrl.org, http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/index.html) helps address questions about FCC Rules and Regulations.
4 Part 90 regulates the Private Land Mobile Radio Services. According to the FCC Web site (http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=private_land_radio), “Private land mobile radio systems are used by companies, local governments, and other organizations to meet a wide range of communication requirements, including coordination of people and materials, important safety and security needs, and quick response in times of emergency. These systems, which often share frequencies with other private users, make possible many day-to-day activities that people across the United States have come to rely on, whether directly or indirectly. Public safety agencies, utilities, railroads, manufacturers, and a wide variety of other businesses – from delivery companies to landscapers to building maintenance firms – rely on their business radio systems every day.”
5 Part 95 regulates the Personal Radio Services (http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=personal_radio). These include the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), Family Radio Service (FRS), Citizens Band Radio Service (CB), and Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS). Searching on the names of these radio services on the FCC‟s Web site will provide additional information about the appropriate uses of these radio services.
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Some Amateurs believe that communications on behalf of one‟s employer are allowed if the business is not for profit, or if the communications are transmitted outside the employee‟s regular working hours – when he or she is, so to speak, “not on the clock.” The FCC‟s Rules do not distinguish between for-profit and non-profit organizations. Nor do the Rules say anything about the employee‟s working hours or paid duty status. Rather, the rule prohibits all communications on behalf of one‟s employer, save for two very narrow exceptions [97.113(c) and (d)] quoted above.
Fourth, appeals by large numbers of well-meaning Amateurs to the FCC to tell us what the Rules say and what the Rules mean undercut our argument that the Amateur Radio Service should be trusted to experiment with a great degree of freedom, largely regulate our own activities, and appeal to the FCC for regulation and enforcement only when all other options have been exhausted.
Perhaps the rules may someday change, but despite the emotionalism of some Emcomm corners the law prevails.
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DX Video Review: K5D Desecheo Island 2009 DXpedition DVD
The KP1-5 Project 2009 K5D Descecheo Island DXpedition was an amazing event for the DX Amateur Radio enthusiast. An island “DX Country” so close but basically closed to Amateur Radio for years. Only a small number of contacts from a series of small scale DXpeditions had been made from KP5 over the 30 years it has been a DX Country, with the result of a huge demand to log QSOs by radio amateurs worldwide.
Desecheo was in the top handful of needed DX Contacts for almost everyone working DX.
Here is a link to the National FIsh & Wildlife information page on Desecheo Island, an informational PDF is linked from their webpage: http://www.fws.gov/caribbean/Refuges/Desecheo/default.htm
The February 2009 DXpedition achieved 115,787 QSOs with over 32,000 separate radio amateurs! I was able to work them on six bands 160, 80, 40, 20, 17 & 15m despite a busy work schedule keeping me mostly off the air.
As part of the project a DVD has been produced, and I was able to arrange to view a copy in advance of the general release.
K5D DVD
While a DXpedition’s first radio purpose is to make the QSO’s they have set out to do, it has become an added treat when a DXpedition does a documentary Book or DVD. Bob Allphin K4UEE Adventures in Ham Radio’s K5D DVD is a standout in that added pleasure!
Using a very effective combination of graphics & stills interspersed in fantastic on-island film segments, the story of the DXpedition is well told!
I imagine it a challenge to make a DXpedition story, a project so complex as to take years to bring to fruition, into an hour’s telling to be a supremely difficult challenge to meet. The K5D DVD team has done a superb job of presenting the DXpedition in a storyline that will appeal to casual DXer as well as having interest to the serious DXer.
You can preorder the DVD at K5D Desecheo Island DXpedition 2009 Order Page, an expect your DVD copy in a few weeks (in October) when the production run is ready.
The DVD is specially interesting to me as it provides a wonderful overview of a very difficult political process, without bogging down in minutia. QSO & Operator segments were specially interesting, as I have long been interested in the technical setup DXpeditions have found worthy of taking to the field.
Given the time constraints there is a lot of material special interests might suggest going into more depth, but that would be at the expense of audience not sharing those special interests.
A highly recommend DXpedition DVD and hats off to Bob K4UEE for allowing my early review of it!
Now one item that did seemed skirted, or just perhaps wasn’t important to the story, is the KP1 part of the story – will the KP1-5 Project succeed in obtaining permission & putting together a DXpedition to Navassa Island?
Here is a link to the US Fish & Wildlife Page on that island: http://www.fws.gov/caribbean/Refuges/Navassa/default.htm
Let’s hope that their success on Desecheo NA-095 results in a Navassa opportunity sometime soon!
Tagged Desecheo Island, DX, DXpedition, K5D, K5D Desecheo, K9ZW, KP1-5
Post Number 900 to With Varying Frequency – Amateur Radio Ponderings
It is a sort of nonsense milestone, but in the fashion that WordPress counts Blog Posts, this is my 900th update to With Varying Frequency – Amateur Radio Ponderings.
For the most part my original project goals are continuing, a chance to share what others have been kind enough to teach me about Amateur Radio and gather those lessons in one spot.
I’m comfortable with the formula and the hundreds of people who read With Varying Frequency daily appear to also be OK with things, on a good day perhaps a thousand people have a read. I thank them all.
Looking forward, I am hoping to have more guest posts and to slowly move select items of content to a static webpage format where new amateur radio enthusiasts can more quickly find them.
I’m not happy with the “Tag Cloud” implementation of the blog, nor the blog diary-pages format, and will favor a more conventional keyword index & organization in developing the static articles.
I very much hope that at least a few potential hams and new hams have in some small way been helped by something in what I have written over these 900 posts.
Tagged Amateur Radio, K9ZW, K9ZW Just Rambled, With Varying Frequency
Guest Post: AE5JU – I Never Knew the Guy
I’d asked my friend Paul AE5JU if I could share some of his ham experiences, and he’d has graciously agreed.
Paul AE5JU went from a SWL to Amateur Extra in a single test session, and has kept a-going!
Here is a recent recounting of being recognized as a Ham:
I’ve had my picture in the paper several times lately due to various ham activities. Last week I was voted in as Vice President of the ham club and there was a picture of us, the new officers, in the local paper, as well as one of me “demonstrating” a radio. But that’s not what this email is about.
Being a small town, everyone knows when your photo has been in the paper. Went to Electronics Corner to pick up one of those little tools to remove pins from Molex power plugs. One salesman says loudly to the other so I’d notice, “There’s that guy that was in the paper again.” “Well, a picture in the paper is better than in the Post Office.” “Yeah, charge him extra.”
Then I went to the bank to make some deposits and the branch manager stepped out of his office and stopped me on the way out.
“I’ve been watching for you to come in.”
Uh-oh, I thought…
“You’re a ham, right?”
“Why, yes, I am.”
“I saw your picture in the paper again yesterday. My Dad was a ham…”
And he told me about his Dad.
His Dad had wanted to be a ham for some years, since a teenager, but kept putting it off… “when I’m older and have a job.” “When I get out of school and have time.” “When I get these kids raised.” “When I retire”, etc.
Back when his Dad was in his mid 50’s his brother had a heart attack and died. He realized that these things happen suddenly and if he was going to enjoy the things he wanted to do in life, he’d better do them now. So, he studied and got licensed. He said his Dad got cancer shortly after retiring at 65, and passed away a few years later. Even so, he still had almost 15 years of being a ham.
He told me, “The last few years he set up his radio so that he could sit in his easy chair. He had a mic boom that came across in front of him, voice activated, so when he spoke it transmitted…”
And he told me about being a teenager, his Dad had mobile equipment, they had just begun to set up repeaters. People would be amazed when they received telephone calls he made from his car.
And he went on to tell me about driving his Dad to hamfests in New Orleans, or just trips to other places. He drove so his Dad could be on the air the whole way. He’d drop his dad off at hamfests, he’d go find things to do, and pick him up later, his Dad talking on the radio the whole way home. Then running in the house and continuing on the more powerful radio and antenna up on the tower.
Well, all that just from getting my picture in the paper.
Well, it just put a smile on my face. I’m still smiling, and I didn’t even know the guy.
AE5JU
Great story, and a reminder that we all are ambassadors for our hobby!
Thank you Paul AE5JU and,
Tagged AE5JU, K9ZW, K9ZW Just Rambled
Being Technically Right Does Matter – Dealing with Incorrect Amateur Radio Emotionalism
Specially in the Club Setting, how many of use have had to deal with “I feel” and other emotional rational masquerading as Technical Decision Making?
We once even had a (now ex-)Board Member go off on an adult tantrum with an “I don’t care what …. because I FEEL that it is …..” Needless to say he has found a different hobby where emotionalism is a valued attribute.
Recently we had heated email discussions whether virtually every antenna in the club shack had somehow become out of band. Another Antenna Analyzer was brought in and the plotted Smith Charts looked acceptable. Still the club member complained, why? Because his – yes HIS in his mind – measurements surely were correct and if they weren’t right pointing it out, he said “it makes him look bad.”
First the measurements were not “his” but rather those taken by an older analyzer that has never been checked. That everything he checked was bad, yet no radio or amp was complaining and other analyzers appear to show things more normal, was an impediment to a need for emotionalism.
More over anyone pointing out that maybe the Analyzer was off, was forgetting that he was an ancient member and a ham since Marconi himself signed licenses … or some such emotional drivel… and was a bad person for sticking to the facts.
Winston Churchill said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Though arguably Churchill was more on about principles greater than merely acknowledging physical reality as one of the facts one deal with (he would have considered blatant emotionalism a category of weakness important enough to fully ignore the emotionalist) in the club situation we have to take facts first.
Those who want to play “Alice in Wonderland” are important, but not in decision making.
Being Technically RIght Does Matter – not as an emotional put down to those unable to function with facts, but as a technical hobby we have no choice. Just because one person “feels” this or that can’t change science.
Amateur Radio, DX Interests, K9ZW, K9ZW Just Rambled
Special Event Spots – Courtesy or Run Amuck?
DXScape Screen Shot
Have a peek of the DXScape screen shot above – Domestic Spotting of a Domestic Special Event has not only crowded out real DX Spots, but between N2CU and W2TB become virtually the only reports available to a user.
By reporting their domestic event spots every few minutes the usual DX Content has been all but pushed off the spot reports.
Given the back & forth dialogue between some of the Spot users first asking them to refrain and then name calling, these overwhelming spots are not excitement, but rather are excrement.
This is not new with the Salmon Run event, and occurs too often to make this one event a special standout, but it is an abuse of the Spot System in a way that is neither of interest to the DX hunters who use Spots nor a fair use of this limited resource. Mixed in later today were endless Route 66 Special Event Spots and another event I didn’t recognize. The Salmon Run apparently is some sort of contest as well as special event, but bluntly once these posts pushed real DX Spotting off the screen, who cares?
It isn’t as if the DX Spot community has a “channel B” to switch to.
Remember DX Spots are not Frequencies, and happen with a real cost, usually underwritten by individuals and clubs interested primarily in working DX.
The misuse by domestic special events could be likened to getting up one morning to find your driveway filled with a circus, uninvited, and being subject to their claim “well you always park here, why can’t we?”
It should be simple, they don’t own the driveway, haven’t paid for it to be built & maintained, don’t pay the taxes for it, and certainly don’t pick up a shovel to keep it clear in winter.
Perhaps the Special Event community could do with a Spot System or a way to Filter their spots for users of present systems.
I personally would really like the ability to follow Special Events this way, that is with a separate Special Events Spot System. It would be really neat and very useful, specially when working with youngsters or club members.
Short of a place to put these domestic special event and contest spots separately from DX Spots there is no resolution.
Perhaps the Amateur Radio Community can develop a more attractive place for these inappropriate spots and give everyone a good place to do their hobby?
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The Trump Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Lloyd Marcus February 17, 2017 February 17, 2017
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Folks, take a deep breath. That unusual faint sweet aroma in the air is called “freedom.” It is coming back folks. For 8 years, even those who are politically clueless subconsciously felt their freedoms slipping away. Americans instinctively knew publicly expressing religious beliefs, principles and traditional norms once considered mainstream could cost them everything today.
My wife Mary’s mentor, the late Mary Kay Ash of MK Cosmetics said, “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” In other words, the leader sets the tone.
Trending: Democrats: The Party of Hate, Violence, and Division
Unarguably, President Obama set a you-had-better-keep-your-mouth-shut and go-along-with-political-correctness tone for America. We all knew and felt it. Obama used the IRS http://bit.ly/2l4NkIi, DOJ http://bit.ly/2lgndAm and EPA http://bit.ly/1QIxuyL to economically and politically beat the crap out of and even jail anyone with the cojones to oppose him leading the Left’s mission to fundamentally transform America.
This is the reason why the Left is losing their minds over Trump winning the presidency. Freedom folks! The Left thought they would have us in mental and emotional chains for at least four more years under President Hillary.
Trump’s election ushered in a new tone for America. Feeling emboldened, people are pushing back against the tyranny of political correctness by just saying, “no”. However, you will not hear this widely reported in the Leftist controlled mainstream media. Panicked, the Left is desperately and frantically working to keep us believing that their extreme ideas are mainstream majority opinions.
This is why for the next 4 years, half a dozen protesters showing up to oppose Trump or his policies will be treated like a major news event by the media. Relentlessly, the Left will sell us their lie that Americans hate Trump and what he is doing. Therefore, the Trump revolution will not be televised.
Meanwhile, Americans have begun restoring our country’s greatness.
Note the glaring disparity in the media coverage of these two January events in Washington DC. The Leftist Women’s March which celebrated vulgarity http://bit.ly/2j9FJsP and depravity http://bit.ly/2kLx941 received widespread media praise and coverage. The largest March for Life rally in history received very little coverage. http://fxn.ws/2jYDFT4 Our revolution will not be televised.
I bet few of you know that Americans boycotting Target for irresponsibly allowing burly men in restrooms with our moms, sisters, wives and daughters cost Target $10 billion. http://bit.ly/2koZU3a Our revolution will not be televised.
I suspect a majority does not know Trump undid Obama’s ban, clearing the way for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the Dakota access pipeline. http://bit.ly/2kLMMIL Can you say more jobs boys and girls?
Oh, I forgot that Leftist schools have decreed that teachers should no longer address students as “boys and girls” on the grounds that gender distinctions are hateful, derogatory, insensitive, intolerant, bigoted and mean. http://fxn.ws/2aSCFyy I’m confident that Americans tolerating such nonsense has come to an end. Our revolution will not be televised.
Succinctly, years ago I was invited to a screening of the documentary, “Waiting for Superman” http://bit.ly/Lb02S5 which exposed the corruption of our educational system. Unfortunately, with Leftists controlling the WH, the media and our schools, nothing changed. Our new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos said, “If a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child…we should support a parent’s right to enroll their child in a high-quality alternative…” http://bit.ly/2jJIwHH Them’s fightin’ words to Leftists.
Note DeVos said the parent’s child rather than the federal government’s child. For years, Leftists have been allowed to confiscated our kids for indoctrination. This explains the Left’s intense efforts to criminalize home-schooling; arresting parents and seizing their kids. http://bit.ly/2l14CWW Meanwhile, the fake news media is despicably portraying DeVos as a religious nut. Our revolution will not be televised.
The internet is abuzz over singer Joy Villa courageously wearing a dress to the Grammy Awards that boldly read, “Make America Great Again”. As expected, Leftists have viciously trashed Villa calling her a hater. Leftists calling love for ones country hate testifies to their perverse thinking. Meanwhile, Villa’s record sales have shot through the roof. Clearly, a large number of Americans agree with Villa. http://fxn.ws/2kZGCmK
President Trump has ushered in a new tone for America; a revolution of patriotism, pride and freedom. Do not expect to see this truth reflected in the media; quite the opposite. Our revolution will not be televised.
Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Author: “Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has shattered the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America.”
Singer/Songwriter and Conservative Activist
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Home > College of Nursing > Nursing Publications > 239
Acute pain treatment for older adults hospitalized with hip fracture: current nursing practices and perceived barriers
M. G. Titler
Keela A. Herr
M. L. Schilling
J. L. Marsh
X. Xie
G. Ardery
W. R. Clarke
L. Q. Everett
Appl Nurs Res
Applied Nursing Research
This article examines acute pain management practices for patients 65 years of age and older who were hospitalized during 1999 for hip fracture. Data were collected from the medical records of patients (N = 709) admitted to 12 hospitals in the Midwest and from questionnaires on pain practices completed by nurses (N = 172) caring for these patients. The major variables examined were (1). pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for acute pain in hospitalized elders, (2). nurses' perceived stage of adoption for avoiding meperidine use and for administering analgesics around-the-clock, and (3). nurses' perceived barriers to optimal treatment of acute pain in elders. Acetaminophen was the most frequently administered analgesic, but administered doses were far less than the maximum daily recommended dose. More than one third (39%) of the nurses reported that they always avoided the use of meperidine, and over half reporting avoiding its use sometimes. However, the majority of patients (56.8%) received at least one dose of meperidine, even though evidence suggests that other analgesic agents are more appropriate for treatment of acute pain in elders. Only 27% of patients received patient-controlled analgesia, and only 22.3% of patients received around-the-clock administration during the first 24 hours after admission of analgesics that had been ordered on a prn basis. The majority of nurses were aware that around-the-clock administration of analgesics was preferable, but only 33.7% were persuaded (believed) that this method should be used. Intramuscular injection was used for 52.2% of patients, even though this route is not recommended for older adults. The most frequently used nonpharmacological intervention was repositioning, followed by use of pressure relief devices and cold application. Nurses reported difficulty contacting physicians and difficulty communicating with them about type and/or dose of analgesics as the greatest barriers to pain management. Findings from this multi-site study show that active and focused "translation" interventions are needed to promote adoption of evidence-based acute pain management practices by health care providers.
Analgesics -- Administration and Dosage -- In Old Age, Hip Fractures -- In Old Age, Pain -- Drug Therapy -- In Old Age, Acetaminophen -- Administration and Dosage, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and Over, Analgesics, Nonnarcotic -- Administration and Dosage, Analgesics, Opioid -- Administration and Dosage, Coefficient Alpha, Content Validity, Data Analysis Software, Dementia, Descriptive Research, Descriptive Statistics, Female, Funding Source, Hospitals, Injections, Intramuscular, Inpatients, Interrater Reliability, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, Intrarater Reliability, Kappa Statistic, Male, Medical Records, Meperidine -- Administration and Dosage, Midwestern United States, Nurse Attitudes -- Evaluation, Nursing Models, Theoretical, Pain -- Therapy, Patient-Controlled Analgesia, Professional Practice, Evidence-Based, Questionnaires, Random Sample, Record Review, T-Tests, Time Factors, Human
Applied Nursing Research, 16:4 (2003) pp.211-227.
https://ir.uiowa.edu/nursing_pubs/239
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Home | Technology | Pakistani Alleged Spy For Iran Goes On Trial in Berlin
Pakistani Alleged Spy For Iran Goes On Trial in Berlin
| Mar 8, 2017
A Pakistani man went on trial in a Berlin court on March 8 to face charges that he was spying on Israeli and Jewish institutions for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. (IRGC).
The 31-year-old, identified as Syed Mustufa Haider, refused to make a statement at his opening hearing.
His defense lawyer at his March 8 hearing said Haider remained silent "out of fear."
Haider was arrested in July 2016 and charged in December with spying for the Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of Iran's IRGC.
Prosecutor Michael Greven said Haider spied on organizations and individuals across Europe, including the German-Israel Society and its former director, Reinhold Robbe.
Greven also alleged that Haider collected information about a professor at a university in Paris and others in Western European countries -- passing the information on to a contact with the Iranian intelligence agency.
Haider, who was born in Karachi and arrived in Germany in 2012, faces a possible sentence of up to five years in prison if convicted of the charges.
The trial is due to continue on March 13 and six further hearings are scheduled through late March..
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“There never was such a country for wandering liars; and they were of both sexes. Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be to ask for credentials—yes, and a pointer or two as to locality of castle, best route to it, and so on. But nobody ever thought of so simple and common-sense a thing at that. No, everybody swallowed these people’s lies whole, and never asked a question of any sort or about anything. Well, one day when I was not around, one of these people came along—it was a she one, this time—and told a tale of the usual pattern. Her mistress was a captive in a vast and gloomy castle, along with forty-four other young and beautiful girls, pretty much all of them princesses; they had been LANGUISHING in that cruel captivity for twenty-six years; the masters of the castle were three stupendous brothers, each with four arms and one eye—the eye in the center of the forehead, and as big as a fruit. Sort of fruit not mentioned; their usual slovenliness in statistics.”
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How an actor known for his roles on This is England and Game of Thrones ended up appearing in The Sherlocks’ new video. Page 3
A VOLUNTEER with cerebral palsy who gives up his time to test communication aids has been shortlisted for an NHS award. Page 7
Check out the great selection of readers’ pictures taken on National Selfie Day in our We Are Barnsley section Page 10
Smoking ban will give kids right example MORE than three-quarters of Barnsley’s primary schools have signed a smoke-free pledge which aims to stub out the habit. According to a progress report delivered by cabinet spokesman Coun Jim Andrews on Monday, plans are being put in place to effectively have a blanket ban on smoking by the time children return from their summer holidays in September. Smoking prevalence across Barnsley was at 21.2 per cent early last year, which equated to more than 52,000 smokers in the town or more than one in five people, although latest figures suggest that that percentage has dropped by about three per cent. The policy aims to remove smoking from the sight of children and to create a generation where the habit is not regarded as normal behaviour, on the grounds it is better that people do not begin smoking rather than be persuaded to give up the addiction later. Coun Andrews said: “The smoke-free scheme has been brilliant in the last year and 62 out of the 80 schools are onboard with what we’re trying to achieve. We’re aiming for the rest to
follow suit by the end of the summer. “We want to ensure smoking becomes almost invisible to protect children’s health. Children and young people are influenced by adults’ behaviour and are less likely to start smoking if they do not view it as part of everyday life. “The council is committed to achieving a smoke-free generation by 2025 and this includes reducing visible evidence of smoking. “We hope to vastly reduce the amount of children and young people picking up the habit.” There were 1,727 deaths in Barnsley classed as ‘avoidable’ between 2014 and 2016, working out at a rate of 242.9 per 100,000 people. Julia Burrows, director of public health in the town, said: “The smoking results are very encouraging and represent the biggest drop we have seen in recent years and the biggest drop in South Yorkshire. “Our reduction is larger than the average reduction in England and is an important step towards our vision to create a smoke-free generation in Barnsley but there is still work to do.”
INBRIEF... Witness appeal after cyclist dies POLICE are seeking witnesses after a cyclist died after being involved in a crash with a car in Barnsley. A 48-year-old man from the Wakefield area was cycling on New Road from High Hoyland when he was in collision with a blue VW Golf travelling in the opposite direction near the junction with Jewett House Lane at around 1.30pm on Saturday. The cyclist was taken to hospital and died shortly afterwards. A 26-year-old woman driving the Golf was not injured. Officers are asking witnesses to contact them. They would also like to hear from anyone with dashcam footage of the cyclist or car prior to the collision. Call 101 quoting incident number 473 of June 29 if you can help.
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n COUNTDOWN CHAMPION: CONGRATULATIONS to Dinos Sfyris who has won the 80th series of Countdown. Dinos, who was a pupil at Wath Comprehensive School, saw off the competition of the long-running TV show’s
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A SUSPECT from Barnsley remains in custody following the death of a twomonth-old. The baby was airlifted to hospital after paramedics were called to an address in Bamford last Thursday. The baby spent two days in intensive care at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, but died on Saturday. Anton Shields, 37, of Hardwick Crescent in Barnsley was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault and grievous bodily harm. He remains in custody after appearing at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court.
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n CLASS ACT: MP Stephanie Peacock at Ladywood Primary School.
MP meets school council BARNSLEY East MP Stephanie Peacock met members of a school council to discuss issues in their area. The MP chatted with council members at Ladywood Primary School in Grimethorpe and discussed her role as their MP and ways they can get involved in their local community. Ms Peacock said: “It’s always a pleasure to
visit local schools and chat to bright, engaged young people here in Barnsley. “So it was lovely to pop in at Ladywood Primary School and meet with the school council. “We chatted about my role as their MP and issues in our local area, and it was great to hear how excited they are to get more involved in our community.”
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Mark sees his future through a lens A WHEELCHAIR user who has campaigned for more support for people with disabilities wants to ‘show he can still work’ as he sets up his own business. Mark Ravenhill, 34, has recently set up Mark Ravenhill Photography – and is already getting interest, with his first booking last weekend for a friend. But Mark, who has cerebral palsy, says he won’t be charging while he practises his photography skills. “I want to show that just because I’m disabled, it doesn’t mean I can’t work,” said Mark, of Spring Grove, Carlton. “I really enjoy photography and I want to practise. You never know – I might end up working for the Barnsley Chronicle one day.” Mark says he will be taking bookings for weddings, parties and other events. n CAMERAMAN: Mark Ravenhill.
Coast to coast task as friends bid to show off their pedal power A GROUP of Barnsley lads are gearing up to set off on an epic coast-to-coast cycle ride to raise money for two local charities. The challenge, in which they will cover the 215 miles of the Trans Pennine Trail from Southport to Hornsea in just two days, came from nothing more than a chat in the pub. But the nine-strong team have already raised more than £1,000, a fifth of their goal. “One lad bought a bike, and then another, and then I thought I’m going to have to get one now,” said Mark Kitching, 27, of Chestnut Crescent, Kendray. “It’s been surprising, we didn’t think everyone would be up for training or buying a bike. But it just spiralled. I suppose you don’t want to spend three or four hundred quid on a bike and not use it. “That first ride was awful. I’d not been on a bike in ten years. I thought I was going to fall off.” The group will start in Southport, on the west coast, and plan on getting back into Barnsley that night They will set off from the McDonald’s in Stairfoot in the early hours of the following morning. They will finish the 215mile trip in Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire that night. They said the added comfort of sleeping in their own beds with the other option being a van they’ve hired out to perform repairs on the road will spur them on during the more difficult first
n IN THE SADDLE: Ryan Pleasants, Mark Kitching, Scott Stewart, John Percival, Matthew Sanderson and Aaron Lane. Also taking part but not pictured are Luke Greenwood, Luke Hirst and Louis Gilmartin. day of cycling. Mark said: “A lot of people do it over four days but we decided to do it in two, which is what a pro cyclist would do, so it’s going to be really tough.” The team, who have gone on weekly rides as preparation, will raise money for Barnsley Hospital’s Tiny Hearts Appeal and Yorkshire Cancer Research which they say has helped them to take the challenge more seriously. “We’ve got a certain pace to keep to, otherwise we’ll be riding into the night,” said Scott Stewart, 30, of Parkland View, Lundwood. “As long as we all stick together we’ll be all right. People will do it faster than others but it’s about sticking to a pace you all can do. “There’s nothing worse than riding on your own when you don’t
know where you are.” Mark may be familiar to readers of the Chronicle for his fundraising efforts. Last year, he climbed more than 5,000km to base camp on Mount Everest to raise money for Wakefield-based charity Penny Appeal, and said he wanted to keep up the fundraising. “I like setting myself challenges and hearing people say I can’t do them,” said the self-proclaimed ‘mountain man turned mountain bike man’. “With this I believed them for a while, after that first ride I thought I was screwed. But you’ve got to push through it.” The ride will take place on July 13 and 14. Go to: www.justgiving.com/ crowdfunding/zeladscoast2coast to donate.
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Pub on the hunt for top gong A BARNSLEY landlady is celebrating a brace of award successes. The Huntsman Inn in Thurlstone was recently announced as being in the running for ‘Yorkshire’s Favourite Pub’, run by Welcome to Yorkshire. But if it is to win that award, landlady, Sam Ireland will have to clear some space on the bar next to the Barnsley CAMRA Pub of the Year award the Huntsman has already won. “We work hard to make sure it remains a community pub,” said Sam. “We do a lot of fundraising and getting involved in the local area. “And our customers make it – there’s always someone to chat to, and if there isn’t a spare table people will share. “It’s great for the small community pub to have that instead of the big restaurant and hotel chains which are all over around here.” The Huntsman is the only pub in Barnsley to be shortlisted for the ninth iteration of the award, the
results of which will be announced on July 9. Welcome to Yorkshire’s commercial director, Peter Dodd, said: “This year’s competition is really exciting as none of the pubs shortlisted have ever won before, so we’ll have a new winner for 2019 and it’s great to see so many new pubs thriving and being recognised for being the heart of their communities. “We’ve had a fantastic number of nominations, with thousands of people showing their support and putting forward their favourite pubs across the county. “It’s now the public’s turn to choose who should take the coveted title as they have a chance to vote for Yorkshire’s Favourite Pub. “It’s a huge achievement for the ten pubs that have been shortlisted and I wish them all the very best of luck.” To vote in the award, visit Yorkshire.com/pub. WITH a new single and music video out this week, a group of Dearne rockers are gearing up for their second album release. The Sherlocks, who are from Bolton-upon-Dearne, released their single NYC (Sing It Loud) this week – which is one of the songs from their album Under Your Sky. The video explores themes of American showbiz, featuring actor Thomas Turgoose – who is known for his roles in This is England and Game of Thrones – on the ‘Uncomfortably Late Show’. The single itself is inspired by the band touring America and the unglamorous sides of it. The video – which features the band playing on the ‘show’ looks at guests performing odd and uncomfortable acts – much to the amusement of Turgoose and the host. And according to drummer Brandon Crook, the video has had the ‘best response yet’. “It’s been massive and it’s been the biggest reaction we have ever had,” he said. “Everyone is saying they like it and that it was good to get Thomas involved.” The quartet built a friendship with the actor after meeting him at an Oasis exhibition. “We went on a few nights out with him and we just sort of kept in touch after that,” said Brandon. “We’ve been out with him a few times and he started going to our gigs. We had this idea for the video and had a few different names of people who could star in it thrown our way but we decided to ask him (Thomas) and he said yes. It’s had a great reaction.”
Residents have their say on health services HUNDREDS of Barnsley people are helping to shape the future of health and care services by sharing their views with the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS) and local Healthwatch organisations. Over the last three months, members of the public from a wide range of groups and communities across Barnsley and other areas of South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw have been sharing their opinions to improve healthcare through questionnaires, focus groups and at two public events which have already taken place. The NHS Long Term Plan was published in January this year and sets out how an extra national investment of £20.5bn will be made to provide better care. The ambition is to provide care closer to people’s homes, prevent a number of illnesses from developing and improve care for people living with mental health
problems; as well as preventing heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases. Health and care organisations in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, alongside all local Healthwatch partners, have been asking local people – from youth forums, prisoners, LGBT+ groups, BME communities, patient and survivor groups to students and groups for new mums – how they think its share of the new funding should be spent. Key focus areas for the region so far are cancer care, care in your neighbourhood, mental health and learning disabilities, bringing the NHS into the digital age and prevention. South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System, medical director, Des Breen, said: “The NHS Long Term Plan was developed with the help of 3.5m people nationally and now we are asking people here what we could do in South Yorkshire and
Bassetlaw. We really want local people to get involved in developing and improving our local health and care services and helping to develop our local plan through open and honest conversations is one of the ways you can do this. These events and other work we have done has helped us gauge opinion from the public as to what our plan should look like. “We’ve had some fantastic involvement so far with lots of help from the public, lots of positive feedback and some great suggestions. If we want our services to be the best they can be we must develop them with those who use them and we are committed to making sure this happens.” If members of the public have not been able to attend the events they can share their views by filling in a questionnaire – surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ NHSLongTermPlanSYBICS – by June 25.
Award win for archaeology innovation A PROJECT which mapped one of Elsecar’s most important historic sites using cutting edge technology has won a prestigious national award from the Association for Industrial Archaeology. Samantha Frandsen, an MSc exploration geophysics student from University of Leeds’ school of Earth and environment, was singled out for outstanding scholarship and making a unique contribution to the field of archaeology. The project used gravity surveying a technique rarely used in archaeology alongside more established methods to search for remains of the former Elsecar gasworks. Gravity surveying can be used to measure different densities in the ground, including differences between solid foundations and hidden voids. The Elsecar gasworks was established in 1857 by the Earl Fitzwilliam and reflected the Earl’s drive to embrace and develop new technology and innovation. The gasworks was part of the Earl’s industrial model village, alongside his new central workshops now the Elsecar Heritage
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Centre. The project found that substantial remains of the gasworks survive underground, including the foundations of one of the two gasholders that once stood at the heart of the historic village. The work was supported by the Elsecar Heritage Action Zone, a partnership between Barnsley Museums and Historic England. Dr Adam Booth, associate professor of applied geophysics, said “We take great pride in our students being able to apply geophysical innovations to any subsurface investigation. Samantha demonstrated real personal flair in this project and rose to the challenge of working with experimental technologies. Her award from the Association for Industrial Archaeology is richly deserved.” Dr Tegwen Roberts, Elsecar Heritage Action Zone officer, said: “Elsecar was built on innovation and it’s fantastic that we are still pushing the boundaries of archaeological research and technology. The partnership project with the University has been extremely successful.”
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n FAMILY FUN: The Alexandra Rose Charity’s Silkstone Woods event.
Event celebrates success of healthy eating scheme MORE than 50 parents and children from Dearne, Darfield and Wombwell, and Barnsley central family centres attended an event in Silkstone Woods as part of a day celebrating a scheme which provides free fruit and veg for low-income families. There was plenty of fun to be had, with a woodland adventure trail, a healthy cooking session, puddle jumping and more. The Alexandra Rose Charity (ARC) supports more than 1,000 families across England to access fresh fruit and vegetables in their local communities, to give children the healthiest possible diet. In Barnsley, Rose vouchers are available to families on low incomes, worth £3 per child every week, (double if the child is under one-yearold) and can only be redeemed at markets which sell fresh fruit and vegetables. “Rose Vouchers not only help young families to buy fresh fruit and
vegetables while developing the skills and confidence to give their children the healthiest start in life but also support Barnsley’s local markets, maintaining their position as sources of healthy low-cost food in areas that often suffer from poor food access,” a spokesman from the ARC said. The Barnsley scheme started as a pilot in 2016 and was the first one to take place outside London. Coun Margaret Bruff said: “The Rose Voucher scheme continues to have a really positive impact in Barnsley. “The vouchers are supporting families to adopt healthier lifestyles in the crucial years before school starts and the additional support from family centres such as cooking classes are helping them develop the skills and confidence to provide their families with the healthiest start. “Families really enjoyed the celebration event and we received some great feedback.”
Hospice benefits from epic cross-country cycle A WOMAN has praised her husband for helping to raise £1,500 for Barnsley Hospice in memory of her mother. David Colborn, of Kingsway, Wombwell, took part in the Coast to Coast cycle from Southport to Hornsea with five of his friends – with three of them raising funds for the hospice and the rest raising money for other causes. His wife Kaye Colborn said David had wanted to raise money after Kaye’s mum Doreen Cooper had been both an outpatient and inpatient at the hospice. Kaye, 36, said she was proud of her husband and his friends who took part, especially as they cycled through ‘appalling weather’. “He (David) has always wanted to do to Coast to Coast,” said Kaye. “His friend Mick has done it before so he gave everyone else the guided tour. He said to his friends ‘if we are going to do it why not do it for a cause?’ It was always going to be Barnsley Hospice as my mum died there in August of 2014. “My mum was diagnosed with a brain tumour in her 40s and was an outpatient at the hospice for around 20 years before dying at the age of 62. I was 12 when she was diagnosed. “She was known by the outpatient staff and by a lot of staff in general. They’re all amazing there and do a fantastic job. My mum was told she was a miracle patient by staff because she lived for so long with the brain tumour. She in there for several weeks when she was weaker. “Nurses from the outpatient department used to visit her when she was an inpatient. She was very weak then but they would squeeze her hand and she knew who they were. They were wonderful to her.”
n CYCLE MISSION: David Colborn (right) with friends Lee Smith and Ian Dennis. Below: David’s mother-in-law, Doreen Cooper with his wife, Kaye.
David and his friends got back from the ride on Saturday after four full days of cycling, with rest points and stopovers along the way. “On day one they travelled from Southport to Stockport, then day two they did Stockport to Wombwell, day three was Wombwell to Howden and day four they did Howden to Hornsea. They had to a bit of a detour on the way and there was a bit of a funny incident where there were some angry bulls in a field. “I don’t know how they did it as I couldn’t do it at all.” At the moment, David and two of his friends who took part in the ride – Ian Dennis and Lee Smith – have raised £1,500 between them for the hospice, with more money coming in. “I’m glad that money has been raised for the hospice, but I wish more could be done for them and they could get
government funding,” said Kaye. “They should not have to rely on fundraising as I don’t think they get enough to keep afloat. They deserve much more. “This is just a small token in comparison for what the hospice did for my mum and my family,” said Kaye. “She was comfortable and was made comfortable by staff there. She built relationship with the staff and those people who worked there for many years. “I couldn’t thank them enough for what they’ve done for me and my family.” In response, Vicky Stead, community fundraising team leader at Barnsley Hospice, said: “We’re really grateful to the guys for completing this challenge for us. 192 miles is an amazing distance and it
means even more that they’ve done this during the month the hospice celebrates its 25th anniversary. The kind support from people like this means we can continue to care for families in Barnsley.” For more information about Barnsley Hospice, visit barnsleyhospice.org.
Group happy to open up history of a village A LOCAL history group held an open day so members of the public could delve into the story of a village. The Royston History Group displayed memorabilia, souvenirs, photos, press reports and posters of the Royston and district peace celebrations from 1919 and beyond. The group was founded in September 2000 by Terry Middleton and Jim Evison, and now has more than 20 members who meet on a regular basis. The aim of the group is to make people of
the village aware of its history and to share the information they find with residents. When it began, there was hardly any archive material to call on. But that has now changed, and sources include a computer collection of more than 6,000 images, school logs and articles. Together the group have created a timeline of the history of Royston, including the 1914 colliery development, 1920 miners’ strike and establishment of peace in the coal industry in 1926. There have also been nine publications by the group.
LOOKING BACK: Jim Evison and Joyce Johnson of Royston History Group.
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Each pair of words has a missing word between them that acts as a link to both (eg FRONT - DOOR - MAT). The shaded squares of the six answers (reading downwards) will spell out a random word.
LITMUS
PREVIOUS ISSUE’S SOLUTION: Dutch, cube, half, kept, door, date Spellout: TEAPOT PREVIOUS ISSUE’S SUDOKU SOLUTION:
DOUBLE CROSSWORD 1
Using all nine letters provided, can you answer these clues? Every answer must include the central letter. Which word uses all nine letters?
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Put in order again Shrank back Trading
8 letters _ D Hunter, US comedian Forest glade Holding gently
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‘Penny Pie Park 2.0 is coming’ A ROW over plans to ‘decimate’ two playing fields to build a 146-home estate in what is being dubbed ‘Penny Pie Park 2.0’ will be thrashed out by Barnsley Council’s ruling cabinet members next month – more than a year since the controversial scheme was unveiled. Persimmon Homes, the developer behind the planning application, outlined its bid for the land off Keresforth Road, Dodworth, in April last year but concerns over its preferred access route – via a cul-de-sac on Bark Meadows – have delayed a decision. The cul-de-sac, which has just eight homes, was initially identified as the only viable route into the site as it’s bordered by the M1 motorway, a watercourse known locally as Dodworth Dike and another playing field designated as a recreation space off South Road. The field earmarked for recreation – which borders the planned housing site – is being looked at as an alternative route in, something which residents compare to Barnsley Council’s controversial scheme to carve up nearby Penny Pie Park in order to create a new one-way road system. Nigel Tonge, who has lived on Bark Meadows for almost 20 years, said: “The access is all wrong – a cul-desac should never be used as the main route into what would be an estate of 146 houses. The traffic to junction 37 of the
M1 can be horrendous at times so it doesn’t bear thinking about the impact up to 200 more vehicles would have. “We’re told they are looking at using another access, through an adjacent recreation ground, meaning two fields which are popular with kids could be lost. “We seem to be losing our playing areas, despite obesity levels rising. “Penny Pie Park has been a big topic locally as much of its greenspace is being lost and this is the same – Penny Pie Park 2.0. “The whole site is unsuitable as it’s been used by kids for as far back as I can remember, it’s rich with wildlife and it’s also too close to the motorway. “Our young grandchildren come here every week. “They play out together and that’s because it’s a safe area, one that’s free from danger. “Why should my grandchildren have to stop playing out just because a greedy developer is wanting to opt for the cheapest route into the site? “Barnsley’s air pollution is bad as it is so it would also be mindless to put 146 homes right next to a motorway.” Ongoing concerns about the access will result in cabinet members discussing the application at Barnsley Town Hall next month – a rare move as usually housing-related matters go straight to its planning board.
Band answer the call and deliver top performance YOUNG members of a school orchestra have hit a real high note. Musicians at Silkstone Common Junior and Infants were the only ones to play at a pioneering educational festival in Sheffield. And they were so good, they have been asked back next year when the event could be on more of a Yorkshire-wide scale. “This was a real boost for the school,” said head teacher Simon Tabbner. The opportunity arose when organisers of the first Hallam Festival of Education invited any school which could demonstrate the art of music to take part. Barnsley Music Service immediately put forward Silkstone Common’s 22-strong ensemble. “We grabbed the chance to show off our high quality music and performance,” said Mr Tabbner.
“Feedback suggests that people who could only hear the music and not see who was playing thought it was an orchestra of adults. And there was our little orchestra of eight to 11-yearolds. It was all very positive. “They did two sessions of 30 minutes playing music from this season’s repertoire. They represented our school really well and absolutely loved it. They had a whale of a time. They were top. Played some of their best.” Proud parent and governor Claire Neilson said: “This was a massive achievement for the youngsters.” Claire’s own son, Lewis, plays cello in the orchestra – which performs without an adult or conductor on stage. “They are outstanding,” she said. “And the school is lucky to have an excellent teacher in Kathryn Smith who does such a lot to promote music. School
staff believe in the value of music and it shows.” The first ever Hallam Festival of Education took place over two days at Sheffield Hallam University. Attended by more than 1,000 people from the education sector, it has been hailed as a huge success. The event combined a festival-style atmosphere and venues with activities, workshops, debates about performances about current and emerging challenges in education. Attended by teachers, support workers, education leaders policymakers, education companies, government and local authority officials, the festival was officially launched by Sheffield City Region Mayor Dan Jarvis MP. Headline speakers included MP Tracey Brabin and former Education Secretary Lord Blunkett.
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Expansion is ‘significant’ says upbeat Police chief SOUTH Yorkshire Police is to take on 92 new officers, including more firearms officers, dog handlers and specialist investigators. The major expansion comes on top of a previously-announced recruitment drive to hire 55 officers, while another 73 will join the force as neighbourhood officers to replace PCSOs – giving a total of 220 new officers against an existing staff of around 2,400. They will be phased in over the next four years. Although senior officers are still working out exactly what roles they will take on, Chief Constable Stephen Watson said they will include additional firearms officers, dog handlers and specialist investigators to tackle modern threats such as cyber crime. There will also be an expansion of the tactical support group, the squad of officers which specialises in services like forced entries and searching properties. That will give more ‘heft’ to the recently reintroduced and highly successful neighbourhood policing teams which are beginning
to choke off demand for emergency 999 responses from police by preventing problems developing within communities. South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Alan Billings, described the change as ‘one of the most significant developments in policing in South Yorkshire’ during his time in the role. Neighbourhood teams have already been promised a boost, with the bulk of the additional 55 officers announced earlier this year and the 73 who will be recruited to replace PCSOs set to go straight into the neighbourhood teams which lose those uniformed civilian staff. Cash for the recruitment has been gathered from a range of sources, including internal efficiencies, a better than expected grant increase from the government and a hike in the money paid by residents through council tax. Mr Watson said he was confident the increased numbers were affordable over the 35-year careers they would expect.
He said: “The way we are using the people we have got is very much better, the rate of improvement in South Yorkshire Police is unprecidented anywhere else in the country. “That is because of the quality of the people we have already got. Doing more of that positive dynamic will play out well for the public and that is something I celebrate. “We have a number of priority areas we need to fulfil. We are committed to increasing numbers of specialist uniformed officers in functions such as firearms, dog patrols and the territorial support group, all designed to add real heft to the work of neighbourhood police teams. “The territorial support group is something we used to have. It is specialist officers, mobile and highly trained in method of entry, search, public order, surveillance and the like. It is a facility that was lost, we have resurrected it but it is smaller than we would like it to be.” Providing more armed officers will help to ensure
police are capable of answering threats from criminals who use guns. “It is simply making sure we have the facility to deal with all manner of threats from the very top, terrorism type attacks, which we are very secure on, working down through the whole spectrum for firearms teams,” added Mr Watson. “People who use firearms in crime need to understand we have people who will confront them and bring them to justice,” he said. South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Alan Billings, said: “This is one of the most significant developments in policing in South Yorkshire in my time as Police and Crime Commissioner. “It answers those who wanted to see real improvement for the increased council tax as well as those who know that if crime is to be tackled successfully we must have more police officers. “This uplift of 220 officers is a first step in beginning to restore the ravages done to policing by the years of austerity and cuts.”
n NOMINEE: Jamie Preece has been shortlisted for an NHS award.
Jamie’s vital voluntary role A VOLUNTEER with cerebral palsy who gives up his time to test communication aids has been shortlisted for an NHS award. Jamie Preece is a service user representative at Barnsley Hospital and helps the Assistive Technology Team, which provides specialised augmentative and alternative communication throughout Yorkshire and the Humber. When Jamie was born he had cerebral palsy and no means of verbal communication because of this. The 42-year-old supports the team on a regular basis in training speech therapy students, interviewing candidates for jobs, helping out with innovative research and developing resources for other service users.
He has now been shortlisted for an NHS Parliamentary Award in the Volunteer of the Year category after being nominated by Barnsley Hospital and being selected by Angela Smith MP. Jamie lives in Rotherham and in his spare time runs Facebook support groups, sharing his knowledge and experience of assistive technology locally, regionally nationally and supports disabled bike riders. Service leader for the hospital’s Assistive Technology Team, Simon Judge, said: “Jamie’s input to our team has been essential. He helps us ensure that as a team working with those with the most significant disabilities, we remain focused on the needs of our service users.”
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MiniWABer Oscar’s big win! EACH week we give away a pass to Playmania to one of Tarn’s cutest kids. This week’s winner is two-year-old Oscar. Doesn’t he have an infectious smile? Enjoy your time at Playmania!
Be prepared to look after your pets in the summer... WITH the warmer weather approaching, Abbey Vets are reminding you to not let your fur baby end up being a victim of heat stroke. Abbey Vets have put together this list of how to keep your animal happy during the summer months. n Make sure all pets have access to plenty of fresh, cold water and shade. n Avoid car trips during this heat wherever possible. If unavoidable then please try and plan your journeys in advance to avoid being stuck in traffic and also to avoid the hottest parts of the day. ALWAYS carry a supply of water.
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Above: Charlie. Above right: Bessie. Right: Tommy and Kit (squirrel). Far right: Maggie. Below from left to right: Alfie Drummond, Zeke, Gizmo and Murphy.
YOU love showing off your pets and we love seeing pictures of them! Here’s a round-up of this week’s papped pets...
WAB debate...
Should the taxpayer prop up the market? RENTS from Barnsley’s new Glassworks market hall will fall short of expectations this year, leaving the council to find more than £100,000 to plug the gap. According to a report for Barnsley councillors, the extra cash is needed because ongoing construction work at the complex, which is a heavily modified version of the old Metropolitan shopping centre, has resulted in some stalls being left unoccupied. We asked members of We Are Barnsley for their opinion on this, and these were their responses... Carl Brennan: “High rents and five-year contracts which also requires being open six days a week... you tell me who wants to sign up to that as a new business. “Pay half the rent with 12-month rolling contracts, fill the place with traders, generate interest, generate custom and reap the extra footfall as the town grows and booms. “Get the drug users and alcoholics out of the town into safer areas for them
and shoppers and we’re heading in the right direction. “Put a cap on councillors wages and expenses would also be a step in the right direction. Also it’s outrageous and obscene what these people earn they should be ashamed...” Gavin Siddons: “They shouldn’t have been asking for five years rent up front.” Luke Birchall: “Half of the stalls are empty because the rents are too high. “Lower the rent, fill the other stalls make current stall-holders happier and hey-presto! “Shortfall made up, more people spending, more money for local businesses and a thriving town.” Richard Pearson: “All of you saying that the rent is too high are wrong, the rent is reasonable and is the same rent per square foot, for every trader. “If you have a bigger stall you pay more rent. The rent is fixed for five years but the service charge isn’t. “However, to get the same sized stall as you had in the old market hall, the rent is
Take one step beyond to see Madness live MADNESS are back for 2019, and they will be performing at Doncaster Races on July 20! The nutty boys celebrate being one of the top 20 selling UK groups of all time, with seven top ten albums to their name. The band have reached the UK Top 20 charts 22 times, with over six million album sales. Recently they’ve
achieved gold status with their ‘Can’t Touch Us Now’ album, sold out shows across the country, and released their Full House The Best Of Madness compilation. Madness promise to play all the hits and fan favourites including ‘Baggy Trousers’, ‘One Step Beyond’, ‘My Girl’, ‘Our House’ and ‘It Must Be Love’, plus some brand new tracks too. For an action packed
slightly higher, but still reasonable. “The issue for us was the five-year lease with a threeyear break clause. We had to commit to about £22,000 of rent, without knowing what trade would be like.” Anna Tinkler: “The stall holders who are there are doing a fantastic job. “They are there six days a week putting some right hours into this market and trying to make it welcoming and with plenty of choice. “Not getting help from above, they deserve a medal. Well done, keep up the good work. Management needs a restructure if you ask me, get people in who know what Barnsley people want and expect.” Paul Dransfield: “The ‘black hole’ should be covered by docking the pay of the loons who made the six-day day trading, five-year lease decisions.” Pawel Matuszek: “Market customers expect cheaper prices but market sellers can’t offer them due to high rent and service costs. “The new market hall looks brilliant but it does not fulfil
the idea of the market in my opinion.” Brett Wood: “The markets are facing the same problems as the shop holders rates and overhead costs rise year on year but the profit margin doesn’t. “It’s simple economics. The high street will be gone in under ten years.” Pauline Leather: “Traders were not listened to from the beginning they were treated
unfairly and terms and conditions were not good from the start.” Bev McNabola: “The real issue is that many people in the wider Barnsley area have no interest in market stalls. “Goods are not cheaper and young people in particular will not shop there. All this talk of spice heads is nonsense. Every big town and city has these issues.”
John Lingwood: “Some traders saw this coming and didn’t take up the offer to tie themselves to an unreasonable contract. “Added to this is the fact that half the town centre is still being rebuilt, and who wants to come and shop in half a town centre? “If people are not coming into the town, then they are not coming into the market are they?”
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day out, why not celebrate a day of racing with friends and family, before dancing the night away with the delights of the wonderful Madness in concert finishing off a perfect Summer’s evening, for a gig not to be missed… WAB have teamed up with MP Promotions and we’re giving one lucky reader the opportunity to watch Madness live at Doncaster Races.
To win, just answer this question: “Which year was ‘Baggy Trousers’ released? Send your answer along with your name and contact number to competitions@ wearebarnsley.com. Alternatively send your answer along with your name and contact number to WAB Madness, 47 Church Street, Barnsley S70 2AS. The closing date is July 9. Good luck!
A STARRY night celebrating the Invictus UK Trials are taking place in Sheffield this month. Headlined by Alfie Boe, The Big Gig will take place on July 22 at Sheffield FLY DSA Arena. Other major acts announced are classical artist Laura Wright, pop-sensation Heather Small, Suggs from Madness and Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance. The Big Gig is produced and presented by Sheffield’s Grammy award-winning songwriter and producer Eliot Kennedy, and designer Emma Willis, founder of the charity Style for Soldiers. Eliot Kennedy said: “This is going to be epic – as fans know, as with all my charity gigs, you never know who could turn up. There’s inevitably a major surprise artist that will make the night even more special. I can’t wait to sing proudly with some of the biggest voices out there for the inspiring Invictus UK Trials.” Sheffield is set to host the first ever national games for British wounded, injured and sick veterans and personnel, with the Invictus Team UK Trials
Sheffield from July 22 to 26. Over five days, more than 470 competitors, will take part in up to nine sports archery, athletics, cycling, indoor rowing, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. WAB have teamed up with FlyDSA and we’re giving two people the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the opening night on July 22. To enter all you have to do is send us your name and contact number to competitions@wearebarnsley.com Alternatively you can send us your name and contact number to WAB Invictus Games, 47 Church Street, Barnsley S70 2AS. The closing date is July 12. Good luck!
10 – Barnsley Independent, Tuesday, July 2, 2019
A week in WAB history...
Are we really alone..? WAB History takes a look through the archives at WAB news from years gone by. This week, we flash back to what hit the headlines in July last year... July 6 Do you believe in UFOs? A MAN from Hoyland uploaded a video onto YouTube of a ‘UFO’ hovering over Barnsley has gained international interest. Steven Powell, 43, of Coronation Road had been out walking his dog last Sunday at around 9.10pm and when he returned he noticed the object hovering. He said: “I didn’t think anything of it at first but when it hadn’t moved for 45 minutes I decided to record the footage.” He sent the video to Secureteam10, a channel who breaking reports on the many mysteries of our universe. The footage went viral, attracting more than 360,000 views, in addition to 200,000 views on his personal YouTube channel. He said: “I didn’t believe in UFO’s before but my mind has definitely changed now!“ July 19 Elsecar Park voted best green space ELSECAR park has been voted as one of the best in the UK. For the eleventh year, Elsecar Park has been recognised as one of the best green spaces by the Green Flag Award Scheme.
Park staff, volunteers and Friends of groups have worked hard to maintain the park and nature reserve. Coun Jenny Platts said: “We are privileged to receive our eleventh Green Flag Award and for Elsecar Park to be recognised as one of the best parks in the country.” July 21 Tougher penalties for fly tippers FLY-TIPPERS may face tougher penalties as the Council clamp down on environmental crime. The changes are set to be approved next week, following government changes imposed on April 1. Enforcement action can be taken by the council against people who commit environment-based crimes such as littering, dog fouling, noise and fly-posting. If caught, you can face a fixed penalty notice of £100. No decisions have been set, however the changes may be approved when the cabinet members attend the annual review on Wednesday.
WAB pictures of the week... On Saturday it was national Selfie Day. We asked you to share snaps of your favourite selfies and here’s what we received...
Left to right from above right: From: Joanne Yoyo-Vaines, Lorraine Johnson, Julie Haigh, Steven Gasston, Ryan Fleming, Paula CountNicholson, Richard Lees and Raj Dhadda.
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Camping and Caravanning INGOLDMELLS caravan to let, near Fantasy Island, Vacant July 13th – 20th. – Tel. 07854 474644
6–16 seat Mini bus, wheelchair access. Days / nights out, airports etc. We will get you there and back comfortably – Tel. 07970 651889 or 01226 200110
36-38 ELDON STREET, BARNSLEY, S70 2JB DAY TRIPS
Sat 6th July . . . . . . . .CHESTER ZOO (COACH ONLY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sun 7th July . . . . . . . .KENDAL & LAKE WINDERMERE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.00 Mon 8th July . . . . . . .SOUTHPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Wed 10th July . . . . . .GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW (COACH ONLY) . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sat 13th July . . . . . . .BEAMISH ‘FESTIVAL OF THE 50’S’ (COACH ONLY). . . £14.00 Sun 14th July . . . . . . .STRATFORD-ON-AVON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.00 Wed 17th July . . . . . .SKIPTON MKT & HAWORTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Thurs 18th July . . . . .RIPON MKT & THIRSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sat 20th July . . . . . . .WHITBY ‘VINTAGE FAIR’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sun 21st July . . . . . . .SKEGNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Tue 23rd July . . . . . . .SCARBOROUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Wed 24th July . . . . . .BRIDLINGTON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sat 27th July . . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Mon 29th July . . . . . .LIVERPOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Tue 30th July . . . . . . .CLEETHORPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Wed 31st July . . . . . .YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE PARK (COACH ONLY) . . . . . . . £12.00 Thurs 1st Aug . . . . . . .YORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sat 3rd Aug . . . . . . . .SCARBOROUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 Sun 4th Aug . . . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00
Sun 25th August - £48 Includes: Admission & free time at Salford Quay
EMMERDALE STUDIOS 28th September • £28 MAMMA MIA AT BRADFORD ALHAMBRA Sat 16th November - All seats £72
5th - 7th July . . . . . . . . .LAKE DISTRICT . . . . . . . .RIVERSIDE HOTEL. . . . . . . . . . . . £199 6th - 13th July . . . . . . . .WEYMOUTH . . . . . . . . . . .CARLTON HOTEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . £387 7th - 12th July . . . . . . . .BOURNEMOUTH . . . . . . .SUNCLIFFE HOTEL . . . . . . . . . . . £360 7th - 12th July . . . . . . . .GT YARMOUTH . . . . . . . . .SWANVALE LODGE HOTEL. . . . . £264 8th - 12th July . . . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . .HARLANDS HOTEL . . . . . . . . . . . £169 8th - 12th July . . . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . .PARK HOUSE HOTEL. . . . . . . . . . £250 8th - 12th July . . . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . .NEW VALRON HOTEL . . . . . . . . . £191 11th - 15th July . . . . . . .ISLE OF MAN . . . . . . . . . .CHESTER HOUSE HOTEL . . . . . . £427 13th - 20th July . . . . . . .PAIGNTON . . . . . . . . . . . .HOTEL BONAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £380 14th - 19th July . . . . . . .SOUTHPORT . . . . . . . . . . .TALBOT HOTEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £208 15th - 19th July . . . . . . .FOLKESTONE . . . . . . . . . .GRAND BURSTIN HOTEL . . . . . . £196 20th - 24th July . . . . . . .SCARBOROUGH . . . . . . . .CUMBERLAND HOTEL . . . . . . . . £278 20th - 27th July . . . . . . .WEYMOUTH . . . . . . . . . . .CARLTON HOTEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . £387 21st - 26th July . . . . . . .BOURNEMOUTH . . . . . . .HINTON FIRS HOTEL. . . . . . . . . . £350 21st - 27th July . . . . . . .EASTBOURNE . . . . . . . . .GLASTONBURY HOTEL. . . . . . . . £325 21st - 27th July . . . . . . .GT YARMOUTH . . . . . . . . .SWANVALE LODGE HOTEL. . . . . £285 22nd - 26th July . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . .HARLANDS HOTEL . . . . . . . . . . . £169 22nd - 26th July . . . . . .BLACKPOOL . . . . . . . . . . .NEW VALRON HOTEL . . . . . . . . . £191 22nd - 26th July . . . . . .LIVERPOOL . . . . . . . . . . . .ADELPHI HOTEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . £238 22nd - 26th July . . . . . .ST ANNES . . . . . . . . . . . . .MONTEREY BEACH HOTEL . . . . £225 27th - 3rd Aug . . . . . . . .BABBACOMBE . . . . . . . . .EXMOUTH VIEW HOTEL . . . . . . . £380 27th - 3rd Aug . . . . . . . .TORQUAY . . . . . . . . . . . . .CAVENDISH HOTEL. . . . . . . . . . . £384 28th - 3rd Aug . . . . . . . .LLANDUDNO . . . . . . . . . .CHATSWORTH HOTEL . . . . . . . . £340 28th - 2nd Aug . . . . . . . .GT YARMOUTH . . . . . . . . .SWANVALE LODGE HOTEL. . . . . £261
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Recruitment Full-Time Recruitment CARE ASSISTANTS Care assistants required (Full or Part-time) to work day and night shifts caring for Autistic adults in independent residential care home settings. You will develop supportive relationships with service users, promoting independence, choice and social inclusion. Previous care experience is desirable, as the people we support present with complex needs and behaviours. Extensive training is provided and opportunities for Diploma study in Health & Social Care are also available. This is a rewarding role that offers great job satisfaction to those who wish to have a positive impact on the lives of others.
Rate of pay: £8.21 per hour.
PART TIME COOK Required to work as part of a team in two residential homes for Autistic adults: Preparing home cooking for residents and staff. Must be competent to run kitchen on own. Applicants MUST have previous relevant experience in a busy kitchen. Includes working weekdays, weekends and Bank Holidays.
Rate of pay: £8.21 per hour. Please telephone: 01709 557000 for an Application Form (We do not accept CVs in place of a completed application form). The posts involve direct contact with vulnerable adults - successful applicants will require an enhanced DBS check. Personnel Depart., Beech Cliffe Limited, Beech Cliffe Grange, Munsbrough Lane, Greasbrough, Rotherham, S61 4NS.
Fantastic opportunities to work for a market leader in the manufacturing of window, door, solid roof and conservatory products. Energy, drive, determination and passion are essential to succeed and achieve our ambitious growth strategy. All candidates must have a “Can Do” attitude, industry experience, excellent product knowledge and pride in your work. All roles are 40 hours p/week, based in Wakefield– shift based in the factory or 8.30am to 5pm in the office. Very competitive salary, holiday scheme, pension, health cash plan, free vending and parking.
Experienced UPVC Window & Door Fabricators Experienced in the manufacturing of uPVC windows and doors with the ability to understand and follow worksheet instructions and use the appropriate tools for measuring and building of products. Experienced Sales Order Processors – Knowledge of Window Designer software and experienced in processing window, door and aluminium products in a fast-paced office is essential. APPLY TODAY – EMAIL: recruitment@conservatoryoutlet.co.uk With your CV and details of your salary expectations, along with the value you can add to our business. Agencies need not apply. Closing date is 26 July 2019.
Capital Compactors Ltd Hydraulic Fitter required in our Barnsley factory. To refurbish and install hydraulic power packs in compactors and balers. Experience preferred. Competitive salary. Please email CV and covering letter to:
jane@capitalcompactors.co.uk
BL Travel requires SERVICE DRIVERS 50 hours per week
4 weeks paid holiday Uniform supplied Phone Paul on
Part-Time Recruitment 16YR old male with Autism & ADHD requires a Support Worker to enable him to access to the community. Bolton on Dearne area, 4 hours p/w over Sat/Sun, £8.21 p/h. For an application form please contact BMBC Brokerage Team on 01226 772425 quoting ref LE90.
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On the move with our helpful guide Moving home can be a hectic business. In the run up to the big day, it is all too easy to forget something vital. To help you avoid some of the major pitfalls, we offer the following checklist: WITH 4 WEEKS TO GO:
WITH 1 WEEK TO GO:
Arrange to take over gas and electricity at your new address, and make sure that all appliances will be properly fitted. Notify BT and ask them to make the necessary arrangements for a final account at your present address, and for taking over or installing telephone facilities. Arrange for change of address cards to be printed. Get estimates from removal companies, checking that comprehensive insurance cover is available against damage or loss, is there a packing and unpacking service? Confirm the date of your move. Check on your home contents insurance policies to ensure that you are covered for the move, and covered at your new address. Make arrangements for your gas and electricity meters (plus water meters where relevant) to be read and all your appliances to be disconnected on the day of your move.
WITH 2 WEEKS TO GO:
Begin to throw out unwanted items from attics, wardrobes. What you really don’t want you may as well dump now, send to charity, or sell through the Classified pages of the Chronicle. It’s a great time for a good sort out! Confirm all arrangements, times etc. for meter readings, disconnections and reconnections, with authorities and with your buyer and seller. Make sure you have a good stock of packing materials, including sturdy boxes and plenty of string and sticky tape.
Cancel and pay up accounts for routine delivery services such as milk, groceries, newspapers and fuel. Re-organise these deliveries for your new address. Defrost refrigerators in preparation for move and, if you are moving a freezer and its contents, turn it up to maximum for a couple of days before your move. Send off change of address cards. Arrange and pay for automatic re-direction of your mail by the Post Office.
WITH 1 DAY TO GO:
Cover carpets which are being left behind, so as to minimise damage during furniture removal. Check through previous lists to make sure nothing has been overlooked, then enjoy a worry-free early night! Complete your packing except for those items you are likely to need overnight, and prepare a picnic for moving day. Have a large enough cash ‘float’ available to deal with unexpected expenses, and make sure you have collected documents and valuables together in a safe place.
ON MOVING DAY:
Dismantle any light fittings, etc. not included in sale. Turn off electric appliances. Disconnect cooker.
…the obvious choice when selling your home
Turn off boiler/central heating. Turn off water. Strip beds and pack bedding and night clothes. Pack items for washing/toiletries. Take down curtains. Take up rugs, carpets, floor coverings, as required. Read gas meter. Read electricity meter. Secure all windows. Lock all doors. Leave key as arranged with new owners. On arrival at your new home, unpack slowly and methodically.
WHO TO NOTIFY:
YOUR EMPLOYER TV LICENCE OFFICE LIBRARY (RETURN CARD) FOOTBALL POOLS SOCIAL OR SPORTS CLUB STORES WHERE YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ANY OTHER LICENCE OR REGISTRATION HELD ANY OTHER LEASE OR RENTAL (e.g. TV SET) DOCTOR (If you register with another Doctor this is automatic) DENTIST CHILDREN’S SCHOOL TRANSFUSION SERVICE IF YOU ARE A DONOR HIRE PURCHASE COMPANY
HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS CHRONICLE DELIVERIES WATER GAS ELECTRICITY TOWN HALL RATES DEPARTMENT DRIVING LICENCE AND CAR REGISTRATION ELECTORAL REGISTRATION OFFICE, TOWN HALL CAR INSURANCE COMPANY OTHER INSURANCE POLICIES (Life, House, Endowment) INVESTMENT (SHARES) BANK BUILDING SOCIETIES POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE (Child Benefit, Pension, NI) TAX OFFICE PREMIUM BONDS OFFICE (Get form P2767B from Post Office) NATIONAL SAVINGS AND S.A.Y.E. AA/RAC CREDIT CARDS BT or PHONE PROVIDER SATELITE, CABLE TV PROVIDER INTERNET/BROADBAND MILK DELIVERIES
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Gratitude Wrapped in Moonlight – By Carmelene Siani
November 13, 2015 Kindness Blog Articles Submitted by Guest Authors 12 comments
We had been talking lazily about going to bed when my husband mentioned that he noticed he needed more sleep.
It was about 15 years ago, and he and I were sitting on the edge of the pool at a clothing optional resort in Palm Springs, California. The moon was about a whisper away from full, and on the ground in front of us our shadows, their heads bent in conversation, were clearly etched in its glow.
“Parkinson’s disease takes its toll on my sleep,” he said, almost by way of apology for ending the evening before even he wanted to.
He remarked that he could no longer deny that he needed at least 10 hours of sleep a night—and even so could still nap during the day.
“Maybe it’s because of the mental effort it takes to keep moving.”
He didn’t really know and he commented about the days not too long before when five to six hours of sleep a night were enough.
“I guess those days are gone,” he mused and for some strange reason began to remember aloud a time when he had just graduated from college that he’d been in a rollover car accident.
When the vehicle finally came to a stop at the bottom of an embankment he’d found himself hanging upside down in his seat belt.
“I was more surprised to be alive than anything.”
When it was over, and the wheels stopped spinning, he’d merely unhooked the belt, climbed out the car window, and walked away from the scene.
The next morning he had a black eye.
“I could’ve died then,” he told me quietly, “but I didn’t. I can’t complain because I have Parkinson’s Disease now.”
I sat on the edge of the pool beside him as his voice wafted in and out amidst the breezes. It seemed he wasn’t really telling his story to me so much as he was telling it to himself. I just happened to be there as he dug deep for the essence of the memory—for its purpose.
He looked up at the moon.
“I’m grateful to be alive,” he finally sighed. “I’m grateful to be alive.”
I looked up too, the song “Starry, Starry Night” coming into my mind just as my husband raised a slightly trembling finger and pointed it skyward.
“Look, darlin’,” he said. “The moon is in Scorpio.”
I felt a swell of emotion, my heart responding to plainspoken words, to walking away from rollover car accidents with only a black eye and to this man who translated the heavens to me.
In that moment under that moon, as I sat beside a pool with nothing more than a sarong wrapped around me, the man I was married to gave me the enormous gift of appreciation.
He practically wrapped it in moonlight and sat it down before me, it was that clear of a gift.
He sat there beside me, his back hurting, his arms weakened and trembling, his entire body dealing with the effects of a life-altering neurological condition, and what was he saying?
“I’m grateful to be alive.”
Carmelene writes stories from every day life and how life itself offers lessons to help us grow, expand, and put our feet on higher ground.
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RamisaR says:
So beautifully written. The entire atmosphere was surreal.
Carmelene Siani says:
Thank you so much Ramisar! Thank you!
Actually, “ethereal” is probably a better word. 😉
I’ll take them both! xoxoxo
Jan Wilberg says:
This was just beautifully written and the message is so important.
Thank you so much Jan Wilberg.
thoughtfulstroll says:
Sad, but lovely.
Thank you Thoughtfulstroll. Thank you so much.
Very good timing for me.. Thank you for this lovely story.
You are more than welcome Susan. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
simplebrightlife says:
What a lovely story, Carmelene! We should try and remind ourselves to be thankful for and cherish every moment we have here. Thank you and your husband. 🙂
Thank you Simplebrightlife for your comments.
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Texans reportedly hope to re-sign Tyrann Mathieu
by Grey Papke
The Houston Texans were clearly fans of what Tyrann Mathieu brought to their team, and they’re hoping to bring him back for another season.
According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the Texans are trying to re-sign Mathieu, who is set to become a free agent. They are, however, not close to a deal right now, and figure to face stiff competition for his services on the open market.
Texans hope to re-sign pending free agent safety Tyrann Mathieu @Mathieu_Era and are making efforts to keep team captain on the roster. Nothing imminent or close at this time, though. 1-year, $7 million deal expired Safety market figures to be highly competitive financially.
— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) March 3, 2019
Mathieu featured in all 16 games for Houston last season, contributing 89 tackles, three sacks, and two interceptions. He reportedly took less money to go there last offseason, so he may be looking for a bigger deal this time around.
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Chat: Ben Lindbergh
Welcome to Baseball Prospectus' Wednesday May 09, 2012 1:00 PM ET chat session with Ben Lindbergh.
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BP Managing Editor Ben Lindbergh stops by to take your questions, complaints, suggestions, and good old fashioned flattery.
Ben Lindbergh: Good afternoon, everyone. I’m happy to be here and feeling chatty. Please keep your questions and comments about baseball, Baseball Prospectus, and subjects entirely unrelated to baseball coming. Let’s get started.
bradleyankrom (TPAFLA): Brian Bruney has an 8.6 SO/9 and 1.17 WHIP at Triple-A Charlotte.
Ben Lindbergh: I appreciate the update. For those of you who don't know (and given how often I talk about him, that can't be that many of you), I have an unhealthy obsession with Brian Bruney, thanks to his work in Kindergarten Cop and with the Yankees at the end of the 2006 season. Happy to see him doing well, but here's what worries me: LAST season at Triple-A Charlotte, he had a 13.1 SO/9 and a 1.17 WHIP in 20 2/3 IP. Then he got called up to Chicago and gave up 15 runs in 19 2/3 IP. So.
DanDaMan (SeaCliff): Hi Ben, what are your thoughts on Eric Hosmer and his chances of turning it around this year? Thanks
Ben Lindbergh: Thoughts: Eric Hosmer is going to be a beast. Chances of turning it around this year: very good. He's showing just as much power as he showed last season, and even more patience. Eric Hosmer is not going to have a .168 BABIP all season. He'll be fine. And not long after he's fine, he'll be a star.
Jake (Chicago): Starting to believe in LaHair?
Ben Lindbergh: Yes, though just as Hosmer isn't going to have a .168 BABIP all season, LaHair isn't going to have a .500 BABIP all season. Great find by the Cubs, an easy 80 on the stopgap scale, but Rizzo is still the long-term future.
timwakko (PA): Would it be possible to do a piece at BP that generally explains the 20-80 scale and how it is understood, used and implemented in player evaluation?
Ben Lindbergh: It can be confusing, right? Average isn't actually average, there's present and there's future--it's a lot to keep track of. But yes, not only is it possible to do that piece, we've already done it. And by "we," I mean Kevin Goldstein, who did a three-part series on it shortly after he arrived at BP and all the stat people gathered around to gaze at the strange scouting being in their midst.
Here's part one of the series (let me know if I messed up that link). To access parts two and three, go to the "More by Kevin Goldstein" or "More Future Shock" menus at the bottom of the page--they're the next two pieces. These might actually be good candidates to re-run in the BP Wayback Machine.
russadams (The Leaky Cauldron): How many more times will the Twins be no-hit this season? You have to think 20-25 times, right?
Ben Lindbergh: Conservatively.
Tom Hank before bald (Seattle): Is Seattle a forgotten land in baseball? or even in Baseball Prospectus? Will we see a writer represent Seattle soon enough? Or maybe there are ones that I'm not aware of... p.s. I'm a huge Sam Miller fan but still...he is not just west but not pacific north west. #EastCoastBias
Ben Lindbergh: We have had writers with Seattle leanings in the past, but at the moment, we're without a staff Mariners fan. Can you blame us? You've seen the Mariners lately, right? Matthew Kory is from Portland, if that counts. Adjacent state!
That said, there's a ton of great Mariners writing out there, so the internet definitely isn't ignoring them. If you're not reading the incredible Jeff Sullivan (and Matthew Carruth) at Lookout Landing, you're missing out, whether or not you care about the Mariners. And BP alums Derek Zumsteg and Dave Cameron blog about the M's at USS Mariner.
And yeah, Sam is great, but his decision not to live farther north really has to make you question his character.
I probably shouldn't have linked that awesome KG three-parter during my chat. You're all just reading KG now.
ChaCha (Kansas City): What is going on with Wil Myers? He seemingly went from a walk and contact / high OBP approach to a high K rate slugger? Any murmurings about a change in approach?
Ben Lindbergh: Speaking of Kevin, I just asked him about this. His answer: "More walks isn't always a good thing, fewer isn't always a bad thing. He needed a little more see ball/hit ball mentality." So now you're reading KG even if you didn't click on that link earlier.
Speaking of more walks not necessarily being a good thing: How about Emilio Bonifacio? Bonifacio is hitting second in the Marlins' order this season, and to his credit, he's seeing more pitches and walking more often. He also still hasn't had an extra-base hit. As in, a .000 ISO, after 135 PA, and his BABIP is down. You know what they say about correlation and causation, but maybe Bonifacio is better when he's up there hacking. Even patient hitters don't go to the plate trying to walk.
Gene (Kansas City): Any thoughts on Emilio Bonifacio's amazing non-slugging ways? OBP of nearly .350, ISO of .000. Hoping to get Miller to do some sort of historical perspective on that feat. Also raises some interesting questions on pitchers abilities to adjust to hitters' approaches.
Ben Lindbergh: I swear this question was just submitted, and that I'm not actually stealing interesting observations from the people asking questions. Sam will see this, and maybe he'll do something on it. I was thinking of doing something myself.
Derek (LA): He's got a career .882 ops in the minors and as a SS. He doesn't seem to get a lot of love but plate discipline always translates so well(the reason AJ Ellis has been immediately succesful imo) and he's got tons of it.
Ben Lindbergh: I'm lost. Who does?
A.J. Ellis is fun. Pretend for a second that small samples and arbitrary endpoints/playing time thresholds aren't things, because I want to mention this stat and don't want you to make fun of me: Ellis has the second-highest OBP (.383) among catchers since 2008, min. 300 PA.
timwakko (PA): Thanks for the links. Love BP...can't believe I only subscribed this year.
Ben Lindbergh: I can't believe it either. We've been here since 1996. Where have you been, Tim? Where have you been??
In all seriousness, thanks for subscribing. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies, too. We have no beef with them.
Johnny (SD): I asked KG on twitter, but is Donald Lutz (Reds High A 1B) a legit power prospect or a fringe guy? Already at 10 HRs, albeit in the offense-boosting Cal League
Ben Lindbergh: And he didn't answer you? Man, I'm going to have to talk to that guy. He never answers questions from readers. (That was a joke. He answers a million questions from readers. Literally a million, and 99% of them are about when Anthony Rizzo is going to get called up.)
Here's Kevin's succinct response: "Cal League guy. Scouts aren't impressed." I'm just relaying questions from readers to KG now. This must be what being Twitter feels like.
GEO (lunch break): Ben, I have no idea if you're the guy to ask this question of, but I'll try: Why can't your website leave me logged in for the duration of my visit? It's extremely irritating to read an article, then navigate to another article (after maybe having to step away for awhile too) and have to log in again. I realize I can check "remember me" when I log in, but I have reasons for not wanting to do that.
Ben Lindbergh: I'm not the guy, but I know the guys. I'll try to get you an answer now. If I don't get you one before the end of the chat, email me.
Derek (LA): sorry Jake Lemmerman. As for Ellis he got on base at a ridiculous rate in the minors also.
Ben Lindbergh: As it happens, Kevin wrote about Lemmerman yesterday, so I don't even have to IM him again or speculate myself. The verdict: "Proving to be more than a California League fluke and starting to profile as an offensive second baseman."
By the way, if you're not reading KG's daily Minor League Update blog posts, you should be.
Gene (Kansas City): Whoa! You are now combination answering both of my questions. Thanks. The Emilio Prettyface phenomenon has some interesting game theoryesque lessons. why not throw him all fastballs? Why is he seeing fewer fastballs this year than last? Very odd. Hell, he walked, stole a base and scored in his first at bat yesterday again.
Ben Lindbergh: Is it possible that Bonifacio has shown so little power that pitchers are afraid he's just lulling them into a false sense of security? No, that's probably not possible. But you've made me want to look into this. He's hitting .217 against fastballs (without power, but you already knew that).
Gene (Kansas City): I sent it to Sam and emailed with him about it yesterday, in fact. I was curious about the longest stretch of ISO .000 as well as the lowest ISO / highest OBP season. One would think that at some point an incredibly low ISO would cause pretty strong OBP regression. Although, I'm guessing Brett Butler is a counter example. I think it is very possible that pitchers' abilities to take advantage of a hitters approach is relatively limited and/or pitchers prefer to pitch in an approach-neutral fashion. Reminds me of Mathmatics of Poker.....
Ben Lindbergh: There's certainly a correlation between ISO and percentage of fastballs faced. We'll look into it.
Paul (DC): Which of the National's Ferocious Fivesome (for those following at home: Strassburg, Jackson, Zimmermann, Gonzalez, & Detwiler) ends the season with the most Wins and which with the highest WAR?
Ben Lindbergh: Well, they're both counting stats, so I can't think of a compelling reason why the one projected to finish with the most wins above replacement wouldn't also be the one projected to finish with the most traditional wins. I suppose Strasburg could be so much better than the others that he'd amass the most WARP but be prevented from making enough starts to lead the rotation in wins. Still, Strasburg is the best pitcher, so I'll say Strasburg.
We really need a better way to distinguish between wins and wins above replacement when we're talking about pitchers. Maybe some sort of hand signal? Use your hand to make the shape of Joe Morgan when referring to traditional wins? Put on a fake Bill James beard when referring to WARP?
Gene (Kansas City): AJ Ellis is another interesting data point on the game theory pitcher/batter conundrum. I believe he is swinging at barely over 30% of pitches this year, which would be the lowest percentage in several years. Will pitchers adjust? Of course, as opposed to Bonifacio, he has been doing some damage when he swings.
Ben Lindbergh: Brett Gardner is another guy without power who compensates for not having much power by not swinging much. (Come back soon, Brett.) Luis Castillo was a superstar at not swinging a couple years ago. He wasn't a superstar in the usual sense.
Ron (DC): Do you buy the hot start by Jose Altuve?
Ben Lindbergh: To some extent, yes, but like most guys off to blistering starts, he's not quite this good. Bradley Ankrom is working on an article (as we speak!) about the dangers of reading too much into the stats at the start of a player's career, using Altuve as an example, so you should see much more about this on the site tomorrow.
Hip2Hops (Seattle): What kind of arm does a player need to profile as a CF? I'm specifically thinking about Billy Hamilton. While his speed in CF would be awesome, is it typical that a lack of arm strength would "demote" a SS prospect to CF?
Ben Lindbergh: Yes, that wouldn't be unusual. Bernie Williams and Johnny Damon played center field without arms (not quite literally, but almost, at times). Williams even won Gold Gloves there (though whether he should have is another matter). Obviously, a strong arm is an asset at any position, but a center field's primary responsibility is getting to the ball. It seems safe to say that Hamilton would get to a lot of them.
Communiqué from Kevin: Hamilton's arm in center would profile as "Below average, but not a noodle." Damon/Williams were noodles.
Bubs (Baltimore): Johnny Cueto: mirage or turning into an ace? At what point do we have to assume he's just an outlier than can consistently outperform his projections?
Ben Lindbergh: The longer he does it, the more likely it is to be real. (Man, that was an obvious sentence.) He hasn't done it long enough for me to believe. Cueto isn't Matt Cain. For the first three seasons of his career, he was an average-BABIP guy. For the last two seasons (really just one season's worth of innings), he's been a low-BABIP guy. It's possible that he's doing something differently to depress BABIP (I'd have to investigate), but I'd bet on regression. And if/when the regression comes, he won't have the strikeout rate to sustain an elite ERA.
Come to think of it, Bubs, this question might be best answered by one of your own quotes: "Tomorrow, man. What kind of dope fiend be talking about tomorrow? Tomorrow ain't shit. Today, Johnny, today." Season three of The Wire was actually about Johnny Cueto.
John (San Diego): How much longer can Johnny Cueto blow away his peripherals/projections? Is it possible that he's just an outlier?
Ben Lindbergh: Lots of people want to know about Johnny Cueto, but I picked the other question to answer in depth instead of this one because it gave me an opening for a Wire quote. Let that be a lesson to future chatters.
Gina (3rd period English): Ask Kevin if he has a date to the spring formal. [giggle] Ask him if he has a crush on anyone!
Ben Lindbergh: Kevin is happily girlfriended. However, if Gary Brown doesn't have a date yet, he'd probably consider accompanying him.
Paul (DC): Your vote for biggest surprise team so far?
Ben Lindbergh: Assuming the surprise team's success doesn't have to be sustainable, I don't know of any team whose success I find more surprising than the 19-11 Orioles.
Bubs (Baltimore): I love that Season 3 was about Johnny Cueto. Well done. Cueto's minuscule ERA coincided with his new delivery, that Tiant turn he does. He's hiding the ball really well, and playing to his defense. Looks like he's having a blast every time he pitches.
Ben Lindbergh: I'm more inclined to believe in a change in a player's stats when it coincides with a change in approach (especially when it's a pitcher, probably), but sometimes those things can be misleading. You know, "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" and all that. How many times have we seen a hot streak explained by a change in stance or mechanics, only to see the player turn right back into what he was before? It's certainly believable that greater deception could result in weaker contact, and I hope it's true in Cueto's case, because real changes in performance are always interesting.
RMR (Chicago): FWIW regarding Cueto: He has actually reinvented himself to a degree as a ground ball specialist and happens to pitch in front of what is arguably the best defensive IF in baseball. That suggests he might be able to maintain a lower than average BABIP; though it also suggests we should be giving a healthy dose of credit for his success to his teammates.
Ben Lindbergh: Just covered this in the last answer (sorry for the triple dose of Cueto questions, folks). But also FWIW regarding Cueto: he isn't getting grounders this season quite like he was last season, so that's something to keep an eye on. Small sample'd.
Matt (Chicago): Do you see Garza & Samardzija as the foundation for a good rotation or does Jed peddle Garza to the highest bidder later this summer?
Ben Lindbergh: Peddling would seem to make sense.
Dan (Brooklyn): You're the surprisingly in-contention Mets. Why keep running 41-year old Miguel Batista out there every day? He's not a viable starter on a contender, and Harvey is waiting at AAA. Are they playing super-2 games with Harvey, or do they actually think Batista is solid?
Ben Lindbergh: I don't see how it's possible to think Batista is a solid pitcher at age 41. Solid clubhouse guy, yes, solid writer of thrillers about serial killers, sure (look it up). But solid pitcher...I don't see it, and the Mets aren't dumb, so I doubt they do either. Batista was a low-BABIP mirage last season, but I'm not sure anyone who plays fantasy is fooled by low BABIPs at this point, let alone the smart people who work for teams. Harvey is pitching well, but probably not so well that he has nothing left to learn at Triple-A. The Mets say he isn't coming up soon, but regardless, Batista's days are numbered. I thought he was done after 2008, so it's impressive that he's managed to cling to major-league life this long. Still: 15 walks, 12 strikeouts.
Paul (DC): Chris Sale, who's been very effective as a starter, is supposedly heading back to the pen because of a sore elbow. Over reaction by the White Sox or simple prudence?
Ben Lindbergh: Prudence, but disappointing nonetheless. Some guys can handle every aspect of starting but staying healthy. Maybe Sale is one of them--the Sox would know far better than I. I hope he gets another crack at the rotation at some point, since he clearly has the stuff to succeed there, but "better safe than sorry" isn't a bad rule of thumb when it comes to pitching prospects and first-round picks.
Tom Hank before Bald (Seattle): Yeah I 've seen them played, actually I was two for two in my attendance and their record (Sunday & Monday). And I def. look forward for more GIF of Jesus's catching. I am also curious of origin of the title "Lookout landing" from. The only reference I could think of was Mark Buehrle's famous puddle sliding.
Ben Lindbergh: Yes, the GIForce is strong with Jeff Sullivan. "Lookout Landing" is a section in the upper deck down the left-field line at Safeco.
Jay (Cincy): Tony Cingrani continues to impress, even pitching in the Cal League. Most seem to see him as a reliever, but he is straight DEALING as a starter. Is his secondary stuff developing enough to stick as a starter, against all odds?
Ben Lindbergh: You're in luck: Kevin wrote about Cingrani today in a piece at BP and ESPN. (If a minor leaguer is doing something interesting, it's usually safe to assume that Kevin is writing about him now or did write about him recently.) The consensus seems to be that he's now a prospect as a starting pitcher.
By the way, for GEO, the guy who asked earlier about being signed out of the site: if you select "Remember me," the site will keep you signed in, and if you log out at the end of your session, the cookie should be deleted. So if the cookie was what you were worried about, don't worry about it. That said, we'll look into lengthening how long the login sessions are set for. We set them to be fairly short originally, so that (say) a person reading at an internet cafe wouldn't be logged in long after he or she had left. If that happened, there'd be free BP for everyone in the neighborhood, and society would crumble.
R.A.Wagman (Toronto): Ben - at what point this season do you start to believe more in the performance than in the projections? Does this vary between teams and players? Please use the AL East in your answer. Thanks.
Ben Lindbergh: Ryan, I don't think there's a point at which I put my full faith in performance over projection, or look only at what a team has played like in-season to the exclusion of what we thought it would play like before the season. Recent performance should be weighted more heavily than past performance, so the more a team has played in 2012, the greater the impact 2012 performance has on my expectations for the rest of the season. But PECOTA uses five seasons of historical stats to project player performance, so to the extent that my feeble brain can handle it, I try to do the same. Of course, I'm as susceptible to the recency effect as anyone.
Wait, I forgot--I was supposed to use the AL East in my answer. How about this: the Orioles won't win the division, and even if they kept winning, I'd probably keep believing that essentially up until the day they clinched.
19braves77 (Pensacola, FL): How hard is it for a pitching coach when you have a prospect like Trevor Bauer ? The guy has 9 pitches and his own philosophy on pitching.
Ben Lindbergh: It probably depends on the pitching coach. A coach who's very hands on and likes to mold pitchers according to his own ideas of what mechanics should look like might hate having Bauer. A coach who's content to let pitchers who've had success keep doing their own thing as long as it's working would probably handle Bauer just fine. The question with Bauer is whether to mess with his success in an attempt to make him even better. As good as he is, he's had control problems, and he could stand to be much more efficient. Maybe a pitching coach could help him with that, but maybe tinkering with his approach to make him more efficient would make him less effective in other areas. I don't know what the right thing to do in his case is, which is why no one pays me to be a pitching coach.
By the way, speaking of pitching (I'm the best at segues), I asked resident mechanics expert Doug Thorburn last week to take a look at what's happened to Ubaldo Jimenez, and he's working on the article now. It sounds like he's found some interesting stuff, so I'm looking forward to reading it. Should be up on the site on Friday.
Winnie (Napa Valley): If you could go back in time to watch one baseball game, how would you justify not killing Baby Hitler instead?
Ben Lindbergh: I don't know. Maybe I can't bring myself to kill a baby to prevent future crimes it hasn't committed because I just watched Minority Report. Or maybe I just really, really, wanted to watch Old Hoss Radbourn.
dianagram (Value Over Replacement Grit): I don't see anyone close to a replacement for Werth available right now. Can the Nats risk trying to get by without him? Who might they go after coming up to the trade deadline?
Ben Lindbergh: Well, Mike Rizzo says that he's not looking to make a trade, which could mean either that he's not looking to make a trade or that he's desperately looking to make a trade but doesn't want to say that for fear of driving up asking prices. I'm actually writing a BP/ESPN article now on lopsided teams like the Nats that excel at either run scoring or run preventing but don't do both, so maybe after that I'll have more insight on whether they can get by with a Nady/Bernadina platoon for three months. One confession I should make here: I'm absolutely awful at coming up with potential trades. Whenever I have to propose one, I look at basically every person playing baseball and ask myself whether he's available or not and why, and which teams might want him. It's the most inefficient process ever. Can't wait for the trade deadline!
By the way, Sam Miller just emailed me to say that he's working on the Bonifacio article, so look forward to seeing that sometime in the next day or two. I wonder how many more times I can name-drop BP staff members before the end of the chat.
RMR (Chicago): To clarify, Cueto's GB/FB jumped significantly along with his revamped delivery: 08: 0.95 09: 1.02 10: 1.08 11: 1.78 His HR/FB also dropped, though I'm less inclined to attribute that to a change in approach. 08: 13.9% 09: 11.2% 10: 8.6% 11: 5.8%
Ben Lindbergh: Hey, so, apparently Johnny Cueto has a low BABIP now and is doing things differently or something. I don't know if anyone mentioned that earlier.
Johnny (San Diego): Is Scott Rolen just, like, kinda done, or is he seriously seriously done?
Ben Lindbergh: I'm guessing seriously done (but only one seriously), which makes me sad. I really wanted him to pad his Cooperstown case some more this season. Not that he should have to, but, you know, he has to. At this point, though, the injuries have taken their tool, and it looks like he's only hurting his chances. I could be wrong, though. He's looked lousy before and come back to have strong seasons.
exer (naples): Why do teams still try to steal? On top of the questionable or marginal benefits, the risk of injuries comes on top of it, and lots of important players have suffered injuries this year as a result of a steal. Is this year an outlier in that respect?
Ben Lindbergh: I don't know if this season is an outlier in terms of injuries, but whether the benefit of stealing outweighs the risks once injuries are factored in is an interesting question. When scoring is low, the breakeven point for steal attempts is also low, so I don't think you're going to see teams stop stealing. I'm not sure whether I'd call the benefits "marginal," though. Maybe they are in terms of bases added, but there are ancillary benefits to it, like forcing pitchers to pitch from the stretch. I'll keep it in mind as a future topic, though I expect it would be difficult to figure out how many injuries stealing is directly responsible for.
Reds Fan (Cincinnati): Ugh, are the Cardinals REALLY this good? It seems like every single break seems to go their way. Jake Westbrook and Kyle Lohse? ACES! Tyler Greene? SECOND COMING OF JEFF BAGWELL! So damn annoying.
Ben Lindbergh: According to our Adjusted Standings, not only have they actually been this good, they've actually been better. The Cardinals' third-order winning percentage is .733. That's the best in baseball, folks. Maybe Pujols was holding them back all that time! Scary for Reds fans, huh?
M. Matheny (under the Arch): Who should I send to the bullpen once Chris Carpenter is healthy (if ever?) Not who "will" I, but who "should" I?
Ben Lindbergh: Doubling up on Cardinals questions. This is a tough one. Lynn has pitched too well to demote him back to the bullpen. Maybe Lohse? It's such a tiny sample (and mostly from several years ago) that I'm embarrassed to cite it, but his career K/BB in the bullpen is 3.00, compared to 2.07 as a starter. If you subscribe to the idea that the least talented/successful starter, and/or the one with no future development at stake, should be the one to go, then Lohse seems like the guy. Good problem to have, though, as they say.
By the way, I like to think that Mike Matheny actually hangs out under the Arch while he's pondering roster moves like this one.
Jason (Quebec): what do you think of Scott Van Slyke? Yes he's old but he can't be any worse than Loney or Rivera can he?
Ben Lindbergh: No, he probably can't be, even though he's 25 and it's Albuquerque. And Rivera just hurt his leg sliding into third, so it's possible that he might miss some time. I'm rooting for Van Slyke, if only because there's a chance he might be as funny as his old man. Andy Van Slyke was hilarious.
Jesse Pinkman (ABQ): do you think either Scott Van Slyke or Alex Castellanos can make an impact for Dodgers? Both are obviously older but both have crushed the ball for 2 or 3 years straight.
Ben Lindbergh: And yes, I think Castellanos could help, too. He's raking, and Kevin wrote in April that scouts can see him as average at second. The Dodgers aren't in need of help at second quite as desperately as they are at first, but I expect you'll see both of these guys at some point this season.
Charlie (Bethesda, MD): Danny Espinosa isn't this bad, is he? Should the Nats send him down to AAA until he figures it out, or just stick with him? Or is he not much of a hitter .180/.280/.230 is what we should expect
Ben Lindbergh: Probably not this bad (when someone asks if a player is "this bad" or "this good," the answer is almost always, "no, not this bad/good"), but I don't know if I see rainbows on the horizon, either, and Steve Lombardozzi is lurking. Espinosa has been swinging and missing too much, which he also did in the second half of last season. The problem might be partly one of approach: according to the WaPo's Adam Kilgore, Davey Johnson told Espinosa to "swing easy" this spring, and now he's telling him to be more aggressive. Maybe he's just confused, in which case he'll probably figure it out at some point. Espinosa is a good defender, so if he keeps his average comfortably over the Mendoza Line and hits homers at a good clip for a second-sacker, he'll be worth playing.
Charlie (Bethesda, MD): What gives with Danny Espinosa?
Ben Lindbergh: BUS-TED for asking the same question twice, and in less detail the second time. I'd be surprised if Charlie dares to show his face around Bethesda after this.
TLR (La-la land): Matheny can't send Lohse to the pen! He's a Veteran Presence, after all. Maybe Wainwright to protect his arm post-TJ?
Ben Lindbergh: What, he can't be a VP in the pen? Yes, if Wainwright is on some sort of innings limit or the Cards are worried about his arm, he could be the one to go, especially since he's already succeeded there. I don't think he's a better fit for performance's sake, though.
By the way, Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad is good, but Bubs is better.
paulbellows (Calgary): How long do the Twins go without making some major changes? There is probably less talent there than in any other organization.
Ben Lindbergh: I don't really think Terry Ryan is in danger, but Gardenhire could go at some point this season. Both guys got the dreaded vote of confidence from Jim Pohlad yesterday. The Twins need to try something different. They had the staff with the lowest strikeout rate and fastball velocity in the majors last season, and they've had it again this season. We know strikeouts and fastballs that break 90 are good things, but for some reason, the Twins don't seem to have come to the same realization. Maybe they'd be better off being run by someone who has.
Ben Lindbergh: I've outlasted all of you, so three-plus hours later, it's time to call it a chat. I enjoyed it, as always, and I'll be back for more before long. Thanks for spending your afternoon with me at BP.
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5 questions that could come up during Trump’s news conference
Demonstrators have set off on a protest march through central London against US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK.
Crowds are streaming from Trafalgar Square towards the Houses of Parliament, where the “Trump Baby” blimp is slowly being deflated.
Placards reading “No to Racism: No to Trump” are being waved by several protesters, who are chanting “Donald Trump’s not welcome here.”
Several protesters are also waving EU flags, and making clear their opposition to Brexit and Trump — which they see as aligned political forces.
But the standout feature of the march is a 16-foot robot depiction of Trump, sitting on a golden toilet and tweeting, which is being pushed along the route by protesters.
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As it moves, the robot repeats slogans including “I’m a very stable genius,” “no collusion,” and “you are fake news.”
“I wanted people here to know that people in America do not support Trump,” Don Lessem, the American creator of the spectacle, told CNN.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party will make a speech at the rally later. The party’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, Emily Thornberry, earlier described Trump as a “bully” in an interview with CNN.
The Trump Baby blimp flew outside Parliament earlier. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images
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Storyography – Where Memory and Language Wrestle with Reality
Storyography is about sharing memories with family and friends. By sharing my memories, I hope to encourage others to do the same.
January 23, 2018 January 23, 2018 Storyography
I’m not a Talking Bomb, but I Played One on TV
One of the most interesting aspects of working in post-production in Hollywood was the time I spent on the ADR stage. ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement) is the process by which actors are brought onto a sound stage to recreate their original performance that was marred by noisy ambience or other technical issues. I had the opportunity to work with many talented actors, most of whom were cooperative and agreeable under stressful circumstances.
The task is a unique blend of technical ability and art. Ideally, in the original performance, the actor inhabits the character while submerged in the ambiance of the location and interacting with the other characters.
On the ADR stage, the actor must re-create that original sense and emotion of the scene, while standing alone on a dark stage which lacks any of the physical cues that supported the original performance. And he must also watch him or herself on the screen and perfectly lip-sync his new performance to the original. It is that combination of re-creating an emotional performance, while also objectively observing it, which throws some actors.
Imagine yourself playing a character helping a wounded friend while dodging bullets from a sniper. All your exertions and dialogue provide the viewer with a sense of the immediacy and danger of your plight.
Now, imagine trying to re-create that same tension, without the noise, the dust, the struggle, or your co-player, all while standing on a cool, dark stage, watching yourself perform on a giant screen.
Some actors just cannot do it. Their process of acting is so integrated into the moment that doing justice to their performance, after the fact, in such artificial circumstances defeats them. And many are wonderful actors. Ultimately, if the performance is good, a little judicious editorial surgery will improve on the sync.
One such case was with the actor Robert DeNiro. Considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, the process of ADR is completely counter-intuitive for him and his style of acting. We scheduled multiple sessions, only for him to balk or cancel each in turn. He was agreeable, but intimidated by the technical process. I finally got him to do his lines ‘wild,’ with four or five interpretations of each line. With minimal editing, I was able to make one of these performances fit.
I worked with the actor Jackie Chan on one of his films. He is the most focused and exacting actor I ever worked with. Except for lunch, he never took a break. A week was scheduled for the recording and he finished re-voicing the complete film in three days.
Jackie’s film was shot in Chinese. Our task was to replace Jackie’s whole Chinese language performance with English lines. We needed to write Jackie’s lines so they would make sense to the story and also closely match the onscreen lip movements.
This task was daunting enough. But as we were starting, Jackie asked how he could get rid of his Chinese accent. Since we were preparing his film for an American release, he didn’t want his Chinese accent to distract or make the audience struggle to understand.
Having never been asked this, or thought about it, I needed to think fast. How could I solve this? Hardly missing a beat, a solution popped into my head. The ADR gods were smiling down on me.
One factor for any non-native speaker of English (or, I suspect, any second language) is the natural tendency to pronounce each word discreetly. This exaggerates the accent and creates a stilted hesitation, rather than a natural flow of expression. The speaker sounds like they are struggling over a pile of rocks, rather than floating down a stream.
I asked Jackie to say the phrase ‘American accent’ but to slur the final ‘n’ to the beginning of ‘accent’ to sound like ‘America-naccent’. By tying the two words together, much of that odd emphasis and hesitation is lost and it sounds much more natural.
Jackie tried it and immediately grasped my intent. We started work and he was pleased with the improvement in his ‘American’ accent. Whew!
Another aspect of ADR is the recording of background ‘walla’ for crowd scenes, restaurant scenes etc. Some ‘loop groups’ are very talented and will create a texture of background that adds a sense of reality to a scene.
Long ago, loop groups were told to murmur ‘peanut butter’ over and over to create a non-descript background buzz that would not compete with the foreground dialogue. Modern loop groups bring vocabulary lists and even foreign language phrases for the talent to use in order to give the walla the flavor of a specific time and place. A Moroccan street market sounds different than a corporate board room. Really!
Many actors, practice their craft and can make a decent living working in a loop group while seeking on-camera work. The downside can be that novice actors are so hungry to be ‘discovered,’ their performances must be reined in so they remain in the background.
Working with inexperienced actors provided me with the opportunity to perform as a ‘talking bomb’. Twice. Occasionally, some absurd gimmick becomes popular with multiple script writers. In this case, a time bomb which not only had a clock, but also a voice which announced, to anyone who happened to be standing around, how many seconds they had before being blown to bits.
“Siri, should I cut the red wire or the blue wire?”
On two different shows, I ran the sessions where we needed a voice counting down from ‘ten,’ presumably to inject further tension into an already anxious scene. But the actors seemed unable to grasp the ‘motivation’ of the ‘talking bomb.’ Alternatively gleefully evil or mother-hover anxious, their bomb was over-acting.
Every Shakespearean attempt by each member of the loop group would be rejected by the director. When they ran out of actors, I offered to try.
The tension in the scene was in the characters, and hopefully, with the audience. But the bomb couldn’t care less about the pending explosion. It wasn’t a character. It had no character. It didn’t ‘know’ what was about to happen.
I performed my count-down as devoid of emotion as possible, a counter-point to the humans in the scene. This bomb had not a care in the world. Rain or shine, this bomb was indifferent to its future or the lack thereof. It was what no actor wants to be described as – mechanical and flat. My performance, with just a suggestion of boredom, was perfect.
I was the bomb. They loved it.
January 4, 2018 January 10, 2018 Storyography
On Science and Miracles – Christmas and Others
It is the common belief that miracles are a fantasy of an over-heated religious sensibility. In our enlightened age, miracles have largely disappeared. Cultures which believe in miracles are regarded as primitive, childlike and, at best, quaint (like clapping your hands if you believe in fairies). Postmodern thinkers believe miracles won’t happen because they don’t happen, because they can’t happen… and so on.
Modern culture believes miracles cannot be true because they break the laws of nature. Those laws, though, imply a Law Giver. But let’s not talk about that.
So do miracles cease to happen in modern cultures? Or do we just stop seeing them? Blinded by our sophistication?
As Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” We possess the advanced technology. And yet there are still phenomenon that occur outside our control or ability to explain them.
Considering the number of UFO sightings each year (and rising) there is an appetite for that which is beyond our comprehension.
What distinguishes the religion of Scientism from other religions is it denies the occurrence of miracles, except perhaps those accomplished by its high priests (I mean those holders of advanced technology). I’m not aware that followers of Scientism believe in a Supreme Being, unless he has an advanced degree from MIT.
What rational person could believe in an all knowing entity that answers everyone’s questions in seconds, simultaneously, throughout the world? Before Google that was an absurd expectation. Now it is mundane and expected.
By miracles, I am not talking about parlor trick ‘miracles’ like might be demonstrated by David Copperfield parting the waters of a swimming pool. Nor do I think just any fantastic occurrence would be a miracle. I don’t necessarily think it would be a miracle if a cat were to talk. If it told a funny joke, that would be a miracle, for everyone knows cats have no sense of humor, unlike dogs.
Also, miracles are not a form of wish fulfillment like programming a computer to spit out predictions. That kind of hocus pocus is neither science nor miraculous. How sad to be throwing darts at a digital target and hoping no one notices those darts keep missing. Predictions aren’t miraculous. Results are.
Science is not consensus. And it doesn’t campaign. It isn’t a cult. Science does not recruit the largest crowd of believers to sway public opinion and policy to their side. It is not subject to vote. Pure science is based on meticulous research and replicable, predictable results.
Science doesn’t sell itself. It isn’t supposed to have any agenda but inquiry into the truth of things. Ideally, it doesn’t seek to win anything as it is dispassionate in its search.
By miraculous I am thinking more in terms of spontaneous recovery from an incurable disease, or someone risking their life to save another. These things happen fairly often, but are not predictable and so are thought miraculous by witnesses. They might not even make the news.
Miracles are popularly thought of in positive terms. To hear “It’s a miracle!” would generally indicate that good news had arrived. But obviously, Pharaoh’s army was not happy when Moses parted the Red Sea.
No one predicted Donald Trump would be elected president. It was declared impossible by the experts and described by many as a disaster, a tragedy. Most would agree that it was unpredictable and couldn’t happen again. Yet you don’t believe in miracles? Some still deny it happened.
Science is not all encompassing. Grant money is limited and choices must be made as to what will be researched. Some things are hard to study and so money does not flow to those challenging areas.
Science does not prove anything. It documents results of its painstaking research and posts statistical analysis as to the probabilities of this or that phenomenon. Science predicts based on those published probabilities. Science predicts. If results contradict the predictions, that theory collapses.
Science seeks to disprove. And that which cannot be disproven is deemed to be true (with qualifications).
A one-time event (aka a miracle) is a rare occurrence and so cannot be studied let alone predicted. Those who witnessed that occurrence are dismissed as superstitious for seeing a phenomenon that science chooses to ignore. How predictable and boring would be a life that only experienced ‘what is possible’ as determined by some bureaucrat in a distant government office?
Quantum physics is lifting the lid on some very curious, if not miraculous, phenomenon that do not fit previously accepted paradigms – like particles mirroring each other’s behavior simultaneously despite vast distances separating them. And the famous demonstration of a particle’s behavior being influenced by whether or not it is observed.
Consciousness receives very little attention from the scientific community. Most of us believe in consciousness because most of us believe we are conscious. But try to pin it down or tell me where to pin it. Consciousness is elusive despite seeming to be almost everywhere. Science side-steps it because they just don’t know how to test or duplicate it. Science does not play well with the ineffable.
Scientist and author Dr. Robert Lanza theorizes that death only seems to exist because we identify so closely with the physical body. Because humans are bio-centric, we fail to apprehend that other states of being may exist without our physical bodies. How does one test for that?
A man risking his life by running into a burning building to rescue others is counter-intuitive and irrational. It happens rarely enough to be unpredictable, but everyone knows it happens. Is it miraculous? To the person saved it would be.
Near death experiences are rare and so are ignored by science. Yet they exist. A friend of mine, Ray, describes how he died on the operating table and then watched from afar as the doctors tried to revive him. He realized his wife needed him and so he needed to return. He still tells his story.
The floods in Houston after Hurricane Harvey did not bring the predicted inter-racial blood bath, chaos and anarchy. Contrary to expectations, people instead acted on their best instincts to help one another.
News coverage of the Houston floods evaporated when common humanity appeared. Faith-based organizations converged on Houston to assist those who had lost everything. Atheists, predictably, stayed away in droves.
Many species have virgin births. Science confirms this. A human having a virgin birth would be extremely rare but not scientifically impossible. There is only one account of it ever happening.
One thing about the miracle of Christmas, regardless that you accept the virgin birth, Mary risked her life for her child. Life in those days was cheap but at risk of her own life she protected her baby and herself from death on many fronts. King Herod, fearing his replacement, sought to kill all babies under two years old. Unmarried sex (adultery) was a capital crime then. Mary was a single mother, and homeless. Rather than claiming victim-hood, or aborting him, she gave him birth and nurtured him.
By today’s enlightened and evolved standards, so many options now exist to avoid that dire fate. The ACLU and Planned Parenthood would eagerly offer support. What homeless, single mother these days, would intentionally bear a child under threat of death? It would be completely irrational.
Who would predict Mary, or Jesus?
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Can drugs become toxic when exposed to light?
TCCM November 11, 2016
Filed under Chemistry Pharmacy Science TCCM
Author: Neus Aguilera-Porta is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Medicines are a mixture of pharmaceutically active molecules with excipients, designed with the aim of healing, relieving the pain with as minimal side effects as possible. Having this in mind, could the properties of a molecule be modified when absorbing a light photon? Could then these drugs lose their potency as a pharmaceutical compound?
The photostability of a therapeutic compound is a must in order to ensure that its properties will not be modified over its lifetime, from formulation and manufacture through its active life cycle, including handling, packaging, and dispensation. As the absorption of an UV-visible light photon is energetically comparable to the bond energy in an organic compound its absorption could induce undesirable changes in the active principle structure. Thus, it is crucial to investigate the photophysics and the photoreactive paths activated upon photon absorption to monitor the potency of pharmaceutical compounds and to identify potential side products of photochemical origin 1.
Firsts attempts to predict photostability and phototoxicity of drugs and pharmaceutical excipients were based on the calculation of the frontier orbitals HOMO-LUMO energy gap are available. However, their predictive power is limited and therefore they are sometimes complemented with indicators of light absorption intensity, i.e. the molar extinction coefficient, ε.2
Molecular modelling offers a broad spectrum of tools that can potentially result very useful to the pharmaceutical industry in the prediction of the photophysical and photochemical intrinsic behaviour of drugs upon light absorption and thus to serve as a first step towards a better assessment of its quality and safety.
This Jablonski diagram in Figure 1 schematically summarizes all the possible photophysical processes which are likely to occur in a molecule after the absorption of an UV-visible light photon leading eventually to its deactivation. The absorption of a light photon may bring the molecule from the electronic ground to an excited state in the Franck-Condon (FC) region. The lowest lying electronic excited states are the result of promoting a valence electron from an occupied to an unoccupied orbital.
Figure 1. Jablonski diagram illustrating the photophysical deactivation processes in a molecule upon UV-Visible light absorption. Singlet Excited states (S0, S1, S2) and Triplet Excited state (T1) with several vibrational energy levels. Internal Conversion (IC), Vibrational Relaxation (VR) and Inter-System Crossing (ISC).
Let’s say that by absorbing a light photon of the appropriate energy, the molecule is excited from the ground state configuration (S0) to the second excited state (S2). This energetic state, S2, could decay back to the ground state via different competing photophysical processes.
For instance, the system could undergo an initial radiationless deactivation via a vibrational relaxation (VR1) to decay to the lowest vibrational state of S2 and an internal conversion (IC) through conical intersection (CI 2) to populate the first excited state. The S1 can then further decay back to the ground state following different radiative or non-radiative photophysical processes respectively, such as fluorescence (radiative) or IC through conical intersection (CI 4).
However, it might occur that the singlet and the triplet surfaces cross each other at an intersystem crossing point (ISC), depicted as ISC 6 in Figure 1, allowing the transfer of population to the triplet state. From this lower triplet, the excited system could either decay to the ground state radiatively, via phosphorescence, or otherwise radiationless, via the ISC 8 funnel.
Besides the above mentioned photophysical processes, there are other photochemical processes which might also occur and which are not represented in the Jablonski diagram. If the excited states would live for enough time, they could evolve to other species or alternatively could react with other molecules from the environment leading to the formation of photoproducts.
Leaving aside, the photochemical reactions that could compete with the photophysical processes, exploring the potential energy surface (PES) of drugs with computational approaches could result very useful to map the possible relaxation pathways of photo-excited drugs. However, PES are extremely complex mathematical objects, with a high dimensionality, 3N-6 or 3N-5, where N is the number of atoms in the molecule. This complexity transfers us from the previous Jablonski one-dimensional “staircase” scheme, to an entangled landscape comparable to Escher’s “Relativity” lithography.
To simplify this task a common practice is to perform minimum energy path calculations starting from the FC region, transition states, or singlet-singlet and singlet-triplet crossing points to constrain the study of regions of the PES which are energetically relevant. These calculations often result in 2D or 3D simplified profiles, where the potential energy is represented against one global coordinate or few relevant degrees of freedom to the deactivation mechanism.
Among all possible competing deactivation processes, the most probable(s) can be determined undertaking molecular dynamics simulations that statistically estimates the probabilities of the different deactivation mechanisms.
Figure 2.- Analogy between the pinball board game and a computational approach to study the deactivation mechanism of a photo-excited compound // game targets. A: Stationary and crossing points distribution. B: MEPs connecting critical points. C: Possible decay mechanisms as predicted by dynamical approaches.
In order to better illustrate this combined static and dynamic protocol, in the following we will establish an analogy with the pin ball board game. Let’s consider the geometrical targets, in Figure 2, to be the stationary and crossing points in a PES (A), localized with static quantum chemical methods. The MEPs would be defined by the imaginary lines connecting these targets (B). The most probable deactivation pathways would be determined after launching a set of balls in the game and statistically stablishing which are the preferred paths followed to decay back to the ground state (C).
The insight provided by molecular modelling into the photophysical and photochemical properties of compounds can be profited to assist in the design of drugs with controlled side effects. Unfortunately, these calculations cannot be directly transferred to industry due to their high cost. So there is urgent need to find other indicators that could help anticipating the photophysical properties of drugs, and thus to develop current phototoxicity models to predict the inherent photosensitive properties of active principles.
Aknowledgements
This project was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Curie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement (Nº 642294).
The computations were performed with the resources provided by Centro de Computación Científica at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (CCC-UAM).
Tønnesen H.H, Photostability of Drugs and Drug Formulations, New York: CRC Press, 2004. ↩
Peukert S, Nunez J, He F, Dai M, Yusuff N, DiPesa A, Miller-Moslin K, Karki R, Lagu B, Harwell C, Zhang Y. MedChemComm. 2011;2(10):973-6 ↩
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Pension & Benefits News District Court OKs use of “Segal Blend” discount rate to determine liability
District Court OKs use of “Segal Blend” discount rate to determine liability
By Pension and Benefits Editorial Staff
A pension fund actuary did not violate ERISA by using the “Segal Blend” discount rate to determine that an employer owed about $2.55 million in withdrawal liability to a multiemployer defined benefit plan, the U.S. District Court for New Jersey has ruled. The court also held that under ERISA a pension plan’s actuary need not use identical actuarial assumptions to calculate the plan’s satisfaction of minimum funding requirements and its unfunded vested benefits (UVBs) for withdrawal liability.
Calculating liability. An employer completely withdrew from a multiemployer defined benefit pension plan. An actuary from the Segal Company calculated the minimum funding level of the plan and the employer’s withdrawal liability using two different discount rates. To calculate minimum required funding for the pension fund, the actuary used a funding discount rate of 7.5%. Based on the 7.5% funding rate, Segal reported that the fund was “fully-funded.”
To calculate the fund’s UVB at the time of the employer’s withdrawal, the actuary used a different discount rate, the Segal Blend. It represents a blend of interest rates, including rates prescribed by the PBGC and the 7.5% funding rate. Using the Segal Blend, the actuary determined the fund’s UVB to be nearly $32 million, of which $2.55 million was allocated to the withdrawing employer.
If the 7.5% funding rate had been used to value the pension fund’s withdrawal liability, all agreed the withdrawing employer’s liability would be $0. So, pursuant to ERISA Sec. 4221, the employer initiated arbitration proceedings to dispute the fund’s liability computation. The arbitrator found for the pension fund and the employer filed suit in federal district court.
Under ERISA Sec. 4221(a)(3)(B)(i)-(iii), to challenge the determination of a plan’s unfunded vested benefits, an employer must show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the actuarial assumptions used were “in the aggregate, unreasonable (taking into account the experience of the plan and reasonable expectations)” or that the actuary made a significant error when applying the assumptions.
Use of different rates. The court first concluded that ERISA does not preclude the use of different rates to determine minimum funding and withdrawal liability. Contrary to the employer’s assertion, neither ERISA nor the Supreme Court’s ruling in Concrete Pipe & Prod. Of Cal., Inc. v. Constr. Laborers Pension Tr. For S. Cal, 508 U.S. 602 (1993), impose a per se ban on the use of different actuarial assumptions for purposes of funding and withdrawal liability. Limiting language used in the sections of ERISA discussing withdrawal liability and minimum funding suggest that Congress viewed minimum funding and withdrawal liability as distinct calculations warranting the use of different assumptions by actuaries.
Use of Segal Blend. The court also found that the arbitrator did not clearly err in finding that the employer failed to meet its burden to rebut the reasonableness of the actuary’s approach. The arbitrator did not have to accept the “risk transfer” and “settlement models” of withdrawal liability underpinning the Segal Blend, and a different arbitrator could have decided the case differently. However, the testimony of the actuaries, their depositions and a written report provided a sufficient basis for the arbitrator to find that there was a good faith application of reasonable actuarial assumptions and practices.
Note: In March 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York also ruled that the use of different interest rates in different contexts is not prohibited as a matter of law by ERISA or Concrete Pipe. In that instance, however, the court concluded that the Segal Blend was not the appropriate method for determining withdrawal liability (N.Y.Times Co. v. Newspaper & Mail Deliverers’-Publishers’ Pension Fund, 2018 WL 1517201 (S.D.N.Y. 2018).
Source: Manhattan Ford Lincoln v. UAW Local 259 Pension Fund (DC NJ).
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Circular No. 329/2000/TT-BGTVT of the Ministry of Transport guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No.171/1999/ND-CP detailing the implementation of the Ordinance on the protection
Decision the 289/2000 / QD-NHNN7 amend Clause 1, Article 2 of Decision 65/1999 / QD-NHNN7 Governor State Bank issued
Circular No. 09/2000/TT-NHNN3 of the State Bank of Vietnam guiding the implementation of the Government’s Decree No. 20/2000/ND-CP of June 15, 2000 on sanctioning administrative violations in the monetary field and banking operations
Circular No. 86/2000/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance guiding the implementation of the financial support and tax preference policies for the development of key industrial products under the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 37/2000/QD-TTg
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The acoustics of social media
Margetts, H. (2017). Political behaviour and the acoustics of social media. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(4), s41562-017.
I’ve tended towards acoustic metaphors when making sense of social media since finding inspiration in a remark by David Beer about the challenge of being heard above the din on social media. These platforms are cacophonous, as many voices struggle for attention in forums which have been structured hierarchically around visibility and popularity. So this paper’s focus on acoustics immediately drew my attention. Margetts notes that “around 128 million people across the United States generated 8.8 billion likes, posts, comments and shares related to the election on Facebook alone” and “US Twitter users can even witness the development of policy as it is formed or contested, given the new president’s enthusiasm for this media platform”. Not only is there much material than ever to encounter, much of it is social information about what other people are thinking and doing. Much of this has obvious political ramifications, with the internal architecture of platforms shaping the flow of social information around networks:
On any screen we can see in real time how many other people, or how many of our friends, have liked, shared, viewed or searched for an item, and can often gauge which items are becoming popular (‘trending’) or how close a campaign or fund-raising initiative is to meeting a target.
This social information includes ‘signals of viability’ in which incipient mobilisations gather steam (or fail to) based on how widespread their potential support is seen to be. Claims about echo chambers and filter bubbles are fundamentally theories about social information circulating in closed circuits, such that “inhabitants of these ideologically narrow environments are vulnerable to distorted versions of events or fake news, which bounce around the chamber and become regarded as the truth”. In this sense, argues Margetts, the acoustics of social media are held to be responsible for political populism, as it is claimed that echo chamber effects drive polarisation by dragging people to ever more extreme positions on either side of a dichotomy.
However these claims need to be carefully considered. The fact that “our digital networks are so much larger and more heterogeneous than anything we’ve had before” means that one could easily argue the real echo chamber would be someone who reads the same daily newspaper, without exposure to any other sources of social information. Are digital echo chambers just reproducing those which already existed offline, in a way driven by homophily effects which predate social media? A range of studies have suggested the heterogeneity of online networks means that users receive news from more sources than non-users, with deliberate choice playing more of a role than algorithms in shutting down information flow.
As Margetts puts it, this “highlights the wide spectrum between a sealed echo chamber and random news content, just as similar buildings can vary widely in their acoustic effects”. There is great potential in experimental methods for investigating these issues, with every platform other than Twitter being closed to researchers unless they can secure the explicit cooperation of the firm. This has contributed to a situation in which “Speculation over the existence of echo chambers, and their interaction with other pathologies of social media such as fake news, vastly outpaces any experimental studies of their existence”.
This is a huge problem because many of the pressing issues of our time would require access to such data. The link between social science and social problems risks being broken by the opacity of corporate platforms. Margetts ends with by reflection on the “need for institutional catch-up” when social media is barely a decade old.
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This is Not a Werewolf Story
By Sandra Evans
This Middle Grade Fantasy is perfect for Halloween! Full of fun and mystery, and set at a boarding school where everything isn’t quite as it seems. Read the excerpt and enter the giveaway below…
Middle Grade Fantasy
Hardcover & ebook, 352 pages
July 26th 2016 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
This is the story of Raul, a boy of few words, fewer friends, and almost no family. He is a loner—but he isn’t lonely. All week long he looks after the younger boys at One Of Our Kind Boarding School while dodging the barbs of terrible Tuffman, the jerk of a gym teacher.
Like every other kid in the world, he longs for Fridays, but not for the usual reasons. As soon as the other students go home for the weekend, Raul makes his way to a lighthouse deep in the heart of the woods. There he waits for sunset—and the mysterious, marvelous phenomenon that allows him to go home, too. But the woods have secrets . . . and so does Raul. When a new kid arrives at school, they may not stay secret for long.
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New kid. New kid. The words fly around the showers and sinks. I can almost see them, flying up like chickadees startled from the holly tree in the woods.
All the boys are in the big bathroom on the second floor, washing up before breakfast. The littlest kids stand on tiptoe to peek out the windows that look onto the circle driveway.
I pick Sparrow up and hold him so he can see. He’s the littlest of the littles but the kid is dense–like a ton of bricks.
I can’t believe my eyes. No kid has ever come to the school on the back of a Harley. Not in all the years I’ve been here, and I’ve been here longer than anyone. The driver spins the back wheel and a bunch of gravel flies up.
The new kid is holding onto the waist of the driver. He must have a pretty good grip because the driver looks over his shoulder and tries to peel the kid’s fingers away one by one. Then the driver takes off his helmet. We all gasp, because it turns out the driver is a lady with long straight black hair.
Next to me Mean Jack whistles. “What a doll!”
Mean Jack thinks he’s a mobster. A made man, that’s what he calls himself. I call him a numbskull, but not out loud.
Sandra Evans is a writer and teacher from the Pacific Northwest. Her forthcoming middle grade novel, This is Not a Werewolf Story (Simon & Schuster July 2016), was inspired by her favorite 12th century French tale, Bisclavret, by Marie de France. Born in Washington state, Sandra spent her childhood on U.S. Navy bases from Florida to Hawaii, and returned to the Northwest as a teenager. Since then, she has lived and traveled in France and Europe, but has never strayed far for long from the Puget Sound region.
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Publication Date: November 29, 2016
Genres: Adult, New Adult, Mystery, Thriller, YA, Suspense
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Synopsis: How do you live with yourself when you don’t even know who you are?
On a chill October night, a girl goes missing setting the small town of Oakridge on edge. James has spent the last five years running from a past that still haunts him to this day. Now he finds himself thrust back into a life he thought he left behind. Finding out his new home may be haunted and reconnecting with an old friend while being thrust into a murder mystery, James finds himself trying to figure out which end is up while questioning his own sanity.
**AUTHOR’S NOTE** Buried Secrets is a New Adult, mystery thriller with very little romance but heavy on the suspense.
Blackness surrounded him, its endless pools of ink swallowing him whole. He couldn’t see his hand in front of his face, but he felt the terror seeping through his skin, past his bones and making its way down to his very soul.
James knew he was in the throes of one of his nightmares again. He could never make out a thing, just knew the feeling it left him with.
He tried to make himself wake up, but couldn’t find his way out. The feeling that someone was coming for him caused panic to swell and his heart to accelerate, threatening to break free from his chest.
Not knowing what was coming, fear lacerating his insides, James started to run blindly. In his bed, his feet kicked out wildly, tangling in the linens and ratcheting up his terror, because to James, he was trapped.
His breathing labored and coming in short, sharp bursts, James cried out at the same time his body bolted upright in the bed. Sweat beaded on his brow and dampened his skin, his clothes suctioned to his body uncomfortably. He was clammy and winded, shaken, but he already felt better for knowing he was free from that awful feeling of suffocating terror that had threatened to overtake him just moments ago.
Scrubbing his hands down his face, James breathed deeply, hanging his head to his chest while his body calmed. As his adrenalin levels normalized, and he began to feel more like himself, James gave a final sigh of relief. Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he was readying himself to try to go back to sleep when he looked up and choked on his breath.
His entire body went rigid in an instant. His breathing, his heartbeat. Everything ceased to work. In the next instant James threw himself back against his headboard, fear gripping him once again.
He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He would chance rubbing his eyes to be sure his vision was true, only he was too frightened of what he would find once he opened them again.
ABOUT J.C. VALENTINE
J.C. Valentine is the USA Today and International bestselling author of the Night Calls and Wayward Fighters Series and the Forbidden Series. Her vivid imagination and love of words and romance had her penning her own romance stories from an early age, which, despite being poorly edited and written longhand, she forced friends and family members to read. No, she isn’t sorry.
J.C. earned her own happily ever after when she married her high school sweetheart. Living in the Northwest, they have three amazing children and far too many pets and spend much of their free time together enjoying movies or the outdoors. Among the many hats she wears, J.C. is an entrepreneur. Having graduated with honors, she holds a Bachelor’s in English and when she isn’t writing, you can find her editing for fellow authors.
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The Ever Fiend
by Randy Ellefson
Only a fool steals from a wizard.
Talon Stormbringer thought he knew the risk of stealing from Viland Shadowbreaker – until he got caught. The wizard will spare him if Talon performs a service – fetch the deadly silver elixir from the Everway, a supernatural land that Talon assumed wasn’t real. Only children believe the stories about what lies within – lost souls, corrupted magic items, and mysterious destinations that most people never escape. Ruling over it all is the Ever Fiend, a bogeyman that people use to scare unruly youngsters into behaving.
Talon agrees to go, if only to stop Viland from doing something unholy with the potent elixir once retrieved. Joining him are a band of people he can’t trust. Their leader, a sorelia with nefarious plans of his own. The sorelia’s battle-trained mynx, a large cat who obeys only its master. An alluring swordswoman who wants to enchant her blades with the elixir. A cocky guard whose bravado might prove more liability than asset. A warrior kryll whose curiosity about the elixir might cost him more than his life. And a tortured Knight of Coiryn who seeks redemption in a place where most are damned. Of all the things they might discover on their journey, one is the most obvious and yet the hardest to learn…
Excerpt One:
While most in Talendor slumbered, Talon Stormbringer crept through a hallway dark with flickering shadows, his human ears and eyes alert. He’d already slipped undetected past a jhaikan and a mynx, undeterred by their ferocity and taste for man-flesh. Even the dozen sleeping riven in the courtyard hadn’t given him pause, when even fully armored knights would have turned away. The little monsters were infamous for stirring at the slightest sound and waking to become like a whirling dervish of steel, not unlike what Talon himself could unleash from the sword he gripped in one hand.
Now he heard nothing, not even his own passage, the supple black leather pants and tunic he wore never squeaking as he crept toward the doorway and his prize—the gold figurine of a great bird of prey, said to be magical and worth a fortune. Stories in taverns had piqued his interest but also warned him of the dangers, the greatest of those being the wizard whose white tower he now prowled. Some said Viland Shadowbreaker enjoyed unsavory habits when few were looking, his public persona of benevolent charm masking a dark truth. But men with great secrets often hide things of greater importance than their private sins.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Randy Ellefson has written fantasy fiction since his teens and is an avid world builder, having spent three decades creating Llurien, which has its own website. He has a Bachelor’s of Music in classical guitar but has always been more of a rocker, having released several albums and earned endorsements from music companies. He’s a professional software developer and runs a consulting firm in the Washington D.C. suburbs. He’s married and loves spending time with his son and daughter when not writing, making music, or playing golf.
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Excerpt from Sinners & Saints: A Patriot’s Manifesto by Kristina Garlick w/a rafflecopter giveaway! @KristinaGarlick
Sinners & Saints : A Patriot’s Manifesto
by Kristina Garlick
GENRE: YA Fantasy
My name is Zoey Major and I live in Fort Star, New Jersey. I am also a survivor in the zombie apocalypse. Seems very cut and dry but I have been hiding something- like really huge. My secret is game changing. I am not like the others… I know, what a surprise twist! Unfortunately, I can’t tell you why I am different. If you really want to know, you have to figure it out. Hey, even in these dark times, a girl needs her secrets.
Excerpt Three:
Eventually, I found my way into the Oval Office. The famous Resolute Desk was there and luckily not a scratch on it. I approach the desk, touching it almost gingerly for fear of even a chance of marring its beauty. Next, I pick up the chair that laid on the floor next to the desk and I brush it off. I sat down at the desk and for a moment I thought everything would be okay. Then I saw a zombie walk pass the doorway. I began shouting and cursing at the damn zombie but it doesn’t hear me.
In utter despair, I began to cleaning the Oval Office. I hated to see it in such disrepair and besides I had no place to go or anything to do. I was a castaway person looking for a world that no longer existed. When I picked up the slightly torn and dirty American flag off of the floor I began to cry. Like a security blanket, I wrap the flag around me. Feeling like I truly had hit rock bottom, I collapse on the floor in front of the Resolute Desk. If a miracle was going to happen, I needed it to occur now.
Suddenly, I hear rapid gun fire coming from somewhere outside of the office. Or maybe it wasn’t that sudden and I had just lost track of time. Somehow I snapped out of my PTSD type fog and realized I needed to hide in case whoever was coming my way was not friendly. Plus, while I was immune to zombie sight and sound, I was pretty sure I could still die by a bullet.
Kristina Garlick lives in Warren County, New Jersey. She holds a Masters in Parks & Resource Management from Slippery Rock University. While she loves the outdoors and has many hobbies such as soap making, writing has always been her passion. Kristina wrote her first full length fantasy story at ten and had her first book published when she was fourteen. She has a unique style of writing, which she calls Diary-Play format. Kristina is also available for book signings, panels, discussion groups and other special functions.
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Website: http://www.kristinagarlick.com (Where you can buy Kristina’s Books)
Email: authorkristinagarlick@yahoo.com
Twitter: @KristinaGarlick
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Excerpt from Emma G. Loves Boyz: a True Love Journal (Volume 1) by Taro Meyer w/a rafflecopter giveaway!
Emma G. Loves Boyz: A True Love Journal
by Taro Meyer
GENRE: YA/Middle Grade
Emma G. is CRAZY about Aaron, lead singer of Boyz3000. Of course, she doesn’t actually know him, but so what? Feelings are feelings. That is until Josh appears… and he’s soooooo CUTE. Navigating her two crushes and her middle school life, especially with eighth-grade hater Renee around, is a challenge. And oh yeah, she’s got to earn money for an AWESOME trip to the Bahamas to see the band of her dreams. Hello???? How much can one thirteen-year-old take???
“Boyz3000 will be where?”
“AT THE HOTEL IN THE BAHAMAS WHERE I AM GOING!!!!” she screamed into my ear. “THEY’RE DOING A CONCERT!!”
“OH MY GOD!!!” I screamed back. I nearly fell off my chair. “That is so awesome!”
“I know, but wait! My parents said I could take a friend, and I want to take you!”
“Me?” I gasped. “You want to take me? To see Boyz3000 in their concert?”
“Yes, because we both love them and you’re my best friend and…”
Jenny kept talking, but I was so excited I didn’t hear anything else until she said, “We are leaving next Saturday for the weekend.”
“THIS SATURDAY???”
“No! Next Saturday! The one after this weekend! My parents will pay for the hotel and all. You’ll share my room. You just need to pay for your plane ticket.”
“Uh-oh,” I said. “How much does that cost?”
“It’s on a special deal; it’s a hundred and fifty dollars.”
“Oh. That’s a lot of money. I don’t know if they’ll pay that.”
“I know it’s a lot, but they have to.”
“But what if they don’t?”
Jenny thought for a minute. “Tell them you’ll die if you don’t go.”
“That kind of thing doesn’t work with my parents.”
“Well, think of something! ANYTHING!!!” she shrieked. “My dad is trying to get us backstage passes for the Meet and Greet!!!”
“WHAT?” I gasped. “THE MEET AND GREET???”
“Yes!!!” Jenny squealed. “We’ll be able to meet them IN PERSON, and probably talk to them too because my dad works in TV and…”
She was still talking but I didn’t hear anything else. Oh my God!!! Oh my God!!! My heart totally stopped beating at that very moment…
Taro Meyer is a Grammy, Parents’ Choice, and Audie Award winning Audio Producer who has been producing and directing YA audiobooks for over 20 years, including The Princess Diaries Series starring Anne Hathaway, the All American Girl Series starring Ari Meyers, The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisngr) and Judy Blume’s The Pain and the Great One, Here’s to You Rachel Robinson and Tiger Eyes among others.
She co-produced two touring companies of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s smash rock show Christmas Eve and Other Stories and their TV special The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, receiving Gold and Platinum Albums for her work with the team. She was associate producer of the award winning anti-bullying movie, “The Contest,” and co-produced the premier showcase of off-Broadway’s Little Willie.
As an actress and singer, she starred on Broadway in the musical Zorba, in numerous regional and off-Broadway shows, and on TV’s All My Children, Another World (for which she also composed music) and the mini-series Memories of Midnight, amongst others.
Meyer wrote and produced the upcoming children’s album: Mighty Musical Fairy Tales, starring international artist Patti Austin; an updated, joyous musical version of Classic Fairy tales, accompanied by an illustrated book, The Ugly Duckling.
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Intuit's TurboTax popularity is eroding as filers seek out alternatives
3 months ago by Joshua Fruhlinger in Features, Trends
It is estimated that 50 million Americans will file their taxes today, the final day before late fees and penalties begin kicking in. Many will be using Intuit's ($NASDAQ:INTU) TurboTax, the country's most-popular (and oldest) computer-based filing software. Since its inception in the 80s, TurboTax's popularity grew as Americans became more comfortable with computers.
And, for years, TurboTax was the only game in town: competitors were scarce and TurboTax had a massive lead in terms of brand trust and user experience.
But competitors like H&R Block ($NYSE:HRB), TaxAct ($NASDAQ:BCOR), and TaxSlayer ($TAXSLAYERLLC-2) are catching up as customers look for less-expensive, simpler options. This is revealed in social and traffic data that shows a fading popularity for Intuit's TurboTax along with growing interest in rival brands.
Facebook mentions on the decline
One thing is certain today: millions of Facebook users will be updating their statuses upon finally filing their taxes. Indeed, mentions of TurboTax historically spike in the new year and into April as Facebook users celebrate or complain their refunds and tax bills, respectively.
But a troubling trend (at least for Intuit) is revealed in the Facebook mentions data over time: mention spikes have declined over the years during tax season.
2017's tax season saw a high of 120,000 Facebook mentions; 2018 saw 63,000, just more than half of that; 2019 resulted in even less: 47,000 mentions on Facebook. This rate of decline can't be good for a brand that relies on word of mouth and positive consumer sentiment.
Web traffic trends on the decline
Data interpolated from Alexa.com, Amazon's universally-accepted web-traffic rating platform, shows a similar decline in traffic spikes for turbotax.com, the web-based front-end for the tax-filing software.
Traffic spikes in users and pageviews his their apex in the 103 tax season, with notable swells in February (likely when people begin filing their returns) and April 14 (the last day to file). But since 2014, those traffic spikes have decreased over time (although 2018's numbers appeared to be a slight increased over those of 2017).
Silver lining: social media followers remains healthy
Both Facebook and Twitter followers for TurboTax have been on the rise, with notable accelerations during tax season since 2017. That's a good sign for Intuit, as it shows that consumer interest in the brand remains strong, and that any dilution in the space due to competition hasn't quite undermined interest.
More silver lining: positive software reviews
TurboTax is, at the end of the day, a software product. It's also now a mobile product — users can file their taxes completely via smartphone or tablet. It's good news for Intuit, then, that its app scores favorably on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, garnering a 4.5 and 4.2 out of 5.0, respectively.
Enter the competition
Now for some more bad news: as more consumers turn to their computers and smartphones to file their taxes digitally, they're also looking for alternatives to TurboTax. TurboTax's largest competitor is, by most accounts, H&R Block.
H&R Block saw a good number of mentions on Facebook during the 2016 tax season. 2017 and 2018 weren't as good for the brand, but 2019 looks to be a return to form for the company that has typically traded in brick-and-mortar, in-person tax filing services. It seems it may have finally figured out its digital presence and could be stealing some of TurboTax's thunder (and dollars) this season.
TaxAct is a relative late-comer to the tax-preparation industry. Founded in 1998, it's now a subsidiary of search-engine powerhouse Blucora. Since 2017, TaxAct has done respectably, but 2019 is already looking like its best year yet. The brand broke 50,000 Facebook mentions in January 2019 in a sign that users are giving it a serious look this tax season.
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Sycamore cuts Chico's bid - our data found falling engagement online
2 months ago by Jon Marino in News, Trends
Sycamore Partners cut its offer to buy out Florida-based women's retailer Chico's ($NYSE:CHS).
Typically when a private equity firm like Sycamore shows up with an LBO offer for a retailer like Chico's and is rejected - which is what happened when Sycamore offered $4.30 per share to buy the company out - it usually returns with more cash, not less. Not the case this time. Sycamore reduced its offer by more than 18%, for a company that announced its CEO and President would step down last month. Chico's made the announcement of the lower offer May 10, without saying when the initial bid was made.
Sycamore Partners co-founder Stefan Kaluzny has made a career - and an entire LBO shop - out of being able to identify a bargain in the consumer and retail space and Chico's shares have slumped more than 30% in 2019. If Chico's cannot identify new management, or a new plan, quickly, investors may begin to warm to the company being bought out completely.
Online Attention Sagging
Our data shows less visitors are heading to Chico's website. At a time when other retailers are pulling product from underperforming distributors and working to sell more online, the reduction in both physical footprint for Chico's, combined with falling online interest, is a sign of difficulty.
Where's the Love (Or, the Likes?)
Social engagement for each of Chico's brands (Chico's, and affiliates Soma Intimates and White House Black Market) is starting to plateau. Facebook ($NYSE:FB) data we analyzed shows that for Chico's in particular, its ability to garner likes on social media is flat so far this year. Similarly, our data tracks Talking About Count - or the online chatter generated by an individual brand. Again, for Chico's, our data is reflecting a drop-off in social engagement compared to prior years like 2017.
Shrinking Footprint
From its 2018 Form 10-K to its 2019 annual report, Chico's revealed the total number of stores it operates fell. Now, as part of the plan to reverse its stock's trajectory, the company will shutter about 200 more stores. From October 2017 until recently, Chico's already eliminated more than 20% of its stores, our data shows. Between reduced visibility in an increasingly competitive online marketplace, and its shrinking brick-and-mortar presence, it is unclear how Chico's will resurrect revenue growth. Perhaps a new CEO - either one put in by the shareholders, or one appointed by Stefan Kaluzny - will have that answer.
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Military and militias threaten Sudan sit-ins as civil disobedience escalates
menasolidaritynetwork / May 17, 2019
A day after announcing agreement on key elements of a deal to hand power over to a civilian government led by the opposition Freedom and Change Forces, Sudan’s Transitional Military Council abruptly suspended negotiations and sent soldiers to clear barricades in the capital by force. According to international news agencies, military units used gunfire “extensively” on Wednesday 15 May as they attempted to clear protesters from the streets around the major sit-in outside the army’s General Command.
Wednesday’s attack by the army followed a major assault on the sit-in on Monday 13 May which Sudan Doctors’ Union representatives say was led by militias connected with the El-Bashir regime’s supporters in the People’s Congress Party and the National Intelligence and Security Service, Sudan’s feared and brual political police. According to information received by Middle East Solidarity from the Sudan Doctors’ Union, the attackers used live ammunition from guns, rifles and machine guns, tear gas and metal bars. At least 6 people were killed, including an army officer, and the ‘field hospitals’ in the sit-in were quickly overwhelmed by injured protesters.
The Army leadership eventually sent paratroopers to defend the sit-in on Monday. But the deployment of troops on Wednesday to clear barricades outside an agreed protest zone, along with previous attacks on sit-ins in Darfur, sends an ominous message about the continued power of Sudan’s numerous military and security forces and their capacity for violence against unarmed protesters.
Despite the threat, thousands of protesters were reported to have joined the sit-ins overnight, as opposition groups and the Sudanese Professionals Association rejected the military’s demand to remove barricades. Meanwhile, sit-ins, strikes and civil disobedience continue to multiply. Workers at the Bank of Khartoum were one group which answered the SPA’s call to escalate collective action, shutting down the bank in a strike which shut down 30 branches, according to reports on social media. Workers at ten other banks took part in demonstrations in solidarity with uprising and threatened to escalate to strike action. Sudanese activists told Middle East Solidarity strikes and sit ins were spreading to government ministries, such as the ministry of health.
Rush messages of support for the uprising’s demands for civilian rule, real democracy and social justice to info@sudaneseprofessionals.org
Pass a resolution in your trade union branch
Demand your government breaks all links with the Sudanese military, security forces and individuals and groups involved with attacks on protesters and human rights violations.
May 17, 2019 in Sudan.
Briefing: Who are the armed men who threaten Sudan’s peaceful revolution?
Photo-story: International protests condemn massacres in Sudan
“The general strike can force the regime to go”: Sudanese trade unionists speak out as killings continue
← Algeria and Sudan: workers’ action at the heart of the revolutions
Trade unionists, MPs and campaigners launch international call for solidarity with uprisings in Algeria and Sudan →
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