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Flecking Records
Twelve tours to top off 2016
I think we can safely say that summer festival season is well and truly over, but all is not lost. Pack away your tents, cast aside your muddy wellies and get ready for tour season.
We’ve compiled a list of twelve tours you should by tickets for before the year is out, and with something for everyone (from Bieber to Bon Iver) you’re sure to beat the winter blues with this lot.
Steel Panther, Bowling For Soup – October – November 2016
In what is set to be one of the most hilarious tours to date, Steel Panther have teamed up with Flecking favourites Bowling For Soup for an arena tour. You can expect spandex, big hair, great music, lots of laughs and just general R-rated good times. With Steel Panther’s glam-rock gold and all the nostalgic feels Bowling For Soup stir up in us with their perfected brand of pop punk, we know we’re in for a good night.
Get tickets here.
Bon Iver – October – February 2017
The Urban Legend of Bon Iver’s first album is a tale like something from a Zach Braff indie movie, and since day one they have been captivating audiences around the globe. Bon Iver are back on stage this October and they’re not to be missed – trust us! There is a big appetite for their third album and we can’t wait to hear it.
Justin Bieber – October – November 2016
One minute Justin Bieber is this fresh-faced little kid, universally hated by everyone who wasn’t a 15 year old girl, now, suddenly he’s a mega-star who almost always has a handful of his songs in the UK Top 40. Bieber made the leap from poppy to popular by collaborating with some of the coolest kids in music, like Skrillex and Major Lazer – proof that who you hang out with can really make or break you (no offence, Usher). Buy tickets for his UK tour and remember to bring enough mash for all the bangers.
Christine and the Queens – October – November 2016
Héloïse Letissier, better know by her stage name Christine and the Queens, is about to embark on a UK tour and we couldn’t be more excited. Inspired by the work of local drag queen musicians in London, Letissier adopted “The Queens” as her backing band. Check out her unique brand of “freakpop” in what is sure to be a both musically and visually spectacular live show.
Bring The Horizon – October – November 2016
Yorkshire lads Bring Me The Horizon have been on our radar for a while now (ten years! But that makes us sound so old…), and they’re still putting out great music. Touring their epic 2015 album ‘That’s The Spirit’, BMTH will be supported by fellow Brit-rockers Don Broco – so brace yourselves for one of the loudest arena tours of the year.
Tom Odell – October – November 2016
He’s back. ‘Wrong Crowd’ came out back in June and it sounds great. It’s like Tom but it’s more and it’s different. FYI, it’s the difference we like to see, his music has progressed but it’s still unique and still recognisably Tom’s own sound. It’ll be interesting to see how the new material translates to live performances and we can’t wait to find out with ‘Magnetised’ being one we’ll be looking out for.
Wild Beasts – September – November 2016
If Marmite was a band then it would be Wild Beasts and we’d be covered in Marmite. This band almost seem to defy any genre and the bands fifth album ‘Boy King’ is certainly more of what we love. We can’t wait to hear the new tracks live later this year and you should definitely look out for them.
Daughter – October – December 2016
Daughter’s second album ‘Not to Disappear’ came out at the start of the year and soon you’ll be able to go enjoy it live. We can’t wait to go and listen to the bands new material face to face and the indie folk band look like they are still churning out memorable acoustic tunes that will mellow your brain right out of your head.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – September – February 2017
The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a band that never seem to age, both physically and musically. With possibly even more energy and talent than when they started, Anthony Kiedis and chums made a triumphant return to Reading and Leeds Festival this year, and they’ve still got more to give the UK. They’re currently touring cities across Europe but they’ll be back on our turf in December for a handful of dates – you’d be crazy to miss them.
José González – January – March 2017
It feels like José has been around a while now and despite having only three studio albums out, he has a big cult following and you’ll probably recognise some of his smooth acoustic back catalogue even if you’ve not heard of him before. He’s back performing again, this time aided by The String Theory who will be adding a beautiful classical touch to his music – going on previous experience, this is a show not to be missed!
The 1975 – October – April 2017
The 1975 are a indie-electro-alternative-pop-rock touring machine. We can’t really think of a time this band weren’t on tour since they dropped their self-titled debut album. That said, if you haven’t seen them yet, get on the link below and get yourself some tickets. If you don’t know their stuff too well then you will definitely be telling yourself ‘oh is this by them?’ quite a few times during their set. Trust us they are worth catching.
Less Than Jake – October – November 2016
It feels like Less Than Jake have been in our lives forever. They were just one of a bunch of bands who were on the soundtrack to our teenage years but they’re up there as one of the best ska bands from that time. Grab yourself a pint of cider and limber-up for an evening of skanking in the mosh pit like you’re fifteen again. The Fireball – Fuelling The Fire Tour also features Mariachi El Bronx and The Skints.
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The Black Panther
Mad Man Pondo
The Bomb Shelter
Louisville’s Greatest Show
Lord Leslie Carlton
Bluegrass Brawlers
“Dr. D” David Schultz
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Tag: john wayne murdoch
Christmas for Kool-Aid Drinkers
For IWA Mid-South fans, this is the biggest weekend of the year. It’s bigger than birthdays, weddings, even Christmas. It’s the high flying, anything can happen blood fest known as the King of the Deathmatch.
This year’s event has sixteen competitors vying for the title including the reigning Prince of the Deathmatch Nick Depp, John Wayne Murdoch, Reed Bentley, Aidan Blackhart, Ludark Shaitan, Masada, Bryant Woods, Brad Cash, Mance Warner, Rickey Shane Page, Dale Patricks, Marcus Crane, Eric Ryan, Devon Moore, G Raver, and Jeff King. Round one has already been announced, with four tantalizing match stipulations advertised:
Home Run Derby Light Tube Fence
The Great American BBQ Deathmatch
Fans Bring the Weapons
Log Cabins of Glass/Four Corner of Pain.
The violence takes place at the Flea Market off I-65 N, exit 16, in Memphis, Indiana. Bell time is 6:35 PM Saturday night, May 20. Front Row tickets are $30. General admission is $25. Tickets can be purchased via PayPal when you email BestMistyEver@gmail.com. Tell Misty I sent you.
May 19, 2017 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling aidan blackhart, brad cash, bryant woods, dale patricks, devon moore, Eric Ryan, G Raver, hardcore, ian rotten, independent, indiana, iwa mid-south, jeff king, john wayne murdoch, king of the deathmatch, Ludark Shaitan, mance warner, Marcus Crane, masada, memphis, nick depp, reed bentley, rickey shane page, wrestling
Nick Depp is Prince of the Deathmatch!
Saturday night, Nick Depp made a statement at IWA Mid-South. Before a packed, standing room only crowd in Memphis, Indiana, the young wrestler staked his place in the legendary promotion’s history by becoming the 2017 Prince of the Deathmatch.
Depp’s coronation is the result of a lot of hard work and a dream he began pursuing back in 2011. The Livermore, Kentucky native started training with the Waddell brothers in WWA.
“My first job in the wrestling business was as the ring announcer. I was horrible.” Depp’s inability to get anyone’s name right was embarrassing, but the promoters turned it into his first angle, when wrestlers came after him for the messing up their names.
Depp spent six months tagging with his friend Nick Willis as the Flight Club, winning the WWA Tag Team Championships. From there, he went on to Southern Wrestling Entertainment, where he furthered his training with veteran Cash Flo. “Cash taught me the art of selling and advanced psychology.”
In 2014 he left SWE and headed for IWA Mid-South. Depp caught the eye of Nick Maniwa and Reed Bentley, who spoke up for him and got him a shot at IWA-MS’s tryout show against Juan Hado and Alex Rudolph. The match earned Depp a roster spot and the chance to train with Ian Rotten.
“Ian completed my training,” says Depp. “It’s mind blowing how much you can learn from him. And the gift never stops giving.”
Depp competed in two previous deathmatch tournaments prior to Saturdays win: The 2015 POTDM tournament and the Kings of the Colosseum Deathmatch tournament. He’s especially proud of a 2016 Tai Pei Deathmatch he had against former IWA Mid-South Champion John Wayne Murdoch. “Axel Rotten did commentary for that match. Ian sat beside him and they watched, which I thought was pretty sick because this was their match. That moment can never happen again, and I’m so proud to be able to say that happened. Plus I beat Murdoch, and that year he went on to win King of the Deathmatch.”
I asked Depp what his goal was for 2017, now that he is deathmatch royalty. His answer was simple. “Always looking to improve, and also looking to be the best I can be.” With an attitude like that, Depp is likely to make an even greater impact on the business in the future.
Nick Depp can be booked at fakenickdepp@google.com
March 16, 2017 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling 2017, alex rudolph, cash flo, death match, ian rotten, independent, john wayne murdoch, juan hado, nick depp, nick maniwa, prince of the deathmatch, reed bentley, southern wrestling entertainment, swe, waddell brothers, wrestling, WWAOne Comment
Can’t Spell WWE without I-N-D-Y
Dear WWE and NXT Fans:
I’d like to introduce you to a few people.
This is Aaron Williams, “The Baddest Man Alive.” Aaron had a great weekend because he just won the Pro Wrestling Blitz Heavyweight Champion.
These are my pals Eric Emanon and Thomas Brewington. They had a great weekend as well. They are now the New Phoenix Gemini Tag Team Champions.
And this is the King of Dayton and proud member of Ohio Is 4 Killers, Dave Crist. Dave had a great weekend too. He pinned John Wayne Murdoch clean to become the new IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Champion.
Why am I telling you about these gentlemen? Because I want you to know them. I want you to follow them. I want you to support them.
As a WWE fan, I know you are aware just how many independent wrestlers have become part of the world’s largest wrestling promotion. A.J. Styles, Kevin Owens, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Cesaro all had stellar careers in the indies before making it to NXT and WWE. If you’re also following NXT, then you’re already following the rise of Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa, Cassius Ohno (aka Chris Hero), Ruby Riot (aka Heidi Lovelace) and the other indy “darlings” the WWE has snatched up recently.
I want you to know that the independent wrestling promotions that Gargano, Ciampa, Hero, Lovelace, and the others left behind are not dying off like the old territories the WWF killed in the 1980s. They are thriving. They are growing not only in popularity, but in quality. I want you to know this because I want you to become a fan.
Yes, it is true, the independent scene is full of green wrestlers, spot monkeys, and guys who only care about getting their s*** in, but there are many men and women and tag teams still working the independents who could easily fill any spot on the NXT or WWE roster right now.
Independent wrestling is growing. There are more promotions in more places than there have been in a generation. Your local promotion(s) may run monthly or weekly, which means you can see live wrestling far more often than you are now with the WWE.
True, the crowds and venues are smaller in the indies, but that also means tickets are more affordable, and your access to the wrestlers is greater. You’re closer to the action and at a much better price, and the heels can actually hear you when you call them names.
And here’s the best part: you don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to meet your favorite stars. The T-shirts at the gimmick tables are half of what you’ll pay at a WWE show. Everyone is happy to shake your hand and take a selfie – except maybe Mr. Darius Carter.
I’m not telling you to give up the WWE. I enjoy the Network and NXT as much as any fan. But make no mistake: the WWE and NXT would not be what they are without the INDY scene that has come to be. I’m offering you the chance to see more live wrestling. I’m asking you to give guys like Aaron, Dave, Eric, and Thomas a chance. I want you to get out there and discover other guys like Matt Riddle, Ron Mathis, The Hitman for Hire Mr. Grim, Desmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz, Gary Jay, Chip Day, Murder One, Timmy Lou Retton, Matt Cross, Michael Elgin, Menace, Facade, Jake Crist, Sami Callahan, and Jimmy Rave. I want you to discover the other ladies who fueled the “women’s revolution,” like Kelly Klein, LuFisto, Su Yung, Samantha Heights, Leva Bates (remember Blue Pants?), Mickie Knuckles, Rachel Ellering, Taeler Hendrix, Candice LeRae, Veda Scott, Mia Yim, Allisin Kay, Jessicka Havok, and Jordynne Grace. I want you to discover the amazing tag teams packing houses across the country including the Hooligans, Viking War Party, War Machine, OI4K, and the Carnies. You can even find comedy wrestlers, guys like Colt Cabana, Space Monkey, and the notorious party animal, Joey Ryan.
There’s never been a better time to get into independent wrestling than now. Search a few of these names on YouTube. Find and follow them on Facebook or Twitter. Then find a promotion running in your area. I’m not asking you to trade one for the other. Just get out and support the superstars of tomorrow, today. They will not let you down.
A converted, die-hard indy wrestling fan
February 27, 2017 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling, Wrestling History aaron williams, Allisin Kay, Blitz Pro Wrestling, blue pants, candice lerae, Carnies, chip day, colt cabana, dave crist, Desmond Xavier, eric emanon, Facade, gary jay, hooligans, independent wrestling, iwa mid-south, jake crist, Jessicka Havok, Jimmy Rave, joey ryan, john wayne murdoch, jordynne grace, kelly klein, leva bates, lufisto, Matt Cross, matt riddle, menace, Mia Yim, michael elgin, mickie knuckles, mr. darius carter, murder one, New Phoenix, nxt, oi4k, Rachel Ellering, ron mathis, samantha heights, Sami Callahan, space monkey, Su Yung, Taeler Hendrix, The Hitman for Hire Mr. Grim, thomas brewington, timmy lou retton, veda scott, Viking War Party, War Machine, women's wrestling, wwe, zachary wentz
20 Years On, IWA Mid-South May Have Its Best Roster Ever
It had been a while since I paid a visit to Southern Indiana’s legendary wrestling promotion, IWA Mid-South. I’m not big on blood and hardcore and deathmatches, a hallmark of IWA-MS, and truth be told, I decided to go tonight for one reason: OI4K. I’m a big fan of Jake and Dave Crist and their frequent companion Aaron Williams. All three have been regulars at IWA-MS for some time, and when I saw Dave Crist was scheduled to face another favorite in Shane Mercer, I decided it was time to go.
It was a trip worth taking.
The boys from Ohio delivered as they always do, but this was hardly a three man show. Every match on the card tonight delivered, from the opening bout between Desmond Xavier and A.J. Gray to the main event with Larry D. and John Wayne Murdoch. Top to bottom, this was the best wrestling show I’ve ever seen from IWA-Mid-South and one of the best independent shows I’ve ever witnessed.
Corey Storm and Myron Reed were two of the younger stars of IWA-MS who impressed in the early matches. Reed is a Louisville veteran with a ton of talent and charisma, and he took an action-packed three way match from Teddy King and Brett Havoc. Storm is just fifteen years old, but he looked like a a seasoned veteran in the ring with Jake Crist. He’s getting the education of a lifetime, working with veterans like Crist, and it’s very clear he has a bright future ahead.
Aaron Williams had a hard-hitting bout with Japanese star Shigehiro Irie. Despite his alliance with the hated manager The Rick, Williams had a strong following in the crowd. Ian Rotten stunned Williams and the crowd after the match by announcing that Williams will face Jessica Havok next week.
Two more members of OI4K, Zachary Wentz and Trey Miguel, had a show-stopping tag match against the Player’s Club, Mance Warner and Ray Waddell. Wentz is the current heavyweight champion at Rockstar Pro Wrestling in Dayton, and he and Miguel put on a clinic with Warner and Waddell.
Dave Crist vs. Shane Mercer followed the tag match and stole the show in every way possible. Mercer and Crist are two of the best kept secrets in the Midwest. Mercer is all power; Crist is a high-flyer. The crowd was electric for the entire match, and when Crist got the win, the fans leapt to their feet with a standing ovation.
As soon as the match was over, Dave Crist grabbed a microphone and told the fans they were witness to one of the best shows he had ever been a part of. Christ praised the fans for their dedication and heaped even more praise on the young stars of IWA Mid-South. “Ian Rotten has an incredible eye for talent,” he told the fans, and he encouraged everyone to, “Tell a friend, bring a friend, and make IWA Mid-South the best promotion in the Midwest!”
It would be a bold statement to say that the current incarnation of IWA Mid-South is the best ever. This is, after all, the promotion that helped launch the careers of superstars like CM Punk, Chris Hero, Daniel Bryan, and Seth Rollins. That said, it’s clear that something special is happening in Southern Indiana.
IWA Mid-South is in their 21st year. They are packing the Arena in Jeffersonville every Thursday night and the Memphis Flea Market (where Rotten says fans can see more of the hardcore action they are used to) every Saturday. That’s no small feat, running twice a week, and with Joey Ryan, Gary Jay, and Jessica Havok on the card for next week, it’s only getting better.
If you like great wrestling, I’d encourage you to check out IWA Mid-South Thursdays at the Arena. And if you like violence for violence’s sake, you won’t want to miss their Saturday shows (including this weekend’s King of the Crimson Mask show) in Memphis, Indiana.
Congratulations to Ian and the entire crew at IWA Mid-South. Thanks for an amazing night of wrestling.
January 27, 2017 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling a.j. gray, aaron williams, brett havoc, chris hero, cm punk, daniel bryan, dave crist, gary jay, ian rotten, iwa mid-south, jake crist, jeffersonville, jessica havok, joey ryan, john wayne murdoch, larry d, mance warner, memphis, myron reed, ohio is for killers, oi4k, ray waddell, seth rollins, shigehiro irie, teddy king, trey miguel, zachary wentz
The End of IWA Mid-South?
Wrestling has not been this hot in Louisville in decades.
While OVW rides a wave of enthusiasm fueled by their increasingly talented roster and their 900th TV taping, turmoil has erupted across the river.
Two years ago when I released Bluegrass Brawlers, I highlighted two Indiana promotions that, at the time, were running regular shows: the venerable IWA Mid-South, and Destination One Wrestling. Running monthly under former Ian Rotten student Rick Brady, D1W brought in some terrific talent including OI4K, Crazy Mary Dobson, the Indy Card Mafia, and Tracy Smothers. A series of unfortunate events forced D1W to go on permanent hiatus in 2015, and the promotion hasn’t been seen since.
That changed the night of the 20th anniversary show for IWA Mid-South, when Tracy Smothers faced IWA-MS Champion JJ Garrett with the title on the line. Smothers was on the ropes against the younger champ, but just when it seemed like Garrett had the match won, the lights went out and a man wearing a mask appeared on the apron. Garrett grabbed the guy and removed the mask to reveal “The Rick” Rick Brady! The Rick’s sudden appearance gave Smothers the distraction he needed to hit Garrett with his stick and pin him. Once out of the ring, Tracy announced that the IWA title will now be known as the D1W title.
Over the next few weeks, The Rick promised that D1W was taking over and baited Ian Rotten into putting 50% of his company up vs. the chance to finally get his hands on The Rick for 5 minutes alone. Rotten took the bait and a six-man dog collar match was booked to settle the matter. Rotten selected Nick Depp, John Wayne Murdoch and JC Rotten to represent team IWA while The Rick chose Mitch Ryder, Legendary Larry D and Derek Neal to represent team D1W.
The six men brawled all over the building on Thanksgiving night. During the closing minutes JC Rotten went down and grabbed his knee in pain. He fought his way back into the ring and was caught by Mitch Ryder and put into a figure four leglock. He immediately tapped. JC’s valet Tori entered the ring to check JC and was grabbed by Larry D. The fans were horrified, fearing for Tori’s safety, when Larry grabbed the girl in a huge hug! JC popped to his feet, revealing his knee injury to be a lie. He wasn’t hurt and he had just betrayed his father. The IWA locker room emptied out, but the D1W contingent beat them down in the ring.
Ian Rotten himself came off to chase away the D1W crew, but it was too late. The Rick now owns half of IWA Mid-South, and Ian and The Rick are now 50/50 partners.
I realize some of you Smarks reading this are rolling your eyes right now. “It’s all a work! You know Ian would never put up ownership in IWA!” That attitude is everything that is wrong with the IWC. Folks, this is old school. This is what packed gyms and arenas for decades before the WWE conquered the wrestling world, and guess what? It still works!
Right now, D1W/IWA Mid-South is as hot as they’ve ever been. They’re running twice a week on Thursdays in Clarksville, Indiana at Jammerz Rollerdrome and Saturdays in Memphis, Indiana at the Flea Market. Their fans are energized, and so too are the D1W fans who have missed their favorite promotion. The Rick is steamrolling IWA fans left and right on Facebook, and Tracy Smothers is proving (as he has over and over) that he’s one of the most underrated heels of any generation.
Will D1W take over, or will Ian save his beloved IWA Mid-South? Whatever happens next, the real winners are the fans enjoying a true old-fashioned blood feud!
November 27, 2016 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling, Louisville Wrestling clarksville, crazy mary dobson, D1W, derek neal, ian rotten, iwa mid-south, jc rotten, JJ Garrett, john wayne murdoch, larry d, memphis, mitch ryder, nick depp, oi4k, ovw, rick brady, tracy smothers
Thanksgiving Night Wrestling Anyone?
Thanksgiving used to be one of the biggest nights of the year for the WWE. That’s the night they used to hold the Survivor Series Pay-Per-View. The WWE may have done away with Thanksgiving night show, but for fans in the Louisville area, you can still catch some non-stop action thanks to IWA Mid-South.
IWA-MS has a killer card lined up this week for your post-turkey entertainment, starting with the legendary Chris Hero facing the IWA-Mid South (or is it the D1W?) champion Tracy Smothers.
Rachael Ellering will also be in town Thursday night facing Randi West.
Other matches on the card include:
Ian Rotten vs. “The Chairman” Joey Owens;
The Rejects (John Wayne Murdoch and Nick Depp) and JC Rotten VS “Marvelous” Mitch Ryder, “Legendary” Larry D and “the Real Deal” Derek Neal in a Triple Dog Collar Six Man Tag;
A Lone Survivor match featuring Team Cole Radrick (Cole Radrick, Andrew Hunter, Brother Reed, Tripp Cassidy plus one more member) VS Team Johnathan Wolf (Johnathan Wolf, “Category 5” Corey Storm, Mickey Muscles, Aidan Blackhart plus one more member);
“Hybrid Monster” Zodiak vs. “The Mouth of the Mid South” Mance Warner;
Malcolm Monroe III vs. Travis Titan
Bell time is 7:30 at Jammerz Rollerdrome in Clarksville, Indiana.
For more information, visit the event page on Facebook!
November 23, 2016 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling, Louisville Wrestling aidan blackhart, andrew hunter, bloodfeast, brother reed, chris hero, clarksville, cole radrick, corey storm, derek neal, ian rotten, jammerz, jc rotten, joey owens, john wayne murdoch, johnathan wold, larry d, malcolm monroe iii, mance warner, mickey muscles, mitch ryder, nick depp, rachael ellering, Randi West, survivor series, thanksgiving, tracy smothers, travis titan, tripp cassidy, wwe, zodiak
What does it mean to be King of the Deathmatches?
What would it mean to win IWA Mid-South’s King of the Deathmatch tournament?
I posed that question to several of this year’s competitors. Here’s what they had to say.
John Wayne Murdoch: “It would mean everything to me, I have worked so hard and put my body through so much. This is a must win moment for me.”
Reed Bentley: “King of the Deathmatch for me would be equal to winning the IWA World Title. I pride myself on being a hybrid wrestler, someone who can truly do it all and do it well. So I need to win that deathmatch title to prove I’m the best in a different way than I did when I won the IWA World Title three times.”
Rickey Shane Page: “There’s only one guy in history who has won Tournament of Death and King of the Deathmatches in the same year, and that’s Matt Tremont. I’m looking to make history. I’m looking to do the same thing.”
Dale Patricks: “Everyone who comes to see King of the Deathmatches will see a new champion crowned, and that’s me.”
Josh Crane: “There’s no place I’d rather be than IWA Mid-South with the people that love what I love: some of the best technical wrestling, some of the best strong style wrestling, some of the best hardcore wrestling in all the world… I’m coming home, my home. King of the Deathmatches. And I think this time, I’m going to take it home.”
Joseph Schwartz: “I’m here to make a point. I’m going to King of the Deathmatches, and I’m going to win, because my legacy is written in blood.”
Deadly Dale: “I’m going to come home with that bloody crown clenched in my first, and you people will remember who I am. You will remember Deadly Dale!”
Jeff Cannonball: “Everywhere I go, my peers they have one goal, but my goal was never their goal. My goal is death. My goal is to win King of the Deathmatches.”
Matt Tremont, two-time defending King of the Deathmatches: “King of the Deathmatches probably means a lot to a lot of people for various reasons. I now have won KOTDM twice: 2014 defeating Josh Crane in the finals and last year defeating John Wayne Murdoch in the finals. I was the first person ever to win back to back King of the Deathmatch tournaments. It means a lot to have my name on the history list and even more to do it twice. This Saturday I have the chance to make even more history by winning three years in a row. It was an overwhelming feeling in 2014, humbling in 2015, and it would be the same this year, as many don’t see it coming… It’s a prestigious tournament with a field of 16 this year, and I can’t wait for the violence.”
King of the Deathmatch begins August 6th at 3 PM at Pride bar + lounge, 504 State Street in New Albany, Indiana. Front row is already sold out, but seats are still available for $25. Email BestMistyEVER@gmail.com for ticket information.
Special thanks to Righteous Jesse of the Kick Out at Two Podcast for his assistance on this story!
August 5, 2016 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling 2016, dale patricks, deadly dale, ian rotten, iwa mid-south, jeff cannonball, john wayne murdoch, joseph schwartz, josh crane, king of the deathmatches, matt tremont, reed bentley, rickey shane page
King of the Deathmatch 2016
King of the Deathmatch is one of the most beloved tournaments of its kind. IWA Mid-South’s signature hardcore event has become a show case for rising stars and legends, including recent winners Drake Younger, Matt Tremont, and J.C. Bailey.
This year’s field of sixteen looks to be as brutal as any year with the following first round matches already announced:
The Duke of Hardcore John Wayne Murdoch VS The Wrench Conor Claxton VS Deadly Dale VS “Old Timer” Jeff King in a Fans Bring the Weapons Match.
Matt Tremont VS Jeff Cannonball VS Brad Cash VS Bryant Woods in a 100 light tubes match
Dale Patricks VS Josh Crane VS Markus Crane VS Rickey Shane Page in a barbed wire board / pits of gusset plates/ pits of alcohol match.
Devon Moore VS DJ Hyde VS Reed Bentley VS Joseph Schwartz in a four corners of pain carpet strip and fishhook ropes match. (The four corners will be a pit of glass, pit of mouse traps, thumb tacks, and fiberglass insulation.)
Earlier today, Ian Rotten broke the news that Randi West will be unable to compete in this year’s event due to a foot injury. As much as I know fans are disappointed at her withdrawal, they can’t be too disappointed with her replacement: CZW owner DJ Hyde.
If you’re a fan of hardcore, this is a must-see event!
July 28, 2016 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling brad cash, bryant woods, conor clacton, dale patricks, deadly dale, devon moore, dj hyde, ian rotten, iwa mid-south, jeff cannonball, jeff king, john wayne murdoch, joseph schwartz, josh crane, king of the death match, markus crane, matt tremont, Randi West, reed bentley, rickey shane page
The Heroic Choice of John Wayne Murdoch
The last time I saw John Wayne Murdoch, he was falling backwards through a table on the shoulders of Shane Mercer from the top turnbuckle. Murdoch is as hardcore as they get. There’s no bump, no height, no foreign object that scares him. But of all the brave things John Wayne Murdoch has done in the ring, none compare to what he did last week.
Just a few days after the great Daniel Bryan announced his retirement due to concussions, Murdoch announced his departure from the same business. It may not be retirement for Murdoch just yet, but it will at least be an extended absence. Like Bryan, Murdoch is suffering from severe post-concussion symptoms. It scared him enough to go to the doctor, and the doctor’s diagnosis convinced him he needs a break from the business he loves dearly.
John Wayne Murdoch does not have an “angel” like Bryan has in Vince McMahon. There’s no billionaire promoter paying him not to wrestle. He has made this impossible choice on his own, and he deserves all the credit in the world for doing so.
As much as we know about the human body, especially the brain, there’s no bravery in fighting through head injuries. No matter how high your tolerance for pain may be, it’s not worth it to continue destroying something that can never recover from the damage caused by concussions. There are plenty of ways to stay involved in pro wrestling that no one should continue working past such a dangerous point of no return.
If you see John Wayne Murdoch at a show or on social media, thank him for all he has given to the business, then honor him by sharing his story with someone else. No one wants to see a promising wrestling career cut short, but we need more men like Daniel Bryan and John Wayne Murdoch to show the world that there are some things more important than stepping into the ring.
February 17, 2016 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling, WWE concussions, daniel bryan, hardcore, independent, iwa mid-south, john wayne murdoch, shane mercer, vince mcmahon, wrestling, wweOne Comment
Just got back from a Girl Fight
If you are in the Midwest and you haven’t seen a Girl Fight show, you’re missing out.
Tonight’s show at The Arena in Jeff played to a packed crowd of 165 plus. It was standing room only in the back, and the crowd got their money’s worth and more.
The Jeff show featured 19 wrestlers from across the US and Canada, and the ladies brought it. Crazy Mary Dobson and Cheerleader Melissa put on an intense, stellar match while Taeler Hendrix and Truth Martini earned the ire of the crowd with a delightful heel performance in the main event.
The biggest surprise of the night had to be the weapons match between Heather Owens and Samantha Heights. It felt like a mismatch to me at first; I’ve seen Samantha Heights on a number of occasions, and while she’s always been a big talker, she didn’t strike me as the hardcore type. Heights proved she belongs by taking an end-over-end stunner from Heather Owens. She’s come a long way in the past few years, and from the crowd reaction, tonight felt like a star-making moment for her.
Mad Man Pondo took to the ring at intermission to announce the April 12 show will be a first ever in Louisville inter-gender show, Gender Wars, and the card for that show could not be more stellar:
Randi West vs. John Wayne Murdoch
Samantha Heights vs. Ron Mathis
Thunderkitty vs. Tracy Smothers
Crazy Mary Dobson vs. Aaron Williams
Heidi Lovelace vs. Shane Mercer
And your main event…
Mad Man Pondo vs. Jessica Havok – falls count anywhere.
Inter-gender wrestling isn’t for everyone. To be honest, I’m not the biggest fan. But Pondo’s put together a promising, entertaining card featuring a number of my personal favorites. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next show is even more crowded than tonight.
Bravo, Pondo, and bravo, ladies.
February 3, 2016 By eatsleepwrestle Independent Wrestling, Women's Wrestling aaron williams, Cheerleader Melissa, crazy mary dobson, gender wars, girl fight, heather owens, heidi lovelace, independent, intergender, jeffersonville, jessica havok, john wayne murdoch, kaela, mad man pond, Randi West, ron mathis, samantha heights, shane mercer, Taeler Hendrix, the arena, Thunderkitty, tracy smothers, truth martini, wrestling
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Arnoma Grand Bangkok (曼谷阿诺玛酒店)
Situated in the heart of Bangkok’s Central Business area and surrounded by some of Bangkok’s most prestigious Business Addresses, Arnoma is also across the road from Centralworld’s 400 Shops and Restaurants, close to some of Asia’s most renowned Designer Malls, and just around the corner from the BTS Sky train which will whisk you all over Bangkok in minutes.
Located in the popular Siam / Pratunam area, Arnoma has 369 Rooms and Suites, a selection of modern, flexible Meeting Rooms – including a Ballroom capable of seating up to 800 in Theatre Style – and great dining options including Bistro 99 which serves cutting edge, Modern Thai Cuisine, the award winning Good Earth Chinese Restaurant, Felice Italian Restaurant and a buzzing Wine Pub.
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About Bangkok
Bangkok, the city once known as Siam, remarkably known to be exotic and rich in culture, is the cultural, economic and political capital of Thailand. The city features both old-world charm and modern convenience. Amidst the gleaming skyscrapers of Bangkok, one would still see traditional architectures such as temples, illustrating the retention of its identity whilst being a cosmopolitan city. Its exciting night spots are also one of the contributing factors in Bangkok’s nightlife. Many visitors in Bangkok are overwhelmed by the sheer size of the city and the vast number of attractions it has to offer. Indeed, there are many sightseeing opportunities in Bangkok, spanning for more than two centuries of rapid development following the city’s founding in 1782. Despite the city’s rapid economy growth, its gentle, charming Thai hospitality remains unchanged, hence deserving the title of "The Land of a Thousand Smiles".
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Multiwave project
3rd MULTIWAVE Workshop
Freak Waves, an exceptional phenomenon
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Rogue Waves Research Project
About MULTIWAVE
MULTIWAVE is an interdisciplinary European Research Council (ERC) project at the frontiers of mathematics, physics and engineering which will explore important open questions in nonlinear wave propagation and turbulence and the emergence of extreme events.
MULTIWAVE combines the expertise of two Advanced Co-Investigators : Professor Dias from UCD Dublin and Professor Dudley from the University of Franche-Comté in order to carry out the interdisciplinary studies of the nonlinear effects that form the subject of the proposal. A central element of the work builds on recent international developments in the field of nonlinear waves led by the co-investigators that have shown how analogies between optical systems and the deep ocean provide important new insights into the generation of the infamous hydrodynamic rogue waves observed on the ocean.
These results, which have led to the first experimental confirmation in 2010 of analytic results of hydrodynamics that have remained untested for over 25 years, have now opened up the possibility for an optical system to directly study the dynamics and statistics of extreme nonlinear wave shaping. This is a tremendous advance comparable to the introduction of optical systems to study chaos in the 1970s, and the co-investigators aim to be at the forefront of this research effort to take research in both optics and hydrodynamics into fundamentally new directions.
The aims of MULTIWAVE are focussed on applying these conceptual advances to explore and resolve open questions in nonlinear wave propagation and its impact. Core theoretical elements will uncover the fundamental mechanisms underlying the nonlinear emergence of large scale coherent structures from a turbulent environment, and resolve basic questions of energy transport in the presence of nonlinearity.
These analytical studies will be complemented by advanced numerical experiments applicable to multidimensional propagation scenarios. A key experimental element is an adventurous concept which we term the optical-wave tank. Recent developments in optical technology will enable laboratory experiments in optics that will accurately simulate realistic propagation scenarios in hydrodynamics and ocean systems. The degree of parameter control in optics using current waveguide and source availability will allow us to design experiments studying a range of nonlinear propagation scenarios. Particular emphasis will be placed on extreme rogue wave events which are essentially impossible to study quantitatively in the natural oceanic environment.
We anticipate significant direct impact in the study of hydrodynamic and oceanic rogue waves, and will apply the results obtained to propose forecasting and early-warning signatures for rogue waves on the ocean. In addition, the methodologies developed will be highly generic and thus suitable for the study of a wide range of extreme value processes in other systems. The results obtained are thus expected to feed into, and initiate new studies across, a wide spectrum of topics in nonlinear physics.
What are rogue waves?
Rogue waves are extreme waves that are localised both in time and in space
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Goncalo Guedes netted the winner as reigning European champions Portugal defeated the Netherlands to win their second title in three years.
ESPN FC's Alejandro Moreno and Shaka Hislop explain how Portugal won the tactical battle in the Nations League final over the Netherlands.
PORTO, Portugal -- Cristiano Ronaldo has grown accustomed to lifting trophies, and the relish with which he hoisted aloft the silverware that comes with winning the UEFA Nations League, following Portugal's 1-0 win vs. Netherlands on Sunday, suggested that it meant every bit as much as all of the prizes he has won in the past for club and country.
It is not the World Cup or European Championship, but it is a hefty, glittering trophy, and the qualification process to reach the four-team finals means that the winners had to overcome strong opposition to come out on top, so Portugal's triumph should not underestimated.
Their success in the inaugural Nations League, which was sealed by Goncalo Guedes' 60th-minute goal in Porto, means that this small nation of just over 10 million people has won back-to-back UEFA tournaments, following on from their surprise Euro 2016 triumph in France, when they beat the host nation in the final.
It is a remarkable success story and one that has been driven largely by Ronaldo's unique talents for the past 15 years, but should we take Portugal's latest success as a sign of their dominance as a force in Europe or nothing more than helping to measure the current temperature of the continent's leading teams?
Portugal have won two tournaments in three years. Can they make it a hat trick at Euro 2020?
Euro 2020 kicks off in Rome one year from Wednesday -- June 12, 2020 -- and Portugal, assuming they qualify, will be a formidable opponent. Fernando Santos' side perhaps has one big tournament performance left in them, especially as Ronaldo will be 37 by the time the Qatar World Cup rolls around in 2022.
In the meantime, the growing importance of Bernardo Silva, who was exceptional again in this final, as well as emerging players such as defenders Ruben Dias and Nelson Semedo and forwards Guedes and Joao Felix, ensures that the Portuguese can contend as they defend their continental crown next year.
So will the Dutch, though, having developed into a force under Ronald Koeman. They lack a true striker -- Memphis Depay and Ryan Babel led the line with mixed success in these finals -- so should prioritise the discovery or development of a goal scorer between now and next summer to play in front of the formidable Virgil van Dijk, Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt.
"To play a final, even if you don't win it, you take experience for the next time," Koeman said. "We have taken big steps in the Nations League, against France, Germany, England and Portugal, but to take the next step, we maybe need more time and offensive strength to take the chances we created tonight. But maybe it's too early for us to win."
- England seal third place with shootout win vs. Switzerland
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England earned a penalty-shootout win against Switzerland in the third-place playoff earlier Sunday and will regard their progress as positive following a run to the semifinals at the World Cup in Russia last year, but Gareth Southgate's team have some work to do before they can legitimately consider themselves among Europe's elite.
They do not score enough goals from open play and still lack creativity in midfield and reliability at the back. Nonetheless, Southgate is working with a talented generation, and the likes of Raheem Sterling, Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Harry Kane should give England belief at Euro 2020, a tournament in which the semifinals and final will be staged at Wembley.
World champions France, eliminated at the Nations League group stage by the Dutch, should be the team to beat next summer. Didier Deschamps' team suffered a surprise qualifying defeat against Turkey on Saturday, but any side that can rely on the talents of Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann, N'Golo Kante and Paul Pogba has to be regarded as the favourites.
Among Europe's other traditional powers, Spain and Germany are in a state of transition, rebuilding teams that had previously enjoyed great success, but each boasts a depth of talent that ensures they cannot can be dismissed as contenders next year.
Elsewhere, Croatia will believe they can go one better than at the World Cup in what could be a last hurrah for their own golden generation, led by Luka Modric, while Belgium and Italy have 100 percent winning records in qualification.
Belgium have knocked on the door in several major tournaments recently, and if Roberto Martinez can rely on a fully fit Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne, it might well be their year. Italy, having failed to qualify for the World Cup, are slowly recovering under Roberto Mancini and could be a force to be reckoned with again.
Much can happen in the upcoming 12 months, but international football in Europe is in a state of flux, with none of established heavyweights at the peak of their powers. As such, the Nations League might be the most accurate form guide, one year out from the European Championship.
The four teams who contested the finals qualified at the expense of more historically successful countries, and Portugal's victory ensured the competition made for a headline-making start; successful host nations always give a tournament added lustre.
While it would be foolish to suggest they are favourites to defend their Euro title next year, with Ronaldo fit and able, Portugal will always be a threat. Who knows, this tournament could prove to be a precursor for a hat trick of success.
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How warm does it get inside a car during hot weather?
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St. Cloud cyclist dies from injuries after vehicle crash during Trans Am race
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By Rose Heaphy
(KMSP) - A St. Cloud man who was hit by a vehicle in Kansas while participating in a cross country bike race has died from his injuries, according to his family.
On June 14, John Egbers was hit by a vehicle just outside Scott City, Kansas, according to his CaringBridge page. His injuries included a spinal cord fracture, a broken leg and arm.
He had been riding in the Trans Am Bike Race, which runs about 4,300 miles across the U.S. He was in 31st place at the time of the crash.
He passed away from his injuries on Thursday.
Egbers' wife, Susan, told Fox 9 she hopes her husband's passing reminds drivers to stay attentive on the roads.
"We want his story to bring awareness to pay attention to the road do not let anything distract you," she said. "Not eating a hamburger, not tuning the radio, not using your cellphone. We do not know why the person who hit him did not see him. We do know that it was broad daylight on a road that is straight and you can see for miles and miles."
For GoFundMe information, click here.
By Cole Heath, FOX 9
The high heat can make routine activities pretty dangerous.
Sunday, with temperatures rising across the Twin Cities Metro, using a heat sensor that firefighters use, we saw how unbearably hot some things, like the inside of a car, can get in the sun.
Monday, the heat index is expected to be in the mid to upper 90s across the metro. That's about what it was Sunday with the sun beaming down in Eden Prairie around 3:30 p.m. but what do these temps really break down to?
By Iris Perez, FOX 9
Targeting freshmen congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayana Pressley in a series of morning tweets , President Donald Trump asked, “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.”
Condemning the behavior, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote, “When the President tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making American white again.”
This exchange followed a clash between Pelosi and the congresswomen over remarks made by Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff on Twitter last week.
Next 007 will be revealed in 'Bond 25': report
FOX NEWS -- The next James Bond film will show the secret agent pass the torch — and fans of the Ian Fleming-inspired franchise are in for a shock as to which star gets the latest license to kill.
Reports claim that the next Agent 007 will be played by British actress Lashana Lynch .
Lynch, 31, had a breakout role in " Captain Marvel " as Maria Rambeau, the titular superhero's best friend and fellow Air Force pilot.
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Paul Emmert: Artist-Traveler
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Paul Emmert: Artist/Traveler
Born near Bern, Switzerland, in 1826, Paul Emmert (1826‒1867) immigrated to the United States at the age of 19, landing first in New York and then heading west with the discovery of gold in California. Ever the entrepreneur (and destined for a life of adventure), he ran the Bear Hotel in Sacramento and a theater in San Francisco, and he created a popular panorama of scenes from the gold fields.
In 1853, he became one of the many artist-travelers to come to Hawai‘i to satisfy the thriving market for images of the islands’ dramatic topography and singular culture. In Honolulu, he opened a print shop, where he made prints after his own drawings of local landmarks. Eventually, he moved to Kailua-Kona and farmed the sugar plantation where he lived out the remainder of his life.
In his 14 years in Hawai‘i, Emmert made drawings of the mountains, coastlines, vegetation, and geophysical phenomena in and around O‘ahu, Maui, and the Island of Hawai‘i. He recorded Diamond Head and Punchbowl craters, Nu‘uanu Valley, Waikïkï, Hilo, Lahaina, and numerous other locales, capturing their natural beauty before urbanization transformed them. In an exuberant, slightly naïve style, he embellished historical accuracy with aesthetic flourish, paying careful attention to detail and skillfully manipulating a variety of graphic media to create gemlike scenes of rare and captivating beauty that offer a glimpse into Hawai‘i’s past.
Paul Emmert (Swiss, 1826–1867)
Sandwich Islands from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands, c.1860
Graphite on paper
Gift of Frances Damon and John Dominis Holt, 1985
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Lahaina, Island of Maui, Sandwich from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands, c. 1860
Graphite with white heightening on blue paper
Diamond Head, from Aliapaakai, c. 1853–1859
Ink and ink wash over graphite on paper
Gift of Bruce Cartwright, 1938 (10927)
Diamond Head, Honolulu from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands
Graphite, ink, and white heightening on paper
Diamond Head, c. 1853
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Dominis Holt, 1985 (19446)
Diamond Head Near Honolulu, c. 1853
Graphite and watercolor on prepared paper
Haleola Honolulu, from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands, c. 1858
Graphite and chalk on paper
Kealakekua Bay, Sandwich from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands
Hilo, great Hawai‘i, Sandwich from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands c. 1860
Graphite and white heightening on paper
Hulihe‘e Palace, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859
Gift of Mary Alexander Smith, 1990 (20660)
Windward Oahu, c. 1853
Kealakekua Bay, Village where Cook was
Killed from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands
Ka Lina from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands, c. 1860
Pahoehoe, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859–67
Ink and ink wash on paper
La‘aloa, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859–67
Kainaliu, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859–67
Napo‘opo‘o, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859–67
Kaumalumalu, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859–67
Kaumamalu, Kona, Hawai‘i, c. 1859–67
The Great Volcano of Hawai‘i from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands 1861
Graphite, chalk, and ink wash on paper
Place where Cook's body was Burned from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands, c. 1860
Trunk of coconut tree near which Cook was
Killed from the series Views and Landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands, c. 1860
Scene probably at Kahokukano, Kona, Hawai‘i
c. 1859–67
Puako, Kohala, Hawai‘i, c. 1859
Gift of Mary Charlotte Alexander, 1954 (20659)
Kealakekua Bay, c. 1859-67
Coconut Grove behind Montgomery, c.1850–60
Graphite, gouache, ink, and gold paint on paper
Collection of Sam and Mary Cooke
Waititi [Waikīkī], c.1850–60
Palama, Honolulu, c.1850–60
Wailua Falls in Kauai, c.1850–60
In Waititi [In Waikīkī], c.1850–60
Diamond Head, c.1850–60
Kapena, Waterfall in Nu‘uanu Valley, c.1850–60
In Waiawa, c.1850–60
View from Nu‘uanu Valley, c.1850–60
In Nu‘uanu Valley, c.1850–60
Waterfall in Kalihi Valley, c.1850–60
Kliua, Ancient Sacrificial Place in Kahuku, c.1850–60
Graphite and gouache on paper
Kalihi Valley, c.1850–60
Kukui Tree, c.1850–60
Honolulu from Nu‘uanu Valley, c.1850–60
Pali, c.1850–60
Honolulu from Moanalua, c.1850–60
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India's oil conundrum back? US sanctions on Iran effective now, govt says ready to deal with impact
By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 04, May 2019, 14:24 pm IST | UPDATED: 04, May 2019, 14:24 pm IST
Delhi: After re-imposing sanctions on Tehran last year, the US administration led by President Donald Trump had issued a temporary waiver of six months for several countries including India to continue buying oil from Iran. As the deadline of the waiver ended today i.e. May 2, 2019, India said that it is ready to deal with the impact of US sanctions against Iran. With Iran being one of the top oil suppliers to India, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on Thursday said that India will get extra supplies from other oil producing countries to compensate for the loss of Iranian oil.
New Delhi has halted the purchases of Iranian oil from May after the United States ended six months of waiver that had allowed OPEC member Iran's eight top customers including India to import limited volumes.
According to data sourced from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Iraq sold 46.61 million tonnes of crude oil to India during April 2018 and March 2019, 2 per cent more than 45.74 million tonnes it had supplied in 2017-18 fiscal.
India provisionally imported 207.3 million tonnes of crude oil in 2018-19, down from 220.4 million tonnes in the previous financial year. Saudi Arabia has traditionally been India's top oil source, but it was for the first time dethroned by Iraq in 2017-18 fiscal year.
However, a report by news agency PTI stated that senior officials of India and Iran are likely to hold fifth round of negotiations for a bilateral preferential trade agreement (PTA) in New Delhi this month. Till now, four rounds of negotiations have been completed and the last one was held in March in Tehran where both countries discussed the draft text of the pact.
US Sanctions of Iran has splurged unrest in the Middle East and North African countries as oil price volatility is dragging regional economic growth, the International Monetary Fund report said. The IMF also predicted that the economy in Iran, which is the second largest in the region behind Saudi Arabia, will shrink by 6.0 per cent this year after contracting by 3.9 per cent in 2018.
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Home > News > Industry News > PPG declares force majeure on glass products
PPG declares force majeure on glass products
PPG Industries, Pittsburgh,declared force majeure on architectural, residential and specialty glass products as a result of torrential rains earlier in the week at its Wichita Falls, Texas, glass manufacturing facility, according to a company release Aug. 22. The rain flooded the plant’s basement and damaged critical process equipment. The company is currently assessing the extent of the damage.
“We temporarily ceased operations at Wichita Falls on Tuesday [Aug. 19],” said Mark J. Orcutt, PPG vice president, performance glazings, in the release. “As a result, it is commercially impracticable for us to meet our customers’ demands at this time. PPG is working diligently to minimize any disruptions to our customers and to bring the facility back into operation as soon as possible.”
Production was temporarily halted on both float glass lines at the Wichita Falls facility, but workers were able to restore glassmaking on one. The second line remains idle and a startup date is not known.
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1 in 3 humans harbors this sneaky parasite
June 21st, 2017 Posted by Kara Gavin-U. Michigan
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One in three people has a potentially nasty parasite hiding in the body—tucked away in tiny cysts that the immune system can’t eliminate and antibiotics can’t touch.
But new research reveals clues about how to stop it: Interfere with its digestion during this stubborn dormant phase.
If the discovery leads to new treatments, it could help prevent the parasitic disease toxoplasmosis, which sickens people worldwide.
For most people affected by it, Toxoplasma gondii causes only mild flu-like symptoms, often from food poisoning. After that initial infection, the parasite usually goes into cyst phase and remains in the person’s body for the rest of his or her life.
But in people with weak immune systems or pregnant women, the infection can cause problems immediately or after cysts awaken, damaging the brain, eyes, or a fetus they carry. Even healthy people can experience repeated retina damage if the parasite dwells in their eyes. Some evidence even links it to mental illness.
“The largest unmet need in toxoplasmosis is dealing with the chronic infection stage, which is the source of potentially severe disease through reactivation of the parasite from cysts,” says Vern Carruthers, leader of the research group and a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan.
“While there are reasonably good treatments for acute infections, and the immune system does a good job in healthy people of keeping it in check, no options exist for killing the cyst form to protect immunocompromised people and those who have had a previous eye infection.”
“The largest unmet need in toxoplasmosis is dealing with the chronic infection stage, which is the source of potentially severe disease through reactivation of the parasite from cysts.”
Eating its own innards
In Nature Microbiology, Carruthers and colleagues report that a molecule called cathepsin protease L, or CPL, is crucial to the parasite’s ability to survive the cyst phase and cause disease in mice. By interfering with CPL on a genetic level, and also using a drug, they disabled the parasite and kept it from surviving the cyst phase.
They also showed for the first time in an unmodified parasite that a form of digestion of the parasite’s own innards—called autophagy, and led by CPL—is crucial to Toxoplasma’s ability to persist.
Carruthers and his team figured out the crucial role of CPL and the importance of autophagy during several experiments on the cysts, which contain forms of the parasites called bradyzoites.
CPL is a protease, or protein-digesting molecule. It may help Toxoplasma cysts survive by digesting the parasite’s own innards or by digesting materials that can enter the cyst from outside. When CPL was disabled, the vacuolar compartment that serves as the parasite’s “stomach” experienced a buildup of materials that disabled the entire cyst.
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For the new paper, the team temporarily opened holes in the parasite’s membrane and knocked out the existing copy of the CPL gene, or added a changed gene to make an altered form of CPL. This “gene therapy” approach allows them to study the impact of altered or absent CPL activity.
In the litter box
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named toxoplasmosis a “neglected parasitic infection” and a target for public health action. In addition to citing a high worldwide infection rate, the CDC estimates that 1 in 10 Americans carries the parasite.
Undercooked meat can spread Toxoplasma bradyzoite cysts, and the parasite is often transmitted to humans through cat feces that contain another cyst form.
That’s why public health authorities advise pregnant women not to change cat litter boxes, and advise anyone who eats meat to consume it only fully cooked.
The key danger from toxoplasmosis is that it’s one of the few infections capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier. That means it can get into the nervous system, including the retina, spinal cord, and brain. It can also hide out in muscle tissue of both humans and animals.
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Carruthers’ group used a drug to disable the parasite in infected human cells. But that drug cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, so it will not be useful for treatment. They are working with a group led by Scott Larsen, in the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy’s medicinal chemistry department to look for other drugs that can inhibit CPL.
“This paper is the proof of principle that protein digestion is important to the cyst stage of the parasite’s life cycle, though we don’t yet know if it digests to generate energy or to remove unneeded materials,” says Carruthers. “We still have much to learn about Toxoplasma, including how much of a barrier the cyst membrane is and whether we can inhibit it from outside.”
If the parasites in the cysts aren’t taking in “food” from outside themselves, the autophagy process may be a self-preservation effort, similar to the wasting away of starving humans as their bodies consume muscle to stay alive. Blocking this process would make the cyst starve faster.
Or, if food does make it in to cysts, disabling CPL could result in a microscopic “bowel obstruction” where waste and unused food build up to a lethal level.
Carruthers, whose team has studied the parasite for years, notes that any future drug aimed at the tissue cyst stage would have to travel through the cyst membrane and the blood-brain barrier, too.
Funding came from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.
Original Study DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.96
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Katz P.O., Gerson L.B., Vela M.F. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease // Am J Gastroenterol 2013; 108:308-328.
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Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Philip O. Katz MD1, Lauren B. Gerson MD, MSc2 and Marcelo F. Vela MD, MSCR3
1Division of Gastroenterology, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; 3Division of Gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine & Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 2013; 108:308–328; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2012.444; published online 19 February 2013
Received 22 May 2012; accepted 10 December 2012
Correspondence: Lauren B. Gerson, MD, MSc, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 450 Broadway Street, 4th Floor Pavilion C, MC: 6341, Redwood City, California 94063, USA. E-mail: lgersonmd@yahoo.com
Corrigendum: Diagnostic Testing in Extraesophageal GERD: Another Case of “Furor Medicus”?
Brennan Spiegel
Am J Gastroenterol 2013; 108:912 – 914; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2013.80
In the Conflict of Interest section, the information under “Financial support” was incorrect. No funding was received from Shire.
Corrigendum: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Philip O. Katz , Lauren B. Gerson and Marcelo F. Vela
Am J Gastroenterol 2013; 108:308 – 328; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2012.444
1. On page 317, in the fifth paragraph of the “Summary of the Evidence” section, it is stated that certain endoscopic therapies, including radiofrequency augmentation to the lower esophageal sphincter, were removed from the US market. However, radiofrequency therapy was returned to the US market in 2010 and remains available. In stating that the therapy had been removed from the marketplace, the authors of the Guidelines neither implied nor intended to imply that there was any health, efficacy, or safety reasons for the removal.
2. On page 316, recommendation 6 under “Surgical Options for GERD” correctly notes that current endoscopic therapies cannot be recommended as an alternative to medical or traditional surgical therapy, and this was described as a “conditional recommendation” with a “moderate level of evidence.” However, recommendation 6 in the summary table on page 309, under “Surgical Options for GERD,” erroneously described the recommendation as “strong.”
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is arguably the most common disease encountered by the gastroenterologist. It is equally likely that the primary care providers will find that complaints related to reflux disease constitute a large proportion of their practice. The following guideline will provide an overview of GERD and its presentation, and recommendations for the approach to diagnosis and management of this common and important disease.
The document will review the presentations of any risk factors for GERD, the diagnostic modalities and their recommendation for use and recommendations for medical, surgical and endoscopic management including comparative effectiveness of different treatments. Extraesophageal symptoms and complications will be addressed as will the evaluation and management of “refractory” GERD. The document will conclude with the potential risks and side effects of the main treatments for GERD and their implications for patient management.
Each section of the document will present the key recommendations related to the section topic and a subsequent summary of the evidence supporting those recommendations. An overall summary of the key recommendations is presented in Table 1. A search of OVID Medline, Pubmed and ISI Web of Science was conducted for the years from 1960–2011 using the following major search terms and subheadings including “heartburn”, “acid regurgitation”, “GERD”, “lifestyle interventions”, “proton pump inhibitor (PPI)”, “endoscopic surgery,” “extraesophageal symptoms,” “Nissen fundoplication,” and “GERD complications.” We used systematic reviews and meta-analyses for each topic when available followed by a review of clinical trials.
The GRADE system was used to evaluate the strength of the recommendations and the overall level of evidence (1,2). The level of evidence could range from “high” (implying that further research was unlikely to change the authors’ confidence in the estimate of the effect) to “moderate” (further research would be likely to have an impact on the confidence in the estimate of effect) or “low” (further research would be expected to have an important impact on the confidence in the estimate of the effect and would be likely to change the estimate). The strength of a recommendation was graded as “strong” when the desirable effects of an intervention clearly outweigh the undesirable effects and as “conditional” when there is uncertainty about the trade-offs.
It is important to be aware that GERD is defined by consensus and as such is a disease comprising symptoms, end-organ effects and complications related to the reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus, oral cavity, and/or the lung. Taking into account the multiple consensus definitions previously published (3,4,5), the authors have used the following working definition to define the disease: GERD should be defined as symptoms or complications resulting from the reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus or beyond, into the oral cavity (including larynx) or lung. GERD can be further classified as the presence of symptoms without erosions on endoscopic examination (non-erosive disease or NERD) or GERD symptoms with erosions present (ERD).
Table 1. Summary and strength of recommendations
Establishing the diagnosis of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
1. A presumptive diagnosis of GERD can be established in the setting of typical symptoms of heartburn and regurgitation. Empiric medical therapy with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) is recommended in this setting. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
2. Patients with non-cardiac chest pain suspected due to GERD should have diagnostic evaluation before institution of therapy. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence). A cardiac cause should be excluded in patients with chest pain before the commencement of a gastrointestinal evaluation (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
3. Barium radiographs should not be performed to diagnose GERD (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
4. Upper endoscopy is not required in the presence of typical GERD symptoms. Endoscopy is recommended in the presence of alarm symptoms and for screening of patients at high risk for complications. Repeat endoscopy is not indicated in patients without Barrett’s esophagus in the absence of new symptoms. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
5. Routine biopsies from the distal esophagus are not recommended specifically to diagnose GERD. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
6. Esophageal manometry is recommended for preoperative evaluation, but has no role in the diagnosis of GERD. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
7. Ambulatory esophageal reflux monitoring is indicated before consideration of endoscopic or surgical therapy in patients with non-erosive disease, as part of the evaluation of patients refractory to PPI therapy, and in situations when the diagnosis of GERD is in question. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence). Ambulatory reflux monitoring is the only test that can assess reflux symptom association (strong recommendation, low level of evidence).
8. Ambulatory reflux monitoring is not required in the presence of short or long-segment Barrett’s esophagus to establish a diagnosis of GERD. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
9. Screening for Helicobacter pylori infection is not recommended in GERD patients. Treatment of H. pylori infection is not routinely required as part of antireflux therapy. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Management of GERD
1. Weight loss is recommended for GERD patients who are overweight or have had recent weight gain. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
2. Head of bed elevation and avoidance of meals 2–3 h before bedtime should be recommended for patients with nocturnal GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
3. Routine global elimination of food that can trigger reflux (including chocolate, caffeine, alcohol, acidic and/or spicy foods) is not recommended in the treatment of GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
4. An 8-week course of PPIs is the therapy of choice for symptom relief and healing of erosive esophagitis. There are no major differences in efficacy between the different PPIs. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
5. Traditional delayed release PPIs should be administered 30–60 min before meal for maximal pH control. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). Newer PPIs may offer dosing flexibility relative to meal timing. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
6. PPI therapy should be initiated at once a day dosing, before the first meal of the day. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). For patients with partial response to once daily therapy, tailored therapy with adjustment of dose timing and/or twice daily dosing should be considered in patients with night-time symptoms, variable schedules, and/or sleep disturbance. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence).
7. Non-responders to PPI should be referred for evaluation. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence, see refractory GERD section).
8. In patients with partial response to PPI therapy, increasing the dose to twice daily therapy or switching to a different PPI may provide additional symptom relief. (Conditional recommendation, low level evidence).
9. Maintenance PPI therapy should be administered for GERD patients who continue to have symptoms after PPI is discontinued, and in patients with complications including erosive esophagitis and Barrett’s esophagus. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). For patients who require long-term PPI therapy, it should be administered in the lowest effective dose, including on demand or intermittent therapy. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
10. H2-receptor antagonist (H2RA) therapy can be used as a maintenance option in patients without erosive disease if patients experience heartburn relief. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence). Bedtime H2RA therapy can be added to daytime PPI therapy in selected patients with objective evidence of night-time reflux if needed, but may be associated with the development of tachyphlaxis after several weeks of use. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
11. Therapy for GERD other than acid suppression, including prokinetic therapy and/or baclofen, should not be used in GERD patients without diagnostic evaluation. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
12. There is no role for sucralfate in the non-pregnant GERD patient. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
13. PPIs are safe in pregnant patients if clinically indicated. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Surgical options for GERD
1. Surgical therapy is a treatment option for long-term therapy in GERD patients. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
2. Surgical therapy is generally not recommended in patients who do not respond to PPI therapy. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
3. Preoperative ambulatory pH monitoring is mandatory in patients without evidence of erosive esophagitis. All patients should undergo preoperative manometry to rule out achalasia or scleroderma-like esophagus. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
4. Surgical therapy is as effective as medical therapy for carefully selected patients with chronic GERD when performed by an experienced surgeon. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
5. Obese patients contemplating surgical therapy for GERD should be considered for bariatric surgery. Gastric bypass would be the preferred operation in these patients. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
6. The usage of current endoscopic therapy or transoral incisionless fundoplication cannot be recommended as an alternative to medical or traditional surgical therapy. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Potential risks associated with PPIs
1. Switching PPIs can be considered in the setting of side-effects. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
2. Patients with known osteoporosis can remain on PPI therapy. Concern for hip fractures and osteoporosis should not affect the decision to use PPI long-term except in patients with other risk factors for hip fracture. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
3. PPI therapy can be a risk factor for Clostridium difficile infection, and should be used with care in patients at risk. (Moderate recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
4. Short-term PPI usage may increase the risk of community-acquired pneumonia. The risk does not appear elevated in long-term users. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
5. PPI therapy does not need to be altered in concomitant clopidogrel users as there does not appear to be an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular events. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Extraesophageal presentations of GERD: Asthma, chronic cough, and laryngitis
1. GERD can be considered as a potential co-factor in patients with asthma, chronic cough, or laryngitis. Careful evaluation for non-GERD causes should be undertaken in all of these patients. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence).
2. A diagnosis of reflux laryngitis should not be made based solely upon laryngoscopy findings. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
3. A PPI trial is recommended to treat extraesophageal symptoms in patients who also have typical symptoms of GERD. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
4. Upper endoscopy is not recommended as a means to establish a diagnosis of GERD-related asthma, chronic cough, or laryngitis. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
5. Reflux monitoring should be considered before a PPI trial in patients with extraesophageal symptoms who do not have typical symptoms of GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
6. Non-responders to a PPI trial should be considered for further diagnostic testing and are addressed in the refractory GERD section below. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
7. Surgery should generally not be performed to treat extraesophageal symptoms of GERD in patients who do not respond to acid suppression with a PPI. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
GERD refractory to treatment with PPIs
1. The first step in management of refractory GERD is optimization of PPI therapy. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
2. Upper endoscopy should be performed in refractory patients with typical or dyspeptic symptoms principally to exclude non-GERD etiologies. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
3. In patients in whom extraesophageal symptoms of GERD persist despite PPI optimization, assessment for other etiologies should be pursued through concomitant evaluation by ENT, pulmonary, and allergy specialists. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
4. Patients with refractory GERD and negative evaluation by endoscopy (typical symptoms) or evaluation by ENT, pulmonary, and allergy specialists (extraesophageal symptoms), should undergo ambulatory reflux monitoring. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
5. Reflux monitoring off medication can be performed by any available modality (pH or impedance-pH). (Conditional recommendation, moderate level evidence). Testing on medication should be performed with impedance-pH monitoring in order to enable measurement of nonacid reflux. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence).
6. Refractory patients with objective evidence of ongoing reflux as the cause of symptoms should be considered for additional antireflux therapies, which may include surgery or TLESR inhibitors. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence). Patients with negative testing are unlikely to have GERD and PPI therapy should be discontinued. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Complications Associated with GERD
1. The Los Angeles (LA) classification system should be used when describing the endoscopic appearance of erosive esophagitis. (Strong recommendations, moderate level of evidence). Patients with LA Grade A esophagitis should undergo further testing to confirm the presence of GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
2. Repeat endoscopy should be performed in patients with severe erosive reflux disease after a course of antisecretory therapy to exclude underlying Barrett’s esophagus. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
3. Continuous PPI therapy is recommended following peptic stricture dilation to improve dysphagia and reduce the need for repeated dilations. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
4. Injection of intralesional corticosteroids can be used in refractory, complex strictures due to GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
5. Treatment with a PPI is suggested following dilation in patients with lower esophageal (Schatzki) rings. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
6. Screening for Barrett’s esophagus should be considered in patients with GERD who are at high risk based on epidemiologic profile. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
7. Symptoms in patients with Barrett’s esophagus can be treated in a similar fashion to patients with GERD who do not have Barrett’s esophagus. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
8. Patients with Barrett’s esophagus found at endoscopy should undergo periodic surveillance according to guidelines. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
ENT, ear, nose, and throat; GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease; LA, Los Angeles; PPI, proton pump inhibitor.
Symptoms and Epidemiology
Epidemiologic estimates of the prevalence of GERD are based primarily on the typical symptoms of heartburn and regurgitation. A systematic review found the prevalence of GERD to be 10–20% of the Western world with a lower prevalence in Asia (6). Clinically troublesome heartburn is seen in about 6% of the population (7). Regurgitation was reported in 16% in the systematic review noted above. Chest pain may be a symptom of GERD, even the presenting symptom (2,3). Distinguishing cardiac from non-cardiac chest pain is required before considering GERD as a cause of chest pain. Although the symptom of dysphagia can be associated with uncomplicated GERD, its presence warrants investigation for a potential complication including an underlying motility disorder, stricture, ring, or malignancy (8). Chronic cough, asthma, chronic laryngitis, other airway symptoms and so-called extraesophageal symptoms are discussed in a subsequent section. Atypical symptoms including dyspepsia, epigastric pain, nausea, bloating, and belching may be indicative of GERD but overlap with other conditions. A systematic review found that ~38% of the general population complained of dyspepsia. Dyspepsia was more frequent in GERD patients than those without. These patients were at risk for a new diagnosis of GERD. Epigastric pain, early satiety, belching and bloating were more likely to respond to a PPI therapy compared with nausea. Overall, these symptoms can be considered to be associated with GERD if they respond to a PPI trial (9).
A recent systematic review on the burden of GERD on quality of life (QOL) included 19 studies. Patients with disruptive GERD (daily or >weekly symptoms) had an increase in time off work and decrease in work productivity. Low scores on sleep scales were seen compared with patients with less frequent symptoms. A decrease in physical functioning was also seen (10). Nocturnal GERD has a greater impact on QOL compared with daytime symptoms. Both nocturnal symptoms and sleep disturbances are critical to elucidate when evaluating the GERD patient (11).
The balance of evidence suggests that symptom frequency does not change as we age, however, the intensity of symptoms may decrease after the age of 50 (12). Aging increases the prevalence of erosive esophagitis, Los Angeles (LA) grades C and D (13). Barrett’s esophagus increases in prevalence after age 50, especially in Caucasian males (14). There are little data addressing the features of GERD in women distinct from men. Patients with erosive esophagitis are more likely to be men, and women are more likely to have NERD. Barrett’s esophagus is more frequent in men compared with women (15). The gender ratio for esophageal adenocarcinoma is estimated to be 8:1 male to female (14).
There is a definite relationship between GERD and obesity. Several meta-analysis suggest an association between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, weight gain and the presence of symptoms and complications of GERD including ERD and Barrett’s esophagus (16,17). The ProGERD study, likely the largest of its kind (>5,000 patients) used logistic regression analysis to identify several independent risk factors for ERD. The odds for higher degrees of ERD increased as BMI rose (18). It is of greatest concern that there has been a well-documented association between BMI and carcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia (19).
Establishing the Diagnosis of GERD
A presumptive diagnosis of GERD can be established in the setting of typical symptoms of heartburn and regurgitation. Empiric medical therapy with a PPI is recommended in this setting. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence).
Patients with non-cardiac chest pain suspected due to GERD should have diagnostic evaluation before institution of therapy. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence) A cardiac cause should be excluded in patients with chest pain before the commencement of a gastrointestinal evaluation (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Barium radiographs should not be performed to diagnose GERD (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Upper endoscopy is not required in the presence of typical GERD symptoms. Endoscopy is recommended in the presence of alarm symptoms and for screening of patients at high risk for complications. Repeat endoscopy is not indicated in patients without Barrett’s esophagus in the absence of new symptoms. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Routine biopsies from the distal esophagus are not recommended specifically to diagnose GERD. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Esophageal manometry is recommended for preoperative evaluation, but has no role in the diagnosis of GERD. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Ambulatory esophageal reflux monitoring is indicated before consideration of endoscopic or surgical therapy in patients with NERD, as part of the evaluation of patients refractory to PPI therapy, and in situations when the diagnosis of GERD is in question. (Strong recommendation, low level evidence). Ambulatory reflux monitoring is the only test that can assess reflux symptom association (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence).
Ambulatory reflux monitoring is not required in the presence of short or long-segment Barrett’s esophagus to establish a diagnosis of GERD. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence).
Screening for Helicobacter pylori infection is not recommended in GERD. Eradication of H. pylori infection is not routinely required as part of antireflux therapy (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
The diagnosis of GERD is made using some combination of symptom presentation, objective testing with endoscopy, ambulatory reflux monitoring, and response to antisecretory therapy. (Table 2) The symptoms of heartburn and regurgitation are the most reliable for making a presumptive diagnosis based on history alone; however, these are not as sensitive as most believe. A systematic review of seven studies found the sensitivity of heartburn and regurgitation for the presence of erosive esophagitis to be 30–76% and the specificity from 62–96% (20). Empiric PPI therapy (a PPI trial) is a reasonable approach to confirm GERD when it is suspected in patients with typical symptoms. A response to therapy would ideally confirm the diagnosis; however, a well done meta-analysis suggested some limitations of this approach with a sensitivity of 78% and specificity of 54% (21). Therefore, empiric therapy (or a so called PPI trial) has some limitations.
Table 2. Diagnostic testing for GERD and utility of tests
Highest level of evidence
PPI trial Classic symptoms, no warning signs, Meta-analysis Negative trial does not rule out GERD
Barium swallow Not for GERD diagnosis. Use for evaluation of dysphagia Case-control Do not use unless evaluating for complication (stricture, ring)
Endoscopy Alarm symptoms, screening of high-risk patients, chest pain Randomized Controlled Trial Consider early for elderly, those at risk for Barrett’s, noncardiac chest pain, patients unresponsive to PPI
Esophageal biopsy Exclude non-GERD causes for symptoms Case-Control Not indicated for diagnosis of GERD
Esophageal manometry Preoperative evaluation for surgery Observational Not recommended for GERD diagnosis. Rule out achalasia/scleroderma-like esophagus preop
Ambulatory reflux monitoring Preoperatively for non-erosive disease. refractory GERD symptoms, GERD diagnosis in question Observational Correlate symptoms with reflux, document abnormal acid exposure or reflux frequency
GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease; PPI, proton pump inhibitor.
Non-cardiac chest pain has often been associated with the presence of GERD, and can be the presenting symptom. A meta-analysis found a high probability that non-cardiac chest pain responds to aggressive acid suppression (22). This study supported earlier work suggesting the efficacy and cost effectiveness of a PPI trial (PPI twice daily in variable doses) in patients with chest pain in whom a cardiac cause had been excluded. However, a more recent systematic review suggested that the response of non-cardiac chest pain to a PPI trial was significantly higher than placebo in patients with objective evidence of GERD (ERD on endoscopy and/or abnormal pH monitoring) (23). The response to PPIs compared with placebo was almost non-existent in the absence of objective documentation of GERD. As such, a diagnostic evaluation with endoscopy and pH monitoring should be considered before a PPI trial (24). The presence of heartburn in conjunction with chest pain was not predictive of PPI response of the chest pain component.
Dysphagia has historically been an alarm symptom or warning sign and an indication for early endoscopy to rule out a GERD complication. Respiratory symptoms have been associated with GERD, based on retrospective case–control studies. In addition, dental erosions, erosion of dental enamel, sinusitis, chronic laryngitis and voice disturbance have similarly been associated with GERD. These are discussed later in the article. Overall, heartburn and regurgitation remain reliable symptoms of GERD as does non-cardiac chest pain. Other symptoms, while associated with GERD, are not as reliable. The causal relationship between GERD and the so-called atypical and extraesophageal manifestations remains difficult with only a history.
Barium radiographs have been historically considered part of the potential diagnostic armamentarium in the patient with esophageal symptoms, including GERD. Although well-performed barium esophagrams with double contrast can detect signs of esophagitis, the overall sensitivity of this test is extremely low (25). The finding of barium reflux above the thoracic inlet with or without provocative maneuvers including the water siphon test does increase the sensitivity of the barium test; however, not sufficiently to be recommended as a diagnostic test without dysphagia (26).
The endoscope has long been the primary tool used to evaluate the esophageal mucosa in patients with symptoms suspected due to GERD. Findings of GERD include erosive esophagitis, strictures, and a columnar lined esophagus ultimately confirmed to be Barrett’s esophagus. As such, endoscopy has excellent specificity for the diagnosis of GERD especially when erosive esophagitis is seen and the LA classification is used (27). However, the vast majority of patients with heartburn and regurgitation will not have erosions (or Barrett’s) limiting upper endoscopy as an initial diagnostic test in patients with suspected GERD (28). Endoscopy allows for biopsy of rings and strictures and screening for Barrett’s. Although epidemiologic risk factors for Barrett’s esophagus have been well-defined (age over 50, symptoms for >5–10 years, obesity, male sex) the sensitivity and specificity of these symptoms for abnormal endoscopy makes the utility of screening for Barrett’s a controversial topic. Recent data indicate that it may be reasonable to perform endoscopy for screening in certain high-risk groups in particular overweight white males over the age of 50 with chronic GERD symptoms (12). The finding of any Barrett’s esophagus segment has been associated with pathologic GERD and generally obviates the need for pH testing (29). In a 2009 study, 90% of short-segment BE patients were found to have abnormal pH-impedance testing (30).
The addition of esophageal biopsies as an adjunct to an endoscopic examination has been re-emphasized because of the increased prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). Many clinicians routinely biopsy the esophagus in patients with reflux-type symptoms to look for EoE in the setting of an endoscopy that does not reveal erosive changes. Unfortunately, differentiating GERD from EoE using only biopsy is difficult and risks making a diagnosis and instituting treatment without supportive data. Low eosinophil counts in the distal esophagus while suggestive of GERD are not specific. In addition, a high eosinophil count may be seen with GERD and respond to PPIs (PPI responsive eosinophilia) (31). The sensitivity of the other histologic findings; basal cell hyperplasia, elongation of the rete pegs, papillary elongation, and even neutrophils, are of limited clinical usefulness (32,33). There are no studies examining the efficacy of PPIs based on microscopic findings alone. The use of routine biopsy of the esophagus to diagnose GERD cannot be recommended in a patient with heartburn and a normal endoscopy based on current literature. In addition, the practice of obtaining mucosal biopsies from a normal appearing esophagogastric junction has not been demonstrated to be useful in GERD patients (34).
Esophageal manometry is of limited value in the primary diagnosis of GERD. Neither a decreased lower esophageal sphincter pressure, nor the presence of a motility abnormality is specific enough to make a diagnosis of GERD. Manometry should be used to aid in placement of transnasal pH-impedance probes and is recommended before consideration of antireflux surgery primarily to rule out achalasia or severe hypomotility (scleroderma-like esophagus), conditions that would be contraindications to Nissen fundoplication, but not to tailor the operation.
Ambulatory reflux monitoring (pH or impedance-pH) is the only test that allows for determining the presence of abnormal esophageal acid exposure, reflux frequency, and symptom association with reflux episodes. Performed with either a telemetry capsule (usually 48 h) or transnasal catheter (24 h), pH monitoring has excellent sensitivity (77–100%) and specificity (85–100%) in patients with erosive esophagitis; however, the sensitivity is lower in those with endoscopy-negative reflux symptoms (<71%) when a diagnostic test is more likely to be needed (24). A consensus statement (35) suggested that impedance added to pH monitoring increased the sensitivity of reflux monitoring to close to 90%. Telemetry capsule pH monitoring offers increased patient tolerability and the option to extend the monitoring period to 48 or perhaps to 96 h. The additional monitoring period allows for combining and on and off therapy study in selected situations and offers additional opportunity to correlate symptoms with acid reflux. Catheter-based monitoring allows for the addition of impedance and detection of weakly acidic or non-acid reflux. Optimal use of these two options is certainly debated as is whether to test on or off therapy. As a true diagnostic test (is abnormal acid exposure present) and for evaluation before considering surgery in a patient with NERD an off therapy test is recommended. The use of on and off therapy monitoring in refractory GERD is discussed subsequently.
When symptom correlation is required, the decision is more difficult. The two symptom association measures most often used are symptom index (SI) and symptom association probability (SAP). Both have methodological shortcomings that have been reviewed elsewhere (36) and prospective data to validate the ability of these symptom association measures to predict response to treatment is scarce. Both the SI and SAP have been validated when pH monitoring is performed off therapy in a patient with heartburn. A positive test on therapy, coupled with a symptom relationship, theoretically suggests GERD as a cause for symptoms but outcome studies are lacking for any symptom other than heartburn. For patient management, a strongly positive SI or SAP may suggest the need for a therapeutic intervention and a negative result supports the notion that the patient’s symptoms are unlikely to be due to reflux. However, these indices should not be used in isolation and other reflux monitoring parameters as well the patient’s presentation have to be taken into account.
The relationship between H. pylori infection and GERD is controversial. As such, a full discussion is beyond the scope of this article. One issue most often discussed is whether treatment of H. pylori should be altered because of an exacerbation of GERD and if patients on long-term PPIs require screening and subsequent eradication of the bug to prevent the possibility of increasing risk of gastric cancer. A meta-analysis of 12 studies found no increase in GERD (erosive esophagitis) in patients with dyspeptic symptoms who were eradicated compared with those not. This same study found, in subgroup analysis, patients with peptic ulcer disease might experience the new onset of GERD symptoms after H. pylori eradication (37). Concern for the use of long-term PPI therapy in patients with H. pylori infection has been raised because of the potential for development of atrophic gastritis in infected patients on long-term PPI (38). This study prompted a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review panel that concluded that the evidence was not sufficient to recommend testing of all patients on long-term PPI. The flaws in this study and lack of observational data on negative outcomes lead us to recommend against screening of GERD patients for H. pylori despite the European recommendation in favor of screening (39).
GERD is frequent during pregnancy, manifests as heartburn, and may begin in any trimester. One study found onset of 52% in the first trimester, 40% in the second trimester, and 8% in the third trimester (40). Among 607 pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic, 22% experienced heartburn in the first trimester, 39% in the second, and 72% in the third, whereas only 14% of these women reported mild heartburn before their pregnancy (41). Severity also increased throughout pregnancy. Significant predictors of heartburn are increasing gestational age, heartburn before pregnancy, and parity. Maternal age is inversely correlated with heartburn. Race, pre-pregnancy BMI, and weight gain in pregnancy do not correlate with the onset of heartburn. Despite its frequent occurrence during pregnancy, heartburn usually resolves after delivery (42). Pregnancy and amount of weight gain during pregnancy were risk factors for frequent GERD symptoms 1 year post delivery (43). No other GERD symptom has been studied in pregnancy. The diagnosis of GERD during pregnancy should be based on symptoms and treatment symptom-based. Additional diagnostic testing is generally not required for the majority of patients with suspected GERD. In the occasional pregnant patient who does require testing, upper endoscopy is the test of choice, but should be reserved for patients whose symptoms are refractory to medical therapy or who have suspected complications. If possible however, endoscopy should be delayed until after the first trimester. It is uncommon to require ambulatory pH monitoring during pregnancy.
Weight loss is recommended for GERD patients who are overweight or have had recent weight gain. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Head of bed elevation and avoidance of meals 2–3 h before bedtime should be recommended for patients with nocturnal GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Routine global elimination of food that can trigger reflux (including chocolate, caffeine, alcohol, acidic and/or spicy foods) is not recommended in the treatment of GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
An 8-week course of PPIs is the therapy of choice for symptom relief and healing of erosive esophagitis. There are no major differences in efficacy between the different PPIs. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Traditional delayed release PPIs should be administered 30–60 min before meal for maximal pH control. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). Newer PPIs may offer dosing flexibility relative to meal timing (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
PPI therapy should be initiated at once a day dosing, before the first meal of the day. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). For patients with partial response to once daily therapy, tailored therapy with adjustment of dose timing and/or twice daily dosing should be considered in patients with night-time symptoms, variable schedules, and/or sleep disturbance. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Non-responders to PPI should be referred for evaluation. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence, see refractory GERD section)
In patients with partial response to PPI therapy, increasing the dose to twice daily therapy or switching to a different PPI may provide additional symptom relief. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Maintenance PPI therapy should be administered for GERD patients who continue to have symptoms after PPI is discontinued and in patients with complications including erosive esophagitis and Barrett’s esophagus. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). For patients who require long-term PPI therapy, it should be administered in the lowest effective dose, including on demand or intermittent therapy. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
H2-receptor antagonist therapy can be used as a maintenance option in patients without erosive disease if patients experience heartburn relief. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence). Bedtime H2RA therapy can be added to daytime PPI therapy in selected patients with objective evidence of night-time reflux if needed but may be associated with the development of tachyphlaxis after several weeks of usage. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Therapy for GERD other than acid suppression, including prokinetic therapy and/or baclofen, should not be used in GERD patients without diagnostic evaluation. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
There is no role for sucralfate in the non-pregnant GERD patient. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
PPIs are safe in pregnant patients if clinically indicated. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Summary of the Evidence
Lifestyle interventions are part of therapy for GERD. (Table 3) Counseling is often provided regarding weight loss, head of bed elevation, tobacco and alcohol cessation, avoidance of late-night meals, and cessation of foods that can potentially aggravate reflux symptoms including caffeine, coffee, chocolate, spicy foods, highly acidic foods such as oranges and tomatoes, and foods with high fat content.
Table 3. Efficacy of lifestyle interventions for GERD
Lifestyle intervention
Effect of intervention on GERD parameters
Sources of data
Weight loss (46,47,48) Improvement of GERD symptoms and esophageal pH Case-Control Strong recommendation for patients with BMI>25 or patients with recent weight gain
Head of bed elevation (50–52) Improved esophageal pH and symptoms Randomized Controlled Trial Head of bed elevation with foam wedge or blocks in patients with nocturnal GERD
Avoidance of late evening meals
(180,181) Improved nocturnal gastric acidity but not symptoms Case-Control Avoid eating meals with high fat content within 2–3 h of reclining
Tobacco and alcohol cessation (182–184) No change in symptoms or esophageal pH Case-Control Not recommended to improve GERD symptoms
Cessation of chocolate, caffeine, spicy foods, citrus, carbonated beverages No studies performed No evidence Not routinely recommended for GERD patients. Selective elimination could be considered if patients note correlation with GERD symptoms and improvement with elimination
BMI, body mass index; GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease.
A systematic review (44) evaluated the effect of dietary and other lifestyle modifications on lower esophageal sphincter pressure, esophageal pH, and GERD symptoms. Consumption of tobacco (12 trials), chocolate (2 trials), and carbonated beverages (2 trials) and right lateral decubitus position (3 trials) were shown to lower pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), whereas consumption of alcohol (16 trials), coffee and caffeine (14 trials), spicy foods (2 trials), citrus (3 trials), and fatty foods (9 trials) had no effect. There was an increase in esophageal acid exposure times with tobacco and alcohol consumption in addition to ingestion of chocolate and fatty foods. However, tobacco and alcohol cessation (4 trials) were not shown to raise LESP, improve esophageal pH, or improve GERD symptoms. In addition, there have been no studies conducted to date that have shown clinical improvement in GERD symptoms or complications associated with cessation of coffee, caffeine, chocolate, spicy foods, citrus, carbonated beverages, fatty foods, or mint. A recent systematic review concluded that there was lack of evidence that consumption of carbonated beverages causes or provokes GERD (45).
Weight gain even in subjects with a normal BMI has been associated with new onset of GERD symptoms (46). Multiple cohort studies have demonstrated reduction in GERD symptoms with weight loss (47,48). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, but not vertical banded gastroplasty, has been demonstrated to be effective in reduction of GERD symptoms (49). A large case–control study based on the Nurses Health Cohort demonstrated a 40%reduction in frequent GERD symptoms for women who reduced their BMI by 3.5 or more compared with controls (46).
Assumption of the recumbent position has been associated with worsening of esophageal pH values and GERD symptoms. Three randomized controlled trials have demonstrated improvement in GERD symptoms and esophageal pH values with head of bed elevation using blocks or foam wedges (50,51,52).
Medical options for patients failing lifestyle interventions include antacids, histamine-receptor antagonists (H2RA), or PPI therapy. A meta-analysis published in 2010 demonstrated that the placebo response in GERD clinical trials approximated 20% and was lower in patients with erosive esophagitis (11%) and PPI trials (14%) compared with trials with H2RAs (25%) (53). PPI therapy has been associated with superior healing rates and decreased relapse rates compared with H2RAs and placebo for patients with erosive esophagitis (54). A 1997 meta-analysis demonstrated superior healing rates for all grades of erosive esophagitis using PPI therapy compared with H2RAs, sucralfate, or placebo (55). The mean (±s.d.) overall healing proportion irrespective of drug dose or treatment duration was highest with PPIs (84%±11%) vs H2RAs (52%±17%), sucralfate (39%±22%), or placebo (28%±16%). PPIs showed a significantly faster healing rate (12%/week) vs. H2RAs (6%/week) and placebo (3%/week). PPIs provided faster, more complete heartburn relief (11.5%/week) vs. H2RAs (6.4%/week) (35). PPIs are associated with a greater rate of symptom relief in patients with ERD (~70–80%) compared to patients with NERD (where the symptom relief approximates 50–60%) (56,57).
For patients with non-erosive reflux disease, a Cochrane systematic review demonstrated superiority for PPI therapy compared with H2RAs and prokinetics for heartburn relief (58). On the basis of 32 trials with over 9,700 participants, the relative risk (RR) for heartburn remission (the primary efficacy variable) in placebo-controlled trials for PPI was 0.37 (two trials, 95%confidence interval (CI) 0.32–0.44), for H2RAs 0.77 (two trials, 95% CI 0.60–0.99) and for prokinetics 0.86 (one trial, 95% CI 0.73–1.01). In a direct comparison, PPIs were more effective than H2RAs (seven trials, RR 0.66, 95%CI 0.60–0.73) and prokinetics (two trials, RR 0.53, 95% CI 0.32–0.87).
There are currently seven available PPIs including three that can be obtained over-the-counter (omeprazole, lansoprazole, and omeprazole-sodium bicarbonate). Four are available only by prescription (rabeprazole, pantoprazole, esomeprazole, and dexlansoprazole). Meta-analyses fail to show significant difference in efficacy for symptom relief between PPIs (59). A meta-analysis published in 2006 examining efficacy of PPI therapy for healing of erosive esophagitis included 10 studies (15,316 patients) (except for omeprazole-sodium bicarbonate and dexlansoprazole) (59). At 8 weeks, there was a 5% (RR, 1.05; 95% CI 1.02–1.08) relative increase in the probability of healing of erosive esophagitis with esomeprazole, yielding an absolute risk reduction of 4% and number needed to treat (NNT) of 25. The calculated NNTs by LA grade of erosive esophagitis (grades A–D) were 50, 33, 14, and 8, respectively. Esomeprazole conferred an 8% (RR, 1.08; 95% CI 1.05–1.11) relative increase in the probability of GERD symptom relief at 4 weeks. The clinical importance of this small difference is unclear. All of the PPIs with the exception of omeprazole-sodium bicarbonate and dexlansoprazole, should be administered 30–60 min before meals to assure maximal efficacy. Omeprazole-sodium bicarbonate, an immediate-release PPI, has been demonstrated to more effectively control nocturnal gastric pH in the first 4 h of sleep compared with other PPIs when each is administered at bedtime (60). Whether this effect leads to any superior clinical outcomes including symptom control, requires further study. Dexlansoprazole is a dual delayed release PPI released in 2009. Comparative trials of dexlansoprazole compared only with lansoprazole 30 mg demonstrated superior control in esophageal pH values in one trial, and the convenience of being able to dose the drug any time of the day regardless of food intake (61). Superiority to lansoprazole in healing of erosive esophagitis was demonstrated in one trial, with non-inferiority in another study (62).
As stated above, it would be expected that ~70–80% of patients with ERD would demonstrate complete relief on PPI therapy and 60% of patients with NERD. Partial relief of GERD symptoms after a standard 8-week course of PPI therapy has been found in 30–40% of patients and does not differ in patients taking PPI once or twice daily. The evaluation and management of patients with incomplete response are discussed in the refractory GERD section. Risk factors for lack of symptom control have included patients with longer duration of disease, presence of hiatal hernia, extraesophageal symptoms, and lack of compliance (63). Delayed release PPIs are most effective in controlling intragastric pH when taken before a meal (64) and are generally less effective when taken at bedtime. The exceptions to this rule appear to be for the administration of dexlansoprazole (65), which appears to have similar efficacy in pH control regardless of meal timing, and omeprazole-sodium bicarbonate, which can control night-time pH when given at bedtime. Suboptimal dosing is common in practice (66). Although PPI switching is common in clinical practice, there is limited data to support this practice. Data from one randomized controlled trial demonstrated that in GERD patients refractory to once-daily lansoprazole, switching patients to esomeprazole therapy once daily was as effective as increasing to twice daily lansoprazole (67). There is no data to support switching PPIs more than once in partial or non-responders.
Maintenance PPI therapy should be administered for GERD patients who continue to have symptoms after PPI is discontinued and in patients with complications including erosive esophagitis and Barrett’s esophagus. In patients found to have NERD, two-third of the patients will demonstrate symptomatic relapse off of PPIs over time (68). For patients found to have LA grade B–C esophagitis, nearly 100% will relapse by 6 months (69). In patients found to have any length of BE, retrospective studies have suggested a decreased risk for dysplasia in patients continuing PPI usage (70). On the other hand, studies have demonstrated that patients with NERD and otherwise non-complicated GERD can be managed successfully with on-demand or intermittent PPI therapy. In a randomized controlled trial (71) published in 1999, 83% of NERD patients randomized to 20 mg of omeprazole on demand were in remission at 6 months compared with 56% of patients on placebo. In a systematic review of randomized controlled trials comparing on-demand PPI vs. placebo, 17 studies were included (5 in NERD patients, 4 with NERD and mild esophagitis, and 2 studies with ERD) (72). The symptom-free days for patients in the on-demand arms were equivalent to rates for patients on continuous PPI therapy and superior to placebo in patients with NERD, but not for patients with ERD. Step-down therapy to H2RAs is another acceptable option for NERD patients (73).
Medical options for GERD patients with incomplete response to PPI therapy are limited. The addition of bedtime H2RA has been recommended for patients with symptoms refractory to PPI. This approach gained popularity after multiple intragastric pH studies demonstrated overnight pH control. One well-done study suggested potential tachyphylaxis of pH control occurring after a month of therapy (74). In light of this study and a lack of prospective clinical trial use of a bedtime H2RA might be most beneficial if dosed on as needed basis in patients with provocable night-time symptoms and patients with objective evidence on pH monitoring of overnight esophageal acid reflux despite optimal PPI use.
Prokinetic therapy with metoclopramide in addition to PPI therapy is another option often considered for these patients. Metoclopramide has been shown to increase LESP, enhance esophageal peristalsis and augment gastric emptying (75). Clinical data showing additional benefit of metoclopramide to PPI therapy has not been adequately studied. Combination therapy of metoclopramide with H2RA has not been shown to be more effective compared with H2RA or prokinetic therapy alone (76). The usage of metoclopramide has been limited by central nervous system side effects including drowsiness, agitation, irritability, depression, dystonic reactions, and tardive dyskinesia in <1% of patients (77). Practically speaking, in the absence of gastroparesis, there is no clear role for metoclopramide in GERD. For the small number of patients who may benefit from a prokinetic, another option is domperidone, a peripherally acting dopamine agonist, which can be obtained through application for an investigational drug usage permit from the FDA as it does not have approval for usage in GERD. The efficacy of domperidone has been demonstrated to be equivalent to that of metoclopramide for gastric emptying but little to no data are available in GERD (78). Monitoring for QT prolongation is performed due to a small risk for ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death (79).
The usage of baclofen is another alternative for refractory GERD patients. Baclofen, a GABA(b) agonist, has been demonstrated to be effective in GERD by its ability to reduce transient LES relaxations (80), and reflux episodes (81). Baclofen has also been demonstrated to decrease the number of post-prandial acid and non-acid reflux events (82), nocturnal reflux activity (83), and belching episodes (84). Given the limited treatment options for GERD symptoms refractory to PPIs, a trial of baclofen at a dosage of 5–20 mg three times a day can be considered in patients with objective documentation of continued symptomatic reflux despite optimal PPI therapy, based on two short-term randomized controlled trials that demonstrated symptomatic improvement with this agent (82,83). The clinician should be aware that there has not been long-term data published regarding efficacy of baclofen in GERD. Usage is limited by side effects of dizziness, somnolence, and constipation. Baclofen is not approved by the FDA for the treatment of GERD.
Surgical therapy is a treatment option for long-term therapy in GERD patients. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Surgical therapy is generally not recommended in patients who do not respond to PPI therapy. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Preoperative ambulatory pH monitoring is mandatory in patients without evidence of erosive esophagitis. All patients should undergo preoperative manometry to rule out achalasia or scleroderma-like esophagus. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Surgical therapy is as effective as medical therapy for carefully selected patients with chronic GERD when performed by an experienced surgeon. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Obese patients contemplating surgical therapy for GERD should be considered for bariatric surgery. Gastric bypass would be the preferred operation in these patients. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
The usage of current endoscopic therapy or transoral incisionless fundoplication cannot be recommended as an alternative to medical or traditional surgical therapy. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Potential surgical options for GERD include laparoscopic fundoplication or bariatric surgery in the obese. Reasons to refer GERD patients for surgery may include desire to discontinue medical therapy, non-compliance, side-effects associated with medical therapy, the presence of a large hiatal hernia, esophagitis refractory to medical therapy, or persistent symptoms documented to be caused by refractory GERD. With the introduction of esophageal pH-impedance monitoring, patients found to have abnormal amounts of non-acid reflux on PPI therapy with good symptom correlation may be considered for surgery (85). Refractory dyspeptic symptoms including nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain are less likely to demonstrate symptomatic response. The highest surgical responses are seen in patients with typical symptoms of heartburn and/or regurgitation that demonstrate good response to PPI therapy or have abnormal ambulatory pH studies with good symptom correlation (86). In this patient cohort, long-term remission rates can be expected to be comparable and in some cases statistically superior to medical therapy. In a long-term follow-up of a Veterans Affairs Cooperative cooperative randomized controlled trial comparing medical to surgical therapy for GERD, 92% of the patients in the medical arm were using medical therapy compared with 62% of the surgical cohort at 10 years (87). In a 12-year long-term follow-up of patients randomized to fundoplication compared with omeprazole, 53% of the surgery cohort were in remission compared with 45% of the medically treated patients (P=0.02), although symptoms of gas-bloat syndrome remained more common in the surgical cohort (88).
Patients choosing to undergo surgical therapy for GERD may face some additional risks including increased short-term risk of mortality. The most common adverse events associated with fundoplication include the gas-bloat syndrome in 15–20% of patients. A recent meta-analysis concluded that the prevalence of postoperative dysphagia and inability to belch were significantly lower in patients undergoing partial fundoplication compared with patients undergoing total fundoplication (89). In a Cochrane review, four randomized trials with over 1,200 subjects randomized to medical or surgical therapy were included (90). All four studies reported significant improvements in GERD-specific QOL after surgery compared with medical therapy although data were not combined. There was evidence to suggest that symptoms of heartburn, reflux, and bloating were improved more after surgery compared with medical therapy, but a small proportion of participants reported persistent postoperative dysphagia. Overall rates of postoperative complications were low, but fundoplication was associated with a potential for adverse postoperative events.
Outcomes in patients with extraesophageal symptoms undergoing Nissen fundoplication have been less encouraging. In patients enrolled in a VA Cooperative study, no significant change in pulmonary function tests were demonstrated after 1 year of surgery, even in patients with abnormal baseline pulmonary function tests (91). A randomized controlled trial of cimetidine vs. fundoplication and placebo for asthma symptoms demonstrated equivalent efficacy for medical and surgical therapy compared with placebo but no significant change in FEV1 at 6 months (92). In a 2003 Cochrane review, medical or surgical antireflux therapy was not associated with improvement in pulmonary function, asthma symptoms, or use of medication (93). Although surgery can be effective in carefully selected patients with extraesophageal or atypical symptoms, response rates are lower than in patients with heartburn (86). It is particularly important to carefully evaluate patients with so-called laryngopharyngeal reflux before considering fundoplication. A response to PPI is critical. In the absence of a PPI response, surgery is unlikely to be effective even with an abnormal pH study (94).
Given the increasing prevalence of obesity in the US, gastric bypass has become a more common procedure compared with Nissen fundoplication. A 2009 review assessed the efficacy for surgical therapies for obesity on gastroesophageal reflux (95). In studies assessing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, GERD symptoms improved when assessed postoperatively via questionnaire. Roux-en-Y was more effective compared with gastric banding in one study. Of the eight studies assessing vertical banded gastroplasty, one study showed improvement in GERD symptoms, but the other studies demonstrated no change or an increase in reflux symptoms. The effects of gastric banding on GERD symptoms in eight studies were conflicting.
Endoscopic therapies for GERD have been developed but have not demonstrated long-term efficacy. These therapies included radiofrequency augmentation to the lower esophageal sphincter, silicone injection into the lower esophageal sphincter, and endoscopic suturing of the LES. None of these therapies demonstrated long-term improvement in esophageal pH levels or the ability for patients to stop antireflux therapy and were subsequently removed from the US marketplace (96). Recent alternative approaches have included transoral incisionless fundoplication, a suturing device designed to create a full thickness gastroesophageal valve from inside the stomach. Unfortunately long-term data regarding efficacy of this device are limited to a small number of subjects and short duration of follow-up (97). A recent study suggested that at 36 months of follow-up, the majority of patients had required additional medical therapy or a revisional fundoplication (98).
Sphincter augmentation using the LINX Reflux system constructed of titanium beads has shown efficacy up to 4 years in the reduction of the amount of pathologic esophageal acid exposure in a small number of subjects (99). This device has been approved by the FDA based on a clinical study in 100 GERD patients. This study found that performance of LINX resulted in consistent symptom relief and pH control with markedly fewer side effects than traditional laparoscopic fundoplication in well-selected patients. More data are required before widespread usage can be recommended.
Switching PPIs can be considered in the setting of side effects. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Patients with known osteoporosis can remain on PPI therapy. Concern for hip fractures and osteoporosis should not affect the decision to use PPI long-term except in patients with other risk factors for hip fracture. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
PPI therapy can be a risk factor for Clostridium difficile infection and should be used with care in patients at risk. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Short-term PPI usage may increase the risk of community-acquired pneumonia. The risk does not appear elevated in long-term users. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
PPI therapy does not need to be altered in concomitant clopidogrel users as clinical data does not support an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular events. (Strong recommendation, high level of evidence)
Potential adverse events associated with PPI therapy have included headache, diarrhea, and dyspepsia in <2% of users. Switching to another PPI can be attempted in these patients or in patients who fail to respond to an initial PPI, although data supporting this practice are limited. Other potential adverse associations have included vitamin and mineral deficiencies, association with community-acquired infections including pneumonia and diarrhea, hip fractures and osteoporosis, and increased cardiovascular events in patients using concomitant clopidogrel therapy. The FDA issued warnings regarding the potential for wrist, hip, and spine fractures among PPI users in 2010 and warnings regarding potential for adverse cardiovascular events among clopidogrel users taking PPI therapy in 2009. Because of these concerns, multiple meta-analyses and systematic reviews have been published.
The reason for concern regarding potential vitamin B12 deficiency in PPI users derives from the fact that the first step in cobalamin absorption requires gastric acid and pepsin in order to release cobalamin from dietary proteins. In two recent reviews, there was no supporting clinical evidence to document the development of B12 deficiency in chronic PPI users (100,101). However, recent studies have suggested that in elderly institutionalized long-term PPI users, B12 deficiency is more likely to develop and should be considered in this cohort.
Gastric acid is necessary to allow absorption of non-heme iron and also enhances iron salt dissociation from ingested food. Iron deficiency anemia has been reported in patients with atrophic gastritis, gastric resection, or vagotomy. There currently is no data demonstrating the development of iron deficiency anemia in normal subjects on PPI therapy (100).
By their effects in increasing gastric pH levels, the usage of PPIs may encourage growth of gut microflora and increase susceptibility to organisms including Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli, Clostridium difficile, Vibrio cholerae, and Listeria. A systematic review published in 2011 found an increased susceptibility in PPI users for Salmonella infections (adjusted RR ranging from 4.2–8.3 in two studies), Campylobacter (RR 3.5–11.7 in four studies) and C. difficile infections (RR 1.2–5.0 in 17 out of 27 studies demonstrating a positive association) (102). The studies failing to demonstrate an association were predominantly in older patients >65 years of age where because of the presence of co-morbid conditions and associated hypochlorhydria, the addition of PPI therapy did not raise the risk of infection. On the basis of the available evidence, PPI usage can be a risk factor for Clostridium difficile and other enteric infections and should be used with care in patients at risk.
An increased risk for community-acquired pneumonia cannot be clearly documented in association with PPI therapy. A systematic review identified 31 studies (five case–control studies, three cohort studies, and 23 randomized controlled trials) (103). A meta-analysis of the eight observational studies showed that the overall risk of pneumonia was higher among patients using PPIs (adjusted odds ratio (OR) 1.27, 95% CI 1.11–1.46) and H2RAs (adjusted OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.09–1.36). However, when the randomized controlled trial data were analyzed, only use of H2RAs was associated with an elevated risk of hospital-acquired pneumonia (RR 1.22, 95% CI 1.01–1.48) A more recent meta-analysis (six nested case–control studies) found an increased risk of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) associated with PPI usage (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.12–1.65), but the results were confounded by significant heterogeneity (104). In exploratory subgroup analysis, short duration of use was associated with an increased odds of CAP (OR 1.92 (95% CI 1.40–2.63), P=0.003), whereas chronic use was not (OR 1.11 (95% CI 0.90–1.38), P<0.001). Other studies have also demonstrated an increased risk of CAP associated only with short-term PPI usage (105,106). In summary, PPI therapy should not be withheld in patients requiring therapy due to a potential risk of CAP; however, the diagnosis of pneumonia and timing of initiation of PPI therapy deserves further study.
Reduction in gastric acid has been associated with decreased release of ionized calcium from calcium salts and protein-bound calcium. Although some physiologic data have suggested that PPIs might inhibit osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, clinical studies have rendered mixed results. In the Manitoba Bone Mineral Density Database, the study with the longest follow-up to date (107), cases with osteoporosis at the hip or lumbar vertebrae were matched to three controls with normal bone mineral density. PPI use over the previous 5 years was not associated with having osteoporosis at either the hip (OR 0.84; 95% CI, 0.55–1.34) or the lumbar spine (OR 0.79; 95% CI, 0.59–1.06), and it was concluded that the association between PPI use and hip fracture was probably related to factors independent of osteoporosis. A 2010 case–control study demonstrated that the excess hip fracture risk among PPI users was only present in persons with at least one other risk factor (108). Two meta-analyses published in 2011 demonstrated small increases in risk of hip fracture (OR 1.2) but were limited by substantial heterogeneity among studies included (109,110).
In 2009, the FDA issued a warning regarding the potential for increased adverse cardiovascular events in concomitant users of PPI and clopidogrel therapy, particularly among users of omeprazole, lansoprazole, and esomeprazole. The concern arises from the fact that the antiplatelet activity of clopidogrel requires activation by CYP 2C19, the same pathway required for metabolism of some PPIs. Initial studies raised concern for a potential interaction based on in vitro tests demonstrating that clopidogrel’s ability to inhibit platelet aggregation was decreased in the presence of PPIs (111,112). Subsequent retrospective studies yielded conflicting results with some publications suggesting an increased risk for cardiovascular events (113,114,115) and others showing lack of effect (116,117). In two randomized controlled trials, PPIs did not increase the risk of adverse events in patients receiving clopidogrel (118,119). Meta-analyses have demonstrated that the strength of potential interactions is dependent upon the assessment of clinical outcomes, adjustment for confounders, and data quality. For example, in a meta-analysis including 26 studies (16 published articles, 10 abstracts), the authors divided the analyses between primary outcomes (myocardial infarction, stroke, stent occlusion, or death) and secondary outcomes (re-hospitalization for cardiac symptoms or revascularization procedures) (120). Clinical data from the two randomized controlled trials which included usage of all PPIs except for dexlansoprazole did not show an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular events (risk difference, RD 0.0, 95%CI −0.01, 0.01). The meta-analysis of primary outcomes showed a RD of 0.02 (95% CI 0.01, 0.03) for all studies. The meta-analysis for secondary outcomes yielded a RD of 0.02 (95% CI 0.01–0.04) based on 19 published papers and abstracts. When primary and secondary outcomes were combined, the meta-analysis for published papers yielded an overall RD of 0.05 (95% CI 0.03–0.06). The authors concluded that in patients using concomitant clopidogrel and PPI therapy, the risk of adverse cardiac outcomes was 0% based on data from well-controlled randomized trials. Data from retrospective studies and the addition of probable vascular events significantly increased the RD estimates, likely due to lack of adjustment for potential confounders (76). Subsequent meta-analyses have concluded that the data from two randomized trials did not support an adverse effect, and that analysis of cardiovascular events from the remainder of the studies was limited by moderate-substantial heterogeneity (121,122).
GERD can be considered as a potential co-factor in patients with asthma, chronic cough, or laryngitis. Careful evaluation for non-GERD causes should be undertaken in all of these patients. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence).
A diagnosis of reflux laryngitis should not be made based solely upon laryngoscopy findings (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence).
A PPI trial is recommended to treat extraesophageal symptoms in patients who also have typical symptoms of GERD. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Upper endoscopy is not recommended as a means to establish a diagnosis of GERD-related asthma, chronic cough, or laryngitis. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Reflux monitoring should be considered before a PPI trial in patients with extraesophageal symptoms who do not have typical symptoms of GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence).
Non-responders to a PPI trial should be considered for further diagnostic testing, and are addressed in the refractory GERD section below. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Surgery should generally not be performed to treat extraesophageal symptoms of GERD in patients who do not respond to acid suppression with a PPI. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
The spectrum of clinical presentations attributed to GERD has expanded from typical esophageal symptoms of heartburn and regurgitation, to an assortment of extraesophageal manifestations including respiratory and laryngeal symptoms. Several epidemiological studies have identified an association between GERD and these extraesophageal symptoms, but causality cannot be inferred from these studies. A systematic review of 28 studies found that symptoms of GERD and abnormal 24-h pH monitoring were present in 59% and 51% of asthma patients, but concluded that there was little data to clarify the direction of causality in this association (123). Cohort studies suggest that GERD may be the cause in 21–41% of chronic nonspecific cough (124). A large VA population case–control study found increased odds ratios for pharyngitis (OR 1.60), aphonia (OR 1.81), and chronic laryngitis (OR 2.01) in cases with esophagitis or esophageal stricture compared with controls (125). The Montreal Consensus recognized established associations between GERD and asthma, chronic cough, and laryngitis, while acknowledging that these disorders frequently have a multi-factorial etiology and that gastro-esophageal reflux may be a co-factor rather than a cause. The Montreal consensus also recognized the rarity of extraesophageal syndromes occurring in isolation without concomitant typical symptoms of GERD (3). Currently available diagnostic tools to establish GERD as the cause of extraesophageal symptoms have serious limitations, and recent placebo-controlled trials have failed to show a clear therapeutic benefit of PPIs in treating all-comers with extraesophageal symptoms. Therefore, patients with asthma, chronic cough, or laryngitis should have careful evaluation for non-GERD causes. GERD should be viewed as a possible contributing factor in some but not all patients presenting with these clinical entities.
Diagnosing GERD as the cause of extraesophageal symptoms has proven to be very challenging. Upper endoscopy can document the presence of GERD when erosive esophagitis is present, but it is found in only one third of patients with GERD symptoms (126) and is even rarer after treatment with PPIs (59). Even when present, finding erosive esophagitis does not establish a diagnosis of GERD-related asthma, chronic cough, or laryngitis.
Ambulatory reflux monitoring can confirm the presence of GERD by documenting a pathological amount of gastroesophageal reflux. Current consensus is that the total percentage of time the pH is <4 is the most useful single discriminator between physiologic and pathologic reflux (127). There is great variability in the reported prevalence of abnormal pH monitoring in patients with asthma (123), chronic cough (128), and laryngitis (129). Similar to the finding of erosive esophagitis on endoscopy, documentation of pathological reflux on ambulatory monitoring does not establish GERD as the cause of the extraesophageal symptoms. On the other hand, a negative reflux monitoring test should direct the diagnostic effort toward non-GERD etiologies. Beyond establishing the presence of pathological reflux, ambulatory reflux monitoring may be used to determine whether the patient’s symptoms are due to reflux. The two most commonly used methods to evaluate the temporal association between reflux episodes and symptoms are the symptom index (SI) (130) and the symptom-association probability (SAP) (131). Both methods rely on precise and timely symptom recording by the patient, along with accurate reflux detection by the testing device. Symptom association analysis performed during reflux monitoring may document a temporal association between reflux episodes and asthma attacks or cough events. The sensitivity and specificity of symptom association analysis tools is limited and there are no outcome studies to support treatment of extraesophageal GERD based on this parameter alone (127). A recent study of 237 patients with extraesophageal reflux symptoms that were refractory to PPI, found that the presence of heartburn or abnormal acid exposure on pH monitoring predicted response to escalation of therapy, but the SI, SAP, or impedance variables did not (132). The recent development of ambulatory reflux-cough monitoring by combining impedance-pH to measure reflux (acid or nonacid) along with acoustic detection of cough, which eliminates the subjectivity of patient-reported cough, has enabled a more accurate assessment of the relationship between reflux and cough; a recent study using this approach was able to document reflux-induced cough as well as cough-induced reflux (133). Whether these technical improvements increase the yield of symptom association analysis in patients with cough attributed to reflux requires further studies.
Laryngoscopic findings, especially edema and erythema, are often used to diagnose reflux-induced laryngitis (134). It should be pointed out that laryngoscopy revealed one or more signs of laryngeal irritation in over 80% of healthy controls in a well-done prospective study (135). Moreover, in a study of five ENT (ear, nose, and throat) physicians who blindly evaluated 120 video recordings of laryngoscopy exams, concordance among physicians was low for edema, erythema, as well as likelihood and severity of laryngopharyngeal reflux; similarly, intra-rater reliability was extremely variable for these findings (136). It is important to keep in mind that signs of laryngeal irritation may also be the result of non-GERD etiologies such as allergy, smoking, or voice abuse. Therefore, it is recommended that a diagnosis of reflux-induced laryngitis not be made based on laryngoscopy findings alone.
A course of action that is often pursued in clinical practice is to empirically prescribe acid suppression with PPIs, especially in patients with concomitant typical symptoms of GERD. Two randomized controlled trials have shown that PPIs result in improvement of various asthma outcomes (137,138). However, a meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials concluded that PPI therapy in adults with asthma results in a statistically significant but overall only a small improvement in peak expiratory flow rate, that is unlikely to be of meaningful clinical significance. Thus, there is insufficient evidence to recommend PPIs for routine asthma treatment when other GERD symptoms are absent (139). Improvement in peak expiratory flow was greater, though still modest, in the eight studies that required evidence of GERD (by symptoms, endoscopy, or reflux monitoring) compared with the three studies that did not require evidence of GERD. A meta-analysis of nine randomized controlled trials found no advantage for PPI compared with placebo for total resolution of cough (OR 0.46, 95% CI 0.19 to 1.15), although sensitivity analysis found significant improvement in cough scores in those receiving PPI (standardized mean difference −0.41, 95% CI −0.75 to −0.07) (140). The experience with treating laryngeal symptoms attributed to reflux disease is comparable. A meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled trials found that PPI therapy had no significant advantage over placebo in achieving improvement of symptoms of suspected GERD-related chronic laryngitis (RR 1.28, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.74) (141).
There are no high-quality randomized controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of laparoscopic fundoplication for the treatment of extraesophageal symptoms of GERD. A recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality review on the comparative effectiveness of GERD treatments summarized the available data on fundoplication for asthma, cough, and laryngitis (142). As explained in detail in this review, all the data on surgery for extraesophageal GERD come from surgical cohort studies with wide variation in population treated, severity of symptoms, outcome measures, surgical intervention, and duration of follow-up. Although some of these studies may show benefit, the conclusion of the review was that the strength of the evidence was insufficient, and no consistent benefit could be attributed to surgery.
On the basis of the information summarized above, PPI therapy seems reasonable in patients with asthma, chronic cough, and laryngitis who also have typical symptoms of GERD or objective evidence of GERD by endoscopy or reflux monitoring. In these patients, acid suppression with PPIs has proven to be beneficial to heal esophagitis and treat typical symptoms; whether the extraesophageal symptoms will improve is less predictable. We have few well-defined markers to predict which patients will respond to therapy. Empirical treatment for patients without typical symptoms or objective evidence of GERD thus cannot be routinely recommended. The historic recommendation is to treat patients with higher dose PPI (twice daily) than patients with typical GERD symptoms; however, this is based on uncontrolled and observational data only (143,144). Patients who are treated with PPI and who do not respond to a 2–3 month course of acid suppression can be evaluated and managed as proposed in the “refractory GERD” section. The importance of pursuing non-GERD etiologies in this group of patients is critical.
The first step in management of refractory GERD is optimization of PPI therapy. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Upper endoscopy should be performed in refractory patients with typical or dyspeptic symptoms principally to exclude non-GERD etiologies. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
In patients in whom extraesophageal symptoms of GERD persist despite PPI optimization, assessment for other etiologies should be pursued through concomitant evaluation by ENT, pulmonary, and allergy specialists (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Patients with refractory GERD and negative evaluation by endoscopy (typical symptoms) or evaluation by ENT, pulmonary, and allergy specialists (extraesophageal symptoms), should undergo ambulatory reflux monitoring (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
Reflux monitoring off medication can be performed by any available modality (pH or impedance-pH) (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence). Testing on medication should be performed with impedance-pH monitoring in order to enable measurement of nonacid reflux. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Refractory patients with objective evidence of ongoing reflux as the cause of symptoms should be considered for additional antireflux therapies that may include surgery or TLESR inhibitors. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence). Patients with negative testing are unlikely to have GERD and PPI therapy should be discontinued. (Strong recommendation, low level of evidence)
We are seeing increasing numbers of patients treated empirically with PPIs for symptoms that are suspected to be due to GERD who do not respond to these medications. The term refractory GERD encompasses a heterogeneous group of patients that may differ in symptom frequency and severity, PPI dosing regimen (once or twice daily), and response to therapy (from partial to absent). Although there is no established consensus regarding the definition of refractory GERD in terms of symptom burden, degree of therapeutic response, and PPI dose at which failure occurs, we should accept that refractory GERD is a patient-driven phenomenon (145). Not surprisingly, refractory GERD has a significant impact on QOL. A recent systematic review of nine studies found that persistent reflux symptoms on PPI therapy are associated with reduced physical and mental health-related QOL (10). Therefore, any patient who seeks consultation for bothersome symptoms that are attributable to GERD and that persist despite treatment with a PPI merits evaluation and management. As not all patients who fail to respond to PPIs will have GERD, the most important goal of the diagnostic evaluation in these patients is to differentiate those with persistent reflux as the cause of the ongoing symptoms, from those with non-GERD etiologies.
The reported proportion of patients with heartburn who do not respond to PPIs varies among studies, likely due to differing definitions of failure, dissimilar patient groups, and different medication dosing. It has been estimated that failure to control symptoms occurs in up to 40% of patients treated with a PPI (146). A recent systematic review found persistent, troublesome typical symptoms of GERD (heartburn and regurgitation) in 32%of patients in randomized primary care trials and 45% of patients in observational studies (147). The proportion of patients with extraesophageal presentations of GERD that do not respond to medication is less well documented, but the success rate of treating extraesophageal reflux symptoms is lower than that for typical symptoms (139,140,141). A recent comparison of PPI responders and non-responders found that PPI failure appears to be significantly more common in those with atypical symptoms. Additional factors associated with PPI failure were longer duration of disease, poor compliance, and obesity (63).
The first step in the management of refractory GERD is to optimize PPI therapy by confirming compliance and ensuring appropriate dosing. Poor compliance is associated with lack of response to PPI (63). Furthermore, adherence to PPI therapy was found in only 60% of patients with GERD in a large population-based VA study (148). The efficacy of PPIs (as discussed above) is generally maximized when PPIs are taken before a meal (149). Optimal PPI dosing (before meals) was seen in only 46% of 100 patients who were referred for persistent GERD symptoms despite treatment (66). A survey of 491 physicians found that nearly 70% of primary care physicians and 20% of gastroenterologists in the US advised patients to take the PPI dose at bedtime or did not believe that the relationship to meals was important (150). Therefore, any patient with refractory symptoms should be instructed regarding optimal dosing of the PPI being used. Once compliance and appropriate dosing are ensured, a single trial of a different PPI can be considered. Recent evidence from a multicenter randomized trial showed this strategy to be helpful in some patients (67). A randomized controlled trial in patients with persistent GERD symptoms despite a single daily dose of PPI, showed that increasing PPI to twice daily or switching to another PPI both resulted in symptomatic improvement in roughly 20% of patients, without a clear advantage for either strategy (151).
Patients with persistent symptoms despite optimization of PPI therapy require further work-up (Figure 1). Those with typical, esophageal symptoms should undergo endoscopy principally to exclude non-reflux esophageal disorders such as EoE, which can present with esophageal symptoms refractory to PPI and to look for the rare patient with erosive esophagitis, a finding that provides evidence of ongoing acid reflux. Although the prevalence of EoE in patients with refractory GERD in the US has not been studied, a recent Markov model found that obtaining esophageal biopsies to diagnose EoE in refractory GERD patients is cost-effective only when the prevalence of EoE is 8% or greater (152). If endoscopy is negative, as is frequently the case, the next step is to perform reflux monitoring to quantify reflux and assess the relationship between reflux episodes and the patient’s symptoms. Reflux monitoring should also be considered in patients with extraesophageal symptoms that persist despite PPI optimization and in whom non-GERD etiologies have been ruled out through pulmonary, ENT, and allergy evaluation.
Figure 1. Algorithm for the evaluation of refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
ENT, ear, nose, and throat; PPI, proton pump inhibitor.
Reflux monitoring enables further characterization of the refractory patient, as the study may reveal: (a) PPI failure with ongoing acid reflux, which will require escalation of therapy to control acid reflux (b) adequate acid control but ongoing symptomatic non-acid reflux, which may respond to specific therapy or (c) no reflux. Among refractory GERD patients with a negative reflux monitoring study, those with heartburn may be classified as having “functional heartburn” while those with extraesophageal symptoms (asthma, cough, laryngitis) will need additional or repeat work-up for non-GERD (pulmonary, allergic, ENT) etiologies.
Two key issues to consider are whether reflux monitoring should be performed after stopping PPI therapy or while on medication, and what technique to use (catheter-based pH, wireless pH, or impedance-pH). At the present time there are limited data and no clear consensus regarding the optimal testing methodology for refractory GERD. The approach to testing may be chosen based on the patient’s clinical presentation and pretest likelihood of GERD, as well as on the available technology and expertise. Reflux monitoring both off as well as on PPI offers important and clinically useful information as outlined below.
Reflux monitoring off PPI (7 days after cessation of PPI) can be performed with any of the available techniques (catheter or wireless pH, or impedance-pH). If reflux monitoring off medication is negative (normal distal esophageal acid exposure and a negative symptom-reflux association), GERD is very unlikely. In a patient with a negative test off therapy, PPIs can be stopped and the diagnostic effort should be steered toward non-GERD etiologies. On the other hand, a positive test after PPI cessation offers objective evidence of GERD but it does not provide insight regarding the reason for the failure to respond to treatment.
Reflux monitoring on PPI should be performed with impedance-pH monitoring to enable measurement of nonacid reflux. The yield of pH monitoring without impedance in a patient taking a PPI is very low because in acid-suppressed patients reflux becomes predominantly nonacid (153). In fact, pH monitoring revealed normal acid exposure in 96% of patients with refractory GERD that were tested on twice daily PPI (154). Although rare, an abnormal pH test in a patient taking a PPI (i.e. ongoing acid reflux despite treatment) is evidence of therapeutic failure or noncompliance. A negative pH test in treated patients makes ongoing acid reflux as the cause of their symptoms very unlikely, but it cannot account for the possibility of nonacid reflux, which can be measured using impedance-pH monitoring. A study that used the SI to evaluate 144 patients refractory to twice daily PPI therapy found that ongoing symptoms were related to non-acid reflux in 37% and acid reflux in 11% (155). In the remaining 52% of patients, there was no association between reflux (either acid or non-acid) and symptoms. A positive SI was more common in patients with typical symptoms (heartburn, regurgitation, and chest pain) compared with those with an atypical presentation (55% vs. 25%). A different study using the SAP in patients who were symptomatic despite PPI therapy found an association between reflux and symptoms in 37% of 60 patients; the SAP was positive due to nonacid reflux in 17%, acid reflux in 5%, and acid plus nonacid reflux in 15% (156). As demonstrated by these studies, impedance-pH testing covers all possible scenarios for persistent symptoms in a treated patient: ongoing acid reflux, ongoing non-acid reflux, or no reflux. Furthermore, a systematic review that quantified acid and nonacid (both weakly acidic and weakly alkaline) reflux in studies of GERD patients taking a PPI, found that weakly acidic reflux underlies the majority of reflux episodes in these patients and is the main cause of persistent symptoms despite PPI therapy (157). Finally, a negative impedance-pH test on medication strongly supports that the patient’s complaints are not due to reflux of any type. Needless to say, the full context of the patient (including clinical presentation, presence of hiatus hernia, endoscopy findings, and/or degree of response to therapy) always needs to be considered.
Studies comparing the yield of “off vs. on” therapy reflux monitoring in refractory GERD patients are limited. Hemmink et al. (158) concluded that testing should be performed off PPI. In contrast, Pritchett et al. (159) found that reflux monitoring on PPI may be the preferred strategy. At present no single approach can be recommended due to the heterogeneous group of patients. A recent technical review on this topic suggested that, in the absence of high-quality studies to guide this decision, the method of testing may be chosen based upon the patient’s clinical presentation (127). In patients with a low likelihood of GERD (for instance, atypical presentations without concomitant typical GERD symptoms) pH monitoring off medication may be preferred as it will enable ruling out GERD. Patients with a higher likelihood of GERD (typical symptoms, at least partial response to PPI) can be tested with impedance-pH testing on medication in search of ongoing reflux (either acid or non-acid) despite PPI. Clearly, more studies are needed to bring clarity to this issue.
Finally, it is important to stress the importance of stopping PPI therapy in patients with refractory symptoms in whom all testing is negative. In a recent study, after a negative evaluation for refractory GERD that included normal endoscopy and impedance-pH monitoring, 42% of 90 patients reported continued use of PPI despite negative results (160). This study underscores the importance of educating the patient about the need to stop PPIs once GERD has been ruled out.
There are few studies in which refractory GERD patients with documented ongoing reflux have been treated with either medication or surgery. Patients with abnormal frequency of non-acid reflux can be considered for treatment with the GABA B agonist, baclofen as this drug has been shown to decrease reflux episodes and symptoms due to all types of reflux (81,82). Unfortunately, high-quality controlled trials evaluating the role of baclofen in refractory symptoms are not available. Small uncontrolled studies have demonstrated a benefit for baclofen when used for refractory duodeno-gastro-esophageal reflux in patients with persistent symptoms on PPI therapy (81). A small observational study with limited follow-up suggested a positive symptom response to surgery in this group, but improvement in reflux control was not objectively documented (161). A more recent prospective, uncontrolled study found that 3 months after fundoplication, both the number of reflux episodes and typical symptoms of GERD (heartburn and regurgitation) improved in patients who were PPI-nonresponders (162). However, it must be pointed out that these patients are carefully selected and were not in a controlled trial. High-quality, controlled trials evaluating surgery in patients unresponsive to PPIs are lacking, so this approach is not recommended except in highly individual circumstances. In this context, performing a reflux monitoring test off PPI can confirm the presence of pathological reflux before surgery. Finally, there is no data to support the use of transoral incisionless fundoplication, or other endoscopic therapy in refractory GERD.
What are the Complications Associated with GERD?
The Los Angeles (LA) classification system should be used when describing the endoscopic appearance of erosive esophagitis (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence). Patients with LA Grade A esophagitis should undergo further testing to confirm the presence of GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Repeat endoscopy should be performed in patients with severe ERD after a course of antisecretory therapy to exclude underlying Barrett’s esophagus. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Continuous PPI therapy is recommended following peptic stricture dilation to improve dysphagia and reduce the need for repeated dilations. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Injection of intralesional corticosteroids can be used in refractory, complex strictures due to GERD. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence)
Treatment with a PPI is suggested following dilation in patients with lower esophageal ring (Schatzki) rings. (Conditional recommendation, low level of evidence).
Screening for Barrett’s esophagus should be considered in patients with GERD who are at high risk based on epidemiologic profile. (Conditional recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Symptoms in patients with Barrett’s esophagus can be treated in a similar fashion to patients with GERD who do not have Barrett’s esophagus. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Patients with Barrett’s esophagus found at endoscopy should undergo periodic surveillance according to guidelines. (Strong recommendation, moderate level of evidence)
Numerous “complications” have been associated with GERD including erosive esophagitis, stricture, and Barrett’s esophagus. Obesity has been demonstrated to be a risk factor for symptoms, ERD, BE, and adenocarcinoma (17). It may be that the presence of an abnormal waist-to-hip ratio is the greatest risk factor for the presence of BE (163). Although many classification systems for erosive esophagitis have been used in the literature, a classification system, introduced in 1994, appears to be most logical to use in practice. Using an A,B,C,D system to describe esophageal erosions, this system has been used in the largest and most modern trials. In contrast to other systems (164), the LA classification system has been tested and shown to have good inter and intraobserver variability (27). This system offers a commonality of language among endoscopists for grading this complication of GERD and is recommended as the system of choice for reporting. Erosive esophagitis is seen in a minority of patients with symptomatic GERD, with the majority of the patients having LA grade A or B esophagitis present. LA grades C and D have been described as “severe” and have the lowest healing rate with PPIs (54,165). Severe erosive esophagitis (grades C and D) is more common in the elderly and in general would relapse if maintenance therapy is not instituted. There are limited data to suggest that a columnar lined esophagus (Barrett’s esophagus) can be obscured by any grade of erosive esophagitis, most commonly it is obscured by grades C and D (166,167). On the basis of these data, a repeat endoscopy after a minimum 8-week course of PPI therapy is recommended in patients with grades C and D esophagitis and can be considered in lower grades. In patients not found to have BE on repeat endoscopy and in patients with a normal initial endoscopic examination, the utility of repeated examinations to screen for the development of BE has not been demonstrated (168). Other than the above clinical scenarios, repeating an endoscopy in GERD patients who do not demonstrate new symptoms is not recommended.
Peptic strictures are infrequent in practice, likely related to the widespread use of antisecretory therapy. Strictures tend to occur most often in Caucasians, older patients with a longer duration of untreated symptoms, and in the setting of abnormal esophageal motility (169,170). With rare exceptions (e.g. the presence of an inlet patch), true peptic strictures occur at the squamocolumnar junction. A stricture elsewhere should raise suspicion for another etiology. PPIs are clearly superior to H2-receptor antagonists and when used in a maintenance fashion improve dysphagia, decrease the need for repetitive dilations and/or prolong the interval between dilations (171,172).
Intralesional corticosteroids (40 mg of triamcinolone injected in four 1 ml aliquots) in a four quadrant pattern can be considered in peptic strictures refractory to dilation. The limited randomized controlled trials support the efficacy of steroid injection in conjunction with antisecretory therapy and dilation in tough strictures (173,174). The availability of so-called removable stents has generated enthusiasm in patients with benign esophageal strictures. These should be rarely necessary and are associated with stent migration and complications that preclude routine use in a benign peptic stricture. There appears to be no role for endoscopic incision in a typical benign peptic stricture.
Lower esophageal rings (Schatzki) are felt by many to be linked with GERD, raising the question of whether antisecretory therapy should be part of the treatment approach. Dilation remains the mainstay of treatment; however, one trial found that no patient with documented GERD (endoscopy or pH) had a recurrent Schatzki ring on PPI therapy post dilation. The same group randomized 30 patients without proven GERD to PPI or placebo and found a statistical decrease in recurrence of rings (mean follow up 43 months) in PPI-treated patients (175). This prompts many to recommend PPIs in patients with Schatzki ring, particularly if they recur.
Barrett’s esophagus is the only complication of GERD with malignant potential. Barrett’s can be found in 5 to 15% of patients who have endoscopy for symptoms of GERD (176) and tends to be seen at the higher end of this range in patients with long duration of symptoms, who are over the age of 50, male, and Caucasian. The difficulty in risk stratification is highlighted by the fact that 25% of patients with Barrett’s are women or under the age of 50 (177,178). Despite the well-identified epidemiologic risk factors there is no clear profile that mandates screening. As such, these guidelines can only recommend consideration of screening perhaps concentrating on those of higher epidemiologic risk but more importantly with an informed discussion with the patient. Although there is debate about the value of surveillance, current guidelines recommend that patients with endoscopically confirmed Barrett’s esophagus be enrolled in a surveillance program (179).
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Convergence End
Convergence: Shazam! #2
While Gotham Gaslight attacks Fawcett City with zeppelins and bombs, Captain Marvel flies over to Victorian Gotham but is attacked by the Victorian Batman — and he has a surprisingly tough time. But before long, the real bad guy makes his appearance — Mr. Atom, mentally controlling Gotham’s wonderful Victorian villains. Who will prevail, and who’s the mind behind Mr. Atom?
Verdict: Thumbs up. The high point was Batman’s Victorian rogues’ gallery. Cap and crew were reliably heroic and wondrous. The main quibble is that our heroes never really reacted the way they should’ve to Victorian Gotham’s destruction.
Convergence: Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters #2
The WWII heroes of Earth-X are up against the Nazis and a bunch of dead robot superheroes from the future. There’s a temporary truce between Plas and his allies and the Nazis, who are all, after all, humans from the same Earth. But that truce doesn’t last long when the villainous Silver Ghost figures he can take out Plas and get control of the robots for himself.
Verdict: Thumbs down. There’s basically no reason to have the Freedom Fighters in here at all. They’re strictly background players. And even if you consider Plastic Man’s origins as a straight man to all the weirdos in Jack Cole’s comics, this version of Plas just doesn’t have anything funny to react to. The art is pretty great, though.
Convergence: Booster Gold #2
The older Booster meets up with Ted Kord! There is a joyous reunion, but this Booster is terribly ill — he’s overdosed on chronal energy, so he’s aging to death at top speed. Meanwhile, the younger Booster, Rip Hunter, and Goldstar escape the Legion of Super-Heroes, but the only way to save older Booster may be to expose him to even more chronal energy, leading to a surprising transformation.
Verdict: Thumbs up. This was a lot better than I was expecting — lots of emotional heft and a wonderful surprise ending.
Today’s Cool Links:
The best news about the end of Convergence is that it opens up all of the DC multiverse again.
I think the erasure of the X-Men and Fantastic Four from Marvel’s merchandising is a fairly weird story.
The death toll for the Qatar World Cup is already staggering — and they haven’t even come close to finishing construction yet.
Need some happy in your day? Here’s a bird taking a bath in its owner’s hands.
May 29, 2015 · Filed under Booster Gold, Captain Marvel (DC), Convergence, Freedom Fighters, Plastic Man
Converging Plastic
The Convergence crossover bounces over to Earth-X, home of the Golden Age Freedom Fighters — Uncle Sam, the Ray, the Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, Black Condor, and Doll-Man — and in this continuity, their leader Plastic Man. The Nazis have taken over the world, while the Freedom Fighters try to liberate America. They successfully lure the Nazi’s pet supervillain, the Silver Ghost, to New York City — just in time for the Dome to appear and cut off everyone’s powers. The team is eventually betrayed by, of all people, Woozy Winks, but before their execution, the Dome finally comes down and everyone gets their powers back.
Verdict: I think I’ll give this one a thumbs up. Plastic Man isn’t a constant comedian — but when he was introduced in the Golden Age, he was generally the straight man for other people’s comedy. We don’t get a lot of character work with the Freedom Fighters, but what we see seems okay.
Oooo, classic Captain Marvel? Written by Jeff Parker and illustrated by Doc Shaner? Yes, I will sign up for that.
For whatever reason, the Dome over Fawcett City hasn’t been dropped yet, and the Marvels still don’t have their powers. Bulletman and Bulletgirl are still around to help, luckily, but after Billy Batson, Mary Batson, and Freddy Freeman follow Uncle Dudley and WHIZ station owner Sterling Morris after they’re acting shady, they discover that the Monster Society of Evil is still in operation, with Mr. Atom and King Kull working on deadly machines while Dr. Sivana and Ibac have been disguised as Dudley and Mr. Morris. Tawney shows up to help, but the villains still seem to have the upper hand — until the Dome finally comes down, and the heroes get their powers back! But now someone else is attacking the city…
Verdict: Thumbs up. Once again, while the Rebooted DCU can’t figure out how to make a Captain Marvel who isn’t a raging douchebag, the Elseworlds stories — like this one and the tale a few months ago from Multiversity — show that Captain Marvel is still relevant and cool and fun. Jeff Parker’s story is pretty near perfect, and Doc Shaner’s art is a beautiful blend of Golden Age style and modern technique.
Booster Gold is being held captive but is rescued by Skeets and Rip Hunter, who reveal that Booster is Rip’s father — no, wait, a Booster from another universe is Rip’s father, actually. Booster was being held prisoner in Skartaris — and in fact, just about every time traveler around was also being held captive there, too. They rescue the older Booster, the one who’s Rip’s father, along with Booster’s sister Michelle, the superheroine Goldstar. The older Booster is dying because he’s been exposed to too much chronal energy, and he now randomly teleports from one domed city to the next. The next time he teleports, the others track him to the city holding the 31st century’s Legion of Super-Heroes. Can they rescue Booster, or is it already too late?
Verdict: Thumbs down. The story is chaotic and confusing, and it isn’t helped by two Booster Golds who look almost identical.
Wow, here’s hoping for a fast recovery for awesome artist and awesome person Ty Templeton.
A phone game that lets you see your own home as a haunted house? Please no. I already have too much trouble falling asleep.
It turns out some of the “looting” photos you’re seeing are faked and likely posted by racist whites trying to make black people in Baltimore look bad.
May 1, 2015 · Filed under Booster Gold, Captain Marvel (DC), Convergence, Freedom Fighters, Plastic Man
Puzzle Quest
Booster Gold #36
The Darkstars are all set to arrest Booster, Big Barda, and Mister Miracle because they think they stole the Planet Pounder super-weapon, but the New Gods get all of them back to Earth with a Boom Tube. Unfortunately, they leave Blue Beetle behind — who’s just bedded the alien sorceress who rules the planet below, and who’s just discovered what a lying dork Ted really is. By the time Booster and Skeets are able to use Rip Hunter’s time technology to get back to Ted, he discovers that the sorceress has turned Ted into a chipmunk. And she says the spell is permanent. And then the Darkstars show up and arrest Booster and Ted, shipping them off to a high-tech space prison. They meet up with Vril Dox, who has a long-range plan to escape, but Booster wants to get out much faster than that.
Verdict: Thumbs down. Even with a chipmunk Blue Beetle, it just isn’t a lot of fun.
The New Avengers #4
There’s an invasion of interdimensional demons, and the Avengers aren’t making any progress against them. While Dr. Strange, Dr. Voodoo, and Daimon Hellstrom try to figure out what magician has the power to start a war like this, the other heroes are just entirely overwhelmed. Suddenly, the otherworldly portal vanishes, and Iron Fist, wearing a shiny new costume, is returned to Earth with the Eye of Agamotto. He’s not happy to see Dr. Strange, claiming that the Ancient One told him that Strange stole the Eye from someone.
Verdict: Thumbs down. Okay, here’s the thing. Last issue, the big cliffhanger was that the Big Bad here was the Ancient One, Dr. Strange’s old mentor, who has been dead and supposedly at-one with the universe for years. And after that big cliffhanger, we get nearly zero followup on that. That’s not the way you do this stuff. You don’t drop something that big at the end of one issue, then spend most of the next issue with a bunch of pointless slugfests. Amateur-league mistakes like this are why I really can’t believe so many people think writer Brian Michael Bendis is such a supa-genius.
September 12, 2010 · Filed under Booster Gold, New Avengers
Fun with Rhinos
Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes #5
Captain America takes on a simple mission — he’s gotten a call that someone in a small town in Montana is illegally holding a baby rhinoceros for experimentation. Does he need a hand from any of the other Avengers? Nah, simple grab-and-go mission, piece of cake. Well, he finds out that the Montana town is actually a disguised HYDRA base with 5,000 members on site. And the person who called him for help? It’s Spider-Man’s old foe, the Rhino. But does Captain America back down from something like that? HECK NO! He goes in, beats up HYDRA dorks, steals some normal clothing so he can blend in with the city full of paranoid crazy people who want to conquer the world, and hangs out with the Rhino. The problem is that the cute baby rhino named Bartleby is going to be experimented on and killed because HYDRA thinks they can make an army of guys like Rhino — he knows that isn’t possible, and especially not just by killing a cute baby rhino. So Cap has to sneak a huge, superstrong, and completely unsubtle supervillain out of town, along with a mostly defenseless baby rhino. How on earth is that going to be possible?
Verdict: Thumbs up. Really cute and fun story. Nice emphasis on Cap, and a lot of fun with both the Rhino and Bartleby. And the art is by ChrisCross, an old favorite of mine from back when he was drawing “Blood Syndicate,” so getting a nice dose of his art is definitely a bonus for me.
Booster and Skeets are in the past on a mission with Blue Beetle, Mister Miracle, and Big Barda as they try to get a magic book from a dweeby world conqueror wannabe named Hieronymous the Underachiever. Hieronymous has a trick up his sleeve — or rather in orbit, ready to destroy the planet he’s on with a giant weapon called a Planet Pounder. The Darkstars are looking for it without much success, and Hieronymous is using the Planet Pounder as blackmail to try to get the former ruler to reveal the secrets of the book to him. Can the heroes get the book, defeat Hieronymous’ minions, and stop the Planet Pounder in time?
Verdict: Thumbs up. It’s always fun to see Giffen and DeMatteis working on the old Bwa-ha-ha Justice League, and they’ve got the story moving along very well. Booster’s more recent maturity is nicely contrasted with the way his old teammates still expect him to behave.
August 18, 2010 · Filed under Booster Gold, Marvel Adventures
Substitutes and Inferiors
The Brave and the Bold #35
I’d pretty much given up on this title — J. Michael Straczynski’s storytelling skills lately have ranged from incompetent to downright insulting. But I’ve got a weakness for both the Inferior Five and the Legion of Substitute Heroes, so I shelled out the dough to check it out.
This story is closely related to a previous “Brave and the Bold” story where the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Doom Patrol teamed up to save the future Earth from a black hole. Now in the aftermath, the Legion of Substitute Heroes have decided they’d like to get some of that Saving-the-World glory for themselves, so they steal a Time Bubble to try to team up with the Doom Patrol before the Legion can. But they arrive too late, the Legion and the Doom Patrol have already left, and they have to go look for a new team to join with — in this case, the Inferior Five. So in between various time travel mishaps, trying to explain advanced quantum theory to everyone, and losing Dumb Bunny’s tail in the Time Bubble’s machinery… the Legion of Super-Heroes and Doom Patrol still save the world by themselves. Oh, well, at least the Substitutes and the Inferior Five are still friends, right?
Verdict: I think I’ll actually give this a thumbs up. The main thing a story starring the Substitute Heroes and the Inferior Five needs to have is a nice big dollop of silly, and this was a pretty darn silly story. Sure, some of the jokes get hammered just a bit too hard, but it could’ve been a heck of a lot worse.
Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine #2
Well, Spider-Man and Wolverine have gone time-traveling, getting stuck in a future where the human race has been wiped out by Doctor Doom, after uploading his intellect into a planet, but the cavemen who Wolverine trained in the distant past have managed to survive and (barely) thrive. While Spidey does what he can to teach them science and try to find a way to defeat Doom the Living Planet if it ever comes back, Wolverine has locked himself away from the world to avoid the former cavemen who now worship him. Finally, Spidey finds the one weapon that could save everyone — the Phoenix Force — and manages to forge it into a single bullet. But when it’s fired, it’s guaranteed to kill whoever pulls the trigger. When Doom makes his return, is Spidey going to be able to fire that fateful bullet?
Verdict: Thumbs up. Lots of great stuff here, including Doom, the Phoenix Bullet, and Spidey’s replacement costume. The dialogue is nice, the artwork is great, and I’m loving the crazy ideas that are getting tossed around here.
Rip Hunter tells Booster that since he rescued Rani from the future, he now has to take responsibility for her as her surrogate father. Booster isn’t ready for that responsibility, but his sister Michelle takes up the challenge. Still trying to figure out a way to stop Maxwell Lord in the past when he was a good guy, Booster takes another trip to the Justice League International days and runs into Ted Kord, who drags him along on one of his get-rich-quick schemes. Soon, Booster and Blue Beetle are on the trail of some strange thieves who stole a mystic book from the Vatican. Needing to track the thieves off-planet, they turn to Mister Miracle and Big Barda, who aren’t very enthusiastic about helping. After riding a Boom Tube to a quasi-fantasy world, they fight a dragon and come to the attention of a fairly unambitious-but-still-villainous wizard called Hieronymous the Under-Achiever. Can the heroes survive against his magical minions and enslaved subjects?
Verdict: A narrow thumbs up. I like the Bwa-Ha-Ha days of the Justice League just fine, but this doesn’t feel like one of the adventures of the new, more competent Booster Gold — it just feels like an old ’80s JLI tale. On the other hand, it is pretty funny, particularly the geeky Hieronymous.
Someone held an H.G. Wells writing contest and got no entries due to silly rules: no sci-fi allowed and handwriting required.
Bizarro Fiction sounds kinda awesome, especially the “Shatnerquake” novel.
David Brothers profiles six comics writers doing good work, including Inio Asano, Eiichiro Oda, Adam Warren, Jeff Parker, Naoki Urasawa, and Stan Sakai.
July 21, 2010 · Filed under Booster Gold, Brave and the Bold, Spider-Man, Wolverine
This whole issue won’t make a lot of sense to you if you’re not up on the current “Justice League: Generation Lost” miniseries, where Maxwell Lord has boosted his psychic powers to the point where he’s been able to erase his existence from the memory of almost everyone on Earth, except for a small number of former Justice Leaguers. (I’m not reading it ’cause it’s written by Judd Winick, who seems to work by vomiting onto his script pages, then sending that in to DC.)
Anyway, after Booster knocks the stuffing out of a Scottish supervillain named Brigadoom, Cyborg shows up and gives him a lot of hassle about the old JLI, which triggers a very satisfying verbal smackdown on Booster’s part. The incident inspires him to try to figure out a way to prove that Max Lord really did and does exist, and he hits on the idea of traveling to the past and digging up some info about him before he publically went bad. Can Booster successfully infiltrate his own past, and can he find the information he needs?
Verdict: Thumbs up. The cover makes it look a lot more dangerous than it really is — most of the perils Booster faces in the past are generally on the level of Extremely Embarrassing and less Extremely Deadly. And we get some very nice stuff with Martian Manhunter uncovering Booster’s secret identity and Black Canary looking for revenge for a drunken interview Booster gave to a lad rag.
Tony Chu, cannibal FDA agent, gets a lead on a murder case that points to a group of extremely wealthy powerbrokers who like to get together occasionally to eat endangered species. So he uses it as an opportunity to take his semi-girlfriend Amelia Mintz on a date. Dude, police business isn’t usually the most romantic settings in the world, Tony — especially when the guns and knives come out…
Verdict: Thumbs up. A good funny story, with the romantic subplot finally moving into the forefront.
Black Widow and the Vision learn of a blackmail scheme orchestrated by a couple of supervillains called Diamondhead and the Owl and, frustrated with their recent treatment by other members of the Avengers, decide to take on the case on their own.
Verdict: Thumbs up. The plot sounds a bit light, but it’s buoyed up by a lot of smaller-scale interpersonal stuff that’s really enjoyable — Vision extracting someone’s keys from a locked car, the banter between Reed and Sue, most of the interaction between Thor and Nova, and Nova’s reaction to someone else fighting “his” villain. The Vision’s anger that no one accepts his chosen name is well-done, too.
Hokey Schmokes, they’re working on a live-action TV series about the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle?! And they’ve already done screen tests?! How awesome is that?!
Project: Rooftop analyzes the new movie costumes for Captain America and Thor.
What happens when young children play “Grand Theft Auto”? You might be surprised…
June 16, 2010 · Filed under Booster Gold, Chew, Marvel Adventures
Buy Gold Now!
Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis — the much-beloved team from the “Bwa-Ha-Ha” days of the “Justice League” comics — are back together writing Booster’s adventures now. Since they basically created Booster back in the mid-1980s, this could be really spectacularly cool… or really spectacularly awful.
Booster is stranded on the planet Daxam in the 30th century. His armor and equipment have been badly damaged because he showed up in the middle of the Great Darkness Saga, where three billion brainwashed Daxamites reshaped the planet with heat vision into the image of Darkseid. Booster is trying to assist some stranded alien tourists as they all attempt to survive the Daxamite barrage. Unfortunately, the shelter they locate is actually a deserted prison — or rather, an almost deserted prison. The one inmate who stuck around the diabolical Emerald Empress. Is Booster going to be able to beat one of the most powerful members of the Fatal Five and save all the tourists when he’s stuck without most of his powers?
Verdict: Thumbs up. It’s funny — and it could’ve gone the old familiar route of making Booster a complete idiot for solely comedic purposes. But they didn’t do that, thank goodness. Booster’s still a competent hero — but he’s funny, has his share of flaws and ego, and doesn’t get much respect from anyone. And it’s got its share of drama and action, too. If Giffen and DeMatteis can keep that mix right, they’re going to have a really great comic book on their hands.
Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers Unleashed #3
All the mythological creatures get deposited in Central Park, leaving it up to the Pet Avengers to keep them all from running wild. And even worse, the immense monster that chased them all here is preparing to break through into our world, too. Can even the combined power of the Pet Avengers and all the mythological creatures stand a chance of defeating the monster? And even if they can, is something even worse on the way?
Verdict: Thumbs up. A nice all-ages story, with lots of chaos, action, and humor.
Ragnell ponders the absolute disaster of the Sentry’s insultingly dumb funeral.
A French student film that is actually pretty darn scary!
Ye gods! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
May 19, 2010 · Filed under Booster Gold, Pet Avengers
Fellowship of the Rings
The Blackest Night is over, and the primary representatives of the various Lantern corps are continuing on with their lives. While Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris try to figure out if they can continue their always-stormy relationship, Sinestro reveals that a white power battery has appeared and demanded to to see Hal. Saint Walker helps the Flash rebury the dead of Coast City, a mysterious someone from Sector 666 is holding secret telepathic conversations with Hector Hammond, and Larfleeze gets manipulated by Lex Luthor. All that, plus Atrocitus is making some very surprising new allies.
Verdict: Thumbs up. The story is fine, if a bit all over the place. Doug Mahnke’s art is what really makes this issue sing. From the blasted surface of the dead planet Ryut, to Hal and Carol flirting in a bar, to Saint Walker’s benedictions in the cemetery, to Sayd‘s look of sorrow as Larfleeze’s captive Guardian, to Luthor’s beautifully thoughtful and evil expressions — they’re all rendered just about as perfectly as I could ever imagine them. There’s no way DC is paying Mahnke enough for work this gorgeous.
Stephanie saves a train from a mad — okay, mostly just angry — bomber, while Barbara Gordon continues mentoring the recently-paralyzed Wendy, brother of the late Marvin and daughter of the Calculator. Wendy is generally hostile to getting any help beyond just fixing up electronics. But the Calculator has some evil new plans, including a new binary nanite system that can control and kill people over the phone, and some all-new and all-crazy plans to get rid of Oracle once and for all.
Verdict: Thumbs up. Great and fun superheroics, with plenty of excellently crafted action, dialogue, characterization, and suspense, courtesy of writer Bryan Q. Miller, and some outstanding action-packed and downright cinematic artwork from Lee Garbett.
This is Dan Jurgens’ last issue on this title. Booster and Skeets head into the city to beat up some high-tech thieves. Booster is still angry about having to help ensure the past destruction of Coast City in the last issue, as well as being worried about his sister Michelle, who is still upset at the death of her boyfriend in the same disaster. Unfortunately, Booster isn’t paying close attention, and he accidentally deflects an energy blast the wrong way and kills a little girl’s dog. He can’t console the girl or replace the dog, and he leaves the scene feeling like he’s still a colossal failure. Can Booster make peace with his sister and make amends for the dog’s accidental death?
Verdict: Thumbs up. This series has had its problems, but this is a pretty nice issue, mainly because it’s low-key and simple, with more emphasis on emotions and character than on convoluted time travel.
Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! #15
Freddy Freeman has accepted power from Black Adam, turning himself into Black Adam Junior. Captain Marvel and Black Adam battle clear to Egypt, neither able to hurt the other, while Adam seeks a scarab necklace that he believes will make him vastly more powerful. Mary, meanwhile, alternately beats up on Freddy and tries to talk some sense into him. Eventually, Mary and Mr. Tawny go to see if the wizard can help out, leaving Cap to take on Adam and Freddy solo.
Verdict: Ehh, neither one. It seems perfectly well done, but it’s just not keeping me interested.
Oh, one final note: y’all be here tomorrow — I got a special announcement to make…
April 22, 2010 · Filed under Batgirl, Booster Gold, Captain Marvel (DC), Green Lantern
It's a Dog-Eat-Dog World…
The Central Park Zoo is the worst-run zoo in the country — or so Marvel Comics would have us believe. Ms. Lion, a small white dog with boy parts and a girl’s name, manages to free not one, but TWO hippos, all without the slightest interference from zoo personnel. Hairball, meanwhile, makes like the least competent animal superhero ever, either refusing to help or just getting freaked out about water. When both of them suddenly get a psychic impression that Frog Thor has mysteriously vanished, they are soon joined by the rest of the Pet Avengers — Lockjaw, Zabu, Redwing, and Lockheed. From there, they go on to accidentally terrorize an innocent frog before learning that Frog Thor has left the Central Park frog tribe on an unknown quest. The rest of the Pet Avengers decide to use their telepathic link to try to find where he went — and they end up in the arctic wastes. What on earth can they hope to find here?
Verdict: Thumbs up, despite some of the silliness of the plot. It’s a fun, goofy, all-ages story with a bunch of (mostly) appealing characters.
Booster and Skeets are at ground zero in the upcoming destruction of Coast City. Mongul and the Cyborg Superman have dropped 77,000 bombs all over the city and are minutes away from blowing the city to smithereens. Sondra Crain, a time traveler trying to stop the city’s destruction, gets sent back into the future with a little girl after Skeets determines that neither of them are in the records of the people who were killed in the disaster. Booster tangles briefly with the Cyborg Superman, then runs into his sister Michelle, traveling on her own through time and stuck here with her boyfriend. Is there going to be enough time to save everyone?
Verdict: Thumbs down. It’s just so blasted boring. I mean, when this series is on, it’s very good. But when it’s not on, it’s just spectacularly dull. And there are so very many comics that have been so much better that still haven’t been able to get enough readers to stave off cancellation…
March 22, 2010 · Filed under Booster Gold, Pet Avengers
Booster Shots
Booster’s sister Michelle is stuck in the past, living in Coast City, and finally remembering that the entire place is about to be destroyed by Mongul and the Cyborg Superman. Meanwhile, Booster and Rip Hunter have figured out that the renegade time traveler who tried to kill Hank Henshaw last issue is going to try to stop him from blowing up Coast City, no matter what damage may occur to the timestream. Booster reluctantly goes to stop her — he’d prefer to save Coast City, too — but it may already be too late. And our backup story focuses on Jaime Reyes, the Blue Beetle. The Scarab armor has gone bad and taken Jaime over — it’s planning on doing whatever it can to destroy the world, and only Paco, Brenda, Traci Thirteen, and Peacemaker have a chance to stop him.
Verdict: Thumbs up. The Booster story is fine, but I wanna talk about the Blue Beetle backup story. It ends well, of course — except that this is the final Blue Beetle backup story in the “Booster Gold” comic. This is rotten news — I’ve enjoyed most of the Booster stories, but the fact remains that the stories about Jaime, his friends, and family have generally been of higher quality. Jaime deserves a place in the DCU outside of occasional guest appearances or in the spectacularly awful “Teen Titans” comic. Hopefully, someone at DC will get smart and give him back a regular ongoing title again.
Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes #20
It’s the current crop of Avengers — Captain America, the Vision, Iron Man, the Invisible Woman, Thor, Black Widow, and Nova — against Diablo, an immortal alchemist. Diablo beats Iron Man like a drum while the rest of the team is running around New York trying to locate them — and they’re being attacked by gigantic fire and stone elementals. Will the team be able to save Iron Man, stop Diablo, and discover who has been causing emotional freakouts all over the world?
Verdict: I’ll give it a thumbs up. Nothing entirely outstanding, but there was nothing seriously wrong with it either. There are a few really nice character moments in here, and Diablo makes a very threatening villain.
February 16, 2010 · Filed under Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Marvel Adventures
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Name: David Ellis
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Born: 1967 in Downers Grove, Illinois
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-- Website -- http://www.davidellis.com
-- David Ellis on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=david+ellis
E-Mail: -- Dave@DavidEllis.com
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Ellis was born in Downers Grove and graduated from University of Illinois and Northwestern University Law School. He currently resides outside Chicago.
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David Ellis is a lawyer and award-winning author of over a dozen novels. As a lawyer, Dave prosecuted and convicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in the Impeachment trial before the Illinois Senate. He has served as Special Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and argued dozens of cases at the trial and appellate levels, specializing in constitutional law. In December, 2014, Ellis was sworn in as the youngest-serving Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District.
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-- Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, 2002
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-- 2016 ILLINOIS READS Book
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Breach of trust
ISBN: 9781101486351. OCLC Number: 773612256
G.P. Putnam's Sons,. .
Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths.
Breach of trust /
ISBN: 0425245861. OCLC Number: 712116991
Eye of the beholder /
ISBN: 0399154337. OCLC Number: 79001592
Having built a successful career based on his famous prosecution of a serial killer fifteen years earlier, attorney Paul Riley realizes that his past case has eerie ties to a new series of murders and that the killer has an agenda aimed specifically at Paul himself.
Eye of the Beholder.
Brilliance Audio. .
Guilty wives :
Little, Brown and Co.,. .
No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. What happened last night? In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create--
Vision,. .
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival.
In the company of liars /
A thriller told in reverse centers on a woman who is undergoing a murder trial overseen by a prosecutor who is strongly pursuing a death penalty and an FBI agent who would force the defendant to betray her family.
In the Company of Liars.
Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emma's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison Books Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emma finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day - and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
Invisible /
On leave from her FBI researcher career, Emmy Dockery tries to convince her boyfriend that hundreds of unsolved cases are linked to a single perpetrator.
Jury of one
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Jury of one /
Shelly Trotter, an able and determined lawyer and a children's rights advocate, is thrust into a world in which she's completely unschooled -- the criminal court. Her client is a seventeen-year-old accused of killing a policeman, and she begins to suspect that he may have been involved in an undercover operation to entrap dirty cops, though his role in the scheme remains unclear. Was he the target or the bait -- and what does the prosecution really have against him?
Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politition, his childhood best friend - who is running for governor.
Life sentence /
Years after a party that resulted in a teen's death, Jon Soliday, legal counsel to a politician and close childhood friend who is running for governor, realizes with horror that his fellow partygoers are being killed off.
Quercus,. .
Line of vision /
Marty Kalish was already "suffocating in the heat of an affair with a married woman" when she tells him that a stranger broke into the house and shot her husband. The police arrest Marty as a suspect when they learn that he was outside the house that night.--Jacket.
Little, Brown and Company,. .
Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone is out to stop Ben from uncovering the truth about Diana's illicit affairs--Publisher's web site.
Mistress /
"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone is out to stop Ben from uncovering the truth about Diana's illicit affairs"--Publisher's web site.
Murder house
The large house on the beach front in Bridgehampton has an infamous history. An elderly couple died in a fire that destroyed the building, but everyone in town knows that the fire was no accident - it was murder. The house was rebuilt, but the horror of the events that took place there still remains. And now two more dead bodies have been found in the ill-fated house - a young couple brutally killed. The police arrest local resident Noah Walker, but have they got the right man? And what other secrets could the murder house be hiding?
Jason Kolarich is a midwestern everyman with a linebacker's build and an easy smart-ass remark. He's a young, intelligent, and successful attorney; but he's also struggling with a horrific tragedy that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of everyone he holds dear.--From publisher's description.
The hidden man /
Berkley Prime Crime,. .
Attorney Jason Kolarich is a Midwestern everyman with a lineman's build and an easy sarcastic remark. He's young, intelligent, and driven, but he's also saddled with an overwhelming emotional burden, one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of those around him.
The Hidden Man.
The last alibi
The last alibi /
Berkley Publishing,. .
Imbibing in drugs, alcohol and casual sex after a traumatic case, Jason Kolarich resists the advances of a beautiful woman who is not who she seems at the same time he is hired to defend a serial killer who subsequently disappears in the wake of violent attacks.
The murder house /
No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multimillion-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been back since she was a girl. Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, the former New York City cop hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity. But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experienced in Manhattan. And what at first seems like an open and shut case turns out to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder House itself, as Jenna quickly realizes that the mansion's history is much darker than even the town's most salacious gossips could have imagined. As more bodies surface, and the secret that Jenna has tried desperately to escape closes in on her, she must risk her own life to expose the truth -- before the Murder House claims another victim.
The wrong man
The wrong man /
When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he has no real memory of the crime. But as Kolarich digs deeper, he realizes that, unlikely as it seems, his client is probably innocent. Only days before her death, the murdered paralegal had stumbled onto something she wasn't supposed to know ... information that someone would kill to keep secret. Her murder was no random crime but a targeted hit, and the wrong man was charged. As Jason Kolarich races to discover the truth in time to save his client, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery involving the Mob, a mysterious assassin known only as "Gin Rummy," and a conspiracy of wealthy international terrorists with explosive plans for his city. With thousands of lives at stake, Kolarich has more on the line than ever before ... and time is running out.
A service of the Illinois State Library and Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian
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Check out the latest additions to the oldest Imogen Poots gallery on the web hosting over 45,000 photos!
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Grace -- Released (2017)
Grace and Adam had never met until their mother died. To Grace she was a stranger. To Adam she was everything.
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A young drifter ages out of foster care at 18 and discovers the perils and temptations of a life apart. An unlikely friend must help our hero return to the right road.
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Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei, in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
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A young woman and her fiance are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple becomes trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
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A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
Castle in the Ground
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A teenager after the untimely death of his mother, befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.
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Middle-aged Dominick Birdsey recounts his troubled relationship with Thomas, his paranoid schizophrenic twin brother, and his efforts to get him released from an asylum.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Y is the last surviving male human on the planet. Based on the comic series "Y: The Last Man."
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Don’t forget how you felt the next time this happens
December 13, 2018 December 13, 2018 Venkat Raman
Laura O’Connell Rapira
Auckland (RNZ) December 13, 2018
Grief for Grace and her whānau. Sadness at the state of our country. Anger at people who retort ‘not all men’ instead of listening.
Mamae (hurt) that when women from marginalised backgrounds are killed, there is no Prime Ministerial apology or round-the-clock media coverage.
Yet all of the women I know who are organising vigils and campaigns in response to the death of Grace Millane are the same women who organise, write about and work with (and/or are) survivors of gender-based violence themselves.
Thousands of people kept vigil across Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin (RNZ Photo by Katie Scotcher)
They are the same women who work to raise public consciousness about access to safe and legal abortion or fully funded and culturally appropriate sexual and domestic violence support and prevention services.
Hurt and frustration
Understandably, there has been some hurt and frustration from some people with first-hand experience of gender-based violence about the public outpouring of love for Grace compared with the attention we pay to Māori, migrant, trans or disabled women who are killed in this country. Disabled women are about twice as likely to be victims of violence or abuse compared to other women. Māori are three times more likely to be killed by a partner than non-Māori.
But the truth is, a majority of the population are able-bodied and Pākehā.
They see their children and friends in Grace. They see their daughter who is backpacking in Europe. They see themselves.
Sickening reality
Grace’s killing was also allegedly at the hands of a stranger, which is different from most gender-based violence which occurs at the hands of an intimate partner. A sickening reality which perhaps we have come to accept as “normal”? It should not be normal.
Grace’s death also happened close to Christmas, when people are thinking about whānau.
The story got news coverage because we kept clicking.
It struck a chord, so journalists kept writing.
I am not saying any of this is okay. We should be able to empathise with people who are different to us. But it’s important to think about context.
Desire to be angry
I understand, and sometimes share, the desire to be angry at people for their selective empathy. The hurt is valid and real. Especially for those who work tirelessly for the prevention of violence, and the support of its victims and survivors, only to hit wall after wall of indifference and ignorance.
Just last week, Shakti, a refuge for women of Asian, African and Middle Eastern origin, delivered a petition to Parliament to save their Wellington safe house from closure due to a lack of funding and support.
Shakti was started after the murder of two migrant women and is the only refuge for migrant and refugee women in the greater Wellington region.
Violent New Zealand
Those of us who engage regularly in solutions to gender-based violence were sadly not that shocked about what happened to Grace because we know how violent this country is.
We know that it was founded on colonial violence and that legacy continues today.
But we also know the solutions that are needed to transform our society to one that centres aroha (love), compassion, care, healing and support.
Values and solutions needed
Now is the time when our country needs the vision, values and solutions proposed by those on the front lines of the work to prevent, treat and end violence against women.
My plea to those who are wondering where were the vigils for our Māori, trans, disabled, rural and migrant of colour women is to please keep guiding us with your wisdom.
We need it now more than ever.
And to those who don’t usually engage in the campaigns and conversations about ending violence against women, please don’t forget how Grace made you feel this week.
We hope you continue to stand with us for a country free of violence and harm. We desperately need your help to do it.
Laura O’Connell Rapira (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Ruahine, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whakaue) is the Director of ActionStation. Indian Newslink has published the above Report and Picture under a Special Agreement with www.rnz.co.nz
Murdered woman’s father thanks Kiwis for their outpouring of love
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U S WEST Dex Internet Yellow Pages said it recently reached agreement with 19 additional newspapers to serve as the Internet Yellow Pages for their online versions.
Dex is the multimedia advertising arm of U S WEST Inc. More than simply links, the agreements involve reciprocal integration of the U S WEST Dex brand and content with that of each of the newspapers.
The alliances are with the Star Tribune (Minneapolis and St. Paul), the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News (Salt Lake City), The Forum (Fargo, ND), The Chronicle (Centralia, WA) and Duluth, MN-based Murphy McGinnis Media, which publishes 14 newspapers. Last year, Dex formed alliances with the Albuquerque Journal, The Arizona Republic and The Denver Post.
At the Dex site, integration with the newspapers means that when a user performs a search of any kind involving a newspaper's area, the appropriate newspaper's logo and connections to specific sections of the newspaper are made available to users.
At the newspapers' sites, integration with U S WEST Dex's site means that no matter where users are, they can conduct a Yellow Pages search, via a co-branded search page, to get business listings information, or connect directly to uswestdex.com to utilize additional site features.
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IPS Africa led a team of reporters that produced ten days of outstanding coverage of the climate change negotiations that took place in Durban, South Africa over the past weeks. During the last four days of the official negotiations a twelve-page printed TerraViva supplement was included daily as part of The New Age newspaper, distributed inside the conference hall to the delegates and to its usual readership across KwaZulu Natal province.
The supplement also highlighted the work of an IPS partnership with South Africa’s Media Development and Diversity Agency to support community media to cover COP17. Nine reporters from community newspapers across South Africa attended IPS Africa training and then provided daily coverage of COP17 issues.
This coverage was complemented by a COP 17 side event in partnership with Durban University of Technology’s school of journalism to review community media coverage of climate change. “We are sitting on the deficit of knowledge in terms of understanding climate change,” said MDDA Board Member Phelisa Nkomo. Nkomo was joined on the panel by Ann Lamont, Greenpeace Africa Executive Director, and Paula Fray, Regional Director of Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa. Advocate Robin Sewlal, from the Durban University of Technology where the event took place, served as moderator.
Other African newspapers across the continent also welcomed the coverage. Apart from the good print story uptake, the multi-media work was well-received too. The daily radio diary was re-tweeted by UNDP’s Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, just one of hundreds of re-tweets sharing the IPS news out of Durban. In December 2011 IPS’s feed @ipsenvironment was cited as one of the top 50 green experts to follow on twitter.
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IPS looks forward to continuing its focus on environment and development at the Rio + 20 conference in Brazil in June 2012 and at COP 18 in Qatar.
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Jenn's Pick: Top 10 Christmas Episodes of a TV Comedy Series
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I love Christmas.
I love everything about the holiday: the music, the lights, the warm feeling you get whenever you look out your window and see snow spiraling onto the pavement. Or, in my case, whenever you don a pair of sunglasses and tank top and head outside to soak up the 85-degree weather.
(Ah, Florida.)
Nevertheless, Christmastime is my favorite time of year, and nearly every television show makes the decision to do a Christmas-themed episode. I’ve narrowed down my list to ten of my favorite yuletide episodes in comedy series. It was difficult to choose because there are SO many amazing Christmas episodes out there, but I feel pretty good about my selection. So what episodes made my “nice” list?
Grab some Christmas cookies, hot chocolate, and cuddle up with my top ten favorite Christmas-themed comedy episodes!
10. "Express Christmas" (Modern Family)
I know that Modern Family gets a lot of flak during awards season and throughout the year for being perpetually nominated (and winning) nearly every category it can possibly be nominated for. And I think I’m prone to become bitter toward shows like these because of the sheer fact that MY favorite shows never receive nominations or awards that are deserved. Nevertheless, I don’t hate Modern Family. I actually quite enjoy the series and find myself laughing quite frequently.
“Express Christmas” is one of the best Christmas episodes of a comedy series (obviously, since it made it onto my list) because of this: it pulled together perfectly hilarious plotlines but ended with such heart and sentiment that it made me cry. The episode centers around the family realizing that because of cancelled and changed plans, that day – December 16th – is the last day they will all be together until after the holiday. Phil decides that because of that fact, they should make December 16th their Christmas and pull together an entire holiday in one day. It’s “express Christmas.” So the family splits into factions: Mitch and Alex search for a tree; Gloria and Luke find ornaments and decorations; Claire and Haley go Christmas shopping at Target; Phil and Manny get the groceries; and Cam and Jay wrap presents. I actually loved the way that “Express Christmas” split the family into pairs that are unexpected but work on such a fundamentally hilarious level (Gloria and Luke running over the Christmas tree angel and Mitch and Alex bonding over shopping are some of the best stories in the episode).
But what really gets me is this: “express Christmas” (the concept, not the episode) fails miserably. Mitch and Alex’s tree gets run over so they return home with it in pieces. Phil doesn’t have a turkey to cook for the family. Jay and Cam are at odds and Mitch discovers the broken Christmas tree angel. The entire family is disappointed because it was their last chance to spend a holiday together and it was ruined. When Jay suggests that they just cut their losses and go to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate instead, something amazing happens: the family exits the house to see fake snow everywhere, Jay’s doing. And the episode closes with Gloria saying this:
Family is family. Whether it’s the one you start out with, the one that you end up with or the family that you gain along the way. Which makes every day December 16th.
(And then I cried. Because when Modern Family nails the emotional moments, it really nails them.)
9. "Our Very First Christmas Show" (Full House)
I grew up on Full House (no surprise there since I’m a 90s kid), and my absolute favorite Christmas episode was the first one. The Tanners get snowed in at the airport and are forced to spend Christmas with a bunch of strangers at the baggage claim area. Everyone is disappointed in this, but no one – perhaps – more so than Stephanie, who is convinced that Santa won’t find her at the airport. Danny admits to D.J. that the airline lost the bag with the Christmas presents in them, which only serves to disappoint his eldest daughter. But then Jesse – the typical bah-humbug of the family who doesn’t care much for sap or sentiment – delivers this amazing speech and it reminds us all of exactly WHAT Christmas is about:
What's the matter with you people? The first Christmas was in a manger. They did okay. I mean, so what if we're stuck in this crummy dump? Christmas isn't about presents, or Santa Claus, or cows. It's about a feeling. It's about-- it's about people. It's about us forgetting about our problems and reaching out to help other people. Christmas doesn't have to happen in one certain place. It happens in our hearts. So if you think about it, we could have Christmas anywhere.
The entire baggage claim area then decides that they will celebrate Christmas together. The next morning, the real Santa Claus shows up and finds the missing gifts for everyone. I just… I love Full House so much because it was such an uplifting, wonderful family-centered show. And their first Christmas episode was a bottle episode that focused on the meaning of the holiday and also served to provide great humor and heart.
And you wonder why it’s my favorite 90s sitcom?
8. "Symphony of Illumination" (How I Met Your Mother)
I’ve already talked about “Symphony of Illumination” quite a bit in my How I Met Your Mother post, but it begs to be repeated: this episode is fantastic, hilarious, and the ending hits you so hard that it knocks the wind out of you and then makes you sob like a child. (Or… maybe that was just my response.) This Christmas episode centers primarily around Robin’s discovery that she cannot have children. It’s also a rare episode in that it is told from Robin’s point-of-view. Much like Scrubs did with J.D., How I Met Your Mother – rightfully so – tends to focus on Ted’s perspective and his journey. But “Symphony of Illumination” is poignant in that it takes a break from his world and thrusts us into Robin’s as she tells a story to her children.
Spoiler alert: the heartbreaking reality is that Robin’s children don’t exist.
Elsewhere in this Christmas episode, Marshall is attempting to decorate his and Lily’s new home to rival the neighbors’ and dubs the display the “Symphony of Illumination.” A teenager offers his assistance, but as it turns out he’s about as annoying and terrible as those teenagers in “The Art of Discourse” were and strands Marshall on the roof of the house while he parties inside and texts Lily from Marshall’s phone. That plot, while overshadowed by the emotional impact of Robin’s story, really serves to enhance the audience’s awareness of exactly how trusting Marshall is as a person and always will be. We love him for it, though.
Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t discuss the most powerful moment of the episode: Robin doesn’t tell Barney or Ted or Lily or Marshall her news. She keeps it buried inside, but Ted knows something is wrong. So when Robin returns home to the apartment, it suddenly becomes lit up with a Christmas light spectacular set to AC/DC. Ted emerges and insists that she doesn’t have to tell him exactly what is wrong, but he’ll never stop trying to cheer her up. And that’s when Robin starts crying with Ted there to comfort her.
And then I started crying, too. For as depressing as this episode may be, “Symphony of Illumination” is a Christmas episode and it focuses on exactly how much these characters love for and care for each other. What’s more Christmas than that?
7. "Christmas Party Sex Trap" (The Mindy Project)
I believe that “Christmas Party Sex Trap” is the newest Christmas episode to grace this list, but it’s not without merit. The Mindy Project has genuinely become a series that I’ve come to love. It didn’t start out that way, truly, so I lament not sticking with it a few episodes longer in season one to garner its full potential. Nevertheless, I’ve jumped back aboard the fandom train and, recently, have become completely enthralled with the Danny/Mindy ship. Also, I’ve come to really love Chris Messina. I partially blame Sage for this.
“Christmas Party Sex Trap” is an episode that features Mindy hosting a Christmas party for the entire building in order to spend time (and share a kiss) with Cliff, the attractive lawyer who is currently dating someone else. Mindy informs Danny of this plan, but – as we anticipate – her plans begin to go awry quite quickly. Because of Peter and Jeremy’s weaknesses, alcohol and gluten won’t be at the party. Already, Mindy becomes disheartened. Nevertheless, she reveals her plan to seduce Cliff (her plan’s steps include: 1) Ignore Cliff to talk to the most interesting person in the room and make him jealous, 2) Perform a sultry rendition of “Santa Baby,” 3) Step outside for fresh air on the roof, where Cliff will then kiss her) to Danny.
While Mindy’s plan to snatch up Cliff (that sounds menacing but you get the idea) falters, Danny decides to cheer her up. Since she is his Secret Santa, throughout the episode he presents her with mundane and terrible “gifts” (a stapler for one) that culminates in him giving her the BEST GIFT EVER: a choreographed dance to Aliyah’s “Try Again.” As it turns out, Danny remembers how Mindy used to play the song non-stop when she first started working at the office and it was the first thing to ever annoy him.
Throughout the dance – which is so fantastic and amazing and maybe the best thing I’ll ever see on The Mindy Project – Mindy becomes progressively more enthralled and impressed. Danny finishes the performance, slightly embarrassed and says he can just get purchase a gift card for her instead. Mindy, however, is insistent: she LOVED her gift. As she hugs him, the tension begins to build and they pull away but don’t move and we think – we HOPE – for just one second that Danny will lean forward and close the gap between them but Peter and Jeremy burst into the office (with Morgan in tow) and ruin the moment. (Morgan’s comment about the “weird energy” is the best line ever.)
And then, Mindy presents Danny with a choice: she says that she is going to the roof for fresh air and asks if he wants to join her. The invitation cannot be lost on Danny – Cliff has left the party and he KNOWS that this is the final step in Mindy’s plan; that if they go up to the roof, they’ll end up kissing. But… he says that he needs to clean up, instead and Mindy goes to the roof by herself, where Cliff ultimately returns and kisses her as Danny watches from the upstairs window. Someone posted on Tumblr (forgive me as I don’t recall who) that Danny probably decided against going to the roof with Mindy because he didn’t want to be a consolation prize to Cliff. Mindy had, after all, spent the entire episode preparing to kiss Cliff and it was her desire to be with HIM. So it would make sense for Danny to not want to put himself in that position where he’d be hurt. It makes a nice Danny Castellano/Nick Miller parallel (“Not like this!”) and that is something I am ALWAYS fond of.
(Also, I love this episode. I want The Mindy Project to return now, please and thank you.)
6. "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" (The Big Bang Theory)
The Big Bang Theory gets a lot of hate, but I don’t think anyone understands how much I adore “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis.” You can say what you will about the series itself – and I hear it quite often – but this is my absolute favorite Christmas episode of the series and one of the best sitcom Christmas episodes all around. In it, Leonard befriends a cool new physicist named David who rides a motorcycle and is quite attractive (and then Leonard pretends to be into motorcycles too, which goes terribly awry). When Penny meets David, she obviously becomes smitten… and then David ditches Leonard to be with Penny instead.
Elsewhere in the episode, Penny announces that she’s gotten everyone Christmas presents, which unsettles Sheldon (who doesn’t celebrate “the ancient pagan ritual of Saturnalia”) because it means that her giving him a gift creates an obligation – he has to reciprocate with something of equal value. Raj, Howard, and Sheldon venture into a bath store and purchase various sizes of gift baskets. Sheldon’s plan is to open Penny’s gift, excuse himself, and then find the gift that best matches Penny’s in terms of monetary value.
Penny is enjoying David’s company and pretends to be interested in science, but quickly discovers that he’s actually married and then becomes both irate and depressed. Leonard attempts to cheer her up, of course. The episode ends with Penny, Sheldon, and Leonard exchanging gifts. Leonard gets Penny a children’s science kit because she’s “so into science,” while Penny gets Leonard motorcycle lessons. In an act that completely and utterly stuns Sheldon, Penny gives him a napkin from The Cheesecake Factory that is signed by Leonard Nimoy that says: “Sheldon, live long and prosper.” (Additionally, Penny notes that Leonard came into the restaurant and wiped his mouth on the napkin.)
Utterly floored, Sheldon returns from his room with all of the gift baskets that he bought and presents them to a completely baffled but amused Penny. Sheldon is genuinely concerned that those presents aren’t enough to repay Penny so he gives her a present he feels amounts to more than that: a hug. Leonard and Penny are bemused by this and Leonard coins it “a Saturnalia miracle.”
“The Bath Gift Item Hypothesis” is one episode in which I find Sheldon Cooper to be extremely endearing. He is genuinely stunned at the thoughtfulness of Penny’s gift and he tries so desperately to repay her with a gift in kind. It’s one of the simultaneously funny and sweet moments of the entire series and I love it so much.
5. "The One With the Holiday Armadillo" (Friends)
Friends will forever be one of my favorite sitcoms of all time, if not my favorite sitcom of all time. And with a series that ran as long as this one did, it’s not difficult to find favorite episode and, more specifically, favorite holiday episodes. While Friends excelled at their Thanksgiving episodes (Yo, Imma let you finish, but “The One Where Ross Got High” is the best of all time), their Christmas episodes were also extremely enjoyable. In particular, “The One With the Holiday Armadillo” is a classic.
In this episode, Ross attempts to provide Ben with more than just Christmas traditions: he wants to expose his son to his Jewish heritage as well. But Ben is confused – is Santa mad at him? Is that why he won’t visit? Ross is then torn, and decides that he wants to surprise Ben with a Christmas surprise as Santa but… cannot find any Santa outfits. So he dons the only costume he COULD find: an armadillo one. Ross becomes the “Holiday Armadillo” and shows up at Monica and Chandler’s in order to cheer Ben up… when CHANDLER enters dressed as Santa Claus. Ross is obviously crushed as Ben prefers Santa and Christmas to learning about Hanukkah and the Festival of Lights. But “Santa” encourages Ben to sit and listen, which cheers Ross up.
“The One With the Holiday Armadillo” is a fun episode and rare because it centers around Ross and Ben (something that doesn’t happen often), and it also has genuine sweet moments and a Joey/Rachel story. PLUS, this episode is sandwiched between “The One With All the Candy” (a great pre-Christmas episode) and “The One With All the Cheesecakes” so it’s really hard to top that.
4. "Citizen Knope" (Parks and Recreation)
Parks and Recreation is such an amazing comedy. It has a fantastic ensemble, stellar writing, and lovely moments of heart. “Citizen Knope” is one episode that embodies everything that this series is about. In it, a despondent Leslie Knope is on a two-week suspension after being sentenced to it following her “scandal” with Ben. She’s been told to stay away from City Hall, but that’s proving to be near-impossible for the blonde who lives and breathes all things political. Her campaign advisors decide that Leslie needs to relax, as she is currently also waiting to hear about her numbers in the poll for City Council. To keep her mind occupied, Leslie forms a citizens action committee in order to keep herself busy and also still involved in City Hall.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Pawnee staff has decided that since Leslie gets them each intensely personal and thoughtful gifts each year, they will do something special for her and set about making a gingerbread house replica of City Hall for their boss. Leslie is feeling energized and excited about her citizens action committee… until the results of the post-scandal poll come in, her advisors quit, and Leslie is left absolutely crushed. Chris, feeling responsible somehow, reinstates Leslie and as she returns to City Hall, is greeted by her friends and co-workers who show her their gingerbread creation. But they don’t stop there: they know that Leslie’s team quit and they announce that THEY are her new campaign team:
Ann: Your campaign advisors quit. Big deal. You're running for city council again, Leslie. With our help.
April: April Ludgate. Youth Outreach and Director of New Media.
Tom: Tom Haverford. Image Consultant, Swagger Coach.
Ann: Ann Perkins. Office Manager and Volunteer Coordinator.
Andy: Andy Dwyer. Security, Sweets, Body Man, Javelin, if need be.
Donna: Donna Meagle. Transpo', AKA rides in my Benz.
Jerry: Wh...You guys didn't tell me we were doing this. I did not know I was supposed to come up with something. I...
Ron: Ron Swanson. Any other damn thing you might need.
Leslie: Guys, it's so much work. I can't ask you to put your lives on hold.
Ron: Find one person here who you haven't helped by putting your life on hold.
Leslie: [choked up] I don't know what to say...except let's go win an election!
Everything about the end of this episode and episode itself was superb. Parks and Rec is a comedy that prides itself on its ensemble, with good reason. Leslie loves her friends so much. She consistently goes out of her way for them and always tries to make them happy. But “Citizen Knope” proved that Ron, Ann, April, Ben, Tom, Donna, Andy, and Jerry love and care about Leslie so much more than she knows. These people don’t just care about each other – they sacrifice for each other. They LOVE each other. And they’ll never let one person’s dream come to a halt if they can do anything to preserve it.
THAT is a beautiful message, right there.
3. "The 23rd" (New Girl)
“The 23rd” is one of my all-time favorite Christmas episodes of a sitcom, in case you couldn’t tell by its placement on the list. In it, Jess struggles to figure out what to get her boyfriend Paul for Christmas, while the rest of the group is resolved to make their flights home for Christmas (especially Nick, who has missed his flight the past four years in a row). The gang plans on going to Schmidt’s office holiday party, where he dresses up as a sexy Santa every year and enjoys being able to use secrets to manipulate them the rest of the year.
Early in the afternoon, Jess and the boys drive through Candycane Lane – a street whose residents decorate their houses with tons of Christmas lights – and she insists that they all need to return after Schmidt’s holiday party to view the lights.
When Paul and Jess exchange gifts, he tells her that he loves the gift… and then that he loves her. Jess is unable to reciprocate and tells Nick about her struggle at the holiday party. His advice? She needs to tell Paul if she doesn’t feel the same way about him. But a miscommunication leads NICK to telling Paul that Jess doesn’t love him and the trio – accidentally locked outside on the balcony – faces the most awkward few moments ever. (Meanwhile, Schmidt and Winston and Cece are inside at the party having issues and stories all their own.)
Paul and Jess break up, leaving the latter heartbroken on the drive to the airport after the party. Nick, upon seeing Jess’ gloom, pulls onto Candycane Lane and instructs everyone to get out of the car. It’s late, however, and the street is already dark, the residents having turned off their lights hours ago. Cece, Winston, Schmidt, Jess, and Nick then proceed to shout for the neighbors to turn on their lights because there’s “a girl who really wants to see the lights” outside. Slowly but surely, all of the residents turn on their lights, to the elation of the group. They celebrate in the street, hugging and laughing together. (And Nick misses his flight again.)
The reason that I love “The 23rd” so much is this: it is such a prime example of why the New Girl group works so well as an ensemble. Everyone bands together at the end for Jess, with Nick leading the charge. They care about one another. They support one another. They DO things for one another, even if it’s as silly as driving through a street with houses adorned with Christmas lights. The final scene at Candycane Lane is so heartwarming and delightful and perfect that it earned this episode the bronze medal of Christmas episodes.
2. "Christmas Party" (The Office)
I would just like to remind everyone that Jim gave Pam a teapot in this episode with a letter that we never saw, but came back in the final season of The Office. I would like to remind everyone that Jim filled the contents of the teapot with inside jokes and trinkets he knew would make Pam smile. I would like to remind everyone that this is one of the greatest Jim Halpert moments and that “Christmas Party” is one of the greatest Christmas episodes of all time.
Other things happen in this episode of The Office, too, which make the entire episode great: the office holds a Christmas party where they decide to hold a Secret Santa gift exchange and draw names. There’s a $20 limit on the gift, but Michael ends up spending $400 on an iPod for Ryan. When he receives a handmade gift from Phyllis, he decides to shake things up a bit and enacts a White Elephant gift exchange, where players can steal someone’s gift or open a new one from the pile. All bets are off when Dwight ends up with Pam’s gift and the rest of the office is left competing for the iPod.
Pam, at the end of the episode, wins the iPod but trades it for Jim’s gift (he had been noticeably distraught when Dwight ended up with it) and the two open the contents of the teapot together with Jim sneaking out the letter from the teapot and into his pocket. Meanwhile, Michael decides to buy alcohol and everyone spends the rest of the evening enjoying the Christmas party and themselves (and their gifts).
“Christmas Party” is such an amazing episode of The Office because it features everyone together, involved in a wacky shenanigan (White Elephant gift exchanges get intense, y’all). Michael is at his best comedically when he’s at his worst/most selfish, and Jim is at his best as a character when he’s with Pam. The teapot reveal will never get old, nor will the enjoyment of the White Elephant exchange. And that makes “Christmas Party” the silver medalist in this category, to be honest.
1. "Regional Holiday Music" (Community)
I love few things more on this earth than making fun of Glee. So when my favorite sitcom parodied the FOX hit comedy, I thought: “I’m in love.” Truly, “Regional Holiday Music” is one stellar episode of Community and it’s one of the best Christmas episodes all-around. (Additionally, the episode featured fantastic original songs like “Glee,” “Teach Me How to Understand Christmas” and the Troy/Abed Christmas Rap.)
The episode centers around the study group becoming the glee club – not by choice but by brainwashing thanks to their fellow study group members (and led by the influence of Mr. Rad, played by the delightful Taran Killam). Abed succumbs to Mr. Rad’s insistence that the study group participate in the Christmas pageant because – in the film student’s words – they’ve all had a “dark year.” And so, one-by-one, the study group begins to fall under the spell of the music, where the Glee jokes run rampant (the reference to Brad and the Kings of Leon joke are the best things this show has ever done) and the insanity grows until the pageant arrives and Mr. Rad’s true intentions are revealed to Abed: the choir teacher didn’t just want the study group to join the pageant. Oh, no. He wants them to become the glee club… permanently.
(This understandably horrifies Abed.)
But then Britta ruins the pageant with her singing, Mr. Rad reveals that he killed the former glee club, and Abed walks out of the room, apologizing to the study group. All he wanted was for them to have a nice, happy Christmas and he seemed to ruin it for them all. Back at his apartment, Abed settles in for the Inspector Spacetime Christmas special when he hears something – at the door is the study group, singing “The First Noel.” They enter and apologize for their own behavior, and decide to celebrate Christmas the way they should: together.
“Regional Holiday Music” was a sentimental episode because it was the final episode to air before a very long, dark, undefined hiatus for Community. I remember sitting on my bed, watching the final scene (“We’ll see you all after Regionals”) and crying because my show had not only managed to pull off a perfect parody of Glee, but also because the study group was together at the end of it all. No matter what, these seven people always manage to find one another in the end, and that touched me.
What about you all, dear readers? What are some of your favorite Christmas-themed episodes? Hit the comments below or tweet me and let me know! And, as always, have a great day! :)
Katy Rochelle December 19, 2013 at 10:42 PM
Great list! Friends had some of the greatest holiday episodes; I can't get over some of their Christmas ones especially the Holiday Armadillo. "My favorite part was when Superman flew all the Jews out of Egypt."
Christmas Party might be the best Office Christmas episode. I'm not sure anything tops Jim almost showing his true feelings for Pam, and Michael's insane need for attention. :)
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Film, Fashion, and the 1960s
Edited by Eugenia Paulicelli, Drake Stutesman and Louise Wallenberg
Format: Hardback 48 b&w illus.
A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day’s Night to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, from the works of Ingmar Bergman to Blake Edwards, the groundbreaking cinema of the 1960s often used fashion as the ultimate expression for urbanity, youth, and political (un)awareness. Crumbling hierarchies brought together previously separate cultural domains, and these blurred boundaries could be seen in unisex fashions and roles played out on the silver screen. As this volume amply demonstrates, fashion in films from Italy, France, England, Sweden, India, and the United States helped portray the rapidly changing faces of this cultural avant-gardism. This blending of fashion and film ultimately created a new aesthetic that continues to influence the fashion and media of today.
Eugenia Paulicelli is Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is author of Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire; Fashion is a Serious Business: Rosa Genoni, Milan Expo 1906 and The Great War, and Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age.
Louise Wallenberg is Associate Professor in Film and Fashion Studies and former director of The Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. She is co-editor of Nordic Fashion Studies and has published extensively on film and fashion.
Drake Stutesman teaches theoretical approaches to film costume design at New York University, where she co-organizes an annual conference on film costume. She is editor of the cinema and media journal Framework.
“This collection of essays is enlightening and fruitful in demonstrating the richness of the scholarship regarding fashion and film, evident in the range of voices and range of conceptual approaches. This would be an invaluable read for scholars and fans of fashion and film costume, as well as for film historians, particularly with an interest in 1960s European film.”
— Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Introduction / Eugenia Paulicelli and Louise Wallenberg
Part 1: 1960s: Youth Culture and Sexual Liberation
1. Sanitizing the Beatles for Revolution: Music, Film, and Fashion in 1960s A Hard Day’s Night / Ronald Gregg
2. The Art of Undressing: Automation and Exposure at the Margins of Cinema / Amy Herzog
3. Pasolini’s Teorema: the Eroticism of the Visitor’s Discarded Clothes / Stella Bruzzi
4. Rite of Passage: the Hat that Wouldn’t Disappear in the 1960s / Drake Stutesman
Part 2: Cities, Nations and Fashion
5. Fashion Apart: Godard and Fageol in the 1960s Paris / Astrid Söderbergh Widding
6. Fashion, Film, Rome / Eugenia Paulicelli
7. Contexts, Contradictions, Couture, and Clothing: Fashion in An American in Paris, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and A Touch of Mink / Pat Kirkham and Marilyn Cohen
Part 3: Gender: Modernity/Tradition
8. The Fashioning of Julie Christie and the Mythologizing of "Swinging London": Changing Images in Sixties Britain / Pamela Church Gibson
9. Women in White: Femininity and Female Desire in 1960s Bombay Cinema / Anupama Kapse
10. Mago’s Magic: Fashioning Sexual Indifference in Ingmar Bergman’s 1960s Cinema / Louise Wallenberg
11. Single Men: Sixties Aesthetics and Vintage Style in Contemporary Cinema / Nick Rees-Roberts
Part 4: Epilogue
12. Adriana Berselli: Costume for Cinema and Theater / Eugenia Paulicelli
13. Souvenir of a Costume Designer / Adriana Berselli
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Age of Heroes: JADE's Second Spin Off Campaign
Since my recent move I have started to get together with a couple of old friends who still live in the area. And while they all wanted to play Warhammer 40,000, they also all wanted to start a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign.
To make my life as the Dungeon Master a little easier, I decided to set the campaign in my larger Arachnophobia World. That way I didn't have to make anything up from scratch. I even decided I'd set the campaign in an area that the Arachnophobia party would eventually be heading. That way I would be mapping out future areas while I played with the new group. So at the end of the last chapter, the players learned that they needed to head south across the Mortal Sea towards the Hellensitic Isles, and specifically to the Kingdom of Delphi.
The Hellenisitc Isles are a Ancient Greco-Roman themed area that uses the 2nd Ed AD&D green historic campaign setting books. For this area we will be using the Rome, and Age of Heroes, however right now I am limiting the players to only Greek characters. I want to start in Delphi, and I want everyone to be part of that culture. If/when this first round of Greeks meets their fate then they can bring in new characters and I will open up the entire world for them to choose from.
The first spin off campaign in the Arachnophobia World (still thought of a planet name yet) was Thomas's Time Travel Adventures. Thomas the Chronomancer was a member of the Arachnophobia Campaign Party who decided to set out on his own adventure at the beginning of Game 25. During this course, he semi-unintentionally stranded the party back in time at the beginning of the campaign: hundreds of miles from their objective in the Hellenisitic Isles, let alone a seaside Harbour. Thomas' Spin Off Campaign had huge game changing effects on the Arachnophobia Party, however our Age of Heroes campaign will be a little different as none of the characters are associated with the Arachnophobia Campaign and it takes place over 1000 miles away. So as it stands, our Age of Heroes campaign has nothing to do with our Arachnophobia Campaign, with only two exceptions:
1) It takes place in the same world around the same time period.
2)Tthe Hellenistic Isles are no strangers to giant spiders. Though not as numerous by any means as the invading hordes, a species of Giant Spider has lived around the islands since the dawn of time.
Do the Greeks or Romans know something about the giant spiders that the rest of the world doesn't? Certainly the Library of Athens has records going back further then any civilization except perhaps the elves. Maybe there is something there.
I am quite excited as a DM to host this adventure for the group, as it lets me prepare an area that my Arachnophobia party will be eventually heading and flesh out an area of the world that I have had planned since the beginning. The Ancient Greek setting should also be a refreshing break from our typical medieval fantasy setting.
We haven't actually had a full game of this yet, as we are still making characters, which given our massive six page character sheets takes some time. I ahve asked the four new players to create level one "heroes" and fit them into the small fishing/farming village of Playos on the
Island of Delphi. Like in most AD&D games at level one your class is more of an aspiration then what you actually are. I have found that it takes until around level 3 before you start feeling like a fighter for example. So Rangers are aspiring hunters in the village, Thieves are known ne're-do-wells, a Fighter's armour has been passed down from generation to generation in the family. It is a hard in AD&D, but it make victory all the sweeter.
The Age of Heroes Book, states many limitations on the Class and Character Kits that each player allowed to take. A paladin for example doesn't exactly have a role in traditional ancient Greek society, and thus you are not allowed to play one. There are equal limitations on most character kits, and even on magic-users, forcing them to be specialists.
It wasn't an easy choice for anyone figuring out what they want to be, and we honestly still haven't finished these characters. But here is our spread so far: Connor has decided to play as a Ranger, who is an apprentice of the Hunter in the village, Casey has chosen an aspiring Priest of Aphrodite, Mike has chosen a Fighter who's father has long gone, leaving his equipment behind, our fourth player Dan unfortunately couldn't make it for the character building session so we shall see what he chooses, and I have recently learned that we will be joined Joe next game bringing our party a total of five: a solid number to start an adventure with.
The Current Arachnophobia Party
At this point this I wouldn't even say that this campaign is off the ground yet, so the plans are still quite loose. Whether or not I will have these guys cross over with the Arachnophobia Party is still undecided. As a DM I don't really like to force that sort of thing and prefer to let the game roll and see what happens. There are a lot of moving pieces so while it would be interesting to have the two groups cross paths it is likely it will never happen. But we will see.
Our first proper game of the Age of Heroes Campaign will be at then end of next week. It will be every player's first time playing 2nd Ed AD&D, and it should make for an interesting game! So look out for more art and stories to come around JADE's Age of Heroes Campaign.
Roman d20: https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?491643-Ancient-Greek-D208
Age of Heroes book: https://picclick.co.uk/Age-of-Heroes-Campaign-Sourcebook-ADD-2nd-Edition-323262870479.html
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My Voice Is My Home: A Workshop with Mahsa Vahdat
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Kitka is truly honored to continue our vocal workshop and intimate dialogue series with the exquisite vocalist and cultural activist Mahsa Vahdat from Tehran, Iran. The theme of this workshop will be "Home." How do we carry notions of home, heritage, and belonging through giving authentic voice to our songs and stories? How do we preserve and transform the song legacies of our ancestors in a far away lands?
The fundamental question ”Where Is Home?” constantly dwells in Mahsa Vahdat’s mind as a reflection of her longing and hopes. Ever since her childhood, she has wrestled with the question of where our true home resides. On a deep level this question is relevant for all human beings.
Mahsa Vahdat is on a path of music and art, and she has been so for most of her life. Banned from singing in her homeland, she has become a wanderer, now living and singing in exile. While her relationship with her homeland is a complicated one, the whole world has become her stage. In spite of her "placeless" existence, she has discovered the hearth of her true home within her voice.
In this workshop, Mahsa Vahdat will share songs and vocal techniques from the lineages of Persian traditional and classical music. Singing together as a group, participants will explore Persian musical modes, ornamentation, and traditional song styles from different regions of Iran.
Evocative poetry is fundamentally woven into the fabric of Mahsa's repertoire. Mahsa will select historical and contemporary poems evoking the theme of "home" as inspirational fodder for collective singing. Mahsa will demonstrate how to find paths to text interpretation to generate profound personal emotional expression.
Registration is limited to 15 participants and open to musicians of all backgrounds and levels.
Recently, Mahsa released an award-winning new solo a cappella album entitled "The Sun Will Rise." "Placeless" a new recording with Kronos Quartet and Marjan Vahdat was released this month on the KKV label.
For more information about Mahsa Vahdat, visit http://www.mahsavahdat.net
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Tell Me - Lucy A. Snyder
Lucy A. Snyder is an author I admire who writes some of the most captivating stories I’ve ever read. Now, she’s got a single author collection of erotica linked into her Jessie Shimmer novels. She talks about why and how this got started.
On Writing Erotica
“Does this mean you’re writing your own slash?”
That’s what one of my friends said when I told her of my plan to write some new erotica stories featuring characters from my Jessie Shimmer urban fantasy series and release them in my collection Orchid Carousals.
I thought about it for a moment, and laughed. “Yes, I suppose I am!”
If you’ve read any of the books in my Jessie Shimmer series you know I don’t exactly shy away from portraying sex in my regular fiction. But despite the graphic scenes, books like Shotgun Sorceress or Switchblade Goddess are not erotica.
An erotica story is a narrative that focuses on sex. Sex is crucial to the plot tension. And, yes, erotica stories have real plots. They also have characterization, world-building, and all the other things you come to expect from any other type of fiction. Or, at least the good erotica stories do; take away the plot and the compelling characters and you end up with porn that has a hard time sustaining reader interest over more than a few pages. (This is a lesson that the writers of the webcomic Oglaf know quite well; they have thousands of dedicated readers who probably arrived at their site looking for a bit of diverting cartoon porn but keep coming back week after week to see where the characters’ stories are going.)
So, why erotica?
One of my overall goals as an author is to be able to write well in a wide range of styles and genres. If an editor comes to me and says “I need a 6,000-word Lovecraftian western story written in iambic pentameter that focuses on Nikola Tesla and Sherlock Holmes finding a crashed spaceship outside Tombstone, Arizona in 1890,” ideally my response should be “Sure; when do you need it?”
Being able to write a plot-worthy sex scene is no different than being able to write an exciting fight scene or a heartbreaking death scene; it should be a part of any well-rounded fiction writer’s toolbox.
But more directly, while I was working on the novel trilogy, I found myself with many more story ideas than I had room for in the novel. I wanted to continue the narrative, certainly, but I also found myself with back stories that I wanted to tell. And a number of the ideas that I had seemed to lend themselves well to erotica.
For instance, I wanted to tell the story of how Jessie and Cooper first became a couple; more to the point, I wanted to show readers that because of their age difference, it really wasn’t an easy decision for Cooper. I could have told a story that focused on Jessie’s anguish over her aunt’s death … or I could tell a story that focused on her passion for Cooper and would be a bit more fun for readers. Clearly, I chose the latter.
While I was writing Switchblade Goddess, I realized that I’d given Mother Karen a short shrift in the narrative. She’s a fairly important supporting character, but very little of what I knew about her life had actually gotten into the books. So I used the story “Demonized” as an opportunity to show readers more about her history and her intimate world.
At the end of Spellbent, Jessie leaves poor love-smitten Kai behind. A lot of people told me they particularly liked Kai and wanted to see more of him. So, I collaborated with Kaysee Renee Robichaud to write a noir-flavored erotic story that shows what happens to Kai after Jessie’s out of the picture.
There are more stories floating around in my head that I didn’t have time to write before the collection needed to go to press. Possibly in the future CGP or another publisher might release a volume entirely devoted to the Warlock’s adventures.
In the meantime, I hope readers enjoy Orchid Carousals!
Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess, and the collections Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.
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Throwback Thursday: Josephine’s Book Edition
I made the most delicious tea last night, all smoked cod and beans and cheese and yumminess. It was Nigella inspired, obvs, but this is me, and I do thins thing where I want to cook the thing but don’t have the ingredients required to cook the thing and so I just swap them out for whatever I have in the cupboard.
Also, Nigella’s version of this meal does not involve any kind of topping with cheese and grilling. However, why would you not? What savoury dish is not made better by topping with cheese and grilling?
So, I made it, and it was lush and I was super happy. Ian was less so, but it was always going to be hit and miss with him: he’s not so keen on things like that. He hates gnocchi, and will only eat risotto under sufferance, (which is a shame as I could eat both of those things for ever and not get fed up) and so I kind of knew that a meal that was mostly haricot beans and a bit of fish wasn’t going to fill him with joy. & why I have decided this is a thing to blog about I have no idea.
I still haven’t finished the Bill Bryson – although I am loving it. Seriously, so good. The thing is, though, is that it’s the kind of book that you can just dip in and out of and there are a couple of books that I got from Netgalley that I need to read sharpish, so last night (after the smoked cod deliciousness) I took myself off to bed with fruit pastilles and a glass of wine and started to read The Life I Left Behind. I’m only about a quarter of the way behind, but so far so good. I am intrigued, which is kind of the point, and it looks like being a super quick read so I should still be able to finish Bryson by the end of the month.
Also, today is Thursday (which you know already, but bear with me as I do have a point…) and various social media websites seem to run with a thing called ‘Throwback Thursday’ or (#TBT if you tweet or Instagram), whereby people post content, usually photos, relating to something they’ve done or seen in the past. Well, I thought to myself whilst pondering on the fact that updating more regularly was one of my New Year’s Resolutions, why not jump on that bandwagon? Everyone loves a little bit of nostalgia do they not, and I love talking about books I have read and liked and so here we go – Throwback Thursday: Josephine’s Book Edition.
I read this week that Steve Toltz has a new book out later this year, a fact that delights me, and so what better place to go back to this Thursday than 2010, and Toltz’s debut novel A Fraction of the Whole (first published in 2008.)
You want to know why I like it don’t you? I like it, mostly, because it’s really excellently written. It also contains one of my favourite quotes of ever.
I’ll teach you how to decipher all the confused faces by closing your eyes & how to cringe when someone says the words ‘your generation’. I will teach you how not to demonise your enemies & how to make yourself unappetising when the hordes turn up to eat you. I’ll teach you how to yell with your mouth closed & how to steal happiness & how the only real joy is singing yourself hoarse & nude girls & how never to eat in an empty restaurant & how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain & how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated. I’ll teach you how to know what’s missing
SEDUCE ME WITH PRETTY WORDS.
So, what’s it about?
From Goodreads:
Most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything and everything and imparted his self-garnered wisdom to his only son. But now that Martin is dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the crackpot who raised him in intellectual captivity, and what he realizes is that, for all its lunacy, theirs was a grand adventure.
As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries—about his infamous outlaw uncle Terry, his mysteriously absent European mother, and Martin’s constant losing battle to make a lasting mark on the world he so disdains. It’s a story that takes them from the Australian bush to the cafes of bohemian Paris, from the Thai jungle to strip clubs, asylums, labyrinths, and criminal lairs, and from the highs of first love to the lows of failed ambition. The result is a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.
A Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores and the epic debut of the blisteringly funny and talented Steve Toltz.
This book is excellent. It’s long, at over 700 pages in my paperback copy, but it doesn’t feel long, it’s fast-paced and witty and sharp. There’s a remarkably short list of characters and yet still an awful lot going on – there is nothing in that whole 700+ pages that you could get away with skipping, it’s all brilliant and it’s all relevant. At times it’s fairly harrowing and Toltz tackles some pretty heavy subjects with an enviable skill (another of those books that leaves me asking, ‘how do I words?’), but it also made me laugh out loud and I remember being a little bit blown away that this was Toltz’s first novel. It’s pretty impressive, I think to write a book that touches your readers on a deep level, a fundamental level, to write an unlikely tale of tragedy and yet still manage to pepper it with a sharp wit. There’s something about the writing that feels kind of effortless, like, if you smile or even laugh, that it’s not because Toltz was trying to be funny, it’s just that he naturally kind of is. It’s that kind of humour and this is that kind of story – life is shit sometimes and bad stuff happens sometimes and sometimes its really sort of hard, like when you’re having the worst day ever and out of the blue something happens that has you laughing even though you’re wound tight as a spring inside; a bad day doesn’t stop the good stuff being good. Not always.
Basically, it’s just a really really excellent read and I am so excited for Quicksand.
I couldn't think of anything other than her and the components of her. For example, her red hair. But was I so primitive I let myself be bewitched by hair? I mean, really. Hair! It's just hair! Everyone has it! She puts it up, she lets it down. So what? And why did all the other parts of her have me wheezing with delight? I mean, who hasn't got a back, or a belly, or armpits? This whole finicky obsession serves to humiliate me even as I write it, sure, but I suppose it isn't that abnormal. That's what first love is all about. What happens is you meet a love object and immediately a hole inside you starts aching, the hole that is always there but you don't notice until someone comes along, plugs it up, and then runs away with the plug.
And that’s that. Throwback Thursday. I wonder if I’ll remember to do it again next week….?
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5 Unforgettable Views of London
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 London via Surrey Breakfast & Brunch , Make the Most , Not Top 10 No comments
A view from above without the high ticket price
Admission for a family to The Shard's 72nd floor viewing platform is steep — unless you go when they offer 'kids go free' specials. Here are some other options:
Aqua Shard (London) — Breakfast is served on the 31st floor until 10:30 weekdays and 10 am weekends (when brunch available until 3:30 pm). Tables of two can be seated by the floor to ceiling windows. For a real treat, add a morning cocktail to the reasonably priced breakfast.
www.aquashard.co.uk ✆ +44 2030 111256
Level 31 The Shard, 31 St. Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
The Monument (London) — If you aren’t a UK resident to climb Big Ben or don’t want to shell out the cash to go up The Shard, The Monument to the Great Fire of London is a perfect alternative. Tower Bridge offers a joint ticket to climb The Monument, the world’s tallest column for £11/adult and £5/child under 16 (to climb the monument itself is just £4/adult and £2/child). You’ll climb 311 spiral steps to enjoy views of the city and given a certificate as a memento of your ascent.
www.themonument ✆ +44 2076 262717
Monument Street, London EC3R 8AH
St. Paul's Cathedral (London) — There are two options of good views from and of St. Paul's Cathedral. Climb 528 steps up to the Golden Gallery for breathtaking panoramic views Shakespeare Globe, Tate Modern and the Thames. Also, closeby you can take lift* to the terrace of One New Change retail and restaurant building. Here you have a chance to enjoy a stunning unobstructed view of St. Paul's Cathedral from 6 am - midnight at no charge.
www.stpauls.co.uk ✆ +44 2072 468350
The Chapter House, St Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
Sky Garden (Multiple) — Open last year, there is no admission fee, but you have to pre-book a time to visit. City Garden Bar and Sky Pod Bar are both located on the 35th floor with seating available at scattered chairs and coaches. Book Darwin Brasserie restaurant on the 36th floor for a reasonably priced breakfast. Small parties of 2-3 work best so you can request a table in the corner with the best view. Fenchurch on the 37th floor is open for lunch and dinner and serves both an ala carte and tasting menus with wine pairings.
www.skygarden.london
Tower Bridge (London) — Visiting the Tower Bridge Exhibition, seeing the engine rooms and taking in panoramic views above the River Thames towards the East and West of the Thames are great ways to explore the most famous bridge in the world. To make it truly memorable, plan your visit to coincide with the Bridge lift times.
Favorite Salads
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 London via Surrey On the Lighter Side No comments
Three favorite places for summertime salads
Summer has certainly taken its time to arrive. Whether the good weather is here to stay, I find myself craving summer salads. Three favorites to enjoy (even with a hot cuppa*) include:
Cafe Menta (Esher) — Both the warm goat’s cheese and sweet chili chicken salads are delicious. The cafe is a great place for breakfast too. The owner is friendly and has a knack for remembering customer's preferences. On my second visit he already knew the variations to my omelette and fresh squeezed juice combination.
64 High Street, Esher, Surrey KT10 9QS
Muriel's Kitchen (Multiple) — We stopped in for a quick bite after visiting an exhibition at the V&A. We shared a seasonal salad plate that consisted of four salads, including market roasted beets, roasted butternut squash and feta, smokey Surrey aubergine and spicy mixed bean salads. The slow roasted BBQ pulled pork sliders was a generous and tasty portion too.
www.murielskitchen.co.uk
The Old Plough (Cobham) — Gastro pubs with the same menu include The Crown in Twickenham and The Wheatsheaf in Esher are consistently good. While they maintain traditional wood floors, the decor is lighter, airier and updated than conventional pubs. The only difference between their tasty bang bang peanut satay chicken salad and grilled hallomi salads found at their locations is the plates they are served on.
www.oldploughcobham.co.uk ✆ +44 1932 862244
2 Station Road, Stoke D'Abernon, Cobham, Surrey KT11 3BNS
Buckingham Palace Summer Opening Times
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 London via Surrey Make the Most No comments
Only time of year to go inside Buckingham Palace starts next Saturday
Buckingham Palace is the administrative headquarters for The Queen where official events and receptions take place. The only time to get inside Buckingham Palace is during summer opening times (July 23rd and October 2nd). In addition to seeing the 19 State Rooms and Garden, the Palace features a limited edition exhibition.
As part of our private State Room & Garden Highlights Tour, we had a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation for state visits. We left with a true appreciation for the meticulous planning and attention to detail for these lavish occasions. While there is little chance to get a glimpse of the Royal family (they are on holiday* at this time) and few changes to the State Rooms and Garden themselves annually, the themed special exhibition is worth a return visit. The 2016 exhibition is Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from the Queen's Wardrobe. As with most attractions, book* early to avoid disappointment.
www.royalcollection.org.uk ✆ +44 3031 237334
Buckingham Palace, London SW1A 1AA
Monday, July 04, 2016 London via Surrey Asian , European , Mark Your Diary , On the Lighter Side , Specialties , Unusual Settings No comments
In case you missed Chelsea Flower Show, plan a visit to
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (July 5-10), the world’s largest annual flower show.
Close by, the small village of East Molesey boasts quite a few antique shops, boutiques, independent stores and a surprising number of good places to eat, including:
Mezzet Lebanese Restaurant — Mezzet is a stylish restaurant that is fun to go to with friends. Sharing cold and warm platters are large with varied items to suit everyone's tastes. Our only issue was that we ordered too much.
www.mezzet.co.uk ✆ +44 8443 463000
43 Bridge Road East Molesey KT8 9ER
Cocum (Multiple) — Save yourself a trip into the city and visit this small unassuming South Indian restaurant that has earned Trip Advisor’s Certificate of Excellence. Cocum serves authentic, tasty Kerala fare at affordable prices.
www.cocumrestaurant.co.uk
Le Petit Nantais — For a quieter meal, give Le Petit place a try. They serve delicious, traditional French food with ingredients sourced fresh by the chef and owner. At night, the restaurant ambiance is set by myriad of fairy lights*.
www.lepetitnantais.co.uk ✆ +44 2089 792309
41 Bridge Road, Hampton Court, KT8 9ER
Mada Deli — This is one of our favorite breakfast / brunch places, and features consistently good food. Outdoor seating for people watching is a premium on Saturdays and Sundays – so you will need to go early to get a seat in the sunshine.
11 Bridge Road, East Molesey KT89EU
Dish Cafe — A few doors down from Mada is Dish, a wonderful place for a coffee or light bite. After you order at the counter, head to the back of the restaurant. There is a small outdoor courtyard with a few tables that can be easy to miss.
www.hamptoncourtdish.com ✆ +44 2089 411095
3 Bridge Road, East Molesey KT8 9EU
The Vineking (Multiple) — While a wine shop by day, The Vineking turns into a pop-up restaurant at night, serving multi-course meals with wine pairings on select evenings. The sommelier was friendly, knowledgeable and on this occasion, the delicious four-course meal was prepared by chef Max Mckenzie, formerly of Marcus Wareing @ the Berkeley.
www.thevineking.com
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Ep. 20: How Drew Morgan went from lawyer to stand-up comic
Drew Morgan is a stand-up comic, writer and actor. Drew and his two comedy partners, Trae Crowder and Corey Forrester, wrote the Liberal Redneck Manifesto and tour the country for their WellRED comedy tour. His comedy draws upon his upbringing in rural East Tennessee as well as his experiences living in Australia, Boston, Miami, and New York.
But before becoming a comedian, Drew was a public defender in both Miami and Knoxville, Tennessee. I got to talk to him about how his upbringing in a rural Southern town influenced his decision to go to law school and why he ultimately left the law to pursue his dreams.
Here is what we chat about in this episode:
How his upbringing in rural Tennessee affected his decision to go to law school.
How his path led him to be a public defender in both Miami, Florida and Knoxville, Tennessee
How his wife got him started in comedy by signing him up for a competition
How he supported his dream of stand-up comedy by working as a freelance attorney doing document review
How years of hard work finally led him and his writing partners, Trae Crowder and Corey Forrester, to become “overnight successes”
The journey to the WellRED comedy tour and the Liberal Redneck Manifesto
And why it’s worth pursuing your dreams even if it’s difficult
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AMY WINEHOUSE – A TRAGEDY NO-ONE STOPPED
November 22, 2015 March 9, 2016 Maria
Amy Winehouse. What can anyone say? Everyone knows who she is. Everyone has an opinion about her. Hers is a tale we’ve all heard before; wickedly talented, a desperate soul, gone before her time. Why is it the greater the talent the harder the fall?
No-one can deny that Amy Winehouse managed cut-through in an industry that is so overloaded with artists and she made everyone stand up and pay attention.
But who is this person that we all seem to ‘know’?
In the documentary titled ‘Amy’, Director Asif Kapadia conducted hundreds of interviews with Amy’s oldest and closest family and friends to give us some insight. He adopts a style where no talking heads appear on screen; only voiceover over archival footage – some of it personal videos and some of it from media. It’s a fascinating technique because you are never distracted from the sole focus – Amy.
And by God does she know how to charm an audience. Even through a lens she manages to engage you with her big eyes and captivate you with her splendid voice.
Everyone watches documentaries like Amy to help make sense of what happened. Is there a point where it all went haywire? Was there a moment that she could have been pulled back from the edge?
The documentary highlights some pivotal moments in Amy’s life. Her parent’s divorce when she was 9, an eating disorder and depression during her teenage years, her grandmother dying while recording Back to Black, her father’s overtly exploitative nature and her leech of a husband.
Let’s not forget the paparazzi who are an absolutely brutal bunch. While you can’t blame them for her death it doesn’t take a genius to realise they certainly didn’t help with her attempts to recover.
However, the one moment when you realise Amy’s fate is sealed is on the night she won five Grammy Awards. While everyone is celebrating around her, Amy’s best friend confessed that Amy stated, “this is so boring without drugs”.
How do you bring somebody back from that? Can you bring somebody back from that?
On more than one occasion Amy declared that ‘she’d go mad’ if she got famous. “All that I’m good for is making tunes so leave me alone and I’ll do it. I will do the music I just need time to do the music.”
After her 2006 album Back to Black there was no more music. And her music was the one thing Amy credited with helping her through her depression in her teenage years.
While watching this film I don’t get the sense that I know Amy Winehouse any better, she is a woman with many sides, but it was nice to see her again. Even though I did get the impression that Amy was always ‘performing’ for the camera.
Ironically the times when Amy didn’t seem to be ‘performing’ was when she was singing and right there in that moment, that is truth, which is why it resonates with so many. It’s hard to ignore truth when you hear it.
And even though we all know what’s coming, we know that her sobriety (or lack thereof) was a source of interest (read: entertainment) for everyone, we know how her story ends, the inevitable demise, but it was still damn hard to watch the bag with Amy’s body being carried out of her Camden home, without the feeling of defeat kicking in again. What an absolute mess.
It’s just so sad; not only because the world lost a great talent, but because somebody died.
It’s only right to hold Amy’s music in the highest regard. I could sit here and breakdown what makes Amy’s music great but I don’t need to; you can just hear it.
Many female artists who have come after her (Adele, Duffy, Lady Gaga) have all paid tribute to her originality. She wore her heart on her sleeve and often said she found solace in her music but in the end she never found her way back to it.
One of Amy’s idols Tony Bennett said it best. “Life teaches you really how to live it, if you live long enough”.
Amy is out on Digital HD, Blu-Ray & DVD 28 October.
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Aquaman Review by Diego Hernandez
"My powers are useless, they said! My powers are stupid, they said!" So runs a frequent line if you type "Aquaman meme" into Google Image's search engine. (My favorite is the one with Aquaman summoning Cthulhu : 3 ) This largely matches the general attitude of mainstream audiences not familiar with some of Aquaman's more impressive comic book appearances. Aquaman has been cool before, usually with long hair and a beard or when used to summon not cuddly dolphins but sharks and giant squids. Moreover, Geoff Johns recent run on Aquaman has been not just a superb series but also a brilliant argument that the world significantly under-values a hero of great, untapped potential. And with Warner Brothers and DC's few good ideas being that Jason Mamoa, aka America's favorite gothic trucker, should play Aquaman (Dear WB and DC: Let James Gunn do whatever he wants), we viewers do get the rather rare phenomenon of not being able to mock Aquaman without feeling like a complete tool.
The overall result is... Perhaps a notch above Justice League (In Dawn of Justice, they teased us with the Devil, but instead of giving us Darkseid, Justice League ended up giving us... Steppenwolf. If you haven't seen JL, that last sentence is as underwhelming as it sounds), but ultimately results in a muddled movie with both admirable qualities but also some glaring errors that prevent it from dolphin leaping in the sea and instead relegate it to dog paddling in the public pool. Unlike DC's best Extended Universe film Wonder Woman, Aquaman simply fails to soar.
Aquaman follows Arthur Curry, the half land dweller and half Atlantean son of a lighthouse keeper and of an Atlantean princess. After Atlantean soldiers fail to kidnap his mother, the princess leaves her infant son in order to prevent her baby and baby daddy to confront her would be captors in Atlantis. As he grows older, Arthur learns how to summon sea life to his aid, how to swim with super-human speed and strength, and how to throw down Atlantean style via the tutelage of Atlantean counselor Nuidis Vulko. It is one year after Arthur helps the Justice League defeat Steppenwolf that the Atlantean Mera contacts Arthur again, imploring him to stop his half brother and Atlantean King Orm Marius from waging war on the surface for the crimes of polluting the seas. Arthur reluctantly agrees to this, but ends up earnestly attempting to not just stop his brother, but also to become the new King of Atlantis.
The inclusion of director and horror maestro James Wan had given me hope that Wan would be able to give buoyancy to the little superhero movie that could, and in some respects he succeeds. The world of Atlantis and its Atlanteans is lush, sleek, and colorful, promising at least a fiesta for your eyes. Action sequences, especially the Sicily/Black Manta battle, the race against amphibious Lovecraftian monstrosities known as the Trenches, and the final epic war battle that throws everything including the kitchen sink, are all masterfully orchestrated, sometimes stunningly well. The cast is mostly impressive, and I can't think of many more people who could play Aquaman as well as Mamoa, but its Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Black Manta who nearly steals the show, giving viewers as ruthless and as vicious a villain as they could ever ask for, matched with the strange, fluid maneuverability of his bulky if not utterly bad-ass Manta suit. This was the Manta of Geoff John's run that I wanted to see, and I was not left disappointed.
However, despite being very impressed by Aquaman's style, I was left disappointed by the movie's substance. The writing is subpar, with lackluster dialogue that undermined any kind of passion I could have felt for the film (Not to toot my own horn, but if Manta said "I'll gut you like the fish you are" to me and not Arthur, I think I would have said, "Wait, seriously?" instead of screeching before he tore out my entrails). This all adds up to a movie that, despite looking rather wondrous, feels predictable and stale. With too many lines I got the feeling that characters were merely saying whatever needed to be said to move the plot along but not much that could give the story any depth. And as undeniably cool as Jason Mamoa appears as a version of Aquaman who looks like he could do quite well as a bouncer at a Slayer concert, its as if the movie is never able to give us a clear, definite idea of who the man is. He's a dense enough meat-head to kick ass first and ask questions later and not notice his BO around a beautiful woman, but his knowledge of Roman history pays off conveniently at a certain plot point despite his not knowing that the movie Pinocchio is based off of a book (Because, you know, when has Disney ever made a movie based off a book?) Nor do we get a clear idea of why Arthur chooses to become a hero of both the land and the sea: We know that he resents the Atlanteans because he believes that they executed his mother for treason, but there's not much in the way of reasons given as to why Arthur ends up wanting to become protector and King of Atlantis. The plot feels bare bones, proceeding from point A to B to C within a dull paint by the numbers structure: within that plot I did not get the sense that Aquaman really matured or learned anything that justifies his saving both environmentally destructive humans and Atlanteans, the victims of cataclysmic pollution.
Aquaman is at least an ambitious undertaking but fails to live up to its full potential. A superior sequel would need to possess a script that has far more plot substance and doesn't just move from one exemplary fight scene to the next. The DC Extended Universe's best film is easily Wonder Woman, a movie that excelled in both action and characterization, with a philosophy life-affirming enough to pierce the shell of even the most hardened cynic. For another Aquaman movie to even begin to enter the same level as Wonder Woman, the former will need to do more to insure that the sushi tastes great instead of just looks great.
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UCL: Chelsea v Bayer Leverkusen preview
Chelsea will look to make it 10 straight matches without a loss as the Blues look to be slowly marching towards the same type of aura that made them such threats in the Champions League in years past. The wins in the Premier League have not been in overly dominant fashion, but a sense of invincibility is creeping into the club which is invaluable in Champions League. So, the first ever Chelsea v Bayer Leverkusen fixture is set to unravel tomorrow, as two in-form teams look to get off to winning start in Group E. Chelsea have historically performed well against German opposition at Stamford Bridge, but will that pattern continue against a Bayer Leverkusen side that have gone undefeated in their last four Bundesliga matches?
Daniel Sturridge could start alongside Nicolas Anelka up front as Didier Drogba is a still out following his head injury and subsequent concussion against Norwich City two weeks ago. Michael Essien will be out until January after undergoing surgery to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his right knee, while Ramires is suspended and Romelu Lukaku and Ryan Bertrand are ineligible.
Beyer Leverkusen
Michael Ballack will relish the prospect of going against his former team of four years but first-choice keeper Rene Adler has been sidelined due to knee surgery, while Bastian Oczipka is recovering from a broken ankle. Tranquillo Barnetta will miss the clash after also undergoing an operation on his knee.
Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 23 Champions League group stage games at home (17 wins, six draws)
No German side has ever beaten Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in European competition
Chelsea are making their ninth consecutive appearance in the Champions League
Nicolas Anelka has scored seven goals in his last seven Champions League starts
Bayer Leverkusen are making their first appearance in the Champions League since the 2004/05 season
Leverkusen have lost their last six Champions League encounters with English sides, including the last four by exactly the same scoreline (3-1)
Leverkusen have never kept a clean sheet in their 12 Champions League encounters with English sides
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Midfielder relieved to avoid red at Wolves
Frank Lampard admitted he was lucky to still be on the pitch when he scored Chelsea's late winner in their 2-1 success at Wolves. Midfielder Lampard accepts he was fortunate not to be sent off for a sliding challenge on Wolves winger Adam Hammill midway through the first half. The 33-year-old escaped with a yellow card from referee Peter Walton - one of five bookings in an eight minute spell - and then netted Chelsea's winner with just two minutes remaining. Lampard said: "My heart was in my mouth over that challenge. I have to admit that. There was no malice, and I honestly mean that, but I was late and I might have been a bit lucky to stay on the pitch."
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Muhammad Rasheed - Complaints Pile Up Against Michelle Morsi Murphy, the Chicago Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Pastor
She's out of control, this Officer Murphy. Paralyzed with fear, a danger to herself, and certainly a danger to any Black people she encounters. She jumps at every shadow, seeing a menacing, criminal minority threat when there isn't one. She's crazy.
But she wasn't always like that.
Initially joining the force in an environment in which the FBI proved that White Supremacist hate groups had been infiltrating law enforcement organizations for years, Murphy wasn't anymore 'paralyzed with fear' over Blacks than the average rookie cop who was raised to believe that minorities WERE the problem with the world. She proved to herself and her colleagues in the academy that she was brave, and planned to do what she was trained to do to make sure America -- her America -- was safe from that inherently criminal Black mind. What she wasn't prepared for was the shear intensity of the subculture of anti-Black fear propaganda ahead of her that the racist White males passed around to each other, all around the country. Racist White male police officers were no different, and in fact, probably created the worst of it.
You see, instead of telling ghost stories, racists tell each other "Scary Black Guy" stories, and they've been doing it for quite a while now. Long enough for this form of boogieman figure to be well entrenched into the fabric of the White American communities. The White male believes within his role as protector, that he guards against the Scary Black Guy, and the wayward Federal Government -- these are his enemies -- whether they actually pose a threat to him or not. President Barack Obama, who embodies both of these threats combined, represented a Worst Nightmare Scenario of epic proportions in the White community, causing the White Supremacist website StormFront to report skyrocketing new membership numbers immediately after the POTUS defeated Sen. John McCain for the White House seat.
The average 'Horrifying Tale of the Scary Black Guy' surprisingly isn't a fiction, when told among each other in the privacy of their man caves, or break room corners, and what have you. They are real events with a sociopathic layer of sweaty suspense on top, and often go something like this:
"Man, I almost didn't make it this morning. I swear to God. [visibly shaken] I needed to get some money out of the ATM, but the closest one to me was on THAT side of town. [terrified *gasp* from audience] I know, right?! But I didn't have time to drive 45 minutes out of my way, I needed to get these people their payment. So I pulled up to this machine at the corner. I got out of my car, and HOLY SHIT! [audience flinches] There was this HUGE, Scary Black Guy right ON the corner! ["Fucking shit, man!" "Oh NO!"] Right?! I didn't even see it him! ["What the fuck did you DO, man?!"] What COULD I do?? I couldn't just leave, I had to get this payment in... ["Man, fuck that house, man. You have good credit! It wasn't worth your fucking LIFE, man!"] I know, but my family. Anyway, I walk over swiftly to the machine, keeping my eye on the Scary Black Guy. He didn't seem to know I was there... he stayed in his smart phone, finishing his White slavery/drug deal or whatever. Why they allow these 'people' to use food stamps to buy electronics and cars and fucking-A shit White Jesus knows I can't afford. Fucking Obama. ["You're preaching to the choir, brother."] Anyway, so while the Scary Black Guy was distracted, I got my money out, and got back in the car! ["Holy shit! SOO fucking lucky!"] Then I drove OFF to safety!"
So literally NOTHING happened, except he went to the ATM, got his money out, and left, but this perpetual wall of pure FEAR made it a whole different experience in his mind. This is what we are dealing with, and why Black men are so disproportionately killed during altercations with White cops, in ADDITION to the White Supremacy Terrorist infiltration part. This is mess that Officer Murphy had spent who knows how much time listening to from her colleagues, being indoctrinated by this fear of all Blacks, until her already racist fragile mind finally shattered. But she just represents the extreme ("a" weak extreme compared to actually shooting Black men to death because they twitched their itchy nose) For every tightening grip on a purse, every hurriedly locked door when they see you walk by their car, from shooting you in the face through a closed door, this is the reason why. Pay attention to how TERRIFIED that cop acted after he had shot Philando Castile, while the young man was helplessly bleeding out in front of his shocked woman and his daughter. The cop screamed that he told Castile to keep his hands visible, and Ms Reynolds calmly reminded him that he instructed Castile to retrieve his ID, and he was only doing as instructed. That wall of fear prevented the cop from seeing the reality of the situation he was dealing with, no different than in the ATM tale above.
Obviously White cops are of no value within the Black community (compare this to when those Open Carry wingnuts venture into Black neighborhoods, and what can possibly be going on in their heads!), and are nonempathic, and highly dangerous towards the people. In their minds, they are "Serving & Protecting" their own White communities by "patrolling" the Black communities in keeping the Scary Black Guy in check.
My solution... which is the only possible solution... is to segregate the police force along racial lines. Keep these people out of the Black neighborhoods. They aren't helping by acting this way, by going in with the mentality that Blacks aren't really people but a "superpredator" that the White race must be protected from (ironically). Darren Wilson used this same fear ("He was like a DEMON!") to sell the jury that his version of events was reasonable. To Blacks it sounded as insane as it was, but to Whites, the story was what they had always believed about Black men. People always recoil as if my police force segregation proposal is the equivalent to returning Blacks to slavery. I don't understand the closed minds, since the way things are NOW is a literal horror story in my Black communities.
I would certainly like to see better solutions put on the table other than what we apparently have now: An acceptable Black body count.
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Home > News > NPA condemns Asda over shocking British pork figures
NPA condemns Asda over shocking British pork figures
25th Jun 2018 / By Alistair Driver
The NPA has criticised Asda for its failure to support the British pig industry after the latest Porkwatch survey showed only a third of the fresh pork on its shelves was British.
The May survey showed that eight of the top 10 UK retailers again stocked 100% British fresh pork, while Tesco made impressive strides, increasing its proportion of British fresh pork facings from in 66% in March and 62% in January to 69%.
But Asda’s fresh pork British facings dropped from 44% in March to just 34% in May, suggesting that two-thirds of its pork on display is imported. This drop was consistent across the stores sampled. It is understood Asda is importing more pork for its summer barbecue range.
The Leeds-based retailer has been consistently bottom of the pile when it comes to sourcing British pork products – and the latest figures only reinforce this position.
Asda also posted the lowest figure when it came to bacon, 31%, albeit up from 21% in March and 20% a year ago. Only Lidl (32%), scored lower than Asda’s 40% on ham and, on British sausage facings, only Budgens (71%) was below Asda’s 78%.
Overall, across all of the top 10 retailers, the AHDB survey showed 79% of fresh pork facings were British, along with 51% of bacon, 69% of ham and 85% of sausage. While fresh pork was fractionally down on last year, all other categories were up.
Other significant developments included Aldi returning to 100% British sausage, while Tesco’s ham British facings were also up, from up 62% to 72%. In fact, there was growth in Red Tractor products in pork, bacon, ham and sausage in Tesco.
Marks & Spencer and Waitrose led the way, scoring 100% on fresh pork, bacon and sausage and 95% and 91% respectively on ham. The Co-op also posted impressive figures, including 100% British fresh pork and bacon, 98% ham and 85% sausage.
But the main focus will inevitably be on Asda, even more so in the wake of the recent that it is set to merge with Sainsbury’s to create a new giant retailer that would become the UK’s biggest.
During a feisty session in front of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee last week, Asda CEO Roger Burnely refuted ‘that it is the supplier who is paying the price’ for the 10% consumer price cuts the retailers promised as a result of the merger. He insisted the retailer wanted to source British ‘wherever we can’.
EFRA chair Neil Parish was deeply unimpressed with the lack of detail provided by Mr Burnley, accusing him of providing the MPs with ‘Mickey Mouse figures’ and of telling the committee ‘a load of nursery rhymes’, rather than hard facts.
NPA response
NPA chief executive Zoe Davies said: “Overall the latest Porkwatch figures paint a positive picture, with eight retailers stocking 100% fresh British pork and making this selling point to customers. We thank them for their support and are also very pleased to see the efforts made by Tesco to stock more British pigmeat.
“But Asda’s performance is, frankly, shocking. It has consistently been shown to be the worst supporter of the British pig industry among all the big retailers and these figures confirm it is simply going from bad to worse.
“The situation is even more concerning given the planned Sainsbury’s-Asda merger. If Asda’s philosophy of shunning British pork in favour of imported pork is carried over to the new organisation, this will be of great concern to the pork sector.
“We will be seeking some urgent answers.”
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Pacific Myth
Review by Larry Toering
There is a catch to categorizing Protest The Hero as prog, but it’s only because they come on so strong. Pacific Myth is a concept EP with fantastic story telling lyrics, containing only six tracks with an epic over eight-minute number at the end. The music is just very hard rocking, but the vocals bring out sounds like The Answer, also akin to Queen and others. The metal edge takes nothing away from the release being progressive rock. It just throws things off until the entire set sinks in. They’re a Canadian band who’ve been around the block, playing hard rock and metal, but this is a step beyond their usual efforts. It earns prog status whether the band are full on prog or not. It also interests beyond the modern metal scope. This is a subscription based release from 2016. If the band aren’t prog, the record sure is.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2017 Volume 5 at lulu.com/strangesound.
Track by Track Review
If you like it hard this is pulverizing. Yet, at the same time it’s delicate with killer lyrics that take some listening to fully absorb. It’s the first chapter in this tale of the sea and stars. The guitars are thrashing about while the vocal majesty shines around it, almost fooling its own wave of prog-mysticism. Metal heads have-to put on their thinking caps, and that’s what prog is all about. Each track features a photo to the left page of the lyrics, and this one has a giant-sized Lion coming out of the sea, taking a small ship with it.
Ragged Tooth
This one has a picture of a shark with its fin out of the ocean water, but tells a complex story that you’ll have to read in-order to fully appreciate. Once again, they come on strong, but once the vocals join it gets radically esoteric, and you’re compelled to read the lyrics to try and make sense of it all. The vocals get downright gruff in places, which is almost like a prog drummer going through as many time changes as they can. This is a "must hear."
The picture is of a giant-sized frog on top of what appears to be an occupied coastal mountainside somewhere along the south Pacific coast. The ocean gets much of the story on this one, as the third chapter gets even more interesting. The vocals take more limelight in this, with a good example of the prog factor the EP carries.
This one has another shark photo, only it’s a Hammerhead swimming around a sunken ship at the bottom of the Pacific. This track features guest vocals by a friend of the band and lead vocalist of Mandroid Echostar, Michael Ciccia. It’s oddly enough one of the most comprehensive moments on the disc. This is less rattled with metal and filled with harmonies not heard on the rest. A nod goes to the contained guitars with occasional incendiary fills. It’s probably the most accessible track.
Chapter five shows a picture of a seagull diving into the water and meeting its fate by what is yet another shark. This is the darkest track of them all, where you start to find out that it’s all a dream. This track is over six-minutes worth of complex time signature changes.
The final chapter takes the cake with a photo of mutants in the sky. Among them are a half fish/half camel on a gladiator’s leash and a puppy dog flying up under it as if to be trying to catch the mutant. It helps to describe that while you were sleeping the ocean wasn’t drained, but transformed. This is where the hard to grasp, but very interesting story, all unfolds to an end. The track is based around explanation that you can make up whatever meaning you want to your dreams, as much as you can with the songs. This EP checks out with high marks in every department.
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Moving Mustangs; Baseball Transfers Nine
BLUE BELL, Pa. - Montgomery County Community College Athletics is pleased to announce that nine student-athletes from the Mustangs' 2015 baseball team have transfered to four-year institutions.
Pitcher Chuck Delagol and outfielder Rocky Ferrier are headed to Wilmington University. It was a memorable spring for both players as the pair was named to the 2015 EPAC All-Conference Baseball Team. Delagol was also named EPAC Player of the Year.
Three other pitchers who contributed to Montgomery's 23-9 overall mark last season are also on the move, including Don Halbruner (Penn State Abington), Jake Hoffman (California State University, Monterey Bay), and Josh Persson (East Stroudsburg University).
Rounding out the list are Matt Kellar (East Carolina University), Jake Mascio (Mount Aloysius), Joe O'Brien (Coastal Carolina University), and Jason Smith (Widener University).
Congratulations and good luck to these Mustangs' student-athletes as they pursue their academic and athletic dreams!
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News> China
Chinese scientists identify rare amber encasing ancient sea animal
2019-May-16 Source: Xinhuanet.com
An international group led by Chinese scientists identified the first known amber encasing an ancient sea animal called ammonite about 100 million years ago.
Photo taken on May 14, 2019 shows the first known amber encasing an ancient sea animal called ammonite at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. An international group led by Chinese scientists identified the first known amber encasing an ancient sea animal called ammonite about 100 million years ago. The study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences described the 6.08 gram amber, which is 33 mm long, 9.5 mm wide and 29 mm high. The discovery provided a clue to ancient coastal forest ecology. (Xinhua/Sun Can)
The study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences described the 6.08 gram amber, which is 33 mm long, 9.5 mm wide and 29 mm high. The discovery provided a clue to ancient coastal forest ecology.
While many terrestrial plants and animals are preserved by amber inclusions, it is rare to find sea life trapped in amber, according to the study.
The researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) used X-ray to obtain high-resolution three-dimensional images of the ammonite including its convoluted sutures, key features for identifying the ammonite.
Wang Bo, a researcher with the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), demonstrates a picture of the first known amber encasing an ancient sea animal called ammonite during a press conference in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 14, 2019. An international group led by Chinese scientists identified the first known amber encasing an ancient sea animal called ammonite about 100 million years ago. The study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences described the 6.08 gram amber, which is 33 mm long, 9.5 mm wide and 29 mm high. The discovery provided a clue to ancient coastal forest ecology. (Xinhua/Sun Can)
They found that the ammonite is a juvenile one, belonging to a group of ammonite living about 105 million to 93 million years ago. It is a rare example of dating of sea animal using amber inclusions.
The shells are all empty with no soft-tissue, revealing that the organisms were long dead and removed away by the time they were engulfed by resin.
Wang Bo, a researcher from NIGPAS and the paper's corresponding author, told Xinhua that the ancient coastal forest in Myanmar produced resin and encased the dead ammonite in the beach before becoming the amber. The authors also included researchers from National Museum of Scotland, Oxford University and Indiana University.
Sea snails and sea slaters are included by the amber. The amber also engulfed some terrestrial animals including spiders, cockroaches, beetles and wasps, most of which would have lived on the forest floor, according to the study.
The most likely explanation for the appearance of both marine and terrestrial organisms within the amber is that a sandy beach covered with shells was located close to resin-producing trees, according to the researchers.
Chinese fashion icons honored at NYC gala
Fashion week held during 3rd phase of 125th Canton Fair
Third phase of 125th China Import and Export Fair held in Guangzhou
Highlights of FINA Champions Swim Series in Guangzhou
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【GZ】Indian Classical Music Concert to kick off on June 18th
Time for a spring outing in fresh ways around Guangdong
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China
Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations
Chinese president visits Italy, Monaco, France
Implementation of President Xi important speeches in Guangdong
The Second Belt and Road Forum
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Building Experiments
Trigger table
While actions give meaning to the events, the Trigger table implements the logic of the experiment program flow. It defines how each event possibly triggers the execution of other events. Conditional expressions implement runtime dependent triggered events, made possible by allowing global variables to be used in these expressions. An example would be to either trigger the next_trial event or next_sequence event based on the current state of the num_acquired_trials variable. Table 3 demonstrates corresponding Trigger table.
marker time fire datasource delay condition
trial EVENT next_trial eeg 0 num_acquired_trials <= 10
trial EVENT next_sequence eeg 0 num_acquired_trials > 10
marker time fire datasource delay condition triggeraction
- print_output eeg 0 num_acquired_trials==10 mod
Table 3: Trigger table
< As long as the number of acquired trials doesn't exceed 10, a next_trial event is triggered by the trial event, otherwise a next_sequence event is triggered. If no conditional expression is specified, corresponding event will always be triggered. Optionally, a delay can be specified, which value is default referenced relatively against the events timepoint time that triggers it. If it should be referenced against actual moment of execution of the event, instead specify for the delay: 0,'now'. The datasource is only relevant if corresponding triggered event defines data (it has a DATA timepoint) in order to collect the correct data epochs. For example useful if a single marker triggers periodic data collection or a limited number of data epochs as determined by logic incorporated in the conditional expression .
> As long as the number of acquired trials doesn't exceed 10, a next_trial event is triggered by the trial event, otherwise a next_sequence event is triggered. If no conditional expression is specified, corresponding event will always be triggered. Optionally, a delay can be specified, which value is default referenced relatively against the events timepoint time that triggers it. If it should be referenced against the actual moment of execution of the event, instead specify for the delay: 0,now. The datasource is only relevant if corresponding triggered event defines data (it has a DATA timepoint) in order to collect the correct data epochs. For example useful if a single marker triggers periodic data collection or a limited number of data epochs as determined by logic incorporated in the conditional expression.
Markers can also be triggered based on the state of the variables, i.e., watchdog triggered markers. Each time a global variable involved in the conditional expression is being modified, the conditional expression is evaluated and if true, corresponding marker is triggered. This is the default behaviour, however, the user can control which global variable(s) modifications and which actions ( mod, put, or mod and put) will start the evaluation of the expression. For instance: mod(num) means evaluate the expression only a mod-action for variable num. For watchdog triggered markers the marker information can be left empty or specify a dash -, the time column information can be left empty since triggering is not time-dependent.
< Table 4: Trigger table
> Table 3: Trigger table
< As long as the number of acquired trials doesn't exceed 10, a next_trial event is triggered by the trial event, otherwise a next_sequence event is triggered. If no conditional expression is specified, corresponding event will always be triggered. Optionally, a delay can be specified, which value is default referenced relatively against the events timepoint time that triggers it. If it should be referenced against actual moment of execution of the event, instead specify for the delay: 0,'now'. The datasource is only relevant if corresponding triggered event defines data (it has a DATA timepoint) in order to collect the correct data epochs. For example useful if a single marker triggers periodic data collection or a limited number of data epochs as determined by logic incorporated in the conditional expression.
> As long as the number of acquired trials doesn't exceed 10, a next_trial event is triggered by the trial event, otherwise a next_sequence event is triggered. If no conditional expression is specified, corresponding event will always be triggered. Optionally, a delay can be specified, which value is default referenced relatively against the events timepoint time that triggers it. If it should be referenced against actual moment of execution of the event, instead specify for the delay: 0,'now'. The datasource is only relevant if corresponding triggered event defines data (it has a DATA timepoint) in order to collect the correct data epochs. For example useful if a single marker triggers periodic data collection or a limited number of data epochs as determined by logic incorporated in the conditional expression.
Preventing conflicts with imported tables
< BrainStream supports the use of imported tables. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own imported table.
When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the imported tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables should not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
> BrainStream supports the use of imported tables. When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the imported tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables should not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
Experiment definition tables
< The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the DataSelection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files where each table is put in a different sheet. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
> The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, four different tables are needed: the Actions table, the DataSelection table, the Dictionary table, and Trigger table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files where each table is put in a different sheet. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
Actions table
Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user defined variables (more on this later).
As long as the number of acquired trials doesn't exceed 10, a next_trial event is triggered by the trial event, otherwise a next_sequence event is triggered. If no conditional expression is specified, corresponding event will always be triggered. Optionally, a delay can be specified, which value is default referenced relatively against the events timepoint time that triggers it. If it should be referenced against actual moment of execution of the event, instead specify for the delay: 0,'now'. The datasource is only relevant if corresponding triggered event defines data (it has a DATA timepoint) in order to collect the correct data epochs. For example useful if a single marker triggers periodic data collection or a limited number of data epochs as determined by logic incorporated in the conditional expression.
DataSelection table
mrk2 0.5 mrk3+1
mrk4 0 mrk4, mrk5, 3
< Table 3: DataSelection table
> Table 4: DataSelection table
The table above shows an example of a data selection table. The data selection of mrk1 will start half a second before onset of the marker and end 2 seconds after the onset.The data selection of mrk2 will start half a second after the onset of mrk2 and will end one second after marker mrk3 arrives. Marker mrk4 will start data selection immediately and this will end when a new marker mrk4 arrives. In other words, after the first occurrence of marker mrk4, every new marker mrk4 will both end the previous period of data selection and start a new period. This sequence ends when marker mrk5 arrives or when no markers come in for 3 seconds. Note that if ending markers do not set the end of data selection and no timeout is specified, corresponding actions (with timepoint DATA) will never be executed.
< BrainStream supports the use of imported tables. An example of an imported table is the import-table for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own imported table.
> BrainStream supports the use of imported tables. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own imported table.
1 fnc3
mrk2,mrk3 EVENT fnc4
< Table 1: Actions table
The first column of the Actions table, the marker column, contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. If actions for the same marker are listed in different rows of the table, the marker name only needs to be specified in the first row. For example, in table 1, the actions for marker mrk1 are specified in two different rows, and the marker column can remain empty for the second of these rows. Multiple markers can be specified, separated by commas. Any of the markers from this list will trigger the execution of the associated actions. For example, in table 1, function fnc4 will be executed whenever either marker mrk2 or mrk3 arrives. The marker column can also contain a reference to another table (see Plug-ins).
> Table 1: Actions table
The first column of the Actions table, the marker column, contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. If actions for the same marker are listed in different rows of the table, the marker name only needs to be specified in the first row. For example, in table 1, the actions for marker mrk1 are specified in two different rows, and the marker column can remain empty for the second of these rows. Multiple markers can be specified, separated by commas. Any of the markers from this list will trigger the execution of the associated actions. For example, in table 1, function fnc4 will be executed whenever either marker mrk2 or mrk3 arrives. The marker column can also contain a reference to another table (see Import-tables).
The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, the actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset, when a certain amount of data becomes available, some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that functions fnc1 and fnc2 are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 whereas function fnc3 takes place one second after marker onset.
Preventing conflicts with plug-in tables
< BrainStream supports the use of plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table.
> BrainStream supports the use of imported tables. An example of an imported table is the import-table for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own imported table.
< When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the plug-in tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables should not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
> When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the imported tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables should not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
< The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the DataSelection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files (.xls extensions only) where each table is put in a different sheet, or a set of separate text files (.txt), one for each table. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
> The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the DataSelection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files where each table is put in a different sheet. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
The first three columns of the Dictionary table are fixed. In the marker column the marker names are specified. The second column specifies the marker type. The marker can for example be a stimulus or a response marker. The value column specifies the number with which the marker is represented outside BrainStream.
< The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the section on dependent plug-ins. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
> The datasource column is optional. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
marker type value substitute datasource
tone stimulus 10
voice stimulus 11
button response 128
marker type value datasource
Table 4: Dictionary table
BrainStream supports the use of plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table.
< When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the plug-in tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables shoud not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
> When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the plug-in tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables should not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
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marker begintime endtime datasource
mrk1 -0.5 2
mrk4 0 mrk4, mrk5, timeout(3)
Table 3: DataSelection table
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In addition to the listed topics and keys you can add your own topics and keys, as long as they are not used by BrainStream itself. The advantage is that these items are readily accessible for your own written user defined functions throughout the whole experiment. Information in the block files can be accessed using the bs_get_blockvalue function.
< In the blocksettings definitions, also direct assignments to sub fields are possible:
> In the blocksettings definitions, also direct assignments to sub fields are possible:
[preproc]
pp.downsample.targetFs = 256
pp.bcd.doplot = 1;
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Referencing to other block files
< It is possible to incorporate blocksettings defined in one block file in another. For example, in one block file (block1.blk) you may have specified certain stimulus settings under topic StimulusSettings:
[StimulusSettings]
> It is possible to incorporate blocksettings defined in one block file in another. For example, in one block file (block1.blk) you may have specified certain stimulus settings under topic CommonStimulusSettings:
[CommonStimulusSettings]
numstim = 20; %present 20 stimuli soa = 300; %stimulus onset asynchrony is 300 ms duration = 50; %stimulus duration is 50 ms
If you want to incorporate the same settings in another block file, you can do this with the @ symbol followed by the name of the block file and the topic you want to include. For example:
< @block1.blk StimulusSettings?
> @block1.blk CommonStimulusSettings?
< All keys defined under topic StimulusSettings in block file block1.blk will be added to the block file in which the reference is specified.
> All keys defined under topic CommonStimulusSettings in block file block1.blk will be added to the StimulusSettings topic.
Note that the block file to which you refer must be in the same folder as where the current processed blockfile is located or on the Matlab search path.
< If an experiment consists of several blocks, the topic and key combinations which are the same for all blocks can be put in a common block file. The structure of a common block file is the same as other block files, but settings specified in a common block file will be applied to all blocks. For example, information that is specific to the lab in which the experiment takes place could be put in a common block file. The advantage is that you do not have to specify the same information more than once and if you change the setting in the common block file it will be applied to all blocks.
This is especially convenient for grouped settings that need to be processed together. For instance, when calling functions from the FieldTrip toolbox, parameters are passed the functions through a Matlab structure (in general it is named cfg). In the blocksettings define:
[freqanalysis]
cfg.method = 'mtmfft';
cfg.output = 'fourier';
cfg.foilim = [60 60];
cfg.taper = 'dpss';
cfg.tapsmofrq = 20;
cfg.keeptrials = 'yes';
cfg.keeptapers = 'yes';
then in your BrainStream function:
cfg = bs_get_blockvalue(‘freqanalysis’,’cfg’);
freq = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, event.data.raw);
This provides direct access to cfg parameters and different topics with configuration settings can be defined for each type of required FieldTrip analyses. Since Matlab syntax is allowed in the blocksettings assignments, FieldTrip configuration settings for BrainStream are defined in a similar way.
If an experiment consists of several blocks, the topic and key combinations which are the same for all blocks can be put in a common block file. The structure of a common block file is the same as other block files, but settings specified in a common block file will be applied to all blocks. For example, information that is specific to the lab in which the experiment takes place could be put in a common block file. The advantage is that you do not have to specify the same information more than once and if you change the setting in the common block file it will be applied to all blocks.
'my_BCI/feedback.blk'} [CommonBlocks] Files = {'lab1.blk'}
< Try to prevent using absolute path names and specify them relatively to the folder where the BrainStream project file is located (eg. '../myclassifiers/classifier.blk'). When entire folder structures are copied/moved around, corresponding block files will still be found.
> Try to prevent using absolute path names and specify them relatively to the folder where the BrainStream project file is located (eg. '../myclassifiers/classifier.blk'). When entire folder structures are copied/moved around, corresponding block files will still be found.
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All keys defined under topic StimulusSettings in block file block1.blk will be added to the block file in which the reference is specified.
< Note that the block file to which you refer must be on the Matlab search path.
> Note that the block file to which you refer must be in the same folder as where the current processed blockfile is located or on the Matlab search path.
BrainStream project files
References to all block files and common block files can be put together in a single seperate 'BrainStream Project' (.bsp, or .exp for older versions) file with topics Blocks and CommonBlocks. Both topics define the Files key, in which a cell array of block file names defines which block files take part in the experiment. This single file then defines your whole BCI experiment. For example, if your experiment is defined by three functional blocks, namely train.blk, classifier.blk and feedback.blk, and one common block file lab1.blk, the following project file would be sufficient to include them all at once when starting BrainStream:
[Blocks]
< Files = {'/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/train.blk', ... '/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/classifier.blk', ... '/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/feedback.blk'}
> Files = {'train.blk', ... 'classifier.blk', ... 'my_BCI/feedback.blk'}
[CommonBlocks]
< Files = {'lab1.blk'}
> Files = {'lab1.blk'} Try to prevent using absolute path names and specify them relatively to the folder where the BrainStream project file is located (eg. '../myclassifiers/classifier.blk'). When entire folder structures are copied/moved around, corresponding block files will still be found.
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< Timing offsets can also be specified in number of samples. In that case, the number should be followed by a '#' symbol (for example, 1024#). Of course, time points that are specified in seconds will also be rounded off to the nearest sample number by BrainStream's internal processing.
> Timing offsets can also be specified in number of samples. In that case, the number should be followed by a '#' symbol (for example, 1024#). Of course, time points that are specified in seconds will also be rounded off to the nearest sample number by BrainStream's internal processing. Importantly, the sample corresponding to 'begintime' is not included in the data selection, whereas the sample corresponding to 'endtime' is included. For some examples related to this issue, click here? .
The datasource column is optional. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies from which source the data should be collected. If only one data source is involved, BrainStream will automatically collect data from this single source only.
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The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. One second after the onset of marker mrk1, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be used in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
< The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Parallel Mode).
> The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column can contain special functions that will be put into a loop by BrainStream. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Parallel Mode).
mrk1 EVENT disp(Var1) get
In this table is specified that the value of Var1 is displayed when marker mrk1 arrives. As is the case for functions in the function column, a get statement is required to copy the content of Var1 from the global variables into the event structure.
Functions in the 'looptick' column
Looptick functions are a specific type of loop function that can be used when BrainStream is running in parallel mode. More information on these functions can be found in the advanced topic Looptick Functions.
Block files and common block files
duration = 50; %stimulus duration is 50 ms
@block1.blk StimulusSettings
Functions in the 'feval' column
< In the feval column, you can specify functions that do not process any of the user defined variables. Examples are Matlab's tic/toc or disp functions. In the example below, tic and toc are used to evaluate the time it takes to execute function my_fnc1:
> In the feval column, you can specify functions that do not process any of the user defined variables. Examples are Matlab's tic/toc or disp functions. In the example below, tic and toc are used to evaluate the time it takes to execute function my_fnc1:
marker time function feval
mrk1 EVENT tic
Additional possible topics with their keys are listed here.
< In addition to the listed topics and keys you can add your own topics and keys, as long as they are not used by BrainStream itself. The advantage is that these items are readily accessible for your own written user defined functions throughout the whole experiment. Information in the block files can be accessed using the bs_get_blockvalue function.
> In addition to the listed topics and keys you can add your own topics and keys, as long as they are not used by BrainStream itself. The advantage is that these items are readily accessible for your own written user defined functions throughout the whole experiment. Information in the block files can be accessed using the bs_get_blockvalue function.
numstim = 20; %present 20 stimuli
soa = 300; %stimulus onset asynchrony is 300 ms
duration = 50; %stimulus duration is 50 ms
Note that the block file to which you refer must be on the Matlab search path.
< An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files. The experiment may also need user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream.BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
> An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files. The experiment may also need user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
Table 2: Specifying time of action execution
< The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. One second after the onset of marker mrk1, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream.BrainStream functions can be used in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
> The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. One second after the onset of marker mrk1, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be used in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
< The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream.BrainStream in Parallel Mode).
> The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Parallel Mode).
< Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. In the Actions table, markers calling for data selection have a DATA statement in the time column. The DataSelection table lists the markers that call for data selection and specifies the time period of data selection relative to marker onset.
> Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. In the Actions table, markers calling for data selection have a DATA statement in the time column. The DataSelection table lists the markers that call for data selection and specifies the time period of data selection relative to marker onset.
The DataSelection table consists of a marker column, a begindata column, and an enddata column. Data selection may start before or after onset of the marker, indicated by negative and positive numbers respectively. The end of data selection can be before or after the onset of the marker specified in the marker column, when a new marker arrives (with or without extra timing), or when nothing happens for a specified period of time (timeout). If multiple endtimes, seperated by a comma, are specified, the one that happens first will end the data selection.
User defined functions must be written in the following format:
event = my_function(event,c1,c2,...)
< The input and output argument 'event' is obligatory. Event is a Matlab type structure variable. The fields of this structure contain copies of the current content of the variables with a 'get' statement in the table. In the above example, var1 was made available to function my_fnc1 with a 'get' statement. Thus, the my_fnc1 input argument 'event' will contain the field event.var1, which holds a copy of var1. In contrast, the input argument 'event' of function my_fnc2 will not contain the field event.var1 (no 'get' statement in the Actions table), but it will have a field called event.varN, which contains a copy of variable varN.
The additional input arguments (c1, c2, ...) are optional. You can enter constants there, if your function needs them. For example, in table 5, function my_fnc2 needs the constant c1 as an input argument. Note that in the Actions table you do not need to enter 'event' as the first input argument to your functions, as BrainStream will automatically pass the event structure to all functions.
> The input and output argument 'event' is obligatory. Event is a Matlab type structure variable. The fields of this structure contain copies of the current content of the variables with a 'get' statement in the table. In the above example, var1 was made available to function my_fnc1 with a 'get' statement. Thus, the my_fnc1 input argument 'event' will contain the field event.var1, which holds a copy of var1. In contrast, the input argument 'event' of function my_fnc2 will not contain the field event.var1 (no 'get' statement in the Actions table), but it will have a field called event.varN, which contains a copy of variable varN.
< Your user defined function might change the content of some the variables you use as input. If you want to save these changes, you can place a 'put' statement in the corresponding cell in the Actions table, which updates the modified variables to the global variables. In the example above, changes that my_fnc2 makes to varN are saved, but changes that my_fnc1 makes to var1 are not (no 'put' statement). For more information about loading, modifying and saving user defined variables, see Modifying variables.
> Your user defined function might change the content of some the variables you use as input. If you want to save these changes, you can place a 'put' statement in the corresponding cell in the Actions table, which updates the modified variables to the global variables. In the example above, changes that my_fnc2 makes to varN are saved, but changes that my_fnc1 makes to var1 are not (no 'put' statement). For more information about loading, modifying and saving user defined variables, see Modifying variables.
Block = 'subjective_rhythm'
< Additional possible topics with their keys are listed here? .
> Additional possible topics with their keys are listed here.
< References to all block files and common block files can be put together in a single seperate 'BrainStream.BrainStream Project' (.bsp, or .exp for older versions) file with topics Blocks and CommonBlocks. Both topics define the Files key, in which a cell array of block file names defines which block files take part in the experiment. This single file then defines your whole BCI experiment. For example, if your experiment is defined by three functional blocks, namely train.blk, classifier.blk and feedback.blk, and one common block file lab1.blk, the following project file would be sufficient to include them all at once when starting BrainStream:
> References to all block files and common block files can be put together in a single seperate 'BrainStream Project' (.bsp, or .exp for older versions) file with topics Blocks and CommonBlocks. Both topics define the Files key, in which a cell array of block file names defines which block files take part in the experiment. This single file then defines your whole BCI experiment. For example, if your experiment is defined by three functional blocks, namely train.blk, classifier.blk and feedback.blk, and one common block file lab1.blk, the following project file would be sufficient to include them all at once when starting BrainStream:
Files = {'/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/train.blk', ...
'/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/classifier.blk', ...
< An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files. The experiment may also need user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
> An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files. The experiment may also need user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream.BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
< The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. One second after the onset of marker mrk1, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be used in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
> The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. One second after the onset of marker mrk1, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream.BrainStream functions can be used in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
< The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream in Parallel Mode).
> The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream.BrainStream in Parallel Mode).
< According to the fixed order in which BrainStreams executes actions, functions are executed in the order in which they appear in the table, first in the order in which they appear within each row and then in the order of the different rows. In the example above, the order of function execution is: tic - my_fnc1 - toc. The tic/toc function will therefore measure the time it takes to execute function fnc1.
> According to the fixed order in which BrainStream executes actions, functions are executed in the order in which they appear in the table, first in the order in which they appear within each row and then in the order of the different rows. In the example above, the order of function execution is: tic - my_fnc1 - toc. The tic/toc function will therefore measure the time it takes to execute function fnc1.
In the following table, the execution time of multiple functions will be measured:
< References to all block files and common block files can be put together in a single seperate 'BrainStream Project' (.bsp, or .exp for older versions) file with topics Blocks and CommonBlocks. Both topics define the Files key, in which a cell array of block file names defines which block files take part in the experiment. This single file then defines your whole BCI experiment. For example, if your experiment is defined by three functional blocks, namely train.blk, classifier.blk and feedback.blk, and one common block file lab1.blk, the following project file would be sufficient to include them all at once when starting BrainStream:
> References to all block files and common block files can be put together in a single seperate 'BrainStream.BrainStream Project' (.bsp, or .exp for older versions) file with topics Blocks and CommonBlocks. Both topics define the Files key, in which a cell array of block file names defines which block files take part in the experiment. This single file then defines your whole BCI experiment. For example, if your experiment is defined by three functional blocks, namely train.blk, classifier.blk and feedback.blk, and one common block file lab1.blk, the following project file would be sufficient to include them all at once when starting BrainStream:
by="MarjoleinVanDerWaal" date="1321263999" from="BrainStream.DocsSectionsBuildingExperiments" to="BrainStreamDocs.DocsSectionsBuildingExperiments"
< Table 1 is an example of an Actions table:
> The Actions table specifies the actions that should be executed for each marker. Table 1 is an example of an Actions table:
marker time function feval looptick client
mrk1 EVENT fnc1,fnc2
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< As usual, functions are executed in the order in which they appear in the table, first in the order in which they appear within each row and then in the order of the different rows. In the example above, the order of function execution is: tic - my_fnc1 - toc. The tic/toc function will therefore measure the time it takes to execute function fnc1.
> According to the fixed order in which BrainStreams executes actions, functions are executed in the order in which they appear in the table, first in the order in which they appear within each row and then in the order of the different rows. In the example above, the order of function execution is: tic - my_fnc1 - toc. The tic/toc function will therefore measure the time it takes to execute function fnc1.
An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files. The experiment may also need user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
> The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the DataSelection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files (.xls extensions only) where each table is put in a different sheet, or a set of separate text files (.txt), one for each table. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
Table 1 is an example of an Actions table:
< The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that take global variables as input argument, but do not process any of them. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream in Parallel Mode).
> The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not process any of the global variables. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream in Parallel Mode).
< Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. The DataSelection table indicates which markers call for data selection and also the time period of data selection relative to marker onset.
The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the section on dependent plug-ins. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
User defined functions and variables
Functions in the 'function' column
In the Actions table, certain actions are assigned to markers. You can define the actions directly in the table, but it is also possible to specify actions by adding user defined functions to your table. The functions that you write may need certain variables as input. An arbitrary number of columns in the Action table can be used for these user defined variables.
< If a function needs a user defined variable, you first need to get it from the global variables. This is done by putting a ‘get’ statement in the corresponding cell. For example, consider the following Actions table:
> If a function needs a user defined variable, you first need to get it from the global variables. This is done by putting a ‘get’ statement in the corresponding cell. For example, consider the following Actions table:
marker time function feval looptick client var1 ........ varN
mrk1 EVENT my_fnc1 get ........
mrk2 2 my_fnc2(c1) ........ get,put
< The input and output argument 'event' is obligatory. 'Event' is a Matlab type structure variable. The fields of this structure contain copies of the current content of the variables with a 'get' statement in the table. In the above example, var1 was made available to function my_fnc1 with a 'get' statement. Thus, the my_fnc1 input argument 'event' will contain the field event.var1, which holds a copy of var1. In contrast, the input argument 'event' of function my_fnc2 will not contain the field event.var1 (no 'get' statement in the Actions table), but it will have a field called event.varN, which contains a copy of variable varN.
In the feval column, you can specify functions that do not process any of the user defined variables. Examples are Matlab's tic/toc or disp functions. In the example below, tic and toc are used to evaluate the time it takes to execute function my_fnc1:
As usual, functions are executed in the order in which they appear in the table, first in the order in which they appear within each row and then in the order of the different rows. In the example above, the order of function execution is: tic - my_fnc1 - toc. The tic/toc function will therefore measure the time it takes to execute function fnc1.
mrk2 EVENT fnc2 tic
fnc3,fnc4 toc,tic
fnc5 toc
In this example, the order of function execution is: fnc2 - tic - fnc3 - fnc4 - toc - tic - fnc5 - toc. Therefore, the first tic/toc combination will measure the time it takes to execute function fnc3 and fnc4, whereas the second tic/toc combination measures the time it takes to execute function fnc5.
Functions specified in the feval column can take user defined variables as input arguments, as in the following example:
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< The table above shows an example of a data selection table. The data selection of mrk1 will start half a second before onset of the marker and end 2 seconds after the onset.The data selection of mrk2 will start half a second after the onset of mrk2 and will end one second after marker mrk3 arrives. Marker mrk4 will start data selection immediately and this will end when a new marker mrk4 arrives (in other words, after the first occurrence of marker mrk4, every new marker mrk4 will both end the previous period of data selection and start a new period). This sequence ends when marker mrk5 arrives or when no markers come in for 3 seconds. Note that if ending markers do not set the end of data selection and no timeout is specified, corresponding processing steps (with timepoint DATA) will never execute.
> The table above shows an example of a data selection table. The data selection of mrk1 will start half a second before onset of the marker and end 2 seconds after the onset.The data selection of mrk2 will start half a second after the onset of mrk2 and will end one second after marker mrk3 arrives. Marker mrk4 will start data selection immediately and this will end when a new marker mrk4 arrives. In other words, after the first occurrence of marker mrk4, every new marker mrk4 will both end the previous period of data selection and start a new period. This sequence ends when marker mrk5 arrives or when no markers come in for 3 seconds. Note that if ending markers do not set the end of data selection and no timeout is specified, corresponding actions (with timepoint DATA) will never be executed.
Timing offsets can also be specified in number of samples. In that case, the number should be followed by a '#' symbol (for example, 1024#). Of course, time points that are specified in seconds will also be rounded off to the nearest sample number by BrainStream's internal processing.
< The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the Plug-in? section. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
> The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the section on dependent plug-ins. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
< BrainStream supports the use of plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table. Any plug-in itself consists of an Action, DataSelection and Dictionary table.
> BrainStream supports the use of plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table.
> When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the plug-in tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables shoud not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers in the Dictionary tables.
mrk2 2 my_fnc2 ........ get,put
Table 5: Example Actions table
At the onset of marker mrk1, user defined function my_fnc1 will be executed. This user defined function needs the user defined variable var1 as input. In order to make this variable available to my_fnc1, a 'get' statement is placed in the var1 column. Note that variable var1 is not available to the user defined function my_fnc2 that is executed after marker mrk2, as no 'get' statement is present in the var1 column after this function.
The additional input arguments (c1, c2, ...) are optional. You can enter constants there, if your function needs them.
> The input and output argument 'event' is obligatory. 'Event' is a Matlab type structure variable. The fields of this structure contain copies of the current content of the variables with a 'get' statement in the table. In the above example, var1 was made available to function my_fnc1 with a 'get' statement. Thus, the my_fnc1 input argument 'event' will contain the field event.var1, which holds a copy of var1. In contrast, the input argument 'event' of function my_fnc2 will not contain the field event.var1 (no 'get' statement in the Actions table), but it will have a field called event.varN, which contains a copy of variable varN.
Your user defined function might change the content of some the variables you use as input. If you want to save these changes, you can place a 'put' statement in the corresponding cell in the Actions table, which updates the modified variables to the global variables. In the example above, changes that my_fnc2 makes to varN are saved, but changes that my_fnc1 makes to var1 are not (no 'put' statement). For more information about loading, modifying and saving user defined variables, see Modifying variables.
'/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/classifier.blk', ... '/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/feedback.blk'} [CommonBlocks]
> Files = {'lab1.blk'}
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< The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the Plug-in section. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
> The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the Plug-in? section. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
> BrainStream supports the use of plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for bad channel detection. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table. Any plug-in itself consists of an Action, DataSelection and Dictionary table.
< When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the plug-in tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables shoud not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers.
Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. The DataSelection table indicates which markers call for data selection and also the time period of data selection relative to marker onset.
< The DataSelection table consists of a marker column, a begindata column, and an enddata column. Data selection may start before or after onset of the marker, indicated by negative and positive numbers respectively. The end of data selection can again be before or after the onset of the marker specified in the marker column, or you can use a new incoming marker by entering the name of the new marker (with or without extra timing). If multiple endtimes, seperated by a comma, are specified, the one that happens first will end the data selection.
> The DataSelection table consists of a marker column, a begindata column, and an enddata column. Data selection may start before or after onset of the marker, indicated by negative and positive numbers respectively. The end of data selection can be before or after the onset of the marker specified in the marker column, when a new marker arrives (with or without extra timing), or when nothing happens for a specified period of time (timeout). If multiple endtimes, seperated by a comma, are specified, the one that happens first will end the data selection.
mrk2 0.5 mrk3
mrk3 0 mrk3, mrk4
< The table above shows an example of a data selection table. The data selection of mrk1 will start half a second before onset of the marker and end 2 seconds after the onset.The data selection of mrk2 will start half a second after the onset of mrk2 and will end when the new marker mrk3 arrives. mrk3 will start data selection immediately and this will end when a new marker mrk3 or the marker mrk4 arrives. For more examples of this data selection timing see Data-carrying events in the Architecture section.
> The table above shows an example of a data selection table. The data selection of mrk1 will start half a second before onset of the marker and end 2 seconds after the onset.The data selection of mrk2 will start half a second after the onset of mrk2 and will end one second after marker mrk3 arrives. Marker mrk4 will start data selection immediately and this will end when a new marker mrk4 arrives (in other words, after the first occurrence of marker mrk4, every new marker mrk4 will both end the previous period of data selection and start a new period). This sequence ends when marker mrk5 arrives or when no markers come in for 3 seconds. Note that if ending markers do not set the end of data selection and no timeout is specified, corresponding processing steps (with timepoint DATA) will never execute.
< An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, which in some instances might contain user defined functions, block files and common block files. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the DataSelection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files (.xls extensions only) where each table is put in a different sheet, or a set of separate text files (.txt), one for each table. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
mrk1 EVENT fnc1,fnc2 get,put ........ $self+1
mrk2 2 fnc3 [],put ........ get,put
Table 1: Actions table
The first three columns in an Actions table are reserved to specify marker, time, and function. The three following columns feval, looptick, and client are optional and will be discussed later. Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user defined variables (stored internally in BrainStream's user state, i.e. the global variables).
< The first column of the Actions table, the marker column, contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
< The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset, when a certain amount of data becomes available, some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that some actions are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 whereas other actions take place two seconds after marker mrk2.
> The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, the actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset, when a certain amount of data becomes available, some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that functions fnc1 and fnc2 are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 whereas function fnc3 takes place one second after marker onset.
< The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. Two seconds after the onset of marker mrk2, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be specified in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
< The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not need to process any of the global variables and do not return output arguments, but can take global variables as input argument. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that always executes on another client and will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream in Parallel Mode.
> The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that take global variables as input argument, but do not process any of them. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream in Parallel Mode).
< All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user defined variables (more on this later).
> Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user defined variables (more on this later).
< Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. The DataSelection table indicates which markers call for data selection and also the time period of data collection relative to marker onset.
> Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. The DataSelection table indicates which markers call for data selection and also the time period of data selection relative to marker onset.
The DataSelection table consists of a marker column, a begindata column, and an enddata column. Data selection may start before or after onset of the marker, indicated by negative and positive numbers respectively. The end of data selection can again be before or after the onset of the marker specified in the marker column, or you can use a new incoming marker by entering the name of the new marker (with or without extra timing). If multiple endtimes, seperated by a comma, are specified, the one that happens first will end the data selection.
The table above shows an example of a data selection table. The data selection of mrk1 will start half a second before onset of the marker and end 2 seconds after the onset.The data selection of mrk2 will start half a second after the onset of mrk2 and will end when the new marker mrk3 arrives. mrk3 will start data selection immediately and this will end when a new marker mrk3 or the marker mrk4 arrives. For more examples of this data selection timing see Data-carrying events in the Architecture section.
< The datasource column is optional. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies from which source the data should be collected. If only one data source is involved, BrainStream will automatically collect data from this single source only.
> The datasource column is optional. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies from which source the data should be collected. If only one data source is involved, BrainStream will automatically collect data from this single source only.
Dictionary table
Markers are represented as numbers in for example the acquisition hardware or stimulus presentation modules, whereas in BrainStream they are represented as names (strings). The Dictionary table is required to translate incoming markers to their associated names.
< The first three columns of the Dictionary table are fixed. In the marker column the marker names are specified. The second column (type) column specifies the marker type. The marker can for example be a stimulus or a response marker. The value column specifies the number with which the marker is represented outside BrainStream.
> The first three columns of the Dictionary table are fixed. In the marker column the marker names are specified. The second column specifies the marker type. The marker can for example be a stimulus or a response marker. The value column specifies the number with which the marker is represented outside BrainStream.
The substitute and datasource columns are optional. More information about the substitute column can be found in the Plug-in section. If multiple data sources are used in the experiment, the datasource column specifies for which data source the dictionary information is meant. If only one datasource is involved, this column can be left out and BrainStream will apply the definitions to the single data source.
Plug-in tables
< BrainStream supports the use of Plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for [BrainStreamDocs.DocsSectionsApplications#SeqBadChan][bad channel detection]]. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table. Any plug-in itself consists of an Action, DataSelection and Dictionary table.
When BrainStream is started, all experiment definition tables that are used in the experiment - including the plug-in tables - are combined in a process called table expansion. This means that all Action tables will be integrated into a single Action table, and the same is true for the DataSelection and Dictionary tables. Importantly, the information in the individual tables shoud not conflict. For example, you should prevent double definitions of marker names or numbers.
< To initiate your experiment in BrainStream, you need to compose an initialization run file(s), also called a block file (.blk). Every block has a separate file, which contains or refers to all information needed to initiate the particular block. For example, BrainStream needs to know to which data acquisition source it is connected, where to store output and where the experiment definition tables are located. All this information can be summarized in a text file with file name extension .blk. The format of the file is according to the Windows .ini file style with topics enclosed in brackets and subsequent lines to define keys that belong to this topic. If another bracketed line is encountered, a new topic is started and additional lines will add keys to this new topic. The notation of the topics and keys is in Matlab style, which means that every valid Matlab statement is possible here. For example, Matlabs comment character (%) can be utilized. An example of a block file is shown below. In this example, all minimally required topics with their keys are shown.
> To initiate your experiment in BrainStream, you need to compose one or more initialization run files, also called block files (.blk). Each block file contains or refers to all information needed to initiate the particular block of the experiment. For example, BrainStream needs to know to which data acquisition source it is connected, where to store output and where the experiment definition tables are located. The format of the block files is according to the Windows .ini file style with topics enclosed in brackets and subsequent lines to define keys that belong to this topic. If another bracketed line is encountered, a new topic is started and additional lines will add keys to this new topic. The notation of the topics and keys is in Matlab style, which means that every valid Matlab statement is possible here. For example, Matlabs comment character (%) can be utilized. An example of a block file is shown below. In this example, all minimally required topics with their keys are shown.
[DataSources]
eeg = 'buffer://localhost:1972:biosemi_active2'
Additional possible topics with their keys are listed here? .
< If an experiment consists of several blocks, the topic and key combinations which are the same for all blocks can be put in a common block file. For example, information that is specific to the lab in which the experiment takes place could be put in a common block file. The advantage is that you do not have to specify the same information more than once and if you change the setting in the common block file it will be applied to all blocks.
> If an experiment consists of several blocks, the topic and key combinations which are the same for all blocks can be put in a common block file. The structure of a common block file is the same as other block files, but settings specified in a common block file will be applied to all blocks. For example, information that is specific to the lab in which the experiment takes place could be put in a common block file. The advantage is that you do not have to specify the same information more than once and if you change the setting in the common block file it will be applied to all blocks.
< An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files, and, in some instances, user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
> An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, which in some instances might contain user defined functions, block files and common block files. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
< The first three columns in an Actions table are reserved to specify marker, time, and function. The three following columns feval, looptick, and client are optional and will be discussed later. Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user specified variables (stored internally in BrainStream's user state, i.e. the global variables).
> The first three columns in an Actions table are reserved to specify marker, time, and function. The three following columns feval, looptick, and client are optional and will be discussed later. Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user defined variables (stored internally in BrainStream's user state, i.e. the global variables).
< The first column of the Actions table is the marker column. The marker column contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
> The first column of the Actions table, the marker column, contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
< The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset, when a certain amount of data becomes available, some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that certain actions are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 and two seconds after marker mrk2.
> The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset, when a certain amount of data becomes available, some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that some actions are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 whereas other actions take place two seconds after marker mrk2.
The next three columns are optional. The feval column allows for specification of any functions that do not need to process any of the global variables and do not return output arguments, but can take global variables as input argument. The looptick column is optional and serves to define a special function that always executes on another client and will be put into a loop by BrainStream, click here for more information on how to use this. The client column can be used to direct execution of functions to another remote Matlab session (see Running BrainStream in Parallel Mode.
< All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user specified variables (more on this later).
> All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user defined variables (more on this later).
< An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files, and, in some instances, user defined functions. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
> An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files, and, in some instances, user defined functions. The entire experiment is summarized in the BrainStream Project file. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
< The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the Data Selection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files (.xls extensions only) where each table is put in a different sheet, or a set of separate text files (.txt), one for each table. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
> The first three columns in an Actions table are reserved to specify marker, time, and function. The three following columns feval, looptick, and client are optional and will be discussed later. Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user specified variables (stored internally in BrainStream's user state, i.e. the global variables).
The first column of the Actions table is the marker column. The marker column contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
another mrk
Executed at marker onset
Executed as data becomes available
Executed number seconds after marker onset
Executed at onset of marker mrk
< Table 2: specifying time of action execution
> Table 2: Specifying time of action execution
> The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed in the order in which they appear in the table. So, in table 1, at the onset of marker mrk1, first function fnc1 and then function fnc2 will be executed. Two seconds after the onset of marker mrk2, fnc3 will be executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be specified in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed in detail below.
All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user specified variables (more on this later).
> Sometimes a marker signals a time point around which data should be collected. For example, if you are building an ERP-based BCI, you might want to collect a certain amount of data after each stimulus. For that purpose, each marker can specify a segment of data that should come along with the event. The DataSelection table indicates which markers call for data selection and also the time period of data collection relative to marker onset.
> Markers are represented as numbers in for example the acquisition hardware or stimulus presentation modules, whereas in BrainStream they are represented as names (strings). The Dictionary table is required to translate incoming markers to their associated names.
The first three columns of the Dictionary table are fixed. In the marker column the marker names are specified. The second column (type) column specifies the marker type. The marker can for example be a stimulus or a response marker. The value column specifies the number with which the marker is represented outside BrainStream.
BrainStream supports the use of Plug-in tables. An example of a plug-in table is the plug-in for [BrainStreamDocs.DocsSectionsApplications#SeqBadChan][bad channel detection]]. Alternatively, it is possible to build your own plug-in table. Any plug-in itself consists of an Action, DataSelection and Dictionary table.
< In the Actions table, certain actions are assigned to markers. You can define the actions directly in the table, but it is also possible to specify actions by adding user defined Matlab functions to your table. The functions that you write may need certain variables as input. An arbitrary number of columns in the Action table can be used for these user defined variables.
> In the Actions table, certain actions are assigned to markers. You can define the actions directly in the table, but it is also possible to specify actions by adding user defined functions to your table. The functions that you write may need certain variables as input. An arbitrary number of columns in the Action table can be used for these user defined variables.
< User defined functions) need to be written in the following format:
> User defined functions must be written in the following format:
To initiate your experiment in BrainStream, you need to compose an initialization run file(s), also called a block file (.blk). Every block has a separate file, which contains or refers to all information needed to initiate the particular block. For example, BrainStream needs to know to which data acquisition source it is connected, where to store output and where the experiment definition tables are located. All this information can be summarized in a text file with file name extension .blk. The format of the file is according to the Windows .ini file style with topics enclosed in brackets and subsequent lines to define keys that belong to this topic. If another bracketed line is encountered, a new topic is started and additional lines will add keys to this new topic. The notation of the topics and keys is in Matlab style, which means that every valid Matlab statement is possible here. For example, Matlabs comment character (%) can be utilized. An example of a block file is shown below. In this example, all minimally required topics with their keys are shown.
[eeg]
% keys specific to the eeg data source
[biosemi_active2]
sendMarkerFunction = 'sndMidiMarker'
ExperimentDefinitionFile = '/Volumes/Data/ExpDefs/SubRhythm/SubjectiveRhythm.xls'
OutFolder = '/Volumes/Data/Experiment/'
[Experiment]
< The additional input arguments (c1, c2, ...) are optional. You can enter constants there, if your function needs them.
> If an experiment consists of several blocks, the topic and key combinations which are the same for all blocks can be put in a common block file. For example, information that is specific to the lab in which the experiment takes place could be put in a common block file. The advantage is that you do not have to specify the same information more than once and if you change the setting in the common block file it will be applied to all blocks.
< Your user defined function might change the content of some the variables you use as input. If you want to save these changes, you can place a 'put' statement in the corresponding cell in the Actions table, which updates the modified variables to the global variables. In the example above, changes that my_fnc2 makes to varN are saved, but changes that my_fnc1 makes to var1 are not (no 'put' statement).
< In addition to serving as input for user defined functions, user defined variables can be modified and saved as well. For more information, see Modifying variables.
'/Volumes/my_experiments/my_BCI/feedback.blk'}
Files = {'lab1.blk'}
< The first three columns in an Actions table are reserved to specify marker, time, and function. The three following columns feval, client, and looptick are optional and will be discussed later. Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user specified variables (stored internally in BrainStream's user state, i.e. the global variables).
< The first column of the Actions table is the marker column. The marker column contains all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
> The first column of the Actions table is the marker column. The marker column contains the names of all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
< The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset (EVENT), when a certain amount of data becomes available (DATA), some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that certain actions are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 and two seconds after marker mrk2.
> The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset, when a certain amount of data becomes available, some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that certain actions are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 and two seconds after marker mrk2.
< The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed after the specified marker and at the specified time. In table 1, fnc1 and fnc2 will be executed (in that order) as soon as marker mrk1 arrives. Two seconds after the onset of marker mrk2, fnc3 is executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be specified in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed below.
In the Actions table, certain actions are assigned to markers. You can define the actions directly in the table, but it is also possible to specify actions by adding user defined Matlab functions to your table. The functions that you write may need certain variables as input. An arbitrary number of columns in the Action table can be used for these user defined variables.
If a function needs a user defined variable, you first need to get it from the global variables. This is done by putting a ‘get’ statement in the corresponding cell. For example, consider the following Actions table:
User defined functions) need to be written in the following format:
The input and output argument 'event' is obligatory. Event is a Matlab type structure variable. The fields of this structure contain copies of the current content of the variables with a 'get' statement in the table. In the above example, var1 was made available to function my_fnc1 with a 'get' statement. Thus, the my_fnc1 input argument 'event' will contain the field event.var1, which holds a copy of var1. In contrast, the input argument 'event' of function my_fnc2 will not contain the field event.var1 (no 'get' statement in the Actions table), but it will have a field called event.varN, which contains a copy of variable varN.
Your user defined function might change the content of some the variables you use as input. If you want to save these changes, you can place a 'put' statement in the corresponding cell in the Actions table, which updates the modified variables to the global variables. In the example above, changes that my_fnc2 makes to varN are saved, but changes that my_fnc1 makes to var1 are not (no 'put' statement).
In addition to serving as input for user defined functions, user defined variables can be modified and saved as well. For more information, see Modifying variables.
An experiment in BrainStream consists of experiment definition tables, block files and common block files, and, in some instances, user defined functions. In the following, each of these components will be discussed.
> The experiment definition tables (.edt) form the core of your BCI experiment. In these tables is specified which actions need to be executed at what time. For each experiment, three different tables are needed: the Actions table, the Data Selection table and the Dictionary table. Together, the experiment definition tables are called the experiment definition file. Brainstream has its own internal editor for creating the tables, however, for backwards compatibility reasons it also supports excel files (.xls extensions only) where each table is put in a different sheet, or a set of separate text files (.txt), one for each table. In the following, the experiment definition tables will be discussed in more detail.
The first three columns in an Actions table are reserved to specify marker, time, and function. The three following columns feval, client, and looptick are optional and will be discussed later. Although the order of these first columns in the table is arbitrary, it is best to keep it as described here. All subsequent columns are free to use for an arbitrary number of user specified variables (stored internally in BrainStream's user state, i.e. the global variables).
The first column of the Actions table is the marker column. The marker column contains all markers that elicit the execution of certain actions. For example, marker mrk1 in table 1 could mark a response made by the participant. Perhaps the experimenter wants the response to be followed by feedback about the response. In that case, marker mrk1 should be in the marker column of the actions table.
The second column (time) specifies at which timepoints, relative to the time of the incoming marker, actions should be executed. The exact timing of execution can be specified in several ways. The action can be executed directly at marker onset (EVENT), when a certain amount of data becomes available (DATA), some time after the marker, or when another marker arrives (see table 2). For example, table 1 specifies that certain actions are executed at the onset of marker mrk1 and two seconds after marker mrk2.
The third column (function) can contain one or more functions that will be executed after the specified marker and at the specified time. In table 1, fnc1 and fnc2 will be executed (in that order) as soon as marker mrk1 arrives. Two seconds after the onset of marker mrk2, fnc3 is executed. A number of BrainStream functions can be specified in the function column. Alternatively, you can write your own user defined functions, which will be discussed below.
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A cupcake "edible" is shown at a stall at an event in Toronto on Sunday, December 18, 2016. Preliminary research by the Canadian Paediatric Society found "a significant number of young children" required medical care after ingesting cannabis in the months surrounding legalization last October. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Pediatric study says kids at risk from edible cannabis
OTTAWA - Preliminary research by the Canadian Paediatric Society found "a significant number of young children" required medical care after ingesting cannabis in the months surrounding legalization last October.
The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program says it collected 16 reported cases of serious adverse events involving recreational cannabis between September and December 2018.
They include six cases of kids younger than 18 who accidentally ate edibles and one case of accidental exposure. In each case, the cannabis belonged to a parent or caregiver.
Four other cases of exposure were not accidental, although the society could not share more information.
Details surrounding the five other reports were not immediately available, including how the kids were exposed to cannabis, their ages and whether exposure was accidental or not.
The surveillance program defines "adverse events" as all cases in which kids are harmed by cannabis consumption, including injuries that may result from use by another individual, such as a friend or parent who is under the influence of cannabis.
The two-year study will collect data until October 2020. The cannabis data was released Thursday, along with details from several other research projects underway.
"The number of cases involving young children is striking," Christina Grant, a pediatrician in Hamilton and co-principal investigator, said Thursday in a release.
"These early results highlight the urgency of prioritizing the needs of children and youth in policy and education initiatives, especially as edibles become legalized later this year."
Meanwhile, data collected by a separate study in the surveillance program suggests non-Type 1 diabetes is on the rise, with 266 cases reported between January 2018 and December 2018.
Among those, 71 per cent were childhood-onset Type-2 diabetes, with Indigenous populations disproportionately affected.
That study began June 2017 and ended in May 2019.
And a separate survey on the dangers of teething necklaces and bracelets has the society repeating its caution against putting anything around an infant's neck.
When asked in January 2018 about any adverse events related to the products in the previous year, physicians reported 10 cases — including strangulation, choking and accidental swallowing.
The CPSP is a network of 2,700 Canadian pediatricians and pediatric sub specialists. It is a partnership between the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Paediatric Society.
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Critical Thinking: Charlottesville
Critical Thinking is a weekly series highlighting the work of architecture critics and thinkers from around the internet. Each week I recommend a few of my favorite pieces.
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This week I'm devoting the Critical Thinking series to the discussion resulting from the recent events in Charlottesville. The white supremacist demonstrations, the counter protests, the Confederate monuments, and the terrorist who used his car as a weapon to murder and injure peaceful anti-racist protesters; all of these things are intrinsically linked to the form and design of our cities and public spaces, how these spaces are used, and who is welcome in those spaces.
It is no coincidence that these events took place in Charlottesville and at the University of Virginia. Charlottesville was the home of this country’s most notorious slaveholder, Thomas Jefferson, and he founded and designed the campus and original buildings of the University of Virginia. This history cannot be separated from the white supremacists and neo-Nazis’ choice of venue. It is also essential to note that the monuments to the Confederacy—the removal of which serve as the supposed motivator for white supremacist protests—are not relics of the Civil War-era South, but are actually literal monuments to white supremacy erected almost entirely in the early 20th century as physical reminders of Jim Crow policies throughout the U.S. As Patrick Sisson at Curbed noted in a piece about the history of Confederate monuments, not even Robert E. Lee himself was in favor of commemorating the Confederacy, instead preferring to “commit to oblivion the feelings engendered” by the Civil War.
What follows is a brief reading and listening list that provides a broader context for what happened in Charlottesville. This week, rather than focusing entirely on architectural discourse, I’m including a broad range of sources that include discussions of Charlottesville as a place, personal reactions to the events, and the policies that influenced the events. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and I'm sure I'm missing many important works, but these are a few that I have found meaningful in this past week. I highly recommend reading and listening to all of them.
A shockingly revealing piece from Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker describes the casual relationship UVA has with racism, slavery, and the pre-Civil War history of the South.
An interview with Mabel O. Wilson at Artforum (published, I believe, prior to the events in Charlottesville), reminds us that the modern discipline of architecture is “inseparable from the problem of race.”
At CityLab, Kriston Capps is one of the few architectural writers to directly address the events in Charlottesville, with a succession of pieces on how open carry laws threaten the safety of public space, a proposal to rename the former Lee Park in Charlottesville after terror victim Heather Heyer, a report on the states trying to legalize running down protesters with a car, and his thoughts on how the city of Baltimore could reuse pedestals that until very recently held Confederate monuments.
John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, echoes Capps’ concerns in an Op-Ed for The New York Times, “Ban the Open Carry of Firearms”.
The Washington Post reports that even inside the U.S. Capitol building, there are three times as many statues of Confederate figures as there are statues of black people (a result of the fact that individual states choose the statues that represent them in the Capitol).
On a special bonus episode of the podcast Pod Save the People, host DeRay Mckesson interviews three UVA students about their reactions to the events, and their feelings about starting a new school year at UVA in the aftermath. And on the regular Tuesday episode, the show’s regular contributors, as well as guest Common, share their reactions to the events in Charlottesville.
The NPR podcast Code Switch collects reactions to Charlottesville from a variety of perspectives, and delves into the politics of white resentment.
And the In The Thick podcast rebroadcast an interview that hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela conducted with former FBI agent Mike German about his time as an undercover operative inside the white supremacist movement.
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APP Intracellular Domain (AICD) Contributes to AD Pathology Independently of Aβ
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Short Form of APP Intracellular Domain (AICD) (Human) =Human Beta-Amyloid Precursor (727-770), Catalog No.: 018-69
Long Form of APP Intracellular Domain (AICD) (Human) =Human Beta-Amyloid Precursor (712-770), Catalog No.: 018-70
Alzheimer's-related endosome dysfunction in Down syndrome is Abeta-independent but requires APP and is reversed by BACE-1 inhibition.
An additional copy of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene causes early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) in trisomy 21 (DS). Endosome dysfunction develops very early in DS and AD and has been implicated in the mechanism of neurodegeneration. Here, we show that morphological and functional endocytic abnormalities in fibroblasts from individuals with DS are reversed by lowering the expression of APP or beta-APP-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1) using short hairpin RNA constructs. By contrast, endosomal pathology can be induced in normal disomic (2N) fibroblasts by overexpressing APP or the C-terminal APP fragment generated by BACE-1 (betaCTF), all of which elevate the levels of betaCTFs. Expression of a mutant form of APP that cannot undergo beta-cleavage had no effect on endosomes. Pharmacological inhibition of APP gamma-secretase, which markedly reduced Abeta production but raised betaCTF levels, also induced AD-like endosome dysfunction in 2N fibroblasts and worsened this pathology in DS fibroblasts. These findings strongly implicate APP and the betaCTF of APP, and exclude Abeta and the alphaCTF, as the cause of endocytic pathway dysfunction in DS and AD, underscoring the potential multifaceted value of BACE-1 inhibition in AD therapeutics.
Jiang, Y, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jan 26;107(4):1630-5.
Mitochondrial {gamma}-secretase participates in the metabolism of mitochondria-associated amyloid precursor protein.
Intracellular amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer`s disease (AD). Mitochondria were found to be the target both for amyloid precursor protein (APP) that accumulates in the mitochondrial import channels and for Aβ that interacts with several proteins inside mitochondria and leads to mitochondrial dysfunction. Here, we have studied the role of mitochondrial γ-secretase in processing different substrates. We found that a significant proportion of APP is associated with mitochondria in cultured cells and that γ-secretase cleaves the shedded C-terminal part of APP identified as C83 associated with the outer membrane of mitochondria (OMM). Moreover, we have established the topology of the C83 in the OMM and found the APP intracellular domain (AICD) to be located inside mitochondria. Our data show for the first time that APP is a substrate for the mitochondrial γ-secretase and that AICD is produced inside mitochondria. Thus, we provide a mechanistic view of the mitochondria-associated APP metabolism where AICD, P3 peptide and potentially Aβ are produced locally and may contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction in AD.-Pavlov, P. F., Wiehager, B., Sakai, J., Frykman, S., Behbahani, H., Winblad, B., Ankarcrona, M. Mitochondrial γ-secretase participates in the metabolism of mitochondria-associated amyloid precursor protein.
Pavlov PF, etc al. FASEB J. 2010 Sep 10
Phosphorylation of APP-CTF-AICD domains and interaction with adaptor proteins: signal transduction and/or transcriptional role - relevance for Alzheimer pathology.
In recent decades, the study of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and of its proteolytic products carboxy terminal fragment (CTF), APP intracellular C-terminal domain (AICD) and amyloid beta has been mostly focussed on the role of APP as a producer of the toxic amyloid beta peptide. Here, we reconsider the role of APP suggesting, in a provocative way, the protein as a central player in a putative signalling pathway. We highlight the presence in the cytosolic tail of APP of the YENPTY motif which is typical of tyrosine kinase receptors, the phosphorylation of the tyrosine, serine and threonine residues, the kinases involved and the interaction with intracellular adaptor proteins. In particular, we examine the interaction with Shc and Grb2 regulators, which through the activation of Ras proteins elicit downstream signalling events such as the MAPK pathway. The review also addresses the interaction of APP, CTFs and AICD with other adaptor proteins and in particular with Fe65 for nuclear transcriptional activity and the importance of phosphorylation for sorting the secretases involved in the amyloidogenic or non-amyloidogenic pathways. We provide a novel perspective on Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, focussing on the perturbation of the physiological activities of APP-CTFs and AICD as an alternative perspective from that which normally focuses on the accumulation of neurotoxic proteolytic fragments.
Schettini G, et al. J Neurochem. 2010 Dec;115(6):1299-308.
Alzheimer's disease-like pathological features in transgenic mice expressing the APP intracellular domain
The hypothesis that amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides are the primary cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains the best supported theory of AD pathogenesis. Yet, many observations are inconsistent with the hypothesis. Aβ peptides are generated when amyloid precursor protein (APP) is cleaved by presenilins, a process that also produces APP intracellular domain (AICD). We previously generated AICD-overexpressing transgenic mice that showed abnormal activation of GSK-3β, a pathological feature of AD. We now report that these mice exhibit additional AD-like characteristics, including hyperphosphorylation and aggregation of tau, neurodegeneration and working memory deficits that are prevented by treatment with lithium, a GSK-3β inhibitor. Consistent with its potential role in AD pathogenesis, we find AICD levels to be elevated in brains from AD patients. The in vivo findings that AICD can contribute to AD pathology independently of Aβ have important therapeutic implications and may explain some observations that are discordant with the amyloid hypothesis.
Ghosal K., et al. PNAS, 2009,106 (43):18367-18372
Αβ Hinders Nuclear Targeting of AICD and Fe65 in Primary Neuronal Cultures
The intracellular domain of the Alzheimer’s amyloid precursor protein (AICD) has been described as an important player in the transactivation of specific genes. It results from proteolytic processing of the Alzheimer’s amyloid precursor protein (APP), as does the neurotoxic Aβ peptide. Although normally produced in cells, Aβ is typically considered to be a neurotoxic peptide, causing devastating effects. By exposing primary neuronal cultures to relatively low Aβ concentrations, this peptide was shown to affect APP processing. Our findings indicate that APP C-terminal fragments are increased with concomitant reduction in the expression levels of APP itself. AICD nuclear immunoreactivity detected under control conditions was dramatically reduced in response to Aβ exposure. Additionally, intracellular protein levels of Fe65 and GSK3 were also decreased in response to Aβ. APP nuclear signaling is altered by Aβ, affecting not only AICD production but also its nuclear translocation and complex formation with Fe65. In effect, Aβ can trigger a physiological negative feedback mechanism that modulates its own production.
A. G. Henriques et al. J Mol Neurosci. 2009 September; 39(1-2): 248–255.
Schematic diagram of APP sequential processing (not drawn in scale). EC: extracellular; TM: transmembrane; IC: intracellular. Aβ domain is highlighted in red. For simplicity, only one cleavage site is shown for each enzyme. Hui Zheng and Edward H Koo, Mol Neurodegener. 2006; 1 : 5.
AICD levels are increased in human AD brains. (A) Brain lysates from 13 AD patients (AD) and 12 non-dementia control subjects (Non-AD) were analyzed by SDS/PAGE and Western blotted with 0443 antibody (top rows) that recognizes APP-C terminus or AT-8 antibody (bottom rows). Blots were stripped and reprobed with GAPDH (middle rows). The upper rows show APP-CTF and AICD levels, which were quantified by NIH ImageJ software (B). Although there was a large variation in the AICD levels, they were significantly elevated in AD patients compared to non-demented controls (P = 0.0017). The lane marked with * in A (right panel) marks the non-AD sample with abnormally high AICD levels (an outlier). The wide variation in AD samples is also seen in phospho-tau levels. (C) Summary of pathological events observed in FeCγ25 mice. AICD expression is driven by a CaMKIIα promoter, which becomes active around P15, and activation of GSK-3β is observed at 6–8 weeks. Increased phosphorylation of tau is first observed at 3–4 months of age, although tau does not become aggregated until 7–8 months of age. Memory deficits become first apparent at this time point. Neuronal loss and up-regulation of NPY are not observed up to 12–15 months of age but become apparent >18 months of age. AD-related pathological features described in this study are shown in open ovals.
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Manchester University - Manchester - 1st June
La Bateu - Liverpool - 1st July
Boardwalk - Manchester - 3rd July
Duchess - Leeds - 11th September
Canal Bar - Manchester - 14th September
(Hit the North - Radio 5 -15th September bootleg)
Manchester University - Manchester - 7th October - supporting Liz Phair
Manchester University - Manchester - 14th October - supporting Milltown Brothers
Keele University - Keele - 27th October - supporting BMX Bandits
Sheffield University - Sheffield - 28th October - supporting BMX Bandits
Wherehouse - Derby - 1st November - supporting BMX Bandits
Wulfrun Hall - Wolverhampton - 3rd November - supporting BMX Bandits
Powerhaus - London - 4th November
Sheffield University - Sheffield - 28th November - supporting CNN
Institute - Birminham - 1st December - supporting St. Ettienne
Plaza - Glasgow - 2nd December - supporting St. Ettienne
Warwick University - Warwick - 4th December
Wulfrun Hall - Wolverhampton - 8th December - supporting The Verve
Manchester University - Manchester - 9th December - supporting The Verve
Cathouse - Glasgow - 10th December - supporting The Verve
The Mill - Preston - 11th December - supporting The Verve
Riverside - Newcastle - 13th December - supporting The Verve
Kings Hall - Bradford - 14th December - supporting The Verve
Krazy House - Liverpool - 16th December - supporting Real People
Water Rats - London - 27th January
Gleneagles - Scotland - 6th February
Angel - Bedford - 23rd March
100 Club - London - 24th March
Forum - Tunbridge Wells - 26th March
Polytechnic - Oxford - 27th March
Jug Of Ale - Birminham - 28th March
Joiners - Southhampton - 29th March
Fleece & Firkin - Bristol - 30th March
Moles - Bath - 31st March
Lucifers Mill - Dundee - 5th April
La Belle Angel - Edinburgh - 6th April
Tramway -Glasgow - 7th April
Arena - Middlesborough - 8th April
Wheatsheaf - Stoke - 11th April
Duchess - Leeds - 12th April
Lomax - Liverpool - 13th April
Adelphi - Hull - 29th April
University - Coventry - 30th April
Wedgewood Rooms - Portsmouth - 2nd May
Tj's - Newport - 3rd May
Wherehouse - Derby - 4th May
Charlotte - Leicester - 6th May
Old Trout - Windsor - 7th May
Roadmenders - Northhampton - 8th May
Army And Navy - Chelmsford - 10th May
Boat Race - Cambridge - 11th May
New Cross - London - 13th May
Leadmill - Sheffield - 14th May
Edwards 8 - Birminham - 1st June
University - Cardiff - 2nd June
Island - Ilford - 3rd June
Albert Hall - London - 4th June
Arts Centre - Norwich - 6th June
Marquee - Manchester - 8th June
University - Manchester - 9th June
Avenham Park Festival - Preston - 11th June
Cathouse - Glasgow - 12th June
Erotika - Paris (france) - 16th June
(East Wing) Centre - Brighton - 18th June (interview)
Glastonbury Festival - Somerset - 26th June
Wetlands - New York - 21st July
T In The Park Festival - Hamilton - 31st July
Riverside - Newcastle - 9th August
Irish Centre - Leeds - 10th August
Wulfrun Hall - Wolverhampton - 11th August
Hultsfreds Festival - Hultsfred (Sweden) - 13th August (bootleg+interview)
Rock City - Nottingham - 15th August
Forum - London - 16th August
Astoria - London - 18th August
(Borderline - London - 21th August - secret gig)
Lowlands Festival - Netherlands - 28th August
Tivoli - Buckley - 31st August
Gino - Stockholm (Sweden) - 2nd September
Limelight - Belfast - 4th September
Hacienda - Manchester - 5th September
Logo - Hamburg (Germany) - 8th September
Arena - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 9th September
Quattro - Tokyo (Japan) - 13th September
Quattro - Toyko (Japan) - 15th September
Quattro - Osaka (Japan) - 18th September
Quattro - Nagoya (Japan) - 19th September
Moe's - Seattle WA (USA) - 23rd September
Satyricon - Portland OR (USA) - 24th September
Bottom Of The Hill - San Francisco CA (USA) - 26th September
Melarky's - Sacramento CA (USA) - 27th September
The Whiskey (a Go Go) - Los Angeles CA (USA) - 29th September
Noel leaves the band for the first time
Uptown Bar - Minneapolis MN (USA) - 14th October
Metro - Chicago IL (USA) - 15th October
St Andrews Hall - Detroit MI (USA) 16th October
Grog Shop - Cleveland OH (USA) - 18th October
Lee's Place - Toronto (Canada) - 19th October
Local 186 - Allston MA (USA) - 21st October
Met Cafe - Providence RI (USA) - 22nd October
JC Dobbs - Philadelphia (USA) - 23rd October
9:30 Club - Washington DC (USA) - 26th October
Maxwell's - Hoboken NJ (USA) - 28th October
Wetlands - New York (USA) - 29th October
La Cigale - Paris (france) - 4th November
Transbordeur - Lyon (france) - 5th November
Theatre Du Moulin - Marseille (france) - 6th November
Palladium - Stockholm (Sweden) - 16th November
Cue Club - Gothenburg (Sweden) - 17th November
Dairy - Lund (Sweden) - 18th November
Loft - Berlin (Germany) - 20th November
Markthalle - Hamburg (Germany) - 21st November
Batchkapp - Frankfurt (Germany) - 23rd November
Luxor - Cologne (Germany) - 24th November
Paradiso - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 25th November
Zeche Carl - Essen (Germany) - 27th November
Botanieve - Brussels (Belgium) - 28th November
Guildhall - Southampton - 30th November
Octagon - Sheffield - 1st December
Corn Exchange - Cambridge 4th December
Barrowlands - Glasgow - 7th December
Civic Hall - Wolverhampton - 11th December
Astoria - Cardiff - 12th December
Hammersmith Palais - London - 13th December
Royal Court - Liverpool - 17th December
Academy - Manchester - 18th December
Barrowlands - Glasgow - 27th December
(East Wing) Centre - Brighton - 29th December
Town Hall - Middlesbrough - 30th December
DV8 - Seattle WA (USA) - 28th January
Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver (Canada) - 29th January
Roseland Theatre - Portland OR (USA) - 30th Janurary
Fillmore - San Francisco (USA) - 1st February
The Palace - Hollywood CA (USA) - 3rd February
SOMA Live - San Diego CA (USA) - 4th February
Nile Theatre - Mesa AZ - 5th February
Bar & Grill - Salt Lake City UT (USA) - 7th February
Bluebeard Theatre - Denver CP (USA) - 9th February
Deep Ellum Live - Dallas TX (USA) - 11th February
Liberty Lunch - Austin TX (USA) - 12th February
Urban Art Bar - Houston TX (USA) - 13th February
New Daisy Theatre - Memphis TN (USA) - 15th February
Cat's Cradle - Carrboro NC (USA) - 17th February
Masquerade - Atlanta GA (USA) - 18th February
Stone Pony - Ashbury Park NJ (USA) - 3rd March
Wust Music Hall - Washington DC (USA) - 4th March
The Abyss - Virginia Beach VA (USA) - 5th March
Theatre Of Living Arts - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 7th March
The Academy - New York NY (USA) - 8th March
Lopo's - Providence RI (USA) - 10th March
Avalon - Boston MA (USA) - 11th March
Club Soda - Montreal (Canada) - 12th March
Phoenix Theatre - Toronto (Canada) - 14th March
The Odeon - Cleveland OH (USA) - 15th March
St Andrews - Detroit MI (USA) - 16th March
Tyndale Armory - Indianapolis (USA) - 18th March
Vic Theatre - Chicago IL (USA) - 19th March
Orbit Room - Grand Rapids MI (USA) - 20th March
First Ave - Minneapolis MN (USA) - 24th March
Rave At Eagles Milwaukee WI (USA) - 25th March
Cliffs Pavillion - Southend - 17th April
Bataclan - Paris (france) - 20th April
Arena - Sheffield - 22nd April
Pavillion - Bath - 22nd June
Glastonbury Festival - Somerset - 23rd June
Roskilde Festival - Denmark - 30th June
Rolling Stone - Milan (Italy) 3rd July
Fauvier festival - Lyon (france) - 5th July
Out In The Green Festival - Frauenfeld (Switzerland) - 7th July
Eurokeenes Festival - Belfort (france) - 8th July
Badesee - Duren (Germany) - 9th July
Beach Park - Irvine Beach - 14th July
Plaza De Toros De Las Ventus - Madrid (Spain) - 18th July
Zeebruggers Beach Festival - Belgium - 21st July
Slane Castle - Dublin (Ireland) - 22nd July
Kawasaki Club - Citta (Japan) - 21st August
Kawasaki Club - Citta (Japan) - 22nd August
Liquid Room - Toyko (Japan) - 23rd August
Garden Hall - Toyko (Japan) - 25th August
Imperial Hall - Osaka (Japan) - 28th August
Empress Ballroom - Blackpool - 2nd October
Trentham Gardens - Stoke - 3rd October
International Centre - Bournemouth - 5th October
Leisure Centre - Gloucester - 6th October
Hammerjack's - Baltimore MD (USA) - 10th October
Roseland Ballroom - New York NY (USA) - 11th October
Tuxedo Junctions - Danbury CT (USA) - 13th October
The Orpheum - Boston MA (USA) - 14th October
Metropol - Pittsburgh PA (USA) - 16th October
La Luna - Brussels (Belgium) - 31st October
Earls Court - London - 4th November
Zenith - Paris (france) - 7th November
Grosse Freiheit - Mamburg (Germany) - 10th November
Live Music Hall - Koln (Germany) - 12th November
Trocardiere - Nantes (france) - 14th November
Aeronef - Lille (france) - 15th November
Granby Hall - Leicester - 17th November
Annexet - Stockholm (Sweden) - 20th November
KB Hallen - Copenhagen (Denmark) - 24th November
NYMEX Arena - Manchester - 26th November
KNDD Holiday Festival - Seattle WA (USA) - 2nd December
WHFS Holiday Festival - Washington DC (USA) - 7th December
Q101 Holiday Festival - Chicago IL (USA) - 8th December
KEGE Holiday Festival - Minneapolis (USA) - 9th December
Liberty Warehouse - Toronto (Canada) - 13th December
Live 105 Holiday Festival - San Francisco CA (USA) - 15th December
KOME Holiday Festival - San Jose CA (USA) - 16th December
KROQ Holiday Festival - Los Angeles CA - 18th December
Viper Room - Hollywood CA (USA) - 19th December
Music Centre - Utrecht - 10th January
Munich (Germany) - 12th January
Huxley's - Berlin (Germany) - 14th January
Bielefeld (Germany) - 15th January
Whitely Bay Ice Rink - Tyne & Wear - 19th January
Ingleston Exhibition Centre - Edinburgh - 21st January
Ingleston Exhibition Centre - Edinburgh - 22nd January
Memorial Hall - Kansas City MO (USA) - 23rd February
American Theater - St Louis (MO) - 24th February
Orpheum Theater - Minneapolis MN (USA) - 26th February
Aragon Ballroom - Chicago IL (USA) - 27th February
Eagle's Auditorium - Milwaukee WI (USA) - 1st March
Theater - Detroit MI (USA) - 3rd March
Egyptian Room - Indianapolis IN (USA) - 5th March
GMU Patriot Center - Fairfax VA (USA) - 7th March
Tower Theater - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 9th March
Strand Theater - Providence RI (USA) - 10th March
Paramount Theater - New York NY (USA) - 13th March
International Arena - Cardiff - 18th March
The Point Depot - Dublin - 22nd March
The Point Depot - Dublin - 23rd March
Stradhalle - Offenbach (Germany) - 26th March
Terminal 1 - Offenbach (Germany) - 27th March
Palalido - Milan (Italy) - 29th March
Summum - Grenoble (france) - 31st March
Zeleste - Barcelona (Spain) - 2nd April
Pacific Coliseum - Vancouver BC (USA) - 10th April
Mercer Arena - Seattle WA (USA) - 11th April
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium - San Francisco CA - 13th April
Mammoth - Denver CO (USA) - 18th April
Bronco Bowl Auditorium - Dallas TX (USA) -20th April
Austin Music Hall - Austin TX (USA) - 21st April
Maine Road - Manchester - 27th April
Balloch Castle Country Park - Loch Lomond (Scotland) - 3rd August
Balloch Castle Country Park - Loch Lomond - 4th August
Sjohistoriska Museet - Stockholm (Sweden) - 7th August
Knebworth Park - Stevenage - 10th August (with bootleg)
Knebworth Park - Stevenage - 11th August
Paric Ui Chaoimh - Cork - 14th August
Royal Festival Hall - Noel unplugged - London - 23rd August (bootleg)
Rosemont Horizon - Rosemont IL - 27th August
Palace - Auburn Hills MI (USA) - 30th August
Molson Park - Toronto (Canada) - 31st August
Corestates Center - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 2nd September
The Centrum - Worcester MA (USA) - 6th September
Jones Beach Theatre - Long Island NY (USA) - 7th September
Nissan Pavilion - Bristow VA (USA) - 10th September
Tibetan Freedom Concert - New York City - 7th June (Noel)
Weenie Roast - Irvine CA (USA) - 14th June
Coliseum - Oakland CA (USA) - 18th June - Supporting U2
Spektrum - Oslo (Norway) - 8th September
Globe - Stockholm (Sweden) - 9th September
Forum - Copenhagen (Denmark) - 10th September
Westpoint Arena - Exeter - 13th Septemeber
Westpoint Arena - Exeter - 14th September
Arena - Newcastle - 16th September
Exhibition & Conference Centre - Aberdeen - 19th September
Arena - Sheffield - 22nd September
Arena - Sheffield - 23rd September
Earls Court - London - 25th September
National Indoor Arena - Birmingham - 29th September
Hammerstein Ballroom - New York NY (USA) - 7th October
Zenith - Lille (France) - 3rd November
Pabellon Principe Felipe - Zaragoza (Spain) - 8th Novemeber
Palacio De La Comunidad - Madrid (Spain) - 10th November
Palau Dels Esports - Barcelona (Spain) - 11th November
Arena - Geneva (Switzerland) - 13th November
Palasport - Bologna (Italy) - 15th November
Forum - Milan (Italy) - 16th November
Olympichalle - Munich (Germany) - 19th November
Sportovni Hala - Prague (Czech Republic) - 21st November
Festhalle - Frankfurt (Germany) - 22nd November
Messehalle - Hannover (Germany) - 24th November
Festhalle - Frankfurt (Germany) - 25th November
Earls Court - London - 26th November
Brabanthallen - Den Bosch (Netherlands) - 27th November
Arena - Oberhausen (Germany) - 28th November
The Point - Dublin - 3rd December
The Point - Dublin - 4th December
SE & CC - Glasgow - 7th December
Indoor Arena - Cardiff - 10th December
GMEX - Manchester - 13th December
Water Rats - London - 16th December
Wembley Arena - London - 17th December
Sony E Center - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 8th January
Patriot Center - Washington DC (USA) - 9th January
Palumbo Center - Pittsburgh PA (USA) - 10th January
Continental Airlines Arena - Rutherford NJ (USA) - 12th January
Maple Leaf Gardens - Toronto (Canada) - 15th January
Rosemont Horizon - Rosemont IL (USA) - 17th January
Northrop Auditorium - Minneapolis (USA) - 18th January
GM Place - Vancouver (USA) - 23rd January
Seattle Center Arena - Seattle WA (USA) - 24th January
Bill Graham Civic - San Francisco CA (USA) - 26th January
Universal Amphitheater - Los Angeles CA (USA) - 27th January
Bronco Bowl Auditorium - Dallas TX (USA) - 31st January
Theatre At Bayou Place - Houston TX (USA) - 1st February
WPB Auditorium - Palm Beach FL (USA) - 5th February
UCF Arena - Orlando FL (USA) - 6th February
Fox Theatre - Atlanta GA (USA) 8th February
Budokan - Nippon (Japan) - 18th February
HKCEC Hall 3 - Hong Kong (China) - 22nd February
Entertainment Center - Perth (Australia) - 26th Feburary
Entertainment Center - Adelaide (Australia) - 28th Feburary
Entertainment Center - Melbourne (Australia) - 1st March
Entertainment Center - Sydney (Australia) - 3rd March
Entertainment Center - Brisbane (Australia) - 6th March
Carter Holt Pavilion - Auckland (New Zealand) - 9th March
Queens Warf Event Center - Wellington (New Zealand) - 10th March
San Carlos Apoquindo Stadium - Santiago (Chile) - 14th March
Luna Park - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 17th March
Meropolitan - Rio De Janiero (Brazil) - 20th March
Polo De Arte E Cultura De Anhembi - Sao Paulo (Brazil) 21st March
Sports Palace - Mexico City (Mexico) - 24th March
First Union Centre - Philadelphia (USA) - 3rd December
Allstate Arena - Rosemont IL (USA) 4th December
Cobo Arena Detroit MI - (USA) - 5th December
The Pond - Anaheim CA (USA) 11th December
Yokohama Arena - Toyko (Japan) - 29th February
Rainbow Hall - Nagoya (Japan) - 1st March
Marine Mese - Fukuoka (Japan) - 3rd March
Yokohama Arena - Toyko (Japan) - 5th March
Yokohama Arena - Toyko (Japan) -7th March
Castle Hall - Osaka (Japan) - 9th March
World Hall - Osaka (Japan) - 11th March
Green Hall - Hiroshima (Japan) - 14th March
Army Hall - Sendai (Japan) - 16th March
Bataclan - Paris (france) - 21st March
Ancienne Belgique - Brussels (Belgium) - 23rd March
E-Werk - Koln (Germany) - 25th March
Paramount Theater - Seattle (USA) - 5th April
Schnitzer Auditorium - Portland OR (USA) - 6th April
Berkeley Community Theater - San Francisco CA (USA) - 8th April
Universal Amphitheater - Los Angeles CA (USA) - 9th April
Hard Rock Hotel - Las Vegas NV (USA) - 11th April
Auditorium Theater - Denver CO (USA) - 13th April
State Theater - Minneapolis MN (USA) - 15th April
Riverside Theater - Milwaukee WI (USA) - 16th April
Chicago Theater - Chicago IL (USA) -18th April
State Theater - Detroit MI (USA) - 19th April
EJ Thomas Hall - Akron OH (USA) - 21st April
Murat Center - Indianapolis IN (USA) - 22nd April
Palace Theater - Columbus OH (USA) - 24th April
Tower Theater - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 26th April
Orpheum Theatre - MA (USA) - 27th April
Maple Leaf Gardens - Toronto (Canada) - 29th April
Radio City Music Hall - New York NY (USA) - 1st May
Patriot Centre - VA (USA) - 3rd May
Music Midtown - Atlanta GA (USA) - 5th May
Sports Palace - Mexico City (Mexico) - 8th May
Praca Sony - Lisbon (Portugal) - 17th May
Plasa De Toros La Cubierta De Leganes - Leganes (Spain) 19th May
Noel leaves the band for the 2nd time.
Filaforum - Milan (Italy) - 30th May +here
Zurcher Saalsporthalle - Zurich (Switzerland) - 31st May
Wiener Stadthalle - Vienna (Austria) - 2nd June
Haus Auensee - Leipzig (Germany) - 3rd June
C.O.S "Torwar" - Warsaw (poland) - 5th June
Arena - Berlin (Germany) - 7th June
Rock Am Ring - Nuremburg (Germany) - 9th June
Pinkpop Festival - Landgraaf (Netherlands) - 10th June
Rock Im Park - Nurnburg (Germany) - 11th June
Hultsfred 2000 - Hultsfred (Sweden) - 15th June
Heineken Jammin Festival - Imola (Italy) - 18th June
Le Dome - Marseilles (france) - 19th June
Fete De La Musique - Paris (france) - 21st June
Sporthalle - Hamburg (Germany) 22nd June
Werchter Festival - Werchter (Belgium) - 30th June
Roskilde Festival - (Denmark) - 1st July
Ruisrock - Turku (Finland) - 2nd July
Palacio De La Comunidad - Barcelona (Spain) - 4th July
Quart 2000 Kristiansand (Norway) - 6th July
Lansdowne Road - Dublin - 8th July
Rockwave Festival - Athens (Greece) - 12th July
Reebok Stadium - Bolton - 15th July
Wembley Stadium - London - 21st July
Wembley Stadium - London - 22nd July
Paleo Festival - Nyon (Switzerland) - 26th July
Murrayfield Stadium - Edinburgh - 29th July
Benicassim Festival - Benicassim (Spain) - 4th August
Sudoeste Festival - Odemira (Portugal) - 6th August
Sziget Festival - Budapest (Hungary) - 8th August
Skanderborg - Skanerborg (Denmark) - 12th August
Gijon Festival - Gijon (Spain) - 23rd August
Reading Festival - Reading - 25th August
Glasgow Green Festival - Glasgow - 26th August
Leeds Festival - Leeds - 28th August
Rock In Rio - Rio (Brazil) - 14th January
Hot Festival - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 18th January
Caracas Pop Festival - Caracas (Venezuela) - 21st January
Hard Rock Hotel - Las Vagas NV (USA) - 11th May
Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara CA (USA) - 12th May
The Greek Theater - Los Angeles CA (USA) - 14th May
Fiddler's Green - Denver CO (USA) - 17th May
Xcal Energy Center -St Paul MN (USA) - 19th May
New World Music Theater - Chicago IL (USA) - 20th May
Molson Amphitheater - Toronto (Canada) - 22nd May
Riverbend Music Theater - Cincinnati OH (USA) - 24th May
Blossom Music Center - Cleveland OH (USA) - 25th May
SNET Oakdale Theater - Wallingford CT (USA) - 27th May
A.J. Palumbo Center - Pittsburgh PA (USA) - 29th May
Tweeter Center - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 30th May
Verizon Wireless Music - Indianapolis IN (USA) - 1st June
Pine Knob Music Theater - Detroit MI (USA) - 2nd June
Darien Center P.A.C. - Darien Center NY (USA) - 3rd June
Merriweather Post Pavilion - Baltimore MD (USA) - 5th June
Radio City Music Hall - New York NY (USA) -7th June
Radio City Music Hall - New York NY (USA) - 8th June
Tweeter Center - Boston MA (USA) - 11th June
Bercy - Paris (france) - 24th June
Rock Festival - Fuji (Japan) - 27th July
Bangkok - Bangkok (Thailand) - 31st July
Shepard's Bush Empire - London - 7th October
Apollo Theatre - Manchester - 10th October
Barrowlands - Glasgow - 13th October
Watford Coliseum - Watford - 5th February
Royal Albert Hall - London - 6th February
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - Indio CA (USA) - 28th April (bootleg)
Piazza San Giovanni - Rome (Italy) - 1st May
Transbordeur - Lyon (france) - 17th June
Razzmatazz - Barcelona (Spain) - 19th June
Vox Club - Modena (Italy) - 21st June
Columbiahalle - Berlin (Germany) - 24th June (bootleg)
Circus - Stockholm (Sweden) - 26th June
Odyssey Arena - Belfast - 29th June
Arena - Hull - 2nd July
Arena - Hull - 3rd July
Finsbury Park - London - 5th July
Telewest Arena - Newcastle - 10th July
T In The Park Festival - Kincross - 13th July
Witnness Festival - Ireland - 14th July
Stadio Comunale - Vicenza (Italy) - 16th July (with bootleg)
Piazza Napoleone - Lucca (Italy) - 17th July (with bootleg)
Gurten Festival - Bern (Switzerland) - 19th July
Calvia Festival Isladencanta - Mallorca (Spain) - 21st July
Plaza De Toros La Glorieta - Salamanca (Spain) - 23rd July
Parque De Castrelos - Vigo (Spain) - 24th July
Foro Italico Centrale Del Tennis Stadium - Rome (Italy) - 26th July
Pompano Beach Amphiteater - Ft. Lauderdale (USA) - 2nd August
Hard Rock Live - Orlando FL (USA) - 4th August
Tabernacle - Atlanta GA (USA) - 5th August
Murat Center - Indianapolis IN (USA) - 7th August
Tower Theater - Philadelphia PA (USA) - 9th August
Fleet Pavillion - Boston (USA) - 10th August
Roseland Ballroom - New York NY (USA) - 11th August
Beacon Theater - New York NY (USA) - 13th August
Molson Center - Montreal (Canada) - 16th August
Molson Amphitheater - Toronto (Canada) - 17th August
Chicago Theater - Chicago IL (USA) - 20th August
Fox Theater - Detroit MI (USA) - 21st August
Prehen Playing Fields - Derry - 7th September
Exhibition And Conference Centre - Aberdeen - 9th September
Exhibition And Conference Centre - Aberdeen - 10th September
Corn Exchange - Edinburgh - 12th September
Lancashire County Cricket Club - Manchester - 14th September
Zenith - Paris (France) - 17th September
Yoyogi Taiikukan - Toyko (Japan) - 25th September
Kokusai Center - Fukuoka (Japan) - 1st October (bootleg)
Castle Hall - Osaka (Japan) - 2nd October
Castle Hall - Osaka (Japan) - 3rd October
Miyagi-Ken Taiikukan - Sendai (Japan) - 5th October
Sun Plaza - Hiroshima (Japan) - 7th October
Rainbow Hall - Nagoya (Japan) - 8th October
Enmore Theatre - Sydney (Australia) - 11th October
RNA Showgrounds - Brisbane (Australia) - 12th October
Royal Theatre - Canberra (Australia) - 14th October
Civic Theatre - Newcastle (Australia) - 15th October
The Forum - Melbourne (Australia) - 17th October
Melbourne Park - Melbourne (Australia) - 19th October
Moore Park - Sydney (Australia) - 20th October
The Forum - Melbourne (Australia) - 23rd October
Araneta Coliseum - Manila (Philippines) - 24th October
Indoor Stadium - Singapore (Singapore) - 26th October
Arena - Nottingham - 10th November
Braehead Arena - Glasgow - 13th November
Zenith - Lille (france) - 16th November
Le Liberte - Rennes (france) -17th November
Pabellon Wutzburg - Salamanca (Spain) - 19th November
Pabellon De La Casilla - Bilboa (Spain) - 20th November
Forum - Milan (Italy) - 22nd November
PBA Palas - Pesaro (Italy) - 23rd November
Hallenstadion Arena - Zurich (Switzerland) - 25th November
Messe B - Stuttgart (Germany) - 28th November
Jurhunderthalle - Frankfurt (Germany) - 29th November
Zenith - Munich (Germany) - 1st December
Color-Line Arena - 2nd December
Philipshalle - Dusseldorf (Germany) - 4th December
Pier 2 - Breman (Germany) - 5th December
CIA - Cardiff - 8th December
Centre -Brighton - 11th December
Pavilions - Plymouth - 12th December
Arena - Sheffield - 14th December
NIA - Birmingham - 18th December
The Point - Dublin (Ireland) - 5th March
Colorline Arena - Hamburg (Germany) - 8th March
Philipshalle - Dusseldorf (Germany) - 9th March
Zenith - Munich (Germany) - 11th March
Arena - Berlin (Germany) 12th March
Poole Lighthouse - Dorset - 23rd June
Glastonbury Festival - Glastonbury - 25th June
Astoria - London - 10th May
Alcatraz - Milan (Italy) - 12th May
Usher Hall - Edinburgh - 15th May
Clapham Grand - London - 22nd May
Olympia - Paris (france) - 23rd May
Coronet - London - 25th May
Carling Appolo Hammersmith - London - 26th May
Aqualung - Madrid (Spain) - 1st June
Ancienne Belgique - Brussels (Belgium) -4th June
Columbiahalle - Berlin (Germany) 6th June
Hurricane Festival (Germany) 10th June
Southside Festival (Germany) 11th June
The Molson Amphitheatre (Canada) 17th June
Meadow Brook Amphitheatre Detroit (USA) 18th June
UIC Pavilion Chicago (USA) 20th June
Madison Square Gardens NY (USA) 22nd June
Tweeter Center Boston (USA) 24th June
Festival Pier Penns Landing Philadelphia (USA) 25th June
Hampden Park - Glasgow - 29th June
City Of Manchester Stadium - Manchester - 30th June
City Of Manchester Stadium - Manchester - 2nd July
City Of Manchester Stadium - Manchester - 3rd July
Rose Bowl Stadium - Southampton - 6th July
National Bowl - Milton Keynes - 9th July
National Bowl - Milton Keynes - 10th July
Newcastle Metro Arena - Newcastle - 12th July
Newcastle Metro Arena - Newcastle 13th July
Marlay Park - Dublin (Ireland) - 16th July
Sudoete Festival - Odemira (Portugal) - 5th August
FIB Heineken Festival - Benicassim (Spain) - 7th August
Summer Sonic Eve Show - Nagoya (Japan) - 11th August
Summer Sonic Festival - Osaka (Japan) - 13th August
Summer Sonic Festival - Toyko (Japan) - 14th August
Frequency Festival - Saltzburg (Austria) - 18th August
Hylands Park - V Festival - 20th August
Weston Park - V Festival - 21st August
General Motors Place - Vancouver (Canada) -8th September
Everett Event Center - Seattle (USA) - 9th September
Shoreline Amphitheatre - San Francisco (USA) - 11th September
Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles (USA) - 12th September
Coors Amphitheatre - San Diego (USA) - 14th September
House Of Blues - Las Vegas (USA) - 15th September
Glen Helen Pavilion - Los Angeles (USA) 17th September
Dodge Theater - Phoenix (USA) - 18th September
Red Rock Park Amphitheatre - Denver (USA) - 20th September
Smirnoff Music Center - Dallas (USA) - 22nd September
Austin City Limits - Texas - (USA) - 24th September
HIFI Buys Amphitheatre - Atlanta (USA) - 27th September
Merriweather Post Pavilion - Baltimore (USA) - 29th September
Blossom Music Center - Cleveland (USA) - 30th September
Staten Island - New York (USA) - 2nd October
House Of Blues Club - Atlantic City (USA) - 3rd October
Alsterdorfer Sporthalle - Hamburg (Germany) - 20th October
Valbyhallen - Copenhagen (Denmark) - 21st October
Rouen Zenith - Rouen (france) - 23rd October
Forest National - Brussels (Belgium) - 24th October
The Zenith - Paris (france) - 26th October
Jahrhunderhalle - Frankfurt (Germany) - 27th October
Tresivo Palaverde - Treviso (Italy) - 29th October
Milano Forum - Milan (Italy) - 30th October
Phillipshalle - Dusseldorf (Germany) - 1st November
Heineken Music Hall - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 2nd November
Pavello De La Vall D'Hebron - Barcelona (Spain) - 4th November
Palacio De Deportes De La Comunidad - Madrid (Spain) - 5th November
Osaka Catle Hall - Osaka (Japan) - 17th November
Yogogi Tallkukan - Toyko (Japan) - 18th November
Yoyogi Tallkukan -Tokyo (Japan) - 20th November
Yoyogi Tallkukan - Tokyo (Japan) - 21st November
Entertainment Centre - Brisbane (Australia) - 26th November
Hordern Pavilion - Sydney (Australia) - 28th November
Festival Hall - Melbourne (Australia) - 1st December
Festival Hall - Melbourne (Australia) - 2nd December
Rock It Festival - Perth (Australia) - 4th December
Millenium Stadium - Cardiff - 10th December
AECC - Aberdeen - 12th December
SECC - Glasgow - 14th December
Odyssey Arena - Belfast (Northern Ireland) - 18th December
The Point - Dublin (Ireland) - 21st December
The Point - Dublin (Ireland) - 22nd December
Spektrum - Oslo (Norway) - 25th January
Hovet - Stockholm (Sweden) - 26th January
Zenith - Lille (france) - 29th January
Summum - Grenoble (france) 30th January
Gasometer - Vienna (Austria) - 1st February
Eulachhallen AG Winterthur - Winterhur (Switzerland) - 2nd February
Zenith - Toulouse (france) - 4th February
Mandela Forum - Florence (Italy) - 6th February +a slideshow here
Palalottomatica - Rome (Italy) - 7th February
Sheffield Hallam FM Arena - Sheffield - 9th February
Sheffield Hallam FM Arena - Sheffield - 10th February
Nottingham Arena - Nottingham - 13th February
100 Rock Festival - Bangkok (Thailand) - 18th February
Lakeside - Bangkok (Thailand) - 19th February
Olympic Hall - Seoul (South Korea) - 21st February
Indoor Stadium - Singapore (Singapore) - 23rd February
Asiaworld Arena - Hong Kong (China) - 25th February
Hot Festival - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 10th March
Velodrome - Santiago (Chile) - 12th March
Credicard Hall - Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 15th March
Air Canada Centre - Toronto (Cananda) - 20th March
Riverside Theatre - Milwaukee (USA) - 22nd March
Murat Theater - Indianapolis (USA) - 23rd March
Taft Theatre - Cincinnati (USA) - 25th March
Ryman Auditorium - Nashville (USA) - 26th March
Verizon Wireless Theatre - Houston (USA) - 28th March
Sports Palace - Mexico City (Mexico) - 31st March
KOKO - London (UK) - 2nd November
Danforth Music Hall - Toronto (Canada) - 7th November
Wadsworth Theater - Los Angeles (USA) - 9th November
Union Chapel - Islington - 26th November
Le Cabaret Sauvage - Paris (france) - 28th November
Blue Note - Milan (Italy) - 29th November
The Forum - Melbourne (Australia) - 10th December
The Chapel - Melbourne (Australia) - 11th December
Tivoli - Brisbane (Australia) - 12th December
Enmore Theatre - Newton (Australia) - 14th November
Perth Concert Hall - Perth (Australia) - 16th November
(around this period: they are Noel+Gem acoustic gigs)
BRITS - London - 14th February
Club B1 - Moscow (Russia) - 23rd March
Royal Albert Hall - London - 26th March
M.E.N Arena - Manchester - 30th March
WaMu Theater - Seattle (USA) - 26th August
GM Place - Vancouver (Canada) - 27th August
Rexall Palace - Edmunton (Canada) - 29th August
Pengrowth Saddledome - Calgary (Canada) - 30th August
MTS Centre - Winnipeg (Canada) - 1st September
Scotiabank Place - Ottawa (Canada) - 4th September
Bell Center - Quebec (Canada) - 5th Septmber
Toronto Island Park - Toronto (Canada) - 7th September
Liverpool Echo Arena - Liverpool - 7th October
Sheffield Arena - Sheffield - 10th October
Birmingham NIA - Birmingham - 13th October
Wembley Arena - London - 16th October
Bournemouth BIC - Bournemouth - 20th October
Bournemouth BIC - Bournemouth - 21st October
Cardiff International Arena - Cardiff - 23rd October
Cardiff International Arena - Cardiff - 24th October
The Roundhouse - London - 26th October
Belfast Odyssey Arena - Belfast - 29th October
Aberdeen Exhibition Centre - Aberdeen - 1st November
Aberdeen Exhibition Centre - Aberdeen - 2nd November
Glasgow SECC - Glasgow - 4th November
Gloria Theatre - Cologne (Germany) - 7th November
Falkoner Teatret - Copenhagen (Denmark) - 8th November (bootleg)
Bataclan - Paris (france) - 10th November
Sports Palace - Mexico City (Mexico) - 26th November
VFG Arena - Guadalajara (Mexico) - 28th November
Arena - Monterrey (Mexico) - 29th November
Oracle Arena - Oakland (USA) - 3rd December
Staples Center - Los Angeles (USA) - 4th December
The Pearl - Las Vegas (USA) - 6th December
Broomfield Events Center - Denver (USA) - 8th December
Target Center - Minneapolis (USA) - 10th December
Allstate Arena - Chicago - 12th December
Palace Of Auburn Hills - Detroit (USA) 13th December
The John Labatt Centre - London (Canada) - 15th December
Madison Square Gardens - New York (USA) - 17th December
Susquehanna Center - Camden (USA) - 19th December
GMU Patriot Center - Washington (USA) - 20th December
Zenith - Nantes (france) - 12th January
Forest National - Brussels (Belgium) - 13th January
Messehalle - Dresden (Germany) - 15th January
Sporthalle - Hamburg (Germany) - 16th January
Arena - Berlin (Germany) - 18th January
Heineken Music Hall - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 21st January
Heineken Music Hall - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 22nd January
Forum - Copenhagen (Denmark) - 24th January
Scandinavium - Gothenburg (Sweden) - 25th January
Globe - Stockholm (Sweden) - 28th January
Medoquine - Bordeaux (france) - 31st January
Mediolanumforum (Datchforum) - Milan (Italy) - 2nd February
Philipshalle - Dusseldorf (Germany) - 4th February
Palacio de Deportes de La Comunidad - Madrid (Spain) - 12th February
Pavello Olimpic de Badalona - Barcelona (Spain) - 13th February
Atlantico Pavillion - Lisbon (Portugal) - 15th February
Zenith - Toulouse (france) - 17th February
Le Dome - Marseille (france) - 18th February
Palalottomatica - Rome (Italy) - 20th February
Palaverde - Treviso (Italy) - 21st February
Palaonda - Bolzano (Italy) - 23rd February
Mandela Forum - Florence (Italy) - 24th February
Stadthalle - Vienna (Austria) - 26th February
Zenith - Munich (Germany) - 27th February
Hallenstadion Arena - Zurich (Switzerland) - 1st March
Bercy - Paris (france) - 3rd March
Makuhari Messe - Tokyo (Japan) - 20th March
Makomanai Ice Arena - Sapporo (Japan) - 22nd March
Intex - Osaka (Japan) - 24th March
Makuhari Messe - Toyko (Japan) - 28th March (Noel's diary)
Makuhari Messe - Toyko (Japan) - 29th March (with bootleg)
Olympic Gym # 1 - Seoul (South Korea) - 1st April
Exhibition Hall 4F, Taiwan World Trade Centre Nangang - Taipei City (Taiwan) - 3rd April
Singapore Indoor Stadium - Singapore - 5th April
AsiaWorld Arena - Hong Kong (China) - 7th April
Newmarket Racecourse - Johannesburg (South Africa) - 10th April
Cape Town Ostrich Farm - Cape Town (South Africa) - 13th April
USB Campo de Futbol - Caracas (Venezuela) - 28th April
Estadio Nacional - Lima (Peru) - 30th April
River Plate Stadium - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 3rd May
Movistar Arena - Santiago (Chile) - 5th May
Citibank Hall - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - 7th May (Brazilian tour)
São Paulo Arena Anhembi - São Paulo (Brazil) - 9th May
Curitiba Pedreira Paulo Leminski - Curitiba (Brazil) - 10th May
Porto Alegre Gigantinho - Porto Alegre (Brazil) - 12th May
Heaton Park - Manchester - 4th June
Stadium Of Light - Sunderland - 10th June
Millennium Stadium - Cardiff - 12th June
Théâtre Antique de Vienne - Vienne (france) - 14th June
Murrayfield - Edinburgh - 17th June
Slane Castle - County Meath (Ireland) - 20th June
Rock Werchter - (Belgium) - 2nd July
Roskilde Festival - Roskilde - (Denmark) - 3rd July
Ricoh Arena - Coventry - 7th July
Wembley Stadium - London - 9th July (bootleg)
Wembley Stadium - London - 11th July (bootleg)
Eden Project - Bodelva- 14th July
Benicàssim Festival - Castellón (Spain) - 16th July
Gurten Festival - Berne (Switzerland) - 18th July
Melt Festival - Gräfenhainichen (near Dessau) (Germany) - 19th July
iTunes festival - Roundhouse, London - 21st July (bootleg)
Fuji Rock Festival Naeba Ski Resort - Naeba (Japan) - 24th July
Bridlington Spa - 20th August
V Festival - Staffordshire - Weston Park - Weston-under-Lizard - 22nd August (bootleg)
V Festival - Chelmsford - 23rd August - ERASED
Rock en Seine - Paris (france) - 28th August ERASED - Oasis split (Noel leaves the band for the 3rd time)
Rock Am See Festival - Konstanz (Germany) - 29th August - ERASED
I-Day Festival - Milan (Italy) - 30th August - ERASED
The end of Oasis
very old posts
I'm french..mm nevermind mwahahaha +Dig out your soul in the streets
Brawn Gp from Manchester
Oasis tour in Brazil
Dal diario italiano di Noel
I comunisti censurano gli Oasis
Oasis in Switzerland (1/3/09): this one's fer the people on the front row
Oasis: again, 2 Nme Awards... We are the best, 1994-2009...and more. Obama idiot of the year
Rtl 102.5 espertoni di musica
effetto Beckham
Cronaca di una scampagnata veneta di un cittadino milanese in mezzo ai primitivi alcolizzati (Oasis in Treviso 21/2/09)
We want Oasis @ San Siro stadium in Milan
Snowasis: Oasis gig in Milan 2/2/09
Noel: fuck la morale socialista
Foto al tram degli Oasis
recensioni positive su Il Giornale di Silvio
Boy with the blues
Dig out your soul...militare
Sul calcio inglese il ciclone City
No Italian subtitles: that's good !
Noel attacca i Verdi
Oasis: che proposta a Maldini
Noel insulta l'Australia
Quadrophenia 1979-2009
Lucy in the sky with diamonds+I am the walrus
Wonderwall film
today = yesterday, conserving things
Italy-England 14-18
There's only one Jimmy Grimble
No al capodanno, è il 25 marzo
Mànchester, non Manchèster!
La mia vita rovinata dal Manchester United
City stadium songs & chants
Marc-Vivien Foe (1975-2003)
Ex parà nazista idolo del Manchester City
Zabriskie Point+Who feels love
Getting high, Oasis fuori di testa, by Paolo Hewitt
It's gettin' better Milan!!
Keep lookin' right
Live in Milan 2005 @ Alcatraz disco
Memorabilia from My Music Museum
Il City e gli Oasis sono "di destra"
Gli Oasis NON sono di sinistra
Quelli che...fanno figure
Teatro: "Look back in anger" di Osborne
Ashcroft: povera povertà del mondo...
Oasis: fermate gli orologi (the best of)
Oasis-style: d'yer wanna be a star? (photos)
"Modism, mod living, is an aphorism for clean living under difficult circumstances". (Pete Meaden, The Who manager)
It’s a concept, right. An idea. A way of life, a way you feel, a mode of behaviour. Maybe even a walk, a talk a strut. Yeah, that’s right, it’s a strut, a swagger (very Oasis :). A soul swagger. With bravado.
You getting the picture mate? See me, sitting here, watching the world go by over the top of my Cappuccino, pulling on filter tips, blowing smoke rings into the air. Checking out this late Summer afternoon as the schemers stamp their way back into the dark, satanic corporate world. Gazing at them all, differentiating.
Give you a clue, right. I can see my reflection here and what do I see? A Fred Perry. Black. With white trim. A neat barnet, cropped. A pair of shades, dark ones, heavy. And look down and there’s Levis there, sitting well and 501 and the sort of thing that’s needed for a boy about town. Oh, yeah. The dessies as well.
So if you don’t know what I am now then you never will. If you do, you’re probably one too. And proud of it. We’ll have to meet up sometime and get talking and watching. And analysing those tunes that mean so much and those books that tell us how it is and could be and those films that give us the story and the look.
Pete Meadon described it as "clean living under difficult circumstances". How do you achieve that today? I sip my Cappuccino and watch it all go by. Let me tell you what its about. Not the 60's age of innocence. We have had mass unemployment since then and 9/11. But the principle still applies. Now. There are twelve rules you can apply that will guide you through a pretty sussed life. You have to stick to them, that's the main thing. Don't move off from what I'm saying. Are you sitting comfortably. Then I will begin.
Italian cappuccino as recently after the 'Wake up the nation' album the ModFather Paul Weller with Noel Gallagher in a bar. And as Liam in a bar in Brighton for his Quadrophenia-inspired video.
Recently I saw a woman who was a mod, and she was angry as fuck against BNP, the British National Party. The people are different, otherwise the world would be all the same, and the people are not all the same as a communist would think. I don't vote for them, but girl, it's so clear that modism is a nationalist culture, even in the symbol, and in fact the director of Quadrophenia said the protagonist would have voted BNP.
Rule 1 - You will be sharp sartorially, whatever the circumstances.
Rule 2 - You will maintain standards to which you have become accustomed.
Rule 3 - You will maintain your individual view of the world.
Rule 4 - You will listen to sharp tunes - look forward with one eye on the past.
Rule 5 - You will make the most of opportunities - but watch your step.
Rule 6 -You will never compromise, except when absolutely crucial.
Rule 7 - You will play the game to obtain what you need but will not get sucked into the corporate.
Rule 8 - You will keep your bullshit detector switched on.
Rule 9 - You will live every day as if it was your first.
Rule 10 - You will keep your eye on the ball - don't get distracted.
Rule 11 - You will be cool, clean and hard.
Rule 12 - You will keep your attitude young.
Oasis song Stay young :). In a few words, it means being different from all, not all the same. And keeping, not changing. Being conservative, not Mister Change. Oasis even keep all of the Beatles and their tradition.
the Kinks, I need you
LONDON - Other info about the first song by Beady Eye, the new Oasis.
Some messages on Twitter from the dancer Georgia Amodu confirmed that she was working on the video and that the song was amazing, but she's "not allowed to say the name of the single".
"On my way out the door to Dance Rehearsal for tomorrow's shoot with @liamgallagher"... and then confirming it's a music video.
And also Jeff Wootton, who will take over bass duties for the bands live performances, tweeted "flying to LA to rejoin gorillazband after Beady Eye stuff."
The rumoured title for the debut Beady Eye single is Bring In The Light or Going Off Big Time.
I reported to the City of Milan and the Mayor, a communist shite site from Turin defaming Milan. They pretend to be quite an "official" Milan site, but posting news against Milan and automatically subscribing thousands of people on Facebook.
Rumours say the keyboard player Jay "Jesus Christ" Darlington (the Torino - shite city - Shroud) already left the band. ahahahaha
WOLVERHAMPTON - Manchester City lost against orange pumpkins Wolves (a very Halloween game :), they're a good team), but Mario Balotelli played well his Premier League real first match, back after 2 months injured.
He played as Oasis: swaggering, continuously angry, provoking ahahaha
as in the Meaning of soul, as to say: I'm the best, a different breed, get outta my way :). Using Italian bad words against the referee: "vaffanculo figlio di puttana" ahahahaha
But it's amazing how he makes things seem easy.
He was almost scoring after 1 minute, plus other chances, and he was angry because of the hard way of playing by the other team, and against the referee who saw an inexistent handball.
Also, great assists for Adebayor by Mario, it's such a pleasure to watch him playing. But Ade failed quite easy chances, and Mancini was angry (and also Noel at home). Unfortunately, Tevez is in Argentina..
pic: real photo of Mario at the seaside in Italy... sayyyyyy something shout it from the rooftops of your head... he took it literally!!! ^_^_^_^
today Mancini's famous scarf was back
when I watch football on internet, sometimes girls take my attention away ahahaha
...quite similar shapes :)
..I'm howling at the moon, is my happening too deafening for you?
MILAN - So, among many choices for Halloween, I decided to avoid them Turin jealous bastards defaming Milan, so no Chemical Brothers. I wouldn't have gone anyway, to such a horrible, sad and boring city as Torino. See, thanks to the City of Milan supporting big events as that one, and being Alfa Romeo origins from here, they can have that event, then you see what people do to have a business on things they don't own and even hate. And cheating people, trying to influence them with their opinions coming from a failed mentality which killed millions of people in the world, much more, hugely more, even than nazifascism. And even telling lies and making them believe they're a sort of official page, and even subscribing them automatically. The people are not so stupid, as they are. They are so mean.
In the East Europe countries the communist symbols are forbidden, and we are one of the few countries still carrying them even inside the parties symbols. As the England anthem says: "O Lord, our God, arise, scatter her enemies, and make them fall. Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks, on thee our hopes we fix, God save us all." Well, no need to confound their politics 'cause they're already confused enough, and already fallen, but still using knavish tricks.
After all, the best is still here, with the Hollywood Milano party, and the Milan's origins Celtic event. I choose origins, I choose summat simple, I choose a simple bottle of wine lol, from our countrysides, and a Milan risotto, our sweet pumpkins rice which Oasis' friend David Beckham learnt to cook in Milan attending a course some months ago.
photo: "the earth (ground), the climate, the sun, tradition and love, this is our wine, on your tables"
the Chemical Brothers want to collaborate with Noel again
LONDON - The Chemical Brothers would like to record a song with Noel Gallagher for the third time when the former Oasis star launches his solo career.
The dance duo have worked with the rock star on two tracks - 'Setting Sun' and 'Let Forever Be' - and have also remixed songs for Oasis and insist they are ready to help him now he has left the band.
Tom Rowlands said: "It's up to Noel, we won't force ourselves upon him. But, obviously, we'd be up for it if we got the call, he's a great musician. It would be churlish not to see what the man had to say and what his ideas were."
The 'Hey Boy Hey Girl' hitmakers have also moved away from their electro roots to work on a film score for Joe Wright's new movie.
Tom admits it was great to be asked to contribute to the film - which is believed to be 'Indian Summer', which is based on the book 'Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire' by Alex von Tunzelmann - because it's a new challenge for him and bandmate Ed Simons.
Tom added to Bang Showbiz: "We're working on some music for Joe Wright's new film as well. He's got a movie coming out next year and we're working on the score for that. The music is going to be contemporary and it's heavy, it's brilliant. It's something different and exciting that we've been offered. It's fun to be able to do something that's completely different. When we work together to make music to play live or DJ with there's a different mindset to when a director says I've got this scene and I'm trying to communicate these feelings. It's interesting it makes music varied and fun."
The Chemical Brothers have also written and produced some music for Darren Aronofsky's new film 'Black Swan', which stars Natalie Portman (born 9 June as me and Johnny Depp :)) and Mila Kunis as ballet dancers in a New York production of 'Swan Lake'.
The Chemical Brothers are in Italy this weekend (see a previous post).
Patsy: "no more men for me." ...advice: try women, lol (or marry me, part 8)
LONDON - Patsy won't dance to anyone else's tune.
Her hair is scraped back into a sweaty knot and her face is make-up free with the sheen of the exertion of six hours of intensive dance training.
Clad in a black puffa jacket and tracksuit bottoms, you would be hard pressed to even recognise the tiny blonde sitting in the corner of a North West London pub. Same situation for me, I understand, Patsy :).
But for Patsy Kensit, signing up for Strictly Come Dancing has been a joy — in a year where, as she admits, her private life lurched into a ‘shambles’.
‘This is the most terrifying thing I have ever done,’ she confides. ‘Every Saturday night, I turn to Robin, my dance partner, and say: “I’ve forgotten the routine”. I stand there frozen before we go out on the dancefloor and I spend the day feeling sick. Same situation for me, I understand, Patsy :). Noel would say: you're not cracking up, you're just getting older...
‘I’m standing backstage praying to St Jude — the patron saint of hopeless causes — and I can’t believe...’ her voice goes up an astonished octave... ‘that people are voting for us. I mean, there are so many better dancers than me on the show.
‘But,’ she says, ‘this is the best thing that could have happened to me. I recommend dancing to any woman who’s been through any kind of c**p.’
It is seven months since Patsy split from her fourth husband, DJ Jeremy Healy, after just one year of marriage. The mother-of-two is selling the North London house she bought with Healy and which she spent months decorating to become a home.
Instead, Patsy, 42, is living in a rented flat with her sons, James, 18, by former husband Jim Kerr, and 11-year-old Lennon by former husband Liam Gallagher.
And despite confessing that she wanted to retreat beneath her duvet following the disintegration of her fourth marriage, she’s delighted to be on what is arguably TV’s most gruelling talent show.
Millions have watched as the actress, visibly shaking and stumbling during her first performance, regained her confidence, culminating last Saturday when in a black wig and flapper dress she gave an alluring Chicago-esque rendition of the Charleston — and thwarted judge Craig Revel Horwood.
‘Patsy,’ drawled the panto dame of the BBC ballroom show, ‘towards the end, it started getting a little bit heavy and sluggish.’
‘I’m middle aged, darling,’ she hit back.
‘I am middle aged,’ she says smiling now, ‘There is only so much my body will do.’
Tomorrow, she and Robin Windsor are tackling a vigorous jive, so it is no surprise that Patsy, who put on two stone following her marriage breakdown, is looking petite again. ‘It’s always awkward to talk about weight,’ she admits ‘but I’ve gone down by two dress sizes.
‘The costume designers keep trying to make my dresses shorter, but I’m a mum and people are having dinner — we don’t want to turn them off. I’m covered in cellulite — women need to know that — I have it on my arms and legs, but it doesn’t matter.’ ...I don't have this :)
Gone, she reveals, are the days of Botox and beauty treatments. Fresh from a session with the chiropractor, an exhausted Patsy says: ‘There’s been no Botox —there’s no time.
Before the show went live, I was saying: “Look at my legs, they’re so hairy! They need a wax. And my eyebrows are bushy and need threading!” ...yeah! I understand this, my legs are quite hairy as well :)
‘But you have to leave your dignity at the door — all that goes. Then suddenly you’re in the world of Strictly: hairspray, glitter, long legs and taut bodies, it’s great fun.
‘I know I’ve seemed nervous, but it’s not an act. What I’m trying to do now is just go out there and enjoy it. The second week with the salsa I forgot a few steps, but it was the first time I simply let go.
‘I’d been coming in with my shoulders hunched and Robin’s been like my life coach as well as my dance partner.’
It is all a far cry from the actress who went to work on Holby City and wept in her dressing room as her marriage crumbled.
Friends said that Healy, 48, refused to go to counselling with his wife after a series of rows and instead left the family home in February to go to Paris fashion week and never came back (fucking Paris...Oasis know well that bloody place...). Patsy was left to pick up the pieces. She is now quietly preparing for a divorce.
Having been married three times before, to Dan Donovan of band Big Audio Dynamite, Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds, and Oasis star Liam Gallagher, she admits she was counting on this marriage to work and had made plans for her and Healy to retire to Sydney.
‘Deep down, I was crushed,’ says Patsy. ‘I didn’t think I’d be sitting here in this situation.’
Her nervous early performances on Strictly and clear desire to win the judges’ approval have made viewers wonder if she is basically a bit of a ‘needy’ woman. Can this be the reason her relationships have crashed and burned?
‘I play my part in things, I’m sure. I have done things wrong, there are two sides to every situation. Jeremy’s a great guy, it’s devastating it didn’t work and I wish him the best, but I’ve got my boys.’
Of Strictly, Patsy reveals: ‘Ann [Widdecombe] is my girl crush. We’ve bonded over our faith [they are both Catholics] and we both pray to St Jude. She has such spirit. I think Ann should be allowed to win. If people keep voting for her and love her, why not?’
As for any romance, there is a gleam in her eye as Patsy talks about the fledging relationship between Kara Tointon and her dance partner Artem Chigvintsev.
‘Robin and Artem share a flat, so I can’t say too much,’ she smiles, ‘but Kara and Artem make a lovely couple.’
Flaunting an enviable figure in a series of revealing outfits has won her new male fans, but Patsy flashes her blue eyes and says fervently: 'No more men. The only feelings I have now are maternal.'
Yeah! I understand this, no more men for me too ahahaha those fucking men...
Try an Italian!!
‘The other night when I got home, Lennon said: “Mummy, you kissed Len and you kissed Robin,” and I had to explain it wasn’t romantic!’
Facing life as a single mum again is something that does not worry her: ‘Even though my personal life is a shambles, what I’ve chosen to do is pull myself out of it,’ she confides.
‘It doesn’t scare me being a single mum, my boys’ dads are really involved and they couldn’t have been more supportive. And Nicole, Liam’s wife, has been lovely.’
Patsy confesses: ‘There is a whole myth that because I’m divorced from Jim and Liam, I got all this money. But it’s nonsense, absolute nonsense. My boys are really well looked after, but, like every other woman, I still have to work.
She pauses: ‘My boys will be fine, all I’ve done is shown them love and care — and I hope I get on with their girlfriends! I’m dying to be a grandmother.’
LONDON - Paul Weller has been at the vanguard of British music since the release of the generation-charging single, “In the City,” in 1977. Angry like a punk, stylish like a Mod and soulful like an R&B man, Weller has consistently followed his own muse, even when that meant breaking up the very successful Jam and dissolving his hit-making follow-up outfit, The Style Council. Worshipped ever since by songwriters (most notably, Noel Gallagher), the “Modfather” continues to make finger-popping, hard-charging, yet elegantly soulful records to this day. We caught up with Weller recently to discuss his illustrious career, his famous disciple/drinking buddy and the possibility of a Jam reunion.
What are your earliest musical memories? What were Mom and Dad listening to around the house?
I can always remember hearing music around our house. Records and the radio. The Beatles, Nat King Cole, The Kinks and Elvis!
What artist or artists made you first want to pick up a guitar?
The Beatles. They got me and the rest of the world into it.
How old were you when you got your first guitar? Was it a present? Did you save up for it?
My dad bought me a cheap, second-hand one when I was 12 and that was it for me.
Can you describe that first version of The Jam? You were, what, 14? How good were you guys?
We were dreadful! We just played cover versions of rock ‘n’ roll and R&B. Slaughtered them, really.
What do you remember about your first gig?
It was a Wednesday night in the local Social Club to seven or eight disinterested punters. Only two of us and our first taste. I was only 14 years old.
When did it start to really click for you – the songwriting, the playing? When did you start to look around and think, “Hang on, this could be something...”
Probably by the time I was 21, really – by The Jam’s third L.P. That’s when I realized what it really entails and took it seriously.
How comfortable were you with being lumped in with punk? From a songwriting perspective, especially, you guys were light years ahead of the punk scene.
Well, originally, punk was great – it was my generation’s wake-up call. I was really into it, man.
When did you start to think about incorporating more soulful, R&B elements? Was that a popular move within the band? Was everyone onboard with that creative shift?
Well, we’d always had that influence, right from the start, so it was very natural.
Ultimately, why did The Jam dissolve? You were on top of the world at the time.
I needed to move on. I’d been with the same band for 10 years. I wanted to go out and find the other parts of my life. I was still only 24.
How long was the idea of The Style Council in your head before you actually formed the band? Was it a musical itch you’d been wanting to scratch for a while?
Yeah, at least a year or so. I was listening to other types of music. I felt constrained by The Jam.
When The Style Council ended, it was the first time you’d been without a band since you were a teenager. Was that exciting or terrifying?
Both, I guess. Though mainly terrifying. I was lost. Didn’t know what I wanted to do.
When ’90s bands began lining up to pay homage to “The Modfather,” was it a bit disconcerting? You were still a pretty young guy.
No, I loved it! I felt “wanted” again. I’d been out in the cold for so long I felt glad to come in and be loved a bit.
How did you and Noel Gallagher first meet? Did it click right away? Was it an instantaneous friendship?
Pretty much, I think. We were both doing a lot of partying, too, and that helped/hindered!
Do you reckon this is it for Oasis or do you think eventually the brothers will work it out?
Speaking of which, you and Bruce Foxton recently played together onstage for the first time in 28 years at the Royal Albert Hall. How did that come about?
Well, Bruce came down and played on the new L.P. and it seemed natural to extend that to a couple of gigs. It was fun.
You know what question’s coming next…so I apologize–truly…but is there any chance that the three of you, as a group, will ever tour or record again?
Bruce appears on Wake Up the Nation. What does he bring as a bassist?
He has a very recognizable sound and style, and he was definitely the right man for those tracks.
The title track is a pretty rocking song. Can you tell me a bit about it? Were you thinking about any particular feel or artist or song when you wrote it?
Not really – it’s in the spirit of the album. We were trying to make music we weren’t hearing anywhere else.
“No Tears to Cry” has such a cool, late-’60s soul feel. What is it about that music still resonates with you?
It’s timeless, man. It rings true through the ages. It’s the heartbeat of the planet.
What still drives you to make music?
Because I absolutely adore it, believe in it and hold it up to be the truth amongst the bullshit.
Liam Gallagher features in Andy Willsher photos exhibition
LONDON - The Black and White Collection
Thurs 4th November – Fri 31st December 2010
The exhibition features a limited edition shot of Liam Gallagher from Birmingham Institute back in 1993, December 1st.
Growing up in Bedford, England, amongst like-minded music enthusiasts, Andy Willsher was strongly influenced by David Bowie as well as pretty much all of the Goth bands of the late 80’s at the time. Luckily for Andy there was a small music venue in town where most of the bands played. 'The perfect scenario' I thought; "I’ll go along and take some pictures. So the likes of 'Ghostdance', 'Zodiac Mindwarp', 'Fields of 'The Nephilim' (and many more people dressed in black throwing flour everywhere) started my portfolio". Andy decided to ignore college and get a real job so he could afford the next Canon model he had been craving. Whilst working at Barclays Bank in the West End, Andy took a holiday to follow a band called 'The Hollow Men' around the far reaches of Scotland and Ireland. "I decided from that point that this was the life for me. One step further down the line I was working in my local camera shop to try and gain some knowledge. I think it was around this time I started printing up my own pictures and sending them to the music press in the vain hope they’d want to use one".
Finally that time did arrive and after a few shots had been published, Andy then got a phone call from Nme Towers; 'Do you fancy shooting 'The Family Cat' at a school in Crewe?'. Andy continues to photograph for Nme, his credits includes Jeff Buckley, Arthur Lee, U2, White Stripes and many more iconic bands/artists.
Andy's work has captured the music culture of our times and this exhibition celebrates his 20 years in music and in photography standing next to the other photographers who inspired him, such as Anton Corbijn, Ellen Von Unwerth, Pennie Smith and Mick Rock.
In Andy’s own words "It just felt like the right time to have an exhibition".
Private view Thursday 4th November 6pm - 2am at The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, London. EC2A 4RH
The night will also feature a great line up of special guest DJs.
...been doing justice: Italy-Serbia 3-0. Next step: Euro 2012 in Italy
NYON - Following the abandonment of the Uefa Euro 2012 qualifying match between Italy and Serbia at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris in Genoa on 12 October 2010, the Uefa Control and Disciplinary Body met today in Nyon, Switzerland, to evaluate the case. Both national associations involved in the match – the Football Association of Serbia and the Italian Football Federation – and the Uefa Disciplinary Inspector were represented at today's meeting.
The Control and Disciplinary Body has decided to award the match as a 3-0 forfeit win to Italy.
The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has been ordered to play its next two home matches behind closed doors. From this sanction, a one-match ban is deferred for a probationary period of two years.
The Control and Disciplinary Body has ordered the FSS to refrain from ordering tickets for Serbian supporters for all the away matches of the Serbian team during the remainder of the Uefa euroO 2012 qualifying competition. The association was also fined a total of €120,000.
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) received a sanction of one match to be played behind closed doors. This sanction is deferred for a probationary period of two years. The association was fined €100,000.
Both associations have three days from the dispatch of the written decisions within which to lodge an appeal.
tremate perchè stanno tornando! people trembling: Oasis are back, BeadyEye Beatles & Balotelli
LONDON - Yesssssssss not only Mario Balotelli is back. -2 weeks (half November) to "Oasis" new song. The opening BeadyEye album tune will reportedly sound as the Beatles I am the walrus. It's not official yet, but next week, possibly on Monday, November 1st, Beady Eye will make an official announcement on their first single to be released in at least 2 weeks, from the second half of November and first half of December. Today the band recorded the clip of the song that will be the first single.
Rumours say they may have dancers in the production, which will be signed by the actor and director Richard Ayoade.
at 1:01 minute Liam&Noel smile together :D, and then also Gem,
but only because they sang together a wrong part of the lyrics :))
Should have been: man you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long...
MILAN - As you know, Oasis best songs are the B-sides. Here are two England B-sides :)
Beautiful sun today in Milan, springtime day in the park (not yet CityLife park :) by the English studio).
There's plenty of events for Halloween, as the Chemical Brothers sponsored by Milan, and the Milan's origins Celtic event, and Beckham's risotto sweet pumpkin rice dish by me :D
Hollywood Milano club is open again after the vips drugs scandal, and this is the first party.
Pretty Green's Cole admits he's a Kop flop. Should have joined "Milan fashion giants"
LIVERPOOL - Joe Cole admits he has flopped at Liverpool - but will act like "a man" to turn his form around.
In the summer the England midfielder said he would have played "only abroad" and bought a house near Milan on Como lake where footballers and Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye always go, he was reportedly close to "Milan fashion giants" and snubbed London's Arsenal and Tottenham after quitting Chelsea on a free.
But he was sent off in the first game of the season, disqualified for 3 games, even failed a penalty and has scored once as the Kop have struggled. Liverpool are now 18th out of 20 teams.
Cole, 28, admitted: "I'm not playing well. I'm not going to say otherwise.
"Whenever you have periods like we've had you have to deal with it.
"You have got to stand up and be counted, be a man. I haven't started as well as I would have liked but I will turn it around.
"With every breath I take, I'm thinking of how I can change it."
Liam Gallagher is unlikely to get a stand named after him at Eastlands... but he's been acknowledged at Anfield.
Cole has renamed his box The Pretty Green Suite after Man City fan Liam's clothing label. Joe is a champion of the Oasis legend's threads and is frequently snapped in Pretty Green clobber.
The pair have struck up an unlikely friendship and Liam has been to Liverpool to watch Joe in action. It's one suite Liam will never dare trash.
NICOSIA - An Italian government official has called for a judicial investigation into allegations that the 2012 European Championship was corruptly awarded to Poland and Ukraine.
Italy was considered the favorite entering the 2012 vote but Poland and Ukraine won the organization of Euro 2012.
Former Cypriot Football Association official Spyros Marangos alleges that UEFA officials sold the tournament rights for Euro 11 million ($15 million) in 2007 and UEFA (president: the french Platini, photo, who elected - oh strange! - france to host Euro 2016) has threatened Marangos unless he provides proof. Marangos alleged to have evidence of corruption surrounding the appointment and went public with his claims in German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, saying that justice must be done with Euro 2012 given to Italy.
Among the 12 voters, 4 voted Italy and 4 were paid to vote against, one with €3,15mil and €2mil each the other three, and the money was inside a TEDDY BEAR ! What a sweet asshole.
Italy cabinet undersecretary and sports delegate said that judicial authorities should intervene and that "if crimes emerge they should be prosecuted." He added that Italy would be ready to host Euro 2012 if needed. Ukraine can barely host this international event, Poland is still building the roads... In some years also the hotels, stations, airports and regular stadiums, definitely maybe.
the English won the project for Milan CityLife park (2012-2015)
MILAN - As you know, Milan is developing the city towards 2015 Expo (the place where Oasis had to perform their last concert ever, before a 5-year-break).
Today the winner for CityLife park plan was announced: of course "ze Germans" (2 projects) and the french (2 projects) lost ^_^ as usual, and also a Portuguese and a Swiss one.
And the winner is... London's Gustafson Porter studio from Great Britain. The title is "Fra le montagne e la pianura", between mountains and plain. The English will make it in collaboration with Milan people, the Milanese inhabitants.
the mayor of Milan, the redhead ^_^ Mrs Letizia Moratti
here is another 3D video similar to that one of Expo 2015
LONDON - About 1 month to the decision (2 December).
If the high-res pic of Abigail Clancy is not enough... :)
1. Passion for football
Football is our national sport. Seven million people play every week, and there are over 30 million attendances at Premier League and Football League games every season. The passion runs wide and deep - from grassroots to elite; among men, women, boys and girls - and is shared by the hundreds of different communities that call England home. English football is enormously popular around the world - via a series of international TV agreements, nearly three billion people in over 200 countries regularly watch matches played in England.
2. England United
Our love of football means the whole country is united behind England's bid: The FA, the Premier League and Football League, clubs and players, the Government, Candidate Host Cities, commercial organisations, celebrities and - of course - football fans and the general public.
3. A popular destination with a home-from-home welcome
England is easy to get to and easy to get around. Millions of tourists come each year because there's plenty to see and do, from visiting historic landmarks to attending world-famous cultural events - and a lot more besides. Visiting players and fans will be welcomed with open arms by thousands of fellow countrymen who already call England home, yet all eager to provide enthusiastic support for their national teams.
4. Iconic stadiums
England has dozens of iconic football stadiums, rich in football heritage, spread throughout the country. Each provides top-quality facilities and has its own unique atmosphere. This atmosphere is created by the vocal backing of the fans and the vibrant colours they wear in support of their team. Attending a football match in England is an unforgettable experience.
5. The experience to provide a great experience
England has plenty of experience of hosting major events - The FA Cup Final, Wimbledon Championships (tennis), the British Open (golf), the Grand National (horse-racing), Test Matches (cricket) and the Six Nations (rugby), to name but a few. When it comes to security, transport and accommodation, the expertise and infrastructure are in place, and investment to enhance them continues.
6. Ideal location
England is in the perfect broadcast time-zone. There is no variation in altitude and we enjoy a temperate climate that is ideal for sport and helps create excellent playing surfaces.
7. Fantastic festival of football
England can promise a fantastic festival of football - noisy, sold-out stadiums and packed FIFA Fan Fests™. Because the football infrastructure is among the best in the world, we can confidently focus on taking the FIFA World Cup™ experience to a new level, engaging more people than ever before in the celebration.
8. Outstanding economic success
England is the world's largest commercial market for football - for TV rights, sponsorship, licensing, and ticket revenue. A FIFA World Cup™ in England is guaranteed to be a huge commercial success. A conservative analysis by PWC calculates the economic benefit to England of hosting the FIFA World Cup™ at over £3.2 billion, creating thousands of new jobs and opportunities for the entire country.
9. Inspiring the next generation
England will work with FIFA to drive football development in England and around the world. We'll inspire more people from every background to play and engage in football, and help provide the means to do so. This will create a new generation of talent - players, coaches, referees and administrators.
10. Driving positive change worldwide
A FIFA World Cup™ in England will deliver the most impactful worldwide legacy imaginable. It will improve the lives of millions by expanding global development programmes to tackle issues like health, education, environmental sustainability, racial and gender equality and social inclusion.
"Our identity is intertwined with football" says Prince William
London 2012 volunteering with the Beatles & Rolling Stones
LONDON - Still a few hours, until 12:00 tonight, to be a volunteer, a "Game Maker" at London 2012 Olympic Games. Of course I joined. There will be the last Rolling Stones concert in history, and probably also Paul McCartney+Ringo Starr.
They (not the Rolling Stone&Beatles :) give you free food and free sleeping, enough for a living, lol.
"As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine" :)
As venues I've chosen the Athletes Village, Wembley, Wimbledon (for the female tennis players, lol), Oasis' legendary Earls Court, dunno why I avoided the Old Trafford in Manchester! lol
with Italian mod Vespa
Hello @ Earls Court, life is an Olympic Game we play :)
Guigsy magic tricks playing football from minute 3:20
Upside Down @ Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Musical de Barcelona
BARCELONA - It's the first time I post on Oasisblues an article in Spanish language, as I can speak it quite well (as English, more or less), here it is for the Spanish speakers. Upside Down to show at prestigious European film festival next week. After its sell out stint in London, 'Upside Down', travels to Barcelona next Tuesday for its debut on the European mainland. In Edit: Barcelona will feature the film which will be preceded by a Q+A with director, Danny O' Connor and Alan McGee. Mark Gardener will play live afterwards.
Beefeater IN-EDIT : Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Musical de Barcelona.
O el sello que vendió su alma al diablo. Este es el poema épico sobre Creation Records, la casa de discos que fundó el escocés-más-grande-que-la-vida Alan McGee: de cómo el caballero pelirrojo derribó castillos a su paso, se enfrentó a gigantes y ogros, le tentaron sirenas y finalmente sucumbió a su propia soberbia. Y ¿quién lo hubiese dicho?: un sellito que empieza empujado en el trampolín punk, como todos, y que recibe el último empellón tras escuchar el “Part Time Punks” de los Television Personalities de Dan Treacy. Ese hecho es catarsis para que dé inicio uno de los sellos más importantes del siglo XX, y aquí se nos cuenta todo, con absolutamente todos los protagonistas, cameos, villanos y peña que pasaba por el pub de la esquina: de los grandiosos y olvidados grupos de la primerísima Creation (Biff Bang Pow, The Jasmine Minks, The Loft, unos casi púberes Primal Scream), a los primeros golpes de efecto y grupos mayores (la revolución de The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine y, de nuevo, los madurados Primal Scream del Screamadelica) a los años de Sonido Americano para la generación Nirvana (el pop Teenage Fanclub o el asfalto Swervedrive), al Auge y Caída del Imperio, los años de exceso neroniano que simbolizan Oasis y -dale- Primal Scream. Y, claro, el morrón: la venta final a Sony, fenomenal puesta de culo de la Indie que se había atrevido a vacilarles a las majors diez años antes. Todo está aquí, y hablan todos (los que recuerdan algo del fiestón) y quedan al descubierto las chulerías, caos y grandes discos que el sello legó al mundo. El desfile de testimonios es un quién es quién del indie 80’s-90’s que no haría falta ni nombrar: de Noel Gallagher a Norman Blake, pasando por Bobby Gillespie, todo el mundo del sello y hasta un semi-autista Dan Treacy. Y Alan McGee, vestido de gangster y contando una historia de gángsteres, casi. Un filme más divertido y vibrante que una película de tiroteos.
($18=£11)
LONDON - Not only Oasis' Noel Gallagher and of course former Milan's David Beckham (Vice-President) and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron ("We will do everything in our power to help secure for England the honour of hosting this prestigious event."), plus the legendary Paul the Octopus and Lord Horatio Nelson. London Mayor Boris Johnson, Chair of the London United 2018 bid team, said: "There could be no better an advocate than Lord Nelson, atop his iconic column. He, like England's football team, suffered variously at the hands of European foes. His clarion call that England expects that every man will do his duty could have been made for this occasion. This time, with the entire nation heeding his call and flying the flag for England's bid, we have a superb chance of reaching our goal."
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton: "This country's passion and knowledge for football is unrivalled anywhere else in the world. This country lives for the sport - whether that's in the biggest stadiums in the country, on a freezing, wet Wednesday night in the middle of winter, at home in front of the TV, or even in the playground: we live and breathe football. It would be a fantastic honour for us to host the 2018 World Cup. It would create a huge wave of sporting passion that everyone in this country would love to be a part of. That's why I'm supporting the bid for England 2018."
His team mate, world champion Jenson Button: "England would be a fantastic host for the 2018 World Cup and I'm really proud to back the bid. Having taken part in the Race of Champions at Wembley Stadium, I know that it would be a great venue for the World Cup Final. We have some of the greatest fans in the world and they would create an amazing atmosphere. I would love all my fans to show the England 2018 bid the same support that they have given me this season!"
Kelly Smith, Faye White and Rachel Brown, Official England 2018 Ambassadors, the last one currently playing as goalkeeper for Everton Ladies, she's trusted member of the England Women's team. Notable career highlights so far include featuring in the Women's FA Cup final aged just 15 and being selected in 2007 as part of the FIFA All-star team that played an exhibition against World Cup hosts China.
Kasabian guitarist, Italian origins Sergio Pizzorno: "The entire band is delighted to get behind England 2018. Everyone in England loves football and the tournament would create a huge wave of passion throughout the country. We're also really excited about Leicester bidding to become a Host City. The opportunity for England to host a World Cup is really amazing and the thought of games being played at the Walker's Stadium is incredible."
Miss England Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge: "The Miss World competition gives me the opportunity to mix with people from all over the world. Everywhere I go I see support for the England 2018 bid and so it doesn't surprise me to learn that people from over 180 countries have already 'Backed the Bid'. Like everyone in England, I have grown up with Football and so I'm very proud to show my support for England 2018 and will continue to do so after the final of Miss World in Johannesburg".
Horse racing jockey champion Frankie Dettori (born in Milan) said: "Football has always been a huge part of my life and so to be able to experience the world's greatest football tournament in England would be incredible. I've lived here for many years and I'm a big Arsenal fan and I've experienced first hand the unrivalled passion supporters in this country have for the game. I am convinced that England would be a fantastic host for the World Cup in 2018."
Sting: "St James's Park would make a fantastic World Cup venue and NewcastleGateshead a world-class host city."
Italian star Gianfranco Zola (ex Chelsea): "Every weekend in England is like a festival of football - whether that is in the Premier League or in parks across the country. Hosting a World Cup would mean so much to so many people in England and they would unite to create a tremendous tournament for everyone to remember. As an ambassador for the Bid I will be doing everything I can to make the England 2018 campaign a success."
Another Official England 2018 Ambassador is AC Milan's Robinho, Brazil captain (who scored again for Milan the other day). Singled out for greatness at the tender age 15 by Brazilian legend Pele, Robinho signed professional terms with Santos as a 17-year-old and quickly established himself as one of the most exciting players in the world. In 2008 he hit the headlines when he moved from Real Madrid to Manchester City in a £32.5m record, in August 2010 to AC Milan for £22m.
Last but not least, the Vice-President, former Milan, England manager Fabio Capello: "I'm very happy to become a Vice-President to the 2018 World Cup bid and I shall do everything I can to help England’s cause. This is an opportunity to offer England’s future players the chance to represent their country in front of their own fans and as national coach I know what an exciting prospect that is. My prime responsibility is to build a national team that will compete at the highest level, but if I can also help to strengthen England’s claims to stage the World Cup tournament I shall consider it a tremendous honour."
And many more. If you want to take a photo with the England 2018 scarf, I can give you :)
MILAN - 11th year of this free entrance event, for the Halloween weekend (29-31 October) at Castello Sforzesco castle in the centre of Milan. A sort of Celtic "New Year's Eve" fairground, as it's called Capodanno Celtico, with music, dancing, etc.
Not only the England Christian cross is Milan flag.
The city was founded under the name of Medhlan, by the Insubres, Celtic people (not Roman people as some say thinking about "Mediolanum").
The people who like Ireland will find interesting this event. And I couldn't forget something about Oasis :), as the Gallaghers have Irish origins.
dedicated to Valentina Giovagnini, an Italian singer who loved Celtic stuff, she died in a car accident
www.valentinagiovagnini.blogspot.com
her most famous song...saying: "...your hands never, your body never, your mind never more, your name never, your eyes never, your voice never more..."
she was "very Oasis" :) as in one of her last messages:
"I'm in the mood for a little devil to lead me astray. For me a perfect date is a bottle of wine and fucking 'til dawn. Someone who will make my fantasies come true! I want a man (or men) who will restore my faith that real, sex charged men still exist. God it's so BORING around here!"
(she was not from Milan but Tuscany)
LONDON - If you vote you could win some England 2018 goodies, including this Umbro jacket.
(you have to "like" the England page on Facebook and then vote)
OBERHAUSEN - Paul the octopus (born January 2008 Weymouth, England, or in the waters off Elba island, Italy), an unlikely star of the 2010 World Cup who 'predicted' the outcome of seven matches, has died at an aquarium in Germany.
Staff at the Sea Life centre in Oberhausen said they were "devastated" to learn that he had passed away during the night.
Paul made his name by successfully choosing a mussel from one of two boxes bearing the flags of competing nations.
Octopuses rarely live beyond two years so his death was not unexpected.
Paul was originally believed to have been hatched from an egg in January 2008 at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, England, then moved to a tank at one of the chain's centres in Oberhausen, Germany. American cable television network ESPN later reported claims made in a Bild article (later republished by the Italian press) that Paul the Octopus had been caught by his owner Verena Bartsch off the island of Elba.
He's even on the Wikipedia, lol.
the Beatles Octopus's garden, written by Ringo Starr in Italy,
performed at Oasis gigs at the end of Whatever
Citysocialising poll names Oasis as the band we most want to see reformed by 2011
LONDON - Those of you feeling a bit depressed at the thought of the clocks going back this week need not despair. It’s not just the dark nights and cold days that are marked by this annual occurrence. In general, the run up to Christmas is the season for gigs and concerts, so brave the cold as there isn’t a better time of the year to get down to your local venue to watch some great talent in action and meet new people.
CitySocialising the UK’s leading Socialising Network that bridges the gap between online and offline networking traditionally sees a large increase in their music and gig related socials around this time of year as lots of bands are doing the rounds and lots of members are keen tofind friends they can bond with over a shared love of their favorite artist.
Unfortunately there are a few bands we definitely won’t be seeing on tour this year whether that be due to brotherly bust ups, clashing egos or international solo success. CitySocialising polled their members to find out which of these bands will most be missed from the music circuit and named the top ten bands that the UK most want to see reformed before 2011.
Perhaps unsurprisingly the Gallagher Brothers topped the polls with 27% of the vote closely followed by The Police (24%), then Blur (22%). Other bands that fans wanted back on stage included The Smiths, The Stone Roses and even Girls Aloud made the top 10. The full top 10 as follows:
1. Oasis
2. The Police (mod Quadrophenia's Sting :) in Milan next week with orchestra, see here)
3. Blur
4. The Verve
5. The Jam
6. The Smiths
7. The Stone Roses
8. The Clash
9. Girls Aloud
10. Spice Girls
Sanchita Saha CEO and founder of CitySocialising commented:
“There’s nothing like the mutual love of a band or artist to bond people. Whether at a festival or a gig, everyone’s experienced that moment when you find you share a love of a certain song and in an instant this common ground completely takes over the mood, breaks down any barriers and the conversation just flows from there.
Around this time of year the number of gig based Socials organised by members increases significantly on CitySocialising as people turn to indoor activities to avoid the cold weather. Gigs are also a great place to find friends as there are lots of new faces all gathered in one room to have a good time, united by same taste in music and more likely therefore to connect and bond.”
For a full list of upcoming Socials and to register for free visit CitySocialising and find some outgoing likeminded friends to share your taste in music, whether that be Opera or Oasis.
LONDON - Patsy Kensit has revealed that she is coping with her marriage split from DJ Jeremy Healy thanks to the support of her former husbands. She's getting over her fourth marriage break-up with their help.
The actress split from her DJ husband Jeremy Healy in March after 11 months of marriage but said she doesn't want people to feel sorry for her because her former husbands have been so "supportive."
The 'Lethal Weapon 2' star told Style magazine: "I don't want sympathy. I've got great kids and my ex-husbands have been phenomenal this year. It has united the family, reinforced it."
However Patsy - who has two sons, James, 18, from her marriage to Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr, and 11-year-old Lennon, by Liam Gallagher - admitted she is "embarrassed" at a fourth failed marriage.
She said: "I feel embarrassed that my friends gave up a Saturday to come to that wedding."
The 42-year-old star has now sworn off marriage after realising that it is not for her. Nooooooooo, marry me! ^_^
She explained: "Something has died in me. It just has, I really mean that. It's not going to change. The definition of insanity is repeating something and expecting it to be different. I realise now that, clearly the marriage thing doesn't work for me. It's enough now. It's enough." Noooooooo, try an Italian ^_^
Patsy married first husband Dan Donovan in 1988 when she was just 19 but they split after three years, she then tied the knot in 1992 with Jim before separating from him in 1994.
She said "I do" to former Oasis singer Liam in 1997 but their union ended in 2000 - with the wild rocker announcing the split to around 90,000 fans while on stage at London's Wembley Stadium.
Noel, Italian maestro Morricone, Weller. Amorphous Androgynous explode more psychedelic bubbles
LONDON - Again about electronic music and Noel.
Future Sound Of London members Brian Dougan and Garry Cobain are ready to release their next mix as Amorphous Androgynous, entitled A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 3 - The 3rd Ear (6 December).
Dougan and Cobain have always flitted amongst a variety of monikers, most of which were used for only one release (Dope Module, Indo Tribe and Far-Out Son of Lung to name a few). But Amorphous Androgynous has always been a more serious side project; its first release came not long after Future Sound of London's debut, and was followed by a string of albums and mix CDs. The Monstrous Psychedelic Bubblecompilations are probably the duo's best known work as Amorphous Androgynous--even Oasis's Noel Gallagher is a fan, claiming "life has never been the same since" Volume 1.
The Third Ear mostly follows the same blueprint as its predecessors, comprising two discs that are as heady as they are eclectic. Selections include tracks from electronic pioneer Bruce Haack, krautrock outfit Amon Duul II and English rock group The Moody Blues ("Thinking is the best way to travel"), plus some original material from Dougan and Cobain themselves. Fittingly, each disc kicks off with a narration from Timothy Leary.
In the tracklist:
Italian genius, maestro Ennio Morricone, song "Gli scatenati" (=the unleashed), next month he's in Milan again, see here (@ Forum where Oasis performed their main Milan gigs - a film with Morricone music, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, western spaghetti by Leone, was on Oasis first album image.
again Italian, Corte dei Miracoli - "E verrà l'uomo" (=and the man will come)
Paul Weller - "Like water needs a flower"
again my famous butterfly...
Oasis - Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix part 3 and 4)
Paul Weller - Part 1 Aim High (Aim Higher) - The Amorphous Androgynous Remix - Caheso
The Moody Blues, Thinking is the best way to travel
Gli scatenati
E verrà l'uomo, purely Italian progressive rock at its best
MILAN - 37 days to the decision for the World Cup.
The old version of football was invented in Italy but England gave modern rules to it.
vote for my photo! we can win 2 British Airways tickets to go anywhere in the world
(you have to "like" the page on Facebook)
we are already 1st !!
If you vote, you could also win some England clothes
former Milan's David Beckham, Sergio Pizzorno (Italian origins) and Noel Gallagher back the bid: “Playing concerts in England, and in particular at Wembley, is always an amazing feeling with the fans that come to watch us creating an electric atmosphere. The buzz the nation would create if we were to host the World Cup in 2018 would be incredible – England lives and breathes football, from professional level through to guys going out for a kick about with their mates and kids in the playground.
I’m proud to be supporting the England 2018 campaign and would encourage the entire nation to get behind it as well.”
aliens on holidays in Yorkshire. Liam: I believe in aliens, I'm not fightened
ROTHERHAM - Do you remember a few time ago Alan saying he saw a UFO, and how he was devastated by the experience. Now he spends a lot of time on his own, but knows we're not alone in the universe... creepy.
Here's the place of the English referee Webb :), Rotherham. In fact, he looks like an alien.
Liam: "Do I believe in aliens? 'Course I do. I'm not frightened by them, though, I'm as smart as them. Probably thick as fuck, aren't they? ... I'd do they heads in, me, frighten the life out of them! That's why they haven't landed yet".
A UFO hovers over rooftops - leaving locals believing aliens travelled across the universe to check out their lives in Rotherham.
Baffled residents helplessly shouted at the triangular craft as it crept above the South Yorkshire town.
Eerily it looks just like an object spotted over Belgium in 1990 - which so spooked authorities that F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept it.
Nayab Ahmed, 19 - whose pal Anny Cummings, 18, took the snap - said: "It moved really slowly but occasionally it'd shudder. It was completely silent."
Another witness said: "I don't believe in aliens, but what else could it be?"
Nick Pope, ex-head of the Ministry of Defence's UFO unit, said: "Some might suspect secret prototype aircraft and drones, but we test such craft in restricted military areas, not built-up places."
right: "50 years of UFO encounters" (1995, by Jenny Randales) on the floor. Rumours say Noel is an alien.
MILAN - We're all happy with Marco giving us news and rarities about Oasis, Milan, England, Italy and everything.
But people who hate Oasis or Milan or England or Italy or whatever, sometimes say he makes mistakes writing English language. Just a detail: they can't speak one word of all the languages he can speak (that's why his nickname is Salamander, for his long tongue).
And he makes mistakes not because he's drunk ^_^ or tired, or because speaking other languages during the day. He really needs a teacher :D, needs to learn everything, we gotta start from the basics, lol!
It's some time we're only looking at musicians and football players... from the man's point of view: are we gay?! no way! :)
So here is again some English beauties striptease (not nude) from Talksport IQ quizzes featuring a 'different' Noel Gallagher :)
post scriptum:
also needed teachers of other languages, we gotta open our mind ^_^, without being racist but mix the races and use our tongues :PPPPPP
Saoirse
Stacey (another one)
Carianne
more to come ^_^
oasisblues's videos on Dailymotion
LONDON - Noel Gallagher didn't become a Bizarre Lord for nothing.
The Oasis star not only put out some great music, but became well known for being a bit of a caner - to put it mildly.
But, like everyone, Noel has grown up, settled down and got himself a wife and kids.
And, while one of the quietest Q Awards so far was going on, Noel mirrored the event's sober atmosphere with a visit to a supermarket.
Noel looked cool as a cucumber as he waited patiently in the checkout queue.
But the Manc lad still had that rock star look about him as he pushed his trolley around the aisles.
I bet he picked up food, Cigarettes and Alcohol...
Mr & Mrs Brand's Hindu times: you're my sunshine, you're my rain
JAIPUR - Comedy wild man Russell Brand and his pop star bride this time not Fred :) but Katy Perry tied the knot in India yesterday.
Their friend Oasis' Noel Gallagher is reported to have attended the ceremony, he reportedly arrived in a blacked out Limousine.
The Brit film star and US singer wed in a traditional Hindu wedding in the middle of a tiger reserve.
The backdrop for the nuptials was a luxury resort and it was presided over by a friend of the bride's family while the couple both wore traditional Indian dress.
The wedding procession included 21 camels, elephants and horses according to reports.
A spokesman for the couple said: "Russell Brand and Katy Perry are overjoyed to confirm that they were pronounced Mr and Mrs Brand on October 23.
"The very private and spiritual ceremony, attended by the couple's closest family and friends, was performed by a Christian minister."
The ceremony went ahead as planned despite Brand's fears he was going to be hauled in for questioning by local cops.
It came after his minders had a furious bust up with photographers trailing his pre-wedding safari adventure with comic pal David Baddiel in Ranthambore National Park.
Brand, 35, was said to be close to tears last night as he was worried he could be called in on his big day.
Fortunately it wasn't necessary.
Katy, 25, and her new hubby had been protected by a small army of private security guards at the Aman-e-Khas wildlife retreat and other nearby hotels where guests were staying.
The celebration of their long-awaited union is set to continue for SIX days.
Colourful lights lit up the the trees and flower garlands were strewn about the luxury tents.
Perry wore a sari for the occasion and in a pre-wedding treat of her own she had henna designs applied to her hands yesterday.
Local official Ravi Kumar said a four-member committee had been set up to make sure the party didn't get out of hand - as they did not want the wildlife in India's Rajasthan state being disturbed.
Brand had proposed to Perry in India on New Year's Eve in the historic city of Jaipur.
featuring Italian mod Vespa :)
MILAN - The origins of Beady Eye :). Gem on lead guitar.
The first concert in Oasis history without Noel (since Noel joined the band, apart from the Rain), another strange coincidence, always in Milan as the last one had to be.
The band enters at minute 2:27 ("no-one's dead" :) You can hear Liam announcing Don't look back in anger :), but then it's Gas panic. Gem solo from 5:42.
In Barcelona Alan White had problems with his arm, so they had to cancel the gig and all the french concerts (so Oasis argued before french gigs, not Milan as some people say). They spent the night drinking, the brothers had a fight and Liam made a comment about Meg, Noel's former wife, doubting Anais was really Noel's daughter, lol. Noel left the band (as in 1994 and 2009...) and in those days was in Ibiza where he met Sara...
At Milan Forum there was another guitarist, Matt Deighton, and it was the first time live in Italy for Gem and Andy. Gem was the lead guitar in the place of Noel, Matt the rhythm guitar.
In Acquiesce (dedicated to Our Kid) Liam let the crowd sing the Noel's parts.
Special guest was one of Johnny Marr's (The Smiths) bands, The Healers (with ex Oasis' Zak Starkey).
I added 2 audio videos to the previous posts, Vicenza gig and Lucca gig, with Go let it out, Better Man stopped by Liam, and She's electric x2.
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National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO)
By Michael J. Suralik, and Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | January 29, 2019
An immunization information system (IIS) aggregates immunization information for children (and some adults) living or receiving immunization services in a jurisdiction. One of the core components of an IIS is its immunization evaluation and forecasting system: the computerized algorithm that is used to determine if vaccine doses that were administered to the patient are clinically valid (evaluation) and to project what doses are due now and in the future (forecasting). These algorithms are used to support clinical decision support (CDS) at the point of care and also to help public health agencies understand and manage the immunization status of whole populations.
HLN Releases New Version of Open Source Immunization Forecaster
Press Release | HLN Consulting | August 2, 2017
HLN Consulting has released a new version of the award winning Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). ICE is a service-oriented, standards-based immunization forecasting software system that evaluates a patient's immunization history and generates the appropriate immunization recommendations. ICE can be used in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems. The release includes changes to the rules for several vaccine series, including Polio, Meningococcal ACWY, and Influenza.
HLN's Open Source Immunization Forecaster Receives 2017 Upshot Award
Press Release | HLN Consulting | June 12, 2017
On June 6, 2017, HLN was awarded the 2017 Upshot Award for Excellence in Vaccine Supply, Access, and Use by the US Department of Health and Human Services National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) for its ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster. In the letter of award, Dr. Jewel Mullen, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health commented that, "HLN Consulting's efforts on the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) are impressive. This powerful tool-including its open-source nature and seamless integration into clinical workflows-holds great promise for improving clinical decision-support and ultimately vaccination rates. Thank you for daring to innovate, collaborate, and lead in an area that is not only complex, but constantly evolving."
ONC Selects Noam Arzt to serve on the ONC Trusted Exchange Framework Task Force
Press Release | HLN Consulting | February 19, 2018
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has selected Dr. Noam H. Arzt, President of HLN Consulting (HLN), as a member of the Trusted Exchange Framework Task Force. This group of healthcare and health information technology specialists will advise ONC on various aspects of the Draft Trusted Exchange Framework. This framework outlines a common set of principles for trusted exchange of health information records and minimum terms and conditions for trusted exchange as directed by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act.
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Frances Goodman on Contemporary Art, Acrylic Nails, and Feminism
Frances Goodman is one of my all-time favorite artists. There's just something about her intense and unabashedly feminine artwork that leaves me feeling empowered and fuzzy inside. Frances has a new collection of work at Richard Taittinger Gallery, on view through December 23. Titled Beneath Her, Frances's latest solo show is all about what's underneath. When I spoke to Frances at the opening (she's amazing by the way), she described to me the intense process behind each and every detailed work, as well as her migration to the color red from pink (keep reading, she tells you about it here too!). Frances agreed to a digital interview after returning to South Africa, and our conversation is what follows.
Sarah Sickles for Pink Things: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? Some background info about who you are and how you got into art?
Frances Goodman: I’m an artist living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. I always wanted to be an artist, even as a young child it was the only thing I ever dreamt of doing. Luckily, my family has always been very supportive of my adamant dream and, as it’s the only thing I think I was meant to do, I did everything in my power to make it happen.
Pink Things: Can you tell me about your fascination with acrylic nails? Why use acrylic nails as a sculpture medium? How do they inform your practice?
Frances Goodman: I am fascinated with acrylic nails as they refer to both the abject and the aesthetic. They are alluring but repulsive, strong but brittle, sexy but dangerous. I like to use them in both a painterly and sculptural way; when I lay them down side by side, they become so slick and seductive — they allude to scales, liquid, and armor. I keep being surprised by what I can do to them, how they can be transformed. It reminds me of our constantly shifting notions of the feminine and femininity and that’s what draws me to them.
Pink Things: Can you tell me a little bit about how pink plays a role in your work, conceptually or otherwise?
Frances Goodman: When I was growing up in the late 80’s, there was a specific fierce, feminine pink that was the craze in posters and makeup that I loved. I find myself working with this pink and shades thereof over and over again in my work. Perhaps it’s nostalgia, or maybe that pink coincided with my feminine and feminist awakening and that’s why I use it. But ultimately pink alludes to the body — rosy cheeks, the inside of the mouth and tongue, the nipple, the labia, and even the vagina; and as my work is all about femininity and the female body, it seems like an apt color to work with.
Pink Things: When we spoke you mentioned that you were moving on to red as well. What inspired that migration of color?
Frances Goodman: For me, pink always refers to the external body, the parts I mentioned above. Red makes me think of beneath the surface: the blood, flesh, sinew, and muscle we are made up of. My current exhibition Beneath Her is about the surface and what lies beneath; how we rework and manipulate the body in order to perfect the surface. So it made complete sense to predominately use red for this.
There is another reason too — I always work with nail colors that are trending at the time of production and I saw that when I put all the popular colors together they became the bloody reds you see in the new works. I love the fact that these individually pop and vibrant colors become so much more ominous and abject when put together en masse. It makes me think of the femininity I am trying to explore — one that is complex, assertive, and dangerous.
Pink Things: My favorite piece in your latest show, Beneath Her, at Richard Taittinger Gallery is the massive woven piece, Comforter. Can you tell me about the inspiration for that piece and how it came to exist?
Frances Goodman: I’m also very excited about this installation, as it’s the first time I’ve worked with wool and crochet so it was a real challenge to work with a new material on such a grand scale. Luckily my assistant, Jacky, is a crochet expert and together we worked out, piece-by-piece, how to make the monster that is Comforter.
For the exhibition Beneath Her I chose to work with an array of historical crafting techniques such as quilting, crochet, and embroidery to explore the motifs of the surface and what lies beneath. However, I wanted to take these traditionally homely and domestic pastimes and, in keeping with historical and present feminist craft art practices, subvert them.
When I think of crochet and knitting I always think of warm, wooly blankets made by grannies. I also think of women, with too much time on their hands, sitting together in knitting circles. The title “Comforter” of course refers to a blanket, but it’s also a play on words — it could be “comfort her” if said a little differently. Blankets are comforting, the pastimes of knitting and crocheting are also comforting, and perhaps the womb-like space could also be comforting. I decided to make a giant, comforting blanket that becomes something ominous and overwhelming, that consumes and subsumes the viewer: a labor-of-love that becomes an obsession.
Pink Things: Do you have a relationship with feminism? Could you tell me about it?
Frances Goodman: I don’t think of it as a relationship: I contend that feminism is a non-negotiable political stance I have to take in the current and historical climate where equality is a pipedream. I find myself feeling constantly angry and frustrated by how women are treated, represented, paid, and abused, and this is what motivates a lot of my work and practice.
Pink Things: What about the feminine? I feel so much “girl power”, for lack of a better term, radiating from you work. Can you tell me about how your relationship with the feminine impacts your work? What is your interest in it?
Frances Goodman: I am interested in the feminine as there is constant debate around femininity being a gender construct or an inherent female trait. We, as women, are bombarded with images of acceptable femininity and taught that we need to desire and aspire to certain ideals and aesthetics in order to be seen as normal, beautiful, and successful. As soon as we start challenging or pushing back against these norms we become unruly, strange, and disgusting. I am interested in how possible it really is to escape from this indoctrination, if it is that. And if it’s really possible to find the essential female self and what that would be or look like.
Pink Things: Lets talk about those AMAZING sequined paintings. Why sequins? And why the subject matter?
Frances Goodman: There are a number of reasons why I work with sequins. I am always drawn to things that sparkle, that have an element of kitsch to them, and what is more glitzy and glamorous and garish than sequins? I also work with things that women use to adorn themselves with, and sequins are a wonderful example of this. Sequins are also the epitome of the surface and our obsession therewith.
I decided to make ‘paintings’ with sequins as they allow me the possibility to work up great detail with their beautiful array of colors. However, their reflective and refractory nature makes it difficult to view the images as a whole. As you move about a room the image is continually changing; areas of the painting come into focus whilst others dissolve. They’re like a mirage — constantly unattainable.
As for the subject matter: I originally started working with found images of women in films, but very quickly decided that I should take the photographs myself in order to direct the poses and settings. I photograph women I know or are known to me in a cinematic way, in order to speak of the way women are framed, stereotyped, and idealized through film. Actresses and models have become icons for everyday women, representing the unattainable perfection we are continuously and unsuccessfully seeking.
Pink Things: How is Beneath Her a deviation from your previous show at Richard Taittinger? How do you think you’ve grown these past couple of years as an artist and what has informed that growth?
Frances Goodman: My previous exhibition at Richard Taittinger was an overview of my practice from the last few years. The works on this exhibition were produced specifically for the exhibition and I made all of the pieces in conversation with each other. I planned the exhibition to be experiential — you enter on the ‘inside’ (the nail sculptures and paintings) and move through the Comforter into/onto the surface (the sequin paintings).
Hopefully one is always growing as an artist, each piece informs the next and one learns from ones mistakes and successes. My hope is that all my works almost act as chapters in one book; they’re all essential for the book to make sense as a whole.
Pink Things: I LOVE the clit-looking pieces. They’re so attractive, but almost menacing. Can you talk to me about how sexuality influences you, or any comments that you have on the matter, since it’s so heavily for debate as of late?
Frances Goodman: Sex and nudity are the tools used by many industries to seduce us into buying their products and ethos. What interests me is the polemic that is presented to women — we need to be sexy and seductive in order to be desired, but we need to be chastened and de-sexualised in order to be taken seriously. Why is that? I choose to work with sexuality and nudity, firstly, because the only way to reclaim power is to own it yourself, but secondly, because working with them directly brings to the forefront the problematics of representation and challenges one to question the intent behind the use of such images.
Pink Things: What’s next for Frances Goodman?
Frances Goodman: I need to take a trip down the beauty isle soon in order to come up with some new ideas, but right now I am continuing to work with the new themes I explored in my New York exhibition as I am sure there is still a lot of ground to cover.
Frances Goodman is a South African artist. Beneath Her is on view at Richard Taittinger Gallery through December 23. You can take a virtual tour here.
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This interview was conducted via email.
Images by Sarah Sickles of Frances Goodman's Beneath Her opening at Richard Taittinger Gallery.
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February 26 - March 4, 2017: Issue 302
Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop - A Copy Bought From The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop, London circa 1892
This 1953 edition of Charles's Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop was purchased from the shop of the same name in 1957. It has some value due to its being bought from the place which changed its name to captilise on the novel released, in book form, in 1842. Due to its origin collectors value it more than similar editions not bought from this shop. The inside has an insert stating it was 'Purchased at the Old Curiosity Shop' as does the certificate tucked inside.
Of course this is nothing compared to the prices First Editions, verifiable ones, Mr. Dicken's works will command - a recent offer of this same work for sale beginning in one version at one hundred thousand and another's asking price being close to a quarter of a million dollars Australian.
Situated at 13-14 Portsmouth street, in Holborn London, an area and shop Dickens is said to have frequented and visited, including this shop prior to its name change, the modest timber-framed building would have long since been demolished if not for its literary fame and association.
Those who know state the structure was built in 1567 with wood from old sailing ships, was a dairy in King Charles II reign on an estate given to one of his mistresses, was a waste paper merchant in the Victorian era until around 1900, an Antique shop and since 1992 an upmarket shoe shop. The 'shop' has survived the Great Fire of 1666, The Blitz of WWII and the all too modern developers and is now protected under a heritage preservation order.
Today it is a minute's walk from the Royal Opera House, The Lyceum Theatre, Duchess Theatre and New London Theatre, among other places of note.
Our copy, bought by a family member and handed on, also illustrates how many fans Mr. Dickens has through succeeding generations and how often people will walk the streets of London trying to find and dwell in the places described throughout his wonderful stories.
In fact books have been written for people who wish to visit and explore where the author once trod as p[art of their modern-day 'tour' and even a Dickens Museum that has opened at 48 Doughty St, London, another former residence of Mr. Dickens, where he is said to have resided from a few months prior to Queen Victoria ascending the throne in 1837.
Here Charles wrote Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby and where he and wife Catherine were blessed with the first three of ten children!
In December, 1839, Charles Dickens moved into 1 Devonshire Terrace, near Regent's Park, London, on which he had a twelve year lease. It was here the tale of Little Nell and her grandfather was written.
1 Devonshire Terrace
The Old Curiosity Shop was the fourth novel of Charles Dickens. The novel was published in installments in his periodical “Master Humphrey’s Clock”, the first installment being printed in April of 1840 and the last in February of 1841. The story was so popualr some artciles record that New York readers stormed the wharf when the steamer carrying the final installment arrived to find out the fate of 'poor Nell'.
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, an attractive and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen" who is an orphan, and lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, but Nell lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write.
Obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards. His nocturnal games are a secret to Nell, but he borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end Nell's grandfather gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars.
Convinced that the old man has stored up a large and prosperous fortune for Nell, her wastrel older brother, Frederick, convinces the good-natured but easily led Dick Swiveller to help him track Nell down, so that Swiveller can marry Nell and share her supposed inheritance with Frederick. They join forces with Quilp, who knows full well that there is no fortune, but sadistically chooses to 'help' them to enjoy the misery it will inflict on all concerned.
Quilp begins to try to track Nell down, but the fugitives are not easily discovered. To keep Dick Swiveller under his eye, Quilp arranges for him to be taken as a clerk by Quilp's lawyer, Mr. Brass. At the Brass firm, Dick befriends the mistreated maidservant and nicknames her 'the Marchioness'. Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a far-off village (identified by Dickens as Tong, Shropshire), but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health.
Running alongside these happenings is what is happening to Kit. He, having lost his job at the curiosity shop, has found new employment with the kind Mr and Mrs Garland. Here he is contacted by a mysterious 'single gentleman' who is looking for news of Nell and her grandfather. The 'single gentleman' and Kit's mother go after them unsuccessfully, and encounter Quilp, who is also hunting for the runaways. Quilp forms a grudge against Kit and has him framed as a thief. Kit is sentenced to transportation. However, Dick Swiveller proves Kit's innocence with the help of his friend the Marchioness. Quilp is hunted down and dies trying to escape his pursuers. At the same time, a coincidence leads Mr Garland to knowledge of Nell's whereabouts, and he, Kit, and the single gentleman (who turns out to be the younger brother of Nell's grandfather) go to find her. Sadly, by the time they arrive, Nell has died as a result of her arduous journey. Her grandfather, already mentally infirm, refuses to admit she is dead and sits every day by her grave waiting for her to come back until, a few months later, he dies himself.
Like all writers whose works stand the test of time, The Old Curiosity Shop's characters had souls to their author and were influenced by and hold small threads of what he was experiencing; some records state that as he was writing it he felt as though he were experiencing the death of one of his children. It also brought back painful memories of the death of his sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth.
Charles Dickens, his wife, and her sister - from Charles Dickens by G.K. CHESTERTON AND F.G. KITTON, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. First published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1903 Digitised and available online HERE
The original of this pencil drawing by Daniel Maclise, R.A. which was executed in 1843, a few years after the marriage of Dickens, is now in the South Kensington Museum. It was engraved by C. H. Jeens and dated by error 1842. "Never did a touch so light carry with it more truth of observation," wrote Forster. "The likenesses of all are excellent...Nothing ever done of Dickens himself has conveyed more vividly his look and bearing at this yet youthful time. He is in his most pleasing aspect; flattered if you will; but nothing that is known to me gives a general impression so lifelike and true of the then frank, eager, handsome face."
In 1837 Mary Hogarth, then a pretty seventeen year old, resided with her sister Catherine and Catherine’s husband, Charles Dickens. Mary was a favorite with the couple and like a little sister to Charles.
On the evening of May 6th Mary went with the couple to the St. James Theatre. The group returned late in the evening and Mary retired for the night. Shortly after that she was found to be ill, and despite her doctor’s care, passed away in Dickens’s arms on May 7th.
He had her tombstone inscribed with these words, “Young, beautiful, and good, God in his mercy numbered her with His angels at the early age of seventeen.” Dickens wrote to his friend, John Forster, about Little Nell’s death, “Old wounds bleed afresh when I think of this sad story.”
Australia has a lasting connection with Dickens of course. Two of his sons 'transported' themselves here to become permanent Australians - Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, born at 1 Devonshire Terrace (1845-1912) who left England when 20 and came to Australia. He married the “Belle of Melbourne”, Jessie Devlin. Jessie died in a carriage accident four years later leaving Alfred alone with their two girls. After his father’s death Alfred gave lectures on his father’s life and work.
Here also became home to Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852-1902) – nicknamed 'Plorn' who left England to join his brother Alfred in Australia in 1868. Edward became a Member of Parliament in New South Wales.
Many records state Charles, their father, encouraged them to migrate here as he saw Australia as a 'land of opportunity'.
As with all old books, First Editions or those bought at places that add sentimental or financial value to the work, certificates, conferring with those whose field of expertise this is should you be looking to collect something for an investment, or doing lots and lots of research will stop you being the prey of the unscrupulous who were there in ancient Rome and the BC times of Egypt, and feature throughout many a Dicken's novel as surely as they lurk to refute the bounds of good taste and good conduct even today.
Ours, of course, is something that will be passed to another generation, along with the wonderful anecdotes that accompany the day one of us visited this shop and bought this book...
For those who have never read or do not have a copy of this wonderful dickens work, you may read it online as it has been digitised by the good people of the Project Gutenberg as a readable illustrated file HERE and by the The University of Adelaide as an Ebook etc. now available for all HERE
The Old Curiosity Shop London photo by and courtesy of George Johnson, taken in 2015
Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop - A Copy Bought From The Old Curiosity Shop by A J Guesdon, 2016.
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Help from social services
Rural England
Compared to urban
Rural/urban ratios
Slightly fewer older people receive help from social services to live at home in rural authorities than in urban authorities but the difference is not substantial.
See the UK indicator on help to live at home.
Graph 1: Compared to urban
Rural/urban ratios (urban = 10)
On most poverty and social exclusion indicators, rural areas have ‘better scores’ than urban areas. The purpose of the table below is to differentiate between those subjects where rural areas are ‘a bit better’ and those where rural areas are ‘a lot better’. It does so by presenting the rural statistics for the indicator as a proportion of the urban statistics. So, for example, a rural ‘score’ of 6 in the table below means that the rural statistic is around 60% of its urban equivalent.
'Mostly rural' authorities
''Part rural' authorities
The graphs
The graph shows the number of people aged 75 and over being helped to live at home at the end of the financial year (March). The data is expressed per 1,000 population aged 75 and over.
Unlike most of the other indicators, this indicator is not a measure of need and should not be taken as a proxy for levels of older people’s health or family-support. Rather, it is an indicator of the level of social services departments’ provision.
Level of the data
Upper tier local authorities. Both the classification rules and their results by local authority can be found on the page on rural/urban classification systems. Note that there is no official government rural/urban classification system for upper tier local authorities but that the one used here has been designed to be consistent with the DEFRA 2009 classification system for lower tier local authorities.
PS2 statistics from the NHS Information Centre, with the day being obtained via the National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service (NASCIS). Note that the data is a snapshot of those receiving services at the end of the financial year rather than all those who have received services at some time during the year.
See Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Social care in rural areas.
Type of authority
Per 1,000 people aged 75 and over
'Part rural' authorities
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Rediscovering the winning formula- Infosys bets on Sikka+UBP combo.
by Sudhaon 12 June 2014in Strategy No comment
So, the rumors were laid to rest as Infosys today announced that Vishal Sikka is indeed the next CEO. An unusual and interesting choice, to say the least, Sikka could however be just what the doctor ordered for the ‘ailing’ company. One has to say that Infosys (and team Murthy) has done itself proud by choosing a person of such standing and technical capability as its first non-founder CEO. With the founder-rotation policy running into rough weather, and the company’s image taking a severe beating, hiring a person of such impeccable credentials is quite a master-stroke.
While some may argue that Sikka does not have the services business experience, I think this is not such a difficult thing to understand. At its core, the Infosys business model is really quite straight forward and Sikka with his vast experience in a successful global corporation should not find it all that difficult to wrap his head around. Also, as Sikka has himself said, the distinction between products and services is blurring.
Sikka can spread a culture of technology innovation in Infosys, at a time when the IT outsourcing industry is searching for the next big business lever. We must not forget how Sikka spearheaded HANA and made it a revenue spinner for SAP. HANA was SAP’s first big and successful innovation in a long time. His induction can also be a big boost for InfosysEdge, the products and platform spin-off, on which the company is betting for the future.
Second, it could also lift sagging employee morale, aggravated by continued adverse media coverage. The incumbent CEO’s reputation could have a positive impact on employees who could feel encouraged that a person of such stature has reposed confidence in the company.
Third, Sikka can leverage his contacts built during his SAP days to further Infosys’ business interest.
Importantly, I believe that the Sikka-Pravin model is really complementary and could be a winner. The outsider with the fresh perspective can bank on the veteran Pravin’s deep knowledge of the company, culture, delivery model and capabilities. Sikka the visionary will find an able partner in Pravin the tactician who comes with an excellent record at Infosys. Sikka and Pravin have both experienced turbulent times (the former at a personal level at SAP before his exit). Together they should have the resilience to overcome the challenges and bad press and pave the way for a brighter future for the company.
All this said though the challenges Infosys faces are real. The euphoria over the new appointment will fade soon and only real results will count. The recent exodus of senior leadership will have some impact, as I am sure the company would have been sorry to see a few of them leave.
Lack of leadership was often cited as reason for the gradual fall from glory, post the Murthy-Nilekani era. Now, that has been sorted out. If this move works, the next 2-3 years can redefine the company. As a former employee who has participated in the most exciting period of the company’s growth and rise to fame, and as a keen industry watcher, I am quite optimistic that Infosys will, on the back of the cleanup act of Mr Murthy, rediscover its winning ways soon.
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Hello, reader peoples! Here I’ve compiled some questions I get asked…wait for it…frequently!
• There’s Something About Sweetie •
• Of Curses And Kisses •
• Make Up Break Up •
• From Twinkle, with Love •
• When Dimple Met Rishi •
• Anything and Everything •
• Writing! •
There’s Something About Sweetie
Is There’s Something About Sweetie a sequel to When Dimple Met Rishi?
It’s a companion novel, which means it’s set in the same exact universe but follows different main characters (Rishi’s little brother, Ashish, whom we all know and love, and Sweetie, a new character you haven’t met yet!). Sweetie’s one of my favorite characters I’ve ever written, and I can’t wait for you to meet her! Dimple, Rishi, and Celia all have cameos, too. 🙂
Do I need to have read When Dimple Met Rishi to read There’s Something About Sweetie?
Absolutely not! Although they are companion novels set in the same universe, you can read either book first and still totally get the story. Enjoy!
Where can I buy There’s Something About Sweetie?
Buy in the US: Indiebound | Amazon | B&N
Buy internationally: Check out my books page for country-specific information!
What is There’s Something About Sweetie about?
Ashish Patel didn’t know love could be so…sucky. After he’s dumped by his ex-girlfriend, his mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up.
The Patels insist that Ashish date an Indian-American girl—under contract. Per subclause 1(a), he’ll be taking his date on “fun” excursions like visiting the Hindu temple and his eccentric Gita Auntie. Kill him now. How is this ever going to work?
Sweetie Nair is many things: a formidable track athlete who can outrun most people in California, a loyal friend, a shower-singing champion. Oh, and she’s also fat. To Sweetie’s traditional parents, this last detail is the kiss of death.
Sweetie loves her parents, but she’s so tired of being told she’s lacking because she’s fat. She decides it’s time to kick off the Sassy Sweetie Project, where she’ll show the world (and herself) what she’s really made of.
Ashish and Sweetie both have something to prove. But with each date they realize there’s an unexpected magic growing between them. Can they find their true selves without losing each other?
Of Curses And Kisses
What’s Of Curses and Kisses about?
Of Curses and Kisses has modern-day royals, an elite boarding school, and a sprinkling of Beauty and the Beast! The story follows an Indian princess, Jaya Rao, who enrolls at St. Rosetta’s Academy just outside of Aspen, Colorado, to con a misanthropic British aristocrat named Grey Emerson into falling in love with her so she can break his heart. The Raos and the Emersons have been feuding for a long time, and Jaya wants to exact revenge for all the wrongs the Emersons have committed against her family. There’s no outright magic in Of Curses and Kisses, but you’ll be left wondering what, if anything, an ancient curse has to do with a rose-shaped ruby pendant…
Is the St. Rosetta’s Academy series contemporary or fantasy?
It’s definitely contemporary, and pretty different from my summer romantic comedies. The St. Rosetta’s Academy series is for readers of older YA, with lots of intrigue, drama, and a glamorous vibe I absolutely adore! Of course, it also has plenty of heart and delightful sibling relationships and friendships!
What fairy tales does each book in the St. Rosetta’s Academy series follow?
I’m still working on plotting each book in the series, so stay tuned! I do know that the first book, Of Curses and Kisses, will be a spin-off on Beauty and the Beast. I’m also playing around with a lot of the classic Disney fairy tales for the rest of the books–The Frog Prince, Cinderella, Snow White, etc.!
Where is St. Rosetta’s International Academy located?
St. Rosetta’s International Academy (or St. R’s for short) is located in the fictional town of St. Rosetta, right outside Aspen, Colorado. It’s a place bordered by mountains and towering pine trees, and steeped in secrets and intrigue!
When will Of Curses and Kisses be out?
Release day is currently planned for February 2020. Watch my website and social media for more specific dates, coming soon!
Where can I order Of Curses and Kisses?
In the US, you can preorder at: Amazon | B&N | Indie bookstores. For foreign editions, please keep an eye on my books page!
Make Up Break Up
What’s Make Up Break Up about?
Make Up Break Up is about an Indian-American entrepreneur, Anika Dev, whose classic matchmaking business goes head-to-head against a much more successful company run by her arrogantly handsome business rival, Hudson Craft. While Anika’s business is focused on bringing lovers together and giving them their happily-ever-afters, Hudson’s has been dubbed the “Uber for breakups.” A more detailed synopsis will be available closer to the release date!
Is Make Up Break Up YA?
Make Up Break Up is actually my adult debut, though it’s considered crossover fiction, which means it will appeal to readers of YA! It has all the heart and humor of my YA books, and I’m super excited for you guys to read it!
When does Make Up Break Up come out?
Release day is tentatively planned for June 2021. Stay tuned for more specific dates as we get closer!
Where can I order Make Up Break Up?
I’ll update my website with pre-order links when I have them, but for now, you can add it to your TBR shelf on Goodreads here!
From Twinkle, With Love
Is From Twinkle, with Love a sequel to When Dimple Met Rishi?
From Twinkle, with Love is a standalone rom-com, BUT it’s what I like to call a “spiritual successor” to When Dimple Met Rishi! It’s got the same heart, humor, and adorkable characters and cringey-cute romantic situations (not to mention tons of girl power!) as When Dimple Met Rishi.
There’s Something About Sweetie, on the other hand, is a companion novel to When Dimple Met Rishi and is out now!
Buy Sweetie in the US: Indiebound | Amazon | B&N
Buy Sweetie internationally: Go to my books page to find your links!
Where can I buy From Twinkle, with Love?
Indiebound | Amazon | B&N
What is From Twinkle, with Love about?
I wrote the following description just for you! (Not really, I stole it off the back of the book. But it’s 100% accurate!)
Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. So when fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, Twinkle is all over it. The chance to publicly showcase her voice as a director? Dream come true. The fact that it gets her closer to her longtime crush, Neil Roy—a.k.a. Sahil’s twin brother? Dream come true x 2.
When mystery man “N” begins emailing her, Twinkle is sure it’s Neil, finally ready to begin their happily-ever-after. The only slightly inconvenient problem is that, in the course of movie-making, she’s fallen madly in love with the irresistibly adorkable Sahil.Twinkle soon realizes that resistance is futile: The romance she’s got is not the one she’s scripted. But will it be enough?
Told through the letters Twinkle writes to her favorite female filmmakers, From Twinkle, with Love navigates big truths about friendship, family, and the unexpected places love can find you.
When Dimple Met Rishi
Where can I buy When Dimple Met Rishi?
Visit my books page to see where you can buy it.
How do you pronounce Rishi?
Rhymes with “fishy”!
Are you more a Dimple or a Rishi?
I swear this isn’t a cop-out, but I’m both! I’m fiercely feminist like Dimple, which hasn’t always sat well with some of my elderly relatives, and like Rishi, I had to really struggle with art versus practicality! (You can probably guess what side of the coin I fall on that one… ;))
If you want to see whether you’re more a Dimple or a Rishi, check out this short, fun quiz I helped create!
Will there be a sequel to When Dimple Met Rishi?
There’s Something About Sweetie, the companion novel that follows Rishi’s little brother, Ashish is out now! You can buyr it in the US: Indiebound | Amazon | B&N or internationally.
You can also read a new short story sequel to When Dimple Met Rishi called As Kismet Would Have It for free starting April 1st! If you’ve ever wondered, “Will there be wedding bells in Dimple’s and Rishi’s future?” this story is for you! 🙂 You just need to register for a free account here. If you’d prefer an e-copy for your e-reader, you can get it for $0.99 on Amazon or B&N!
Will you write a story where Dimple and Rishi get married/have kids?
I don’t think that story would count as YA, but not gonna lie, it would be so much fun! I never say never, so…maybe one day? *evil smile*
Why did you write an arranged marriage story?
I think arranged marriage gets a really bad rap in Western society. It’s not at all always a super old dude getting married to a super young bride who’s being used as a pawn by her dad or whatever. In fact, that hasn’t been my experience with it at all–nearly all of my family has gotten married in arranged marriages. So, being a writer, I was like, you know what would be hilarious? An arranged marriage YA rom-com. I mean, why the heck not, right?
Annnnnything and Everything
When does your next book come out?
Of Curses and Kisses (the first in my boarding school-set, fairy tale retelling series!) comes out in February 2020. You can learn more about it here!
In what order should I read your books When Dimple Met Rishi, From Twinkle, with Love, and There’s Something about Sweetie?
You can read those three books in any order you want! From Twinkle, with Love is a standalone novel. And although When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie are companion novels set in the same universe, you don’t have to read them in any particular order to enjoy the story. You might better understand a few inside jokes in There’s Something about Sweetie if you read When Dimple Met Rishi first, but it’s certainly not necessary!
Are you coming to a city near me?
I might be! Check out this page for the most current information. Hope to see you!
You have the best covers!
Hmm, that’s not a question, but who am I to refuse a compliment? So thank you, and yes, I agree! I’m so lucky to have the design team I do.
What are your favorite Bollywood movies?
Oh my gosh, too many to name! But here’s a good list to get you started:
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (considered a classic by many!)
Kapoor and Sons
Krrish
I want to keep up with what you’ve got going on. How can I do that?
Thank you for asking–you’re the cat’s knees and the bee’s pajamas! Wait a minute… Anyway, if you want to stay updated on bookish news, win ARCs, and generally see what shenanigans I’m up to, sign up for my readers’ club here!
Writing!
What advice do you have for aspiring writers?
Know when to give up and when to keep going. If you’re contemplating giving up because writing is hard or the publishing industry is sometimes unfathomable or you’re stacking up that pile of rejections, don’t give up. Keep honing your craft. You WILL get there. On the other hand, if the story you’re working on just isn’t giving you any joy anymore or you feel you’ve outgrown it, there’s no shame in stopping. No one knows your art better than you.
Learn how to finish projects. Start small, say, with a piece of flash fiction (about 500 words). Once you’re able to consistently finish those, move on to short stories, then novellas, and finally, novels. It can be incredibly intimidating to begin writing an 80,000+ word project, and your confidence will be so much higher if you scaffold finishing things for yourself.
Have another passion besides writing. Writing is a very up-and-down business, and it can be really useful to have something else to lose yourself in when things are slow or hard or you’re feeling burned out.
Do I need a bachelor’s degree in English or an MFA to write?
Not at all. In fact, I’m really glad I majored in psychology, and not English, in college. It helped me pursue my other passion and also gave me some major insights into the human mind–a vital skill for writers! Life experience and studying things outside of writing will inform your creative life in ways you wouldn’t imagine.
What’s your writing schedule?
I write every weekday between the hours of 9 AM and 3 PM, until I get to 2,000 words. Some days this happens quickly and other days I want to crie (that’s not a misspelling; that’s “cry” and “die” combined). I tend to take a break between 3 and 5 or 6 PM, and then get back to it in the evenings when I’m on deadline.
I hate rushing for deadlines, so I always try to complete projects well in advance of when they’re due. Sometimes, of course, life happens and that’s not possible! But that’s what extensions and generous editors are for.
I want to write marginalized characters outside of my experience. Do you think I should?
This isn’t something I can answer for you, unfortunately. You have to do the research and determine if you’re the right person to tell that story. A good place to begin your research is: https://www.writingdiversely.com/ Good luck!
Why do you write diverse stories?
If you look at the world around you, you’re probably going to see a pretty diverse group of people. A lot of times, we tend to isolate ourselves in little bubbles of people who look like us, think like us, and experience life a lot like we do. But that’s not the truth–at least, not the way I see it. I want to tell stories that are more representative of the beautiful melting pot I live in, and that means people of varying ethnicities, sexualities, and abilities will make it into my stories!
At least one of my heroes/heroines will be Indian-American because that’s my identity, and I want to populate bookstore shelves with main characters I didn’t see very many of growing up. But that doesn’t mean you have to be Indian-American to enjoy my stories, and the amazing reader letters I get every day prove this!
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Kentucky Wildcats Basketball 2018-2019 (The Sky is Falling)
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WVRed
Kentuckian At Heart
Mid Ohio Valley
Haven’t had a thread yet for UK basketball, but it’s not been going good so far.
The Duke loss was embarrassing, and this team is ways away from being a title contender like we thought in the Bahamas.
The recruiting losses by Cal have stung too. Losing Wiseman to Memphis and Carey eliminating Kentucky from his top three. Plus the possibility of Kentucky getting involved with the Ball family is going to really grate at the fanbase.
Originally Posted by savafan
I've read books about sparkling vampires who walk around in the daylight that were written better than a John Fay article.
cumberlandreds
Sterling VA
Re: Kentucky Wildcats Basketball 2018-2019 (The Sky is Falling)
It's a process almost every year. They start real slow on defense and except for 2013 it has always come around to be good by the end of the season. I thought they played better today. At least better intensity up until the last 5 to 7 minutes. But still a log way to go. We will know a lot more after they have gone through Camp Cal.
Reds Fan Since 1971
Warsaw, IN
Originally Posted by cumberlandreds
Does that "process" get old with UK fans?
...and this one belongs to the Reds.
Originally Posted by Assembly Hall
It does with me and I suspect it does with many others. It just gets old having basically a brand new team every year. I like seeing players grow and get better over time. But in this system its nearly a new team every year. Cal has had great success though and you can't argue too much with it.
goreds2 (11-28-2018)
Understand. Let me ask you this, or all UK fans. How successful would Cal be if players went right to the NBA from HS?
Very. He would just change who he recruits.
He won with Marcus Camby and a bunch of players who wouldn’t have played anywhere else. He exploited the one and done and I’m sure he would adjust if the NBA changed again.
I think the problem isn’t that Duke has copied UK in getting the one and dones but that players don’t have to go to a premier program to get to the NBA. Ben Simmons, Markelle Fultz, and DeAndre Ayton went elsewhere and even though two of the three didn’t play in the tournament, they went on to be the first overall pick. This year will likely feature the Dookies but Wiseman will likely be first for Memphis next year.
You can go deeper too. Collin Sexton, Trae Young, Mo Bamba, Michael Porter Jr, Jonathan Isaac, Dennis Smith Jr, Jaylen Brown.
Also, you don’t know who has been taking special deals, as the FBI probe has shown.
Assembly Hall (11-25-2018),cumberlandreds (11-25-2018),dubc47834 (11-24-2018),Revering4Blue (11-24-2018)
He would still be successful. He is a good coach. I think people who watch basketball regularly can see this. He pulls players together for a "team" better than anyone. He has a new cast every year and by the end end he has them play as a cohesive unit. Considering he is coaching a lot of kids who have been spoiled and have many others talking in their ear to them this is a tremendous accomplishment.
A big thing to consider on how good a coach is is how how much their team improves by the end of the season. Every year save one at UK his team has improved and usually substantially.
Assembly Hall (11-26-2018),goreds2 (11-28-2018),Hoosier Red (12-10-2018)
Revering4Blue
Thanks a lot, Bowie Kuhn
Although the " he can recruit, but cannot coach" makes for a major talking point for rival fan-bases, there's simply no logical argument that said narrative is even remotely true. To wit:
- He won a ton of games - with deep NCAA tourney runs - at UMASS with only one Parade All-American: Donta Bright.
- Ditto at Memphis, but with more Parade All-Americans. Came within an eyelash of reaching the final four in '06 against a UCLA team with several future NBA players, and ran into red-hot, loaded Ohio State in a '07 regional final. Memphis has basically been in the dumper since he left.
You simply don't win that many games by merely collecting talented recruits and rolling out the ball in practice.
There are two types of people in this world:
1)Morning people
2)Normal people
cumberlandreds (11-27-2018)
Originally Posted by Revering4Blue
And Larry Brown says hello!!!!! LOL
Ran across this....
https://www.courier-journal.com/stor...rt/2111547002/
Don’t forget the national championship game appearance in 2010.
The season before that I remember watching Kentucky play Memphis in Maui in the consolation round after UK was trounced by UCLA. Kentucky lost by 17 but it wasn’t even that close. What I remember from that game (Tubbys last season) was how much harder Cals players played for him vs how Kentucky played.
Something else I think is lost in everything is the 2015 season. After failing to go 40-0, everything Cal has done and continues to do will unfortunately be compared to that season. They’ve underachieved ever since and Cal hasn’t gotten a top recruit since that class (Towns).
If anyone made a deal with the powers that be for Kentucky to have a down football season and for the football team to beat Florida and have a great overall season, this is the year.
Calipari is not and has never been a good in game coach. Great players have bailed him out before. This game is an example of that.
I know it’s early but I don’t see any signature wins this year. I wouldn’t be shocked if UNC and Kansas win by double digits and also lose at Louisville. Louisville beat the same Seton Hall team that beat Kentucky today.
The only players from this team who should entertain the thought of the NBA are Keldon Johnson and PJ Washington. I don’t even know if PJ is ready.
I saw that Parrish on CBS has them completely out of the "Top 25 and One" today.
They shouldn't be ranked. This just isn't a very good team right now. I think Cal has a lot of good to very good players but no real stars that are going to put a team on their back and take them to wins. I agree with WV I doubt they beat UNC or UL. Kansas is still a ways away but they are unlikely to win that one too. They will make the NCAA's like last year, more than likely, but falter early on. Then we will see another exodus players like usual.
Plenty of season left. We shall see.
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Studies 3 to 5 into the causes of homosexual orientation
More detailed coverage of studies based
on birth order, existing families, & genes.
This topic is continued from an earlier essay
Study 3: Based on fraternal birth order:
In the mid 1990s, researcher Ray Blanchard studied families in which there is a male child with a homosexual orientation. He found that a gay man is more likely to have older brothers than older sisters. He found that the probability that a male child will grow up as a homosexual increases by about 33% for each brother born before he was.
Blanchard suggests that this effect may be caused by an immune response within the mother during pregnancy. 1,2,3 According to the program 60 Minutes, recent studies have shown that this effect only happens among right-handed brothers. 4
Study 4: Based on existing families:
Psychologist Michael Bailey of Northwestern University and Psychiatrist Richard Pillard of Boston University studied the sexual orientation of male siblings raised together since birth. 5 He found that if one was homosexual then the chance of their sibling being homosexual was:
Fifty two percent for their identical twin, who shared 100% of the same genes. This result was essentially identical to the separated identical twin studies described below. It shows that if one identical male twin is gay, then the other twin will probably also be gay -- whether raised in the same family or raised by different families.
Twenty-two percent for their non-identical twin, with whom they share half of their genes.
About 10% for adopted or non-twin brothers with whom they share none to half of the their genes.
This study also points to a very strong genetic factor at the time of conception. This type of study tends to have the same potential for inaccuracy as in the identical twin studies described below. The second twin might not be willing to admit to being homosexual. Alternately, one sibling could be bisexual and identify themselves to the interviewer as a homosexual; the other could also be bisexual and be behaving as a homosexual.
J. M. Bailey, R. C. Pillard and others conducted a similar study of female identical twins raised in the same family, in which one twin identified herself as a lesbian. 6 The results showed that 48% (34 out of 71) of their twins also said that she is homosexual. Again, a very strong genetic component is indicated.
Study 5: Based on direct study of genes:
Dean Hamer, and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute collected family data from the families of 114 gay men. 7 They found out which, if any, of their siblings, parents, cousins, uncles etc. were also gay. They quickly determined that homosexuality runs in families. By itself, these results show nothing about the cause of homosexuality. They might indicate that homosexuality is genetically caused, or might show that it is caused by upbringing, or by some hormonal levels in the womb or some other environmental factor that appears in some family lines more than other.
Further studies showed that "There were increased rates of gay people among family members genetically related to each other even when raised apart in different households." This reinforced the possibility that genetic factors might cause people to become gay. However, these observations were not conclusive; they were merely suggestive.
What proved the genetic nature of "gayness" was a pedigree test. This type of study examines the sexual orientation of the ancestors of many gay adults - both on their father's and mother's side. Some possible results from a pedigree study on Hamer's sample of gay adults would be:
An approximately equal number of gays might be found on the mothers' side of the family, when compared to the fathers' side. Some gays may have many gay ancestors on their mother's side, whereas other gays may see the same effect on their father's side. But when all the results were lumped together, if the total numbers would be about equal, then the results could point to:
"Gayness" being caused by environmental factors, or
"Gayness" being caused by some gene on a chromosome other than the X chromosome.
A much larger number of gays might be found on the mother's side of the family. This would show conclusively that not only was the gene passed genetically, but that it is located somewhere on the X chromosome - since men always get their X chromosome only from their mother. This is called the "maternal effect." It is well known in genetics.
The researchers found that the second result was observed. A gay male from the population that Hamer studied would notice that more of his mother's brothers will be gay than his father's brothers; so too with the various classes of maternal cousins when compared to his paternal cousins. Thus, much male homosexuality is caused by a gene on the X chromosome. Hamer went on to find the approximate location on the chromosome where the gay-causing gene was located. He found that many of his subjects had an identical sequence on the Xq28 region of their X chromosome. This shows the approximate location of the "gay gene." Researchers speculated that a group of interacting genes (including one in this region) might be found to determine sexual orientation in males. This prediction came to pass. The statistical "p" value is a measure of the significance of a test: the probability that it could have happened by chance. P values less than 0.01 (1%) are considered very significant. The Hamer study had a P factor of 0.00001, and so is considered extremely reliable.
The DNA of 36 pairs of lesbian sisters were also studied; no corresponding pattern was found.
The Hamer group's results on gay males must be regarded as tentative:
Dr. Alan Sanders, professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago attempted to replicate the results on 54 sets of gay brothers. He announced at the American Psychiatric Association's annual conference in 1998-JUN that he was unsuccessful. "No [genetic] marker data reached statistically significant criteria." The results of the pedigree test on Sander's subjects is not known.
George Rice's selected subjects from carefully selected families in which the pedigree test was the reverse of Hamer's: gays were found in the father's line, not the mother's line. As expected, the markers that Hamer found were not found by Rice. 8 One might conclude that:
Some gays have many gay ancestors in their mother's line but not in their fathers' line. This was the group from which Hamer drew his subjects. They share genes on their X chromosome that apparently can cause a gay orientation.
Other gays have the reverse pedigree pattern: they have many gay ancestors in their father's line but not their mother's. One would not expect them to have gay-causing genes on their X chromosome. Rice was unable to find any.
More studies are described in the next essay
Matt Ridley, "Nature via nurture: Genes, experience, and what makes us human," HarperCollins, (2003). Page 161. Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store.
R. Blanchard, "Fraternal birth order and the maternal immune hypothesis of male homosexuality," Hormones & Behavior, 2001, 40, Pages 105 to 114.
R. Blanchard & L. Elllis, "Birth weight, sexual orientation, and the sex of preceding siblings," Journal of Biosocial Science, 2001, 33: Pages 451 to 467.
60 Minutes episode, 2006-MAR-12.
Dean Hamer & Peter Copeland "The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene & the Biology of Behavior", Simon & Schuster (1994)
Dean Hamer et al, "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation" Science 261 (1993-JUL-16): pp 321-27.
Mike Haley, "Straight Answers: Exposing the myths and facts about homosexuality," Focus on the Family, Love Won Out series, (2000), Page 9.
Kerby Anderson, "Homosexual Theology," at: http://www.probe.org/docs/homotheo.html
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Gambling On Viral: "Whopper Virgins"
Author: Rich | Posted at: 7:18 AM | Filed Under: advertising, branding, Burger King, case study, McDonald's, perception, publicity
Although the Motrin viral marketing campaign is slowly fading from memory, viral advertising is not. There are plenty of companies willing to play the sometimes high stakes game of pushing marketing as opposed to products with the hope it might go viral.
According to Ad Age, Burger King's "Whopper Virgins" video is slowly going viral, but still slower than the fast food chain had hoped (which might explain the recent public relations support). The "Whopper Virgins" concept was to take the Whopper on a world tour, documentary style, where people who have never seen a hamburger could taste a Big Mac and Whopper.
"Whopper Virgins" is the second viral video that Burger King has attempted. The first, "Whopper Freakout", captured reactions from customers visiting a Burger King without Whoppers. It had limited success. The new video is better conceived, but it comes at a different price. Some people are annoyed by it.
Pushed by Burger King super fans — loyalist customers — "Whopper Virgins" is being seeded on various online video sites. The agency also claims teaser videos prompted a successful start, but based on YouTube counts and comments, it doesn't seem likely. While one teaser had 49,000 views, another only had 300. Some random comments left on the former:
"Lame, arrogant commercial - their website is even worse. It's an embarrassment."
"This video is to exploit indigenous people."
"I don't look at this commercial as offensive at all. I'm glad and proud to see that Hmong people are, probably for the very first time, being featured on mainstream TV."
Cathy Erway, writing for The Huffington Post, summed: "But most of all, you get a classic story of American corporate colonialism, sickly masked in that all-too-proud illusion of goodwill." Caitlin Fitzsimmons, writing for the Guardian, wrote: "It's either a fun and original ad or yet another example of the crass exploitation of the world's indigenous people." And Michael Lebowitz said: "I'm not always the biggest fan of Crispin Porter & Bogusky's work, but what they've been doing for Burger King is impressive."
Good, bad, indifferent?
PRWeek suggests that all buzz is perfectly all right given that using controversial ads can help boost a brand. And in many cases, that is the only intent of viral marketing: create some controversy, get some buzz, and hope that translates into "something" later on. If it doesn't work out, you can always say you're sorry.
So what kind of advertising is likely to go viral? As B.L. Ochman, Ad Age, recently offered up (paraphrased):
• Advertising that is funny, shocking, intriguing, or surprising.
• Ideas that customers can relate to and care about.
• A clear-cut message so people are able to pass it on.
• An easy way to pass it on such as link, embedding code, "share this" button, etc.
• A concept that builds relationships with customers by getting them to interact with others.
The caveat is that viral advertising isn't viral until it's passed on by the public. And, of course, not everyone agrees with on what measurable outcomes make for a viral success.
At the end of the day, someone has to ask if "Whopper Virgins" made people want to eat a Whopper (because it certainly didn't convince anyone that the taste test was authentic). Or, someone might even ask who really won — Burger King or Crispin Porter & Bogusky, the agency that produced it? Hmmm...
Is the new objective of marketing to market the marketing by encouraging super fans to push the marketing creative simply with the hope it goes viral based on, er, online views and perhaps start a controversial conversation? Some people seem to think so.
Rich on 12/11/08, 12:24 PM said...
Russ Klein, Burger King president of global marketing, strategy and innovation, says the company took great care to be in tune with "cultural sensitivities" and to treat those involved with "reverence and respect."
"We didn't just show up with a camera," he says. "We went through a lot of prep work."
As for negative comments, he says, "We also know we can't be pleasing 100% of the people 100% of the time." — USA Today
Barry on 12/12/08, 5:47 AM said...
"Two all beef patties,
special sauce,
lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions
on a sesame seed bun"
Back in the 70's, this little gem of viral marketing helped to put Mcdonalds way out in front of Burger King where it remains today. From the golden arches to the egg mcmuffin Mcdonalds has fed and maintained a marketing juggernaut rivaled, in my opinion, only by Coca Cola.
These two companies seem to have the midas touch of self promotion. I did not even like Big Mac's but I learned and recited the above rhyme to earn a free one and I still remember it 20 years later. Now that is a whopper of an ad campaign. :-)
Ike on 12/12/08, 8:27 AM said...
Barry, that's exactly the point of the ad.
People who think this is an attempt to "exploit" indigenous peoples are missing the point.
Find people who have NOT been exposed to the marketing hype, and who don't know any jingles by heart.
Give them a taste test. And record who wins.
Kudos to BK for actually doing it, and not just simulating it with costumed actors portraying indigenous peoples in a studio.
Rich on 12/12/08, 1:38 PM said...
@Barry,
I really liked the 70s grassroots campaign too. I remember the local MDs giving away an extra Big Mac if you could sing it in less than :20. (Of course, you always won.)
@Ike,
I'm not so convinced its exploitive. Mostly, it's boring. But the blind taste test is silly, given that they weren't carrying MD ovens on their journey.
Stacked.
What's even more telling is that this video didn't go viral until Burger King found a few people who called it controversial ... and then they responded to that dramatically. In other words, the backlash is invented and the media bought it. So it's not the advertisement that is viral ... it seems to be the faux controversy that is driving the interest.
I'm not so sure how I feel about that.
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Golden Temple Amazons (MVD Classics) Blu-ray Review
Released by: MVD Marquee Collection
Released on: September 11th, 2018.
Director: Jess Franco
Cast: Analia Ivars, Antonio Mayans, Stanley Kapoul, Françoise Blanchard, William Berger
Golden Temple Amazons – Movie Review:
Is there a more inconsistent director that Jess Franco? He's made masterpieces such as Venus In Furs, Female Vampire and Vampyros Lesbos and he's made utter dreck like Incubus and this film, Golden Temple Amazons. Now in Franco's defense it's possible that he wasn't responsible for a lot of the post production editing of this film, as that is the case with some of the other less- than-renowned films he made for French production house Eurocine in the 1980s. However, that doesn't change the fact that Golden Temple Amazons doesn't have much to offer except wanton nudity (never a bad thing) and some unintentional hilarity.
The story is basically Tarzan except with an attractive woman playing the lead. When Liana Simpson (Analía Ivars) was a young girl, her missionary parents were killed by a tribe of Amazonian women after her father stole some of the gold out of their temple and wouldn't return it. With both of her parents dead, Liana was raised in the wilds of the jungle by her housekeeper, a native man named Willy. When she reaches adulthood she spends most of her time frolicking in the jungle with elephants and her monkey friend named Rocky, usually without any top on.
One day a friend of her late father's shows up and reads to her from her dear old dad's diary. It's here that Liana finds out the true story of why her parents were murdered. Because of this she decides to set things right in the world and avenge their death by taking on the Amazon warrior women who live just on the other side of the forest. She acquires the aid of a fat magic man named KouKou (Stanley Kapoul), who is basically on hand to provide some very awkward and poorly executed comic relief.
On their way to the Amazonian base, they run into two white folks out on Safari. The man of the pair ends up getting gassed in a cave and, once he's out for the night, he finds himself the victim of an Amazonian kidnapping plot. This adds even more fuel to Liana's fire, and once the female member is also kidnapped, she and KouKou decide that the time to strike is now! Unfortunately for Liana, she's going to have to go up against the one-eyed leader of the Amazonians, a sadistic whip fetsishist and their high priest if she wants to get out of there alive with her friends.
This movie is… pretty awful. While it does provide a whole lot of unintentionally funny moments and is therefore at least entertaining in that way, it's still a pretty terrible film. The props are super low budget looking to the extreme (some of the natives carry shields decorated with spray paint), the sets are about as cheap as you can get (the movie was shot in a park and the Amazonian cave is covered in golden metal foil wrap). The filmmakers couldn't even be bothered to hide a car that's evident in the background of one shot. Much of the movie is Liana running around with her elephant and monkey friends or swinging around on vines, which really doesn't help the pacing of the movie that much, and the KouKou character is just not funny at all.
However, there are enough 'What the Hell?' moments in this one to keep your brain busy throughout. Attentive viewers (actually, you don't really have to be that attentive to notice this stuff…) will pick up on the fact that although she was raised by a native, Liana speaks perfect text book English. Most of the Amazonian women are of obviously European descent. Some of the native tribesman are white guys in bad make up. No motivation is given for the Amazonians to be as obsessed over their wealth as they are – they never really mention their motives for periodically kidnapping and killing off the white folk who wander into their caves. Because of this, pretty much all of the movie happens for no truly explained reason. But still, we get Françoise Blanchard of Rollin’s Living Dead Girl in a supporting role and we get to feel bad for William Berger, cast here as an Amazon priest.
If you’re into bottom of the barrel Eurocine productions, you might get a kick out of this one but even with an extremely high threshold for trash it can be a task making it all the way to the finish line with the film. There are few things better than bad action and gratuitous nudity and this movie has that in spades but on rare occasions, that's just not enough. This is, sadly, one of those occasions.
Golden Temple Amazons – Blu-ray Review:
Golden Temple Amazons comes to Blu-ray from the MVD Marquee Collection in a 1.66.1 widescreen transfer in AVC encoded 1080p high that the label has been upfront about admitting is taken from an older, existing master. The feature takes up just over 22GBs of space on the 25GB disc. The image here is pretty decent. It’s soft in spots but detail handily rises above what DVD would have been able to provide. Color reproduction can be uneven in spots but that’s likely got more to do with the hodge-podge nature of the production than it does with anything else. There are a few spots where skin tones look just slightly waxy but it’s not a catastrophe or anything like that. The image shows no issues with compression artifacts or edge enhancement worth noting. Black levels tend to be a darker grey than pure black but all in all this a decent looking image.
LPCM 2.0 Mono tracks are provided in English and French, although there are no subtitles of any kind provided. The audio on the disc sounds fine. As far as the English track goes, there’s surprisingly strong bass noticeable in the opening theme song wherein our topless warriors ride across the land in slow motion. In fact, the score sounds really good from start to finish. Dialogue is easy enough to understand although some of the canned sound effects are thin and a bit goofy sounding – not a fault of the mix specially, more just the way that the audio for this particular movie sounds. There is some minor background hiss that you won’t be able to ignore in parts of the movie, but thankfully it isn’t a constant and when it is present it doesn’t make anything unlistenable.
The disc includes menus and chapter selection as well as a trailer for the feature and bonus trailers for Diamonds Of Kilamandjaro, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes and The Violence Movie. None of the extras from the 2005 DVD release that came out via Media Blasters have been ported over to this Blu-ray release. We do get a slipcover though, if you’re into that.
Golden Temple Amazons – The Final Word:
Golden Temple Amazons is a ridiculous film by any standard you’d care to apply, but it’s amusing enough even if it isn’t actually trying to be. Hardly an example of Franco at his best, it’s vapid, dopey affair but for its fans, MVD’s Blu-ray release offers a nice upgrade in the transfer and audio departments while falling short with the extra features.
Click on the images below for full sized The Diamonds of Kilimandjaro Blu-ray review screen captures!
DVD And Blu-ray Reviews G-M
Tags : analia ivars, antonio mayans, blu-ray, blu-ray review, eurocine, françoise blanchard, golden temple amazons, jess franco, stanley kapoul, william berger
Jason C - 09-12-2018, 10:43 AM
I thought this was hilarious. I was mesmerized by the topless girl on the elephant and the first time I spotted cars in the background I thought it was a funny mistake. I'll be tempted to upgrade.
Killer Meteor - 09-12-2018, 01:20 PM
Can't believe companies like MVD and Severin are too lazy/cheap to include subtitles for the original (ish) language tracks
Lalala76 - 09-21-2018, 12:42 PM
It's areal mess of a film, and the English dub is laughable. However, there is a strange charm about it which makes me like it somewhat. The highlight for me is definitely Analia Ivars as she doesn't get enough love in the Franco world. How much of this film was directed by Franco is anyones guess as porn peddler Alain Payet takes some directing credit for this, although there are certain shots and a very brief appearance by Lina as an Amazon guard most definitely indicates franco's involvement in the shoot.
agent999 - 09-21-2018, 02:44 PM
I've never bothered with this one, but I do enjoy the two seventies Amazons/Maciste films he made so may check this one out.
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The Breadwinner (Universal) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Released on: March 6, 2018
Director: Nora Twomey
Cast: Saara Chaudry, Soma Bhatia, Noorin Gulamgaus, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah, Shaista Latif
The Breadwinner - Movie Review:
Alternately tender and terrifying, The Breadwinner is a treasure of a motion picture that was deemed worthy enough to be nominated for this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Feature (it lost to Pixar’s Coco). Awards or not, this is a touching that uses its stunning fluid animation to tell a story unafraid to confront mature subject matter with style and honesty at the risk of troubling younger viewers.
Parvana (voice of Saara Chaudry) is a young girl living with her family in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women have virtually no rights. When her father Nurullah (Ali Badshah), a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War who lost his left leg during the fighting, inadvertently offends an intense Taliban officer, he is arrested and thrown into prison where it is impossible for his family to visit. Parvana tries her best to support herself, her mother Fattema (Laara Sadiq), older sister Soraya (Shaista Latif), and younger brother Zaki (Lily Erlinghauser) during Nurullah’s unlawful incarceration, but she soon finds that the only way she can earn enough money to provide for her family and eventually visit her father is to cut her hair and pose as a boy.
Taking the name “Aatish”, Parvana teams up with her friend Shauzia (Soma Bhatia), another girl pretending to be a boy, to navigate her way through a country tearing itself apart through way and prejudice to find Nurullah and bring their family back together. Also aiding in Parvana’s quest is her own limitless imagination, a virtue that comes in handy to keep her mind and heart focused as she confronts a real-life horror around every corner.
Having previously directed the animated short films From Darkness and Backwards Boy and made her feature debut as the co-director of The Secret of Kells, Irish animator and filmmaker Nora Twomey decided to take on Deborah Ellis’ acclaimed 2000 best-selling children’s novel The Breadwinner as her first solo directorial effort. Ellis co-wrote the screenplay with Anita Doron (The Lesser Blessed), with Oscar-winning actor/filmmaker Angelina Jolie serving as one of the executive producers. Twomey and her creative team approach the potentially upsetting thematic elements and cultural backdrop of Ellis’ novel with intelligence and respect and refuse to sugarcoat the horrific conditions Afghan women must live with daily under the violent, repressive Taliban regime.
The world that Parvana inhabits is one where the punishment of the women of her homeland for committing the slightest violation of sharia law is harsh and brutal, and like many heroes throughout the history of fictional storytelling, she uses the power of her limitless imagination to provide her with escape and inspiration. The fantastical elements of The Breadwinner’s story take the form of stories of adventure and amazement Parvana would tell her little brother Zaki to entertain him, stories that she must call upon to help her overcome the violence that is consuming Afghanistan as she fights to bring her father home.
The animation, which was done primarily at the Cartoon Saloon (a studio in Kilkenny, Ireland that Twomey co-founded), is beautifully accomplished. It shifts effortlessly between the traditional cel-animated style used to portray Parvana and her real-world struggles and a cut-out style for the story-within-the-story sequences where their characters are visualized as figures of paper of many dazzling colors. Twomey employs these scenes where they are needed most in the narrative, but never allows them to distract from or overwhelm the heartrending emotional journey Parvana undertakes for her family.
Saara Chaudry provides a voice for the main character that rings with the hope and loneliness of lost youth and is a superb vocal performance. The rest of the cast delivers equally amazing work providing the necessary support to Chaudry’s lead, while the haunting score composed by the brothers Danna – Jeff and Mychael (The Boondock Saints, The Good Dinosaur) – incorporates Middle Eastern motifs in the creation of a musical tapestry that perfectly compliments the adventure upon which Parvana embarks and provides the narrative backbone of this outstanding film. The Breadwinner is destined to be remembered as one of the best animated features of modern times, and deservedly so.
The Breadwinner - Blu-ray Review:
The Breadwinner looks absolutely beautiful in its Blu-ray presentation. Framed in its original 2.39:1 widescreen aspect ratio, the 1080p high-definition transfer is a visual feast of vibrant colors and astonishing detail that highlight with welcome clarity the imagination, heart, and soul the filmmakers put into every pain-staking frame of animation. Texture is strong and sharp. The lossless English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is rich with audible dialogue and music and ambient effects that integrate into the overall mix without resulting in distortion and create an immersive listening experience that provides the perfect compliment for the eye-pleasing animation. English subtitles have also been provided.
The main feature comes with the option of watching a brief introduction video with director Twomey and executive producer Jolie. Twomey returns for a commentary track that pairs her up with co-art director Ciaran Duffy, sequence director Jeremy Purcell, and animation director Fabian Erlinghauser. The quartet engage in a lively and informative chat that dives deep into every critical aspect of the production. Next up, the four-part documentary “The Making of The Breadwinner” (28 minutes) explores through behind-the-scenes footage and cast and crew soundbites most of what was discussed in the commentary. Rounding out the disc-based extras is a trailer for the film (2 minutes) and trailers for other animated features produced by GKids: Song of the Sea, Miss Hokusai, My Life as a Zucchini, and Boy and the World. The first three play upfront when the Blu-ray is loaded. Also included are a DVD copy and digital download code.
The Breadwinner - The Final Word:
The Breadwinner is a fearless work of cinematic art that brilliantly uses the form of animation to tell a heartfelt, provocative story about how the power of love and imagination can help us take on and defeat the most overwhelming odds. It’s truly a breathtaking film with tremendous visuals and stellar vocal performances, and it ranks among the finest animated features of this century so far. The Blu-ray earns the highest marks with a stunning HD transfer and superlative bonus features. Highly recommended.
Click on the images below for full sized The Breadwinner Blu-ray screen caps!
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Rock! Shock! Pop!'s Best DVD & Blu-ray Releases Of 2018!
2018 was, by anyone’s standards, a damn fine year for cult film releases on home video – be it DVD, Blu-ray or 4k UHD. We here at Rock! Shock! Pop! have been lucky enough to review a lot of the really great releases that have come out in the last twelve months and hey, since it’s New Year’s Eve, why not take a look back at some of the best?
So without further ado, here are our favorite titles that we were able to write up this year, ranked in no particular order and based on the ever important mix of entertainment value and quality of the release itself.
Rock! Shock! Pop’s Top 20 Domestic Releases Of 2018:
Take It Out In Trade is a mess the way that a lot of Wood’s films were a mess but, like so many of his other efforts, it has that inexplicable charm and that weird passion for filmmaking on display and that keeps it interesting and entertaining ...
Rock! Shock! Pop!'s Best Of 2017
The last few years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of cult titles on DVD and especially Blu-ray and for fans, well, 2017 was an embarrassment of riches. We hear at R!S!P! have been privileged enough to have the opportunity to review a lot of the best and most interesting to come out this year, and with 2018 just a few short hours away, why not look back on the last twelve months?
Blue Underground really rolled out the red carpet for their release of Deathdream, carrying over all of the extras from their previous DVD edition, adding a bunch of new supplements to the mix and presenting the film in excellent shape. As to the movie itself? Deathdream is an excellent film, a genuinely chilling horror picture that is really well made ...
Rock! Shock! Pop! Visits The Archive In Bridgeport, CT
Writing an article about a store visit isn’t something that we normally do around these here parts, but once in a while there is a reason to make an exception. Case in point? The guys that run Vinegar Syndrome have opened up a brick and mortar retail store called The Archive in Bridgeport, CT. Why does that matter to readers of this site? Because in an age where online sales seem to be killing ...
By Alex Kattke
Released on: May 26th, 2017
Developed by: Illfonic
Published by: Gun Media
Note: this review pertains to the PC version on Steam. This is not a reflection of the game’s current state on Xbox One or Playstation 4.
Friday the 13th is regarded as the big bad motherfucker of the Slasher movie sub-genre and not needing much in the way of introduction. Any horror fan has most likely seen most of the films in the franchise and has at least one favorite. The general public far and wide is at least aware of the franchise’s notoriety, an emphasis on sex and gore, and the series’ main antagonist Jason Voorhees AKA The Sultan if you’re a fan.
It’s a franchise heavily embedded in our culture. Being parodied too many times to count ...
Rock! Shock! Pop! At Five Points Fest - New York City, NY May 20th & 21st 2017
The first, of what will hopefully be a recurring Five Points Festival kicked off yesterday at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side riverfront of New York City. The two day festival, curated by Clutter Magazine and presented Midtown Comics, “is a collision of toys, comics, and counterculture.” Unlike a regular comic or toy convention, Five Points focuses the more artisanal aspect of the toy and comic industry. As such, most of the attendees had a connection to indy or small press comics (though there were a few mainstreamers around too) and to the ‘designer toy’ industry.
Not only did this smaller scaled convention give fans a chance to interact with toy creators, artists, writers but it also gave them a chance to look for some exclusives, get items signed by comic and toy professionals, check out some amazing original art on display and peruse back issue vendors. On top of that, the outdoor area of the convention featured a half dozen food trucks and a selection of craft beers available for attendees over twenty-one. Hey, convention going ...
Arthouse and Grindhouse: Blurred Lines.
By Alexander Kattke
It opens in black and white in slow motion. Pleasant chamber music plays to create a contrast. A middle-aged couple are shown fucking. We cut to the balls slamming against the wife’s ass. A young boy enters the room unaware of what’s happening in front of him. The ...
Rock! Shock! Pop's Top DVD And Blu-ray Releases Of 2016!
2016 was an absolutely awesome year for DVD and especially Blu-ray releases, proving once again that physical media is far from dead. While we’re ...
Rock! Shock! Pop’s Top DVD And Blu-ray Releases Of 2015!
Physical media is dead. Long live physical media.
2015 saw an insane amount of product out from boutique labels, the kind that cult movie fans tend to go rabid for, and man oh man, did we ever cover a lot of them. Not all of them, we’re only human after all, but yeah, we wrote about a lot of DVD and Blu-ray releases this year. And with 2015 now, somehow, in the rear view mirror, what better time than this to look back on some of them?
So without further ado (and in no particular order)...
Rock! Shock! Pop’s Top Blu-ray And DVD Releases Of 2015:
The Films Of Frederick R. Friedel: Axe/Kidnapped Coed: Severin’s Blu-ray release of The Films Of Frederick R. Friedel: Axe/Kidnapped Coed is pretty much the definitive statement on these two pictures. Both films are really strong low budget pictures, both inspired and creative in their execution, worth of re-evaluation – this release is a fantastic way to do just that. The films hold up well, they look and sound quite good considering their origins and the extras do an amazing job of documenting both their respective histories and cultural significance. Don’t miss this one.
Eugenie… The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion: Widely, and rightfully, regarded as one of Jess Franco’s most polished pictures and it’s hard to deny just what a great looking film this is. On top of that the cast all deliver fine work and the story is both ...
Rock! Shock! Pop! At The New York City Comic Con - Part Three - Cosplay-A-Go-Go!
Love it or hate it, cosplay has exploded at conventions over the last few years and it’s now just as much a reason for some people to attend as the vendors and guests are. In fact, there are even ‘celebrity cosplayers’ showing up at cons these days, putting in special appearances and doing booth signings. So yeah, even if you don’t want to dress up for the day, you can’t ignore the fact that a whole lot of people do. High fives to Reed Pop for creating a safe and friendly environment for anyone and everyone to do their thing and have fun.
Here’s a few shots that show off the variety of costumes that were making the rounds at NYCC 2014. ...
Rock! Shock! Pop! At The New York City Comic Con - Part Two - TOY TOUR!
Comic Books,
Following up on yesterday’s post in which we basically just walked the floor, this second installment of our four part coverage of the 2014 New York Comic Con is going to focus on one thing and one thing only… TOYS! And hot damn are there a lot of them at the show this year, some of which are being shown for the first time, some of which are show exclusives and some of which are still being worked on. As you’ll see as you scroll through, there are toys of all kinds – licensed properties, original properties, new, vintage, some meant for kids and some for adult collectors. It’s all here. So let’s get to it…
Starting from The Block entrance, here we find some of the more esoteric ‘boutique’ toy makers. Are you in the market for some stuffed organs? That plush blue testicle you’ve always wanted is now ready for you to take him home!
NYC shop Toy Tokyo had their booth set up along the back wall, it was packed all weekend.
Plenty of other oddball vendors and distributors were set up here too…
Spanish toy maker SD Toys had a booth set up displaying some of their licensed stuff, like this ridiculously realistic looking Stan Lee figure!
They were also showing off Bettie Page and Blues Brothers figures alongside Steve McQueen, Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando from The Godfather!
Heading into the main hall from the back, there were some vintage toy vendors set up, offering up everything ...
Convention Report: Saskatoon Comic and Entertainment Expo
Christian Bates-Hardy
Last weekend my wife and I attended the Saskatoon Comic and Entertainment Expo (or SaskExpo) in the City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. ...
Rock! Shock! Pop! At Special Edition NYC 2014
It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that comic book conventions were exactly that – a bunch of people getting together to buy, sell, trade, discuss and celebrate the art form with liked minded individuals and fans. And while a lot of smaller conventions still hold true to this concept, it seems that more often than not these days the larger conventions are about a whole lot more than comics. Despite being called The San Diego Comic Con or The New York Comic Con, large shows like these tend to see the actual comic books get lost in the shuffle, buried beneath the media feeding frenzy that occurs when big Hollywood movie projects are announced or the cast of a popular Adult Swim show arrives to do a panel. This is all well and good, ...
Best DVD/Blu-ray Releases Of 2012
Movie News,
2012 saw a lot of great DVD and Blu-ray releases from the indy and major studios alike – catalogue titles, new releases, some never before released on home video. There was a lot for fans to like about the last twelve months but we here at R!S!P! wanted to single out what we felt were the ten best releases we’ve been lucky enough to cover this year. So without further ado and in no particular order…
Top Ten Releases Of The Year:
The Opening Of Misty Beethoven (Distribpix) – Radley Metzger’s crowning achievement in adult cinema receives a lavish special ...
Best Music Of 2012 - Far Too Short A List!
Nolando
Music News,
For your consideration, some of the best stuff I've come across this year that was released in 2012. It's not in any particular order and certainly not exhaustive but could point you toward some stuff you might enjoy.
So, enjoy!
(Artist - Album - Song)
Kurt Baker - Brand New Beat, She's Not Sorry
The Hives - Lex Hives, Patrolling Days
Red Collar - Welcome Home, Dodge K or Welcome Home
The Nomads - Solna, Make Up My Mind or Miles Away
Outta Controller - Colt Summer, title track or Put It On High from Don’t Play Dumb
White Wires -WWIII, It's Been A While
Toys That Kill - Fambly 42, Waltz One Million
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball, Death To My Hometown
Madness - Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da, Misery
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine - This Ain't Hollywood, Hamilton, Ontario - August 28, 2012
Mark Tolch
Live Music,
To tell you the absolute truth, I hate going to concerts by myself. Despite the fact that conversation between co-attendees is generally governed by gig volume and breaks between the songs, it’s always nice to be able to turn to your friend(s) and do the “Fuck, yeah” nod in appreciation of what you’re witnessing taking place on ...
Win Apollo 18 On DVD From Rock! Shock! Pop! & Anchor Bay Entertainment!
Did you know we're giving away a copy of the new DVD release of Apollo 18?
It's true! You can win your very own copy by entering ...
The First Ever R!S!P! Contest! Win Free Stuff Without Much Effort!
Our good friend at Shock-O-Rama and Camp Motion pictures have provided some giveaway copies of Interplanetary and Red River.
I want to give them away to forum members.
R!S!P! At The AVN 2011 - Rock! Shock Pop! At The Adult Video News Awards - The Final Chapter!
With our red carpet coverage out of the way, let's post some shots from the award show itself, hosted by Lisa Lampanelli, Riley Steele and Tori Black.
THAT METAL SHOW: A Breakdown (Episode One)
Jeremy Wallace
THAT METAL SHOW
Episode 101 Original Air Date 11/15/2008
Eddie Trunk
Jim Florentine ...
Faces In The Crowd: Raw Deal
Goofy Conjunctivitis Nurse from Raw Deal
Though, she kinda looks like Phil Lynott, so that's ...
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Genre: New Adult
Dirty Rowdy Thing by Christina Lauren
Shaheen Reviews 0 ★★★★
The second instalment of the Wild Seasons series packs more heat and romance (if that's even possible) than Sweet Filthy Boy, and reacquaints us with Harlow and Finn.
Seeing Harlow through Mia's eyes meant that I was a bit wary of this book - Mia's not exactly judgemental about Harlow's 'do em and throw em' attitude, but she never really paints in a positive light either. When I got to know Harlow a bit more, I found a funny girl who knows what she wants and has a healthy outlook on sexual relationships. Harlow also has a better family life...
Misbehaving by Abbi Glines
Shaheen Reviews 0 ★★★½
I enjoyed reading Misbehaving and am looking forward to continuing the series, but there’s no getting around the fact that these books are starting to feel very samey.
Shaheen Reviews 0 ★★★★½
Come Back to Me is my favourite kind of NA story. It’s about more than just a hot romance. It’s about family and friends and dreams and love in all its incarnations. I think it’s a beautiful story and have really enjoyed reading it!
Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren
I’ve really enjoyed the latest offering by the awesome duo behind the pen name Christina Lauren, and recommend Sweet Filthy Boy to fans of Anna and the French Kiss looking for a slightly spicier romance.
King Hall by Scarlett Dawn
Shaheen Reviews 0
I strongly believe the first scene of a novel, the first paragraph, hey, even the first words, absolutely set the tone for the rest of the book. So you can imagine what I was thinking when the first words of King Hall were “Sex Education” and the first scene was…
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
A gorgeous, emotional read, Slammed is one of the best new adult contemporaries I have ever read. It’s not some silly YA story with some sex and violence and illness added in, it’s a real, heartbreaking story of two people who have so much to lose. This amazing story about…
Shaheen Reviews 0 ★★★
Blogging Outside the Box is a feature at Speculating on SpecFic, where books outside the SFF banner are reviewed. It is intended to highlight some of the non speculative fiction titles I am reading and share my thoughts with readers. Date published: 21st May 2012 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Format: Paperback, 291 pages…
Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Blogging Outside the Box is a fortnightly feature at Speculating on SpecFic, where books outside the SFF banner are reviewed. It is intended to highlight some of the non speculative fiction titles I am reading and share my thoughts with readers. Date published: 2nd April 2013 Publisher: Simon & Schuster AU Format: Paperback,…
The Vincent Brothers by Abbi Glines
The second non-SpecFic book I want to highlight is The Vincent Brothers, the sequel to The Vincent Boys, which I reviewed two weeks ago. This book focusses on Sawyer, and we get to see how hurt and miserable he is after the events of The Vincent Boys, and how Lana tries…
The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
I read a lot of contemporary over the summer and want to highlight a few books, even though they aren’t Speculative Fiction. The first of these is The Vincent Boys, a steamy read centred on Ashton Gray, and her relationships with the cousins Sawyer and Beau Vincent. The Vincent Boys…
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Spinal implants get covered
by Spinal Surgery News , May 31, 2013
US researchers have for the first time successfully coated polymer implants with a bioactive film. The discovery should improve the success rates of spinal surgery devices.
The polymer used in these implants, called PEEK, does not bond well with bone or other tissues in the body. This can result in the implant rubbing against surrounding tissues, which can lead to medical complications and the need for additional surgeries.
“We wanted to apply a bioactive coating that would allow the polymer implants to bond with surrounding tissues,“ says Dr Afsaneh Rabiei, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the US North Carolina State University and lead author of a paper on the research. “The challenge was that these coatings need to be heated to 500º Celsius, but the polymer melts at 300º C. We’ve finally solved the problem.“
The first step in the new technique coats the implant with a thin film of yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ). The second step applies a coating of hydroxyapatite, which is a calcium phosphate that bonds well with bone. The researchers then heat the hydroxyapatite layer using microwaves. The YSZ layer acts as a heat shield, preventing the PEEK from melting. Meanwhile, the heat gives the hydroxyapatite a crystalline structure that makes it more stable in the body, meaning that the calcium phosphate will dissolve more slowly – promoting bonding with surrounding bone.
The paper, ’Processing and Evaluation of bioactive coatings on polymeric implants,’ is published online in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.
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STRONG SPORTS GYM STORIES PAGE
THE CASE FOR WESTERN MARTIAL ARTS
April 20, 2017 / Willard Ford
My name is Willard Ford and I am the owner and one of the coaches at Strong Sports Gym. My introduction to martial arts was through Paul Le Mat (John Milner in American Graffiti) who held mitts for me and took me through the basic punches of boxing. Jab, straight right, left hook, and uppercut. To be honest, it didn't really hold my interest.
To my young mind, boxing could not compete with the pull, complexity, and mystery of kung fu. The 1970s were awash in Orientalism: we watched Godzilla and ate sushi, Bruce Lee was cool, and kung fu was real. A small but pugnacious kid, I chased the black belt and built myself up into my image of a tough guy, complete with a bad ass uniform and hundreds of deadly techniques at my disposal. David Carradine reminded me daily that nothing more deadly than the splashing hands of China.
Then it happened. I went to a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) class and was thoroughly exposed. I was choked, locked, and smothered into submission. Despite years of what I believed was hard and realistic training, I was beaten after only a few seconds on the mat. So back to the drawing board as I explored BJJ, judo, Thai boxing, and more realistic kung fu styles, all in the quest to redeem myself. After years immersed in eastern methodologies, I regained my confidence and thought I had it all worked out.
Ironically, it took going to Japan to begin to understand western martial arts. In 2002, I went to interview and train with Kazushi Sakuraba, the shining star of the Pride Fighting Championships, then the world's premier mixed martial arts (MMA) organization. The few hours I spent at Takada Dojo watching and working out set me on a new path that informed my study ever since. I was deeply committed to the study of BJJ and believed it the ultimate martial art, having proven itself almighty in the MMA competition. But five minutes on the mat with Sakuraba told me a different story. His movement was foreign, more complete than anything I'd felt before, and every move a setup or trap that led to a finish. From standing to rolling I was completely helpless. So once again I was humbled by my single-minded focus on looking eastward for answers. The irony was not lost on me that a Japanese guy doing western wrestling was beating an American obsessed with Brazilians dressed in Japanese kimono and doing judo.
I returned to the States determined to find a place to train that captured both the spirit and movement I experienced that day. I read about Frank Trigg and Rico Chiapparelli in the now defunct Grappling Magazine. It detailed their methods and training at the R.A.W. (Real American Wrestling) Training Facility in El Segundo, California (now called R1 Gym and located in nearby Inglewood). The article described a style with wrestling as its base and Chiapparelli as the maestro who had figured out how to apply wrestling to the emerging MMA game. A mere 20 minutes away, I grabbed my gear and drove to the gym. At R.A.W. wrestling connected the space between striking and ground fighting so it was elevated, not avoided. Each movement was designed to achieve dominance. While all techniques were considered, they had to fit into the wrestling and vice versa, and they had to represent the most current and informed practices.
So this all begs a question. Were my failures mine or was my training inadequate? After a few months at R.A.W. things started to click. I could go into any school and participate and even beat some guys. I’m no great athlete or competitor, but I could see it was working. And I could see the R.A.W. fighters prove the methods in front of me, taking on all comers from all styles. These guys were real martial artists who lived the gym maxim, “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere.”
When I opened Strong Sports Gymnasium in 2009, it was to provide the most informed and expert training possible. I brought in professional coaches and ex-fighters like R.A.W. alumnus Frank Trigg, Vladimir Matyushenko, and Kengo Ura. I also partnered with key striking coaches in western boxing and Dutch-style kickboxing, as well as subject matter experts in physical therapy, sports performance, and diet and nutrition. With the integration of western wrestling and boxing as its base, the curriculum of Strong Sports Gymnasium is committed to the best and most effective practices and how they fit together.
April 20, 2017 / Willard Ford/ Comment
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Home Our Founder Master's Teachings Spiritual Practice Life, Work, and the Religious Spirit
Life, Work, and the Religious Spirit
Sunday, 06 February 2011 15:33 Tzu Chi Foundation
[Master's Teachings]
I often say that Tzu Chi is a religious organization, and it is because there is a spirit that informs all our work, a sense of mission that inspires our efforts. When I use the term "religious", I don't mean subscribing to a certain set of beliefs or doctrines such as that of Buddhism or Christianity. To me, being religious is about finding life's true meaning and purpose, which in turn gives us direction. We each have our own path or direction in life. My life path, for example, is the monastic path. I have chosen to step outside the bonds of worldly love to embrace all humanity as my family. When there is a disaster somewhere and people are suffering, it breaks my heart and I feel deeply for their suffering. Everyone is my family so their suffering is my suffering, their hardship my hardship. This is what it means to leave one's small family and live for the big family of humanity, and this is the path I have chosen for myself—to shoulder humanity's burdens.
People ask me, "Isn't this a very difficult load to carry? Isn't it too much and too exhausting?" It is indeed not easy. Working for the wellbeing of humanity involves many different kinds of work. In Tzu Chi, we work in the fields of charity, medicine, education, and culture, including international disaster aid, running a bone marrow registry, environmental protection activities, and mobilizing a network of volunteers in the community. Every day, we visit impoverished families to provide love, care and financial aid, give medical care to the general public in our hospitals and regularly hold free medical outreaches for those who cannot afford medical care. We run schools in order to properly educate our next generation so that they can grow up with the right values and become people of character and integrity who can work for the good of society. We also have a television station to offer wholesome programming so that the minds of people in our society won't continually be contaminated by the sensationalism, violence, and distorted values widespread in the media today. This is our daily work. Should a disaster happen in any part of the world, it pains me just as if I am living in that country myself, and therefore we do our best to help, in what ways we can.
Yes, the work is difficult and it is a considerable load to shoulder. The heartache, pain, worry, and weight of responsibility I feel every day is very heavy indeed. But I take it on happily, with willingness. Though I could have lived a solitary life of contemplation, I have chosen this path and so I carry all its accompanying burdens without complaint. Because I do it willingly, I embrace everything that comes with it with joy.
As my life work is to be of service to humanity, I must look after my health if I am to continue this work. I make sure that I am healthy in body and mind so that I can work. This is because this work is my life purpose; I live to carry out such work and make a contribution.
But for some, their work is only a means to earn a living. The purpose of working, to them, is to make money to support their daily needs. When they think in such a way, their minds are not oriented toward service but toward making money for themselves. They are not happy when working since it's something they do because they have to, in order to support themselves. The work is a chore and it becomes tiring. It's not something they do willingly.
When people make money in order to achieve a certain quality of life, there is often never a point where they feel they have enough. When they are in this mindset, they will always set their sights on more. Gaining one dollar, they think of how nice it will be if they have nine more, to make an even ten. Having ten dollars, they'll think about having a hundred dollars. Having a hundred dollars, they'll think of having a thousand, and on it goes. The bar keeps getting raised higher. I call this mindset "having one but always lacking nine". Despite having much, such people still feel there is something lacking. Therefore, they are never really happy and at peace. Such a life is actually not very pleasant.
But there is the possibility of another way to live—that of living to work, to live to make a contribution to the world. Instead of living to gain, one lives to give. When we were building the Tzu Chi Hospital in Hualien, there was a woman who decided to hire herself out as a maid so she could earn money for the project. Not being wealthy, she didn't have money to donate, but being able-bodied, she felt what she could offer was her labor. She signed a contract with a family to serve as their maid for three years. She essentially indentured herself so that she could help me build the hospital. Despite the menial and physically draining work, she felt very happy. It is a kind of happiness that people who work only to make money for themselves do not experience. Instead of being tired, she felt a lot of energy and joy because she was filled with a sense of purpose and love.
This is the kind of life I would call a religious life. All religions teach the spirit of love, be it Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism, and when we are inspired by this love, we will feel a sense of purpose and willingly dedicate ourselves to working for the good of the world. When we do so, we will live to work rather than work for the sake of making a living. This is the happiest life.
From Dharma Master Cheng Yen's Talks
Compiled into English by the Jing Si Abode English Editorial Team
Feeling Young Again
Eating Vegetarian to Save Our World
A Permanent and Constant Dialogue In Between Tzu Chi and Vatican
Tzu Chi Provides Relief After Typhoon Koppu in the Philippines
Wholesome Friends
The Necklace of Water Bubbles
Guarding Our Heart and Mind
The Spiritual Food of Dharma
Taking Refuge
Nourishing the Seed of Goodness
Freeing Ourselves from Habitual Tendencies
An Open Heart, Liberated From Suffering
" One evil thought plants an evil karmic seed; one good thought will result in good karmic fruit. "
Let's Protect the Earth Together
Walking on the Path of Compassion
The Heart of a Bodhisattva
The Most Beautiful Scenes of Life
The Four Great Vows
Examples of Bodhisattvas
Touching the Wondrous Realm of Dharma
The Robe of Gentleness and Forbearance
Essential Practices to Benefit the World
Don't Be Afraid of Mistakes
Transforming Anger into Gratitude
Awareness of Karmic Affinities
Respect Life to Unleash One's Potential
Our World, Our Heart and Our Buddha Nature: Introducing the Repentance Practice
Understanding the Power of the Mind: Part I of the Repentance Series
The Obstacles to Awakening: Part II of the Repentance Series
The Cure for the Three Obstacles: Part III of the Repentance Series
Touching the Spirit of the Three Refuges
Understanding Desires Pivotal Role: Part IV of the Repentance Series
Inspiring Love and Gratitude in All
Repenting Obstructions from Afflictions: Part V of the Repentance Series
Cultivating Our Mind
Becoming a Disciple
Cherish Our Lives
Young Cancer Patient Donates His Organs Before His Passing
Words to Volunteers: To Create a Cycle of Love
Words to Volunteers: Material vs. Spiritual Riches
The Light in Southeast Taiwan That Never Dims
The Art of Leadership
Returning to a Free Life through Vegetarian Diet
Rainbow Nigiri
The Buddha Analyzes Four Types of Life
Care, Is More than Just Saying Good Luck
How Do you Enlighten a Heart to Help Others?
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‘Scenes from a Marriage’ Review
Posted on 13th February 2018 By Milo Garner
Milo Garner revisits Ingmar Bergman’s study of a couple’s relationship.
A masterwork that gathers many of Bergman’s key concerns in his post-Winter Light filmography, the miniseries Scenes from a Marriage is the closest and keenest examination of love and identity the man ever produced. Its premise is fascinating in its upended nature; it opens with a conclusion – a perfect marriage, sturdy and respected. We do not learn much of their meeting or courting, the typical subjects of a romantic film, nor do we enter a household at war, as might be more usual; instead the film opens to, a seemingly happy home. At first subtly, and then less so, we witness this relationship disintegrate and reintegrate; there is an ebbing, but a ten-year connexion cannot disappear in a breakup, as Bergman knows all too well. His most obvious angle is one that often emerges in his work, that of identity, though here an identity intrinsically linked to relationships with others. The masks that Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann) wear are to be thrown under a cold light, for them to find they have been wearing them so long there is nothing underneath. At least nothing they recognize as themselves.
Marianne in particular realizes her own mask has been shaped in reference to the needs of others – her nature is, at least outwardly, reflexive. This is clear in the opening of the first episode – when asked about herself she is only able to refer to her husband and her children; she is a wife, that term implying ‘husband’ more than it does ‘individual’. A feminist reading here would not miss the mark – while Johan makes light of ‘women’s libbers’ throughout the film, Bergman seems sympathetic. In Marianne he has created an intelligent and practical character who finds herself inarticulate, incapable of espousing what she believes about the world. Or at least she thinks that to be the case. At one point she beautifully encapsulates the nature of her affliction, the tragedy of an identity moulded by others; as the camera shoots to Johan, it finds him asleep. His own position is no more enviable, however, almost placing him in an opposite conundrum. He is outwardly charismatic, confident, and secure. His truth is, however, vulnerable. As soon as his worldly success dries up his sense of self suffers, and though he delves into individualism to find some sense of security, his reality contradicts such philosophies.
Imbued with the spirit of Ullmann and Josephson, these characters breathe in a way that few others, even in Bergman’s canon, ever do. Johan may share some traits of the director, such as his ‘retrospective jealousy’, but he is not a self-insert as many similar characters have been. Both become people in and of themselves, and while Marianne earns a more sympathetic position in the script, neither is posed as a mouthpiece for the correct way of thinking. It perhaps bears comparison to the equally brilliant My Dinner with Andre, which also presents two characters who might initially appear to represent a moral polarity, but develop into equals in different milieus. But where Andre stresses class as its key meta-division, Scenes instead focuses on gender, though to limit either of these films to that dynamic would be overly reductive.
Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman
Beside its ideas of identity in a personal and interpersonal sense is the closely related concept of communication, a staple of Bergman from the beginning. Again, he doesn’t strive for a simple moral conclusion, but rather presents a selection of responses offered for the audience’s judgement. Honesty, for example, comes under fine scrutiny, as does the axiomatic assumption that it’s always the best course of action. Initially Johan’s deceit, and the deceit of family friends, appears cruel and immoral; a later revelation that Marianne had hidden an affair from the very beginning of their marriage, however, appears reasonable with two decades of hindsight. The way in which Johan and Marianne tear off their disguises might be considered admirable in a society that values total emotional truth, with oneself and others, but the searing and irreparable damage these revelations cause must be balanced with their practical conclusions. As Scenes reveals, these fiery bouts can be just as damaging as the repression that engendered them.
But beneath the high-minded ideals of the self and the other we find love itself. After watching a marriage crumble for six hours it might be tempting to abandon any hope of love, but it can be detected, in moments and glances. This is not the romance that cinema and literature have forged over the years, of togetherness opposed by distinct apartness. Here they intertwine, and in this Bergman deploys his talent for tonal sinuosity. Johan and Marianne will often argue, but these conversations encompass a wide measure of feeling, flowing through gaiety, rage, longing, and sadness within the confines of a single scene. While a certain compression of events is necessary for the concept to function – six episodes covering six ‘moments’, rather than a more sweeping drama – Bergman never abandons the realism at the film’s core. He engages with his characters intimately and allows them the room to experience the often-contradictory emotions of a life thrown out of balance; while the theatrical cut of the film might be more intense, the TV version allows a more complex evaluation of a marriage at its end. The centre of Scenes from a Marriage relies on the idea that, in some form, Johan and Marianne still love one another. It may be a broken love, one tinged with hate and frustration, one that prevents any sort of healthy relationship between the two, but there is a connexion that binds them in a certain way. The inherent unsolvable nature of this pairing means that by the final episode there is no neat ending to be had. But of course, no such ending could ever exist – Bergman’s quality is in not contriving one.
Scenes from a Marriage was released in 1973.
It was recently screened at BFI Southbank as part of their Ingmar Bergman season (January-March 2018). Discounted 3 pound tickets available through the free 25 & Under scheme.
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Home > Corruption News > SC bars NAB from taking action against Bahria Town
SC bars NAB from taking action against Bahria Town
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from taking any action against Bahria Town and allowed its management to carry out its project and receive money from the investors in its new account.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard review petition of Bahria Town against its verdict declaring illegal the land allotted to the company by the Sindh government as well as Malir Development Authority, Karachi.
The court gave these orders after Malik Riaz, Chief Executive of Bahria Town, in pursuance of the court’s earlier order, gave an undertaking to deposit Rs5 billion with the court and desist from selling any of his or his wife’s properties.
The court directed that the anti-graft body will not take any action against the management of Bahria Town till the disposal of the review petition.
On last haring the court had directed Malik Riaz to deposit Rs5 billion with the Supreme Court as surety within two weeks besides directing him to come with proposals. On Wednesday, the court permitted Malik Riaz to go head by receiving money from investors in its new account till the decision of his review petition. The court however, asked the property tycoon to deposit 20 percent of the money received from the investors in a separate account opened at the apex court.
The court further directed that the management of Bahria Town can retain 80 percent from the receiving amount for utilisation of its projects and other purposes.
The court further directed that properties in names of Malik Raiz’s wife, sons or daughters to be attached as surety by the court.
The court noted down in its order that as one of the judges of the bench that gave verdict in Bahria Town case has been retired while another judge had given a dissenting note on the instant judgment, therefore, a larger bench will be constituted after summer vacations to hear the review petition of Bahria Town.
The court the on Tuesday had restrained Bahria Town from collecting any payments, saying that the administration of Bahria Town Karachi had violated court orders by opening the separate bank account.
During the hearing, Malik Riaz said he never did any dishonesty in his business, adding that people who had got plots in his society on Rs4 million are now owners of Rs25 million.
“Even I am ready to extend cooperation for construction of Kalabagh Dam”, Malik Riaz said.
The chief justice asked Mlaik Riaz to refrain from influencing governments and questioned as to what was his role in the Senate elections, recently held?
At the end of the proceedings, the chief justice asked Malik Riaz in a lighter tone to give a ‘Sadka’ of Rs500,000 to Fatimeed Foundation. Malik Riaz, however, replied that he will give Rs5 million to the Foundation.
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Must see islands in 2017!
We don’t just want winter sun any more, these days it’s all about pure, idyllic escapism.
With the post-Christmas burn-out likely to leave most of us yearning to ditch the hassles of everyday life, it’s time to start planning a first-rate holiday for 2017.
And what could be dreamier than a remote island getaway? Blue skies, sea and white sand are beckoning you; a far cry from the humdrum of the office.
Booking.com, with over one billion guests having stayed at one of its diverse properties since the site was born, used its own data to find the best of the best. And uncovered the following island destinations as the most highly-rated in the world by Booking.com customers.* From majestic Japanese volcanos to charming Cornish archipelagos, these are the places to visit in 2017.
One of the very few Mediterranean islands to remain untouched by mass market tourism, Pantelleria is a rarity. Its ability to fly below the radar is no doubt due to the fact that it has no sandy beaches; its entire coastline is dominated by dark, volcanic rock. But don’t let that put you off. What the island lacks in sand, it more than makes up for in seclusion and serenity. Lazing in aquamarine rock pools and diving off boulders straight into the sea with not another soul in sight isn’t so bad. What’s more, inland you’ll find Specchio di Venere (Venus’ mirror), a stunning lake in a volcanic crater that’s fed by hot springs and rainwater. The mud is mineral-rich so lather it on and rinse off with a swim to the centre for silky soft skin.
Kolocep, Croatia
Covered in pine and carob trees and surrounded by crystalline sea, Kolocep is the smallest of the smallest of the three main Elafiti islands and the most tranquil. It has only 163 residents, is car-free and has two irresistibly pretty villages sitting on little bays. Lull yourself into the island’s gentle way of life with meandering walks past olive groves and pre-Romanesque churches.
Isles of Scilly, UK
The allure of the Isles of Scilly lies largely in their nostalgic feel. Visiting this cluster of quaint islands off the Cornish coast is like visiting a bygone era. Its tiny population has created an impressive sense of community, its buildings and landscape have a quintessentially British appeal and the Isle of Tresco has even become a haven for the red squirrel after it became extinct on the mainland. The isles have ample pretty coves and beaches but the star attraction is the magnificent Tresco Abbey Garden. The island’s mild climate means sub-tropical plants thrive here, so the garden is a transfixing combination of colours. Exotic plants and vines clamber over crumbling archways and palm trees tower over terraces that run down to the sea.
Meganisi, Greece
Though most of the Greek islands rarely need an introduction, Meganisi isn’t quite yet a household name despite its textbook Mediterranean charm. With a colour palette of bright blues and dazzling whites, a fishing harbor and local gatherings of coffee and backgammon, it’s very easy here to quickly forget about life back home.
Saint John, Caribbean
Saint John is a paragon of tropical island life escapism. One of the Virgin Islands, almost all of its surface is national park, so it feels far more low-key (and thus special) than its more built-up neighbours. Trekking, wildlife-spotting and snorkeling the island’s abundant coral reefs are the most popular tourist pastimes. Though the Caribbean might have been typecast as a place for luxurious and somewhat detached, all-inclusive resorts, Saint John is a breath of fresh air. With the chance to swim with turtles, lounge on the spectacular Trunk Bay beach and pitch a tent in one of the island’s campsites.
Rishiri Island, Japan
A tiny island on the northern tip of Japan, Rishiri is a remote and lesser-known destination but one that has numerous strings to its bow. The island is formed by the conical Mount Rishiri, an extinct, snow-capped volcano rising out of verdant forest and endless greenery. Even though it’s only a two-hour flight from Tokyo, Rishiri definitely feels further afield. Enjoy the unblotted landscape and captivating quiet on a hike that takes in the island’s many natural sightseeing spots. Or gaze at a sunset over the ocean and the reflection of the volcano in one of the island’s lakes.
Isola di Capraia, Italy
Capraia’s protected national park status means it is a nature-lover’s paradise. An island of volcanic origin, it features colourful, jagged rock formations, beautiful caves and sheer cliffs that stand out dramatically against the deep blue sea. Heading off on a hike is a recommended visitor activity, with guided trails leading you past Roman ruins and old terraces to sensational viewpoints. Besides the port, which is dominated by the grand fortress of San Giorgio, there is a little pebble beach where locals swim. But there are also a number of peaceful rocky coves that are gorgeous for a dip or a sunbathe.
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Cambrian Genetics Says 'Print Your Own Genetically Unique Creature'
Austen Heinz, founder of Cambrian Genomics, has attracted the attention of investors and bioethicists with his plan to let everyone design new creatures and then print out their DNA quickly and cheaply.
(Rose bioengineered to glow)
“Anyone in the world that has a few dollars can make a creature, and that changes the game,” Heinz said. “And that creates a whole new world.”
The 31-year-old CEO has a deadpan demeanor that can be hard to read, but he is not kidding. In a makeshift laboratory in San Francisco, his synthetic biology company uses lasers to create custom DNA for major pharmaceutical companies. Its mission, to “democratize creation” with minimal to no regulation, frightens bioethicists as deeply as it thrills Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
With the latest technology and generous funding, a growing number of startups are taking science and medicine to the edge of science fiction. In the works or on the market are color-changing flowers, cow-free milk, animal-free meat, tests that detect diseases from one drop of blood and pills that tell doctors whether you have taken your medicine.
But few founders are pushing the technical and ethical boundaries of science as far as Heinz, who told the Wall Street Journal, “I can’t believe that after 10 or 20 years people will not design their children digitally.” At a recent conference in Vienna, he said, “We want to make totally new organisms that have never existed.”
SF fans know that a very early version of this idea appeared in HG Wells' 1896 blockbuster The Island of Dr. Moreau:
It is not simply the outward form of an animal which I can change. The physiology, the chemical rhythm of the creature, may also be made to undergo an enduring modification... You begin to see that it is a possible thing ... to change it in its most intimate structure.
At another point, Wells makes this remark about the ethics of Dr. Moreau:
The thing before you is no longer an animal, a fellow-creature, but a problem! Sympathetic pain,--all I know of it I remember as a thing I used to suffer from years ago. I wanted--it was the one thing I wanted--to find out the extreme limit of plasticity in a living shape."
"But," said I, "the thing is an abomination--"
"To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter," he continued. "The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
Via SF Gate.
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Thandi Phoenix & Sigma – Say It
We say: yes!
Tobi Tella: Pop music’s recent house revival makes me very happy, and this is an absolute belter on the level of the classic ’90s dance divas. As the weather warms and summer approaches, it feels like the bangers are finally coming out. The lyrics are nondescript, but who cares?
Alfred Soto: Pop critics must remain ever watchful of the influence of nostalgia. I’ve had twenty-five years to estimate the worth of nineties pop house. By sticking the breakbeat in unexpected spots and deploying Thandi Phoenix’s chalky tone, “Say It” avoids pastiche. And you can dance to it.
Josh Love: Maybe I have a soft spot for blatant late ’80s/early ’90s house nostalgia because it still scans as cheesy and not very hip, at least in the U.S. Still, give me the euphoria of “Say It” over some some more superficially chic synthpop revival any day of the week. “Say It” pulls no punches either, liberally doling out not only the brassy vox and piano stabs of classic house but even making the patented connection between pulpit (“confess to me”) and dancefloor.
Katherine St Asaph: There are only so many lyrics and so many ways to permute them, especially in pop-house where the set’s much smaller. But this inevitably reminds me of “Sayit” and “Confess to Me,” both of which have tension this doesn’t. What a waste of a vocalist actually getting the lead credit.
Edward Okulicz: Thandi Phoenix’s voice is far more Jessie Ware than Martha Wash, but her melody is just as big as the Black Box hits “Say It” evokes. And she was four years from being born when “I Don’t Know Anybody Else” was released. It’s a big communal dance banger that doesn’t compromise on sensuality and the urgency of the intimate; that takes a great voice and a great song to work.
Ian Mathers: Not only am I a sucker for any version of the Amen break, not only will I always mention that when I’m covering a song that I notice has any version of that break, but if you pair that with housey piano chords and a singer who can belt when required, you would have to fuck up some part of the result in truly grotesque fashion for it not to get a very good result from me. Sometimes you want something you’ve never heard before, sometimes you just want the musical equivalent of a Ferrero Rocher (or insert your own version of a sweet that is always the same, you can consume far too many of in one sitting, and you never seem to get tired of).
Joshua Minsoo Kim: The subtle breakbeat elements are an effective tease, but “Say It” is really just about Thandi Phoenix’s delivery of the chorus. The emotional nature of the lyrics are sensed in the strength of her performance, but the mixing prevents her from truly erupting. There’s a slightly underwhelming disconnect between the instrumentation and her vocals — the wobbles and strings try to communicate what she’s feeling, but all of the song’s elements never feel completely harmonious. Anonymity in piano house is fine, but this has a coldness to it that leaves much to be desired.
Stephen Eisermann: Dance has always been one of my favorite languages. Dancing with friends was a way for me to share my love and appreciation, dancing with someone at the tail end of a relationship easily relays that it’s over because it’s hard to hide facial expressions during dance, and dancing with a potential love partner, like in this song, easily communicates interest via longing gazes and body contact. This feels especially true when dancing to EDM and sounds like this are why: Sigma provide Thandi with a pretty standard EDM/club beat production, but her warm vocals wrap around the lyrics of longing and provide enough feeling that it’s hard to not picture yourself dancing with someone you’re infatuated with. You turn away, partially because the move calls for it and partially to be provocative, and you mouth the words to this song, not just because it’s pretty damn good, but also because you mean every word Thandi sings.
Iris Xie: Ahhhh, my inner 9-year-old, confused by how decades end and trends change, and was ready to grow up in the ’90s aesthetic before being rudely interrupted by time, is now super happy to hear this. The little production flourishes in the back give such a feeling of suspense and timing, like the little kick drum melody from 0:19 to 0:21 is so detailed and reminds me of how important of a songwriting tool for having every little element communicate and provide flourishes to the lyrics and delivery of the vocalist. Also, Thandi Phoenix is commanding as she asks to “slow down” and builds up into a level of suspense, which springs like an elastic band into the anthemic and full-hearted chorus. The post-chorus expands on the kick drum melody and goes into a strobing synth that balances it out with the bassline and a sparkle sound that continues amplifying the atmosphere, resulting in a song that does not even have to try hard to bring people out onto the dance floor. When I think of dance music, this is what sticks in my mind as a template, and it is such a pleasant surprise to hear this.
Jibril Yassin: When in doubt, evoke 1991. Sigma pivoting away from their DnB sound yields powerful dividends and Thandi Phoenix proves a capable vocalist. It makes for a package that succeeds in hitting all the right notes — a bright, emotional slab of piano-house that could have been much, much worse.
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Spirit Alumnus Tseng Wins Again
June 13th 2011 -
Courtesy of GolfWeek
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Top-ranked Yani Tseng won what could be the final LPGA State Farm Classic on Sunday, closing with a 4-under 68 to hand Cristie Kerr her third straight second-place finish.
Tseng, from Taiwan, had a 21-under 267 total on the Panther Creek course for her seventh tour title in four years. She also won the season-opening LPGA Thailand and three other worldwide events this year.
In the 208 tournament, Tseng led by a stroke with a hole left, but flew the green, made bogey then lost to Ji Young Oh in a playoff when she three-putting the first extra hole.
"I just kept telling myself: 'Focus! Focus!'" said Tseng, bogey-free the final two rounds. "I missed a couple of putts but I still was able to make some birdies."
Tseng bought Annika Sorenstam's house — with its giant trophy case — in Florida in 2009.
"I go back to my house and see all that empty space and I try to fill it up," Tseng said. "I want to put all my amateur trophies in there and get closer."
Kerr, the 2010 winner, finished three strokes back, shooting a 67.
"I played good. I just needed to get some of those putts to the hole, give 'em a chance to go in," Kerr said. "It would have been nice to make birdie on the last hole, but it didn't matter. She was too far ahead."
Paula Creamer and Brittany Lincicome (70) tied for third at 16 under.
Title sponsor State Farm Insurance Companies had declined to renew its commitment after this year and a replacement sponsor has yet to be found, putting the event in danger of folding.
"I love this tournament since I was rookie, so I really look forward to coming back to defend my championship," Tseng said. "I think the crowd every year is getting bigger and bigger, and all the fans, all the volunteers, the people here love this tournament. I can tell. It's like big party all week and everybody was very excited, so I wish this is not the end. I wish I can come back."
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In line with the principles of "mutual support, resource sharing, mutual benefits, win-win, pragmatism and efficiency, and joint development", the two parties will jointly promote scientific and technological cooperation and the commercialization of achievements, giving full play to the disciplinary advantages of Tianjin University, fully integrating the resources of research institutes and science and technology-based enterprises at Nankai District, and jointly building the Tianjin industrial cluster highland of scientific and technological achievement commercialization. The two parties will carry out multi-level industry-university-research institute activities to promote exchanges and cooperation in science and technology, talent, education, and finance. Tianjin University and the Nankai District will strengthen the training and exchange of high-level talents, make use of geographical characteristics and industrial facilities at Nankai District, encourage and support government departments, key enterprises and Tianjin University to jointly build bases of social practice as well as employment internship and training, and provide a practical and entrepreneurial platform for students and graduates of Tianjin University. The two parties will strengthen cooperation in the construction of research and development platforms, give full play to the advantages of both sides, and jointly promote the launching of high-end talent platforms such as academician workstations, engineering and technical research centers, postdoctoral research workstations (innovation and practice bases), and professor's studios.
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Preparing for the Ball of a Lifetime
Sisters Ashley and Tayah Love of Fontana, Calif., try on gowns for the People's Inaugural Ball at the JW Marriott Hotel. (By Tracy A. Woodward -- The Washington Post)
Nicole Strowman, left, of the National Urban League helps Rochelle Wilks of Jackson, Miss., find a gown. Gowns and tuxedos were donated for the ball. (Tracy A Woodward - The Washington Post)
Guests of the People's Inaugural Ball check in at the JW Marriott. "This is a wonderful opportunity and a wonderful thing for somebody to do," said Prince Brooks, 57, a homeless veteran who was among the hundreds of people from across the country invited to attend the event. (Photos By Tracy A. Woodward -- The Washington Post)
"He is good!" said Tavetta Patterson, 30, of Gary, Ind., of the Gary Life Education Initiative, an organization that works with impoverished teenage girls.
She had just gotten outfitted with a silver evening gown with a clutch bag and shoes to match.
"We left Gary yesterday, and it took us five hours to get here," she said. "It took us longer because we ran into some snow. At one point, we saw a FedEx truck laying in a ditch. But God brought us here safely. We stopped in Baltimore before we came on to Washington, because after He brought us here safely to receive this blessing, I wanted to stop in somebody's church and praise Him."
Patterson said she hopes the Obamas will surprise them by dropping in at the People's Ball, but even if they don't, she said, she and her group will go home with memories that will last a lifetime. "This is about learning how to dream and realizing that some dreams do come true," she said.
Pat Delfosse of Fontana, Calif., who is raising four grandchildren, three adopted children and a foster child on a limited income, said she found out about Stafford's program while surfing the Web for programs to benefit the foster parents she works with.
"I completed the application, then I forgot about it," she said. "Then we got a call saying we were coming! We're so happy to be here!"
As she shopped, her nieces, Tayah Love, 9, and Ashley Love, 13, found dresses with the help of National Urban League volunteers Julia Pollard of Clinton and Barbara Anderson of Arlington County.
"I am very, very, very excited, because I get to see the actual Barack Obama!" Tayah said, showing off the long, baby-pink ball gown she had chosen. "I cannot believe that!"
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The Silver Trumpets. 1The LORD said to Moses: 2Make two trumpets of silver, making them of hammered silver, for you to use in summoning the community and in breaking camp. 3When both are blown, the whole community shall gather round you at the entrance of the tent of meeting; 4but when one of them is blown, only the tribal leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, shall gather round you. 5When you sound the signal, those encamped on the east side shall break camp; 6when you sound a second signal, those encamped on the south side shall break camp; when you sound a third signal, those encamped on the west side shall break camp; when you sound a fourth signal, those encamped on the north side shall break camp. Thus shall the signal be sounded for them to break camp. 7But in calling forth an assembly you are to blow a blast, without sounding the signal.
8The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; this is prescribed forever for you and your descendants. 9a When in your own land you go to war against an enemy that is attacking you, you shall sound the alarm on the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before the LORD, your God, and be saved from your foes. 10And when you rejoice* on your festivals, and your new-moon feasts, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your communion sacrifices,b so that this serves as a reminder of you before your God. I, the LORD, am your God.
II. DEPARTURE, REBELLION, AND WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS FOR FORTY YEARS
Departure from Sinai. 11In the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud rose from the tabernacle of the covenant, 12and the Israelites moved on from the wilderness of Sinai by stages, until the cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.
13The first time that they broke camp at the direction of the LORD through Moses, 14c the divisional camp of the Judahites, arranged in companies, was the first to set out. Over its whole company was Nahshon, son of Amminadab, 15with Nethanel, son of Zuar, over the company of the tribe of Issacharites, 16and Eliab, son of Helon, over the company of the tribe of Zebulunites. 17Then, after the tabernacle was dismantled, the Gershonites and Merarites who carried the tabernacle set out. 18The divisional camp of the Reubenites, arranged in companies, was the next to set out. Over its whole company was Elizur, son of Shedeur, 19with Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai, over the company of the tribe of Simeonites, 20and Eliasaph, son of Reuel, over the company of the tribe of Gadites. 21The Kohathites, who carried the sacred objects, then set out. Before their arrival the tabernacle would be erected. 22The divisional camp of the Ephraimites set out next, arranged in companies. Over its whole company was Elishama, son of Ammihud, 23with Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, over the company of the tribe of Manassites, 24and Abidan, son of Gideoni, over the company of the tribe of Benjaminites. 25Finally, as rear guard for all the camps, the divisional camp of the Danites set out, arranged in companies. Over its whole company was Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai, 26with Pagiel, son of Ochran, over the company of the tribe of Asherites, 27and Ahira, son of Enan, over the company of the tribe of Naphtalites. 28This was the order of march for the Israelites, company by company, when they set out.
Hobab as Guide. 29Moses said to Hobab,* son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place concerning which the LORD has said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will be generous toward you, for the LORD has promised prosperity to Israel.” 30But he answered, “No, I will not come. I am going instead to the land of my birth.” 31Moses said, “Please, do not leave us; you know where we can camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our guide. 32If you come with us, we will share with you the prosperity the LORD will bestow on us.”
Into the Wilderness. 33d From the mountain of the LORD* they made a journey of three days, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them for the three-day journey to seek out a resting place for them. 34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from camp.
35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,
“Arise, O LORD, may your enemies be scattered,
and may those who hate you flee before you.”
36And when it came to rest, he would say,
“Bring back, O LORD, the myriads of Israel’s troops!”
* [10:10] When you rejoice: cf. Dt 16:14. Festivals: the great annual feasts of the Passover, Pentecost and Booths described in Lv 23; Nm 28–29.
* [10:29–32] Hobab: one of three names for the father-in-law of Moses (see Ex 2:18; 4:18; 18:6; Jgs 4:11). Here perhaps Hobab’s initial refusal indicates he wished to be coaxed before granting the favor. From Jgs 1:16 it seems probable that he did accede to Moses’ request. However, Ex 18:27 suggests Moses’ father-in-law returned to his own land. Indeed, to the extent Nm 10:29–32 appears to repeat Ex 18:27, it may indicate a resumption of the narrative of Israel’s march through the wilderness after the “digression” formed by the Israelite sojourn at Sinai, Ex 19:1–Nm 10:28.
* [10:33] The mountain of the LORD: Sinai (Horeb), elsewhere always called “the mountain of God.”
a. [10:9] 2 Chr 13:14.
b. [10:10] Nm 29:1; 2 Chr 29:26–28.
c. [10:14–16] Nm 2:3, 5, 7.
d. [10:33] Dt 1:33.
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Raymond Cusick
Sunday’s reported passing of classic series designer Ray Cusick offers yet another grim reminder that the success of the early series and its revival in the Twenty-first century owes much to the dedication and inspiration of a dwindling number of hard working men and women from as far as fifty years ago. Through to today while the story of Doctor Who’s own genesis is being committed to film, the likes of Ray Cusick have been a line connecting the early production plans for a fledgling children’s TV serial of little-known promise to today’s near-juggernaut of popular culture. Palpably, if one can attribute the success of Who in its first year to its most recognisable, imitable and recollectable invented image – the Dalek, and thereby attribute the successful return of the series in 2005 to the labours and loyalty of mature fans of the ‘classic’ series, then we can correctly say that the name Ray Cusick deserves to be held alongside those of Verity Lambert, Donald Wilson, Terry Nation and Sydney Newman as those Without Whom we would not be here as bloggers, viewers, creators and fans alike.
But beyond that impressive and enduring dalek silhouette lies an equally impressive body of work. Cusick was not only the designer of the Daleks, but the visionary of their city and world, the petrified forest and steel-lined corridors that dominate the early serial. Beyond Skaro Cusick’s imprint is also on the Sense Sphere and Mechanus, each featuring vaulted, Gaudiesque architecture that give organic lines to an otherwise stainless and hard-edged futurism. For better or worse Cusick’s work is also throughout the six episode travelogue that is The Keys of Marinus – anyone who owns the DVD to that story will know how vocally disappointed the designer was with his efforts there, but I can only admire the resourcefulness of a man who, faced with six location changes over the same number of episodes, a very tight budget and the usual turnaround expectations actually delivers. Moreover, there are clear examples in the series where it is Cusick’s eye for detail and design that save an otherwise unremarkable story – the enormous props for Planet of the Giants, for one. And before we connect Cusick with alien worlds fully, it bears noting that the early extra rooms in the TARDIS (The Edge of Destruction) were also the result of Cusick’s designs.
It’s a great shame that in their own fiftieth anniversary in December the designer of the Daleks will not be present to share the accolades and celebration. Much has and wil be made on how or whether Cusick was short-shrifted by Terry Nation over due recognition and reward for the blueprint of a million childhood toys spanning half a century; but within fandom there can be no doubt. Raymond Cusick’s work on Who alone ensured the series’ popular appeal and created a striking visual stamp that is as much of its own era and country as the Mini Cooper, the Beatles mop-top and the Op Art of Bridget Riley, and which continues to be admired and cherished today. An enduring design speaks for itself, and that of the Daleks will forever speak of their undisputed visionary engineer.
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Mary Tamm
The recent death of Mary Tamm after a long battle with cancer marks a solemn conclusion to a brief but memorable tenure with Doctor Who. Tamm’s Romana, as much as Hartnell’s First Doctor is the definitive incarnation of her Time Lord, the blueprint devised by Graham Williams and Robert Holmes without which we would not have had the re-interpretation (some might say continuation) by Lalla Ward, and mimeses portrayed by the likes of Michelle Ryan and Alex Kingston.
Sometimes dubbed the “ice maiden”- partially from her debut on the snowbound planet Ribos, Tamm’s Romana was refinement and composure at a critical time for Tom Baker’s portrayal of the Doctor. It has become trendy of late to dismiss much of the Williams era for offering too long a leash to its star, of indulging the more ridiculous and self-conscious side of the Fourth Doctor. Tamm’s circumspect high-achieving student was an excellent foil to this Doctor, as much a counterpart as her would-be opposite Leela. While the character would inevitably be ‘softened’, an aspect Tamm was reportedly less than keen on, her attitude to a universe she has yet to experience first hand changes through the Doctor’s influence. We should acknowledge that the transformation is as much in Tamm’s hands as its result – a regeneration and the tightest unit in Who history. All in six stories.
This isn’t to ignore the importance of Tamm’s and Baker’s working relationship, which by all accounts was as mutually easy as that of the star and Lis Sladen. The two shared a similar sense of humour, a common intelligence and regard, and the playful element of their infamous BBC inside ‘Christmas Who’ tape speaks for itself. The Fourth Doctor and First Romana were recently reunited by Big Finish for the second season of Fourth Doctor audio adventures which, alongside roles in Gallifrey and two Companion Chronicles, mark the only Who outings for Tamm in character; having made the transition from the series after a short tenure, her career continued without the curse of the Who Girl stereotype. As with the recent passing of Caroline John, it’s bittersweet consolation that we have not yet heard the last of a much loved and admired companion.
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Caroline John
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
The Pertwee UNIT roster grows ever thinner, a fact that saddens more with each passing. Few if any fans would have known the extent of Caroline John’s recent illness, her death and funeral being kept strictly between family and friends. As fans we might pretend ownership of Doctor Who and all who appear in it, but times like these serve to remind us that, indeed, beyond the screen and the stage there are real lives, private and sensitive, with families and loved ones to whom our idols and familiar faces mean something altogether different, and much, much more.
As Doctor Elizabeth Shaw, John’s time in the series was admittedly brief, but notable for being an era of change – the first full-colour Doctor, grounded literally and figuratively by his Time Lord masters, and saddled with a semi-military institution with whom he would occasionally spar and pit his will in frustration. A brief tenure for sure, but Season Seven remains a classic, its strength exemplified by the fact that two of its stories (Spearhead from Space and Inferno) have been and will be ‘revisited’ respectively, while Ambassadors of Death waits in the wings, the colour being patiently put back into its cheeks. Liz may be gone, but we’ll see her again very soon, and a new generation of fans will meet her fresh and as close to how she was meant to be seen as modern technology will allow. Inferno is a revelation in itself, offering John a rare dual role, and to this writer at least, seems an appropriate release to have a dedicated extra to its outgoing co-star.
‘Outgoing’ is not a term you might otherwise describe Liz Shaw. Cambridge-based, and as much conscripted into UNIT’s service as the Doctor, her partnership with the Time Lord is characteristically professional; not yet is there the fatherly warmth shared between Pertwee’s Doctor and Jo Grant, but then Liz was not cut from the same cloth. A professional, she required a professional respect from the Doctor, and looked to him less for protection. Feminism, that modern equivalent more often attributed to Sarah Jane Smith is as equally a character trait of Liz Shaw – we just weren’t around enough to see it come to the fore; or perhaps amidst the sound and drama of Season Seven it’s in there, another element in a fascinating and changing shift in the series format. For herself Caroline John was far from outgoing as far as her character was concerned. John eschewed the fan convention circuit until the early 90s, mistakedly assuming that fans either wouldn’t know her or be interested in Liz. The opposite proved true, happily, and John’s return to Who‘s fold was heralded as interesting and welcome as those of Tom Baker and Paul McGann. For her change of heart Liz Shaw was embraced by fan creators, given her own spin-off series in the PRoBe fan videos (recently re-released on DVD), and the character appeared in both the New Adventures and Missing Adventures. Of these it’s Gary Russell’s The Scales of Injustice that gives Liz her first ‘departure’ story, trusting a more fitting exit than the between-seasons disappearance the TV series offered. Alternatively, Jim Mortimore’s Eternity Weeps closes Liz’s story even more, daring to write her out in a story with Silurians, science, and the Moon, where the TV series also last left her in a too-brief mention in the Sarah Jane Adventures.
John’s audio work needs mention, too, as it’s not yet complete. Later this year Big Finish’s last Liz Shaw Companion Chronicle, the fittingly-titled The Last Post will be released, and we have three other CCs to accompany it, effectively doubling Liz’s tenure. The actor’s reading of Elisabeth Sladen’s autobiography should also be noted; an effective and affecting reading that neatly ties the Pertwee Era together with a story shared by two companions from either end of the Third Doctor’s time on Earth. In this way we can hope that Doctor Liz Shaw will continue to live on in Who, not as a brief-lived companion, but as an essential catalyst to a changing Time Lord life, and another very strong, intelligent and independent woman in the Doctor’s life who fought her corner when she could, and chose not to be left behind, but to find her own destiny outside the Doctor’s shadow.
Caroline John’s portrayal of Liz is crucial to our understanding of the character – a clear break from the space orphans of the past, her Liz is an Earthly Woman, the essential human alongside an increasingly alien Doctor. We’ve not had a companion like her since, and Doctor Who is a sadder world without Caroline John in it.
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The Doctor’s Best Friends
On the new series’ return Zeus Blog takes time out to mark the passing of two of the most beloved and irreplaceable Earthbound heroes of Doctor Who.
Nicholas Courtney’s Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart was many things to Seventies Who. To the Third Doctor he was anchor, millstone, combatant, ally and friend. The friendship carried on into the next regeneration, as it had itself carried over from the Third Doctor’s predecessor. Courtney’s Brigadier character would go on to appear alongside all of the ‘classic’ series Doctors, plus for Big Finish sharing an audio adventure with the Eighth Doctor. For many fans and even a few casual watchers of Who in yesteryear, the Brigadier was quite simply as much a staple of the programme as the TARDIS, the Daleks, and the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver. Courtney’s association with the series predates his most famous role of course, and it’s a matter of no surprise that during the series’ Wilderness Years the actor was a frequent presence at conventions, TV appearances (notably in 1993′s Thirty Years in the TARDIS documentary), while the Brigadier returned in licensed books and the fan-made spinoff Downtime. Following the death of Jon Pertwee Courtney was made honourary president of the DWAS, a role he held with great respect.
I think it’s significant that the treatment of Courtney as an elder statesman – a stand-in Doctor almost, was as far as I’m aware, reciprocated with fan respect. The Brig’s cameos in the Nineties are no less silly than the regular appearances in later Pertwee episodes, and there seems to be a genuine fondness associated with them – Downtime gives him a family and a grandson to fight for; Paul Cornell (no Pertwee fan at the time) brought him into his New Adventure Happy Endings with a gentle elbow nudging – the Brigadier as naff Dad tapping his feet to a camp Silurian musical duo. There’s a nod to the slightly embarrassing but harmless paternal side to the character, never seen in the TV series of course, but while playing against the Man of Action type, Cornell’s ageing and softening of the Brigadier acknowledged the same in the actor, forgiving and acknowledging the passing of years rather than condemning them or sweping them under the carpet as we are wont to do with the various Doctors. The Brigadier represented in that figure a very human hero. Cornell later gives the Brig his years back, as it were, the UNIT soldier restored by alien tech; would that real life could have offered the same reprieve. The Brig – and Nicholas Courtney, was fandom’s friend too. Grateful for the role that defined his career, his other appearances in the series marked the same return favour by his writers – in Big Finish’s adventures he cameoed as Wolsey the TARDIS cat, and later still as a personification of the TARDIS itself, both loyal to the end. Of course it’s a great shame that Courtney never got to share the screen with the recent Doctors, but what we still have is an impressive series in itself, an evolving character who mellows with the affection shared between himself, the Doctors, and their fans.
In Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith the Doctor had a new type of companion, a reinvention of a woman with a professional career, enlightened enough to challenge her place in a modern society, but with the warmth and sympathy that would attract the Time Lord’s’s friendship. Sarah is the median line of companions, a Barbara Wright with the Doctor as her Chesterton. Strong enough in personality and appeal to warrant two attempts at a series of her own, not because her character was endowed with special powers or insight (although the later spin-off generously afforded her an arsenal of technologies to almost equal her with the Doctor), but because she was nothing special, and for that we could recognise her and perhaps ourselves in her.
What’s remarkable is that Sladen’s character though her easy appeal and the influence of her original UK fans around today’s BBC genuinely spans two generations, realising yet again Tom Baker’s oft-related image of the whole family sitting down to enjoy Doctor Who together. It’s a great pity, and it seems so unjust that this potential has been cut off so quickly and suddenly. All the more distressing for her fans, her friends and colleagues – Big Finish had reportedly begun negotiations on returning Sarah Jane to their audio fold, accompanying the Fourth Doctor for the first time since 1976. With Sladen gone the question might well be asked who among those remaining companions of the Classic Series now best suits the mantle of ‘everywoman’ to the alien Doctor, the next-in-line as it were. It’s a question that’s too soon for the asking, if it ever should be. Sarah Jane hasn’t gone away, she’s just not here anymore. But we have her adventures with no fewer than seven Doctors (eight if you count her guest role in the DWM Seventh Doctor comic strip End of the Line), the one-off K9 special and three complete series of her own Adventures to share and enjoy. It’s fitting though, perhaps, that of all her successors there hasn’t really been another Who girl quite like Sarah Jane – variously alien, younger, less English, less or more metropolitan… indeed, they broke the mould soon after her arrival in The Time Warrior. But what a mould. And what large footprints to leave to this day.
Splendid chaps, both of them.
Barry Letts
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Barry Letts was, to many of us in recent years, the steady paternal voice which balanced Terrance Dicks’s excited ‘weak R’-ing and Katy Manning’s extroverted babble on Pertwee DVD releases.
These genial observations and recollections marked the fifth decade of Lett’s association with Doctor Who – previously directing in the 60′s, producing in the 70′s, Executive Producing in the 80′s and writing in the 90′s.
It was absolutely right that he and his trusty wingman Terrance were invited to the 2005 premier of Rose, and was reportedly recognised and complimented there by some big names in television today.
Of Letts himself a tantalising glimpse was given in an early DWM interview of an ex-Royal Navy Buddhist former actor who once had a swordfight in the surf with Roger Delgado. A man who felt that Doctor Who could be a platform for social concerns and who approached every script with the demand “So, what’s it about?” Mention of Delgado brings us to perhaps Barry Lett’s greatest legacy to Doctor Who – his casting ability. Katy Manning, Elizabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Tom Baker – names which the programme is absolutely inconceivable without. It’s interesting that having introduced Baker to the world Letts later got the chance to see him off, as executive Producer of season 18. We can only guess at what his relationship with the then inexperienced Nathan-Turner must have been like, but I feel sure that someone who could handle Pertwee and Manning at the same time wouldn’t have found it a problem.
In Zeus Plug I once nominated The Daemons as a DVD release I’d most like to see, suggesting that it would be a perfect opportunity to feature a documentary about Letts’ long association with Doctor Who. Rating high on the recent DWM poll, this DVD seems likely, but now impossible to imagine without that ‘steady paternal voice’ on the commentary.
But nowits nice to imagine Barry Letts happy in some socially conscious, mildly CSO-fringed nirvana, smiling approvingly at the ever- increasing fortunes of the programme he contributed so much to.
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Peter and Verity
The sudden deaths of two significant names in Doctor Who fandom last week merit more attention – even local attention, than has perhaps been given. Any fan will be able to tell you that Verity Lambert was the series’ first producer, the BBC’s first female producer and held both titles at a relatively tender age (27) in what was itself a young industry. The series’ popularity and formula, BEMs included, owe an insurmountable debt to her influence and guidance.
Bereft of a genuine female Doctor, Verity Lambert is- was, the programme’s elder stateswoman. In a way she never truly left the series; for like the Doctors who followed Hartnell and reprised their roles in various guises, her connection with Doctor Who was concreted by fandom, fan press and fan conventions and media. But fandom, as we all know, carries its own memory, some of it false and some of it selective. While we can issue forth the Received Knowledge of identities like Verity Lambert solemnly and with a little authority, it doesn’t get us any closer to who she was before and after the series, how it influenced her, and the true legacy she leaves behind. Make the time and read some of those obituaries outside of the DW blogs and websites and rediscover a remarkable woman who not only produced the first ever Doctor Who with no series bible, heritage or fan audience, but also ventured into sitcoms, crime thrillers, whodunnits, soap opera and film. Who also resurrected Quatermass and launched the careers of Lynda la Plante and Sam Neill, and who for her sins, gave the world Eldorado.
The Times and The Guardian give great kudos to Lambert’s contribution to television especially without dwelling on the Who hagiography, but for a change of pace Janet Street Porter’s personal memories of Lambert as printed in The Independent offer something quite diferent and quite worthwhile. Who knew the series’ original guardian angel to be so prickly and obstinate? A testament to her early success, one can imagine – and more than likely, to the Doctor’s also.
The passing of Who biographer Peter Haining may have been felt more keenly several years ago while his works were still very much in circulation. As it is one would be hard-pressed to imagine the likes of The Key to Time or The Time-Traveller’s Guide on bookshop shelves now amid the multiple garish ‘official’ series guides. It’s true that even in the early works Haining’s books appeared alongside those by Jeremy Bentham, Howe Stammers and Walker, and of course John Nathan Turner; but to a good number of fans of a certain age, Haining was the big name, and his books were the gateway into fandom – especially for those not readily able to engage with other fans. My first and only Haining book is 25 Glorious Years which I saw advertised, saved up for and ordered from an Oamaru bookshop, and pored over intently during the series’ silver jubilee year, comparing what little I’d seen of Colin Baker to the photos inside, and wondering what the new Doctor, Sylvester McCoy would be like. As other creative fans have doubtless done I studied the artwork within and attempted to equal Colin Howard’s still masterful pointillistic portraits, and whole fanzines could be filled with the hand copied images of rare or destroyed episodes from an age when there was no Internet, no Wikipedia, no Image Archive to draw from.
Haining’s works became decreasingly influential and necessary as new names entered the arena, but those books were the groundwork for what followed, and beyond Who his cult and telefantasy influence was felt in similar regular guides to the canons of Sherlock Holmes, James Bond and Dracula, and a reliable run of classic ghost stories. As regular and reliable as the typeface titles on those volumes, Peter Haining was fandom’s collator before fandom took over the job and improved on the format, and his presence in the pages of a plethora of fanzines – New Zealand ones included, is a truth seldom acknowledged.
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Here are the results: [table id=94 /] Clearly, Romney has made great strides in South Carolina--aided in part by an endorsement from that state's popular governor and the continued underlying belief that his victory may be inevitable. Here's how each candidate’s supporters responded to the “who will ultimately win” question in the crosstab below. custodia waterproof samsung s9 (Here’s how to read the table: left to right, the first row indicates that 61% of the people who say they support Newt Gingrich think that Newt will indeed be the ultimate winner, while 1 percent of those Gingrich supporters think that Huntsman will ultimately win, and 2 percent think Ron Paul will win…and so on.) Here’s the table: [table id=95 /] As we've seen in Iowa and as others have measured throughout the nation, Romney is increasingly being viewed among the GOP as the one who will prevail. True, if there's a surprise in New Hampshire, shifts can quickly occur in South Carolina, so we'll revisit here soon. custodia con gatti j7 2016 samsung But for now, Romney is hoping that tonight will finally tip over that domino that starts a chain reaction to victory. custodia cover samsung galaxy j5 2016 mirror ----------------------------- NOTE: This poll was paid for by We Ask America Polls™.
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Know Your Enemy: Princeton
The Quinnipiac/Princeton weekend, for the last few years, has become a study in contrasts. It cannot have been easy for the Tigers to face a team on Saturday nights that had just had to up their games to take on one of the very best teams in the nation - not when Princeton has been among the worst. The results kind of bear this out - the Tigers have won only two games on Saturday night of a regular league weekend in the last three years (Clarkson and Yale last year), but honestly, things have just been downright bad in New Jersey for a while now and it's hard to ascribe that futility to Quinnipiac's impact alone. Fortunately, things may be starting to turn in the other direction - slowly.
Nickname: Tigers
Location: Princeton, NJ
Conference: ECAC (Ivy League)
National Championships: 0
Last NCAA Appearance: 2009
Last Frozen Four: None
Coach: Ron Fogarty (3rd season)
2015-16 Record: 5-23-3 (3-16-3 ECAC, 12th place)
Series: RPI leads, 67-33-11
First Game: January 18, 1952 (Troy, NY)
Last RPI win: February 20, 2016 (Troy, NY)
Last PU win: January 10, 2014 (Princeton, NJ)
2016-17 games: December 3, 2016 (Princeton, NJ); February 17, 2017 (Troy, NY)
Key players: D Tommy Davis, sr.; F Ben Foster, sr.; G Colton Phinney, sr.; D Quin Pompi, sr.; F Ryan Siiro, sr.; F Garrett Skrbich, sr.; D Joe Grabowski, jr.; F David Hallisey, jr.; D Matt Nelson, jr.; F Eric Robinson, jr.; F Ryan Kuffner, so.; F Alex Riche, so.; D Josh Teves, so.; F Max Véronneau, so.; F Jackson Cressey, fr.; D Derek Topatigh, fr.
Key losses: F Kyle Rankin, F Mike Ambrosia
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In seven seasons at D-III Adrian, a program that Ron Fogarty started from the ground up, the Bulldogs lost a grand total of 23 times under the tutelage of their first head coach. In two seasons at Princeton, Fogarty has lost 23 times... in both seasons. That's against a grand total of 9 wins across those two campaigns. Things couldn't get more starkly different for the man behind the wheel at Baker Rink.
Princeton has been in the absolute basement of the ECAC for the last three seasons, finishing 8 points behind 11th place in 2014 (twice their point total), and 7 points behind 11th in 2015 (on a total of 6 points). 2016 saw an improvement of sorts, as the Tigers finished just 3 points behind 11th place Brown (on 9 total points), but that's pretty thin.
There is certainly room for hope that this year will be better - perhaps only marginally better, but better nonetheless. Rankin and Ambrosia combined for just 5 goals and 13 assists last year (6th and 7th on the team in scoring, respectively), so their contributions won't be that difficult to replace. Realistically, there's nowhere to go but up, and the lack of "losses" for the Tigers only reinforces that idea.
And there's no doubt that Fogarty's recruits are showing some promise. Kuffner became both the first freshman to lead Princeton in scoring and the first Tiger frosh to post a 20-point season since Andrew Calof did both in 2011. Véronneau's 11 goals were the most by a Princeton freshman since Brett Wilson in 2006. The two freshmen paced what little offense the Tigers were able to put up, followed by sophomores Robinson and Hallisey. This quartet is doing good things at a relatively young experience level, and if they can show more growth in the next season, that only improves Princeton's upward mobility.
This year, there's no one coming in that stands out as a sure thing injection into a team that still has a lot of gaps to fill, but Cressey at least qualifies as a player who's coming in off a very strong season, scoring well over a point per game with Coquitlam of the BCHL as the captain of the Express. Topatigh was also captain of his team in the OJHL, where he led Orangeville as a puck-moving defenseman. Notably, Fogarty's son Jordan also joins the program this year, giving the ECAC two sons playing for their fathers (Harvard's Ryan Donato being the other).
The Tigers' ace in the hole is Phinney, a player that would probably be earning far wider plaudits had he not been playing on the worst team in the league and being compared to guys like Alex Lyon, Kyle Hayton, Jason Kasdorf, and Michael Garteig at the same time. He's been Princeton's MVP practically since his arrival, and his numbers have only improved from year to year. 2.86 and .924 may look plain and average for most strong netminders, but on this team those are fairly impressive, especially the save percentage. He faces a ton of shots and manages to keep a lot of them out - 2,450 saves in three seasons. By way of comparison, Kasdorf made only 2,290 at RPI and had a career save percentage of .920 - below the mark Phinney had last year. That's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, but it's at least illustrative that Phinney is better than he's usually given credit for.
It's hard to see Princeton making vast improvements over what they had last year to the tune of being super competitive in the ECAC this year, but they pieces are certainly in place to at least continue the progression. If Phinney can get any semblance of defensive capacity in front of him, he might be enough to push the Tigers toward a position where they could fight to nab one of the last home playoff spots in the first round, but it'll be a battle for sure. Princeton might be improving, but they're still not quite at the league average just yet. But Ron Fogarty does at least seem to have things moving in the right direction and this could be an entirely different conversation in a year, maybe two.
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Know Your Enemy: Quinnipiac
Well, that has to be the proverbial kick in the plums. For the second time in four seasons, Quinnipiac was one of the last two teams standing in the nation. And for the second time in four seasons, Quinnipiac had to watch someone else raise the national championship trophy, this time at least with the consolation that it wasn't their most hated rivals from literally down the road - and that they finally got to raise a trophy of their own three weeks earlier by finally winning their first ECAC championship.
Nickname: Bobcats
Location: Hamden, CT
Conference: ECAC
Last Frozen Four: 2016
Coach: Rand Pecknold (23rd season)
2015-16 Record: 32-4-7 (16-1-5 ECAC, 1st place)
Series: Quinnipiac leads, 12-6-9
First Game: October 16, 1999 (Albany, NY)
Last QU win: February 19, 2016 (Troy, NY)
2016-17 games: December 2, 2016 (Hamden, CT); February 18, 2017 (Troy, NY)
Key players: D Connor Clifton, sr.; F Tim Clifton, sr.; F Tommy Schutt, sr.; D Derek Smith, sr.; F K.J. Tiefenwerth, sr.; F Tanner MacMaster, jr.; D Kevin McKernan, jr.; F Bo Pieper, jr.; F Landon Smith, jr.; F Andrew Taverner, jr.; F Tom Aldworth, so.; F Scott Davidson, so.; D Chase Priskie, so.; D Luke Shiplo, so.; D Karlis Cukste, fr.; G Andrew Shortridge, fr.
Key losses: F Sam Anas, F Travis St. Denis, D Devon Toews, G Michael Gartieg, D Alex Miner-Barron, F Soren Jonzzon
RPI came so frustratingly close to scoring a season sweep of Quinnipiac - two minutes and 14 seconds, to be exact. That's something no team has done since St. Lawrence and Cornell did it in 2012 - and as noted above, an individual win over the Bobcats by RPI hasn't been accomplished in over six years. Instead, the Engineers secured one measly point. That in and of itself speaks volumes of what the Q was capable of last season. It usually seemed like they were never out of any game they were in, no matter how dire things looked.
And they really weren't. Of their four losses on the season, two were by a single goal, and the other two were games that were within a goal heading into the third period. On Twitter, we started using the slogan "kill it with fire" when talking about the Bobcats, especially after they took a 5-2 deficit at Dartmouth with 15 minutes left and won in regulation (with an empty-netter for extra cushion). One certainly could be excused for giving Quinnipiac every potential to come back from a 4-1 third-period hole in the national championship game against North Dakota, but they'd finally met their match in terms of a defense that could withstand the comeback attempt.
In Anas, St. Denis, and Toews, the Bobcats lose three players that combined for 53 goals (more than Arizona State had all year) and 129 points last season. Jonzzon added another 10 goals. That's a lot of juice right there that's now out the door. A sizable part of the offense. But there's plenty returning - six players who tallied 20 or more points last year (both Cliftons, Landon Smith, Priskie, Tiefenwerth, and MacMaster), and 10 players who scored 5 or more goals. It's possible the Q won't be scoring at will as they were wont to do with some frequency last season, but they're not likely to be even remotely helpless up front.
And there's one other element about last year's Quinnipiac team that made them so good - depth. Shiplo in particular is a great example of that. He played in only 13 games last year and scored five goals in that time, but was frequently unable to crack the lineup despite solid play when he was out there. With Toews gone, expect him to get a lot more playing time this year in a similar role. Cukste comes in as Toews' direct replacement, a Baltic beast from Latvia with size and talent who could well compete for plenty of ice time himself. The depth that the Bobcats had among defensemen certainly is something that will play this year as well.
The situation in net is more unknown. In all likelihood, incoming freshman Shortridge is the favorite - he was the top choice goalie for the BCHL's Vernon Vipers last year, finishing 6th in the league with a .915 save percentage. The other options are junior-transfer Chris Truehl, who started at Air Force in 2014 as a sophomore before deciding that the military life wasn't for him (military service at the academies doesn't become a requirement until starting your junior year), and junior Sean Lawrence, whose numbers in limited appearances backing Garteig certainly leave the door open for the job to be someone else's.
Truehl's transfer to the Q is not unusual - part of what has made the Bobcats successful in recent years has been the ability to draw transfers from other programs. The third-leading scorer on the 2013 national championship game team was Jordan Samuels-Thomas, a transfer from Bowling Green. 2015's squad featured Justin Agosta, who transferred from UNH for one season in Hamden. Junior forward Kevin Duane transfers in this year from BU, and next season the Q gains junior-to-be defenseman John Furgele from UNH.
Quinnipiac looks an awful lot like Yale does coming into the 2017 season, only with far more depth along the blue line - plenty of offensive capacity, with questions between the pipes. If Shortridge, or whoever wins the starting job, is able to emulate the man they're replacing in Garteig, Quinnipiac is probably not going to skip much of a beat from last season - perhaps not quite as dominant after losing some very key forwards, but certainly still a force to be reckoned with. Even if the goaltending isn't as strong, this is still a team that would be shocking to see move outside of the top half of the league.
As mentioned above, Quinnipiac has been a serious bugaboo for the Engineers over the past several years, but RPI does seem to be close to solving that riddle. But there's no doubt at all that Jason Kasdorf's heroic play - he made 73 saves in the two games - was a big part of those games being close. Unless the Engineers get some similar goaltending exploits or manage to exploit differences in the Bobcats' last line of defense, the story may not change much from past experiences.
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Know Your Enemy: St. Lawrence
In the X-Men saga, there's no greater arch-nemesis of the title group than Magneto. He's the perpetual enemy, so ubiquitous that he's been a part of pretty much every X-Men movie that's ever been made. Well known among supervillains that five years ago he topped an online ranking of the greatest comic book villains of all time - and yet, throughout the years, on occasion, he's been one of the X-Men's strongest allies, even at times a member of the team. And that kind of has to be the feeling in Canton right now. For 14 seasons and the beginning of a 15th, Mark Morris led the hated Clarkson Golden Knights, and 11 times over that stretch, he led them to a better finish in the league standings than the Saints - not to mention wins in the 1991 and 1999 ECAC Championship games over SLU. And now he's back - in the ECAC, in the North Country (where he grew up), and leading the charge at St. Lawrence, not Clarkson.
Nickname: Saints
Location: Canton, NY
Coach: Mark Morris (1st season)
2015-16 Record: 19-14-4 (11-8-3 ECAC, 4th place)
Series: SLU leads, 81-57-6
First Game: January 3, 1951 (Troy, NY)
Last RPI win: November 6, 2015 (Canton, NY)
Last SLU win: February 5, 2016 (Troy, NY)
2016-17 games: November 12, 2016 (Troy, NY); January 27, 2017 (Canton, NY)
Key players: D Gavin Bayreuther, sr.; F Woody Hudson, sr.; D Ben Masella, sr.; F Drew Smolcynski, sr.; D Eric Sweetman, sr; D Nolan Gluchowski, jr; G Kyle Hayton, jr.; F Ryan Lough, jr.; F Mike Marnell, jr.; D Matt Purmal, jr.; F Joe Sullivan, jr.; F Michael Laidley, so.; F Jacob Pritchard, so.; F Taggart Corriveau, fr.; D Ben Finkelstein, fr.
Key losses: F Brian Ward, F Tommy Thompson, F Alex Hagen, F Sean McGovern, F Christian Horn
Morris was wildly successful at Clarkson. Never had a losing season in 14 years, with 11 20-win seasons, three ECAC titles, and seven NCAA appearances, including an appearance in the 1991 Frozen Four. And then an incident with a player at a practice in 2002 ended his career in Potsdam. He hasn't stopped coaching since then, stringing a gig at the Northwood School in Lake Placid (2004-06) into the head position with the then-AHL Manchester Monarchs. After eight seasons in Manchester (and seven playoff appearances), he became an assistant with the Florida Panthers, and spent last season as the head coach of the Charlotte Checkers, Carolina's top AHL team. So he's still got that track record as a very successful coach.
He comes in replacing a St. Lawrence grad, Greg Carvel, who left Canton somewhat unexpectedly to become the new head coach at UMass in Hockey East. This, by far, is the biggest news at SLU from this off-season - but it obscures the fact that Morris is inheriting one of the best teams in the ECAC that still has plenty of punch.
With the departures of Alex Lyon, Jason Kasdorf, and Michael Garteig, one could make a very strong argument that Hayton is the best returning netminder in the conference - a guy who would probably could have been a shoo-in for all-ECAC honors in practically any other season given his resume from last year, but was ultimately behind all three of the aforementioned goalies at awards time.
On top of this, there's probably no more stacked blue line in the entire ECAC than at SLU. Three seniors and two juniors - Bayreuther, Masella, Sweetman, Gluchowski, and Purmal - return having played in every or nearly every game last season (Bayreuther and Sweetman in particular have dressed for all 112 games in the last three years). Finkelstein joins the fray as SLU's lone NHL draftee this season, but there are other likely options for the sixth D-man as well, including another senior in Mike Graham who has seen action in exactly half of SLU's games over the last three years. All of that is a combination of experience and talent that no one else in the league can boast.
In 2015, SLU found success with Hayton as the backstop and a balanced attack. The attack last year wasn't quite as effective as that - fewer 10+ point producers, fewer 5+ goal scorers, but not by much. The three leading point-getters, Bayreuther, Smolcynski, and Ward, were a bit more separate from the pack, but again, not by much - and seven of the top 12 scorers from last season return as either juniors and seniors, with another, Pritchard, clearly among the top young forwards in the ECAC heading into his sophomore season. Only two freshmen had as many or more points in league play as did Pritchard, and we've already sung both of their praises - Yale's Joe Snively and Brown's Tommy Marchin.
Ward and Thompson especially may stick out as solid losses for St. Lawrence, but their depth up front should be enough to absorb their absence. About the only area of concern for the Saints is the abysmal power play they had last season. If you thought RPI's power play was bad, you might have missed St. Lawrence, who connected at only 11.8% (against the Tute's almost-as-bad 12.3%) for the year, and crucially went 1-for-17 during a five-game losing streak in January that probably spiked any opportunity SLU had for earning an at-large bid to the NCAAs.
There's frequently a lot of questions that pop up about any team when they have turnover at the head coaching position, but there's almost no one that questions Morris' bonafides, and his constant success as a coach combined with the talent that has already been on display at Appleton Arena in the last couple of seasons leads one to believe there's probably not going to be much of a hiccup - though there's always some risk for a failure for even outstanding coaches to mesh with players he didn't bring in himself, it just feels unlikely here. There's just too much talent in place. The potential exists for bumps down the road, as a pair of SLU recruits have already decommitted (likely to follow Carvel to UMass), but unless Morris suddenly has issues adapting to the changes in the recruiting environment since he left Clarkson, that probably won't be much of an issue, either.
St. Lawrence now has all of the pieces in place and the requisite question marks at opposing schools to make a serious run at the very top of the ECAC, and there's little doubt that they should be among the pre-season favorites to finish atop the league, make a run to Lake Placid, and potentially make their first NCAA appearance in a decade.
It combines to make the North Country, for the first time in quite some time, the feared road-trip it traditionally always was. Give the Saints the slight edge thanks to their advantage in net - and perhaps, with their new ally behind the bench.
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Know Your Enemy: Clarkson
Quick - name the teams that never finished in the top four in the ECAC during the Obama administration. OK, you got Brown, that wasn't hard. You probably said Princeton, which is incorrect (2009). If you're not an RPI fan, you might have said RPI (2013, suckers!). And you probably missed Clarkson because... well, because they're Clarkson and that's abnormal. Really abnormal. They came close last year, missing out by just two points - but it's been eight straight seasons now, twice as long as their previous record for finishing outside the league's top four. That has the serious potential to change this coming season, and not because there's going to be a new occupant in the Oval Office.
Nickname: Golden Knights
Location: Potsdam, NY
Coach: Casey Jones (6th season)
Series: Clarkson leads, 88-50-11
Last RPI win: March 8, 2015 (Potsdam, NY)
Last CU win: February 6, 2016 (Troy, NY)
2016-17 games: November 11, 2016 (Troy, NY); January 7, 2017 (Lake Placid, NY); January 28, 2017 (Potsdam, NY)
Key players: F Jordan Boucher, sr.; F Perry D'Arrisso, sr.; D James de Haas, sr.; F A.J. Fossen, sr.; F Troy Josephs, sr.; G Steve Perry, sr.; D Terrance Amorosa, jr.; F Ben Dalpe, jr.; F Brett Gervais, jr.; F Nic Pierog, jr.; D Kelly Summers, jr.; F Sam Vigneault, jr.; D Aaron Thow, so.; F Devin Brosseau, fr.; F Sheldon Rempal, fr.; D Jordan Schneider, fr.; F Nico Sturm, fr.
Key losses: F Jeff Di Nallo, G Greg Lewis, D Paul Geiger, D Kevin Tansey, F Pat Megannety, F Christian Powers
It's not that Clarkson isn't losing anyone significant from last season - a number of those key losses should be names that even casual ECAC fans should probably recognize. It's more a recognition that the Golden Knights return a solid roster of team players that put together a strong resume last year.
Vigneault led the team last year with 12 goals and 26 points, while Boucher (23 points) and Fossen (18) round out the top three scorers from last season, all returning. They are among 10 skaters returning that notched 10 or more points on the season last year, representative of a decent amount of balance to the Clarkson attack. The blue line boasts three NHL draftees (de Haas, Amorosa, and Summers), all of whom bring size and offensive capacity to the table.
And to all this, add an outstanding freshman class straight out of Don Lucia's nightmares. Seven of nine freshmen will be 21 when the season starts - and the other two will be 20. But they're not just older and more experienced, they've also produced some solid results this past season. Sturm was a top-line center for the USHL champions at Tri-City in addition to having played on Germany's World Junior team, and Schneider comes from a solid bloodline, a son of 20-year NHL veteran Mathieu Schneider who brings additional size and offensive strength to the table. But among the frosh, Rempal and Brosseau should be especially interesting to watch.
Linemates at Nanaimo in the goal-happy BCHL, they've been a package deal practically from the start as they committed to Clarkson on the same day in October 2013. Rempal finished second in the BCHL in scoring last season, and Brosseau was right there with him in fourth, with Brosseau typically feeding Rempal the puck for the finish. Both have really blossomed over the last couple of seasons, to the point that Rempal may be one of the best incoming freshmen in the entire ECAC with Brosseau not far behind. That they arrive with three seasons of chemistry already should give them a leg up in adapting to college play - perhaps practically giving Clarkson another quality scoring line overnight.
The one thing that's probably keeping Clarkson from looking like they're ready to stomp a complete mudhole in the ECAC is the lack of a proven lockdown goaltender. While Princeton over the last three seasons has proven that simply having a strong netminder and nothing else isn't quite a recipe for success, we've seen on several occasions over the last decade - including at RPI - that a big-time goalie can transform a team that's wanting in a few places into one of the better teams in the league, and it's practically a requirement for being at the very top.
Lewis last season more than fit the definition of "acceptable goaltending." His numbers (2.04, .925) didn't rank him amongst the top of the league, but they were enough to keep a strong team in front of him competitive, and that's all Clarkson really needed. Perry saw plenty of action in net last year (as in his first two years), but Lewis was the first-choice goalie, a guy who certainly displayed vast improvement from his freshman and sophomore years, the kind of development you like to see in your goaltenders.
Perry, or incoming freshman Jake Kielly, will need to improve on where Lewis was last season if Clarkson is going to be more reminiscent of the program that was perpetually dominant in the ECAC from the 1960s through the 1990s. Kielly played with Sturm last season and backstopped Tri-City's playoff run to the USHL title, so it wouldn't be unexpected if he gets some solid play right off the bat.
As far as RPI-Clarkson is concerned, the Golden Knights have taken 3 points from the Engineers in each of the last three seasons, a fact that is probably obscured slightly by the fact that RPI has won a playoff series in Potsdam twice in the last five seasons, something which hadn't even happened once before that. But make no mistake - Clarkson is likely to be one of the better teams in the ECAC this coming season, and it's going to make for three very tough wars to be fought in about two months' time. They may not be overwhelming at anything, but they're probably going to be pretty decent at most elements of their game.
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Know Your Enemy: Yale
After thrashing poor Princeton 6-0 on February 26, Yale was 19-5-4 and unbeaten in 16 of 17 with an eight-game winning streak. The next night's game against Quinnipiac would be difficult, of course, since their record and streaks were pretty similar, but the Bulldogs did look ready for deep ECAC and NCAA runs. They got neither, following a 4-1 road loss in Hamden, Yale limped to the end in getting swept by Dartmouth at home in the ECAC quarterfinals and falling in overtime to UMass-Lowell, ending their otherwise strong season with a regrettable four-game losing streak, their worst since a five-game streak in 2013 (which did end up an OK year for them, all things considered).
Nickname: Bulldogs
Location: New Haven, CT
National Championships: 1 (2013)
Coach: Keith Allain (11th season)
2015-16 Record: 19-9-4 (14-5-3 ECAC, 2nd place)
Series: RPI leads, 56-45-6
First Game: January 22, 1909 (Albany, NY)
Last RPI win: November 13, 2015 (Troy, NY)
Last YU win: January 30, 2016 (New Haven, CT)
2016-17 games: November 5, 2016 (Troy, NY); December 9, 2016 (New Haven, CT)
Key players: F Frankie DiChiara, sr.; F Mike Doherty, sr.; F John Hayden, sr.; F Chris Izmirlian, sr.; G Patrick Spano, sr.; F Ryan Hitchcock, jr.; D Adam Larkin, jr.; D Nate Repensky, jr.; F Ted Hart, so.; F JM Piotrowski, so.; F Joe Snively, so.; G Sam Tucker, so.; D Anthony Walsh, so.; F Will D'Orsi, fr.; G Corbin Kaczperski, fr.; D Chandler Lindstrand, fr.; F Luke Stevens, fr.
Key losses: G Alex Lyon, D Rob O'Gara, F Stu Wilson, D Ryan Obuchowski, F Cody Learned, D Mitch Witek, F Carson Cooper
Ouch. That's a lot of important names that are gone, first and foremost Lyon, their all-everything goaltender. In a league that was brimming with some of the nation's top goaltenders, Lyon became the first-ever repeat winner of the ECAC's Ken Dryden Award, the aptly named title for the best netminder in the league. If not for the Hobey Baker season of Harvard's Jimmy Vesey, he would have been a very compelling candidate for ECAC Player of the Year as well. When he was on, Yale was practically impossible to beat. On top of five shutouts, he limited the opposition to just one goal on nine occasions. When you add in a team where 12 players reached double digits in points for the season, and that's a scary prospect to have to tangle with.
That's easily Yale's primary challenge for 2017 - defense. As we've said ad nauseum, a little goaltending can go a long way in the ECAC, and the Elis are moving from a sure thing to a bit of a tossup between the pipes. Kaczperski comes in as Lyon's immediate replacement, but Spano and Tucker will likely also be part of the mix. Spano has appeared in just nine games over three years - but to be fair, he was behind Lyon the whole time. Tucker made no appearances during his freshman season last year, and Kaczperski only just committed in February, likely when it became apparent that Lyon wasn't going to be sticking around. None of the three are obvious choices to either earn the top spot nor obvious to be serving in a backup role - perhaps a bit of a bonus for the Engineers, as they face Yale at home very early in the ECAC schedule, and it's a good bet the role won't be firmly hashed out by then.
The core of Yale's blue line group has been gutted as well with the loss of three seniors in O'Gara, Obuchowski, and Witek. Larkin and Repensky (the latter of which missed 16 games last season to injury) should be the new core, but they'll be leading a plenty young group of defensemen. Yale seems to always find ways to put up a fairly strong defensive front, but they'll be hard pressed to duplicate last year's national best team GAA (1.78) and penalty kill (94.4%) minus the outstanding quartet that they're losing.
The good news is that the Bulldogs still have a ton of offense to choose from. Hayden finally had a breakout season last year in leading Yale with 16 goals, and Snively, the ECAC Rookie of the Year, is a bonafide college star in the making, pacing Yale's balanced attack with 28 points as a freshman.
They do lose some important attacking ability with Wilson (who's already moved on to become the USHL's Director of Hockey Operations) and Learned, not to mention the offensive capacity of O'Gara and Obuchowski, who combined for 100 points for their careers from the blue line, but there are a multitude of options for the Bulldogs in the attacking zone. Six of the 12 who reached double digits in points are back (Snively, Hayden, DiChiara, Hitchcock, Izmirlian, and Doherty), plus it wouldn't be shocking if guys like Ted Hart, Piotrowski (now minus his flow), or NHL draftee Stevens (son of former NHLer Kevin Stevens) filled in the gaps in the attacking balance.
So Yale is probably still at least a little bit scary, but probably not 2013 or 2016 scary. They're in a better position than their travel partners because of their attacking depth, but they'll definitely look more like they're spinning tires by comparison to last season if they don't get a solid defensive front hammered down by the New Year. They could probably win a few track meets, but their traditional set up under Keith Allain has pretty much required defensive success to breed seasonal success.
That probably makes it a very good thing from RPI's perspective that both games against the Bulldogs will come before the New Year - in fact, both well before Christmas. These two squads usually link up for some pretty fun contests, and you have to give the edge to the winner of the battle between RPI's offense and Yale's defense, the expected weaker links coming into the season.
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The Blessed Hope...Do You Have It?
Perhaps, nothing really moves my heart like a thought on eternal destiny of a soul; and for some reason, a soul of a young person - and the same is true to God.
Maybe it's because as young people we're at the peak of life where we're vulnerable to life pressures. Maybe because we're at a point of making major life decisions and just a decision can either make or destroy us - completely. Maybe because we can
easily break down since much is expected of us - from the family, government, industry, God. We're a target of every product for we're a ripe market to almost anything.
Oh the life of a young person! These precious souls! Who shall save us!
It's at this moment the illusions of the blessed hope sharply criss-crosses my mind leaving me feeling miserable, knowing that just a few, a few indeed, of young people have this hope. This hope of salvaging their souls from eternal fire and destruction. The hope of living and reigning for eternity with Christ. Worshiping the maker of the souls forevermore in His very presence!
A good number have died without the hope and thus already missed the chance. You're alive, YOU HAVE THE CHANCE.
It Belongs to You!
Blessed hope is a promise which God, that cannot lie, promised to you before the world began. Yea, God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
You were in His plan, though you were not physically manifested, yet had he purposed and promised to give you a hope and a future.
Now through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we begot the hope...and it's certain we shall live and worship at His throne.
It's your gift! Prepared, designed and appointed just for you!
You can Reject this Gift
Nobody chooses to be given a gift, but one can reject to receive it. And that's what most have done to the gift of God.
As men, we're all undeserving by nature. It's in God's power to save us from eternal judgement and give us unending life. But God had from eternity resolved to do good. And by that, he has given every man, yes, every man, a chance to decide his own fate.
This is true because He has willingly given His son Jesus Christ to die for us and went a step farther to present this knowledge to every individual.
Those that perish do it by their own will by choosing to follow the path of death. God will not be blamed for not saving them against their own will. He that believes shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned. You can choose to accept this gift TODAY.
Careful! It Often Sounds Foolish
Yes, the news on the saving of our soul is often perceived foolishness to them that perish.
Is it true that a man who lived in a poor background in Nazareth can save people; a man who died the death as a punishment for slaves. How he that could not save himself have the powers to save others?
But unto them which are saved this news is the power of God. They are able, by the grace of God, see the truth about Jesus; know the power in Him. It's the only way God brings His promise of blessed hope to pass. It's the only way by which god exerts the power to snatch a soul from the craws of eternal judgement. They are free them that come to Him, for there is no condemnation for them that are in Christ Jesus.
That's why you must be careful to view it as wisdom rather than foolishness, the angle by which most view it. It takes humility to experience the gift of God. The proud shall God reject.
Contend for Your Soul!
I began by saying young people's lives experience exerted pressures from all corners. Virtually, nothing gives us room to breath.
But amidst this atmosphere, we've a hope. We have a chance. We can, at least, decide; decide the destiny of our souls.
Stand firm and contend for your soul! It's so valuable. Don't accept to perish! Against all odds, fight for the salvation of your soul. God has done his part; He has presented the gift to you. The ball is in your court - if to choose or reject the gift. It all depends on your choice. choose wisely, CHOOSE THE BLESSED HOPE.
After that, take an extra mile and remember others - family, friends, colleagues. Pray and fight for them to have a steak in this cake.
Back to you: Do you have the 'blessed hope'? Do you think it's important to you?
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Lil Kim Releases New Single “No Auto Blanco”
Stream Lil Kim’s New Single “No Auto Blanco”
Today 23 April 2019: Lil Kim drops off her brand new single titled “No Auto Blanco.” off her forthcoming album Nine, which has been pushed back by her label.
Kim took to social media to reveal the new development about her album “EOne has pushed back the date of my album y’all if you have an issue take it up with them,” Kim wrote on her Instagram Story. “This has nothing to do with me. I am beyond upset with this and couldn’t wait to show you all what I’ve been working on.”
She went on “Also Spotify is hating on me,” she continued. “I can’t understand why after all of the favors I’ve done for them. Direct all of your energy towards them too.”
While we wait for her her first studio album in 14 years, take a listen to her new single below and share your thoughts.
Meek Mill Deletes Instagram To Focus On ‘Real Life’
New Music: Pink ‘Hurts 2B Human’ feat. Khalid
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Untitled Unmastered. (12" Vinyl)
Kendrick Lamar // Untitled Unmastered. (12" Vinyl)
Top Dawg Entertainment, Alongside Aftermath Entertainment / Interscope Records Release 8 Song 'untitled unmastered.' Project!
Maestro MC Kendrick Lamar drops his surprise new release, 'untitled unmastered.' and follow up to the Grammy award winning, 'To Pimp A Butterfly!'
The 8 song project features studio versions of the untitled songs Kendrick performed on The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and the most recent performance at the 58th annual GRAMMY Awards show.
untitled 01 08.19.2014.
untitled 03 05.28.2013. feat. Terrace Martin, Bilal, Thundercat & Anna Wise
untitled 04 08.14.2014. feat. SZA & Jay Rock
untitled 05 09.21.2014. feat. Anna Wise, Jay Rock & Punch
untitled 06 06.30.2014. feat. Cee-Lo Green
untitled 07 2014 - 2016
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America’s Got Talent: Eric Jones Says David Blaine “Got Me Into Magic”
by 2Paragraphs in Culture | August 22, 2017
Eric Jones on America's Got Talent (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC)
Eric Jones is one of a handful of magicians competing on America’s Got Talent, Season 12. Hours before performing at the Live Shows, Eric posted a video of himself explaining how David Blaine “got me into magic.” Jones says he got to see Blaine do a trick where he had a quarter that he borrowed from the audience, and ripped it in half with his teeth. He showed the audience the severed piece and then spit the other half back on. “Completely restoring the quarter,” says Jones. (Video below.) Since then magic has become Jones’ “obsession.” He’s been practicing magic for over ten years and he’s hoping “it’ll help me win AGT.”
[Related: America’s Got Talent Voting Phone Numbers 2017 — Live Updates]
Jones says for his Live Shows performance, he’s doing something he’s never done before. Keep in mind, during the Judge Cuts, Jones smashed AGT judge Simon Cowell’s buzzer. (At Jones’ audition, Simon said he wished his act was more dramatic. Jones’ second act — with the smashing of his buzzer — won Simon over.) America’s Got Talent airs Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8pm on NBC.
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Biopolymer Green Building Products Deliver Biggest Gains Ever
Milwaukee, WI - In the biggest product launch in the company's 31-year history, InPro Corporation reported today that its new BioPolyPETG+ green building products have led to stunning gains in quotes. InPro will be exhibiting its BioPolyPETG+ line at Booth 761 at the 2010 GreenBuild Expo, November 17-19 in Chicago.
"We've been extremely pleased with the market's acceptance of our new biopolymer sustainable door and wall protection products," said Phil Ziegler, InPro's president. "All six of our domestic regions are now quoting between 20% - 30% of their door and wall business in BioPolyPETG+, with one region quoting at over 90%. For a product that's been on the market for just over seven months, it's spectacular. We're being rewarded once again for our innovative expertise."
Ziegler went on to say that quotation activity reflects a solid stream of future business for the firm. "We're stacking up more business from large, longer-term projects like hospitals and schools thanks to BioPolyPETG+ green building products. So, we will enjoy a solid revenue stream as these projects ramp up," Ziegler said.
In March, InPro rolled out a new line of sustainable door and wall protection products made from a blend of biopolymer and reformulated PETG including recycled content. The green building products are sold at the same price level as InPro vinyl products, and marketed under the BioPolyPETG+ trade name. The products hold GREENGUARD?/SUP> certification for Indoor Air Quality as well as the Children and Schools seal.
All of the raw materials used in their manufacturing process for the BioPolyPETG+ product line come from U.S. based suppliers. No materials are shipped in from overseas, keeping the carbon footprint to a minimum. The new BioPolyPETG+ blend has already obtained its NFPA Class 1 fire rating and the blending of biopolymer also means InPro products may contribute to LEED?/SUP> credit for rapidly renewable material.
InPro's blend of biopolymer and PETG does not contain PBTs. It also is BPA free. InPro uses PETG as a base and blends it with a plant-based biopolymer to give the materials high-impact resistance. The base PETG holds a Silver Cradle to Cradle CertificationCM.
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Landis, Jill Marie
Throughout her dazzling career, bestselling author Jill Marie Landis has consistently written stories filled with unforgettable sensuality, creating characters whose vibrant emotions instantly sweep you into their lives. Now in Heat Wave , Landis turns up the heat and delivers her most riveting novel yet.
Private investigator Kat Vargas once cared about someone so much it hurt. Once she lived a dream life with her first love and fiancé--until betrayal followed by shattering tragedy ended it all. Kat has sworn never to get too close to anyone again. But now the peace and quiet of Twilight Cove is driving the straight-talking, no-nonsense P.I. crazy. Then a prospective new client shows up at the door. Moved by his stubbornness and sincerity, Kat takes his case, breaking a promise to relax, recoup, and rethink her solitary life.
Ty Chandler is desperate to locate the child he fathered nineteen years ago--a child he never knew existed until now. Although he's no stranger to heartache, he is irresistibly drawn to the exotic, vibrantly alluring P.I. Their search not only leads them to Ty's troubled, strong-willed daughter, but into each others' arms. Though Kat courageously works to help Ty reunite his family, she's terrified of confronting a painful secret of her own--one that will cost her the love of the only man capable of tearing down the walls she's built around her heart.
From the tranquil beaches of the central California coast to the fast and furious streets of L.A., Heat Wave is a passionate and heartfelt story of families divided and brought back together, the magic of hope for new beginnings, and the overwhelming power love has to heal even the most battered hearts.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2004.
Branch Call Number: Mystery
Read more reviews of Heat Wave at iDreamBooks.com
Women Private Investigators — California — Long Beach — Fiction.
Long Beach (Calif.) — Fiction.
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FIRES and FLOODS on the Planet: California, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. What is happening to the OCEAN?
FIRES and FLOODS on the Planet: California, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. What is happening to the OCEAN? The climate is changing rapidly, and today everyone on the planet is witnessing a global change. Around the world at the same time occurred many different natural disasters: large-scale floods, hailstorms, heavy snowfalls, tornadoes, warming of the oceans, forest fires, faults in the earth's crust. Are these weather conditions usual or abnormal? What is happening to the planet? And what are the consequences for humanity? Maybe it's time to face the truth? FIRES and FLOODS on the Planet: California, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. What is happening to the OCEAN?
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The climate is changing rapidly, and today everyone on the planet is witnessing a global change. Around the world at the same time occurred many different natural disasters: large-scale floods, hailstorms, heavy snowfalls, tornadoes, warming of the oceans, forest fires, faults in the earth's crust. Are these weather conditions usual or abnormal? What is happening to the planet? And what are the consequences for humanity? Maybe it's time to face the truth?
Every day we see the consequences of floods in the news. Among all natural disasters, floods occupy a leading position in terms of the number of repetitions, the coverage of territories and the total annual economic damage. More about this in the episode of Breaking News on ALLATRA TV.
Flooding in Jordan. On November 9, heavy rainstorms in the south of Jordan caused flooding. About 4 thousand people were evacuated to safe areas. The ancient city of Peter suffered greatly. The reason for such a heavy rain was a cyclone that passed over the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula.
On November 7, a hailstorm hit Saudi Arabia. The stream of large hailstones engulfed the sand dunes. In a country located in tropical latitudes, hailstorms are very rare.
Lyon, Thailand. Interview with an eyewitness of a sudden flood. Examples of mutual assistance of people.
Warming of the World ocean. The study shows that the ocean warming will lead to a decrease in its oxygen concentration, and this will adversely affect the deep-sea habitants. In the oceans there are already hundreds of zones with a minimum amount of oxygen, where neither fish nor plants can survive.
In Antarctica, an iceberg broke off the Pine Island Glacier, located in the west of the continent. In size the giant ice floe is 300 square kilometers.
FRANCE. In France, over the last month tornadoes have become frequent, which used to be rare occurrence for this country. On October 29, tornadoes passed through the municipality of Tanneron in Provence, and on the island of Corsica. The whirlwind brought rain to Corsica: in some areas fell up to 200 mm of precipitation. 300 people were evacuated from the island. And in the night of November 8-9, residents of the southern communes of Lattis and Le Cresis observed a tornado.
On November 11, 2018 residents of two departments of the French region of the Pays de la Loire faced a series of tornadoes.
SOUTH AFRICA. In South Africa since October 24, wildfires are continuing to burn in the Western Cape province. Forest fires have destroyed the Garden Route, a popular coastal route in South Africa that includes more than 200 kilometers of scenic views, national parks and beaches.
USA, California. For more than a week fires have been continuing in California. In the last episode of Breaking News, we talked about the wildfires.
On November 8, large-scale fires began in the state of California (USA). The most extensive fires occurred in the counties of Butte, Ventura, and Los Angeles. According to the latest data (11/17/2018) in the north of California, the CAMPFIRE covered almost 60,000 hectares. The city of Paradise, from which nearly 27,000 people were evacuated, is unsuitable for further residence.
The second powerful fire is raging in Malibu and South Oaks. Fire, which is called WOOLSEY FIRE, has covered almost 40,000 hectares, 548 buildings have been destroyed by the fire. Total evacuation of the population is carried out from the areas where fires spread.
In US, in the state of Oregon, near Mount Hood, scientists have discovered a network of active and dangerous geological faults.
India. From November 3, heavy rain and snowfall hit Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and part of the state of Uttarakhand.
Climate events are becoming more and more global and dramatic - that is today's reality. All processes take place not separately, but in conjunction with each other and, naturally, affect the climate system of the whole planet.
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ITALY: RED DANGER LEVEL. A Hawaiian ISLAND DISAPPEARED! Floods and STORMS: France, Spain, Greece
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How many new or unusual terminology begin to use from recently: Large-scale fires; the second powerful fire; (California, USA); heavy rain (Saudi Arabia; heavy rain and snowfall hit (Jammu and Kashmir). That is today's reality. Thank you for giving true information. There comes an understanding that only by uniting we can adequately survive the coming cataclysms.
Breaking news on climate from all around the world. Always current information and hot news on ALLATRA TV channel. World events, timely information about significant events, what is happening to the planet and how the climate is actually changing. What awaits us in the near future? Are we ready to face global climatic changes, when one part of the planet's population will become refugees, while another will become host party?
CALIFORNIA'S earthquakes! How DANGEROUS is the RIFT across the American mainland? USA, 2019
DISASTERS NOW! The Most Powerful Cyclone IDAI. Floods. Forest Fires. Africa, America, Europe, Turkey
Shockingly rapid Climate Changes across the planet! Australia, Italy, USA, Canada, India
Earth on the Brink of Disaster. Anomalies around the World: Europe, Israel, Egypt. Is there Way Out?
Climate Predictions COME TRUE. Flood in the Desert. Earthquakes, Global Warming
Volcanologists SOUND THE ALARM?! VOLCANOES ARE WAKING UP all around the World: Stromboli, Etna, Krakatau... Special Episode
Volcanic Activity. Hidden Volcanos of Antarctica. Cataclysms in the USA, Indonesia, China, Cyprus
Earthquake in Alaska. Saudi Arabia: Snow in the Desert. Flood in Mecca. Venice goes Under Water
Increasing CATACLYSMS: Typhoons, Floods, Snowfalls, Hail. GUATEMALA: Volcán de Fuego erupts again
FIRES IN CALIFORNIA: emergency evacuation. The cities are burning! An island sinks in JAPAN
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The Whole Truth about the Climate. What the mass media is keeping quiet
Yellowstone and Aira. Disasters on the planet. The climate strikes new records!
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Press and megazines of Andhra Pradesh
Press and megazines of Andhra Pradesh Some important newspapers and megazines published in Andhra Pradesh are as follows: Vaartha Vaartha is a Telugu newspaper headquartered in Hyderabad, India. Vaartha means “news” in Telugu. Vaartha was launched in 1996 with A.B.K Read More …
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Worker, Peasant and Tribal Movement in Andhra Pradesh
October 29, 2017 rawan239
Worker, Peasant and Tribal Movement in Andhra Pradesh:- The role of the Andhras in the Freedom Struggle is next to that of none and they had always been in the forefront along with the rest of the countrymen. The first Read More …
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PAPER – II General Studies 1- History and Cultural Heritage (India & Karnataka ),Social and Political Perspective and Indian Economy – Planning- Rural Development
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Just the Facts: say what you will about Trump, compared to the losers seeking to replace him, I will vote to give him a second term- and I’m a Democrat
Then, we have Kamala Harris, a woman who as California attorney-general sent far more minorities to prison than any equivalent white one who now promotes all manner of social justice and political correctness and who has never met a left-wing fantasy she would be unable to embrace. I seriously do not believe I could punch the voter card for someone as phony and devious as she. She rolls with the flow and will not chart her own course.
Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CULINARY POLITICS-ELEMENTAL NEWS OF THE DAY COMMENTARY-OPINION-SPORTS-FOOD SERVICE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2019 BY CHEF HECTOR SANTANAMOS DE SOTO
“Just the Facts: say what you will about Trump, compared to the losers seeking to replace him, I will vote to give him a second term- and I’m a Democrat” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
As bad as Trump might seem to many, most of the Democrats seeking to replace him are…sadly, far worse
Shafter, CA, 03-24-2019 Sunday: Buenas dias, mis amigos, bienvenidos to the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day. Yesterday, we discussed 2020 candidate, Democrat Andrew Yang, how the man wants to bless every American (and I suspect illegal alien) with a check for one grand a month, no strings attached. Wow. Sign me up…yeah, right. Anybody who falls for ignorance such as this deserves what he or she gets.
Who else is seeking the nomination of the esteemed Democratic Party? Well, Bernie Sanders is out there singing the same old siren’s song, free this, free that, living in harmony with nature, communing with alien spirits, bringing the joys of Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism to a town or city near YOU (along with the inevitable GULAGS).
Now, I thought that in order for Senator Sanders to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party, the old guy had to forego his independent status and re-register to be a Democrat as otherwise, how could he be the standard-bearer of the party if he weren’t a member of said party? Still awaiting word from DNC boss Tom Perez. Tom?
Before Bernie officially announced he would be a candidate for 2020, we have had some others throw their hats in well before him, relative unknowns such as FORMER Congressman John Delaney of Maryland. Our blog has bestowed the nickname of “Nobody Knows Me” on the former congressman who seems rather moderate but as far as looks go, bow-wow– he looks like a slope-headed, cave troll. What woman would vote for this fellow, I haven’t a clue.
Then we have Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, perhaps among the most solid candidates out there, someone who does not drive quite the same spike of fear into one’s soul as most of the other liberal demagogic candidates do. A military veteran who served overseas in, I believe, Iraq, she has military experience which is something the Framers of the Constitution should have made mandatory to becoming president of the United States.
As far as Congresswoman Gabbard goes, for all I know- she could be out of the race already as no one I know has heard a peep from her- she would be a superb candidate. I know Chef Cheryl- (lovingly known around here as “Chef Cherry”), is all agog about her but since she has some anti-LGBTQ statements in the closet of her past, she already is far behind in the running, which is sad, folks, very sad.
Then, we have a fellow Latino in Julian Castro who announced back on January 12 of this year that he was in it to win it. Oh, boy, I think he expects fellow Latinos to leap into bed with him but if there is one thing I know about my Latino brethren is that when one rises above the rest, the rest pull them back down instead of continuing to push him (or her) up. Already, the poor guy is hanging around the fringes and like Ms. Gabbard, could find himself out of the race before it even heats up.
Then, we have Kirsten Gillibrand, a senator from New York who were it not for the likes of Bill Clinton looming behind her (along with disgraced sexual degenerate Harvey Weinstein- on trial for rape)- she would not even be a contender.
The righteous, self-appointed defender of women– ‘we believe survivors’- has problems in her own inner circle of female complaints about male co-workers going nowhere or worse, forcing the complainant to leave while the perpetrator continues his work, which demonstrates just what a hypocrite this ‘guardian of ALL women is.’ Besides, I do not know if I could tolerate listening to her high-pitched, squeaky voice anymore than I could have listened to Hillary’s were she to be president. Sexist? You bet.
Then, there’s “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg, war veteran, gay fellow, a guy who makes more sense than most of the other lefties running for the presidency. I do not believe we are ready as a nation to have a gay president any more than we are ready to have a Muslim one. I think either possibility would diminish our standing in the world, outside Western nations, as the Third World has not proven they are as accepting as well, we are, when it comes to gays. Still, many people say that Mayor Pete is ‘the one to watch.”
Cory Booker, New Jersey senator, is one whom I do not believe has an opportunity to even be vice president. Like many of the others, he never saw a far-left proposal he did not immediately adopt (although there is some hem-hawing over banning the Electoral College). The dude has a reputation for being ‘frisky’ around other men in public bathrooms which is disturbing enough although he tries to quell questions about his sexuality by claiming to date Rosario Dawson who looks rather, uh, manly, herself.
Amy Klobuchar entered the fray not long after the others and she is another one whom I cannot see has a chance at winning anything, even the vice president’s spot just like Elizabeth Warren. I think both these women can go about busting their liberal chops on the campaign trail but will end up fizzling out as they are both, uh, bitches.
Then, we have a pair of forgettable governors, Jay Inslee and John Hickenlooper. Neither one is going anywhere just as I think Robert Francis “Hand Jive” O’Rourke won’t. I mean, a guy who could not beat Ted Cruz, a guy who started eating New Mexican dirt because of its ‘curative qualities,’ and a guy who passed off a green baby turd as an avocado to his wife, we want someone like him in the White House?
In closing, I suspect it will fall to Joe Biden as the once ‘Crazy Joe’ now seems to be the only sane candidate among a pack of losers, bums, and dare I say it, bitches. I have also heard that Bill Di Blasio might enter the race which is ridiculous but I would love to see ALL these candidates tearing one another apart in the debates. It is going to be fun and in the end, I most likely will vote for President Trump.
We will meet again later in the year- I will see you then.
El Chilote
Hector Santanamos “El Chilote” De Soto
CEC, ACF, current member of the Golden Chefs Association, former member of the Maui Chefs’ Society, former member of the Washington State Chefs’ Association.
As have the rest of my colleagues, local Bakersfield street artist, Simone, created these portraits of me that you will see over successive days here at the blog. I guess Simone did ‘okay’ in capturing my likeness; I guess it could have been worse. I was a young cook back in the early 1960’s when I commenced my culinary career. I served underneath a Master Chef for many years before striking out on my own. I went up the coast of the Western United States and Canada, working all the way, until I made it to Alaska. From there, I moved to Hawaii for a couple of years (1994-1997) before I returned to Washington State and it was there that I met Stinkbug.
El Chilote writes from Shafter, California.
El Chilote is a moderate Democrat.
Contact me at elchilote2121N@yahoo.com
03-24-2019 Sunday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLIII: “Say what you will about Trump, compared to the losers seeking to replace him, I will vote to give him a second term- and I’m a Democrat” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
De Soto, Hector Santanamos “Say what you will about Trump, compared to the losers seeking to replace him, I will vote to give him a second term- and I’m a Democrat.” Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLIII
El Chilote, Political Topics and Essays, Queen, Roger Taylor, Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, Tom Perez, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg,
TODAY IN HISTORY—MARCH 24, 2019:
The Bee Gees featuring Colin Petersen, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones featuring Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Spooky Tooth featuring Mike Kellie, Supertramp featuring Dougie Thompson, and WAR featuring Lee Oskar:
1545: The German Parliament opens in Worms.
1603: Scottish King James VI, son of Mary Queen of Scotts, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.
1664: Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1765: Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British
1832: A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred, and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith, Jr., and Sidney Rigdon.
1837: Canada gives blacks the right to vote on this date.
1868: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company underwent founding on this date.
1878: The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks resulting in the loss of 300 sailors.
1880: The first ‘hail insurance company’ incorporated in Connecticut. People came to know the company as Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance Company.
1882: German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.
1883: The first telephone call between New York and Chicago takes place on this date.
1887: Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey).
1898: The first automobile goes on sale on this date.
1900: Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan with Brooklyn.
1906: The Census of the British Empire demonstrates that Britain rules one-fifth of the world.
1913: New York’s Palace Theater, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway.
1920: The U.S. Coast Guard established its first air station at Morehead City, N.C.
1924: Greece becomes a republic on this date.
1934: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippine
1941: During World War II, German troops occupy El Agheila, Libya.
1944: In occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German Meanwhile, 811 British bombers attack Berlin. Elsewhere, in what the world would come to know as “The Great Escape,” 76 Allied officers manage to escape from Stalag Luft 3, the POW camp in which, the Germans held them.
1946: Future drummer with the Bee Gees (1967-1969)—Colin Petersen—is born in Australia on this date.
1947: Mike Kellie—future drummer of the psychedelic blues band, Spooky Tooth—was born in England on this date. Elsewhere, the United States Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to no more than two terms.
1948: Future harmonica-player Lee Oskar who would perform for decades with the soul-rock-funk-jazz band, WAR—is born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on this date.
1951: Dougie Thompson—future drummer with the British rock band, Supertramp 1972-1988—was born in England on this date.
1955: The first seagoing oil-drilling rig went into service. Elsewhere, Tennessee Williams’ play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” debuted on Broadway on this date.
1958: Rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley underwent induction into the Army in Memphis, Tennessee.
1962: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys.
1965: Ranger 9, a lunar probe launched three days earlier by NASA, crashed into the moon (as planned) after sending back more than 5,800 video images.
1967: The University of Michigan holds 1st “Teach-in” after bombing of North Vietnam.
1972: Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1975: Muhammad Ali scores a TKO over Chuck Wepner in the 15th round to win the heavyweight boxing title of the world.
1980: One of El Salvador’s most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, died when shot by a sniper as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador.
1988: Former national security aides Oliver North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Iran-Contra (North and Poindexter suffered conviction, but had their verdicts thrown out; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count under a pleas bargain).
1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.
1991: Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait.
1998: Two students ages 13 and 11 opened fire outside Jonesboro Westside Middle School in Arkansas, killing four classmates and a teacher. (Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden were imprisoned by Arkansas until age 18, then by federal authorities until age 21. However, Johnson has since been returned to prison on unrelated charges).
1999: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign nation. Elsewhere, thirty-nine people died when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.
2011: Kenya opens the Africa Carbon Exchange, the first carbon exchange in Africa to exchange carbon credits.
2012: S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum wins the caucuses in the state of Louisiana. Meanwhile, China announces its plan to phase-out the practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners.
2013: In Paris, hundreds of thousands of people protest the legalization of same-sex marriage in France, after the protest turns violent, the authorities deny them access to the Champs-Elysees.
2014: A lawsuit against Lance Armstrong undergoes dismissal; after he admitted to doping, the plaintiffs sued, claiming that they bought energy-drink maker FRS Co. believing that the drinks endorsed by Armstrong had been the key reason for his cycling success.
2015: Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, crashed into the French Alps killing all 150 people onboard; investigators said the 27-year-old co-pilot deliberately downed the aircraft due to mental issues.
Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, Mike Kellie, Spooky Tooth, Lee Oskar, WAR, Dougie Thompson, Supertramp, Elvis Presley, the Bee Gees, Colin Petersen, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys, Just the Facts, Hector Santanamos De Soto, El Chilote, Political Topics and Essays, Queen, Roger Taylor, Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, Tom Perez, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Rosario Dawson, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bill Di Blasio, Robert Francis “Hand Jive” O’Rourke, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, “Say what you will about Trump, compared to the losers seeking to replace him, I will vote to give him a second term- and I’m a Democrat” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto,
CHEF HECTOR SANTANAMOS’ BLOGPOSTS @ THE AICP-END BLOG 2011-2019:
02-21-2011 M: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part IV: El Chilote rejoins the Blog by presenting his First Article for the Audience’s Consideration: Turkey Cutlets with Homemade Gravy and Fresh Cranberry Sauce—Magnificently Delicious and Soul-Satisfying!” by Chef El Chilote.
02-24-2011 Th: “Sandwich Seminar, Part II: The Crab Melt, the Monte Cristo, El Chilote’s Clubhouse Sandwich, Goldie’s Knockwurst, Bay Shrimp Taco, and Bay Shrimp Quesadilla” by El Chilote.
03-17-2011 Th: “Appetizers Index, Part I: Chef El Chilote returns for his Second Engagement and commences a Series on Appetizers: Appetizers, a Pain in the Chef’s Ass but True Money-Makers, Part I” by Chef El Chilote.
03-18-2011 F: “Appetizers Index, Part II: Today, the Chef shows the Readership how to make one of the Best Appetizers anywhere in the World: Calamari Greek-Style, Appetizers, Part II” by Chef El Chilote.
03-19-2011 S: “Appetizers Index, Part III: today’s Appetizer is one of the All-Time Best: Fresh Dungeness Crab Cocktail—the Best the Ocean has to deliver!” by Chef El Chilote.
03-20-2011 Su: “Appetizers Index, Part IV: Chef Chilote teaches the Readership how to make one of the Best Crab Cake Mixes the World has ever seen and one he created himself!” by Chef El Chilote.
03-21-2011 M: “Appetizers Index, Part V: Today, the Chef teaches the Readership HOW to make the Ultimate Crab-and-Artichoke Dip, something upon which, he’s based his Worldwide Fame—Join us now!” by Chef El Chilote.
06-05-2011 Su: “Soup Seminar, Part II—Ground Beef and Three-Bean Soup” by El Chilote.
06-06-2011 M: “Soup Seminar, Part III—Cream of Asparagus and Cream of Onion Soups” by El Chilote.
06-07-2011 T: “Soup Seminar, Part IV—Old-Fashioned Vegetable Soup with Barley and Cabbage Soup” by El Chilote.
07-02-2011 S: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XV: Halibut topped with Crab and Artichokes—One of the Best Seafood Dishes of all Times” by El Chilote.
07-22-2011 F: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXIII: Maple-Graham Bread—a Mélange of Flavors combined together in One Tasty Bread” by El Chilote.
11-07-2011 M: “Special Menus, Part XV: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part I—Holiday Roast Turkey Preparation and Parsnip-Apple Stuffing” by El Chilote.
11-08-2011 T: “Special Menus, Part XVI: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part II—Turkey Stock, Turkey Gravy, and Seasoning Mixes” by El Chilote.
11-09-2011 W: “Special Menus, Part XVII: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part III—Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Whipped Red Potatoes top the Menu for Today” by El Chilote.
11-10-2011 Th: “Special Menus, Part XVIII: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part IV—Candied Parsnips and Buttered Peas with Ham and Apples—Two “Must’s” for any Thanksgiving Table” by El Chilote.
11-11-2011 F “: Special Menus, Part XIX: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part V—Fresh Cranberry Sauce and Blue Cornmeal Muffins—do not forget these Two!” for any Thanksgiving Table” by El Chilote.
11-12-2011 S: “Special Menus, Part XX: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part VI—Homemade Pumpkin and Mincemeat Pies with Brandy Sauce and Fresh Whipped Cream” by El Chilote.
11-13-2011 Su: “Special Menus, Part XXI: Thanksgiving Dinner, Part VII—Waldorf Salad, Green Salad, and Other Odds’n’Ends for the Thanksgiving Day Spread” by El Chilote.
04-16-2012 M: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLI: Red Snapper d’ Gruene Mansion—a Fabulous Country Club Dish from New Orleans” by El Chilote.
04-17-2012 T: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLII: El Chilote sells out his Latino Heritage—the one-and-only Panko-breaded Seafood Platter with Tartar and Cocktail Sauces—delightfully Good” by El Chilote.
04-18-2012 W: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLIII: Northwest Cioppino—one of the All-Time Great Mixed Seafood Dishes in a Savory Tomato Sauce as only El Chilote can Prepare” by El Chilote.
04-19-2012 Th: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLIV: The Best Australian Lobster Tail Presentation Ever” by El Chilote.
04-20-2012 F: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLV: Shrimp Denise—Jumbo Shrimp wrapped with Bacon and served amidst a Pool of Brown Sauce—Country Club Cookery at its Best” by El Chilote.
04-21-2012 S: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLVI: Filets of English Sole Bonne Femme—a Classic Creation by the Great French Chef Auguste Escoffier” by El Chilote.
04-22-2012 Su: “Famous Restaurant Recipes, Part XLVII: Blackened Red Snapper accompanied by Roasted Red Pepper and Cilantro Aioli and Roasted Onion Tartar Sauce—a Tribute to Cajun Chef Paul Prudhomme” by El Chilote.
10-15-2012 M: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XXXV: Everybody’s Favorite Chef, El Chilote, picks up where Stinkbug left off with MORE Institutional Sizes—German-Style Potato Pancakes” by El Chilote.
10-16-2012 T: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XXXVI: El Chilote resurrects a Middle Eastern Classic—Lentil Pilaf—bursting with Delicious Health!” by El Chilote.
10-17-2012 W: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XXXVII: El Chilote tackles Risi Bisi, an amazingly Wonderful Italian Rice Dish in an Institutional Size!” by El Chilote.
10-18-2012 Th: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XXXVIII: El Chilote updates an Old Favorite previously seen on the Pages of the Elemental News of the Day—Gratin de Tierre a` la Crecey but in a New, Institutional Size!” by El Chilote.
10-19-2012 F: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XXXIX: El Chilote does it again by Updating another Favorite Potato Dish—Sour Cream Potato Casserole in an exciting Institutional Size!” by El Chilote.
10-20-2012 S: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XL: El Chilote presents an Original Auguste Escoffier Potato Classic—Scalloped Potatoes in an Institutional Size!” by El Chilote.
10-21-2012 Su: “Side Dish Seminar, Part XLI: El Chilote concludes his Week-long Excursion in Institutional Sizes by showing us how to make Hickory-Smoked Potatoes, enough to Feed 30-to-40 People!” by El Chilote.
05-13-2013 M: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXIV: El Chilote arrives to do a Weeklong Seminar of Baking Box Cake Mixes topped with Homemade Frostings—better than anything anyone else can do!” by El Chilote.
05-14-2013 T: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXV: Today, El Chilote teaches the Readership how to make Quick Chocolate Frosting—essential for Bakers no matter their Skill Level!” by El Chilote.
05-15-2013 W: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXVI: Our Topic for today is Chocolate Buttercream Frosting but first we discuss the Horrendous Events surrounding last Week’s Discover of the Three Missing Women held Captive in Cleveland, Ohio, for a Decade!” by El Chilote.
05-16-2013 Th: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXVII: today’s Frosting Recipe is the Original Cream Cheese Frosting—perfect for not only Carrot Cakes but for all Vegetable-based Cakes, too—extraordinary!” by El Chilote.
05-17-2013 F: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXVIII: today’s Frosting Recipe is the perfect Topping for Betty Crocker’s Cherry Chip Cakes or Cupcakes—Cherry Buttercream Frosting—better than any other Chef’s around the World, so says Chef El Chilote!” by El Chilote.
05-18-2013 S: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXIX: Saturday is the Perfect Day for another Excellent Cupcake Presentation, this one featuring Chocolate Cupcakes topped with White Buttercream Frosting—an Excellent Blend of Delightful Flavors!” by El Chilote.
05-19-2013 Su: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part LXXX: our Week concludes with Lemon Cupcakes topped with Lemon Buttercream Frosting—the Best of the Best—beyond a Doubt” by El Chilote.
01-13-2014 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One: We begin a Weeklong Political Discussion as Chef Hector discusses Illegal Alien, California Lawyer, Sergio Garcia—NOT a Good Thing in Chef Hector’s Eyes!” by Hector Santanamos.
01-14-2014 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two: Today’s Topic is the Fear many Democrats share regarding the ‘All or Nothing’ Strategy the Modern-Day Democrat Party is using and what its Possible Outcome might be!” by Hector Santanamos.
01-15-2014 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Three: Immigration, the Bracero Program, Obamacare, and the Middle East are the Topics of the Day” by Hector Santanamos.
01-16-2014 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Four: Saving the Nation is going to take a Great Deal of Hard Work and if I were the Republicans, I’d get onboard with the Democrats and the sooner, the better!” by Hector Santanamos.
01-17-2014 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Five: Today, El Chilote commences discussing Possible Democrat Party Strategies to save the Party in November, begins discussing Dem Senators at Risk, and Today: The First Day of the Super Group, CREAM!” by Hector Santanamos.
01-18-2014 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Six: Chef Hector continues looking at which Senators are Safe, and which are at Risk on the Democrat Party Side of the upcoming 2014 Mid-Term Elections—Elections we MUST win to continue the Liberal Cause!” by Hector Santanamos.
01-19-2014 Su: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Seven: Chef Hector concludes the Discussion of Democrat Senators at Risk in the Fall, begs Everyone to Climb onboard with him in Supporting the Democrat Party, NOW and Forever!” by Hector Santanamos.
06-16-2014 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Fifty-Five: El Chilote arrives to begin the Summer Session 2014 in earnest and presents the Best in Political Cartoons as well as defends President Obama against ALL GOP Assaults!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
06-17-2014 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Fifty-Six: Summer Session 2014 continues as Chef Hector begs for MORE Democrats to become Contributors and as Followers as we need YOU PLUS more Political Cartoons for your Viewing Pleasure!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
06-18-2014 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Fifty-Seven: if the North American Union became a Reality, we would no longer have to Fear Illegal Immigrants as there would be NONE, we would all be Citizens of the Same Country PLUS More Political Cartoons!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
06-19-2014 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Fifty-Eight: The Summer Session 2014 Continues as Chef Hector shares some more Political Cartoons but also looks at the Tea Party’s Destruction of a useful Democrat Ally, Congressman Eric Cantor!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
06-20-2014 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Fifty-Nine: The Chef discusses the Comparisons between Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, then moves onto the Summer Session’s Political Cartoons!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
06-21-2014 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Sixty: El Chilote launches into a Political Dialogue about the Disasters besetting the Middle East, how they are the Responsibility of George W. Bush, and WHY Barack Obama has to avoid involving himself or the U.S.!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
06-22-2014 Su: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Sixty-One: El Chilote puts the Finger on Israel for ALL the Problems the United States and the Middle East suffers and says that Once they do what WE want them to do, all of our Problems Will Vanish!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
08-18-2014 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Eighteen: Chef Hector is not excited about the Children’s Invasion of our Southern Border, wants them sent Home NOW, then discusses the desirability of Hillary Clinton as our Next President come 2016!” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
08-19-2014 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Nineteen: NO Politics today as Chef Hector remembers Robin Williams with all the Love the Man deserved and with Hope that Others do not find themselves trapped in Similar Circumstances—we need to help ALL who suffer from Depression and Mental Illness” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
08-20-2014 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Twenty: although opposed to War, Chef Hector applauds the Actions of President Obama when it comes to fighting Islamists on the Ground in Iraq—blow them off the Face of the Earth, Mr. President!” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
08-21-2014 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-One: El Chilote does a Complete About-Face as he laments the Implosion of the Democrat Party thanks to everyone jumping Ship and leaving the President to an End of his own making!” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
08-22-2014 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Two: after discussing Weather Differences between Washington State and California, Chef Hector then goes onto discuss the Nastiness of asking Ruth Vader Ginsburg to throw in the Towel before she wants to!” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
08-23-2014 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Three: El Chilote laments the Decline of the World, one in which, the Darkness takes over, leading us to the New World Order as told by Late Night Radio Talk Show Hosts!” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
08-24-2014 Su: “Political Topics and Essays, Part Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Four: El Chilote ends the Week criticizing Democrat Hacks like Kirsten Powers who says, ‘All is Well aboard the Obama-Titanic;’ everything is messed up!” by Chef Hector Santanamos.
05-11-2015 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLIX: Hector is happy to return but is a Trifle dismayed at how quickly Hillary Clinton’s Candle is fizzling, this does not bode well for the Democrat Party in 2016” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
05-12-2015 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLX: Chef Hector discusses the News of the Day and how Democrats should feel Lucky that 2014 was not a Presidential Election Year but a Mid-Term Election—we might have had Donald Trump in the White House!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
05-13-2015 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXI: Hector discusses the alarming Situation in Baltimore, how State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby may have thrown Charges against the Wall hoping that something will stick” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
05-14-2015 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXII: Chef Hector stands up for Pamela Geller’s Right to lampoon the Phony Prophet of Islam by drawing his Face and that if Islam wants our respect they must throw out all of their Jihadis perverting their so-called ‘Religion of Peace’” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
05-15-2015 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXIII: if the Democrats continue doing what they are doing in California, we might see a MASSIVE Electoral Shift towards the Right NEXT November—Sacramento, WAKE UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
05-16-2015 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXIV: Hector sees a Seismic Shift coming Next Year in California’s November 2016 Elections ALL because the Democrat Party cannot do the right thing and sever all ties with the Environmentalists and do what’s right” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
05-17-2015 Su: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXV: What is becoming of the United States when we will not stand by First Amendment Rights of EVERY Citizen but will instead pick and choose who can and who cannot express them—such as with Pamela Geller” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos.
03-28-2016 M: “Even though it is a NEW Week, it is still a Holiday for us at the AICP-END Blog so today, we continue with our presentation of the Moody Blues Albums as well as some Brief Comments by Hector on the Political Situation” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Miscellaneous Articles Index, Part XXXII
03-29-2016 T: “El Chilote discusses the Rise of Bernie Sanders, the Need to Control the Southern Border, and that being a Native-Born Hispanic and Lifelong Democrat does not make me Unpatriotic” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCV
03-30-2016 W: “America must DENY Transsexuals the Right to use the Bathrooms of the Opposite Sex as it allows Pedophiles and Rapists the Right to come into Close Proximity with the People they seek to victimize—what is wrong with the Country?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCVI
03-31-2016 Th: “I watched the ‘Trump Tape’ and did not see Corey Lewandowski do ANYTHING to Michelle Fields—who clearly made a Pest of Herself—so I think that she and her Number One Defender, Mark Levin, need to shut the hell up and get on with Life” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCVII
04-01-2016 F: “Chris Matthews clobbered Donald Trump with his Rat-a-Tat-Tat Questions on ‘should there be punishment for Women who have gotten Abortions?’ and yet, why do we need this Barbarity as a Plank in the Democrat Party’s Platform?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCVIII
04-02-2016 S: “The Badger State will be, yet another Nail into the Coffin of Hillary Clinton’s Political Future as will be Most—if NOT All—of the Caucus/Primary Contests following this Tuesday—Adios, Mrs. Clinton!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCIX
04-03-2016 Su: “We conclude our Week with the Presentation of MORE Albums by the Moody Blues as we work at incorporating their Discography here at the Main Blog from the Secondary Art Blog” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Miscellaneous Articles Index, Part XXXIII
09-19-2016 M: “I long for a REBIRTH of the Old-Style Democratic Party—MY Party—and hope that once we put Donald Trump in the White House, the Experiment with Socialism will abate” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXI
09-20-2016 T: “Pay no attention to the Liberal News Media and what they say about Donald Trump because they are little more than Leftwing Losers, Hacks, and Scumbags—I have seen the Light!” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXII
09-21-2016 W: “Thanks to the Dictatorship in Sacramento, California has fallen into decline as our Nanny-State Leaders seek to legalize Recreational Pot and to strip our rights to use Plastic Bags” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXIII
09-22-2016 Th: “American must demand that Election Officials reduce the amount of Time Political Campaigns can go on as well as the Number of Candidates who can participate in them—Elections are NOT a New Form of Sports!” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXIV
09-23-2016 F: “This past Weekend, we saw SEVERAL Acts or Attempted Acts of Terrorism, which is NOT Good for the Hillary Campaign or the Legacy of President Obama; they are ‘Good’ for Donald J. Trump!” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXV
09-24-2016 S: “George Soros is ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ lurking behind the Curtains while instigating and funding all of the Insanity we see happening in the Streets around us—he needs to end up like Benito Mussolini did” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXVI
09-25-2016 Su: “Whether it is Skittles or Good and Plenty, Good and Fruity, Mike and Ike, even Kool-Aid, it matters not—what matters is that bringing Hordes of Muslim Refugees into the USA is DANGEROUS” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXVII
03-13-2017 M: “What is wrong with the Republicans—we do not want a Replacement for Obamacare, we want NO Obamacare—it is a failure” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXI
03-14-2017 T: “I no longer hire Millennials because the demand for $15 an Hour for people who know nothing and are crybabies has cut them off from most employment” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXII
03-15-2017 W: “Obama sold us a bill of goods when it came to Obamacare, but the GOP is going to face even greater consequences in 2018 if they fail to heed the American people and repeal the Affordable Care Act, not replace it” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXIII
03-16-2017 Th: “Rachel Maddow’s BIG Scoop turned out to be a dumpster load of cow crap splashed across her ugly mug—how entertaining!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXIV
03-17-2017 F: “Barack Obama deliberately allowed the world to go to hell knowing that whoever followed him would most likely be unable to fix it; Trump, however, can and will” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXV
03-18-2017 S: “If California allows its teachers to become tax exempt from state taxes, that means that you and I will be the ones picking up the tax deficiency—what a load of crap” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXVI
03-19-2017 Su: “The Top-Two Vote-Getter System that assures that Two Democrats will go head-to-head for all Statewide Races in the General Election could be an STD coming to your State soon” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MXXVII
09-04-2017 M: “How soon before we see Antifa beheading videos on television, you know, when they begin decapitating captured ‘enemies’ they deem worthy of a knife across the throat—not that far away, I predict” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCXCIV
09-05-2017 T: “Have California Democrats forgotten the lesson the recall of Governor Gray Davis taught them? It seems that way but levy a tax on drinking water and you will see it again—for ALL of them” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCXCV
09-06-2017 W: “Until a scientist discovers the elusive ‘gay gene,’ the LGBTQ community must stop persecuting Christian bakers and others unwilling to do business with them” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCXCVI
09-07-2017 Th: “A Book by H. W. Koch proves one important fact: Nazism and Socialism are one and the same, they just vary from one another in very minor ways” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCXCVII
09-08-2017 F: “If people injured by Antifa or other leftwing groups sued police departments, local, county, state, or federal government for failing to enforce law and order, this crap would immediately stop” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCXCVIII
09-09-2017 S: “President Trump did the ‘right thing’ in handing DACA over to the Republican-controlled Congress, for them to make into law or to toss into the trash can so why are people angry with the President?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCXCIX
09-10-2017 Su: “2016 demonstrated that millions of Republicans AND Democrats want what Donald Trump was peddling so it behooves us to see the President reaching out a hand to the Democrats” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCC
03-12-2018 M: “What California needs is for a pest control service to tent the entire state, pump in poisonous gas, and exterminate every far left, obnoxious liberal bedbug as they scurry for the safety of the woodwork” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCCLXXVII
03-13-2018 T: “The hoped-for BLUE WAVE the Democrats proclaim is not going to occur this year, or in 2020, or beyond if the ONLY thing for which we stand is TRUMP-HATRED” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCCLXXVIII
03-14-2018 W: “The Democratic Party has had it out for the Trump administration from the start and targeted Secretary Tillerson early on so why now does POTUS firing him have them so discombobulated?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCCLXXIX
03-15-2018 Th: “The Democratic Party needs a rebirth of Blue Dog Democrats to counter the far-left loonies destroying the party, so I hope Connor Lamb is who he claims to be and not just another Nancy Pelosi-loving hack” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCCLXXX
03-16-2018 F: “Hillary, we get it, you are angry because you lost the election but now is the time to put the bitching and moaning tour up and go off to the retirement home for failed politicians” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCCLXXXI
03-17-2018 S: “Once an oasis of progress and sanity, California now is an open sewer thanks to one-party rule by a cabal of Marxist-Leninist, illegal alien-loving Democrats” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCCLXXXII
03-18-2018 Su: “In two days spring arrives as well as the first day we begin promoting the music of the great British hard-rock-psychedelic blues band, Deep Purple” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Miscellaneous Articles Index, Part LVII
09-17-2018 M: “On November 6, stop Gavin Newsom by voting for John Cox- we cannot provide free health care to alien noncitizens” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXV
09-18-2018 T: “To court the far-left, Dianne Feinstein has gone off her rocker, which is why I will hold my nose and vote for her ultra-liberal challenger, Kevin DeLeon in November” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXVI
09-19-2018 W: “Here’s what I think: Christine Blasey Ford is the one who made moves on Brett Kavanaugh and he is the one who rebuffed her, earning her lifelong animosity and enmity” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXVII
09-20-2018 Th: “National sanity demands that we have ONE system of justice for all and ONE president at a time presiding over ONE foreign policy” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXVIII
09-21-2018 F: “What happened in Texas this past Tuesday is going to happen across the entire United States on November 06, 2018” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXIX
09-22-2018 S: “Had Senator Feinstein released the letter against Judge Kavanaugh on Day One of the hearings, I would have trusted it whereas now, I see it as little more than the politics of personal destruction” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXX
09-23-2018 Su: “Identity politics and the politics of personal destruction are not helping our nation heal its wounds but rather is setting it back by 50-100 years” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDLXXI
03-18-2019 M: “AOC says the planet has a dozen years left; well, if we fail to get a grip on our southern border, in 12 years or less, no one will recognize the late great United States of America” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCXLVII
03-19-2019 T: “Beto and the crazy hand jive- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCXLVIII
03-20-2019 W: “My party now promotes that we enfranchise 16-year-olds with the vote- can Democrats no longer win honest, fair, and open elections without stacking the deck?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCXLIX
03-21-2019 Th: “Democrats can give away everything for free until they turn blue in the face; however, the same irrefutable, simple rules of economics still apply- someone still must foot the bill” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCL
03-22-2019 F: “Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLI
03-23-2019 S: “Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLII
03-24-2019 Su: “Say what you will about Trump, compared to the losers seeking to replace him, I will vote to give him a second term- and I’m a Democrat” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLIII
EL CHILOTE’S AICP-END BLOG POSTS 2015-2019:
05-13-2015 W: “Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part Thirty-Seven: Hector rules the Day as he shares HIS take on the Saga of Beverly Carrick and discusses her upcoming Deals that will make her an Art Icon for the Rest of Eternity!” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part XLVI
03-30-2016 W: “Thankfully, Beverly passed away before AB 1266—the Infamous Bathroom Bill of California—became a Reality here in the Once-Golden State because if she were still alive, she would say that EVIL is Victorious” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part XCI
09-21-2016 W: “Chef Brian tells me his Mother was not only a Great Artist but also a Political Animal whom he believes would love the wily Donald Trump—what is wrong with that—Great Minds think alike, right?” by Chef Hector Santanamos. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CXV
03-15-2017 W: “Beverly Carrick Artworks are on Tap again today so why make yourself scarce? —at some point, her works are going to skyrocket in value so buy some now by going to her Website” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CXL
09-06-2017 W: “Building water infrastructure in California can be as artistic as a beautiful Beverly Carrick original artwork; yet, Sacramento would rather we become an arid and unappealing wasteland” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CLXV
03-14-2018 W: “Beverly’s artworks are so vivid in their colors that it reminds me of my attempt to follow in the glowing footsteps of Carlos Castaneda back in the early 1970s; did Bev follow them, too?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CXCII
09-19-2018 W: “I love the Democratic Party but despise the people leading it- time to reclaim it!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos De Soto. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CCXIX
SEE THE ALBUM AT THE MAIN BLOG
Roger Taylor, released his next studio album on November 11, 2013, “Fun on Earth.” While some folks dismiss drummers and their solo work, this drummer is an excellent, multi-instrumentalist who is joined by some awesome modern-day musicians plus old friends. If you want to keep in touch, this is a delightful way in which to do it so please, search for this album, give it a listen, and add it to your collection- you will be glad you did.
Posted @ the Monday, July 02, 2012 Blog Post:
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Spirit released what was more a Randy California solo album albeit with his stepfather aboard (and a couple of other players), “Future Games: A Magical Kahauna Dream” on April 13, 1976. The album flowed in a Sci-Fi-psychedelic-Hawaiian way and featured another tune made famous by Jimi Hendrix as well as a variety of other impressive cuts. We hope you will seek this album out by visiting whatever site you choose to buy your favorite rock music. You will enjoy it as much as we do.
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Peter Frampton released his next effort, the best of, “Peter Frampton Shows the Way,” on May 10, 1998. This is a comprehensive view of the famed musician’s life, one that will provide some unique insights as from whence he came and to where he is going. We hope you will seek this sterling effort out wherever you shop for the best in rock music so you can make it an addition to your ongoing, growing collection of nothing but the best in rock music. You will be glad you did.
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Just the Facts: Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?
Down in Los Angeles, a recent outbreak of a disease seen only in Third World countries and POW camps- typhus- is making a comeback. Rats and other vectors spread the disease and with so many people living in anguish on the sidewalks and in vacant lots with weakened immune systems and the stage is set for an outbreak of biblical proportions. I mean, just wait for the summer when things warm up and we could see an outbreak the likes of which, this world has not seen since the wars of the past century.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CULINARY POLITICS-ELEMENTAL NEWS OF THE DAY COMMENTARY-OPINION-SPORTS-FOOD SERVICE FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019 BY CHEF HECTOR SANTANAMOS DE SOTO
“Just the Facts: Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
Receiving something for nothing leads to abuse and collapse of the system…
Shafter, CA, 03-23-2019 Saturday: Hola, amigos, welcome to the Saturday Morning Edition of the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day. Yesterday, I, your marvelous host, began to discuss the slew of candidates seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for next year’s presidential election. I mentioned Andrew Yang- Chinese-American businessman and tech pioneer- who wants to give everyone- no matter their status in life- a ‘Freedom Dividend’ or a monthly check of $1,000 to spend on anything they like.
Most people over the age of 40 understand that this is a shameless attempt at buying the votes of the millennial and gen-z (or whatever the heck the younger generation is called), as many of them- thanks to the far-left tilt in politics my party continues pushing- have little to no opportunities remaining to them if their parents aren’t behind them pushing-pushing-pushing them to excel at something other than a degree in ancient Yugoslavian poetry.
Every time a society or a culture attempts to provide something in exchange for nothing, the program becomes impossible to sustain as many people- if not forced to work- will sit at home engaging in self-destructive behaviors. People receiving free money will visit pot shops, will visit massage parlors, strip clubs where they will overdose on lap dances, liquor stores, and drug dealers instead of saving that money for future use. It is what it is and no one can alter human behavior.
Recently, another loser mayor of a big East Coast city, has promised to do the same thing in Newark, New Jersey. Now, that city like many others controlled by leftist mayors exhibits an appalling set of conditions in much the same way many big California cities do. Homeless camps abound, discarded needles and human feces and urine litter the streets, and rampant violent crime flourishes.
If this is but a glimpse of the impending future, every American should stand up and declare, “WE DO NOT WANT TO GO DOWN THIS PATH AS IT IS NOT HEALTHY NOR GOOD FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.”
Many of the people in the chronic homeless encampments that cover block upon city block in Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are horrifying. How we can allow our fellow citizens to languish under the merciless conditions imposed upon them by those claiming to look out for their ‘best interest’s is beyond me.
What’s more, I cannot see how politicians in our country cannot stand up and demand that before we let another illegal alien into our country, we are going to aid those desperately in need of governmental aid and support.
Our social system currently is overwhelmed. We have so many people dependent upon government largesse that it should frighten the hell out of everyone. Politicians ring the clarion bells all the time about the impending collapse of the social safety net.
Yet they enable people to live on the nation’s streets without any repercussions just as they enable millions of noncitizens to flood the country, disrupting the societal fabric, and building the foundation from which, the nation- once lost- will descend into Third World status.
Something else Mr. Yang stands for is for the anti-circumcision crowd, meaning the gay men’s lobby. Male homosexuals- ‘penis worshippers’ if you will- want to see an end to the tradition of circumcising male babies at birth because they think it scars the piece of meat these sick bastards love so much.
However, I do not know why that would surprise anyone because many of the things the Democrats seeking the nomination propose is crazy. Here’s some of their planks in their evolving, monkey-see, monkey-do, platform:
Open borders, abolition of ICE, and even tear down existing border walls to aid human traffickers.
Provide social security and other benefits to illegal aliens because ‘no human is illegal.’
A living wage even though the Democrats promote illegal aliens so they can circumvent having to pay a ‘living wage’ while increasing the job-killing minimum wage.
The legalization of pot from one end of the country to another followed by the rest of the drug pantheon at some point or so I suspect;
Free health care, free education including the abolition of ALL existing student debt, free housing, free guaranteed government jobs (as well as MILLIONS of ‘green jobs’), and free access to healthy food for everyone and the abolition of ‘food deserts.’
Reparations for slavery even though there is NO imaginable way in how this act of pandering could be done;
The abolition of the Electoral College which forces candidates to visit all or most states in search of votes rather than just visiting the few massive population centers as well as using nothing but the easily corrupted ‘popular vote.’
Resurrection of the Paris Climate Accord, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Iran Nuclear deal, allowing North Korea to continue development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, as well as continuing to be the sole funder of NATO and other international commitments or obligations.
The silly notion there are more than two genders as well as transsexual rights such as allowing men to use women’s restrooms, teaching homosexuality in grade schools beginning in kindergarten, allowing drag queens to read books to young children in grade schools and at public libraries, and other nonsense.
Pushing of socialism and communism even though everyone knows it does not work until we end up like Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea.
Continued pushing of political correctness and the public shaming of those who do not toe the line as well as the repression of all non-liberal sanctioned speech.
Tomorrow, we will wrap things up and then Chef Fritz will arrive to do his first week of the year. Thanks for being here with me this week; I hope I have been intellectually challenging as that is my express purpose.
Nos vemos.
03-23-2019 Saturday–Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLII: “Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
De Soto, Hector Santanamos “Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?” Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLII
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Vice President Schulyer Colfax; the Cars featuring Ric Ocasek, and Uriah Heep featuring Phil Lanzon:
1066: Astronomers record the 18th recorded perihelion passage of Haley’s Comet on this date.
1657: England and France sign a treaty against Spain; England receives Dunkirk.
1708: English pretender to the throne, James III, lands at Firth of Forth.
1775: Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
1792: Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major (the “Surprise” Symphony) had its first public performance in London.
1794: Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine.
1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.
1808: Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother, Joseph, becomes the king of Spain.
1823: Future Republican 17th vice president of the United States—Schuyler Colfax—is born on this date. Vice President Colfax served 1869-1873.
1839: The first recorded use of “OK” (oll korrect), appears in the Boston Morning Post.
1840: An unnamed photographer captured the first successful photo of the moon.
1857: Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was in a building at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.
1858: Eleazer A. Gardner patented the cable streetcar on this date.
1861: London’s first tramcars began operation on this date.
1867: Congress passes the Second Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson’s
1868: Educators and state officials found the University of California system.
1880: John Stevens patented the grain-crushing mill, which increased flour production by 70 percent.
1881: Great Britain and the Boers sign a treaty ending the First Boer War.
1889: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization.
1901: Dame Nellie Melba revealed the secret of her now famous toast.
1902: In Italy, the minimum legal working age rose from nine to 12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.
1913: Five days of heavy rain began falling in the Ohio River Valley; Dayton, Ohio, saw catastrophic flooding as the rising Great Miami River breached its levees. The authorities blamed hundreds of deaths in the region on the weather.
1914: The first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the legendary silent film serial starring Pearl White, premiered at theaters in the greater New York City area, including movie houses in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
1919: Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist Party of Italy in Milan, Italy.
1932: In the United States, the Norris-LaGuardia Act established the right of workers to strike.
1933: The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
1942: The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II, arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California. Meanwhile, in Lublin, Poland, the Nazis massacre and/or deport 2,500 Jewish citizens.
1944: Russian pilot Nicolas Alkemade falls 5,500 feet without a parachute and lives.
1945: In the largest naval operation in the Pacific Theater in World War II, 1,500 S. Navy warships pound Japanese positions on the island of Okinawa.
1947: Mike Kellie, future drummer of the British rock band, Spooky Tooth, was born on this date.
1949: Future bassist/vocalist with the Boston band, the Cars–Ric Ocasek–is born in Baltimore, Maryland, on this date.
1950: Future keyboardist/vocalist Phil Lanzon who performs with the British rock band, Uriah Heep, 1986-present—is born on this date.
1956: Pakistan became an Islamic republic on this date in history.
1965: America’s first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly five-hour flight. Meanwhile in Morocco, authorities fire on demonstrators killing about 100 people.
1966: For the first time in 400 years, official representatives of the Catholic and Anglican Churches
1973: Before sentencing, a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter to him from James W. McCord Jr., which said there had been “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.”
1979: In the 7th Round of their heavyweight-boxing match, Larry Holmes scores a TKO of Osvaldo Ocasio.
1980: After Islamists overrunning Iran drive the Shah out of the country, the Shah and his family arrive in Egypt seeking exile status.
1981: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rules that states could require some sort of parental notification before teenage girls acquire abortions.
1983: President Ronald W. Reagan first proposed developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles—an idea that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.
1993: Scientists announced they had found the renegade gene that causes Huntington’s disease.
1994: Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashed in Siberia with the loss of all 75 people aboard it; it turned out that the one of the pilots allowed his teenage son to sit at the controls accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing the jetliner to plunge to the ground. Elsewhere, the leading presidential candidate of Mexico dies in an assassination during a rally in Tijuana. Finally, Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record of with his 802nd
2010: In Washington, D.C., Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells lobbyists that “Israel is not a settlement” and that it has a “right” to build wherever it so chooses to do so. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama signed a $938 billion health care overhaul, declaring “a new season in America!”
2011: Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles, California, at age 79.
2012: Pope Benedict XVI tells Cuba that it has to ‘move beyond communism’ and that he will help the island nation find a peaceful way in which, it can accomplish this task.
2013: For the first time in FOUR years, by a vote of 50-49, the U.S. Senate passes a budget. Meanwhile, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announces that he will step down after 25 years in power sometime in 2015.
2014: In the NCAA basketball tournament, Kentucky beat undefeated Wichita State, which ended their historic 35-0 record in the finals. Meanwhile, French satellite images confirm China’s detection of potential debris from missing jetliner Malaysian Air Flight 370, which had disappeared on March 08 of this year.
2015: After combatting the effects of pneumonia for several weeks, Lee Kuan Yew—91-year-old founder of the nation of Singapore and its leader for 31 years—died.
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Queen’s sensational drummer, Roger Taylor, released his major compilation effort on June 18, 2013, “the Lot.” This effort is a supreme best of compilation in that it features so much of the musician’s music that it is worth its astounding price of more than $140. However, you find 13 discs- count them- 13 discs containing so flipping much music that it will require several days to get through all of it. We hope you will seek it out at whatever venue you go to purchase nothing but the best music. You will enjoy it.
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Former Spirit and Jo-Jo Gunne front man, Jay Ferguson, went into the studio and delivered a great debut solo album. Having the Gunne breakup was painful but without support from the record company and personnel changes and constant touring causing some of the musical product to enter peaks and valleys, the vocalist/keyboardist/percussionist/guitarist moved on and joined forces with some fine musical friends. “All Alone in the End Zone” came out on September 17, 1976, and featured Joe Walsh (guitars), Joey Murcia (guitars), George “Chocolate” Perry (bass), and Joe Vitale and Joe Lala (drums/percussion). “Snakes on the Run,” “Medicated Goo,” and the title track are excellent tunes and everything else extremely pleasing so please, seek it out and add it to your collection- you will enjoy it.
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Rod Stewart released his next solo effort on May 29, 1998, “When We Were the New Boys.” Like all other artists to come out of the 1960s, things became more difficult as they moved into the mid-to-late 1990s. Fans sought out the shiny new baubles and the even newer styles that fresh bands were delivering. Still, Rod put his all into this effort, doing mostly covers, because he always prided himself as a great interpreter of the works of others, better than they could do them. The album has its moments and “Ooh La La” is a great song, one he refused to do as a member of the Faces and which drove Ronnie Lane out of the band. You must add this album to add to your collection.
Author chefelchilotePosted on March 23, 2019 March 21, 2019 Categories 2020 Democratic Party Primary Debates, 2020 Democratic Primary Candidates, 2020 Elections, Hector "El Chilote" Santanamos De SotoTags Andrew Yang, “Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Sot, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, El Chilote, Freedom Dividend, Hector Santanamos De Soto, Iran Nuclear Deal, Just the Facts, Money for Nothing and Your Chicks for Free, North Korea, Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Paris Climate Accord, Phil Lanzon, Political Topics and Essays, Queen, Ric Ocasek, Roger Taylor, The Cars, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Universal Basic Income, Uriah Heep, Vice President Schuyler ColfaxLeave a comment on Just the Facts: Democrat Andrew Yang’s two big issues are Universal Basic Income and putting a moratorium on male circumcision- what the hell is up with that?
Just the Facts: Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!
All Google needs to do is to put a nominal annual charge on their social media, which would weed out many of the trolls, the Russian bots, and the keyboard warriors, leaving the serious users. Why spend time building up a community or a collection only to have them disappear sans any sort of alternative. This is Big Brother at its worst.
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“Just the Facts: Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
In less than two weeks, Google Plus will disappear as will many applications that rely on it to get out the word…
Shafter, CA, 03-22-2019 Friday: In approximately eleven days, Google will make the biggest mistake of its short-lived career, by closing down Google Plus as well as all notifications, communities, and collections. They claim it is because few people use the platform and that it is not worth the cost of the upkeep necessary to maintain it. Some of my colleagues have speculated that Google is closing down its vast social media platform because they seek to control the unfettered flow of ideas, thoughts, comments, and interactions among its vast numbers of users.
While some dispute the plausibility of the reasons, I tend to agree with my colleagues that Google would rather remove something that hundreds of millions of people around the globe use. Many use it- like Facebook- as a means of getting their messaging out, like we do. We have been blogging at Google since late 2010 and use the Google Plus platform as a way of interacting with readers and potential readers just as millions of others do.
We suspect that when Google Plus draws its final breath sometime on April 1-2, it will cause many blog operations such as ours to see a massive decline in numbers. We could lose as much as 75-percent of our daily views, which would be horribly sad.
However, we are not going to buckle to Google and allow them to force us to be the ones to pull the plug; no, if they want to strip the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day of its voice, then they will have to be the ones to drive the railroad spike in our backs and shut us down.
We live in a time of increasing pressure and hostility towards those who engage in free speech operations. While I will be the one to note first that many people using Google Plus- like me- have resorted to using hate speech or improper language to attack those attacking us.
However, unlike many of the scumbags who use Google Plus (and I am sure Facebook) to their own devious ends, we have not purported to be one thing and then blasted the viewers with unexpected pornography, bestiality, gay sex, or anything else that trolls and false flag operations do just to drive viewership to their sites.
In fact, we have fingered numerous progenitors of malware, pornography, and purveyors of violent threats to the authorities for them to deal with. It is a duty of every user of social media. If we do not help our hosts to police their social media platforms, then how can anyone complain about the garbage mixed in with the pearls?
I believe that Google wants to control the flow of unchained free speech. For what reason, some are afraid to say. However, like some of my colleagues, I have no problem in saying that Sundar Pichai wants to do it because, like far too many others, they got the last presidential election wrong and the man they were loath to see win thwarted them and now sits in the White House.
Say what you will about Donald Trump, the man is hard at work for America. While his speech and mannerism may grate on the sensibilities of many, when it comes to doing the work of the American people, in my view, he is doing an amazing job. More black Americans, more Latino Americans, more white Americans are working and making more money than they have in a long time.
As I said yesterday, there are one million more jobs than there are people to fill them yet we have losers among the Democratic Party who want to give people who do not want to work FREE money. WTF? This is how the road to communism always traverses in that those promoting this failed economic and social system make all manner of promises and then once they assume power, those promises to vanish out the window.
Back to Google, I fear they intend to make things ‘right’ by restricting free speech. Where will go? Well, Facebook is a poor site for getting one’s message out as unless one is famous and has beaucoup followers, all one has is all one has.
Twitter is no good either as everyone understands the unspoken code ruling the roost there. Liberals can disseminate their views with unbridled abandon but any of my conservative friends and colleagues cannot: the evil algorithms block them and do it with seeming imperviousness (which is why we hope the Devin Nunes lawsuit bears fruit).
After these sources, what are we left with? Well, there is MeWe which- friends- something about it does not seem ‘right.’ I suspect they seek to coopt the computers of their users for what purposes as yet known to me or to anyone else I know. All I do know is that if one signs up to use MeWe, they suddenly begin having problems with their machines so it is better to avoid them at all costs.
I know that yesterday, I said I would discuss the various Democrats seeking the 2020 nomination; however, I sidetracked myself into discussing how our blogs might end up disappearing thanks to Google slashing its social media site which will have consequences for everything else they offer.
Amigos, we will reconvene tomorrow, same bat time, same bat place. Until then, have a super day. Nos vemos.
03-22-2019 Friday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLI: “Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
De Soto, Hector Santanamos “Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!” Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCLI
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“Please Please Me” by the Beatles, Boston featuring Sib Hashian, Foghat featuring Rod Price, George Benson, Joe Cocker featuring Chris Stainton, the Turtles featuring Don Murray, and the Yardbirds featuring Keith Relf:
752: Either today or tomorrow, Stephen II becomes the Catholic Pope.
1312: Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering the dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.
1349: The townspeople of Fulda, Germany, massacre their Jewish citizens, suspecting that they somehow are responsible for the Black Death.
1457: Gutenberg Bible becomes the first book in print.
1622: The first Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites occurred in Jamestown, Virginia, which resulted in the deaths of 347 settlers.
1630: In Boston, Massachusetts, city leaders enact the first Colonial legislation prohibiting gambling.
1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson suffered expulsion from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying the Puritan
1733: Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water aka ‘seltzer.’
1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax, which the Crown repealed a year later.
1778: Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery in Washington State.
1790: Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State.
1794: Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries.
1841: Englishman Orlando Jones patents cornstarch.
1871: William Holden of North Carolina became the first government removed through the impeachment process.
1872: Illinois becomes the first state requiring equality between the sexes when it comes to employment.
1873: Puerto Rico abolishes the institution of slavery.
1882: The U.S. adopts the Edmunds Act to suppress polygamy, which leads to the eventual imprisonment of about 1,300 men.
1894: The first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began with Montreal playing Ottawa.
1895: In Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience.
1903: Niagara Falls goes dry due to an ongoing drought.
1905: Child miners in Great Britain received a maximum workday consisting of no more than 8 hours.
1933: During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
1934: The inaugural Masters golf championship event kicked off in Augusta, Georgia.
1935: In New York, the state government authorized blood tests as evidence in court cases. Meanwhile, Persia renamed itself “Iran.”
1941: The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington State went into operation.
1943: Keith Relf, future vocalist with the British invasion band, the Yardbirds, was born in England on this date as was guitar phenomena, George Benson, in the USA.
1944: During World War II, more than 600 Allied bombers pound the Nazi capital, Berlin. Meanwhile, future rock-and-roll keyboardist who would play with Joe Cocker for many years, Chris Stainton, is born in England on this date.
1945: With the signing of its charter in Cairo, Egypt, the Arab League Meanwhile, the U.S. Third Army crosses the Rhine River at Nierstein, Germany.
1946: Great Britain signs a treaty that grants Trans-Jordan its independence.
1954: In Southfield, Michigan, the first shopping mall opens to the public.
1963: The Beatles release their first album, “Please Please Me.”
1965: The United States confirms that it has used chemical warfare in its war against the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. Meanwhile, Nicolae Ceausescu wins election to become the general-secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.
1967: In their heavyweight-boxing match, Muhammad Ali knocks out Zora Folley in the 7th round to win the title.
1972: Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment, but never ratifies the measure.
1974: As the Vietnam War dwindled, the Viet Cong proposed a truce with the United States and South Vietnam, one that would feature immediate elections for the people.
1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979: The Israeli Parliament ratifies the peace treaty between their nation and their former adversary, Egypt.
1982: In the Iran-Iraq War, the Iranians launch a major offensive against Iraq.
1984: Law enforcement investigators charge teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach with satanic ritual abuse of the children in their care. However, the authorities later drop the charges as being completely unfounded but not before severely damaging the education professionals.
1986: Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in the 15th round of their heavyweight-boxing match for the heavyweight title of the world.
1988: Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
1990: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, finds Captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of felony charges in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1991: A jury of her peers finds New Hampshire high school teacher, Pamela Smart, guilty for having manipulated her student-lover to murder her husband.
1996: Don Murray—original drummer for the surf-rock band, the Turtles—died following complications of ulcer surgery.
2005: Rod Price, the electric slide guitarist of the band Foghat, died on this date due to a heart attack suffered while falling down the stairs at his home.
2006: The ETA—an armed Basque separatist group—declares a permanent ceasefire.
2011: Governor Dennis Daugaard, Republican -South Dakota, signs an abortion bill that requires women to wait 72 hours before undergoing the procedure and to receive counseling.
2012: In Portugal, trades unions call for a 24-hour strike nationwide to protest austerity measures the government announces it is going to put into place to halt further economic decline.
2013: The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100kg of horsemeat imported from Hungary labelled as beef.
2014: At Oso, Washington, 30 people die in a mudslide.
2015: Having discovered the remains of King Richard III of England, 1483-85, in the city of Leicester, the crown gives him a royal funeral procession to his place of burial at the Leicester Cathedral.
2017: Original drummer for the East Coast rock band, Boston—Sib Hashian—drops dead while performing on a cruise ship.
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On June 11, 2013, Queen released their next album and their next compilation effort, “Icon.” If you have yet to get into the music of this prodigious group, well, this is the best way in which to do it because the top 11 cuts culled from every album during the band’s lifetime are here on 3-discs, all in one place for the novice and veteran fan alike. We hope you will use whatever site you visit for fine rock music and pick this incredible effort up- you will not be disappointed, we guarantee it.
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Four members of Spirit reformed and released an excellent album on June 11, 1976, “Farther Along.” The band featured Randy California (guitars/vocals), Ed Cassidy (drums), Mark Andes (bass/vocals), Matt Andes (guitars), and John Locke (keyboards). The album is an excellent addition and the band is in fine form, which is why we encourage everyone to seek it out by visiting whatever site for the best in rock music you shop so you can add it to your collection- you will definitely enjoy it.
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Peter Frampton released his next effort, the best of, “Greatest Hits,” on June 18, 1996. This is a comprehensive view of the famed musician’s life, one that will provide some unique insights as from whence he came and to where he is going. We hope you will seek this sterling effort out wherever you shop for the best in rock music so you can make it an addition to your ongoing, growing collection of nothing but the best in rock music. You will be glad you did.
Author chefelchilotePosted on March 22, 2019 March 20, 2019 Categories Freedom of Speech Rights, Hector "El Chilote" Santanamos De Soto, Just the FactsTags “Please Please Me” by The Beatles, “Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, Boston, Chris Stainton, Communism, Don Murray, Donald Trump, El Chilote, Facebook, Foghat, Free Speech Rights, George Benson, Google Blogger, Google Plus, Hate Speech, Hector Santanamos De Soto, Jack Dorsey, Joe Cocker, Just the Facts, Keith Relf, Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Political Topics and Essays, Queen, Rod Price, Sib Hashian, Socialism, Sundar Pichai, the Turtles, The Yardbirds, Twitter, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto1 Comment on Just the Facts: Sundar Pichai- WHY are you closing Google Plus? Not because it ‘costs too much’ or that there are ‘few too users;’ no, you are closing it so you can control the flow of free speech. Shame!
Just the Facts: Democrats can give away everything for free until they turn blue in the face; however, the same irrefutable, simple rules of economics still apply- someone still must foot the bill
The buzzword now is FREE. The Democrats want to give us FREE healthcare, they want to give us COST-FREE education, they want to give us GUARANTEED government jobs, as well as GUARANTEED healthy food, housing, and even leisure, free, free, and still more free. Someone must pay for all this FREE stuff. Who is going to pick up the tab?
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“Just the Facts: Democrats can give away everything for free until they turn blue in the face; however, the same irrefutable, simple rules of economics still apply- someone still must foot the bill” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
The FREER everything is, the more it costs…
Shafter, CA, 03-21-2019 Thursday: Amigos, welcome, here it is, one minute after midnight and those of us in the world of professional food service are either still at work, getting up and preparing to go to work, or will soon be heading home to sleep a few restless hours before doing the whole show over again. It is what it is, to own a business or to have a job in the United States of America is a grand and glorious thing. Only here do we truly have the ability to carve our own way throughout life.
We have a pack of Democrats seeking the nomination of the party so they can hoist the standard next year at the convention in Milwaukee whom at first look, might seem to be somewhat acceptable. Unfortunately, as we dig into them and their varied backgrounds, I have the sneaking suspicion that unless someone with moxie actually enters the race, the party is looking at a defeat of historical proportions.
Currently, the candidates all seem to copycat one another, not a single one of them has any originality unless we look back at Senator Bernie Sanders who came up with the foundation of what the rest now claim as their own policies. Free this, free that, free everything, and the world and the country will become a utopia where everyone is equal.
As a youth, like everyone else I knew growing up, we believed in liberalism. Being liberal meant we sought freedom of speech, that we sought equality in every facet of society, and that we all strived together to end wars, empower the people, and to make life better for everyone.
As time went by, however, we realized this was all pie in the sky, a pipe dream, a mid-summer night’s fantasy, of sorts, like going to dive bars in Taft. Everyone had to seek his or her own equality without waiting for someone from the government seeking us out and telling us they were going to ‘help’ us or were going to ‘fix’ things.
The last thing we wanted was anyone from government coming to see us. Nope, did not want them seeking us out because it meant they would try to stick a gun in our hands and send us to Vietnam. Fortunately for me, I was at the end of the age scale to get drafted as they liked them 17-20 years-old and I was 24-25.
Now, however, the young people are like baby birds that won’t abandon the nest. Instead of mom and dad booting them out, forcing them to fly or fall on their own, they cling to their parents and transfer their hopes to the government to do everything for them. When government does everything for someone, it robs them of their vitality and their desire to accomplish things for themselves. In essence, it makes them slaves of the very ‘utopia’ they seek to create.
Bernie Sanders set all of this insanity in motion and each of the challengers who have entered the race after him all steal from him and then build upon it, calling it their ‘own.’
It is reminiscent of how white rock-and-rollers- whether Elvis, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, or anyone else- robbed Chuck Berry and other rock-and-roll/rhythm and blues trailblazers and then made vast fortunes from the theft and reinvention of their music. It wasn’t right but unless someone calls them out on it, they will continue doing it just as Led Zeppelin ripped off numerous black bluesmen to create their unique sound.
In harmony, all the Democrats seeking the nomination of my party say the ‘corporations will’ and that ‘the wealthy will.’ Stupendous, mis amigos, absolutely stupendous.
I am sure they understand that all the corporations returning to America, opening plants and factories, employing fellow Americans, and giving us hope again can easily abandon the country and go back to China, down to Mexico or to Central America, maybe to India, possibly to Taiwan and other foreign locales and produce the same goods for far less.
Thanks to the business acumen of President Donald Trump, far more businesses have returned to the United States than have shuttered their doors and laid people off. We hear that there are one million MORE jobs in the country at present than there are people to fill them so why would candidates seeking the nomination of the party want to drive a stake through all the progress we are currently enjoying? Out of spite? Really?
The thing that pulls the rug out from under each of the present number of Democrats trying to win the nomination is that to give away everything FREE means that everyone forced to giving away everything must do it willingly which no one will. No matter what threats one uses, no matter what force one employs, no matter how onerous Big Brother becomes, the simple economic truths still apply.
Soak the rich, the rich leave for better locales. Go after corporations, they relocate their money back offshore in tax havens like they always do. That leaves the middle class as the only remaining pot of wealth to rob and once robbed, in fifteen-to-twenty years, the country begins resembling Venezuela and Cuba. We want to be like THEM?
Tomorrow, we will look at the various candidates. One who interests me is Chinese-American businessman Andrew Yang. He wants to give everyone- no matter their station in life- one grand a month. Question: when we receive our grand, do we have to pay taxes on it? No one has yet to answer to that question.
Adios, mis amigos, we will be back tomorrow for more exciting hot talk. Hope you will join me for some coffee. I take mine black.
Santanamos “El Chilote” De Soto
03-21-2019 Thursday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCL: “Democrats can give away everything for free until they turn blue in the face; however, the same irrefutable, simple rules of economics still apply- someone still must foot the bill” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
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1349: In Erfurt, Germany, in response to the Black Death, the people run amuck killing 3,000 Jews in the process.
1556: For the crime of heresy, the crown sends Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, to the stake where executioners would burn him alive.
1685: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1697: Czar Peter the Great begins his self-educational trip through Western Europe.
1788: A major fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1804: The French civil code, or the “Code Napoleon” as it was later called, became the law of the land.
1824: A fire at an ammo dump outside of Cairo kills 4,000 horses.
1851: Explorers discovered Yosemite Valley.
1857: A major earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 people die.
1859: In Philadelphia, the first Zoological Society underwent incorporation on this date.
1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition in Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary, David Livingstone.
1902: In New York, three Park Avenue mansions suffered destruction when a subway tunnel roof collapsed.
1906: Ohio passed a law that prohibited hazing by fraternities after two fatalities.
1907: To protect its interests, the United States invades Hondura
1908: French pilot Henri Farman carried the first passenger ever in his bi-plane.
1910: The U.S. Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a yearly pension of $10,000.
1918: During World War I, Germany launches its Somme
1924: Mass Investors Trust becomes the first mutual fund set up in the U.S.
1925: The Butler Act, a Tennessee statute, which prohibits the teaching of evolution, becomes state law on this date.
1927: The Kuomintang army conquers the city of Shanghai, forcing British marines and other personnel to flee before it.
1928: President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1935: Persia becomes “Iran” on this date in history.
1941: In the 13th Round, Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon for the heavyweight boxing title of the world.
1942: A second air assault by Nazi Germany occurs with the aim of capturing the Island of Malta from the British.
1943: An assassination attempt on the life of German leader Adolf Hitler
1944: Charles Chaplin went on trial in Los Angeles, accused of transporting former protégée Joan Barry across state lines for immoral purposes. However, a judge later acquitted Chaplin but the comedic actor lost a paternity suit despite tests showing that he was NOT the father of Barry’s child. Meanwhile, Supreme Allied Leader Dwight D. Eisenhower postpones the invasion of the South of France until after the landings at Normande later in the year.
1945: During World War II, the Allies begin a four-day air assault on Nazi G Meanwhile, on Okinawa, the Japanese begin launching flying bombs against the Allied assault force ships. Finally, Rose Stone—future keyboardist and vocalist with the San Francisco funk-rock band, Sly and the Family Stone—is born in the USA on this date.
1947: President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order #9835 requiring ALL federal employees to swear an oath of allegiance to the United States of America.
1949: Future rock-and-roll star, Eddie Money, is born on this date.
1950: Future multi-instrumentalist with the great British rock band, Supertramp—Roger Hodgson is born on this date in Great Britain.
1951: During the Korean War, 2,900,000 troops arrive to stem the tide with the North Koreas and their Chinese Meanwhile, a jury convicts Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of espionage.
1952: Future longtime drummer with the amazing British rock band, UFO–Andy Parker—is born in Great Britain on this date.
1961: Art Modell purchases the NFL’s Cleveland Browns’ franchise for the then-record amount of $3,925,000. Elsewhere, in Brooklyn, New York, future drummer with the rock-a-billy band, Stray Cats—Slim Jim Phantom—is born.
1963: The Alcatraz Federal Prison Island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
1964: UCLA completes an undefeated NCAA basketball season, 30-0.
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., begins his march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, with more than 3,000 civil rights protesters in tow.
1965: Civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King , began their third successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1970: Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the ‘agony of defeat guy” in opening credits of ABC’s Wide World of Sports.
1975: Ethiopia ends its monarchy, which had been in existence for more than 3,000 years.
1978: San Francisco passes its—and nation’s—most comprehensive homosexual rights bill.
1979: The Egyptian Parliament unanimously approves peace with Israel, the first Arab nation to do so.
1983: The only known typographical error appears on Time Magazine cover (control=control) and recalls the entire printing.
1984: City leaders rename part of New York’s Central Park “Strawberry Fields” honoring John Lennon.
1991: 27 sailors are lost at sea when two U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide.
1994: Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe’s NHL record of 801 goals.
1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002: In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects is charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2011: The first full face transplant in history occurs as doctors at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, perform the feat. Meanwhile, during the third night of outside intervention in the Libyan uprising, the home of Moammar Gaddafi is hit with more bombs than ever before (who gave Barack Obama the right to do this? —the man has a fricking Nobel Peace Prize!)
2012: The Greek Parliament votes unanimously to approve the bailout deal given them by the European Union.
2013: The S. uses B-52 bombers in joint exercises with South Korea, which leads to North Korea threatening to bomb U.S. bases in Japan.
2014: Vladimir Putin ratifies laws today annexing Crimea, defying sanction threats by the U.S. and the European Union. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil takes the initiative among energy companies to disclose its plans for dealing with climate change in response to a 2013 shareholder resolution; the company’s move may set a standard for other energy companies to follow.
2015: As ongoing talks between the USA and five other nations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expresses optimism that the group could strike a deal on the Iranian’s nuclear development—ostensibly for ‘peaceful purposes’—before a major deadline arrives at the end of the month—what a mess.
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On June 05, 2013, Queen released their next album and their next compilation effort, “Queen at 40, Volume Three.” If you have yet to get into the music of this prodigious group, well, this is the best way in which to do it because this effort contains the third quintet of albums remastered PLUS extras in a great box set. We hope you will use whatever site you visit for fine rock music and pick this incredible effort up- you will not be disappointed, we guarantee it.
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Occasionally, we get off-track and get albums mixed up in the rotation but so flipping what, right? Today, we have the first best-of compilation by the Los Angeles-based rock-and-roll band, Spirit: “Best of Spirit,” which came out on August 08, 1973. This album has the crème de la crème of the first four albums plus the big single that received a great deal of airplay back in the day, “1984.” This album is definitely one we hope everyone will consider adding to his or her collection as it is the sound of the times, heavy-duty, smoking psychedelic jazz-rock that will blow your mind- you will love it.
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Jeff Beck released an abbreviated best of collection entitled, “Best of Beck” on November 06, 1995, an album that gives the listener a glimpse into the fabulous career that this veteran axe man has had since entering the rock world in the early 1960s. We urge everyone who has not yet taken our advice into hearing this man and his amazing guitar mastery, this is how you do it so seek it out wherever you buy the best in rock-and-roll music- you will be glad you did.
Author chefelchilotePosted on March 21, 2019 March 20, 2019 Categories 2020 Democratic Party Primary Debates, 2020 Democratic Primary Candidates, 2020 Elections, Hector "El Chilote" Santanamos De SotoTags 2020 Presidential Election, Andrew Yang, Andy Parker, Bernie Sanders, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, Buying the Masses, Classic Liberalism, Cuba, Democratic Party Politics, Eddie Money, El Chilote, Free Education, FREE GUARANTEED Government Jobs, Free Health Care, FREE Healthy Food, FREE Housing, FREE Transportation, Freedom Dividend, Hector Santanamos De Soto, Just the Facts, Moammar Gaddafi, Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Political Topics and Essays, Politics of Free, Queen, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Roger Hodgson, Rose Stone, Slim Jim Phantom, Sly and the Family Stone, Socialism, Stray Cats, Supertramp, UFO, VenezuelaLeave a comment on Just the Facts: Democrats can give away everything for free until they turn blue in the face; however, the same irrefutable, simple rules of economics still apply- someone still must foot the bill
Just the Facts: my party now promotes that we enfranchise 16-year-olds with the vote- can Democrats no longer win honest, fair, and open elections without stacking the deck?
Now, we have a cluster-f**k of candidates all vying for the nomination of my party. Depending upon who it is and whatever he or she says, I might have to vote for Donald J. Trump because- let’s face it- like my friend Chef Fritz who threw years of being a Democrat out the window and registered G-O-P because he could no longer take it, I, too, might have to follow that road. The economy is looking damned good so why change burros in the middle of the Rio Grande?
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CULINARY POLITICS-ELEMENTAL NEWS OF THE DAY COMMENTARY-OPINION-SPORTS-FOOD SERVICE FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019 BY CHEF HECTOR SANTANAMOS DE SOTO
“Just the Facts: my party now promotes that we enfranchise 16-year-olds with the vote- can Democrats no longer win honest, fair, and open elections without stacking the deck?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
Nancy Pelosi says ‘sixteen-year-olds should be able to vote;’ has she met any mature ones?
Shafter, CA, 03-20-2019 Wednesday: I have overheard Nancy Pelosi- the leader of the Democratic Party (well, maybe not- some suggest AOC is)- claim that she has ALWAYS wanted to extend the vote to sixteen-year-old kids. Amigos, you KNOW me, I am a Democrat and I have never heard Speaker Pelosi say she was in favor of extending the vote to sixteen-year-old kids so why now? It makes no sense- other than as my conservative colleagues repeatedly protest- because MY party cannot win a fair election unless they stack the odds deeply in their favor.
Now, mis amigos, I tend to agree with their point of view as not since the days of Bill Clinton have we won elections fairly and with good numbers. The only thing about President Clinton is, had not Ross Perot entered both the 1992 and 1996 Elections as I recall, it is possible that then-Governor Clinton might have lost the first election as he did not win with a good percentage of the vote either time; no, as I recall, it was somewhere in the forties thanks to the third party candidate.
When Barack Obama ran for the White House, he was a dashing young debonair candidate who said all the right things, went to all the right places, and was amazingly difficult to lock down on any concrete topic because his handlers protected him tooth and nail.
It also helped that his first opponent in presidential politics was the aged ex-POW John McCain. Senator McCain cut his own throat many times while trying to take the high road against a brawler steeped in the politics of Chicago, a man who said, ‘if they bring a knife to a fight, we bring a gun.’
But of course, Senator McCain wanted to keep things on the up-and-up and took a big gamble by selecting then-Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin to be his number two on the ticket.
I can remember at the time the sudden burst of excitement over McCain’s choice of Governor Palin because amazingly, she delivered a massive jolt of youthful enthusiasm and renewed life into his faltering campaign. It was clear to everyone at the time that the old war horse was going down, down, down because he was not up to the struggle.
There is no way an old man in his seventies could go against someone in his forties so Governor Palin reignited the long-dormant spark and had he allowed her to visit more battleground states, who knows- things might have turned out differently?
The second challenger to Barack Obama was Mitt Romney and like his predecessor, he, too, sought to keep things on the ‘up and up’ which enabled President Obama to win a second term. The president then set up his former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to succeed him and we all know how that turned out. Not so good. It might have made sense to jettison whatever pact he made with her and sent Joe Biden out in 2016.
Back to the issue of allowing sixteen-year-olds to vote, in MY opinion, young people have reverted to being more juvenile, more immature than were the young people of the 1960s and 1970s, the ones fighting the war in Vietnam or working to make something of themselves.
Unless guided by someone who cares about them, young people do not mature until they are in their mid-thirties, something we see time and again. I mean, how can we suggest that sixteen-year-olds should be able to vote, as Speaker Pelosi says, ‘we need to capture them when they are learning about all this (meaning civics).’
Mrs. Pelosi, I am sorry to say this but thanks to you and others like you, American history in grade school has become falsified, corrupted, and of little to no value to anyone just as civics and American government are no longer taught in high schools. One must wait until they enter college to have the opportunity to take government classes and to learn history in a variety of formats, philosophies, and styles.
I thank God that my parents thought enough of me to send me to college. Back when I was going, things were still fairly honest whereas now, we are witnessing the mess our schools have become with young people wetting their beds over the prospect that the planet is going to end in 12 years. Why do politicians broadcast this crap? Be honest about it, we have been hearing this since the late 1960s and voila- we are still here.
Don’t get me started on how my party now wants to stack the nation’s high court or the post-birth abortion thing, one of the most heinous and evil things that I, as a Catholic, have ever heard. We probably will arrive there tomorrow and pick up where we left off today.
Nos vemos, mis amigos, we will pick back up tomorrow with more of the same. Have a wonderful day- ten un día maravilloso.
03-20-2019 Wednesday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCXLIX: “My party now promotes that we enfranchise 16-year-olds with the vote- can Democrats no longer win honest, fair, and open elections without stacking the deck?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
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141: On this date, the sixth recorded perihelion passage of Haley’s Comet
1345: Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars align on this date, thought to be a cause of the Black Death at the time.
1413: England’s King Henry the IV died on this date leading to the rise of King Henry the V.
1627: France and Spain sign an accord with which to fight the ongoing spread of Protestantism.
1760: The great fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.
1792: In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.
1800: The French defeat the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Heliopolis and advance on Cairo.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping exile on the Isle of Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
1816: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) asserts the right to review the decisions of state courts.
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” underwent first publishing in book form after first appearing in serialized form.
1854: Approximately 50 anti-slavery abolitionists got together in Ripon, Wisconsin, to form what would become the modern-day Republican Party. Democrats SWEAR they are the anti-slavery party but they are lying scumbags who have been throughout the history of the nation the party of hate, racism, and bigotry.
1865: A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln fell apart when the president changed his plans and did not appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, D.C.
1868: The James-Younger Gang robs a bank in Russellville, Kentucky, of $14,000.
1885: John Matzeliger of Suriname patented the shoe-lacing machine.
1890: Kaiser Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
1896: In the wake of a revolution, U.S. Marines landed in the Central American nation of Nicaragua to protect American interests.
1897: The first U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary incorporated in New York. Meanwhile, the first intercollegiate basketball game using five players per team took place. In a contest between Yale and Pennsylvania, the former won the contest by a score of 32-10.
1899: At Sing Sing Prison, Martha M. Place received the dubious honor of becoming the first woman to undergo execution in the electric chair.
1912: A coalmine explosion in McCurtain, Oklahoma, claimed the lives of 73 workers.
1914: The first international figure skating championship occurred in New Haven, Connecticut.
1917: After U-Boats sink three more American merchant ships, President Woodrow Wilson meets with his Cabinet, who agrees with him that American entry into World War I seems inevitable.
1922: The S. Navy commissions its first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley.
1933: The Nazis complete work on their first concentration camp, Dachau.
1935: Future drummer with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band—Sam Lay—is born on this date.
1937: Fame country musician, Jerry Reed, is born on this date.
1941: The Nazis and Yugoslavia sign a pact making them a part of the Axi Meanwhile, future guitarist with the California rock band, Pacific Gas & Electric- Glenn Schwartz- is born on this date.
1942: The Nazis begin an air assault on the island of Malta.
1950: Future rock drummer with Emerson, Lake & Palmer—Carl Palmer—is born in the United Kingdom on this date.
1951: The Indonesian army launches an assault against its Islamists fighting for independence.
1952: The final treaty restoring the sovereignty of Japan undergoes ratification on this date.
1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.
1968: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money.
1969: John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. Meanwhile, President Richard M. Nixon vows to end the war in Vietnam by 1970.
1972: 19 mountain climbers lost their lives on Japan’s Mount Fuji during an avalanche.
1976: A jury of her peers convicts newspaper heiress, Patricia Hearst, for her part in a bank robbery with the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1981: The Argentine high court sentences Isabel Peron, the ex-president, to 8 years in prison for corruption.
1984: The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment that would allow spoken prayer in public schools.
1985: Libby Riddles won the 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog race, becoming the first woman to win the Iditarod.
1987: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve the sale of AZT, an AIDS treatment said to work.
1988: Eight-year old Deandra Anrig found herself airborne when an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, California snagged the string of her kite. Deandra was lifted 10 feet off the ground and carried for some 100 feet until she let go; she was not seriously hurt. Meanwhile, in the second round of their heavyweight-boxing match, Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs to win the title.
1989: Robert J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as assistant director of the CIA.
1991: The U.S. forgives Poland $2 billion in loan debt.
1995: In Tokyo, 12 people died, more than 5,500 others sickened when Aum Shinrikyo cult members leaked packages containing the poisonous gas sarin on five separate subway trains.
1999: Legoland California opened in Carlsbad.
2003: The United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Poland invade Iraq sans United Nations
2011: The people of Morocco turn out in the thousands to demand an end to corruption and civil rights for all citizens.
2013: Zillur Rahman, age 84, the president of Bangladesh, dies in office after a prolonged illness at a hospital in Singapore; the government declared three days of mourning.
2014: Rising Asian demand for Champagne will represent increasing export growth, with Japan currently the fourth-largest export market after the K., the U.S. and Germany.
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On February 07, 2013, Queen released their next album and their next compilation effort, “Queen at 40, Volume Two.” If you have yet to get into the music of this prodigious group, well, this is the best way in which to do it because this effort contains the second quintet of albums remastered PLUS extras in a great box set. We hope you will use whatever site you visit for fine rock music and pick this incredible effort up- you will not be disappointed, we guarantee it.
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The follow-up effort to “Spirit of ‘76” by the Los Angeles-Moloka’i based rock band, Spirit– “Son of Spirit”- came out on October 27, 1975. This was a single album effort and the powerhouse trio delivered another stunning set. California never fails to amaze fans of the music of the times just as his stepfather Ed Cassidy is perhaps one of the all-time greatest drummers in the history of rock music joined by bassist Barry Keane who keeps a throbbing bottom thumping from start to finish. The tune, “The Other Song,” is astounding as is a cover of the Beatles’ “Yesterday.” This is one album that every fan of the band and of the music of the times should own so please, seek it out by visiting whatever site for the best in music you frequent. You will love it.
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Peter Frampton released his fifth solo effort, “Frampton Comes Alive II” on October 06, 1995. The band now featured Frampton (guitars/lead vocals), John Reagan (bass/vocals), J.R. Robinson (drums and percussion) and Bob Mayo (rhythm guitar, keyboards). This album remains one of the biggest sellers of all time and certainly made the guitarist/vocalist a superstar from here on out. We hope you will search out this album wherever you can find it and add it to your growing collection of amazing British rock. We love it as will you.
Author chefelchilotePosted on March 20, 2019 March 19, 2019 Categories 2020 Democratic Primary Candidates, 2020 Elections, American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day, Hector "El Chilote" Santanamos De Soto, Left-Wing Liberal Insanity, Left-Wing Political TricksTags Barack Obama, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, Bill Clinton, Carl Palmer, Democratic Party Politics, Democrats inability to win fair and honest elections, El Chilote, Emerson, Enfranchising 16-year-olds, Glenn Schwartz, Hector Santanamos De Soto, Hillary Clinton, Jerry Reed, Joe Biden, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Just the Facts, Lake & Palmer, Nancy Pelosi, Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Pacific Gas & Electric, Political Topics and Essays, Queen, Sam Lay, Stealing Elections, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Voting RightsLeave a comment on Just the Facts: my party now promotes that we enfranchise 16-year-olds with the vote- can Democrats no longer win honest, fair, and open elections without stacking the deck?
Just the Facts: Beto and the crazy hand jive- what the hell is up with that?
Well, I was watching Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, the Irish guy claiming to be a Latino standing on a bar top somewhere in Iowa. Why the hell you want to cultural appropriate the Hispanic peoples, Beto, I thought you folks are always telling everyone else that NO one is supposed to do that, yet there’s that guy with the ‘hand jive’ problem acting like he is some sort of barrio wanna be gangster.
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“Just the Facts: Beto and the crazy hand jive- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
Beto be doing that ‘hand jive’ all over town and on national TV
Shafter, CA, 03-19-2019 Tuesday: Hola, amigos. ¿Cómo diablos están todos haciendo esta mañana? You know, I love politics just as much as I love cooking, maybe even more, if I had had the sense when I was a younger man and had actually established roots someplace longer than a few years here and a few years there, I might have entered the world of electoral politics and become the big bad Democrat politician in town. Still, I can look back at what might have been and dream about what might be in the next life but for the here and now, we will talk about other perdedores politicos like crazy-ass ‘Beto,’ you know, the guy with the hands that go all the time.
I remember an old song, “Willie and the Hand Jive,” I think Johnny Otis did it first, way back when- you know we Latinos love the Oldies but Goodies, which is why driving to L.A. can be a blast, they have the best radio stations down there- about this guy that did a ‘dance with his hands.’
Of course, think what you want but most people believe that the Willie of the song was doing that ‘hand jive’ in the bedroom underneath the covers, meaning, he was in there spanking that wank, you know, ahogando el pollo. If you want to hear a fabulous version, listen to the one the Youngbloods do on, I believe, “High on a Ridgetop” album, possibly the “Good and Dusty” album, that is a cool version.
My colleague, Chef Elmer, contends that maybe this fraud from Texas is smoking crack because if you ever observe crack heads, they are always jerking and jumping as though they suffer from the St. Vitus disease. I know I have never seen anything like it and if this dummy somehow wins the nomination and goes up against President Trump, I hate to think of how bad it will be for Beto and his ‘Hand Jive.’
In politics, it used to be someone had to WIN something to be a ‘player.’ ‘Mr. Hand Jive’ might have won three congressional terms in Texas; however, he was incapable of beating Senator Ted Cruz thus flipping his seat from red to blue. If a person cannot beat the most detested man ever to draw breath in the U.S. Senate, how does one believe that he or she has what it takes to beat a formidable president?
I know that Vanity Fair and other left-wing liberal media are creaming their pants over this bum but to me, it appears as though all the backers of Beto and his famous Hand Jive are once again going down the same path they have already traveled when Barack Obama first ran back in 2008.
As a Democrat, I voted for Barack Obama but did it with reservations as I did not think he truly had what it took to be the nation’s top dog. One senate term and a couple in his home state of Illinois did not qualify him to be president, especially in this time of advanced technology and a faster pace of life, but compared to Senator John McCain, (rest in peace), his youthful vitality helped many of us see beyond his disqualifications.
Unfortunately, Barack Obama caused the nation far more problems than he ever fixed or repaired. I think we all had this hope that with the election of our first non-white president, we would be able to right the historical wrongs of the past. That did not prove to be the case. Everything negative that occurred once he was in office, every criticism, all of it became ‘racist’ and the constant drum beat of racist-racist-racist has irreparably harmed our country and its people.
I know at one point, I referred to the Obama administration as the Obama-Titanic as back in 2014, it sure seemed as though the country was on the verge of collapse. Not many people were eager for Obamacare to become the law of the land and yet, there it was, and alas, it is still here although the teeth in the mandate have been yanked.
Back to Beto and his ‘Hand Jive,’ it should be no shock or come as a surprise to anyone that he is way left on the issues. Whether it is continued funding of abortion providers to marriage ‘equality,’ former Congressman O’Rourke STILL supports these extreme views.
Granted, when it comes to gay marriage, that horse is long out of the barn, the slippery slope tactic the left uses to force their agenda down our throats. I wish we could separate ourselves from these extreme positions but like it or not, what WE, the older American voters want most likely is not going to happen. The youthful Democratic-Socialists are out there growing in numbers while our generation slowly dies off. I hope I can make it to the end of the road before they want to start doing us in.
Morbid? You bet. Folks, I would suggest avoiding Beto and his ‘Hand Jive’ because in my view, he is as extreme as little AOC- the girl my colleagues call the “Baby Evita” because of her similarities to Eva Perón. I have avoided talking about her up until now because I was hoping she would be a flash in the pan and that maybe cooler minds could and would prevail.
Unfortunately, we will mention her tomorrow. Hasta mañana, amigos míos.
03-19-2019 Tuesday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCXLVIII: “Beto and the crazy hand jive- what the hell is up with that?” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
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1452: Frederick III of Hapsburg becomes the Holy Roman Emperor on this date.
1524: French seaman Giovanni de Verrazano sights land around the area of the Carolinas.
1571: Spanish troops occupy the Philippine city of Manila on this date.
1628: The English found the Massachusetts Colony on this date.
1644: 200 members of the ruling Chinese Imperial family/court members commit suicide.
1687: French explorer Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle—the first European to navigate the length of the Mississippi River—was murdered by mutineers in present-day Texas.
1702: The daughter of James II, Anne Stuart, becomes the queen of England on this date.
1748: The English Naturalization Act passes allowing Jews to move to North America along with the rest of the Brits.
1831: The first bank robbery in the United States takes place on this date at the City Bank in New York; the take is $245,000.
1859: The opera “Faust!” by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.
1863: The Confederate cruiser Georgianna, on its maiden voyage, underwent scuttling off Charleston, South Carolina, to prevent it from falling into Union
1865: Following the Battle of Bentonville, the Confederates retreat from Greenville, North Carolina.
1866: The immigrant ship, Monarch of the Seas, sinks off Liverpool resulting in 738 deaths.
1895: The Los Angeles Railway commenced service as a streetcar provider throughout the city.
1900: Archeologist Arthur John Evans commenced the excavation of Knossos Palace in Greece on this date. Meanwhile, President William McKinley asserted there was a need for free trade between the United States and Puerto Rico.
1903: The United States Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
1908: The state of Maryland barred Christian Scientists from practicing without a medical diploma.
1917: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), in Wilson v. New, upheld the eight-hour workday for railroad workers.
1918: Congress approved Daylight Saving Time something that no longer should be applicable because it does NOTHING except to disrupt sleep cycles and mental health.
1920: The Senate rejected—for a second time—the Treaty of Versailles, by a vote of 49 in favor, 35 against, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.
1927: In Berlin, bloody street battles take place between Nazi and communist street thugs.
1931: Nevada Governor Fred B. Balzer signed a measure legalizing casino gambling.
1942: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill requiring all men between the ages of 45 and 64 to register for non-military duty.
1944: Future keyboardist with the Grateful Dead—Tom Constantan—is born on this date.
1945: During World War II, 724 people died when a Japanese dive-bomber attacked the aircraft carrier, USS Franklin off the coast of Japan; however, sailors were able to keep the ship afloat. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler issued his so-called “Nero Decree,” ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied
1946: Paul Atkinson—future guitarist with the British rock band, the Zombies, was born in England on this date, too.
1949: Future heavyweight champion of the world, Larry Holmes, was born in the United States on this date.
1953: The Academy Awards ceremony appeared on TV for the first time; “The Greatest Show on Earth” won best picture of 1952.
1958: The film “South Pacific,” adopted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, hit movie theaters on this date.
1963: In Costa Rica, American President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight communism.
1965: E. Lee Spence discovered the wreck of the Confederate cruiser, Georgianna; 102 years to the day after its crew scuttled her. Elsewhere, Indonesia nationalized all foreign oil companies on this date.
1969: In the aftermath of the street riots during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, authorities indict the Chicago 8.
1972: India and Bangladesh signed a treaty of friendship on this date.
1974: The Jefferson Starship goes on its first tour.
1976: Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.
1977: The last episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” aired. Elsewhere, a suicide commando assassinated Congo President Marien Ngouabi on this date.
1979: The U.S. House of Representatives began televising its day-to-day business.
1981: The Buffalo Sabres set an NHL record when they scored 9 goals in one period against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1982: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom over this and their landings in the Falklands.
1984: A Mobil oil tanker spilled 200,000 gallons of oil into the Columbia River.
1987: Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chair of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary.
1991: NFL owners strip Phoenix, Arizona, of the 1993 Super Bowl over the state’s non-recognizance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
1998: The World Health Organization warned of tuberculosis epidemic that could kill 70 million people over the next two decades.
2001: California officials declared a power alert and ordered the first of two days of rolling blackouts.
2002: Queen Elizabeth II knighted actor Ben Kingsley at Buckingham Palace.
2003: President George W. Bush ordered the start of the war against Iraq. However, because of the time difference, it was early March 20 in Iraq.
2012: Wendy’s overtakes Burger King as the second most popular hamburger chain in the world.
2013: In Rome, Italy, the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis takes place in Peter’s Square; hundreds of thousands attend. Meanwhile, on the planet Mars, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals.
2014: President Obama promises that the U.S. will not take military action in Ukraine in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
2015: According to Brainy History, the U.S. Federal Reserve has cut its 2015 inflation and economic growth predictions for the U.S. and will likely wait until at least June of this year to raise interest rates.
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On September 22, 2012, Queen released their next album and their next compilation effort, “Queen at 40, Volume One.” If you have yet to get into the music of this prodigious group, well, this is the best way in which to do it because this effort contains the first five albums remastered PLUS extras in a great box set. We hope you will use whatever site you visit for fine rock music and pick this incredible effort up- you will not be disappointed, we guarantee it.
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Thanks to the urging of his stepfather, drummer Ed Cassidy, Randy California picked up his guitar, cleared his throat, and came out of Hawaiian retirement. The resulting collaboration between the two and bassist Barry Keane delivered a stunning two-LP set, “Spirit of ’76” (May 10, 1975). The band was back and interwoven with patriotic themes thanks to it being the Bi-Centennial, the band also knocked out some amazing hard rock tunes, some Jimi Hendrix standards, some Rolling Stone classics, and some of their own breathtaking powerhouse rock music. We urge everyone to seek this one out by visiting whatever site you shop for nothing but the absolute amazing best in rock music. We know you will love it and you will, too, so folks, find it, buy it, and love it.
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Humble Pie released an archival live release on April 12, 1995, “King Biscuit Flower Hour presents Humble Pie Live 1973.” This is a smoking live set featuring the same band that delivered their biggest album ever, “Smokin’”: Steve Marriott (guitars, keyboards, harmonica, and vocals), Clem Clemson (from Colosseum) (guitars, keyboards, and backing vocals), Greg Ridley (bass and vocals), and Jerry Shirley (drums, keyboards, and vocals). The band rocks and rolls because it was a stunning night, which is why we love this album and urge everyone to pick it up wherever they seek nothing but the best in rock-and-roll music. You will be glad if you add it to your collection.
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AOC says the planet has a dozen years left; well, if we fail to get a grip on our southern border, in 12 years or less, no one will recognize the late great United States of America
In California- illegal aliens already vote. Felons vote. Dead folks vote. I am sure we have ‘repeat offenders’ who travel from polling place to polling place to vote. Soon, if politicians in my party have their way, sixteen-year-olds will vote. Sixteen-year-olds. Let that sink in. Children who do not mature until their mid-thirties soon are going to have a right to vote? WTF?
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“AOC says the planet has a dozen years left; well, if we fail to get a grip on our southern border, in 12 years or less, no one will recognize the late great United States of America” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto
Republicans defying President Trump? Their time is coming…
Shafter, CA, 03-18-2019 Monday: Amigos, it is I, your host, El Chilote, back for his first week of the brand-new year and man, oh, man, oh, man! No one ever knows what the heck is going to happen, where it’s going to happen, or why the Sam Hill it is going to happen, yet…it happens. As you know, I am a Democrat, a disenchanted one to be sure, but I will never abandon the party as I always have some glimmer of hope that the party will regain its sanity and that it is going to jettison the nuts that seemingly have taken it over and absconded with it.
As a Latino, let me say this: my family and I personally are harmed by open borders. It seems that state government believes- when it comes to protecting NON-citizens at the expense of citizens- the MORE the merrier and woe to anyone foolish enough to call them out on it.
While I think we need a guest worker program as we once did, I haven’t a clue as to why we should continue allowing massive numbers of people who CLAIM they want asylum but who are invading our country just as President Donald J. Trump says they are. We are losing our national identity as wave after wave after wave of Central Americans and other Third World peoples continue flooding across the southern border.
What boggles MY mind is the fact that President Trump is trying to find the money- by hook or by crook, if need be- to continue putting up the wall so we can halt the inflow of illegals. Remember that movie about zombies, “World War Z?” You do? Remember when the Israelis had that massive wall and the zombies were trying to flow over it- and eventually did to the regret of the people assembled there; well, that is how it seems where the existing walls are ridiculously low or nonexistent. We must stop this.
The thing that also stuns my mind is how the Republicans in the Senate could give a hooey about the president’s issuance of a state of emergency over needing to redirect money to fund the wall, money the Democrats won’t give and whom have done everything they can to throw a monkey wrench into the immigration gears. What is wrong with these people?
Lately, we have heard the little darling of the Democratic Party talk about HOW our planet has twelve years left and then it goes KAPUT. Well, I do not believe the scam about climate change/global warming but I do believe that if we do not stem the tide crashing into our country, in twelve years, the United States of America we know will no longer exist.
We cannot absorb the masses of illegal aliens pouring into the country as we do not really need them to do very many jobs. As things become automated, I would like someone to tell me WHY having a million or more illegals flooding our country every year is somehow a good thing, what it is going to do for us, or why we, the American people, should not be angry at our leaders and begin taking matters into our OWN hands.
Twelve Republicans voted with the Democrats this past Friday in the U.S. Senate. Twelve scumbags. I can tell you, our nation has NEVER seen such an effort to stymie an American president seeking to protect the American people, NEVER. It makes me sick, it makes me want to chuck my guts at the mere thought that Democrats and Republicans think thwarting the president by allowing the people of this country to be submerged beneath a tidal wave of humanity is somehow good. It is not. Definitely NOT.
Later on Friday, President Trump signed a veto throwing the attempt to halt him out of the window for now. Republicans think that MORE of their numbers will join them in trying to stop the president from doing what must be done, which is not right. It is bad. The voters will remember this for as long as they possibly can even though the days of free and fair elections appears to be waning.
My friend and colleague, Chef Elmer said it best: “Democrats cannot win a fair election, they have to jimmy-rig everything in their favor and if means extending the franchise to sixteen-year-olds and then to fourteen-year-olds and maybe even twelve year-olds because of the ‘climate threat to our planet,’ they certainly will give it the old school try.
We know that even if the voters of the Golden State vote something down, our leaders will overturn it if they feel we voted incorrectly or worse, with prejudice (like on Proposition 8). I mean, look at Governor Gavin Newsom, we voted to expedite the execution process for those on death row a few years back and he threw it out last week with a flip of his head and his signature on an executive order.
Friends, I am not yet ready to throw the towel in and move to the South Pacific and open a Mexican restaurant. However, it could be coming soon because what is going on in our country at present cannot end well for anyone. We may have to fight another civil war to restore sanity to the country that millions of us love so much.
We will meet again tomorrow, mis amigos. Have a good day and think about what I have said. My family’s as well as your family’s future depends upon thinking RIGHT.
03-18-2019 Monday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCCXLVII: “AOC says the planet has a dozen years left; well, if we fail to get a grip on our southern border, in 12 years or less, no one will recognize the late great United States of America” by Chef Hector “El Chilote” Santanamos de Soto.
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37 A.D.: The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula
417: Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
731: Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1229: German Emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem.
1314: Jacques de Moulay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar meets his fate at the hands of his tormentors at the stake.
1438: Albrecht II von Hapsburg becomes king of Germany.
1532: The English Parliament forbids payments by the church to Rome.
1766: Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765 due to its unpopularity among the colonists in New England.
1782: The future seventh vice president of the United States, 1825-1832—Democrat John C. Calhoun—is born on this date.
1813: David Melville patented the gas streetlamp on this date.
1818: Congress approved its first pensions for government service.
1834: In Pennsylvania, construction workers completed work on the first railroad tunnel in the United States on today’s date.
1837: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey.
1850: Henry Wells and William Fargo founded American Express on this date.
1865: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1874: Hawaii signed a treaty with the United States, which granted America the right to exclusive trade.
1877: President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglas the marshal of Washington, D.C.
1881: Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opened at Madison Square Garden on today’s date.
1882: Opponents of the Earp family assassinate Morgan Earp while playing billiards in Tombstone, Arizona.
1895: 200 black Americans leave Savanah, Georgia, bound for settlement in Liberia.
1899: Astronomers discovered the moon Phoebe, which orbits the planet Saturn.
1903: France dissolved the Catholic religious orders.
1909: Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short-wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a “ham” operator.
1910: On this date, the first opera by a U.S. composer performed at the Met in New York City.
1911: Former President Theodore Roosevelt opened Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, which was the largest dam in America at that time. Elsewhere, North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law.
1916: During World War I, Czarist Russia countered the Verdun assault on the Western Front with an attack at Lake Naroch on the Eastern Front, he Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost 20,000 in defending against them.
1920: Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar on this date.
1922: British officials in India sentence Mahatmas K. Gandhi to six years in prison for civil disobedience. H
1925: The Tri-State Tornado struck southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana, resulting in some 700 deaths.
1931: Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1937: Some 300 people, mostly children, died in a gas explosion at the New London Consolidate School in New London, Texas.
1938: Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized his country’s petroleum reserves and took control of foreign-owned oil facilities. Elsewhere, New York commenced requiring serological blood tests of pregnant women.
1940: Benito Mussolini’s Italy joins Hitler’s Germany in its war on France and Great Britain. The meeting between the two dictators took place in the Brenner Pass.
1942: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the World War II Relocation Authority, the governmental entity that took charge of interning Japanese-Americans, with Milton S. Eisenhower (the younger brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower) as its director. Meanwhile, the third military draft in the U.S. commenced during World War II.
1944: Due to Hungary switching sides to Stalin’s Russia, the Nazis occupy their country.
1945: During World War II, 1,250 Allied bombers attack the Nazi capital of Berlin.
1947: Barrie “B.J.” Wilson, future drummer of the British rock group, Procol Harum, was born in England.
1948: Future famed keyboardist, who played with Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominos, Bobby Whitlock, is born in the United States on this date.
1949: The treaty for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, aka NATO, wins ratification in the U.S. Senate.
1950: Future drummer with the rock band, the Doobie Brothers—John Hartman—is born on this date.
1952: In Philadelphia, an optometrist fitted the first plastic lenses for a cataract patient. Meanwhile, guitarist with Ian Gillan’s solo band, Gillan- Bernie Tormé- is born on this date.
1954: Howard Hughes—the first person ever to own a motion picture studio—bought RKO Pictures for $23 million on this date.
1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill, which led to it officially becoming a state on August 21, 1959.
1962: France and Algerian rebels signed the Evian Accords, a cease-fire agreement that took effect the next day ending the Algerian War.
1963: The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal counsel for defendants.
1965: The first spacewalk took place as Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether. Meanwhile, the Rolling Stones receive fines of £5 each for public urination.
1967: “Penny Lane,” by the Beatles hits #1 on the pop music charts.
1970: For the first time in U.S. history, the USPS postal union calls for a strike.
1974: Most OPEC members end the oil embargo against the United States, an embargo caused by the U.S. support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1977: The United States restricts travel of its citizens to the following nations: Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
1981: In the NHL, the Buffalo Sabres set a record of 9 goals in one period against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1986: The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it would begin weaving a clear, polyester thread into bills to thwart counterfeiters.
1990: The first free elections took place in East Germany. Meanwhile, art thieves stole 13 paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Since art experts valued the paintings at a whopping $100 million, the heist became the largest art robbery in history.
1991: In the seventh round of their heavyweight match, Mike Tyson beats Donovan “Razor Ruddock.
1995: Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17-month retirement from the NBA.
2001: Founding member and guiding light of the Mamas and the Papas—John Phillips—died from heart failure on this date.
2009: Kent Henry, former guitarist with Blues Image and Steppenwolf died from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
2011: After the United States, Britain, and France authorized a No-Fly Zone over Libya, Libyan authorities announced that it would call for a ceasefire, which it immediately violated by killing 25 civilians in Misrata.
2014: President Obama awards 24 Medals of Honor to veterans originally overlooked due to ethnic or racial bias. Elsewhere, in the U.S., today’s Mega Millions multistate lottery drawing has two winning tickets; the $400 million jackpot is the third largest in the game’s history. Meanwhile, founding member of Blues Image as well as performer with other bands—drummer/percussionist Joe Lala—passed away on this date from lung cancer.
2015: Although election consultants sent by President Barack Obama to help the opposition to Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, worked hard and spent millions to beat the prime minister, Netanyahu and his Likud Party retain power. Netanyahu set out to form a new coalition government.
2017: The founder of rock-and-roll—the great Chuck Berry—died from natural causes at the age of 90.
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Author chefelchilotePosted on March 18, 2019 March 15, 2019 Categories Build the Wall, Donald Trump, Hector "El Chilote" Santanamos De Soto, Illegal Alien Caravans, Illegal Alien Invasion, Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria "Baby Evita"Tags “Penny Lane, ” by the Beatles, ” Procol Harum, Barrie “B.J.” Wilson, Bernie Tormé, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, Blues Image, Bobby Whitlock, Chuck Berry, Defending America, Democratic Party Politics, Derek and the Dominos, Donald Trump, El Chilote, Eric Clapton, Freddie Mercury, Gillan, Hector Santanamos De Soto, Illegal Alien Invasion, Joe Lala, John Hartman, John Phillips, Just the Facts, Kent Henry, Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Political Topics and Essays, President Grover Cleveland, Queen, Republican Party Politics, Southern Border Crisis, Steppenwolf, The Doobie Brothers, The Mamas and the Papas, The Rolling Stones, Vice President John C. CalhounLeave a comment on AOC says the planet has a dozen years left; well, if we fail to get a grip on our southern border, in 12 years or less, no one will recognize the late great United States of America
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PC Review – The One We Found
By Shaun M Jooste Nov 4, 2018
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The One We Found takes us back to survival horror at its roots. It provides all the right atmosphere, especially sound, to terrify even the most veteran horror players.
The One We Found was officially released on 31 October 2018, thereby celebrating the horror genre on Halloween. It was developed and published by Loveridge Designs. It is first person survival horror game set in a terrifying mental institution.
AIR Entertainment obtained a digital copy of the game for review purposes.
If you are subscribed to AIR Entertainment’s Youtube Channel, you can catch a glimpse of AIR Entertainment’s gameplay videos along with some other game videos. For convenience, we have included in our review below.
James Ledgewick is a psychotherapist finding himself investigating the Whisperwood Mental Institute. A cave network has been discovered under the institution, which has released all sorts of juicy evil upon the building. And it is the player’s job as James to figure out all the secrets these entail.
When the player starts out, the mental institute stands before you. Much like the start of Resident Evil 7, the task is to find a way inside. Not much reason is giving as to why you are there at first, but as one plays through the game the secrets and reasons become increasingly clear.
More focus is on the horror element than the story in much of the game. When the story evolves and is uncovered, it provides more suspense and mystery, which keeps it interesting. However, there is always a fight or flight decision. I’ve not really been sure if I was meant to fight a monster. Sometimes one needs to simply find a way to avoid detection and find the clues than actually fight a monster.
I don’t know if I’m just growing more impatient with games as I grow older, but I am getting to the point where if something takes too long to work out and I have died too many times, then I want to switch the game off and never return.
Even though there was a growing sense of this in the game, I still wanted to know what was coming next and continued. I love survival horror, and I intend to survive as much as possible. Players may find themselves dying on purpose just to work out how an enemy works. Sometimes there are clues that tell you how to deal with them, but even by using these clues I have found it hard to dispose of certain enemies.
That does not mean that I haven’t enjoyed it though. It just means that many others out there might not. If players have the same sort of resilience as playing through every Silent Hill game, even though some of them were really bad, then this game is for you. The gameplay is much smoother though, and objects are easy to interact with thankfully. Players just need to be careful to inspect as many items as possible, making sure the white circle used to identify items turns red for anything important.
There is also an emphasis on item management, as is much of a trend in survival horror. What will you throw away, what has more value to keep than others. Very strategy inventory management is needed towards the later parts of the game.
SOUND AND GRAPHICS
As much as Story and Gameplay lends a hand in making the game more enjoyable, Grapbics and Sound is what really brings the terror in survival horror. And The One We Found does this in the sound department very, very, very well. When you start the game up, it is very clear that immense amount of research went into what sounds are the most terrifying. As a matter of fact, the game spells it out and tells you to where headphones for optimum enjoyment.
And so I did. And so I was terrified to hell and back and to hell again. Before the game even starts, some of the sounds are already quite horrifying. In the game itself, sounds alert you to hidden dangers, and even the soft singing of siren type demons is pleasant to listen to. There is sweet beauty in the horror of these noises. Having said that, there are times where it feels like the noise is raping your audio senses. If you are sensitive to such sounds, it is recommended that you stay very far away.
As horrific and terrifying as the sounds were, I was disappointed slightly at the graphics. I suppose the sound and prologue and suspense leading me into the game made me expect superb high quality graphics that we see in all the latest games. However, I would say the graphics are similar to anything from Silent Hill 2 to Silent Hill 4. The polygon rate was kept low, despite me picking the best resolution and graphic settings for the game.
Having said that, the graphics are still good if not compared to the latest games out there. Much foreshadowing is in play of things to come, and this creates more of the suspense that sends chills up the spine. Many of the cutscenes and corpses you will come across are filled with gore and sick imagery. It’s enough to give you bad images in your mind before you go to sleep, and keep you up still for some time after that. Lights and shadows play a great role in the game, especially the use of the flashlight.
All in all, if anyone were to remake any of the old Silent Hills in first person view, this developer has a great chance of making that a success.
The One We Found takes us back to survival horror at its roots. It provides all the right atmosphere, especially sound, to terrify even the most veteran horror players. The only thing that can improve this game is for it to one day be upgraded to modern graphics, but the graphics of old for this game almost makes it feel perfect for the genre. The next step would be for it to come to Virtual Reality, and I would personally love to adapt this game into a novel.
With all the horrifying elements and the correct strategic survival horror aspects to it, the game receives 8/10.
Disclaimer: AIR Entertainment obtained a digital copy for reviewing purposes. This review is the author’s own opinion and not influenced by the developer in any way, as per our reviewing Code of Ethics.
SHAUN M JOOSTE
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This global events report correlates major international events and developments with their markers in specified astrological charts or the sky. Events as reported by reputable news services.
December 31: Following her cancellation of concerts in Israel a pro-Israel organization uses a full-page newspaper ad in the Washington Post to call singer-songwriter Lorde (Venus) a ‘bigot’ and accuse her home country New Zealand of ‘growing prejudice’ against the Jewish people. Progressed Saturn was semisquare Venus in the Saturn cycle.
December 30: In a judicial setback (Jupiter) for South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma (Sun), the country’s top court (Jupiter) has ruled that parliament failed to hold him to account in a scandal over multi-million-dollar upgrades to his home, and must launch proceedings that could remove him from office. Progressed Jupiter was square the Sun in the Jupiter cycle; and Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi is sentenced to three years in prison for insulting (Mars) the judiciary Jupiter). Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
Two anti-government protestors (Uranus) in Iran are shot dead (Mars). Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
December 29: Blizzard conditions and freezing cold weather (Saturn) engulf Canada and parts of North America. The record breaking cold snap has seen completely frozen sharks wash up on a Massachusetts beach. Progressed Saturn was semisquare Venus in the Saturn cycle; and progressed Venus was conjunction progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
In Egypt at least 11 people are killed in two attacks (Mars) on Coptic Christians (Jupiter) in Helwan district, south of Cairo. Progressed Jupiter was square Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was trine Mars in the Sun cycle.
In Mumbai, India a massive late-night fire (Mars) in an upscale restaurant (Jupiter) kills at least 15 people. Progressed Jupiter was square Jupiter in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was trine Mars in the Sun cycle.
In Germany organizers of Berlin's New Year's Eve celebrations will set up a ‘safe zone’ (Saturn) for women (Venus) for the first time. The new security measures come amid concerns about sexual assaults. Progressed Venus was conjunction progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; progressed Saturn was semisquare Venus in the Saturn cycle; and progressed Sun was square Venus in the Sun cycle.
December 28/29: In Iran anti-government demonstrations (Uranus) spread to several major cities. The protests began against rising prices (Jupiter) and have spiraled into a general outcry against clerical rule (Jupiter) and government policies. Progressed Uranus was parallel Saturn in the Uranus cycle; and Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
December 28: A suicide bombing (Mars) at a Shi‘ite cultural center and news agency in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 41 people and injures 84 others. Jupiter was square Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and Sun was trine Mars in the Sun cycle.
Twelve people are dead in an apartment fire (Mars) in The Bronx area of New York City. Jupiter was square Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and Sun was trine Mars in the Sun cycle.
The Oregon Court of Appeals (Jupiter) upholds a $135,000 fine against the Sweet Cakes by Melissa Christian owners for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Jupiter was square Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
December 24: North Korea’s foreign ministry, in an official statement, says the latest United Nations sanctions are an act of war (Mars) and amount to a complete economic (Saturn) blockade (Pluto). Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Mars was square Sun and semisquare Saturn in the Mars cycle.
December 23: The Thomas fire (Mars), blazing away in California, becomes the largest fire in the state’s history. Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
At least 180 people are dead and more than 160 missing after tropical storm Vinta (Saturn) devastates the southern Philippines, unleashing flash flooding (Saturn) and setting off landslides (Saturn). 70,000 people are displaced and a state of emergency has been declared. Progressed Saturn was parallel the ascendant in Philippines Saturn cycle chart; and progressed Mars was semisquare Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year, making the archipelago one of the world's most disaster-prone countries.
December 22: The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposes new sanctions (Pluto) on North Korea that caps refined petroleum product imports to 500,000 barrels a year, a 90 percent cut, and demands the repatriation of North Koreans working abroad within 24 months. Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart.
After 1,000 days of civil war (Mars) in Yemen, eight million people are at risk of starvation (Saturn). Progressed Mars was parallel birthchart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
The digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin (Jupiter) continues its wild ride (Mars) losing a third of its value within 24 hours. Jupiter was square Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
In the Catalan regional election pro-independence parties (Uranus) retain their absolute majority in the regional parliament. Progressed Uranus was sesquisquare the ascendant (the people) and parallel Saturn (in house 11 – parliament) in Spain’s Uranus cycle chart.
December 21: The United Nations General Assembly votes 128–9, with 35 abstentions, in a nonbinding resolution to demand that the United States rescind its December 6 declaration on unilaterally recognizing the holy (Jupiter) and contested (Mars) city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
December 20: The US Congress passes the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax system in more than three decades.
America’s chart progressed to December 20, 2018
Progressed Jupiter at 15 Cancer 18R in house 2 (finances) – the cusp ruler (Pisces) of house 11 (Congress/Senate) – was square birth chart Saturn at 14 Libra 47 in house 5 – the cusp ruler (Capricorn) of house 8 (taxes).
Progressed Moon at 14 Sagittarius 32 in house 7 was inconjunct progressed Jupiter and sextile birth chart Saturn. Transit Jupiter at 14 Scorpio 50 timed the event.
The European Court of Justice (Jupiter) rules that Uber is officially a transport company and not a digital service, thus requiring it to accept stricter regulation and licensing within the European Union. Jupiter was parallel Sun in Jupiter cycle and conjunction Mars in the sky.
December 18: At least three people are killed when a US passenger train derails (Mars) onto a motorway (house 3) in Washington State. The Sun, Moon and Saturn are in house 3 (transportation, trains and roads) of America’s Capricorn lunation chart; and Mars was square ascendant in America’s Mars cycle chart.
December 17: A suicide bomb and gun attack (Mars) on a Methodist church (Jupiter) in Pakistan kills nine people. Mars was conjunction Jupiter in the sky.
A power cut (Uranus-Saturn) at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson international airport (house 9) affects tens of thousands of passengers with over 1,000 flights cancelled (Saturn). Uranus was parallel Saturn in the Uranus cycle.
December 16: More evacuations are ordered as surging Santa Ana winds drive the 40-percent contained Thomas Fire (Mars), now the third-largest in California history. Mars was parallel Moon in the Mars cycle.
December 15: In Australia a five-year royal commission into child sexual abuse (Mars and house 5) uncovers harrowing evidence of sexual abuse (Mars) within institutions, including churches (house 9), schools and sports clubs (house 5). Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart; and Mars was parallel Moon in the Mars cycle.
December 14: Restrictions on US broadband providers' ability to prioritize one service's data over another are to be reduced. Internet service providers (ISPs) will now be allowed to speed up or slow down different companies' data, and charge (Jupiter) consumers according to the services they access. Jupiter was trine Jupiter in the Jupiter cycle.
Walt Disney agrees to buy the bulk of 21st Century Fox's business for $52.4bn (£39bn) (Jupiter). Jupiter was trine Jupiter in the Jupiter cycle.
The biggest narcotics gang in Columbia, the far-right paramilitary Clan del Golfo, declares a cease-fire (Venus) in effect since December 13. Progressed Venus was conjunction progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
December 13: Martial law (Mars) in the Philippines is extended until December 31, 2018. Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Pluto in the Aquarian Age chat; and Mars was parallel the Moon in the Mars cycle.
The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates (Jupiter) by 0.25%, for the third time this year. Officials also boosted their economic forecasts, projecting 2.5% growth in GDP (Jupiter) in 2017 and 2018, due in part to planned tax cuts (Saturn). Jupiter was trine the Moon in the Jupiter cycle.
In a key vote on its Brexit bill Theresa May’s government suffers a major loss (Saturn) – 309-305 – after a rebellion (Uranus) by 11 Tory MPs. Progressed Venus was conjunction progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and Uranus was parallel Saturn in the Uranus cycle.
December 12: Republican Roy Moore suffers a shock loss (Uranus) in the Alabama senate race. Democrat Doug Jones wins a bitter fight (Mars), dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by accusations of sexual misconduct (Mars) against Moore. Mars was parallel Moon in the Mars cycle; and Jupiter was sesquisquare Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
December 11/12: An explosion and fire rips through Austria’s main gas pipeline hub killing one person and injuring 21 others. Italy declares a state of emergency (Mars) as flows from the strategic site were cut off for most of the day. News of the blast sent gas prices in Europe soaring (Jupiter) on fears it would restrict supply as winter sets in. Mars was parallel Moon in the Mars cycle; and Jupiter was sesquisquare Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
December 10: Wild fires rage across southern California heading towards coastal cities Mars was inconjunct Mars in the Mars cycle.
December 9: Iraq announces that the war (Mars) against ISIS is over. All the territory occupied by ISIS has been liberated (Uranus) and peace (Venus) and security (Saturn) have been re-established. Progressed Mars was parallel birthchart Saturn; progressed Venus was conjunction progressed Saturn; and progressed Jupiter was trine birth chart Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart.
Anti-US and anti-Trump protests (Uranus) continue on the West Bank and in Gaza. Jupiter was trine Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
December 8: Demonstrators (Uranus) across the Arab and Muslim worlds take to the streets expressing solidarity with the Palestinians and outrage at the US move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Jupiter was sesquisquare Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
The European Union and Japan conclude negotiations on a trade deal (Jupiter). Jupiter was sesquisquare Uranus and trine Moon in the Jupiter cycle.
The European Union and the United Kingdom reach agreement (Jupiter) on the first stage of Brexit including the status of the border between the U.K. and Ireland. Jupiter was sesquisquare Uranus and trine Moon in the Jupiter cycle.
December 7/8: Bitcoin passes $14,000 (£10,460; €11,870). It surged $2,000 in less than 24 hours and then surges again to briefly pass $17,000. The cryptocurrency (Jupiter-Uranus) began the year below $1,000. Jupiter was sesquisquare Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
December 6: US president Donald Trump (Sun) recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and says the US has started the process of moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises (Sun) the announcement but there’s worldwide criticism (Sun discord), Progressed Sun was sesquisquare (agitation) birth chart Sun in the Aquarian Age chart.
Time names the ‘Silence Breakers’ as person of the year. The cover features six women (Venus) who have spoken up against harassment this year: actress Ashley Judd, singer Taylor Swift, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, Californian lobbyist Adama Iwu, strawberry picker Isabel Pascual (whose name was changed in the story to protect her family), and an anonymous hospital worker from Texas. But the piece makes clear that the movement is bigger than any individual person and that the award is for all those who have done so. Progressed Venus was conjunction progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; progressed Moon was sesquisquare the Venus-Saturn conjunction; and transit Sun was square birthchart Venus.
December 5: A 14-person International Olympic Committee panel (Pluto) bans Russia from the Winter Olympics (house 5) in Pyeong Chang, South Korea, after a report finds evidence of systemic drug cheating (Neptune) in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Russia’s Aquarian Age chart progressed to December 5, 2017
Progressed ascendant at 26 Capricorn 42 in house 4 was inconjunct birth chart Pluto – planet of drastic events – at 26 Taurus 30 in house 8; progressed Venus – the ruler of house 5 – in house 7 – was conjunction progressed Saturn – the cusp ruler of house 5; and progressed Sun – at 15 Gemini 08 in house 9 – was semisextile progressed Neptune at 15 Taurus 11 in house 8.
Transit Mars – at 27 Libra 13 in house 1 – was inconjunct birth chart Pluto activating the Pluto progression (the ban); transit ascendant – at 7N41 – was parallel birth chart Venus at 7S06 activating the house 5 progression (the Olympics); and transit Jupiter – at 11 Scorpio 52 in house 2 – was opposition birth chart Neptune activating the Neptune progression (drug cheating).
December 1: Former United States national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying (Neptune) to the FBI in the federal investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. Flynn agrees to cooperate (Pluto) with the FBI in the ongoing investigation. Mars was parallel Neptune in the Mars cycle and opposition Uranus in the sky.
Bitcoin (Jupiter) briefly crosses over the $US11,000 mark as it continues its whirlwind end to the year (bubble). Jupiter was trine Neptune in the sky.
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Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology
What is this rock?
Found it next to a stream in Maryland
................................. Quartz??
ray · 4 weeks ago
It's a rock solid one
I'm not even convinced it is quartz but it does look like it. It looks like it could be a piece of some igneous rock or metamorphosed igneous rock.
JimZ · 4 weeks ago
It's a fire stone
jeff · 4 weeks ago
Looks like Quartz
Smell it
Was there a Volcano ever there ?
Ronald 7 · 4 weeks ago
I need better glasses to say. There is apparently quartz in it, but what all is in it, in total? too blurry. Cannot even tell if it is a vein or metamorphic.
busterwasmycat · 1 month ago
Looks like quartz, possible rose quartz (which can appear purplish as in the photo).
Quartz can make a large part of a rock, mixed in with mica or other soft minerals.
poldi2 · 1 month ago
That's a piece of wood. Oh, wait, you mean the little thing in the middle there? Can't say--it looks like it could be glassy industrial slag to me, or otherwise some kind of conglomerate. Were there any kind of industrial activity in the area in the past?
PhotonX · 1 month ago
It could be a quartz crystal.
Murzy · 1 month ago
Why is Greenland called green when it is covered in ice?
What do you know about Lord Drenzil? Is he legit?
What would happen to the US economy if the Cascadia and the San Andreas Fault erupted simultaneously?
What would happen if the Cascadia Subduction zone erupted to Washington State and Oregon?
Were the first humans African?
How much of the US would be destroyed when the Yellowstone super volcano erupts?
Homosexuality is manmade and in animals caused by pollutants and radiation?
Do you agree that it's impossible that LA gets hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. What people are worrying about?
How many miles is the Pacific Ocean?
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The Democratic candidates have been divided up into 2 groups, for debates on successive nights.
NBC has announced.
... Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), former HUD Sec. Julian Castro, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA).
... former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), author Marianne Williamson, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper...
The second debate seems to have the stronger set of candidates, but that might not hurt the candidates in the first debate. People will be excited about the first debate, just because it's first, and without Biden and Sanders to draw attention, they have a chance to shine. I expect Elizabeth Warren to dominate, but everyone has a chance to stick out. On day 2, I expect Gillibrand and Harris to suffer in contrast to Sanders, Biden, and Buttigieg. I think those 2 women are bland.
That's just my guess.
Tags: 2020 campaign, debates
I think that first group is a big opportunity for Booker especially. His campaign has been going nowhere, but he both looks good and performs well in this type of setting.
He may not have a real chance at the nomination, but he could position himself as the likely VP pick.
Fen said...
Does anyone here believe the candidates were arranged randomly?
Let's take a closer look at...
Klobuchar will have an early opportunity to take down Warren. Will she?
The second debate seems to have the stronger set of candidates,
Seems right.
but that might not hurt the candidates in the first debate.
“Might not,” but almost certainly does. Warren certainly thinks so and my own take is that she’s right.
I just wonder if that first night will end up being a race to see who is the most extreme leftist? Will someone advocate for unadulterated Communism? Will the issue of impeachment be risen? Or will they try to not mention the bad orange man and talk about "policy".
Warren has a chance to shine that first night as a least slightly to the right of Mao Zedong. If she can't stick out amongst that goofy pack of nitwits, dullards, moonbats I guess she's toast.
Bilwick said...
They should divide them into two groups: (1) State-f*ckers and Tax lice; and (2) Even BIGGER State-f*ckers and Tax lice.
(A tip of the hat to P. J. O'Rourke for coming up with the expression "tax lice," which he used to describe the Clintonistas.)
Beasts of England said...
'I'd like you to meet Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton...'
Ann,
What would you think a debate in which there were no moderators? Once it gets down to about 5 top candidates, I'd like to see them put in a room with just a list of topics to discuss. I think it'd be fascinating to see how each person behaves in an unstructured conversation. Do they lead or follow? Are they able to listen and engage? What things do they choose to emphasize when they aren't being prompted?
I am curious to see how Tulsi Gabbard comes across. Forget about the rest of the clowns.
I am also curious to see what questions Rachel Maddow asks.
stevew said...
Bland. I would say they are not risk takers. The question is whether that is consistent with their thinking and leadership style or are they behaving as they think they need to to advance? If the latter then I doubt their instincts and ability to assess the situation.
Not worthy of your vote, no matter which is correct.
Ficta said...
I'm semi serious about this question: what on Earth are they going to debate? Is there anything they disagree on that they would admit to in this forum? The Dem base requires complete orthodoxy on absolutely every proposition in their Summa Theologica; to not affirm each self evident truth is fascist. Look at how they signed up for the ludicrous Green New Deal. So what are the candidates going to do; just all stand there and say "Yup Yup Yup" as the moderator reads every stray whim that's floated through Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's feeble mind over the last few months?
Corollary: I hate to get my hopes up so early, but are we really cruising to a replay of Nixon vs McGovern?
I think it'd be fascinating to see how each person behaves in an unstructured conversation. Do they lead or follow? Are they able to listen and engage? What things do they choose to emphasize when they aren't being prompted?
I doubt that such an arrangement would end civily. My guess is that it be an unlistenable jumble of cross talk as each one tried to talk over the rest. Anyone who was too polite would be steam rolled, they wouldn't get an word in edge wise. Most likely in the end you'd end up with a couple jackasses trying filibustering over one another and a the rest trying to interject unsuccessfully.
I think we should go all in with the media age and make the debates all like American Idol. People can call in for their favorites and each week the top 1/2 of candidates move to the next round.
An hour long show that features a foreign policy round, a domestic policy round, a historic issue round (how would you have responded to a key presidential crisis that isn't named until the show), and "candidate's choice"
Without looking I can tell you they've equally disbursed the women and minorities.
Anything less would be too obvious to the base who care, um, deeply about these things.
I second Francisco, however this is perhaps Tulsi Gabbard's only time to shine. Hoping she does.
I think he democrats will want to winnow the field fast to avoid more comparisons with the 2016 republican presidential races. Look for lots of pressure on all the second teir and vanity candidates to drop out after this first round.
Beto reminds me of John Edwards.
and "candidate's choice"
I think this should be replaced with a pandering round.
Two oppressed people are put in jeopardy, but only one can be saved!
anti-de Sitter space said...
Is it just me or is this a lame way to use 'just'?
Or maybe Althouse is being young and hip. Like, if she went even further young and hip she would write: "That's just the BRAIN's guess."
I dunno.
RMc said...
So...Bullock, Gravel, Messam and Moulton fail to make the cut. (Maybe put them in a "third tier" debate on Twitter, with folks like Ben Gleib and Robby Wells?)
I gather it's about getting the women's vote. No guy would watch it.
Who seems nicest and seems to mean well.
Is there anything they disagree on that they would admit to in this forum?
There are only two things that are being debated.
A. Who is the most Progressive candidate?
B. Who is the most electable?
Everything revolves around those items.
Sandra Bullock was running? She could handle Merkel. She speaks fluent German.
Questions faced by the first group: Do we gain or lose points if we roll our eyes when Beto speaks?
Questions only faced by Beto: Do I gain or lose points if I roll my own eyes while speaking?
I expect Elizabeth Warren to dominate, but everyone has a chance to stick out.
That sounds wrong. I don't think you want to stick out like some sort of missed nail, I think you want to stand out like a tree on the prairie.
For a guy that just joined the race, Bill de Blasio raked in the money and donors really fast.
And he's good at talking over people.
Ficta: "Corollary: I hate to get my hopes up so early, but are we really cruising to a replay of Nixon vs McGovern?"
No, as the dems/left/LLR-left have successfully replaced a significant portion of the American electorate with 3rd world socialists as well as trained another 3 generations to be more leftist in thought.
Tommy Duncan said...
I want to know if Liz Warren will have a beer stein on her podium and chug a brewski during her first question.
JRoberts said...
"I doubt that such an arrangement would end civilly. My guess is that it be an unlistenable jumble of cross talk as each one tried to talk over the rest. Anyone who was too polite would be steam rolled, they wouldn't get an word in edge wise. Most likely in the end you'd end up with a couple jackasses trying filibustering over one another and a the rest trying to interject unsuccessfully."
What if each candidate was required to wear an electric dog collar with a timer?
Lucid-Ideas said...
At this point it's easier to simply start a bracket:
The 26th League vs. the 27th Caucus. In a series of successive nights we whittle it down - upsets not withstanding - from Sweet 16, to Elite 8, to Final 4, to the championship.
Can Buttigieg be the George Mason of Dem candidates and pull an upset out of his hat? Or will Biden buck the smart money and flub on night 1? Who knows...
Tune in this Thursday, Thursday, Thursday...
I just want to state for the record that Tulsi Gabbard Got It Goin' On.
BJK said...
The Democrat candidates have been divided up into 2 groups: the also rans, and the also-also rans.
Lincolntf said...
I respectfully disagree with Ann's prediction that Warren will dominate. She only "works" in sound bites, any long exposure to questions or challenges and she reverts to her natural state of being, which is that of a narrow-minded crone,.She can't help herself. Format and time allotted/allowed will be the definitive factor. Warren is definitely a "Less is More" kind of speaker.
EP, being PC, appreciates a nice lei.
bleh said...
I'm #TeamTulsi and #YangGang. Neither is going to be the nominee but I hope both can get a word in edgewise at their respective debates. Especially Yang. I disagree with many of his ideas, particularly his signature UBI policy, but he's a very compelling thinker and he argues based on figures and logic as opposed to identity politics or partisan tribalism.
I like Tulsi because she challenges the Party's orthodoxy especially on foreign policy and trade -- and she opposes the hysteria about Russia. She will be an interesting candidate to have on stage. Her opponents will accuse her of being pro-Assad or pro-Putin.
T. Gabbard is by far the best looking and probably the most physically fit.
These are very important qualities that too many pundits overlook.
BTW, are there pics of Tulsi w/ a shirt that says she's busted but not flat broke? Maybe I mixed that up.
If they really really wanted to blow the roof off the ratings they could do the Village People:
Indian - Warren
Cowboy - Hickenlooper
Cop - Kamala
Biker - Rebellious Beto (Buttigieg or Booker for runner-up)
Sailor - Buttigieg (Naval reserve...and well duh)
Contractor - Biden (always under construction)
I'd watch.
There should probably be contests of fitness and strength in these things. They would add interest and eliminate the weaklings faster.
If these were replaced with a closed-door free for all with knives and clubs it would filter very well for the greatest will to power.
And save a lot of time.
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...
I'm semi serious about this question: what on Earth are they going to debate? Is there anything they disagree on that they would admit to in this forum?
Hydra-heads "debating"
...and, to save the planet, they should not take 2 clown-cars
I'd rather watch a third night's debate between James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, Megan Kelly and Alex Trebek.
Elizabeth Warren's main chance is to wear warpaint.
D 2 said...
"Bland" is Goldilocks strategy. In a crowded field, Be not too hot, not too cold. Wishful thinking that the ends of the parabola fall out first, and you wait to strike when it is down to 6/7 people. Maybe that worked in a different era.
No way it was random. It would be interested in hearing the different versions of how and why these arrays. Then it would be really interesting to hear the truth.
I think the first night crowd will have less in fighting. I may even presume side arrangements being contemplated. Let's take X out via coordination. Survive in threes by shooting at Y.
Whichever woman "wins" the first night becomes the foil against Biden. We were informed yesterday on this very site of media stories saying Sanders is not a serious candidate. He's done already, it's been decided he's NOT it.
So I assume the media story after 2nd debate night will put more distance between Biden & Sanders. Leaving the field to decide who wants to be in the finals.
PM said...
Maddow: "There's only one question. You'll each have ten minutes to respond. If you are chosen to be the Democrat cadidate, how will your campaign be different than Hillary Clinton's?"
Ten people enter the Thunderdome. One person leaves alive.
Do it twice.
Problems solved all the way around.
"...how will your campaign be different than Hillary Clinton's?"
Except for Biden and Bern, the rest can promise that they won't be shoved into a van like a half cow slab because they're an unconscious, brain damaged geezer.
Just like going second, night 2 is a hard act to follow. But Harris will steal the show on the 27th in her technicolor dreamcoat-a-la-rubic's-cube. Booker will beat himself up that night saying that was my idea although not having the guts to pull it off, while Buttigieg starts making plans to one up Harris with an Elton inspired Cockatiel outfit for future debates. Biden will look bewildered, but in the end will resort to finger-pointing as his lead evaporates. As the world turns...
Humperdink said...
With ten people it's not a debate but an exposition. The people standing beside Beto needs to careful of his wildly swinging arms. An inadvertent right cross could be fatal.
Physical fitness is an overlooked factor.
The main event will be against the Trump, an entity of superhuman energy.
Since Mrs Prole has already assumed the role of mother of my children, Tulsi Gabbard will have to settle for being my Democratic nominee for President.
gilbar said...
It's looking to me, like the powers that be have already decided that Jo Biden is the one to run against Trump; and they're stacking the deck to make that happen.
You'd Think that they'd remember the last time that they stacked the deck, at what happened then?
etbass said...
Don't think they seeded it like the NCAA.
Biden's performance should be interesting. I suspect he'll appear as though he's in fog.
"The main event will be against the Trump, an entity of superhuman energy."
You (and Dan) say 'potatoe' I say 'adderall/speed.'
> I'm #TeamTulsi and #YangGang.
They are the only interesting candidates in the bunch.
You get the warm up act on the first night, and then the main act is the second night.
"They are the only interesting candidates in the bunch."
The Joe Rogan guests.
Each day has 7 men, 3 women and 3 minorities (if you count a gay man as a minority).
What an amazing coincidence.
In a run-up to Biden's appearance on the 27th his spokesperson indicated that he could beat the entire Dem 2020 field with 'both hands tied behind his back'.
When asked if this was because of his considerable lead in the polls, the spokesperson said it was but also 'to keep him from touching anyone on stage'.
If you cons were to further follow the JRE thingy re libs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/bxaghd/joe_rogan_experience_1311_david_pakman/
Everybody drinks every time Inslee mentions "climate change".
The debates were set up randomly, alphabetical by height and skin color.
Jim at said...
Snort. Jay Inslee.
Wait until America gets a full load of that moron.
Arashi said...
So which candidates will get the questions before the "debates"? Or will all of them get them so they can "properly prepare" their woke answers to the hard questions?
1. Briefs or boxers?
2. What kind of tree?
3. Will you personally throw the switch to execute DJT and his entire family, or will you use surrogates?
4. Will your firt action be to elemninate whiteness or give all 7+ billion people on the planet US citizenship?
5. What kind of electric ar are you?
The DNC selected the candidates for each night and coordinated with NBC. Interestingly, Elizabeth Warren is the biggest winner and Bernie Sanders is the biggest loser. That’s a *tell*. The DNC is shaping the perspectives of the college crowd. By positioning Elizabeth Warren on the first night (highest rating night); and positioning her with little intellectual or policy challenge; it appears the Perez DNC activist wing wants Warren over Sanders. It’s also obvious Warren can critique Sanders without an rebuttal (smart move). Additionally Beto will look like the goofball he is. This helps assemble the college crowd to Warren (again, subtle but smart move). Conversely, the DNC put Sanders against Biden, Buttigieg, Harris and Bennet. Sanders has no-one to debate his communist bona-fides with. Night two will be a swarm of social justice and me-too-isms…. and of course, high dose Orange-Man-Bad.
Perfect. Well-played.
Dori Monson had good advice for Jay. To help him get above zero percent support. Help him get a PR spike.
He should stop flying around for his campaign. Instead he'll remote to events. To save the environment. For the children.
And, he'd save WA tax payers the massive expensive of having his security detail go all over the place for his vanity.
Rather than this car crash of a beauty contest, just require all candidates to spend two hours on Joe Rogan.
Inga...Allie Oop said...
It’s astounding that you idiots voted for Trump, considering the high standards of debate and understanding of the the issues you expect from the Democratic candidates. But when one considers that Trump sycophants don’t live in reality, maybe it’s not so astounding after all.
I see Inga appeared from her hidey hole.
No, I don't expect anything from the clown show.
Clyde said...
I'm so glad that the debates are on at 9 p.m., since that's an hour after my bedtime (I get up at 3 a.m. to get ready for work). Regrettably, I won't be able to see either of them. Sad!
Speaking of not living in reality, what color is the sky on your planet, Inga?
The Jill Stein voter chimes in to call other people idiots.
Does Spock have a beard on your world?
Which candidate will pound his/her shoe or moccasin on his/her/it's podium? Need a reprise of old Nikita.
So does Inga support the communist, the pedophile, the one who got ahead by putting out, the one who isn't really a Native American, the 'Climate Change' candidate, or one of the other luminaries?
In my world it's good for the Russians to break our laws re theft, and then to use the stolen stuff to manipulate our elections.
How 'bout you Clyde?
"I think those 2 women are bland."
Which, coming from someone who wants politics to be boring, is a compliment, right? Or should candidates also be exciting?
Anyway, Althouse obviously hasn't closed the door on voting prog--what's a mere coup?--and looks for the "best person"--who cares about the direction of actual policy?--so I expect more pageant-style commentary here.
Ar,
Maybe she's for the liar, cheater, swindler who's had all the views over the years.
She makes Hillary Clinton look like a side of beef.
That said, don't be fooled by a pretty face. She's as much a progressive as any of them.
Dude, in your world, it's okay for Hillary's campaign to fund a bullshit dossier from a foreign spy with info sourced by THE RUSSIANS! and then use said bullshit dossier as a justification for the FBI to spy on the other party's campaign. Yeah, you people really have the fucking moral high ground.
"She makes Hillary Clinton look like a side of beef."
I KNEW we were missing somebody in that crowd.
BleachBit-and-Hammers said...
Inga likes her big nanny-state big centrally planned government. You idiots don't understand.
Clyde,
The dif is that what I typed is true. You typed falsehood.
You claim that the surveillance required the dossier, that is not true. Not to mention that you are not even trying to claim that Russia (or anyone) broke our laws so that they could manipulate our election. Breaking laws is illegal. Not breaking laws is not illegal. Ask a lawprof if yur confused re this.
spitter said: "Maybe she's for the liar, cheater, swindler who's had all the views over the years."
Hillary?
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/dossier-not-what-started-all-of-this/
You just know Bill Clinton would volunteer to be on the Tulsi Gabbard campaign. Liz Warren? Not so much.
In such a format, it will be question of who is willing to take the most risks and oppose the rest of the field. You have stand out from the crowd- this is especially true of the 2nd tier candidates, but will also be true of the 2nd night where I think it is do or die for Harris.
considering the high standards of debate and understanding of the the issues you expect from the Democratic candidates.
LOL. We don't expect any cogent thought to come from those candidates.
We'll wait and see what Barr thinks.
Roy Jacobsen said...
"Must-Miss TV."
I actually think they did Warren no favors by putting her at the kiddie table- she runs the real risk of getting dominated by the B-team.
anti-de Sitter space: "In my world it's good for the Russians to break our laws re theft, and then to use the stolen stuff to manipulate our elections."
Thats why Hillary and obama and Mueller all coordinated the hiding of criminal investigations and convictions of agents of Russian energy interests in order to deliver 20% of US Uranium reserves into tje hands of Putin-oligarch pals....just before the Russkis dropped $500,000 into Bill and Hils hands directly and another $146 MILLION into the Clinton Foundation slush fund.
# of dem/left/LLR-left complaints about this remains at ZERO.
I think there are two women candidates that could win the nomination- Warren and Harris. I think you can tell who the DNC wants- they want Harris, so they matched her up with the 3 leading male candidates hoping she can stand out. Let's see if she is up to the challenge.
Browndog said...
I'm not so interested in what is said at the debates, but the Olympic competition of who will win the Gold Medal in gaslighting in the media afterwards.
Nobody said...
it was information about a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser that sparked the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference in the election.
Oh yeah,, Popadopolis, who, as the Mueller report said “had reason to believe” that the guy sent to entrap him was a Russian agent.
The Mueller report did NOT say that he was a Russian agent on account of he was not one.
They actually should pair off each of the candidates into separate rooms to solve puzzles. You would probably learn far more about all of them that way. You could put Biden in a paper bag and see if he could fight his way out of it.
Barr is not going to reverse time. The FBI was onto the DJT staff stink before they knew about the dossier.
Not to mention, just cause the pee pee tape didn't work out, plenty did.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/09/a-lot-of-the-steele-dossier-has-since-been-corroborated.html
This is the same Mueller report that called out Huckabee Sanders as a “liar” because she said “countless” instead of “many."
JaimeRoberto said...
There should probably be contests of fitness and strength in these things.
It would be like a political Festivus. We know they'll all be airing their grievances about Donnie and the Deplorables.
And, not to mention:
Do ya know the name of the POTUS candidate that the FBI was much more hardcore investigating? Where nobody went to jail or was convicted. But the deep state still went public to try and take her down days before the election (such that this led to a deep state leader being fired for his attempted take-down.) Hint: not DJT's campaign.
Logic is tricky.
That link by peanut butters is ridiculous, after droning on and on for pages saying nothing but that Steele is a great guy, we get to the “proof"
The most obvious occurrence that could not have been known to Orbis in June 2016, but shines bright in retrospect is the fact that Russia undertook a coordinated and massive effort to disrupt the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, as the U.S. intelligence community itself later concluded.
That’s it. It’s true because reasons. I think that this is called assuming what you are trying to prove. 50k in Facebook ads showing Hillary wrestling with Jesus, or whatever and the conclusion that the Russians hacked a server that no law enforcement agency was ever allowed to examine and that Wikileaks claims didn’t come from the Russians.
Clapper has shown himself to be a partisan, along with Brennen in their many TV appearances on behalf of the Democrats.
No, a poorly reasoned article in Slate that looks like it came from an underground zine published by mimeograph does not overturn the conclusions of the Mueller Report.
this is the same due diligence, the Minneapolis tribune showed miss omar,
see if Saturday night live were still selfaware, they could do a sketch like with all the dems who were refusing to get into the race, like Mario Cuomo, who was admitting he had mob ties, the fake indian, the commie dinosaur, the gay mayor of dodge city, then it gets even sillier, with the woman who slept her way to the top of state house, I mean even marmalard (swallwell) and mayor bane (diblasio) qualified, that's what the quarter quell is for,
The audience is the wild card. Will they boo, cheer, chant a tomahawk chop?
But we can be sure there will be no attack questions from the friendly panel like Trump encountered from Megyn Kelly with blood coming out. These are all Team Stars of the Globalist Enviro-Marxist party.
it's like they shuffled the cards, into two decks irrespective of popularity,
Will Hillary!! watch both debates?
This oughtta be good.
I haven’t read an essay of that quality in years, not since the troofers roamed the earth. And to think that it was published by Slate.
Temujin said...
There isn't even a slight chance that I'll be able to make it through either of those. I can't see me making it 10 minutes. I'll leave it to you to do the watching and deciding which Dem is best suited to stop the climate from changing, reduce income inequality, get Harriett Tubman on the $20 dollar bill already dammit, and make sure that bakers bake cakes for everybody, not just who they want to bake for.
Gk1 said...
Wouldn't it be a hoot if this crowd on stage got the CNBC treatment the republican got with such insightful questions like "Are there more than 2 sexes?" "Why do you support the elimination of ICE and all immigration enforcement?" "Was Title IX created to allow biological males to dominate women's sports?" "You seem to be criminalizing political differences by pledging to put Trump in jail after his presidential term. Don't you think this is unamerican?" I'd tune in to watch that show!
Activists have delivered a petition with 200,000 signatures to Democratic National Committee Headquarters, demanding they allow Democrat presidential candidates to hold a climate debate. https://wattsupwiththat.com
That would be great. Please please please please please....!
bagoh20 said...
These debates will show Trump as the only stable genius, and the only stable candidate running.
Smells like a parody account.
No one could be that noseblind while complaining of stench? Right? Heh.
Next, she'll be sliming us as racist sexist nazis for being uncivil.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if this crowd on stage got the CNBC treatment the republican got with such insightful questions like -
"Is Orange Man REALLY bad? Or is Orange Man REALLY REALLY bad?"
so they matched her up with the 3 leading male candidates hoping she can stand out.
It will be hard. When the men around her are firm, Harris has been conditioned to go to her knees to get what she wants.
"...demanding they allow Democrat presidential candidates to hold a climate debate. "
That's funny. What would they debate? They all agree. Then someone could ask for a show of hands: "Who flies on private jets?" Beto probably gets around on a skateboard.
climate debate... Please please please please please....!
I second the motion. The anthropogenic forcing of the political climate is in progress and has been catastrophic for more than 10 trimesters. Deplorable, really. Oh, and the prophecy of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming threatens a liberal election of human, fetus, flora, and fauna's future.
Harris has been conditioned to go to her knees to get what she wants
#MeToo #HerToo #SheKnew #SheProgressed. That said, #NoJudgment #NoLabels. #HateLovesAbortion
John Edwards Lite
As they attempt to outdo each other, by the end of it, they will be arguing over the best method of Presidential assassination, infanticide, border hopping, and the quickest way to return to the stone age.
It seems like it every time now, but has there ever been a clearer choice than 2020 will be? Unprecedented economic success and foreign affairs strength versus a party that hates America, depends on lying to its citizens, and is obsessed with overthrowing a duly elected President that is doing better than just about any in history. They advocate for protecting everyone but Americans, and American interests. Trump could still lose, becuase we are a nation with far too many maleducated, emotion driven people of poor character, but the choice offered is an easy one for those with three digit IQs and a grip on reality.
it's like the entire star wars cantina, or the version from the force awakens, ironically tulsi cant stand out in this crew, at least as of yet,
Skippy (because he looks like someone a kennedy adopted) yes he's going nowhere,
Will Beto bring his wife on-stage to hold his hands down?.....or will he just fly away?
Althouse wrote: I think those 2 women are bland.
So just how did they assume their positions? Bland ambition?
Tom Ault said...
Based on current polling and fundraising, the Democratic candidates break into three tiers:
* Biden
* Buttigieg, Sanders and Warren
* Everyone else
Warren is the only tier two candidate on the first debate night. All the others and Biden are crammed together on the second. To even things out without disturbing the distribution of not-white-men, the Democrats could have moved Sanders or Biden to the first night and moved one of the third tiers to the first night.
Is there anyway to structure are elections that could force them into a 4 month time frame. What could be done statutorily so money raising and spending could not happen until July 5th?
This election of 2020 and 2016 did not serve the citizens of the Nation.
The problem I keep hitting against is free speech. We know spending money is protected as speech. What about money raising?
@Arashi, I supposed you'd modify the question to granny panties or thongs for the women? Just thought I'd ask.
'...demanding they allow Democrat presidential candidates to hold a climate debate.'
Snorfle.
Note that candidates going on the second night are positioned to take pot-shots against the candidates on the first night, esp. Warren.
I am 100% confident that procedures were completely random and without any kind of outside interference, as pure as coin tosses for delegates in Iowa.
What divides these candidates? All we know is who unites them. This is political suicide.
Will be interesting to see how many viewers these debates attract. The Left has no issues other than Orange Man Bad, so why bother tuning in? The nomiee will be whoever appears to be the biggest threat to Trump.
For the Left, this election is about returning to power and fundamentally transforming America into a Socialist State. Nothing else.
Automatic_Wing said...
I think we know how Harris assumed her position.
In her honor, you must drink whenever Warren promises something free.
She looks like she is preparing for competition in the top right photo.
I am surprised they let her on the stage. She will definitely gain support from the average voter.
I wonder how tractable Gabbard is. Warren is the only other candidate that appears to think for herself. Everyone else in the democrat primary is an obvious tool of the wealthy.
Obviously not.
Male/Female ratios and white/not white ratios are too even.
I find it interesting they put the guy who gropes subordinate women on the same stage as the woman who sucked dick for her job.
I think they want both of them to go down.
I also think they have a definite idea of who they want to come out of each group, but they wont get their wish.
Nichevo said...
Why are you attacking the prole? He's one of you.
And very hard for some. You and Inga, for example.
top left photo.
long day.
Narr said...
Wait, who's going down?
Gabbard?
She's from Kamanawanalaiya, I think
Fen @ 2:00: Perfect.
Mayor Buttixyz, top or bottom?
20 democrats.
2 nights.
LLR Chuck HEAVEN!!
Whereas for normal folks, that's the agonizer in the mirror universe.
Looks like two kids tables.
But we can be sure there will be no attack questions from the friendly panel like Trump encountered from Megyn Kelly
Ha. I remember her. She says she’s ‘very happy’ not being on TV. We should help a few others find that happiness.
“Do ya know the name of the POTUS candidate that the FBI was much more hardcore investigating? ”
Gee ya think her first name might be Crooked?
Well they ejected her from the today show with great force,
Inga is back in da house!
Well, briefly to do her 7th grade mean girl thing. Yawn!
I am more interested in Tulsi Gabbard. This woman is bright, independent and rocks a bikini!
Uf Da!
Yes if I'm going to anyone of them for five minutes at a time, natch shes fairly down thr line lefty but still.
stephen cooper said...
Every single one of them (the Democratic candidates, that is, even poor Tulsi Gabbard (who could almost have been someone people respected)) is a hard-line eugenecist abortion supporter.
Even the African-American candidates are afraid to speak out against an abortion regime that culls African-American babies at 3 times the ration of white babies, even the African-American candidates, who have to know that even Martin Luther King would be ashamed of them. (African-American babies run three times the risk of being aborted while simply hanging out in the womb than white babies. THAT IS A FACT, that is the racist fact that people a hundred years from now will remember. Look it up, you won't hear it from the losers who are at the center of our information society).
Not a single Democratic candidate has ever said once in their public life a single empathetic word against those horrible legislative decisions celebrating the doctors who let aborted children who survive the first stage of abortion to just die from neglect after the botched abortion.
Not one single Democratic politician will be remembered fondly a hundred years from now, they will be in just as bad a shape a few decades from now as rich slave-owners from 150 years ago now are.
Will they the history is written now
https://mobile.twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/765923144775458816
narciso ....
I like to smoke cigars I know how to enjoy for 10 minutes an inexpensive cigar , and I know how to enjoy for half an hour a cigar that costs money - money that most of us do not have ---- I know that .... I appreciate the fact that I have access to some of the good things in life
but that being said
I am so so tired after writing a MILLION WORDS on the internet, mostly with the intention of telling people who "never though about it that way" that God loves them ....
I am so tired about telling people God loves them when almost nobody listens....
and here is the saddest thing I will ever say ....
I look at people who know they have not been kind, who know they have not been good, I look at the wives who fell out of love with their husbands a couple days after the marriage, I look at the husbands who do not really love their wives but who know that they cannot admit that to themselves ....
and I want them all to be happy.
I have seen God, who is always gentle and kind, I have seen God in those moments where he tells people who have done something selfish and wrong:
don't ever do that again.
And I have seen some of the evildoers say, thank you for the good advice, and I have seen others say, get back to me later, I am too busy even for YOU ....
God loves us all the way we are but loves us too much to let us stay that way.
Let me say this as kindly as I can ....
Not one single Democratic politician will be remembered fondly a hundred years from now, they will all be, even poor Tulsi Gabbard who almost gets it, in just as bad a shape a few decades from now as rich slave owner politicians from 150 years ago now are.
You simply cannot support abortion on demand that disproportionately decimates African-American babies and at the same time claim to be a decent human being, who deserves praise and votes.
That is why Trump will win by a landslide in 2020, because everybody understands that every single Democratic pretender lacks concern for the unborn, lacks concern for a decent kind future.
Hate on me all you want but you know I describe the world the way it is
Kotex or Tampax is the serious question. After while they need more absorbency,.
And 150 years is an awfully long time, only if something is digital that they consider it real and pinterest reclassified prolife as pornograohy I guess the reverse is true
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Absent unique events, only Gabbard has a chance among the servile modern pro-abortion Democrats.
She can win, maybe, if she praises Alito or Clarence Thomas just enough to win the votes in their home states and the neighboring states.
She won't of course she is a mediocrity with a few good ideas, but whose heart really isn't in it to win, we all know that she has less to say, because she just doesn't care, than most people who e-mail follow up comments here.
"The Democratic candidates have been divided up into 2 groups....."
Lemme guess:
1. The Economically Illiterate and 2. The Emotionally Degenerate?
Narayanan said...
Mike asks the professora ...
Once it gets down to about 5 top candidates, I'd like to see them put in a room with just a list of topics to discuss.
I would also put an arsenal of weapons in the room.
Gladiator protocol and courtesy.
My two favs remain Hickenlooper and Tulsi
Gabbard. Not that I would vote for them, but at least the world wound't end if they would win.
The rest are all frauds, governments whores, and far too hard core radical left/socialist/communist/big government.
Time magazine is blue-sky pimping Bernie.
Forensic: etymology from forum!?
I'm cross reading AA and CTH for a meta forum on this topic to see what is not being shown or talked about.
My take :
First day is undercard.
Then the Main Event.
Will Trump tweet to set up the memes for this?
Showman gotta Show
If Tulsi and her squeeze do Bollywood song dance that is billion vote from call center.
Blogger buwaya said...
Men's sana in corpore bonissima or something like that.
Did what I said come over as :
Sane men go for hot bods!?
"In her honor, you must drink whenever Warren promises something free."
Good way to die of alcohol poisoning within 20 minutes.
I guess “bland” = “the boring I am not for”
So far the only ones I have seen a smidgeon of moral courage from are Gabbard and Hickenlooper. They both seem marginal otherwise but might stand out. None of them will call Warren for her lies about being a Cherokee, or her rare case of *actual* cultural appropriation — she actually took benefits intended for real native Americans.
Lizzie Warren Helps Chinese Hearing Aid Makers
Lizzie Warren looked at a hearing aid
And was amazed how tiny it was made
So she asked, "How much does it cost?"
And the quoted price made her frost
Then she asked how many were bought
And found that poor people get naught
So she asked the Senate to fix the deal
And internet sales would seem to be ideal!
Provided that the hearing doc disappears
When the fixes are made to to fit your ears
But Lizzie's imagined ingenuity will soon fall flat
Enterprising sellers have Been There, Done That
So far the only ones I have seen a smidgeon of moral courage from are Gabbard and Hickenlooper.
Tulsi Gabbard:
“I don't think that we should defeat Donald Trump through impeachment.”
"What I am worried about is the continued divisiveness and putting partisan political interests ahead of the interest of the people.”
“Our country is being torn apart and by pursuing [impeachment] it could lead us down a very dangerous path.”
Hopefully, our gal Althouse will live blog this Leftwing love fest, so we don't have to watch these morons.
Danno said...
Blogger Bay Area Guy said...Hopefully, our gal Althouse will live blog this Leftwing love fest, so we don't have to watch these morons.
That would be way too much work with this many candidates over two nights.
You already know that most of them will try to outdo the others on such things as Medicare for All, Green Raw Deal, Trump impeachment, etc., but it will really just amount to 'Kumbaya with Nuance'. That's pretty much all you need to know.
Do ya know the name of the POTUS candidate that the FBI was much more hardcore investigating?
Actual criminal acts under investigation, if you would like, I would be happy to list a few for you to tell me why each is bullshit.
stlcdr said...
Who gets voted off the island?
I don’t believe there will be anything said that hasn’t been said already. As someone noted above: don’t be too bland, but don’t stand out too much (Goldilocks strategy).
It’s apparently Comey’s fault that Hillary emails from her time as SoS ended up on the laptop of a convicted sex offender. Something that never would have happened had she not kept a home grown server in her bathroom.
Democrat Debate issues:
1. Taxation: should we have 80% tax rates or only 75%?
2. Abortion: Does the Constitution really prevent compulsory abortions?
3. Green New Deal: Everyone a golf cart by 2050!
4. Affirmative Action: All white males should or should not wear the Star of White crimes in public?
5. Hate Crimes: Should we or should we not create a Federal Department of Hate Crimes? Should the duly appointed Secretary have administrative authority to ban jokes in poor taste, with or without a due process hearing?
6. Immigration: Should we tear down all walls like Reagan demanded of Gorbachev?
7. Immigration Part 2: why can't we just abort and/or deport Christians and import more low-skilled Muslims?
There isn't any Dem candidate who will even come close to matching all of the free stuff that Fake Indian Warren will be promising the voters.
Matt Sablan said...
It's time to gird our loins or whatever, election season is upon us.
"'Logic is tricky.
"'And very hard for some. You and Inga, for example."
Don't you reactionaries understand? Logic is a tool of white males to stop us from going full-blown socialist? Get with the program.
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Kinetic Resolution of Chiral α-Olefins Using Optically Active ansa-Zirconocene Polymerization Catalysts
Baar, Cliff R. and Levy, Christopher J. and Min, Endy Y.-J. and Henling, Lawrence M. and Day, Michael W. and Bercaw, John E. (2004) Kinetic Resolution of Chiral α-Olefins Using Optically Active ansa-Zirconocene Polymerization Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126 (26). pp. 8216-8231. ISSN 0002-7863. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170420-063814924
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Crystallographic Info File (CIF) - Supplemental Material
A series of enantiopure C_1-symmetric metallocenes, {(SiMe_2)_2[η^5-C_5H(CHMe_2)_2][η^5-C_5H_2((S)-CHMeCMe_3)]}ZrCl_2, (S)-2, {(SiMe_2)_2[η^5-C_5H(CHEt_2)_2][η^5-C_5H_2((S)-CHMeCMe_3)]}ZrCl_2, (S)-6, and {(SiMe_2)_2[η^5-C_5HCy_2][η^5-C_5H_2((S)-CHMeCMe_3)]}ZrCl_2, (S)-7 (Cy = cyclohexyl), zirconocene dichlorides that have an enantiopure methylneopentyl substituent on the “upper” cyclopentadienyl ligand, and diastereomerically pure precatalysts, {(SiMe_2)_2[η^5-C_5H((S)-CHMeCy)(CHMe_2)][η^5-C_5H_3]}ZrCl_2, (S)-8a and (S)-8b, which have an enantiopure, 1-cyclohexylethyl substituent on the “lower” cyclopentadienyl ligand, has been synthesized for use in the polymerization of chiral α-olefins. When activated with methylaluminoxane, these metallocenes show unprecedented activity for the polymerization of bulky racemic monomers bearing substitution at the 3- and/or 4-positions. Due to the optically pure nature of these single site catalysts, they effect kinetic resolution of racemic monomers: the polymeric product is enriched with the faster reacting enantiomer, while recovered monomer is enriched with the slower reacting enantiomer. The two components are easily separated. For most olefins surveyed, a partial kinetic resolution was achieved (s = k_(faster)/k_(slower) ≈ 2), but, in one case, the polymerization of 3,4-dimethyl-1-pentene, high levels of separation were obtained (s > 15). ^(13)C NMR spectroscopy of poly(3-methyl-1-pentene) produced with (S)-2 indicates that the polymers are highly isotactic materials. X-ray crystal structure determinations for (S)-2, {(SiMe_2)_2[η^5-C_5H(CHMe_2)_2][η^5-C_5H_2((S)-CHMeCMe_3)]}Zr(SC_6H_5)_2, (S)-6, and (S)-7 have been used in combination with molecular mechanics calculations to examine the prevailing steric interactions expected in the diastereomeric transition states for propagation during polymerization. Precatalysts (S)-8a and (S)-8b are less selective polymerization catalysts for the kinetic resolution of 3-methyl-1-pentene than are (S)-2, (S)-6, and (S)-7.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja040021j DOI Article
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja040021j Publisher Article
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/ja040021j Publisher Supporting Information
© 2004 American Chemical Society. Received 16 January 2004. Published online 9 June 2004. Published in print 1 July 2004. This work was been supported by the NSF (Grant No. CHE-0131180). We would like to thank Richard E. Marsh for his assistance in solving the structure of (S)-2 and Professor Malcolm Green for suggesting the use of thiolate ligands. C.R.B. and C.J.L. would like to thank NSERC (Canada) for postdoctoral fellowships.
Grant Number
NSF CHE-0131180
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) UNSPECIFIED
Official Citation:
Kinetic Resolution of Chiral α-Olefins Using Optically Active ansa-Zirconocene Polymerization Catalysts Cliff R. Baar, Christopher J. Levy, Endy Y.-J. Min, Lawrence M. Henling, Michael W. Day, and John E. Bercaw Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004 126 (26), 8216-8231 DOI: 10.1021/ja040021j
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Electric wire eases closing of Corvette Stingray hatch
Dale Jewett
Electric current through a wire opens an air vent at the rear of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.
A single piece of wire makes closing the hatch on the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray easier.
Tucked behind the rear fascia, the alloy wire changes shape when an electric current heats it up. The wire returns to its previous shape when it cools.
In the Corvette Stingray, engineers use the wire and its memory properties to open an air vent that lets air pressure escape when the hatch is closed. That reduces the force needed to close the hatch. When the wire cools, the change in shape allows the vent to close.
The change in wire shape can take just milliseconds once the electric current is applied. The Corvette engineers set up the system to take about four seconds from when the hatch is opened for the wire to open the vent. Slowing down the wire's shape change eliminated a click noise made by the vent cover hitting its stop -- fitting with the luxury and precision theme of the new Corvette.
The alternative to the wire system was an electric motor that would add weight and cost to the car.
The current Chevrolet Corvette has a vent system for its hatchback but that system is passive -- pressurized air being pushed out of the cargo area opens the vent.
The Corvette Stingray is the first General Motors car to use the electric wire vent system.
The convertible version of the Corvette Stingray is set to be unveiled on March 5 during the press preview of the Geneva motor show.
Here's a video from General Motors that demonstrates the memory wire and the vent for the Corvette Stingray:
Source URL: https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/electric-wire-eases-closing-corvette-stingray-hatch
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The Blues - "Sings the Blues" Vol 5 [No Label]
Who love da sax, baby?
It's amazing how much the concept of the cassette tape has changed in the decade plus since I discovered underground tape music. At one point, a release like "Sings the Blues" Vol 5 used to be what you thought of when you heard "new tape release." A tint of green spray-paint and a hand-cut b&w text printout crammed into the spine. Now the assumption is pro-dubbed, high-quality artwork with a 50/50 chance it's shrink-wrapped. Neither is better than the other and the presence of both makes for a healthy tape culture. Still, it's nice to get a "throwback" once in a while particularly when it's as enjoyable as this.
The Blues is Marissa and Max and they both play saxophone. If you don't like saxophone--and nothing but saxophone--you will not dig this tape. The volume number suggests Marissa and Max have been at this for a while and I think it shows.
I love saxophone but even I am a bit apprehensive when I come across a homedub tape of a saxophone duo. It could be fucking great but it could also be a couple jackasses who can't play, squealing ad in finitum. Thankfully, Max and Marissa can play, and they can play together. Not sure if these are complete improvisations or semi-rehearsed but either way the duo seems to get each other. Sometimes they double each other, sometimes they spiral off in their own directions but they always find their way back. The style is certainly free but they're more Coleman than Ayler, pushing back and forth between consonance and dissonance, rather than basking in sheets of dissonance alone.
One of the unique features of the tape is there are bits conversation left in before or after they play. It's not meant to be funny or weird or ironic--with the exception of the tape's final moments. It's just brief bits of candid conversation, sometimes even about getting set up to record. It's nothing intrusive but adds some warmth and intimacy to the experience. Sounds to me like the material was probably recorded via handheld recorder (you can hear wind blowing by the mic at times) which furthers the sense of sound temporarily occupying an environment. Plus, the first track is titled "Our bodies are the Germs logo." You gotta love that!
Now, the real shame of it is, I have no idea how someone can obtain a copy or otherwise hear this. All my internet searches have proven fruitless and there's no contact info on the insert. This is a really great tape if you have the taste for it, so I recommend you snag it if the opportunity ever arises. If anyone has leads on how to track down a copy, contact me or leave a comment.
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Boeing, GOL Debut Airline’s First 737 MAX Airplane
Photo: Boeing
Boeing and GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes celebrated the unveiling of the carrier’s newly outfitted 737 MAX 8 during a celebration in Sao Paulo. The leading Brazilian carrier also announced plans to fly the more fuel-efficient and longer-range 737 airplane on international routes.
Paulo Kakinoff, Chief Executive Officer of GOL said: “Today is an exciting day for the entire GOL team, we are happy to welcome the 737 MAX 8.
We can further improve our operational efficiency by flying a young, modern and safe fleet, while also lowering the cost of air travel and expanding our network to new international destinations.”
The Brazilian airline took delivery of its first 737 MAX 8 this year and has been improving onboard products and services, such as adding wireless internet to the popular Boeing Sky Interior cabin. The airline is now outfitting its second 737 MAX airplane – which it received last week – with the same cabin amenities.
As part of its strategic fleet renewal program, GOL has placed multiple orders for the 737 MAX, including a new order last month at the Farnborough International Airshow. In all, GOL is on track to become the largest MAX operator in Latin America with a fleet of 135 MAX airplanes.
The first MAX airplanes arriving at GOL are the MAX 8 variant, which seats up to 186 passengers in GOL’s configuration.
Source: Boeing Press Release
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How Do You Contact ABC's "The View"?
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2012: The Year in Lead Actors 1 comment
Hey everyone! We’re still continuing the yearend lists over here at Tit for Tat. Aside from that, we’re also doing the recap of the movie performances in local cinema the past year. The past two days, we gave the focus to the supporting actresses and supporting actors. It’s time to move now to the leading categories. For this day, we’d give the spotlight to the men and tackle the Best Actor category. Like what I said, these are possible choices from all the award giving bodies this year from mainstream to indie and those that can cross-over in between. Let’s begin!
LEADERS OF THE PACK
Probably the strongest contender in this category for this year is acting legend Eddie Garcia as he adds another memorable turn for his role as the old gay man living with his dog in Bwakaw. His competition this year might skew to much younger actors though as there have been lots of good awards-bait performances this year such as the likes of Dingdong Dantes‘ MMFF winning performance in One More Try, Coco Martin‘s indie comeback as the father who found the remains of his daughter in Santa Nina, Jericho Rosales as the single parent whose son gone missing in Alagwa, and JM de Guzman as the mussel diver in the title role Intoy Syokoy ng Kalye Marino.
As for the other lead roles in contention, award giving bodies might also throw a bone to Arnold Reyes as the loyal driver who was caught in the middle in his Congressman employer in the Tribeca hit Graeland, awards staple John Lloyd Cruz might get some nominations as well for his performance opposite Bea Alonzo in The Mistress or for his movie with Angel Locsin, Unofficially Yours. Scene stealing Archie Alemania should hear his name be read especially at the Comedy Best Actor of the Golden Screen Awards for his role in Cinema One Original entry Slumber Party. And in a surprising turn of events, we’d have a battle of two heroes this year in the Best Actor category: Alfred Vargas as Andres Bonifacio in Richard Somes’ Supremo and ER Ejercito as Emilio Aguinaldo in the MMFF entry El Presidente.
Cinemalaya movies also produced a lot of worthy Best Actor turns such as the winning performance of Kristoffer King in Oros, Pen Medina in Kamera Obskura, Dominic Roco‘s Gibson in Ang Nawawala, and Thai actor playing lone soldier Ananda Everingham in Kalayaan. Casting issues (from Cinemalaya) aside, Allan Paule‘s fantastic turn in Emerson Reyes’s MNL 143 can possibly reap nominations as well.
THE REST OF THE RACE
Other lead actor contenders that might are still in the race are Dennis Trillo in the title role of Ang Katiwala, Cinema One Originals Best Actor winner Alex Medina in Palitan, newbie actor Gerry Adeva as the title role in Mamay Umeng, Allen Dizon in Joel Lamangan’s drama Migrante, and the most intelligent and uptight of the three gay friends Markki Stroem in Slumber Party. Among mainstream movies, one can also consider Derek Ramsey in A Secret Affair, Aga Muhlach in Of All The Things, Piolo Pascual in Every Breath U Take, Enchong Dee in The Strangers, and Vice Ganda in either This Guy’s in Love With U Mare or Sisterakas.
That’s it. Last part of the acting spotlight tomorrow with everybody’s favorite category: Best Actress!
As always, you can follow me on Twitter: @nikowl
Posted December 30, 2012 by Nicol Latayan in 2012 Year End Lists, Awards, Lists
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2012: The Year in Supporting Actresses 3 comments
2012 has given us a wide array of supporting actress performances from dramas to comedies, from musicals and even horror films both in indie and mainstream movies. This category also contains some of the finest names in television, films, and even the stage. Here’s a sample masterlist of who can get nominated from the award giving bodies next season.
Take note that when I say award giving bodies, it’s as varied as the mainstream hard on of the PMPC Star Awards for Movies up to the indie love of the Manunuri and sometimes the in between such as the Golden Screen Awards.
I wouldn’t be surprised if veteran actress Anita Linda will pick up a lot of supporting actress trophies for her performance as the foul mouthed Alzheimer’s healed grandmother of Coco Martin in Santa Nina. If not that, then she might gain notices for albeit a similar role in Olivia Lamasan’s The Mistress. Speaking of The Mistress, comeback veteran actress Hilda Koronel can find herself back again in awards territory as the original life spewing one of the famous movie lines of the year via “Layuan mo ang asawa ko. Tagalog ‘yan para maintinfihan mo.” Janice de Belen had a fabulous year giving memorable performances in all of her movie appearances this 2012. While I can see her getting nominated for the horror films she did, her biggest chance is still Joey Reyes’s Cinemalaya entry Mga Mumunting Lihim portraying the role of Olive, the one in the quartet of friends who wasn’t able to finish college and gets a boyfriend twice younger than her age. Janice’s co-star Agot Isidro can also reap nominations as the self centered judgmental friend Sandy also from the same movie. To round off the top five, I’d put Angelica Panganiban‘s name here as workaholic Jacqueline who’s trying to be the perfect wife in One More Try. While I can see cases wherein Panganiban will be moved to Lead, I guess they might throw her a bone here in order to avoid internal competition from Angel Locsin. Not that it’s a fraud or something because I felt she was actually a supporting actress in this one.
If award giving bodies failed to like any of the women above, then you can always count Nora Aunor’s performance as Emilio Aguinaldo’s second wife in El Presidente though lack of screentime will probably hurt her. Lovi Poe suffers the same fate as Thy Womb co-star Aunor from appearing in the final moments of the film especially since local award giving bodies love scenery chewing scenes that screams acting from its audience. Both Fides Cuyugan Asensio and Raquel Villavicencio can also be in the running this year as the more superior nuns of Adoration Clositer in Vincent Sandoval’s Aparisyon. Young actress Alessandra de Rossi also got a boatload of performances this year and she can get nominated as Coco Martin’s past love in Santa Nina or the cop daughter in the family ensemble Mater Dolorosa. A lot of mothers can also get a nomination or two this year such as those of Eugene Domingo as an annoyed mother who found out that her son fathered a teenage daughter in the musical I Do Bidoo Bidoo, Cherry Pie Picache‘s mother who keeps a secret in Lawrence Fajardo’s The Strangers, Rosanna Roces as the mistress of Philip Salvador who is dependent to Gina Alajar in Mater Dolorosa, and Dawn Zulueta as a strict mother who’s distant from her son in Ang Nawawala. Since there’s an abundance of mistress themed movies, one can also expect a nod for Andi Eigenmann‘s role as the third party in A Secret Affair.
THE REST OF THE PACK
And as for the others, possible supporting actress turns that can receive mentions this year include Kim Chiu‘s transformation as Vilma Santos’ half daughter in The Healing, Mercedes Cabral as Nora Aunor’s friend in Thy Womb, Gina Pareno as the voice of reason to daughter Angel Locsin in One More Try, Annicka Dolonius as Gibson’s apple of the eye in Ang Nawawala, and Angel Aquino as one of the victims in Brillante Mendoza’s Berlin entry Captive. Further supporting mentions that might grab attention at next year’s award giving bodies are Cinema One Originals winner Ria Garcia in Melodrama Negra, Daria Ramirez as Pokwang’s mother who took care of her grandchildren in the absence of her daughter who went abroad for a living in A Mother’s Story, Toni Gonzaga who is caught in between Vice Ganda and Luis Manzano’s antics in This Guy’s in Love with U, Mare, Angelina Kanapi as Dennis Trillo’s cousin in Ang Katiwala, and Cherie Gil in the comedy ensemble Madaling Araw, Mahabang Gabi.
That’s it! That’s just 25 names, but it gives award giving bodies a lot of options to choose from in next year’s awards derby. Tomorrow, spotlight for the supporting actors of the year will be given.
Posted December 28, 2012 by Nicol Latayan in 2012 Year End Lists, Awards, Films
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8th Cinemalaya Film Festival Review: Part 3 8 comments
Hi everyone! How’s your weekend? In case you have no idea how to spend today and tomorrow, I’ll suggest you head over at the CCP (or even Glorietta and Trinoma) to catch the movies of Cinemalaya 2012 for this year. They’re worth the admission price that you”ll pay. In line with that, this part will cover the next four movie reviews of films from this year’s edition.
As a guide, here is the first part of my review covering Mga Mumunting Lihim, Kamera Obskura, Intoy Syokoy ng Kalye Marino, and Kalayaan. The second part is this one and covers The Animals, Bwakaw, Mga Dayo, and Ang Nawawala.
Director: Paul Sta. Ana
Starring: Kristoffer King, Kristoffer Martin, Tanya Gomez
Competition: New Breed
This one gives viewers a look on the business of buying claimed bodies and holding wakes in order to gain more money via different means of gambling specifically sakla and tongits.
Oros gives a pretty accurate and specific portrayal of the topic that it covered, though I can’t help but notice that it tends to go overboard with its poverty porn treatment. For what its worth though, there’s a lot of discovery that one learns while watching the film. Ending is pretty much a give away though; thus, it lessened the actual impact that it was hoping to achieve. Kristoffer King gave a very competent leading performance, while Kristoffer Martin was a surprise as King’s younger brother. I’m not a fan of the shaky camera, but the movie is still serviceable with some commendable highlights in it.
REquieme!
Director: Loy Arcenas
Starring: Shamaine Centenera Buencamino, Rez Cortez, Anthony Falcon
REquieme tells somewhat related stories involving a funeral: the first one deals with a barangay captain (Centenera) who wants to bring home the body of a claimed distant relative who is a suspect in the killing of a famous world designer. The second one is about Joanna (Tolentino) who gives a neighbor, who served as his father figure, a deserving funeral. In between this, there’s also a story of a body that can’t seem to find its way home.
This one comes off as a surprise for me, as I certainly loved every minute of it. While the hilarious moments are indeed tummy aching, I find it more as an inspired avenue to tackle, highlight and realize Filipino characteristics especially those that involves connecting one’s name to fame. Anchored by the great Shamaine Centenera Buencamino (who’s 2 for 2 now in terms of giving memorable Cinemalaya performances after last year’s Nino), and a breakout performance by Anthony Falcon (who steals every scene he’s in), REquieme is one of those movies in this batch that definitely stood out.
Rating: 4.5 /5
SANTA NIÑA
Director: Emmanuel Palo
Starring: Coco Martin, Alessandra de Rossi, Anita Linda, Irma Adlawan
When Paulino (Martin) discovered that the remains of his two year old daughter Marikit did not even decay a bit, this led to the questions of one’s faith and unraveling of secrets that were kept too long already.
It is difficult to tackle themes of faith in Filipino movies especially since there’s this one movie called Himala that set the bar too high for others to follow suit. However, Santa Nina does a good job in covering the said theme while adding layers of family drama and secrets of the past in the mix. The shots and technical aspects were very commendable; I specifically like the palette that they used in the movie. Coco Martin was serviceable in his job, though signs of too much television drama appear every now and then. His chemistry with Alessandra de Rossi is very natural though. Anita Linda and Irma Adlawan both have vital roles that managed to stand on their own during some parts of the movie.I felt that the movie was some minutes longer, and it could have ended on a different manner, but this one possesses good merits in it for me not to appreciate the film as a whole.
Rating: 4/ 5
POSAS
Director: Lawrence Fajardo
Starring: Nico Antonio, Art Acuña, Bangs Garcia, Jake Macapagal
A day in the life of a thief as we get to see a blow by blow account of what happens once he gets under the fingers of police authority.
I feel this one has a been-there-done-that feeling, as the first film that comes to mind was Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay. Both movies follow one momentous day in the life of the main character when he gets under a circumstance that he doesn’t want to be into, and he faces the consequences of the said situation. Having said that, this one (like Oros) gives a specific and detailed portrayal of the topic that it wants to cover. The saving grace of the film was Acuña’s terrific acting as the head police officer, and John Lapuz’s storyline as another victim, but it lacks the impact that will make the movie memorable enough once the credits roll.
12 down, 3 more left. Last batch contains the last three movies left in the festival (Aparisyon, Diablo, and Ang Katiwala). Also, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter: @nikowl
Posted July 28, 2012 by Nicol Latayan in Films, Reviews
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Mellor
A mellor also known as a mellore or melor is a perfectly manufactured tool for metal thread embroidery.
The mellor is made out a soft smooth metal that is not abrasive.
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The round end is used to nudge and push metal threads into position and is gentler on the metal threads than using tweezers as the mellor has been polished and has smooth rounded edges so less likely to damage the metal thread.
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Scooter Braun attempts to reach out gets snubbed by Taylor Swift
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The latest news in the Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun is here. The talent manager reportedly wanted to reach out to the pop star amid the whirlwind of controversy.
A report from The Blast says that Braun “reached out through mutual friends Monday morning to engage in a ‘mature and private’ phone call with Swift.” He reportedly wanted to explain his intentions in purchasing Swift’s music catalogue. “The main reason he purchased her catalogue is because he believes in her music and in her future,” the source said.
So what is the talent manager feeling after Swift completely trashed him in her tell-all public statement? The Blast is told that he is truly “shocked” by it and “very hurt” by everything that is currently going on.
Sources close to The Blast also went on to say that Braun is completely dumbfounded as to why Swift is so upset. She was reportedly well-informed about his plans buying Big Machine Records along with her masters.
Braun is known for establishing Justin Bieber’s career in the music industry. He is also currently the manager of pop music icon Ariana Grande.
Genuinely grateful for my new partner @scott.borchetta and the entire @bigmachinelabelgroup team. We together at Ithaca are going to do amazing things and our hope is to give every artist the tools they need to succeed in all arenas. Thank you again for the trust Scott. Let’s get it!
A post shared by Scooter Braun (@scooterbraun) on Jun 30, 2019 at 8:09am PDT
In an effort to expand his music empire, Braun purchased Big Machine Records from Scott Borchetta. Following the purchase, Swift went on a lengthy rant about it on blogging platform Tumblr. The singer wrote:
“When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. “
Laura is a reporter and a gossip columnist for Best in Australia. She focuses on celebrities, science and social affairs in Australia and worldwide.
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Russian Premier League/Lokomotiv Moscow vs Rubin Kazan – Match between Lokomotiv Moscow and Rubin Kazan closes the 1st round of new season of the Russian Premier League, which started on Friday. The two teams met even four times last season and Lokomotiv won three of them, while one ended as a draw.
Game Lokomotiv Moscow vs Rubin Kazan begins 15.07.2019 at 19:00 CET
Lokomotiv won the Russian Cup for the sixth time last season, or for the second time in last three seasons. On its way towards the final it eliminated Rubin in the quarter-finals by two victories of 1-0. Begin winner of the Cup they started the new season with the Super Cup and they won reigning champion Zenit in Moscow by 3-2 on 6 July.
It was a kind of revenge for losing the title. Lokomotiv was the runner-up last season having won 56 points or eight fewer than Zenit, but they will too play in the group phase of the UEFA Champions League. After playing a goalless draw with Rubin away in November last year Lokomotiv won Rubin at home 4-0 in April this one. Rotenberg is out of action due to injury.
Probable lineups Lokomotiv Moscow: Guilherme, Rybus, Cerqzeira, Corluka, Zhivoglyadov, Barinov, Krychowiak, An.Miranchuk, Al.Miranchuk,Zhemaletdinov, Smolov
The best years for Rubin lay far in the past; they won the title last time in 2009 and the Russian Cup in 2012. They finished the previous season with 36 points which was enough for the 11th place in the Premier League that has 16 teams and consequently it won’t appear in European competitions. Rubin won the last time in Moscow in April 2017 when the result read at the end 1-0.
They won Lokomotiv that season at home too, by 2-0. Rubin didn’t show much in the preparatory period; it lost the last match by CSKA Moscow 0-4 when Siggurdson had a hat trick. It is worrying that they scored no goals in two previous matches in which they drew with newly promoted Tombov and lost to Nizhny Novgorod 0-1. Begic and Granat are injured and will not play against Lokomotiv.
Probable lineups Rubin Kazan: Dyupin, Bashkirov, Danchenko, Davitashvili, Denisov, Konovalov, Podberezkin, Markov, Sorokin, Uremovic
Betting Pick: Lokomotiv Moscow vs Rubin Kazan
Lokomotiv is the absolute favourite to win the match and everything but their victory would be a great surprise. However, everything is possible at the beginning of new season but Lokomotive has recently won the Super Cup match against Zenit and showed that is well prepared right now. We would play on handicap for the Lokomotiv’s victory.
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Bible > Commentaries > Mark 4:36
◄ Mark 4:36 ►
And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)
(36) They took him even as he was.—The phrase is peculiar to this Gospel, and seems to point to the impression made on the mind of St. Mark’s informant by the utter exhaustion that followed on the long day’s labours. St. John’s statement that our Lord, on His journey through Samaria, “being wearied . . . sat thus on the well” (John 4:6), presents an interesting parallel.
THE STORM STILLED
THE TOILING CHRIST
Mark 4:36, Mark 4:38.
Among the many loftier characteristics belonging to Christ’s life and work, there is a very homely one which is often lost sight of; and that is, the amount of hard physical exertion, prolonged even to fatigue and exhaustion, which He endured.
Christ is our pattern in a great many other things more impressive and more striking; and He is our pattern in this, that ‘in the sweat of His brow’ He did His work, and knew not only what it was to suffer, but what it was to toil for man’s salvation. And, perhaps, if we thought a little more than we do of such a prosaic characteristic of His life as that, it might invest it with some more reality for us, besides teaching us other large and important lessons.
I have thrown together these two clauses for our text now, simply for the sake of that one feature which they both portray so strikingly.
‘They took Him even as He was in the ship.’ Now many expositors suppose that in the very form of that phrase there is suggested the extreme of weariness and exhaustion which He suffered, after the hard day’s toil. Whether that be so or no, the swiftness of the move to the little boat, although there was nothing in the nature of danger or of imperative duty to hurry Him away, and His going on board without a moment’s preparation, leaving the crowd on the beach, seem most naturally accounted for by supposing that He had come to the last point of physical endurance, and that His frame, worn out by the hard day’s work, needed one thing-rest.
And so, the next that we see of Him is that, as soon as He gets into the ship He falls fast asleep on the wooden pillow-a hard bed for His head!-in the stern of the little fishing boat, and there He lies so tired-let us put it into plain prose and strip away the false veil of big words with which we invest that nature-so tired that the storm does not awake Him; and they have to come to Him, and lay their hands upon Him, and say to Him, ‘Master, carest Thou not that we perish?’ before compassion again beat back fatigue, and quickened Him for fresh exertions.
This, then, is the one lesson which I wish to consider now, and there are three points which I deal with in pursuance of my task. I wish to point out a little more in detail the signs that we have in the Gospels of this characteristic of Christ’s work-the toilsomeness of His service; then to consider, secondly, the motives which He Himself tells us impelled to such service; and then, finally, the worth which that toil bears for us.
I. First, then, let me point out some of the significant hints which the gospel records give us of the toilsomeness of Christ’s service.
Now we are principally indebted for these to this Gospel by Mark, which ancient tradition has set forth as being especially and eminently the ‘Gospel of the Servant of God,’ therein showing a very accurate conception of its distinguishing characteristics. Just as Matthew’s Gospel is the Gospel of the King, regal in tone from beginning to end; just as Luke’s is the Gospel of the Man, human and universal in its tone; just as John’s is the Gospel of the Eternal Word, so Mark’s is the Gospel of the Servant. The inscription written over it all might be, ‘Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.’ ‘Behold my Servant whom I uphold.’
And if you will take this briefest of all the Gospels, and read it over from that point of view, you will be surprised to discover what a multitude of minute traits make up the general impression, and what a unity is thereby breathed into the narrative.
For instance, did you ever observe the peculiar beginning of this Gospel? There are here none of the references to the prophecies of the King, no tracing of His birth through the royal stock to the great progenitor of the nation, no adoration by the Eastern sages, which we find in Matthew, no miraculous birth nor growing childhood as in Luke, no profound unveiling of the union of the Word with God before the world was, as in John; but the narrative begins with His baptism, and passes at once to the story of His work. The same ruling idea accounts for the uniform omission of the title ‘Lord’ which in Mark’s Gospel is never applied to Christ until after the resurrection. There is only one apparent exception, and there good authorities pronounce the word to be spurious. Even in reports of conversations which are also given in the other Gospels, and where ‘Lord’ occurs, Mark, of set purpose, omits it, as if its presence would disturb the unity of the impression which he desires to leave. You will find the investigation of the omissions in this Gospel full of interest, and remarkably tending to confirm the accuracy of the view which regards it as the Gospel of the Servant.
Notice then these traits of His service which it brings out.
The first of them I would suggest is-how distinctly it gives the impression of swift, strenuous work. The narrative is brief and condensed. We feel, all through these earlier chapters, at all events, the presence of the pressing crowd coming to Him and desiring to be healed, and but a word can be spared for each incident as the story hurries on, trying to keep pace with His rapid service of quick-springing compassion and undelaying help. There is one word which is reiterated over and over again in these earlier chapters, remarkably conveying this impression of haste and strenuous work; Mark’s favourite word is ‘straightway,’ ‘immediately,’ ‘forthwith,’ ‘anon,’ which are all translations of one expression. You will find, if you glance over the first, second, or third chapters at your leisure, that it comes in at every turn. Take these instances which strike one’s eye at the moment. ‘Straightway they forsook their nets’; ‘Straightway He entered into the synagogue’; ‘Immediately His fame spread abroad throughout all the region’; ‘Forthwith they entered into the house of Simon’s mother’; ‘Anon, they tell Him of her’; ‘Immediately the fever left her.’ And so it goes on through the whole story, a picture of a constant succession of rapid acts of mercy and love. The story seems, as it were, to pant with haste to keep up with Him as He moves among men, swift as a sunbeam, and continuous in the outflow of His love as are these unceasing rays.
Again, we see in Christ’s service, toil prolonged to the point of actual physical exhaustion. The narrative before us is the most striking instance of that which we meet with. It had been a long wearying day of work. According to this chapter, the whole of the profound parables concerning the kingdom of God had immediately preceded the embarkation. But even these, with their explanation, had been but a part of that day’s labours. For, in Matthew’s account of them, we are told that they were spoken on the same day as that on which His mother and brethren came desiring to speak with Him,-or, as we elsewhere read, with hostile intentions to lay hold on Him as mad and needing restraint. And that event, which we may well believe touched deep and painful chords of feeling in His human heart, and excited emotions more exhausting than much physical effort, occurred in the midst of an earnest and prolonged debate with emissaries from Jerusalem, in the course of which He spoke the solemn words concerning blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and Satan casting out Satan, and poured forth some of His most terrible warnings, and some of His most beseeching entreaties. No wonder that, after such a day, the hard pillow of the boat was a soft resting-place for His wearied head; no wonder that, as the evening quiet settled down on the mountain-girdled lake, and the purple shadows of the hills stretched athwart the water, He slept; no wonder that the storm which followed the sunset did not wake Him; and beautiful, that wearied as He was, the disciples’ cry at once rouses Him, and the fatigue which shows His manhood gives place to the divine energy which says unto the sea, ‘Peace! be still.’ The lips which, a moment before, had been parted in the soft breathing of wearied sleep, now open to utter the omnipotent word-so wonderfully does He blend the human and the divine, ‘the form of a servant’ and the nature of God.
We see, in Christ, toil that puts aside the claims of physical wants. Twice in this Gospel we read of this ‘The multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.’ ‘There were many coming, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.’
We see in Christ’s service a love which is at every man’s beck and call, a toil cheerfully rendered at the most unreasonable and unseasonable times. As I said a moment or two ago, this Gospel makes one feel, as none other of these narratives do, the pressure of that ever-present multitude, the whirling excitement that eddied round the calm centre. It tells us, for instance, more than once, how Christ, wearied with His toil, feeling in body and in spirit the need of rest and still communion, withdrew Himself from the crowd. He once departed alone that He might seek God in prayer; once He went with His wearied disciples apart into a desert place to rest awhile. On both occasions the retirement is broken in upon before it is well begun. The sigh of relief in the momentary rest is scarcely drawn, and the burden laid down for an instant, when it has to be lifted again. His solitary prayer is interrupted by the disciples, with ‘All men seek for Thee,’ and, without a murmur or a pause, He buckles to His work again, and says, ‘Let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also; for therefore am I sent.’
When He would carry His wearied disciples with Him for a brief breathing time to the other side of the sea, and get away from the thronging crowd, ‘the people saw Him departing, and ran afoot out of all cities,’ and, making their way round the head of the lake, were all there at the landing place before Him. Instead of seclusion and repose He found the same throng and bustle. Here they were, most of them from mere curiosity, some of them no doubt with deeper feelings; here they were, with their diseased and their demoniacs, and as soon as His foot touches the shore He is in the midst of it all again. And He meets it, not with impatience at this rude intrusion on His privacy, not with refusals to help. Only one emotion filled His heart. He forgot all about weariness, and hunger, and retirement, and ‘He was moved with compassion towards them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and He began to teach them many things.’ Such a picture may well shame our languid, self-indulgent service, may stir us to imitation and to grateful praise.
There is only one other point which I touch upon for a moment, as showing the toil of Christ, and that is drawn from another Gospel. Did you ever notice the large space occupied in Matthew’s Gospel by the record of the last day of His public ministry, and how much of all that we know of His mission and message, and the future of the world and of all men, we owe to the teaching of these four-and-twenty hours? Let me put together, in a word, what happened on that day.
It included the conversation with the chief priests and elders about the baptism of John, the parable of the householder that planted a vineyard and digged a winepress, the parables of the kingdom of heaven, the controversy with the Herodians about the tribute money, the conversation with the Sadducees about the resurrection, with the Pharisee about the great commandment in the law, the silencing of the Pharisees by pointing to the 110th Psalm, the warning to the multitude against the scribes and Pharisees who were hypocrites, protracted and prolonged up to that wail of disappointed love, ‘Behold! your house is left unto you desolate.’ And, as though that had not been enough for one day, when He is going home from the Temple to find, for a night, in that quiet little home of Bethany, the rest that He wants, as He rests wearily on the slopes of Olivet, the disciples come to Him, ‘Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of Thy coming?’ and there follows all that wonderful prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world, the parable of the fig tree, the warning not to suffer the thief to come, and the promise of reward for the faithful and wise servant, the parable of the ten virgins, and in all probability the parable of the king with the five talents; and the words, that might be written in letters of fire, that tell us the final course of all things, and the judgment of life eternal and death everlasting! All this was the work of ‘one of the days of the Son of Man.’ Of Him it was prophesied long ago, ‘For Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest’; and His life on earth, as well as His life in heaven, fulfils the prediction-the one by the toilsomeness of His service, the other by the unceasing energy of His exalted power. He toiled unwearied here, He works unresting there.
II. In the second place, let me ask you to notice how we get from our Lord’s own words a glimpse into the springs of this wonderful activity.
There are three points which distinctly come out in various places in the Gospels as His motives for such unresting sedulousness and continuance of toil. The first is conveyed by such words as these: ‘I must work the works of Him that sent Me.’ ‘Let us preach to other cities, also: for therefore am I sent.’ ‘Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?’ ‘My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.’ All these express one thought. Christ lived and toiled, and bore weariness and exhaustion, and counted every moment as worthy to be garnered up and precious, as to be filled with deeds of love and kindness, because wherever He went, and to whatsoever He set His hand, He had the one consciousness of a great task laid upon Him by a loving Father whom He loved, and whom, therefore, it was His joy and His blessedness to serve.
And, remember that this motive made the life homogeneous-of a piece. In all the variety of service, one spirit was expressed, and, therefore, the service was one. No matter whether He were speaking words of grace or of rebuke, or working works of power and love, or simply looking a look of kindness on some outcast, or taking a little child in His arms, or stilling with the same arms outstretched the wild uproar of the storm-it was all the same. To Him life was all one. There was nothing great, nothing small; nothing so insignificant that it could be done negligently; nothing so hard that it surpassed His power. The one motive made all duties equal; obedience to the Father called forth His whole energy at every moment. To Him life was not divided into a set of tasks of varying importance, some of which could be accomplished with a finger’s touch, and some of which demanded a dead lift and strain of all the muscles. But whatsoever His hand found to do He did with His might and that because He felt, be it great or little, that it all came, if I may so say, into the day’s work, and all was equally great because the Father that sent Him had laid it upon Him.
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, and nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, ‘My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me.’
And then, still further, another of the secret springs that move His unwearied activity, His heroism of toil, is the thought expressed in such words as these:-’While I am in the world I am the light of the world.’ ‘I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work.’
Jesus Christ manifested on earth performs indeed a work-the mightiest which He came to do-which was done precisely then when the night did come-namely, the work of His death, which is the atonement and ‘propitiation for the sins of the world.’ And, further, the ‘night, when no man can work,’ was not the end of His activity for us; for He carries on His work of intercession and rule, His work of bestowing the gifts purchased by His blood, amidst the glories of heaven; and that perpetual application and dispensing of the blessed issues of His death He has Himself represented as greater than the works, to which His death put a period, in which He healed the bodies and spoke to the hearts of those who heard, and lived a perfect life here upon this sinful earth. But yet even He recognised the brief hour of sunny life as being an hour that must be filled with service, and recognised the fact that there was a task that He could only do when He lived the life of a man upon earth. And so, if I might so say, He was a miser of the moments, and carefully husbanding and garnering up every capacity and every opportunity. He toiled with the toil of a man who has a task before him, that must be done before the clock strikes six, and who sees the hands move over the dial, and by every glance that he casts at it is stimulated to intenser service and to harder toil. Christ felt that impulse to service which we all ought to feel-’The night cometh; let me fill the day with work.’
And then there is a final motive which I need barely touch. He was impelled to His sedulous service not only by loving, filial obedience to the divine law, and by the consciousness of a limited and defined period into which all the activity of one specific kind must be condensed, but also by the motive expressed in such words as these, in which this Gospel is remarkably rich, ‘And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand and touched him.’ Thus, along with that supreme consecration, along with that swift ardour that will fill the brief hours ere nightfall with service, there was the constant pity of that beating heart that moved the diligent hand. Christ, if I may so say, could not help working as hard as He did, so long as there were so many men round about Him that needed His sympathy and His aid.
III. So much then for the motives; and now a word finally as to the worth of this toil for us.
I do not stay to elucidate one consideration that might be suggested, viz., how precious a proof it is of Christ’s humanity. We find it easier to bring home His true manhood to our thoughts, when we remember that He, like us, knew the pressure of physical fatigue. Not only was it a human spirit that wept and rejoiced, that was moved with compassion, and sometimes with indignation, but it was a human body, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, that, wearied with walking in the burning sun, sat on the margin of the well; that was worn out and needed to sleep; that knew hunger, as is testified by His sending the disciples to buy meat; that was thirsty, as is testified by His saying, ‘Give Me to drink.’ The true corporeal manhood of Jesus Christ, and the fact that that manhood is the tabernacle of God-without these two facts the morality and the teaching of Christianity swing loose in vacuo, and have no holdfast in history, nor any leverage by which they can move men’s hearts! But, when we know that the common necessities of fatigue, and hunger, and thirst belonged to Him, then we gratefully and reverently say, ‘Forasmuch as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also Himself took part of the same.’
This fact of Christ’s toil is of worth to us in other ways.
Is not that hard work of Jesus Christ a lesson for us, brethren, in our daily tasks and toils-a lesson which, if it were learnt and practised, would make a difference not only on the intensity but upon the spirit with which we labour? A great deal of fine talk is indulged in about the dignity of labour and the like. Labour is a curse until communion with God in it, which is possible through Jesus Christ, makes it a blessing and a joy. Christ, in the sweat of His brow, won our salvation; and our work only becomes great when it is work done in, and for, and by Him.
And what do we learn from His example? We learn these things: the plain lesson, first,-task all your capacity and use every minute in doing the duty that is plainly set before you to do. Christian virtues are sometimes thought to be unreal and unworldly things. I was going to say the root of them, certainly the indispensable accompaniment for them all, is the plain, prosaic, most unromantic virtue of hard work.
And beyond that, what do we learn? The lesson that most toilers in England want. There is no need to preach to the most of us to work any harder, in one department of work at any rate; but there is great need to remind us of what it was that at once stirred Jesus Christ into energy and kept Him calm in the midst of labour-and that was that everything was equally and directly referred to His Father’s will. People talk nowadays about ‘missions.’ The only thing worth giving that name to is the ‘mission’ which He gives us, who sends us into the world not to do our own will, but to do the will of Him that sent us. There is a fatal monotony in all our lives-a terrible amount of hard drudgery in them all. We have to set ourselves morning after morning to tasks that look to be utterly insignificant and disproportionate to the power that we bring to bear upon them, so that men are like elephants picking up pins with their trunks; and yet we may make all our commonplace drudgery great, and wondrous, and fair, and full of help and profit to our souls, if, over it all-our shops, our desks, our ledgers, our studies, our kitchens, and our nurseries-we write, ‘My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.’ We may bring the greatest principles to bear upon the smallest duties.
What more do we learn from Christ’s toil? The possible harmony of communion and service. His labour did not break His fellowship with God. He was ever in the ‘secret place of the Most High,’ even while He was in the midst of crowds. He has taught us that it is possible to be in the ‘house of the Lord’ all the days of our lives, and by His ensample, as by His granted Spirit, encourages us to aim at so serving that we shall never cease to behold, and so beholding that we shall never cease to serve our Father. The life of contemplation and the life of practice, so hard to harmonise in our experience, perfectly meet in Christ.
What more do we learn from our Lord’s toils? The cheerful constant postponement of our own ease, wishes, or pleasure to the call of the Father’s voice, or to the echo of it in the sighing of such as be sorrowful. I have already referred to the instances of His putting aside His need for rest, and His desire for still fellowship with God, at the call of whoever needed Him. It was the same always. If a Nicodemus comes by night, if a despairing father forces his way into the house of feasting, if another suppliant finds Him in a house, where He would have remained hid, if they come running to Him in the way, or drop down their sick before Him through the very roof-it is all the same. He never thinks of Himself, but gladly addresses Himself to heal and bless. How such an example followed would change our lives and amaze and shake the world!-’I come, not to do Mine own will.’ ‘Even Christ pleased not Himself.’
But that toil is not only a pattern for our lives; it is an appeal to our grateful hearts. Surely a toiling Christ is as marvellous as a dying Christ. And the immensity and the purity and the depth of His love are shown no less by this, that He labours to accomplish it, than by this, that He dies to complete it. He will not give blessings which depend upon mere will, and can be bestowed as a king might fling a largess to a beggar without effort, and with scarce a thought, but blessings which He Himself has to agonise and to energise, and to lead a life of obedience, and to die a death of shame, in order to procure. ‘I will not offer burnt-offering to God of that which doth cost me nothing,’ says the grateful heart. But in so saying it is but following in the track of the loving Christ, who will not give unto man that which cost Him nothing, and who works, as well as dies, in order that we may be saved.
And, O brethren! think of the contrast between what Christ has done to save us, and what we do to secure and appropriate that salvation! He toiled all His days, buying our peace with His life, going down into the mine and bringing up the jewels at the cost of His own precious blood. And you and I stand with folded arms, too apathetic to take the rich treasures that are freely given to us of God! He has done everything, that we may have nothing to do, and we will not even put out our slack hands to clasp the grace purchased by His blood, and commended by His toil! ‘Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.’
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:35-41 Christ was asleep in the storm, to try the faith of his disciples, and to stir them up to pray. Their faith appeared weak, and their prayers strong. When our wicked hearts are like the troubled sea which cannot rest, when our passions are unruly, let us think we hear the law of Christ, saying, Be silent, be dumb. When without are fightings, and within are fears, and the spirits are in a tumult, if he say, Peace, be still, there is a great calm at once. Why are ye so fearful? Though there may be cause for some fear, yet not for such fear as this. Those may suspect their faith, who can have such a thought as that Jesus careth not though his people perish. How imperfect are the best of saints! Faith and fear take their turns while we are in this world; but ere long, fear will be overcome, and faith will be lost in sight.
Even as he was in the ship - They took him without making any preparation for the voyage; without providing any food or raiment. He was sitting in a ship, or boat, instructing the people. In the same boat, probably ill fitted to encounter a storm on the lake, they sailed. This would render their danger more imminent and the miracle more striking.
There were with him other little ships - Belonging probably to the people, who, seeing him sail, resolved to follow him.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
36. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship—that is, without any preparation, and without so much as leaving the vessel, out of which He had been all day teaching.
And there were also with him other little ships—with passengers, probably, wishing to accompany Him.
Matthew Poole's Commentary
See Poole on "Mark 4:35"
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And when they had sent away the multitude,.... Who had been attending him all day on the sea shore; though they seem to have been dismissed by Christ, when he went into the house, and privately interpreted the parables to his disciples: see Matthew 13:36, wherefore it is possible, that upon Christ's going to the sea shore again, in order to take boat for the other side, they might gather together the disciples acquainted them that he was not about to preach any more to them, but was going to the other side of the lake; upon which they departed: and
they took him even as he was in the ship; which may be understood of his being taken and carried in the ship, in which he had been preaching all the day, without being moved into another; though this does not so well agree with his quitting that, and going home to his house in Capernaum; where, being alone with the disciples, he opened the parables to them. Some think it refers to the situation and posture in which he laid himself, as soon as he entered the ship; placing himself at the stern, and laying his head upon a pillow there, and so they carried him: others, that they took him into the ship, as he was alone without the multitude, who were sent away, only the disciples with him, which seems best:
and there were also with him other little ships; or boats, that were in company with that, in which Christ was; and had in them either seafaring men upon business, taking fish, or carrying passengers over; or might have in them persons, who were going along with Christ to the other side: these seem to be ordered in providence to be in company, that they might be witnesses of the after miracle.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Mark 4:36. This verse describes the manner in which Christ’s wish was carried out—it was in effect a flight along the only line of retreat, the shore being besieged by the crowd = leaving (ἀφέντες, not dismissing) the crowd they carry Him off (avehunt, Grotius) as He was in the ship (ὡς ἦν = ὡς εἶχεν) sine apparatu (Bengel) and sine morâ; but there were also other boats with Him, i.e., with His boat. This last fact, peculiar to Mark, is added to show that even seawards escape was difficult. Some of the people had got into boats to be nearer the Speaker. The δὲ after ἄλλα, though doubtful, helps to bring out the sense. This is another of Mark’s realisms.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
36. as he was] i. e. without any preparation for the voyage. Just before the boat put off three of the listeners to His words desired to attach themselves to Him as His disciples, (1) a scribe, (2) an already partial disciple, (3) another who wished first to bid farewell to his friends at home (Matthew 8:19-22; Luke 9:57-62).
Bengel's Gnomen
Mark 4:36. Παραλαμβάνουσιν, they take Him with them) i.e. they to whom the ship belonged took Him with them to cross the lake.—ὡς ἦν, as He was) Without any sumptuous preparation [or equipment]; Matthew 8:20. So the LXX., ὥς ἐστιν, and ὡς ἦσαν, 2 Kings 7:7.—πλοιάρια, little ships) and in them men.—μετʼ Αὐτοῦ, with Him) with Jesus.
Vincent's Word Studies
Even as he was in the ship
Rev., boat. Just as he was, in the boat in which he was then sitting. Mark adds the detail about the accompanying boats.
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July’s Free PS Plus Games Include Styx, Geometry Wars 3 and More
Jon Ledford
Six games will be available for PlayStation Plus subscribers to get for free this month, including four for PS4.
The PlayStation Blog has revealed what games PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to download for free throughout the month of July. Subscribers will be able to download multiple games for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PS Vita. This month, PlayStation 4 owners have a variety of choices. PS4 owners will be able to download the multiplayer and stunt-oriented arcade game, Rocket League. The PS4 offerings continue with Styx: Master of Shadows. Even though its title character looks like a goblin from World of Warcraft, Styx is a solid stealth game that you should definitely check out.
The abstract action-arcade game Entwined is also free for PS4 owners this month, and it's a very unique twin-stick experiment. Entwined reminds us a lot of Flower, Journey and Beyond: Two Souls but with some major differences. The fourth PS4 game players can get is Mousecraft, which features elaborate puzzles in a lab run by a mad, feline scientist. Mousecraft and Entwined are also both free-to-download this month for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita as well. Speaking of PS3, Rain is an interesting puzzle game that has you controlling an invisible boy who can only be seen in the rain. Lastly, PS Vita players can download Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions, which takes the colorful, twin-stick shooting of the series and takes it into the third-dimension.
Styx, Rocket League, Geometry Wars 3, Entwined, Mousecraft and Rain will be available to download for free (PS Plus subscribers only) starting July 7. Make sure you download June's free-to-download games from June, which includes Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Skulls of the Shogun, Super Exploding Zoo, Futuridium EP Deluxe and Cloudberry Kingdom, before they're gone.
June's Free PS Plus Games Revealed
Filed Under: Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions, Mousecraft, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, PS Vita, Rain, Rocket League, Styx: Master of Shadows
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