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Lambert & Dekker
By Digital in Berlin · On 12. October 2018
A connection sparked 10 years ago in a tiny Utrecht club has flickered into a cross-country collaboration and a disarming debut from Lambert And Dekker. That the pair never set foot in the same studio but wrote ‘We Share Phenomena’ via iPhone messages belies the beguiling atmospherics and bold tones that drift from the speakers. Berlin-based Lambert, a mask-wearing pianist at the fore of the neo-classical movement, and singer Brookln Dekker, one-half of acclaimed Anglo-American outfit Rue Royale, describe themselves as a ‘host’ duo who have fleshed into something beyond the sum of their parts.
1: Lambert: I was wrong about the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Dekker: I am blind in my right eye from a run-in with a dart.
2: L: The indian defense, is the best chess opening for black, just beware of f3!
D: Fig jam is my jam.
3: L: The bavarian ‘Weisswurst’ is the best wurst in the universe!
D: Chicago (where I’m from) is called the ‘Windy City’ not because of the late-effect wind but because the politicians who were ‘full of hot air’.
L: A good Sound and a good Instrument!
D: The feeling I get during and after making music. It’s like a feeling of completeness.
L: I was forced into it by the age of 4, slowly started to enjoy it by the age of 13. I had to take a lot of boring piano lessons. With 13 I wanted to quit and play the drums, my parents allowed me to plearn drums, when I continue piano lessons with a new teacher. That guy got me into improvisation and Jazz Music. My parents got annoyed of me doing music all day from that time on…
D: I grew up in a musical home. Not sure when I switched and began making it my own but looking back I can see signs as early as 9 or 10 years old.
L: Bill Evans – Explorations
Everything from Glenn Gould playing Bach
Fionn Regan – The End of History
Jan Johansson – Jazz på Svenska
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
L: I feel there is a certain tolerance among the people living here for understanding that it might be necessary to do whatever you feel like doing.
D: For me, Berlin is a collaborative city. I’m always there working with other musicians and writers.
L: My Studio in Neukölln and Flugfeld Tempelhof.
D: I’m always in studios or venues when I’m in Berlin.
L: I’d like to become a metaphysician.
D: Maybe study psychology.
L: The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
D: Hundred Acres by S. Carey.
L: Paul McCartney.
D: To collaborate with Judy Garland would’ve been wild.
L: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (23.12.2017)! Epic!
D: Wilco at a small venue in St. Louis, Missouri in the 90’s.
L: I use it to record my music. So it is useful but the creation of my music is not depending on it.
D: Very.
L: I have innumerable many brothers. They think I am weird, but they always knew that I wouldn’t have succeeded as a metaphysician…
D: I have 2 younger sisters. They are both supportive and I guess they think I’m a little mad as well.
Catch Lambert & Dekker at Burg Schnabel on Wednesday, 14h November 2018!
Photo © Andreas Hornoff
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Seung Yun Lee
Seung Yun Lee initially started her career as a graphic designer before deciding to become a Pastry Chef.
Seung Yun Lee began her career as a graphic designer. She had always wanted to have a profession where she could use her creativity. Her inspiration to become a pastry chef came when she watched the film called ‘Chocolat’ and since then, she has never looked back.
Sueng Yun Lee has received several awards through Barry Callebaut competitions in Australia, where she was crowned 1st Place for the 2010 Callebaut Easter Egg Challenge and as the winner of the 2010 Edition of World Chocolate Masters Australia Selection.
Seung Yun Lee is currently a pastry chef at Savour Chocolate & Patisserie School in Australia. Prior to this she has worked at Java city Korea, Bakery section, Vanilla Bean Cake and Dalloyau in Korea. She was seeking Chocolate experience so badly and Australia was the only place where she could find a job and afford to live there. She had no idea that this is what she would end up doing when she first came to Australia, then she found Savour Chocolate & Patisserie School and the rest is history.
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WOMAN IN THE DUNES
SUNA NO ONNA
1964, Janus Films, 123 min, Japan, Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director Hiroshi Teshigahara made only a handful of films, and like this one, most were adapted from the elliptical novels of Kôbô Abe. Eiji Okada, an entomologist searching for rare insects in remote sand dunes, asks villagers for shelter. They bring him to a house at the bottom of a large pit, inhabited by a lonely woman (Kyoko Kishida). When he awakens the next day, he finds the ladder out of the hole has been removed, and he has been conned into becoming the woman’s new man, solely in order to help her remove the shifting sand that is continually creeping in, threatening to bury the structure. An astonishing, bizarre allegory about life’s routines and a thoroughly engrossing psychological drama. With a brilliant score by Toru Takemitsu. Teshigahara won the Jury Special Prize at Cannes for 1964. Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film.
Kiichi Ichikawa
Tadashi Ôno
Kôbô Abe
Hiroshi Segawa
Eiji Okada
Hiroko Itô
Kyôko Kishida
Hiroshi Teshigahara
1963, Universal, 120 min, USA, Dir: George Englund
John F. Kennedy was sufficiently impressed with the foreign policy insights of The Ugly American that he sent copies of the book to all his Senate colleagues; director George Englund and screenwriter Stewart Stern give the bestseller a potent adaptation. Marlon Brando stars as a U.S. ambassador to the fictional Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan, where the limitations of America’s anti-Communist crusade offer eerie parallels to that of Vietnam.
George Englund
Stewart Stern
Clifford Stine
Sandra Church
Bud Westmore
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
1959, Rialto Pictures, 91 min, France, Japan, Dir: Alain Resnais
A one-night stand between a young French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) brings back the memory of Riva's first impossible love in wartime France, her intense pain at the death of her German lover, and her punishment for sexual collaboration with the enemy. Brilliantly written by Marguerite Duras, director Alain Resnais’ first feature remains a high point in French cinema of the 1950s, and one of the most devastating love stories ever put on film. "Once you've seen HIROSHIMA it becomes impossible to make movies the way you used to." – Francois Truffaut. In French and Japanese with English subtitles.
Anatole Dauman
Samy Halfon
Michio Takahashi
Sacha Vierny
Emmanuelle Riva
Stella Dassas
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BOOK 6: YUDDA KANDA
After listening to Saranas words Shuka, pointing out all that army of Vanaras, spoke the following words to Ravana the Lord of Rakshasas. O, king! Do you observe those Vanaras resembling huge Elephants in rut, rising like banyan trees on the banks of River Ganga or Sala trees on Himalayas? Those warriors, able to change their form at will, are irresistible, equal to Daityas and Danavas, and in a battle, are endowed with the valour of the Devas.
There are twenty one thousand crores, a thousand Shankus and a hundred Vrindas of these Vanaras. These Vanaras, the attendants of Sugreeva born of Devas and Gandharvas, are able to change their form at will and always stay in Kishkindha. The two who stand there, who have the same resemblance and have the appearance of Devas, are Mainda and Dvivida. None can equal them in combat. These two, who ate ambrosion on due authorization by Brahma, are hopefully of destroying Lanka by their power."
As for that Vanara who you see there, resembling an intoxicated Elephant, who in strength and fury is able to churn up the ocean itself, it is he who came to Lanka to find Seetha and spy on you, O, Lord! See that Vanara, who was seen earlier and who appears here again. This Vanara, by whom the ocean was traversed, is the eldest son of Kesari. He is known as the son of Vayu and famously called as Hanuman. This excellent Vanara can assume any form at will. He is endowed with a good strength and form always moving like the wind god, having an uninterrupted mobility.
While yet a child, seeing the sun rise, he desired to eat it and took off to a distance of three thousand Yojanas (or twenty four thousand miles) reflecting: I shall seize hold of the sun and my hunger will not be appeased otherwise and they say, he leapt up (into the air) intoxicated as he was with his own strength. Without even reaching the sun, which is most unassailable even to Devas, sages or Rakshasas, he however fell on a mountain, where that radiant orb rises." One of the jaws of this Vanara who fell down on the head of the rock, was a little fractured. For this reason, because of his strong jaw, he is called Hanuma.
This Vanara is known to me actually through the words of my bosom friends. It is not possible to describe his strength or physical form or glory. He alone wants to destroy Lanka by his valour. How do you forget this Vanara by whom this fire was lighted and is still blazing up Lanka. Nearby is a warrior, dark of hue with eyes like lotuses, a chief warrior among Ikshvakus, his heroism is well known in the world, his sense of duty never wavers, nor does he ever transgress the righteousness, he knows to loose Brahmas weapon and is conversant with Veda, he is the most learned of the Vedic scholars, he shatters the firmament with his arrows, and rends even the earth, his anger is akin to that of Death, his valour equal to that of Indra his consort is Seetha who was taken away by you from a place called Janasthana, he is Rama who has come to wage war on you, O king! This man, having the radiance of pure gold, with a broad chest, having red eyes, with black and curled hair, standing at the right side of Rama, he is called Lakshmana, who is interested in the care and welfare of his brother, skilled in leadership of combat and excellent among the wielders of all weapons.
This Lakshmana is an angry person, difficult to be conquered, victorious, wise and mighty. He has always been the right arm of Rama and in outward moving life (of Rama). He does not indeed care for his life in the cause of Rama. He alone wishes to kill all the Rakshasas in battle. He who is standing there, taking guard at the left side of Rama, surrounded by a troop of Rakshasas he is the king Vibhishana.
He, who was consecrated as a king for Lanka by the illustrious Rama, the king of kings, is enraged really with you and is to attack us in the battle. The other whom you see as an unshakable mountain and standing in the centre of Vanaras as a Lord of all chiefs of Vanaras, with a boundless energy and who, like a Himalayan hill, very much radiating the other Vanaras by his splendour, glory, wisdom, strength and his noble descent, who occupies along with the chiefs of Army Generals, a secret place called Kishkindha, with its forests and trees and the place inaccessible because of its impassable mountains, in which is established a good fortune of Devas and human beings, whose charming and golden coloured garland with hundred lotuses is beautifying, that person is Sugreeva. This garland along with a lady called Tara as well as the permanent kingdom of Vanaras were presented to him by Rama after having killed Vali (Sugreevas brother). Wise men call a hundred lakhs as a crore. A hundred thousand crores is reckoned as a Shanku.
A hundred thousand Shankus are said to be one Maha Shanku. A hundred thousand Maha Shankus are called one Vrindam here. A hundred thousand Vrindas are said to be one Maha vrindam. A hundred thousand Mahavrindas are called one Padmam here. A hundred thousand padmas are said to be one Mahapadmam. A hundred thousand Mahapadmas are called one Kharvam here. A hundred thousand kharvas are said to be one Mahakharvam. A hundred thousand Mahakharvas are called one Samudram. A hundred thousand Samudras are said to be one Ogha here. A hundred thousand oghas are acclaimed a one Mahaugha. This Sugreeva, the king of Vanaras, having great strength and valour, always surrounded by a colossal army, is approaching you to make war, accompanied by the valiant Vibhishana and the ministers, as also a hundred thousand crores of Shankas, a thousand Mahashankus, a hundred Vrindas, a thousand mahavrindas, a hundred padmas, a thousand Mahapadmas, a hundred kharves, samudras and Mahaughas of the same number, and a crore of Mahanghas wholearmy as such is identical of an ocean. O, king! Carefully observing this army, which appears much the same as a blazing planet, prepare yourself for a great effort to get victory and take measures to avoid defeat from the enemies.
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Celebrity shoot with 2 Canon 5D MKII cameras.
The images above were from a celebrity shoot I did earlier this year as a part of Bloomingdale's October Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It was the second time I'd used the Canon 5D MKII and the results were excellent. It wouldn't be my first camera of choice tho, in general at least, and would rely largely on what I was shooting. The audio problems are solvable with a decent sound guy and I don't mind syncing things up in post like the old days but I do find shooting on a compressed format (H.264) annoying when it comes to grading the image in post. The color information is just not there and you feel like you are dealing with some 8bit image. When I first started using the camera I was transcoding it, as one must, to an editable format like prores422 but have since started using the prores422 (HQ) setting to ensure I take as much color information into the grade. There's no doubt that you'll pay for anything incorrectly exposed with this camera and it simply doesn't carry the same latitude to afford a "fix in post" mentality.
Having said all that, the big chip and a long lens produces a beautiful and very shallow depth of field that is wonderfully cinematic and makes going back to an EX3 or the like - without any film adapter - quite disappointing.
For this shoot I needed a two camera set up so that I could walk away with two angles out of each interview. As is often the case when filming celebrities we were not given long with each person so a big plus of the Canon 5D MKII is it's cost point, making a two camera shoot easily affordable.
I wouldn't want to shoot a "run 'n gun" styled documentary with one of these but in the right circumstance it's an amazing tool to have at your disposal. Did I mention it also takes great stills!
Please note: All photos above were taken by the wonderful Tim Greeson. (http://timothygreesonphotography.com/)
The following photos show how the interviews were used in the Bloomingdale's stores. These were taken at the flagship store in Manhattan.
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”The Long Cruise” - Celebrating 70 Years of the A.T. Thru-Hiking Tradition
by Brian King, ATC Publisher
The bit of Appalachian Trail history that was made in 1948 was the appearance of the first “thru-hiker,” Earl V. Shaffer of York Springs, Pennsylvania, who reported completing the entire 2,050 miles in an uninterrupted backpacking trip beginning April 4 and ending August 5. Shaffer had lost his closest friend while they were in combat in the Pacific Theater and was “walking off the army” by “walking with spring” — the title of his book about it — along the Appalachian Trail he had read about in a magazine.
While he was halfway to Maine, the already legendary Myron H. Avery was presiding over the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s first postwar, regrouping meeting, at Fontana Dam in North Carolina — part of which was devoted to a discussion on how unlikely a thru-hike would be. The chairman was particularly disturbed that Shaffer had no official guidebooks and maps; Shaffer, “The Crazy One” as he called himself, said he wrote for but never received them so instead used oil-company maps and whatever he could pick up at parks and forests along the way.
Shaffer’s account is still accepted as the first reported thru-hike; the ATC neither investigates nor endorses such reports.
After he reported his feat to the ATC, Shaffer underwent at least one “charming...grilling,” as he would later put it, primarily by editor Jean Stephenson — place questions, people questions, photographic evidence, Trail-condition questions. After that, she and, through her, Avery would accept the report. Stephenson did note two “off track” sections, which Shaffer acknowledged and blamed on poor signage or unmarked relocations during that recovery period.
Shaffer hiked the Trail again in 1965, from the other direction, and once more as a 50th-anniversary trek in 1998 at age 79 — complaining bitterly all the way about route changes from roads up to mountaintops away from towns.
He was named president of the York Hiking Club after his first hike and, once he had satisfied Avery and Stephenson, was appointed ATC corresponding secretary, providing advice to would-be hikers of all kinds and taking a burden off Washington-based volunteers.
Although he had stayed away from Trail functions after a dispute with NPS land-acquisition workers in the 1980s, he resumed his involvement in the mid-1990s with standing-room-only shows of his slides (accompanied by his poems and songs) until a final, extended illness hospitalized him in 2001. He died in May 2002. He would have been 100 this fall.
Shaffer’s hike drew at least two lines across the story of the Appalachian Trail. Although then, as now, more than 99.9 percent of the users of the Trail are day-hikers and groups of two or four for a weekend or week — or club members out for an overnight — the notion was forever gone that a single backpacker could not walk that whole distance in a continuous hike.
The second break in pattern reflected that human recreational achievement. Shaffer garnered publicity throughout the country’s major news outlets and then a full-length article in National Geographic about him and the Trail. From then on, local and national publicity about the Trail shifted markedly from the achievements of the “recreational maintainer” to those of recreational thru-hikers, although their numbers would not be significant for another quarter-century.
The year after his iconic hike, he wrote in the Appalachian Trailway News:
“Now the one thing about the whole trek that caused the most comment — my traveling alone.... For my part, I preferred it so. Before the war, there were two of us who trailed together, and we had our dreams, as many others have had, of hiking the Appalachian Trail some day. But, Iwo Jima was the end of life’s trail for him, leaving me to travel alone. From him, I learned most of my woodcraft and my abiding love of all outdoors. Walter Winemiller was a pardner such as one may have only once in life, and no incentive could have been stronger to carry me over the long high Trail than remembering we always wanted to hike it together.”
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This trade dispute could upend America’s boo...
This trade dispute could upend America’s booming solar industry. Here’s what it means for you.
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By Lenae Shirley / Bio / Published: September 29, 2017
If you work in the solar industry, want to buy solar panels or care about climate change, you may want to pay attention.
Two floundering solar manufacturers, with no concerns but their corporate bottom line, are about to pull the rug from under one of America’s fastest-growing industries and tens of thousands of well-paid jobs.
The manufacturers petitioned the U.S International Trade Commission this spring to take action against foreign competitors, claiming overseas rivals export products to America’s solar market at prices they can’t match. This at a time when the United States solar industry as a whole is booming.
In a decision that shook the industry and a host of free-trade advocates, ITC agreed with these single two petitioners and it’s now up to President Trump to decide whether to retaliate with an import tariff or other punitive options.
There’s a good chance he will – and this would be really bad news for American solar companies and consumers alike.
What a solar trade war would mean for you
If you’re thinking about installing solar panels or work in the solar installation industry, you’ll be hit the hardest.
The general consensus is that up to 100,000 American solar jobs are at risk, because placing a tariff or artificial floor price on solar products would make them more expensive for customers.
Prices could double and residential demand could dry up, almost overnight.
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Large commercial solar projects would also become less cost-competitive and demand would decline long-term. Solar installation companies – which had the fastest job growth of any industry over the last few years – would be forced to slash jobs.
And the pain would spread beyond solar customers and workers. It would ultimately affect us all.
Solar industry loss a setback for planet
The planet could suffer, because every kilowatt of zero-carbon solar energy that isn’t installed is a kilowatt that will likely be replaced by electricity generated by dirty, fossil fuel. Even though many utilities give customers carbon-free options today, net greenhouse gas emissions would certainly rise.
Indeed, tariffs or other options that Trump may now be mulling could kill nearly two-thirds of potential solar installations in the next five years, according to a recent analysis by Greentech Media. That represents 47 gigawatts of lost solar potential, more than all the solar ever installed in the U.S.
But really, would he want to be responsible for trading 100,000 jobs for a campaign pledge?
Those 47 gigawatts also represent carbon dioxide emissions that could be avoided, possible as much as 110 million metric tons, depending on what replaces the solar demand.
A remarkable coalition of groups that includes solar and environmental organizations, as well as conservative, free-market groups; are now urging the president to avoid a damaging trade war over solar technology imports. A bipartisan group of 16 senators, led by North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis and New Mexico Democrat Martin Heinrich, has also weighed in.
The president of the Solar Energy Industry Association put it this way: “This is a case about two companies bringing about a petition, with almost the entire rest of the solar industry in entire disagreement.”
Trump, however, campaigned on “fixing” U.S. trade and he may now view solar tariffs as a safe way to keep that promise. As recently as last month, he told his chief of staff, “I want tariffs. And I want someone to bring me tariffs.”
But really, would he want to be responsible for trading 100,000 jobs for a campaign pledge? Or for giving consumers fewer options because of two companies that couldn’t compete? We hope not.
This post originally appeared on our Voices blog.
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“…every kilowatt of zero-carbon solar energy that isn’t installed is a kilowatt that will likely be replaced by electricity generated by dirty, fossil fuel.”
Lenae, readers might blindly accept your premise if you didn’t naively confuse units of power (kilowatt) with units of energy. But also: 1) you ignore the potential of carbon-free, non-intermittent nuclear energy to replace dirty fossil fuel, and 2) by prioritizing employment, you seek to make society responsible for protecting the livelihoods of solar installers instead of protecting the environment.
Jobs are beneficial for society only when society gets something valuable in return.
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Lenae works at the nexus of technology, markets, and policy. She leads efforts with our demonstration partners to prove the benefits of clean technology innovations and identifies trends and market opportunities that can be leveraged to accelerate the transformation of the electricity sector.
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Odds of Getting By in NC 50%
Submitted by TarGator on Wed, 12/14/2005 - 04:47
From Yes! Weekly:
Half of North Carolina families with children don’t earn sufficient income to pay for basic expenses, according to a new report by the Raleigh-based NC Justice Center.
“Failing Jobs, Falling Wages: The 2005 North Carolina Living Income Standard,” authored by John Quinterno and Elizabeth Jordan and released on Dec. 8, found that a majority of North Carolina children, blacks, Hispanics and women — practically every demographic except white males — live in households where income falls short of the cost of living.
“What we’re finding is that families are carrying a heavier burden because childcare and housing costs are increasing,” Legislative Director Sorien Schmidt said. “Median incomes are falling and more families are in poverty.”
It is a sad state of affairs when only half of the families in our state are able to pay for basics. But the problems are not universal across the state:
The report states that rural areas have lagged behind economically as explosive growth in Charlotte and the Triangle has created good jobs for the well educated while escalating costs for low-income workers employed in the service sector. The Triad falls somewhere in between, Schmidt said.
“The Triad is where you’ve lost manufacturing jobs,” she said. “They’ve been replaced by service and retail. That means that people can be working the same or more hours for less money and paying about the same for the cost of living.”
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Still Not Getting By
Submitted by Doremus Jessup on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 06:06
things havent improved any since this report came out. The Dem cotrolled ESC still low balls the number of unemployed in NC
This is really sad
Submitted by Betsy Muse on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 06:59
One of the teaching assistants at the girls' old school had three jobs. After leaving her job as a teaching assistant she worked late afternoons and nights at an afterschool program that ran late for parents with second shift jobs. She also had a job on the weekends.
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Resilient Woman Defies Death with 10 Principles for Success in Life and Business in New Book, Unstoppable
Betsy Craig developed these tools beginning when she got sober at the age of 20 after years of alcohol and drug abuse, then beat the odds against the autoimmune disease scleroderma that wanted her dead, and on the heels of the economic downturn in 2010, Craig launched MenuTrinfo®, a menu labeling and nutritional help desk service, now a million-dollar business.
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Unstoppable book cover. By Betsy Craig
Through her determination and spirit, Betsy became a leader in the foodservice industry protecting lives and health through nutrition and food safety training showing all along the way what it means to be unstoppable.
Over the past 30 years, Betsy has lived by a set of 10 guiding principles that are the key ingredients in her recipe for success. They have helped her navigate through challenges and celebrate triumphs. In her book, Craig empowers the reader to not only cope but to create abundance out of trying circumstances.
Craig speaks from direct experience, with grace, humor, and humility. Alcoholism brought Craig to the brink
of death as a teen. When she got sober at 20, her spiritual quest began. Then, at 39, in the picture of health, Craig was diagnosed with scleroderma. She was given 18 months to live.
Scleroderma, translated from Greek as “hard skin,” causes tightening of the skin and connective tissues that provide the framework for your body. In many, such as Craig, it also damages internal organs and the digestive tract. Craig weaves lessons in overcoming fear amid graphic episodes from her ongoing battle with chronic illness.
“My hands felt like immobile claws,” said Craig. “I couldn’t button my own pants. My face was so tight that
Betsy Craig, author of Unstoppable
my ears were pulling away at the earlobe and blood would drip down the sides of my face daily. I walked around feeling like a leper. Not being able to hug my daughter or husband without it causing excruciating pain devastated me. I desperately wanted to give up but knew if I did that, I’d be dead.”
Considered rare, an estimated 300,000 Americans have the disease. Currently, there is no cure.
During a debilitating round of chemo, Craig pledged that if she survived she’d do something worthwhile in her life. Having reduced her scleroderma symptoms by avoiding foods that tend to cause inflammation, she formed a vision to challenge prevailing paradigms in the food industry. Craig committed to helping the 15 million people in the U.S. with food allergies, some life-threatening. Each year in the U.S., 200,000 people require emergency medical care for such reactions, according to Food Allergy Research & Education.
“This book is an inspiration to those impacted by scleroderma as well as entrepreneurs and businesswomen everywhere,” said Cyndy Besselievre, Executive Director of the Scleroderma Foundation, Rocky Mountain Chapter. “[Craig] is a true testament that anything can be overcome and that we can all achieve our goals in life with passion, integrity, facing our fears and persistence”
In Unstoppable, Craig opens her playbook. On the heels of the economic downturn in 2010, Craig launched MenuTrinfo®, a menu labeling, and nutritional help desk service. Today, her woman-owned company has grown into a million-dollar business. She’s developed services that include certification for allergen and gluten-free products and food allergy training.
Craig lays out road-tested, successful strategies deployed during her tenure at MenuTrinfo®. These include disciplined focus; learning when to pivot; self-belief and playing on your strengths; leading with love, kindness, and gratitude; building team culture; delivering on goals; and, nurturing clients.
“To me, the principle of persistence equates to being unstoppable,” said Craig. “It’s about facing challenges head-on and not giving up until you have succeeded or tried every avenue possible and once you have tried everything possible you dig a little deeper and try just a few more things.”
A portion of the proceeds from the sales of Unstoppable will be donated to the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation.
Unstoppable – scheduled for release Jun. 5 – is available for pre-order as an e-book and paperback on platforms such as Amazon, iBooks, Kindle, Nook, and Ingram. Links and additional information at betsycraig.com.
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Getting More Immersed with Indiewire
The Penske Media purchase of Indiewire has resulted in an expansion of my role as crafts and awards season contributor. Beginning this week, I begin Emmy coverage of below-the-line contenders along with my usual Oscar season crafts reporting, working closely
Immersed in Blu-ray: Hitchcock and Bogart
The WB Archive Collection gets Hitch and Bogie on Blu-ray and they've never looked better for home viewing. In Kent Jones' indispensable doc, Hitchcock/Truffaut, he reminds us that Truffaut was on a mission to correct misconceptions about Hitch as a lightweight
Immersed in Books: Farber on Film
For the first time, the complete writings of film critic Manny Farber is available from Library of America, edited by Robert Polito (Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson). Manny Farber (1917-2008) was the first modernist film critic to write like a modernist.
Bardem Emerges as Blond Bond Baddie
Posted on March 12, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Books, James Bond, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
The Daily Mail caught the first glimpse of Javier Bardem as the latest Bond baddie, Silva, on the set of Skyfall in London’s Whitehall district, dressed inconspicuously as a blond police officer (recalling Red Grant and Max Zorin). In a continuation of a sequence shot last month, Daniel Craig’s James Bond runs through the vicinity with an ear piece after an underground explosion. Is Silva a master of disguise? The IMAX’d 23rd Bond film opens Nov. 9 in North America after an Oct. 26 bow in the UK.
The 5D | FLUX Schedule
Posted on March 8, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Education, Events, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX, Videogames, Virtual Production | Leave a comment
Immersive design consortium 5D | Institute will kick off their world-building design discussion series in Los Angeles on March 13-15 with 5D | FLUX presented in association with Autodesk and USC School of Cinematic Arts. 5D | FLUX will consist of three, 120-minute interactive sessions spanning three evenings aimed at encouraging in-depth conversations about world-building across disciplines. Each session will be held 7-10 pm at the Ray Stark Family Theater at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Tickets are available for purchase here.
Sessions are $25 each or $60 for a three-day pass.
World-building refers to the iterative design process that creates and actualizes the story space across media, be that game, film, animation, theater or architecture. This process of developing a dimensional, fictional world created for that story to take place occurs before a specific narrative is locked down. Tuesdayʼs “Inception” session will cover imaging and developing of worlds; Wednesdayʼs “Prototyping” session will discuss testing the story space and visualizing the world; and Thursdayʼs “Manufacturing and Finishing” session will center on building and experiencing the world.
The collaboration with USC School of Cinematic Arts has been a vital component in bringing 5D | Flux to life as the school has been a steadfast supporter of the 5D | Institute. As an education facility, the schoolʼs importance to the film, television, and interactive community is undeniable, making it the perfect partner to host the design forum. The detailed schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, March 13: Inception: Imagining and Developing the World
“World-building for independent cinema: ʻUpside Downʼ”
Presentation By: Alex McDowell, 5D Creative Director, Designer (Man of Steel, Fight Club, Minority Report)
Opening Remarks: Tom Wujec, Design Software Innovator, Autodesk Fellow
Moderator: Peggy Weil, Adjunct Professor USC and Digital Media Designer
Panelists: Rick Carter, Production Designer (War Horse, Avatar, Jurassic Park)
Angus Wall, Editor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network)
Tom Wujec, Design Software Innovator, Autodesk Fellow
Michael Wilkinson, Costume Designer (Man of Steel, 300, Watchman)
Wednesday, March 14: Prototyping: Testing the Story Space and Visualizing the World
“Building Worlds in Animation: How To Train Your Dragon”
Presentation By: Pierre Olivier Vincent, Production Designer (How to Train Your Dragon, Flushed Away)
Patrick Hanenberger, Production Designer (Rise of the Guardians)
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, Media Scholar/USC Provost Professor
Panelists: Jerrica Cleland, Cinematographer/Animator (Arthur Christmas, Finding Nemo, Toy Story)
Jim Bissell, Production Designer (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, 300, E.T.)
Alex McDowell, 5D Creative Director, Designer (Man of Steel, Fight Club, Minority Report)
Tom Meyer, Production Designer (Real Steel)
Thursday, March 15: Manufacturing and Finishing: Building and Experience the World
“Design for Virtual Production: ʻReal Steelʼ”
Presentation By: Andrew Jones, Art Director (Oz: The Great and Powerful, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland)
Jeff Wisniewski, Art Director (Tintin, Real Steel)
Opening Remarks: David Morin, Autodesk
Moderator: Mike Fink, VFX Supervisor (Avatar, TRON: Legacy, Blade Runner), USC SCA Faculty
Panelists: François Audouy, 5D Founding Committee, Production Designer
Ron Frankel, Previs Innovator (Fight Club, Minority Report)
Habib Zargapour, Creative Director (Microsoft Games Studios), VFX Supervisor (Twister,
A Perfect Storm, Star Wars: Episode I)
Chris Defaria, Producer, Warner Bros (300, Watchman, Harry Potter)
For more information about 5D | FLUX, please visit: http://5dconference.com/articles/824
Immersed in Blu-ray with Hitchcock and Preminger
Posted on March 3, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Blu-ray, Books, Cinematography, Home Entertainment, Movies, Tech | Leave a comment
Now that the Oscar season’s over, I’ve had a chance to catch up on some recent Blu-rays. What’s caught my eye? Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (Paramount Home Ent.) and Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion).
There’s been a flurry of Hitchcock activity on Blu-ray lately with more to come from Universal and Warner. Criterion released The Lady Vanishes, which epitomizes his British period of wit and suspense; Fox/MGM then followed suit with prime Selznick: Rebecca, Notorious, and Spellbound, which showcase his early American period, which is deeper and richer but not without its wit. To Catch a Thief serves as a leisurely respite — Hitch literally on vacation on the French Riviera with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly — before embarking on his most inspired work. It looks ravishing on Blu-ray in VistaVision — the colors pop in hyper real fashion. No wonder cinematographer Robert Burks won an Oscar. No matter that it’s lightweight: it fittingly evokes the mood and setting like a souffle. Archivist Robert Harris explains the particulars about the wonders of Kodak’s 5248 stock and why the movie looks so fine.
Meanwhile, Anatomy of a Murder is one of my favorite films and arguably the best courtroom drama ever made. Preminger was the master at constructing ambiguous behavior within institutional settings that could crumble at any moment, and here he subversively took on the judicial system. Nobody is what he seems. Every viewing deepens my understanding and appreciation and the Blu-ray is a technical marvel to behold, from the mutilated graphic design motif of Saul Bass’ opening credits (very similar to his work on Psycho around the same time) to the velvety shades of gray in Sam Leavitt’s black and white cinematography to Boris Leven’s lived in quality to the sleepy town of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Duke Ellington’s jazz score (Thanks to Sony’s Grover Crisp for overseeing such a great restoration/remastering with a new fine grain struck from the original camera negative).
Anatomy marked a turning point for Jimmy Stewart after Vertigo in which he no longer played romantic leads. He comfortably slid into senior character types, but still utilized his folksy charm to great effect and never more sly than here. Stewart plays as a former prosecutor-turned defense attorney in a murder case involving flirty Lee Remick and her volatile husband, Ben Gazzara, who passed away two weeks before the release of the Blu-ray. Naturally, I paid particular attention to Gazzara, whose army lieutenant is on trial for murdering a local tavern owner after he supposedly raped Remick. Gazzara’s Manion is a study in pretension and manipulation. You underestimate him at your own peril. But then the same holds true for Stewart’s jazz-loving backwoods lawyer. You marvel at every character turn, including Arthur O’Connell’s once glorious attorney turned drunken disgrace, Eve Arden’s wisecracking bookkeeper, George C. Scott’s slick Lansing prosecutor, and Joseph N. Welch’s plain spoken judge. Welch is the wild card: the famed Boston attorney from the Army/McCarthy hearings, who grounds the film in pragmatism.
Special Godfather 40th Anniversary Screening
Posted on March 1, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Blu-ray, Books, Cinematography, Home Entertainment, Movies, Oscar, Tech, Trailers | Leave a comment
Paramount Pictures is presenting a special 40th anniversary screening of The Godfather today on 55 Cinemark XD auditoriums across the country. The film was meticulously restored using 5.1 digital surround sound and re-mastered using state-of-the-art technology, then transferred to files making it available to be seen on Cinemark XD screens.
“There is no greater iconic film than The Godfather, states James Meredith, VP of marketing and communication at Cinemark. “It has set the standard for story-telling, launched a generation of great actors, and provided movie-goers an unparalleled experience. Cinemark is excited to give fans of this movie the opportunity to now see it like never before in our extremely popular XD auditoriums, which offer a complete entertainment environment featuring enormous wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor screens, plush seating, and custom JBL sound systems with higher end components and 7.1 capable digital surround sound.”
The Coppola Restoration of The Godfather 40th Anniversary Edition as a project began in 2006 between Paramount Pictures and the director. Archivist Robert Harris joined the project, followed by the original cinematographer of the film Gordon Willis, to complete the team who worked arduously on the film for over a year going through the original prints, re-release prints, and negatives, shot by shot, foot by foot, frame by frame and even sprocket hole by sprocket hole.
Cinemark plans to also show The Godfather Part II on XD screens on April 19. A full list of participating Cinemark XD locations, advance ticket purchases and show time information can be found at www.cinemark.com.
5D, USC, Autodesk Present Worldbuilding Summit
Posted on February 28, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Education, Events, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment
FLUX: Digital Design and Worldbuilding for Narrative Media is a three-part exploration into design as the backbone of digital narrative media, addressing the changing role of the designer in storytelling through world building practices. Presented by The 5D | Institute, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Autodesk, the Summit — curated by Alex McDowell (Creative Director, 5D | Institute) and Peggy Weil (USC SCA Interactive Media Division) — will be held March 13–15 at USC’s Ray Stark Family Theatre in Los Angeles, and will include panel discussions, audience participation, and networking receptions.
Worldbuilding is the new metaphor for the creation and actualizing of the story space in narrative media and will be the theme of the Summit. It addresses narrative design thinking, the immersive process and the experience of creating new worlds. It expresses the full arc of the role of design in storytelling.
The evenings will be divided into Inception (imagining and developing the world): “World Building for Independent Cinema: Upside Down” with McDowell and moderator Peggy Weil (digital media designer); Prototyping (testing the story space and visualizing the world): “Building Worlds in Animation: How to Train Your Dragon” with production designers Kathy Altieri and Patrick Henenberger and moderated by Oscar-winning VFX supervisor and USC SCA faculty member Mike Fink; and Manufacturing and Finishing (building and experiencing the world): “Design for Virtual Production: Real Steel” with art directors Andrew Jones and Jeff Wisniewski and moderated by media scholar and provost professor at USC, Henry Jenkins.
With this first in a series of Worldbuilding Summits, the 5D | Institute and the USC School of Cinematic Arts will use their unique access to frame an investigation into the language and practices of digital design methodologies, applying learning from thought leaders in core media industries to an interdisciplinary discussion space within and across media.
FLUX: Digital Design and Worldbuilding for Narrative Media
March 13–15th, 2012 | 7–10 pm
The Ray Stark Family Theatre (in the George Lucas Building)
USC School of Cinematic Arts, SCA 108
Backstage at the Oscars with Hugo and Rango
Posted on February 27, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Cinematography, Events, Movies, Oscar, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
Here are some backstage comments gathered from Hugo’s cinematographer Bob Richardson and VFX supervisors Rob Legato and Ben Grossmann (pictured above with Alex Henning [l]) along with Rango director Gore Verbinski:
Can you talk about working in 3-D? This is not the first 3-D film to win, but it’s unusual to get recognized with 3-D.
Bob Richardson: You’re right. I think the odds of winning are extraordinarily small. I was the crystal ball didn’t work this way. I know it worked that way for Mark Wahlberg, but for me, I didn’t see it.
Where do we go now, dramatically, with 3-D now that you’ve paved the way?
BR: That’s a huge question, but I don’t think there’s any limits for it. 3-D is a very solid step. I believe it’s 15, 20 percent, give an arbitrary percentage. The advantage is a tool towards what filmmakers can use, if used, as just that, as a tool, not as a gimmick. There’s an end. I do believe it will alter that, but, technically, I don’t believe we can go into that here, ’cause I could go on for an hour…
This was a marriage of visual effects and 3-D. Talk about that marriage.
Rob Legato: What we are trying to do with the 3-D of the movie itself is to basically extend the art form of cinema by using the depth that you get and every shot was designed to take advantage of the depth that we would enhance the model of the story. So, every shot was literally made to be in 3-D and designed to give you some depth or emotional response from it.
Ben Grossmann: And there’s a lot of science behind it, but we try to take the science and distill it down to something that is so simple that it doesn’t interfere with your instinctive creativity, so you can hear Marty or Dante or Bob, and say what they feel the shot should emote.
What does this win mean about the state of visual effects and the appreciation of visual effects at least by the Academy?
RL: There’s a perfect blend and ours does not stick out but assists that and becomes part of the art form that the Academy sort of growing up with the visual effects world, and saying, we are now going to also appreciate the art of what you tried to achieve, what’s literally on screen.
Talk about the unorthodox approach of putting all the actors in one room.
Gore Verbinski: I don’t know any other way to direct actors. I want them to act and react. I suppose it I think it made it feel like it was occurring and we encouraged line overlaps and we encouraged people to be out of breath. So we really were kind of paranoid of the computer making things clinical, and it so lends itself to perfection. So suddenly you had the feeling I guess in the soundtrack that there was a tortoise talking to a lizard, because Johnny was talking to Ned Beatty and they were actually playing the scene together. So I think there’s there’s something in there. There’s some sort of DNA underneath it all. But ultimately it was just a fear of having somebody sit with a bit of text in front of a microphone. I mean, I haven’t done that since I was selling sugar water, Budweiser, you know, or whatever, doing commercials, but that’s so distant from getting a performance.
What is the take away now that you’re back to live action?
GV: They’re two completely different hats. I suppose underneath all of it it’s just finding a story you want to tell in the same way you would if you were sitting around a campfire or something. But completely different. I mean, there are no gifts in animation. We have to fabricate everything, including the anomalies, and yet now I’m two days into shooting a live-action picture. I actually go back tomorrow to shoot, and there’s chaos and you can’t orchestrate things exactly how you want them, but when events happen, they’re set in stone and you’re done. I don’t know how else to explain it. It’s just every aspect of it is so different.”
Exploring the Oscar Retro Vibe
Posted on February 24, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Books, Clips, Events, Movies, Oscar, Shorts, stop-motion, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment
On the eve of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, I look at the interesting retro connections between many of the contenders in my TOH column at Indiewire. William Joyce (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) rejoices at the hand-made greatness of Hugo and The Artist, while Grant Orchard (A Morning Stroll) ties in the lost art of urban myths.
Klyce Talks Dragon Tattoo Sound
Posted on February 23, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Books, Clips, Editing, Movies, Music, Oscar, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
I spoke with Oscar-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for my TOH column at Indiewire. The underlying soundscape is a freezing, unsettling horror that perfectly complements the creepy, graphic imagery. The feeling of melting snow was prevalent everywhere and so your ear accepted it as being the same place because it’s freezing. But it’s the surreal sounds that were most intriguing, including the mugging of Salander in the subway, culminating with her beating up her assailant on the escalator. Fincher wanted the sound to carry the violence with a screeching terror.
Mendes Debuts Skyfall Videoblog
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Cinematography, Clips, James Bond, Movies, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
Skyfall director Sam Mendes introduced the first of his videoblogs today on the 007.com website. Not much of a debriefing on the 23rd James Bond film and Daniel Craig’s third as 007, but then he’s just getting started in introducing his ties to Bond and providing behind-the-scenes tidbits.
“The roots of my doing this Bond movie start way before anybody approached me because, like everyone else, I have my own personal relationship with Bond which began when I was I suppose about nine or ten years old. I’ve always been a fan of the movies,” he says.
In fact, Mendes told me a decade ago that he was first approached to direct Die Another Day. He was very flattered but it just wasn’t the right Bond for him. Little did we realize that Craig would eventually become the sixth Bond and that he’d be engineering the film that will likely define his legacy, now that the rite of passage is over.
Naturally, Casino Royale pulled Mendes in: “Here was a real man in a real situation and it reminded me of when I was watching Sean Connery…I think it is still possible to make a big, entertaining, fabulous, glamorous movie and yet at the same time to say something about the world that we’re living in.”
And, ironically, Skyfall marks Mendes’ first English movie.
UPDATE: Skyfall will get an IMAX release for the first time day and date with the Nov. 9 bow.
The Descendants, The Artist, Rango Take Eddies
Posted on February 19, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Animation, Below the Line, Editing, Movies, Oscar | Leave a comment
The Descendants, The Artist, and Rango took top editing honors at last night’s 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The Descendants, (edited by Kevin Tent, A.C.E.) and The Artist (edited by Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius) won Best Edited Feature Film (Drama) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical), and Rango (edited by Craig Wood, A.C.E.) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film.
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Why Feed What Isn’t You?
The Art of “Flipping.”
Rumi’s Field (part 2 of 2)
I'll Meet You There - (Part one of two)
Inside / Outside - The Two Places Where We Live
Tale for a Winter Holiday Evening
Anonymous Benevolence
“Until Life’s Work is Done”
Iron Lines in the Wilderness
Becoming Zusha
The Space In-Between
“The Burning Bed”
Always More Choices
Dividing the World in order to Save It
Ashes, Roses & More Dead Children
New Year 2018 - A Better Year? Yes, at least Some
Between a Rock and a Fruitcake
To Care or Not to Care
The Thin Cord
The Man with a Church on his Back [A poetic whimsey-bit]
Ships Passing in the Night
Another Pattern of Hope
The Harpist in the Doorway
“Honor Everything - Despise Nothing”
An Anatomy of Hope for 2017 (Part Three)
An Anatomy of Hope for 2017 (Part Two of Three)
An Anatomy of Hope for 2017 (Part One)
Gratitude - an Antidote to Despair
The Holidays’ Dark Side - Holiday Time in a Therapist’s Office
Innocence and Wisdom
All Journeys Intersect
Oh No! Not Again!
If Angels could be Jealous
My House - an Homage
Sorry to Interrupt, but I’m not Listening
A Second Door
The Fable of the Two Shoulders
The Human Condition (Part 3): Hope
The Human Condition (Part 2 of 3)
Autumn Thoughts
The Suitcase Packed in the Closet
Narcissists and Empaths
The Night before the Beginning of my 75th Year
Right Thinking or Real People
Peripheral Vision (Psychological)
The Magic of Marital Conversation
The Blarney Stone
Overseeing (upon entering 2015)
Nature and Human Nature - a differentiation
The Fear of Going Down (Part II of “The Space In Between”)
Robin Williams - Ambassador for the deeply human
The Space In Between - Pt I (Blessing)
Right Nearby
Engage - Release - Move on. The Rhythm of Life
Into The Belly of the Beast
Responding to the Narcissists’ Women
The Second Half of Life
Journeys Up and Journeys Down
The Hidden Holiday Gift
Kennedy Time - and a world at odds with itself
Life is Difficult, but it is Good
When in doubt, Flip It!
Moving On - or playing by the rules
Personal Responsibility - and its pitfalls
The Age of the Autoimmune
Who’s Telling Me Who I Am?
The question “Why?”
Communicating with Men
Listen to her, Don’t Think!
The Small Places
The Law of Hospitality - The High Road
Hearing My Name
Giving and Caring
Words Are Cheap, Or....
Institution or Person
Seeing Clearly?
The Vulnerability of the Loving Heart
As If No Tomorrow
Gollum’s Pool
No More Status Quo. Occupy!
Creative Conversation
Where is Hope?
Watching the Grass Grow
The Third Act
Enter The Bitch
The Narcissist and His Woman
Secondary Gains
It’s Easier to Divide
The Choice to Succeed
The Small Space Between
The Ascendency of Narcissism
It’s the Relationship
Telephone Vampire Etiquette
The Log at the Dam
Doing Something Stupid
Why can’t you be that nice to me?
After Depression
The Holidays
Don’t Stir Things Up
The Old Orchard Road
It’s Easier to Divide than Unite
The Grass is Greener - or Living from the Inside Out
Fear (and its silence)
Thirteen Options
Cinderella’s Stepmom
Coin Toss Divination
Protecting the Therapist (musing with Stephen King)
The Leveling Question
Scaffolding - and the New Year 2009
Be Not Quick to Forgive
Alone on an Island
Sandbagging - how small is your circle?
STRESS! - it's not just the economy
The Basement Wedding
Having One's Own Voice
The Demise of Intimate Conversation (Communication in Marriage)
Life or Living? (and New Year's Resolutions)
The Holidays: Shadow and Light - and Stories
The Third Wish
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 4 of 4 - Resolving the Issues
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 3 of 4 - Givers
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 2 of 4 - Takers
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 1 of 4 - Introduction
To Fight Crazy - A Reflection on 9/11
The Empty Spaces
On Talking Politics and Religion
Making a Decision to Change - Part 3: The Risks
Making a Decision to Change - Part 2: The Choice
Making a Decision to Change - Part I
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October 2012 - Volume 12, No. 10
When we have injured someone, there’s a common assumption that it’s up to the injured to make restitution, or at least a first move toward reconciliation. That makes a certain sense. And if I assume that you might be a danger to me, I have a right to protect myself and that which is mine (my family, my property, my possessions). Wealth itself must be protected. The purpose of power in our culture is primarily to defend ourselves and our belongings, even when that defense is used preemptively. The laws of our legislatures increasingly agree.
Children are taught, when they have done something “wrong” they need to apologize for it. How often does a parent insist “not until you apologize.” To parents it makes sense. To children, an additional pattern is being established - lording it over is OK when you are superior.
When the lesser is in debt to the greater, we assume it’s the duty of the lesser to rebalance the relationship. That’s why apology is generally up the ladder. “You need to apologize to me.” A cruel extension of this in times past was the debtors prison, the debtor was incarcerated until the debt is paid. (In many ways this illogically cruel philosophy is returning today.) Many times the debtor us unable, whether at fault or not, to redeem the “debt.”
The prevailing ‘ethic’ that emerges has become, whenever in doubt, protect yourself. You never know whom to trust. (That’s the work of the primitive part of our brain, often called the 'reptile brain' - fight or flight.) It has most recently morphed into “when in doubt, kill first.”
However, the awareness of a particular incident in my old family history has led me to revise my thinking about these matters.
The specific incident, which took place in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, is known as the Massacre of Glencoe in the deep winter of 1692. The population of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe who dwelt in that isolated valley, was wiped out under orders of the English King William at the hands of a regiment led by Captain Robert Campbell and his clansmen. The story is too complex to describe here, but the offense was greater than the murder of an entire family of small villages, thirty-eight MacDonalds murdered in their homes, and about 300, including the women and children who fled their burned-out houses were slaughtered or perished in the cold of a harsh Highland winter. Those that did survive escaped by stealth (to avoid death by the Campbells) and hardship, but few ever returned to Glencoe. The House of MacDonald of Glencoe is no more, except in fierce Highland memory.
My son and I have visited that enclosed valley, and hiked in the surrounding hills. To my knowing, there’s no place in the world that feels and looks like that place. You can see some of its stark beauty at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXebqFyj0A
You see, in Celtic lands, as in many other ancient worlds, the Law of Hospitality supersedes all other considerations.
Many will recognize this tradition from reading the Old Testament - the foundation of three great world religions. I know that in Native American tradition, the tribal chief becomes by default “a poor man” because he will be approached by many in need.
By this ancient tradition, wealth is judged by what one gives, not what owned owns. Even if an enemy arrives at your door, you feed and house him, if only for the night. By custom (and often by law), the stranger is always given “the protection of the house.” Any ‘political’ considerations will be dealt with in the morning, or at a later time.
From this later arose the community supported ‘public house,’ the foundation of a hospitality tradition that flourishes even today.
That’s what happened in Glencoe that cold winter morning of February 13. A regiment of 120 Campbells upon arrival asked for quarters, and were taken in, fed and given bed for ten days. That was the high tradition. The high offense was that the Campbells, by a secret signal, arose in the middle of the eleventh night to slaughter their hosts. As I have noted, thirty-eight MacDonalds were slaughtered in their beds, while 300 fled to the hills, where many died simply of cold and starvation.
Under Scots law there was a special category of murder, known as "murder under trust," which was considered to be even more heinous than ordinary murder. The Glencoe massacre was a clear example of such. Hence it is etched in the memory of MacDonalds to this day.
When I attend Scottish events, my own favorite being the Highland Festival each Memorial Day weekend in Alma College (Michigan), that memory is alive. At Alma, in the Clan Tent area, the Campbell tent is frequently beside the Clan (Mac)Donald (of which I am a life member). As I understand it, this is by courtesy and invitation of Clan Donald.
This is where I began to understand there is a “necessary courtesy” from MacDonald to Campbell. Campbells have no right to equal fellowship since they cannot redeem that ancient heritage, it is therefore incumbent on MacDonalds to offer that courtesy in order for current fellowship to be restored. I call it the “Duty of Courtesy.” In the high order of things, it is not even a choice, but a social necessity as a MacDonald. It’s what I call The High Road. We have to do it again and again and again, as long as the memory of Glencoe remains, which will be well nigh forever.
A client brought to my attention a similar situation. A neighbor had made a pass at my client’s wife, who in turn brought it to her husband’s attention. Now he had to decide how to deal with the neighbor. There were choices how to deal with it, but it became obvious that to do nothing here was not a choice.
As we discussed the options, it became clear that the neighbor, being the offender, would and could do little or nothing to redeem the situation. My client’s wife had some choices of her own, and chose to tell her husband. The right person to act was my client. There was The High Road or The Low Road.
The Low Road would involve anger, and perhaps retribution, as well as consequences for the neighbor and perhaps the neighbor’s marriage. It would feel right at first (retribution usually does); but what would it do for future relationships, as well as for the well-being of the larger neighborhood?
So we examined The High Road. We realized his neighbor could not undo what he had done. My client, whose wife’s disclosure had placed on him the necessity to do something, had to act; and the results would effect the specific interrelationships of four people living in near proximity.
After much inner deliberation, he decided to write his neighbor a private letter, within which he shared his awareness of what had happened, and the gravity of its consequences, including the impossibility of undoing the situation. Nor was it a matter that could be just “forgotten.” He invited the neighbor to meet and speak with him privately; for this is something that must be spoken about. He also added that he did this, not in anger or retribution, both of which he of course had considered, but “because I believe in you.” These last words, which could only have been spoken from my client’s position, represent the epitome of The High Road - the Duty of Courtesy. (I didn’t coach him in this, they came directly from his heart.)
These words are also actually words of blessing, the granting of favor. It is not quite the same as forgiveness, which only levels the relationship. It adds something new, which is why I use the word favor or blessing. In like manner, it is the sacred duty of a MacDonald to bless a Campbell, to offer favor to him, a favor that otherwise cannot exist due to the history of the families. It’s a favor that returns to a Campbell a higher right of fellowship and its benefits. Nor is it a matter of deserving, it is by nature a gift.
The Campbells are blessed because MacDonalds bless them. It is the natural order of things remaining true to the ancient Law of Hospitality. My client’s neighbor is blessed because my client blessed him, not just returning him to the status of neighbor, but adding something new - “because I believe in you.” Nobody else in his situation could have done this. It’s a singular act.
I like to use the word “Courtesy” although others may prefer the term “grace.” A favorite Anglican theologian, Charles Williams (1885-1945) had the habit of referring to God as “the Divine Courtesy.” This does not simply level the relationship, but involves an act that over-redeems it. There’s a difference, and an important theological difference. God has not just erased our sins, but has acted in a way to overlook them as only He can do. (It’s a curious fact of theology that our ‘sin’ becomes itself a means of ‘higher grace.) It’s the same with the MacDonalds. It’s the same with my client. Fellowship is restored through an act of Courtesy, of invitation back to favor and more.
The Law of Hospitality is more than an ancient social courtesy. It involves a radically different sense of identity and personal wealth than is present in our culture. As I noted earlier, wealth is here measured not by how much we have, but by how much we give. What a great antidote to our problems today with greed, hostility, mistrust, anger, retribution, “What's in it for me?” and gated communities. It’s an antidote to “the natural man” within each of us. (I consider many of you will leave me here.)
My own ancient heritage gives me this gift, this Law of Hospitality, this duty to bless those who have done us wrong. So the stranger at my door is at that moment more important than anything else - it is my sacred duty to welcome him or her. Any other matters become secondary and can be dealt with later. It’s a radical idea, and of course not without its risks and dangers. Yet is it any more dangerous than the way we live now, where each of us must protect what is ours from “others”? Security for us is a balance of power. Security within my ancient heritage is a balance of Courtesy, centered upon the ancient Law of Hospitality.
When I consider it, I’m honored to live under this Duty of blessing. It’s a blessing that is a dynamic, not just a static law. It’s a blessing that affirms a higher balance, and reopens for each of us a possibility of life lived to the fullest.
Pay attention.
Note - A word about spelling:
McDonald and MacDonald are essentially interchangeable. In my own case my Grandfather changed the name from MacDonald to McDonald, and the ‘a’ in the former is hidden in the dash (originally like a tilde) that underlines the elevated ‘c’. In the world of the typewriter and now the computer, the ‘a’ is reduced to a memory.
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"Bless those who curse you."
Bill, as a neighbor you were always so gracious and kind to me when I would knock on your door for whatever reason or stop you in your yard to chat. Now I know why and I have to say “Thank you” for being the wonderful man you are. I enjoy your insights and history.
There is nothing more humbling to someone who has wrong another than being shown not only “mercy” but also “blessings”. I have had people treat me mean for no reason known to me and I do the “killing them with kindness” and the next thing you know I have a loyal friend. I do believe that God knows what He’s talking about when he says “Bless those who curse you.”
Barbara Davis, 10/1/2012
What an eloquent posting! It brings together some very deep cultural understandings, and I resonated to it, as Scottish descendant (Urquhart), as a student of Native American philosophy, and as a child of this wild and wooly world. Thank you so kindly (and hospitably) for your thoughts!
-Mickey
Mickey, 10/1/2012
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Nice try, Marvel. 'Dr. Strange' casting is still whitewashing.
Because when you think "really old mystical Asian man," you think... Tilda Swinton?
Marvel has been hard at work expanding its cinematic universe, with plans for a Doctor Strange to hit theaters later this year. Fans were pretty stoked when the first official images emerged of star Benedict Cumberbatch as the Sorcerer Supreme. But we're still scratching our heads over the casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One. Because when you think of a really old mystical Asian man, you think Tilda Swinton.
We haven't seen any character images, so I can't quite call it yellowface. But more likely there's some serious racebending going on here. And as usual, in painfully typical Hollywood fashion, it's an Asian performer who gets racebent off the screen. The Ancient One, traditionally depicted as an Asian man, is now a British woman.
Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first introduced in 1963's Strange Tales #110, The Ancient One plays a significant role in the Doctor Strange mythos. Short version: born over five hundred years ago (hence, ancient) in Tibet, he was a Himalayan farmer who discovered magical powers, did the whole combatting evil thing, and later was a mentor to Stephen Strange, who became his successor as Sorcerer Supreme.
If you know anything about the origins of the character, yes, it's steeped in a lot of old-school exotic stereotypes and Oriental mysticism. Washing out the Asian-ness of The Ancient One of appears to be Marvel's attempt to sidestep some of the character's more racist undertones for a contemporary audience.
In a recent interview with EW, Marvel Studio president Kevin Feige attempted to explain how The Ancient One got magically turned into a white lady for the Doctor Strange movie.
"We're never afraid to change. In the comic books, Jarvis is an elderly butler. In the movies, he's an A.I. system which becomes Paul Bettany's Vision. We are always looking for ways to change. I think if you look at some of the early incarnations of the Ancient One in the comics, they are what we would consider today to be quite, sort of, stereotypical. They don't hold up to what would work today. Also, within the storyline of the comics, and our movie, 'the Ancient One' is a title that many people have had. We hit very early on on, What if the Ancient One was a woman? What if the title had been passed and the current Ancient One is a woman? Oh, that's an interesting idea. [Clicks fingers.] Tilda Swinton! Whoah! And it just hit."
Oh, these old stereotypes just will not do for a movie in 2016. Marvel is not having it. So how do you fix it? Just add a white woman! Can't you see? This whitewashing is happening in the name of progress.
That's some kind of lazy bullshit.
Do they intend on scrubbing out the other orientalist elements from Doctor Strange lore? In the name of progress, I mean. I'm willing to bet the movie still involves Stephen Strange journeying to Asia, learning some secret ancient Asian magic shit, and fighting bad guys with said secret ancient Asian magic shit. But now, it'll be a white lady teaching the white guy the secret ancient Asian magic shit.
How about working a little bit harder and finding a smart way to address and revise an Asian character's stereotypical elements, instead of just trying to fix this shit through casting? This is not a knock on Tilda Swinton, who is a phenomenal performer. But this is not creative or progressive casting. It's whitewashing.
More here: Tilda Swinton says her Doctor Strange character's gender is 'in the eye of the beholder'
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Housing Bubbles: America vs. Japan
The Economist compares Japan's real estate bubble with America's:
AS FALLING house prices and tightening credit squeeze America’s economy, some worry that the country may suffer a decade of stagnation, as Japan did after its bubble burst in the early 1990s. Japan’s property bubble was also fuelled by cheap money and financial liberalisation and—just as in America—most people assumed that property prices could not fall nationally. When they did, borrowers defaulted and banks cut their lending. The result was a decade with average growth of less than 1%.
Most dismiss the idea that America could suffer the same fate as Japan, but some of the differences are overstated. For example, some claim that Japan’s bubble was much bigger than America’s. Yet average house prices nationwide rose by 90% in America between 2000 and 2006, compared with a gain of 51% in Japan between 1985 and early 1991, when Japanese home prices peaked. ... Japanese home prices have since fallen by just over 40%. American prices are already down by 20%, and many economists reckon they could fall by another 10% or more.
What about commercial property? Again, average prices rose by less in Japan (80%) than in America (90%) over those same periods. Thus Japan’s property boom was, if anything, smaller than America’s. Japan also had a stockmarket bubble, which burst a year earlier than that in property. This hurt banks, because they counted part of their equity holdings in other firms as capital. But its impact on households was modest, because only 30% of the population held shares, compared with over half of Americans. ...
John Makin, at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, argues that monetary and fiscal relief were necessary but not sufficient to revive Japan’s economy. The missing ingredient was a clean-up of the banking system, on which Japanese firms were more dependent than their American counterparts. ...
One advantage over Japan, says Mr Jerram, is that America is spreading the costs of its housing bust across other countries. ...
By learning from Japan’s mistakes, America can avoid a dismal decade. However ... experience in other countries shows that serious asset-price busts often lead to economic downturns lasting several years. Only a wild optimist would believe that the worst is over in America.
The worst is over in America. ;-)
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The Audio Guide to Babylon 5
Discussion Threads
Earhart's: Spoilers allowed
Earhart’s: “Severed Dreams” Spoiler Space
May 23, 2016 Chip 33 Comments
David Sheridan: What was the first lesson I ever taught you?
John Sheridan: Never start a fight, but always finish it.
(Keep your spoilers here!)
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33 thoughts on “Earhart’s: “Severed Dreams” Spoiler Space”
Earl Green says:
Just wanted to say that one of my favorite little moments of Severed Dreams is Ivanova getting so caught up in the enormity of what’s going on around her that she nearly gets taken out by a collision with another fighter. It’s a really small moment, but I can totally identify with that.
My fave detail about this ep is the ISN anchor, and how we meet her again 30(!) episodes later and get just tiny hints that she had her own story happen over that year or so. Not to mention how much more likeable she is than her smarmy replacement. It really sells it as a coherent, continuous universe.
Come to think of it, she’s not the only character to go away here and come back in S4E21…
Akrovah says:
Oh yeah. The clear emotion on her face when she comes back on the air. My heart aches for what she must have been put through. The continuity with the ISN anchor is just one more beautiful little detail that could have been meaningless but B5 got oh-so right and made her memorable.
When I think of stories like in Turkey, where they raid opponent news papers and TV stations, or in Russia or elsewhere, I always have this scene in my head. It’s so wham on it’s own, I guess I could even use it in communication science classes as a perfect example of oppressing the press.
Voord 99 says:
Spoilers, but actually for Deep Space Nine.
I can only speak for myself, but I think the alleged hostility between DS9 fans and B5 fans was sometimes a little overblown at the time, and maybe is now also a little overblown in memory? I suspect that many, maybe even the large majority, of aficionados of this sort of thing were watching and enjoying both shows.
I certainly was – it’s a large part of my personal memory of my media consumption in the mid-90s was observing how the two shows handled similar themes in similar settings in different ways. Probably the most striking, if not the most compelling (it’s good-but-not-great DS9 at best) is Homefront, the episode of DS9 that Foxworth did instead of this, where he plays an inverted General Hague: a Starfleet admiral who conspires to overthrow a benevolent liberal democracy.
I think the hostility might be overblown, but I know in certain circles it was kind of one or the other. Fo rmy part, I was unimpressed with the first couple seasons of DS9, but was completely hooked by B5 from word “go.” So I ended up kinda dropping DS9 by the wayside instead of continuing to watch both. I had friends though who never gave B5 a chance and continued to watch DS9 (the Trombone line of my High School band was clearly divided between B5 and DS9, and we had lively debates while the director worke withother sections), and they would repeatedly tell me how good the show had gotten, but I failed to listen, having missed so much already by that point.
I have since watched all of DS9 on DVD, and while I consider it the best Trek ever made, I also feel like it only became that after taking “B5 Lessons.”
Bed says:
I think the hostility came from that fact that JMS pitched B5 to Paramount before WB picked it up – and the rumours of IP theft were rampant. Interesting article on it here http://www.tor.com/2013/02/26/is-this-the-smoking-gun-proving-deep-space-nine-ripped-off-babylon-5/
But I was the same, as Akrovah, I was a huge TOS and TNG fan, had watched The Gathering but was too young to get it. I found DS9 uninspiring, and then Voyager down-right terrible – then rediscovered B5 (by way of this Trilogy!) and immediately stopped watching any Trek because the writing of B5 showed me how good scifi tv *could* be.
Andy Luke says:
“Interesting” indeed, Bed. The analogy between TDoFS and Trek is a good one.
I imagined hygienically moral Trek touted as as ‘how things are on B5’ by the SE2 Clark administration, believing they’d a yes-man in Sheridan
a retcon
When TNG was on, I (slightly) annoyed a friend who was more into Star Trek than I was with my theory that the show was best viewed as propaganda produced by a totalitarian and militaristic future about how wonderful everything was. I remain pretty committed to the idea.
Professor Headbutt says:
@voord99:
I LOVE that theory.
I had very few friends who would flatly refuse to watch one or the other. For context: the real glut of syndicated SF didn’t really kick in until 1995 or so with Hercules and Xena; in ’93, you had TNG, DS9, and B5, and It Was Good. Maybe you watched Highlander: The Series too. There wasn’t exactly a vast field of shows competing for eyeballs. Hercules and Xena widened the field around ’95, and then in ’97 you had Earth: Final Conflict, Team Knight Rider, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Psi Factor, and shows like Stargate SG-1 and Poltergeist The Legacy went into syndication, having been on cable for a couple of years. X-Files and Voyager were on Fox and UPN at the time; most other network SF was very short-lived. Sci-Fi Channel was just starting to venture into “original” (i.e. imported from Canada) programming. Long story short: in B5’s early years, there wasn’t so much SF on TV out there that you could only track 2-3 shows. I think the hostility in fandom is overblown in retrospect. I do know a handful of “franchise fanboys” who are dead set against one or the other…but not very many. For my part, I was happy to watch both Trek shows and B5 in the same week.
Sami-Pekka Haavisto says:
Back in the day we were watching both B5 and DS9 in the university’s science fiction club. Someone got VHS tapes in the mail as soon as the episodes aired in the US (it was years until any of them aired on Finnish TV). There was never hostility between the fans of different shows, but it was definitely B5 that was driving the club’s popularity, many showed up only to see B5, not because they hated other shows (mainly DS9 and Voyager), they just weren’t interested. As soon as B5 ended the club quickly lost more than a half of its members. It’s obvious that B5 was seen as something new and refreshing, and once the word got out people wanted to see it.
I saw most of DS9 episodes, but never really got into it, possibly because I was watching B5 at the same time. There were just too many similarities and DS9 paled in comparison, B5 was doing everything so much better. First two or three seasons of DS9 were downright bad, but it did improve significantly once they started taking lessons from B5. I remember DS9 as the most dull of all the Star Trek shows (haven’t seen a single episode of Enterprise, though), and being entertained more by even Voyager after B5 ended. Voyager was often stupid or bad or both, but at least it didn’t take itself too seriously after a couple of seasons.
I’ve always loved TOS and liked a lot of TNG. Perhaps if I watched DS9 now I could see more than just a show trying to copy B5 formula without vision or consistency, and it might finally get a real chance.
Dan Carlson says:
I was one who watched both! Well, sort of. I was a DS9 fan from the very beginning (it was my intro to Trek as a whole), but due to limited time to watch TV growing up, I didn’t discover B5 until the 4th season, by which point I had no idea what was going on, so didn’t stick with it. It sure looked cool, though! So when they started airing the entire series on TNT in early 1998, my family watched it religiously.
I’m fascinated by the thought of someone who’s intro to Trek was DS9, which I think of as the “anti-Trek Trek.” Would you be willing to expand on how you’ve come to view Trek as a whole?
Maybe I shouldn’t say this here, but: DS9 is not so much my favorite Trek as the only Trek that I really care about at all, and I liked it a *lot* in the ’90s. So much so that there are ways in which I like it more than B5. Akrovah will probably withdraw my true fan membership at this point 🙂
It’s probation for you.
You’re not wrong though that DS9 is kind of an “anti” Trek. It does a lot of things Roddenberry was adamantly against, like conflicts, relationships, and moral ambiguity among the primary cast. Not to mention a later focus on conflict and war over exploration.
However given that to this day B5 remains my favorite television series ever made obviously those things appeal to me, despite my formative childhood years spent watching the moral righteousness of Picard on TNG. So after I finally did watch all of DS9 it became easily my favorite Trek.
As far as better than B5 in some ways, I will concede that in some respects DS9 takes things further. The morality of the commander is of particular note. While in B5 sacrifices must be made for victory, Sheriden always continues to remain a moral character, always doing the right thing, even if it is not the easy thing. Sisko on the other hand steps over the line a couple times where you get a creepy sense that our hero might not be much better than our villains. B5 lacks a “In the Pale Moonlight” or a “For the Uniform” for example.
I enjoyed all the Trek series; DS9 was just my introduction to the universe, and remains my favorite. But I appreciate that DS9 couldn’t tell some of its stories (especially its moral uncertainty) without the rest of the Star Trek back story to contrast against.
I also like to paraphrase a quote from late DS9 to sum up my sci-fi preferences: “I love Star Trek, I just like some other shows more.”
Both shows had their good points. Thing was, I actually loved DS9 before it started trying to do the “war arc” thing; I adored the Bajoran politics-intermingled-with-religion stuff *before* it became mixed up with full-on spiritual possession stories (i.e. the pah-wraiths, etc.). Apparently I was the only one, as they devised the Dominion War to replace it as the running concern of the show. 😀 I think both DS9 and B5 have gained huge amounts of relevance with time, in different ways. Both are, naturally, underappreciated.
Where I live it took time to get all the new shows. We saw TNG only years later we did see DS9 early but not the full seasons.. In luck we got Babylon 5 close to the US time it took us time to love it but when we do it was full love that couldn’t be broken.i remember seeing the episode I couldn’t sleep later lol
. We did get to see DS9 later on and it did improve when they did the arch but IMHO even tho it wasn’t bad Babylon 5 had more depth and it was more character driven show .
DS9 from the outset for me. I could tell it would get good from the pilot, quickly being apparent I would have to wait around. I wasn’t disappointed much; I drifted away sometime in SE6. One other disappointment with DS9 was I would have liked to see the return of the Borg there, but fairly, it would have presented challenges, not least doing away with the reset button following any encounter.
B5 I only came to at end S3/start S4. Certainly by the time I saw Cartagia on screen I was laying down my B5 VHS floor snake, which sounds problematic, and indeed it was.
My favourite moment of this episode is Delenn’s “Only one Human captain has survived battle..” That’s the finest “I’ll mess you up” in B5, possibly in any fiction, anywhere, or something.
Chris Nielsen says:
I love this episode but I made the mistake when I watched b5 for the first time of going onto the net and searching for b5, I ran across Delenn’s ‘get away with you’ speech and spoiled myself so horribly…
One thing I forgot to mention is that What I love about this episod is the dialogue, there are so many strong lines that stayed w/me as a fan I think many of B5 fans knows this episode by heart..my fave is of course Delenn be somewhere else and I love Sheridan dad lesson don’t start a fight but always finish it.. He taught his son so well and I love that Sheridan stayed w/it and told it to his son..who knows maybe it became one of the Rangers teaching lol
Well, they really tried hard in getting the Hugo this time, as they lost really thin to Star Trek DS9 the year before, because they had four horses in the race and the votes got splitted (which tells much about the average quality of B5 episodes). This time the whole episode says: “you have to vote for me” 😀
If I recall Year prior to this episode the show that won the HUGO award was Babylon 5 for the episode “the coming of Shadows”.. I maybe wrong tho
Shannon in Durham says:
No, you’re right. “The Coming of Shadows” won the 1996 Hugo and “Severed Dreams won the 1997 Hugo. I *think* I remember correctly that after “The Gathering” was nominated in 1994, B5 failed to get a nomination for any Season 1 episodes because multiple ones were nominated and split the vote. So the following years they made sure to only have one episode nominated. Hence the two wins in 1996 and 1997. They were nominated for “Sleeping in Light” in 1999 but didn’t win.
Thank you I knew I was right about something lol I wish they did win for “sleeping in light” but two awards is fine too ..
Mira Furlan as Delenn is seriously scary in this episode. Her character achieves more with just words than any of the Earthers do with combat 🙂
IIRC, she never again is this intimidating. Maybe JMS thought he’d better tone her down a bit, otherwise the Clark dictatorship of Earth would have ended two episodes later under the guns of a Minbari fleet?
I think part of this is that, with the exception of the Minbari civil war arc in S4 (where Delenn has some great moments), the heroization of Sheridan tends to exclude such moments for Delenn.
One reason why this is such a great moment is because it’s both about the overall crisis and about the Sheridan-Delenn relationship. But it’s only able to combine those two elements because Sheridan is actually utterly defeated here and on the point of surrender: JMS will never again have Sheridan be this helpless again – even when captured and tortured for an entire episode…
Some of this is not JMS’s fault. Sinclair/Sheridan is the central character of the story. The show gives a disproportionate amount of attention to humans for obvious reasons. The compression of the story in S4 means that the Minbari civil war has to be disposed of early and quickly in comparison to its Earth equivalent. There are points where you can see JMS push against this problem and try to give Delenn more to do than the story really has for her.
Most notably, her conversation with the Shadow representative in Into the Fire is rendered a little less than elegant by the fact that Delenn hasn’t really had much to do with the Shadows. It should really be Sheridan having that conversation, calling back to Z’ha’dum.
But JMS is committed, I think, to having that be an equal moment for Delenn and Sheridan. This is important, as their equality and co-operation here represents the humans and Minbari coming together, overcoming the past, etc. (what the Delenn-Sheridan marriage is all about), counterpointing the failure of the Narn and Centauri to do the same.
At the same time, because Sheridan is Sheridan, Delenn can’t really be equal. Because Delenn could have that conversation with the Vorlon representative. Delenn/the Minbari defying their mentors and a thousand years of everything that she/her people have been taught to believe – that has a lot of possibilities, and underpins the “order vs. chaos” stuff a lot better than having Sheridan do it. But the Vorlons have been reserved for Sheridan since S2 as a mark of how special he is, so that’s off the table.
Coming into this very, very late. Just discovered this podcast.
I think the mistake JMS made with Delenn was not either keeping her as Sheridan’s co-equal, or killing her some time around Sheridan’s trip to Z’ha’dum as Sheridan’s rise to godhood made a co-equal into unwanted baggage.
As JMS did neither, Delenn withered into a zombie character who ineffectually shambled on without purpose because JMS couldn’t give her anything important to do without compromising Sheridan’s godhood.
Being forced to sideline one of the series’ strongest characters (and one of its strongest actors) to make the narrative work as intended speaks to a serious error in story planning.
Frankly I think the series would have been served if Delenn had stayed as Sheridan’s complementary co-equal instead of being turned into his Mary Magdalene. The Delenn of Severed Dreams is an interesting character; the Delenn of Deconstruction of Falling Stars, or even (heresy warning) Sleeping in Light is not.
So, there’s an iconic Babylon 5 Earthforce space fighter that’s been buzzing around defending the station since the pilot. Sinclair, Sheridan, and Ivanova have all flown in one.
A “gunship” according to Stephen.
And he was doing so well this season 🙂
Not to be to nit-picky, but not only were Starfuries not in the pilot, but neither were thier launch bays. In the original, airing version of The Gathering you can clearly see in several shots that the arms containing the Cobra Bays are just blank grey slabs.
Any shots with the proper red border paint scheme in the TNT edit of The Gathering are new shots from the series added in.
Kurt Eh says:
(MOVED from spoiler-free space due to proximity to too many other spoilers.)
Debated putting this into the Spoiler Space Zone, but people deserve to see the line in its full splendid awesomeness asap.
There is an infamous outtake in the Season 3 gag reel featuring Bruce “McGyver’s Friend” McGill telling the crew where General Hague went at the 5:44 – 6:02 time-marks in the video below. I wish I had the mad editing skillz to tweak out that one bit, but the best I can do is try to post the link at the correct timestamp. The gag reel contains out-takes, goofs, gaffes, and gags from across season 3, and I believe can be found as an Easter egg on the DVD set. ( Find it via http://www.eeggs.com/items/44580.html )
WARNING: Contains gag reel “SPOILERS” from ALL OF SEASON THREE!!! (as seen on B5 Season 3 DVD set)
For the Severed Dreams gag, watch 5:44-6:02 only!!
Video copied at time-mark set to SD gag:
Final SPOILER warning. Watch 5:45-6:02 only!
https://youtu.be/ftzgcfG7uHE?t=345
PS. Admins: Please edit/remove this post as you see fit. I debated posting this in the spoiler thread (as I had it for PoNR), but thought that the unspoiled fans deserved to see /that/ gag. I hope I had sufficient warning (and that the timestamp link works properly).
Surprised this doesn’t entirely come up: what if the General Hague actor HAD been available? How would that affect things, having a leader of the independent outposts and later the coup that isn’t Sheridan?
Would Hague have died in Severed Dreams or some other episode? Would Hague have had a leadership battle with Sheridan, with Sheridan winning because – perhaps – the League of Non-Aligned Worlds side with him after his sacrifice Z’ha’dum?
I have to wonder what JMS had planned for Hague originally.
Brad Alexander says:
That is one of the best Delenn scenes to date, and arguably in the entire show. Babylon 5 was beaten down, allied ships were destroyed, and a new batch of Earthforce ships come through the jump gate. Then Lt. Corwin announces that four more jump points were opening on top of them. The expression on Sheridan’s face was complete and total brokenness. When 3 Minbari battlecruisers and the White Star come through and face off with the Earthforce cruisers, and seeing Delenn staring daggers out of the viewscreen was priceless…And JMS gave her some awesome lines:
This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw or be destroyed!
Earth Force Officer: Negative! We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.
Delenn: Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!
Squeeeeeeee!
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Parenting Tips: Talking To Children About Tragedies
12/14/2012 Unfortunate update: It's time to talk about this again. My heart is broken, as is yours. Feel free to connect with me here or on Twitter to ask about how you can approach this in your family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Colorado shooting has come and gone -- and now the Connecticut school shootings, and we're left trying to explain things to The Littles. One well-meaning mom criticized me on Twitter for even suggesting we talk to young children about violence. "Why even bring it up?" she wondered. Her life is much more insular than many of ours -- I have a 2 year old. But I also have a 6 year old. And a 9 year old. And an 11 year old. And those kids have completely different levels of awareness and understanding of these situations -- and they talk. In front of The Littles. So parents like us need talking points for those tricky situations. So here are my thoughts about how to navigate these unavoidable conversations. Let's be ready, because unfortunately, it won't be the last time. I was also quoted in Newsweek/The Daily Beast about the issue. I hope I made the point that parents taking their young children to movie theaters aren't the problem. Untreated mental illness and widespread availability of guns ARE. Aloha,
In In-Depth Parenting Advice, Older Kids, Popular Digging Deeper Tags dealing with tragedy and trauma, emotions, parenting tips
"Crying It Out": Acceptable -- or Abuse?
One of the most primitive, innate reactions any mom has is to comfort her crying child. But as we've talked about here before, many babies can tolerate -- and thrive -- with some crying, when their parents thoughtfully decide why and when that might be necessary.
That's why articles like this leave me mystified -- especially when they come from one of my shrink colleagues. Her bottom line is that CIO is dangerous. She trots out all the old arguments, hailing the Dr. Sears "science" behind her claims, and providing one of the most common misinterpretations of infant research. She makes the mistake that clinical research findings about abused and maltreated babies -- babies who were pervasively denied their needs over the long-term -- should be applied to NORMAL babies in NORMAL families.
The fact is, there is no evidence whatsoever that occasional CIO in typically developing babies causes any damage. PERIOD.
More importantly, there IS evidence that severely sleep-deprived mothers are at much higher risk of developing an already common --and dangerous -- condition: postpartum depression. And PPD certainly CAN lead to long-term damage to both baby -- and the entire family. CIO is a method that, when implemented thoughtfully, can often lead to improved sleep (and health and happiness) for everyone.
Firebombs like those thrown in the Psychology Today article only make the burden heavier on moms. What a shame.
Aloha as always,
PS: Wow, what a response! After commenting here, please also see the comments developing over at the Fussy Baby Site.
In Attachment Parenting, Baby Behavior Problems, BabyGeek: Child Development Research, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular: Baby Solutions, Post-Partum Depression, Sleep & Nap Issues Tags baby sleep advice, crying it out (cio), sleep
Sudden Fears in 12 to 15-Month-Old Babies
Let me tell you about a cool conversation I had the other day with my Infant Research/Rock Star Guru, Professor Joseph Campos (at UC Berkeley). He helped me understand more about a funky phenomenon I've written about here before: The Weird, Wacky, Sudden Fears of the 12 -- 15-month old. You know: Crazy fears of the bath, bizarre fears of mustached men, and other kooky things like Fear of Flowers (I kid you not -- I've heard 'em all -- many from my own kids). As I've said before, these sudden fears are NORMAL -- but now I understand a little more about WHY.
It's a combination of what I've already written about here -- adjusting to the exciting (and scary) new world of mobility, as well as an inborn fear of sudden, unexpected unfamiliarity. Babies this age tend to freak when they see something that looks out of place -- a man with facial hair (if they're used to clean-shaven guys), dogs that suddenly bark loudly, or things that move in unexpected, uncontrollable directions (like flowers in the breeze). Turns out that adult chimpanzees also have similar fears. Interestingly, our toddlers grow out of these fears -- chimps do not. Rapidly developing baby brains are starting to compare "familiar" to "unfamiliar". It's likely protective -- which is especially needed now that the baby is toddling around, away from parents.
Sudden baby fears are also related to a similar parent frustration at this age: Resistance to car seats, strollers, changing tables, high chairs, or any similar baby-jail. Why? Because they remove the element of control from your little one -- and CONTROL is what helps to decrease baby's fears.
So here's how to cope with those intense and sometimes inexplicable fears in your young toddler: Give her as much control as possible (given safety factors, and of course your need to do other stuff, too.) Fear of the unknown and unexpected is always best soothed with CONTROL. Let baby approach (or avoid) fascinating/scary things (or people) at her own pace. Explain to her when it's time to get into the car seat -- and let her try to negotiate herself into it, if possible. (She just might do it, if you give her a minute to think it through.) Take the pressure off if she's feeling shy or fearful. And most of all: DON'T WORRY. Weird toddler fears mean nothing about future psychological adjustment (and the more YOU freak out about her fears, the more SHE'LL freak out about them.)
But on the flip side: If baby needs to get into the car seat NOW, or if she MUST have a bath tonight -- that's OK, too. Explain it to her. "I know you don't want a bath, but you have enchiladas in your hair, honey. I promise to make this as fast as possible, then we'll be all done." Be supportive and understanding -- but shampoo away. You won't do any psychological harm. The trick is to give her the general message that, WHEN POSSIBLE, you'll give her as much control as you can. But sometimes the grown-ups have to be in charge (and that's a good lesson, too).
The good news is this: These fears almost always dissipate by 18 months of age. (Then you'll be on to bigger and better things -- like Full On Temper Tantrums.) Whee!
Dr. Heather The BabyShrink Mom of Four and Parenting Expert
In Annoying Toddler Behavior, Baby Behavior Problems, Childhood Fears, Developmental Grab-Bag, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular Parenting Advice, Popular: Baby Solutions Tags babies, fears
1st and 2nd Graders: Is It Bullying Or Not?
Recently, a parent stopped me, worried about a 6-year-old "bully". The child in question -- in my opinion -- wasn't a bully, but rather a fairly typical little girl, testing out her pretty advanced verbal skills in more complex ways. Did she hurt her friends' feelings? Probably. And did the friend reciprocate by saying something mean right back? She sure did. The parent was very upset about the impact of this "bully" in the classroom -- and wanted to know what could be done to stop her. But was this truly "bullying?"
No, it wasn't. And I worry about the little girl being labeled "bully", because the word has such negative connotations. So, what IS the definition of bullying? There are many definitions, but all involve the bully being intentionally, repeatedly cruel and belittling to smaller or otherwise less powerful kids. 6-year-old girls telling each other "you can't come to my birthday party", or saying "you don't get to talk!" don't qualify as bullying. And defining normal social "sparring" as "bullying" does everyone a disservice.
Bullying has been getting some much-deserved attention in the media, and as a shrink I can attest to the terrible damage that TRUE bullying does to kids. But as an Early Childhood specialist, I know that little kids -- especially girls -- "practice" their social skills quite a lot with their classmates, and those skills need quite a bit of refining -- in 1st and 2nd grades. Teachers in those grades know that this is pretty common behavior, and gives the kids the opportunity to do some social "sparring" in a fairly safe situation. Do they need limits, structure, and guidance in the process? You bet. But labeling them "bullies" is a major overreaction.
If you have a kid in these grades (as I do -- with 4 kids, it seems someone is always going through this) -- here's what to keep in mind:
Kids this age need to "try out" their peer-to-peer social skills. Like lion cubs, they need to practice -- but they don't really mean any harm.
"Victims" at this age tend to shrug off the insults with no problem. Don't jump in to protect your cub until you see she's truly struggling.
Talk early -- and often -- about the little social struggles among your kids' friends. Make it a point to ask about all the details, not to get anyone into trouble -- but to help your cub think through the next incarnation of the battle. We're building "social muscle" here.
Role-play regular situations that crop up. Cutting in line, saying "mean" things, and "who is best friends with whom" are typical arguments. Walk through these issues with your child frequently to try out new approaches and solutions. Ask, "What might you say instead next time?"
Be interested, open, and empathic -- and try to hold back your parental protectiveness, unless there's something more serious going on.
And of course, if your child is truly being bullied -- or is, in fact, the bully -- please step in immediately to involve the teachers and other parents. This is an age where this kind of behavior can -- and should be -- nipped in the bud.
With some practice (and a little luck), you're setting the stage for your child to come to you with social problems in adolescence and beyond -- for help and support in solving ever-more complex social dramas and situations.
In Developmental Grab-Bag, Older Kids, Popular Digging Deeper Tags bullying, child problems at school, fears
Psychological Development: Why Your 6-Year-Old Is So Awesome
I recently wrote about 4-year-olds, and why they're so awesome. No longer toddlers, but not yet "big kids", they still snuggle like the baby you miss, but have enough independence that they're fun to hang out with.
Not to dis on the 5-year-olds, but SIX is an amazing age. I learned this when our oldest child's first grade teacher turned me on to a classic, fabulous book about early childhood development -- with an educational focus. It's a little technical and geeky, but if you like this stuff you'll LOVE this book. The upshot is this: Something magical happens in first grade. At some point during the year, each kid will go through an amazing transformation. She'll start out like a kindergartener -- still a little clingy and whiny, and living in the magic world of imagination -- ponies, princesses, and fairies. But she'll end up the year like a KID -- an honest-to-goodness Grade School Kid -- who can be swayed by logic, her peers, and the rules of the world.
Schools in many European countries understand this developmental fact, and that's why they don't do serious academic work until age 7. But their outcomes are much better than ours -- because they're working WITH development, not AGAINST it. You can use this to your advantage by not falling for the ubiquitous pressure to force younger and younger children to do "academics". Having realistic expectations for the behavior and learning of your preschooler and kindergartener will potentially save you a lot of worry when you're told they're not performing up to "standards". The "standards" of most school systems weren't created with normal development in mind. But that's another big topic for another day.
Read this lovely description of the 6-year-old mind here, and promise me you'll come back to read another article I've written about first graders -- and why yours probably doesn't have ADD, too.
In Older Kids, Popular Digging Deeper Tags child development, child problems at school
Parenting Tips: More Thinking Points
One of the reasons I produce BabyShrink is that I've had to learn the hard way with my own 4 kids -- what works, what doesn't -- and why. Those of you who know me know that my doctorate in Psychology, and a license to practice in two states, didn't get me much closer to answers. Doing a ton of research -- practical and applied -- has gotten me to this point. Why should YOU have to go through all that effort to reinvent the parenting wheel? Believe me, people -- it CAN be easier -- and a lot more fun. Keep these things in mind as you confront the seventy bazillion or so parenting challenges you face each day:
TEMPERAMENT makes a big difference. Your child's inborn nature: whether he's irritable, easy, shy, or bold (among other things), will shape the way he deals with your guidance -- especially when he's young. Pay close attention and figure out his temperament -- it will help you decide what's best for him. For instance, an "easy" baby might be pressed to give up his Binky at 6 months. An irritable, easily overstimulated little guy might be given a pass until age 2 or even 3.
AGE makes a big difference. Sleep issues (among other things) change dramatically over even a few weeks. A newborn isn't a 3-month-old, who isn't a 9-month-old, who certainly isn't a 3-year-old. You shouldn't expect your newborn to put himself to sleep -- nor should you try. But it's very reasonable to work on it with your 12 or 15-month-old. Vary your approach based on age.
FAMILY NEEDS make a big difference. Culture, style, the state of the parents' relationship, and personal preference matter. If you don't mind co-sleeping -- if it works well for your family -- great. But if the baby keeps you awake, interferes with your relationship, or you just don't wanna -- then DON'T. Your baby takes his cues from you, and he'll be fine either way. It's the "trickle down" theory of family happiness.
And now I hope you browse around for specific tips on your questions -- potty training, bath time fears, sleep issues, behavior, sibling stuff and more.
Here's another Thinking Points article, if you're interested.
(And I hope you like some of the new changes here at BabyShrink!)
In Popular Digging Deeper, Popular Parenting Advice, Popular Tips and Tricks Tags emotions, parenting tips
Child Development: Why Your 9-Month-Old Baby Is So Difficult All Of A Sudden
I had an amazing conversation with one of the world's foremost infant researchers last week, Dr. Joseph Campos. He's at Berkeley, where he's churned out tons of scientifically rigorous studies about the developmental changes in infancy. He's come up with some transformative ideas about babies, the upshot of one being that crawling causes your baby to become your little social partner, for the first time. No longer just a passive lump in the social world, now she's able to start to understand some of what's going on inside your mind. She understands how important you are to her, and seeks your emotional support, presence and encouragement as she starts to scoot out into the world under her own power. She now gets reassurance from your presence and your emotions -- your facial expressions and body language -- not just from physically holding her.
The flip side of this is that it also causes clinginess, fussiness, and sleep problems -- some of the major complaints of parents at this stage. Turns out, crawling out into the wide world is fascinating -- and terrifying. Your little adventurer gets it now -- that as much as she wants to venture out on her own, she desperately needs you, and is panicked that she'll lose you somewhere along the way. As Dr. Campos said to me, the baby's drive for independence is equally matched by her fear of it.
So to you fellow parents of 9 to 12-month-old babies out there: I know it can be a challenging, difficult stage. Your little bug seems content to scramble around the house one minute, then wails in panic the next. What used to be stable sleep habits are now in a shambles. Feeding --and nursing -- has become an unpredictable struggle -- and separations are exceptionally difficult. And forget diaper changes! What a wrestling match! Immmobility is the enemy to her now -- being restrained in any way is bound to be a fight. High chairs, strollers and car seats are demon baby torture devices. They keep her from exploring her brave new world.
What to do? Re-think your daily tasks with this knowledge in mind. Everything will take a little longer, as your baby goes through this unpredictable (but temporary) stage. Some days she may need you constantly. But don't worry -- when you've finally reached the end of your rope with your little Clingon, she'll start to feel "refueled", and venture out again -- allowing you to catch up on that laundry and email. And make sure you get some help with nighttime wakenings -- you'll need extra rest too, since you're up again with a fussy baby -- but don't forget to reinforce the sleep routines that have worked well in the past. She'll eventually remember what her job is, at night -- and now that her memory is better, she can hold on to her internal image of you a bit longer, giving her some comfort, despite being away from you to sleep. Feel some reassurance knowing that the earlier -- and stronger -- your baby shows separation anxiety, the sooner it resolves. Lots of parental support and understanding help her get through this challenging -- but remarkable -- stage.
Dr. Campos was generous and encouraging in my BabyShrink book-writing project, and I had a blast geeking out with him, picking his brain about the amazing new developmental capacities in normal 9-month-old babies. What a great experience! Now, please excuse me -- I've got a 9-month-old baby clinging to my leg.
In Baby Behavior Problems, Developmental Grab-Bag, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular Parenting Advice, Popular: Baby Solutions, Separation Anxiety, Sleep & Nap Issues Tags babies, child development
Attachment Parenting: Is It Bad for the Child?
Dear Dr. Heather, Does breastfeeding past 2 years of age encourage dependency? I know a child who is still breastfeeding and has become very whiny and attached to her mother. The mother is making no effort to wean the child. Is this type of emotional attachment healthy for the child? She still wakes up to nurse during the night and sleeps in the parent’s bed.
Concerned about a child
This is a polarizing issue that tends to bring out strong opinions. There is a community that promotes an approach called "Attachment Parenting", based on the work of well-known pediatrician and author William Sears, MD, and one of they key tenets of this approach says that "extended breastfeeding" (past the age of two years) is recommended and important to the development of a child to promote a solid sense of safety and security. However, their key tenets are only based loosely on well-known child development research, and Attachment Parenting certainly has it's critics.
One of the things I do like about Attachment Parenting (AP) is it's understanding of the cultural differences that exist in families around the world, and the promotion of various ways of raising a family that can resonate more fully with various non-Western cultures. For instance, many Asians traditionally -- and happily -- share a family bed, or a family bedroom, as is suggested by AP. I also like the fact that AP promotes the reliance on the family's own resources to know what is best for their children; we don't have to rely on outside "experts" for everything. AP is also well-known for it's insistence that the attachment between infant and mother is essential to the development of a healthy baby, both physically and emotionally. That message sometimes gets lost, or diluted, in Western cultures.
The problem I have with AP is that it's adherents often tend to be quite orthodox in their beliefs. I myself have been sternly lectured for simply using a stroller (as opposed to "baby-wearing", another AP belief), as well as for using a bottle to feed my baby in public. Of course, this is the opposite of the intolerant demagogues who criticize breastfeeding in public -- it's their shared judgmental strictness that bothers me most.
The other concern I have is that it takes a blanket, "one-size-fits-all" approach to all children. Some babies don't want to be held all the time. Some babies need time without physical contact to "decompress" from all that physical stimulation. Some babies don't do well breastfeeding either, and many babies sleep better when they're not disturbed by the direct physical contact of their parents. And your approach to raising your babies has to be dependent, at least partially, on the unique constitution of those babies. You've seen me write about sensory differences here at BabyShrink, and I know far too many babies who have these quirks and preferences to be comfortable giving a blanket statement about "baby-wearing", breastfeeding, or co-sleeping. In our family, only 1 of our 3 children enjoyed being held all the time; the other two needed "time-outs" from direct physical contact in order to look around and "process" all of that physical contact. They (and I) both felt better for a little break now and again, and I used bouncy seats, strollers and cribs regularly for these breaks. It simply isn't fair to criticize parents who accurately judge the needs of their babies to include a little "down time", or to make them afraid that they risk their child's optimal development if they use a stroller or have their crib in their own room.
If you've read other BabyShrink posts, you won't be surprised to hear me say that I strongly support the uniqueness of each individual family to best decide the individual needs of each of their unique babies. And to that end, I say that if it works for a family to have a family bed, or for mom to breastfeed for over two years, I'm not going to criticize that. However, I have met many families who suffer negative consequences of making those decisions, but stick with them in the false belief that it's what's best for their children. Often, an AP family will come to see me for a problem related to the development of their toddler. When I start to gather more information, guess what? Mom is exhausted, usually because she has been unable to sleep through the night since the day her baby was born; she's often still nursing several times a night. And her husband is grumpy because he can't get any "alone time" with his wife, and he's sick of being kicked through the night by a toddler who gets bigger by the day. So mom is beyond exhausted, dad is frustrated and distant, and the toddler becomes the focus of the problem. Everyone suffers in this scenario. In this situation, my advice often includes the suggestion to transition the toddler into his own bed, in his own room, to restore some balance in the lives of the couple. The relationship needs attention, too! If the parents don't have a strong relationship, the development of the child will surely suffer. And if the child needs to sleep in his own bed, and be weaned from breastfeeding, that is a small price to pay if it serves the purpose of bringing the parents back into a more harmonious relationship.
So, "Concerned" reader, I can't say that "extended breastfeeding" will hurt the development of the child, without knowing all the other factors in the family. It remains the responsibility of the family to determine what's best for them -- and for their child. But I certainly don't promote Attachment Parenting as the "be-all, end-all" guide to what's best for your child. Only you can decide that!
Aloha, Dr. Heather The BabyShrink Mom of Four, Parenting Expert AND MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT THE COMMENTS TO THIS POST FOR AN EXTENDED, INTERESTING DISCUSSION AMONG READERS!
AND DON'T MISS ANOTHER ONE OF MY ATTACHMENT PARENTING POSTS HERE PLUS THIS POST AS WELL -- IT'S BECOME A POPULAR TOPIC!!
In Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding & Bottle Feeding, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular: Baby Solutions Tags Attachment Parenting, Dr- Sears, parenting tips, science and research
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The Netherlands announces selections for European Championships
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Jumbo-Visma's Dylan Groenewegen is set to lead the Dutch men's team at the European Road Championships of Alkmaar. The women's selection will play with several strong cards in the competition.
The Dutch national coaches Koos Moerenhout, Loes Gunnewijk, Adriaan Helmantel and Peter Zijerveld have made a selection to compete in the European Championships that are set to be held between the 7th and the 11th of August in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. "With this balanced and strong selection we can start with confidence in all the competitions," said Moerenhout. "For the road race, Dylan Groenewegen will be the main man."
"We will be at the start line with a strong team of riders who can finish in the leading group or in a mass sprint," added Gunnewijk. "We are going to do everything we can to become European champions in our own country."
While Fabio Jakobssen is not going to start in the European road race to show off his new colours of champion of the Netherlands, Lorena Wiebes will be showing off hers at the women's race.
The Netherlands' roster for the European Championships men's road race (11th of August):
Dylan Groenewegen
Tom Leezer
Niki Terpstra
Ramon Sinkeldam
Mike Teunissen
Sebastian Langeveld
Elmar Reinders
Dylan van Baarle
Men's Individual Time Trial (8th of August):
Jos van Emden
Women's road race (10th of August):
Lucinda Brand
Ellen van Dijk
Chantal Blaak
Amy Pieters
Demi Vollering
Lorena Wiebes
Kirsten Wild
Women's time trial (8th of August):
Mixed time trial relay competition (7th of August):
Koen Bouwman
UEC ROAD EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
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HomeNews and EventsDepartment NewsParry-Giles Authors Book on Hillary Clinton and the News
How the media helped construct political gender norms--and critiqued Hillary Clinton for violating them.
The charge of inauthenticity has trailed Hillary Clinton from the moment she entered the national spotlight and stood in front of television cameras. Shawn J. Parry-Giles's new book, Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics(University of Illinois Press, 2014), shows how the U.S. media created their own news frames of Clinton's political authenticity and image-making, from her participation in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign through her own 2008 presidential bid.
Using theories of nationalism, feminism, and authenticity, Parry-Giles tracks the evolving ways the major networks and cable news programs framed Clinton's image as she assumed roles ranging from surrogate campaigner, legislative advocate, and financial investor to international emissary, scorned wife, and political candidate. This study magnifies how the coverage that preceded Clinton's entry into electoral politics was grounded in her earliest presence in the national spotlight, and in long-standing nationalistic beliefs about the boundaries of authentic womanhood and first lady comportment. Once Clinton dared to cross those gender boundaries and vie for office in her own right, the news exuded a rhetoric of sexual violence. These portrayals served as a warning to other women who dared to enter the political arena and violate the protocols of authentic womanhood.
"Shawn J. Parry-Giles has written an insightful, exhaustive, and historically rooted analysis of Hillary Rodham Clinton's numerous media permutations. The book will be useful to non-academics as well as academic researchers as we seek to understand the role news media play in constructing the public personae of women."--Mary Douglas Vavrus, author of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture
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Nettle Root Extract -
The leaves, seeds, and roots of the nettle plant are very high in minerals as well as vitamins A & C. Research has shown nettle to be beneficial in its effects on the male genitourinary system - which includes both the urinary and reproductive organ systems - due to its support of gentle cleansing of key organs like the liver, intestines, and kidneys.
Nettle root is often combined in herbal formulations along with testosterone boosting herbs. It seems to be either additive or synergistic with bioactives such as Ginseng, Ashwagandha, Maca and Pine Pollen, for its actions as a natural aromatase inhibitor, promoting the circulation of free testosterone in the body.
Tribulus Terrestris Fruit Extract -
Tribulus is an annual flowering plant, in the Zygophyllaceae family. Both the roots and fruit have been used as a traditional fertility herb for centuries, both in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda, for male health including vitality and virility. Research indicates that Tribulus can aid in sex hormone production. For men specifically, it has been shown to support healthy luteinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone production, both of which play a key role in proper sperm production. This makes it useful for increasing sperm count, motility, and health. It has also been shown to help reduce the effects of some men’s higher sperm antibodies which could weaken and inhibit sperm movement.
L-Carnitine -
L-Carnitine is an amino acid (a building block for proteins) produced naturally in the body. L-carnitine helps the body turn fat into energy. It is important for heart and brain function, muscle movement, and many other body processes including male fertility.
Since sperm requires high concentrations of carnitine for energy metabolism, it is seen as a nutrient necessary for sperm cells to function normally. Studies indicate that the level of free carnitine in seminal fluid directly correlates with sperm count, morphology and motility.
Pine Pollen -
The richest pine pollen is sourced in the pine forests of the Himalayan Highlands near Tibet. Once a year, the pollen catkins can be collected by hand from the trees, screened and cleaned.
Pine pollen is rich in vitamins, minerals and a multitude of useful enzymes. It offers one of nature's most potent sources of androgenic substances known in the plant kingdom, composed of the bioidentical steroid hormone testosterone, along with lesser amounts of other steroids including androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and androsterone which can contribute to increased sperm count.
Pine pollen also contains a substance called phenylalanine, an L-dopa precursor which helps to stimulate dopamine levels in the brain, which could help with elevated will and mood, and act as a natural antidepressant.
Goji Berry Extract -
Originally native to the Mongolian region of China and known as wolfberries, the lush red Goji berries are traditionally harvested when ripe and sun-dried. A powerful antioxidant, Goji has been used in TCM for thousands of years to treat male infertility, enhance libido, restore strength, endurance and energy. Goji contains antioxidants deemed helpful for male infertility through protecting DNA, elevating sperm health, increasing sperm count and optimizing motility. Goji has a known additive synergy when combined with Maca.
Diindolylmethane (DIM) -
Surprisingly, DIM is an organic nutrient isolated from cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kale. DIM becomes available to the body after the digestion of Indol-3-carbinol (I3C), present in those foods just mentioned.
The human body utilizes DIM as an activator of estrogen metabolism. The male body does produce and require estrogen, but heightened levels can positively affect sperm count and volume, libido and to prevent enlarged prostate. DIM promotes the metabolism of excess estrogen.
Vitamins & Minerals Blend -
Riboflavin B2, Niacin B3, Pyridoxine B12:
The B vitamin complex are co-enzymatic and contribute to healthy hormone regulation, cell growth and replication, sperm count and seminal quality.
Vitamin C has been shown to improve sperm quality, prevent sperm from clumping or sticking together, and protecting sperm from DNA damage; Studies have linked vitamin C deficiency with poor sperm count, motility and morphology.
Selenium is also necessary for the creation of sperm and sperm motility. Selenium is naturally available in tuna, nuts and sunflower seeds. It seems to increase the action of antioxidants. Studies have shown that men with low sperm counts have also been found to have low levels of selenium.
Zinc is considered one of the most important trace minerals for male fertility. Increasing zinc levels in infertile men has been shown to boost sperm levels, improve the form, function and quality of male sperm, and decrease male infertility.
What Concepta does NOT use:
No magnesium stearate, no silicon dioxide, no soy, no gluten, no fillers; just clean, pure and organic ingredients for optimal health and well-being.
Note: Because of the purity of our supplements, in rare situations ingestion may cause upset stomach or headaches as your body adjusts to them. If these feelings are too intense, please contact us for a full refund. Before taking this or any other supplement, please consult with a medical professional to ensure there will be no adverse interactions with existing medications. Do not use if seal around cap is broken or missing.
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7.5.1 — If a debtor disputes the overpayment, the only right of review is against the decision to retrospectively reduce a rate of pension and the date on which that retrospective reduction takes place. There is no right of review against a decision of the Commission to recover an overpayment or to deny waiver, write off or deferral request.
7.5.2 — Where the pension variation or termination is the result of an automatic provision such as section 56B VEA, there is no right of review on the outcome, even in relation to the date. Similarly, the only rights of review in respect of decisions relating to disability pension are contained in section 31 VEA and section 135 VEA, and these refer to decisions regarding claims for pension or application for an increased pension and not recovery of overpayments. A request for review should not delay the recovery process.
Note:For full details regarding a client's right of review, refer to this manual's Chapter 9, Clients Right of Review.
URL: http://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-reference-library/overpayment-management-manual/ch-7-recovery-and-other-methods-finalising-debts/75-right-review
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Favorite Quote Friday & 2 Great Sales
Happy Friday! I'm not feeling well today (I think I've picked up whatever flu is going around), so this will be brief. I have two great sales to share with you.
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Rendezvous with Yesterday, The Gifted Ones Book 2, is currently on sale in ebook for $1.99! The sale lasts through Saturday, December 2nd. :-)
Winner of the GraveTells Readers Choice Award for Best Historical Romance
Modern-day bounty hunter Bethany Bennett helps her brother track two fugitives to a forest outside of Houston, Texas. But what should have been a routine apprehension of two bail skippers spirals out of control and ends in violence. After Beth and her brother are both seriously injured, a mysterious figure suddenly looms over her. And, when the smoke clears, Beth finds herself not only in another place, but in another time.
As Lord Robert, Earl of Fosterly, attempts to identify and track down the nameless enemy who has been plaguing his lands and people with violence, the most peculiar woman stumbles into his path. Small, vulnerable, yet possessed of a bold, fiery spirit and wicked sense of humor, she persists in dubbing Robert and his men members of something called a medieval reenactment group . . . until she sees his castle and labels herself insane. It seems bounty hunter Bethany Bennett has come to him from the future, bringing with her laughter and chaos, swiftly winning the hearts of his people and inspiring within him a love he thought he would never experience again. But when Robert discovers a way for her to return to her time, will the love they share be enough to keep them together?
Blade of Darkness on Audible
Good news for audiobook lovers or those who are thinking of giving one a try for the first time: Blade of Darkness is on sale for only $7.49 on Audible! (Reg. price— $22.04!) I have no idea how long the sale will last, so snap up a copy today if you like paranormal romance with a lot of action, passion, humor and romance!
Return to the “utterly addictive” (RT Book Reviews), "fast-paced and humorous" (Publishers Weekly) world of New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall’s Immortal Guardians.
Dana Pembroke has been able to glimpse the future of those she touches for as long as she can remember. But she never saw Aidan coming. When the tall, dark Celt with the charming grin yet world-weary eyes walks through her door, the future she sees for him is one full of violence, danger, deception… and passion. Because amidst the terrifying battles that unfold in her visions, she also sees herself in Aidan’s arms and in his bed. Dana knows she should keep her distance, but the tender moments and laughter they share entice her even as she finds herself thrust into a world of vampires, immortals, and other preternatural beings.
Immortal Guardian Aidan O’Byrne has been hunting and slaying psychotic vampires for nearly three thousand years, so visions of bloody battles don’t trouble him. The battles Dana foresees, however, show Aidan’s brethren turning against him, so he can’t help but feel alarmed. While he spends as much time as he can with Dana, struggling to decipher her dire predictions, Aidan finds himself utterly smitten. Hope rises that he has finally found a woman who can banish the darkness and loneliness that plague him. But when vampires begin targeting Dana and a powerful enemy spawns chaos, will fate grant them time to find happiness together?
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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday! Today I thought I would share a snippet of Blade of Darkness with you. Aidan and Dana are the hero and heroine. :-)
Ethan, Heather, Brodie, and Ed all smiled when Dana and Aidan joined them in the living room.
Brodie crossed to Dana. “I don’t know how much you know about Seconds, but our job is to arm and protect the immortals we serve. In this instance, that job extends to protecting you, so if you don’t mind?” He held up a shoulder holster and weapons.
“Oh.” She had thought she would just be observing. “Okay.” While she held out her arms, Brodie fitted her for a shoulder holster he packed with 9mms.
Aidan’s brows drew down as he watched them.
“Is he not supposed to arm me?” she asked. “You look a little pissed.”
Heather laughed. “He just doesn’t like Brodie touching you.”
When Aidan didn’t dispute it, Dana smiled at him. “It’s not like he’s trying to feel me up or anything.”
Aidan’s frown deepened. “He’d lose a hand if he did.”
His Second laughed, unperturbed by the threat.
When Brodie reached both arms around Dana to secure a belt with a thigh holster around her waist, Aidan strode forward and elbowed him aside. “Let me do that,” he grumbled, taking the belt.
Brodie stepped back with a good-natured grin. “Yes, sir.”
Dana watched Aidan as he buckled the belt around her waist, then knelt and went to work, tying the bottom of the holster around her thigh.
He was jealous and didn’t like that he was jealous. Dana didn’t need be telepathic to glean that or to suspect that that was why he wouldn’t meet her eyes.
When at last he did, she grinned. “You are too adorable.”
His soft lips turned up in a sheepish smile. “Sorry about that. Jealousy is new to me. I vow I’ll work on it.”
Dana combed her fingers through his soft, thick, wavy hair. “I don’t mind. I think it’s cute.”
Labels: Aidan, Audible, audiobook, Blade of Darkness, Dana, Favorite Quote Friday, historical romance, paranormal romance, Rendezvous With Yesterday, sale, time travel romance
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Grammy-nominated producer Kevin “Khao” Cates talks “Bad Brains” hip-hop album
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In hip-hop, producers have become just as famous as the rappers. Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated super producer Kevin "Khao" Cates is one of the producers who is making his way from behind the scenes to the limelight. After years of producing for heavy-hitters in the game such as T.I., Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Busta
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Daughter of late rapper Camoflauge uses hip-hop to advocate for social issues
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Photo: Billboard In hip-hop, sometimes it’s the youth that uses their talent to bring awareness to social issues. MC Flau’Jae is using her passion for hip-hop to speak out against gun violence. The 15-year-old made her debut on the hit television series “The Rap Game” Season 3, executive produced by Jermaine
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Recap Friday: Annual march keeps MLK’s dream alive
(Photo: Citizens march along historic Auburn Street in downtown Atlanta) The annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally celebrated the life and legacy of the late Civil Rights leader on Monday, January 21. Several organizations such as the National Pan-Hellenic Council or D9, Teens Against Justice and more joined thousands
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Investigations, public withdrawals follow the aftermath of ‘Surviving R.Kelly’
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Former Police Officer Jason Van Dyke sentenced for the shooting of Laquan McDonald
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Update: Alleged shooter of Jazmine Barnes denies involvement
Photo: Insider An attorney for Larry D. Woodruffe, one of the two men charged with capital murder in the Dec. 30 shooting in Houston that killed 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes denies Woodruffe's involvement. According to KRPC of Houston, Woodruffe told police he was not involved in the killing of Barnes and the only thing connecting
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Future talks ‘Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD’ project with Genius
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Flashback Friday: Willie Dee X “5th Ward” (1989)
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Founders of the Rap Plug app talk entrepreneurship and technology
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[Press Release] Youth and Digital Peacemaking | Digitalk #29
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 || By Admin CfDS
Semarang, 4th April 2019 – As another series of ‘Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Goes to Campus’, CfDS collaborated with Siberkreasi’s School of Influencer and Universitas Diponegoro to hold Digitalk #29 with the theme of “Be Social Media Peacemaker” on Thursday (04/04) at Auditorium Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro. Four speakers were invited: Ika Riswanti Putranti, P.hD (lecturer of Universitas Diponegoro), Yosi Mokalu (Cameo Project), Fajrul Falah (founder of Saintif) and Shafira Gayatri (activist of Search for Common Ground); all presented to promote digital literacy and peacemaking via digital technology. Aside from seminar, the event also offered workshop on digital marketing and contemporary content creator.
The Importance of Cyber Resilience
“There are 3.2 billion internet users out of 7.53 billion of total population on earth. When we talk about cyber resilience, we don’t only talk about digital technology. We are talking about human”, as Ika Riswanti opened the seminar. Cyber resilience are often seen as a strategy for national security against cyber-attacks, meanwhile the meaning is so much more than that. It defines how individuals should react against daily cyber-attacks including hate speech. “Vulnerabilities are roaming against specific group such as people with disabilities, minority groups and women. They are twice more likely subjected to bullying and online sexual harassment. People with low literacy is at risk as well, as they are prone to difficulties to find information to seek help,” said Ika. She suggested some tips to become resilience as digital savvy: 1) Emotional awareness and regulation (avoid writing online in anger); 2) Impulse control (think before sharing content); 3) optimism (reading various sources before comes to conclusion); 4) casual analysis (analyze news content accordingly); 5) self-efficacy and reach out (seek help when having complex problem such as cyber bullying).
Youth as Active Peacemaker
Talking about the human aspect on cyber resilience, there are 89% of human population age 10-24 labeled as youth according to UN. With those huge number, youth has enormous potential to spread peace and harmony. UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (2015) declared youth as active peacemaker. Young generation has important roles on peace building in digital era. Shafira Gayatri, also a young peace activist herself, encouraged the audience to be an active peacemaker by carrying positive messages on social media. She works with Search for Common Ground, a global NGO whose mission is to encourage peace within society. “These are what youth can do: using social media as tool to spread peace, promote peace in a catchy and trendy way, and encourage more youth to be agent of peace. Together, we cultivate harmony for the world,” Shafira said. On her explanation, she showed many peace initiatives coined by young people in Indonesia such as Sabang Merauke, Young Interfaith Peacemaker Community, Ngobrolind, etc. She commented on people’s doubt to spread positive contents. “It doesn’t have to be viral,” she said. “It doesn’t matter that we don’t have thousands of followers or subscribers. Start small and start now. If we can make a little difference to people around us, that counts.”
Fajrul Falah might be an example of young generation who actively promotes positive messages through online platforms. He is founder of Saintif, an online media creating educative scientific content in relevant and interesting design. Saintif chose Instagram as their main platform and now has 45.000 followers. Fajrul said his team chose topics which were relatable to daily life such as why chilies are spicy or fun facts about rain. “False news and hoax are easy to spread because they’re narrated in most fascinating way and very reachable. We should battle hoax with positive content. To win, we use fascinating design and relatable topics as well,” he said. Their website is accessed by 400.000 readers online. They even had launched two books related to misconception about flat earth and investigative approach to moon landing. The platform had just won WSIS Prizes 2019, an international recognition towards individuals, governments, civil-societies, research institutions and private sectors for their outstanding success in leveraging ICT as an enabler of development. Fajrul and his team was expected to receive the award in Geneva this April.
Everybody is born as an influencer
Yosi Mokalu or known as Yosi “Project Pop” has deeply involved in content making and digital literacy initiatives these past years. With fellow Youtubers, he created Cameo Project and Kreator Nongkrong in hope to combat fake news with positive contents while spreading digital literacy to netizen. He started with powerful motto. “We all are born an influencer,” he began. “During our lives, we influence each other one way or another, big or small. Now, we associate influencer with big followers. We never realize people behind powerful figures like Soekarno is the real influencers.” He pointed out that speaking up for what matters to us is easier than ever with social media in the tip of our finger. Everybody is a content creator because daily we create content, whether it’s an Instagram story, pictures or articles, and send them to online world. However, people are using digital technology to express themselves, but hardly for the bigger cause. They become so full of themselves and forget the bigger issues. Yosi underlined the importance of empathy to start spreading positive messages on social media. “When it comes to what matters to you and matters to everybody, don’t be silent. Speak up! More often than not, we are afraid to start due to fear of judgments or critics. Why would we be afraid to share something positive?” he asked.
However, Yosi warned the audience use freedom of expression with caution. Many people use freedom of expression to voice anger and hate. He said to start with saying positive things in order to spread positive message. Positive people never side with anything but neutrality and put first wisdom and knowledge when interacting with anyone. Another thing he emphasized was the importance of reaching out. Reaching out means having discussion with people against us with intention to understand their perspectives and let them know it’s okay to have different opinion. Discussion is not meant to find out who’s right and who’s wrong, like what happens these days in comment section on social media. He encouraged audience to start using social media from now on to speak up for unity of our Indonesia.
Written by: Nabiila Nurfitri
CfDS (Center for Digital Society) UGM is a multi-disciplinary research center that is established under the Faculty of Social & Political Sciences University of Gadjah Mada. This research center is built upon the concern over the contemporary dynamics of socio-political condition of the world that is accentuated by the impeccable influence of information technology. The phenomenon triggers the new patterns and complexities in the society, and thus requires new approaches in managing such complexities. Our research and other activities are based on spirits that is aligned with our motto, productive, innovative, & influential.
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Indonesia under Japanese Occupation
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A review of Outlasting Colonialism: Socio-political Change in the Javanese Principalities under the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia during World War II, by Frank Dhont.
In Outlasting Colonialism, Frank Dhont examines the socio-political transformation the four principalities in Central Java underwent during the Japanese occupation, between 1942 and 1945. From mere symbols of Javanese hegemony under the Dutch, the Yogyakarta Sultanate and the house of Paku Alam gained significant influence in post-independence Indonesia, while the Kasunanan and the house of Mangku Negara receded into the background. By addressing the extent of authority “these traditional elites … retained … to manage their domains under the Japanese occupation” and the extent of their capability “to alleviate the negative impact of the occupation on the ordinary pribumi (indigenous Indonesian) population living in their lands,” (p. 1) Dhont traces the subtle but decisive processes that altered the balance of power among the principalities. Their disparate acumen in responding to the devolution of administrative and governance authority by the Japanese and the access—or lack thereof—to the Indonesian nationalist networks were proven crucial in gaining relevance during these tumultuous three years. With his dissertation, Dhont restores the principalities’ position in the Indonesian historiography of the Japanese occupation.
Outlasting Colonialism consists of five chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. In the introduction Dhont situates the four principalities in the socio-political context of the time. In the late-colonial Indies, the Dutch kept the principalities merely as a symbol of Javanese indigenous hegemony. The principalities’ kings—the Sultan, the Sunan, the Paku Alam and the Mangku Negara—used their wealth, network of marriages, and network of family members occupying colonial offices to sustain some form of informal clout. But the Dutch limited their public presence to performing rituals and ceremonies, severely distancing them from their subjects. In time, communist-leaning groups, secular nationalists, and Islamic-leaning associations gradually overshadowed their socio-political relevance. It was in this social setting that the Japanese found the principalities when they arrived in Central Java.
In chapter 1, Dhont shows how the Japanese reversed the Dutch policy and restored the principalities to their original socio-political standing. Deciding that retaining rather than abolishing the principalities worked best for their war strategies, the Japanese skillfully used ceremonies and rituals to elevate the principalities’ ruler in the eyes of their subjects and to portray them as important partners in the liberation from colonization. At the same time, the Japanese gradually devolved limited authorities to the principalities, by now referred to with the Japanese word Kō, to enable them to govern and run day-to-day administration. The Japanese wanted to convince the local population of their intent to “liberate” their junior brothers.
Chapter 2 discusses the Japanese strategies to persuade the principalities and the local population to accept their war-time policies. Through “enticement” and “enforcement,” i.e. propaganda and the use of force, the Japanese aimed to gain support for their ambition: to win the war using all of the Indies’ resources that were now accessible to them. The Japanese effectively used the Kōs in their propaganda, particularly by publicizing ceremonies involving the Kōs and making visible the rituals of receiving Japanese dignitaries. However, by late 1943, as the local population became aware of the Japanese actual intent to exploit Javanese labor and resources, the Japanese had to resort to coercion.
In chapters 3 and 4, Dhont narrates the exploitation of Indonesian women and men by the Japanese military government: women were recruited and forced to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers as “comfort women,” while men were deployed to provide hard labor within and outside Java. Dhont underlines how the principalities were almost powerless in avoiding the demand for “comfort women,” proven by a number of deliveries from the principalities. The deployment of Javanese men for hard labor, on the other hand, were mitigated for a couple of reasons. The most significant was the Kōs’ initiative to set up a number of large infrastructure developments in their own areas, which enabled them to claim that able-bodied men were needed at home.
Dhont uses chapter 5 to demonstrate how the political space opened up for the Kōs to skillfully use the limited administrative and governing authority they were granted. The unexpected death of the Surakarta and Mangku Negara Kōs and the crowning of the young, inexperienced heirs who lacked in political acumen cost the two houses the opportunity to gain a stronger political standing. The Sultan of Yogyakarta and the Paku Alam, on the other hand, seized their opportunity well. They created two major canal works, which sizes and demand of labor powers offered visual testimony of their administrative prowess to the people, who in turned granted them respect, acknowledgment, and political capital. The Mangku Negara and the Surakarta principalities fell short in doing the same, and consequently failed to gain as influential recognition as the Sultan and the Paku Alam. After the Japanese occupation, the two Yogyakarta rulers re-emerged as effective political leaders able to recapture some of the real hegemony lost during the Dutch rule. They did so by transforming themselves into modern leaders, skillfully using the large and small opportunities given to them. These provided them with political capital to use in the turbulent years of post-war Indonesia.
Unlike conventional approaches that look at the Japanese occupation in Indonesia from the top down, or micro-history approaches that focus on one small area as a case study, Dhont offers a re-examination of this important historical period from the point of view of the four principalities. Drawn from an extensive archival collection in five languages—Japanese, Javanese, Indonesian, Dutch, and English—Dhont’s meticulous research allows him to follow minute details, almost day-to-day accounts of the ongoing events to reveal the way the principalities’ rulers used symbols, network of family members, and pragmatic infrastructure projects to grab the opportunities that unfolded between 1942-1945. To capture these is no easy feat. Outlasting Colonialism contributes a fresh insight into Indonesian historiography of the Japanese occupation period, and restores the position of the principalities in the socio-political constellations of those tumultuous war years.
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Sajogyo Institute, Bogor, Indonesia
Surakarta Sunanate Archives
Mangkunegaran Archives, Mangku Negara VIII files
Yogyakarta Sultanate Archives
Pakualaman Archives, PA files
Bōeikenkyūjo, Tokyo, Japan
Waseda University, Nishijima Collection
Nationaal Archief [National Archives], Den Haag, Ministerie van Koloniën
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Yale University. 2012. 353 pp. Primary Advisors: Ben Kiernan and James Scott.
Image: 1943 World War II Japanese Aeronautical Map of Java. Wikipedia.
Tags:2012 Dissertation, Ben Kiernan, Indonesia, James Scott, Java, Yale University
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BATTERY K , 1 S T N . Y . ART'Y,
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Friend Webster: Within the last month the Army of the Potomac has marched over 250 miles, defeated the rebels in several sanguinary engagements, and chased them out of Pennsylvania and "My Maryland" most effectually. We have opened our harvest work in good earnest, with plenty of " help" and hot weather, but no whisky.— At present the Grand Army is feeling its way cautiously down the London Valley to Warrenton, and thence to Richmond, I presume, although we may meet some vexatious delays on the road, such as another Fredericksburg or Chancellorville in store for us.
On our march through Maryland, we found a magnificent country, abounding in wheat fields almost ready for the harvest, and the evidences of thrift and comfort on every hand; the people are loyal, and greeted the appearance of the Union Troops enthusiastically. Arrived in Pennsylvania, we found that the Rebs. had plundered and devasted generally-—determining it seems, to make their brief stay as destructive as possible.
In the three days' engagement at Gettysburg our battery was only in action on Friday afternoon; but it was when the battles raged fiercest and hottest. Three hundred pieces of artillery were belching forth their thunder from both lines, and the din and destruction were truly awful. If the artillery fire ceased for a moment, it was only to be relieved by heavy volleys of musketry and the cheering of our boys as they hurled back the rebel lines in desperate hand-to-hand conflict. The lines of battle were something like two arcs of concentric circles, our array occupying the inner arc, hence it was easier for us to mass troops at any exposed point than for the Rebs. although they had better opportunity to run away or alter their line. In the brief space of one hour, I saw them make two separate charges on the batteries of our center, which were repulsed with great slaughter, and about 3000 prisoners taken. We took over 12,000 prisoners, besides having to bury several thousand of their dead, and attend to multitudes of their wounded which fell into our hands. The battle ceased on the going down of Friday's sun, and the rebel army was in full retreat. They kept up a line of skirmishers on Saturday as a decoy but Lee was off with the main body of his army in in a hasty retreat to the Potomac to the tune of "Carry me back to Old Virginia," receiving as a parting requiere, whilst the green hills of Maryland were fading from his view, the dirge of "My Maryland."
We had some half dozen wounded in the battery, all of the 11th N. Y.; none of them so seriously as to endanger life or limbs. I regret to say that Solomon Goodbread, our cook, was wounded on Saturday whilst serving coffee and beef to our exhausted boys on the battle-field. --The ball was sent by a rebel sharp-shooter, and entered the loins near the back-bone, passing out through the abdomen. I fear he will not survive, even if he is not already dead. He was a good soldier, and much esteemed by every one who knew him.
Contrary to custom, I venture no comment at this time on the "Conduct of the War," but only suggest that you send me a REGISTER occasionally; and as soldiers are only blessed with treasury notes at very long intervals, and then only in: very small quantities, I would only have thanks to reward you with at present.
J. Q. A. Grounse
We are glad to again hear from our friend J. Q. A. Crounse and Battery K, and print his letter elsewhere. In acknowledgement of 'the corn' on his well taken point in the concluding paragraph of his letter, we have forwarded him several back numbers of the Register, and w ill endeavor hereafter to reciprocate his favors.
A Private Soldier's Account of the Feeling in the Army - Determination to Conquer an Honorable Peace- The Rebels in Close Quarters.
Fort ETHAN ALLEN, Va., Sept 27th, 1864.
To the Editor of the Syracuse Journal:
Having seen several soldiers' letters in your paper, I thought it might be interesting to you or your readers, to know the state of feeling in the army about the coming election, and matters and things in general. I cannot speak for the army at large, although I have had very favorable reports from friends in several different departments, and there is no doubt but that the sentiments here are a fair sample of the whole army. There is getting to be quite an excitement here about election, which is kept alive by arguments with about half a dozen of the rankest kind of Copperheads. They comprise all of that kind of reptile attached to our battery. I am happy to say that there is not a man in the company, of any education or intelligence, who sides with them. It makes my blood boil to hear them argue in favor of an armistice and peace on any terms. " Armistice," forsooth! When we have them " on the hip," in every quarter, and all we need is to have our armies filled up, (as they are now being filled, rapidly,) to crush the rebellion. I don't know what a man can be thinking of, to enlist to fight for his Government and then use his vote and influence against the cause he is fighting for.
I have no doubt at all that if Mr. Lincoln is elected, (and he will certainly be elected,) that the war will be ended before the close of another summer. The rebel armies are depleted by sickness, desertion and death, and the rebel authorities have already conscripted all able-bodied males from sixteen to sixty-five years of age, and are putting cripples and sick men into the ranks. To use the language of our brave Lieutenant- General: "They have robbed the cradle and the grave, to fill up their shattered ranks," and where men are to come from to fill up their armies for another campaign, I can't see. There is, no doubt, a great deal of heavy fighting to be done yet. But I hope to live to see the rebellion put down, and that arch-traitor, Jeff Davis, hung. But if I do not, a man can die in no nobler cause. My motto is: "No compromise with armed traitors!" And, although I leave a home, and those who are dear to me in my native State, I would sooner stay here and fight until I am grey than see peace on any other terms than a union of the states and unconditional surrender of the rebels. I began this letter to tell you the feeling in the army, but have allowed myself to get a trifle excited, and have told you my own feelings instead. But I honestly think they are also those of at least nine-tenths of the army at large.
Yours, E.F.C.
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its tenure in an internal struggle for supremacy The surviving maximum leader became convinced of a conspiracy against him On Sunday at a Google Hangout he promised “good” journalists aid from his government for setting up newspapers and TV channels And four days earlier his government had issued a circular drawing the attention of officials to Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code which cover defamation It required them to inform the government of media comment that could be proceeded against under defamation law This is a low attempt to institutionalise the misuse of defamation law to cow down criticism Kejriwal had earlier sought to have defamation taken off the criminal law statutes and reclassified as a civil offence that does not attract imprisonment The Supreme Court has clubbed his petition with similar pleas moved by Rahul Gandhi and Subramanian Swamy and will hear arguments for decriminalising defamation next month Share This Article Related Article For Kejriwal’s government to seek to use criminal defamation law like a blunt instrument to bludgeon the media looks especially ugly because the party — and the movement it grew out of — had flourished by using the tools of an open society It should have known that when it faltered society would turn those very tools against it Especially since the party is bursting with former journalists who should understand the function and methods of the media The AAP should get over its obsession with the media and focus on the mandate that brought it to office Neither do the people want it to run or back newspapers as it has offered to do nor do they want it to conduct revenge tragedies upending media trials by organising public trials of the media as it had similarly threatened The AAP sweep had signalled the perceived need for government that is open and responsive To deliver the party must get over the private anxieties and paranoias which it has displayed through its first months in office and focus on 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DELIVEROO COMES TO STOKE
Posted on July 17th, 2016 by ant
Deliveroo, the on-demand delivery service for high-quality restaurant meals, has launched in Stoke – and we’re delighted to welcome them into DUCK magazine.
We love those companies who back us: they keep the cover price down so that you get a half-decent, lovely glossy, colour magazine for just £2.50. We also love that it when they state the following, like Deliveroo have done:
“Hundreds of jobs will be created for local people in Stoke over the course of the first year, with the majority of these being Deliveroo riders, who aim to deliver food, which will be cooked, fresh to order and delivered from the restaurant kitchen to the customers’ door within 32 minutes.”
What is Deliveroo? Well, the company is fully focused on providing the ultimate food delivery experience. Basically, it means that the hungry residents of our fair city can now get their favourite food from their most loved local restaurants, including Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Klay and Portofino. You basically get some of the city’s delicious dishes straight from the hands of local chefs to your door!
Deliveroo see the benefit of launching in The Potteries: “Stoke is a multicultural and prosperous area with a diverse range of chain and independent restaurants, and we have seen a real appetite for the service.
“We already have a number of great partners across the city and we are excited to expand and widen the variety of restaurants on offer to our customers in Stoke over the course of the next year.”
HOW IT WORKS Customers have the option to schedule orders via the Deliveroo app up to one day in advance or receive food as soon as possible between 12 noon and 11pm, from a variety of leading local, independent and high-quality chain restaurants, conveniently delivered to their homes and offices.
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Mindset over matter: FA chance of succeeding?
Posted on July 2nd, 2016 by ant
In the post mortem that followed our national team’s shameful-but-not-unexpected capitulation in France this week, many fingers were pointed. Quite rightly, many fans have their say on football, and even more so when it comes to the national team.
“Look at them, in their armchairs giving it large and in bucketloads to professional players and managers who have been in the game all their lives”, some sneer. Yeah, as if watching football all your life doesn’t give you the right to voice an opinion, or in a lot of cases, state the bleeding obvious. And you don’t need a UEFA A badge to see England have been poor for decades and underachieving for decades now.
First things first: I’m no massive England fan. It’s always been and always will be Stoke City>England. I’m not bothered if that upsets some people, but I can take or leave our national team. I want them to win, but it’s never over-bothered me when they don’t. The recent cult of celebrity doesn’t help, with players pretending to be on mobiles when they get off the coach or having earphones on the size of Jodrell Bank. Fair play to Stoke players here, almost always ready to engage with those who go through the turnstiles.
In days of yore, when The Potters lost, my mood changed to one of darkness until we next played. Age and responsibility brings a maturity (in some cases) and an acknowledgement that a defeat in a game of football can be shattering, but you also have work to go to and kids training shoes to afford in the great scheme of things! But that has never been the case with England. As soon as the final whistle has gone, that’s me done and dusted. It has no emotional effect on me at all, apart froma few games where we’ve given it a go or been hard done to.
But that changed a few days ago. And it wasn’t the fact that we lost to what many have disrespectfully called a ‘pub team’. If that’s the case, perhaps our ‘stars’ should take off their lovely big headphones and head for the boozer a bit more often, eh? No, it wasn’t the opposition or the defeat, it was the manner of the defeat, and the total lack of leadership and management by several parties in the immediate aftermath that boiled my urine.
Forget Hodgson. Indeed, I’ve tried to for years. The man should never have been appointed in the first place. He might seem the type who helps old ladies across the road and I bet he’ll do your car for you or trim your hedge while he’s doing his. But he shafted the international career of our captain – which yes, does make it personal – and I also don’t want simply a ‘nice bloke’ to manage my team. I want a bloke the players will die for, respect, and win for when the going gets a bit tougher than the group stages.
Just look across Offa’s Dyke or over the Irish Sea for managerial examples.
Whilst Hodsgon left Ryan Shawcross’ international future seemingly in tatters, it’s fair to say that the current England players have not needed too much of Hodgson’s help to wreck their own. And crocodile tears on French soil don’t cut it with me.
So if we know where the problems are and have an opinion on them – and everyone has blamed obvious targets such as those that run the game, resources, funding, technique, technique under pressure, desire and passion, the academy system etc etc – the solutions don’t seem as obvious. Why? Well there are so many contradictions for a start…..
Like Leicester City winning the league, many arguments will be skewed by the fact that Wales have possibly overachieved, or at the very least played so much better when the pressure was on, than England. Let’s remember, Wales’ match with Russia was virtually a knockout game, and since that they’ve won the next two knockout games. England have simply done an ‘England’ as soon as they get through a group. And where do most Wales players ply their trade? You can’t blame the system all of the time when others are succeeding from it.
And then there’s the “Academy generation” – as labelled by Jamie Carragher. It also seems churlish to decry a system when it produces either world class players and ones that have gone been successful at Euro 16, whilst others are now back home after having shockers. Want examples – well Southampton’s system produced Gareth Bale and Adam Lallana, whilst Manchester City’s saw Neil Taylor and Daniel Sturridge experience it. And as for the clubs they play for, Spurs’ regular left back (Danny Rose) has been totally upstaged by his understudy (Ben Davies) in France.
So back to the manager – should we really be smashing into Roy Hodgson, or should we in fact dig deeper and look at the people who appointed him and who he works for?
Long term, we have to look at football from the bottom-up, not the other way around. There are so many easy-wins to put right, and that’s where I want the FA to focus first. Make it easier and cheaper to get coaching awards and badges; tap into the best of what the world of football has to offer; stop making stupid boasts about winning the World Cup sometime soon and be realistic; distribute wealth evenly, fairly and where it is needed; and ensure that our children have the best possible chance to fall in love with the working man’s ballet.
We’ve all seen the stats this week about the number of qualified coaches other countries have, the cost of those qualifications, and the number of astroturf pitches in Iceland….etc. And those figures are a hugely damning indictment of English football and the richest league in the world.
My own/son’s team didn’t have a match between the end of November and the start of March last season. Three months without football ensured many fell out love with the game, and there is plenty of other options open to kids nowadays, yeah? Don’t make it easy for kids to lose the football bug. Pitches and facilities just aren’t good enough in this country, especially in a climate that is temperamental. The slightest bit of rain turns many pitches into bogs, and that means either a postponement or a pitch that simply ensures who can boot if the furthest or has the biggest players, wins. Still. Just like it did when we were kids. But there wasn’t billions of £$£$£ sloshing about back then!
Invest in the future, not in the next one to five years. Take the hit of not doing well or even not qualifying: after all, the whole country expects little nowadays anyway. At least have a plan in place.
Next time you drive home from work or are out and about, have a look at how many kids are out there, playing football. I’ll save you the time: there is virtually no one. I drive an hour to work; past parks, pitches, wasteland etc….and kids are not out playing football. Perhaps we also need to look at the absolute saturation of football and sport on TV nowadays, too?
Kids need to be out playing the sport, not watching Sunderland v Norwich on a Sunday afternoon or Monday night. Noone is more football-mad than my seven year old and yet he’s hardly watched any of Euro 16 – he’s bored by it. Rightly so, but the good news is that he’s out in the garden playing football or cricket.
Let’s not limit who we do pick as the next manager, too. No job should not be based on nationality or place of birth. It’s about having the right person for the right job; whether they’re from the Potteries or Auckland. Who cares? Eddie Jones with the egg-chasers now and Duncan Fletcher’s cricket revolution a decade or so ago showed that it’s about fresh ideas and fresh viewpoints – not just doing the same things over and over again.
England players have had at least 15 years of coaching – surely at that level they don’t really need coaching as much as ca concentration on attitude, mindset, freshness of approach, organisation, and ensuring that technique holds up under pressure and that winning is a habit. It’s in the head, not the feet.
Want evidence? Look at Eddie Jones’ comments after they went 2-0 up in the recent series down under. He was desperate to win 3-0 and said the third game was their final, after a quarter and semi. Imagine that team coming into the changing room after losing that last game or playing a dead rubber – he’d have banjoed them! Contrast that to resting 6 players against Slovakia – an absolutely dreadful decision that sent out more wrong messages than an inebriated answer machine.
Eddie Jones has, apparently, just gone back to mastering the basics. And that includes defence and set pieces. Like a headteacher going into a failing school, the first thing they look at are uniform and behaviour, not how flowery the curriculum is. You get the basics right, with the right staff hammering over the manager/coaches’ mindset, and you’re halfway there.
For me, elite sport is about that one word – MINDSET. That’s what the successful managers concentrate on, and that why they are successful. Mindset then filters into various avenues: performance, organisation, pride, sense of team, sense of worth, a knowledge of your role and what is expected of you, and it allows everyone to buy into what the manager is doing. Mindset is omnipresent – but that can be positive as well as negative, too!
Gareth Bale is not a superstar in the Welsh shirt. He’s another player that has bought into a mindset whilst wearing the Welsh shirt. He’s their most gifted player but is one that is prepared to work harder than lesser mortals. And when you get that mindset, anything is possible – and the impossible can happen. Where England talk of the quarter finals being a solid tournament, Chris Coleman asks people to keep on dreaming. There is no ceiling on belief and hope, yet England managed to squeeze every single last drop of hope out of everyone. And as a supporter of a club that has struggled for most of the 42 years I’ve been watching them, hope is all that we sometimes have.
International football is not about passion – that’s another contradiction as evidenced by Joe Hart belting out the national anthem louder than anyone and then performing way below the expected level. But a positive mindset, allied to organisation and belief, means that passion doesn’t take over from performance when the whistle blows. I couldn’t care less if our players sang Public Enemy songs during the national anthem if it made them play better. And whilst we’re on about anthems – please someone create a new one for our country. Compare it to the Welsh or Italian anthems and it’s akin to JLS covering Massive Attack songs.
Chris Coleman doesn’t seem a ranter. I’ve met him a few times and he seems a calm, decent bloke. He hasn’t had a particularly glittering career either, but he has got the Welsh lads buying into a mindset, a philosophy and a united plan. He has the world’s most expensive player doing exactly what he wants him to. Coleman also seems to use nationalistic pride in a way that doesn’t burden his players, too. Perhaps the FA should have a go at getting him – but I doubt he’d lower his standards now!
England’s Euro 16 campaign wasn’t damned by the Iceland game. Nor was the fat lady singing when Hodgson acted like he did at that press conference. No, our national team was shamed to high heaven in the 85th minute of the Wales v Belgium game….
That’s when Wales were leading 2-1 in the biggest game they’ve had in 58 years, against the World’s second ranked team. That’s when Reading’s right back was Wales’ furthest player forward when they should have been hanging on for dear life. That’s when an out-of-contract Championship player got himself into the box when he could have been on the half way line for when they lost the ball. And that’s when a cross of high quality – instead of simply running the ball into the corner – was matched by the header that sent Wales into the semi final.
That isn’t about passion, it’s not about academies, and it’s not about how loud the anthem was sung. It’s all about mindset; and whilst we started the last ten minutes against Iceland with the dynamic Rashford on the bench and four still in defence, Wales had their right back twenty five yards away from the opposition goal.
That mindset takes bravery. And bravery isn’t just about tackling and sticking your foot in. Bravery is about sticking to what you believe in when the pressure is on. Bravery is the ability to get on the ball when its easier to simply smash the ball away and kill time. It’s about having the guts to think on your feet and take a chance. That’s why Wales two wing backs have had so much attacking joy, shots and chances.
Until England have a new mindset we’ll forever be asking the same questions about the FA and our national team. Until we do things differently we’ll always be talking about multi-millionaires not earning their money when the pressure is on. The results of England and Wales last matches are all the incentive that the powers should need for doing an Edwyn Collins – rip it up and start again. It’s a blank canvas to experiment, look long term. The country will understand as we have had six decades of hurt.
The shame is never the result. There is no shame in simply losing. The shame is always in how the result was attained. We keep losing in the same manner, with the same excuses offered, followed by the same questions. The country deserves far, far better. Our children certainly deserve a national team to be proud of.
ANTHONY BUNN
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Om - Conference of the Birds
Artist: Om
Album: Conference of the Birds
Label: Holy Mountain
Review date: May. 7, 2006
In Hinduism, �om� is the single most important syllable of existence, representing the confluence of deep sleep, dreams, and consciousness, and their mystic separation from the idea of the absolute which is beyond everyday human comprehension. There are also connections with the life cycle - the sound �om� being made of �a� which represents creation and Brahma, �u� which is Vishnu or the middle period of life, and �m� represents Shiva, whose meditation frees us from the concrete world. Om is a trinity, the exact components of which depend on which interpretation you�re using. I won�t pretend to be an expert in Hindu myth or meaning, but these basic tidbits are enough on their own to at least partially explain the sounds contained on Conference of the Birds. And while it may be mere coincidence that Om formed out of two thirds of Sleep (you could probably debate which two parts of the �om� Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius represent, but it would only make any sense if you were either a huge metalhead, a giant stoner, a Hindu scholar, or some combination of the three), the symbolic connection between the two in this context is too much to ignore. To get perhaps a bit too literal here, om is the step beyond sleep towards some kind of transcendence. Which isn�t to say that music of Om is any �deeper� or �more advanced� than that of Sleep, just that it operates on a different level with a different set of tools.
Conference of the Birds is structurally and sonically similar to its predecessor, Variations on a Theme � repeated bass licks and drum patterns that gradually evolve over the course of about 15 minutes. The second song (each song spans about 20 tracks, presumably to thwart piracy), �Flight of the Eagle,� could very easily be the fourth track on Variations both in character and in sound. Cisneros� bass sound is dense and fuzzy and his vocals are an imposing chant musing on some mythic journey or battle occurring in ancient Egypt, while Hakius keeps a solid beat centered around his bell-like cymbal.
�At Giza,� on the other hand, represents a very different side of the group, one much closer to the concept of om than anything else they�ve done. Simply put, the music is much tauter than before, with less overall weight. The bass tone is clean, devoid of any distracting distortion, the drums are slower, more hypnotic, the vocals more an incantation than a chant, returning to words like �sentient,� �aperture,� and other archaic multisyllabics. And while the imagery is more an opium-den vision than a meditative dream, the words are there more as sounds and rhythm and quickly lose their meaning.
Whether you view it as stoner wisdom, opium hallucination, or mystic journey, this album is about transcendence. The Conference of the Birds is, amongst other things, a 12th century Sufi metaphysical parable on discovering the true nature of God, mimicking the journey of the avatar protagonist of both of Om�s songs. Farid ud-Din Attar�s poem comes to the conclusion that God is not to be found in a single place but all around, in every aspect of life and the world. So despite the fact that Om comes from the Hindu, references the Sufi, and uses the language of the Egyptian, they draw from each the same idea: that the world beyond the tactile is not that far away.
By Dan Ruccia
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Bruce Eisenbeil - Opium
Artist: Bruce Eisenbeil
Album: Opium
Label: CIMP
Review date: Mar. 31, 2002
Opium, the latest CIMP (Creative Improvisational Music Project) release to be led by the New Jersey-based guitarist, Bruce Eisenbeil, is a mesmerizing album. It is as subtle, dynamic and unpredictable as a chemistry experiment. The Opium quartet is anchored by an unusually dark-timbred horn combination consisting of David Taylor on bass trombone and Michael Attias on bass saxophone. The two work in tandem throughout the album, honking, grumbling furiously, or unleashing deep throaty yawns that simmer as they patiently drive the album forward. At points, Attias moves to the brighter sounding alto saxophone for a contrast in his soloing. Jay Rosen�s percussion alternates between the wild, humorous, and minimal, and accentuates the interaction between the two horns. He often lags slightly behind them, as if he were chasing them, and only periodically assumes the rhythmic lead. Eisenbeil�s enigmatic guitar playing, which I place somewhere in between the styles of Joe Pass and Eugene Chadbourne, also tends to hover around the periphery of the horns and takes center stage only selectively. This varied quartet comes together magically to create a continually mutating soundscape that always appears to be bubbling with tension just beneath the surface, as if it were waiting to explode at any moment.
Opium is an album of contrasts, the most significant of which is that of the thin, needle-like sound of Eisenbeil�s guitar and hearty roars of the Attias and Taylor horns. The album�s opening track, �Shadow�s Knight,� which begins with Eisenbeil noodling along the fretboard while Rosen accompanies him gently on the symbols, highlights this juxtaposition. About a minute into the song Taylor and Attias break the mood with an abrupt and startling honk. As Eisenbeil�s guitar playing grows increasingly frenetic, the two horns continue to enter the song serendipitously like a pair of ugly ducklings calling out in a storm. In songs such as �Shadow�s Knight� as well as the album�s sixth track, �Ode to Blind Joe Death,� (dedicated to the late guitarist, John Fahey) Eisenbeil and the horns appear to be on two different musical planes. Yet, their disjointedness works and the independence achieved by each instrument forms a meaningful contrast to other tracks such as �Opium 2� and the nine-minute epic, �Oklahoma Sprawl,� on which the group sounds more unified.
The theme of contrast also can be seen in the diversity of Eisenbeil�s compositions. On the one hand, a track such as �Biting Through� is incredibly controlled and develops almost painfully slowly. On the other hand, the unfettered outpouring of the album�s final song, �New Years Eve,� has drawn comparisons among my friends to a stampede of elephants and a New York City traffic jam during rush hour. In isolation, each song may veer too much to one extreme or the other. Yet, in relation to one another �Biting Through� and �New Years Eve� are complementary.
Opium is not an easy album. It requires an open-mind, concentration and a number of listenings before its subtleties and its purity of sound can begin to be appreciated. Yet, the quartet�s marvelous poise throughout the twelve tracks and their uncompromising devotion to Eisenbeil�s artistic vision make it well worth the effort. As the album�s producer, Robert D. Rusch, describes in the liner notes: �there was very little of what might be called random playing.�
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Politics Can Be Different
Title: Politics Can Be Different
Subject: European Green Party, Pirate Party of Hungary, Politics of Hungary, Community for Social Justice People's Party, Unity Party (Hungary, 2009)
Lehet Más a Politika
András Schiffer
Bernadett Szél
1136 Budapest, Hegedűs Gyula u. 36.
Green liberalism
Green politics[1]
Centre[2]
Global Greens
European affiliation
European Green Party (member since Nov. 2011)
County Assemblies
http://lehetmas.hu/
Politics of Hungary
Politics Can Be Different (alternative translation: 'Another Politics Is Possible') (Hungarian: Lehet Más a Politika, LMP) is a green-liberal[3][4][5][6] political party in Hungary. Founded in 2009, it was one of four parties to win seats in the National Assembly in the 2010 parliamentary election.
1.1 Foundation and electoral success
1.2 Party split
1.3 Recovery
2 Election results
Foundation and electoral success
The party was preceded by a Hungarian politics.[7] LMP shares common ideologies with most green parties. Key issues are environmental protection, sustainable development and the fight against corruption in the current political elite. LMP highlights what they see as the pointlessness of the current partisan division between the Left-wing and right-wing forces, and their principle is deliberative democracy, which they believe decreases the distance between the people and the political elite.
Bright green environmentalism
Eco-capitalism
Eco-feminism
Green conservatism
Green left
Green libertarianism
Green syndicalism
Green Zionism
Asia Pacific Greens Federation
European Green Party
Federation of Green Parties of Africa
Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas
Federation of Young European Greens
Global Young Greens
Anti-environmentalism
Conservation movement
Eco-imperialism
Ecocentrism
Ecofascism
Ecological modernization
The public faces of the organization are currently András Schiffer, a former member of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) and Védegylet, and Bernadett Szél, an economist and NGO worker. At the party's formation, the leading figures also included Benedek Jávor, university professor in environmental law and a founder of Védegylet, Gábor Scheiring, an economist, and Tímea Szabó, a humanitarian worker, who was to head the list presented for the 2009 European Parliament elections. In 2009, LMP received the official endorsement of the European Green Party.[8]
At the 2009 European Parliament elections the party garnered 75,522 votes, (or 2.61% of the total votes), which was less than the 5% needed to gain a seat for the 2009–2014 cycle, though beating the 2.16% received by Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), one of the parties already in the national parliament.[9]
In the 2010 parliamentary elections, the party achieved 7.48% in the first electoral round, thereby clearing the 5 percent electoral threshold, gaining 16 seats in the parliament, though it did not obtain any direct-representational seats.[10] In the local elections of 3 October 2010, LMP gained 54 seats in local city councils, with at least one representative in most of the district councils of the capital, 3 seats in the General Assembly of Budapest, as well as in a few other cities around the country. Gábor Ivády was the only party member, who was elected mayor of a town, however he left LMP on 21 October 2010.[11]
Since its establishment and 2010 national election, LMP was kept under pressure by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) to achieve some kind of electoral compromise and cooperation against Viktor Orbán's controversial government. For instance, during the by-election in the 2nd District of Budapest in 2011, MSZP urged the LMP's candidate Gergely Karácsony to withdraw in Katalin Lévai's favor, but the green party did not do this.[12] The leadership of the LMP positioned the party to the Centrism, and, as a newcomer, rejected both Fidesz and MSZP's politics. András Schiffer also criticized the previous Socialist cabinets, blaming Ferenc Gyurcsány's disastrous governance for having Fidesz won a two-thirds majority in 2010.[13] However prominent politicians in LMP were divided on the issue of cooperation. In July 2011, Karácsony proposed an election coalition between Jobbik, LMP and MSZP, to change certain laws enacted by Fidesz. He cited Éva Tétényi's case, as a precedent of how such a proposal could work.[14] Politics Can Be Different became a full member of the European Green Party (EGP) in November 2011.[15]
Party split
During the party's congress in November 2012, LMP decided not to join Together 2014, the planned electoral alliance of opposition parties and movements led by Gordon Bajnai. As a result Benedek Jávor, a proponent of the agreement, resigned from his position of parliamentary group leader.[16] Jávor and his supporters (including Tímea Szabó and Gergely Karácsony) founded a platform within the party, called "Dialogue for Hungary" on 26 November 2012. The platform argued in favour of conclusion of an electoral agreement with Bajnai's movement in order to replace "Orbán's regime".[17] Later that day Schiffer, who did not support the cooperation with Bajnai, was elected leader of the LMP parliamentary group for second time.[18]
In January 2013, the LMP's congress rejected again the electoral cooperation with other opposition parties, including Together 2014.[19] As a result members of the party's "Dialogue for Hungary" platform left LMP to form a new political organization. Benedek Jávor announced the eight leaving MPs will not resign from their parliamentary seats. Seven parliamentarians remained in the party, Jávor said negotiations are required for the continued operation of the parliamentary group, according to the house rules, which requires 12 seats. Schiffer did not call the secession as a party split, because, he argued, less than 10% of the LMP's membership decided to leave the party and joined Jávor's new initiative.[20] The leaving MPs established Dialogue for Hungary as an officially registered party in March 2013.[21] After the failed negotiations, the eight MPs also left the parliamentary group which then broken up according to the house rules of the National Assembly.[22]
The 4K! - Fourth Republic! party offered electoral alliance to the LMP. Party leader András Istvánffy called the developments that took place in opposition as "a cleansing process, which will separate those who seek to restore pre-2010 conditions and those who want real regime change."[23] However LMP refused the 4K! party's cooperation offer in September 2013.[24]
Schiffer and Bernadett Szél were elected co-presidents of the LMP during the party's congress on 24 March 2013.[25] The seven MPs of the party were able to re-establish the LMP's caucus on 1 September 2013, after the decision of the Committee on Immunity, Incompatibility and Mandate. The old-new group became the first caucus, where the majority were women, for the first time in Hungary.[26]
Politics Can Be Different received 5 seats, as barely jumped over the 5% threshold in the [30] In a different point of view, LMP largely regained the positions, which had been lost during the party split in early 2013, for istance, then all three representatives in the General Assembly of Budapest joined Dialogue for Hungary.[31]
For the Hungarian Parliament:
# of
overall votes
overall vote
overall seats won
383,876 7.48 % (#4)
New party in opposition
11 in opposition
For the European Parliament:
# of overall votes
% of overall vote
# of overall seats won
75,522 2.61 (#5)
116,904 5.04 (#6)
1 In an electoral alliance with the Humanist Party (HP)
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^ Parties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
^ Guardiancich, Igor (2013), Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: From post-socialist transition to the global financial crisis, Routledge, p. 94
^ Wayne C. Thompson (9 August 2012). Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe 2012. Stryker Post. p. 389.
^ Petr Kopecký; Peter Mair; Maria Spirova (26 July 2012). Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies. Oxford University Press. p. 165.
^ Igor Guardiancich (21 August 2012). Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis. Routledge. p. 94.
^ Freedom House (24 December 2013). Nations in Transit 2013: Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 255.
^ The BpSun Staff (28 October 2008). "LMP to garner protest votes".
^ Press Release: European Greens Support European Election Campaigns of LMP in Hungary and Zelenite in Bulgaria (EGP News)
^ "The detailed results of the European Parliamentary elections". 7 June 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
^ http://index.hu/belfold/2010/valasztas/eredmenyek/egyeni/
^ Otthagyja a pártot az LMP egyetlen polgármestere Hírszerző, 2010. október 20.
^ "Fidesz candidate cruises to victory in closely-watched Budapest by-election". Politics.hu. November 15, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
^ "Schiffer nem csókolózott Mesterházyval" (in Hungarian).
^ Interview with Gergely Karácsony of LMP
^ "Az Európai Zöld Párt teljes jogú tagja lett az LMP" (in Hungarian). Origo. November 13, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
^ "Beintett Bajnainak az LMP, lemondott Jávor Benedek". 18 November 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
^ "LMP fails to elect new parliamentary group leader as split in party continues". 26 November 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
^ "Ismét Schiffer András az LMP-frakció vezetője". 26 November 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
^ "LMP rejects proposals for new strategy at party congress". 27 January 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
^ "LMP splits over cooperation with Together 2014; caucus may remain intact". 28 January 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
^ "LMP rebels to establish Dialogue for Hungary as a full-fledged party". 4 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
^ "Eight breakaway LMP lawmakers to sit as independents". 11 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
^ """Small party 4K! seeks alliance with LMP for "regime change. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
^ "A 4K! önállóan indul a jövő évi választásokon". 29 September 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
^ "Szél Bernadett és Schiffer András az LMP két társelnöke" (in Hungarian).
^ "LMP parliamentary group first with female majority in Hungary’s history, says leader". 6 September 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
^ "Fidesz wins Hungarian parliamentary election by a landslide". 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
^ "Kezdődik az MSZP végjátéka". 26 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
^ "Kiteljesedik egy régi liezon, összejön az LMP és a 4K!". 4 August 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
^ "Megmaradt a Fidesz egyeduralma". 13 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
^ "Valamit brutálisan elszámolt a baloldal". 13 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
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Professors Frank, Hucks, Kepnes, Martin, Sindima, Vecsey (Chair)
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The Department of Religion at Colgate offers a program of study that challenges students to explore the role of religion across cultures and historical periods, and to think critically about the nature and expression of religiousness. Religion courses offer training in a unique combination of skills, including close textual analysis, direct observation, critical thinking, and cross-cultural understanding.
The department offers a variety of courses regarding diverse African, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American traditions and scriptures. In addition to courses focused on particular traditions, the department also offers courses on the relationship between religion and issues of historic and contemporary importance, such as the environment, terrorism, medicine, gender, and the law.
The study of religion is necessarily interdisciplinary, making reflective use of the full variety of liberal arts methods. In addition, it engages related issues in philosophy, ethics, society, spirituality, science, gender, sexuality, arts, and politics. Thus, a major or minor in religion may serve as a natural complement to other majors. Students in the arts and humanities, for instance, will find that the study of religious texts and worlds affords them greater insight into literature and visual art. Some students may seek to make stronger interdisciplinary connections. In consultation with an adviser, students may elect to create a track through the religion major or minor that brings their work in religion into dialogue with their work in other departments or programs. Possible tracks include:
Religion, Politics, and Law
The department offers courses that examine the intersection of religion and politics, past and present, explore the legal frameworks of a variety of religious traditions, and ask students to think about the role of ethics and morality in public life. Students interested in history, international relations, peace and conflict studies, or political science will find that a minor or second major in religion allows them a better understanding of many of the longstanding ideological conflicts that have shaped the contemporary world.
Students interested in the natural sciences who intend to enter the fields of medicine and health sciences will find that courses in religion equip them to evaluate the moral complexity of current scientific advances. A host of religion courses probe questions that are central to medicine and health: questions of body and soul, psychic states and mindfulness, sex and sexuality, life and death. These are treated in a variety of religious traditions, offering the pre-med student a comparative approach to health and healing.
The success of our graduates indicates that a major in religion provides excellent preparation for a number of careers, including education, government, journalism, finance, law, social work, and professional service in non-profit organizations and religious institutions.
The M. Holmes Hartshorne Memorial Awards for Excellence — established as an award for students who, in the judgment of the department, have performed exceptional work in philosophy and/or religion.
The M. Holmes Hartshorne Memorial Award for Postgraduate Study in Philosophy and/or Religion — established as an award for a graduating senior, for achievement in the study of philosophy and/or religion and, depending on financial need, to assist the recipient with postgraduate study in philosophy, religion, or philosophy and religion at a recognized graduate or divinity school.
The Raphael Lemkin Prize — established to honor the memory of Raphael Lemkin (1901–1959), survivor of the Holocaust and professor on international law, who first coined the word “genocide” and who inspired the United Nations’ Convention on Genocide. Awarded for the best essay dealing with an issue, principle, or concept related to Dr. Lemkin’s concerns and reflecting his ideals, as determined by the chair of the department and/or the chair’s appointed committee of three faculty members. All prize participants must read the biography of Raphael Lemkin provided to them by the department.
The Robinson Essay Prize — established in honor of Joseph Robinson and awarded on the basis of an essay written for a 200- or 300-level course in the department during the previous spring or fall semesters.
Advanced Placement cannot be presumed since examinations in this area are not given
Transfer credit for graduation requirements may be awarded by the registrar. Transfer of credit toward major or minor requirements requires prior written permission from both the registrar and the department. Normally no more than two transfer credits may count toward major or minor requirements. Seminar credit is not transferable.
All candidates for honors in religion and those majors in philosophy and religion who wish to write on a religious theme are required to take an advanced course in religion in the fall of the senior year. At the end of the course, the faculty member may recommend that a student’s paper be reworked into an honors thesis.
In the spring of the senior year, candidates for honors normally take an independent study (RELG 490 ) with their honors adviser. The honors thesis — a substantial piece of research, analysis, or critique — is turned in to the adviser several weeks before the end of the term. If the adviser decides that the thesis can stand for honors, the honors candidate meets during exam week with his or her adviser and two other faculty readers and fields questions: the honors defense. Ideally the question and answer session becomes a forum for intellectual exchange between the student writer and the faculty readers. A student is awarded honors on the basis of both the quality of the written thesis and the conduct of the honors defense. No student can be awarded honors, however, who does not have at least a GPA of 3.40 in his or her major.
During the spring semester the Department of Religion, in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy, offers a study group at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland’s first university, founded in 1413. Other than the director’s course, which is taught by a Colgate faculty member, students take courses of their choice from among those offered by the University of St. Andrews, at which they are enrolled for the semester. The department has also organized extended study in Israel. For more information see Off-Campus Study and Extended Study .
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RELG 203 - Comparative Religious Ethics
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RELG 235 - Religion, War, Peace, and Reconciliation
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RELG 240 - Religion and Terrorism
RELG 244 - African American Religious Experience
RELG 245 - Religion in Contemporary America
RELG 247 - Death and Afterlife
RELG 248 - Christianity, Islam, and Political Change in Africa
RELG 251 - Faith after the Holocaust
RELG 253 - Sex, Love, and God: Religion and Queer Studies
RELG 255 - Church, State, and Law in America
RELG 265 - Global Bioethics and Religion
RELG 276 - Psychology of Religion
RELG 281 - Experiencing Hinduism
RELG 282 - Experiencing Islam
RELG 283 - Experiencing Judaism
RELG 284 - Christian Traditions
RELG 285 - Buddhism Traditions
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RELG 287 - Protestant Traditions: Revolutions and Reformations
RELG 288 - American Indian Religions
RELG 289 - African Religious Traditions
RELG 291 - Independent Study
RELG 295 - Tibetan Buddhism
RELG 306 - Dying for God: Martyrdom and Noble Death in Judaism and Christianity
RELG 308 - End of the World: Apocalyptic Thought and Movements in Historical Perspective
RELG 309 - Religion and Medical Practice
RELG 310 - Sharia Law
RELG 313 - The “Word” in the World: The Bible in Global Perspective
RELG 320 - Native Peoples and Modern Law
RELG 321 - Religion in Modern India
RELG 329 - Global Islam in the Modern World
RELG 331 - The Problem of Evil
RELG 332 - Contemporary Religious Thought
RELG 335 - Religion in the Genetic Age
RELG 336 - Religion and Capitalism
RELG 337 - Islamic Mysticism
RELG 338 - Sex, Law, and the American Culture Wars
RELG 339 - Modern Jewish Philosophy
RELG 342 - Our Secular Age
RELG 343 - Gender and Judaism
RELG 346 - Cognitive Science of Religion
RELG 411 - Senior Seminar in Religion
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Collection: Thomas MacDonagh Family Papers, 1848-1966. >> ... >> Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he is...
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he is "extraordinarily well" and "sleeping full eight hours, feeding like a lord",
1915 Jun. 17.
MacDonagh, Thomas, 1878-1916
MacDonagh, Muriel Enid Gifford, 1884-1917
Thomas MacDonagh Family Papers, 1848-1966.
MacDonagh, Muriel Enid Gifford, > 1884-1917 > Correspondence
MacDonagh, Thomas, > 1878-1916 > Correspondence
Address inscribed on envelope is "Mrs. MacDonagh, Dublin".
Physical description: 1 item (3 pages with envelope).
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Thomas MacDonagh Family Papers,
I. Correspondence, 1901-1934.
I.i. Family correspondence, 1907-1934.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford about being back working in the school, 1911.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford in which he states he is under time constraints and apologises for this, 1911 Oct. 17.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford in which he makes a proposal of marriage, 1911 Oct. 20.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford stating his happiness at her acceptance of his marriage proposal, 1911 Oct. 24.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford regarding a post in University College, 1911 Oct 26.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford informing her that he has been too busy to write recently, 1911 Nov. 2.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford enquiring about what they should do tomorrow, 1911 Nov. 2.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford saying he is free tomorrow, 1911 Nov. 6.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford saying he "now sees things in a different light", 1911 Nov. 7.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford in which he expresses his love for her, 1911 Nov. 7.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford saying it will be his "shortest letter" to her, 1911 Nov. 14.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford informing that her ring is not ready yet, 1911 Nov. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford informing her that "the bungalow idea is off", 1911 Nov. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford in which he talks about his cold and raising money, 1911 Nov. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford in which he states his determination to get rid of his cold, 1911 Nov. 23.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford in which he describes meeting his sister, 1911 Nov. 30.
Letter card from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford saying that he went to Kilkenny to advise he was taking the suite, 1911 December 13.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford saying that he will move 'heaven and earth' to keep their marriage date, 1911 Dec. 4.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel Gifford saying that he has "just got back, and written to Pearse and the Monsignor" 1912 Jan. 2.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he is "afraid of coming out here and finding me out", 1912 Jul. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh Informing her that he has spoken to the doctor and said that he wanted her put "in a private ward at once", 1912 Sept. 28.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her he spoke to the nurse about the doctor's directive to have her room changed, 1912 Sept. 29.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he said there was "no time to prepare a place for you but would so as soon as possible", 1912 Sept. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he met with his sister as she "wanted those tickets", 1912 Oct. 12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her to "take care of herself", 1912 Nov. 18.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he relates that he has written letters to Hyde, MacNeill and others about the meeting of the faculties, 1912 Nov. 20.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that he has collected proofs of 'The Irish Review' and has "written letters to Ballantyne and Clarendon Press", 1912 Nov. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he is going to bed, 1912 Nov. 23.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he felt bad about leaving her tonight, 1912 Nov. 27.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he will be there for "about 11.30 tomorrow", 1912 Nov. 28.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying his letters must seem flat to her, 1912 Nov. 29.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which talks about their financial affairs and Christmas, 1912 Nov. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he hopes her headache is gone and that she sleeps well, 1912 Dec. 12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he is worried about the "old pain in her leg", 1912 Dec. 2.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh expressing his concern regarding her illness and promises to see her the next day after 11 O'Clock, 1912 Dec. 12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh enquiring as to her wellbeing and reassuring her that she will be better soon, 1912 Dec. 4.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he "must try to write more plainly", 1912 Dec. 5.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which the topic of their son's christening is alluded to, 1912 Dec. 6.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her not to worry about money, 1912 Dec. 7.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about their newly born son, 1912 Dec. 8.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he says he hates the idea of her "being neglected in any way", 1912 Dec. 9.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that she will be better this week and be able to come home, 1912 Dec. 10.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he must register the baby, 1912 Dec. 11.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that he hopes that they will all be together soon, 1912 Dec. 12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh thanking her for her "beautiful letter this morning", 1912 Dec.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he is "dull when writing to her at present", 1912 Dec.15.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh expresses his happiness that "the danger of a long illness is past", 1912 Dec. 14.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he says he has spoken to the doctor about her coming home, 1912 Nov. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he sends his birthday greetings, 1912 Dec. 17.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying she hopes that she "will be well and up before Christmas", 1912 Dec. 18.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he has "set Gabriel to work at Catullus with a translation", 1912 Dec. 19.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that "today has reminded me of Woodenbridge", 1912 Dec.12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he hopes that she will "be up this week", 1912 Dec. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh assuring her that she will be better soon and that himself and the baby want her at home, 1912 Dec. 23.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he has been reading a book of poetry by Nancy Maude, 1912 Dec. 24.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her not to "fall into the bad mistake of self-blame" for her ill-health, 1912 Dec. 25.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about his new poem, 1912 Dec. 26.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he needs to tell her something which is inappropriate for a letter and has kept him from writing to her, 1912 Dec. 27.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that she "will not be disappointed with motherhood", 1912 Dec. 28.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about getting a cot for the baby, 1912 Dec. 29.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh talking about a play he has just seen by Joseph Mary Plunkett, 1912 Dec. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh wishing her a happy new year, 1913 Jan. 1.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he has a slight cold and has taken a whiskey for it, 1913 Jan. 1.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh wishing her many happy returns on their wedding anniversary, 1913 Jan. 2.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh writing to her on the day of their anniversary before it ends, 1912 Jan. 3.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he says that he is "glad to have begun reading novels again", 1913 Jan. 4.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he remarks at how wonderful it will be to begin "to speak a living language", 1913 Jan. 5.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about money and getting a cheque from Scoil éanna, 1913 Jan. 6.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh asking her not to be angry with him as he had "to call to know the result of the election", 1913 Jan. 7.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he refers to writing "a formal application for assistant examinership in English", 1913 Jan. 8.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh writing to her on the anniversary of their living together, 1913 Jan. 10.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh and is writing to her late at night but still has enough time to do "some work for tomorrow's lecture", 1913 Jan. 10.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he wished he had written another letter to her, 1913 Jan. 11.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that he is confident that she "will be able to get up this week", 1913 Jan. 12.
Postcard from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh and tells her he will be dedicating his book to an unidentified person, 1913 Jan. 13.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that will be with her at 12 a.m. tomorrow, 1913 Jan. 4.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he will be with her around 11am tomorrow, 1913 Jan. 15.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he will get back to her after the meeting, 1913 Jan. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he will be with her about 1 O'Clock, 1913 Jan. 26.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about details of a meeting he was at, 1913 Jan. 8.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh and talks about "the present lot of meetings", 1913 Jan. 19
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he has been writing letters and cards to many people, 1913 Jan. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her of his plans for tomorrow which include fixing up the cover of his book, 1913 Jan. 20.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he has written to his publisher Ballintyre about the book, 1913 Jan. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh assuring that he would never be angry with her, 1913 Jan. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her she is good to put up with all her "suffering and waiting so patiently", 1913 Jan. 23.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he hopes her headache has gone, 1913 Jan. 24.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he will visit her tomorrow at 12 or 1 O'Clock, 1913 Jan. 25.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh says that he hopes he will be with her at about 12 O'Clock, 1913 Jan. 26.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh he cannot decide "for the cover of the book", 1913 Jan. 27.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about letters he received from priests and his writing career, 1913 Jan. 28.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he must write more plainly and she must tell him "when you cannot make out a word", 1913 Jan. 29.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he has been busy writing letters and cards to many people, 1913 Jan. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that the doctor will examine him tomorrow at 3.30, 1913 Feb. 1.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about his difficulties with getting a taxi, 1913 Feb. 1.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying there is no hot water and has not had a bath, 1913 Feb. 3.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he hopes he will be able to get his book for her, 1913 Feb. 4.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he discusses the contents of his new book of poetry, 1913 Feb. 3.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh apologising for having insufficient time to write her "a proper letter", 1913 Feb. 5.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he has written to his publisher Ballintyre and given them full instructions as regards his book, 1913 Feb. 6.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh which was written at 2 O'Clock after his work was finished, 1913 Feb. 7.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh relating to "a most unfortunate mistake" that occurred that night, 1913 Feb. 9.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he "may have to go to Galway at once", 1913 Feb. 10.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that tomorrow will be a long day, 1913 Feb. 11.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he describes his busy evening as he had 6 important letters to write along with copies of his application, 1913 Feb. 12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he gives details of a meeting he had with Joseph Plunkett, 1913 Feb. 13.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh which was written late at night due to other commitments, 1913 Feb. 14.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her he is delighted she is "getting better at last", 1913 Feb. 15.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he will visit her tomorrow at 11.30pm, 1913 Feb. 15.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about getting the help of the Protestant party, 1913 Nov. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying "it is quite likely that the election will be postponed", 1913 Mar. 5.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he tells her about his stay in a hotel and talks about the expense of doing so, 1913 Jun. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her about the "damned dull place" he is staying, 1913 Jun. 16.
Telegram from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh sending "love to Donagh and Muriel", 1913 Jun. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he tells her about his "hard day" at the school, 1913 Jun. 17.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh thanking her for the present and the money, 1913 Jun. 18.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he describes his trip to the picture house in Dungannon, 1913, Jun. 19.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh apologising for writing so late and says he will write twice to make up for this, 1913 Jun. 20.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he describes a letter forwarded to him from the college as "a stupid troublesome thing", 1913 Jun. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying "it was villainous of me to take your money so", 1913 Jun. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh and their son Donagh asking if they will meet him at the train station on Sunday when he comes in, 1913 Jun. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her about "spending the evening with the Binghams in the school", 1913 Jun. 23.
Draft of letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh, undated.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that he has just "got the boy finally to sleep", 1913 Oct. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he will have more time with her tomorrow, 1913 Oct. 30.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he expresses his satisfaction that she likes his poems, 1913 Oct. 31.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that she is "really getting better now", 1913 Nov. 1.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her to be happy and optimistic as she has "reason to be", 1913 Nov. 3.
Typescript poem from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh, 1913 Nov. 4.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he must not leave her lonesome tomorrow, 1913 Nov. 6.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he has enclosed 16 pages of his book, 1913 Nov. 7.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which says he is "so glad that you are so much better", 1913 Nov. 8.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he wants her "full love and trust and confidence", 1913 Nov. 9.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh and says that he hopes she will be better when he visits her tomorrow, 1913 Nov. 10.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he does not think he can make it to her tomorrow, 1913 Nov. 11.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh informing her that he may not be able to visit her tomorrow, 1913 Nov. 12.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh thanking her for the telephone call, 1913 Nov. 13.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her "not to come in here" if she does not feel better tomorrow, 1913 Nov. 14.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that their son is sleeping soundly in the "front room", 1913 Nov. 15.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh hoping that she has got back alright, 1914 Apr. 18.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he says he is "expecting seven delegates from the different corps of volunteers in the city" , 1914 Apr. 19.
Letter card from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that he has just arrived and has not yet met anyone, 1914 May 20.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh describing his hotel in Carlow and other accommodation, 1915 Jun. 15.
Postcard from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he has missed this post and "will explain why tomorrow", 1916 Jun. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he is "extraordinarily well" and "sleeping full eight hours, feeding like a lord", 1915 Jun. 17.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh telling her about his walk up the Barrow toward Athy, 1915 Jun. 17.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he was relieved to get her letter, 1915 Jun. 18.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he talks about Carlow and the Barrow river, 1915 Jun. 19.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he is not going to Kilkenny tomorrow, 1915 Jun. 19.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he describes the "quietest day of my life so far", 1915 Jun. 20.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh and their son where he describes an encounter with an Irish Volunteer and a curate, 1915 Jun. 21.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying "it will be my last letter to you for some time", 1915 Jun. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that hopes he "shall be able to get back at 6.37", 1915 Sept. 18.
Copy of letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh on the night before his execution in Kilmainham Jail, started by Muriel MacDonagh and completed by Fiona Plunkett, 1916 May 2.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he will be back tomorrow at 10.30, undated.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh in which he describes his love for her and could never love anyone else, 1911.
Letter from Muriel Enid Gifford to Thomas MacDonagh inviting him to breakfast, 1909 Aug. 7.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for his kind invitation to his plays which she has accepted along with her sisters, 1910 Feb.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that she will call to St. Enda's with her family for tea on Wednesday at 3 O'Clock, undated.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that she received the play and "it is splendid" , 1911 Sept. 1911.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying she has been reading over his letters and feels that he is the one taking "all the risks", 1911 Oct. 3.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking him to wear the kilt again if they are meeting tomorrow, 1911 Oct. 6.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that he made her "so miserable and jealous this evening", 1911 Oct. 8.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him about "a bitter and cynical letter" she received from her ex-fiance , 1911 Oct. 13.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she says she will marry him any time he wants, 1911 Oct. 17.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him not to come and see her on Saturday if he is still feeling unwell, 1911 Oct. 19.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh says that her father never saw them at all and "it was a false alarm" , 1911 Oct. 21.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she speaks fondly of the ring he gave her, 1911 Oct. 25.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that her mother is mad with her for going to the lecture "under the patronage of priests", 1911 Oct. 26.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him how happy he made her tonight, 1911 Oct. 28.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking him how his neuralgia is, 1911 Oct. 31.
Note from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh informing that she will arrive at 3.30, undated.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that she might not be able to meet him tomorrow as she feels sickly, 1911 Nov. 2.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh describing her unconditional love for him, 1911 Nov. 3.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him he really must not come out tomorrow evening, 1911 Nov. 6.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh talking about his letter and how she sprang on it eagerly when it came in, 1911 Nov. 9.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking him that her "stupid jealousy" be forgiven, 1911 Nov. 10.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking how his back is today, 1911 Nov. 14.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying it would not be wise to get married until he says so, 1911 Nov. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh that designates the Municipal as their meeting point tomorrow, 1911 Nov. 16.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh urging him to stay in bed and take care of himself, 1911 Nov. 20.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying she is never again to allow herself to be jealous of other women, 1911 Nov. 21.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she talks about her parents' reaction to their plans to get married, 1911 Nov. 23.
Partial letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking him meet up but if feeling unwell to wear his overcoat, undated.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying she brought her mother around to the flat and "she was quite charmed with the room", 1911 Nov. 30.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking to forgive her for "being stupid and depressed tonight", 1911 Dec. 5.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh recounting her evening spent with the Stephens's, 1911 Dec. 8.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the "beautiful bag", 1911 Dec. 13.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh apologising for her jealousy, 1911 Dec. 27.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that new arrangements have been made for tomorrow and his carriage will not be required to collect them, 1912 Jan. 2.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that the doctor came and seemed pleased with her progress, 1912 Dec. 12.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that she "is in the best of spirits today", 1912 Dec. 14.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that she has been too tired to write the last few days , 1912 Dec. 17.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she hopes she will be able to return home soon, 1912 Dec. 21.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that they are both coming home to you soon, 1913 Jan. 31.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that the place feels "cold, lonely and desolate without you", 1913 March.
Letter to Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh describing her day with their son Donagh, 1913 Jun. 16.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh describing a visit from two friends, 1913 Jun. 17.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh describing her day with Donagh shopping in the city centre of Dublin, 1913 Jun. 18.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that the nurse would like to see his poem about their son, 1913 Jun. 19.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh filling him in about her visit to the sales, 1913 Jun. 20.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that she is planning to visit his sister, 1913 Jun. 21.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh talking about her day at the Basin with Donagh, 1913 Jun. 22.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying briefly that she will meet him at the station at 10.30, 1913 Jun. 23.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she speaks fondly of past trips they made together and hopes Donagh can join them in future on such jaunts, 1913 Nov. 6.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying how much she enjoys his visits, 1913 Nov. 7.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying she is getting strong and has been reading "The Golden Joy", 1913 Nov. 8.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying she will be with him in less than a week, 1913 Nov. 9.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him about her trip to Kingstown, 1913 Nov. 11.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him he will make a "splendid speech tonight", 1913 Nov. 12.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh thanking for his long letter and that she saw a seal down by the sea, 1913 Nov. 13.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh talking about her mother's visit who thought she was looking "much stronger", 1913 Nov. 14.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she gives an account of meeting their friend Wade, 1913 Nov. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh wishing him well with his meeting, 1914 Mar. 14.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she encloses a cutting from the Liverpool Courier, 1914 Mar. 18.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh relating Donagh's bold behaviour on the way home on the tram, 1914 May 20.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking what the town and the hotel are like, 1915 Jun. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that she hopes he will be comfortable in the house he is staying, 1915 Jun. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him about O'Rahilly's visit to the house, 1915 Jun. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him about visitors that came to the house, 1915 Jun. 16.
Letter fro Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him about their son and daughter, 1915 Jun. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that Barbara was out of sorts and had to be taken to the doctor
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him of her successful technique of getting Donagh to sleep during the day, 1915 Jun. 18
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that Barbara has been feeling unwell, 1915 Jun. 20.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she tells him about Barbara's "sleepless day", 1915 Jun. 21.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she tells him that Donagh "has another tooth", 1915 Jun. 22.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that Barbara is feeling better now and their houskeeper had to take leave due a family breavement, 1915 Jun. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Donagh congratulating him on his birth and is addressed to Muriel, 1912 Nov. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh when he was a month old and addressed to Muriel, 1912 Dec. 22.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying that he is writing late as he has been out walking, 1915 Jun. 16.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh saying he "will come home in one, two, three, four days", 1915 Jun. 18.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh in which he tells him a story about a "big-big bird" and a "wee wee bird", 1915 Jun. 19.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh saying that he will be home tomorrow, 1915 Jun. 22.
Short letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh asking how the pony and the bunny are, undated.
Letter from Donagh MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that he was "a very good boy when you were out", undated.
Letter from Donagh MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking his father to come back home, 1915 Jun. 17.
Letter from Donagh MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying he is writing with his mother's pen and asking how he is, 1915 Jun. 19.
Letter from Donagh MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking him to please come home soon, 1915 Jun. 19.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to his daughter Barbara saying that he is troubled by the fact that she is not sleeping, 1915 Jun. 21.
Note by unidentified author which gives details of postcards in folder, undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh written in Skerries, undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh saying she hopes he will like the card, undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh in which says that his sister came to meet her at the station with his aunt Grace, undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh saying that "Bably was in the sea today", undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh telling him that "Babilly and Peggy had great fun bathing today", undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh in which she says that "Babilly is having great games with Peggy", undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh saying that Babilly is getting quite brown, undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh in which she says "she had a lovely big swim today and nearly got to the island", 1917 Jul. 5.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Sister Francesca letting her know that she will call in to visit her on Christmas Day, 1911, Dec. 20.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Sister Francesca telling her to expect the whole family for a visit tomorrow, 1913 May 10.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Sister Francesca informing her that she will pay a visIt on Thursday at around 5 O'Clock, 1913 Jun. 18.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Sister Francesca telling her not to expect them tomorrow, 1913 Jun. 19.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Sister Francesca thanking her for sending "such a lovely pair of bedroom slippers", 1913.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Sister Francesca thanking her for the nice gifts she sent Donagh, 1913 Nov. 23.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, writing to thank her for another batch of gifts for Barbara, 1915 Jun. 15.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking him to advise their friend to go to a doctor as he is in bad health, 1915 Jun. 15.
Note from John MacDonagh, also known as Jack, to [Mary MacDonagh?] wishing him a merry christmas, [1915?]
Letter from Muriel to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, asking if she could come down to the train at 3 O'Clock, 1916 Jun. 4.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying she will not be able to make it down to Tramore, 1916 Jun. 18.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that she is trying to organise a mass for July 3, 1916 Jun. 23.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying not to expect her on Friday instead of tomorrow, 1916 Sept. 13.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, in which she says she got her carpet back "beautifully cleaned", 1916 Dec. 6.
Letter by unidentified author relating to Thomas MacDonagh's death in 1916, [1916?}
Letter by unidentified author with a note inscribed on the overleaf, undated.
Handwritten poems by A.E. Russell and George Sigerson, undated.
Letter from Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, to Jim MacDonagh which refers to Thomas MacDonagh's death, 1916 Sept. 5.
Letter from Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, to John MacDonagh with handwritten poems of A.E. Russell and George Sigerson, undated.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, thanking her sending "all those lovely things", 1917 Jan. 31.
Letter card from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying she will visit her on Monday if the children are better, 1917 Feb. 10.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, telling her that she has found the big ring, 1917 Feb. 20.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying her friend "brought over the things safely", 1917 Feb. 28.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that Donagh is "getting along nicely", 1917 Mar. 29.
Letter from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, telling her that Donagh has settled down and is constantly asking to see her, 1917 May 20.
Note by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that she put this parcel together on Muriel MacDonagh's first night in her grave, 1917 Jul. 12.
Envelope addressed to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, undated.
Postcard from Muriel MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, which says they are having "gorgeous weather" and Barbara is "quite brown", 1917.
Letter from "Sister M. Genevieve" to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, sending their sympathies regarding her nephew's seriously ill condition, 1917 May 7.
Letter from [K. Lynam) to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that the doctor is pleased with Donagh's progress, 1917.
Letter from "Sister Mary Dympna" to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, sending condolescences regarding the passing of Muriel MacDonagh, 1917 Jul. 17.
Letter from [Sister Mary Dympna?] to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, expressing their delight that Mrs. MacDonagh's reception into the church has at last been settled, 1917.
Note from William Henry Bourke to the Governor of Mountjoy Prison to certify that the bearer is Sister Francesca, 1917 Sept. 29.
Letter from "T. Wilson" to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, in which he remembers Thomas and Muriel MacDonagh, 1917 Nov. 28.
Postcard from unidentified author to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, in Sydney, Australia, 1918.
Typescript letter from unidentified author to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that her letter was received and was delighted to hear from her, 1933 Feb. 22.
Letter from Katherine Gifford-Wilson to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, thanking her for her "kind letter of sympathy on my brother's death", 1934 Apr. 2.
Letter from Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, to Muriel MacDonagh asking about the children and saying she will send her out a few pictures, 1917 Jan. 3.
Letter from Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, telling her to bring Barbara to the doctor in order to relieve her sickness, undated.
Poem handwritten by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, called "Dead for Erin" about the 1916 Rising leaders, 1916 May.
Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, informing her that he has been arrested "for making speeches under the Defence of the Realm Act", 1917 Sept. 5.
Postcard from Joseph MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, in which he tells her that it is likely he will be released from prison in the next two or three weeks, 1918 Nov. 11.
Postcard from Joseph MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, wishing her a happy Christmas and New Year and expressing his doubt at the chances of immediate release from prison, 1918 Nov. 11.
Letter from unidentified priest to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca asking how Donagh is doing on behalf of Joseph MacDonagh, 1919 Feb. 5.
Letter from unidentified niece to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying she is "longing for the next summer holidays" when she will go to Ireland, 1913 Jul. 13.
Book entitled "A True Fairytale, The Wonderful Doings of Fairy Blackshine and Fairy Whiteshine", 1917 Jul. 12.
Letter from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying he is "having a fine time and the weather is lovely", 1927 Aug. 13.
Postcard from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, in which he says he received the books last night, 1929 Dec. 13.
Postcard from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that they got the house in Rush for the rest of July, 1930 Jul. 11
Postcard from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, updating her about the party being thrown by one one of his friends, 1930 Jul. 16.
Postcard from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying that the "weather is simply scorching and we are bathing every day", undated.
Postcard from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, in which he says "I am having the time of my life here", undated.
Postcard from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying he is "enjoying every moment" of his holidays at Skerries, undated.
Letter from Donagh MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, telling her about his holiday in Spiddle, undated.
Religious card from Mary Josephine MacDonagh to her mother Mary MacDonagh, 1894 September 13.
Letter from John Rochford to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, informing her that her story "Three Tipperary Boys" has been accepted for publication, 1907 Aug. 2.
Letter from Mary-Louise MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh telling him that his brother Jack has sent a letter to her, 1908 Aug. 2.
Letter from Mary-Louise MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which she says she has recently received letters from their brothers Joe and Jim, 1908.
Letter from Sidney Gifford to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the invitation to an unspecified social occasion but requires greater clarity as to the actual date, undated.
Partial letter from Nellie Gifford to [John MacDonagh?] explaining why she has not sent on the suit, undated.
Letter from Sidney Gifford to Thomas MacDonagh looking for his help with translating "pea soup" into Irish, 1909 Apr.
Letter from John MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh writing from New York where has just arrived and tells him of his plans there, 1909 Oct. 1.
Letter from John MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that he will send on the first and second acts of his play 'A Deal in Ryans', 1911 May 19.
Letter from John MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which he describes his work in America as "hard, travelling severe and the pay small", 1911 Oct. 23.
Letter from John MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, saying he is glad that everyone is well and that Joe is the "big noise in Thurles", 1911 Nov. 6.
Letter from John MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for looking up the insurance for him, 1914 Jun. 27.
Postcard from John MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh asking after their sister Mary, 1914 Aug. 26.
Letter from Nellie Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh describing her holiday in Bundoran, 1911 Aug. 13.
Letter from Ada Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh thanking her for the photographs of the children, 1914 Aug. 20.
Letter from Nellie Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh saying she hopes she gets a house in Marlborough Road before the winter, 1916 [October 12?].
Letter from Nellie Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh telling her about her stay in New York, 1916 Nov. 6.
Letter from John MacDonagh to Muriel MacDonagh saying he was sorry to hear of her swollen feet and hopes that she recovers soon, [1917?] Mar. 11.
Letter from Isabella Gifford, Muriel's mother, to Thomas MacDonagh advising him to "come straight up in the carriage, as we shall only have the two vehicles", 1912 Jan. 3.
Letter from Isabella Gifford to Thomas MacDonagh inviting himself and the family over to the Gifford house on Christmas Day, 1915 Dec. 21.
Letter from Isabella Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh telling that she received a little case of silver tea spoons which came from her aunt Amy, 1911 Jan. 4.
Letter from Isabella Gifford, Muriel's mother, to Muriel MacDonagh describing her recent activities which included a trip to the Kilkenny woodworkers, 1912 Jan. 7.
Letter from Isabella Gifford, Muriel's mother, to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that she sent on the cheque that "I asked you to remind me to fill in today", 1914 May 5.
Typescript letter from Frederick Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh asking if she knows of her sister Nellie's whereabouts as she has not been heard of in three weeks, 1916 Oct. 16.
Typescript letter from Frederick Gifford to Muriel MacDonagh telling her that he still has not heard anything from Nellie and is gettting anxious to hear from her, 1916 Oct. 30.
Letter from James MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh in which he encloses a photograph of his children and in which he asks the same in return from Thomas, 1916 Jan. 20.
Letter from James MacDonagh to Thomas MacDonagh saying that they were "all surprised to hear of the Dublin affair", 1916 Apr. 26.
Note from [Nellie Gifford] to Muriel MacDonagh informing her that her husband Thomas MacDonagh is safe, with references to James Connolly and the other leaders in the General Post Office, [1916].
Letter card from John MacDonagh to Donagh MacDonagh telling him about his holiday in Feakle, Co. Clare, 1917 Jul. 5.
Letter from Nell Bingham, Thomas MacDonagh's sister, to Muriel MacDonagh in which she says her son George "may soon go to Dublin", undated.
I.ii. Pádraic Colum, 1907-1917.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh regarding news on the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, including news that the Fay brothers (William and Frank) have resigned from the Abbey Theatre and how it is uncertain whether W.B. Yeats will carry on the theatre, also includes literary advice from Padraic on Thomas' play "When the Dawn is Come", and prints of parts of Padraic's poetry for revision by Thomas, 1907 Jan. 15.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their literary works and thanking Thomas for his critism on his poem, Padraic also reflects on W.B Yeats' play 'Deirdre' and mentions that he was very disappointed with the play, 1907 Oct. 15.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh thanking Thomas for the title he provided Padraic for his book 'Wild Earth' and reassures Thomas that his play 'When the Dawn is Come' will be staged at the Abbey Theatre or The Theatre of Ireland but also advises he adopt W.B. Yeats' suggestions, 1907 Dec. 13.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for offering to review his book 'Wild Earth' and also expressing his happiness that Thomas will be visiting Dublin over Christmas and also that Thomas has taken up the play again, 1907 Dec. 18.
Postcard from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his play 'When the Dawn is Come' and also that Fay [William/Frank] and the Abbey Theatre are very interested in the play, 1907.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for writing an article on his book 'Wild Earth' which "would interest people in his book" and also mentions that W.B. Yeats wants to put Thomas' play, 'When the Dawn is come', on at the Abbey Theatre, 1908 Feb. 06.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his life in London and how he often finds it lonely, the literary works he is working on and also congratulates Thomas on his play being staged in Dublin and hopes to see it when he gets back to Ireland, 1908 Mar. 04.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his return home to Ireland, MacDonagh's play 'When the Dawn is Come' perhaps coming to England and also his success in work through the 'Morning Leader' and the 'Manchester Guardian', 1908 Jun. 11.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh informing Thomas he had written half a column about Thomas' book 'Thomas Campion', and that he found it difficult to write as he doesn't "know anything about rhapsody, nor music, nor classic company's", 1913 Feb.
Typescript letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the selling of 'The Irish Review', potentially to Joseph Plunkett, and the complications and issues it has caused between himself, Thomas and David Houston, 1913 Jun. 20.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Thomas MacDonagh congratulating Thomas on receiving his degree and matters regarding the 'Irish Review', 1913 Jun 21.
Newspaper cutting of an article regarding the lack of use of the Irish language, written in Irish by unknown author, and also includes on verso, the song 'The Palatine's Daughter' written by Fay Sargent, undated.
Typescript letter from Padraic Colum to Muriel MacDonagh informing Muriel of an enclosed cheque of £10, which he received from sending Thomas' poem 'Wishes for my Son' to a review in New York called 'The Outlook', and Padraic also informs Muriel of the ten percent royalties herself, Mrs Grace Plunkett neé Gifford and Mrs Margaret Pearse will receive from the selling of a book containing the poetry of Joseph Plunkett, Thomas MacDonagh and Padraic Pearse, 1916 Oct. 06.
Letter from Padraic Colum to Muriel MacDonagh informing her of an enclosed copy of a letter which he sent to W.G. Lyon of The Talbot Press regarding the use of Thomas MacDonagh's, Joseph Plunkett's and Padraic Pearse's poetry by the publishers Small Meynard in NewYork, and his insistance that he was assured royalties from the sales of the poetry would be paid to the representatives of the poets, which include Mrs Grace Plunkett, Mrs Muriel MacDonagh and Mrs Margaret Pearse 1917 Jan 18- Feb 01.
I.iii. Dominic Hackett, 1911-1915.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh in which he discusses his life in New York, the March edition of the 'Irish Review', how John MacDonagh has been uncommunicative in New York and also his opinion that Home Rule will fail in Ireland, 1911 Apr. 7.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh sending on luck to Thomas MacDonagh for his application for a position at the University and also speaking of his family and of opening a second-hand bookstore in New Haven, 1912 Mar. 08.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Dominick Hackett's returning home in August 1912 by way of sailing on the "Campania" and arranging to meet with Thomas MacDonagh, 1912 Jul. 24.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh sending his congratulations to him and Muriel MacDonagh regarding the birth of their son Donagh and also speaking of MacDonagh's hopes for receiving a professorship in the Galway University but that it may be difficult as his opponent is a recent "convert" to Catholicism, 1912 Dec 14.
Newspaper cutting from the Herald, London, of a review of Lord Dunsany's play entitled 'The Gods of the Mountain' staged at the Haymarket Theatre, circa 1912.
Magazine cutting from a New York publication, entitled "Science" reviewing the publication 'Incident of My Life, Professional, Literary, Social, with Services in the Cause of Ireland' written by Thomas Addis Emmett, undated.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh referring to their lack of letters of late and asking after his family and about the 'Irish Review', while also speaking of his job in the Copper Company and of his brother Francis' return to New York with the accomplishment of having had an article accepted about travelling in steerage by 'Harpers', 1913 Nov. 13.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for sending on John Mitchell's 'The Jail Journal' and requests if he can send on 'Moores Almanac' for some Irish workmen, 1913 Dec. 29.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that an author they both enjoyed has left Dominick £1000 pounds in his will and that it is coming at an opportune time as his wife will be expecting a child soon and he has not had many work opportunities save for the project he is currently involved in with The National Hospital Bureau as the "Techinical Expert", 1915 Jun. 26.
Christmas card from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh which states "A few words perhaps, but many good wishes for Christmas", undated.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh asking after Thomas' family including his wife Muriel, his sisters-in-law, his brother Jack (John) and also speaking of his own family in Kilkenny, while also mentioning the characteristic nature of Irish in America changing their surnames, undated.
Typescript letter from Dominick Hackett to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that he received and distributed the Irish Review to the best of his advantage and requests subscription forms for futher circulation, undated.
I.iv. David Houston, ca. 1910-1917.
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh suggesting that he, Padraic Colum and James Stevens draft a copy of the prospectus, incorporating their ideas, for the 'Irish Review'' and use this draft for the purpose of getting contributors in the published prospectus, undated.
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh requesting a meeting at the Royal College of Science at 5pm the following day regarding to the Irish Review, 1913 Jun. 11.
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of a meeting between himself, Thomas, Padraic Colum, Oliver St John Gogarty and perhaps Tom Kettle, at Dr. Henry's house Friday evening in order to formulate a way in which they can promote the Irish Review, circa 1913.
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that he met with Joseph Plunkett regarding the sale of the Irish Review to either Joseph Plunkett or [Dunseany?], circa 1913.
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Padraic Colum's and his wife's animosity towards David and Thomas due to issues with the Irish Review, circa 1913.
Incomplete letter from Muriel MacDonagh to David Houston informing him he is "forgiven, conditionally" and she also requests the return of her copy of 'When the Dawn is Come', 1917 Jun. 27
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh referring to everyday life while Thomas is away, including weather, politics, the theatre and news on their mutual friends Padraic Colum and James Stevens, undated.
Letter from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his dog Flip, with David requesting Thomas to "take him away else bloody murder will be committed under our honest roof", undated.
Note from David Houston to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that he had made a visit to his house to visit Barbara, Donagh, Thomas and Muriel, but found the house empty, undated.
I.v. Joseph Plunkett, 1912-1914.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that he has just had lessons with Frank Fay and refers to him as a "wonderful man, knows a tremendous lot and has great enthusiasm", 1912 Jun. 20.
Postcard from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh informing him the "The [desprit] deed is done, satisfactory so far", 1913 Jun. 16.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh referring to lessons with Frank Fay, the fate of the Irish Review and what should be included in the next edition, with suggestions of using a poem of Thomas' or of Frank Cruise O'Brien, 1913 Jun. 19.
Postcard from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Joseph receiving the letter proofs from the Irish Review but has not yet had time to read over them, 1913 Aug. 15.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding organising a note from Thomas to reach The O'Rahilly and also regarding an edition of the Irish Review, 1914 Jan. 06.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his dislike of a play MacDonagh sent to him and his anger at it having been written in prose, while also referring to it as a poem rather than a play, 1914 Jan. 13.
Letter written from Thomas MacDonagh to Joseph Plunkett regarding the printing and release date of the April edition of the Irish Review, 1914 Apr. 19.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett "To the Commander Company C Batt. II Irish Volunteers" (Thomas MacDonagh) regarding alterations needed for an edition of the Irish Review and also referring to the expressed desire for an armed Volunteers parade in order to back John Redmond's demand to put Home Rule into effect, 1914 Aug. 02.
Postcard from Lalor Limited, Church candle manufacturers and oil merchants, to Mrs Grace Plunkett requesting when a parcel will be sent, 1917 Jun.19.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Joseph's health issues, undated.
Letter from Joseph Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding problems with a play he is is taking part in, undated.
I.vi. Other named correspondence, 1901-1966.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the price of printing 1000 copies of a volume of poems, 1901 Nov. 11.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding receiving a very favourable critique on his book and also about sending a copy of the book for review by the Weekly Freeman, 1902 Jan. 26.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the price of plain cloth and gilt copies and also assuring Thomas that all paper and other material used will be of Irish manufacture, barring the cloth material, 1902 Sept. 18.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the price of a reduced amount of copies, plain cloth binding and drawings for his book of poetry, 1902 Nov. 15.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the increased price of printing compared to the estimate he received previously, 1902 Dec 02.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the price of the McDonnell's Company paper he has selected to use and informing him it is three times the price of the quality of paper made by the North of Ireland paper company and includes the amended prices, 1902 Dec 04.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the additional prices for binding, printing and paper for 500 and 1000 copies of his book of poetry, 1902 Dec. 06.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the art work for his book of poetry, 1902 Dec 8.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding providing an artist to follow his idea for the art work for his book of poetry, 1902 Dec 10.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the borders proposed for his book of poetry, 1902 Dec 11.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding alterations to the poetry being used in the book, draft sketches of the artwork and the thickness of the paper, 1902 Dec. 12.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the colours of the borders for his book of poetry and requesting the permission of Fisher Unwin for the use of his name in the book, 1902 Dec 17.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding printing type in olive green and the request of Fisher Unwin to see the book prior to consenting to the use of his name, 1902 Dec 19.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding corrections in his book that have not been made and informing him they are doing everything they can to have the books ready for the new year, 1902 Dec 22.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a telegram and letter received from Thomas regarding alterations to be made to the book, 1902 Dec 24.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a letter received from Fisher Unwin and also referring to the review of the book in the Irish Independent , 1903 Jan 19.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the circulation of the book for reviewing, 1903 Jan 20.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding possible modification being made and also requesting a notice suitable for illustration, 1903 Jan 22.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the circulation of his book, 1903 Mar. 07.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the pricing of 1000 copies of a book, the use of circulating notices rather than advertising and reviews that have appeared about his book, 1903 Mar. 13.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the acknowledgement of his letter, 1903 Mar. 19.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding sending proofs of the press notices and also to send on various types of specimens pages for the new volume, 1903 Mar. 24.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the differences in the poem titles in the contents page sent by Thomas, 1903 Mar. 31.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding sending on a paper cover of 'Through the Ivory Gate' to him and also sending on the circulars to United Irishman, 1903 Apr. 20.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the pricing of the printing, binding and covering and also regarding the slow sale of the books, 1903 Apr. 27.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the requirement of the payment of an overdue account, 1908 Jan. 23.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their lack of capital in order to fund his poetry alongside other young poets and the expected inclusion of a poem of Thomas' in a small anthology of Irish poets , 1906 Mar. 30.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the pricing for printing and covering 1000 copies and also the importance of paying the printers a substantial sum, 1906 Apr. 09.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the estimate and also advising him against choosing cheaper paper, 1906 Apr. 21.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the delay of sending the circulars that are being printed and also including a postcard of the publications of O'Donoghue & Co., 1906 Jun. 01.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding advice on the size of the type for the book, 1906 Jun. 09.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding page proofs of his book and also informing him that they cannot send on A.E.'s [George William Russell] book onto the printers as a sample, 1906 Sep. 13.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the £2 they received in the post and also advising on getting the first copies bound, 1906 Oct. 29.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding choosing thick Irish made paper for the book of poetry and also including a sample of a page headed 'The Golden Joy', 1906 Nov. 02.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the delay in the printing and also including a list of papers to which circulars will be sent to, 1907 Feb. 12.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding reviews and notices from newspapers including the 'Leader' and 'New Ireland Review', 1907 Jul. 08.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh requesting him to write some opinions that can be included in their article, paper types from Belfast, and payments due to the printers, 1907 Aug. 26.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the payment of the printing and binding of the book 'The Golden Joy', informing MacDonagh that they will attempt to negotiate a 5% discount due to the printers slowness, and also including an account from Dow & Lester for the payment of £2-1-0, 1907 Jun. 30-Aug. 24.
Letter from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding payment for the printing and typing of the book, the initial assumed page count and also including a statement of £5 received by O'Donoghue & Co. from Thomas MacDonagh, 1907 Sep. 07.
Letter from Thomas Stewart Omond to Thomas MacDonagh regarding letters he has not yet seen that are at the British Museum, reading Thomas MacDonagh's book 'Thomas Campion' and also regarding his knowledge of Irish professors, 1911 Sept. 27.
Letter from Thomas Stewart Omond to Thomas MacDonagh congratulating him on all the happy events, past and future and informing him not to trouble himself in writing again until he is settled into his new life, 1911 Dec. 21.
Letter from Thomas Stewart Omond to Thomas MacDonagh reviewing and offering opinions and praise of 'Thomas Campion', 1912 Dec. 30.
Letter from Seaghán Mac Énrí, lecturer of modern Irish at University College Galway, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding professors visiting Dublin the following Thursday and a meeting at [Óran Vaughan's] house in Rutland Square, 1912 Nov. 14.
Letter from Seaghán Mac Énrí, lecturer of modern Irish at University College Galway, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a meeting taking place at 11 o'clock on Tuesday and advising him to do his best, 1912 Nov. 15.
Letter from Seaghán Mac Énrí, lecturer of modern Irish at University College Galway, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a debate that is occurring and informing him of the other competitors and relevant information relating to the competition, 1913 Feb. 05.
Letter from Seaghán Mac Énrí, lecturer of modern Irish at University College Galway, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the British and the "protasúinagh" having a large reputation, putting names towards the Seanad and also a list of 8 names of people on Thomas MacDonagh's side, 1913 Jan 08.
Letter from Seaghán Mac Énrí, lecturer of modern Irish at University College Galway, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding him handing over his testimonial information to Dr. Ó' Chobhthaigh as he believes it would be for the best, 1913 Jan. 09.
Postcard from Edward Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh regarding meeting in Dublin between one and four p.m. at 4 Leinster Street South on Friday 9th of August 1912 to discuss what is to be left to be done, presumably with a play, 1912 Aug. 08.
Letter from Edward Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a cheque he mentions as being enclosed for £12-10-0, and giving his well wishes in the production of a play ['Pagans'], 1915 Mar. 01.
Letter from Edward Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh regarding having not been reminded that his cheque was due, informing that the cheque is enclosed, and also informing that he will be in Dublin tonight and will return next Saturday, 1915 Apr. 05.
Letter from Edward Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh regarding providing him with a copy of the play ['Pagans'] in order for him to review it prior to printing out copies for the actors and also his opinions regarding making a woman an original composer and producing an Irish musical, 1915 Aug. 20.
Partial letter from Edward Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the talent of amatuer actors in Dublin, undated.
Typescript letter from Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, to Donagh MacDonagh, informing him of a letter he found written by Thomas MacDonagh to Michael Morris' uncle, Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, and informing Donagh MacDonagh that he has included a photostat of the letter, which refers to Thomas MacDonagh's interpretation of Yeats' metrical quality and his book 'Thomas Campion', 1913 Mar. 02-1966 Mar. 09.
Letter from Frank Fay to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his expectations to be in Dublin on June 30th and querying him if any of his class in University require elocution lessons and also informing him that he is playing the part of Friar Laurence (Romeo) in a play in Limerick, 1913 Jun. 15.
Letter from Frank Fay to Thomas MacDonagh regarding MacDonagh getting in touch with his brother, William Fay, in regards to his "scheme" [the Irish Theatre], and providing suggestions as to how to make the scheme a success, undated.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to unknown recipient regarding the correcting of papers and how "the correction of the first paper, section 6, is particularly difficult and slow", 1915 Jul. 05.
Letter from Eamonn Ceannt to Thomas MacDonagh requesting to book him to speak at their [Irish Volunteers] meeting, 1916 Apr. 03.
Letter from Constance Markievicz to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that Maud Gonne will be visiting Belcamp and inviting him to come visit, undated.
I.vii. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1902-1917.
Letter from Fr. Joseph Darlington, lecturer at University College Dublin, regarding his views on Thomas MacDonagh's 'Through the Ivory Gate' and providing his opinions on the rhyming, metrics and verses, 1902 Feb. 14.
Letter from Eveleen Nicolls to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the sweets he sent to Innishmaan, speaking of the grades she received in her exams, and also questioning Thomas on his Irish, 1902 Sep. 08.
Letter from Fr. John Doody to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Thomas MacDonagh's poetry publications 'Through the Ivory Gate' and 'April and May' and also regarding life in Rockwell College in Clonmel, 1903 Jun. 19.
Letter from Joseph Darlington to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Thomas MacDonagh's book 'Through the Ivory Gate', in which he thanks him for sending on a copy, and suggests he publish it, 1903 Jul. 11.
Postcard from L.J. Finnerty to Thomas MacDonagh, sending him his best wishes for the Christmas season, 1903, Dec 24.
Letter from Elkin Mathews, publisher, to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of the release of W.B. Yeats' book 'Tables of the Law', 1904 Feb. 19.
Letter from Mildred Stephenson to Thomas MacDonagh requesting an autograph be sent to her in Australia, 1904 Mar. 26.
Letter from Tomás Ua Glábhain to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a letter he received for Jim Hanrahan praising MacDonagh's work, 1904 Jul. 10.
Letter from staff at the firm of David Nutt firm, London, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the publication of his poetry, 1904 Aug. 18.
Telegraph to Thomas MacDonagh requesting financial assistance, 1905 Feb 20.
Letter from Patrick Kennedy to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for his letter and informing him of the revenue he is making due to producing and selling wool, 1905 March 07.
Postcard from publishers Maunsel & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a proposal made by him, 1905 Nov. 27.
Postcard from D. J. O'Donoghue to Thomas MacDonagh regarding having sent MacDonagh's book to London to receive an estimate for covers, 1905 Nov. 01.
Postcard from D. J. O'Donoghue to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his book being ready by December 1st, 1906 Nov. 20.
Letter from John Ramsden Tutin to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for a copy of his book and reflecting on how similar their ideals are, 1907 Mar. 15.
Postcard from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a forthcoming meeting in Bewley's on Westmoreland Street, Dublin, 1907 Mar. 30.
Postcard from Eoin O hArgáin to Thomas MacDonagh acknowledging receipt of his book, 1907 Apr. 17.
Postcard from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh informing him his books are on the way, 1907 Apr. 20.
Postcard from O'Donoghue & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the delivery of 50 copies of his book, 1907 May 03.
Testimonial from O'Hanrahan of Thomas MacDonagh, praising him highly for his teaching ability, 1907 Jun. 23.
Letter from John Scanlon to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of his new positions as "Chancellor of the Chapter" and as "Dean of Killaloe", 1907 Jun. 04.
Letter from Éilís Ní Fharlainghe to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their planned meeting on September 15th, 1907 Sept. 06.
Letter from Elizabeth Sharp to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his use of the title 'Through the Ivory Gate', 1907 Oct. 29.
Letter from Padraig O Catháin to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their previous general district meeting, 1907 Nov. 08.
Letter from B. Maguire to Thomas MacDonagh, praising his poetry, 1908 Jan. 14.
Letter from William Alexander Henderson, secretary of the Abbey Theatre, to Thomas MacDonagh referring to a letter he had previously sent to John Millington Synge regarding changes to be made to a play, 1908 May 05.
Letter from William Alexander Henderson, secretary of the Abbey Theatre, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his play ['When the Dawn is Come'], 1908 May 13.
Typescript letter from Joseph Hone of Maunsel & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh regarding waiting for the return of George Roberts, Managing Director, in order to receive an estimate, 1908 May 21.
Letter from Fr. Michael Barrett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding MacDonagh's departure from St. Colman's College to take a position at St. Enda's School, 1908 Jul. 09.
Letter from Pádraigh Mac Suibhne to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their plans to meet in Dublin in September, 1908 Aug. 17.
Postcard written by Thomas MacDonagh to unknown recipient thanking them for a copy of ['People'] he received, 1908 Aug. 22.
Letter to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the proofs of his play 'When the Dawn is Come', 1908 Oct. 13.
Letter from Fr. Michael Barrett to Thomas MacDonagh, 1908 Nov. 05.
Letter from Richard Daly, Headmaster of the Munster College of Irish, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his application as Inspector of National Schools, 1908 Nov. 10.
Letter from Edward A. Crehan to Thomas MacDonagh, sympathising on the death of his mother Mary MacDonagh, 1908 Nov. 27.
Letter from Úna Ní Pháidín to Thomas MacDonagh concerning her thoughts on his book 'Through the Ivory Gate' , 1909 Aug. 18.
Letter from P.J. Gleeson to Thomas MacDonagh, concerning the collection of a cap and scarf, 1909 Oct 20.
Postcard from David James O'Donoghue to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the delay of sheets and a manual, 1909 Nov. 24.
Letter from Aline Defoise to Thomas MacDonagh, requesting he send her a copy of Dicken's story for teaching purposes, 1909 Dec. 11.
Letter from Katherine Frances Purdon, of Enfield, Co. Meath to Thomas MacDonagh, apologising for not being able to visit St. Enda's School when she was last in Dublin , 1910 Feb. 22.
Postcard from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh speaking of his time in France, 1910 Aug. 19.
Postcard from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh, making reference to their own unhappiness, 1911 Jan 16.
Letter from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh, praising his book of poetry 'Songs of Myself', 1911 Jan. 30.
Typescript letter from publishers Maunsell & Co. to Thomas MacDonagh informing him they have enclosed a copy of their agreement, 1911 Mar. 27.
Letter from staff at the journal 'The Biographer' to Thomas MacDonagh requesting particulars of his life, 1911 May 02.
Letter from Feargus O Nualáin to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his decision to resign from teaching on health grounds, 1911 Aug. 17.
Letter from Maude Radford-Warren to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their forthcoming meeting and how the Liverpool strike has caused her sailing to be delayed, 1911 Aug. 25.
Letter from Falconer's Government, Law and General Printing Office to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a quotation for printing, 1911 Sep. 26.
Letter from Pádraig Mac Suibhne to Thomas MacDonagh, congratulating him on his academic success in university, 1911 Oct. 30.
Letter from Geraldine Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh, concerning enclosed art work, 1911 Nov. 17.
Letter from Donncadh MacFhinn to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding a possible visit by MacDonagh to London, 1911 Dec. 18.
Letter from Eleanor Hull to Thomas MacDonagh, requesting to use some of his poetry in a publication, 1911 Dec. 31.
Letter from the Presbytery Catholic University Church, Stephen's Green, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding payment of his marriage fee, 1912 Jan. 04.
Letter from John Fitzgerald, cycle Mmanufacturer, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a deposit paid on a bicycle, 1912 Jan. 12.
Letter from Mary Ellen Kennedy to Thomas MacDonagh congratulating him on a new venture, 1912 Mar. 13.
Letter from Fr. Michael Barrett to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding a request for exam papers for his students, 1912 Mar. 27.
Letter from David Francis [Frank] O'Connor of William Frewen Solicitors, Tipperary to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a matter between Thomas MacDonagh, one of his brothers and another man, named Glynn, 1912 Jul. 27.
Postcard from Seosamh Laoide [Joseph Lloyd] to Thomas MacDonagh regarding an Irish magazine containing 'Cathal Buidhe' and 'Amhrán Chlainne Gaedheal', 1912 Aug. 05.
Letter from Samuel D. Powell to Thomas MacDonagh, requesting his assistance in writing a thesis on the poet Thomas Campion, 1912 Oct. 18.
Letter from Countess Mary Josephine Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh congratulating Thomas and Muriel MacDonagh on the birth of their son Donagh, 1912 Nov. 23.
Typescript letter from Robert William Chapman of The Clarendon Press, Oxford, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the copyright complications and use of Sylvanus Percival Vivian's edition of the 'Poetical Works of Thomas Campion', prior to obtaining permission, 1912 Nov. 27.
Letter from Robert William Chapman to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the use of Sylvanus Percivial Vivian's facts of Thomas Campion's life in Thomas MacDonagh's work, 1912 Dec. 11.
Christmas card from Dudley Digges to Thomas MacDonagh, 1912 Dec 16.
Postcard from Pádraig Mac Suibhne to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the letter he sent him being returned, 1913 Jan. 01.
Letter from Father Nicolas J. Brennan, of Blackrock College, to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding MacDonagh's application for a post at University College Galway, 1913 Jan. 28.
Letter from Father Michael Barrett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his writing a testimonial for MacDonagh, 1913 Jan. 31.
Letter from Fr. [Thomas] of the Presbytery Catholic University Church, Stephen's Green, to Thomas MacDonagh, asking him to locate an address for a Miss Boland, 1913 Feb 09.
Letter from Stephen Gwynn to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding MacDonagh's application for a job at University College Galway, 1913 Feb. 08.
Letter from John Cooke to Thomas MacDonagh, congratulating him on his book, 1913 Feb. 13.
Telegraph from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh, informing him of the approaching deadline for job applications at University College Galway, 1913 Feb. 13.
Typescript letter from Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the printing of 3000 copies of the prospectus of Thomas MacDonagh's book on poet Thomas Campion, 1913 Feb. 13
Letter from Thomas Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh, concerning the favour MacDonagh asked of him, 1913 Feb. 14.
Letter from William Frederick Bailey to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding the post at University College Galway, 1913 Feb. 15.
Card from John Alexander McClelland to Thomas MacDonagh thanking MacDonagh for his book, 1913 Feb. 16.
Letter from Tomás Ó Máille to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for his book, 1913 Feb. 16.
Letter from Edward Dowden to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for sending on a copy of his book on the poet Thomas Campion to him, 1913 Feb. 17.
Letter from University College Galway to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for a copy of his book on the poet Thomas Campion, 1913 Feb. 17.
Letter from Patrick Boland to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the copy of his book on poet Thomas Campion, 1913 Feb. 17.
Letter from Thomas Martyn to Thomas MacDonagh enquiring as to how his canvassing is progressing and also informing him he has enclosed a letter from Fr. O'Dea (not enclosed) in which he provides advice, 1913 Feb. 23.
Letter from W. F. Bewley to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his being unable to review Thomas MacDonagh's book and his uncertainty as to whether the book will be reviewed in time for "this weeks paper", 1913 Feb. 26.
Memo from 'The Irish Citizen' to publishers Hodges Figgis requesting a copy of Thomas MacDonagh's book on the poet Thomas Campion, 1913 Mar. 04.
Letter from [J. O'Morly] to Thomas MacDonagh requesting MacDonagh provide his expert opinion on a paper he has written on 'Irish Poets and Irish Poetry', 1913 Mar. 31.
Letter from George O'Neill to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding the examination papers he is correcting and his assessment of the students, 1913 June 20.
Letter from Padric Gregory to Thomas MacDonagh requesting permission for the use of MacDonagh's poetry in an anthology of verse by Irish poets, 1913 Aug. 08.
Letter from Padric Gregory to Thomas MacDonagh, requesting permission for the use of MacDonagh's poetry in an anthology of verse by Irish poets, 1913 Aug. 20.
Letter from Padric Gregory to Thomas MacDonagh, thanking MacDonagh for his letter, 1913 Aug. 23.
Letter from Padric Gregory to Thomas MacDonagh, containing a list of MacDonagh's poems that he will include in his book of Irish verse, 1913 Sept. 04.
Letter from Padric Gregory to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding his holiday in Paris, 1913 Sept. 30.
Letter from James L. Ahern to Thomas MacDonagh, in which he requests MacDonagh's assistance in choosing the subject for his M.A. thesis, 1913 Oct. 09.
Letter from Edward J. O'Brien, editor of the 'Poetry Journal', to Thomas MacDonagh, as editor of 'The Irish Review', regarding his play 'At the Flowing of the Tide' and requesting that 'The Irish Review' agree to the play being published in the English magazine 'The Forum', 1913 Dec. 11.
Letter, inviting Thomas MacDonagh to speak at a forthcoming meeting of the Dublin Civic League, 1913 Dec. 18.
Letter from [Katherine Maguire] to Thomas MacDonagh, acknowledging receipt of his book, 1913 Dec. 25.
Typescript letter from Jenkin James to the Secretary of the Gaelic League, Dublin, requesting information as to the various methods used in setting up a "National Drama", 1914 Feb. 09.
Letter from Edward O'Brien to Thomas MacDonagh, requesting a response in regards to the publication of the play 'At the Flowing of the Tide' in 'The Irish Review'', 1914 May 19.
Letter from Philip Francis Little to Thomas MacDonagh regarding providing aid for publications, 1914 July 01.
Letter from Winifred M. Letts to Thomas MacDonagh sharing his condolences for his horrible labours regarding examinations and also requesting the address of D. English, circa 1914 Jul. 03.
Letter from Una O'Connor to Thomas MacDonagh regarding organising a time to meet in order to discuss play he intends to produce, 1914 Jul. 13.
Typescript letter from Alfred Perceval Graves to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his displeasure of the fee of 5 guineas he has been asked to pay by publishers for the use of Thomas MacDonagh's poetry in his anthology, 1914 Jul. 15.
Letter from F. C. Ormsby to Thomas MacDonagh agreeing to his proposal to have an article published in the 'Irish Review', 1914 Jul. 25.
Letter from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Miss Margaret St. George's subscription with the 'Irish Review', 1914 July 28.
Letter from Frederick Gifford, of F. Gifford & Son Solicitors, to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the tickets he sent and also sending his regards to his wife, Muriel MacDonagh, 1915 Jan. 06.
Letter from W.J. Williams to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding MacDonagh's application for a position in University College Galway and the publication of his book, 1915 Feb. 13.
Letter from Max Drennan to Thomas MacDonagh, informing him of a vacant position as a Professor in English available at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1915 Feb. 16.
Letter from Max Drennan to Thomas MacDonagh, concerning a vacancy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1915 Feb. 19.
Letter from Rev. Prof. Vincent Rowan to Thomas MacDonagh, encouraging him to apply for the position of Professor of English at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1915 Feb. 26.
Letter from Max Drennan to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding MacDonagh's application for a teaching job in Univeristy College Galway, 1915 Mar. 01.
Letter from Max Drennan to Thomas MacDonagh, concerning his views on poetry and Irish politics, 1915 Mar. 25.
Note from William A. Byrne to Thomas Macdonagh informing him that he will let him know when he can get away, 1915 Mar. 26.
Letter from William A. Byrne to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding a vacancy in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1915 Mar. 27.
Letter from Countess Mary Josephine Plunkett to Muriel MacDonagh congratulating her on the birth of her daughter Barbara, 1915 Mar. 31.
Letter from William A. Byrne to Thomas MacDonagh, concerning academic qualifications required for a job, 1915 Mar. 31.
Letter from T.W. Hanrahan to Thomas MacDonagh, thanking him for his information on St. Enda's School and also discussing the origins of the War, 1915 May 16.
Letter from T.W. Hanrahan to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding his having written to Padraic Pearse, 1915 May 21.
Letter from publishers M.H. Gill & Son to Thomas MacDonagh, thanking him for his review of Micheál Ó hAnnrachain's book, 1915 May. 28.
Letter from Henry B. O'Hanlon to Thomas MacDonagh, requesting MacDonagh send him a copy of his play, 1915 Jun. 01.
Postcard from Domnall O'Conchubhair to Thomas MacDonagh enquiring as to whether he could offer his help to a committee that has been set up in order to look after the interests of Francis Sheehy-Sheffington's family, 1915 Jun. 15.
Letter from Tadhg Ó Síothcháin to Thomas MacDonagh apologising for disappointing him and also mentioning him he will see him on Monday, 1915 Jul. 24.
Letter from Arthur Clery to Thomas MacDonagh, thanking him for examining a manuscript, 1915 Aug. 10.
Typescript letter from [W.J. Lyon], of The Educational Company of Ireland, to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding preparations for the publication of MacDonagh's book 'Literature in Ireland', 1915 Aug. 25.
Letter from George Sigerson to Thomas MacDonagh congratulating him on his forthcoming publication and accepting the honour of having his name inscribed on the book, 1915 Oct. 05.
Letter from Pádraig Mac Suibhne to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding not having heard from him in a long time due to his involvement with the Irish Volunteers, 1915 Oct. 21.
Letter from Alice Furlong to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a poem she has agreed to have printed in his book, corrections to be made to the poem and her frequent use of the Gaelic language, 1915 Nov. 03.
Letter from George Sigerson to Thomas MacDonagh, inviting Thomas and Muriel MacDonagh to come dine with him to discuss literature, as his daughter, Dora Sigerson Shorter and her husband are visiting, 1915 Dec. 30.
Typescript letter from [W.J. Lyon], of The Educational Comapny of Ireland, to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding the final steps to be completed prior to the printing of his book 'Literature in Ireland', 1916 Jan. 07.
Letter from [H.J.Briscol] of the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin, to Thomas MacDonagh, inviting him to preside their at next meeting at which a paper entitled 'The Trend of Modern Literature' will be read, 1916 Apr. 04.
Visiting card of Mr. and Mrs. James Dominick Hackett of Forty-One West Fifty-Fifth Street, undated.
Letter from students at University College Dublin to Muriel MacDonagh, sympathising with her on the death of her husband Thomas, 1916 Jun. 02.
Letter from Louise MacDonagh Berry to Muriel MacDonagh, conveying her condolences over the death of Thomas MacDonagh, 1916 Jun. 14.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh informing her to take charge of a cheque he has enclosed for the Irish Volunteer Dependants Fund, 1916 Jun. 23.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh informing her he will be in Thurles the following day, 1916 Jun. 26.
Typescript letter from Fr. Aloysius to Muriel MacDonagh informing her of weekday mass times and also to inform him when she visits, in order for him to arrange to be present, 1916 Jun. 26.
Letter from Rev. Thomas Wilson C.C. to Muriel MacDonagh informing her of two enclosed cheques for the Irish Volunteers Dependants' Fund, 1916 Jul. 05.
Letter from Fr. Roger Morrissy to Muriel MacDonagh requesting a souvenir of either Thomas MacDonagh or Joseph Plunkett, 1916 July 24.
Letter from Lily O'Brennan to Muriel MacDonagh, informing her that they will meet at the Dolphin Hotel to bid goodbye to Mr. Murphy, the American, 1916 Aug. 17.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh, informing her of an enclosed cheque for the Irish Volunteers Dependants' Fund, which he raised by organising a retreat, 1916 Aug. 23.
Typescript letter from [W. J. Lyon] to Murial MacDonagh, regarding the price of publishing 'The Poetic Works of Thomas MacDonagh', 1916 Sep. 12.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh, concerning her not responding to his letters, 1916 Sep. 21.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh, regarding his hopes of finding her at home when he is next in Dublin, 1916 Nov. 11.
Postcard from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh, informing her of his recent ill health and plans to visit Dublin, 1916 Nov. 20.
Typescript letter from William P. Triston to Muriel MacDonagh, regarding a letter from Hodges & Figgis and also referring to handing over a cheque to her at their next meeting, 1916 Nov. 20.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh, thanking her for the book 'The Poetic Works of Thomas MacDonagh', 1916 Nov. 26.
Letter from Fr. Aloysius of the Franciscan Capuchin Friary, to Muriel MacDonagh, informing her he will remember her and her family at his Christmas Mass, 1916 Dec. 23.
Letter from Sister Mary Dympna to Muriel MacDonagh, in which she refers to the return of prisoners at Christmas, 1916 Dec. 24.
Postcard from unknown author to Muriel MacDonagh, congratulating her on the success of the book 'The Poetic Works of Thomas MacDonagh', [1916] Nov. 04.
Letter from Mary Bourke Dowling to Muriel MacDonagh, requesting permission to use a photo of Thomas MacDonagh for the cover of the 'Irish Citizen', undated.
Letter from Thomas F. O'Sullivan to Muriel MacDonagh, referring to his thoughts on the publication of Thomas MacDonagh's works in both Ireland and America, undated.
Letter from Sister Mary Dympna to Muriel MacDonagh, in which she writes of resuming her attendance at college, ahead of taking her vows at Easter, 1917 Jan. 21.
Letter from Kathleen Lynn to Muriel MacDonagh, enquiring if she can spare a bed for a family in need in Bray, 1917 Mar. 04.
Letter from George Sigerson to Muriel MacDonagh informing her he will be at her house at one o'clock the next day, 1917 Apr. 10.
Letter from Fr. Aloysius to Muriel MacDonagh, concerning their meeting scheduled for the following day, 1917 Apr. 17.
Letter from [M.E.] Cosgrave to Muriel MacDonagh, concerning Cosgrave's acting as sponsor to MacDonagh's conversion to Roman Catholicism, 1917 Apr. 17.
Letter from Sister Mary Dympna to Muriel MacDonagh offering her the suggestion of the name Mary, if she wishes or has the opportunity to decide her own name, 1917 Apr. 18.
Letter from Dr. Richard Shaw to Muriel MacDonagh offering her medical advice for the care of Donagh, 1917 Apr. 19.
Letter from Father Thomas Duggan to Muriel MacDonagh enquiring as to whether he left the copies of the marching song Muriel gave to him at her home as he cannot find them and also whether it would be safe enough to send them by His Majesty's postal service, 1917 Apr. 30.
Letter from Fr. Aloysius to Muriel MacDonagh regarding organising a mass for the anniversary of the martyred volunteers, 1917 May 02.
Letter from Sister Mary Dympna to Muriel MacDonagh informing her they will be praying specially for her and Thomas MacDonagh on the anniversary of his death and also asking if she would like the children to go play with their boarders so she can prepare herself for her first Holy Communion, 1917 May 02.
Letter from Sister Martina to Muriel MacDonagh offering her condolences on the anniversary of the death of Thomas MacDonagh and also asking after the health of her son Donagh, 1917 May 02.
Letter from Mollie O'Riordan to Muriel MacDonagh offering the condolences of the Cahirsiveen branch of Cumann na mBan on the anniversary of the death of Thomas MacDonagh, 1917 May 03.
Letter from Fr. John Byrne to Muriel MacDonagh offering a word of sympathy on the anniversary of the death of Thomas MacDonagh and informing her of a mass and communion they are holding for the commemoration of this day, 1917 May 03.
Letter from Fr. Thomas Duggan to Muriel MacDonagh thanking her for the copies of the marching song and mortuary cards and also informing her he has an examination in a month and asks for her family to pray for him, 1917 May 18.
Letter from Fr. Albert to Muriel MacDonagh requesting if she could send the enclosed onto her sister Grace as he does not know her address and also asking after the children, 1917 Jun. 05
Letter from Myles Keogh to Muriel MacDonagh informing her that he has received communication from Mrs Cosgrave that she will meet her the following Monday as requested, 1917 Jun. 08.
Letter from John F. Higgins to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the success of University College Dublin and enquiring if Thomas MacDonagh could send him on a copy of his poems and a copy of the Irish Review, 1911 Nov. 21.
Note from [S. Fryery] of the House of Commons Library to Thomas MacDonagh requesting he send on proofs of the book for him to look at, 1913 Jan. 28.
Postcard from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh apologising for the delay in his reply but he had been unwell, and also mentioning he had a long letter written but refreined from sending it as it was "ró the", undated.
Postcard from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh requesting him to come around at 7pm on Friday as Mrs M is coming in, circa 1907.
Letter from Gertrude Carter to Thomas MacDonagh regarding having made an item as near to the liking of Miss Gifford [Muriel MacDonagh] as possible and how she hopes it is not too expensive due to the amount of work involved in it, undated.
Letter from [Glenn] to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the boys criticisms and also requests him to ask Padraic Pearse for 6 copies of his circular, undated.
Letter from Gabriel to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of his return journey to England and how he would "seize the slightest reason to return" [to Ireland], undated.
Letter from Standish O'Grady to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him for the present of a poetry book he just received, undated.
Letter from Eileen Colum to Thomas MacDonagh thanking him belatedly for a poem he wrote in her album and also mentioning that Padraic [Colum] is enjoying his time in London and has written a new one act play, undated.
Letter from Mary Josephine Plunkett to Thomas MacDonagh regarding sending on poems to her and ideas in relation to margins and paper, undated.
Letter from Alice Milligan to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a sum of money she is carrying around with her and also regarding having missed him and T[errance] MacSuibhne at the Dún [Feró] committee and suggestions for the 'Freeman', undated.
Letter from Winifred Mary Letts to Thomas MacDonagh regarding Thomas MacDonagh and his family moving to Oakley road, undated.
Letter from N. F. Wayhurst to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the price Easons are offering for the 1st Volume of the Georgian Society as money is lacking and also organising subscriptions to magazines and journals, undated.
Letter from [J. S. H.] to Thomas MacDonagh regarding his time spent in Dublin at the Abbey Theatre where he met Padraic Colum, and his time in Howth with Countess Markievicz and Miss [Grace] Gifford, undated.
Letter from Maude Radford Warren to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that it would not be a good idea to have Padraic Colum in Chicago at the same as W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, undated.
Letter from Maude Radford Warren to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the arrangement for Padraic Colum to go to Chicago in January in order to speak in front of the Evanston Drama Club and the Drama League of America, undated.
Letter from Maude Radford Warren to Thomas MacDonagh congratulating him on the success of his thesis and his lecturing appointment and also her disappointment over the fact that Padraic Colum did not go over to Chicago, undated.
Letter from [H. Doones?] to Thomas MacDonagh regarding sailing to Uganda, awaiting the completion of his house and feeling unwell of late, undated.
Draft letter by Thomas MacDonagh to an unknown publisher enquiring as the whether they will publish a small book of poetry he has sent them and informing them of the two previous books he has had published, circa 1903.
Letter from Helena Malony to Thomas MacDonagh regarding having missed each other at Liberty Hall and also debating about paying for 12 months of ads, undated.
Letter from [N. E. Cosgrave?] to Thomas MacDonagh regarding their health and also arranging to meet at Merrion Square on Monday, undated.
Typescript letter from [Seamus?] MacGearailt (Fitzgerald) to Thomas MacDonagh enquiring as to whether he should be expecting anybody from Dublin for an event on Sunday and also whether they will be cyclists or infantry by train, undated.
Letter from [E.A.M.], a London based artist, to unknown recipient, mentioning he might exhibit in Dublin, and also hoping the recipient is up and about and feeling fit, undated.
Letter from William Kirkpatrick Magee to [Stephens] regarding sending on work on Thomas Moore and also regarding getting a copy of Thomas Moore's work and requesting Thomas MacDonagh or Ryan to review it, 1911 July 05.
Letter from Stanley Harrington to [Christopher] regarding the difference of opinion about the merits of candidates, 1912 Mar. 07.
Letter from Patrick O'Sullivan to Mr. Dunne regarding taking care of Thomas MacDonagh's claims when the appointment for the Chair of Librarian for Galway comes in, 1912 Nov. 11.
Letter fron [N. E. Cosgrave] to her Goddaughter informing her not to visit tomorrow as the doctor will be at her house with her and also hoping she is well and not ill as she had anticipated, 1917 Jan. 03
Card from unknown author to unknown recipient regarding plays and music that will be occurring the first week of October, undated.
Letter from [Ellie] and [Jeannie Lee] of Glencarrig, Delgany, to unknown recipient, referred to as the dear wee girlie, undated.
Assortment of envelopes addressed to Thomas MacDonagh, 1904-1915 and undated.
Assortment of envelopes addressed to Muriel MacDonagh including one mentioning it contained a lock of her hair after Thomas MacDonagh's death, 1911-1913 and undated.
Assortment of envelopes addressed to Robert Donovan; Al Sua Eminenca; W. G. Lyon; The Thanagh; and Mainice Bourgeouis, 1913 and undated.
Assortment of envelopes addressed to Donagh MacDonagh and Barbara MacDonagh, 1915-1967 and undated.
Assortment of envelopes addressed to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, 1917-1947 and undated.
Assortment of envelopes and scrap paper containing shopping lists and notes, 1915 and undated.
Postcard of "St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham: The Lake", inscribed on verso with "Tom [&] Pearse [Lascidarum?] 1916", 1916.
Postcard of "The Church meadow and Protestant Church", which is annotated on verso, undated.
Postcard of "Grant Street in "Our Village"", undated.
Postcard of "Fair bay in "Our Village"", undated.
Postcard of Knocknacree, undated.
Postcard of Dubh Cathair, Aranmore, undated.
Postcard of Cloughjordan station, Co. Tipperary, undated.
Two identical postcards of Woodenbridge Hotel, Co. Wickow, undated.
Postcard of the altar and stained glass windows of an unknown church, undated.
Postcard of "St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham: The Waterfall", undated.
Postcard of Gougane-Barra, Co. Cork, undated.
Ream of double-sided postcards fixed together of drawings of various landmarks in SanDiego, California, undated.
Blank, black bordered envelopes surrounded by blotting paper, undated.
Blank, black bordered writing paper, secured inside a paper sleeve, undated.
Blank headed paper containing the address "Grange House, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin", undated.
Blank headed paper of the Irish Review, a monthly magazine of Irish literature and science, 12 D'Olier Street, Dublin, undated.
II. Personal papers, 1848-1922.
II.i. Financial papers, 1898-1917.
Receipt stubs for the payment of the 'Poor's Rate' for the Cloughjordan Electoral Division, by Joseph MacDonagh, 1898 March 25-1901 March 04.
Handwritten receipts by Maria Jane Williams, referring to the payments of half years rents by Mary Louise MacDonagh, 1899 Feb. 04- 1904 July 08.
Receipt of payment of 4 shillings and nine and half pence from Joseph MacDonagh for his holdings at Main Street Cloughjordan, County Tiperary, 1899 Feb. 30.
Demand notes from the Borrisokane rural district office to Joseph MacDonagh for the payment of 8 shillings 7 pence and 7 shillings 8 pence for his property on Main Street, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, 1899 Aug, 17- 1900 Nov. 15.
Demand note and attached receipt stub from Borrisokane rural disctrict office to Mary MacDonagh regarding the payment of 8 shillings seven pence for the property on Main Street, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, 1901 May 08.
Receipt stubs from the Borrisokane rural disctrict office regarding the payment from Mary Louise MacDonagh, 1901 Sept. 12- 1904 March 31.
Copy of an Ordinary Civil Bill from Maria Jane William, signed by her solicitor Michael Gleeson, to Mary MacDonagh requiring Mary to appear in Nenagh County Court due to the non payment of rent, 1905 Sept. 17.
Payment receipts paid by Thomas MacDonagh to the New-York Life Insurance Company, 1906 Dec. 04- 1915 Secember 04.
Letter from William John Lane of New-York Life Insurance Company to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the reinstatement of his policy, 1907 Jan. 29.
Receipt of payment by Thomas MacDonagh to the New-York Life Insurance Company, 1908 June 04.
Receipt of payment of ten pounds by Thomas MacDonagh from Maria Jane Williams, 1906 May 05.
Letter from Patrick Kennedy to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of the ten shillings he owes to the Kilkenny Woolen Mills, 1908 Feb. 11.
Receipt from Thomas Hickey, General Draper and High Class Outfitter, to Thomas MacDonagh for the payment of goods acquired throughout 1906 and 1907, 1908 July 23.
Letter from Michael Meers to Thomas MacDonagh requesting payment of £7 and 9 shilling as he is pressed for money, 1909 March 01.
Letter from 'The Nation' to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of an enclosed cheque of £1 and 1 shilling for his contributions during November, 1910 Dec. 19.
Receipt of payment of £4 and 15 shillings to University College Dublin from Thomas MacDonagh for M.A. lectures, 1911 May 24.
Receipt from The Abbotsford Hotel, Dublin, to Thomas MacDonagh for payment of 4 shillings, 1911 Dec. 07.
Receipt of payment of ten shillings, paid by Thomas MacDonagh to The National Literary Society for subscription to the society in 1912 and 1913, 1913 Feb. 17.
Receipt from The Provincial Bank of Ireland to Thomas MacDonagh and David Houston, informing them of the date of 24 Aug. 1913, when the loan of £40 is to be repaid, 1913 Apr. 21.
Receipt from The Provincial Bank of Ireland to Thomas MacDonagh and David Houston, informing them of the date of Aug. 26 1913, when the loan of £40 is to be repaid, 1913 May 23.
Dividend notice from The Kilkenny Woolen Mills Limited to Thomas MacDonagh for the amount of 9 pence, undated.
Notice from The Provincial Bank of Ireland to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the date for the repayment of the loan he and David Houston have with them for £90, 1915 July 29.
Account book of Thomas MacDonagh with The Provincial Bank of Ireland, 1911 Dec. 08- 1916 April 08.
Lodgement stubs, signed by Thomas MacDonagh into The Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited, 1912 Jan. 06- 1914 Jan. 02.
Counterfoil stub of a postal order sent from Thomas MacDonagh to Farther Augustine, 1912 Jan. 02.
Lodgement stubs signed by Thomas MacDonagh from The Provincial Bank of Ireland, 1914 May 01- 1916 April 05.
Cheques paid out by Thomas MacDonagh through The Provincial Bank of Ireland, 1914 Sept. 07- 1916 Apr. 26.
Lodgement stubs from The Provincial Bank of Ireland signed by MacDonagh family members, 1915 Dec. 06- 1917 Apr. 19.
Lodgement made into Thomas MacDonagh's Bank of Ireland account by Muriel MacDonagh, undated.
Rent receipts of £8 for 32 Upper Baggot Street, signed by Thomas MacDonagh to Mayes, Conyngham & Robinson, LTD., 1913 Sept. 27.
Rent receipts signed by Thomas MacDonagh for the residence at 29 Oakley Road, 1914 July 15 - 1916 Feb. 01.
Rent receipt from Muriel MacDonagh to Plunketts Estate for the residence at 50 Marlboro Road, 1917 Feb. 01.
II.ii. Applications and testimonials, 1903-1913.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Dr. Reverand William Brennan, President of St. Kieran's College, County Kilkenny, 1903 June 24.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Reverand Father Nicholas Brennan President of Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary, 1903 July 11.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Dr. Edward Crehan, President of St. Mary's College, Rathmines, 1903 July 18.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Father William Brennan of Rathdowney Parish, Queens County (County Laois), 1907 June 13.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Father John Doody, President of St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, 1907 June 15.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Father John Byrne, Dean of Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary, 1907 June 27.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Father John Doody, President of St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, 1908 Nov. 02.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Father John Byrne, Dean of studies at Rockwell College, Cashe, County Tipperary, undated.
Incomplete typescript of a testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh by Father John Doody, Presdient of St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, undated.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Dr. Edward Crehan, President of the Blackrock College, Dublin, for a position of Irish Organiser under the Board of National Education, 1907 June 19.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh for the position of "Organiser of Irish" under the Board of National Education, from Father Richard Daly, Headmaster of Munster College for Irish and Professor in Leinster College of Irish, 1907 June 25.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Michael Barret, President of St. Colman's College, Fermoy, County Cork, 1908 Oct. 13.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Dr. Edward Crehan, for the position of Examiner in English under the Intermediate Board, 1908 Oct. 13.
Form of application for the position of examiner with the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, partially completed by Thomas MacDonagh, 1908 Oct. 14.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh for the position of examiner of English under the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, from an unknown recipient, 1912 Sept..
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Robert Donovan, a colleague of his from UCD, for the position of English examiner under the Indermediate Education Board for Ireland, 1912 Oct. 26.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh for the position of Inspector under the Intermediate Board of Education from Reverend Father Nicholas Brennan, President of Blackrock College, Dublin, 1913 Aug. 27.
Notice for the "Ladies and Gentlemen" wishing to apply for the position as Centre Superintendents under the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, 1915 July.
Letter from Frank O'Nolan applying to the Congested Districts Board for Ireland mentioning there are enclosed copies of testimonials, 1911 Aug. 15.
Copy of testimonial of Frank O'Nolan from J. Camillus Beardwood, Lord Abbot of St. Joseph Abbey attached to the Mount St. Joseph College, Roscrea, 1909 Oct. 27.
Copy of a testimonial of Frank O'Nolan from Elizabeth Ryan, Principal of Loreto College, Dublin, 1910 May 23.
Copy of testimonial of Frank O'Nolan from Patrick Pearse, Headmaster of St. Enda's College, Dublin, 1911 Feb. 15.
Copy of testimonial of Frank O'Nolan from Douglas Hyde, President of The Gaelic League, Eoin MacNeill, Vice President of The Gaelic League and Patrick O'Daly, General Secretary of The Gaelic League, 1911 July 15.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from his father-in-law Frederick Gifford, 1912 Nov.16.
Note from T. S. Omond to Thomas MacDonagh informing him he will write a testimonial for him, 1913 Jan. 13.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh for the position of Professorship of English Literature from Count George Noble Plunkett, 1913 Feb. 03.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Robert Donovan, Professor of English Literature at University College Dublin, 1913 Feb. 05.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Denis Coffey, President of University College Dublin, 1913 Feb. 07.
Printed pamphlet of Thomas MacDonagh's testimonials from past professional positions for the application to the Chair of History, English Literature and Mental Science in University College Galway, 1913 Feb 10.
Letter of acknowledgement of Thomas MacDonagh's application, from University College Galway, 1913 Feb. 14.
Testimonial of Thomas MacDonagh from Nicholas Brennan, undated.
II.iii. Miscellaneous, 1848-1922.
Newspaper titled 'The Irish Felon', successor to the the United Irishman, providing basic Irish news, happenings in the courtrooms, and letters from the public 1848 July 22.
'Office of the Blessed Virgin' prayer book in Latin and English, ca.1892-1900.
Bookmark of Catholic prayer with note on verso from Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca,to Thomas MacDonagh, 1896.
Bookmark with Catholic prayer on the front in French, undated.
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments owned by Muriel Enid MacDonagh neé Gifford, 1897 Dec.
Day planner for 1904, belonging to Thomas MacDonagh, 1904.
Notes written by Thomas MacDonagh on a French library book request docket, 1910 Aug. 20.
French library card for the department of prints, maps and geographic collection of the National Library, signed by Thomas MacDonagh, 1910 Aug. 02.
Printed syllabus card of The National Literary Society, Dublin, for the year 1912-1913, 1912-1913.
Printed letter from the National Literary Society to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the increase of the price of membership, resuming the publication of the journal and the availability of members procuring tickets for friends, 1915 Oct. 19.
Member's ticket from the National Literary Society of Ireland for the "Opening Conversazione", 1915 Nov. 01.
Printed notice from the National Literary Society to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that his subscription for the past two sessions remain unpaid, 1915-1916.
Printed syllabus from the National Literary Society of Ireland of the events of the year 1915-1916, 1915-1916.
Application for membership to The Proprtional Representation Society of Ireland, undated.
Letter from Joseph McGrath, Registrar of The National University of Ireland, Dublin, to Thomas MacDonagh, informing him of the date for the conferring of degrees, 1910 Oct.
Dinner menu in Irish for an event for St. Enda's School, 1911 June 06.
Ticket from the play 'The Dream Physician' by Edward Martin, 1914, Nov. 02.
Card containing details of the play 'The Dream Physician' by Edward Martyn, to Dr. William Joseph Hughes, with caricature on front, drawn by Grace Gifford, 1914.
Letter from Frances Hannigan, Secretary of the Loreto Debating Society, to Thomas MacDonagh, inviting him to attend a reading of the paper "Clarence Flanagan", 1915 Mar. 12.
Invitation from the History Society of University College Dublin at St. Stephen's Green for a talk on "Celto-Latin Schools and Society in Gaul, in Sedulian Times", by Professor Sigerson, 1915 June 02.
Invitation from University College, Dublin, at 80 St. Stephen's Green to Thomas MacDonagh, to meet "His Grace the Chancellor of the University", 1915 Oct. 24.
Invitation from University College Dublin to Thomas MacDonagh, to attend High Mass in the University Church, 1915 Oct 24.
Invitation from the Colmcille division of the Gaelic League to Muriel MacDonagh for a music event, 1917 Feb. 14.
Notice from Joseph McGrath, Registrar of The National University of Ireland, Dublin, to Thomas MacDonagh, informing him that the Chancellor of the University has recommended that his name should appear on the official list of successful candidates from the B.A. degree examinations, undated.
Two copies of Donagh MacDonagh's birth notice for the newspapers, written by Thomas MacDonagh in both Irish and English, 1912 Nov. 12.
Registration form for the birth of Donagh MacDonagh, completed by Thomas MacDonagh 1912 Dec. 13.
Lock of Donagh MacDonagh's hair at "1.5 months" that Thomas MacDonagh had with him at his execution, c.1916
Lock of Barbara MacDonagh's blonde hair tied together with ribbon and a note written by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, explaining it had been found on Thomas MacDonagh subsequent to his execution, c.1916.
Envelope signed "T MacDonagh Esq." containg a small branch and leaves, c.1916.
Envelope addressed to Thomas MacDonagh containing a lock of brown hair, c.1916.
Envelope addressed to Thomas MacDonagh containing a lock of Muriel MacDonagh's red hair, c.1916.
Note from [Muriel MacDonagh?] to Thomas MacDonagh, containing purple ribbon and strands of red hair, c.1916.
Newspaper cuttings relating to the MacDonagh family, including the funerals of Muriel and Thomas, John MacDonagh's son Breifne going mising temporarily, and also cuttings relating to Liam Redmond, Barbara MacDonagh's husband, 1917 July 12-1918 June 15.
Inventory notebook of Thomas and Muriel MacDonagh's belongings, composed by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, which were to be left to his children, Barbara and Donagh, with enclosed notes relating to the death and belongings of Joseph MacDonagh, c.1916- 1922 May 31.
Inventory notebook of Thomas and Muriel MacDonagh's belognings, conmposed by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, to be left to his children Barabra and Donagh, including a diary written by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, explaining the events of the MacDonagh family and the hiding of the families belongings until 1922, 1922 Mar.
Printout of a microfilm record of an account written by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, of Muriel MacDonagh's conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism after the birth of her children, Barbara and Donagh, and the effects it had on the Gifford and MacDonagh family, undated.
Poem titled in Latin 'Cor Amator Meam' translated as 'My Lover's Heart' by an unknown author and also the final three stanzas from "The Year of Sorrow" written by Aubrey Thomas de Vere, 1899 Apr. 23.
Sonnet written by Gabriel Paul Gifford entitled 'The Rebelly Crew', undated.
Poem titled 'The Eye-Witness' written by unidentified author, undated.
Soft bound book of poems titled 'Squibs' written by Muriel MacDonagh, undated.
Transcript entitled 'Poetic Diction' explaining the correct delivery and articulation of poetry, written by John J. Coghlan, undated.
Visiting cards titled "Mrs. Thomas MacDonagh", undated.
Visiting cards beloging to Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Visiting cards belonging to Donagh MacDonagh, undated.
Visiting cards belonging to George Noble Plunkett, Count Plunkett, undated.
Visiting cards of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Darly of 4 Palmerston Park, undated.
Visiting cards of Michael Dowling, Thomas Cockburn, N.F. Dryhurst and Miss Edith Mary White, undated.
The New Road Map of the Environs of Dublin by Alexander Gross, undated.
Two pieces of fabric belonging to Muriel MacDonagh sent to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, undated.
Envelope of stamps from South America, 1888 Jan-1889 Jul. 24.
Rough draft of invitation for a summer school entitled 'An t-am fad ó abú!', 1902 Aug. 07.
Prayer card for the death of John P. Creedon, 1908 April 05.
Note written by John MacDonagh given to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, prior to sailing to America, 1909 Sep. 23.
Composition written by Jack W. Morris on the term "Love of Country" otherwise referred to as "patriotism", 1914 Dec 07.
Dog license for the year of 1915 paid by Thomas MacDonagh, 1915 Jun. 16.
Loose writing paper including one of which states "This note paper belonged to Thomas MacDonagh, Shot by British May 3rd 1916 RIP", undated.
Note handwritten by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Poem handwriiten in Irish by unknown author, undated.
Ticket stubs for a draw held by St. Enda's College, undated.
Address label book owned by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Fragment of wood containing writing by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, undated.
Picture of coat of arms in black and white, undated.
Note written by Muriel MacDonagh asking whether the recipient would like to keep some unknown object, undated.
Segment of a letter from Muriel MacDonagh to unknown recipient regarding the children, Barbara and Donagh, and also regarding the items and gifts sent to her since the execution of Thomas, undated.
Envelope written upon by Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, regarding poems and letters by Thomas and John MacDonagh still being there despite them previously being opened and rifled through, undated.
Fragment of letter written by unknown recipient, speaking of the Abbey Theatre and The National Theatre Society, undated.
Letter written by unknown author to unknown recipient regarding songs writen by the recipient and how they are all very doleful and lack cheer, undated.
Extract from typescript to be returned to Lord Dunsany at Dunsany Castle, County Meath, undated
Addresses of Mrs Edward Moffatt and of Mrs Flood of County Roscommon, undated.
Compilation of 45 names by unknown author for undisclosed reasons, undated.
Newspaper cuttings relating to Donagh MacDonagh's play 'Happy as Larry', job posts as intermediate inspectors, the play 'Gipsy Love' and also a piece on Rome, undated.
Roughnotes of play ideas written by unknown author, undated.
Roughnotes of summations, section of 'The Irish Review' heading, and blank sheets of paper, undated.
Drawings made by Donagh and Barbara MacDonagh, including a note mentioning "Don MacDonagh is a good little boy" and rough notes included with various rebel leaders' names, undated.
Empty green book cover, undated.
III. Irish Volunteer papers, 1917-1932.
Thomas MacDonagh's membership card for The Irish Volunteers, 1913 Dec. 03.
Anniversary mass booklets informing of the mass dates and times for the 1916 rebels, 1917 Apr. 28 - May 12.
Memorial card for the souls of the Irishmen who were executed in 1916, circa 1916.
Postcard featuring Thomas MacDonagh's picture, biographical information and also a quote from Thomas MacDonagh, c.1916.
Supplement to The Irish Volunteer including "Freedom's Hill: A National Anthem" written by Thomas MacDonagh with music by O'Brien Butler, 1914 Dec. 26.
Notice to all volunteers of the Dublin Brigade informing them to "keep in touch with the Unit" and to "attend all battalion parades without exception whenever ordered" from the Adjutant of the 4th Battalion of the Dublin Brigade, undated.
Manifesto issued by the executive committee of the Irish Volunteers entitled "The Present Crisis" regarding the ordering of four Irishmen by the British Government to leave Ireland , 1915, Jul. 15.
Blank headed paper of the Irish Volunteers, including watermark, and also the headquater and secretary information in both Irish and English, undated.
Receipt signed by A.D.Donnellan and Éamon DeValera for the payment of 25 shilings by Thomas MacDonagh for the typing and shorthand done in connection with the Irish Volunteers handbook, 1915 April 13.
Carbon copy notebook belonging to Thomas MacDonagh containing draft letters including information about the Irish Volunteers, training excersises, summations, drawings of routes and a memo to Éamon de Valera, 1915 Aug 12-1916 Mar. 03.
Notes written by Thomas MacDonagh in relation to routes from the Capuchin Church, Church Street to Glasnevin Cemetary, undated.
Newspaper cuttings referring to the death of Thomas MacDonagh and additional leaders of the 1916 rebellion, also includes Nellie Gifford's account of the Easter Rising and reference to Mrs. M. Plunkett's funeral, the sister-in-law of Joseph Mary Plunkett, 1916 Dec 08-1932 Oct.30.
Two copies of the last letter from Pádraig Pearse to his mother prior to his execution, written from Kilmainham Prison, 1916 May 03.
Two copies of the poem entitled 'A mother speaks' written by Padraig Pearse for his mother at her request, prior to his execution while in Kilaminham Prison, 1916, May.
Handwritten transcript of play entitled 'When the dawn is come', written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1916 May 03.
Poem written by an Irish Volunteer in Richmond Prison on hearing mass in Barrack Yard, 1916 May 28.
Poem entitled 'Dark Rosaleen's Last Chaplet' by unknown author, which speaks of the deaths of the 1916 rebels, undated.
Poem entitled 'Who fears to speak of Easter week?' by unknown author, undated.
Poem entitled 'Our Boys' by unknown author, undated.
Postcard featuring a picture of Michael Joseph O'Rahilly, who was shot and killed during the fighting at the GPO Easter week, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Thomas MacDonagh, who was executed May 3rd 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Padraic Pearse, who was executed on May 3rd 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Thomas Clarke, who was executed on May 3rd 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Michael O'Hanrahan, who was executed on May 4th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Edward Daly, who was executed May 4th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Joseph Plunkett, who was executed May 4th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Major John McBride, who was executed May 5th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of John (Seán) Heuston, who was executed May 8th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Cornelius Colbert, who was executed May 8th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of James Connolly, who was executed May 9th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Sean MacDiarmada, who was executed on May 12th 1916, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Eamon de Valera, who was sentenced to death but later commuted to penal servitute for life, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Thomas Ashe, who was sentenced to death but later commuted to penal service for life, 1916.
Postcard featuring a picture of Countess Markievicz, who was sentenced to death but later commuted to penal servitude for life, 1916.
Printed photographs including printed signatures of Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Printed photographs of Jospeh Mary Plunkett, with printed name below picture, undated.
Typescript of "The Last Chapter of Roger Casement's Life", which details the Casement's imprisonment in Pentonville Prison, London, and his execution, undated.
IV. Literary Papers, 1899-ca. 1950.
IV.i. Poetry, 1899-1916.
Poem written by Thomas MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, during his time in Rockwell College, entitled 'Parody of Frederick Rans[ch?]' undated.
Poem written by Thomas MacDonagh to Mary Mac Donagh, Sister Francesca, during his time at Rockwell College, entitled 'In Festo Sancti Spiritus Ad Sanctum Spiritum' which translates from Latin as 'At the feast of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Holy One' undated.
Poem written by Thomas MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, during his time in Rockwell College, entitled 'The Sea', undated.
Newspaper cuttings of reviews of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'April and May', 1903 May 21-1903 Jul 18.
Newspaper cuttings of reviews of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'The Scotsman', 1907 Jun 06.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'Irish News', 1907 Jun. 29.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'The Belfast News-Letter', 1907 Jul. 26.
Newspaper cuttings of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the magazine 'Irish Monthly', 1907.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'The Northern Whig', 1907 Aug 10.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'Glasgow Herald', 1907 Aug 22.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'The Liverpool Daily Courier', 1907 Oct. 18.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'The Golden Joy', from the newspaper 'Manchester Courier', 1908 Feb. 14.
Notice from Robert Luce, President of Luce's Press Clipping Bureau to Thomas MacDonagh informing him that reviews of 'Lyrical Poems' have begun and they would be happy to send on the reviews on receipt of Thomas' order, 1904 Feb. 14.
Newspaper cutting of a review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'Lyrical Poems', from the magazine 'Irish Book Lover', 1914 Mar.
Cutting from magazine of poem entitled 'The place of wild nonsense' by unknown author, given from Thomas MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, 1905 Jul. 12.
Newspaper cutting of Thomas MacDonagh's poem entitled 'The War Legacy', undated.
Statement from O'Donoghue & Co. Booksellers and Publishers to Thomas MacDonagh for £9, 1906 May 03.
Statement from William O'Connell, newsagent, bookseller and stationer in Fermoy County Cork, to Thomas MacDonagh, for "Papers Supplied" to the price of 6 shillings and 8 pence, which was paid accordingly on the 13th of September 1906, 1906 Sept. 12- 1906 Sept. 13.
Statement from John Falconers of Falconer's Government, Law and General Printing Office to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the payment of £35 for the printing of 'The Irish Review', 1911 Oct. 31.
Letter from William Figgis, of Hodges and Figgis, informing Thomas MacDonagh he has enclosed a memo with the expenses of 'Thomas Campion', with enclosed statement for the price of £52 1 shilling and 6 pence, 1913 April 25.
Letter from Hodges Figgis Bookstore to Thomas MacDonagh informing him he owes a balance of £9, 7 shillings and 2 pence, with enclosed statement signed by Thomas for £20 pounds 5 shillings, 1916.
Accounts of Thomas MacDonagh with Hodges Figgis Bookstore from 1914-1916, inlcuding the balance of £1, 9 shillings and 10 pence due, 1916.
Accounts by Thomas MacDonagh of balances due to Eason's and Simpkin & Co., undated.
Pages taken from Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry 'Songs of myself', including corrections by him to the contents pages, the poems 'In the storm' and 'In Absence', undated.
Typescript of poem entitled 'A Song for Muriel' by Thomas MacDonagh, including annotated corrections and his signature, 1911 Oct. 21.
Poem written by Thomas MacDonagh for his daugter Barbara, which was re-written by Muriel MacDonagh for Mary MacDonagh, Sister Francesca, after Thomas' death, 1916 July 14.
Typescript of poem originally written by Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, entitled 'An Buan Buidhe' [The Yellow Bittern], translated into English by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of poem entitled 'Grange House Lodge Rathfarnham' written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Manuscript of the poem 'The Praises of Beauty, VIII, The Fairy Beauty of Ireland' written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of poem entitled 'O'Donovan Rossa', including annotations, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of poem entitled 'John-John', including annotations, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Printed proof of poem entitled 'Grange House Lodge Rathfarnham', including annotations, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Printed proof of translated poem from Irish to English enititled 'Druimfhoinn Donn Dilis', including annotations, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript proof of translated poem from Irish to English entitled 'Tá na réalt 'na seasamh ar an aer' [The stars are standing on the air], including annotations, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of stanza 3 and 4 of draft poem entitled 'The song of joy', written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1913 Jan 02.
Programme of The Irish Theatre annotated with notes and a draft of a poem, untitled, by Thomas MacDonagh, 1915.
Manuscript of poem entitled 'A Man', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem entitled 'Death', including additional drafts of untitled poems, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem entitled 'Peace', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem entitled 'War and Peace' written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem entitled 'Ireland and War', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of untitled poem, which speaks of the beauty of morning and morning dew, written by Thomas MacDonagh undated.
Draft manuscript of Irish poem entitled 'Erin', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft typescript of poem entitled 'Inscriptions of Ireland', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft typescript of stanza two of poem entitled 'A Christmas Dream', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft typescript of poem entitled 'Grange House Lodge', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft typescript of poem entitled 'Images', including annotations and additional stanza's, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of the contents page of 'Selected Poems', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of poem translated from Irish to English entitled 'Tá na realt 'na seasamh ar an aer' [The stars are standing on the air], written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem entitled 'The Suicide', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem entitled 'A Fragment', heavily annotated, including additional untitled poem on verso, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of untitled poem, mentioning "there lived a man a thousand years ago", inlcuding a poem entitled '[Pride?]', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of poem, untitled, which mentions "I waited under the hill tonight", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of untitled poem, which refers to light and day, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft of untitled poem, which mentions "Lay! Lay! Lay!", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of untitled poem, which mentions "I read a long-loved humble lay, a little verse of humble things;", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
IV.ii. Plays, 1910-ca. 1915.
Bound manuscript of notes for the play 'The Visitor's', also includes a list of poems to be included in 'Songs for Myself', additional poems written by Thomas MacDonagh, and notes on a first year English examination, 1910 Dec.07 - 1911 May 06.
Softbound manuscript of the play 'The Pagan. A Modern play in two conversations', by Thomas MacDonagh, c.1915.
Handwritten draft of the play 'When the Dawn is Come', written by Thomas MacDonagh, c.1908.
Handwritten draft of the play 'When the Dawn is Come', Act One, written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1909 Jan 15.
Handwritten draft of the play 'When the Dawn is Come', Act One, written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1909 Jan. 18.
Handwritten draft of the play 'When the Dawn is Come', Act One, including all characters, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Handwritten draft of the play 'When the Dawn is Come', Act One, including characters Sheila and [L.H.], written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Handwritten draft of the play 'When the Dawn is Come', Act Two, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Theatre programme of The Irish National Theatre Society for plays stage at The Royalty Theatre, 1904 Mar. 26.
Theatre programme of The Irish National Theatre Society for plays staged at the Abbey Theatre, 1904 Dec. 27- 1905 Jan 03.
Theatre programme of The National Theatre Society for plays staged at the Abbey Theatre, 1908 Oct. 15-17.
Abbey Theatre ticket for the productions of 'An Naomh ar Iarraidh' [The missing saint] written by Douglas Hyde, 'The Destruction of the Hostel' written by Padraic Colum, 'Íosagán' [Little Jesus] written by Padraic Pearse, and 'The Coming of Fionn' written by Standish O'Grady, to be performed by the pupils of St. Enda's College, 1910 Apr. 09.
Notice from The Hardwicke Street Theatre to Thomas MacDonagh, regarding the upcoming productions of 'The Dance of Osiris' by Joseph Plunkett and 'The Metempsychosis or A Mad World' by Thomas MacDonagh, 1913 May 03.
Theatre programme of The National Theatre Society for the play 'The Big House' by Lennox Robinson, staged at the Abbey Theatre, including a printed drawing of 'Ballydonal House' 1927 Nov 01-05.
Programme for 'Grand Concert' performed in Cloghjordan, County Tipperary, 1905 Dec. 26.
Newspaper cutting relating to perfomances of Joseph and Thomas MacDonagh at the 'Grand Concert' in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, 1906 Jan. 13.
Newspaper cutting of a critical review of Thomas MacDonagh's play 'When the Dawn is Come', c.1908.
Newspaper cutting review of the book entitled 'Irish plays and playwrights', written by Cornelius Weygandt, c.1913.
Newspaper cutting referring to the play 'Pagans', written by Thomas MacDonagh, c.1915.
IV.iii. Other works, 1911-circa 1916.
Five copies of a printed advertisement of 'The Irish Review', detailing the reasoning for establishing the magazine, 1911, Mar.
First proof of an advertisement for 'The Irish Review', detailing the prospective contents, c.1911.
Two copies of an advertisement for 'The Irish Review', including a list of contributors and an order form for prospective readers, c.1911.
Preparation notes for a thesis, including one draft music score, written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1911 Jul. 18.
Newspaper cutting from 'Times [Hit] Supplement' regarding the publication of Thomas MacDonagh's thesis entitled 'Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry', 1913, Feb. 27.
Five copies of an advertisement pamphlet for Thomas MacDonagh's published thesis 'Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry', 1913.
Four pamphlets for August vacation courses held by University College Dublin at Earlsfort Terrace, which includes Thomas MacDonagh as one of the lecturers for the English course, 1913 Aug 04-16.
Draft manuscript of Thomas MacDonagh's review entitled 'The New Anthology', which reviews the book of poetry written by Padric Gregory entitled 'Modern Anglo-Irish Verse', to be printed in the Irish Review, c.1914.
Draft manuscript of Thomas MacDonagh's review entitled 'A New Romance of the Irish Brigade', which reviews the book of poetry written by Michael O'Hanrahan's entitled 'A Swordsman of the Brigade', to be published in The Irish Review, c.1914.
Galley proof number 18 of Thomas MacDonagh's book entitled 'Literature in Ireland', including annotations by Thomas, c.1916.
Partial galley proof number 20 of Thomas MacDonagh's book entitled 'Literature in Ireland', including annotations by Thomas, c.1916.
Galley proof number 24 of Thomas MacDonagh's book entitled 'Literature in Ireland', including annotations, c.1916.
Partial galley proof number 32 of Thomas MacDonagh's book entitled 'Literature in Ireland', including annotations, c.1916.
Two printed copies of 'Last and Inspiring Address of Thomas MacDonagh', including annotated corrections on one copy by Muriel MacDonagh, c.1916.
Newspaper proof of biographical note on Thomas MacDonagh, with annotated corrections by Muriel MacDonagh, c.1916.
IV.iv. Notebooks and miscellaneous notes, 1906-1907.
Softbound notebook of draft poems and plays, written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1906 July-1907 March 06.
Handwritten provisional timetable for school lessons on Mondays and Tuesdays, and also an additional timetable for Saturdays, 1896 Dec.20.
Letter from Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Printers and Publishers, to Thomas MacDonagh regarding a letter Thomas requested to be handed to Mr. Yeats, and also regarding the quoting of a price for a book which includes illustrations, 1902 Nov. 03.
Handwritten draft manuscript of 'A Song of Beauty' written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1903 May 23-24.
Roughnotes of poems and a contents page of poetry book 'A Daily Dozen', written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1903, Aug.
Draft manuscript of a poem entitled 'Seargán' [Paor?], written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1909 Apr. 01.
Handwritten makeshift copybook, made from St. Mary's College, Rathmines, headed paper, including notes on poems, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Printed note expressing the compliments of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, undated.
List of names, including 1916 rebels names, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Newspaper cutting of poem entitled 'Song in Time of Revolution', written by Alegernon Charles Swinburne, undated.
Newspaper cutting on a review of book of poetry entitled 'The Divine Vision and Other Poems', written by Alexander E. MacMillan and Co., undated.
Softbound notebook containing draft poems and plays, including additional loose page of poems, undated.
Roughnotes on untitled poems, heavily annotated by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of untitled poem, which begins with the sentence "Wisdom, wisdom, wilt thou not come to me young", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Partial handwritten manuscript of poem entitled 'The Chimes' part 3 and also 'Dreams' part 4, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Handwritten notes on poetry and poets, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Handwritten notes on untitled book, heavily annotated and written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Handwritten notes of untitled poem, including Muriel MacDonagh's name throughout, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Handwritten notes on untitled poem, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Softbound notebook, with cover page headed 'St. Enda's School', containing notes on poets for English classes, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Softbound notebook containing unpublished songs and poems, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Softbound notebook, containing poems and songs including 'To Cuchulain', 'To Italy', 'The Oak', and 'A Wilted Flower', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notebook containing one page of notes and summations, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notebook containing notes on literature and poetry, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notebook containing drafts of poems, including 'A Little Life' and 'My Gram', undated.
Small notebook for the years 1909-1910, including lists of names, addresses, and notes in French, c.1910.
Business card of Mr. W.J. Mackey of Anderson, Stanford & Ridgeway, Ltd., 28/29 Grafton Street Dublin, with annotations of summations on verso, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Small notebook containing lists of names and clothing, summations, and notes in Irish, undated.
Small notebook containing visiting card of Thomas MacDonagh, and also includes lists of names, summations, and weekday timetables, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Small notebook containing lists of names, weekday timetables, summations, and also an additional page listing adjectives such as "chatting, flirting", undated.
Newspaper cutting of a poem written in Irish and English entitled 'Inghean an Phailitínig' which translates as 'The Palatine's Daughter', by Fay Sargent, undated.
Notebook containing lists of names and summations in Thomas MacDonagh's hand, undated.
Notebook containing lists of names and untitled poems, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notebook containing notes on untitled play, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes written on loose sheets of paper, containing information on poets and poetry, written by Thomas MacDonagh, 1902 Oct.
Notes on an article on poetry, published in the 'Quarterly Review', 1902, Oct.
Partial letter from unknown author to Thomas MacDonagh regarding the author receiving Thomas' poems 'The [praises?] of Beauty' and 'The Daily Dozen', 1904 Aug. 22.
Draft notes on Act One of Thomas MacDonagh's play 'When the Dawn is Come', 1909 Apr. 12.
Fragment of draft of poem, untitled, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Newspaper cutting regarding the death of Lieutenant Combe of the North Irish Horse, shot by an Ottakar Vollert, including Thomas' notes on the war, undated.
Notes, including a list of names, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Envelope annotated on verso by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes written on verso of partial letter, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
University College Dublin postcard containing notes on verso in ancient Greek and Latin, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Partial typescript of Thomas MacDonagh's writings on poetry, in particular accents in poetry, undated.
Typescript of the title of John Keats of poem 'A thing of Beauty is a joy forever' and also a quote from Edgar Poe, undated.
Notes on possible subjects to be taught in class, including essays at the completion of each section, undated.
Lists of numbers and Irish forenames, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Fragmented notes on peotry ideas, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Lists of poems and poets, written by Thomas MacDonagh on verso of a 1910-1911 calendar, c. 1910-1911.
Numbers and markings, marked off for every month of the year, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Assortment of notes and illustrations, including an illustration of a man, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Typescript of note on the use of capital letters and assonace in poetry, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes of poems that are long and [false?], written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes on poetry, in particular lyrical poetry and its essential qualities, sincerity and poetry as the interpretor, in Latin, Greek and English, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Fragment of paper containing partial untitled poem with a line mentioning "What should I bring along", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes entitled 'No [Wine?]', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes containg examples of Thomas MacDonagh initials, undated.
Handwritten examples of Muriel MacDonaghs signature, including one of Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Assortment of notes including roman numerals and notes on poetry, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Assortment of notes, including notes on poetry and also summations, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Partial fragment of notes regarding "queer translations" and mentions Standish Hayes O'Grady, undated.
Notes on six forms of poetry, including corresponding page numbers, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Poem entitled '[Riglileus?] Self Applause', containing the poem 'Little Jack Horner' and also a poem in Latin, undated.
Indistinct notes written by Thomas MacDonagh regarding unknown subject, undated.
Notes containing the titles of songs and poems and their corresponding page numbers, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft of untitled poem, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft of untitled poem containing the sentence "a sun with gold", undated.
Poem written in Latin, including translations and places of accent, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Incomplete draft of poem, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes relating to "What is a play" and "The study of philosophy", by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft poem entitled 'Oh [Rue?] of God, Oh [Rue?] of God', heavily annotated and corrected, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes regarding to "the essential qualities of poetry", heavily annotated and corrected, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes of translations from English into Irish, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Assortment of summations of money and finances, by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft of poem written in Irish that speaks of the "Naomh Sprid" [Holy Spirit], written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Note written on poetry and mentions "it is six o'clock", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes written on poetry entitled 'Patrons', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft of poem entitled 'A Song of War', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Softbound cover containing summations and blank sheet, undated.
Handwritten list of poems, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Untitled poem realting to love, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft contents page of 'Through the Ivory Gate', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Blank sheet of paper which contains indistinct typescript of letters, undated.
Essay entitled 'The Praises of Beauty', written by Thomas MacDonagh to Father John Byrne of the Order of the Holy Ghost, including a list of an additional 9 poems, undated.
Partial essay relating to World War One, mentioning Russia, France, Germany, and Austria, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List, numbered 14-20, with headings such as 'The Future' and 'Drama', written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Contents page entitled with 'Early Poems', 'Traditional', 'New Poems', and 'Images and Inscriptions', containing lists of poems or images under each heading, including corresponding page numbers, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List contaiting initials and numbers, and also includes Thomas MacDonagh's address as "15 Carlisle Av. / Marlborough Road", undated.
Partial essay written in Irish and English, including corrections, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List of notes, headed 'Chaucer', containing subjects and ideas on poetry and literature, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft essay, entitled 'Chapter, the Parents', regarding the story of a young man attending boarding school and his relationship with his grandmother, containing a timeline of activities on the last page, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List of subjects and summations, including a shopping list with corresponding prices, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes on poets and the works of poets including that of William Butler Yeats, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes on poetry and poets, including that of John Dowland and Richard Edwardes, written by Thomas macDonagh, undated.
Letters from B-T, including names and subjects, such as 'Quality' and 'Finance', under majority of their corresponding letters, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of untitled poem, which refers to the "definition of art" and the "wit of life", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Notes entitled 'Translations', 'Short Ballads and Popular Lyrics' and 'Original Poems', with lists of names of works underneath each corresponding heading, and also includes draft of poem on verso, undated.
Partial draft of notes regarding the annual affiliation to a group costing £2 and also refers to examintation inspections, undated.
Draft manuscript of an essay relating to the two untitled stanzas included, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript of notes relating to Irish translations and the value of the traditional study of Irish to writers, undated.
Draft manuscript containing the line "Out of all quiet tongues arises a feeling of exultation", written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft of notes regarding literature, poetry and language, with refernece to William Shakespeare, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List of poems, including 'A Vision' and 'Love's Paradoxes', including a 2 stanza untitled poem and an additional untitled poem on verso, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Partial draft essay regarding England, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and France, and also mentions a declaration, handwritten by Thomas MacDonagh on the verso of three copies of a typescript letter from the Irish Review selling shares of £1 in order for the recipient to be included in the ownership the Irish Review, undated.
Draft manuscript, heavily annotated and corrected, regarding poetry and poets ,written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft notes containing a list of names, including the name P.J. O'Driscoll, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
Draft manuscript entitled 'The War Legacy', heavily annotated with corrections, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List, numbered 1-53, of poets, poems, songs, plays and ballads, including the poet William Butler Yeats, in addition, the list is annotted on the verso of partial typescript letters, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
List of names, subjects and initials, written by Thomas MacDonagh, undated.
IV.v. Literary papers of John and Donagh MacDonagh, 1899-ca. 1950s.
Programme of 'Popular Concert' of the Woking Musical Society featuring John MacDonagh playing the oboe, 1899 May 16.
Programme of the British Empire Shakespeare Society, Glasgow Branch, featuring [John/Joseph] MacDonagh as Publius and Trebonius in the 'Julius Caesar' recital of scenes, 1906 Oct. 19.
Programme, sent from Joseph MacDonagh to his mother Mary MacDonagh, featuring Joseph MacDonagh in Part One playing the clarinet and John MacDonagh in Part Two singing 'Eily Mavourneen', also includes note on verso from Joseph to his mother, undated.
Newspaper cutting relating to the play 'The Magnanimous Lover', written by St. John G. Ervine, and shown in Wallack's Theatre, New York, c.1920.
Newspaper cuttings regarding a complimentary review of Thomas MacDonagh's book of poetry 'The Hungry Grass', c.1944.
Newspaper cutting entitled 'Ná hAmhráin Náisiúnta' (National Anthems), regarding Donagh MacDonagh's suggestions for the composition of a new national anthem in Irish, in order for the youth to have knowledge and learn the language and also the history of the country, particularly the 1916 Easter Rising and the 1921 War of Independence, beneath a picture of "District Judge Donagh MacDonagh", 1946, Apr. 09.
Newspaper cuttings relating to Donagh MacDonagh as Wexford District Judge, 1946 July 20 and undated.
Newspaper cuttings relating to the play 'Happy as Larry', shown at the Abbey Theatre, written by Donagh MacDonagh, 1947 May 19- Oct. 24.
Newspaper cutting from 'The Irish Times' of a poem entitled 'A warning to conquerors', written by Donagh MacDonagh, 1947 Aug. 30.
Newspaper cuttings relating to the play 'God's Gentry' shown in Belfast and Dublin, written by Donagh MacDonagh, 1951 Aug. 30.
Newspaper cuttings relating to Liam Redmond, Barbara MacDonagh's husband, and also a cutting of a picture of Liam Redmond, Barbara Redmond (neé MacDonagh), Donagh MacDonagh and Mrs. Michael McCabe, 1952 Jan 16 and undated.
Newspaper cutting relating to Donagh MacDonagh's play 'Fading Mansions' which is to be made into a film in India, undated.
Newspaper cutting relating to the literary talents that have arrived and emerged from UCD, including that of Donagh MacDonagh, undated.
Newspaper cutting of a passage from Donagh MacDonagh's play, entitled 'A Counterblaste to Tobacco, etc', undated.
Short story entitled 'Kennedy's Spout. A Short Story', written by Donagh MacDonagh, undated.
Newspaper cutting relating to John MacDonagh's play 'Author! Author!', shown at the Irish Theatre, circa 1915.
Newspaper cutting relating to John MacDonagh's play 'The Irish Jew', shown at the Empire Theatre, circa 1931.
Newspaper cutting relating to John MacDonagh's play 'The Pride of Petravore!' shown at the Empire Theatre, undated.
Newspaper cutting relating to John MacDonagh's children's book entitled 'Look Who's Here!' being among the books on the Christmas bookstalls, undated.
Newspaper cutting of a review written by P. P. O Raghalaigh, of John MacDonagh's broadcast entitled 'Attempted Murder', undated.
Newspapers cutting relating to the 'Grand Concert' held in Cloghjordan, Co. Tipperary, circa 1905.
Newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor, from James Dominick Hackett regarding William Butler Yeats' play 'The Playboy of the Western World', 1911 Oct. 01.
Magazine cutting of a copy portrait of John Dryden with the years "1670 to 1689", undated.
Two hand drawn family crests, including the words "Morlor Vivere", undated.
Newspaper cutting of a picture of J.M Robbins, F. Lemass, K. A. Murray and P. Heneghan, at the annual dinner of the Railway Records Society, undated.
Assorted newspaper cuttings including a death notice of Aileen Grogan, a poem entitled 'Galloping Hogan' by Teresa Brayton and an article entitled 'Gems of Thought', circa 1951
Newspaper cuttings relating to Michael MacLiammoir, an actor from 'God's Gentry', written by John MacDonagh, undated.
Newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor of the 'Evening Mail', from John Larchet, the conductor of the Abbey Theatre Orchestra, informing of the orchestra's withdrawal from the Christmas Owens Concert, despite the orchestra's name still being shown in newspaper announcements and programmes, undated.
V. Additional Papers.
Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Miss Shelly, including a verse from the poem 'The Golden Joy' and a note informing her he finds it difficult to choose any of his unpublished poetry suitable to go with an autograph, 1911 Mar. 24.
Annotated first proofs of Donagh MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'Veterans and Other Poems', c.1941.
Bound copy of Donagh MacDonagh's book of poetry entitled 'Veteran and Other Poems', 1941.
Marked set of proofs of Donagh MacDonagh's volume of poetry entitled 'The Hungry Grass', 1947 May 21.
Typescript letter from [A. F. Letts?] to Thomas MacDonagh informing him of two enclosed plays by [W.B.] Yeats and instructing him to keep them if they are of interest to him, 1951 Sep. 04.
Bound typescript copy of Donagh MacDonagh's unpublished play entitled 'God's Gentry', [circa 1951].
Thomas MacDonagh Photographic Collection [graphic].
Muriel Gifford and her sister Sydney [Sidney] [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford MacDonagh] [graphic].
Nell Gifford taken at Larkfield [House] 1916 after coming out of prison at Mountjoy Jail [graphic].
Nell Gifford & Don MacDonagh 1916 [graphic].
Joseph Plunkett [graphic].
[Joseph Plunkett] [graphic].
[Francis Hackett] [graphic].
Muriel Gifford [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford Plunkett] [graphic].
Muriel Gifford with mirror & puff [graphic].
Muriel [Gifford MacDonagh] 1916 Snapshot at Larkfield [House] [graphic].
Mrs. Thomas MacDonagh. Taken at Larkfield [House] Aug. 1916 [graphic].
Muriel [Gifford MacDonagh] 1914 [graphic].
Muriel MacDonagh, widow of Thomas MacDonagh [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh seated on chair] [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh seated on chair in garden, with his dog Flip sitting on his lap] [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh standing on chair] [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh standing on chair, wearing hat and holding a stick] [graphic].
Donagh MacDonagh before his house [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh seated on rocking horse] [graphic].
Donagh McDonagh [sic] Easter 1914 [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh lying on cushion] [graphic].
[Barbara MacDonagh lying on cushions] [graphic].
[Barbara MacDonagh wearing bonnet and standing on chair] [graphic].
[Barbara MacDonagh lying on beach with cushion under her head] [graphic].
[Barbara MacDonagh wearing bonnet and dress, standing on chair] [graphic].
[Thomas MacDonagh and Donagh MacDonagh, with a group of friends including children, seated outdoors] [graphic].
[Group of people on boat heading towards Dun Aonghasa or Dun Aengus, Aran Islands, County Galway] [graphic].
[Priest seated in chair with open book in his hands] [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford MacDonagh holding Donagh MacDonagh in her arms, with their dog Flip seated in chair beside them] [graphic].
[Thomas MacDonagh seated holding Barbara MacDonagh, with Professor David Houston and [John MacDonagh?] seated behind them, at Greystones, County Wicklow] [graphic].
[Thomas MacDonagh in garden standing beside window of house] [graphic].
[Thomas MacDonagh on beach holding Donagh MacDonagh in his arms as Donagh gazes out to sea, at Greystones, County Wicklow] [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh and Barbara MacDonagh] [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford MacDonagh seated holding Barbara MacDonagh on her lap, with Donagh MacDonagh standing beside them] [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford MacDonagh seated holding Barbara MacDonagh on her lap, with Donagh MacDonagh seated on a stool beside them] [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford MacDonagh seated holding Barbara MacDonagh on her lap, with Donagh MacDonagh seated on stool beside them] [graphic].
[Muriel Gifford MacDonagh dipping Barbara MacDonagh into the sea, at Greystones, County Wicklow] [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh seated on ground in garden at 29 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, with Barbara MacDonagh lying on cushion in front of him] [graphic].
[Donagh MacDonagh lying on cushion on sofa with Muriel Gifford MacDonagh and Thomas MacDonagh seated on either side of him and looking down at him] [graphic].
[Father Albert OSFC with Barbara MacDonagh and Donagh MacDonagh, in Convent Garden, Basin Lane, James St., Dublin] [graphic].
[Group of people including a priest and Capuchin monk at the graveside of Father Albert OSFC at Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California] [graphic].
[Group of people outside the Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California, to honour the memory of Father Albert OSFC] [graphic].
[Father Albert OSFC arriving at the Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California, with his luggage, along with two other Irish Capuchin monks] [graphic].
[Father Albert OSFC on arriving at the Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California] [graphic].
[Cloisters at Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California] [graphic].
[Father Albert OSFC standing in the cloisters of Santa Ines Mission, Solvang, California] [graphic].
[Statue of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus in her arms under an ironwrought canopy in an unidentified garden] [graphic].
[Woman standing beside statue of the Virgin Mary in an unidentified garden] [graphic].
[Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California] [graphic].
Envelope addressed to Sister Francesca [Mary MacDonagh], Cappagh, Finglass, Dublin, Ireland, containing the photographs of Father Albert OSFC and the Santa Inés Mission, Solvang, California, February 1924.
Folder with two religious illustrations pasted on cover and back, undated.
Folder belonging to Muriel Gifford MacDonagh which contained most of the photographs within the Thomas MacDonagh Photographic Collection, [1911-1916].
[Thomas MacDonagh's photograph album] [graphic]
Don [graphic].
Don between 2 friends 1915 [graphic].
Thomas MacDonagh, his children & two lady friends 1915 [graphic].
Thomas MacDonagh 1915 [graphic].
His children Don & Bairbre 1915 [graphic].
Barbara & her mother [Muriel Gifford MacDonagh] 1915 in Oakley Road [graphic].
Barbara [graphic].
Don & an old man [graphic].
Don of the Sand Hills & dog [Flip] 1915 [graphic].
Barbara's 1st sea bath given by her mother [Muriel Gifford MacDonagh] 1915 [graphic].
Barbara.11.ix.15 [graphic].
Mrs. MacDonagh, her children & dog [graphic].
Thomas MacDonagh, children & friends Miss Alderton, Miss Maguire, Greystones 1915 [graphic].
Don & his Uncle John MacDonagh 1915 [graphic].
Face to face. Thomas MacDonagh & his son Don [graphic].
La Saneta. Muriel MacDonagh [graphic].
Barbara & her grandmother Mrs. Gifford [graphic].
Muriel MacDonagh swimming at Greystones 1915 - Drowned at Skerries 1917 [graphic].
Don & Uncle Jack [John MacDonagh] [graphic].
Muriel [graphic].
Don on sands with hound [graphic].
Barbara with Grandmama [actually Donagh MacDonagh] [graphic].
Grace Gifford 1915 [graphic].
Barbara with her mother [Muriel Gifford MacDonagh] [graphic].
Don with his grandfather Mr. Gifford 1915 [graphic].
Don in his father's arms [graphic].
Don with Professor Houston [graphic].
Barbara of the Dimple [graphic].
Miss Alderton & Barbara [graphic].
Sun in Barbara's eyes, Bushy Park, July 1916. Note black sash for her father [graphic].
Barbara 1915 [graphic].
1 item (3 pages with envelope).
MS 44,319/5/3 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
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Title 2: Grants and Agreements
PART 2424—NONPROCUREMENT DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION
§2424.10 What does this part do?
§2424.20 Does this part apply to me?
§2424.30 What policies and procedures must I follow?
Subpart A—General
§2424.137 Who in HUD may grant an exception to let an excluded person participate in a covered transaction?
Subpart B—Covered Transactions
§2424.220 What contracts and subcontracts, in addition to those listed in 2 CFR 180.220, are covered transactions?
Subpart C—Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions
§2424.300 What must I do before I enter into a covered transaction with another person at the next lower tier (HUD supplement to governmentwide definition at 2 CFR 180.300)?
§2424.332 What methods must I use to pass requirements down to participants at lower tiers with whom I intend to do business?
Subpart D—Responsibilities of Federal Agency Officials Regarding Transactions
§2424.437 What method do I use to communicate to a participant the requirements described in the OMB guidance at 2 CFR 180.435?
Subparts E-F [Reserved]
Subpart G—Suspension
§2424.747 Who conducts fact finding for HUD suspensions?
Subpart H—Debarment
§2424.842 Who conducts fact finding for HUD debarments?
Subpart I—Definitions
§2424.952 Hearing officer.
§2424.970 Nonprocurement transaction (HUD supplement to governmentwide definition at 2 CFR 180.970).
§2424.995 Principal (HUD supplement to governmentwide definition at 2 CFR 180.995).
§2424.1017 Ultimate beneficiary.
Subpart J—Limited Denial of Participation
§2424.1100 What is a limited denial of participation?
§2424.1105 Who may issue a limited denial of participation?
§2424.1110 When may a HUD official issue a limited denial of participation?
§2424.1115 When does a limited denial of participation take effect?
§2424.1120 How long may a limited denial of participation last?
§2424.1125 How does a limited denial of participation start?
§2424.1130 How may I contest my limited denial of participation?
§2424.1135 Do Federal agencies coordinate limited denial of participation actions?
§2424.1140 What is the scope of a limited denial of participation?
§2424.1145 May HUD impute the conduct of one person to another in a limited denial of participation?
§2424.1150 What is the effect of a suspension or debarment on a limited denial of participation?
§2424.1155 What is the effect of a limited denial of participation on a suspension or a debarment?
§2424.1160 May a limited denial of participation be terminated before the term of the limited denial of participation expires?
§2424.1165 How is a limited denial of participation reported?
Authority: Sec. 2455, Pub. L. 103-355, 108 Stat. 3327; E.O. 12549, 3 CFR, 1986 Comp., p. 189; E.O. 12689, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 235.
Source: 72 FR 73487, Dec. 27, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
In this part, HUD adopts, as HUD policies, procedures, and requirements for nonprocurement debarment and suspension, the OMB guidance in subparts A through I of 2 CFR part 180, as supplemented by this part. This adoption thereby gives regulatory effect for HUD to the OMB guidance, as supplemented by this part. This part satisfies the requirements in section 3 of Executive Order 12549, “Debarment and Suspension” (3 CFR 1986 Comp., p. 189), Executive Order 12689, “Debarment and Suspension” (3 CFR 1989 Comp., p. 235) and 31 U.S.C. 6101 note (Section 2455, Pub. L. 103-355, 108 Stat. 3327).
This part and, through this part, pertinent portions of subparts A through I of 2 CFR part 180 (see table at 2 CFR 180.100(b)), apply to you if you are a—
(a) Participant or principal in a “covered transaction” (see subpart B of 2 CFR part 180 and the definition of “nonprocurement transaction” at 2 CFR 180.970, as supplemented by §2424.970 of this part);
(b) Respondent in a HUD suspension or debarment action;
(c) HUD debarment or suspension official; or
(d) HUD grants officer, agreements officer, or other official authorized to enter into any type of nonprocurement transaction that is a covered transaction.
The HUD policies and procedures that you must follow are the policies and procedures specified in each applicable section of the OMB guidance in subparts A through I of 2 CFR part 180, as that section is supplemented by the section in this part with the same section number. The contracts that are covered transactions, for example, are specified by section 220 of the OMB guidance (i.e., 2 CFR 180.220), as supplemented by section 220 in this part (i.e., §2424.220). For any section of OMB guidance in subparts A through I of 2 CFR 180 that has no corresponding section in this part, HUD policies and procedures are those in the OMB guidance.
The Secretary or designee may grant an exception permitting an excluded person to participate in a particular covered transaction. If the Secretary or a designee grants an exception, the exception must be in writing and state the reason(s) for deviating from the governmentwide policy in Executive Order 12549.
In addition to the contracts covered under 2 CFR 180.220(b) of the OMB guidance, this part applies to any contract, regardless of tier, that is awarded by a contractor, subcontractor, supplier, consultant, or its agent or representative in any transaction, if the contract is to be funded or provided by HUD under a covered nonprocurement transaction and the amount of the contract is expected to equal or exceed $25,000. This extends the coverage of the HUD nonprocurement suspension and debarment requirements to all lower tiers of subcontracts under covered nonprocurement transactions, as permitted under the OMB guidance at 2 CFR 180.220(c) (see optional lower-tier coverage in the figure in the appendix to 2 CFR part 180).
(a) You, as a participant, are responsible for determining whether you are entering into a covered transaction with an excluded or disqualified person. You may decide the method by which you do so.
(1) You may, but are not required to, check the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS).
(2) You may, but are not required to, collect a certification from that person.
(b) In the case of an employment contract, HUD does not require employers to check the EPLS prior to making salary payments pursuant to that contract.
To communicate the requirements to lower-tier participants, you must include a term or condition in the transaction requiring compliance with subpart C of the OMB guidance in 2 CFR part 180, as supplemented by this subpart.
To communicate to a participant the requirements described in 2 CFR 180.435 of the OMB guidance, you must include a term or condition in the transaction that requires the participant to: comply with subpart C of 2 CFR part 180, as supplemented by subpart C of this part, and include a similar term or condition in lower-tier covered transactions.
In all HUD suspensions, the official who shall conduct additional proceedings where disputed material facts are challenged shall be a hearing officer.
In all HUD debarments, the official who shall conduct additional proceedings where disputed material facts are challenged shall be a hearing officer.
Hearing Officer means an Administrative Law Judge or Office of Appeals Judge authorized by HUD's Secretary or by the Secretary's designee to conduct proceedings under this part.
In the case of employment contracts that are covered transactions, each salary payment under the contract is a separate covered transaction.
A person who has a critical influence on, or substantive control over, a covered transaction, whether or not employed by the participant. Persons who have a critical influence on, or substantive control over, a covered transaction may include, but are not limited to:
(a) Loan officers;
(b) Staff appraisers and inspectors;
(c) Underwriters;
(d) Bonding companies;
(e) Borrowers under programs financed by HUD or with loans guaranteed, insured, or subsidized through HUD programs;
(f) Purchasers of properties with HUD-insured or Secretary-held mortgages;
(g) Recipients under HUD assistance agreements;
(h) Ultimate beneficiaries of HUD programs;
(i) Fee appraisers and inspectors;
(j) Real estate agents and brokers;
(k) Management and marketing agents;
(l) Accountants, consultants, investment bankers, architects, engineers, and attorneys who are in a business relationship with participants in connection with a covered transaction under a HUD program;
(m) Contractors involved in the construction or rehabilitation of properties financed by HUD, with HUD-insured loans or acquired properties, including properties held by HUD as mortgagee-in-possession;
(n) Closing agents;
(o) Turnkey developers of projects financed by or with financing insured by HUD;
(p) Title companies;
(q) Escrow agents;
(r) Project owners;
(s) Administrators of hospitals, nursing homes, and projects for the elderly financed or insured by HUD; and
(t) Developers, sellers, or owners of property financed with loans insured under Title I or Title II of the National Housing Act.
Ultimate beneficiaries of HUD programs include, but are not limited to, subsidized tenants and subsidized mortgagors, such as those assisted under Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment contracts, by Section 236 Rental Assistance, or by Rent Supplement payments.
A limited denial of participation excludes a specific person from participating in a specific program, or programs, within a HUD field office's geographic jurisdiction, for a specific period of time. A limited denial of participation is normally issued by a HUD field office, but may be issued by a Headquarters office. The decision to impose a limited denial of participation is discretionary and based on the best interests of the federal government.
The Secretary designates HUD officials who are authorized to impose a limited denial of participation, affecting any participant and/or their affiliates, except mortgagees approved by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
(a) An authorized HUD official may issue a limited denial of participation against a person, based upon adequate evidence of any of the following causes:
(1) Approval of an applicant for insurance would constitute an unsatisfactory risk;
(2) There are irregularities in a person's past performance in a HUD program;
(3) The person has failed to maintain the prerequisites of eligibility to participate in a HUD program;
(4) The person has failed to honor contractual obligations or to proceed in accordance with contract specifications or HUD regulations;
(5) The person has failed to satisfy, upon completion, the requirements of an assistance agreement or contract;
(6) The person has deficiencies in ongoing construction projects;
(7) The person has falsely certified in connection with any HUD program, whether or not the certification was made directly to HUD;
(8) The person has committed any act or omission that would be cause for debarment under 2 CFR 180.800;
(9) The person has violated any law, regulation, or procedure relating to the application for financial assistance, insurance, or guarantee, or to the performance of obligations incurred pursuant to a grant of financial assistance or pursuant to a conditional or final commitment to insure or guarantee;
(10) The person has made or procured to be made any false statement for the purpose of influencing in any way an action of the Department; or
(11) Imposition of a limited denial of participation by any other HUD office.
(b) Filing of a criminal Indictment or Information shall constitute adequate evidence for the purpose of limited denial of participation actions. The Indictment or Information need not be based on offenses against HUD.
(c) Imposition of a limited denial of participation by any other HUD office shall constitute adequate evidence for a concurrent limited denial of participation. Where such a concurrent limited denial of participation is imposed, participation may be restricted on the same basis without the need for an additional conference or further hearing.
(d) An affiliate or organizational element may be included in a limited denial of participation solely on the basis of its affiliation, and regardless of its knowledge of or participation in the acts providing cause for the sanction. The burden of proving that a particular affiliate or organizational element is currently responsible and not controlled by the primary sanctioned party (or by an entity that itself is controlled by the primary sanctioned party) is on the affiliate or organizational element.
A limited denial of participation is effective immediately upon issuance of the notice.
A limited denial of participation may remain in effect up to 12 months.
A limited denial of participation is made effective by providing the person, and any specifically named affiliate, with notice:
(a) That the limited denial of participation is being imposed;
(b) Of the cause(s) under §2424.1110 for the sanction;
(c) Of the potential effect of the sanction, including the length of the sanction and the HUD program(s) and geographic area affected by the sanction;
(d) Of the right to request, in writing, within 30 days of receipt of the notice, a conference under §2424.1130; and
(e) Of the right to contest the limited denial of participation under §2424.1130.
(a) Within 30 days after receiving a notice of limited denial of participation, you may request a conference with the official who issued such notice. The conference shall be held within 15 days after the Department's receipt of the request for a conference, unless you waive this time limit. The official or designee who imposed the sanction shall preside. At the conference, you may appear with a representative and may present all relevant information and materials to the official or designee. Within 20 days after the conference, or within 20 days after any agreed-upon extension of time for submission of additional materials, the official or designee shall, in writing, advise you of the decision to terminate, modify, or affirm the limited denial of participation. If all or a portion of the remaining period of exclusion is affirmed, the notice of affirmation shall advise you of the opportunity to contest the notice and to request a hearing before a Departmental Hearing Officer. You have 30 days after receipt of the notice of affirmation to request this hearing. If the official or designee does not issue a decision within the 20-day period, you may contest the sanction before a Departmental Hearing Officer. Again, you have 30 days from the expiration of the 20-day period to request this hearing. If you request a hearing before the Departmental Hearing Officer, you must submit your request to the Debarment Docket Clerk, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., B-133 Portals 200, Washington DC 20410-0500.
(b) You may skip the conference with the official and you may request a hearing before a Departmental Hearing Officer. This must also be done within 30 days after receiving a notice of limited denial of participation. If you opt to have a hearing before a Departmental Hearing Officer, you must submit your request to the Debarment Docket Clerk, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., B-133 Portals 200, Washington DC 20410-0500. The hearing before the Departmental Hearing Officer is more formal than the conference before the sanctioning official described above. The Departmental Hearing Officer will conduct the hearing in accordance with 24 CFR part 26, subpart A. The Departmental Hearing Officer will issue findings of fact and make a recommended decision. The sanctioning official will then make a final decision, as promptly as possible, after the Departmental Hearing Officer's recommended decision is issued. The sanctioning official may reject the recommended decision or any findings of fact, only after specifically determining that the decision or any of the facts are arbitrary, capricious, or clearly erroneous.
(c) In deciding whether to terminate, modify, or affirm a limited denial of participation, the Departmental official or designee may consider the factors listed at 2 CFR 180.860. The Departmental Hearing Officer may also consider the factors listed at 2 CFR 180.860 in making any recommended decision.
Federal agencies do not coordinate limited denial of participation actions. As stated in §2424.1100, a limited denial of participation is a HUD-specific action and applies only to HUD activities.
The scope of a limited denial of participation is as follows:
(a) A limited denial of participation generally extends only to participation in the program under which the cause arose. A limited denial of participation may, at the discretion of the authorized official, extend to other programs, initiatives, or functions within the jurisdiction of an Assistant Secretary. The authorized official, however, may determine that where the sanction is based on an indictment or conviction, the sanction shall apply to all programs throughout HUD.
(b) For purposes of this subpart, participation includes receipt of any benefit or financial assistance through grants or contractual arrangements; benefits or assistance in the form of loan guarantees or insurance; and awards of procurement contracts.
(c) The sanction may be imposed for a period not to exceed 12 months, and shall be effective within the geographic jurisdiction of the office imposing it, unless the sanction is imposed by an Assistant Secretary or Deputy Assistant Secretary, in which case the sanction may be imposed on either a nationwide or a more restricted basis.
For purposes of determining a limited denial of participation, HUD may impute conduct as follows:
(a) Conduct imputed from an individual to an organization. HUD may impute the fraudulent, criminal, or other improper conduct of any officer, director, shareholder, partner, employee, or other individual associated with an organization, to that organization when the improper conduct occurred in connection with the individual's performance of duties for or on behalf of that organization, or with the organization's knowledge, approval, or acquiescence. The organization's acceptance of the benefits derived from the conduct is evidence of knowledge, approval, or acquiescence.
(b) Conduct imputed from an organization to an individual or between individuals. HUD may impute the fraudulent, criminal, or other improper conduct of any organization to an individual, or from one individual to another individual, if the individual to whom the improper conduct is imputed participated in, had knowledge of, or had reason to know of the improper conduct.
(c) Conduct imputed from one organization to another organization. HUD may impute the fraudulent, criminal, or other improper conduct of one organization to another organization when the improper conduct occurred in connection with a partnership, joint venture, joint application, association, or similar arrangement, or when the organization to whom the improper conduct is imputed has the power to direct, manage, control, or influence the activities of the organization responsible for the improper conduct. Acceptance of the benefits derived from the conduct is evidence of knowledge, approval, or acquiescence.
If you have submitted a request for a hearing pursuant to §2424.1130 of this subpart, and you also receive, pursuant to subpart G or H of this part, a notice of proposed debarment or suspension that is based on the same transaction(s) or the same conduct as the limited denial of participation, as determined by the debarring or suspending official, the following rules shall apply:
(a) During the 30-day period after you receive a notice of proposed debarment or suspension, during which you may elect to contest the debarment under 2 CFR 180.815, or the suspension pursuant to 2 CFR 180.720, all proceedings in the limited denial of participation, including discovery, are automatically stayed.
(b) If you do not contest the proposed debarment pursuant to 2 CFR 180.815, or the suspension pursuant to 2 CFR 180.720, the final imposition of the debarment or suspension shall also constitute a final decision with respect to the limited denial of participation, to the extent that the debarment or suspension is based on the same transaction(s) or conduct as the limited denial of participation.
(c) If you contest the proposed debarment pursuant to 2 CFR 180.815, or the suspension pursuant to 2 CFR 180.720, then:
(1) Those parts of the limited denial of participation and the debarment or suspension based on the same transaction(s) or conduct, as determined by the debarring or suspending official, shall be immediately consolidated before the debarring or suspending official;
(2) Proceedings under the consolidated portions of the limited denial of participation shall be stayed before the hearing officer until the suspending or debarring official makes a determination as to whether the consolidated matters should be referred to a hearing officer. Such a determination must be made within 90 days of the date of the issuance of the suspension or proposed debarment, unless the suspending/debarring official extends the period for good cause.
(i) If the suspending or debarring official determines that there is a genuine dispute as to material facts regarding the consolidated matter, the entire consolidated matter will be referred to the hearing officer hearing the limited denial of participation, for additional proceedings pursuant to 2 CFR 180.750 or 180.845.
(ii) If the suspending or debarring official determines that there is no dispute as to material facts regarding the consolidated matter, jurisdiction of the hearing officer under 2 CFR part 2424, subpart J, to hear those parts of the limited denial of participation based on the same transaction[s] or conduct as the debarment or suspension, as determined by the debarring or suspending official, will be transferred to the debarring or suspending official, and the hearing officer responsible for hearing the limited denial of participation shall transfer the administrative record to the debarring or suspending official.
(3) The suspending or debarring official shall hear the entire consolidated case under the procedures governing suspensions and debarments, and shall issue a final decision as to both the limited denial of participation and the suspension or debarment.
The imposition of a limited denial of participation does not affect the right of the Department to suspend or debar any person under this part.
If the cause for the limited denial of participation is resolved before the expiration of the 12-month period, the official who imposed the sanction may terminate it.
When a limited denial of participation has been made final, or the period for requesting a conference pursuant to §2424.1130 has expired without receipt of such a request, the official imposing the limited denial of participation shall notify the Director of the Compliance Division in the Departmental Enforcement Center of the scope of the limited denial of participation.
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9 Inspiring Instagrams that'll make you pack your bags for the Silk Road
Sheena McKenzie, for CNN • Updated 24th June 2015
(CNN) — Winding its way roughly from China in the east, all the way to Italy in the west, the Silk Road has captured the imagination of travelers for centuries.
Though to call it a single road is a little misleading -- it's actually a series of ancient trade routes stretching like veins across the globe.
Encompassing an astonishing breadth of cultures, cuisines, and landscapes -- from the exquisite craftsmanship of Xi'an's terracotta army, to the gasp-enducing horsemanship of rural Kyrgyzstan, and the futuristic architecture of Astana -- it's little wonder travelers are still packing their bags for this colorful trail.
We take a look at some of the best Instagram accounts from the region. Get ready for some serious travel envy.
yeatoah: The adventurous teacher
Who: Yeatoeh Lhamo Penjore, 24-year-old teacher and part-time fitness model from Bhutan.
My journey: Ever since the 4th grade I have been studying outside of Bhutan (India, New York, Singapore) so I suppose my love for travel and other cultures is because of that.
Also, since I was out of my own country for so long I realized Bhutan has so much beauty. I enjoy taking pictures of Bhutan.
Top Instagram tip: If you are passionate about what you do, your photos generally do the speaking.
thientravelography: The banker turned traveler
Who: Thien Bui, 29-year-old Australian, previously working in the financial sector and currently taking a belated gap year to travel the world.
My journey: I've been traveling for over a year now, starting my Silk Road adventure in Bishek, Kyrgyszstan. From there, I traveled over land through central Asia, Iran and Europe.
I'm currently taking a break from traveling so I may work on a fresh itinerary exploring foreign lands. My plan is to hit the road again come July.
Top Instagram tip: Forgo the selfie stick and point the camera the other way! On a more serious note, I approach my Instagram photos the same way I would with any photo -- thinking of composition, light, shadows and trying to capture the unique moments in my travels.
f_arbolino: The full-time traveler
Who: Francesco Dominick Arbolino, 32-year-old American, currently full-time traveler.
My journey: I've spent six months on this trip so far, but I have spent over four years traveling, having visited 88 countries. On this particular trip, I've visited Indonesia, Timor Leste, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
I'm motivated mostly by curiosity about countries that most people don't travel to. I also have a strong desire to interact with locals. I find this easier in less-touristy places.
Top Instagram tip: If you like photographing architecture or landscapes, head out at sunrise for beautiful golden light and not many people to interfere with the composition.
If photographing people is your passion, start shooting about an hour before sunset when many people are still on the streets and that golden light reappears.
sanjitdas: The professional photographer
Who: Sanjit Das, 39-year-old Indian photographer based between Malaysia and India.
My journey: I am currently working on a photographic project documenting one river that crosses three countries - China, India and Bangladesh. It's an attempt to see how a river can influences cultures.
Top Instagram tip:
1. Don't bombard your followers.
2. Give relevant information with what you're posting. People like to know what you sharing with them.
stefenchow: The road-less-traveled snapper
Who: Stefen Chow, 35-year-old professional photographer born in Malaysia, raised in Singapore, and now based in Beijing.
My journey: I travel constantly -- around 100 flights per year -- though not too long that I miss my family terribly. I travel mainly for work and for my project: www.thepovertyline.net.
Top Instagram tip: Be honest and who you are. I take pictures only when it inspires me personally.
jethromullen: The journalist
Who: Jethro Mullen, 36, CNN.com journalist based in Hong Kong and focusing on news in the Asia-Pacific region.
My journey: I moved from Europe to Hong Kong about five years ago and have loved exploring different parts of Asia, including Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan.
Top Instagram tip: Get lost. Often the most interesting pictures are the ones you stumble across by chance.
dimsumdiaries: The foodie
Who: Alejandra Wilkinson , 27-year-old English-Venezuelan working in marketing in Hong Kong.
My journey: Traveling and learning about new cultures has been part of my upbringing, as my father was always being moved around for work, so I love exploring new places -- and particularly different cuisines! Wherever I go traveling, I like to pick places where I know the food is going to be excellent.
Top Instagram tip: Use a filter that's going to make it look cool, but that doesn't distort it too much from reality - if it looked good enough to take a picture of it in the first place, it'll look good even without a filter.
theodorekaye: The 'Stans man
Who: Theodore Kaye, 34-year-old Taiwanese-American photographer.
My journey: I travel on assignments mostly in east and central Asia, and have a long running interest in the post-Soviet "stans."
Top Instagram tip: Mobile photography can help capture telling moments in daily life that we might not shoot - or share - otherwise.
willkernick: The mountaineer
Who: Will Kernick, 21-year-old British student and mountaineer.
My Journey: I have spent the last three years traveling as frequently as possible to both Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. I am hoping to complete the formidable Snow Leopard Award (climbing the five 7,000 meter mountains in the former Soviet Union).
Only a handful of westerners have climbed all five, and it is my ambition to become both the youngest ever and the first British person to do so.
Top Instagram Tip: I am very new to this game, but you can't go wrong if you only attach your very best pictures that are particularly visually spectacular.
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Economic Situation: Air Pollution
What assessment the Government has made of the economic effect on vulnerable people of air pollution.
Wera Hobhouse
<p>We are determined to tackle air pollution and reduce its impact on public health and the environment.</p><p> </p><p>The government has committed £3.5bn to improve air quality for the entire population.</p><p> </p><p>Emissions of toxic Nitrogen Oxides have fallen by almost 29% since 2010 and are at their lowest level since records began, but there remains more to do.</p>
Biography information for Wera Hobhouse
Renewable Energy: Finance
What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of public funding for renewable energy since 2010.
Sefton Central
Bill Esterson
<p>The Government is committed to investing in renewable energy and our support has enabled the UK to become a world leader in clean growth with the fastest emissions reduction on a per person basis than any other G7 nation.</p><p> </p><p>We will spend £4.5 billion between 2016 and 2021 to support the development of renewable and low carbon heating through the Renewable Heat Incentive.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also encouraging private sector innovation and £92 billion of private funding has been invested in clean energy in the UK since 2010.</p>
Biography information for Bill Esterson
Public Health: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support the Government’s cross-departmental commitment to prioritising a public health approach in the forthcoming Spending Review, and whether that support will include allocating funding for evidence-based parenting support.
Mr George Howarth
<p>Decisions on public spending will be made in the round as part of the Spending Review process. As such, we will be working closely with other departments to assess public health priorities and ensure a joined-up approach across government.</p>
Biography information for Sir George Howarth
Tobacco: EU Law
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 April 2019 to Question 241464, what opportunity for appeal exists for economic operators in the event that the compensation offered by tobacco manufacturers for the equipment and software for the recording and transmission of product movement and transactional events to the data storage systems (Article 15(7) of TPD2014/40/EU) does not cover the cost to that operator of implementing the Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019.
Swansea East
Carolyn Harris
<p>Tobacco manufacturers have introduced a compensation scheme and appointed a third party provider to act as a single point of contact (SPoC) for all compensation claims. The SPoC appointed by the tobacco manufactures for the EU is Société Générale de Surveillance SA (SGS).</p><p> </p><p>If an economic operator is not happy with the level of compensation offered, they can appeal to SGS.</p>
Biography information for Carolyn Harris
Bingo and Football Pools: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the rate of gross profits tax levied on (a) bingo clubs and (b) the Football Pools; and for what reasons there is a difference between the two.
<p>No assessment has been made. The government recognises the significant role that bingo clubs play in bringing local communities together and contributing to British culture. This is why the government decided to reduce the rate of bingo duty to 10%.</p>
Football Pools: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an estimate of the revenue that could accrue to the public purse from a redeveloped football pools industry.
<p>No estimate has been made. Pool Betting Duty raises around £5m in revenue for the Exchequer per annum. Reducing the level of taxation would be likely to have at best a limited effect on the football pools. However, it could put revenue at risk, particularly through incentivising switching of products from fixed odds bets to pooled bets.</p><p> </p>
Mental Health Services: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to ring-fence funding for mental health services.
<p>Funding for mental health services will grow as a share of the overall NHS budget over the next five years, and the NHS long-term plan states that this will form “a new ringfenced local investment fund worth at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24.” This investment will enable further service expansion, for example new mental health crisis services for people of all ages and more mental health support in schools.</p>
Biography information for Chuka Umunna
Treasury: Brexit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department have been seconded away from their normal duties to work on the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what effect that secondment of staff has had on the effectiveness of his Department.
Mr David Lammy
<p>HM Treasury does not hold information centrally on the work staff undertake while out on loan/secondment.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that to search and locate any information held would exceed the appropriate limit, therefore can only be answered at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>EU Exit is an all-of-government operation. The Department for Exiting the European Union is responsible for overseeing negotiations to leave the EU and establishing the future relationship between the UK and EU. The Department for International Trade works to secure UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment, and championing free trade.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.</p>
Biography information for Mr David Lammy
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Davies, Charles.
You are here » Convicts transported to Australia » Van Diemen's Land. » Bardaster » 07 September 1835. » Davies, Charles.
Convict name: Davies, Charles.
sentence_details:
Convicted at Salop Assizes for a term of 7 years on 21 March 1835.
vessel: Bardaster
date_of_departure: 07 September 1835.
place_of_arrival: Van Diemen's Land.
Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/10, Page Number 156
Charles Davies, one of 240 convicts transported on the Bardaster, 07 September 1835.
publication_details:
Canberra [A.C.T.] :Australian Joint Copying Project,[1948-1990]
original_version_note:
This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).
topical_subject_heading: Convicts--Australia--Registers.
neographic_subject_heading: Australia--Genealogy.
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Connected with Davies, Charles.
Arnold, Frederick.
Convicted at Central Criminal Court for a term of 7 years on 02 March 1835
Transported by Asia (05 November 1835.).
Bonney, George.
Convicted at York. West Riding Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 07 April 1834.
Transported by Aurora (18 June 1835.).
Dunn, William.
Convicted at Surrey Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 23 March 1835.
Transported by Bardaster (07 September 1835.).
Fairweather, William.
Convicted at Suffolk Assizes for a term of life on 23 March 1835.
Transported by Recovery (26 October 1835.).
Hadfield, Thomas.
Convicted at Lancaster Assizes for a term of life on 09 August 1834.
Transported by Norfolk (12 May 1835.).
Heap, Hugh.
Convicted at Lancaster Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 20 October 1834.
Higgins, John.
Convicted at Somerset Quarter Session for a term of life on 23 March 1835.
Transported by Royal Sovereign (25 July 1835.).
Higgs, Andrew.
Convicted at Bucks. Quarter Session for a term of life on 14 October 1834.
Transported by Westmoreland (03 March 1835.).
Horman, James.
Convicted at Rutland Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 02 January 1834.
Transported by Layton (26 August 1835.).
Lawford, Mark.
Convicted at Chester Assizes for a term of life on 02 August 1834.
Paine, Richard.
Convicted at Bucks. Quarter Session for a term of life on 30 June 1835.
Sadler, William Jesse.
Convicted at Surrey Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 20 October 1834.
Seager, Joseph.
Convicted at Central Criminal Court for a term of 7 years on 11 May 1835.
Smith, John.
Convicted at Lancaster, Liverpool Quarter Session for a term of 14 years on 13 April 1835.
Transported by John Barry (07 September 1835.).
Smith, Joseph.
Convicted at Stafford. Lichfield Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 20 October 1834.
Smith, Thomas.
Convicted at Chester Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 13 October 1834.
Transported by Mary Anne (06 July 1835.).
Stone, Henry.
Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 04 September 1834.
Transported by Mangles (24 April 1835.).
Thompson, William.
Convicted at Sussex Assizes for a term of life on 23 March 1835.
Thornley, Benjamin.
Convicted at London Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 16 October 1834.
Wise, William.
Convicted at Middlesex Session Peace for a term of 7 years on 02 February 1835.
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Failheap Challenge > The Archive > Serious Business > GamerGate - Srs Vrsn
View Full Version : GamerGate - Srs Vrsn
October 14 2014, 09:01:19 PM
General Chat thread was kind of a shitshow, let's see if we can do this properly with a second try.
Brief summary from r/KotakuInAction (http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2gab2v/another_long_timeline_of_gamergate/).
PREVIOUSLY I.E. HISTORICAL / RELEVANT INFORMATION
Zoe Quinn helps create a Startup, Dames Make Games in Toronto
Zoe Quinn Creates Depression Quest in 2012, using Twine, with Patrick Lindsey (Writing/Editing) and Isaac Shankler (music)
Word of mouth comments on metafilter, 4chan’s /r9k/, and /r/IndieGaming about the game Depression Quest on Launch, February 14th, 2013. limited attention is received.
Zoe Attends Indiecade Nightgames festival with Depression Quest
Zoe Quinn Decides to pull Depression Quest from Steam Greenlight Program after receiving harassment, threats and attacks, pointing to Wizardchan. December 13th 2013.
Allegations against Wizardchan are debunked, Collected 'dox' phone and addresses are proven to be false.
2 weeks after removing the game, Resubmits into Greenlight Program to be approved on January 7th 2014
Yasmeena “Maya” Felix Kramer, who works as SilverString Media’s PR, attacks TheFineYoungCapitalist's (TFYC) site, obtains and posts information about the organisers of the competition, while in contact with Zoe Quinn on facebook.
Zoe Breaks up with Eron Gjoni, though the breakup is perturbed by Zoe’s disclosed Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with evident depressive and suicidal, and manipulative episodes throughout the post.
Depression Quest is approved, just after news of Robin Willam's suicide, Zoe Debates if she should release the game on twitter and Tumblr posts. Asks for donations to go to iFred as acknowledgement.
Depression Quest is released on Steam.
ZOEPOST
Eron Gjoni 's breakup post with Zoe Quinn
Other Forums pick up Eron’s post .
The “internet hate machine” taking notice of Zoe Quinn again. timeline here
Matt / SillySladar of The Fine Young Capitalists comments in a reddit post (thread since deleted) that his site has been DDOS attacked and ‘doxxed’ by Zoe Quinn (Maya Kramer) over libellous comments she made and misunderstood about the competition in March this year.
In the same thread, people from Wizardchan had collected logs of chat at the time that Zoe Quinn accused them of harassing her.
A youtube DMCA takedown of a Video repost of Eron’s post by MundaneMatt, coming from 'zoe quinn'
TotalBiscuit replying to the use of the DMCA to take down video content.
Several (9) Forums having threads and posts censored. The most prolific being reddit, which is still banning users based on keywords in the Games and Gaming subreddits.
THEN (EVENTS OF THE 19TH AUGUST TO 30TH AUGUST),
Calls to blogs, games news sites and others for coverage
Phil Fish starts to abuse people on twitter, cancels Fez 2, Projects
Polytron Dropbox is hacked, business files are stolen
Phil Fish abuses person that accuses Zoe Quinn of abusing him at Phil Fish’s wedding on twitter, abuses TotalBiscuit
Phil Fish announces closing and sale of Polytron
Stephen Totillo of Kotaku debunks claim of Nathan Grayson writing about Zoe Quinn after relationship. Does not seem to be aware that the window of time is 1 day from the article being posted, to the relationship starting.
Lordkat, JonTron discuss the issue on their games video blog sites.
Donations to TFYC reach the point where they can choose an avatar, Vivian James is selected by /v/.
Eron Gjoni posts AMA on reddit /r/Drama. replies regarding Zoe Quinn, Maya Kramer are brought up.
Anita Sarkeesian releases 7th video in kickstarter funded Tropes of Women in Video Games series, on Hitman Absolution.
Joss Whedon tweets to femfreq / Anita Sarkeesian giving his support
Adam Baldwin tweets a video link, starting #GamerGate
Patreon Account of Zoe Quinn, gains over 500 supporters.
TFYC IndieGoGo site is hacked, closed, and then reopened.
JonTron replies to TimSchafer saying he didn’t like the message of Anita Sarkeesian’s video, is attacked by Tim Schafer of DoubleFine, Appears on co-optional podcast later that day.
#IStandwithJonTron tag is hijacked on twitter, allegedly organised on SomethingAwful forums.
Anita Sarkeesian receives Death threats via twitter, Asks for donations to FemFreq. forced to leave home for safety.
Zoe Quinn responds to Adam Baldwin on twitter.
Patricia Hernandez of kotaku revises her articles disclosing relationship with the game developer she had a relationship with, according to their new policy.
14 Similar Stories about misogynistic gamers appear on multiple sites on the same day.
Games news sites start to comment on Gamer Culture / Reactions
Various Petitions come out ‘For’ gamers, ‘For’ women, ‘For’ ethical Standards.
Ex staff member of Silverstring talks about Maya Felix Kramer’s behavior on Eron's AMA
Zoe Quinn, Maya Kramer Attend PAX Prime
PAX discussion comes under fire when people talk about bloggers in the panel instead of journalists or press.
Other tags appear, #NotAllWomen and #NotYourShield.
Donations start to come in to the TheFineYoungCapitalists Developer program, including $6000+ from 4chan, to create Vivian James (Vidya Games), A caricature female gamer or Moe Chan / gijinka (ie a ‘cute’ anthropomorphism/mascot, e.g. OS-tan).
Christina Hoff Summers, of AEI talks publicly for gamers, links to breitbart article & the economist, is called out by Adam Weinstein of Gawker.
Jayd3Fox produces a mock video "Professional Victims vs Gaming Communites", is harassed online.
TheFineYoungCapitalists discuss a truce with Zoe Quinn and Silverstring Media, who represent Zoe Quinn about the TFYC program, the agreement falls through.
Allegations of the IGF chairman Brandon Boyer and judges for the IGF competition, being friends with and linked to SilverString Media when Zoe Quinn’s ‘Depression Quest’ and ‘Papers, Please’ won awards. IGF discusses the judging process 3 days later in response to questions about how the process works.
Zoe Quinn Posts IRC logs of 4chan, declares #GameOverGate with storify link of Alleged harassment and organisation.
a new hastag #GamerGateau about game themed cakes.
Allegations of racketeering and Indiecade/IGF awards for Fez/Polytron funding
Chris Grant of Polygon, admits to blocking 1800 twitter users from his twitter feed, including other journalists. Then removes the list within hours.
Storify content is debunked by MundaneMatt and others as disingenuous and implausible, showing out of context screenshots.
Examiner article notes that Tyler Malka (NeoGAF) supports the hashtag #GameEthics, to be a spillover from #GamerGate, proposed to remove '4chan involvement' from issues of integrity and independence in games journalism, with limited success.
Tyler Malka, Owner of NeoGAF then proceeds to abuse someone on twitter the same day.
#writeakotakuarticle hashtag is started.
Nathan Grayson interview with Blizzard goes off track discussing women in their MoBA game, Gets pulled into #gamergate discussion in social media.
Zoe Quinn links to an article on wikipediocracy, where they discusss people editing Zoe Quinn’s Wikipedia page, the article names all of the editors individually, citing photos, discussion of the editor’s reddit posting history, analysing their posting history, including the discussion of a transgender minor, and the high school they attend.
Zoe Quinn seeks to mediate discussion using a new tag, #OpenTheGates, with limited success.
TFYC IndieGoGo is fully financed at $65,000
Vivian James Platformer Prototype is created and playable online.
TheNerdist releases a video about GamerGate, gets called out by MundaneMatt.
Journalists investigate Anita Sarkeesian’s police report, assumptions are that it's missing due to the FBI being involved from a former photoshopped CP used in earlier online harassment.
Jennifer Hale (voice actor for Bioware, Mass Effect & ~300 Games/TV Shows) talks about this issue on Marketplace Tech Report on ‘Internet Slowdown Day’ for Net Neutrality awareness. zoe responds in /r/SRSGaming thread about hearing this interview.
Joe Rogan wants to interview Adam Baldwin on their podcast.
Naturally, there's several different narratives going around, so as always do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
Anyway, last thing of note I heard was Brianna Wu cancelled her appearance on Radio Nero at the last minute (https://soundcloud.com/radio_nero/series-1-episode-4-threats-and-harassment). Milo had cleared this week's roster for her - in addition to a laundry list of other accommodations he'd made, see the link - and consequently had to scrub the whole episode.
cullnean
Good luck peace out
Tapadong
Keorythe
Some more timelines and details
The original Zoepost which start this whole thing. Why it's relevant? This is now being called "revenge porn" by the media and an attempt to slander her for the sake of slandering. The post reads more like a Rolling Stone article and is packed full of timelines, abuse, manipulation, and proof of said deeds in the form of screenshots and logs. It also is where the term "5 Guys Burgers and Fries" first comes to life when Quinn is admitting everything to his face.
http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/
Next is a timeline of events that led up to the entire thing. Click on the block arrows in the bottom right corner of the bubble for more details and links to the particular incident.
This starts at the very beginning and Quinns initial involvement. It also makes known how she drew the ire of the internet long before the Zoepost was made.
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/336432/The-GamerGate-Chronicles#vars!date=2013-12-04_12:25:06!
Claims of harassment by Wizardchan. This is a website for clinically depressed men who are also Disney fans. You must be a virgin to have the title "Wizard".
Wizardchan responds with a large amount of details and screenshots about the entire thing.
The Fine Young Capitalists enter the scene
Things take off in a large way. Mundane Matt makes the first related video and details the corruption of games journalism. The timeline becomes infused with many events as GamerGate is born later and explodes into action on both sides. You'll see how specific names become involved and how they become irrelevant within the scheme of things. The latest post ends at Oct 12th (as of this writing) and is still being updated regularly.
ValorousBob
October 15 2014, 12:48:08 AM
Can I get a TL;DR of why I/we should care?
Kanv
The OP is missing the oart where the 'gaming journalism' sites involved near-simultaneously put out the "end of gamers" articles.
Issue hits "mainstream" media, CNN:
Behind the furor over #Gamergate
By Brandon Griggs, CNN
updated 9:00 AM EDT, Thu October 16, 2014
(CNN) -- The threat of violence against feminist and gaming critic Anita Sarkeesian, which led her to cancel a speaking appearance this week at Utah State University, has refocused attention on a recent and often-misunderstood debate.
It's called #Gamergate, with or without the hashtag, and it has triggered ongoing, online barrages between a wide variety of disgruntled people: video gamers, feminists, Internet trolls, scholars, misogynists, gaming-industry journalists and almost anyone else with web access and an ax to grind.
"It's been the talk of video game professionals for the past two months," gaming critic Evan Narcisse said. "The culture wars that ... hit other creative media (are) hitting video games now."
Even to those involved, #Gamergate is a confusing, unwieldy topic. So let's try to simplify it for you.
What is #Gamergate?
At its most basic level, it's a heated debate over journalistic integrity, the definition of video games and the identity of those who play them.
On one side are the so-called hardcore gamers, most of them male, who make and play adrenaline-fueled games such as the "Call of Duty" shooter series. On another side are a new wave of gaming enthusiasts, many of them women, who are making and playing games that don't involve a shootout, a chase or sometimes even a quest of any kind.
Then there are the others (see above) who smell a fight and have piled on. The vitriol, much of it aimed against women, has spilled from the Internet into the physical world. In recent months several women in the gaming industry say they received rape and death threats so specific they were forced to leave their homes.
Some gamers have adopted "Gamergate" as the term for a loosely defined movement defending hardcore games against criticisms from feminists and others.
How did it start?
The roots of the dispute go back years. But the current debate began in late August, when Sarkeesian released the latest of her videos called "Tropes vs. Women," in which she critiques games that portray women as victims, ornamental eye candy and other archetypes.
About the same time, game designer Zoe Quinn was attacked online by an ex-boyfriend who alleged in lengthy blog posts that she cheated on him with a journalist from gaming-news site Kotaku to further her career.
Quinn denied the claim, and Kotaku's investigation found no wrongdoing. But furious gamers took to Twitter, Reddit and other places to complain about ethical lapses in gaming journalism. And both Quinn and Sarkeesian found themselves subject to violent online threats.
Actor Adam Baldwin, best known for roles in "Full Metal Jacket" and the "Firefly" TV series, was credited with coining the #Gamergate hashtag later that month on Twitter. Opponents who feel the harassment of women has gone too far have countered with #StopGamergate2014, which was trending Wednesday.
The arguments on both sides have expanded to include such other topics as free speech and perceived media bias against core gamers.
Why are people so angry?
The gaming universe has expanded beyond consoles in recent years to include players -- many of them women -- of casual and social games such as "FarmVille" and "Candy Crush." According to one survey, 48% of gamers are now female.
More women also are entering gaming as developers or game reviewers. And increasingly they're speaking out about what they perceive as sexism in the industry.
"For 30 years now video games have really been perceived as a boys' club. You've had video games made by men, for men," game designer Brianna Wu said this week. "And I think in 2014, when almost half of the video game players are women ... you're seeing some very insecure guys feeling threatened by that and lashing out."
Many male gamers, of course, say they are horrified by the recent harassment of women. Others, though, say that feminist attacks on games are akin to censorship and they are tired of being lectured to by politically correct "social justice warriors."
"There are now two, bitterly opposed, factions in the industry. Journalists and activists, who care more about gender politics than the video games they are supposed to be reporting on, and gamers, mocked, derided and bullied... but unbowed," wrote Milo Yiannopoulos in a September 1 Breitbart.com column titled "Feminist Bullies Tearing the Video Game Industry Apart."
Can we resolve this?
Maybe, but it will take time. The Internet is an unruly place.
Just last weekend, Wu said she fled her Boston home after receiving threats on Twitter.
As with any vast and diverse group, it will be difficult to get video gamers to agree on any strictures on their art form or community. But the ongoing threats against female gamers appear to be rallying support to the #StopGamergate side.
On Wednesday the leading trade group for the video game industry weighed in.
"Threats of violence and harassment are wrong," said a spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association in a statement sent to The Washington Post. "They have to stop. There is no place in the video game community -- or our society -- for personal attacks and threats."
Ultimately, everyone will benefit by trying to defuse tensions between the two sides. And if gaming executives perceive that the treatment of female gamers reflects poorly on their industry, they may have no choice.
Irrelephant
Probably the first reasonable article on this subject i have read: http://reason.com/archives/2014/10/12/gamergate-part-i-sex-lies-and-gender-gam
It's like written by a actual journalist, doing research and stuff and with sources. :o
Interesting link from that article: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s644c0
On the other spectrum of journalism:
Brianna Wu and 8chan founder on huffpost: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/gamergate-and-sexism-and-misogyny-in-video-game-culture-/5437df2b78c90a43d9000be8
Wu seems to milk this one for all that it's worth.
GamerGate makes the front of the Huffington Post.
HuffPo live makes its first live video including Brianna Wu (harassed dev), the founder of 8chan, and Erik Kaine (Forbes) named "Sexism and Misogyny in Video Game Culture".
Wu is given more speaking time than the other two combined. (9m22s vs 2m57s & 3m46s) and at one point declares GamerGate worse than child pornography.
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/gamergate-and-sexism-and-misogyny-in-video-game-culture-/5437df2b78c90a43d9000be8
This first feed quickly goes viral as a slugmatch between the three and the comments section blows up for a full 24hrs to an extent that HuffPo realizes they're on to something bigger than thought. This leads to a follow up with the "Girls of GamerGate" live feed which debuts 3 pro-GamerGate women.
Georgina Young @georgieonthego (Saga, Japan) Staff Writer at Gamesided
Jennie Bharaj @jenniebharaj (Vancouver, Canada) YouTuber; Gamer
Jemma Morgan @ShuluuMoo (London, United Kingdom) Gamer
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/gamergate-and-women-in-video-game-culture/543c686878c90a71ff000157
Despite the moderator attempting to push the "equal treatment of women" angle, the 3 women calmly explain how that has nothing to do with GamerGate, about the formation of GamerGate, and the reasons they support it. They also point out how the opposition has been pushing the "equality" angle as the focus and it's faults by doing so which gets the moderator a bit flustered. Sexism, feminism, LGBT, and even the term SJW (which the moderator finds offensive) are discussed.
More HuffPo lives may be planned in the future. CBCNews (Canada) has started talks with Jennie Bharaj to discuss the subject as well after seeing the HuffPo live stream.
These videos add to a long list of women in GamerGate videos that have been created since the initial hash tag was created.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNpTmEGw2J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y419veD7M9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdiC2ednok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYBgBdnYjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr5f9GA2P4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUiUc1ZtDdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjpQwcxmMKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-y1diqE2Q
I went ahead and watched that first video. Here are my impressions:
- Posting people's public information is not acceptable.
- You have two morons arguing about the law they don't understand.
- Brianna Wu seems to be exceptionally hyperbolic and paranoid.
QuackBot
My video is up.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/848/629/ed4.jpg
:psyblown:
Nicholai Pestot
I haven't had much time to look at this but can it be confirmed that this is mostly an argument between
-A group of people with no lives who spend too much time socialising on the internet echo-chambers of their choice
finally reaching the critical mass necessary for it to boil over into public perception?
whispous
My problem with GamerGate is that the news media has picked these false feminists' side in a battle between two awful sets of worthless people.
Dark Flare
Video games are so sexist and sizeist, the male protagonists are always 6 feet wide and built like trains and they always pick on the geeky computer nerd side character.
But I'm not going to cry about it.
Because I'm not a woman.
Itiken
Gamergate in one image:
http://i.imgur.com/82TT47t.png
Timaios
I think discussion on the topic might not be feasible until perhaps a year/two from now on (but still I appreciate the effort; "good luck, peace out"). As for now, I think gamers in general (whatever imaginary side we may have) could make a general effort to try to avoid people getting harassed or their life threatened and having to flee their homes (whatever the might have caused the harassment).
However, I wanted to make this post because I recently read this, and found it quite interesting:
http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2hgv5x/veteran_dev_saying_ama_here/
(I actually read the most of the AMA and got some answers as to why, for example, some GG advocates don't want to form an organized consumer advocacy group etc. There's some bits of good discussion that went on, so you all might find it interesting as well.)
Edit: Steph, I think you write well and I've seen you have very civil discussion. However, your OP lacks a question you'd like us to discuss, it's just a timeline of events (as is Keorythe's post below). What would you want to be discussed in this thread?
If this truly is the "serious version" of the GG thread we all deserve, then I expect it to be full of serious discussion about the serious matters raised - eg investigating corruption within the Games journalism industry.
Blogs, links, journalism.
I was reading through - the "balanced piece" linked above (edit incoming) bbut hit this paragraph and gave up.
I do have personal experience with the gamers' mortal enemies, the so-called "social justice warriors," to know they can be a highly toxic Internet presence. Those who voice their loathing of "the SJWs" are not simply talking about people sympathetic to socially progressive causes but about cultist zealots who enforce the party line with the fervor of Mao's Red Guards, though luckily without the real-life power.
fuck it Gamerwhatever is whatever you want - if you can even parse this sort of shit without some kind of aneurysm you deserve all the 'mainstream media attention' you get
oh found the ref:
It's like written by a actual journalist, doing research and stuff and with sources.
Like all other 'rsonable articles' what you menat to say was:
"here is a post that agree's with my view on the whole thing and you are stupid if you think otherwise because the author provides FACTS"
enjoy them
pps i'd liek to echo this:
Edit: Steph, I think you write well and I've seen you have very civil discussion. However, your OP lacks a question you'd like us to discuss, it's just a timeline of events. What would you want to be discussed in this thread?
Alright, sure - it was my hope that we could discuss GamerGate without requiring a formal, rigid list of topics but if y'all think that would be helpful then let's put one together.
Since I consider myself pro-GG, I don't know that I'm the best person to present a list of things to talk about - such a list would reflect my own biases, and I believe for any useful discussion to occur that such a list needs to be as neutral as possible.
Or you could realize that most journalists like using fancy words and skip to the meat...
> shits up first page with 5km jpeg
> asks for hard evidence oozing with sarcasm
> can't read past the intro of an actually quite balanced and researched article
> instead throws temper tantrum without any counter arguments
How can you expect anyone to have a "serious" discussion with you? If you are really super srs, how about you put that image in a fkn spoiler, read that article from start to finish, check some of the sources and than we can actually have a discussion?
relephant:
OK lets break it down shall we? (and i've even spoilered the image ebcause you seem to be upset)
1. I read the article. Well. i skimread it. It's practically identical to all the other 'pro' pieces out there.
2. It is pretty simple to pull a article from 'the other side' out, post it claiming 'absolute journalism by a journalist'
Lazy coverage of Gamergate is only feeding this abusive campaign (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/16/gamergate-abuse-feminist-new-york-times-anita-sarkeesian) There you go.
now you don't have to agree with it and I don't expect you, Kereothe (i can never spell that guy) or so on to at all. What i expect is to have a few lines you dislike picked up on, straw-manned to fuck then the entire piece/side/article dismissed because it's on the wrong side. The echochamber as it's been so aptly put has become so all-emcompasing and the sides so polarised that any post from 'the wrong side' is wrong.
Essentially, everything that can be said at this point has been said. until either side starts doing anything actually new, eg GG doing real journalism about the ethics thing / or the other lot doing whatever they are expected to do, then you may as well jsut read the other thread, ingest the sides/articles/posts and save yourself some effort.
You claim to want to have a serious balanced discussion, linking in your own words, a 'quite balanced' article that right from the offset paints anyone on 'the other side' as a psycho.....
The few paragraphs below that feel accurate but biased, and i disagree with almost all of the 4 conclusion points.
my personal opinion is the entire thing si a shitty, bitchy mess and the best thing to do is roll it all up, stick it in a drum and seal it in 200 cubic meters of concrete and drop it into the earth's core. Take what lessons from it YOU want to and move on.
Does that cover you up?
bonus content:
It’s time for reasonable people to pull away. To form something else. To take everything they’ve learned about agitation and protest, and apply it in a very different way. Don’t have all this on your conscience.
We need to create an industry in which people can question practices and conventions, but also where all are welcome and safe. For a start, however, we need to create an industry in which, whatever you think of their views, people don't get chased out of their homes. (ed)
Interesting question. By 'Pro-GG' I presume you mean 'i support investigating and exposing corruption / journalism ethics issues' correct?
Can i ask a counter-question (To Steph): i often read - eg in the article irrelephant linked, about the "anti-GG side". What would you consider 'anti-GG' to be in light of the above?
There is a lot of nonsense being written on both sides of this - now - to me this however is what i would describe is "abalances / reasonable" quote - but to the other i'd assume it's propagana / nonsense / plain wrong.
I don’t think that everyone who uses Gamergate is evil, but moderates need to look at what is being done under, or within spitting distance of, its banner. Lives are being ruined and the world’s media is looking at gamers, just at a time when the medium was being taken seriously, and it is seeing its prejudices realised. Gamergate was front-page news in the New York Times when Sarkeesian had to cancel a talk over threats of a “massacre” (also dismissed as a “false flag” by Gamergate supporters); Cellan-Jones wrote on the BBC’s site that while he wouldn’t pick over the rights and wrongs of Gamergate (for the BBC is assiduous in not taking any sides in any debate),
“a couple of things are clear. It started with attacks on a female developer and the journalists she knew, and has given rise to a whole lot more viciousness, most of it aimed at women who dare to raise their heads above the parapet.”
Discuss (in the form of context not content)
Finally (really finally almost):
Is there any hope that a post with "serious concerns regrading the gamergate movement" would even be parsed/discussed instead of being snipped and dismissed. If so i'll put it together, if not i'll follow my own advice from page1 and just let the whole thing die.
The funny thing about the anti-GG side is where they run for their info. It typically breaks down like this.
GamerGate advocate: GG is a consumer revolt against neopotism and poor journalistic ethics in the gaming media
Anti-GamerGate person: No it's not. It's a hate campaign against women and inclusiveness.
GamerGate advocate: What? Says who?
Anti-GamerGate person: Says the journalists whose ethics are questioned.
https://imgflip.com/readImage?iid=412211
I'm not sure what to thing about this paragraph. GG is active in going after the journalist's advertisers in question until said policies change in some form or another. It's also now seeking more outlets to show it's case to who are willing to look at both sides. It's working. The Girls of GamerGate HuffPo live was a big step and suddenly some of the more well known names are reporting that they're getting requests for interviews by other media. Since consumers don't have paid PR teams this is how consumers "doing real journalism about the ethics thing" get it done, by having media outlets not pass them over and getting some actual reporting done. So far we've seen a bunch of one side articles pushed by the same IP and PR teams that have been implicated. And some that refuse to budge.
http://theralphretort.com/wp-content/uploads/GUARDIANEMAIL1.png
Yes the next Guardian piece on GamerGate is going to be consulted with Leigh Alexander who is one of the people who started this. So expect it to be scathing.
The first part of this is an appeal to motive. It's an attempt to quash something by painting it as bad and therefore it should be re-imagined as something good...and also leave behind any gains or identity it had. This really does nothing to benefit one side and it gives the advantage to the other to pin the same arguments against this re-imagined group against them.
The second part is another association fallacy. The fact that the people in question were receiving harassment before GamerGate is never mentioned. Nor examples in history that public figures receive the same treatment for a diverse number of subjects. It is essentially their way of using rare events to blame whatever parties they want for the actions of unknowns. Brianna Wu is a prime example. When someone tried to doxx her at 8chan (who was banned and deleted within minutes of said post), she instantly blamed tweets she received later on GamerGate despite the threatening account having no association nor using the hash tag. Could it have been some troll who wanted to get a rise out of her like a sadistic person? Very much so. That GamerGate is policing where it sees this happening is ignored because it didn't fit her narrative.
GamerGate has cracked down on this from the beginning but has not taken steps to publicize or get screenshots in the past. Sadly it has to be archived regularly just to prove that now. Let's face it, we can call out random harassers when we see them but there isn't much else to do. Especially when certain people move the goalposts on what is considered harassment. Unless it's something illegal, then the bad apples can't even be reported.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzrHKPYCUAAf_gH.jpg
(Stephen would later go on to complain that this Kite harassing her. )
And lets face it GamerGate is very bad at being a "hate campaign". For being one of the top trending hash tags on twitter with over 3 million uses, the amount of "hate" tossed around is pretty thin. When the journalists in question can only point to a handful of polarizing people who have made a name for themselves by labeling others only to get labeled in return (which in their minds constitutes harassment but only if someone else does it) then you have a real problem calling it a hate campaign.
the regular news media pounces on every single internet hate story in favor of the "victims" no matter where their initial claims come from or the actual low volume of what could be considered hate.
The investigation part is always ongoing. The support is for those that have the means to do so and signal boosting this information when it comes to light. This has been the way since the beginning.
Steph can answer in her own way. But the most common view is that the anti-GG side are those that keep trying to push the semblance that this is about misogyny and lack of inclusiveness in the industry and gaming culture and more importantly, they're fighting to end those two issues. That was seen explicitly in many of the initial 14 blast articles that came out after MundaneMatt and Internet Aristocrat's videos detailing the corruption issues with many of those journalists.
Those stances were also destroyed when many high ranking (eg Sr editors, journalists, and movement leaders) participated in bigotry, bullying, and a slew of other practices as opposed to random low end or anonymous people who may or may not be associated with GamerGate. The GaymerX debacle alone killed off their moral high horses. Sam Biddle (sr editor Gawker) was recently called out for tweets advocating the shaming and bullying against pro-GG folks in submission on "Bullying Awareness Day". It got the attention of Project Anti-Bully and he was challenged to a boxing match by Mike Cernovich on the spot.
I don’t think that everyone who uses Gamergate is evil, but moderates need to look at what is being done under, or within spitting distance of, its banner.
This isn't lazy journalism at all. If it even appears to be associated or by coincidence follows a similar idea then it must be part of GamerGate...totally /sarcasm
It practically flies in the face of the same articles they write about Islamophobia where they argue that the hate part is not associated with the larger picture.
Lives are being ruined and the world’s media is looking at gamers, just at a time when the medium was being taken seriously, and it is seeing its prejudices realised. Gamergate was front-page news in the New York Times when Sarkeesian had to cancel a talk over threats of a “massacre” (also dismissed as a “false flag” by Gamergate supporters);
Actually, that threat was done long before the speaking event, was investigated, found 0 credibility, and as a result the police department refused to require pat downs and metal detectors at the entrance to the event on campus. This was based on past speaking appearances which included locations with specific gun laws. Utah has a concealed carry law which means that laws would have to be circumvented in the name of security. Since no credibility was given to the threats then they didn't bother. Sarkeesian decided not to do the event by her own will. In other words, she cancelled the event despite having had previous threats where concealed carry also existed but was never challenged. Hence why some believed it might be a possible false flag since this is right in the middle of the GamerGate campaign and she stood to gain more attention by not attending than by attending.
Cellan-Jones wrote on the BBC’s site that while he wouldn’t pick over the rights and wrongs of Gamergate (for the BBC is assiduous in not taking any sides in any debate),
“a couple of things are clear. It started with attacks legitimate concerns about a female developer and the journalists she knew had relationships, and has given rise to a whole lot more viciousness, most of it aimed at women both sides who dare to raise their heads above the parapet.”
Fixed the quote of you to bring up the context of the issue.
Pacefalm
I don't think there are many people arguing against gender equality or proper journalistic ethics.
The entire reason why people are frothing at the mouth arguing this is because they disagree what 'Gamergate' stands for/means. I think the term should be abandoned altogether, the faster the better.
Compared to pro-choice vs pro-life. Sure, the names for the campaigns are retarded and cause for debate by themselves, but at least if you say "I am pro-choice" people will know what your stance is.
Being Pro- or Anti- Gamergate is meaningless when the term has so many separate interpretations and stances.
If these were separate issues, one being journalistic ethics and one being gender equality, and the name gamergate never existed, I believe this issue would never have grown out to be this shitstorm of toxic remarks in all directions.
Dorvil Barranis
Huh, and I thought Pro-GG meant that you liked arguing with feminists and "SJWs" on the internet.
Yeah, whatever the GamerGate "movement" is, I don't see it as being productive, because at this point it is about arguing on the internet.
Of course, a Pro-GG would just say that I am trying to derail the movement and suppress speech, but that just means more arguing on the internet.
Procellus
That's part of it. It's also contacting the businesses that advertise on these sites and trying to get them to pull their funding. That's had some small measure of success.
Remember a couple of years ago when you had a bunch of "Gamers are spoiled brats" articles after the Mass Effect 3 ending? Turns out there was a Google group GameJournoPros where these guys would come together and talk about stuff. That in itself is not a big deal but there does seem to be a lot of collusion between the gaming media and the journalists that cover them. If these journalists are not working for our, the customers, interests why should we keep them around? If they are paid PR people then let's get rid of them and get a new breed in here.
The SJW stuff is another point of contention. A lot of the younger GGers seem to resent the inclusion of politics into our hobby whereas some of us older guys know it was only a matter of time. It's just that Sarkeesian and her fellow travelers push such a poisonous version of feminism it seems to be out to ruin fun. Sorry gotta help put kids to bed. I'll add more later.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/17/6996601/on-gamergate-a-letter-from-the-editor
http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/19/adios-gamergate/
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/20/gamergate-is-the-future-of-troll-politics/
Frug
I liked these lines
In a split very similar to that between conservative talk radio versus liberal written journalism, what we’ve seen is the emergence of a new media of talk radio style hosts on YouTube. Many of them haven’t the first clue what they’re talking about, but they’re speaking to large audiences nonetheless.
The youth conversation around the medium is happening in this realm more and more, and at the moment its idea spectrum ranges from the moderately conservative to the extremely conservative, and that’s a problem. Games need their NPR equivalent rather than asking Anita Sarkeesian to carry that torch all by herself.
As someone who doesn't follow vlogs, and is an old guy (in 30s) this wouldn't surprise me.
TheManFromDelmonte
We're in srs bsns now, you need to do more than assert stuff that isn't true.
Two articles were put out at a similar time, leigh's and Golding's. Golding's is the one that uses the word "death" as in "death of identity". And yet Leigh is the only person getting hate for a "death of gamers" article. Because she's a woman who has upset people previously and they piled on, switching from one woman to another wasn't hard for the people pushing it on twitter.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=132616610&postcount=7856
The Golding post is on Tumblr. Golding didn't have a senior editor, have to pass his article through a legal dept, receive advertising funding, nor is paid by Tumblr to write on specific topics on a deadline. Leigh Alexander on the other hand was a editior for Gamasutra at the time and would later double down on the whole thing with a Time article which is then followed up by her personal blog which is also cited by other outlets. She's also gone out of her way to contact other websites to spread her narrative and bragged about doing so. The other articles were published with links, external quotes, and visual content within a few hours of Alexanders original piece. So these "journalists" went into super productive overdrive to publish these first articles....or someone shared her article with them beforehand. Completely coincidence, I mean it's not like there was any sort of game journo list where they could collude to push a narrative. Regardless, the other people and their websites were also boycotted and advertisers petitioned by GamerGate.
Leigh Alexander really did get the ire of some with her caustic writing that even pissed off Ben Kochera who would later complain about her.
Games culture’ is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online ‘wars’ about social justice or ‘game journalism ethics,’ straight-faced, and cause genuine human consequences.
Remember, the GamerGate tag wasn't created yet and the first IA and MM videos delving into accusations of journalist corruption and the effects it might have had on something as large as IndieCade are just now taking root when she wrote this. In fact, at this point in history GamerGate probably would have fizzled out to nothing more than a vid or two which the people implicated could have brushed off. Good job pouring gasoline on that fire.
It’s not like there are reputable outlets publishing rational articles in favor of the trolls’ ‘side’. Don’t give press to the harassers. Don’t blame an entire industry for a few bad apples.
You can taste that sweet irony from here.
These obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish internet-arguers -- they are not my audience.
If they weren't before then they definitely are not now and they're also not rewarding you with advertising clicks.
That NeoGAF list is missing a few articles as well, all within a few hours of each other.
A Guide to Ending ‘Gamers by Darren Wilson http://archive.today/2t93l
Sexism, Misogyny and Online Attacks: It’s a Horrible Time to Consider Yourself a ‘Gamer’ by Patrick O’Rourke https://archive.today/HkPHc
It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry by Arthur Chu http://archive.today/9NxHy
There are 5 others published that day which all focus on a single Sarkeesian threat the day before but link back to the Alexander and Wilson articles.
These were followed up the next day (Aug 29) by others also not on that list and then even more on Mon. morning all about the same thing and redirecting frequently to Alexanders or Wilson's (both Gamasutra) and Golding is quickly forgotten.
DevilDude
Didn't see we were having this discussion here now, I'd been staying out of it in general since general is a shitshow unless you like pictures/gifs of cats and half naked/naked women or various implements of war.
Begin epic wall of text.
So first things first, journalism in gaming is pretty fucking broken, like more so than most traditional media which can at least claim incompetence when they fuck up. A large amount of the fuel for this whole incident has nothing to do with misogyny and everything to do with the dissatisfaction the community feels with the associated gaming media. For a long time the larger incorporated outlets have effectively been worn like cocksocks by the various publishers. They have become wholly dependent for survival on the people which they're supposed to be checking on, this situation is untenable, especially as gamers have grown up and become adults it's becoming harder and harder to bullshit us.
We’re beginning to see a shift towards independent actors in gaming media, it’s been ongoing for quite some time. Some examples actually include Kotaku and polygon which started small and grew based on their unwillingness to be publisher sockpuppets. Unfortunately these new giants are showing another trend, they seem to have a very uniform political stance and more concerning a political agenda.
One of the major criticisms aimed at Zoe Quinn Long before gamergate was that her games were winning awards on sociopolitical rather than design or technical merit. While I actually do support the idea of games exploring the human condition beyond hack and slash mechanics there is definitely some weight to the criticisms leveled in this direction too. I’d advise anyone to go give depression quest a try and tell me whether you think it’s worthy of an indy gaming award, if you’re willing to take my word for it, it’s not. It’s basically a ‘choose your own adventure’ story in eBook form, and it’s not really even a good example of choose your own adventure, people have questioned whether you could even call it a game, and they’re not wrong to bring the point up. This game won an award under heavy criticism for these reasons, and it later came out during this whole debacle that one of the Polygon editors responsible for judging in that contest helped to fund it with a six thousand dollar donation. The point here is that a lot of people feel Quinn has received awards not on merit but because of a political agenda, which then ties into the next major problem.
What I think a lot of the gamergate crowd feel isn't getting examined enough, or is simply being dismissed is the actual accusations of misogyny surrounding #GamerGate, which basically boil down to derision of Zoe Quin and Anita Sarkeesian, as far as I've been able to tell they're the only prominent females on the opposing side actually drawing major criticism. I’ve already gone into detail of one major incident with Quinn but it’s also useful to note her defense of herself, which actually isn’t a defense, it’s simply to claim that her critics are misogynists, effectively she has no defense beyond an ad hominem attack, which is telling in itself. Moving on to Sarkeesian, I don’t really know what to make of her beyond that she’s a loud feminist who talks about video games but seems to have little knowledge of them beyond what you might read in the news. Her attitude and statements are insulting, condescending and bombastic, and her response to criticism mirror’s Quinn’s.
Looking at the two of them, their methods, their media, and their apparent agenda, a common thread starts to emerge. Both of them seem to have come to the conclusion that gaming is wrong and must be ‘fixed’ with feminism. I think what’s causing the ruckus is that this whole attitude is confrontational as well as condescending, people who would otherwise be their allies end up being insulted by their broad brush statements and rebuffed by their attitude. The modus operandi here seems to be to act out and then switch into the victim role and yell loudly when the backlash hits, relying on naïve outside media to see a woman in distress and rally round (which is irony in magnitudes I have trouble comprehending).
None of this is to say that gaming doesn’t have a well-deserved reputation for misogyny, the fighting game scene alone should be a badge of shame we all wear until someone fucking straitens that shit out. However I don’t think Quinn and Sarkeesian’s approach is anything but counterproductive, chastising the whole gaming community as if we were children in need of correction, or claiming that legitimate criticism is nothing more than misogyny isn’t going to advance the cause of women in games and gaming, in fact it will do nothing but the opposite. I think that’s obvious to many people, and that’s why gamergate is still frothing, because people aren’t just mad about transparency, they’re mad the people like Quinn and Sarkeesian are speaking for them without their consent, or identifying them to mass media as asocial deviants in need of correction without bothering to understand them or in a darker vein, because doing so gets them the media attention from which they make their living.
Except we know Leigh and Golding aren't on the GameJournoPro list. And neither are most of the other people who linked to their articles.
And knocking up some copy in a few hours and whatever is "news" that day is exactly what games websites writers do every single day of their lives, so the fact lots of people link to something that they see as a big news piece shouldn't be surprising. I mean it was big on twitter right?
The fact is journalists communicating with each other is not a problem, nor unique to games. Press clubs are a real thing that the real journalism world has in abundance. No journalism ethics course would even think to dicuss what is appropriate to discuss with other journalists privately because it would never occur to anyone that it's an issue.
The other fact is this "coordinated" campaign didn't exist, and even the GameJournoPro smoking gun provides no evidence that it did as the key people aren't on that list.
Tailn
I have been casually trying to work out what is going on here correct me if I am wrong but it seems to boil down to a few extremist groups slinging mud and faeces at each other and labelling themselves as members of a much wider community that would want or have very little in common with them.
My self as a 'Hardcore Gamer' who has been so longer than most of those involved have been alive resent claims to the 'Gamer' tag. The groups seem to be 'womens rights activists', 'teenagers and small minded men who have grown used to the anonymity of the internet' and those drawn into the issue due to bleeding hearts, social/business positions that mean they responsibility to and lastly any one who sees a 'news story' that will sell column inches.
The only right position now is to tell the first group to wind their necks in and stop poking. The second group to be visited by the authorities and learn that the people on the other end of the internet have rights and that even here you have to take responsibility for your actions (prison sentence and criminal records for people who made death threats etc.). The third group to either grow professionally or stop putting them selves in positions of authority. And the last group nothing needs to be done, society has already learned the lesson to take a bag of salt along with any opinion piece from journalists.
Actually no it wasn't big on twitter. GamerGate didn't take off until this event actually (Aug 28). It had only partially grown after some sites started to change their disclosure policies (and would silently change back later). The hash tag GamerGate was created literally the night before and probably would have stayed small after the policy changes since it was focused on a handful of devs and journalists.
http://techraptor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Topsy1.jpg
You are partially correct on some parts though. Only 2/3 of the total authors are on the list or had their names mentioned specifically as in the case of Alexander (Kuchera quoted as hating her style but was in contact and wanted to add). Meanwhile the ones that aren't on the list all have their editors there. Wilson and Alexander both wrote for Gamasutra so it's a given they may have collaborated and not the issue. The point is that the ability to collude was definitely there. This was followed up by more investigation turning up emails, twitter posts, and facebook posts that showed definite collusion on the matter. Some may argue that this is circumstantial but to the consumers, this was more than enough as the trust between them and the journalists had already eroded.
Well it's definitely not unique to games and the excuses about press clubs or "we're just friendly banter" have been used in the past. The reason why this was brought up is because it's happened to real journalists and was a black mark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList
The point is that this is very very shitty behavior and just compounded distrust of these people. More importantly it showed how all of these "journalists" were after a narrative rather than just reporting on an subject and how they could pressure others to cover or not cover and aspect. These were both breeches of SPJ ethics and clear cut examples of nepotism but that isn't against the law. So their readers (ie consumers) revolted and now many are realizing why this is bad. They're understanding that this is the gasoline that started the fire and to take care in the future.
I've lived through this same kind of bullshit back when I was a kid and it seems that every new generation are apt to make the same mistakes. They told us that heavy metal was turning us into devil worshipers (the spinning records backwards to hear satan days), then that Dungeons and Dragons would turn us into occultist or give you psychological problems, then how cartoons were too violent and would turn us into killers, which led up to the Jack Thompson days of "video games are murder simulators" and we're going to be killers again. Now we're at period of video games will make us sexist and misogynists. We were to humble ourselves before these patrons of morality and submit to their will despite the very muddled science of their beliefs.
http://adland.tv/adnews/gamergate-moral-panic-resembles-90s-which-directly-affects-womens-career-choices/1629488701
In all of those previous periods people had to take a stand otherwise the very things we loved would have be curtailed and controlled by a group of moral panic extremists riding on moral high horses trying to run roughshod over something they found "problematic". With the rate at which this is making headlines, we will probably have to see another Parents Music Resource Center style event or some tie in with the whole "rape culture" panic going on. Brianna Wu is already attempting to engage Elizabeth Warren on the issue to bring legislation.
http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=twitter
Even if you’re only a casual internet user, chances are that by now you’ve probably heard something about the movement known as Gamergate. If you’re unfamiliar with what Gamergate is, we’ve taken the liberty of writing up a brief summary of the movement and its goals, which we will immediately change if anything in it offends anyone who associates with Gamergate.
Taken in one byte it's not a bad little narrative but lets examine it to see how the clouds in the sky these opinions rest in are formed shall we.
So Gamergate wasn't a thing until people decided to make it a thing on twitter. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up. Shame you neatly sidestepped the actual point of his post though. There are aspersions being cast that 'everyoen was in on it' and it's demonstrably provable that that is a totally made up pile of nonsense.
You are partially correct on some parts though. Only 2/3 of the total authors are on the list or had their names mentioned specifically as in the case of Alexander (Kuchera quoted as hating her style but was in contact and wanted to add). Meanwhile the ones that aren't on the list all have their editors there. Wilson and Alexander both wrote for Gamasutra so it's a given they may have collaborated and not the issue. The point is that the ability to collude was definitely there
So some journalists were able to talk to some other journalists. They may or may not have colluded bu they may each in turn have communicated with each other, or been able to communicate with each other. Gotcha. But it was nly bad journalists who talked on there. With you so far.
This was followed up by more investigation turning up emails, twitter posts, and facebook posts that showed definite collusion on the matter. Some may argue that this is circumstantial but to the consumers, this was more than enough as the trust between them and the journalists had already eroded.
Here the narrative kicks in. let me translate.
At this point it fits the narrative story to claim that the whole world is very upset by journalists talking to each other about things. I can dig up some screenshots of stuff that paints things however i like. infact I have loads of secret communications that i will allude to that proves my point but can't show you because it's secret.
Still awake back there? goody. moving on:
No. no it wasn't. once again it's very easy to cast around aspersions of "this was very bad and everyone as really in trouble for it". What you are in fact saying is Journalists are not allowed to talk to other journalists in pricate, they must do it all out in the open, in public, in front of me because i am extremely distrustful fo them. That's cool. just pop out and say it though, as you really are using way too many words up to say it.
The point is that this is very very shitty behavior and just compounded distrust of these people.
Wait what? Why ? By who? By people too stupid to think that people in a common field communicate? What next? Do *we* need to set up a twitter hashtag to make sure Science dudes don't collude and only research in a vaacum. Some kind of geo-location tagging to make sure no abr has more than 2 It Techs in or they may Collude, making everyone distrustful of them?
More importantly it showed how all of these "journalists" were after a narrative rather than just reporting on an subject and how they could pressure others to cover or not cover and aspect. i want to like the bravo.gif image here but this is one of these wonderful leaps of faith that needs to be looked at.
We are supposed to believe at this point that either the sole, or the emergent reason for members of this list to communicate is to fool, hoodwink, misdirect and / or con the reading public into following a secret narrative layed down in the Group by the members. I gatehr it's way past asking ifg you ahve any idea how carzy you sound ?
These were both breeches of SPJ ethics [/qoute]
No there wasn't
[quote]and clear cut examples of nepotism but that isn't against the law.
So their readers (ie consumers) revolted and now many are realizing why this is bad.
They didn't and they are not. Period. in fact quite the opposite. The internet is full of AMA's, interviews, posts and blogs wondering what the hell everyone is so upset about. Most of of the list has been leaked in some form or the other and it's entirely bland and free of all but the most asine aspersions leveled against it.
https://archive.today/LUHMD
http://yiannopoulos.net/2014/09/22/new-gamejourno-pro-leak-the-email-summaries/
Even mr B seems to fall ove rhimself at this point:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/10/GameJournoPros-joking-about-paid-reviews-and-mocking-Phil-Fish
let me get this straight though. The list members (tm) make fun of paid review, marketing and everyone else in private, but still then play out their narrative. Or follow the corrupt hands, or something.
I must admit i'm lost now. really.
They're understanding that this is the gasoline that started the fire and to take care in the future.
Ah more vague handwavium. More of the "thin end of the wedge" "they will be sorry" "straw that broke the camel's back" vagueity with no actual substance beyond a few conspiracy nuts.
But lets not stop there.
This is my favorite paragraph of the whole fiasco.
If translated correctly you are saying that because in your youth, crazy Religious / neo-conservative types were 'Down' on D&D, now their opposite numbers, the liberals want to stop you from playing computergames? is that it?
Now we're at period of video games will make us sexist and misogynists.
We were to humble ourselves before these patrons of morality and submit to their will despite the very muddled science of their beliefs.
muddled science of their beliefs
So they who would stop you from having D&D now will stop you from computergaming because of the science of their beliefs? Even skipping over the "science != Belief" problem Modern neo-Conservative ideology is perfectly aligned with the current 'GG' philosophy. Games are for men. Women are objects adn should be paid less / treated as such / in the kitchen. Children should do as their parents did, not listen to heavy metal and not play games parents do not understand with picturs of wizzards in them.
Do you not see how you are talking cross-idiology? I assume not but lets continue:
http://adland.tv/adnews/gamergate-mo...ces/1629488701
In all of those previous periods people had to take a stand otherwise the very things we loved would have be curtailed and controlled by a group of moral panic extremists riding on moral high horses trying to run roughshod over something they found "problematic".
So gamergate is taking a stand. A stand against moral panic. against Political Correctness gone mad. against the system trying to oppress gamers out of their thingies. Is it now. interesting. A few pages ago it was about journalism and stopping the journalist from writing things that they have discussed. Though a few pages before that it was about a woman who wrote a game getting a review she allegedly paid for with her vagina.
make up your mind man. You can see why the people are confused.
With the rate at which this is making headlines, we will probably have to see another Parents Music Resource Center style event or some tie in with the whole "rape culture" panic going on.
Wow. 'Rape culture panic'. I just can't hold it back any more:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bravo2.gif
Brianna Wu is already attempting to engage Elizabeth Warren on the issue to bring legislation.
Which is obviously a terrible thing because..... ?
Anyway - didn't GJP happen 2007-2010 anyway ? it's old (boring and irrelevant) news.
Remember a couple of years ago when you had a bunch of "Gamers are spoiled brats" articles after the Mass Effect 3 ending?
Just to pick up on this as well on my way out of the door (echo chamber):
Gamers are spoiled brats. It's not a question it's a statement of fact.
Does it even need referencing? Have a read through any Metacritic review page. Any official game forum. Read the Eve-O forums regarding capital jump changes. Read the blizzard forums every time they either do or don't touch anything. read the games subforum of this site. It' spages and pages of overeactions, screaming shitfits, threats of legal action, half harted calls to arms.
And don't' forget what started the whole #GG thing off. A woman did some vBlogs about game characters. 'Gamers' took offence and in came the DOXX's, rapedeaththreat's etc etc. A woman who the internet doesn't like wrote a game, 'Gamers' took offence and in came the DOXX's, rapedeaththreat's etc etc.
A few probably misguided feminists write a couple of "gamers are dead" articles talking about the SingleWhiteMale basement dwellers who are worried their precious art form is being destroyed by a moral mninority, adn the internet erupts into the most epic shitstorm in living memory because HOW DARE THEY.
And you think that the problem in games is the journalists who write about it? i feel that is a extraordinarily simplistic world view.
Grand finale:
Even a thread started in SRS BZNS especially to talk about the serious parts of GG does nothing of the sort. All people want to do is shout down "the other side" and prove that their side is wrong because of FACTS.
it's fucking pathetic.
If you want to be about journalism so much, go start a fucking blog or something.
Phrixus Zephyr
Replace 'games' with music, TV, movies, sports, almost anything.
Actually no it wasn't big on twitter. GamerGate didn't take off until this event actually (Aug 28).
"It" in this context isn't gamergate but the post by Leigh. that's what would be high profile enough to get people to write about it.
I imagine game journalists spend half their day looking at new stories on each other's sites in case they've missed something to write about.
Trigger warning!! **INCOMING WALL OF TEXT!!!**
Yup pretty much.
Nope. And I find it quite sad that you still haven't figured out the difference between banter and collusion. One is meaningless and happens all of the time. The fine line gets broken when you push a narrative within journalism. If it was so meaningless as you try to make out then Kyle Orland wouldn't have made a 2 page post on Ars Technica defending his part in the whole thing along with a number of others including John Funk who you posted. It's one thing to say, "this game sucks because of XXX, so I'm going to write a bad story on it" and "this game sucks because of XXX, so we're all going to write stories on it and if you don't we can make this very uncomfortable for you within this tiny sphere of games journalism".
Any line of communication can be used for fun or for illicit purposes. And many of the entries show plenty of funny stuff meant for behind doors joking. The problem is that it was also used for more than that which is where we run into issues.
and clear cut examples of nepotism but that isn't against the law.
SJP isn't a government agency. Breeches of their policy break no US laws unless a charge of racketeering can be proved.
The PMRC was chaired by Tipper Gore. In both cases of Heavy Metal/Rock and violent video games the weights were balanced on both sides of the political spectrum. In this case you have both liberal and conservative types were are part of GamerGate. It's an extremely odd mix when you realize that people who would normally not support each other are doing so in this instance. It's pretty telling when religious conservatives are calling out the extremist anti-GamerGaters for fucking up the pro-homosexual game convention GaymerX just because they wanted a neutral stance.
Ooookaaaaay. Right, because GamerGate is secretly against women devs so much that we have to hide those beliefs instead of being very open about them. In fact the journalists being implicated in all of this are the real crusaders here and they're exposing our secret cabal of women haters. Oh wait, since when did shitty journalists become "female devs"?
Also, why did you break up the sentences like that? Do you not understand context?
So gamergate is taking a stand. A stand against moral panic. against Political Correctness gone mad. against the system trying to oppress gamers out of their thingies. Is it now. interesting. A few pages ago it was about journalism and stopping the journalist from writing things that they have discussed. Though a few pages before that it was about a woman who wrote a game getting a review she allegedly paid for with her vagina. Make up your mind man. You can see why the people are confused.
Ummm, one thing kicked it off. The other thing contributed. You seem to be trying to blow up both as a primary reason for the existence of GamerGate.
Let me make this a bit clearer for you.
Shitty female game dev made a shitty game and slept with some people to get good review in kotaku and to win major awards at a rigged indy convention
Turns out that the exbf thinks the timeline is off by one month so game press might not be true. Game Journos go apeshit and claim issue is debunked. Ignore previous game press in RPS which wasn't an official review and the awards issue.
Game Journos confused why they're the target. Double down on misogyny to put off Gamers.
Gamers go on investigating and find shitty behavior by Game Journos. Shitty female game devs is never mentioned after this point from GamerGate.
Gamer Journos don't understand why no one was pissy before. Keep bring up Shitty Female Game dev and Anna Sarkeesian....because misogyny.
#notyourshield tells them to fuck off. Issue isn't inclusiveness, but shitty Game Journos. Are called Uncle Toms and traitors
Game Journos start losing advertisers. Call GamerGate a hate campaign again. Claim all anonymous harassers are part of GamerGate. Claim GamerGate is the reason for all harassment of Shitty Female Game dev, Anna Sarkeesian, and now Brianna Wu (who plugs her game with sexualized female characters furiously).
GJP is still in service. Those believed to have leaked it were kicked out. :facepalm:
Gamers are consumers. When consumers get shit on they complain. This happens in EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY. Remember when the Mass Effect 3 ending was so bad that consumers complained and Bioware provided an alternative ending? Remember the T-20 incident in EvE and the result of that screw up? That's because they want those consumers to buy/sub their games again. Consumers give you money and if you're shitty to consumers then they don't give you money. This isn't rocket science. If someone wants to make a game with whatever political ideology, they're free to do so, just don't expect to rake in money for it.
Felicia Day weighs in:
http://thisfeliciaday.tumblr.com/post/100700417809/the-only-thing-i-have-to-say-about-gamer-gate
and gets doxxed:
“I realized my silence on the issue was not motivated by some grand strategy, but out of fear that the issue has created about speaking out,” Day wrote on her Tumblr. “I have tried to retweet a few of the articles I’ve seen dissecting the issue in support, but personally I a terrified to be doxed for even typing the words ‘gamer gate.’ I have had stalkers and restraining orders issued in the past, I have had people show up on my doorstep when my personal information was hard to get.”
Minutes after she posted the note, an anonymous user left a comment beneath her post with information they claimed was her address and personal email. The entire comment section has since been removed.
Just to point out, doxxing involves highly personal social media, photos, bank accounts etc. Someone posted her home address and email which was already public domain and shown on various paparazzi and fan sites. This information was used by paparazzi to stalk...err obtain important photos of movie stars. This was questioned when it first happened because of the ease of discovery which she claimed was "hard to get". Others took a look and it was a fairly simple search at the time with her fan club at the front and personal details afterwards (now headlines fill up most of google). So it begs the question if this is really a doxx or is this like your parents going through your public facebook photos and calling it "hacking".
The actual "doxx":
http://i.imgur.com/bEH6r92.png
Day makes some awesome geek stuff. You could always tell that she's severely fragile in the emotional sense going off of past interviews and her writings about depression. But her blog post about this was a bit disturbing. I will continue to like the stuff she does at Geek and Sundry. But I'm hoping that it's just a literary mechanism used to emphasize distrust rather than something she actually did which would constitute a sensational amount of paranoia.
But for the first time maybe in my life, on that Saturday afternoon, I walked towards that pair of gamers and I didn’t smile. I didn’t say hello. In fact, I crossed the street so I wouldn’t walk by them.
New Details about Grayson and lack of disclosure
Also, as a side note, we've seen the Gawker media types regurgitate the mantra of "the relationship between Grayson and Quinn was debunked". Someone decided to take a closer look at the code since it was done in Twine which begs the question of why more people were needed to develop it. It turns out that Quinn gave special thanks to a number of people. One of those was Nathon Grayson. So now we're looking at the fact that Grayson helped the development of Depression Quest and would later go on to give it accolades or reviews in three separate game press articles without disclosure. So now we know they knew each other at least professionally looong before Grayson and Kotako admitted which makes anything they say on this even more suspect.
On top of it all, the Ian Miles Cheong from the Daily Beast, who has been doggedly following the exbf Gjoni and been a very vocal proponent of Quinn was also on the credits.
Original release on Moby Games
http://archive.today/LFrir
http://theralphretort.com/zoe-quinn-couldnt-have-made-depression-quest-without-grayson/
Grayson responds, claims he only did an early alpha. Forgets that he's admitting to have known Quinn almost a full year earlier than he admitted and to having a role, if even a small one, in the development of a game he would later cover for different media sites which he never disclosed. Again, his impartiality becomes suspect.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0k8hA8CQAA3hUl.jpg:large
haven't been following this topic closely for the last month or so ...
soooo ... after almost two months of #gamergate and "ethics in games journalism!" ... has anyone dug up juicy stuff with regards to video game publishers (EA, Activision, etc.) and their interaction with the gaming press? after all they aren't in the business for the ethics (or arguably for the games), but for the money ... so i expect quite a few "interesting things" to be dug up. and have there been already some campaigns to limit native advertising and "buying" favorable reviews by the video game industry?
or is #gamergate still in the phase of harassing women and people who disagree with them, while arguing about zoe quinn et al. at the same time as arguing that it's not about zoe quinn et al.?
Plenty of stuff has been dug up and rehashed already. Are you looking for something new? The Jeff Gerstmann had long ago been brought up and used as an example. Discussions on swag, paid events, promotionals and so on have been brought up criticized and moved on. Of course the "journalists" asked the same question when that criticism fell on them and mostly it was seen as an attempt to shift blame from the journalists to the publishers for daring to make those offers (also ignoring the fact that they took them). This is really an apples to oranges view and at best you can go after the PR companies as representatives. Again, this has been addressed but whether or not big publishers lay down ground rules is dependent more on whether the reviewers/journalists and their editors are willing to resist this or not. So we're back to journalists getting their crap together.
The Zoe Quinn affair is brought up regularly by the journalists as both the start and the only reason why GamerGate should exist. Then they'll go on to explain how that situation is debunked and GG exists for no reason. This is a central talking point. Hence why I have the long post above with details of the affair which invalidates their talking point. Other than this, she really doesn't matter although she's still very active and was recently given a soapbox on CNN as a subject matter expert on GG. Quinn will continue to be talked because the media will keep injecting her into the conversation (and she'll keep saying stupid things) until they can find something better. The same goes for Sarkeesian who just recently kicked the hornets nest after some very dumb tweets about recent school shooting (the bodies were literally still warm) which ticked off many far beyond GamerGate. The media eats it up.
Using Newsweeks own recent statistics.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B02uq38CEAAN2h0.jpg
i know what most of the media writes about #GG (and i'd certainly qualify as a "SJW" in your book ;) ) .. so no point in rehashing all these things - this discussion *is* boring and was already done ad nauseum in the last thread.
what i'm actually interested in is the new and interesting things that were brought up by #GG - just picking the keywords you gave me in your post it seems these things are even more of a fringe program than the mouthfrothing rage of #gamergate (http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23gamergate%20game%20spot%20OR%20%23 gamergate%20spike%20OR%20%23gamergate%20gerstmann% 20OR%20%23gamergate%20gamespot%20OR%20%23gamergate %20cnet&q2=%23gamergate%20social%20justice%20warrior%20OR% 20%23gamergate%20social%20justice%20warriors%20OR% 20%23gamergate%20SJW&q3=%23gamergate%20EA%20OR%20%23gamergate%20Electro nic%20Arts%20OR%20%23gamergate%20activision%20OR%2 0%23gamergate%20rock%20star&via=Topsy)
as you (and others) argue that #GG isn't about the things i mentioned before (namely: misogyny, harrassment, etc.) - which according you(?) is only a reaction to #GG-critics and made up by the media, it should be rather easy by now to provide a long list of blogs, vlogs etc. to discussions of misconduct that aren't part of this self-referential shitstorm.
i don't want to read the 47th rant why "death of the gamer" deserves the outrage and how only corrupted media would allow people like anita sarkeesian, leigh alexander, etc. to publish their opinions and positions (see above: SJW and everything ;) ).
i don't want to read the 98th exasperation of how females having sex, SJWs and feminists are "destroying video games".
i don't want to read the 3rd claim of victory for an ethical and independet games journalism by campaigning advertisers to retract ads from sites that have different positions/opinions than your own.
what i want to read is the reasonable and sensible things that came out of #GG (and i'm giving you here the benefit of the doubt that there's plenty of it) that actually tries to change how the video game industry interacts with the video game press. if it's old stuff being rehashed it's okay, but what i'm really interested in are the things that are genuine #GG stuff.
feel free to post links, articles, videos, anything ... because right now i haven't found any in this thread that don't fall into the things i mentioned already (and don't want to read for the 121st time)
if you want to see it this way: now you've got the chance to convince someone highly skeptical of the #GG "movement" that it's not all the hate and bile and ignorance that it displayed. ;)
F*** My Aunt Rita
A woman had sex. Neckbeards angered.
Is that a decent summary?
Some girl tried to make everything about her sex? Some neckbeards tried to make everything about her sex?
Devec
That would be a concise summary.
Seriously I always thought I was somewhat heavily involved in the gaming community, but after this whole shitstorm errupted I still have very little clue what is going on.
I think it has a lot to do with people of both sides relying on hearsay information and not listening to the opposition. Something which continues to polarize the entire "debate".
Melichor
Now BBC has an interview with zoe quinn. I guess she wasn't in the news enough
So any actual "games journalism activism" happened in the last few weeks? What's #gamergate doing?
Well last week mainstream media started picking up on this. This week David Pakman, for example, had interviews with Brianna Wu...
http://youtu.be/ETVcInunAss
...Milo Yiannopoulos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIMMCQyexA
...Jennie Bharaj..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwLyjcQ6SU
...and John Bain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaMccosnRMc&list=UUvixJtaXuNdMPUGdOPcY8Ag
TB also had a podcast thing with Kotaku's Steven Totilo about, indeed, journalistic ethics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmIrWqEUUU
Anita Sarkeesian was on the Colbert Report as well, but I haven't seen it because video data can't cross international borders for some reason.
EDIT: Of course, the "contact Gawker's advertisers" thing continues - there's a whole shitstorm there that I won't get into. It's also come out that, while Gawker condemns such activity as censorship, they have no objection to advertiser boycotts when directed at someone they disagree with (http://gawker.com/5359294/glenn-becks-ad-dollars-crater-in-wake-of-boycott).
Lall (and others), if you are interested in keeping up with the latest goings on, I recommend this subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/).
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http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/30/the-top-22-most-ridiculous-things-said-by-8channers-about-anita-sarkeesians-appearance-on-the-colbert-report/
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By the balls! But.. wait.. "they" don't have balls! The cheats!
https://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ggg5gang.png?w=604
I mean asking for money on kickstarter is basically a RICO violation isn't it?
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she has the power! The ritual is nearly complete. Only you can save mankind.
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Even on FHC if someone went that overboard we'd assume they were trolling.
https://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ggg31fearherlife.png?w=604
https://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ggg37alreadywon.png?w=604
So. 8chan at least has lost any grip on reality its members ever possesed, it's a mob talking in circles proclaiming victory ever more breathlessly even as they're forced to count more and more people as enemies. GG itself.. I have no idea. But the section that was banned from 4chan are living up to their reputation.
One last pic cos I find it funny.
http://d1o2xrel38nv1n.cloudfront.net/files/2014/10/replicantethics.png
Stephen Colbert on #gamergate, with Anna Sarkeesian interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fix2Bi0FShY
November 1 2014, 06:04:15 PM
David Pakman: Overnight, received many emails saying if I don't apologize for neutrality on #gamergate, I'm guilty of leading a hate mob against women (https://twitter.com/dpakman/status/528536369401171968)
Since the posters on FHC are(bafflingly) a lot more open to discussion, I thought I'd ask here: Those of you skeptical of or in opposition to GamerGate who saw the Pakman interviews, what is your opinion on them? Do you believe he was being unfair in one direction or another?
Not trying to bait anyone into an argument, just looking for a more nuanced opinion than 140 characters of namecalling. Seems like the latter is all Twitter is good for.
November 2 2014, 10:25:09 AM
Well, after looking at the Interviews I can certainly see where the sentiment comes from (though it's a far stretch to actually claim david is "leading the hate mob" or being unfair)
my arguments for this ...
the choice of interview partners: it's brianna vs milo + two pro-#GG people ... so you might say that in his choice of guests there's already a bias ... which isn't per se a problem in itself, if the interviews themselves are done critically. while david tries to do so, his execution of this idea falls short.
topics discussed: half of the interview with brianna is about things she (allegedly) did. while david tried to ask in a neutral tone, his questions and the setting were loaded. it's one thing to have personal interest in the reaction to threats and harassment, but it's a rather different thing to do so in the context of a public show - especially with the follow-up questions. at the same time this is not only a "technical" question but also a political one ("to take a stand"). she's a target of online harassment and to bring up questions that are "of interest" for his audience, which may or may not be overlapping with the perpetrators of said harassment is ... not smart.
if you want to start a neutral discussion about #GG, doing so by starting off with actions of an individual in a stress situation is NOT a good way.
the milo-response interview. well, what should i say? interviewing populists is always difficult for journalists (i have seen enough interviews on our national TV where the same thing happened). the classical argument of "oh, i AM a feminist! but there are too many feminazis around that should finally shut up about discrimination" to argue one owns position as "moderate". this IS a dishonest statement and it going unchallenged is problematic. milo did an excellent job on reframing his position as "middle ground" without david challenging this (e.g. the network graph argument - being "geographically" in the middle DOES NOT equate to being ideologically in the middle, it just means that you're controversial to both sides). the rest of the show then becomes a "neutral view on the misconduct of brianna wu" ... well, as mentioned before, at best you end up in a "he said, she said"-situation, at worst you're washing other peoples (not even necessarily dirty) laundry. not a good start for a "neutral" debate on #GG.
i'd assume that most of the critique aimed at david stems from those two interviews and his nonchalance in some remarks where he seems surprised that questions in neutral tone aren't necessarily neutral questions.
with jennie and TB it becomes a bit more interesting as these aren't aimed at actions of individuals but "philosophical positions".
after watching jennies other videos on the topic of game culture and her short bits an games in academia i have to say i'm not exactly impressed by her arguments, e.g. "voice for the voiceless - the customers", the reliance on journalists to "speak for them"(sic!) as an argument for #GG. TB brings up the problem that sites like metacritic have too much influence and therefore game reviews shouldn't touch socio-political issues and only report on the "technical" aspects of games is rather ... dumb. questioning the power of specific mechanisms in the games industry is great - i fully support this. but to bring this up as an argument why game reviews have to be more similar to reviews for a vacuum cleaner than to a review of a movie, book or any other cultural artifact is at best short sighted, at worst idiotic. to go from "aggregate scoring is implemented badly and used wrongly" to "politics and cultural studies don't have a place in gaming journalism" is highly problematic - esp. considering the campaign to target advertisers for being "slighted".
the problem i got with david's "neutrality" is, that he doesn't ask the critical questions required to bring the discussion actually to a neutral place, but uses a tame and conforming way of questioning that *sounds* neutral but doesn't touch the consistency of the arguments.
if TB's argument is the problematic aggregate scoring, the next question should actually be: "why then spend time arguing about politics in game reviews when the more relevant question should be: how can we topple aggregate scoring - ESPECIALLY if it's used in idiotic ways?"
if the argument is that current games journalism doesn't speak for the consumer: "why does games journalism in general has to speak for the consumer? isn't this the role of consumer advocacy groups?" and "do we really need another IGN and gamespot?"
November 14 2014, 01:31:53 AM
I know this isn't very serious, but I like this image for its confused thematics.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2XNWIkIEAARx79.jpg
The art is the #58th by Alejandro Argandona in a series of the people involved in GamerGate. Blue is pro, red is anti, grey is neutral. Other than his twitter there isn't a single depository so you'll have to google his name for more.
For those wonder what it means.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dorito-pope
When Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime came out against "a very small group of anonymous trolls" who are giving gamers a bad name with harassment and hate at Blizzcon Keighley tried to make it about GamerGate (still largest trending topic on twitter) during a livestream leaving Morhaime in a lose/lose awkward position (the wtf expression on his face during this the whole thing made you feel for the guy). Since then Morhaime has refused to comment on the livestream event or clarify himself further. People were shocked that Keighley not only tried to pull this, but that he later plugged his own games awards show during Blizzcon. This coming from the guy who helped produced the cringe worthy VGX awards show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OGexjaP1U
Thanks for the source.
And yes. The "Macedonian nod" theory. in the interest of providing balance in this serious thread I will say that many people do actually believe it was about the anonymous death and rape threats directed against women in the game industry. The women gators keep talking about so much they invented shorter codewords for them.
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Finnish game developer Frozenbyte is pleased to announce that the Steam version of Trine 2 will support cross-platform multiplayer between PC and Mac thanks to Steam Play. Thecurrently ongoing Trine 2 Beta has been made available for the Mac, making cross-platform multiplayer availableright now for gamers who have pre-purchased Trine 2.
In addition to the Mac version, the two-level PC beta now also supports NVIDIA 3D Vision. The stereoscopicmode is enabled automatically upon launch of the game.
Trine 2 is available for pre-purchase now on Steam and other channels, including GamersGate and soonDirect2Drive. The regular edition is priced at $14.99/12.99 euros/11.99 pounds. The Collector’s Edition isavailable for $24.99/19.99 euros/17.99 pounds. The Collector’s Edition includes a digital artbook with developercommentary and the original soundtrack by the acclaimed composer Ari Pulkkinen. All versions use Steamworksfor easy multiplayer, Achievements and Steam Cloud. A DRM free version of Trine 2 is coming in 2012.
Focus Home Interactive is releasing the retail, physical copy of the Trine 2 Collector’s Edition in Europe, whichwill include the beautiful physical artbook and the digital version of the soundtrack.
Trine 2 will be released later in 2011 on Steam for PC and Mac, in the Mac App Store for Mac, for PC and Mac inEuropean retail, Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, andPlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and later for Linux and otherplatforms.
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In-depth review of Kemetic ritual by Inner Journey of Los Gatos, CA
This review of a Genocide Prevention Ritual was sent to me, and I just had to share it immediately. I hope you find it as inspirational as I did. This ritual was performed in Los Gatos, California, by a group called Inner Journey.
A Kemetic Genocide Prevention Ritual
The ritual began with a more traditional blessing and creation of sacred space. Being Kemetic, the primary deities were Isis and Osiris (with Nephthys also present and placed behind Isis, initially, on the altar).
There was then some work done around personal growth beginning to take place in the attendees' personal lives, what actions are needed to cultivate that growth, and how they envision that growth coming to full ripeness and fruition in their lives.
This was then followed with a second portion of the ritual dedicated to the Genocide Prevention theme.
Once this was done, a smaller altar was set up in front of the main altar. Covered in a black cloth, Nephthys was brought forth to sit in the centre with a black candle to her left and right, and a white candle in front of her. Behind her was a vase of all yellow gerber daisies. Behind and above that, I had moved forward to "oversee" this portion the image of Osiris.
Using your three part structure, I had Remembrance, Awaken and Action sections.
In the first section, We Remember, I spoke of the six past events that are to be commemorated in April, including total numbers of dead that they represent as well as specific numbers for each. Following this, as the group continually chanted softly, "We Remember...We Remember...We Remember," they one by one came up and took a stone from a basket then placed it in front of the altar to create a symbolic grave for all those who have died at the hands of perpetrators of genocide. The black candle to the left of Nephthys was lit : We light this candle in remembrance of those fallen and taken from this life at the hands of others. May this flame serve as a reminder that the light of their soul never has been and never shall be extinguished, for the light of the soul shines through eternity.
For the second section, We Awaken, I had distributed pieces of paper to each attendee. One at a time, a person would stand (and remain standing) to read : I stand here today to give witness and to give voice to those who suffer from oppression and the threat of death in the country of [name of country]. These were the names of places where there are atrocities being committed today. In recognition of those who were not named, all attendees not already standing were asked to stand and repeat after me : We stand here today to bear witness and to give voice to all those who suffer from oppression and the threat of death Anywhere and Everywhere in the World. Me : So Say We All Attendees : So Say We All. The black candle to the right of Nephthys was lit : We light this candle as a reminder of the atrocities and acts of genocide that continue to take place around the world. May this flame continue to burn brightly and shed light into those areas of darkness and despair. May this flame continue to burn brightly and not let those affected suffer in silence. May this flame continue to burn brightly and fill the hearts of the perpetrators to enlighten them and guide them towards the path of love and what is right.
The third portion, We Act, I explained : The flowers here are of a single kind, like a single race of people, a single ethnicity, a single religious group, a single minority. Ancient Egyptians considered that no unexpressed thought had any reality. What made something real was its expression and transmission via the word, through symbol, by an act. Therefore, we shall create the reality of our commitment to continue to fight and overcome such acts of atrocity and genocide as we have given witness to here tonight. The attendees continually chanted quietly, "Never Again...Never Again...Never Again" as I held the vase of daisies over the grave and, one at a time, cut off the flowers and let them fall onto the grave stones. The white candle in front of Nephthys was lit : We light this candle to symbolise our will and courage to speak out and never let this happen again. May its flame burn bright as a beacon to lead out of the darkness. May its flame burn bright fuel our courage and passion to challenge, overcome an dbring to justice those who would commit such atrocities upon their fellow humans. May its flame burn bright until we have created a world in which its flame is needed no more. At this time, a friend of mine came forward to stand at the altar. As she sang Amazing Grace, the attendees, one at a time, came up and took flowers from the cauldron full of spring flowers used in the first portion, and laid them on and around the grave. Once finished, the singer completed her song and then...silence. We sat in a few minutes of silence in contemplation of Osiris illuminated by candlelight in front of his image, the vase of only flower stems in front of him, Nephthys illuminated by the three candles in front of the vase, the grave covered in flowers at her feet.
This portion of the ritual was closed with the following : As we leave here tonight, let it be known, let it be said and let it be heard that for now and for always, We Remember, that We Awaken the world and give voice to those who suffer today, and We Act so that Never Again becomes a reality absolute. Me : So Say We All. Attendees : So Say We All. Me : So Say We All. Attendees : So Say We All. Me : So Say We All. Attendees : So Say We All.
The owner of the store and her husband are taking a group of people to Tibet in April. We support approx 250 Buddhist nuns there through various fundraising efforts and, over the past 10 years or so, have helped them to build a road, put in water systems, buy a car, as well as smaller things. I offered the attendees, as one way of taking action, to make a donation, if the so desired, to the nuns that would be taken to them in April.
I don't know if this is what you (or the group promoting this) had in mind, but this is what grew out of the inspiration your ritual packet gave to me. Again, thank you for offering that and helping to promote this.
The day after the ritual, I took the stones and flowers of the grave and drove up to a spot that overlooks the area here. I reassembled the grave and lay the flowers on and around it, writing on the top stone,
No One Shall Suffer in Silence
to represent the three sections. I placed it at a curve in the road where people driving by would also see it as a way of those for whom this grave served as a symbol and reminder, their deaths/suffering was not done without witness.
April is here!
April has begun. After the April Fool's fun subsides, it's time to put some energy toward Genocide Prevention Month. Now's the time to do a solitary or group ritual to raise awareness and funds. Be sure to register your event on this web site, and afterward don't forget to tell us how it went!
April also happens to be National Poetry Month and Heifer International's Pass on the Gift Month. These synchronicities may lend a special inspiration!
GPR featured on blog of author Gus diZerega!
The GPR has been featured on the Beliefnet blog of pagan author Gus diZerega!
diZerega is known for his forward-looking work in interfaith and Pagan-Christian relations. See his books Pagans and Christians and Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue. His blog is called A Pagan's Blog, the only pagan blog on Beliefnet.
GPR example ritual script for ADF now available!
Below is one example of incorporating the Genocide Prevention Ritual into a faith tradition's liturgy. Members of other faith traditions should feel free to look at this for inspiration, then incorporate the GPR into their own tradition's liturgical or celebratory style.
a_genocide_prevention_ritual_adf_script.pdf
New GPR youtube video!
Another GPR youtube video is now playing! This one is more artistic...
Video credits
music: Stundenbuch No. 19, by Hans Otte
GPR falling flowers (multiple images), by Brandon Newberg
Holocaust prisoners, by 4lexandre
L1030396, by La Xtina
Tuol Sleng Genocide Center, by Visualcuriosity
Mug Shots, by La Xtina
Witnesses, by MLarson
Church Genocide Memorial 4, by the Dilly Lama
Red girl in the feeding center, by Wanderingzito
arrangement: Brandon Newberg
GPR plugged on authors' blogs!
We are ecstatic to have had the GPR plugged this week by authors Brendan Myers and H. Jeremiah Lewis, as well as Erik Dutton (Executive Pagan), and Annyikha (Kallisti: An Apple in Pandemonium).
Complete Organizer's Packet now available!
The organizer's packet is now available! It has everything to help you on your way. In this free packet, you'll find:
* Step by Step ritual planning guide
* GPR Event poster
* Worthy Charities flyer
* 10 Things You Can Do flyer
To download the packet, click below.
gpr_complete_organizers_packet.pdf
The Genocide Prevention Ritual video on Youtube!
Please spread the word by embedding or linking to this video on your blog, journal, or web site! Share freely!
The Book of Sounds Part 1, by Hans Otte
photographs (in order of appearance):
Flowers in a Khmer Rouge jail cell, by Alex.ch
Flowers on the bedspread of a Khmer Rouge jail cell, by Alex.ch
Nyamata Genocide Memorial Church, by D_Proffer
The History of Armenia: The Armenian Genocide, by Clinton Steeds
Destruction in Sarajevo, Winter 1998, by N_Creatures
Holocaust Exhibit, by Ed Bierman
FL-Holocaust 2, by Praziquantel
1-800-GENOCIDE, by D.C.Attie
There's always hope in our hearts, by Lil'bear
Love does not discriminate, by Lil'bear
Tent at encampment for Darfur, by Futureatlas.com
Darfur 'Stop Genocide', by Futureatlas.com
'Humanitarian assistance' painting, by Futureatlas.com
Lily pads, by Umjanedoan
White water-lily (Nymphaea Alba), by Rictor Norton and David Allen
Water lilies, by Faeryboots
Water lily, by ConspiracyofHappiness
video arrangement:
Brandon Newberg
ANNOUNCING: GPR to be performed at Trillium festival!
We are pleased to announce the GPR will be performed at the 2009 ADF Trillium gathering. This festival is scheduled for April 16-19th at the TLC Campground in western Virginia. See the web site for specifics of time and place.
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Royal Mail is to blame for our broken society (obviously)
21/10/09 in The Independent
Mark Steel
We can already see the 'modernisation' the Government wants from posties
"The Post office unions can't obstruct modernisation," insists Peter Mandelson. That must be why Mandelson has the thoroughly modern job title of Lord, because he's not afraid to modernise. And no one could accuse his place of work, the House of Lords, of resisting modernisation. Every member of staff is at the cutting edge of new technology, making use of the very latest developments in ermine gowns, and overmanning is unheard of as every single Lord is essential and oozes infectious youthful hereditary energy for the benefit of Britain.
If only the Post Office unions would agree to being that modern, then their sacks would be carried by equerries, and attendance would be around 5 per cent of the workforce, who would take it in turns to stand up with a parcel, shake it for a couple of minutes, then say "Am I delivering this or receiving it, I don't recall?" and sit down again.
Presumably, what is meant by "modernise" is privatised. Then, as they're delivering your mail postmen can say "Would you like a pastry with your bills this morning? No? In that case are you aware I could also supply you with gas?" And each postman could get sponsorship, and cycle along whistling 'You can't get quicker than a Kwik Fit fitter'. Eventually they'll be properly modern, like the water companies who were fined £12m for providing a dreadful service and lying to cover it up, or the hugely popular gas companies.
We can already see the types of modernisation the Government would like to apply. For example they got rid of that antiquated system in rural areas where the elderly would queue in a ramshackle old Post Office for their pension, by shutting the things down. And in a marvellous example of joined-up government, soon the elderly won't be any worse off because their pensions will be scrapped anyway, saving them a walk, and encouraging them to modernise because it's no good wandering about being 82 in a modern environment.
So the management at Royal Mail, and the Government, want to cut jobs, freeze pay and change the working conditions for the staff, which has led to the current strikes. And that means certain papers are already exploding with stories that start "Britain's 103-year-olds are to be targeted by callous striking union members. 'Christmas cards are all I have to live for', said Ethel Dibbet from her nursing home, 'But this year I suppose I'll have to go without, what with them blooming selfish postmen with their unrealistic demands and obstinate Luddite refusal to ruddy well modernise'."
The Times had a headline telling us the strike would "Lose £100m in revenues" for the Government, which seems a lot until they explain this is because they'll have to waive the £100 fine for late tax returns, that could have been imposed on a million people. But surely The Times, and David Cameron, should be delighted about this, praising the union for helping to stamp out the red tape that holds back business.
You can see why there's such enthusiasm for taking on the post unions, because these are the people whose excess has got us into such a financial mess. Ask anyone "Whose greed caused the economic crash"? and they'll say "Investment postmen, they're the bastards." And we've all heard tales of them gloating down the sorting office, about how they'd just finished Gresham Street when they heard about the run on the futures market in Hong Kong, nipped down the stock market on their bicycle, did three dings on their bell to signal "sell" to the traders, picked up £10m and nipped back just in time to finish Parsley Avenue.
There is one other possibility, which is the Royal Mail management and the Government are trying to break the union altogether, which would explain why they've drawn up plans to impose the changes without the union's agreement, leaving the management free to impose whatever sackings or pay cuts they fancied at any time. And to be fair, you can see why the head of Royal Mail, Adam Crozier, might consider a union unnecessary, as he managed to get himself a deal worth £9m over six years without one.
It might also explain their aggressive stance, which has gone as far as cancelling their annual anti-bullying week, although one-third of staff say they've witnessed bullying managers. Or maybe Mandelson has insisted the management modernises bullying, so instead of calling staff in to be told they're slow and useless, they'll now be told they're fat ugly pigs on Twitter.
And if Royal Mail get their way, we could find the local sorting office turned into modern themed apartments, and we'll have to collect all of our parcels from a centralised modern digital automated package centre in a retail park in Bangalore.
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Mixed Use Zones - General
The Mixed-Use (MU) zones provide for mixed-use developments that permit a broad range of commercial, institutional, and multi-family residential development at varying densities.
The MU zones are designed to provide facilities for housing, shopping, and business needs, including residential, office, service, and employment centers.
In addition to the purpose statements of individual chapters, the purposes of the MU zones are to:
Provide for the orderly development and use of land and structures in the MU zones, characterized by a mixture of land uses;
Provide for a varied mix of residential, employment, retail, service, and other related uses at appropriate densities and scale throughout the city;
Reflect a variety of building types, including, but not limited to, shop-front buildings which may include a vertical mixture of residential and non-residential uses, buildings made up entirely of residential uses, and buildings made up entirely of non-residential uses;
Encourage safe and efficient conditions for pedestrian and motor vehicle movement;
Ensure that infill development is compatible with the prevailing development pattern within the zone and surrounding areas; and
Preserve and enhance existing commercial nodes and surroundings by providing an appropriate scale of development and range of shopping and service opportunities;
Ensure that buildings and developments around fixed rail stations, transit hubs and streetcar lines are oriented to support active use of public transportation and safety of public spaces.
In the MU zones, buildings may be entirely residential, or may be a mixture of non-residential and residential uses.
The development standards are intended to:
Control the bulk or volume of structures, including height, FAR, and lot occupancy;
Control the location of building bulk in relation to adjacent lots and streets, by regulating rear setbacks, side setbacks, and the relationship of buildings to street lot lines;
Regulate the mixture of uses; and
Ensure the environmental performance of development.
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The purposes of the Walter Reed (WR) zones (WR-1 through WR-8) are to:
Provide for the growth of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus with a broad mix of uses, achieved through the adaptive reuse of existing buildings as well as new construction, as generally indicated in the Comprehensive Plan and as recommended by the planning studies of the area;
Preserve the unique historic architectural and landscape character of the Walter Reed campus as a resource for the adjacent neighborhoods and the District as a whole;
Reweave the Walter Reed campus into the physical and social fabric of the adjacent neighborhoods by extending the existing street grid into the WR zone;
Create a vibrant town center that will provide economic development, employment, and retail opportunities for the District and adjacent neighborhoods;
Advance sustainability performance with green building techniques and promote innovative energy uses and stormwater management; and
Accommodate selected uses pursuant to a Base Realignment and Closure Act Notice of Interest process.
The WR zone is divided into the WR-1 through the WR-8 zones. Each zone may have 1 or more sub-areas, as identified in the Development Standards table for each zone. Each sub-area may be comprised of 1 or more Land Bays. Land Bays are defined on the plat attached to Z.C. Order No. 14-22.
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Hann-Ocean Energy Pte. Ltd. is scheduled to perform a feasibility study for the application of wave energy to power offshore O&G platforms in the Arabian Sea.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) codes are to be employed in analysing the results of the study, which includes a global environmental load analysis and a power-production assessment. To calibrate these codes, Hann-Ocean is set to perform a full-scale prototype test of Drakoo Wave Energy Converter (Model No. Drakoo-B0015) for measuring parameters such as power output and reaction forces.
DNV GL - Maritime, a world leader in providing consistent, integrated advisory services in technical and marine assurance, risk management and offshore classification to the global oil and gas and energy industries, has been invited by Hann-Ocean to review and witness the prototype test of Drakoo WEC.
In addition to serving as the key witness for the prototype test, DNV GL signed a contract with Hann-Ocean Energy on July 2nd, 2018 to provide comprehensive advisory services including review of reports pertaining to applied methodology, load test procedures and results and performance of the Drakoo WEC.
The signing of this contract marks a significant milestone in Hann-Ocean’s wave technology development trajectory, with Drakoo being the first Wave Energy Converter to be endorsed by DNV GL, offering it the potential for unparalleled growth in the WEC market.
Henry Han Lei, Managing Director of Hann-Ocean Energy Pte Ltd expressed his approval with the following statement – “We are excited and appreciate the support extended by DNV GL and China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC) in helping usher Hann-Ocean group into the oil and gas market.”
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It is when we detect our own weaknesses that we come to pity or despise mankind. The human nature from which we then turn away is the human nature we have discovered in the depths of our own being. The evil is so well screened, the secret so universally kept, that in this case each individual is the dupe of all: however severely we may profess to judge other men, at bottom we think them better than ourselves. On this happy illusion much of our social life is grounded.
Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson
Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe; we should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in selfish enjoyment. But we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human life, of the solitary cottage, the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
Hugh Blair
The prevailing manners of an age depend, more than we are aware of, or are willing to allow, on the conduct of the women: this is one of the principal things on which the great machine of human society turns.
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Frank Borman, fully Frank Frederick Borman, II
Part of human nature resents change, loves equilibrium, while another part welcomes novelty, loves the excitement of disequilibrium. There is no formula for the resolution of this tug-of-war, but it is obvious that absolute surrender to either of them invites disaster.
Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
Robert Briffault, fully Robert Stephen Briffault
All the sin that has darkened human life an saddened human history began in believing in a falsehood.
John Albert Broadus
The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
Heywood Broun, fully Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
Do good. This should be the aim of every human being, to make the world better for their having lived.
Eldress Harriet Bullard
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
One of the saddest experiences which can ever come to a human being is to awaken, gray-haired and wrinkled near the close of an unproductive career, to the fact that all through the years he has been using only a small part of himself!
V. W. Burrows
One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is to suppose that other men's opinions are to make us happy.
Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton
Learn to laugh. And most of all, learn to laugh at yourself. The person who can give a riotous account of his own faux pas, will never have to listen to another's embarrassing account of it. He will rarely know the sting of humiliation. His a delight to be with, but more important, he is enjoying his own life, and applying to his ills and errors the most soothing balm the human spirit has devised - laughter.
Margaret M. Butts
The fairest action of our human life is scorning to revenge an injury; for who forgives without a further strife, his adversary’s heart to him doth tie: and ‘tis a firmer conquest, truly said, to win the heart than overthrow the head.
Elizabeth Carew, Lady Carew, formerly Lady Elizabeth Bryan
The human heart is a mirror of the things that are near and far.
Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. It is a business with men as they are, and with human life as drawn by the rough hand of experience. It is a duty which you must perform at the call of principle; though there be no voice of eloquence to give splendor to your exertions, and no music of poetry to lead your willing footsteps through the bowers of enchantment. It is not the impulse of high and ecstatic emotion. It is an exertion of principle. :You must go to the poor man’s cottage, though no verdure flourish around it, the gentleness of its murmurs. If you look for the romantic simplicity of fiction you will be disappointed; but it is your duty to persevere in spite of every discouragement. Benevolence is not merely a feeling but a principle; not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but a business for the hand to execute.
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system, a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include al the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities, and indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.
JK Rowling, formally Joanne "Jo" Rowling
Lewis Carroll, pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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Lil Wayne – Used 2 [Free Mp3 and Mp4 Download]
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MUSIC: Lil Wayne – Used 2 [Free Mp3 Download]
It actually took Lil Wayne seven solid years to come through with his newest album which is named Carter V. But be that as it may, the album finally dropped some hours ago and it will also be a mark for Lil Wayne’s 36th birthday. The album which is filled with a grand total of 23 songs has some appearances from singers like XXXTentacion, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Ashanti, etc.
The album successfully gathered enough hype before it was actually dropped, yesterday, it was rumored that XXXTentacion and Post Malone will be available on the album, and when it dropped, we could only see X’s name but not Post’s. The album indeed is a nice one and for surety, its headed to the tops.
From the Lil Wayne’s Carter V album, we have a brand new song which is named Used 2, the 22nd track from the album project. In case you missed, you may choose to download Lil Wayne’s Carter V album free zip here. Check below to download Lil Wayne’s new song named “Used 2” Free Mp3.
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Bay Area Guide: Five Places to Celebrate Graduation
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End of Black History Month calls supporters for London Breed
Published on : March 1, 2018 March 1, 2018 Published by : Darrin Baluyot
Hip-hop dancers from Culture Shock Oakland filled the grand rotunda of City Hall Wednesday night, with lively performances closing the final night of Black History Month in San Francisco.
The Black History Month Cultural Experience event, hosted by Board of Supervisors President London Breed and fellow supervisor Malia Cohen on the night of Feb. 28, invited a number of small businesses from San Francisco and across the Bay Area to gather as a single community held together in their celebration of African American culture and cuisine.
Kim Sims-Battiste, the creative executive director for Culture Shock Oakland, a non-profit hip-hop dance organization, spoke about her support for community bonding events, especially when it comes to her dancers, many of them young children.
One such influential member that Battiste and many others in attendance spoke highly of was Supervisor Breed, a leading candidate in the San Francisco mayoral election.
“London Breed gets the job done … She believes in the people that support her and being out in the community to make it stronger,” Battiste said. “As black women in the Bay Area, we must stay in the forefront and Breed is the woman for the job. We need more leaders like that especially with number 45 [Trump] in office.”
Earlier in January, Breed was forced to step down from her position as San Francisco’s acting mayor. In a controversial move, Breed’s peers in the board of supervisors voted in Mark Farrell to fulfill the late Ed Lee’s remaining term.
“I think it’s a thing of pettiness,” Battiste said regarding the board’s actions, “They’re trying to find something against this woman because she is a strong face in San Francisco … She knows she is going to run into obstacles like this, but that doesn’t stop her from getting up each morning and doing what she does.”
Yvonne Hines of Yvonne’s Southern Sweets was another small business woman there supporting Breed’s candidacy. She along with six other restaurants were present in serving free food at the event.
“I believe she will be a good fit as a mayor,” Hines said, “She looks out for the middle class and people that are less fortunate. She is focused on the city’s issues regarding homelessness and housing — things that are affecting people like us as a whole and not just people higher in the tax bracket.”
Hines also credits some of her business success to partnerships with the city, including SF Shines, a program created under the late Ed Lee that helped many small businesses across the City improve their storefronts.
For Hines, events like this that gather like-minded people together is the best for her business.
“I look forward to this event every year,” Hines said, “I can showcase my sweets to my community and to people that either grew up in the South or have traveled there and miss their grandmother’s cooking.”
“Whether its Black History Month or Chinese New Year, whoever and whatever we are celebrating in San Francisco it should be welcomed and enjoyed as a great time like we did tonight,” said Gerry Dove, the owner of Purple Cherry Productions.
Dove is one of the programs coordinator in charge of all the talent that performed during the night, including Battiste’s dance troupe.
For Battiste, showcasing the troupe’s work in front of city executives and officials, many of whom are also black, is essential for the young dancers.
“Furthering the opportunities for my kids to be able to perform is my main goal. I want to be able to put them in front of people that will be influential in their upbringing, learning and discipline,” Battiste said.
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Crazy Dragon Slot Machine Game Review
This slot machine is a classic game based on the legendary Chinese dragon. So, for those who are fond the Chinese New Year and Chinese legends, you can relate quite well this classic game.
Design and Gameplay of Crazy Dragon Slot Game
The game’s presentation is impressive in delivering the retro looks of an old type slot machine. The slot machine on the game has a classic shiny metal frame and square-shaped buttons for betting and spinning purposes. The game even has a metal level, although not animated, that adds up to the classic beauty of the presentation package.
Before you can start playing the game, you must buy your chips first, just like in the real casino, in the denominations of $5, $25, or $100. These amounts will be used to place your bets before you spin. You will have the option to choose from 1, 2, or 3 coins to bet in a single spin and each coin has a fixed amount of $1.
Just below the main screen, you will see three buttons labeled as “CASH OUT”, “BET ONE”, “SPIN REEL”, and “PLAY 3 CREDITS”. The BET ONE button is the button designated to allow you to bet in values of 1 coin (if you want to bet just one coin, press this button once. If you wish for 2 coins, press this twice). The PLAY 3 CREDITS on the other hand gives you a single click option for betting 3 coins instantly. And for the CASH OUT button, this will send you back all your unused credits if you suddenly wished to stop playing Crazy Dragon Slot Machine Game. Once the bets are all in, you may now click the SPIN REEL button to start spinning the reels and wait for your winning combination to appear.
The symbols in the game are all Chinese dragon-themed and they include the Firecracker, the Yin-Yang, the Bonsai Tree, and the Pagoda. The other symbol is the dragon which is divided into three parts (three reels) and when hit, will give you big prizes! Each of these symbols corresponds to specific payout amounts with the Dragon giving you your best chance of getting more wins. The Dragon is divided among the three reels and can only be formed back when the first reel takes the head, the second reel takes the torso, and the last reel gets the tail. Hitting all of these parts at once can give you 20 free spins! But don’t worry, if you only get the head on the first reel, you will still get 2 free spins. If you get both the head and the torso, you will receive 5 free spins. The free spins can only be activated when you bet maximum in a spin.
The Crazy Dragon slot machine game has a Progressive Jackpot installed. Unlike any other video slot machine games, the Progressive Jackpot included in this game is not won in random so you don’t have to compete with tons of players also waiting to be chosen randomly for the jackpot. What this game did for the Progressive Jackpot is that it can be won by hitting a certain number of wins. When you hit 100 free spins in a single bet, you get to win the Progressive Jackpot prize. In this case, you have to win 20 free spins five times. This may seem very unfeasible but it actually adds up to the excitement because the jackpot is progressive, meaning, it grows every now and then. And with the fact that it’s a bit harder to achieve, many players also experience the same struggle, prolonging the chance of winning, making the prize much bigger! So if you can be the lucky one to hit the jackpot, you will certainly deserve it and just imagine how much the prize is.
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Langstone Cottage
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Langstone Cottage, Tavistock, Dartmoor National Park
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Why stay in this location and cottage?
Scroll through the photo gallery to see images of what you can do around Langstone Cottage. Zoom in on the 'Satellite' setting of the accompanying Google map to see its location.
To help you choose Langstone Cottage for its location, we've listed some of the local attractions below. Cherry pick for a short break. Try to visit all if you're on holiday in Dartmoor.
Dartmoor's tors
Langstone Cottage is located by some of Dartmoor National Park's most dramatic tors. Pew Tor is a short walk away. Great Staple Tor and Great Mis Tor are unmissable.
Dartmoor's prehistory
The B3357 cuts across the National Park. Just up this road from Langstone Cottage is Merrivale. This is internationally famous for its prehistoric attractions. Once you've seen the stone rows, circle and standing stone, head to Princetown National Park Visitor Centre to learn about Dartmoor's prehistory. If this is of interest, we'd also recommend visiting Postbridge National Park Visitor Centre.
Mountain biking on Dartmoor. Hire bikes in Princetown and enjoy one of the National Park's 'Granite and Gears' routes. There's the old Princetown Railway route or the more demanding Princetown and Burrator route.
Burrator Reservoir
Burrator is a stunning reservoir surrounded by impressive tors. Walk around the reservoir and yomp to the top of Sheeps Tor, Leather Tor and Sharpitor.
Tavistock is just west of Langstone Cottage. In additon to being a thriving Dartmoor gateway town packed with shops and places to eat and drink, it's also part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site relating to the Westcountry mining heritage. There are a tiny number of these globally important sites in the UK. Also look out for Tavistock Abbey ruins and the statue of Sir Francis Drake who was born on the outskirts of the town.
Drake's Trail
There's a fantastic multi-use trail named after Drake that runs between Tavistock and Plymouth. Bring your bikes and cycle Drake's Trail.
When famous and rich, Drake bought Buckland Abbey which is now managed by the National Trust.
Other National Trust properties in the area include Lydford Gorge and Saltram House.
In addition to these National Trust properties, visit English Heritage's Lydford Castle and Okehampton Castle.
The heart of Dartmoor National Park
Because Langstone Cottage is situated near the B3357, it's easy to drive or cycle into the heart of Dartmoor National Park. See the Postbridge Clapper Bridge and wander to the top of Bellever Tor which is known for its fantastic views.
Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Plymouth and Cornwall
From Tavistock, major roads lead to the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Plymouth and Cornwall.
They say: 'Beautifully located in the delightful, mature grounds of a sheltered wooded valley, Langstone Manor sits on the favoured south-west edge of Dartmoor. Perfect for those wishing to escape and explore the natural beauty and abundant activities of the moorland. A superb touring base, close to the bustling town of Tavistock, Dartmoor, Devon and Cornwall are all within easy reach. Spacious and comfortable cottage with two double one queen size and one twin. Dishwasher. Centrally heated. Garden with furniture and barbecue.' View availability and read more.
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FROM THE NORTH:
Follow I-81 south to US Rt. 6 east, just outside of Scranton, PA. Follow US Rt. 6 east right into Honesdale. Turn right onto Main Street by the Hotel Wayne.
Follow I-88 west to Exit 9 in Sidney, NY. Turn left off the ramp onto NY Rt. 8 south and follow that road to Deposit, NY. At the end of Rt. 8 turn left onto Rt.17 east toward New York City. Go about 11 miles and take the Hancock, NY exit. Turn left off the ramp, then turn right just before the NAPA Auto Parts store. Follow that road around to the left and make the next right turn across the railroad tracks. After crossing the tracks, keep going straight and cross the bridge into Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Once you cross into Pennsylvania the road you’re on becomes PA Rt. 191 south. Follow PA Rt. 191 right into Honesdale. Continue straight onto Main Street.
Turn left onto 9th Street, and then another left onto Church Street. Central Park will be to your right.
Make your way to US RT 6 west toward Honesdale. A short distance after you pass Dave’s Super Duper, turn right after you cross the bridge, following the signs toward US Rt. 6 west and Rt. 191 north through Honesdale. You’ll be traveling north on Church Street. Central Park will be on your right, between 9th Street and 10th Street.
Follow Rt. 191 north into Honesdale. Turn left onto Church Street, just before the bridge. You’ll be traveling north on Church Street. Central Park will be on your right, between 9th Street and 10th Street.
Follow Rt. 652 west to the end and turn right onto US RT 6 west toward Honesdale. A short distance after you pass Dave’s Super Duper, turn right after you cross the bridge, following the signs toward US Rt. 6 west and Rt. 191 north through Honesdale. You’ll be traveling north on Church Street. Central Park will be on your right, between 9th Street and 10th Street.
Follow I-84 east to Exit 30 in Pennsylvania at Blooming Grove. Turn Right onto Rt. 402 north and follow it to the end. Turn left onto US RT 6 west toward Honesdale, which you’ll follow for about 15 miles. Just past Dave’s Super Duper, turn right after you cross the bridge, following the signs for US Rt. 6 west and Rt. 191 north through Honesdale. You’ll be traveling north on Church Street. Central Park will be on your right, between 9th Street and 10th Street.
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Follow US Rt. 6 east right into Honesdale. Turn right onto Main Street by the Hotel Wayne. From Main Street, turn left onto 9th Street, and then another left onto Church Street. Central Park will be to your right.
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HPU: RGV: Radient Gardens Vineyard
Hotep the psychic
Location: I dont know
As a time and place of well being and peace. The town settled upon another day of its continuous flow of life. The people exited there homes and left for there own matters or business, the pets and familys spent time together and everything seems normal.
"GOOOOOOOD MORNING RADIENT VINEYARDS! I am johnny Castelloso live for channel 3 weather report......" the tv droned in a shop. A black figure moved about quickley and with purpose while putting objects into shelves and checking off a list. people went to a nearby cash register to purchase items of food and toys or just talked to each other non chalauntly.
the figure moved outside and looked around after taking a deep breath the tail swaying happily in a slow rythem, she sighed before looking towards the neighborhoods and towards the day itself.
"Ah......its gonna be a wonderful day." horus said with a small giggle
DRAGON EGGS!!! Click them!
Location: I've Forgotten At This Point
Re: RGV: Radient Gardens Vineyard
Yensid picked through the potions on the wall, blowing a raspberry as he went through them all. He already had a potion balanced on his head and shoulder. He reached up and took the potion off his head as his ears began to spin rapidly. Lifting into the air, Yensid continued his search.
Unknown to him, Retlaw was throwing the very potion he needed into the air again and again. The enlarged mouse watched his rabbit boyfriend fly back and forth multiple times before landing and rubbing his ears. Retlaw walked over, the potion behind his back.
"Gosh, you look knackered."
"Well, without a potion I can't find, my mixture is all pear-shape."
Retlaw tossed the potion the Yensid, who yelped and flailed, pushing the bottle out of his lap. It shatter on the floor, Yensid's muzzle hanging open. Retlaw closed out with a chuckle as the black rabbit turned to him, growling. Yensid's paws began to collect lightning, but it dispersed when he face-pawed with a sigh.
"Come on, you bloody idiot!"
Yensid snatched Retlaws wrist into his paw and began dragging him out the door. Before they fully left, Retlaw grabbed his brush and shut the door. He forced his fingers between Yensids, the rabbit softening a little.
"Where are we going?"
"To the store to buy supplies."
My characters!
I got too many colors to remember. I'll put them here to see. Aren't they nice? Yep! Absolutely!
(There's actually 6 eggs, but I ran out of links)
As Noah stepped out of his mansions door, his satchel by his side and his amulet around his neck, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath before extending his "senses." Over the past year, he had grown very skilled with his mastery over Aura, the basic life force that flowed through out the universe. Which was good, because he would need quite a bit to pull of this next stunt. After making sure he was out of view of his parents and Steph, he began absorbing Aura from the surrounding environment and started the routine. First he enhanced his eyes. Than his leg strength. Than, with one big jump, he launched himself into the air. Using multiple blasts of Aura (think Iron Mans repulsers), he steered himself towards the alley next to one of the local supermarkets.
Even though he slowed himself down, he still landed with a thunderous "CRACK." But not from his legs, oh no. His legs were fine. The crack came from the concrete below him, which had splintered into a little crater where he landed. Even as he panted from exerting his Aura like that, he frowned. He was supposed to have slowed down enough that landed wouldn't have left a sound, let alone a crater. Regardless, he looked around and found a dumpster with a moldy half eaten sandwich on top. He stuck his hand out and siphoned the Aura from the sandwich, the mold withering away until it was nothing but dust. Slightly recharged, he dusted himself off and left the alley to go into the store proper.
"I still don't think much of the place," Kaylee said, opening up the curtains on the road beyond the little front garden.
"Didn't figure you would, Kay," called a voice from the kitchen, where the body it belonged to was doing the washing up. "Ready to do the vet thing today?"
"Nope," Kaylee replied, noting the movement of leaves outside. "Tomorrow I might be. Best arrange it for then." She lifted herself up onto the windowsill and watched things going on outside. Her tag, a sheaf of wheat, clinked on the glass a couple of times. It seemed it wanted to go out. Almost as much as she did. "If I'm gonna live here," she declared, "I'm gonna go look around." She took a spare front door key and slipped it into her jacket pocket, where it nestled amongst coins, cash notes, jelly babies, a piece of string, a yoyo and other scattered objects. Without waiting for a reply from the human, she slid out of the door and shut it behind her. Then she started off towards town.
a alarm clock rang through the attic of the ranch house only to stop without being touched. A light voice sighed, as the owner of said voice, a rather small white and grey cat, moved down the short stairs of the attic, "Father!" A slightly bearded man proceeded to poke his head out of a door frame in response, "Any plans for today?" Amanda Bellus asked, stretching in the process.
The man smirked, "For you? Probably avoiding mother." Amanda's eyes went wide in shock, "I know, for a painting she still gets around."
Miss Bellus sighed as she made her way towards the front door, "I'm going into town for the day then." A strand of cloth floated down from the attic and tied itself into a bow around her ear. As she opened the door she heard her father from upstairs, "Do try to avoid starting a witch hunt. I'd hate for the people of this town to meet mother."
Amanda rolled her eyes as she walked out the door, shutting it with her telekinesis and making her way down the ranch's road, into town.
The two were humming "Stronger Than You" (check the gems that hold their cloaks together) when a loud CRACK caused both animals to scream, lose their balance, slip, and fall to the ground. They hugged each other, shaking hard and not even looking up at the cat that exited the alley.
Kaylee turned towards the CRACK as though drawn to it. She looked in the general direction and knew it wasn't several things. it wasn't a gunshot, a snapping branch or nature being belligerent. It was something else and that spoke of interest. She waited for the neon Cat on the pole opposite to go green and followed the sound, playing with her yo-yo as she went.
Váfuðr, Rig as he was known to the locals, groaned and rolled over, slapping the snooze button on his alarm clock. He rubbed his eyes and sat up, stretching and blearily looking out the window at the city before him. He got up, shifting his tag about and trying to remember the dream he had last night, but it was as fleeting as waking tiredness, "And it's gone." He sighs and rubs a hand down his muzzle, shrugging it off, it would come again. Rig gave one last look at the map of the town, stuffing it between his neck and his collar. He drew an M symbol in the air and stepped towards it, appearing near the town center. His ears twisted in the direction of the crack and he turned about towards it, noticing the interest of others in the sound. He too hurried up to the alley to see what was happening.
Amanda walked down a sidewalk until she heard a faint crack, thinking almost nothing of it until she saw another cat moving, presumably, in the direction of the sound. Thinking it over for a second, she shrugged to herself and decided to follow the cat across the street towards the sound, "Finally, something happens..." She mumbled to herself, keeping a safe distance from the other cat.
Kaylee saw the situation and leaned against a wall to watch. "Houston," she said to no-one in particular, "we have a hugger." She blinked and felt a breeze blow past her. "And one of them's an enormous mouse!" She licked her lips and then slapped herself. "It means he'll be trouble, they're wearing capes. Either comicon's in this village or they're powered somehow," she told herself.
Amanda looked on at the scene, simply confused. She heard what the cat she followed said and walked up next to her, "Rodents of unusual size typically are." She gave a polite wave to the other cat as she gazed at the strange scene.
Kaylee jumped slightly and wind whipped around her as she turned to face the white cat. OK, that usually meant higher class and she was a common tabby but it didn't sound like the other cat was looking to be dangerous so she put the winds away and nodded. "Fascinating world, innit?" She nodded towards the black and white pair. "Wonder what did that Mad science? Magic? Did he rub a lamp and make a wish? I'd ask but, y'know, the whole Cat thing?"
Location: Homeless, USA
Furettia and Bianca both stood in their new home, it was unbelievable empty, but it was a new start, and they were doing it on their own. "Well, here we are."
"Yeah." Both ferrets continued to stand there quietly. Furettia looked over at Bianca, "Want to go and see the town."
"No, not really feeling like it today."
"Well, this place needs some stuff. Maybe we can go get some." Bianca just looked at her after that, "Fine, but don't complain if you don't like what I get."
"Okay, let's go." Furettia ran into the kitchen and came back with the house keys, "Great." She locked the door after they left and started to walk down the street in silence.
Currently traveling across the United States. Still up for any conversations though.
As Noah entered the store, he noticed several animals heading towards the alley, clearly attracted by the noise. He tried to act inconspicuous, and used his aura to keep a faint eye on their thoughts as he headed towards the toy section.
Amanda felt winds blow past her as the cat she addressed jumped a little, "Maybe she has some form of power?" She nodded her head to the questions asked by the cat, "While he is an interesting specimen, he appears to be harmless, and besides, I'm much more interested in what shocked them so and what caused that crash. Oh, and I'd say magic to his size. Science is unlikely and a genie lamp would be a find that would draw too many eyes."
"Not seen you before," Kaylee said, deciding it was best to seem like a local. "You new around here? I'm Kaylee." She kicked a tin to get the attention of the huggers.
Yendid and Retlaw eventually calm down, ears perking to the conversation around them. The two stood up, Retlaws paws on his cocked hips.
"I'll have you know that I am of no danger!"
His eyes squinted for a second.
"Currently!"
Yensid sighed and took Retlaw paw, intertwining their fingers.
"He was a normal sized mouse, but I accidentally knocked an enlarging potion into his cage."
It was at this moment that Retlaw realized the species of the two. The mouse yelped and [magic] instinctively grabbed his paintbrush. He pointed it at the two felines as soft, red, aura surrounded him.
Rig looked at the other animals, his runic markings glowing while invoking Tiwaz. He looked at the crater and followed a trail of various things, moved rocks, fallen fur, all leading to the supermarket doors. He looked up and watched the cat walk in, Hmm, was it that cat? He turned to follow the cat into the store. He looked back, passively listening to the other conversations going on, before stepping through the doors.
"If we were going to be hostile," Kaylee said, just gesturing up with one hand as she leaned on the wall again, "we'd have been it already, yeah? Sheesh!" Even so, winds were beginning to circle around her, picking up speed and small objects that revolved around her, rolled along the wall when hit it, and rotated in the winds again. "Wanna calm it, guys?"
Amanda was about to respond to Kaylee before being interrupted by the other two's outburst. Seeing the aura surrounding the mouse, and Kaylee's winds, Amanda sighed and put a paw behind her back, as the air around her became colder, a small ball of ice slowly started to take form in her paw, as a last resort of course. She turned to Kaylee, "The name is Amanda Bellus. Glad to make your acquaintance."
"Can we have your names before pointless fighting," kaylee asked the other two. "Or instead of?"
Some distance away, In the basement of a cottage on the edge of town, a ball of gray fluff curled up atop a pile of cushons, inside a maze of colored plexiglass and mesh compartments sized for five year olds, gradually unrolled and stretched. Hopefully today would be warm and sunny. She liked warm and sunny. Climbing somewhat sluggishly into an adjacent compartment filled with rock dust, rolling around a bit before shaking it off, Sandy finally left her little miniature house. Yawning a bit before retrieving her collar and clipping it on.
Heading upstairs she passed by the workshop, her father had filled half the house with, just in time to pick up his frustration about whatever he was working on.
"Hey dad. Latest project not working out?" Technically, she already knew the answer, but she was still too groggy this early to do a proper reading, so verbal answers worked better.
"It's not, The apple I tested it on came out the other side as an orange... Still not entirely sure how."
"It's just a teleporter. You got the cake ray working," She paused a moment, letting out another yawn before finally starting to speed back up to her normal pace "it can'tBeHarderThanThat."
"True..." He mumbled to himself before getting back to work. There's a surprise in the kitchen.
Thanks dad. It's not really much of a surprise when your thoughts include a mental image, But she wasn't about to complain. Heading to the kitchen, sure enough there was a small bag of dried rose hips, Putting a smile on sandy's face. She was about to munch on a handful of her favorite snack when she was distracted by a large number of curious and alarmed thoughts all focused in one spot nearby.
"What'sThat?" She wondered to herself aloud, heading outside and towards the event. Bringing a few of her treats with her.
The two ferrets walked slowly down the street, looking at everything they could without touching or trying to cause a potential problem. They saw a small group of animals by an alley, both ferrets looked at each other, "No."
"Yes, you want to get stuff for our new home, that's what we are going to do."
"Okay, what about that store." Furettia pointed at the store next to the alley. "That doesn't look like the right kind of store though."
"Well, we'll just be window shopping then until we find the right store." Bianca sighed and walked down their side of the street opposite from the side the small group of animals were on, which now they could see was two cats, a rabbit, and a big mouse, which they both found odd but Bianca lead them on without stopping or acknowledging them. Once they made it far enough down the street so they wouldn't run into that group they crossed the street and walked into the store. "What are we looking for?"
"Anything to make our home a home." Before either of them could continue any further they were both stopped by a dog in their way.
Yensid's fists began to gather lightning, when he remembered his sketch book. Wiping it out quickly, the rabbit skilfully drew a hammer, tore the paper from book, and tossed it in the air. He caught the large hammer in both paws. He gripped it hard as electricity followed through his paws into the hammer. A faint blue glow surrounded him. Retlaw used red paint, shooting it into the air around them and creating fire balls that swirled around his waist.
"We can be hostile too, ladies."
"Excuse me, Mister Mouse, but my stuff's in a defence cycle, yeah? And since when is asking your name aggression?" The winds around Kaylee picked up speed and intensity and she focussed to keep them under control. "Can we try this again?" She fought the winds down to a more managable level and rummaged in her pocket, eventually pulling free a small bag of sweets. She held it out towards the Mouse. "Would you like a jelly baby," she asked.
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The thoughts she was locked onto were definitely feeling more and more on the alarmed side, some of them even aggressive. So Sandy picked up her pace a bit.
Whatever was happening seemed interesting, and she didn't want to miss it.
(She's picking up Mickey's duo.)
Amanda examined the winds flowing around her and Kaylee, gently throwing her ball of ice up and down, keeping it in a line with her telekinesis, in an attempt to stay calm, "I must say I'm impressed. Though this is growing annoying." She turned to Kaylee, "Not you of course, but rather the imbeciles that you are keeping at bay." She fully glared at pair on the other side of the winds, "Besides, if you two were as smart as you were stupid you may have realized that the thing that went crash in the alley is still around here. And as much as I would love to watch it eat you, I'd rather not have my lunch be ruined due to your ineptitude."
"Yensid."
"Retlaw."
Yensid smirked and fired a bit of lightning into the flow of wind. His ears began to spin and he lifted off the ground, clutching the hammer. Retlaw was about to attack when he notice she wad offering him a treat. Retlaw gave Yensid a pouty face and the rabbit groaned. His arm turned completely blue and it stretched out to an unnatural length. He grabbed the bag and gave it to Retlaw. He ate one before giving it back to the wind.
Yensid growled at the comments of the other cat. He made a rather cartoony steamboat noise as he glared back and ground his teeth. He flew a bit closer to get so he was out of the range of the wind cat and Retlaw before slamming the hammer down and sending a wave of electricity toward the cat.
Amanda's eyes widened in shock. Thinking quickly she hoped she focused correctly, as she used her telekinesis to pull the dumpster out of the alley, intercepting the electricity. These actions put some strain on her but more than tired, she was enraged at the two fools before her, hardly noticing the frost that had started to form on the ground around her paws, "Kaylee, any ideas on how to stop the over grown children before I blow a gasket? Because, honestly, I am starting to grow impatient with these two."
Yensid spun, slamming the hammer into the side of the dumpster and sent spiraling off back down the alley. He glanced at the frost and pulled out his sketchbook, the hammer exploding into nothing but paper and blue sparkles. He sketch of something and threw the page into the air. He landed on his feet and held out his hands, catching a flame thrower. He aimed it at the cat.
"I'll show you overgrown."
Yensid pulled the trigger, but nothing came out. He growled and shook the object, but it merely exploded into paper and red sparkles. Retlaw walked over, his own sketch book in his paw. He put up forcefields around both animals, using the gray paint.
"Could you not?! You're both letting pointless anger control you! You're both at fault here." Retlaw turned the cat. "We wouldn't have attacked if you hadn't talked about eating us! Plus you can't eat us, we're your size and just as powerful. It's very unofficial and no way to greet someone." Retlaw turned to Yensid. "And you know better than to retaliate in such a manner!"
"Actually," Kaylee said defensively, struggling to put her winds away, "we were discussing how we couldn't, you know?" She shrugged. "But sorry for my bit I suppose."
Retlaw turned to the wind cat, watching the winds. He pulled out his sketchbook and walked towards her, skilfully using his clock with and against the winds to get himself to her. He finally did and held his drawing in his hand, which soon morphed into a pair of headphones. He placed then over her ears and tapped them with the end of his paintbrush. Calming music began to play and he could only hope it would help her.
Kaylee watched him very carefully as he approached but he didn't seem to be attacking so she let him in. She liked the music, she supposed. And it was easier to have calming music if you didn't have to think about it. So she let herself be pacified. "I'll have to get a music player," she said, possibly too loudly before handing the headphones back when the wind was merely whispering again. "I think it's peace, Amanda."
As Amanda heard Kaylee say it was alright, she had fallen to her knees and was taking deep breaths, a swirl of frost laden air coming out of each breath. She had good reason, as a cat with an affinity to the cold, a flame thrower had scared her half to death. She looked up at Kaylee, brushing a few crystalline shards of ice from her eyes, "I'll forgive and apologize to the mouse. But after what the pyromaniac tried to do? He's not getting one so easily." As she spoke a light sheet of frost covered the bottom of the force field, giving a comforting cold to the slightly traumatized cat.
Retlaw huffed and shoved Yensid toward her, dropping the forcefields. He shoved the rabbit again and pointed to her. Yensid sighed and groaned before pulling out his sketchbook and tossing a sheet into the air above the cat. It exploded into ice, snowflakes, and snow, which slowly began to descend on the cat.
As the force field dropped Amanda flinched, but as she felt the unmistakable feeling of snow, she jerked her head up to see it falling. The frown she had worn was replaced with a small smile. She manipulated some of the snow downwards and into swirls, finally ending in a tiny snow man with ice eyes and nose that floated before her.
Behind the snowman she saw Yensid, coming to the conclusion he made it happen, her look was a borderline glare. She sighed, her glare vanishing, as she raised a paw and made a gentle flicking motion, causing the tiny snow man to float over to the rabbit, "Fine... I guess, I'm sorry to you as well." She said, eyes still closed in an attempt to enjoy as much of the snow and ice as she could.
"WellThatWasAnticlimactic." the four of them would hear from nearby. A quick glance around would reveal a chinchilla sitting atop a newspaper box across the street munching on some kind of snack food.
Noah wasn't impressed by the display outside. Only a few sentences and they all tried to kill each other! Is everyone with powers like this? His mood changed when he heard Rigs thoughts. Crapbaskets. He continued his shopping, looking for any new Transformers, Power Rangers, or Lego toys that might have made it to shelves since he was last here, and generally acting like someone who hadn't just dropped out of the sky a minute ago.
Amanda, slightly annoyed by the small creature treating the nearly terrible altercations so lightly, but stopped when she recalled something. Getting up from the comfy snow she walked to the opening of the alley, "You might not be disappointed for long. Because we still don't know what caused a CRATER on the concrete here." She turned to the four others, "Any ideas?"
Pausing to lstare out the window at the fight about to break out, he watched, wondering why people we so quick to be at each other's throats. He shook his head and almost got involved, but watched as it was diffused as quickly as it started. He turned back to the inside of the store and following his nose, Rig found his target and drawing the same symbol in the air he appeared next to the cat, "You are the one who made the crater? Did you see the fight that nearly transpired outside? I think they were looking for you originally, seems I found you first."
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Greatest Album in Rock History...
Thread: Greatest Album in Rock History...
Sugar Beats
97.5, The Blaze
Based on excellence, sustainabilty, context, and how does is stand up? I mean is it worth listening to the whole thing?
Some that come to mind:
At Folsom Prison ~ Johnny Cash
Black in Black ~ AC/DC
London Calling ~ The Clash
Apetite for Destruction ~ Guns n Roses
Honorable mentions to:
Rumors ~ Fleetwood Mac
Pearl Jam ~ Ten
The Pretenders, Areosmith, Van Halen and
of course Pink Floyd & Hendrix ~ before my time.
Dylan might be big for some people... I just don't get him, I can barely understand a word the man says.
Don't you like it on the sly? Don't you like it till it hurts? Have I been on your mind? What's a voice without a song?
Without doubt, without debate: Dark Side of the Moon.
dean_martin
Can a crooner get a gig?
Lower AL
An album that epitomizes rock 'n roll, its roots and influences, and where it would go from there is the Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet". It is rock 'n roll from start to finish.
Finch Platte
Stainmaster
Fumbuck
Hmmm, over at Obner, they're talking about this being the best live album evar.
Words cannot describe -- cannot contain -- the performance captured on Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, an album that contains the very essence of rock & roll....Who knows why this was a night where everything exploded for Jerry Lee Lewis? It sounds like all of his rage at not being the accepted king of rock & roll surfaced that night, but that probably wasn't a conscious decision on his part -- maybe the stars were aligned right, or perhaps he just was in a particularly nasty mood. Or maybe this is the way he sounded on an average night in 1964.
In any case, Live at the Star Club is extraordinary -- the purest, hardest rock & roll ever committed to record.
Judge for yerself.
Note: The word 'this' is a link, in case you can't see it.
Eagle cam!
Not in my top 2000.
Retro Modernist
Originally Posted by 02audionoob
There's the first one that I can agree with.
I don't know if anybody caught Sound and Vision's Top 50, but it had more holes in it than a box of Cheerios.
I'll give you maybe 2 Stones albums, but that starts with "Let it Bleed"
And "Dark Side of the Moon"? that's not even Pink Floyd's best album.
And C'mon SB, when did Johnny Cash become Rock.
I don't think I'm the only one that considers that album rock. He's awesome on that, start to finish.
Luvin Da Blues
As these posts are showing, there is no such thing as "one" (or even 100) greatest album when your talking about such a subjective topic.
Myself, even the top 100 is constantly changing as I and my tastes get more IMHO, "mature".
Back in my day, we had nine planets.
Well said and very true.
Originally Posted by Luvin Da Blues
I could make a list of 100 records that are my favorites, but picking one that is 'the best' is impossible for me. That's like telling you my favorite food.
Rockabilly maybe.
Originally Posted by Sugar Beats
No way rock. Sorry.
stuck on vintage
Graham, WA
any album from Steely Dan
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well sugar, I think you've exposed one of the greatest fears around here: to step up and pick something. "Oh no! That's too hard for me, but your pick sux."
I'm callin' you regs out. Stop whining and pick something. Hang your critic's hat on one of SB's parameters for greatest (not favorite) and say whatever pops into your pointy head.
RoadRunner6
Audio/HT Nut version 1.3a
Originally Posted by dean_martin
Oh, GREAT choice! Sympathy for the Devel is one of the finest rock and roll songs ever. I also have to put the Stones Let It Bleed Album up there at the top also.
RR6
AC/DC and Johnny Cash in the same genre?
If you can't understand Dylan maybe you should listen to his Nashville Skyline album, specifically Dylan and Cash singing Girl from the North Country. BTW, this is a great album.
Originally Posted by Finch Platte
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, Jerry Lee Lewis -- the purest, hardest rock & roll ever committed to record
Oh yes! OH YES!
Only four post into this thread and Finch Platte has brought up from the past one of the greatest Rock and Roll performers ever. Jerry Lee Lewis would have been at the top of the class if not for some unfortunate choices in marrying his very young cousin. That put the skids on his career. This is "Rock and Roll." at it greatest.
Of course I have to mention the greatest pop/rock group of all time, The Beatles. There are a number of choices and it is almost impossible to decide. So I'll list three of my favorites:
... A Hard Day's Night
... Help
... Abbey Road
Sugar Beats listed her criteria as: "Based on excellence, sustainabilty, context."
100 years from now no one will even know the name Pearl Jam. However, many, many of the songs that McCartney and Lennon wrote will still be covered by different types of musical groups from classical to jazz to pop/rock. These two prolific songwriters wrote song after song after song that have lasting memorable melodies, the true test of time.
Originally Posted by RoadRunner6
If someone who had never heard rock 'n roll asked me to recommend one album that best exemplifies rock 'n roll, I'd suggest Beggars Banquet because it has all the pieces that became rock - country, blues and gospel, and then balls-to-the-walls rockers like Stray Cat Blues. And like all great albums it has at least one transcendent track like Sympathy for the Devil.
But most of all, it's an unpretentious celebration of the proletariat class. Side 2 is the perfect everyman side: Street Fighting Man, Prodigal Son, Stray Cat Blues, Factory Girl, Salt of the Earth. It's the 1969 Plymouth Road Runner of music.
Rich-n-Texas
I'd say the #1 rock album of all time is Led Zeppelin's 4th album. I have the album which I purchased when it was released, had the 8 track and now have the CD. Just so happens that the #1 most popular Rock-n-Roll song of all time is Stairway to Heaven.
Ex Lion Tamer
I'll pick-up that gauntlet...
Beggars Banquet is also a very good pick and one I considered, but in the end LC is the one.
"I don't know. A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." The Right Honourable JC.
1. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers - African Herbsman
7. Love - Forever Changes
8. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
9. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
11. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
12. Ramones - Leave Home
13. The Kinks - Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround
14. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
15. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
16. Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
17. Wire - Pink Flag
18. Big Star - Radio City
19. The Clash - The Clash
20. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
21. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
22. Husker Du - New Day Rising
23. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch a Fire
24. Ramones - Ramones
25. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
26. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
27. Elvis Costello - This Years Model
28. Black Flag - Damaged
29. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
30. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
31. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
32. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
33. The Stooges - Fun House
34. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
35. Misfits - Walk Among Us
36. Pixies - Doolittle
37. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
38. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road
39. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
40. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
41. Fugazi - Repeater
42. Ramones - Rocket To Russia
43. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
44. The Connells - Boylan Heights
45. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
46. Fugazi - 13 Songs
47. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
48. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
49. Big Star - #1 Record
50. The Beatles - Abbey Road
51. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
52. Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
53. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
54. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
55. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
56. Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
57. Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
58. The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
59. The Cure - The Head On the Door
60. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
61. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
62. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
63. Bedhead - WhatFunLifeWas
64. Van Morrison - Moondance
65. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
66. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
67. Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy
68. James Brown - Live at the Apollo, 1962
69. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
70. Otis Redding - Otis Blue
71. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
72. The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope
73. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
74. Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
75. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
76. The Feelies - Only Life
77. X - Los Angeles
78. Wire - 154
79. Manu Chao - Clandestino
80. Front 242 - Front By Front
81. Descendents - Milo Goes To College
82. XTC - Drums and Wires
83. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
84. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin�
85. Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
86. NoMeansNo - Wrong
87. Buck Owens and His Buckaroos - Live at Carnegie Hall
88. Rank and File - Sundown
89. Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
90. The Replacements - Tim
91. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
92. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
93. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
94. Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets
95. The Stooges - Raw Power
96. Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1967)
97. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
98. Love - da capo
99. Wire - Chairs Missing
100. The Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Stone, I see you have the Bobs covered (Dylan & Marley).
GMichael
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Anywhere but here...
It's hard to argue with the success of albums like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, The Beatle's White album or The Eagle's Hotel California, but song for song I'd like to put my vote in for Boston's first album. Every song was a hit.
WARNING! - The Surgeon General has determined that, time spent listening to music is not deducted from one's lifespan.
Jeez! A girl tries to start a thread, what can I say, I like to have options. (what woman doesn't?)
If I had to pick a fav... It would either be Back in Black or London Calling.
I can understand this with some of his tunes but the man is one of the top critically acclaimed songsters of all time. I challenge you to have a deeper listen (Tangled Up In Blue, Workingman's Blues #2, Buckets Of Rain, etc,.etc). If your interested, I could sent you a comp of, IMO, his better written, performed and recorded material.
I guess I'm always up for a challenge. Maybe inbetween the kids, the movie I am going to and the reg. weekend stuff, I'll take a listen... And then I'll let you know. I've just never liked him.
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Verizon, AT&T emerge as big winners of 700 MHz auction
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CHICAGO -- U.S. wireless giants Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility bought the most spectrum and spent the most money on airwaves in the recently completed 700 MHz auction, the FCC reported yesterday as part of the first disclosures regarding the bidding process.
In addition, the FCC declared it would not accept the lone bid on the D Block—the 10 MHz swath that was to be paired with 10 MHz of public-safety spectrum to provide the foundation of a nationwide broadband wireless network for public safety—and will “consider all options” for those frequencies.
Most industry observers expected Verizon and AT&T to lead the bidding, but the two leading U.S. wireless carriers dominated the auction, accounting for $16.0 billion of the $19.5 billion in high bids. Verizon committed $9.363 billion for its licenses, including the 22 MHz C Block across the continental United States. AT&T Mobility bid $6.636 billion for its licenses, which featured swaths in the B Block that are expected to complement the company’s $2.5 billion pre-auction purchase of nearby spectrum from Aloha Partners.
Almost half of the high-bid total was generated through the auction of the B Block.
Frontier Wireless—owned by satellite TV firm Echostar—outbid Qualcomm for most licenses in the E Block. Mobile wireless consultant Andrew Seybold said he expected Qualcomm to bid aggressively to complement the company’s existing spectrum holdings used for its MediaFLO mobile-video-broadcast application.
“What surprised me was that Echostar got some of the E Block,” Seybold said. “I thought Qualcomm was going to get it all for their MediaFLO.”
Also surprising was the amount of money bid on the 12 MHz B Block, which generated $9.144 billion—almost half of the high bids for the entire auction. As a point of comparison, the A Block—another 12 MHz swath that featured licenses with larger geographic territories than the B Block—attracted $3.961 billion in high bids, or less than half of the amount generated by the B Block.
“The A Block is adjacent to the spectrum that Echostar and [Qualcomm] are using for one-way [video applications],” Seybold said. “There is a concern, I think, about interference.
“Also, since the B Block licenses are smaller geographic areas, I think the bidding was more intense between AT&T, Verizon and some of the second-, third- and fourth-tier companies. … There were so many licenses that this was seen as the only band that a new regional player could be borne in or a regional player like Leap Wireless could expand in.”
Meanwhile, the FCC identified Qualcomm as the lone bidder on the D Block, having submitted a $472 million first-round offering. Seybold said he does not believe Qualcomm wanted the spectrum at that price but saw the D Block as a good place to use bidding credits to meet the FCC’s activity requirements to participate in the auction.
“I don’t think they were serious about bidding on the D Block,” Seybold said. “I think they were parking their money.”
Whatever the strategy, Qualcomm will not gain rights to the D Block through this auction, as the FCC yesterday said it would not award the swath based on the $472 million bid—an amount well below the FCC’s $1.3 billion reserve price for the spectrum.
“Because the aggregate reserve price for the D Block was not met, there is no winning bidder for that license,” the FCC stated in an order regarding the matter. “Given that the reserve price was met for all other blocks, we find it is in the public interest to provide additional time to consider all options with respect to the D Block spectrum.”
In prepared statements, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein described the inability to attract an acceptable D Block bid as “nothing less than a tragedy,” calling for a “top-to-bottom review of what went wrong, so we can make it work in the next round.”
Fellow Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps said the lack of a nationwide, interoperable broadband network for public safety is a “travesty” and that establishing such communication is “quite literally a matter of life and death” for first responders and the citizenry it protects.
Seybold said he believes the FCC should abandon the notion of a single operator building out the entire network—“that’s the worst thing that could happen,” he said. Instead, the FCC should consider plans that would allow multiple carriers to share in the buildout to a given standard or possibly mandate carriers to build out a portion of the network under the supervision of an independent integrator that would bid for the D Block spectrum.
“It gets built faster, it gets built cheaper, public safety is up and running faster, and we cover rural America,” Seybold said.
Potential roadblocks to such a proposal include determining which carriers would deploy which portions of the network and which would be able to use it under different scenarios, Seybold said. In addition, allocating monetary value to shared spectrum would be difficult for financial officers, but such obstacles can be overcome, he said.
“It would be difficult—I’m not saying this would be easy,” Seybold said. “People look at me and say, ‘You’re nuts. It’s never going to happen.’ I say, ‘Pay me half a million dollars per year, and I’ll make it happen.’”
http://mrtmag.com/policy_and_law/news/verizon-att-auction-0321/
azraphale
Marlboro, NY
Does this mean what I think it means: that coast to coast, all public safety comms will suddenly be cellular telephone traffic and thus illegal to monitor? How will the media get the news without police and fire scanners? And more to the point, how will there be any public oversight of law enforcement behavior if they cannot be legally monitored by anyone?
I see the need for some kind of secure system in place in case of a terrist attack, but anythingh short of that should not be concealed behind a legal veil...
GTO_04
azraphale said:
You are probably correct. And if public safety has to rely on cell phone type networks, they are in big trouble. If you think dropouts and deadspots are bad now, just wait until they implement something like that!
And no there will be no public oversight.
mikepdx
Corbett, OR USA
Does this mean what I think it means: that coast to coast, all public safety comms will suddenly be cellular telephone traffic and thus illegal to monitor? How will the media get the news without police and fire scanners?
How will the media get the news?
They'll actually have to WORK to find it, rather than
have select news spoon fed to them by the government.
Middleville, MI-Barry County(Near G.R. & Ionia
mikepdx said:
and us call in all their tips
n3on
I have a question. Why does the FCC 'own' these frequencies. I know they are gods because they have that special letter F in their acronym but I mean come on. They just were all of a sudden created and they instantly own a bunch of invisible frequencies. Where does this money go? I mean it's 100% profit, 19 billion dollars, going where? This sh*t is absolutely ridiculous. Sorry, my hysterical rant is over. I just wish I could decide to own something that no one should be allowed to own, like color. And then auction of spectrum's of light. I bet I could get at least 20 billion out of blue alone.
MACOMB, MI.
Does this mean what I think it means: that coast to coast, all public safety comms will suddenly be cellular telephone traffic and thus illegal to monitor?
I don't think it will involve public safety in any way. Why would it?
AZScanner
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GreatLakes said:
I agree with GreatLakes - people need to put the tinfoil hats away and think rationally. When I read the article I read it to say that no one stepped up with a real bid to build out a national broadband wireless network adjacent to the 700MHz voice band allocated to public safety, and the article goes on to quote someone else that says it would be better to let more than one company build it and the FCC should reauction it accordingly.
Now that could be 100% BS - we all know that the press knows as much about radio spectrum as a pig knows about pattycake, but that's what the article is saying. I certainly don't read (or foresee) all public safety comms going cellular based - that would be stupid, since key pieces of cellular network infrastructure are already a prime terrorist target. The bid in question was for a totally separate system.
EDIT: One more thing - I'm all for the cellular companies having to pony up serious cash to use these frequencies. Need I remind anyone that the whole reason Public Safety is moving to 700 megs is because of interference caused by Nextel and other cellular companies, and that they fought rebanding tooth and nail because not because they weren't causing problems on the 800 band, but because they simply didn't want to have to pay for it? Screw 'em - I'm glad to see the FCC pocketing a few billion from them. Bout damn time!
-AZ
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That is why your cell phone bill is approaching 60, 70, 80 bucks a month with such poor service.
rescuecomm
Big bills, bad service?
Interesting comment about cell service. Seems like it has become part of today's culture all over the world. Can people do without it now, since it is a service just like cable TV/Sat TV, fast internet?
I guess the FCC found out just how much big companies think of public safety communications. No big bucks to be made, then the cellphone companies aren't getting in it. I think that the statewide build out of 800mhz systems makes more sense in the long run even though it is expensive too.
I haven't been paying as much attention to the 700 MHz auction debacle as I would have a few years ago. It's getting increasingly hard to care when the field is dominated by attorneys, accountants, and politicians. I liked it better when the cops and firemen told the engineers what they wanted, and then we went out and built it.
After 30+ years in public safety communications, I have developed a lot of contacts in a lot of agencies over the years. I don't know of any one of them that looks favorably upon a "nationwide interoperability network" such as what's proposed. The perceived need for this has been blown way out of proportion by people who don't have a clue. What surprises me most is that the cellular broadband build out looks as if it's going to be adjacent to public safety allocations. A repeat of the Nextel problem that is driving rebanding?
poltergeisty
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A repeat exactly! My same thoughts.
Maybe this so called "nationwide interoperability" could be sat based? :lol: (We are talking from department to department, not car, right? Then a patch comes in mind)
What greedy company wants to fork over all that cash? :lol: The reserve plus the building of infrastructure? Come on FCC! :roll:
Yes, it is in my interest .
Consider a joint sat option.
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Girls' golf overcomes internal battle, shows out at individual league finals
By Cole Jacobson on October 23, 2014
In the regular season, the worse scorer out of Karina Gou ’18 and Josie Baker ’18 generally lost nothing more than a bit of pride, as she would happily watch her classmate take the team’s top score as long as the squad came out victorious.
On Thursday, however, the lower placer of the two lost a chance to continue their individual season.
Five Harvard-Westlake golfers qualified for the Mission League’s individual finals on Thursday at the River Ridge Golf Course, and one will be moving on in solo play. Baker edged Gou in a playoff for 8th place in the Mission League — the league’s last eligible spot to advance to the CIF Southern Section Northern Division individual finals. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame’s Janet Yeo ’15 won the league’s individual championship, putting up a score of 148, giving Notre Dame their 5th consecutive individual league title to complement their 6th straight team league title clinched on Monday.
Scores were pretty high all around the league on Thursday, as Head Coach Marge Chamberlain said, “The greens were fast and the pin positions wicked, as no player posted a lower score [than Yeo’s 75].” Baker and Gou shot 88 and 87, respectively, during Thursday’s round; Chamberlain acknowledged that they “were challenged by the greens but still hung tough.”
Because Baker had been one stroke ahead of Gou on Monday’s course, the two stars initially tied at 166 strokes apiece, as the final scores included both Monday’s and Thursday’s 18-hole rounds. Thus, a 37th hole was necessary to create a gap between the two freshmen phenoms, where Josie shot par to Karina’s bogey to take the last qualifying spot. Despite only one of them being able to advance, both golfers were named to the First Team All-Mission League. In addition to Baker and Gou, Carolyn Hong ’17, Vivian Lin ’16, and Lauren Song ’16 also qualified for Thursday’s round by placing in the top 16 scorers during Monday’s team finals at the Harding-Wilson Golf Course.
Chamberlain said about the instant classic: “It says a lot about our team that five players advanced [to the league finals]. We learned a lot this year, and look forward to the team event at Soule Park. It was fitting that Josie and Karina would battle down to the end; all season long they have led our squad. I am proud of both of them. Josie works very hard on her chipping and it paid off — she was off the green on the playoff hole, chipped it to 3 feet and made the par putt to advance.”
Baker might have a slight advantage on her foes in her next competition, as the aforementioned CIF-SS Northern Division individual finals will take place at the same River Ridge course at 10 A.M. on Oct. 27, where the top 36 scorers will advance to the entire CIF Southern Section individual finals. As for the remainder of the team, they will re-unite with Baker at the CIF-SS Northern Division team finals on Oct. 30, where the top three teams will advance to the Southern Section finals.
More on the Mission League individual finals can be read here: http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20141023/newbury-parks-madison-wood-notre-dames-janet-yeo-win-league-golf-titles
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Juniata Continues Strong Start with 63-54 Win Over Messiah
Messiah (1-1) 27 27 54
Reb: Kate McDonald - 16
Ast: Kate McDonald - 8
Reb: Gillian Glackin - 6
Ast: Chelsea Danel - 6
GRANTHAM, Pa. – Juniata women's basketball won the Messiah Tip-Off Tournament Saturday night after upsetting the host Falcons 63-54 in the championship game. Seniors Jordan Hileman (Williamsburg, Pa./Williamsburg) and Kate McDonald (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pa./State College Area) recorded their second double-doubles of the season combining for 34 points and 27 rebounds in the win. McDonald was named tournament MVP and Hileman earned a spot on the all-tournament team.
"They scouted us well," said head coach Danny Young-Uhrich. "Messiah had some good players and a good crowd. We weathered some adversity. The kids really responded."
Two starters were in foul trouble early for the Eagles and freshman Katy Leamer (Altoona, Pa./Bellwood-Antis) answered the call down the bench. The forward earned a career-high 11 points going 4-for-6 from the floor, 3-for-3 from three-point range.
"Katy came in and stepped up," Young-Uhrich added. "She kept us in the first half."
Leamer put in 30 minutes of total work after coming into the contest early. With less than five minutes remaining in the first half and Messiah up by six, she hit back-to-back three's to spark an 11-2 run for the Eagles heading into the break.
Juniata led 31-27 at the half having out-rebounded the Falcons 26-13. They would go up by as much as 11 in the second half before Messiah made a run. The Falcons pulled within three with under 2:30 to play. But the Eagles held them scoreless and pushed six more points to earn the win.
"They are being shoved into roles and when game time rolls around, they are stepping up," Young-Uhrich said of her young team. "They play with poise and confidence. But it's only game two. We still have a ways to go."
The Eagles open at home on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. against Frostburg State. Juniata trails the all-time series against Frostburg but has won the last two meetings.
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East India Youth
LIVE REVIEW: East India Youth, Jazzhouse, 17.04.2015
Published on April 18, 2015 in Live Reviews by Charlie
Photos by Amanda Farah
Last time we saw East India Youth in Copenhagen, he was opening for Factory Floor at a more or less deserted gig at Vega. Already a year and a half ago, when all Will Doyle had to his moniker was the Hostel EP, we recognized an artist on an undeniable ascent. Now, after two albums and a nomination for the Mercury Prize, East India Youth is the main act.
As a live act, East India Youth is a testament to passion and virtuousity. Doyle stands alone on stage, surrounded by keyboards, laptops and drum machines, a bass guitar around his neck and drum sticks in his hand, like a sharply dressed Wizard of Oz, controlling his fantastical universe from the shadows. The set begins with “The Juddering”, a glitchy instrumental that slowly emerges from static into lush synth orchestrations, before transitioning into “Turn Away”, his latest single. Doyle’s voice soars above the background, reminiscent of the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, clear like a choirboy.
East India Youth shifts between the angelic and energetic, electronic and analogue, experimental and anthemic. There is a restlessness at the heart of his music, though that has evolved from Total Strife Forever‘s austerity into the warm colours of Culture of Volume. That transition is reflected in the live renditions of older songs like “Heaven, How Long”, which effervesce with random modulations.
It’s unfortunate that at the height of “Hinterland”, which has the whole room nodding and twitching, the sound suddenly cuts out. After a few minutes of jumbling around with wires, a chance for the audience to catch its breath, Doyle is back online, launching back into the track with even more abandon than before.
The set draws to a close after less than an hour, not nearly enough to do justice to the amount of material produced in the last 18 months. I am a little disappointed not to have heard “End Result”, my favourite track from the last album, or the wonderfully cheesy “Beaming White”, but that’s just an excuse to catch another East India Youth gig as soon as possible.
Published on December 23, 2014 in Blog by Here Today
Swans – To Be Kind
After thirteen studio albums, Swans have not diluted their power or talent one bit. But somehow, since their rekindling in 2010, they have become more popular. To Be Kind is just as provocative and challenging as Swans’ early material, with half-an-hour-long songs like “Bring the Sun/Touissant Overture” and off-kilter oddities like “A Little God in My Hand”, but the sound and instrumentation has matured, becomings both less distorted and somehow more dissonant. As we witnessed in November, Swans are still a brutally loud and relentless live band, a constant provocation to audience and peers, and much loved because of it. – CC
MØ – NoMythologies To Follow
Karen Marie Ørsted is my hero. My braid swinging, ex-punk rocker, stage diving hero. I remember the first time I listened to one of MØ’s tracks, loading up Spotify and finding myself blasting ‘Pilgrim’ and ‘Let The Youth Go Mad’ for hours on end and wondering how one individual could contain quite so much effortless cool. She was the Danish alternative pop princess I’d been waiting for, ready to join a royal court populated by Björk, Kate Bush and Lana Del Rey. I waited for No Mythologies To Follow for over a year, as singles like ‘Glass’ and ‘XXX 88’ trickled out from MØ HQ. I was delighted to find that the debut album did not disappoint, as Ørsted shared something that was exciting, thematic, beautiful and most importantly, sounds fucking fantastic. From the first time I heard it, I knew that No Mythologies… was my album of the year. – HT
How To Dress Well – What Is This Heart?
Tom Krell’s third album What Is This Heart touches on lighter subjects than his previous two albums Total Loss (2012) and Love Remains (2010). Not one to shy away from touching personal matters, the album starts off with ‘2 Years On (Shame Dream)’ and leads you softly into a journey that expands an extremely vivid personal dream about his family. ‘Face Again’ the stand out single along with ‘Repeat Pleasure’ work in his signature indie R&B coupled with stunning falsetto which leave you questioning how these tracks aren’t further up the charts. WITH takes a turn with grand orchestral ‘Pour Cyril’ before leading into cute power pop ballads ‘Very Best Friend’ and ‘Precious Love’ proving key changes are making a come back! – TS
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
The most immediately striking thing about Angel Olsen is her voice, a voice that could easily croon country hits but instead lopes over scruffy, dampened guitars. Her voice alone should earn her and Burn Your Fire for No Witness a place in hearts and best-of lists, but what really makes Burn Your Fire… so special is that it’s wholly intuitive. Olsen’s second full length album is her first with a full band, and it’s the album her debut hinted she was capable of making. She hasn’t abandoned minimalist solo tracks, but she balances them against full-band arrangements. And it’s not just the range of her voice that’s striking but it’s incredible malleability; that it’s raw yet gentle, that it jumps from disaffected to emotive from one line to another, that it rasps and twangs with equal affect. And while she’s not too proud to pay homage to the ‘90s on “Forgiven/Forgotten” and “High and Wild,” these frazzled moments give way easily to stark folk ballads. The album comes down so slowly that by the time you’ve reached the hushed conclusion of “Windows” there’s a sense of catharsis. Burn Your Fire… doesn’t just leave you feeling satisfied, but completed. – AF
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
Somewhere in Tennessee there is apparently an ex-boyfriend of Sharon Van Etten who, during their relationship, kept telling her that her music was terrible. There is a lesson to be learned here.
“Are We There” is one of those records that grows on you. There is something extremely vulnerable and honest about Sharon Van Etten’s song writing and performance on stage. Her voice has depth which is completed by the unique vocal harmonies with Heather Woods Broderick. As Sharon Van Etten told The New York Times when she released her previous album “Tramp”, she does not really consider them harmonies: “I just hear two notes at once — I just hear two melodies.” – MK
6) East India Youth – Total Strife Forever
7) Iceage – Plowing Into The Fields Of Love
8) Scott Walker and SunnO))) – Soused
9) Tune-yards – Nikki Nack
10) The War On Drugs – Lost In A Dream
11) Future Islands – Singles
12) Sleep Party People – Floating
13) FKA Twigs – LP1
14) Eagulls – Eagulls
15) St. Vincent – St. Vincent
16) Alt-J – This Is All Yours
17) Wild Beasts – Present Tense
18) Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
19) Ice Cream Cathedral – Sudden Anatomy
20) Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
21) Get Your Gun – The Worrying Kind
22) Spoon – They Want My Soul
23) Warpaint – Warpaint
24) Shiny Darkly – Little Earth
25) Beyoncé – Beyoncé
LIVE REVIEW: Factory Floor, Lille Vega, 14.10.2013
Published on October 15, 2013 in Live Reviews by Charlie
Copenhagen, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.
In the best of all possible worlds, I wouldn’t have to write this review. The city would have crammed into the smaller of the Vega siblings, and I could simply write the words “Factory Floor” and “East India Youth” for people to knowingly nod their heads and synchronise their inner bpm.
As it is, only the select few, the knowing or the fortunate, stick to the walls as Will Doyle, or East India Youth, poured waves of synth into the room. It feels like a scene from a film or tv, like Durutti Column playing in 24 Hour Party People, or even Julee Cruise stuck in that red bar in Twin Peaks. His set is constantly shimmering from one song to the next, full of brilliant melancholy and brash crescendos. Dom and Gabe from Factory Floor are listening in the middle of the room. “Pretty good, eh?”
Statistically, few of you readers will have seen him, so go buy Hostel, his latest EP, which as well as being a great record, also distinguishes itself for having been released by a strange new animal known as The Quietus Phonographic Corporation.
The yellow and blue glitch projections, as well programmes scattered around the place, are evidence of another in a long line of Factory Floor’s collaborations with visual artists. Tonight Dan Tombs is providing the sights, as part of CPH:DOX, the International Documentary Film Festival. In the middle of the oscillating images, the band begin the same way their record does, with “Turn It Up”, which in this case is a direct order to the sound man.
I often misuse the word hypnotic, applying more or less to anything vaguely repetitive or psychedelic, but Factory Floor definitely induce some sort of altered state. The volume is fantastic, and Dom’s short loops gain urgency as they slowly modulate, blending into Gabe’s drumming, which manages to add an afro-beat flavour to the post-punk and disco beats. Singer and guitarist Nik lays on heavily effected vocals, unintelligible words, and harsh guitar stabs. It sounds rather ridiculous when described, but the discord of a guitar hit with a drum stick is given some sort of structure by the bassline, so that I start to imagine chords where chords are impossible.
Though I’m able to recognise the main synth line or sample from most of the album tracks, we are hearing something entirely different. It’s not that song structures are substantially altered, or that the band is improvising on the themes, but rather that each song consists of certain elements that, when played live, are allowed the space to enter and exit as instinct dictates. This is a band that has spent years crafting these sounds, and is able to fit them together each night in a way that is always different, but always the same, to paraphrase John Peel. When I interviewed them, they talked about wanting to keep the human element in electronic music, and it is that mix of perfectionism and human error that creates a concert like no other.
So get on the next boat to Oslo and catch up with them, or pick up the album, but for god’s sake, do something.
Photos by Amanda Farah Last time we saw East India Youth in Copenhagen, he was opening for
Sónar Festival Day 2, Koncerthuset, 14.03.2015
Night two of Sónar is a very different experience from the first night. If the opening night
PLAYLIST: Sónar Copenhagen
Since its beginning in Barcelona in 1994 the electronic music festival Sónar has expanded to over 46
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"Water in Cities"
The projection of the film "Water in Cities", produced by the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO, took place on the main stage of the fair's World Water Day March 20.
As water has become a crucial problem, the film focuses on awareness raising on the current and future challenges regarding the management of urban water resources. Illustrates the water problems facing cities around the world, which manifest themselves in different shapes and sizes in both developed and developing countries, and highlights innovative and sustainable approaches towards sustainable management of urban water resources with which UNESCO seeks to help countries to address the shortcomings water in rapidly growing cities.
The film notes that the integrated management of urban water resources is central to the solutions and strategies for sustainable management of water resources.
Documentary: "Me, the Bidasoa" (Navarra´s Goverment)
Family of water and its recommendations
CONAGUA: Comisión Nacional del Agua
Water and arabians
Chapter 1. Presentation
Chapter 2. Palm tree and water
Chapter 3. The hanging gardens of Arabia
Chapter 4. Arabian legislation about water contamination
Chapter 5. Arab hydraulic mills
Chapter 6. Parchment and paper, base of civilization
Chapter 7. The Great Man-Made River in Libya
Chapter 8. Water and Arab-Andalusian music
Chapter 9. Egyptian program of water recovering under the desert.
Deltamed
Deltas Mediterranean Association
Water: Challenge of the XXI Century
Seminar on Energy and Global Environment. UPM Social Council
Duration: 17 minutos (Spanish)
Maria Teresa Estevan speaks to one of the challenges of the XXI century: the management of its infrastructure and water supply. Must be made within the framework of sustainable development. All this market should be controlled by the states.
Major dams in Spain
Support Foundation of the National Museum of Science and Technology. Cycle Engineering Construction.
Speech by José Antonio Baztán Granda, Professor of prey at the School of Civil Engineering of Madrid, where he analyzes the dams in Spain from two angles: first by the need to store water when there is, for the future and second because of the possibility to defend themselves from possible flooding.
Water in Madrid, where does it come? How much we have? How we can make a sustainable use?
IX Feria Madrid es Ciencia
Fermín Villarroya explains the problems for the Community of Madrid in terms of population density to supply the population in water resources. Comment galleries available to Madrid in S. XVIII to capture and transport the water called 'water journey' from the outside of the capital to public sources, but had major deficiencies of health so it was decided to close them to recover it through the sewer through the Canal de Isabel II.
Wastewater. How do we debug?
José Aguado tells us about the method of purifying water for reuse as a method cope with increased consumption, while proposing a debate on the amount of water available on earth for human consumption, discerning between freshwater and saltwater and distribution in the Earth's natural resources.
Water data/SIA
Water in the Internet
Water Culture
Make a question
Reservoir water
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Maindlanders can help solving Hong Kong social problems
在2014年3月29日 (六) 19:32由Etran (對話 | 貢獻)所做的修訂版本
Mainland parents with babies born in Hong Kong should be encouraged to move to Hong Kong and to alleviate the aging population problem, independent policy think tank Bauhinia Foundation Research Center says.
The Research Centre last month issued a "Hong Kong 2030 Population and manpower needs" with people criticizing the suggestion of encouraging mainlander’s ability.
“If the government does nothing to face this issue, the mainlanders will just continue to enjoy our welfares with no contribution. Uplifting the mainlander’s skill is a way to solve the problem of low labor force and low birth rate.” said Lau Ming-Wai, the vice-chairman of the research center.
There is certain difficulty to encourage the fertility rate in Hong Kong with little effective incentive from the government. The report also pointed out the cost of raising a child to 22 years old for the middle class of Hong Kong need to HK$5 mn and it will rise up to $8.6 mn after 22 years with the inflation which bring more burdens for couples to raise a child.
He said, women in developed countries have a tendency to give birth two to three children and continue to work, because the country provide excellent childcare. He believes that with comprehensive improving the service quality of the childcare in Hong Kong can ease the reluctant for couple to give birth.
Peter Lee Ka-kit, a son of property tycoon Lee Shau-kee, complained the Hong Kong university’s public opinion program releasing polls at “critical moments” with findings unfavorable to the chief executive election and proposed setting up a new agency to conduct research for Hong Kong issue. Regarding to Lee’s suggestion, Lau says” Our research center may not have such an ability to conduct large scale research to different social topics. Sometimes we also do outsourcing some projects to these kind of university public opinion program.”
取自"http://hknews.hksyu.edu/index.php/Maindlanders_can_help_solving_Hong_Kong_social_problems"
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Watch Trailer for Prince’s Appearance on ‘New Girl’
January 28th, 2014 by KRNB
Vince Bucci/STARTRAKS PHOTO via ABCPrince is set to guest-star as himself in an episode of Fox’s New Girl, set to air on Super Bowl Sunday. Now, the network is giving fans a little taste of what to expect.
Fox has shared a short teaser trailer which sees Jess, played by Zooey Deschanel and Nick, portrayed by Jake Johnson, screaming hysterically while in the presence of the legendary singer. The premise of the upcoming episode, titled “Party Time,” will be based around Prince’s notorious mansion parties, which the rest of Jess’ roommates are determined to crash.
The role marks Prince’s first-ever guest spot on a TV comedy. The episode is scheduled to air February 2 at 10:30 p.m. ET on Fox.
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Story of the Song | Hit Buju collab surprised Nadine - Hopes to perform with Banton after release
Published:Sunday | March 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Buju Banton performing at a staging of Rebel Salute.
In the 1990s, Nadine Sutherland walked into a record store in London, England, and was congratulated for having a number one song with deejay Buju Banton. Her response was, "I don't have a song with Buju Banton."
After some insistence on both sides, playing the hit song sealed the deal. Sutherland laughs as she melodiously recounts hearing herself singing, "ooh wah, ooh wah" from the start of her song, Never Wanna Fall in Love, then hearing Buju's gravelly tones come in with "dickie dickie".
It was the first time she was hearing, Wicked Dickie, the combination of her song and Buju's Dickie (which appears on the 1993 Mr Mention album).
"I was slightly embarrassed that I did not know my own song. I was trying not to get into 'slackness', so when I heard the 'd' word... ," Sutherland said, laughing. Naturally, she had seen Buju at Penthouse studio on Slipe Road, St Andrew, but had not known before that their separate recordings had been fused seamlessly to good effect.
Ironically, at the time, Sutherland was in England pursuing another musical direction as she was working on R&B songs. Over two decades later, one of those, Love Comes Back to You, a combination with Simon Law, has had its acclaim. She points out that her father is heavily into sound systems, so nobody should have been surprised about her affinity for dancehall, although she did approach it from a diverse background, Sutherland pointing out that she had classical training - and the trophies to prove her excellence.
Still, Wicked Dickie pulled her further into dancehall, a path that led to Action - with Terror Fabulous and the remake of Anything For You, with Snow, Beenie Man, Buju Banton, Terror Fabulous, Louie Culture, and Kulcha Knox - among other songs.
In addition to not recording Wicked Dickie with Buju Banton, Sutherland says that she has never performed it with him. She hopes that that will change when Banton is released from prison, that, optimally, slated for late this year. It is not the only Buju Banton combination she would like to do live with the deejay as their song, What Am I Gonna Do, which is included on the album, she says, "I am looking forward."
Both Wicked Dickie and What Am I Gonna Do are on the 2004 CD, Buju and Friends.
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John Riddle, Sr.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Name John Riddle
Suffix Sr.
Born 1680 Prince George's Co., Maryland [1]
Died Between 19 Aug 1745 and 20 May 1746 Prince George's Co., Maryland [8, 9]
Person ID I10490 Family
Father John Riddle, b. 1640, Prince George's Co., Maryland , d. 26 Nov 1739, Prince George's Co., Maryland (Age 99 years)
Family 1 Elizabeth Bowman, b. Abt 1683, Prince George's Co., Maryland , d. Abt 1720, Prince George's Co., Maryland (Age ~ 37 years)
Married 2 Sep 1700 Prince George's Co., Maryland [1, 4, 5]
1. Benjamin Riddle, b. Abt 1703, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's Co., Maryland , d. 23 Mar 1750, Frederick Co., Maryland (Age ~ 47 years)
2. Elizabeth Riddle, b. 1704, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's Co., Maryland , d. Aft 1745, Prince George's Co., Maryland (Age > 42 years)
3. John Riddle, Jr., b. 25 Jul 1708, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's Co., Maryland , d. 1794, Prince George's Co., Maryland (Age 85 years)
4. George Riddle, b. 10 Sep 1710, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's Co., Maryland , d. Aft 31 Jan 1761 (Age > 51 years)
Family 2 Margaret
Married Abt 1720 Prince George's Co., Maryland [10]
1. Elizabeth Riddle, b. 13 Dec 1721, Saint Barnabas Church,Queen Anne Parish,Prince Georges,Maryland , d. Aft 19 Aug 1745, Frederick, Prince George's Co., Maryland (Age > 24 years)
Family 3 Eleanor Thompson, b. Aft 1710, Prince George's Co., Maryland
Married 31 May 1735 Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's Co., Maryland [1, 3, 7, 9]
Born - 1680 - Prince George's Co., Maryland
Married - 2 Sep 1700 - Prince George's Co., Maryland
Married - Abt 1720 - Prince George's Co., Maryland
Died - Between 19 Aug 1745 and 20 May 1746 - Prince George's Co., Maryland
See William Riddle born c 1688 ID:13676. Could be John William Riddle born 1688?
There is a Walter Riddle ID 13473 of Talbot Co., Maryland who was born about 1660. No relation to John Riddle, Sr.
Early Riddles in Virginia and Maryland (1623-1664)
As reported by Doratha Riddle Marsh in her book, the "Branches of One Riddle Family Tree", a census of those living in Virginia, dated the 16th of February 1623, shows a Sara Riddall. Based on Marsh's research, this is the first Riddle to settle in North America.
As also recorded by Doratha Riddle Marsh in her book referenced above, in 1635 William Riddle came to Virginia from London, England, aboard a vessel commanded by Captain Leonard Betts. Robert Ridley also came in 1635 and settled in Isle of Wight County. By then the population had grown to 5,000. Although Indian raids continued, settlements were established along the rivers of the lower Tidewater. During the next 28 years three more Riddles arrive in Virginia:
1651 - George Eaton transported, among others, a James Riddle to Rappa River, Virginia.
1652 - John Riddle was transported to Virginia by Mrs. Elnor Brocas, wife of Capt. William Brocas.
1663 - Edward Riddle owned land in Elizabeth City, Virginia.
In 1664, Robert Riddle was transported to Maryland from England. Robert is believed to be the first Riddle in Maryland.
Sep. 10, 1717 Maryland State Archives CR49-521,1739-1743, Page 469-471. John (Ridle) Riddle Prince George's County, Maryland petition agent of management of Land Affairs within Province of Maryland paid fee for 50 acres of land called Poplar Thickett. Hugh Riley had already been granted 100 acres of the Original Poplar Thickett under New Rent by Sundry Median Conveyances Alienation and Mutations of Possession Act. This petition was sent to London.
Dec. 15, 1738. London still had John Riddle's petition on file and his fee. They resurveyed and found vacant land. John Riddle and his heirs were given 63-1/2 acres on May 17, 1745. The Addition to Poplar Thickett and additional land. Son John Jr. owned this property until his death in 1794. Son Zachariah, administrator sold this property in 1795.
Note Hugh Riley was given 100 acres of Poplar Thickett under The New Rent Act.
18 Oct. 1716 Hugh Riley and wife Rebecca sold 100 acres of Poplar Thickett to John Prather Jr. and Thomas Prather. the property was at the north end of Friendship Manor of Calverton.
Index 55, Drawer 3, 9 Sep. 10, 1717, John Riddle bought from John Prother 50 acres which was part of Poplar Thickett.
John born 1680's now owns 2 tracts of land. 63-1/2 acres of The Addition to Poplar Thickett and 50 acres of Poplar Thickett.,
From Faye Bocock fayebock42 (Ancestry Riddle Family Tree)
Don’t know where she got this info. No sources.
William Riddle (1640-1739)
Married 1661 to Elenor born 1650
Elizabeth (1675-1731)
James (1676-)
John (1680-1745)
Marriages and Births – Queen Anne’s Parish (1700s), Prince George’s County, Maryland Salt Lake FHC Film No. 0014304, Item 3
NOTES: The film was read and marriages transcribed, alphabetized by surnames then the birth section was transcribed and the children placed under the parents' names by me. If the parentage was not obvious, the children and the parents listed in the film were listed as separate entities. The film was not completely clear on all the dates and some of the children's names were not given but where there are questions as to the correct date, name, etc.
Husband Wife Date Married Minister
Child Born Date Born John Riddell Elizabeth ??
George Riddell Born September 10, 1710
John Riddle Margaret??
Elizabeth Riddle Born December 10, 1721
John Riddle Eleanor Lee May 31, 1735 Jacob Henderson
I found the following records on Basil Riddle, together with others of his family, in Saint Barnabas Church, Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges, Maryland:
Parents are listed as John and Elizabeth Riddle. The date span between the various children's births makes me doubt that this is all one family. I will put down what I have, for what it's worth. It seems to go along with some of the List messages this week about Jeremiah and George Riddle as well as Basil.
Children - parents always listed as John & Elizabeth:
John Riddell b. 25 Jul 1708
George Riddell b. 10 Sep 1710
John Riddle b. 16 Nov 1734
George Riddle b. Jan 1735
(male) Riddle b. 15 Aug 1738
(male) Riddle b. 10 Dec 1740
Elizabeth Riddle b. 1741
(female) Riddle b. 1743
Basil Riddle b. 1759
Jeremiah Riddle b. 1761
All are taken from parish record of St. Barnabas Ch., Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges, MD. FHL film 014304.
The will of John Riddle (father of John, Jr.) was made in Prince Georges Co., MD Aug. 19, 1745 and recorded May 20, 1746 (Liber 24, Folio 402). It names his wife, Elinor; son, John; and daughter, Elizabeth Linton. “Maryland Marriage Records”, Annie Walker Burns, undated, “Eliza Riddle, daughter of John & Eleanor of Prince Georges Co., married George Linton.” This wrong. Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Margaret Riddle.
LAND OFFICE
(Certificates, Patented, Prince George's)
Plat:
Patented Certificate 1827
Resurvey On Part Of Poplar Thickett, John Riddles, 113 Acres
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagser/s1200/s1203/001900/001922/tif/dsl01922-1.jpg
1747 Patent Record TI 1, p. 48 Part of Poplar Thickett, 113 Acres; Certificate S1596-3225
1747 Patent Record BT and BY 3, p. 469 Part of Poplar Thickett, 113 Acres; Patent S1596-3226
1700-1725 Prince George's County MD rent rolls Vol 3
100a .. 04.. POPLAR THICKETT Surveyed: 03/01/1715
Surveyed for Hugh Riley beginning at a bounded poplar being the beginning tree of a tract of land called "Friendship." Patented: 07/10/1716.
Conveyances & Re-surveys:
10/08/1716 John & Thomas Prather from Hugh Riley - 100 acres
1710-1717 Land Records of Prince George's County MD
folio 566 • Indenture, 8 Oct 1716
From: Hugh Riley, Senr,, planter of Prince George's County
To: John Prather, Junr. and Thomas Prather, sons of Jonathan Prather, Senr.
For 22£ a parcel of land called Poplar Thicket on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac lying on the north end of Friendship; containing 100 acres
Signed: Hugh Riley (seal)
Witnessed: Robt. Tyler
Memo: Hugh Riley and his wife Rebecca Riley acknowledged deed
Prince George's Land Records 1717-1726 - Liber F - Folio: 214/801; Indenture, 3 Mar 1718
From: Hugh Riley, planter of Prince George's County
To: John Riddle of Prince George's County
For £20 a parcel of land called Green Spring of 110 acres; on Long Branch of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac
/s/ Hugh Riley (seal)
Wit: James Stoddert, Anne Brown (mark), John Stoddert Acknowledged by Rebecca Riley, wife of Hugh; enrolled 3 Jul 1719
1739-1743 Land Records of Prince George's County MD {TLC}
Liber Y, Page 259
11 Mar 1740; Recorded at request of John Riddle, Jr.:
6 Nov 1740; Bond between John Prather, Sr., planter, and John Riddle, Jr.; for £40; obligation mentions Poplar Thickett; /sf John Prather, Sr.; wit. John Medcalfe (mark), Ninian Mariarte [1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12]
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Padua: Immigrants to start street patrols
Immigrants in the northern city of Padua were due late on Friday to begin street patrols, offering their own response to a recent wave of violent crime including rapes allegedly committed by immigrants against Italian women.
The patrols are the initiative of Egyptian-born journalist Ahmed Mohamed and the first ones were due to set off from the headquarters of local La9 TV station and head for Padova's high-immigrant Stanga district.
Friday's patrol was due to be led by representatives from the local Romanian, Bulgarian and Moroccan associations. Many of the rapes and other violent crimes against women that have recently shocked Italy have allegedly been committed by Romanians and Moroccans.
"It should be known that foreigners want the government to show zero tolerance to illegal immigrants and those who commit crimes - they damage the reputation of those of us who live respectably," Mohamed told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"We are among immigrants who want more security and more of a sense of identity. We don't just want rights but also a sense of duty towards our host country," he added.
"Security must be guaranteed to all and crime does not have a particular skin colour. For this reason we want more safety on the streets and more legality," Mohamed concluded.
Source: AKI (English)
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Belgium: Dewinter, 'Islam is a predator'
Dewinter's TV interview is available online (in Dutch)
"Islamophobia is an obligation," says Filip Dewinter in his book "Insha'Allah? The Islamization of Europe" which will be out Monday. The Antwerp head of Vlaams Belang thinks Islam is a predator which is attacking weak Europe. He asks for cutting back on the structures of Islam which are forming in Flanders, stopping Islamization and stopping immigration from Muslim countries.
Is his book Filip Dewinter aims not at Muslims, but at Islam as an ideology. "The moderate Muslims are many but they are not relevant. The radical Muslims who have the mosques in their power are," he said tonight on Terzake (Canvas). He also spoke on Nieuws of VTM.
Dewinter wants to cut off the Muslims by pursing a strict police concerning antenna dishes, internet and other digital communications. The Flemish and local governments should conduct a stricter study of mosques for recognition and subsidies. They must be subjected to permanent security supervision. The structures that Islam is expanding in Flanders and Europe should be cut back.
Filip Dewinter wrote his book under his own name, but had his party administration read it. It seems that the points of view correspond to a large degree with those of Vlaams Belang. Dewinter thinks that the debate about Islam should be conducted during the upcoming elections campaign.
Source: HLN (Dutch)
See also: Belgium: Filip Dewinter on immigration and integration
Rotterdam: Theater offers separate seating, no takers
The Zuidplein Theater is reserving places for Muslim women! There was a lot of indignation: on various internet forums hundred of condemning reactions flooded in yesterday, particularly from ethnic Dutch. And those in question? They shrug and have no need for separate seats.
Headscarf, loose long hair, male, female, Dutch, Moroccans. They sat yesterday evening together for the popular Salaheddine, the born-in-Morocco writer and TV maker who made his debut on the stage of the Rotterdam Zuidplein theater.
Also on the balcony, where the first five rows were reserved for women. But the handful of young, hip women who went up to the balcony did so only because the hall beneath was full. There were also several men standing to get a place. Which was possible once the theater workers removed the dozens of signs.
The reserving was made by request of Salaheddine himself. To be safe, but there appeared to be no interest in it. "Moroccans are beginning to look more and more like Dutch," couldn't have been a better first line for his theater show.
The theater however didn't think the request by the stand-up comedian was unjust. "We are a low-threshold, multicultural folk theater which aims at people of a vocational educational level That is a tough group to get to a theater and therefore we adapt ourselves," said a theater spokesperson.
"So we arrange child-care of a prayer area if there's a demand for it. And if we have community art for people from the surrounding neighborhoods, we're asked if women could sit apart. Although that is mostly for an older generation of Muslim women than those who are coming here tonight."
Source: AD (Dutch)
Denmark: Higher risk for infant mortality among Pakistanis, Somalis, Turks
Pakistani, Somali and Turkish immigrant women in Denmark have a higher risk for stillborn children than Danish women, according to a new study by the University of Southern Denmark.
In fact, they incidence of stillborns is almost double as by Danish women, and the same goes for infant mortality - the risk that a baby will die in its first year.
Epidemiology professor at the University of Southern Denmark Anne Marie Nybo Andersen headed the study and she says that one of the explanation for the problem might be marriage within the family.
Anne Marie Nybo Andersen told Newspaq that it's uncertain whether immigrant women get the same prenatal diagnostics of inborn deformities as Danish-born women. Moreover, there's a tradition in these immigrant groups to marry within the family and it's been known for many years that there's an increased risk for infant mortality among such couples.
In Denmark, 40% of Pakistani couples are relatives.
On the other hand, there are no differences in the statistics between women from Denmark, Lebanon and the former Yugoslavia.
For this reason the experts in this study don't think the higher death rate among infants is caused by poorer social circumstances, since the Lebanese immigrants are on one of the lowest rungs of the social ladder.
With this new information in hand, Anne Marie Nybo Andersen says that people should be better informed of the disadvantages of having children with a family member.
She says they should ensure that there will be proper information about the risk of marriage within the family and they they should also study if the health care agencies give the same good service to everybody.
Source: Avisen (Danish)
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Labels: Location: Denmark
US: Iraqi-Dutch confesses to roadside bombing
An Iraqi-born Dutch suspect accused of planting roadside bombs in Iraq has pleaded guilty at his US trial.
Wesam al-Delaema, who was extradited from the Netherlands two years ago, is the first suspected Iraq insurgent to be tried in the US.
He agreed to a 25-year prison sentence on charges of conspiracy to murder Americans outside the US, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Born in Falluja, he returned to Iraq after the US-led invasion.
He was among a group that videotaped themselves planting remote-controlled explosives by a road used by US troops. The explosives did not cause any deaths.
Mr Delaema was arrested in May 2005 in the Dutch city of Amersfoort following a tip-off from US authorities.
Source: BBC (English)
Russia: Muftis call to boycott Dutch flowers
Muslim Spiritual Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region urged their believers to boycott goods from Holland in response to the movie coming in the country and insulting, as muftis believe, Prophet Muhammad's wives.
"To respond such an offence, Muslims of the world have decided to boycott goods made in Holland and film authors and an MP will bear responsibility for all consequences of this action," Deputy Head of the Regional Mufti Council on educational work Abdulbari Muslimov said in his address.
The author noted that Holland tulips and roses are very popular in Russia as many people buy them for February 23 and March 8.
"However, we have to find a substitute for this pleasant habit as our religion urge us to do good and correct evil," Muslimov said.
According to him, a legal method of "correcting evil" is "a boycott of goods, public criticism and prayer for correction." The Muftis representative urged Muslims not to buy "even a gram of goods "made in Holland" and lift prayers "to correct madmen who desecrate religious shrines."
However, when an Interfax correspondent asked the author to specify what film he opposes, he was at a loss and repeated it was about the Prophet's wives.
Head of the Coordinating Center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus Ismail Berdiyev is ironic about the appeal to boycott Holland flowers made by the Nizhny Novgorod muftis.
"When I heard that Muslims from the Nizhniy Novgorod Region urged not to buy flowers from Holland, I thought they have started growing tulips themselves," Mufti Berdiyev told Interfax-Religion.
Berdiyev noted that "to declare a boycott, you have to do something yourself."
"Thus, we can come to deport chief coach of Russian national team Guus Hiddink," the interviewee of the agency said.
According to him, if the movie, opposed by Muslims from the Nizhny Novgorod Region, really insults Islam and feelings of the believers "it should be nipped in the bud."
"However, those who grow flowers have nothing to do with it. You should address those who insults," Berdiyev said.
Source: Interfax 1, 2 (English)
UK: Islamists lecturing on political Islam
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London is organizing a Political Islam course to be held in a few weeks.
The five day course will feature academics and people involved in the area of political Islam, but it will also feature Islamists:
* Sheikh Abdualla Anas - Fought with the Afghan Mujahideen and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Founder of the 'Office of Services', the 'forerunner of al-Qaeda'.
* Dr Ibrahim El Moussaoui - former head of the foreign department at Al-Manar TV, the official media outlet of Hizbullah in Lebanon
* Dr Kamal Helbawy - Former spokesman of the International Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. A veteran activist involved in Islamist politics worldwide. He assisted in the creation of the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain.
* Professor Tariq Ramadan.
The Centre for Social Cohesion reports that the course is intended for govermnet officials and police, and participants will be paying up to £1890.
US: Connections to European Al-Qaeda
From 1993 through 1995, Paul, using various passports and names, traveled to the Balkans in Europe and fought in conflict zones such as Bosnia, establishing further contact with radical Islamic fundamentalists, and creating a master list of al Qaeda leaders and other Islamic radicals worldwide. This list and bomb-making information was seized during the execution of a search warrant at the defendant's home.
Paul returned to Columbus after fighting in the Balkans, and, in 1997, received a fax from two al Qaeda co-conspirators in Europe asking, on behalf of "the brothers," for Paul to find them a "true group and place to make jihad." While in Columbus, Paul conducted training operations in Burr Oak State Park in Ohio with several members of his local group, replicating terrorist training he had received in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
Preparing to travel again overseas, Paul obtained a new passport after claiming his old passport – in one of his other aliases – had been damaged by water. Beginning in March 31, 1999, and continuing through Jan. 31, 2000, Paul made 44 calls to an Islamic fundamentalist co-conspirator in Europe, who was arrested in 2003 and later convicted of a terrorist conspiracy.
On April 16, 1999, Paul traveled to meet with members of an Islamic terror cell in Germany, who knew him as an expert in bomb-making/detonation devices. In Germany, Paul provided explosives training to the cell knowing that it was planning to use this training to construct bombs, car bombs, and similar devices to be used against Americans while they vacationed at foreign tourist resorts. The German terrorist cell also planned to use bombs against Americans in the United States, and against U.S. facilities abroad, such as U.S. embassies, diplomatic premises and military bases in Europe.
Upon his return to Ohio from Germany, Paul had a member of his group in Columbus purchase a printer / scanner in May 1999. The printer/scanner was then sent to one of the German terror cell members in order to help the cell manufacture fraudulent documents to facilitate worldwide travel. The cell member did not claim the package in Germany and it was sent back to Paul. During this time, Paul also bought other equipment to be used by extremists, including night vision equipment and a laser range finder. Additional similar items were found during the execution of search warrants by the Columbus FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. Furthermore, in November 1999, bank records show that Paul wire transferred $1,760 to one of the principal members of the German cell.
Source: FBI (English)
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Denmark: Headscarf on mosque school trip
Everybody is so focused on the headscarf issue that nobody seems to care that the class is going on a school trip to what is considered an extremist mosque. The mosque on Dortheavej is the Islamic Faith Society's mosque, made famous by Abu Laban. Abu Laban successor, Mostafa Chendid, made headlines when he said all women should wear a headscarf, since 10% of men are sex-crazed maniacs (see Denmark: Women should stop tempting men and Denmark: The new sheik of Dortheavej).
More on the mosque and Islamic Faith Society:
* Denmark: Islamic Society connected to Muslim Brotherhood
* Denmark: Turkish Muslims oppose Islamic Society
* Denmark: Islamic Society accused of being radicals/apostates
* Copenhagen: Imams cooperating with Hizb ut-Tahrir
Danish newspaper B.T. reported today about Amanda, a Danish 3rd grader from a Copenhagen suburb school, who had to stay in class while her class visited the Dortheavej mosque, all because she refused to wear a headscarf.
Her mother, Maia Thorup, though her daughter shouldn't be forced to wear a headscarf and two more parents later complained. Maia Thorup says that her daughter refused because they oppose oppression at home. She says it's fine for them to visit a mosque and see how others live and practice their religion and it's also fine for integration, but it's not fair that a nine year old should be forced to wear a headscarf.
She says people should respect each other, and Muslims are also not forced to eat pork in hospitals or elsewhere in public.
In response teacher Semail Wanscher told her that her daughter would have to stay in school during the trip. She added that most Muslim women don't feel oppressed, though Westerners thinks they are.
All the 3rd grade teachers decided the girls should wear the headscarf. Teacher Semail told B.T. that this was so they can learn and feel what it's like to be a Muslim. The mosque visit was in the framework of a school project on Islam.
B.T. removed the article about the other complaints, but Norwegian site document.no has a piece of it. The parents of an Iranian girl wrote the teacher that they fled Iran due to oppression and will in no way accept that their daughter would wear a headscarf. It's OK to go to a mosque, as long as it's without a headscarf.
The two other parents backed down, but Maria Thorup didn't and so Amanda was left behind.
The school told B.T. that they reject the teachers' decision. Mogens Steenbuch, the school's prinicpal says that the school doesn't think that girls should be forced to wear a headscarf if they don't want to." When B.T. called him Wed. night he also said that it's a mistake to keep a child out of class because she does not wish to wear a headscarf. He also doesn't know of any requirement in Islam for minor girls to wear a headscarf.
The chairman of the Islamic Faith Society, Bilal Assaad, says that they'll never dream of such a request and that visitors are free to decide whether they want to put on a headscarf or not. He says it is probably the teachers who wanted the students to do so. Assaad says it's completely mistaken for non-Muslims to imitate Muslims.
He says he can understand Amanda's mother, since Amanda isn't a Muslim. "You must also remember that it's not Saudi Arabia where all women are covered the whole time. We live in Denmark, and it's also our land." Assaad added that in the summer Danes come for visits in light summer clothes.
The mosque has between 150-200 visits a year of groups of 20-70 people.
Assaad says that many different people come to visit to see how Muslims act in day-to-day life, or to experience a Friday prayer.
Source: BT 1, 2, 3 (Danish), h/t document.no
Labels: Mosques and Imams, Muslim veil
Identity Crisis: Muslims in Europe
JTA has a series of articles on Muslim in Europe.
* The making of Islamic terrorists
* Can Britain de-program the radicalism of its Muslim population?
* Politics and power: The Muslim factor in European politics
* A Holocaust lesson for Muslim youth in Europe
* Fear and loathing in Europe: Islamophobia and the challenge of integration
* Muslim-Jewish ties: Trying to talk, not fight, in one Paris neighborhood
Germany: 60 terrorist training camp graduates
Up to 140 people from Germany have attended terrorist training camps and 60 have returned to the country, government officials told Berliner Morgenpost this week.
Head of the Interior Ministry's anti-terrorism unit Hans-Georg Maaßen told the paper on Wednesday that those 60, who include German citizens as well as immigrants with residency permits, are currently living in the country.
Maaßen argued their return was a good reason for the German upper house of parliament to pass a controversial new anti-terrorism law in the coming weeks. The law would give officials more authority to prosecute crimes that endanger the state, such as attending terrorist training camps in Afghanistan or Pakistan. After months of arguing, the grand coalition government managed to agree on a bill, and the Bundesrat will vote on it March 6.
Should it be passed by parliament as expected, any involvement with suspected terrorist groups, including contacting them, preparing for a terror attack by collecting money, financing terrorist activities, gathering bomb materials, spending time in a terrorist training camp or publishing bomb-building instructions will be punishable by up to 10 years under the new legislation. Building a bomb, even if someone does not detonate it, could mean up to three years in jail, for instance.
Source: The Local (English)
Denmark: The Danish Terrorists
Danish broadcaster DR broadcast a documentary yesterday about the Danish terrorists. The documentary is available for viewing online.
Seven Danes have now been sentenced for planning terror attacks in Denmark or abroad and several are suspects. The first time viewers got to look the young Muslims in the face was when DR got access to those sentenced and those around them. They show that they seldom come from any particularly religious background. Instead they have been radicalized as youth here in Denmark.
Palestinian Mohammad Zaher (36) from Vollsmose sits in the state prison in Østjylland. He came to Denmark from Syria 10 years ago and is a Danish citizen. The high court sentenced Mohamed Zaher to 12 years in prison for attempted terrorism. He downloaded bomb manuals and prices the extremely sensitive explosive TATP.
In the documentary Mohammed Zaher tells for the first time on TV about his background and what he was doing when he was arrested in one of the biggest terror operations in Denmark's history. Mohammad Zaher tells how he first became religious, after he came to Denmark in 1998.
"When I came to Denmark I was 25 years old and just at the beginning of my adult life. I generally had no religious background then. I didn't pray to God. I was a completely normal person. But when I came to Denmark I discovered that I wasn't on the right path. People should live in accordance to their religion and pray to God. That is the most important thing."
Mohammad Zaher's background and religiosity is characteristic for all the youth who were arrested for attempted terrorism in Denmark. Altogether, 7 Danes were sentenced for terrorism and none of the sentenced or suspect came from outside. Some were born in Denmark - others were raised here in Denmark and got Danish citizenship. It is characteristic that only very few of those arrested come from any particularly religious background or family. Instead there's a dramatic upheaval in their life in Denmark when they meet other youth in the mosque. Together the youth develop in a steadily more radical direction here in Denmark.
Magnus Ranstorp of the Swedish military academy analyzed on the program what gets young Danish Muslims to suddenly turn against the society they grew up in.
"They look for a strictly black-and-white answer. It's a form of rebel activity. Some will even argue that it's cool. Bin Laden became Che Guevara. This era's great revolutionary here, who opposes the USA - the youth are seeking and eventually they end up in the wrong corner."
Mohammad Zaher has denied guilt throughout the whole trial and think that he's gotten an unfair trial in conflict with the fundamental principles of law. In the program, DR reviewed the court case against him and discovered how the PET (police security service) employed a civilian agent who played an exceptionally active role.
At the same time, viewers got to see Mohammed Zaher relate to the police evidence for the first time. DR also follows Zaher's relatives and friends when they go from Vollsmose to Copenhagen, where the high court passed a historic sentence. Twelve years in prison for attempted terrorism.
Another Dane, who was sentenced for attempted terrorism is Abdulkadir Cesur from Avedøre. As a 19 year old he was arrested in an apartment in Bosnia, where police found 20kg of auburn explosive, a suicide belt and a Browning pistol with a silencer. Cesur was sentenced to 6 years and 4 months in prison for attempted terrorism.
Abdulkadir Cesur was born and grew up in Denmark. In the program Cesur's father tell how a boy from Avedøre suddenly ended in a terror cell in Bosnia. In Bosnia Danish Cesur met with Swedish Mirsad Bektasevic - AKA Maximus - which Cesur met three times earlier in a mosque in Copenhagen. Through Maximus Cesur got entangled in the terrorist community, which his parents had no idea suspicion that their son was part of. DR goes with the father when he visits his son in a Bosnian prison north of Sarajevo.
Not one of those whom DR met admit that they intended to blow up a bomb, either in Denmark or abroad. DR discovers instead the youth's attitudes to the society they grew up in. DR's talks in the community show that those involved see the term terrorism completely differently than the way it's descibed in the Western media. They see themselves as victims who just defend themselves - against attack in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan or other war zones.
In a suicide video which was found in the house where the Dane Cesur and the Swede Maximus were arrested it was said as follows:
"These weapons will be used against Europe. Against those who have their forces in Iraq and in Afghanistan." (parts of the video can be seen here, I don't see that they mention Afghanistan)
To the question of what Mohammed Zaher wants to say to the youth who want to go to Iraq and fight against Denmark and the USA, he says:
"It's completely natural. Iraq is occupied by America. If anybody fights you because of your religion, for example Islam, it is natural that you retaliate to it."
Source: DR (Danish)
* Danish Jihad - a study
* Sweden: Movie on local terrorists
* Denmark: Terrorism case to be reopened
* Denmark: Three convicted in terror case
* Denmark: Missing evidence in terror trial
* Denmark: Terrorism update
* Denmark: Mohammed cartoons possible motive for terror
* Bosnia: Sentences for terrorist Swede and Dane reduced
Germany: Human rights group against headscarf ban
Laws banning female teachers from wearing the Islamic headscarf in parts of Germany violate the rights of Muslim women, according to a report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The ban, in force in half of the 16 German states, "discriminates against Muslim women, excluding them from teaching and other public sector employment on the basis of their faith," the report said.
HRW said countries that forbid the wearing of the headscarf, or hijab, violate women's rights just as much as nations that force women to wear it.
"The measures effectively force women to choose between their employment and the manifestation of their religious beliefs, violating their right to freedom of religion and equal treatment," the New York-based HRW said.
The Islamic headscarf has been the subject of heated political debate in Germany, home to three million Muslims and the biggest Turkish community outside Turkey.
Following a series of court cases, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled it was up to Germany's states to decide their policy, prompting an even split amongst the 16 regions.
"The regulations are not abstract concerns. The restrictions have a profound effect on women's lives," HRW said.
Female teachers refusing to remove their headscarf have been reprimanded and in some cases dismissed, the report said, citing testimony from dozens affected by the ban.
"To renounce the headscarf is very difficult. On the first day I 'disguised' myself in the school toilet. When a colleague spoke to me, I broke down in tears," said one woman identified in the report as Rabia.
"My son asked me, 'what is more important, Allah or work?' I answered him that it is complicated," she added.
Source: AFP (English)
Paris: Graffiti artist hijabizing ads
"Princess Hijab knows that L’Oréal and Dark & Lovely have been killing her little by little. With her spray paint and black marker pen, she is out to hijabize advertising. Even Kate Moss is targeted. By day, she wears a white veil, symbol of purity. By night, her black veil is the expression of her vengeful fight for a cause," states Princess Hijab (princesshijab.org) in her manifesto.
What is that cause? In a nutshell, it is to subvert consumer images—especially of women—and to push cultural boundaries.
And few are spared the Princess' black marker and spray paint in her artistic Jihad.
In the online gallery of her "hijabizing" of ad campaigns, lightly clad models in ads for Virgin Music and various clothing companies have been re-dressed by the Princess in veils and chadors (body-length veil), their eyes popping out of face-covering hijabs.
They are striking as much as they are irreverent, and they have caused anger in both Muslim and secular circles.
Princess Hijab told MENASSAT that her hijab campaigns are not plastered on the streets of Paris as an act of "art for art's sake," but instead represent a part of what she calls "art propositions for a more global idea."
In this global idea, Princess Hijab means she pursues what she calls her "noble cause," or her "anti-advertising movement" in an attempt to fight today's mainstream and sexist consumerism.
Who is Princess Hijab?
"I created PH to be connected. I wanted to mix elements from different extractions and cultures, starting from my initial subject: the veiled woman. I believe it's the reason why PH had such an impact. She never let herself be defined by religion nor gender. It was really crucial for me,: she said.
And like other culture jammers like Banksy in the UK, Princess Hijab has chosen to remain anonymous. "I like secrets and it corresponds to something quite intimate to me," she said.
Asked whether she might reveal her identity in the future, she answered, "It's not impossible."
Not surprisingly, Princes Hijab's decision to remain anonymous has caused discussion and debate among bloggers and in online forums.
"Is she a Muslim or not? Or is Princess Hijab perhaps even a man?" are some of the questions being asked.
At one point, there was even talk about whether the Princess' first black and white hijab ad, which depicts a veiled woman with "Hijab Ad" written below it, was indeed a self-portrait of the artist.
Prince Habib's guerrilla street art has so far been featured at several art exhibitions, including one in Norway recently.
But the young artist stresses that it took a while for people to accept her alternative art, saying her hijab ads and projects were perceived quite negatively at first.
Source: Menassat (English), h/t Advice Goddess
Labels: Culture and Art, Muslim veil
Austria: Calls for resignation of Muslim community head
The dismissal of a progressive Muslim teacher by the IGGiÖ (Islamic faith community of Austria) Wednesday provoked an outcry among politicians, who criticized the conservatism of this institution.
El Ghoubashy was punished for publishing an opinion column in Der Standard Tuesday where he said that Islam classes, as they were planned, failed to integrate Young Muslims into society [Lernen für das Leben in der Isolation (Learning for life in isolation)]. The president of the IGGiÖ, Anas Schakfeh, justified this decision, stressing that these remarks deliberately caused considerable harm to the organization.
The Social-Democrat Party of Chancellor Werner Faymaan strongly condemned the dismissal. Punishing a religion teacher who says he supports internal reform is completely incomprehensible and contrary to the intention of the Education Ministry, they said. Unusually in agreement, the opposition Greens party, as well as FPÖ and BZÖ, both of the extreme right, called in the strongest terms for the resignation of Schakfeh.
In office since 1999, Schakfeh's position weakened in recent weeks when he tried to prevent the publication of a study by the University of Vienna which showed 22% of Islam teachers interviewed in Austria rejected democracy. Moreover, in mid-February he was ordered by Education Minister Claudia Schmied to fire a teacher who distributed in class a list of "Jewish" multinationals to boycott.
Austria finances religious classes which, besides exemptions, are obligatory in schools. Appointing and inspecting teachers is, however, the responsibility of the different religious communities. Austria employs 294 Islam teachers for 50,000 Muslim students.
Source: 7sur7 (French)
* Vienna: Muslim community upset at teacher sacking
* Austria: Islam teachers - 22% oppose democracy, 8% support violence
* Austria: Reform of Islam lessons
Labels: Location: Austria
I set up an 'Islam In Europe Facebook page.
Facebook members are welcome to comment, share, upload images etc.
Non-Facebook members can follow the RSS feed there
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Netherlands: BREAKING: Turkish plane crashes
Update 3:
Jihad en Hajar Alariachi, two of the Dutch 'Halal Girls', were aboard the plane. Jihad was lightly injured. (NL)
Final death toll: 9 dead. 25 seriously injured and about 25 less seriously injured. (NL)
Uncertainty about the number of casualties. De Telegraaf reports seven dead, 25 seriously injured, 60 lightly injured. All those who survived the crash are off the plane. (NL)
A Turkish Airlines (THYAO.IS) passenger plane with 135 people aboard crashed while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, authorities said.
The plane broke up when it hit the ground next to the runway.
Still images shown on Dutch television showed the plane on the ground, with the tail section of the fuselage broken off, and a wide crack in the fuselage just behind cockpit. The jetliner did not appear to be on fire.
As many as 50 passengers escaped injury, the CNBC Turkey channel said.
Officials at Istanbul's Ataturk airport said the plane had departed earlier from Istanbul.
THY was not immediately available for comment.
Source: Reuters (English)
Malmö: Advice for Oslo
Following up on Siv Jensen's claim that Oslo is heading in the direction of Malmö, some advice from Malmö residents:
Imam Ali Ibrahim hopes Oslo won't have neighborhoods like Rosengård. Not one student in school has Swedish as a mother tongue. A majority of the adults are unemployed.
He has a large, white beard and is called "Tomten" (The elf). Ali Ibrahim (63) is Sweden's only municipally employed imam. As cultural consultant in the Rosengård school his job is to bridge between Muslim parents and Swedish society, which they often don't understand or know anything about.
Scandinavia's most immigrant-filled neighborhood, where close to 90% have a foreign background, has against caught negative attention in the media. Ibrahim and many other shake their heads at the assertions of Sharia laws and extremist Islam. But Ibrahim , who's originally from Egypt, is absolutely clear that there should be a limit to how many immigrants live in one place.
"In Rosengård the school is the only link to Swedish society, but there are no Swedish students here," he says.
In Olso, immigrants are now the majority in several areas in Groruddalen and Søndre Nordstrand. Ibrahim hopes Oslo won't have neighborhoods like Rosengård.
"The best solution is to spread people better and get a mix with Swedes or Norwegians"
Many children grow up with parents who don't speak Swedish or who never had a job. He took a group on a tour of Gothenburg. They asked: "Are we still in Sweden?", "What language do they speak here?"
Two young, modern-dressed women under the glass-roof of a shopping center, freely tell about life, both good and bad, in the neighborhood. Despite too much trouble, vandalism and crime, Marina Noorzai (18) and Nour Yasin (19) think it's not dangerous to live here.
"It's people from outside who are scared," says Marina.
Neither wears a hijab and Miriam played football in short shorts. They've never noticed any religious pressure. But they also warn against immigrant-only neighborhoods.
"Many here never learned Swedish. But we live in Sweden, we must learn the language and culture. The best is half of each."
In the neighborhood administration, next-door to the shopping center, neighborhood head Eva Alterbeck dreams of exactly that.
"50% immigrants should be the limit both in school and the neighborhood," she says.
Her advice to Oslo is to build mixed buildings, and encourage new Norwegians to live where they can find both a job and residence.
"But many segregate themselves also. Then there's a high price. The children don't finish school, and it becomes difficult to get a job. Those who don't want that life move away. This is really becoming a welfare ghetto for those who are left," says Alterbeck.
She's aware of 'Muslim elements" who are completely against Western culture, and that there's religious fundamentalism in Rosengård.
"It's hard for many children to grow up here and meet one world-view at home and another at school. Then it's important to have 'normal religious' people like imam Ibrahim, with moderate points of view on ethics and Swedish society," says Eva Alterbeck.
Source: Aftenposten (English)
* Norway: FRP against 'sneak Islamization'
* Malmö: Rosengård report under attack
* Malmö: Rosengård 'growing more radical'
Bosnia: Islamic teaching in kindergartens causes uproar
In a country still smarting from a 1990s war that coined the term 'ethnic cleansing,' some are worried religious teaching in classrooms will only widen the divide between Bosnians.
Sarajevo -- The tiny students, some in their first year at a Sarajevo kindergarten, are led away from their classmates by a woman peering out from a headscarf who will give them a lesson on the basics of Islam.
"Kids have been asking me why they are being separated and what a religious class is," said a teacher, who asked not to be named. "It was so difficult at the beginning."
The "bula" -- an intermediary between an imam and the family -- grabs their attention with animal pictures on a laptop. She then goes on to explain how the Prophet Mohammed travelled from Mecca to Medina.
The lesson seems innocent enough for three to six-year-olds. But the decision by the Muslim-led county council to allow religious instruction in Sarajevo kindergartens has met a chorus of outrage from critics who fear it is part of an attempt to "Islamicise" Bosnia's capital.
Source: Expatica (English)
Oslo: Imam blames 9/11 on US in college lecture
The lecture can be seen here (Norwegian).
The conspiracy theory is not new, and neither is the imam's claim that the US invented Bin Laden as an excuse to attack Iraq and Afghanistan, as can be seen here (Norwegian, with English subtitles). The lectures are from last May, but have only now caught national attention.
The USA was responsible for the terror attacks of 9/11, a Norwegian imam claimed during a lecture at Oslo University College.
In front of a packed lecture hall at the college, the famous Norwegian imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni claimed at length tat it was the American powers who were responsible for the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
The lecture, which was organized by IslamNet in May, 2008, was uploaded to YouTube.
In two weeks he is again invited to speak to Muslim students at the nation's largest college. This is taking place at the same time that PST (Norwegian security service) cautions in its new threat report against an increasing tendency to radicalization in some part of the Norwegian-Muslim community.
Imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni grew up in Norway but was educated in Saudi-Arabia.
In the videos, which have been uploaded to the poplar internet site, the imam, who's also known as head of Norway's united ulama (scholars), hints to young Muslim female and male students that thousands of Jews knew that the terror attacks will happen and that they escaped the attacks on the World Trade Center by not showing up for work.
"In total 4,000 Jews were away from the two towers the same day. They didn't come to work. Why not?" the imam said in the lecture.
In the videos the Norwegian imam goes very far in his efforts to convince the assembly that 9/11 was an arranged play.
"Where was the American airforce on September 11, 2001? Were they so not serious, or were they sleeping? This says that it was planned. They wanted to attack Saddam, and wanted to attack Afghanistan. The Pentagon knew exactly what happened, because it was planned," says Sakandar in the over ten minute long lecture on the terror attacks against the USA.
The video shows that the imam during the lecture almost made fun of the media's reporting that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the terrorism,and he won laughter from the hall when he repeated his version of the media's covered of the terror attack.
"They said 'bin Laden' after a few minutes," says Sakander and claims further that the media must have also known that the terror attack will happen.
"How in the world can a cameraman or a journalist find out that Osama bin Laden was responsible. The people concerned could have gotten a slip of paper in hand from before," continued the imam.
TV 2 asked the head of the Oslo University College to look at the video for a response. After having seen the segments, he said they did not plan to deny the organization which invited imam Madni by censuring his lecture. The imam will therefore participate in a new debate on March 6th, in auditorium 35 at Oslo College University.
The Islamic Network are responsible for the lectures at the college. They do not want to comment on the invitation to the imam and choose to only speak about 9/11.
Sakandar had caught attention in the past with his opinions about the terror attacks of 9/11. During a net-meeting at Aftenposten in 2006, the imam claims that the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and bin Laden were fictional.
The videos from his lecture at the Oslo University College show that the controversial imam had not changed his point of view that the attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon were an American led conspiracy to have an excuse to invade Muslim countries.
The videos also clearly show that he is used as a resource person in these issues by the Muslim student community in the capital.
In the videos there are no critical comments, not from the chairman, not from the hall and not from other debaters, to the imam's opinions about September 11.
Source: TV 2 (Norwegian)
* Norway: Increasing radicalization among extremist Muslims
Italy: Immigrant entrepreneurs contributing to economy
The number of immigrant entrepreneurs is growing rapidly in Italy and they are making a significant contribution to the country's growth and international development. That was the finding of several speakers who met in Rome on Tuesday as Italian Catholic aid groups, Caritas and Migrantes, presented the country's first-ever report on the phenomenon.
"An important change is the number of immigrants who have set up their own businesses after working as employees for a number of years," said the coordinator of the immigration report, Antonio Riccio.
Data from the Caritas-Migrantes dossier fed into the new 'Immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy' report, published with the Ethnoland Foundation.
"There are now 165,000 immigrants who own a company in Italy and the number is rising. This is a source of development for Italy and for immigrants' countries of origin," Riccio said.
The number of immigrant-owned firms has tripled since 2003 and is growing at a rate of around 20,000 per year - while the number of Italian-owned firms is declining.
Most of the 83,578 immigrant-owned Italian companies currently operate in the industrial sector, and 65,549 are mainly Eastern European-owned building firms.
A total 77,515 entrepreneurs operate in services and 10,470 in the clothing, shoes and footwear sector, most of whom are Chinese.
Immigrant-owned firms generate employment for a total 500,000 people, a significant figure in the current economic recession, where joblessness is predicted to reach 8.2 percent this year.
Between 2003 and 2008, the number of companies owned by Romanian immigrants increased the most (61.2 percent), followed by Albanians (48.5 percent), Tunisians and Bangladeshis (38.5 and 38.0 percent respectively), Egyptians (32.2 percent) and Moroccans (27.4 percent).
The great majority of Moroccan entrepreneurs in Italy own trading companies, while Romanians and Albanians own building firms, and Chinese own manufacturing and trading businesses, according to the report.
The northeastern region of Lombardy has the greatest number of immigrant company-owners (30,000), followed by the centre-northern Emilia Romagna region (20,000), and the northern Piemonte and Veneto regions and central Lazio and Tuscany regions (with 15,000 each).
The concentration of immigrant entrepreneurs varies considerably from one region to another. The province of Milan and the province of Rome are those hosting the highest number (17,297 and 15,490 respectively), followed by the province of Turin (11,662).
Of the nearly 3.5 million foreigners who are legal residents in Italy, one in 21 is currently an entrepreneur, compared with one in ten Italians.
UK: Muslims first, British second
A BBC show on Muslim extremism.
To sum up in a few sentences: Muslim extremism is a problem in Britain. The government thinks inciting hatred is as bad as inciting violence and is developing a new policy to deal with it (See UK: Gov't to to widen extremism definition). Muslims fear being stigmatized, and are suspicious of government actions.
h/t Hodja
Labels: Radicalism
Norway: 'there is no sneak Islamization here'
Sometimes one news story follows another so fast, that it's hard to keep up, much less check on events of the past.
In a recent speech Siv Jensen, head of the Norwegian Progress Party, railed against what she called 'sneak Islamization', bringing as one example sex-segregated swimming classes.
Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet visited Oslo school Møllergata, where they have separate swimming and gym classes, and published an articled headlined 'there is no sneak Islamization here'. The sub-headline reads: 'Introduction of sex-segregated gym had nothing to do with Islam, says a prinicipal at an Oslo school'
Principal Eva Kjøge tells why they have this custom. "When this was a high school, there were girls who felt run over by the boys in gym class. Therefore we introduced girl classes." She adds: "It had nothing to do with Islam that time."
The separate gym class arrangement was expanded when the percent of Muslim students increased. Today about 40% of the school's 220 students are Muslims.
- do you feel that you contribute to sneak Islamization?
"The most important thing is that the student learn to swim," the principal answers diplomatically.
Møllergata school made the news several months ago when discussion flared up around sex-segregated gym and swimming classes. This is what Eva Kjøge told Norwegian news agency NTB last August: "As a result of immigration to the city the problem arose that Muslim girls weren't allowed to have gym and swimming together with boys. Then the school had to find arrangements."
Granted, Eva Kjøge was then a new principal and might not have been aware of the history of the school's gym class arrangements. Reading what she says carefully, she doesn't really contradict herself, either. The arrangement might have been started for girls of all types, but was then expanded because Muslim girls were not allowed by their parents to join those classes.
The problem here is that Dagbladet, so eager to prove there's no 'sneak Islamization', didn't bother digging too deeply. When Kjøge said it had nothing to do with Islam 'that time', the paper didn't want to know when such arragments did have to do with Islam.
Sources: Dagbladet, Addressavisen (Norwegian)
* Oslo: Debate about segregated swimming classes
Netherlands: Blogosphere debate
The Dagelijkse Standaard (Daily Standard) is a rather new Dutch-language blog, featuring articles by a list of Dutch writers. Islam expert Hans Jansen was one of those writers, until he discovered that Michael van der Galien, who also writes runs PoliGazette, was a convert to Islam.
Michael van der Galien never hid the fact, but apparently it was new to Jansen. When Jansen discovered that his co-blogger was a convert to Islam, he emailed the blog editor in an exchange of emails (posted on the site, NL), which led to him leaving the blog.
Jansen wrote that having a covert to Islam as a co-fighter for freedom of speech in the Netherlands was something he would have to think about. He later said that he left the blog due to differences of opinion with the chief editor, and not specifically due to this point.
For Michael van der Galien's response to this story (in English), see One man less - a minor Dutch controversy and The side that wants to destroy the West
Sources: Dagelijkse Standaard 1, 2 (Dutch)
For more on Jansen:
* Netherlands: Arabist accuses bank of Islamist propoganda
* Netherlands: Arabist Hans Jansen causes irritation among his peers
* Netherlands: Muslims upset at Jansen
* Netherlands: Tolerating Muslims excesses
Denmark: Textbook for immigrant/refugee literature
Public school students will not longer read just Danish literature. In the textbook "World stories - an alternative canon" [canon - a list of books and authors to be read in school] Danish publishers Gyldendal and the Danish Refugee Council expanded the established Danish literature in schools by focusing on literature coming to Denmark with refugees and immigrants.
"When 9% of the Danish population has a bilingual or multicultural background, I think, that it's no longer just enough to read literature from Denmark in Danish education. And precisely through the literature we can get a more nuanced insight into the new cultures which are settling here in the country,' says editor Ditte Marie Munch-Hansen.
The book includes a collection of texts taken from the 12 biggest refugee and immigrant groups which are represented in the Danish elementary school: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, Iran, Croatia, Pakistan, Serbia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Turkey along with the Kurds and Palestinians.
Twelve Refugees and immigrants living in Denmark, who work with literature in their daily chose one acclaimed literature text form their homeland. the book will be published today.
Source: BT (Danish)
BH: Serbs ordered to pay for destroyed mosques
Serb authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina have been ordered to pay $42m (£26m) to local Muslims for the destruction of mosques during the Bosnian civil war.
All 16 mosques in Banja Luka, the main town of the Serb-run Republika Srpska, were destroyed in the 1992-1995 war.
A lawyer for the area's Muslim community said the local court verdict was of historic importance.
Hundreds of religious buildings were destroyed in the conflict, in which about 100,000 civilians were killed.
The local court ruling came nine years after the Bosnian Islamic Community sued the Bosnian Serb government and Banja Luka city authorities for the destruction of the shrines in 1993.
The Islamic Community said more than 1,000 of its objects were destroyed or damaged during the war.
"For us, what is far more important than material compensation is that for the first time Republika Srpska has taken complete responsibility for the destruction of the mosques," SRNA news agency quoted the Islamic Community's lawyer Esad Hrvacic as saying.
Source: BBC (English), h/t Hodja
The Integration Of Muslims In Europe
Integration results. There are two standards against which the incorporation of Muslims in Europe can be judged: economic (how people are doing in terms of earnings and employment); and attitudinal (how people feel).
In both France and the United Kingdom, Muslims' economic integration has been poor. In both, unemployment is high (above 20% and sometimes approaching 40%) among Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and North Africans. Earnings are also weak: According to 2000 data, male Bangladeshis were earning about three-quarters the average wage.
As regards public attitudes, a more complex picture emerges, according to Pew data gathered in 2006, depending on the group examined:
--Non-Muslim French. Most French people were particularly positive toward French Muslims, viewing them as generous and honest; a large minority saw them as tolerant.
--Non-Muslim Britons. Attitudes toward U.K. Muslims were less positive, but better than among many other Europeans: most Britons viewed Muslims as honest, although only a minority saw them as generous and tolerant.
--French Muslims. Most French Muslims viewed non-Muslims in France as respectful of women, generous, tolerant and honest (but not devout); only a minority viewed them as arrogant, violent, greedy, immoral or fanatical. Equally importantly, almost 80% of French Muslims support secularism, one of the Republic's intellectual cornerstones.
--U.K. Muslims. Attitudes toward non-Muslim Britons were thoroughly negative: Clear majorities viewed them as selfish, arrogant, violent, greedy and immoral, and a substantial minority as fanatical. Only a minority of U.K. Muslims viewed their fellow citizens as respectful of women, tolerant, honest or devout. However, a majority thought non-Muslim Britons were generous.
--Islam and modernity. Finally, U.K. Muslims were the most likely in Europe to see a basic conflict between Islam and modernity--47%. The figure for French Muslims was 28%.
Where a common, non-religious identity unites Muslims and non-Muslims, the result is better public attitudes and a shared sense of a national project. Where religious divisions are emphasized, the result is mistrust. However, cultural integration is only one part of the equation. Economic integration, whereby Muslims enter work, earn wages and pay taxes just like their fellow citizens, is equally important; in this, both the United Kingdom and France have failed.
Source: Forbes, Oxford Analytica (English)
UK: Islamic group slams 'out of touch' imams
Young Muslims are being pushed towards extremism because their mosques are run by elderly and out-of-touch cliques, a report by an Islamic think-tank said yesterday.
The Quilliam Foundation, an anti-extremist Islamic organisation, accused imams of failing to teach and preach in English and of shutting women out of their mosques.
Only about 3 per cent of Muslim clerics were born in this country and most do not have full command of English, the study said.
The report said that mosque leaderships did not promote British values and allowed young people to drift towards jihadists who speak their own language.
The group called on the Government for stricter limits on visas for Islamic clerics coming to Britain and for an end to state grants for mosques that do not have at least one imam who preaches in English and supports the principles of democracy.
The Quilliam Foundation - which has been backed with almost £1million of taxpayers' money and attacked by some Islamic groups as being a mouthpiece for the Government - also said madrassas, mosques' equivalent of Christian Sunday schools, should be fully inspected by local children's services officials.
The survey was based on responses to five questions given by 512 mosques last autumn.
It found 97 per cent of imams were born overseas and 92 per cent were trained abroad, while more than half of the Muslims in Britain were born here.
'The religious leadership in the vast majority of Britain's mosques are not in full command of the English language, and are likely to be ill-equipped to address the real concerns and everyday experiences of young British Muslims,' the report found.
Nearly half, 44 per cent, of mosques do not hold their Friday lectures or sermons in English, the survey said. A similar proportion have no space for women, and their managements take the view that it is unnecessary for women to come to pray.
Source: Daily Mail (English), h/t PI News
For more on the Quilliam Foundation:
* UK: New foundation against Islamist extremism
* UK: Muslims warn PM Gaza conflict fuelling anger
Denmark: Imam denies he's in favor of stoning
Abdul Wahid Pedersen, a Danish-born imam convert and Karen Jespersen, the Danish Welfare Minister, debated Islam and extremism on the Danish morning show Go' Morgen Danmark.
Jespersen, who wrote a book about Muslim extremism, recently criticized the Copenhagen city council for working together with Muslims in Dialogue, which she says is an extremist group. Pedersen, one of the heads of the organization, had refused in the past to condemn stoning and stated he will conduct polygamous marriage ceremonies. He had said that condemning stoning would place him outside the pale of Islam.
On the show, Pedersen was asked whether he supports stoning.
Abdul Wahid Pedersen, Imam: Let be say this very clearly, absolutely, unequivocally. I do not support stoning. I do not support stoning.
Cecilie Frøkjær, TV2: But do you disassociate yourself from stoning?
Abdul Wahid Pedersen: I do not support stoning, and what I've been accused many, many times in the media - I don't do that .. here and now I want to say, as I did a minute ago - I don't support stoning.
Danish, no subtitles: (~2:30)
Source: Uriasposten (Danish)
* Denmark: Debate about polygamy
* Denmark: DPP responds with UN imam complaint
* Denmark: The Muslim DPP supporter
* Book Review: Islamists and Naivists: An Indictment
Labels: Mosques and Imams, Sharia
UK: Muslim peer warns of increase in polygamy
GROWING numbers of Muslim men are "marrying" up to four wives in Britain, a leading Muslim peer warned last night.
Tory Baroness Sayeeda Warsi fears a sharp increase in polygamy in the UK is becoming a threat to community cohesion.
And she accused Labour ministers of turning a blind eye to the practice, which is common in some Islamic countries.
The Government must make it clear to Muslims that "in this country, one married man is allowed to marry one woman," she said.
Most Muslim polygamous arrangements are not illegal because the "weddings" are private religious ceremonies that are not recognised by British law.
But Baroness Warsi, Tory spokesman on community cohesion, feared that multi-wife marriages could increase tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain.
There are also concerns that some Muslim men are claiming benefits for several wives.
"There has been a failure on the part of policymakers to respond to this situation," she said.
"Some of it has been done in the name of cultural sensitivity and we've just avoided either discussing or dealing with this matter head on.
"There has to be a culture change and that has to brought about by policymakers taking a very clear stance on this issue."
She urged ministers to consider introducing a system of registration for religious "weddings" to curb the growth in polygamy.
Source: Express (English), h/t Weasel Zippers
Amsterdam: Marcouch develops gay-policy
In order to break the taboo regarding homosexuality in the Islamic community, Slotervaart is the first neighborhood of Amsterdam to develop a gay-policy. Chairman Ahmed Marcouch (Labor Party) welcomes the arrival of a gay-cafe.
Marcouch also wants to educate heterosexuals with an Islamic background about homosexuality. "I think that the effect is greater, if only because the fact that those who conduct the talk are not gays themselves, but do stand up for gay rights," he told Amsterdam broadcaster AT5.
"In Arabic or Moroccan positive vocabulary about homosexuality is not available," The chairman of the neighborhood, which has a large Muslim community, illustrates the taboo atmosphere concerning the topic. Many children who start talking about the topic of homosexuality at home immediately get slapped because 'homo' is a curse and you don't utter that at home.
Marcouch will review his gay-policy with the neighborhood administration on March 17th.
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
UK: Rabbis/imams to join twinning program
Rabbis and imams from Great Britain will visit the United States to expand to Europe a program that pairs mosques and synagogues.
The Weekend of Twinning, an initiative started by Rabbi Marc Schneier and The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, last November paired 50 mosques and 50 synagogues representing more than 100,000 Jews and Muslims in communities across North America to speak out and call for an end to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Europe's planned participation in the fall of 2009 Weekend of Twinning is a result of a meeting last week in London between Schneier and the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Source: JTA (English)
Germany: 'Muslim community must deal with antisemitism'
Germany should take anti-Semitic tendencies among its Muslim population seriously, Turkish-German Green party leader Cem Özdemir warned in an interview with daily Frankfurter Rundschau on Monday.
"We must unfortunately acknowledge that there are anti-Semitic mindsets not only in the right-wing or among the so-called left-wing anti-imperialists, but also in the Muslim community – particularly among male Arabic, Turkish and Kurdish youths," Özdemir, the country's first leader of a major political party with Turkish roots, told the paper.
These young men feel "marginalised" in German society and are identifying with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he told the paper.
"Not just in Turkey, but also here there are many immigrants who try to superimpose the Middle East conflict one-to-one onto Germany and regard themselves as members of the Palestinian side," he said.
Muslim-German leaders must draw clear lines and emphasise that anyone who displays anti-Semitic sentiments will not be allowed to represent the community, Özdemir said, adding that educators should also openly address the problem.
A 2007 study by the Interior Ministry found that Muslim students were far more anti-Semitic than other students, the paper reported. Of 500 Muslim students who were raised in Germany, almost 16 percent agreed with the statement: "People of Jewish faith are arrogant and greedy for money." This rate was double that of students with immigration background and three times as high as German students, the paper reported.
Israel: Islam, culture and FGM
A new study by Israeli doctors discovers that FGM is disappearing as a cultural phenomenon among the Bedouin tribes in the country.
The shocking conclusion? Religion and culture are not a constant.
A few months ago I wrote about a similar report from Norway:
Lidén says that boys from those communities prefer marrying a girl who isn't circumcised, and when it isn't a religious commandment the practice doesn't continue. Girls who aren't circumcised don't feel stigmatized, rather it's the circumcised girls who feel stigmatized. This shows a cultural tradition can change.
I think that the big difference between the Israeli study and the European situation is that in Europe the immigrants are not on their home turf and therefore feel the need to preserve customs they otherwise wouldn't. In many ways, the Muslim immigrant community in Europe is a 'cultural reservation', where old-time practices are still upkept despite being phased out in the 'home country'.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been reported in many cultures around the world. It is variously called female circumcision or female genital cutting and comes in varying degrees of severity. While it is often described in Muslim culture, it is not specifically associated with Islam. Roots of the phenomenon are difficult to define and may vary from culture to culture. In recent years the World Health Organization has mounted major efforts to reduce the prevalence of this phenomenon which can lead to genital infection, psychological trauma, and reduced sexual function in women
Ethical and legal problems have arisen as families from countries where the practice is widespread reach countries where the practice is against the law. Therefore, it is of great interest to define processes or situations that can lead to a reduction in the incidence of this phenomenon in cultures where it is practiced.
One hundred and thirty two women were examined. No cases of any scarring of the kind reported in the previous study were found on physical examination. Table 1 presents the data. Eight women reported that they had heard that FGM is still going on but only by word of mouth and we could not identify a single case that we could be referred to.
What are the causes of this change? There has been no concerted program in Israel to stop FGM, although it has been discussed on television and is viewed with disapproval by the majority of the population, both Jewish and Arab. The disappearance of FGM in this population has taken place in spite of the fact that in the 1995 study, a large number of women said that they planned to continue this custom and would perform it on their daughters. This is consistent with other findings in social psychiatry showing that people do not always do as they say. Demographic data show that the health variables in this population such as infant mortality, mean birth weight, etc., and educational variables such as percent attending school, number of school years completed, and literacy have continued to improve over the last 15 years and these may be associated with the decline in FGM.
Source: InterScience (English)
Labels: Health, Honor Crimes
Studying Islam and Europe
EU governments are increasingly interested in Islamic studies, but Islam in Europe has yet to become a distinct academic discipline.
The past decade has seen Islamic studies take on a new prominence in academic circles. Governments are demanding increasing amounts of research to inform foreign policy towards the Islamic world and to improve relations with domestic Muslim communities. Student interest in Islam also appears to be rising, whether through demand for courses or choice of PhD subjects.
But while individual academics are busy researching and teaching about Islam in the European context, it has not yet become a distinct discipline. Few European studies courses offer it as a substantial option and specialist programmes such as master's degrees are rare.
"Islam in Europe is a topic rather than a discipline," says Sara Silvestri, a specialist who teaches at City University, London. "You have different disciplines tackling this topic and, in the field of international politics, although it is a very important thing, courses on Islam in Europe or political Islam have not been offered by many universities."
Islamic studies departments have also been slow to embrace the European context, preferring the more timeless subjects of philosophy, literature and language. "The discipline of Islamic studies has really remained a closed workshop of people working on Islamic texts and translations, which are very important but are a bit detached from the interpretations of the present [Muslim] leaderships," says Silvestri.
According to Agata Nalborczyk, of the department for European Islam studies at the University of Warsaw, this attitude can sometimes be dramatically narrow-minded. "They say 'Islam is the same everywhere, so why study it in the European context?' When someone has spent his whole life studying old Arabic literary texts, he has no idea about the differences between Islam in European and Arab countries, or Pakistan, these days. It's a problem."
But recognising that Islam in Europe is a subject worthy of study does not necessarily mean that a separate discipline could or should emerge. "It's almost as if we are past the peak of interest in Islam," says Maurits Berger, professor of Islam in the contemporary West at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He argues that academia is developing a broader focus. "The general interest is in religion and the role of religion in society."
City University in London provides a good example of how Islam in Europe can complement a broader programme of study. Silvestri was brought into the university's department of international politics as part of a strategy to recruit specialists in compelling, if non-traditional, contemporary issues that could be taught alongside mainstream international relations subjects. As well as religion, this also encompassed development, transnational networks, global health and finance.
Studying this subject in Poland may give students a different perspective from the one they might find elsewhere, Nalborczyk says. "The study of Islam in Europe is better developed in western Europe than in central Europe, but even people in the West are not always aware that Muslims have been living in Poland for 600 years," she adds.
The interaction of these long-established populations with newer Muslim communities is one of their motivations for studying the subject. "We think that the mostly Arabic majority within the [Muslim] minority will try to change the traditional Islam in Poland. So we have to study it as it is now, before it vanishes."
Source: European Voice (English)
Norway: FRP against 'sneak Islamization'
Siv Jensen, head of the Norwegian Progress Party (FRP), came out hard against the government and what she calls 'sneak Islamization' in Norway, during the party's national meeting.
"The reality is that people are now in the process of allowing a form of sneak-Islamization in this society and we must put a stop to that," Jensen said in her speech.
Clearly referring to the hijab-debate, the head of the FRP came out against what she thinks is the special treatment of minority groups in Norway today.
"When we give in to demands for halal food in prisons, when we give in that Muslim girls won't be able to do sports together with Norwegian children. This is already special treatment which I think weakens the ability to integrate people in Norwegian society and which will cause greater challenges in the next decade," she told TV2. Jensen thinks prisoners should be very satisfied having three warm meals a day.
"We will not accept demands for more vacation days of a religious character," she said, and will neither accept that some Oslo schools practice sex-segregated sports and swimming.
- It's not possible for some demands to be legitimate, for example that Muslims will get a days off on their religious holidays?
"We set official vacation days in Norway, and I think that should apply," answers Jensen. She adds that all who live in Norway must follow the rules and arrangements that are there.
Should the FRP get to power, Siv Jensen has clear plans.
"Then it's Norwegian law and Norwegian regulations and Norwegian rule which will underlie everything we do and we don't allow special demands from some individual groups in this society."
In her speech, Jensen compared Oslo to the notorious Rosengård neighborhood of Malmö, where ambulance drivers, fire fighters and police hesitate to turn out.
"Also Oslo approaches the development we see in Malmö," she said and described the situation in Rosengård as such: Sharia law has taken over completely. Swedish law has been set aside.
- You fear that we will get to the Swedish state in Oslo?
"Yes, we see several signs of that already. It's better to stop before it's too late," says Jensen to Aftenposten.
In her speech she referred to a report from Aftenposten Aften about a police operation against the premises used by the Alfredha Islamic Center and a Kurdish club. The place was shut down after the police discovered smuggled cigarettes, amphetamines, shock weapons and possibly smuggled meat, as well as a locked emergency exist and fire extinguishers and a non-functioning fire-alarm.
"The owners and operators naturally confess to none of this. But this happens every day. It's only the FRP which for 30 years warned against this, who are able to clean up," claims Jensen.
- Do you think that such illegality that was revealed happens only because we have immigration to Norway?
"It happens in other communities too," admits Jensen, "but in many contexts there's a total lack of control over what happens in these communities. People hide behind a mosque - and the authorities shut their eyes to it."
- In this case the police took action?
"The police do their job. But Norwegian politicians shut their eyes to this development happening."
- Do you think that mosques are camouflage for illegality?
"I don't know that. But I've got many reports from people of minority background and I think people will be shocked if they heard what's going on. I've hard rumors that people operate outside of Norwegian law when it comes to marriage and abuse of young women. Much of what we meet - gang grime, riots in connection to demonstrations in Oslo - are clear warnings that we must do something."
Sources: TV2, Aftenposten (Norwegian)
Finland: Controversy over headscarf use
Finland is having its first ever dispute over the use of the Muslim head scarf in the work place. The Service Union, PAM: stated that there is an ongoing dispute over the use of the heads scarf, but that there is no lawsuit pending.
The Aamu newspaper interviewed PAM's regional director, Niina Koivuniemi, who said that the controversy was caused mostly by Finns who have converted to Islam, and are already employed. The issue is agreed upon with immigrants in the context of job interviews.
According to the paper, the S-store chain has no common guideline on head scarves and other religious symbols. Pirkanmaa's Osuus-store will disccus the matter next week. In the Helsinki Osuus-store, in Elanno, the position is clear: employees may not use any visible religious symbols on their clothing. In K-food stores, there is no general guidance on head scarves, but each store owner is responsible for the matter independently.
Source: Tundra Tabloids (English)
Norway/Sweden: Aborting girls
In a recent case in Sweden a woman twice aborted her baby after finding out the fetus was a girl, reports Svenska Dagbladet. The woman, who had previously given birth to several daughters, asked for an amniotic fluid check, saying she was worried and wanted to establish the sex of the fetus. After finding out it was a girl, she aborted the pregnancy immediately. She soon afterward got pregnant again, and again aborted the fetus once she discovered it was a girl.
The case caused strong reactions from doctors and nurses who want to know whether they're obligated to reveal the sex of the fetus.
A senior official in the industry says that there was no medical reason for the abortion, but that the nurse went ahead with the amniotic fluid check. "They've experienced having been forced into a corner and contributing to an abortion on the grounds that the fetus had the wrong 'sex'," the official says.
Doctors and nurses are now demanding guidelines on how they should proceed with such cases.
In a previous case, a man was sentenced to a fine of 4,000 Swedish kroner for threatening to put a pistol to a doctor's head if she didn't tell him the fetus' sex, according to Svenska Dagbladet
According to Christian W. Loennecken of the Volvat Medical Center in Norway, such things don't happen in Norway.
"This is a problem that is absolutely not topical for us and which conflicts with all humanitarian, ethical and legal conduct," he told Nettavisen.
However, Swedish news site The Local reports that Norwegian women simply go to Sweden for such abortions.
These trips are a fact, according to a Swedish professor colleague.
"We know that it happens as people have told us," said director Sissel Rogne at the Biotechnology Advisory Board (Bioteknologinämnden) to Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
Rogne explains that in Norway it is forbidden to undergo an abortion on the grounds of gender.
Gynaecologist Lars Hamberger in Gothenburg confirmed to SvD that the abortion trips are a known fact. He expressed understanding for the women.
"If they have three, four girls and are from Turkey the demands on them to produce a boy are strong."
"In certain cases I can understand the problem."
Midwife Sara Kahsay says the practice is probably more common among cultures where it's especially important to have baby boys. She says it's not uncommon for her to get calls from women who want to know the sex of their fetus very early on.
"There is no doubt that some them experience enormous pressure to have baby boys," she told VG.
Sources: SIDE2, TV2 (Norwegian), The Local (English)
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Denmark: Us and them
In the past it was the Russian Jews. Today it's the Muslims, who are exposed to the sharp rhetoric of politicians, shows a thesis.
There are the Danes, and then are the others. The division by politicians of the country's population into 'them' and 'us' is not new, shows a new study at Copenhagen University.
According to the PHD thesis, "Religion as strangeness in Danish politics" politicians from both sides in parliament portrayed the Russian Jews, who came to the country at the beginning of the 1900s, in as stigmatizing terms as Muslims are described today.
"There are naturally differences between the two religious minority groups. But both groups experienced being labeled as the absolute opposite to the distinctive 'Danish values' by politicians in debate in parliament. Either as a threat for Danish economy and workforce and/or as a cultural and national threat," says Brian Arly Jacobsen, who wrote the thesis.
He reached his results by comparisons references to Jews in the Rigsdagstidende (report of parliamentary proceedings) from 1903 to 1945 and references to Muslims in the Folketingstidende from 1967 to 2005.
Source: Fyens (Danish)
Finland: A discussion on culture, Sharia
Tundra Tabloids summarizes a discussion forum on Finnish TV on integration, culture and Shariah law.
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Admin: Islam In Europe Facebook Page
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Russia: More than 80 radical Islam groups
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UK: Wilders banned from entering
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Belgium: Report on Belgian al-Qaeda
France: Pakistani on trial for torching ex-girlfri...
Marseille: Grand Mosque financed by Algeria
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UK: Minority communities want to help police comba...
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Rotterdam: Opposition to Muslim school moving
Dublin: Hijab fashion show
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Innovations for Economic Degrowth
SUBHEAD: Ability to degrow can also mean a steady state of constant production and consumption with low-level, highly efficient resource use.
By Andreas Exnar on 29 August 2012 for Solutions -
(http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1143)
Image above: Solar panels being manufactured at Mondragon plant. The company functions using cooperative behavior. From original article.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we find ourselves in a peculiar situation: although hardly anyone would deny the deep ecological crisis facing humankind, we seem to be caught in a net of assumptions that impede a practical solution. Having acknowledged that we need to reduce consumption of energy and materials drastically,1,2 we still often think that adjustments within the current system of production and consumption will accomplish this formidable task.
At the same time, it is widely recognized that the results of the dominant approaches to solving the ecological crisis are far from satisfying. Thus, a growing community of scientists and social activists, sharing the basic insight that a reduction of energy and material use implies a reduction of gross domestic product (GDP), is gathering under the heading of sustainable degrowth.3 Degrowth obviously entails a fundamental transformation of economic structures. But what precisely are the necessary steps?
A Paradigmatic Shift
Radical Social Innovations from the Bottom Up. In contrast to the illusion that we can do more of the same—that is, new market or state solutions to alleviate a crisis caused by market and state solutions—it is more reasonable to start looking for a new way around this stalemate. Such paths are being explored in solidarity economics and the commons, both discussed below. These allow a shift in the trajectory of our economy from endless growth to degrowth—the voluntary reduction of energy and material use while increasing leisure and well-being.
Yet how can the paradigm of a good life for all replace the growth paradigm? What we clearly need is a great social transformation. And, in fact, we can already find social innovations that might function as the basic units of this transformation. They start from the bottom and flourish in protected spaces where shared perspectives are developed, experiments and learning take place, and links to wider power networks are forged. Two outstanding examples are the solidarity economy in Brazil and the global information commons.
The Solidarity Economy
The solidarity economy appeared in Brazil in the late 1990s as the country was hit by an economic crisis caused by the liberalization of capital markets.4,5 In the ensuing recession, many enterprises went bankrupt and poverty increased. Unemployment rose, while the prospects for reentering the formal economic sector shrank for a broad portion of society.
In this deplorable situation, a small group of socially concerned academics acted as change agents. They were engaged in a national campaign against hunger and had teaching positions at the National School for Public Health. This allowed them to support poor people’s cooperatives by creating solidarity economy incubators where cooperatives could learn to organize their workflow based on relations of equality and reciprocal support.
Cooperatives were also supported in resolving the technical challenges they encountered. A considerable part of the learning process in the solidarity economy took place within incubators, in which experiences with cooperative success were assessed, shared, and further developed.
In addition, social networking between trade unions, universities, and cooperative associations strengthened the power links between this niche and the wider society and state. Finally, the solidarity economy even managed to establish a state secretariat that was instituted within the Ministry of Labor. The state secretariat further supported the cooperatives by starting a national mapping project to assess the state of solidarity economics in Brazil and allow for the specific allocation of resources and legal reforms.
In the case of the solidarity economy, we see a radical social innovation in the making. Wage labor is replaced by self-management, which is the solidarity economy’s core innovation—and not a small one. Indeed, cooperative self-management is a precondition for ecologically responsible production. There are two reasons for this:
First, it is only through self-management that production can become oriented toward concrete needs (which are limited and can be satisfied), instead of shareholder value and profit (which are unlimited, can never be fully satisfied, and thus entail growing consumption of energy and materials).
Second, equal cooperation within an enterprise is a starting point for cooperation with other stakeholders and society at large, further reducing the competitive compulsion to grow. For instance, a recent study found that members of cooperative enterprises are more socially and democratically oriented than the average worker. According to the authors of this study, this trend is not the result of selectively employing people who are already socially oriented, but is rather the effect of egalitarian labor relations on individual workers.6
Thus, it is no surprise that in Brazil solidarity economy units often cooperate as networks by, for example, collectively marketing what has been produced independently. Solidarity economy chains that directly link different producers that depend on each other have been developed in some cases. The most prominent example is the textile cooperative Justa Trama.7
There, monetary income that is earned at the end of the chain is shared by all members who contributed to the production process according to their needs and living conditions. Because a solidarity economy is not primarily geared toward profits and often replaces monetary relations with direct cooperation, it does not promote growth but acts as an increasingly important safety net for people excluded from the capitalist sector.
Within enterprises of the solidarity economy, workers share machinery, buildings, raw materials, and products equally. Means of production, then, are commons. One might argue that, worldwide, commons are rare; they are, indeed, subordinated to market economics in most cases. However, on the level of information, they are already an important part of our daily lives. The best-known example of an information commons might be the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Founded in 2001, Wikipedia has become not just a reliable but also the most important source of encyclopedic information in the world. It currently contains 21 million articles read by about 365 million users in 285 different languages.8
Unlike traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia neither involves wage labor nor is organized by the state. Instead, a global community of voluntary, self-organized writers collectively creates Wikipedia. Its use is not restricted by the market or the state, but is open to anyone with a computer and Internet access. In this sense, Wikipedia is a perfect example of a radical social innovation that overcomes the basic structures of capitalism—markets, wage labor, and state intervention—and does not rely on material growth.
Wikipedia is only one example of a much larger group of goods in the information technology sphere that share a common feature: they are not produced on the basis of wage labor or with the primary aim of deriving profits from their sale, but on the basis of collectively organized, voluntary work. As a result, they create products that anyone can access for free without the constraints of the market.
Most prominently, these include software products such as Firefox, Linux, and MeeGo, which have increasingly become serious rivals to commercial counterparts like Microsoft Internet Explorer. Beyond software, examples of information commons include projects such as Ronen Kadushin (ronen-kadushin.com), with its open furniture designs; the Open Architecture Network (openarchitecturenetwork.com); Arduino (arduino.cc), with its open electronic hardware designs; and many more. The One Laptop per Child Initiative (laptop.org) also uses an open design.
Intellectual property law provides the legal possibility of protecting the information commons from commodification through “copyleft” licenses, the most widely used of which are the GNU General Public License for free software and diverse Creative Commons licenses for other information commons.
Products that are distributed under one of these licenses are explicitly free for use, copying, and distribution, sometimes under certain conditions, such as noncommercial use and distribution. These patents therefore try to prevent what James Boyle called “enclosing the commons of the mind.”9 The development of copyleft licenses is just one example of the complex learning processes that took place within the open-source movement.
The success of information commons, like Wikipedia and others, indicates that, although money remains a necessity for survival in modern societies, it is not necessarily money that motivates people to create; rather, they can also be motivated by the enjoyment of creation itself, in connection with confidence in reciprocity. When someone decides to write or improve an article on Wikipedia, this person relies on compensation through thousands of complementary and additional improvements made by others at the same time. Wikipedia also shows that there is no need for central management—rather, a useful product can result from collectively organized work.
Working Differently
Mondragon Corporation in the Basque Region of Spain exemplifies how even for-profit companies can function using cooperatives. Mondragon, which has nearly 85,000 employees across many industries, maintains wage ratios between executives and laborers and gives every employee one vote within the company.
It is only one further step—and that step is not nearly so great as one might imagine—to expand the principle of commons into the realm of material technology and production, as already described in the section about solidarity economies.
Recent, open-source software products include 3-D printers, such as RepRap (reprap.org), Fab@Home (fabathome.org), and MakerBot (makerbot.com), which are able to produce small plastic objects of any form, bringing the factory to the consumer. The 3-D printer RepRap is even able to produce some of its own components, making it a self-replicating machine.
It is certainly questionable whether each person should be provided with his or her own small factory. Nonetheless, these are astonishing examples that show how a completely different mode of production that bypasses wage labor and markets is potentially within reach.
Such an economy without money would not be compelled to grow but could do what an economy in the Greek sense of oikonomia was originally meant to do: efficiently satisfy human needs for food, shelter, and cultural development.
How to Get to a Great Transformation
Diffusion of innovations starts when the dominant system comes into crisis. A crisis is an opportunity for a better future, a truth evident in the recent spread of solidarity economics and commons worldwide. Another reason for the acceleration of the debate on the commons is the late Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize-winning work on models of organizing resource use beyond state intervention and market economics.
Cooperation is not restricted to the local, as information commons best illustrate. The Mondragon corporation in the Basque country, which employs more than 85,000 members and comprises 256 companies and bodies, of which approximately half are cooperatives, is another good example. These companies are not coordinated by monetary relations or state regulations but—within clear limitations—by democratic governance.10 Another example is the kibbutzim of the 1960s, which were characterized by complex cooperation both internally and externally within the overarching institutional network of kibbutz settlements.11
Such cooperative networks act like super-commons, linking different systems and smaller communities through collaborative decision making procedures. Insofar as those networks replace monetary relations with a direct focus on concrete human needs, they are not oriented toward profit making and thus enable degrowth.
In market economies, livelihoods are bound to wage labor, which depends on profits and growth; in solidarity economies and the commons, production is determined by need only and can be voluntarily reduced. Social safety could be guaranteed by distributing products equally and by developing public infrastructures, from communal gardening and free sports facilities run by neighborhoods to open libraries. If production harms the environment, reducing it will contribute to society’s overall wellbeing, instead of exacerbating the social crisis of the growth economy.
An economy that is able to degrow can also enter a steady state of constant production and consumption with low-level, highly efficient resource use. This could fulfill the very goal that the capitalist economy increasingly fails to serve: a good life for all.
Haberl, H, Fischer-Kowalski, M, Krausmann, F, Martinez-Alier, J & Winiwarter, V. A socio-metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation. Sustainable Development 19, 1–14 (2011).
Gordon, RB, Bertram, M & Graedel, TE. Metal stocks and sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 1209-1214 (2006).
Martínez-Alier, J, Pascual, U, Vivien, F-D & Zaccai, E. Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm. Ecological Economics 69, 1741–1747 (2010).
Singer, P in Universities and Rio+10: Paths for Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Challenge (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst & Gesamthochschule Kassel, eds) 73-84 (Kassel University Press, Reihe Entwicklungsperspektiven, 2003).
de Faria, MS & Cunha, GC. Self-management and solidarity economy: The challenges for worker-recovered companies in Brasil. Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 3, 22-42 (2009).
Weber, WG, Unterrainer, C & Schmid, BE. The influence of organizational democracy on employees’ socio-moral climate and prosocial behavioral orientations. Journal of Organizational Behavior 30, 1127–1149 (2009).
Justa Trama [online]. www.justatrama.com.br.
Wikipedia [online]. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.
Boyle, J. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008).
Mondragon [online]. www.mcc.es/language/en-US/ENG.aspx.
Dar, Y. Communality, rationalization and distributive justice: Changing evaluation of work in the Israeli kibbutz. International Sociology 17, 91–111 (2002).
INDEX: Commons , Cooperative , De-Industrialize , Degrowth
Dharma Sanctuary said...
Juan,
Do you know the background on the past attempt to develop a scrip for Kauai? I think this idea will naturally resurrect in the future after the collapse.
Perhaps we need to get ahead of this development and begin to create it now. Maybe it could be initiated through the farmer's markets. It won't likely take off until it's really needed, but it could be a huge asset when the SHTF.
It's also a great subject to get the newspaper to cover, and to unify those of us preppers. I'm willing to work on it, and to find others who are passionate about it. There's all kinds of ways we could create awareness of such a project.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:50:00 AM
Juan Wilson said...
Aloha Dharma,
When Andrea Brower was a force at Malama Kauai in 2009 she wrote this (http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2009/05/kauai-currency.html).
Jonathan Jay was quite active in 2008 on this issue. We published this (http://www.islandbreath.org/2008Year/20-TGI_column/0820-22KauaiEconomy.html) at the time.
In earlier (circa 1993) web and print manifestations we published these: (http://www.islandbreath.org/TheGobbler/Articles%20Published/02%20Greens/04%20Tonic%20for%20Economy/gr_04_Tonic_Economy.html)(http://www.islandbreath.org/TheGobbler/Articles%20Published/02%20Greens/05%20Ithaca%20Money/gr_05_Ithaca_Money.html).
I'm ready for an update on this concept. We could try and enlist a local banking operation to get involved. In Ithaca NY their local time based currency (http://www.ithacahours.org/) was accepted by a local credit union. Don't know the status of that anymore.
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Korean J Intern Med > Epub ahead of print
Jun, Park, Lee, Jang, Jeong, Kim, Cheon, Cho, Lee, Kim, Lee, Kim, Kim, and Kim: Platelet count is associated with sustained virological response rates in treatments for chronic hepatitis C
Korean J Intern Med 2018;kjim.2017.322.
Published online: March 14, 2018
Platelet count is associated with sustained virological response rates in treatments for chronic hepatitis C
Baek Gyu Jun1, *, Eui Ju Park2, *, Woong Cheul Lee2, Jae Young Jang2, Soung Won Jeong2, Young Don Kim1, Gab Jin Cheon1, Young Sin Cho3, Sae Hwan Lee3, Hong Soo Kim3, Yun Nah Lee4, Sang Gyune Kim4, Young Seok Kim4, Boo Sung Kim2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Gangneung Asan Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Gangneung, Korea
2Institute for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital Seoul, Seoul, Korea
3Institute for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital Cheonan, Cheonan, Korea
4Institute for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital Bucheon, Bucheon, Korea
Correspondence to Jae Young Jang, M.D. Institute for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital Seoul, 59 Daesagwan-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04401, Korea Tel: +82-2-709-9202 Fax: +82-2-709-9696 E-mail: jyjang@schmc.ac.kr
Received September 21, 2017 Revised November 10, 2017 Accepted November 19, 2017
This study was conducted to clarify the sustained virological response (SVR) prediction ability of baseline and treatment-related factors in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
This retrospective study collected data at four tertiary referral hospitals between June 2004 and July 2012. Out of 476 patients, 330 treatment-naïve patients with chronic HCV infection were recruited. Pegylated interferon α-2a/- 2b plus ribavirin was administered for either 24 or 48 weeks depending on the HCV genotype. The baseline and treatment-related predictive factors of SVR were evaluated by analyzing data measured before treatment (i.e., baseline) and during treatment.
SVR rates for genotypes 1 and 2 were 63% (97/154) and 79.5% (140/176), respectively (p = 0.001). Multivariate analysis for baseline factors revealed that young age (p = 0.009), genotype 2 (p = 0.001), HCV RNA level of < 800,000 IU/mL (p < 0.001), and a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103 /µL (p < 0.001) were significant SVR predictors, regardless of the genotype. In particular, predictive accuracy for achievement of SVR was 87.3% for a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103 /µL. In multivariate analysis for treatment-related factors, SVR was associated with achievement of a rapid virological response (RVR; p < 0.001), treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 (p < 0.001).
Young age, genotype 2, low HCV RNA level, RVR, and treatment adherence were significantly associated with SVR. In addition, platelet count was an independent predictive factor for SVR. Therefore, platelet count could be used to develop individualized treatment regimens and to optimize treatment outcomes in patients with chronic HCV infection.
Keywords: Hepatitis C, chronic; Sustained virological response; Blood platelets; Predictor
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health problem and is one of the main causes of serious liver disease worldwide [1-4]. Effective treatment for HCV infection is required to reduce the impact of this global health problem. The primary goal of administering antiviral agents, which eliminate detectable circulating HCV, is to cure the chronic HCV infection. The sustained virological response (SVR) has become an indication of curative therapy for chronic HCV infection, and is associated with both a histological improvement and a more favorable clinical outcome. Achieving an SVR is therefore an essential strategy in treating chronic HCV infection. However, the combination therapy of pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin results in a SVR in only 40% to 50% of patients with HCV genotype 1 and in 70% to 80% of those with genotypes 2 or 3 [5,6]. In recent years, the directing antiviral agents (DAA) has improved cure rates of 80% to 100%, but many patients are still not available DAA therapy because of high cost [7].
Factors that may influence the rate of response to therapy are being investigated extensively, and the results are awaited with great interest. Although the HCV genotype and HCV RNA level are known to be the strongest predictors of SVR, several other factors have also been found to affect treatment responses [8]. Various studies have shown that histological factors (including the amount of fibrosis) are traditional predictors of response, regardless of the genotype [9,10]. In addition, the platelet count has been suggested as a reliable standard for assessing fibrosis [11].
The aim of this study was to evaluate the SVR and to identify the predictive baseline (pretreatment) factors and treatment-related factors associated with SVR in treatment-naïve patients with chronic HCV infection treated with the combination of PEG-IFN α-2a/-2b and ribavirin, especially in Asian country.
This retrospective, multicenter study collected data at four tertiary referral hospitals (Soonchunhyang University Seoul, Bucheon, Cheonan Hospital, and Gangneung Asan Hospital) between June 2004 and July 2012. The following exclusion criteria were applied: (1) previous treatment for chronic HCV infection, (2) undergone hemodialysis, (3) presence of acute hepatitis, (4) unknown HCV genotype, (5) presence of hepatitis B virus co-infection, and (6) inadequate initial data. Of the 476 consecutive adult patients, 330 treatment-naive patients with chronic HCV infection were enrolled. This was a retrospective study without intervention or requirement for clinical specimens, and all of the data were analyzed anonymously, which meant that informed consent did not need to be obtained from the patients. The waiving of informed consent was approved by the Institutional Review Board (2009-04-012) at each participating center.
Treatment for chronic HCV infection
PEG-IFN α-2a/-2b plus ribavirin was administered for either 24 or 48 weeks depending on the HCV genotype. All patients were treated using standard protocols described in clinical practice guidelines, with either PEG-IFN α-2a (PEGASYS, Roche, Basel, Switzerland) or PEG-IFN α-2b (PEG-Intron, Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, NJ, USA) combined with ribavirin (Viramid, Ilsung Pharmaceuticals, Seoul, Korea). The patients were informed regarding the dosage of each drug and the treatment duration.
Measurement of clinical data and laboratory profiles
The diagnosis of cirrhosis was based on histology observations or clinical manifestations, laboratory data, and compatible abdominal imaging criteria. The laboratory data were evaluated according to treatment time for chronic HCV infection. The baseline laboratory results were assessed for the pretreatment (i.e., baseline) time point. During antiviral treatment, the HCV RNA levels were measured at baseline, and then at 4, 12, and 24 weeks after the end of the treatment. A baseline serum HCV RNA level of < 800,000 IU/mL was classified as low-level viremia. The HCV RNA level was measured using real-time polymerase chain reaction (Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HCV test version 2.0, Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland; or Abbott Real Time HCV test, Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, IL, USA). HCV genotyping was carried out via sequencing using a genetic analyzer (ABI 3130XL, Applied Biosystems, Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan). Information including treatment duration, dosage modification, and adherence to treatment were also assessed at the treatment cessation.
Evaluation of efficacy and adherence to treatment
Rapid virological response (RVR) and early virological response (EVR) were evaluated at 4, 12 weeks, respectively. Treatment for all HCV genotypes was stopped at week 12 if the HCV RNA decrease was less than 2 log10 IU/mL, which was in accordance with the guidelines [5,6]. The efficacy of treatment was assessed using the SVR rate, which was defined as undetectable serum HCV RNA at 24 weeks after the end of treatment, with a target of ≥ 80% adherence to treatment duration, PEG-IFN α-2a/-2b dosage, and ribavirin dosage. Therefore, a treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 was defined as adhering to at least 80% of the scheduled interferon, ribavirin dosage and assigned treatment duration [12].
All treatment evaluations were assessed by intention-to-treat analysis. Patients who could not be judged as having achieved an SVR were considered non-SVR. Data are expressed as mean ± SD or number (%) values, as appropriate. When comparing the characteristics of patients in two different groups, the chi-square test and Fisher exact test were used for categorical data, and Student t test and Mann-Whitney U test were used for continuous variables. The results of the logistic regression analysis are reported as the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was generated for the variables that were statistically significant in multivariate analysis to assess the predictive accuracy of these models and to determine the optimal cutoff points for predicting the achievement of SVR. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) analysis was conducted to determine the discriminatory ability of the data. For all statistical tests, p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Data were analyzed statistically using SPSS version 17.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
The patients’ baseline characteristics are given in Table 1. A total of 330 patients (176 men, 154 women; median age, 49 years) who were treated with the combination of PEG-IFN α-2a/-2b and ribavirin were investigated in this study. Of these, 154 and 176 patients had genotypes 1 and 2, respectively. The serum HCV RNA level was 3.20 ± 1.56 × 106 IU/mL, and 53.3% (176/330) of the patients had HCV RNA levels of < 800,000 IU/mL. The proportions of patients with an adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 and treatment duration of ≥ 80% were 65.7% and 83.0%, respectively; the corresponding values for patients who received ≥ 80% of the PEG-IFN α-2a/-2b and ribavirin dosages for the scheduled treatment were 80.6% and 83.3%.
SVR to treatment
An SVR was achieved in 237 (71.8%) of the 330 treatment patients (Table 1). SVR rates for genotypes 1 and 2 were 63% (97/154) and 79.5% (140/176), respectively, by intention-to-treat analysis (p = 0.001). Although the SVR rate was significantly higher for genotype 1 than genotype 2 for the intention-to-treat analysis, there was no significant difference for the per-protocol analysis (74.7% vs. 84.4%, p = 0.087).
Predictive factors of SVR at baseline
Baseline factors that could be associated with an SVR were compared between SVR and non-SVR patients (Table 2). Univariate analysis revealed that the following factors could be significantly associated with SVR: age, HCV genotype, HCV RNA level (< 800,000 IU/mL), and baseline platelet count. Multivariate analysis of these significant baseline factors revealed that young age (OR, 1.037; 95% CI, 1.009 to 1.066; p = 0.009), genotype 2 (OR, 2.620; 95% CI, 1.482 to 4.633; p = 0.001), HCV RNA level of < 800,000 IU/mL (OR, 2.857; 95% CI, 1.610 to 5.050; p < 0.001), and baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL (OR, 1.020; 95% CI, 1.013 to 1.027; p < 0.001) were significantly associated with achievement of SVR, independent of other factors.
Predictive factors of SVR during treatment
Table 3 lists the results for the analysis of predictive factors of SVR related to the treatment. Of patients who achieved RVR and EVR, SVR was achieved by 82% (150/183) and 75.3% (186/248), respectively. Achievement of RVR (OR, 3.984; 95% CI, 2.020 to 7.874; p < 0.001), treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 (OR, 4.058; 95% CI, 2.103 to 7.832; p < 0.001) were independently associated with SVR by multivariate analysis.
Predictive factors of SVR according to genotype
Table 4 lists the results for the multivariate analysis of SVR predictors according to genotype. In 154 patients with genotype 1, young age (OR, 1.058; 95% CI, 1.021 to 1.098; p = 0.002), baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL (OR, 1.020; 95% CI, 1.011 to 1.030; p < 0.001), achievement of RVR (OR, 2.890; 95% CI, 1.1740 to 7.143; p = 0.022), and treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 (OR, 4.349; 95% CI, 1.764 to 10.722; p = 0.001) were independently associated with SVR. In 176 patients with genotype 2, baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL (OR, 1.026; 95% CI, 1.011 to 1.040; p < 0.001), HCV RNA level of < 800,000 IU/mL (OR, 7.092; 95% CI, 2.299 to 21.739; p = 0.001), treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 (OR, 3.422; 95% CI, 1.115 to 10.502; p = 0.032) were independently associated with SVR.
Relationship between baseline platelet count and SVR
The significance of baseline platelet count on SVR rate was evaluated. ROC curves were constructed to determine the optimal cutoff points of platelet count for prediction of SVR. A baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL count at baseline was a potential predictive factor for SVR in entire patients with chronic HCV infection: a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL had a sensitivity of 76.0%, a specificity of 83.9%, and an AUC of 0.873 (Fig. 1A). In patients with genotype 1 and 2, a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL had a sensitivity of 83.5% and 77.2%, a specificity of 77.2% and 80.7%, and an AUC of 0.782 and 0.868, respectively (Fig. 1B and 1C).
This study investigated the factors that may contribute to an SVR in treatment-naive patients with chronic HCV infection who are treated with the combination of PEG-IFN α-2a/-2b and ribavirin. Since baseline predictors of response are useful for advising patients about their likelihood of an SVR, and treatment-related predictors are useful for determining the treatment course and duration, factors that may influence the rate of an SVR to therapy have been investigated extensively [8]. The present study therefore focused on the SVR predictive ability of both baseline factors and treatment-related factors. Several predictors have been identified in previous clinical trials, of which the HCV genotype and HCV RNA levels have been considered the most important [5,8,13-15].
In the current study, the baseline (i.e., pretreatment) predictive factors of SVR were young age, genotype 2, HCV RNA level of < 800,000 IU/mL, and a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL. Similar to previous studies [15,16], the SVR rate for antiviral therapy was higher in younger patients than in older patients in the present study. As mentioned above, HCV genotype is one of the most important SVR predictors. Consistent with previous studies, we found that the SVR rate was higher in genotype 2 patients than in genotype 1 patients, by intention-to-treat analysis (63% vs. 79.5%, p = 0.001).
Interestingly, the SVR rates of both genotypes 1 and 2 in this study were higher than those reported previously [5,15,17]. However, the high SVR rate reported herein is compatible with the findings of previous Korean studies [18-20]. Although the reasons for this difference are largely unknown, the good outcomes of Eastern (including Korean) patients regarding treatment efficacy could be due to the favorable interleukin 28B (IL-28) gene polymorphism [21,22], the lower proportion of obese patients, and greater treatment adherence [12,19,20]. Another possible reason for the present outcome could be the low number of cirrhotic patients and the > 60% high rate of a treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80. In particular, the treatment was maintained for a sufficient period of time in 83% of patients. In the current study, adherence to treatment was an independent predictive factor for achievement of SVR, and the SVR rates of genotypes 1 and 2 patients were as high as 74.7% and 84.4%, respectively, when a per-protocol analysis was applied. It is well known that improved adherence to treatment can enhance SVR rates [12,18,23]. Therefore, the present findings suggest that efforts to improve adherence to treatment could increase the SVR rate among patients who obtain better outcomes on antiviral therapy.
A low baseline HCV RNA level is associated with a significantly higher probability of achieving SVR. Our results did confirm the importance of baseline HCV RNA levels (< 800,000 IU/mL) for achieving SVR by multivariate analysis [8,15].
While baseline predictive factors of SVR are useful for predicting the efficacy of antiviral therapy, they are not sufficient for clinical decision making. Therefore, knowledge of predictive factors during treatment would be extremely valuable. This study found that achievement of RVR and a treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 were related to treatment-related predictive factors of SVR. This is consistent with it previously being shown that RVR at 4 weeks is an excellent predictor of SVR, especially in genotype 1 [24,25]. EVR, which is known to be one of the most important predictors of SVR, could not perform in regression analysis [26]. It would be impossible to analyses it as a predictive factor of SVR, because treatment was stopped in patients without EVR in accordance with the guidelines.
Another interesting finding of the present study is the association between platelet count and SVR in treatment for chronic HCV infection. It is well known that thrombocytopenia is associated with chronic HCV infection and could be significantly correlated with liver fibrosis stage [11,27]. In patients with chronic HCV infection, advanced fibrosis tends to be associated with a lower platelet count, and a decreased platelet count is in turn known to be associated with a diminished treatment response [28,29]. Mild thrombocytopenia is generally defined as a platelet count of ≤ 150 × 103/μL, and a platelet count of < 100 × 103/μL has been used to identify liver cirrhosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis [11,30]. In the present study, the rate of liver cirrhosis did not differ significantly between SVR and non-SVR patients. Nevertheless, a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL was identified as a predictive factor for SVR in entire patients with chronic HCV infection. This suggests that even in the absence of definitive evidence of liver cirrhosis based on clinical measurements, a platelet count of ≤ 150 × 103/μL is associated with advanced fibrosis in patients with chronic HCV infection. In agreement with this result, it has been reported that patients with a baseline platelet count of > 120 × 103/μL had a higher probability of an SVR [31-33]. Thus, the findings of the present study suggest that thrombocytopenia is an important factor for SVR prediction; it is considered beneficial in predicting the response of patients treated with PEG-IFN plus ribavirin.
Treatment in patients with chronic HCV infection is changing from interferon based therapy to DAA. However, although DAA has high cure rate, many patients are not treated with DAA for cost and insurance problems [7]. Therefore, patients who have good baseline predictors such as a baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL, young age, genotype 2 and low HCV RNA level can be treated with interferon based therapy instead of DAA.
This study was subject to several potential limitations. Selection bias was present due to the retrospective study design, and the unavailability of some data in the current study may have affected the results of the multivariate analysis. Despite these concerns, this study makes an important contribution to the understanding of predictive factors of SVR. Deviations from intention-to-treat analysis could introduce potential investigator bias with respect to interpretation of the results. This study did not investigate the IL-28 gene polymorphism. About 95% of Korean patients with chronic HCV infection have favorable IL-28 gene polymorphism to virologic response. Therefore, guidelines of the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver did not recommend the evaluation of IL-28 gene polymorphism for prediction of SVR. Finally, it was possible to underestimate the degree of fibrosis and cirrhosis, because a liver biopsy or indirect fibrosis diagnosis method such as fibroscan were not performed in all of the patients. To overcome this limitation, liver cirrhosis was diagnosed in accordance with criteria based on clinical guidelines. The possibility of cirrhosis may be suggested by the history, clinical manifestation, histology, or compatible laboratory and imaging criteria.
In conclusion, young age, genotype 2, low HCV RNA level, RVR, and treatment adherence were significantly associated with SVR. Another finding of this study demonstrates that platelet count appears to be a significant factor predicting a greater likelihood of SVR, and could thus be a useful predictor for SVR. Platelet count might therefore be useful for developing individualized treatments and optimizing treatment outcomes in patients with chronic HCV infection. Further studies are needed to confirm this.
1. Platelet count appears to be a significant factor predicting sustained virological response (SVR).
2. A baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/μL was identified as a predictive factor for SVR.
This work was supported by the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to determine the optimal platelet-count cutoff points for the prediction of sustained virological response (SVR). (A) At baseline (i.e., pretreatment), a platelet count of > 150 × 103 /µL could be a predictive factor related to the SVR in entire patient with hepatitis C virus infection (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] = 0.873). (B) In patients with genotype 1, a platelet count of > 150 × 103 /µL could be a predictive factor related to the SVR (AUC = 0.782). (C) In patients with genotype 2, a platelet count of > 150 × 103 /µL could be a predictive factor related to the SVR (AUC = 0.868). The solid line represents the ROC based on chance alone and has a c-statistic value of 0.5.
Baseline clinical characteristics (n = 330)
Male sex 176 (53.3)
Age, yr 49 (18–72)
Cirrhosis 29 (8.7)
Diabetes mellitus 56 (17)
BMI, kg/m2 24 (16–33)
BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 119 (36.1)
PEG-IFN α-2a/PEG-INF α-2b 143 (33.3)/187 (56.7)
Genotype 1/Genotype 2 154 (46.7)/176 (53.3)
HCV RNA, log10 IU/mL 5.75 ± 0.92
HCV RNA < 800,000 IU/mL 176 (53.3)
Achievement of RVR (n = 247) 183 (55.5)
Achievement of EVR (n = 267) 248 (75.2)
Achievement of SVR 237 (71.8)
Treatment duration of ≥ 80% 274 (83.0)
PEG-IFN dosage of ≥ 80% 266 (80.6)
Ribavirin dosage of ≥ 80% 275 (83.3)
Treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 217 (65.7)
WBC, /µL 5,005 (1,800–13,620)
Hemoglobin, g/dL 13.7 (10–17.7)
Platelet, × 103/µL 173 (80–404)
ALT, U/L 54 (7–1,190)
Total bilirubin, mg/dL 0.69 (0.2–3.7)
Cholesterol, mg/dL (n = 345) 150 (90–347)
GGT, U/L (n = 328) 50 (8–245)
Fasting glucose, mg/dL 98 (66–354)
Values are presented as number (%), median (range), or mean ± SD.
BMI, body mass index; PEG-IFN, pegylated interferon; HCV, hepatitis C virus; RVR, rapid virological response; EVR, early virological response; SVR, sustained virological response; WBC, white blood cell; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase.
SVR (n = 237)
Non-SVR (n = 93)
Univariate analysis
Male sex 126 (53.2) 50 (53.8) 0.976 0.604–1.576 0.922
Age, yr 47 ± 12 53 ± 11 0.958 0.936–0.979 < 0.001
Cirrhosis 20 (8.4) 9 (9.7) 0.907 0.399–2.061 0.140
Diabetes mellitus 35 (14.8) 21 (22.6) 1.683 0.920–3.080 0.091
BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 91 (40.8) 36 (40.4) 1.015 0.615–1.674 0.954
PEG-IFN α-2a 105 (73.4) 38 (26.6) 1.151 0.708–1.873 0.570
PEG-IFN α-2b 132 (70.6) 55 (29.4)
Genotype 1 97 (63) 57 (37) 2.285 1.399–3.734 0.001
Genotype 2 140 (79.5) 36 (20.5)
HCV RNA of < 800,000 IU/mL 143 (60.3) 33 (35.5) 2.762 1.681–4.545 < 0.001
WBC, × 103/µL 5,110 (1,800–10,300) 4,900 (1,980–13,620) 1.000 1.000–1.000 0.842
Hemoglobin, g/dL 13.6 (10–17.7) 13.8 (10.1–17.4) 1.051 0.900–1.228 0.530
Platelet, × 103/µL 184 (101–404) 120 (80–313) 1.021 1.015–1.028 < 0.001
ALT, U/L 57 (7–1,190) 50 (11–350) 1.002 0.999–1.005 0.182.
Total bilirubin, mg/dL 0.7 (0.2–3.7) 0.7 (0.2–2.1) 0.860 0.644–1.149 0.307
Cholesterol, mg/dL 152 (90–347) 149 (91–243) 1.002 0.994–1.011 0.594
GGT, U/L 48 (8–245) 60 (11–218) 0.996 0.991–1.001 0.114
Fasting glucose, mg/dL 108 (66–354) 103 (71–297) 0.994 0.989–1.000 0.067
Young age 1.037 1.009–1.066 0.009
Genotype 2 2.620 1.482–4.633 0.001
HCV RNA of < 800,000 IU/mL 2.857 1.610–5.050 < 0.001
High baseline platelet count 1.020 1.013–1.027 < 0.001
Values are presented as number (%), mean ± SD, or median (range). OR by logistic regression analysis with backward elimination method.
SVR, sustained virological response; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidential interval; BMI, body mass index; PEG-IFN, pegylated interferon; HCV, hepatitis C virus; WBC, white blood cell; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase.
RVR (n = 247)
Yes 150 (82) 33 (18) 4.545 2.451–8.403 < 0.001
No 32 (50) 32 (50)
EVR (n = 267)
Yes 186 (75.3) 62 (24.7) NA
No 0 19 (100)
Treatment duration 32.3 ± 11.8 32.2 ± 17.9 1.001 0.983–1.018 0.951
Treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 174 (73.4) 43 (46.2) 3.212 1.949–5.291 < 0.001
Achievement of RVR 3.984 2.020–7.874 < 0.001
Treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 4.058 2.103–7.832 < 0.001
Values are presented as number (%) or mean ± SD. OR by logistic regression analysis with backward elimination method.
SVR, sustained virological response; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidential interval; RVR, rapid virological response; EVR, early virological response; NA, not available.
Predictive factors of SVR according to genotype (multivariate analysis)
Non-SVR
Genotype 1 (n = 154) 97 57
Young age 44 ± 11 54 ± 12 1.058 1.021–1.098 0.002
Baseline platelet count of > 150 × 103/µL 192 (101–386) 117 (85–192) 1.020 1.011–1.030 < 0.001
Achievement of RVR (n = 117) 52/76 (68.4) 15/41 (36.6) 2.890 1.170–7.143 0.022
Treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 71 (73.2) 24 (42.1) 4.349 1.764–10.722 0.001
Genotype 2 (n = 176) 140 36
High baseline platelet count 180 (101–404) 120 (80–313) 1.026 1.011–1.040 < 0.001
HCV RNA of < 800,000 IU/mL 95 (67.9) 10 (27.8) 7.092 2.299–21.739 0.001
Achievement of RVR (n = 130) 98/106 (92.5) 18/24 (75) 0.372 0.086–1.604 NS
Treatment adherence of ≥ 80/80/80 103 (73.6) 19 (52.8) 3.422 1.115–10.502 0.032
Values are presented as mean ± SD, median (range), or number (%). OR by logistic regression analysis with backward elimination method.
SVR, sustained virological response; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidential interval; RVR, rapid virological response; HCV, hepatitis C virus; NS, not significance.
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World Wide Work - July 2008
Source Matt Witt
Date 08/07/16/22:14
This edition of the free bulletin, World Wide Work, is published by the
American Labor Education Center, an independent nonprofit founded in
WORLD WIDE WORK
There was hardly a dry eye in the hall when a nurse from Pennsylvania,
Deb Bonn, spoke at the recent SEIU convention in favor of a
resolution delegates later adopted to strengthen the unions efforts to
bring U.S. troops home from Iraq and provide them the health care and
other services they need.
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFg3DcBvNs
New and worth noting
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*Traces of the Trade
(www.tracesofthetrade.org) is a fascinating film made by a descendant
of the largest slave trader in U.S. history. Together with nine other
relatives, she visits key sites from the New England town whose economy
depended on her familys business to a fort in Africa where slaves where
held in a dungeon before they were loaded on ships to a plantation in
Cuba where the Africans were brought to produce sugar cane that was then
used to make rum. The journey forces the family members to confront their
whiteness in new ways and to commit to action. The film and an
accompanying book called Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman
DeWolf make a clear case for reparations and puncture the myth that
slavery was simply a southern phenomenon.
*Uncounted
(www.UncountedTheMovie.com) is an alarming 80-minute documentary that
in factual, credible terms exposes methods systematically used in 2004
and 2006 to suppress voting by working people and poor communities and to
undercount the votes that were cast.
*Passion and Power
(www.thetechnologyoforgasm.com) explores female sexuality through a
history of the vibrator, the sale of which is still illegal in some
*This is War
(www.luckyforwardfilms.com) follows an Oregon National Guard unit that
was sent to Iraq. Their sole focus becomes their own survival as they
appear to show little interest in the wars larger context.
*Larger Than Life
(www.stevegoodman.net) is a video of a benefit concert to celebrate the life of the late songwriter, Steve Goodman. His songs are performed in the film by Arlo
Guthrie, Iris Dement, Todd Snider, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Jackson
Browne, and John Prine.
*Bitter Chocolate by Carol Off (The New Press). A Canadian journalist
looks at where chocolate comes from, how it is produced, who profits from
it, and who is exploited and impoverished in the process.
*Dying to Live by Joseph Nevins (City Lights). A well-researched
account uses the death of a man crossing the border from Mexico to be
reunited with his family as a jumping off point to tell the larger story
of the history and current reality of immigration.
*Illegal People by David Bacon (Beacon). A former union organizer
shows how current immigration laws are used to exploit immigrant workers
and their families.
*Tell Me Another Morning by Zdena Berger (Paris Press). The author
was 14 when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp during World War
II. Her memoir, recently reissued, is written from her point of view at
the time, making the experience come painfully alive for the reader.
*When the Prisoners Ran Walpole by Jamie Bissonette (South End).
At a time when U.S. prison growth is out of control, this true story
about a past experiment sheds light on what could be done. For a brief
time in the early 1970s, radical reforms improved conditions in a state
prison in Massachusetts and reintegrated more prisoners into
*Why America Lost the War on Poverty and How to Win It by Frank
Stricker (University of North Carolina). Tracing more than 50 years of
history, from the War on Poverty through workfare to Bill Clintons vow
to end welfare as we know it, Stricker argues that any serious
anti-poverty program must be rooted in good jobs with pay and benefits
that support a family.
*Solidarity Divided by Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Fernando Gapasin
(University of California). The union movement should not settle for
winning gains for workers within the capitalist system but should promote
a global vision of an alternative to that system, according to this book,
part essay and part memoir, that contains a wide variety of criticisms of
SEIU, Change to Win, and the AFL-CIO.
*Race Against Liberalism by David M. Lewis-Colman (University of
Illinois). Chronicles historic tension between white liberal leaders of
the UAW and independent black movements in the auto industry.
*The Carbon-Free Home by Stephen & Rebekah Hren (Chelsea
Green). Detailed, practical ideas for modifications that can be made in
traditional homes to reduce fossil fuel use that contributes to climate
*The Political Economy of Media by Robert W. McChesney (Monthly
Review Press). Collected writings of a leading voice for radical reform
of the news media.
www.capaciteria.org
provides a free directory to resources for nonprofit organizations on
a wide range of topics.
www.CostOfWar.com
instantly calculates the cost to your local area of the Iraq war, the
Bush tax cuts for the rich, or other misguided expenditures and
translates that into what the same funding could have provided locally in
terms of people covered for health care, homes converted to renewable
energy, or other socially useful purposes.
http://mhssn.igc.org/
is the web site of the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network which
provides assistance to labor rights groups in Mexico and China.
*Coal by Kathy Mattea (www.mattea.com) is a collection of many of the best
known songs of the eastern coalfields.
*Peace, Love and Anarchy by Todd Snider (www.ohboy.com) combines for his
ardent fans some of his lesser known songs with previously unreleased versions
of tunes from his other CDs.
*Hallowed Ground by I See Hawks in L.A. (www.iseehawks) is a reminder of the
groups musical talent but the lyrics on their previous CDs such as Grapevine
provide a better introduction to the bands work.
Free tools for effective grassroots organizing and communication, as well
as back issues of World Wide Work, are available at www.TheWorkSite.org.
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Palestinian PM cuts short Gaza visit after explosion
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah attends the inauguration ceremony of a waste treatment plant after an explosion targeted his convoy, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. — Reuters
Gaza City — Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah cut short a rare visit to Gaza on Tuesday after an explosion targeted his convoy, a source in the delegation said.
Hamdallah, who was not hurt, left the Hamas-run territory through the Erez crossing shortly after opening a wastewater treatment facility, the source said.
The explosion had gone off near his convoy shortly after he arrived in the enclave and lightly injured seven people.
He had been expected to hold a number of other engagements in the territory.
Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj was part of the convoy but was not hurt either, the security source said.
Minutes after the blast, Hamdallah, delivered a speech at the inauguration of a waste treatment plant in the Gaza Strip, live TV footage showed. He said in the address that three cars were damaged.
The Palestinian Authority said it held the enclave's dominant Hamas group responsible for the attack, stopping short of directly accusing the group of carrying out the assault, but suggesting it had failed to provide adequate security.
Gaza's Hamas-run interior ministry said the explosion hit as the prime minister's convoy passed near the northern town of Beit Hanoun. No one was injured and security services had begun an investigation, ministry spokesman Eyad Al-Bozom said.
The prime minister is based in the occupied West Bank and traveled overland, via Israel, to the Gaza Strip. Police said the explosion came shortly after Hamdallah's convoy passed by, and one witness said it appeared two cars at the end of motorcade sustained damage.
"The Palestinian Presidency holds Hamas responsible for the cowardly targeting of the Prime Minister's convoy in Gaza," the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Hamas and Abbas's Palestinian Authority are still divided over how to implement an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal. Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
"The attack against the government of consensus is an attack against the unity of the Palestinian people," said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The explosion occurred near the spot where a US diplomatic convoy was blown up by a remote-controlled bomb in 2003 shortly after it entered the Gaza Strip. Three American security specialists were killed and a US diplomat was injured in that blast. — Agencies
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Marvellous Messi hits hat trick
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring their fourth goal to complete his hat trick in La Liga Santander match against Real Betis at Estadio Benito Villamarin, Seville, Sunday. — Reuters
SEVILLE, Spain — Lionel Messi was lauded by opposition supporters Sunday after he scored an outstanding hat trick in Barcelona’s 4-1 win at Real Betis, which put the Catalans 10 points clear at the top of La Liga with 10 games remaining.
With Barca’s nearest challenger Atletico Madrid falling to a 2-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao the previous day, Messi got Barca off to an ideal start by drilling a free kick into the top corner of the net in the 18th minute.
The Argentine put Barca further at ease with another strike at the end of the first half, finishing off a backheeled pass from Luis Suarez as the two South American forwards carved their way through Betis’s defense.
Uruguay forward Suarez had missed several clear chances to score but he finally got his reward for a lively performance with a goal in the 63rd minute, dancing past four Betis players on a dazzling run which began in his own half.
Loren Moron pulled one back for Betis in the 82nd minute but Messi replied with a sumptuous first-time lob in off the crossbar to complete his treble and the Betis supporters responded by chanting the Argentine’s name and bowing down to him.
It was an utterly dominant performance from the La Liga leader which avenged its 4-3 loss at home to Betis in November and took it on to 66 points after 28 games, while Atletico has 56 and third-placed Real Madrid 54.
PSG downs rival Marseille
Angel Di Maria scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain eased to a 3-1 victory over Marseille Sunday to extend its long unbeaten run against its arch rival and move 20 points clear at the Ligue 1 summit.
A group of PSG ultras were boycotting the opening stages of the game over the team’s shock Champions League defeat by Manchester United, but when they arrived they were given a 16th win in 19 meetings with Marseille, alongside three draws, to cheer.
Kylian Mbappe put PSG in front on the stroke of half-time with his 26th league goal of the season, but Valere Germain equalized in the first minute of the second period.
Inter edges Milan
Inter Milan moved above city rival AC Milan into third place in Serie A with an exhilarating 3-2 derby victory at San Siro that ended a five-match winning run for Gennaro Gattuso’s hosts.
Matias Vecino’s goal gave the Nerazzurri a deserved halftime lead before Stefan De Vrij and Lautaro Martinez, with a penalty, struck after the break, while goals from Milan’s Tiemoue Bakayoko and Mateo Musacchio kept the Rossoneri in the game.
Inter coach Luciano Spalletti was facing increasing pressure after his side was knocked out of the Europa League in the last 16 by Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday.
However, he was left delighted as his team stretched its unbeaten Milan derby run to six games, their best spell since 1999, and moved to 53 points, two clear of fourth-placed Milan. — Agencies
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Small Town Sweetness
September 18, 2018 angie
Pictured above are many of the awesome local kids who volunteered to help run the games for the younger kids at the Historical Society Penny Carnival.
I grew up in small town America. The Central Illinois farming community where I was born has a population of only 2,000 and a Main Street lined with historic buildings and a vintage train depot. Even though Long Grove is a suburb of Chicago, and with it’s 8,000 residents is quadruple the size of my hometown, there are times when it truly feels like a close-knit village. Case in point–our recent Vintage Days weekend. The Historical Society sponsored two family events run by kids, for kids, and it was heartwarming to be part of the festivities.
What’s a Penny Carnival without a penny pitch game?
The Penny Carnival
Older kids readily volunteered to organize old-fashioned games for younger children on the lawn of our 1860’s farmhouse. Costing only 1 cent per game, kids could have fun playing pirate ring toss, duck pond, ring the bell, and the ever-popular frog launch. It was incredibly sweet to see the teens and tweens patiently helping the little ones pitch pennies and redeem tickets for prizes, and generating happy smiles all around. Everything needed to man and run this event was donated, highlighting genuine community spirit. Here is a quote overheard at the event:
“This Penny Carnival epitomizes small town ambiance at its best–children laughing, adults chatting, frogs flying. Kudos to the organizers!”
Local kids also showcased their talent by performing an original play about our town’s history entitled, “Good Times with the Gridleys.” The cast is shown here crossing “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal.”
The Back Porch Players
Twelve talented local middle and elementary school students, with assistance by Narrator and Musician Mike Dvorak and professional Puppeteer Krist Neumann, performed an original show on the farmhouse back porch. “Good Times with the Gridleys,” told the story of the founding of Long Grove in the mid-1800’s and featured historical songs and real-life historical characters. My personal favorite was an original song involving the entire cast called, “The Long Grove Bridge.”
Click this link below to watch a five minute video of highlights from the show:
Community Groups, Historic Downtown, History, Local Events Arts & Music, Community, Family, Historical Society, Original Settlers, Students
Muttersholtz Around the World
September 5, 2018 angie
Notice a picture of our Long Grove Village Hall on the upper right of the cover of the Muttersholtz municipal newsletter.
Earlier this summer I was contacted by Martine Kilcher, the Deputy Mayor of the town of Muttersholtz, France. She was putting together a feature for their September, 2018 municipal newsletter on places around the world that have a special connection or “twinning” with their village. Long Grove was founded in part by descendants of settlers from Muttersholtz in the mid-1800’s, and went by that name for several years before officially becoming the Village of Long Grove. I was glad to be able to write a short piece about our history and current events, and provide a few pictures for our friends in Europe to see what our village in America, inspired by Muttersholtz, looks like today. From Martine I learned that Muttersholtz is also very ecology minded, even receiving a special designation for this. Our villages both share a historic downtown crossroads with vintage buildings, and have had local craft breweries open in the past few years. It was a delightful experience to connect with Martine and we have even kept up with each other’s organizations through Facebook. When our covered bridge was listed on the National Register our Historical Society received congratulations from France, and when it was damaged a few weeks later they shared in our sorrow. To learn more about Muttersholtz, France click on this link.
Here is the English translation for the article (above) that appears in the September, 2018 issue of the Muttersholtz municipal newsletter:
“Long Grove is an American city, located at about 50 km from Chicago, Illinois. It has about 8,500 inhabitants. It is not twinned with our commune, but part of its population is made up of descendants of Muttersholtzois who founded a village after having migrated to the United States. The name was Muttersholtz firstly. These are also our faraway cousins who erected the parish church at the end of the 19th century. The people of Long Grove have been able to preserve their environment, which is composed of grasslands, forests and wet areas. The inhabitants are particularly proud of their covered bridge, which spans the Buffalo Creek and which has just been registered in the American Heritage. As with us, they like to party there. Each year a Strawberry Festival, an Apple Festival, a Festival of the chocolate and Saint Nicolas is honored. A brewery opened last year. To honor the story of the village, one of the first beers brewed was named Muttersholtz and, on July 21, the brewery organized a Muttersholtz Fest to celebrate the first year opening.”
Historic Downtown, History, Interesting People Community, Covered Bridge, Historical Society, Original Settlers
Muttersholtz Fest
August 16, 2018 angie
Christine Marr of Buffalo Creek Brewing celebrated their first anniversary with a little “Red Headed Step Child.”
On June 21st, Buffalo Creek Brewing in Long Grove marked their first anniversary by hosting a celebration in their 90 seat outdoor beer garden. Dubbed “Muttersholtz Fest,” it featured live entertainment with four bluegrass bands and whole-hog pork slow roasted on site. Pitmasters from Chicago Culinary Kitchen, BBQ’d Productions, and Steamboat BBQ added the perfect spices and sauces to complement the various beers offered, including one called “Muttersholtz.” Now a village in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, Muttersholtz was the town that many of the early settlers in Long Grove originated from. Back in the 1840’s this region was part of Germany, and with Buffalo Creek specializing in many German style beers, what better way to tie the history and hops together.
Congratulations to Buffalo Creek on your first-year milestone, may you celebrate many, many more in our Village!
The Long Grove Lions Club was the beneficiary of funds raised at the Muttersholtz Fest event. Pictured are Lions members Jesse Visconik on the left, and John Kopecky on the right.
Community Groups, Historic Downtown, Local Events Celebration, Historic Business District, Merchants, Original Settlers, Philanthropy
Celebrating the Illinois Bicentennial
July 12, 2018 angie
Patti Ecker and Mike Dvorak brought “Songs of the Prairie” to our farmhouse back porch for the July 6th performance.
Illinois was first designated a state in 1818, and a wide variety of events have been planned to mark this special 200th anniversary year. Here in Long Grove, the Historical Society is hosting a series of “First Fridays at the Farmhouse” performances to honor our state bicentennial as well as celebrate our local history. In June we were treated to “Spoon River Anthology,” a classic portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century Illinois town. Last week, singer and multi-instrumentalist Patti Ecker was joined by Long Grove musicians Reed Olsen and Mike Dvorak to entertain us on the farmhouse back porch with folk songs, sing-a-longs, traditional and popular selections that reflected chapters in our Illinois history.
Did I mention that all this great, outdoor, family-friendly entertainment is free? Please plan to join in the fun at the remaining two performances on the First Fridays of August and September starting at 6:00 pm. Friday August 3rd will feature “Birth of a State.” Come and find out what was happening in culture, politics, music, theatre, and everyday life during Illinois’ first summer of statehood. On Friday, September 7th, we will hear the tales of local Civil War veteran Chris Sauer told through stories, music and song in a show entitled, “Company’s Comin’.” Mark your calendar now and enjoy an evening in our historic downtown among Long Grove neighbors and history enthusiasts. You might learn a thing or two, also!
Click on the video clip below for a sample of the July 6th show:
Historic Downtown, History, Local Events Arts & Music, Historical Society, Original Settlers, State of Illinois, Summer
Gridley Pioneer Cemetery
April 28, 2018 angie
Sharon Gridley (left) paid an April 21st visit to see the spot where her pioneer ancestors are buried.
Long Grove has two cemeteries, one well-known and one a bit off the beaten path. The cemetery next to the Long Grove Community Church, with it’s distinctive iron work fence and gate, has graves dating back to the 1800’s. Many prominent early citizens of our Village are eternally resting in this historic spot. But perhaps Long Grove’s oldest pioneer settlers, the Gridley family, are buried amongst the oaks in a small, private cemetery on land that was part of their homestead back in the mid-1830’s. The Long Grove Historical Society maintains this cemetery, and we were recently paid a visit by Sharon Gridley of Atlanta, a direct descendant of original pioneers John and Nancy Gridley.
I had not been to the cemetery for a few years, and it was a pleasure to guide Sharon back to this hidden spot. While paying her respects and snapping photos of the weathered grave markers, I got the chance to think about how different it must have been when the Gridleys first arrived. No paved roads, no traffic, just woods and prairie as far as the eye could see. I am always struck by the young ages on many of the tombstones, children who only lived a few short years or months, and the mothers who died way too early. Pioneers enjoyed the peaceful untouched natural beauty and resources that we find scarce today, but it was sure a hard life. Several curious deer emerged from the woods as we concluded our visit, bridging the past and present with their quiet watchfulness.
Sharon and I spent some time that afternoon in our Historical Society archives, where we have many photos and documents relating to her family history. It was glad for the opportunity to meet her and help with researching her ancestors. Life in Long Grove today has much more meaning when we step back to appreciate what Life in Long Grove meant for those that came before us.
History, Interesting People, Nature Appreciation, Family, Historical Society, Original Settlers, Wildlife
St. Paddy’s Day at the Brewery
March 17, 2018 angie
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at Buffalo Creek Brewing with owner Mike Marr (left) and local historian Aaron Underwood.
Long Grove is a great place to celebrate your Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day. Whether it’s a trip to Paddy’s on the Square for beautiful Ireland-inspired gifts, green beer at the Village Tavern, Corned Beef at the Chatterbox, or a mint chocolate chip cone at the new Covered Bridge Creamery, our Village is a festive spot to gather for the holiday. This year features another new option as Buffalo Creek Brewing hosts a day-long St. Patrick’s Day Party, featuring free Green Eggs and Hash, a special price on their “Burning Red” craft beer, and evening entertainment.
My husband Aaron and I stopped by the party this afternoon to congratulate Mike Marr, owner of Buffalo Creek Brewing and the newly installed President of the Historic Downtown Long Grove Business Association. In appreciation of his commitment of time and leadership to the downtown, (and being that he is a next-door neighbor to the farmhouse museum) the Historical Society presented Mike with a gift of a framed historical print of his choice. His selection, shown in the photo above, is of the Long Grove Crackerjacks baseball team, circa 1908. This was one of several “town ball” baseball teams that existed a century ago, with games played against other local teams such as Palatine and Lake Zurich. Mike likes to distinguish his craft beers with clever names, often a play on words or with a local significance. His newest creation is called “Muttersholtz,” the name originally given to Long Grove in the 1840’s by the early settlers who came here from the Alsace-Lorraine region in Germany. Maybe the picture will inspire a future craft beer that pairs well with baseball games and caramel corn?
Mike also mentioned that he is starting his canning operation in the downstairs of the Brewery starting this coming Tuesday. Compared to bottles, cans have many advantages for beer, two of which are keeping out unnecessary light and oxygen. So not only will your favorite beers be crafted right here in downtown Long Grove, but they will soon be canned locally as well.
However you choose to treat yourself, have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Historic Downtown, History, Interesting People Historic Business District, Historical Society, Leadership, Merchants, Original Settlers
Apple Fest 2017
Cast Members of the Long Grove Historical Society’s “A Celebration of the Apple” show include (L to R): Zack Langhoff, Veronica Lada, Nikki Gayton, Karen and Katie Kroll, Mike Dvorak, and puppets “Ma and Pa Gridley.”
Our Apple Fest weekend was kicked off in style with a first-ever performance of “A Celebration of the Apple,”at the Historical Society’s farmhouse back porch. Audience members relaxed on benches under the apple tree, and were entertained with songs, poems, jokes, history and lots of lore regarding apples. A highlight of the show was the debut of “Ma and Pa Gridley,” a couple of real Long Grove pioneers brought back to life through the farmhouse back porch window. Professional puppeteer Krist Neumann showcased his amazing talent to the delight of both kids and adults!
We are enjoying a bit of a heat wave this weekend in Long Grove, perfect for carnival rides, outdoor music, pie-eating contests, and festival treats such as apple cider donuts. The fun starts on Sunday at 10:00 am and continues till 6:00 pm in our historic downtown. The band American English is featured on the main stage at the covered bridge from 4-6 pm. Come enjoy the day in Long Grove!
Puppeteer Krist Neumann’s family owns the Long Grove shop “Viking Treasures.”
Historic Downtown, History, Local Events Family, Festivals, Historic Business District, Historical Society, Original Settlers
Ruth Barn to House Historic Pigs
June 4, 2017 angie
The Long Grove Historical Society’s 1840 Ruth Barn will be the new home for the iconic signs from the Country Smokehouse.
Longtime residents in the area remember fondly the combination smokehouse-restaurant-general store that was located on Rt. 83 and Gilmer Road in Long Grove, called the Country Smokehouse. Closed since 1999, the popular spot featured old-fashioned meats smoked in the historic smokehouse on the property (which is still standing), a deli, and a seven table restaurant serving up country breakfasts and hearty lunches daily. Owner of the business, Bernice Ann Tiffany, has passed away, and her daughter Jane recently contacted me to see if the Historical Society would like some donations of pictures, documents, and other antique items from the Smokehouse and Ferry Farms, the dairy farm and creamery that originally stood on the property. We were very excited to receive these items and happily welcomed the “pigs” back home today to live in our 1840 Historic Ruth Barn! We will be able to incorporate the signs into our field trip program for the local 3rd Graders when they visit to spend the day in our one-room schoolhouse and learn about local history and life in the pioneer and early farming days.
Ferry Farms was the home of Ferryhill Dairy in the 1930’s, and the Country Smokehouse was part of the original estate. It featured an original tin ceiling and shelving that dated back more than 50 years, chock-full of grocery items much like an old-time general store. Many of Bernice Tiffany’s regular customers shared their pig-collecting mania with her, resulting in hundreds of cute pink porkers on display in the restaurant along with the old-time memorabilia. We are grateful to Jane and Ken for saving many of these ties to the past, and for sharing them now with the Long Grove community.
Jane Tiffany-Hansen and Ken Hansen of Grayslake, who graciously donated items from the Smokehouse and Ferry Farms to our Historical Society.
History Farming, Food, Historical Society, Original Settlers
November 27, 2016 angie
Historical Society member Georgia Cawley teaches her grandson Miles how to work the antique mousetrap.
Today I have invited a guest to write a post for my blog–none other than Aaron Underwood, President of the Long Grove Historical Society. Aaron writes a regular column on Long Grove history for our local lifestyle magazine, and this favorite artifact of mine was the subject of a recent article. Wait, I mean the mousetrap pictured above is a favorite artifact–but I guess the author is a valuable treasure too! Anyway, enjoy the following story which recently appeared in Long Grove Living:
One of the joys of living in Long Grove is being in such close proximity to a variety of living creatures. Unfortunately, all those majestic animals are far outnumbered by those little pesky ones, such as the humble field mouse. When seasons change, it seems our local mice prefer the sanctuary of our homes rather than the acres of open space where they belong. The earliest settlers of Long Grove fought the battle to rid their homes of mice just like we do. One of the favorite artifacts in our restored 1840’s farmhouse, is a wire mousetrap. We think it dates to the late 1800’s and likely was sold out of one of Long Grove’s general stores.
The trap is laid with bait in the center and lures mice through a levered flap that is angled such that the mouse can “nose through” to enter, but can’t raise the flap to exit. The trap works as good today as it ever did. If evolution ever decides to bless the mouse with opposable thumbs, the effectiveness of this trap will go astray. Come to think of it, mice with upgraded thumbs might doom all of us.
The classic wooden mouse “snap” trap that you find sold in Long Grove today was invented in 1898. Given the extremely fertile “mouse friendly” environment we live in, perhaps it’s not surprising that the classic “snap” trap was invented in Illinois, about 150 miles from Long Grove. It was noteworthy in that it didn’t rely on gravity, but rather was spring powered. Called the “Little Nipper”, the design remains virtually unchanged today.
Recently a brewery in Chicago received much publicity for the feral cats they use to patrol their grain stores. Our own Long Grove Village Hall occasionally does this as well. When I moved here almost twenty years ago, we employed a cat named Drexler, and he was succeeded by another feline affectionately known as Drexler II. Like many roles in our community, these stray cats are unpaid volunteers. The role of Village mouse catcher is currently unfilled and available for the stray looking for some community service. To apply, simply show up at Village Hall looking hungry, meow a lot, and get to work. Not to take issue with anyone who may have reserved the name Drexler III for any new recruit, but might we dub the new mouse antagonist “Little Nipper” instead?
— Aaron Underwood, President, Long Grove Historical Society
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Greeting one of our newest business owners in the historic downtown, Jesse DeSoto of the Fred Astaire Dance Studio.
In the year 1900, Long Grove’s first dance hall was built. Housed on a site next to what is now Kildeer Countryside School (and now serves as a parking lot for the old Zimmer Hotel building), this community building was erected at a cost of $2,500. Residents came together to help finance the construction of this social gathering spot, at a cost of $10 per share. According to local lore, dances were held upstairs on the weekends and refreshments were served downstairs, with a separate room to check coats and horse blankets in the winter. Known as Union Hall, dances continued to be held here into the 1940’s, after which it was sold to a turkey hatchery, then a manufacturing company that produced decorative wooden ducks. Years of accumulated sawdust and wood shavings helped fuel a spectacular fire in 1951 that burned the old Union Hall to the ground. Ironically, the fire department was located just down the street but the firefighters were away that evening attending a dance in a nearby town!
One century later, Long Grove’s popularity as a fun place to dance is about to come alive once again. I have recently had the opportunity to meet local resident Jesse DeSoto, a former “Pro” from Season 3 of the popular television show “Dancing With The Stars.” Jesse is in the process of purchasing the former Red Oaks property, and is currently working to relocate his Fred Astaire Dance Studio from Buffalo Grove to our historic downtown. In business for over the past 11 years, this franchise has been consistently ranked as one of the top Fred Astaire Dance Studios in the United States. The former big “barn” on the property is slated to be renovated and reconstructed into a Grand Ballroom, to be used for day to day lessons as well as accommodating social dance events. Future plans for the additional buildings on the site include possible retail and restaurant tenants. Jesse and some of his students recently appeared on ABC Channel 7 to help promote Chocolate Fest this past May. Click here to view a short clip of this.
I know that I speak for so many of the residents and merchants in Long Grove who are excited to welcome Jesse and his new business to our historic downtown. It is a great fit for our community, and truly a kick to see history repeating itself with a popular dance hall coming back to town. This time though, I say we skip the special cloak room for the horse blankets and opt for a disco ball instead!
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The Effect of High Dose Radioiodine Therapy on Formation of Radiation Retinopathy During Thyroid Cancer Treatment
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Received Date: 27.11.2013 Accepted Date: 16.05.2014 Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther 2014;23(3):84-88 PMID: 25541931
Non-thyroidal complication of high-dose radioiodine therapy for thyroid carcinoma might cause salivary and lacrimal gland dysfunction, which may be transient or permanent in a dose-dependent manner. However, radiation retinopathy complicating 131I therapy, has not been previously well characterized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent of retinal damage among patients who had received high doses of radioiodine treatment.
Forty eyes of 20 patients (3 male, 17 female) who received 250-1000 mCi during 131I therapy and on ophthalmological follow up for a year after the last treatment were included in the study. Mean age of the study group was 50 years (range 25-70 years). In ophthalmologic examination, visual acuity was measured in order to determine visual loss. Intraocular pressure was measured in all the patients. Then lens examination was carried out with slit lamp biomicroscopy in order to investigate cataract or partial lens opacities. Fundus observation was carried out through the dilated pupil with slit lamp biomicroscopy using 90 D noncontact lens.
The best corrected visual aquity with Snellen chart was found as 1.0 in 36 eyes (90%) and between 0.6 and 0.9 (10%) in 4 eyes (10%). At the biomicroscopic fundus examination, retinal hemorrhage consistent with radiation retinopathy, microaneurysm, microinfarction, edema or exudation, v
This result indicates that there is not any significant correlation between repeated high-dose radioiodine therapy and radiation retinopathy in differentiated thyroid carcinomas. Even though there is not a significant restriction in use of higher doses of radioiodine therapy in differentiated thyroid carcinoma, more extensive studies are needed in order to obtain more accurate data on possible occurrence of retinopathy.
Keywords: Iodine-131,ablation,retinopathy,Thyroid neoplasms
Radioiodine (Radioiodine (RI) (iodine-131, or 131I)) is used for the ablation of postoperative residual thyroid tissue in differential thyroid carcinomas (1). Although serious acute complications are extremely rare following radioiodine treatment, several side effects could occur (2,3,4). Gastrointestinal complaints, salivary gland and lacrimal gland swelling with pain are mainly reported side effects, although there are no large prospective series on the side effects of radioiodine therapy in the literature. The current literature on this subject is mainly consists of retrospective studies and case reports (5).
Radiation retinopathy is an occlusive vasculopathy which begins in the late period following radiotherapy. It is generally seen after ionized radiation and 125I brachytherapy applied to the intraocular tumors, showing a slow progression and causing occlusion in retinal capillary, nonperfusion and large retinal vessels with neovascularization (6).
The literature about radiation-related retinopathy consists of the studies about external radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Clinical trials evaluating the patients for retinopathy following the treatment with radionuclides are quite limited. The aim of this study was to investigate whether high doses of radioiodine causes retinal damage during thyroid cancer treatment. Investigation of the clinical and pathological conditions regarding the ocular damage after external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy may guide on the alterations after the treatment with radionuclides.
Between January 2000 and January 2007, 40 eyes of 20 patients who received 9250-37000 MBq (250-1000 mCi) during the therapy and on ophthalmological follow up for a year after the last treatment were included in the study. Three of the patients were males and 17 of them females aged between 25 and 70 (mean age:50±11). All patients were examined for detailed medical history, total blood count, routine biochemical tests, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes. Patients with additional pathologies that might cause retinopathy were excluded.
Out of 20 patients, 17 were followed-up for papillary thyroid carcinoma and 3 for follicular thyroid carcinoma. Four of the patients had a history of radiotherapy received in the thyroid region and 2 due to metastasis to the lumbar vertebrae and pelvic bones. Characteristics of the patients are summarized in Table 1.
Radioiodine ablation is performed four to six weeks after thyroid cancer surgery. After the operation patients are asked to avoid substances containing iodine. For postoperative ablation of thyroid bed remnants, activity in the range of 3700-7400 MBq (100-200 mCi) is typically administered. The patients, who developed recurrence during follow-up and received a total of 250-1000 mCi (mean dose 472 i±265) radioiodine with repeating doses, were included in the study. In addition, patients were questioned for the radiation damage to salivary and lacrimal glands and nasolacrimal duct that are the known side effects of radioiodine.
In the ophthalmologic examination, first distance visual acuity rate was defined in order to determine visual loss. Patients were asked to read the Snellen chart with correction from a distance of 6 meters and the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was measured.
Intraocular pressure was measured in all patients with Goldman applanation tonometry. Proparacaine hydrochloride 0.5% was applied to all patients for the measurement. Then iris and iridocorneal angle were evaluated with slit lamp biomicroscope (Topcon SL-3C Tokyo, Japan) using Goldmann three-mirror contact lense. Iridocorneal angle was examined for neovascularization. Tropicamide drops of %1 was applied and the pupilla was dilated. Then lens examination was carried out with slit lamp biomicroscopy in order to investigate cataract or partial lens opacities.
Fundus observation was carried out on the dilated pupil with slit lamp biomicroscopy using 90 D noncontact lens. Especially symptoms including vitreus hemorrhage, partial or total optical disc pallor indicating papillopathy in the optic disc, retinal hemorrhage indicating retinopathy, microaneurysm, neovascularization, microinfarction, edema and exudation were examined. Colored images of fundus through dilated pupils were taken in all patients with digital retinal camera (Canon Inc Tokyo, Japan).
The best corrected visual aquity with Snellen chart was found as 1.0 in 36 eyes (90%) and between 0.6 and 0.9 (10%) in 4 eyes (10%) There was pseudophakic posterior capsule opacification in two eyes and nuclear cataract in two eyes which did not interfere with fundus examination. Intraocular pressures were under 19 mmHg in all patients which was in the normal range. In the frontal segment examination carried out with slit lamp biomicroscopy, neovascularization in the iris and iridocorneal angle were not found in any of the patients.
There was pseudophakic posterior capsule opacification in one eye (5%) of two patients which has developed secondary to previous cataract surgery, reducing the best corrected acuity under 1.0. These patients later underwent neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) posterior capsulotomy procedure. The best corrected visual aquity reached to the level of 1.0 after the procedure. Nuclear cataract was found in 2 eyes (5%) of one patient, reducing the best corrected visual aquity under 1.0. After the surgeries , best corrected visual acuity of the patients reached to the level of 1.0 at the follow-ups.
At the biomicroscopic fundus examinations, retinal hemorrhage consistent with radiation retinopathy, microaneurysm, microinfarction, edema or exudation, vitreus hemorrhage, partial or total optical disc pallor indicating papillopathy in the optic disc were not observed in any eye. Two patients (10%) underwent dacryocystorhinostomy due to bilateral nasolacrimal duct obstruction developed following high dose RI therapy.
Figure 1 shows images taken with a digital retinal camera in a patient.
In the experimental trials, first alterations in the retina exposed to ionized radiation were detected to begin between the 12th and 24th months (7). Mainly capillary nonperfusion develops in the retinal capillary endothelial cells following focal loss. First damage occurs in the endothelial cells and pericytes. Early alterations seen in the retinal vessels include capillary dilatation, telangiectasia, microaneurysms and capillary occlusion. Then soft exudations are detected. Retinal edema and macular involvement may be seen. First symptoms are seen in deep small retinal vessels and later the large vessels are involved (8,9,10,11).
Following diffuse capillary occlusion and retinal ischemia, vitreous hemorrhage and retinal detachment as a result of retinal and/or disc neovascularization, atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, central retinal artery and central retinal vein obstructions have been reported (12,13).
Occlusive microangiopathy in radiation retinopathy is a progressive and slow process (8,14,15). Radiation retinopathy is observed after intraocular tumor irradiation (mainly uveal melanoma, less often retinoblastoma) or intracranial tumor radiotherapy. It is also seen following the irradiation for choroidal neovascularization due to age-related macular degeneration. Radiation doses and tumor location are mainly responsible for macular and/or optic nerve head vascular complications. Furthermore, choriocapillaris and main choroidal vessels may also be affected after the vascular and tissular retina complications (16).
In a study with 218 patients who received radiotherapy with a diagnosis of paramacular choroidal malignant melanoma, retinopathy symptoms were observed in 89% of the patients in a duration between 5 months and 15 years (mean 40 months) (17). Amoaku et al., reported that radiation retinopathy could be observed in an average period of 4.7 years after radiation therapy (range 1 to 8.5 years) (8). Whereas Brown et al. stated that radiation retinopathy may develop in 18.7 months (7-36 months) following teletherapy and 14.6 months (4-32 months) after brachytherapy (18). The cases included in that study were the patients in whom 1-10 years elapsed from the last radioiodine therapy. In this period, no pathological finding was found in these patients consistent with radiation retinopathy.
Incidence of radiation retinopathy depends on the total and fractionated dose applied (19). In the study by Brown et al., in the eyes undergone brachytherapy and developed radiation retinopathy, hard exudate was found in 85%,microaneurysms in 75%, intraretinal hemorrhages in 65%, retinal vascular telangiectasia in 35%, soft exudates in 30% and vascular encasement in 20%. Of the eyes undergone teletherapy and developed radiation retinopathy, hard exudate was found in 38%, microaneurysms in 81%, intrarenal hemorrhages in 88%, retinal vascular telangiectasia in 38%, soft exudates in 38% and vascular encasement in 25%. Of these eyes, macular edema was found in 87% at a 3-year follow-up and only 5% experienced spontaneous resolution (18).
The medium-long term side effects following radioiodine therapy were analyzed in an extensive study by Alexander et al. with 203 patients. The side effects occurred in the intermediate-term (up to 3 months) after therapy in 76.8% of the patients and in the long term (3 months and longer) in 61.1% of the patients. Cytoclastic side effects including sialoadenitis developed in 33% of the patients.
Looking to the other studies in the literature, late complications following RAI were rare and reported as aplastic anemia by 0.0%-1.2%, lung damage by 0.0%-0.4%, infertility by 0.4%-12%, temporary ovarian failure by 25% and persistent oligospermia by 0.4% (20,21,22,23).
Following radioiodine therapy, damage to lacrimal gland was reported in 42.9% of the patients after a period longer than 1 year. Complete xerostomia developed in 4.4% of the patients. Hematological abnormalities were observed in 9 patients, alopecia in 28.1% and chronic or repeating conjunctivitis in 22.7% of the patients, while 4 patients required dacryocystorhinostomy (20). There was not any study or case report in the literature about development of radiation retinopathy following radioiodine therapy. In our study, patients undergone high-dose radioactive iodine with repeated doses due to the recurrence and metastasis with a mean dose reached to 500 mCi (250-1000 mci) were included. Complaints of dry mouth, dysphagia and taste disorders were found in 10 patients (50%), while xerophthalmia was found in 2 (10%) and nasolacrimal duct obstruction in 2 (10%) patients. No clinical symptoms suggesting radiation retinopathy were found in any patients. We believed this was caused by the rapid excretion of radioiodine from the body in all the patients, because they had undergone thyroidectomy and neck dissection.
The most sensitive structure to ionized radiation in the eye is the lens. Cataract occurs in the lens at the end of a latent stage following the radiation. On the other hand, conjunctiva and cornea are moderately sensitive structures, while the retina and optic nerve are the most resistant structures in the eye (24). Epidemiological studies indicate an increase in incidence of the lens opacities at the doses under 1 Gy (25). Cataract stimulated by ionizing radiation (x-rays and gamma rays) is usually seen as posterior capsular or cortical cataract (26,27). Whereas, the cataract observed in one of our patients was of nuclear characteristics and evaluated as age-related senile cataract.
High-dose radioiodine therapy applied in thyroid carcinomas shows uptake in the head and neck region, suggesting partial exposure of the orbita and retina to the radiation. Based on this opinion, we evaluated the eyes of the patients exposed to high-dose radioiodine therapy. However, we did not find a significant correlation between repeated high-dose radioiodine therapy and radiation retinopathy in any of our patients. This might be a result of rapid excretion of radioiodine from the body in all the patients, because all cases had undergone thyroidectomy and neck dissection. The limitations of this study are the small group of patients and lack of control group. However, further extensive studies are needed on this subject.
This study indicates that there is not any significant correlation between repeated high-dose radioiodine therapy and radiation retinopathy in differential thyroid carcinomas. Even though there is not any significant restriction in use of higher doses of 131I radioiodine therapy in differentiatedthyroid carcinomas, more extensive studies are needed in order to obtain more accurate data on possible occurrence of retinopathy in these cases.
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Ontario andthe First World War, 1914 - 1918. A Collection of Documents.
Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Toronto.The Champlain Society. 1977., 24cm, cxix,201p., with 12 plates,bibliography, appendices, index, full red cloth, gilt titles, crested,#281 of 1250 copies, fine (cmt) The war lasted four years and touchednear every family in Ontario and accelerated its transformation frommainly rural agrarian into one in which the urban industrial elementbecame predominant.
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With the Flag to Pretoria. A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900.
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Canadian Airmen and the First World War The OfficialHistory of the Royal Canadian Air Force Volume 1.
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A Hostile Sky The Mediterranean Airwar of the 79th Fighter Group.
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Life of General James Wolfe, theConqueror of Canada: or, the Elogium of that Renowned Hero, attemptedaccording to the Rules of Eloquence. With a Monumental Inscription, Latinand English, to perpetuate his Memory. By J*** P******, A.M.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Montreal.Grant Woolmer Books. 1974., 8vo, 21.5cm, 36p. limited to 250 copies, thisbeing number 145, facsimile reprint of "London. Printed 1760. Boston;New-England: Re-printed and sold by Fowle.". printed wraps, fine, asnew (hm10bx). ~ The original edition was the first separately publishedaccount of the military fame and character of the illustrious Britishgeneral. The author was a prominent British physician and founder ofmodern military medicine, best known for his Observations On TheDiseases of the Army" (London. 1752). Wolfe and Pringle both served inFlanders (1742-45) and may well have met when Wolfe was recovering fromfatigue following the Battle of Dettingen. Recalled in 1745 to serveagainst the Jacobites, both were on the staff of the Duke of Cumberlandat Culloden.
WOLSELEY, Colonel Sir Grnet J. (Assistant Adjutant-General, Horse Guards).
Field Pocket-Book for The Auxiliary Forces. (for Volunteers &c.).
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. Macmillan and Co. 1873., 24mo, 13cm, vii,101,[iii]p., original dark red cloth, cover titles stamp in black, very good to fine condition, rare. (cgc) Not in Amicus. "I had the good fortune to be intimately associated for many years with the splendid Militia of Canada, and am vain enough to think that this little work will prove useful to its members and to their comrades in the other British Colonies." . (preface). From the "Soldier's Pocket-Book". Wolseley, (born at Golden Bridge House, Co. Dublin, 1833-1913), lead the expedition to put down the Red River insurrection at Fort Garry in 1870.
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Singulier Champ de Bataille; Les Operations en Coree et Leurs Effets sur la Politique de Defense du Canada.
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Detour. The Story of OFLAG IVC. Drawings byLt. J.F.Watton.
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: London. The Falcon Press. 1946., sm4to. 25cm, 183p.with 64 illustrations and plates, (some in colour), blue cloth , signedby the author, a very good copy (s8) Selected diaries from over onehundred originals kept while prisoners of war at OFLAG IVC, the Germanidea of an escape-proof camp for captured officers.
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Soldiers and Statesmen The Proceedings of the 4th Military History Symposium United States Air Force Academy 22-23 October 1970.
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The Non-Professional Notes of the Cadets' Tour of Instruction to Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, and Minor Places. A work written for the information of the Canadian Public, and forming an interesting supplement to the published official reports.
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Blogger, Publisher Arrested, Detained and Docked over Alleged Defamation
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Ms Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, a blogger and Mr Samuel Welson, a newspaper publisher, were arrested and detained at the Port Harcourt Prison in the Rivers State capital for allegedly publishing defamatory and malicious story against Pastor David Ibiyeomie, the General Overseer and founder of Salvation Ministries Church. When the case was heard on March 30, they were granted bail, however, Kemi was immediately rearrested and docked at a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.
Kemi who runs the HNN Africa blog was arrested from her home in Ibadan on March 13, 2017 for publishing on her Instagram wall a letter purported to have been written by a churchgoer who accused a woman of using black magic to make a pastor and other men to sleep with her and to give her gifts. She has since taken down the post from her Instagram page.
She driven by the police in a vehicle by road from Ibadan to Port Harcourt, a journey of more than 600 kilometers (373 miles).
On March 15 Police arrested Welson, publisher of the Port Harcourt-based tabloid ‘Rivers Today’, after the tabloid republished the letter “on or about” February 20.
On March 23, when the matter was slated for hearing at a Port Harcourt Magistrate’s Court, it could not be heard as Justice Alatuwo Fubara’s absence.
On March 30 when the matter was mentioned, they were granted bail in the sum of N200,000.00 with credible sureties who reside in Port Harcourt. The Magistrate adjourned the matter to May 4 for hearing.
The court struck out one of the charges of cybercrime against Kemi for lack of jurisdiction to try the matter while charges against Welson were dropped.
Kemi was however rearrested at the Magistrate Court premises and taken to a Federal High Court, also in Port Harcourt, where she was arraigned before Justice H. O. Oshomah on fresh charges to which she pleaded ‘not guilty’.
Justice Oshomah fixed the matter for April 10, 11 and 12 for accelerated hearing but refused to grant her bail.
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MediaSavvy
By Barry Parr
« RSS, email, and the Web: Massaging the media
Is charging for content a sign of maturity or senility? »
AOL Europe shows that open access is good for AOL/TW
AOL Europe is now growing a lot faster than its US counterpart, after years in the doldrums. AOL Europe is growing faster because they were forced to separate physical networking from Internet access.
Until they merged with cable company Time Warner in 2000, AOL fought hard to assure equal access to high-speed networks.
Without those open access rules, the AOL service in the United States has struggled to make affordable deals to package its service with network connections from cable companies.
But in Europe, AOL kept pressing the case for open access. In the last two years the company has won guarantees of equal wholesale prices for broadband telecommunications capacity to sell to consumers in Britain, France and Germany. The rules have played a pivotal role in helping AOL Europe solidify positions in Germany and France and come from far behind to vie for the biggest share of the British market, where it now makes all of its slender profit.
In the US, AOL Broadband has been forced to go it alone as a content service. That strategy has the stench of desperation because ever since AOL is an access company that dreams of being a content company.
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Purple Rain, Purple Rain, Only wanna see you, dissolving in
dir: Russo Brothers
Marvel is becoming that particular kind of arrogant boyfriend / girlfriend that takes you for granted so much that they feel like they can basically do anything to you and you’d put up with it forever. Infinitely. So confident are they that we’ll put up with anything, that you’ll eternally keep coming back for more they’re like a character from Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, who is so sure of herself and her hold over her partner that she often walks away from the bedroom in the middle of sex after bringing them close to the ‘edge’, so to speak, but deciding to torture them by walking away with the job unfinished.
It’s a strained analogy, I’m the first to admit, but I am not sure this flick exists as a flick that makes any sense on its own, unlike the other 18 Marvel flicks which all have discrete beginnings and ends while teasing what’s going to come next. This just exists as whatever it is, but will completely not make sense BECAUSE of what will come next.
Again that’s not going to make sense. In a lot of ways I wish Marvel was even more arrogant and disinterested in anything other than making a point, and decided that this was going to be the last Marvel movie. It’s an impossibility, really, because the amount of money these movies have made is staggering. Put real simply they’ve spent 3 billion dollars over 10 years to make 15 billion dollars. That’s a ROI (Return on Investment) of 400%. Drug cartels don’t make that kind of money.
So obviously there are going to be an infinite amount of Marvel flicks, but eventually won’t we get sick of being brought to the edge and have it fade out to nothing every fucking time? Isn’t this becoming a masochistic exercise in frustrating futility?
I’m not sure there’s any way to talk about this film without mentioning spoilers, obviously, but also the more obvious point being that the villain wins and half of our heroes die, and we have to watch them either die violently or quietly fade out to nothingness. The villain wins. The villain achieves his objective, and then it ends. Several times it looks like our heroes are going to stop Thanos in his ambition to kill half of the beings in the universe, and every time bar one they fail. The one time they look like they’ve stopped him, with a wave of his hand, it’s undone, and he still succeeds.
So… It’s strange that we maybe are meant to revise our thinking, and think, well, maybe Thanos was right? Maybe he deserved to get his way because he just flat out wanted it more?
I mean, he is massive, and purple, but he's somehow soulful. He's not a rage monster; he doesn't personally hate anyone or anything, he's not overtly sadistic or cruel (other than, you know, the cruelty of ending billions of lives). Is he the absent father figure - Conservative daddy we secretly want to be genocided by?
Of course not, because that would be way too much of a head fuck, and Marvel aren’t in that business. David Lynch would end it there, and he’d be a hero for ever more for doing so. Imagine a Marvel franchise run into the ground by David Lynch, man, that would be so awesome.
The most depressing thing is that everything the villain achieves, or everything our heroes fail to achieve, has to, absolutely has to be undone by the next Avengers film. And since that’s the case, because half of the attractive and overpaid people who ‘die’ here will necessarily have to be resurrected in some way by the end of the 4th Avengers film because Mm-Mm-Mm-Mm-MONEY, then everything we endured by watching these adventures for two hours and forty fucking minutes not counting the goddamn extra ten minutes we wasted waiting for the post credits scene, will be for nought. It will have meant nothing; none of the characters who died will stay dead, none of the loss will be felt, and so nothing will have been achieved by the press of a reset button.
So, for the sake of clarity, the villain succeeds and half of the people in the universe are wiped out. A countless number, surely, but it’s a concept so huge that the mind doesn’t entirely grasp it, or really care for that matter. What I was wondering was, does this include dolphins? Puppies? Did Thanos kill half the puppies in the fucking universe? That’s… just, no, Thanos. Bad Thanos.
That cannot stand. That cannot be allowed to continue to have happened.
And I say this as someone who has no idea what they’re going to do in the next Avengers flick. All I know is that no matter how they do it, no matter who they choose to bring back with space – time – glove magic, it’s going to be very hard to make it seem anything other than cheap and unearned.
Let’s face it, just like in Orwell’s Animal Farm, while all the heroes are equally loved, some heroes are more ‘equal’ than others. Kill all the former S.H.I.E.L.D agents and talking trees you want, but nothing gives you the right to kill Loki. I joked months ago, when my family and I were discussing who was going to bite the big one in this movie (I had no idea at the time, honestly I remained completely unspoiled going in and had no idea what was actually going to happen) that there was no way they were going to off Loki, because if they did that no women would continue going to these stupid movies. And then Thanos kills him in the opening minutes.
Bad move, Marvel. It was hard enough to get women into cinemas for these flicks, audiences reeking of Twisties and sexless nerddom before, and it’ll be nigh on impossible now.
At least I should have said half the women came for Loki, maybe the other half came for Thor. Or should I say, half for Hiddleston, half for Hemsworth. Well, at least they’ll always have Hemsworth.
In Thor: Ragnarok, just to completely spoil a different film, all of Asgard is destroyed, and some stragglers end up on a space ship. At the beginning of this film, Thanos (a giant purple dude voiced by Josh Brolin) comes onto the ship the survivors were on, and kills pretty much everybody.
Thanos swans about the universe for the next two and a half hours killing various people when he feels like it, but he only has a nice conversation with his adopted Gamorah (Zoey Saldana) because she’s about the only person or thing in the whole universe that’s not very gaudy jewellery that he actually cares about.
Of course he kills her too, because getting what he wants is way more important than cheap sentiment, and he needs to kill the one person he cares about because that’s the only way to get one of the Infinity gems.
I wonder if he’s going to have buyer’s remorse because of getting his way so completely. The rest of us go through life with our petty wants and desires, and, generally, when they’re petty or modest enough, we achieve them. A job that gives enough booze money; raising kids that don’t hate us and that survive to adulthood; a car with four wheels and working windows: we can get these things without sacrificing too much.
Bigger picture things, like getting celebrities to notice us or achieving political power, winning the Tour de France with only one testicle, or paying off a mortgage, require us to give up a lot. Sometimes it comes at the cost of our families, or giving up other dreams, or often it costs us what we call a soul.
If you had to kill the one person you cared about in order to get enough power to be more powerful than God, whichever idea of God you can think of, then surely the price would be steep? And deep within your purple soul, wouldn’t there a pain so sharp that even your complete omnipotence couldn’t salve it?
I dunno. This metaphysical stuff is way too bigheaded for me to wrap my head around. This is a movie in which an angry purple guy dropped a moon on Iron Man, and that was before he even had all the Infinity stones.
A moon. He dropped a moon on the guy.
All twenty two Marvel heroes, excluding Ant-Man and Hawkeye, working together, from across all the franchises within the franchise, all working in teams, can’t beat him.
In the words of the Great Prophet Kenny Rogers, "you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to punch a purple guy, know when to just shut up and disintegrate." Nothing good will come from trying to save the universe, not for anyone.
I mean, and this is the weirdest set of sentences I’ll write this year, this is the kind of flick where Thor convinces a giant dwarf (the always great Peter Dinklage) to forge a weapon with which to kill Thanos for which he has to restart the heart of a dead star. And then when this new mighty weapon is finished and needs a handle, Groot generously supplies some of his woody goodness? Not 'how is any of this remotely possible", but, 'what bunch of stoners thought of all this in the first place?"
And speaking of the aforementioned Groot, did you know that Groot, as in the language Groot, was taught at Asgard University, where Thor presumably studied it as an elective? When I heard that absurd line, I laughed so goddamn loud, but alas I was the only one in the entirety of the theatre laughing. Mostly because I thought the idea of Thor studying anything other than Advanced Abs was too ludicrous for words.
There are a specific number of laughs in this flick deployed in an almost mathematical fashion, a surprising amount since really, from a genocidal perspective, there’s never been a bigger mass slaughter in anything you’ve ever seen before, but without those attempts at humour, like the continued belief of most of the Guardians of the Galaxy that Kevin Bacon is still somehow one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes because of his actions in the movie Footloose, or that Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) feels intimidated by Thor’s masculine beauty such that he even has to deepen his voice to compensate, it would be a ludicrous slog.
Let’s all be honest, the stakes are so high that it’s hard to care, and a guy who turns other people’s weapons into bubbles or who can beat up the Hulk without even needing the gauntlet is so powerful that it’s hard to conceive of anything meaningful coming out of whatever they come up with as an either inevitable or a very evitable solution. Alternatively, we maybe could accept that Thanos, happily sitting on the veranda of a hut overlooking a natural paradise, content in his labours done, is all the happy ending we deserve.
Almost every Marvel Cinematic Universe hero that we’ve seen so far gets screen time or a token line of dialogue, but most of them don’t do or saying anything that matters. Black Panther and the Wakandans don’t really supply much beyond a venue for a battle to occur, in a way that could have been lifted straight from one of the Lord of the Rings films, except instead of orcs and such, it was thousands of some kinds of things with four arms that I could not even describe to you who or what they were or why they were there. There is no reason really given for why Thanos would even need anyone else to do anything when he can go anywhere and do anything at will by that stage of the film.
And then… half of the cast start fading away. It was really quite mesmerising to watch. Almost soothing, yet gently sad. I really didn’t know what I was feeling when this was happening.
After watching this I felt exhausted, like I’d watched four movies simultaneously, and none of them had a satisfying ending, but loyally, like all the other cinema-going morons, I’ll be there in a year’s time to see how they finish it all up. Mostly, at the end, while I was sitting through the endless credits for a truly unsatisfying post credits scene that is nothing other than a teaser for the Captain Marvel movie coming next year, I sat there feeling perplexed, and a little bit hungry, but mostly perplexed. And there are worse ways to feel after a movie has had its way with you.
Still, it's impossible to score, which is a similar problem I faced with the first part of the last installment of the Hunger Games saga, or Part 1 of Deathly Hallows, and any other flick utterly dependent on its second part. Infinity War could be the first half of a great two-part story, or it could be shown up as the remarkable waste of our time that I secretly suspect it could be with a second installment that renders the first moot, mute or Groot. Time will tell, but it certainly doesn't improve my mood to have paid a ticket to only see half of a film. That'd be like reading all the A Song of Ice and Fire books and never getting to read the last two books because... reasons.
So for now let's admit all scores are irrelevant and it doesn't matter anyway. After all, Thanos can now edit the universe at will, so maybe he'll revise my review to be more to his liking.
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"In time, you will know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. Yet to fail all the same. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives." - it's like he's saying we've already lost just by walking into the cinema - Avengers: Infinity War
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My 6th grade students just completed a PBL in which they created a "Press Kit" to sell a fictional movie about European explorers. Students used a list of web resources to research their assigned explorer. Each "Press Kit" contained 3 components:
A 300 word description of their movie, which is similar to what is found on the back of a DVD, or Netflix red envelope. Students were given a list of 9 questions to research.
A "Coming Attractions” poster, created using a free online site, http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php.
A “Coming Soon” movie trailer created using the class' free Animoto account.
Also part of the student's grade was to have a consistent theme (e.g., movie title, release date, tagline, stars, movie reviews). Grading was done by rubric.
Below are some examples of student-created movie trailers:
Here are some permalinks to some of their movie trailers:
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"We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution" E-Books
E-book versions of the We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution are now available for all grade levels (elementary, middle school, high school). Thanks to a PTA grant I won, I use a class set of 30 with my 7th graders. The teacher's edition, which comes with the class set, can be purchased separately.
Here's the link for the middle school edition:
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Portal 2, a Video Brain Game Review - NY Times
Physics, With Wormholes by You
By SETH SCHIESEL
"Somewhere out there an innovative, dynamic high school physics teacher will use Portal 2 as the linchpin of an entire series of lessons and will immediately become the most important science teacher those lucky students have ever had... You might even learn something."
Interesting review. Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/arts/video-games/portal-2-a-video-brain-game-review.html
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National Security Webinar
Yesterday my 7th grade social studies class, along with over 1,600 classrooms, plus tens of thousands of students across the globe, tuned in to a live webcast to hear Ben Rhodes, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, discuss Osama bin Laden. Over 1,700 questions were submitted from students. Students watched the webcast on our SMART Board.
You can watch the three-part archive of this historic event here:
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White House Webinar
I registered my 7th grade social studies class for a live webinar, sponsored by Discovery Education. Below is the complete description:
Teachers and students are invited to join Ben Rhodes, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, for a very special webinar on Thursday, May 5 at 1PM ET.
Presentation (15 minutes) Ben will provide context and perspective
Q&A from Students (15 minutes) Students will have the chance to submit questions to be answered live
URL shortening websites are not only popular on sites like Twitter (due to the 140 character limit), but also in the classroom. I frequently use URL shortening sites (tinyurl.com and http://bit.ly/) to help guide students directly to websites. When you use Google to shorten a URL (http://goo.gl/), click "Details" to get a QR code. QR codes are growing in popularity. QR (Quick Response) codes can be scanned with smartphones and take users directly to a linked website. Here is the QR code for http://mrfarbersroom.blogspot.com/:
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Deep Well Services president discusses recruiting, hiring in downturn
DAVID CONTI | The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
As large oil and gas contractors cut their workforce in response to producers slashing drilling budgets, Deep Well Services in Zelienople is quietly adding workers and equipment.
The company uses specialized rigs called snubbing units that prepare shale wells for production after fracking. That specialization and several new rigs in its fleet help give Deep Well an advantage during a downturn driven by low prices, company President Mark Marmo said.
The company is up to 151 employees from 125 in November and will add more. It’s moving into Canada with a two- to three-month job for an undisclosed client in Alberta.
Marmo spoke with the Tribune-Review about the changing face of job candidates and how his company sorts through applications.
Trib: Given the downturn, how has the pool of job candidates changed?
Marmo: Our HR (department) and COO John Sabo are getting five or six calls a day. We have about 150 resumes from the last few months on file.
Trib: How does that compare to a year ago?
Marmo: We were trying to search for the best guys then. It’s much easier now to find people with the experience.
Trib: Has that changed how you operate?
Marmo: We already have to operate differently than our competition because we’re not as big. We can’t make that mistake of hiring the wrong person.
We went out and purchased a snubbing simulator. The gaming industry created it. There’s a panel they stand at, up on a big TV screen. And any scenario that we want, at any type well, can be simulated. So if a guy came in and said, ‘I’m a Level 2 supervisor,’ well, you should be able to handle these kinds of issues out on a well.
Trib: So it’s a good testing mechanism for job candidates?
Marmo: That’s exactly it. That’s what we’re using it for, and also for training.
Trib: What kind of background is required for hires?
Marmo: If you’re entry-level, we hire green-hats, guys who just started, and train them through the progression of our competency program. For a high-level supervisor, we’re looking for 10 to 15 years of experience. We will not put a supervisor on staff unless they have that 10 years.
Trib: What’s the morale like among those seeking jobs?
Marmo: It’s really down. Last week, we were in Houston meeting with a customer. A guy had called and said he lives in Texas and was interested in working with us, so we said we’ll be in Houston, come down and see us. He came down and said that the employer he’s working for now cut their wages 50 percent. And the guys, there’s a lot of accidents happening; the guys don’t feel close. They’re just trying to stay working to collect paychecks. We’re hearing that more and more.
Trib: Does that change your management style?
Marmo: Once they get here, they see that we stay busy, that our equipment is brand new, it’s all well-maintained. Guys get their pay every two weeks. Our guys are our best asset, our best advertisement. So we don’t have to do anything different.
Trib: How are you maintaining business as the industry slows?
Marmo: There’s just not as much, so it’s more competitive. But there’s work. We’ve made a concentrated effort to pay higher. The average age of equipment in our fleet is 2.8 years old. … We’re not going to be a huge profit-type company, because we’re investing more in our people and equipment. But it keeps us busy, and it will pay off.
In related news, Deep Well Services takes on new rig.
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The 46-year-old German supermodel and former America's Got Talent judge and Project Runway host and Tom Kaulitz, 29, from the German rock band Tokio Hotel, obtained a marriage license and tied the knot in February, according to multiple reports.
Klum and Seal separated after almost seven years of marriage in January 2012, and Heidi filed for divorce in April 2012. Star went with her boyfriend in France and Japan.
Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz catch a soccer game in Germany on May 18, 2019.
It appears that the duo Wednesday in Los Angeles, as they were photographed on February 22 during a dinner date at L.A. hotspot Mr. Chow.
On Feb. 22, the alleged date of the wedding, Klum shared a photo on Instagram.
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Klum's marriage to Kaulitz marks the model's third marriage. Video showing the ring appeared on the social networks of the Internet.
Klum soon began receiving criticism for dating someone 17 years younger than her. Even though I failed twice at it.
"But I found a great person". That's really the only time when age seems to be shoved in my face and I have to give an answer for it. The two were photographed leaving a Mr. Chow restaurant in New York City on that very same day, so, it's safe to assume the happily married couple was celebrating their nuptials with a delicious meal. "Let's see what happens". I really feel so fortunate.
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Obama designates Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument: Jubilation greets president’s proclamation
Published: Friday, 16 October 2015 16:52
Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES >> President Barack Obama signed a proclamation Wednesday formally designating nearly half a million acres of land in Doña Ana County as a national monument — a move that comes after years of heated local debate over the proposal.
The signing event to officially designate the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument took place in the nation’s capital, but was attended by some Las Crucens. And two live viewing events happened locally.
Obama emphasized that conserving notable natural places is important for future generations.
“Anyone who’s ever seen the Organ Mountains that overlook Las Cruces, New Mexico, will tell you that they are a spectacular sight,” he said in a short speech before the signing. “You got massive rocks that jut up 9,000 feet in the air and stretch for 20 miles, like the organ pipes of a giant. And they’re home to many of God’s smaller creatures, as well. Deer and antelope roam — falcons, mountain lions.”
Obama also said protection for historical sites, such as those visited by Billy the Kid and possibly Geronimo, within the monument also make the land valuable. He argued the move will boost tourism and the economy locally.
The national monument, at 496,000 acres, is the largest set aside since Obama took office in 2009.
Reaction mixed
While praised by environmentalists, the move is generating criticism from some lawmakers in the West and local law enforcement agents who see Obama’s use of power as a threat to security in a region where the influence of Mexican drug cartels, human smuggling and illegal immigration are all apparent.
Doña Ana County Sheriff Todd Garrison recalls the times his deputies and federal agents were shot at as they pursued suspected drug smugglers through the area that will now be known as the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. He also talked about the dozens of stolen cars that have been used to ferry drugs along pathways that lead through the desert and past border patrol checkpoints.
“If we have no ability to patrol that area, crime is going to increase. It will be akin to the Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona. I wonder how many years it will be before we have to post signs that say ‘Enter at your own risk.’ That’s my concern,” Garrison said.
Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday the designation will “in no way limit our ability to perform our important border security mission.”
The campaign by environmentalists, some hunters and tourism officials to gain wilderness protection for the Organ Mountains and Desert Peaks has dragged on for a decade, with numerous versions introduced by members of the state’s congressional delegation over the years. Many ranchers and off-road vehicle users have opposed the large-scale monument.
In the capital
Attendees at the Washington, D.C., signing included most of New Mexico’s congressional delegation, as well as local officials such as Doña Ana County Commission Chairman Billy Garrett and Las Cruces City Councilor Gill Sorg, who strongly supported the proposal. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both D-N.M., were on hand. They had proposed federal legislation to protect the acreage, which includes popular hunting areas and features steep rock outcroppings, petroglyphs, ancient lava flows and sites such as Billy the Kid’s Outlaw Rock, Geronimo’s Cave and the Butterfield Stagecoach Trail.
“The president’s decision finally puts into motion a plan that began with the people of southern New Mexico, who wanted to ensure these special places would continue to be available for local families and visitors to hike, hunt and learn from the hundreds of significant historic sites throughout the area for generations to come,” Udall said in a statement Wednesday. “I want to thank the thousands of New Mexicans who have worked tirelessly for many years to get us to this point.”
Obama designated the land under a 1906 law that allows presidents to declare national monuments. The move is separate from a bill that was introduced by Heinrich and Udall to declare a national monument — part of which, at least under their proposal, also would become federal wilderness.
Congress, however, has shown little interest in lands protection legislation in recent years.
Republican Rep. Steve Pearce, whose congressional district covers the region, had proposed the designation for just 55,000 acres under another bill, H.R. 995. He issued a statement taking issue with Obama’s use of the 1906 U.S. Antiquities Act, saying monuments created under it are supposed to cover only the “smallest area compatible” with the designation. He contended the approval “flies in the face of the democratic process.”
“This single action has erased six years of work undertaken by Doña Ana County ranchers, business owners, conservationist, sportsmen officials and myself to develop a collaborative plan for the Organ Mountains that would have preserved the natural resource and still provided future economic opportunities,” he said.
Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell referenced a trip she made to monument areas in January.
“They are beautiful,” she said.
Jewell is expected to return to Doña Ana County later this week.
Viewing events
The Doña Ana County Government Center opened the county commission chambers to residents for a live broadcast Obama signing the monument proclamation, an event announced Wednesday morning. About 25 people attended, cheering at times during Obama’s remarks.
Attorney Joe Shattuck, a former Las Crucen who now lives in Albuquerque, happened to be in the county building when the broadcast happened. He moved from Doña Ana County about a year ago, but still has strong interest in the national monument proposal.
“I’d been very worried it wasn’t going to happen,” he said. “I’d thought the special interest groups would be able to stop it.”
More Las Cruces supporters of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks proposal gathered at Beck’s Coffee House on Mesquite Street.
Sun-News reporter Diana Alba Soular contributed to this report. She may be reached at 575-541-5443.
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Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument sign unveiled
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Published: Monday, 19 October 2015 17:02
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Nearly a year after President Obama proclaimed the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks a national monument, the designated area now has a sign to showcase its significance.
Volunteers with “Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks,” officials with the Bureau of Land Management and other local groups, worked together Sunday to install and unveil the sign.
“This will be the first sign that we install. It’ll be a sign that says Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks,” Bill Childress, District manager for the Las Cruces Bureau of Land Management, said.
Volunteers tell Abc-7 the sign is a product of their hard work.
“This is a culmination of 12 years of a lot of folks trying to get protection for the Dona Ana County Community,” Angel Pena, with “Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks,” said.
It was indeed a rocky road to designation. Critics were upset about the potential change. Some were afraid it would restrict local law enforcement agencies along the border. Supporters believed it would help preserve the area.
Finally, in May of 2014–President Obama signed a proclamation to secure the federal land.
“it makes a decision that these peaks will be retained in federal ownership and managed for public use and variety of uses. We still have multiple uses, but we will not dispose of the land and the lands will be set aside for mineral development,” Childress said.
More than 500-thousand acres of land are considered part of the monument, including the Dona Ana mountains, Picacho Peak, the Robledos, Sierra de Las Uvas, the Potrillo mountains and the Organs.
“We’lll have these signs within the four distinctive areas,” Childress said.
The installation itself took no more than an hour. Together, volunteers shoveled dirt, laid cement and added the finishing touches to secure the sign–symbolic of their journey to secure the federal land.
“The Organ Mountains are so iconic in this community and now it’ll be protected…forever and ever,” Childress said.
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Rugby Review
Club Happenings
with Rugby Director, Chris Hall
Last week saw some gutsy performances across the board in all grades.
Whilst the competition ladders in lower grades suggest a poor start to the season, both players and coaches realise that it’s errors in key moments that are losing games. In my opinion, lower grades aren’t far off from getting things right, hopefully with some stability in key positions and winning set piece will help in getting us back into the winner’s circle!
The highlights from last week:
Women’s 7’s side getting the win over Manly (@ Manly Oval). The improvement in skill and understanding of the game is growing week-to-week.
Our coaches and players were elated after the win and will look to continue their form at North Sydney Oval when they play in front of their family and friends on Ladies Day.
2nd Grade Colts continue their undefeated charge. As mentioned in my last note, there are some quality players in that group who are still eligible to have another season in Colts. With Randwick being considered the benchmark of colts, this victory will give the players further belief!
The Grade debuts of Zane Hogan and Jayden Lynch. Both players playing colts the same day, kept the boots on and came off the bench in first and second grade respectively. This was such an impressive moment, two 18 year olds showing no fear and matching their older opposite number. Both these boys have extremely bright futures in the Red and Black.
We have had some coaching movements over the off-season, with Matty Gordon taking on the Head Coaching Role in 2nd Grade. MG is doing a tremendous job forming a tight culture and playing a dynamic style of rugby.
In 3rds, Grahame Stokes (Premiership Winning Coach – 2018) returns as Head Coach along with Justin Trolip being promoted to forwards coach. JT has had success with 4th grade over the past couple of seasons and we feel these two will compliment each other’s skill set in 2019.
Lastly in fourth grade, Stephen Scholes has committed to being the Head Coach along with injured backrower Tom Mencinsky. Scholesy was an ex-player at Norths and was remembered as a slinky winger with the ability to always beat the first man. We also want to congratulate him on his first born son being delivered last week! Nick Marshall is also helping out as the lower grade skills coach and by all reports doing a fantastic job.
Looking forward to seeing a good crowd at North Sydney Oval this week when we host Sydney Uni and our ladies day. A big thank you to Prue Sinclair and Carolyn Kay for all their help making the day a success.
Good luck to everyone this weekend.
Round 6, Results
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"But I gave the prime minister my ideas on how to negotiate it and I think you would have been successful".
May has warned Brexit supporters who oppose her deal that if no withdrawal agreement is passed in the coming days, the only option will be to seek a long extension that could mean Brexit never happens.
If the agreement is voted down again, Mrs May is set to request a longer delay of between one to two years.
But May hopes they will change their mind if they face a choice between her deal or remaining in the EU. By dishonouring the result of the referendum the government's motion is a betrayal'.
If passed, it will order Theresa May to seek to delay Brexit "for the purposes of legislating for and conducting a public vote in which the people of the United Kingdom may give their consent" for either leaving the European Union on the terms of a deal agreed by Parliament or remaining in the bloc.
The shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, compared Barclay's actions with a chancellor voting against their own budget. Many worry that a no-deal Brexit would cause upheaval, with customs checks causing gridlock at United Kingdom ports, new tariffs triggering sudden price increases and red tape for everyone from truckers to tourists.
"Any Brexit deal looks less attractive when it is a concrete rather than abstract proposal".
The party has twice voted against the deal over concerns it would see Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.
This is partly because there is not enough time for parliament to legislate for a public vote before March 29, or June 30 (after the delay). If it fails again, she expects the European Union will insist on a longer postponement.
Any delay in the Brexit process would require the unanimous approval of all 27 remaining European Union member states.
If May's Brexit deal is defeated in a vote next week, the Government says lawmakers will get to vote on several different options for Brexit to see if there is a majority for any of them.
Earlier, Mrs May narrowly survived a bid by the Parliament to wrestle control of the Brexit process from her Government. That left Britain facing a disruptive "no-deal" exit on March 29, when a two-year countdown to departure runs out. It could even mean no Brexit at all, insisted the leader.
Following the votes, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterated his support for a further referendum after earlier ordering his MPs not to vote for one.
Despite the rebuffs and the political chaos that have weakened her authority, May has signaled she will try a third time to get backing for her agreement next week.
Dodds also denied that additional funds for Northern Ireland were being talked about as an incentive for the DUP to vote for the deal: "We're not discussing cash in these discussions, this is about Brexit".
Such a move would give Conservative MPs greater political cover to vote in favour of a second referendum, and would also work to "unite the country". MP Sarah Wollaston, who defected from the Tories to The Independent Group, put forward the motion. Few opposition lawmakers backed the measure and even campaigners for a "People's Vote" said the time was not yet right for parliament to vote on it.
Brexit-supporting lawmakers expressed suspicion at the haste of May's last-minute assurances and suggested a delay to allow sufficient analysis of them and Cox's advice.
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It was a result that left Klopp purring with satisfaction at a mature performance which, he said, reaffirmed the club's... The 30-year-old is quoted by the Liverpool Echo as saying: "In both games we played too defensive".
Man City could force Man Utd to host Champions League quarter-final
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Published: Fri, April 19, 2019
Worldwide | By Lisa Hogan
French billionaires pledge $339 million to help rebuild Notre Dame
Investigators still don't know how the fire started, and on Tuesday, a handful of firefighters could be seen walking through the building, inspecting the walls and surfaces carefully with flashlights.
Investigators have already questioned almost 30 people, said a Paris judicial police official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to comment on an ongoing probe.
Two police officers and a firefighter suffered light injuries tackling the fire, the Paris fire brigade tweeted Tuesday morning. One said later their efforts had saved the cathedral from "total destruction", according to CNBC. Television images showed firefighters atop the towers. "Our job today is to monitor the structure and its movements".
It is believed that the cause of the fire was related to a renovation project being carried out at the cathedral. Reminiscing about her spontaneous performance, she said she was inspired to dance in front of the monument while walking around Paris on her first night in the city.
"Today we must look at the extent of the damage", Culture Minister Franck Riester said on LCI television, adding that only then can the cost of restoration be determined.
Pledges from French billionaires, businesses and the public sector to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral reached some 700 million euros (790 million dollars) on Tuesday amid an outpouring of public support for one of Europe's most iconic monuments.
"The damage to Notre Dame due to fire is a loss to world heritage".
French President Emmanuel Macron said an worldwide campaign would be launched to raise funds for the rebuilding of Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Two of France's wealthiest men, Francois-Henri Pinault, chief executive of the Kering group which owns brands including Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, and Bernard Arnault, the main shareholder of luxury group LVMH, said they would donate 100 million euros ($113 million) and 200 million euros respectively. Tycoons, worldwide firms, local authorities and individuals have promised financial and expert help - with a total of almost 900 million euros (780.05 million pounds) pledged by Wednesday.
The three large stained-glass rose windows, among the most famous parts of the cathedral, were not destroyed, but might have been damaged by the heat and will be assessed by an expert, he added.
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He called Notre Dame "an architectural jewel of a collective memory", and said it was "the location of many great events and a testimony to the faith and prayer of the city's Catholics".
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"We have the type of know-how that the whole world recognizes as being of a high quality", said Cardinal Ravasi.
Despite the longer forecasts of decades of work, the rector of Notre-Dame, Monsignor Patrick Chauvet, said he was hopeful of being back behind the pulpit before he retired.
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How smart technology gadgets can avoid speed limits - Phys.Org - MVNO MVNE MNO Mobile & Telecoms industry intelligence
How smart technology gadgets can avoid speed limits – Phys.Org
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered why there is a speed limit on how fast the properties of light can be changed with the help of specially designed materials. This new understanding can point the way forward for the next generation of consumer electronics, such as smart watches, screens and glasses. Credit: Sophie Viaene and Vincent Ginis
Speed limits apply not only to traffic. There are limitations on the control of light as well, in optical switches for internet traffic, for example. Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology now understand why it is not possible to increase the speed beyond a certain limit—and know the circumstances in which it is best to opt for a different route.
Light and other electromagnetic waves play a crucial role in almost all modern electronics, for example in our mobile phones. In recent years researchers have developed artificial speciality materials—known as optomechanical metamaterials—which overcome the limitations inherent in natural materials, in order to control the properties of light with a high degree of precision.
For example, what are termed optical switches are used to change the colour or intensity of light. In internet traffic these switches can be switched on and off up to 100 billion times in a single second. But beyond that the speed cannot be increased any further. These unique speciality materials are also subject to this limit.
“Researchers had high hopes of achieving higher and higher speeds in optical switches by further developing optomechanical metamaterials. We now know why these materials failed to outcompete existing technology in internet traffic and mobile communication networks,” says Sophie Viaene, a nanophotonics researcher at the Department of Physics at Chalmers.
<a href="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hires/2018/1-howsmarttech.jpg" title="Chalmers researchers Sophie Viaene and Philippe Tassin recently published their research findings in nanophotonics in the well-respected journal Physical Review Letters. They have determined what direction to take in their area of research. Credit: Mia Halleröd Palmgren/ Chalmers University of Technology”>
Chalmers researchers Sophie Viaene and Philippe Tassin recently published their research findings in nanophotonics in the well-respected journal Physical Review Letters. They have determined what direction to take in their area of research. Credit: Mia Halleröd Palmgren/ Chalmers University of Technology
To find out why there are speed limits and what they mean, Viaene went outside the field of optics and analysed the phenomenon using what is termed non-linear dynamics in her doctoral thesis. The conclusion she reached is that it is necessary to choose a different route to circumvent the speed limits: instead of controlling an entire surface at once, the interaction with light can be controlled more efficiently by manipulating one particle at a time. Another way of solving the problem is to allow the speciality material to remain in constant motion at a constant speed and to measure the variations from this movement.
But Viaene and her supervisor, Associate Professor Philippe Tassin, say that the speed limit does not pose a problem for all applications. It is not necessary to change the properties of light at such high speeds for screens and various types of displays. So there is great potential for the use of these speciality materials here, since they are thin and can be flexible.
Their results have determined the direction researchers should take in this area of research, and the scientific article was recently published in the highly regarded journal Physical Review Letters. The pathway is now open for the ever smarter watches, screens and glasses of the future.
“The switching speed limit is not a problem in applications where we see the light, because our eyes do not react all that rapidly. We see a great potential for optomechanical metamaterials in the development of thin, flexible gadgets for interactive visualisation technology,” says Tassin, an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Chalmers.
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Sophie Viaene et al, Do Optomechanical Metasurfaces Run Out of Time?, Physical Review Letters (2018). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.197402
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TOMORROW! Live Jazz at African Beer Emporium – November 23rd
Deji November 22, 2017
Welcoming live jazz nights to African Beer Emporium!
We caught up with Auriel from African Beer Emporium.
ABE is an upmarket restaurant/bar which will focus on delivering local and foreign visitors a taste of Africa in an unprecedented way and with exceptional style.
Hey guys, what impact do you see African Beer Emporium making?
We see African Beer Emporium at the centre of a new Pretoria. We want integrated audiences and we want the kids to venture into the city again. We want everyone to feel at home in our place.
As it stands there are still only a handful of integrated restaurants/bars in this town. People stick to what they know for the most part. Jazz, as a genre has always crossed over cultural barriers and Pretoria has long needed a revival of this genre. It’s by no means a new idea and there are many venues keeping jazz alive across this country. We want to be a part of that legacy.
What is Jazz in the city to you?
The city is the heart; it’s where it’s at and with TUT’s Jazz Department around the corner there is a hotbed of young and talented players in our neighbourhood. We want to introduce you to them.
What can one expect from Jazz City at ABE? How often will Jazz City to be hosted?
Jazz City will be hosted every Thursday evening at ABE. We want Thursdays to become synonymous with Jazz nights at African Beer Emporium.
How can up-and-coming jazz musicians get involved in Jazz City?
We are not just inviting the established players, who frequent the likes of The Orbit. We want a home for the new kids on the block. Jazz players are welcome to contact us if they would like to be a part of Jazz City. They can email more info to admin@africanbeeremporium.com.
Happiness is?
Good music, good friends and cold beer.
What’s the damage?
We’re making this accessible to everyone at R20 entrance fee. It’s about maintaining the culture of appreciating musicians by paying something towards the performing artists. That said we don’t want people not to come, because it’s not affordable. We will also be passing a hat around for those who feel the desire to contribute more to the musicians.
We think African Beer Emporium is the perfect space for Jazz City. Why do you think this is the case?
You can bring jazz into suburbia. It’s never going to feel the same. It’s never going to be all inclusive. Transport is a problem for many music lovers and that makes us the perfect spot to host these evenings. You want to be intoxicated by the city lights and you want the holistic experience of listening to jazz where it lives and breathes.
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Trump arrested by soldiers of “Palestine” in photoshopped image by Abbas’ Fatah
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Trump arrested by soldiers of “Palestine”
in photoshopped image by Abbas’ Fatah
In anticipation of the ceremony today marking the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem, which has been condemned by the Palestinian Authority, the official Facebook page of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement posted the above photoshopped image of US President Donald Trump being “arrested” on the Temple Mount by soldiers of “Palestine.” [Official Fatah Facebook page, May 13, 2018]
Palestinian Media Watch has reported extensively on the PA and Fatah's condemnation of the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the embassy move.
Another image posted by Fatah is a drawing of Palestinians responding with violence and protests surrounding Jerusalem.
Posted text: “#Jerusalem_is_the_capital_of_the_State_of_Palestine”
Text on image: “Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine”
[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 13, 2018]
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There have been widespread condemnations and threats of violence by the PA and Fatah because of the American embassy move. The official PA daily wrote that Palestinians are planning activities of “rage” in response to the move. [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 11, 2018]
The Palestinian National Council announced that the establishment of an American embassy in Jerusalem means that the agreements signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are no longer valid. In addition the PLO called for the end of recognition of Israel:
Headline: "The [Palestinian] National Council: The transitional period (i.e., the Oslo Accords) and all of the obligations it included are no longer valid"
"The Palestinian National Council (i.e., the legislative council) ... emphasized its condemnation and rejection of American President Donald Trump's illegal declaration that considers Jerusalem Israel's capital, and of the transfer of his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and also emphasized that it will act to cancel this decision.
The council emphasized in a statement that was published after the conclusion of the session that... in consideration of the fact that the State of Israel has shirked all of the obligations that were included in the agreements that were signed, and also put an end to them in practice, the transitional period determined in the agreements signed in Oslo, Cairo, and Washington, and the obligations it includes within it, are no longer valid.
The council instructed the [PLO] Executive Committee to freeze the recognition of Israel until its recognition of the State of Palestine in the June 4, 1967 borders, the cancellation of the decision to annex East Jerusalem, and the cessation of the settlements.
The council emphasized that the decision made by the [PLO] Central Council in its last two sessions to stop the security coordination [with Israel] in all of its forms and break free of the relations of financial dependence determined in the Paris Protocol must be implemented, including the economic boycott of Israeli products."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 4, 2018]
US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel - On Dec. 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and instructed the State Department to begin preparations to transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump added that the final borders of Jerusalem will be determined during negotiations.
On Feb. 23, 2018, the US State Department announced that the US embassy will open in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. The date is the anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 according to the Gregorian calendar.
Note: Fatah photoshopped Trump's image into the above photo of the arrest of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera in 2014. Original photo credited to Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images.
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Peel 253
Kane, Paul (1810-1871) [détails]. Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's territory and back again. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859.
Description matérielle : xvii, [1], 455, [8] p., illus., col. plates, col. ports., fold. map.; 22 cm.
Includes appendix: "Census of Indian tribes inhabiting the North-West coast of America, for the year 1846." Also published, London: Longman, 1861 (xvii, 455p.); with introduction and notes by Lawrence J. Burpee, Toronto: Radisson Society of Canada, 1925 (liv, 329p.); Edmonton: M.G. Hurtig, 1967 & 1974 (lxiv, 329p.); Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle, 1968 (lxiv, 329p.); Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1980 (xvii, 455p.); Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1996 (xlviii, 329p.). Text of 1859 edition, except for appendix, included in Paul Kane's frontier, including wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America , edited by J. Russell Harper, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971 (xviii, 350p.). For Danish version see Peel 251; for French version see Peel 252; for German version see Peel 254. In 1846 Kane crossed the continent, studying and painting Natives as he went. Much of the summer was spent on the prairies. Kane made Fort Edmonton his headquarters during the winter of 1847-1848. Recent scholarship indicates the text almost certainly was not written by Kane himself for it does not fit his very spare writing style or relate to the text in his field notes. See I.S. MacLaren, "The metamorphosis of travellers into authors: The case of Paul Kane" in Critical issues in editing exploration texts: Papers given at the twenty-eighth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 6-7 November 1992 , edited by Germaine Warkentin, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995, pages 67-107.
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Home >> Specials >> The Thrilla in Manila 30th Anniversary Special
The Thrilla in Manila 30th Anniversary Special
It has been 30 years since the epic battle between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier took place in Manila where pageantry, savagery, machismo, intelligence, hatred and respect were manisfested in what had been the greatest boxing bout of all time. Below are stories penned for this occasion coming from boxing writers from different corners of the globe.
There are 49 articles related to this issue.
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Top 5 boxing trilogies
By John C. Cotey, St. Petersburg Times, 01 Oct 2005
The first fighter listed won two of the three bouts between them: 1. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, 1971-75 Hands down the greatest sports rivalry ever (sorry, Yankees and Red Sox fans) and is the measuring stick to which all boxing trilogies are compared. The first meeting was Ring Magazine ' Read full story
Thirty Years Later - The Building Blocks of The Thrilla in Manila
By Frank Lotierzo, BoxingScene.com, 01 Oct 2005
This is a two part article in which I chronicle the start of the Ali/Frazier rivalry, culminating with their final bout, "The Thrilla In Manila." In it I reveal a few things you may not know or ever heard before. On September 30th/October 1st 2005, depending on what side of the globe you call Read full story
1975: Muhammad Ali wins 'Thrilla in Manila'
By , BBC Sport, 01 Oct 2005
US boxer Muhammad Ali has retained the world heavyweight boxing championship after defeating his arch-rival, Joe Frazier, in their third and arguably greatest fight. The so-called "Thrilla in Manilla" lasted 14 rounds before Frazier's trainer, Eddie Futch, finally persuaded him to call it a day. Read full story
He won. But was Ali the greatest loser in the Thrilla in Manila?
By Matthew Syed, The Times (UK), 01 Oct 2005
ACCORDING to the perverse logic of pugilism, the greatness of a bout is measured by the mutual devastation inflicted by the protagonists. By this criterion, the world heavyweight contest between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, under the hot tin roof of the Philippine Coliseum 30 years ago today, is wi Read full story
CENTURY'S BEST
"Lawdy, Lawdy, He's Great"
By Mark Kram, Sports Illustrated, 01 Oct 2005
Joe Frazier said that of Muhammad Ali, but so fierce and unsparing was their confrontation that the phrase could have applied to them both. It was only a moment, sliding past the eyes like the sudden shifting of light and shadow, but long years from now it will remain a pure and moving g Read full story
BEST HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT EVER: PHILBOXING.COM REMEMBERS "THRILLA IN MANILA"
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, 01 Oct 2005
October 1 will always be remembered as the day when Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier waged what is widely regarded as the best heavyweight fight ever, the Thrilla in Manila. To most young people, the event is just but one of those great even Read full story
‘Thrilla in Manila’ marks 30th anniversary
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, 01 Oct 2005
It was 30 years ago today when the Philippines hosted the most talked-about world heavyweight title fight ever–the climax of the Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier trilogy. The date was Oct. 1, 1975, and the place was the Araneta Coliseum. Because the bout–promoted as the "Thrilla In Ma Read full story
By Frank Keating, Deccan Herald, 29 Sep 2005
THRILLA IN MANILLA A trip down memory lane Spare a thought this Friday-Saturday morning for a harrowing anniversary. Gruesome, sure, but also one of heroic nobility. Thirty October 1’s ago at Quezon City in the Philippines, Muhammad Ali of Planet Earth and Joe Frazier of Nearly the Wh Read full story
Ali's wits, stamina proved edge in "The Thrilla"
By Jose "Chegui" Torres, ESPN.com, 28 Sep 2005
Editor's note: Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of "The Thrilla In Manila," the final installment in the legendary Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier trilogy. In honor of this fight and in anticipation of Antonio Tarver-Roy Jones III on Saturday, ESPN.com explores boxing's -- and other sports' -- great tri Read full story
Ali: King of The World
By , This Day Online, 27 Sep 2005
His life has been documented in movies and made-for-TV films, capturing his boxing career, life and fight with Pakinson disease. This month his life-story is profiles when SABC AFRICA on DStv screens MUHAMMAD ALI: KING OF THE WORLD on Monday October 17. Based on the 1998 bestselling biography by Read full story
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Dependence of Exchange Bias Field on Thickness of Antiferromagnetic Layer in NiFe/IrMn Structures
I. Dzhun a, N. Chechenin a, K. Chichay b and V. Rodionovab,c
aSkobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1(2), 119991 Moscow, Russia
bInnovation Park and Institute of Physics and Technology, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Nevskogo 14, 236041 Kaliningrad, Russia
cNational University of Science and Technology "MISIS", Leninskiy pr. 4, 119049 Moscow, Russia
Magnetic properties of ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic thin-films structures for spin-valve applications have been studied. Multilayer structures of Ta/Co/IrMn/Ta and Ta/FeNi/IrMn/Ta were deposited on Si substrate at room temperature by DC magnetron sputtering. Thickness of the antiferromagnetic layer changed from 10 to 50 nm. The coercive force was found to be non-monotonic function of the antiferromagnetic layer thickness. The exchange bias for 30-50 nm antiferromagnetic layers (73 Oe) is about 10 Oe larger than for 10-20 nm antiferromagnetic layers. Moreover, it was demonstrated that the alternative sequence of the deposition (antiferromagnetic layer on the top or below the ferromagnetic layer) leads to dramatic changes of structures magnetic properties.
PACS numbers: 75.30.Gw, 77.55.-g
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Gran Turismo: One of two racing demos on this set of trailers, this demo was pretty much rivaled only by the other racing demo (and Dynasty Warriors, which looked hot as can be.) Several racetracks struck us as smacking straight out of GT4, with a gorgeous fly-by that has to be seen to be believed, and car models were all quite nice. Quite nice.
Hot Shots: The PSP version aped the PlayStation 2 edition down to the pixel in some cases. The high-res ball, the expansive 3D courses and the superdeformed Japanese characters (which we're sure to lose in the US release ... sob) all made for good news to golfers.
Twisted Metal: It's about time that we've seen a new entry in the twisted Twisted franchise, and this one, while early, promises to deliver. An apparent remake of older games in the franchise, the game boasted sweet TM:B effects and also showcased a few returning characters.
Death Jr.: Super-sharp and even more impressive than the GDC demo, the game looks to have progressed. In the quick blip of motion, the realtime lighting really stood out as shadows played across monster bodies and wals. The 'shooter-not-platformer' concept also came across a little better in the quick-moving clip
Hockey Demo: We'll assume that this is the next (not this year's model, but two years from now from Blue42 ) edition of 989's hockey game series. Unfortunately, in keeping with the unfortunate history of 989 Sports, this was one of the less impressive clips on the system -- we'll just say that it looked super early (which we're sure it was) and didn't have much worth talking about in the player detail.
Soccer Demo: Also assumed to be part of the 989 franchise offerings, this game looked much more the part -- amazing player details and fan-filled stadiums popped right off of the screen.
There are enough developers, both big and small, already sgned up to support the PSP Portable (PSP) so that Sony appear to have one of the top requirements of any successful console - games - met and catered for. As the split between east and west across the 99 announced companies is fairly even, we must hope that Sony bypasses any region encoding. If an enforced separation between the world's two gaming hemispheres continues with the PSP all parties will once again lose out.
Sony PlayStation Portable Games
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Underground 2: Yes, you read right -- if you have seen video of this game, you have just seen the first (and possibly only, if word stays true from Activision) video of THPSS:U2. This one was good news, but also something of an anomaly -- the gameplay, in the blip-second clip, looked a little oddly angled from what we're used to in the series. It's full 3D, with character models and stages straight out of the PS2 editions, but it could well be that Neversoft is playing with angles in the game to make more impact and availability for skate lines. Or, more likely, our tired state sent our eyesight spinning for a second. It did feature some VERY strange vehicles -- grinding on a a Segway motorscooter is going to be an experience.
Ridge Racer: If anything can put the "Ridged Racer" jests of the early PS2 days to rest, we'd like to hope that this could be one of the games to shut people up. Between this and Gran Turismo, the handheld has racers covered -- GT4 was far superior and more obviously complete, but there was some sharp detail in the car models plus a few nice effects. Oh, and Reiko showed up. Sweet, sweet Reiko.
PSP USA Games & Import Jap Games
Untitled RPG : It looked an awful lot like Capcom's Breath of Fire , but new word has it that this game was actually an original RPG with turn-based battle scenes that featured wyvern enemies very similar to BOF .
Darkstalkers: If anything could bring a smile to the lips of hardcore gamers, images of at least three (if not four ... it was tough to tell if the other RPG pic was not also Breath of Fire) games in glorious 2D. We're not entirely sure where this pulls out of the franchise (likely the Dreamcast combo edition), but no Street Fighter characters were shown, so we'll guess that this is all Darkstalkers. Not that we're complaining -- the PSP looks to take 2D and spin it wild, so we're quite happy (and hopeful ... hear us, SCEA) for the prospects of 2D on the handheld.
Bust A Move: Not Bust-A-Groove, unfortunately (we're tired of dancing at home -- it's time to take our boogie on the road!), this edition of the Taito puzzler was a bit strange -- the game was never shown with just one 'screen' across, and always upside down or in a spinning transition. Our guess: this could be a two-player iteration of the game where players share opposite sides of the handheld.
Armored Core Another great demo of detail, this edition of From Soft's mech battler was stunning and true to the PS2 editions of late. Fast-action with a bliustering framerate and with mechs detailed to the nuts and bolts, we're just now imagining the networked possibilities of this game...
Dynasty Warriors: One of the games to really send home the detailing power of the PSP, Dynasty Warriors for PSP boasted character models that, if our bloodshot eyes can be trusted, may have bested the PS2 edition. If not, they certainly were detailed enough to make an immense impression on the 4" screen. We were not able to see if this powerful pocket system would be able to deal better with the fog distance than its big brother, but this series has always been a blast, and a handheld version means all the more button-mashing goodness.
Untitled Action Horror FPS: We have no idea what this game was, but if there was a killer app in the PSP trailer besides Gran Turismo and a new Metal Gear, this could be it. No title was given, but the effects shot out when a ship landed and the ragdoll physics of dying enemies tossed by explosions, this handheld game easily rivaled Nintendo's Gamecube wonder, Metroid Prime (actually, it even featured the ability to transform into a ball ... we smell a conspiracy, but so far, we still like the smell of things.)
Second Third-Person Action Game: It looked like his was the same game as the Metroid Prime clone, but new word goes that
this is in fact its own title starring a quite-nice golden female mech character. She slices, she dices ... and we don't know her name. Call us...
Frogger: Konami dazzled with its MGS demo, so we'll just gloss over this conversion of the console version of Frogger. Not that Frogger is the type of game would have caught our eye even if it had been dazzling.
Pool Game/Demo We couldn't tell if this was meant to be a realtime demo or an actual game, although it looked to be that there was a playable goal to the demo, so we'll guess game. Incredibly rendered 3D balls, shining and shadowing each other, are batted around inside a small box.
Ape Escape: When estimates put the power of the PSP somewhere the PS2 and the PS one, all kinds of ideas as far as how deep Sony would dip into its archives were raised. This game demo falls into the PS one category -- although elements were rendered in higher detail and with an apparent cel shading effect, this looked to be an exact remake of the first PlayStation game.
Medievil: Another remake, this edition of Studio Cambridge's goofy horror platformer struck us as remake material, like Ape Escape. That's not a bad thing, but Ghosthunter left us longing for the classic series, and the PSP would have been a good place for a third chapter.
F1 DS ROMs: They always show an F1 game as part of a visual demo, and we can never tell why -- they all look the same, and they almost all look nice (that low-to-the-road view and short car model have made for pretty pics since the PlayStation.) This is assumed to be the next iteration from SCE Europe's franchise.
ATV Off-Road Fury: After seeing ATV Off-Road Fury on PS2, this was a welcome compliment. We're going to assume that it's being developed by Climax (who had earlier announced plans for PSP development), and though which edition of the series this was to be was not displayed at the show, we'll guess that ATV3 and thus one of the few dual-system games planned for PS2.
Syphon Filter: Some thought Gabe and crew would be retired with Syphon Filter: Omega Strain (releasing next week), but not many really believe that the franchise would drop out as well. It hasn't, and its next immediate stop is the PlayStation Portable system. Headshots in dark environments were the highlight of the clip.
Spider-Man: It wasn't in the same league as the upcoming console edition -- character models and environment details were not as well rendered as the PS2 game (or the previous PS2 edition, if we have to make a call from memory,) and the gameplay didn't seem to indicate the go-anywhere GTA gameplay of Spider-Man 2 (it would have featured prominently in the clip if it had.) But trust your Spidey Senses -- this game still boasted the incredible fighting mechanics and web-slinging powers of the series, and the short clip looked quite fun all the same.
Wipeout: Another in-betweener, this edition of the Wipeout franchise boasted a lot of boost in its liquid framerate and sense of speed. In the blur of the games show, we kind of lost track of this one, but upon further inspection, the stage modeling looks to easily be on par with Wipeout Fusion.
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Joe To Go?
Joe Thornton is the name of the day. For those who someone missed it, he’s still one of the best centers in the game. He’s got a 200 foot game, plays physically, and nearly as dirty as Sidney Crosby or Danny Briere at times. He skates well, is one of the three best passers of the last 30 years, and he’s never won a cup.
Some teams and how he’d fit in:
Boston: a full circle story with him going back almost certainly means a trade package like Krejci, Spooner or Khoklachev, O’Gara, a 1st and likely another prospect or pick goes back. If the roster isn’t ripped up too much he’s likely the cure for what ails the teams powerplay. He’s done the major hockey market media before so the adjustment would be slight, and he likely still knows his way around the North end.
Nashville: This is almost the perfect landing spot for him. Even if half the fanbase hated him yesterday, him landing their tomorrow in the wake of the defection of Suter and the Weber scare means they have not just a high end player to fill out the roster but a face for the forwards and a tutor for the young prospects in the system.
Chicago: while their search has been for a second line center, this might just fill the whole. Kane, Hossa, Sharp and the other wingers probably wouldn’t complain too much about second line minutes next to him.
Calgary: Jarome Iginla has never had a legit top line center to play with. Joe Thornton would be that. The Flames may not have what is needed to ship back in return, but career years for both as a duo aren’t out of the realm of possibility.
Phoenix: The desert dogs are so far under the cap floor they’ve probably got mushrooms growing on their heads. Even if they added Thornton without sending back a single roster player they would still be almost two and a half million under the floor. Throwing Thornton down as an inducement to keeping Doan would probably help a tiny bit.
Florida: If there’s one thing we know about Dale Tallon it is that he is not afraid to pull the trigger on a big trade. The Panthers need a good center, they also have one of Thornton’s buddies, Bryan Campell who stayed at Thornton’s place after being traded out of Buffalo.
Obviously the pending CBA negotiations are going to be a big factor, especially for teams paying closer to the cap floor than the ceiling, but it should not be forgotten that Joe Thornton does have a NTC/NMC. If Jumbo Joe does get moved, it will likely be the biggest trade of the offseason. Yes, bigger than the possible Bobby Ryan or the just elapsed shuffling of Nash to the Rangers. Both are younger than Thornton, and talented, but neither has the potential to impact the game at the same level.
Whoever is going fishing in the shark tank should be dangling, forwards, draft picks, forwards and more forwards. The Sharks one strength in terms of prospects is on the backend. Their forward pool is nothing to brag about, and years of trading for established talent and playoff finishes have left them drafting in the bottom half of each round each year for about a decade.
Inconceivable: Top RFA Defensemen Remaining
Someone needs to explain to several NHL general managers the concept of not letting others set the value of your commodities. Set the price and move on. If you have a good player lock them up as soon as possible and then move on. You’ll be setting the bar for others, not the other way around.
For example, Alex Semin who has averaged 24.5 goals a year in the last two seasons just signed a one year deal, for seven million. After having his production tail off after a six million dollar deal the year before. His 21 goals this last season put him 85th in the NHL in goals scored. It did put him in the same neighborhood as Jeff Carter who only played 55 games and David Perron who played 57. Their contracts have hits of not quite four million and just a smidge over five and a quarter. But hey, they have long deals surely security is worth them being paid half or two thirds of Semin’s total next year right?
On to the RFAs:
P.K. Subban, assuming you aren’t a Bruins fan the biggest complaint I’ve heard about him in his career is “he practices too hard”. Oh gosh, that is just horrible. Nothing can fix an attitude like that. Even if you are a Bruins or Leafs fan, he’s a top 5% among defensemen talent. Of the 297 defensemen to skate in the NHL last year, he was 14th in total ice time right behind Zdeno Chara. He’s almost certainly got the best possible combination of talent and drive of any skater on the team. The Canadiens cannot afford not to have him on their roster. Leaving aside Kaberle who plays no shorthanded time and more powerplay time, none of their other defensemen came even close to producing as many points as Subban. Weber and Gorges combined had less points.
Michael Del Zotto while the Rangers arguably have the talent to absorb his loss, why would they want to? More than four minutes a night of powerplay time, and led all their defenseman by nine points from the man advantage, plus he was good enough to earn three times as much penalty kill time per night as Erik Karlsson under John Tortorella who may just be the only coach in the NHL who could be led to say “the trap is dangerously offensive minded”? Year over year his ice time climbed two minutes over the previous season, with his shorthanded time tripling. If that is a guy you can afford to lose or let the price get set too high, you might be doing things wrong.
John Carlson had as many points at the All Star break as Lidstrom. He had a better claim to the All Star spot than Wideman, especially from a team marketing point of view. And yet today, with the summer half over the teams 22 year old number one defenseman sits home without a contract. There really isn’t an excuse for this. Mike Green can be made into one, but he average less TIO, has not been healthy in his career three seasons, and it is not a good comparable on the ice. Carlson plays in all situations, and is improving daily. Risking him backsliding because a deal couldn’t be reached before camp is just absurd.
Bobby Ryan, Boston Bruins, NHL Draft Picks
The Bruins have been one of the much rumored most interested and or best bidding in the suitors for Bobby Ryan since word came out that he was disgusted by being scapegoated for the last two or three seasons. It is hard to look at his career and not imagine what a boon he could be any team. Four full NHL seasons, four 30+ goal seasons. Big body. Willing hitter. Accurate shooter. Willing to drop the gloves.
But for a team like the Boston Bruins who have a top five offense, he isn’t necessary. Particularly not if it involves mortgaging the future. The next two drafts will hold some quality defensemen the Bruins should not cost themselves opportunities at. First round picks should be off the table in any trade discussions. If you ask seven serious Bruins observers how many of the defensive prospects in the Bruins system have a strong chance at playing top 3 minutes for the Bruins, the list will be quite short. The list that everyone agrees on might not exist at all.
If we put discussion of Hamilton and Krug on the shelf my list it isn’t very long and two of them are college players. Either of them could wash out, likely both are three to four years away. Looking at the AHL and ECHL players some have been called up and looked not anywhere near ready, others have been in the system several years and never gotten called up. Then there are the guys fresh out of the very short college seasons. No few people would say these players will need two years of good health and lots of playing time just to be conditioned enough to play a major role in the NHL.
Going back to Torey Krug and Dougie Hamilton the two have one thing in common. If you guessed size, please go find an eye doctor, and do have someone else drive you. Both are known best for their offensive contributions. If there’s one thing we know about Bruins fans, its that they expect defensemen to have a large component of defense in their game. Corvo, Kaberle (who is and was better than Corvo), Wideman, Montador and others have all been ridden out of town on a rail for their defensive deficiencies. Corvo’s vilification won’t be the last time, and it is unlikely either Krug or Hamilton would escape a similar fate if they don’t have at least an average defensive presence.
If the Bruins were to trade for Bobby Ryan they would be better served to move an extra forward, or even two in place of a first round pick in either of the next two drafts. Zdeno Chara has six seasons left on his contract, that means the window for him to mentor and develop high ceiling defensive prospects is pretty small. If someone like Seth Jones or one of the other well regarded defensive prospects is available, they need to be able to take him.
One of the most common proposals I’ve seen for Ryan is: Krejci, a 1st and a prospect. Switching out two seconds, or an additional forward prospect for that first round pick makes much more sense. It will give the forwards left in the system more ice to develop, and securing a player like Ryan means you can consider their roster spot filled for a good number of years.
Claude Julien On His Way To The Top Of Bruins Coaching Ranks
Claude Julien signed a contract extension today that will see him stay in Boston a while longer. Julien has won at every level he’s coached and while he’ll likely deny it, he’ll get the opportunity to be the winningest coach in Boston Bruins history. He’s currently 133 wins from tying the legendary Art Ross for that spot. Having averaged just over 46 and a half wins a season in the last three seasons with Boston, he has a chance to hit that number in less than four years.
The current rosters standouts Patrice Bergeron (age 26), Brad Marchand (age 24), Tyler Seguin (age 20), Zdeno Chara (age 35), Milan Lucic (age 24) are all likely to be at or near the top of the their games at least that long. With young guns like Ryan Spooner, Jared Knight and Alex Khoklachev beating down the door for top six spots, and Tommy Cross, Dougie Hamilton, and Torey Krug ready, willing and able to stake a claim to a stretch of the blueline it is unlikely the general talent level will drop off soon.
In goal? Well, there Hunger Games features competition no more fierce than the fight for the Boston crease. Tuukka Rask and Anton Khudobin will be the presumed one-two punch headed into camp but they should not sleep easy. Michael Hutchinson made great strides in adjusting to the pro game last season, Adam Morrison is 100% focused on achieving his best. There’s this uber-athletic first round pick named Malcolm Subban as well. One look in his eyes will tell you he sees himself wearing the spoked B and playing the bulk of the schedule real damn soon. As if those gentlemen weren’t enough to make the competition vicious, there’s the Swedish Ron Hextall, aka Niklas Svedberg who at the ancient age of 22 has picked up four fighting majors in his native Sweden. Going the college route are two guys everyone else wants to watch over their shoulders, Lars Volden and Zane Gothberg.
Sometime in early October, assuming we have a season and that it starts on time, Julien should pick of the four wins he needs to pass Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry for third all time among Bruins coaches wins. Next up is Milt Schmidt who has done everything for the team but fly the jet. To pass Schmidt Julien will need 18 wins, something he’d probably like done before Thanksgiving, but more likely just before Christmas. After that its a long haul to catch Art Ross. Bruins fans are hopeful he’ll pick up certain key hardware along the way at least once more.
Depth, Draft Picks, And Defense: Columbus Picture Becomes Clearer
Scott Howson takes a lot of heat. Some of it deserved, some of it just plain silly. Could things with Nash have smoothed over? Possibly. But even for a hockey player who’s the face of a franchise Rick Nash played an unbelievably passive aggressive game with the media, the fans, the Columbus team and well anyone not his agent. No one can blame him for wanting to go to a place that will improve his chances to win. The way he did it probably half a step below Dany Heatley’s methodology and without having ever faced the pressure of a long established hockey market.
So what do we know about Scott Howson’s plan going forward. Well, he’s nailed down three of the planks any good team is built on. Depth is number one. As the Sedin twins, Stamkos and company, and others have well illustrated over the years you can’t win with just one or two elite talents and a roster full of four-A players. With Dubinsky who might prove to be a top center if given room to grow but is already comparable to Kesler or Plekanec they have one undeniable top two center. Anisimov gives more offensive talent at a younger age than second and third lines have seen in Columbus.
Defense is the tricky one to build. Defensemen as rule take longer to mature than forwards, but they tend to stay at their top level longer. With Wisniewski and Johnson as two veteran mentors to younger players Tim Erixon and Ryan Murray are less likely to get thrown into the deep and and left to flounder like Buffalo Sabres defenseman Tyler Myers. Taking that two hundred games to learn defense at the NHL level will give the Blue Jackets a more dynamic defensive unit in the near future than much of the central division can claim. Don’t overlook Nikita Nikitin as part of this defense. He’s an all situations defenseman who’ll end up playing top four minutes.
The model that has worked best in the last decade for building teams has been draft your core and fill in the rest later. The Penguins, BlackHawks, Bruins and Kings all boasted a lot of home grown talent when they hoisted the cup. This year the team will have three first round picks. While they could flip one or all of those for NHL players or NHL ready prospects, I would in no way be surprised if Howson uses all three selections. Hockey’s Future gives them a very low rating for total prospect pool talent and three first round draft picks of the right kind will go a long ways toward reversing that. With the talent that is expected to be available in the first round next year, they could be a contending team in not too long if their goaltending can settle in and produce at an average level.
Some may not like Howson. Some make not like the Howson plan even if it didn’t have his name on it. That said, it does appear there is a plan, and he’s certainly demonstrated he won’t be deviating from it for anything less than direct godly intervention.
Realignment: The Three By Ten Model
During last years realignment debate several things became apparent. Some of them are league needs, some are player needs and some are fan and or team needs.
Realignment needs to preserve as many major rivalries as possible.
Travel should be as equal as possible given the concentration of teams.
Every team should have a mathematically equal shot at a division title.
Every team should play every team.
Care should be taken so that teams with growing markets have the best footing possible without cutting the legs off the established teams.
That said, the three by ten model is the most logical for all those reasons and more. With five division winners in each conference every team should be in the chase each season. More titles means more division championship t-shirts, hats and other merchandise. A schedule that include a home and away date between all thirty teams also means teams like Phoenix and Columbus will see Crosby yearly, the Carolina Hurricanes will host the Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings
Basic setup:
Three team divisions
Five divisions per conference
8 games against the other two teams in your division for a total of 16
3 games against the other 12 teams in your conference for a total of 36
2 games against the 15 teams in the other conference for a total of 30.
Same 82 game schedule length.
Yes three games against conference rivals means one home and two away some years and the reverse the other. Ideally two division pairings would alternate year by year so schedule maker, fans and media can have a decent idea of what to plan for each season even before the official schedule is released.
Possible Divisions:
West:
California: Sharks, Kings, Ducks
Mountain: Avalanche, Coyotes, Stars
Canada West: Flames, Oilers, Canucks
Plains: Jets, Wild, Blues
Lakes: Blackhawks, Red Wings, Predators
East:
Southeast: Panthers, Lightning, Hurricanes
Appalachian: Blue Jackets, Penguins, Flyers
Eastern Interior: Capitals, Maple Leafs , Sabres
Metro: Rangers, Islanders, Devils
Northeast: Senators, Bruins, Canadiens
An argument can be made for flipping the Senators and Leafs based on how much the teams have show they are willing to spend over the last few years, but geographically this puts Washington’s two division rivals as close as can be without putting them into a division with the Flyers and Penguins. There is also the argument that the Red Wings should be moving east and not the Blue Jackets. For that I’ll point out the west needs the Wings as a draw to small market teams. Columbus is also at the end of a highway from Pittsburgh and driving to and from there, giving it a rival within easy driving distance.
Is Tim Thomas The Smartest Man In Hockey?
The current labor situation is filled with reasons to reexamine what we know. Let’s start with the facts:
The NHL Ownership has staked out a position that appears to be a draconian assault on the players union.
Anyone paying attention for the last two or three years knows that this CBA is first, second and third a dispute between the various classes of owners.
The NHLPA in the last labor dispute was to put it in precise technical terms rolled and raped.
Despite the war drum beating that led to the hiring of Donald Fehr, the PA has done little to convince anyone they won’t backdown.
The NHL will not survive as we know it if a season is missed.
Star players who take part in the process will take a hit in public perception, regardless of outcome if the dispute drags on.
It’s now been a week since word of the owners proposal hit the media. The owners haven’t made any public move to retreat from what many consider a declaration of war. It is hard to argue that this failure to address it does not in fact amount to an endorsement of the so called leak. The players association has not taken any visible position on this. No player I’m aware of has taken a position. Given Donald Fehr’s reputation, the number of active players, and likely PA employees who were part of the last lockout, it is unlikely that even if Fehr proves entirely ineffective, that the players will agree to the proposed terms.
The owner versus owner dynamic is still the axis of this fight that is most important. Teams like Montreal, Toronto and Boston can spend at a nearly unlimited level. Not every team can and even among the deep pocked teams with abundant fans not all will. Among the 29 ownership groups there are likely four camps of various size and cohesiveness. The first will be the owners bleeding money even with revenue sharing. While likely the tightest group, those who see a fix for their woes will be pliable, it could be an arena deal that gets them out of a bad situation and into more revenue, or could simply be reduction in the amount they are forced to spend.
Group two will be the group who are in a market they haven’t managed to saturate yet and are most sensitive to the effect a lockout will have, likely this will be the group of “swing voters” who go in whatever direction they think will prevent even the threat of a work stoppage. Group three is made up of the owners who believe they can spend their way to success and don’t care who they run over. Ten minutes before the next CBA is ratified they’ll have half a dozen ways to circumvent the parts they don’t like as part of their general operations plan.
Group four is the most interesting to me. This group will be the owners who have money and intend to keep it. They aren’t interested in a lockout, but won’t allow a deal that will affect long term revenue negatively. They will be in favor of any plan that keeps revenue sharing at just barely above the point where average management of an NHL team will keep it in existence. A fly on the wall who hears owners or their representatives talking the non ticket and arena sales revenues benefiting everyone will be listening to this group.
Earlier this year, two time Vezina winner, Jennings Award winner, Conn-Smyth Winner, and Stanley Cup Champion Tim Thomas would (likely) be taking the season off. He has one year remaining on his contract, had some personal issues to deal with and even waived his no trade clause after years of balking at doing so to give the Bruins some room to work with. He’s also a politically aware American who went through the last NHL labor dispute. Given his level of play in 2003-4 in the AHL where he put up a .941 save percentage in 43 games, and then went to Finland during the lockout with a lot of other NHL talent and put up world beating numbers, the last lockout probably cost him a great deal of money. By making it know ahead of time he was dedicating the year to family, the hockey camps he’s protecting his health, his brand image by being semi-retired, and staying out of the infighting that will likely consume another NHL season.
What’s the Return If the Nashville Predators Trade Weber
There are three things the Flyers should want back in any trade that removes their captain and best player:
Skill. It doesn’t matter if it is offensive skill, or defensive it has to be a player who will get top six or top two minutes.
Leadership, if the worst for the Predators does happen and they lose their Captain after having lost Suter already, there is no way the current team is going succeed without an infusion of additional leadership.
Marketability. The loss of Weber to the Predators is greater than the loss of Sundin to the Toronto Maple Leafs, greater than the loss of Lidstrom to the Detroit Red Wings and greater even than the loss of Gretzky for the Oilers, Kings or New York Rangers. He is their first great star. He is the team identity, he has a solid shot at the hall of fame, and their is no one on the roster to fill that void.
Of the players currently under contract to the Philadelphia Flyers, there are some players who are highly desirable. Danny Briere is talented, a playoff wizard, hasattitude and might just be the perfect player to slide into the gap in the Post Weber-Suter era, having played in Buffalo when they were at low ebb he’s seen unsightly situations before and still gone on. If only he didn’t have non-movement special (aka The Calgary Special). Claude Giroux is almost certainly off the table from the Flyers standpoint. If he’s not, you have to take his two concussions in four seasons into consideration.
Brayden Schenn and Sean Couturier are both young, dynamic and highly respected players. It is uncertain what they will be in the next two or three years. Schenn produced even in the playoffs, but might get less interest from the Predators for a certain lack of defensive prowess. Couturier on the other hand has a both offensive flair and defensive chops.
While recently added to the team, Wayne Simmonds could be a godsend to the Predators. He’s big, he plays a touch mean, he’s got skill and he put up 28 goals playing essentially third line minutes. The question with Simmonds is can he keep up or increase that production playing first or second line minutes? Hartnell is a bit older than any of the other forwards the Preds should consider except Briere, but there’s upsides. First he played in the Preds system before and knows what to expect from it and the fans. But, consistency is not Scott Hartnell’s thing. Over the last four seasons he’s scored 30, 14, 24, and 37 goals without having missed any time.
The Flyers don’t have an impressively deep prospect pool and any conversation for the Predators that doesn’t include Scott Laughton is probably a waste of time. Goaltending? Not the Flyers strong suit. Defense? The Predators might want a medium term fix like Coburn to hold things together until Josi, Blum, or someone else can step into the vacuum. I would, in the Predators shoes also take draft picks. Multiple second round picks are worthwhile, and even third, fourth and fifth round picks are common currency in trades and still able to produce solid NHL players. Weber himself is a second round pick, Chara a third round pick and both of the St Louis Blues goalies last year were ninth rounders.
In bringing players back to the Predators attention does have to be paid to what is going on in labor negotiations. If the owners succeed in shanking the NHLPA with the proposed radical reduction in revenue shared, the cap will drop severely. If that happens and they move too much money back to Nashville’s books, they might be forced to jettison dearly bought offensive depth.
Shea Weber Signed To Offer Sheet: Should The Predators Match? – Update
Update at bottom
News broke that Shea Weber had signed an offer sheet with the Predators.
Breaking: Shea Weber agrees to offer sheet with Philadelphia. 14 years, upwards of $100 mil. Preds have 7 days to match. Wow!!
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Exact details are unknown, but Dreger suggest it is a huge deal. At $100million and fourteen years the compensation would only be two first round picks, a second and a third. As the Philadelphia Flyers are unlikely to finish outside the playoffs anytime soon, that means picks no higher than 16 and probably in the mid twenties. If the total compensation passes $7,835,220 a total of $109,693,080 that compensation would go to four first round picks.
That is where the question gets murky. With their own system depth at defense, and their own picks they can turn four first round picks into a number of players. Next years draft is topped by defensive stud Seth Jones, Marsellis Subban cousin of P.K. is also in that draft class, Jordan Subban is another defender due in the next two seasons. Offensively the Oilers probably need to shed one or two top six forwards to make room on the roster and under the cap for players like Eberle, Hall, Nugent-Hopkins, Yakupov and more. This could be a reformation of the team, and for the better. They’ve never been a balanced team. They do need something in the way of top 30% of the league offensive players which they do not have to compliment the teams defense and Rinne in net.
If the offer hits the four first tipping point it might, just possibly be wiser to decline to match.
The other important question to ask is: Will the Flyers deal fit into the current CBA, or will they get whacked like the New Jersey Devils did over the first Ilya Kovalchuk contract? At twenty-six he’s been mostly healthy through his career, but has had a concussion that cost him games, and the eastern conference as a whole, and the Atlantic Division in particular have a lot more larger, more physical forwards to counter than the Central division offered.
I’m told by Bob Mand @HockeyMand:
it’ll be 4 1st-round picks regardless. After five seasons, the AAV isn’t the basis of compensation – you divide the total salary by 5 y (so, for a 20 y, $2m deal the comp. would be four 1sts, not a 2nd-round pick). Unless total comp is under $40m, its automatically 4 firsts.
Logical, and makes the choice harder.
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Hands Off Gretel “[Music] saved me in many ways and I’d love to do that for someone else”
Posted by: Neale McGeever in Featured, Interviews March 12, 2019 0
Yorkshire alt-rockers Hands Off Gretel (HOG) are in a sweet spot right now. Their album has just been released with a bit of help from their expanding fanbase, they have many festival appearances booked and this is just the beginning. We talked to HOG about their new album, their style and why they released their latest album on cassette…
RAMzine: So what is your new album all about?
Lauren Tate (vocals/ guitar): Overall I’d say the album is from the perspective of a young girl that feels she doesn’t fit in or belong anywhere. For a lot of my life, I’ve been told to keep my opinions to myself, shut up and just conform to what everyone else is doing, especially during my school years not so long ago. I wanted to channel a lot of frustration mixed with an attitude of ‘I want to be a star’. A lot of the songs are about wanting more from people that hurt me and striving to prove people wrong, fingers crossed I can do just that with this album, I want more than anything people just like me to connect with it.
RAMzine: This is quite a long album, did you record more that you couldn’t fit on this record?
Sam Hobbins (Drums): No, it was a pretty lengthy process of whittling down the songs that were lined up for the album. It was a conscious decision to keep the album a little shorter than our previous one. Keep it a little more to the point and in your face. I’m sure we will do something with the songs left over as some of them made it into our live set and people have been asking for studio versions.
RAMzine: The album started as a Pledge campaign. The campaign ended – why did it change?
Becky Baldwin (bass/vocals): We ended our Pledge Music campaign early and started collecting pre-orders and funds on our website instead. We had reached 100% of our goal on Pledge Music within 24 hours, so it was a huge success… But by the end of January, news had started to come out from other bands who had been using the platform, saying they hadn’t been paid by the site and the debts were still outstanding from over a year ago! By this point we had exceeded 240% of our campaign goal, meaning the company now owed us over 25K and we had also noticed that our first payment was late. As a new, independent band we can’t afford to pay for products and send merchandise out to our fans if we aren’t going to receive the money for it, so we acted quickly and moved the album campaign to our website. We are currently at over 200% of our new target, which is amazing that our fans have come to the rescue! The fans are the only ones that have stepped in to help us. But it’s still very disappointing that our first effort has gone to waste and that Pledge have lost the money of many of our dedicated fans. Pledge has been extremely vague about what has happened, why they have lost band’s money… It’s hard to really process how bad the situation has become! It’s stopped us from being able to chart the album and with well over a thousand sales we think we may have made an impact.
RAMzine: Are pledges the way forward for young bands?
Lauren: I think it works for some but not all. A load of people have messaged me asking how we did so well doing a crowd-funder and if I recommend it to them. Really it depends entirely on your fanbase and whether or not you have one big enough to support you the way ours did. I’ve built our fanbase up organically since my solo career when I was 14. It took years to get to this point where we are able to do what we are doing. Our connection with our fans is real, I know pretty much all their names off by heart and that’s important to me especially when they are so passionate about the music it makes everything so personal and exciting. After Pledge Music screwed us over I was really worried we wouldn’t be able to get back on our feet, but our fans turned that situation around for us and got together stronger than ever helping us by donating and re-ordering items Pledge Music still owed them. We were able to re-coup the 25K we lost from Pledge Music for a second time via our own website within a few months!
RAMzine: As you are inspired by grunge and 90s style alt rock – do you think the current music scene needs a kick up the backside?
Sean McAvinue (Guitar): I would argue that art can come from any and all places, that contemporaneous happenings are what drive it and are sometimes irrelevant to the finished piece. There are some amazing bands, with amazing songs that will exist because they hate their town, or local scene, or the state of music in general and wish to change the set formula with their art… and there are definitely others whose sole focus is their music – they create because they need to create, and if change occurs via this creation, hindsight deconstruction is a wonderful tool. I did feel the music scene needed a kick up the arse until I really joined it; I have seen some INCREDIBLE artists that prove art transcends whatever the media, or them PubeyPies or whoever off YouTube tell you is the ‘Next Big Thing’.
People power (see our Pledge debacle and subsequent salvation via the sheer fucking brilliance of people power for example!) can easily change a perceived era or scene, and with access to information like we have now, trends mean less than they did. The internet has truly humanized art – giving us the potential for the best-to-the-worst to come to stimulate us – we just need to stop accepting the horseshit that’s fed to us and LOOK for that which emotes and motivates. That being said, don’t look at my browser history. Christ.
RAMzine: A lot of your songs follow themes of bullying and mental health- do you think it’s important for bands to address these issues?
Lauren: For me, music was my biggest escape. I looked up to role models that I couldn’t find elsewhere, these we real people that talked about emotions that in everyday life nobody really did. I resonated so well with artists like P!nk who for me sang all the time about how she felt outcasted and alone from others. I’d sit in the school toilets at school with my earphones in skipping class and it felt like she was sat there with me. I think if artists like myself have the power and voice to address these issues they should, it saved me in many ways and I’d love to be that for someone else.
RAMzine: The way you dress and merch is a big part of your identity- where do you get your style from?
Lauren: My style has changed and evolved so much over the years. I get bored really easy of the same things so I’m constantly thinking of ways to re-invent myself. The fun will start when I figure out how to work the sewing machine though haha! I theme the merchandise and the whole band aesthetic around my style, it’s a whole package really. I think style is really important with music, it almost makes you into a cartoon version of yourself and makes you and your brand easily recognisable. Even now so early in my career, it’s crazy to see people trying to imitate and copy me be it my hair or clothes or overall band aesthetic haha, I’m never sure if I should feel flattered or creeped out. I guess people see what I’m doing and instead of being themselves and working with that they are actually just trying to be me, it’s a sign that I’m doing something right I guess.
RAMzine: Your new album is available on cassette and vinyl as well as CD- are physical format still important? Or is this one for the nerdy collectors?
Sam: I think music fans are usually somewhat nerdy and into collecting by default. We had loads of requests for vinyl as it seems to have made quite a comeback so thought we’d offer as many platforms as possible, and yeah they’re definitely still important. Years after CDs and USB sticks and digital downloads people are still into picking up the vinyl.
RAMzine: Are you planning any tours or festivals this year?
Becky: Yes! We begin our album tour in June, with those dates being announced this week! Until then, we have a few select gigs around the UK, including our two amazing album launch parties in London and Barnsley (28th and 29th March), and 4 dates with ‘This Feeling’ events which we are very excited about! This summer’s festivals so far include Rebellion, Camden Rocks, Amplified and Lindisfarne. We plan to tour in Europe later this year.
RAMzine: Finally, do you have any other plans for the future?
Lauren: Yeah! We plan to record a few more of the tracks that didn’t make it on the album, lots more music videos and singles to come. Looking at touring more of Europe and doing lots more writing. It’s going to be a crazy year! Can’t wait for it!
Hands Off Gretel’s new album is available now via their website.
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Tessa Zettel
Tessa Zettel is an artist, writer and design educator working to imagine and enact other ways of living. Her projects use collaborative and participatory processes to make visible contested histories and possible futures. They often bring forms of exchange, mapping and publishing to overlooked cultural practices and knowledge.
Ongoing projects include Plan Bienen (a speculative investigation of beekeeping and post-monetary economies in Berlin) and Making Time (a travelling food preserving kitchen). She is currently based at Institute for Provocation in Beijing, researching a new work about extinction and the more-than-human city. She is (or has been) part of collective ventures Cloudship Press, Weathering, (no)action(no)space, Yurt Empire, The Librarium, and Summer School for Applied Autonomy, and was a co-founder of Makeshift, whose site-based works were exhibited in such places as If you were to live here… 5th Auckland Triennial (Fresh Gallery, Auckland) and In the Balance: Art for a Changing World (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney). When in Sydney she teaches at the University of Technology Sydney.
See more by Tessa Zettel:
Market for Immaterial Value: Unmaking Debt and Other Fictions
Field Work as Sustainment: The Futur(ing) of Art Practice
Autarky/Autonomy or ‘Are you sure that’s normal?’
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Egypt Population: 94,666,993
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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C., and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next three millennia. The last native dynasty fell to the Persians in 341 B.C., who in turn were replaced by the Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines. It was the Arabs who introduced Islam and the Arabic language in the 7th century and who ruled for the next six centuries. A local military caste, the Mamluks took control about 1250 and continued to govern after the conquest of Egypt by the Ottoman Turks in 1517. Completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 elevated Egypt as an important world transportation hub. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized control of Egypt's government in 1882, but nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire continued until 1914. Partially independent from the UK in 1922, Egypt acquired full sovereignty from Britain in 1952. The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 and the resultant Lake Nasser have altered the time-honored place of the Nile River in the agriculture and ecology of Egypt. A rapidly growing population (the largest in the Arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the Nile all continue to overtax resources and stress society. The government has struggled to meet the demands of Egypt's population through economic reform and massive investment in communications and physical infrastructure. Inspired by the 2010 Tunisian revolution, Egyptian opposition groups led demonstrations and labor strikes countrywide, culminating in President Hosni MUBARAK's ouster. Egypt's military assumed national leadership until a new parliament was in place in early 2012; later that same year, Mohammed MORSI won the presidential election. Following often violent protests throughout the spring of 2013 against MORSI's government and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Armed Forces intervened and removed MORSI from power in July 2013 and replaced him with interim president Adly MANSOUR. In January 2014, voters approved a new constitution by referendum and in May 2014 elected Abdel Fattah EL SISI president. Egypt elected a new legislature in December 2015, the first parliament since 2012.
Controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, a sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; size, and juxtaposition to Israel, establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics; dependence on upstream neighbors; dominance of Nile basin issues; prone to influxes of refugees from Sudan and the Palestinian territories
Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula
water: 6,000 sq km
Size comparison: more than eight times the size of Ohio; slightly more than three times the size of New Mexico
Land Boundaries: total: 2,612 km border countries (4): Gaza Strip 13 km, Israel 208 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan 1,276 km
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm or the equidistant median line with Cyprus
continental shelf: 200 nm
Climate: desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
Terrain: vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, rare earth elements, zinc
Land use: agricultural land: 3.6% arable land 2.8%; permanent crops 0.8%; permanent pasture 0% forest: 0.1%
Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes; flash floods; landslides; hot, driving windstorms called khamsin occur in spring; dust storms; sandstorms
Current Environment Issues: agricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; limited natural freshwater resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining the Nile and natural resources
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Nationality: noun: Egyptian(s)
adjective: Egyptian
Ethnic groups: Egyptian 99.6%, other 0.4% (2006 census)
Languages: Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Religions: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 90%, Christian (majority Coptic Orthodox, other Christians include Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, Maronite, Orthodox, and Anglican) 10% (2012 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.21% (male 16,268,862/female 15,169,039)
65 years and over: 4.17% (male 1,937,119/female 2,013,459) (2016 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 8.5%
potential support ratio: 11.8% (2015 est.)
Major urban areas - population: CAIRO (capital) 18.772 million; Alexandria 4.778 million (2015)
65 years and over: 0.82 male(s)/female
Mother's mean age at first birth: 22.7 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2014 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 19.7 deaths/1,000 live births male: 21 deaths/1,000 live births
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 60.3% (2008)
rural: 6.9% of population
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.02% (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 11,500 (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 300 (2015 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 7% (2014)
total population: 73.8%
Country name: conventional long form: Arab Republic of Egypt
conventional short form: Egypt
local long form: Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah
local short form: Misr
former: United Arab Republic (with Syria)
etymology: the English name "Egypt" derives from the ancient Greek name for the country "Aigyptos"; the Arabic name "Misr" can be traced to the ancient Akkadian "misru" meaning border or frontier
Government type: presidential republic
Capital: name: Cairo
Administrative divisions: 27 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazat); Ad Daqahliyah, Al Bahr al Ahmar (Red Sea), Al Buhayrah, Al Fayyum, Al Gharbiyah, Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), Al Isma'iliyah (Ismailia), Al Jizah (Giza), Al Minufiyah, Al Minya, Al Qahirah (Cairo), Al Qalyubiyah, Al Uqsur (Luxor), Al Wadi al Jadid (New Valley), As Suways (Suez), Ash Sharqiyah, Aswan, Asyut, Bani Suwayf, Bur Sa'id (Port Said), Dumyat (Damietta), Janub Sina' (South Sinai), Kafr ash Shaykh, Matruh, Qina, Shamal Sina' (North Sinai), Suhaj
Independence: 28 February 1922 (from UK protectorate status; the revolution that began on 23 July 1952 led to a republic being declared on 18 June 1953 and all British troops withdrawn on 18 June 1956); note - it was ca. 3200 B.C. that the Two Lands of Upper (southern) and Lower (northern) Egypt were first united politically
National holiday: Revolution Day, 23 July (1952)
Constitution: several previous; latest approved by a constitutional committee in December 2013, approved by referendum held on 14-15 January 2014, ratified by interim president on 19 January 2014 (2016)
Legal system: mixed legal system based on Napoleonic civil and penal law, Islamic religious law, and vestiges of colonial-era laws; judicial review of the constitutionality of laws by the Supreme Constitutional Court
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory
Executive branch: Chief of state: President Abdelfattah Said ELSISI (since 8 June 2014)
head of government: Prime Minister Sherif ISMAIL (since 12 September 2015); note - Prime Minister Ibrahim MEHLAB resigned 12 September 2015
cabinet: Cabinet sworn in 19 September 2015 elections/appointments: president elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 26-28 May 2014 (next to be held in May 2018); prime minister appointed by the president, approved by the House of Representatives
election results: Abdelfattah Said ELSISI elected president; percent of vote in 1 round - Abdelfattah Said ELSISI (independent) 96.6%, Hamdeen SABAHI (Egyptian Current Party) 3.4%
Legislative branch: description: unicameral House of Representatives (Majlis Al-Nowaab); 596 seats; 448 members directly elected by individual candidacy system, 120 members - with quotas for women, youth, Christians and workers - elected in party-list constituencies by simple majority popular vote, and 28 members selected by the president; member term 5 years; note - inaugural session held on 10 January 2016
elections: multi-phase election completed on 16 December 2015 (next election 2020)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -– Free Egyptians Party 65, Nation’s Future Party 53, New Wafd Party 36, Homeland’s Protector Party 18, Republican People’s Party 13, Congress Party 12, al-Nour Party 11, Conservative Party 6, Democratic Peace Party 5, Egyptian Social Democratic Party 4, Egyptian National Movement 4, Modern Egypt Party 4, Reform and Development Party 3, Freedom Party 3, My Homeland Egypt Party 3, National Progressive Unionist Party 2, Arab Democratic Nasserist Party 1, Revolutionary Guards Party 1, Free Egyptian Building Party 1, independent 351
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Constitutional Court or SCC (consists of the court president and 10 justices); the SCC serves as the final court of arbitrator on the constitutionality of laws and conflicts between lower courts regarding jurisdiction and rulings; Court of Cassation (CC) (consists of the court president and 550 judges organized in circuits with cases heard by panels of 5 judges); the CC is the highest appeals body for civil and criminal cases, also known as “ordinary justices"; Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) - consists of the court president and organized in circuits with cases heard by panels of 5 judges); the SAC is the highest court of the State Council judge selection and term of office: under the 2014 constitution, all judges and justices selected by the Supreme Judiciary Council and appointed by the president of the Republic; judges appointed for life
subordinate courts: Courts of Appeal; Courts of First Instance; courts of limited jurisdiction; Family Court (established in 2004)
Political parties and leaders: officially recognized: Al-Nour [Yunis MAKHYUN] Arab Democratic Nasserist Party [Sameh ASHOUR] Congress Party [Omar Mokhtar SEMEIDA] Conservative Party [Akmal KOURTAM] Democratic Peace Party [Ahmed FADALY] Egyptian National Movement Party [Ibrahim DARWISH] Egyptian Social Democratic Party [Mervat TALAWAY] El Tagamu'u Party (National Progressibve Unionist [Sayed Abdel AAL] Freedom Party [Mamdouh HASSAN] Free Egyptian Building Party Free Egyptians Party [Essam KHALIL] Homeland’s Protector Party [Lt. Gen. (retired) Galal AL-HARIDI] Modern Egypt Party [Nabil DEIBIS] Mostaqbal Watan (Nation’s Future) Party [Mohamed Ashraf RASHAD] My Homeland Egypt Party [Qadry ABU HUSSEIN] National Progressive Unionist (Tagammu) Party [Sayed Abdel AAL] Nation's Future Party [Ashraf RASHAD, secretary general] New Wafd Party [Sayed al-BADAWI] Reform and Development Party [Mohamad Anwar al-SADAT] Republican People’s Party [Hazim AMR] Revolutionary Guards Party [Magdy EL-SHARIF]
Political pressure groups and leaders: NA
International organization participation: ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CD, CICA, COMESA, D-8, EBRD, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSMA, MONUSCO, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): golden eagle, white lotus; national colors: red, white, black
National anthem: name: "Bilady, Bilady, Bilady" (My Homeland, My Homeland, My Homeland)
lyrics/music: Younis-al QADI/Sayed DARWISH
note: adopted 1979; the current anthem, less militaristic than the previous one, was created after the signing of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel; Sayed DARWISH, commonly considered the father of modern Egyptian music, composed the anthem
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Yasser REDA (since 19 September 2015)
chancery: 3521 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador R. Stephen BEECROFT (since 18 December 2014)
embassy: 5 Tawfik Diab St., Garden City, Cairo
mailing address: Unit 64900, Box 15, APO AE 09839-4900; 5 Tawfik Diab Street, Garden City, Cairo
telephone: [20] (2) 2797-3300
FAX: [20] (2) 2797-3200
Occupying the northeast corner of the African continent, Egypt is bisected by the highly fertile Nile valley, where most economic activity takes place. Egypt's economy was highly centralized during the rule of former President Gamal Abdel NASSER but opened up considerably under former Presidents Anwar EL-SADAT and Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK. Cairo from 2004 to 2008 pursued business climate reforms to attract foreign investment and facilitate growth. Poor living conditions and limited job opportunities for the average Egyptian contribute to public discontent, a major factor leading to the January 2011 revolution that ousted MUBARAK. The uncertain political, security, and policy environment since 2011 caused economic growth to slow significantly, hurting tourism, manufacturing, and other sectors and pushing up unemployment. Weak growth and limited foreign exchange earnings have made public finances unsustainable, leaving authorities dependent on expensive borrowing for deficit finance and on Gulf allies to help cover the import bill. In 2015, higher levels of foreign investment contributed to a slight rebound in GDP growth after a particularly depressed post-revolution period.
Gross national saving: 8.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 10.7% of GDP (2015 est.) 13% of GDP (2014 est.)
government consumption: 12%
Agriculture - products: cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats
Industries: textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons, construction, cement, metals, light manufactures
services: 47.3% (2013 est.)
Unemployment rate: 13.1% (2016 est.) 12.8% (2015 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4%
Budget: revenues: $60.09 billion
expenditures: $92.37 billion (2016 est.)
note: data cover central government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury, treasury debt held by foreign entities, debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-govern
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12.1% (2016 est.) 10.4% (2015 est.)
Exports: $14.73 billion (2016 est.) $19.03 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, fruits and vegetables, cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals, processed food
Exports - partners: Saudi Arabia 9.1%, Italy 7.5%, Turkey 5.8%, UAE 5.1%, US 5.1%, UK 4.4%, India 4.1% (2015)
Imports: $50.07 billion (2016 est.) $57.17 billion (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, wood products, fuels
Imports - partners: China 13%, Germany 7.7%, US 5.9%, Turkey 4.5%, Russia 4.4%, Italy 4.4%, Saudi Arabia 4.1% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $15.06 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $15.49 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $50.67 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $44.61 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $94.51 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $89.65 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $8.042 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $7.362 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $55.19 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $70.08 billion (31 December 2014 est.) $61.63 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Exchange rates: Egyptian pounds (EGP) per US dollar - 9.71 (2016 est.) 7.7133 (2015 est.) 7.7133 (2014 est.) 7.08 (2013 est.) 6.06 (2012 est.)
Electricity - exports: 500 million kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - imports: 81 million kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 9.5% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Crude oil - production: 511,600 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 193,400 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 59,600 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 4.4 billion bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 45,500 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Natural gas - production: 48.8 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 2.832 billion cu m (2013 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total: 94.016 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 106 (July 2015 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: Telecom Egypt remains largely state owned; principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
domestic: largest fixed-line system in Africa and the Arab region; multiple mobile-cellular networks with a near 100-percent penetration of the market
international: country code - 20; landing point for Aletar, the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks, Link Around the Globe (FLAG) Falcon and FLAG FEA; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat) (2015)
Broadcast media: mix of state-run and private broadcast media; state-run TV operates 2 national and 6 regional terrestrial networks, as well as a few satellite channels; about 20 private satellite channels and a large number of Arabic satellite channels are available via (2008)
Internet country code: .eg
Airports (unpaved runways): total 11
Heliports: 7 (2013)
Pipelines: condensate 486 km; condensate/gas 74 km; gas 7,986 km; liquid petroleum gas 957 km; oil 5,225 km; oil/gas/water 37 km; refined products 895 km; water 65 km (2013)
Railways: total 5,085 km
standard gauge: 5,085 km 1.435-m gauge (62 km electrified) (2014)
paved: 126,742 km (includes 838 km of expressways)
Waterways: 3,500 km (includes the Nile River, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo Waterway, and numerous smaller canals in Nile Delta; the Suez Canal (193.5 km including approaches) is navigable by oceangoing vessels drawing up to 17.68 m) (2011)
Merchant marine: total 67
by type: bulk carrier 16, cargo 20, container 3, passenger/cargo 7, petroleum tanker 12, roll on/roll off 9
foreign-owned: 13 (Denmark 1, France 1, Greece 8, Jordan 2, Lebanon 1)
registered in other countries: 42 (Cambodia 4, Georgia 7, Honduras 2, Liberia 3, Malta 1, Marshall Islands 1, Moldova 5, Panama 11, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, Saudi Arabia 1, Sierra Leone 3, unknown 1) (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Mediterranean Sea - Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said; Gulf of Suez - Suez oil terminal(s): Ain Sukhna terminal, Sidi Kerir terminal container port(s) (TEUs): Alexandria (1,108,826), Port Said (East) (2,617,043), Port Said (West) (1,138,753) LNG terminal(s) (export): Damietta, Idku (Abu Qir Bay)
Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Forces (2015)
Military service age and obligation: 18-30 years of age for male conscript military service; service obligation - 18-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; voluntary enlistment possible from age 16 (2012)
Military expenditures: 1.76% of GDP (2014) 1.67% of GDP (2013) 1.72% of GDP (2012) 1.86% of GDP (2011) 1.72% of GDP (2010)
Disputes - International: Sudan claims but Egypt de facto administers security and economic development of Halaib region north of the 22nd parallel boundary; Egypt no longer shows its administration of the Bir Tawil trapezoid in Sudan on its maps; Gazan breaches in the security wall with Egypt in January 2008 highlight difficulties in monitoring the Sinai border; Saudi Arabia claims Egyptian-administered islands of Tiran and Sanafir
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 70,021 (West Bank and Gaza Strip); 11,296 (Sudan) (2015); 115,204 (Syria); 6,231 (Somalia) (2016) IDPs: 78,000 (2015)
stateless persons: 22 (2015)
Illicit drugs: transit point for cannabis, heroin, and opium moving to Europe, Israel, and North Africa; transit stop for Nigerian drug couriers; concern as money laundering site due to lax enforcement of financial regulations
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