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Queen Elizabeth Remove the Obamas from Royal Wedding Guest List
For eight years, Michelle Obama genuinely thought she was a queen and expected to be treated like one. Now that she’s a regular citizen, she’s having a hard time of letting go of her former status as the (failed) first lady and keeps trying to push her way into every major social scene where she doesn’t belong and is apparently not invited.
Heavy Tech use Linked to ADHD
Researchers at USC tracked 2,500 10th graders and found that those most addicted to social media sites were... more
Students Take Field Trip to Space
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Female Ejaculation Comes in Two Forms
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The 72-year-Old Ballerina
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Sour Honey is a Cure for Cancer
In the heart of the Brazilian jungle, a tiny, remote area exists where special bees create one of... more
Calgary Man Slices Off Penis After Attaching Razor Blade to Fidget Spinner
A 23-year old man is recovering in hospital after an accident involving a modified fidget spinner went horribly... more
Avatar Therapy Weakens Hallucinations
Confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped patients hearing voices to cope better with hallucinations, a UK... more
Cinema Drinks Contain Unsafe Bacterias
Drinks from three of the UK's largest cinema chains have been found to contain unacceptably high levels of... more
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Win I'M NOT DYING WITH YOU TONIGHT
Enter now through Monday, July 8th at noon ET for your chance to win an early reader edition of I'M NOT DYING WITH YOU TONIGHT and share your feedback about it!
Are You Ready for King Arthur...in Space?
Authors Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy have teamed up for a gender-bent, diverse retelling of the legend of King Arthur...with a galactic twist.
Return to the Magical World of Orleans with THE EVERLASTING ROSE
In the sequel to THE BELLES, Dhonielle Clayton forces belle Camille to decide just how much she's willing to sacrifice.
LOVELY WAR is a Sweeping, Multi-Layered Historical Romance
Combining mythology, fate and and both world wars, Julie Berry spins a heartbreaking and formidable tale of love.
Senior Year Comes with Tough Choices in RAYNE & DELILAH'S MIDNITE MATINEE
Best friends Delia and Josie love hosting their campy creature feature show, but with the end of senior year, they have to face their futures.
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One of our most popular features on Teenreads is our Ultimate Reading List, a selection of books that are compelling, beautifully written, pure fun, thought-provoking or edge-of-your-seat gripping --- books that we would hand to someone and say, “Read this!” This month, we're adding ON THE COME UP by Angie Thomas; THE GIVER (Graphic Novel) (Giver Quartet) written by Lois Lowry with illustrations by P. Craig Russell; THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY by Hanna Alkaf; WATCH US RISE by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan; THE ART OF LOSING by Lizzy Mason; THE WEIGHT OF A THOUSAND FEATHERS by Brian Conaghan; WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE by Tehlor Kay Mejia; and THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS by Bill Konigsberg.
The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance by Don Mitchell - Nonfiction
When Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Instead of returning home, she headed to France. An ordinary woman from Maryland, she dove into the action, first joining a French ambulance unit and later becoming an undercover agent for both the British Office of Strategic Services and the US Office of Strategic Services. She passed in plain sight of the enemy and soon found herself being hunted by the Gestapo. Her covert operations, efforts with the Resistance and risky work as a wireless telegraph operator greatly contributed to the Allies' eventual win.
Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne - Contemporary Fiction
Ruby has always been a future classical pianist and daughter of renowned composer Martin Chertok. But after her horrendous audition, it's clear that music has dumped her. Oscar is a musical genius. But while he might be the type who'd name himself when asked about his favorite composer, Oscar is not the type to jeopardize his chance to study under the great Martin Chertok --- not for a crush. But as the New York City summer heats up, so does the spark between Ruby and Oscar. Can two people still figuring themselves out figure out how to be together? Or will the world make the choice for them?
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith - Contemporary Fiction
When Hugo's girlfriend dumps him, her parting gift is the pair of tickets for their long-planned last-hurrah-before-uni trip --- booked under her name. Meanwhile, Mae is still reeling from being rejected from USC's film school. When she stumbles across Hugo's ad for a replacement Margaret Campbell (her full name!), she's certain it's exactly the adventure she needs. What starts as a convenient arrangement soon turns into something more. But when life outside the train catches up to them, can they find a way to keep their feelings for each other from getting derailed?
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw - Fantasy
Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow, where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Now, each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three girls so that they may have revenge. Seventeen-year-old Penny has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, a boy named Bo arrives; unaware of the danger. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters. But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum - Science Fiction
Ryann dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park. Then one day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria’s mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system. Every night, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. And now it’s up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof, until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more.
If You're Out There by Katy Loutzenhiser - Thriller
After Zan’s best friend moves to California, she is crushed when Priya suddenly ghosts and her social media has turned into a stream of posts chronicling a sunny, vapid new life that doesn’t sound like her at all. Everyone tells Zan to let Priya do her thing and move on. Then she meets Logan, the compelling new guy in Spanish class, who's just as willing as she is to throw himself into the investigation when everyone else thinks her suspicions are crazy. Then a clue hidden in Priya’s latest selfie introduces a disturbing possibility: Maybe Priya isn’t just not answering Zan’s emails. Maybe she can’t.
Superman: Dawnbreaker (DC Icons Series) by Matt de la Pena - Science Fiction
Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger --- better --- than everyone around him. But it's not like he's earned his powers...yet. Lately it's difficult to hold back and keep his heroics in the shadows. When Clark follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and learns that people are disappearing from the Mexican-American and undocumented worker community in Smallville. Teaming up with his best friend, Lana Lang, Clark discovers that before he can save the world, he must save Smallville.
The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons - Thriller/Suspense
Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn is recruited to Vale, it seems like her chance to start over, but she soon learns that Vale chooses students not so much for their scholastic talent as for their extracurricular activities, such as her time spent conning rich North Shore kids out of their extravagant allowances. At first, Brynn jumps at the chance to help the school in its mission to rid the city of corrupt officials, but that’s before she meets her mark, a senator’s son, and before she discovers the school’s headmaster has secrets he’ll stop at nothing to protect.
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie - Science Fiction
There is something Poe Blythe, the 17-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. She wants revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous waters of the Serpentine and realizes there might be a traitor among her crew, she must also reckon with who she has become, who she wants to be and the ways love can change and shape you. Even --- and especially --- when you think all is lost.
Second Star (A Neverland Transmissions Novel Book 1) (Neverland Chronicles) by J. M. Sullivan - Fantasy
Wendy Darling is a new Captain of a ship in the Londonierre Brigade, and when the Brigade receives a strange transmission from the legendary James Hooke, Wendy is willing to risk it all to rescue her hero. She races to the planet known as Neverland, her mission to find the lost crew and bring them home. When Wendy crash lands on the ominous planet, she quickly discovers Neverland's dark secret; a malevolent being known as The Shadow that's looking for a host body to escape its eternal prison. To fulfill her mission, Wendy must decide whether to trust Hooke or the mysterious Fleet mechanic who goes by the name of Pan --- and she has to decide quickly...Before the darkness consumes them all.
The Witch's Tower (Twisted Ever After) by Tamara Grantham - Fantasy
Gothel is a witch. Punished for the actions of her mother, either she stands guard over Princess Rapunzel --- or she dies. Protecting Rapunzel means watching as the princess lays trapped in a tower. Gothel’s life has become one of imprisonment and solitude as well --- until a prince and his handsome squire appear at the tower. Only one object can cut Rapunzel’s hair and end the curse: a pair of magical shears. As Gothel and the prince’s squire, Raj Talmund, work to form a plan to get them, she finds herself more and more drawn to the mysterious young man from the Outerlands.
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Watch a Book Trailer for THE SIMILARS by Rebecca Hanover --- Now in Stores!
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Everything Wii u
Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare May Be Released For Wii U
The Wii U logo was found in the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare website source code today (via CharlieIntel). The source code shows an image that leads us to believe that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare...
Free Wii U Game With Mario Kart 8 Purchase
In an effort to promote the Wii U, Nintendo is offering a free game with the purchase of Mario Kart 8. To take advantage of the free game offer, the game must be registered on Club Nintendo no later t...
Best Buy Offers Free Gas With Mario Kart 8 Pre-order
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Smash Bros 4 More Characters Announced – 3DS Wii U
More characters have been announced for the upcoming game on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. In a Super Smash Bros. trailer recently released by Nintendo, newcomer Greninja is showcased. Greninja is a nin...
Child of Light Coming Soon – Ubisoft Montreal
On April 30, 2014, Ubisoft Montreal is set to release a new RPG called Child of Light on Microsoft Windows, PS3 and PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, and the forgotten Wii U. The game is set in a fantasy wo...
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IU researchers help add greater precision to fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
The study is the first to reveal in extreme detail the operation of the biochemical clockwork that drives cellular division in bacteria and could inform efforts to develop drugs that combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
IUPUI faculty use grant to help digitally preserve historic Indianapolis African-American church
School of Informatics and Computing faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis are using a $57,000 IU grant to help save a historic trove of archival documents and objects from the Bethel AME Church, Indianapolis? oldest African-American church.
Research finds business training leads to stronger career outcomes for arts graduates
Recent graduates with arts degrees have better career and entrepreneurial training than those who came before them, according to a report released by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project at the Indiana University School of Education. The research, based on a survey of arts graduates , demonstrates that new approaches to arts education are helping prepare students for careers and give them tools they need to succeed.
Scholar of free-market environmentalism to present first Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy
Terry Anderson, the John and Jean De Nault senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a leading scholar of free-market environmentalism, will present the inaugural Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy next week at Indiana University Bloomington. Anderson will speak on "Who Owns the Environment? Lessons from the Legacy of Elinor Ostrom" at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in Woodburn Hall 120.
Author-activist Sandra Steingraber to keynote SustainIU Week
Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor, author, scientist and activist who brings a personal perspective to studying the links between human health and the environment, will be the keynote speaker for next week's SustainIU Week activities at Indiana University Bloomington. Steingraber will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union.
IU Bloomington's Mathers Museum to temporarily close during summer for renovations
The renovations will include the installation of new state-of-the-art gallery lighting systems, as well as improved accessibility features.
Indiana University to host young African leaders through Mandela Washington Fellowship program
Indiana University will host 25 of Africa's brightest emerging leaders for six-week academic and leadership institute this summer sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Indiana University announces nine new distinguished professors
Nine Indiana University scholars and researchers have been promoted to distinguished professor, the highest academic rank the university bestows upon faculty.
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Light. Years ahead.
With the new MacBook, we set out to do the impossible: engineer a full-size
experience into the lightest and most compact Mac notebook ever.
That meant reimagining every element to make it not only lighter and thinner
but also better. The result is more than just a new notebook. It’s the future of the notebook.
SPACE GRAY. GOLD. SILVER
A full-size keyboard.
In a fraction of the space.
We believe that a comfortable, full-size keyboard is essential for a great notebook experience. But to fit one into the elegantly thin new MacBook, we had to completely rethink how a keyboard is engineered and constructed. To create the new keyboard, we redesigned each key and its underlying mechanism — not only making the whole keyboard much thinner, but also allowing for more comfortable, precise, and responsive typing that just feels right.
Retina re-envisioned.
The moment you open the new MacBook, its gorgeous 12‑inch Retina display with edge-to-edge glass brings everything into focus. Every photo leaps off the screen in rich, vibrant detail. Over 3 million pixels render each letter with crystal clarity. And it all comes to light on the thinnest, most energy-efficient Retina display ever on a Mac, meticulously honed to deliver a bold visual experience within an impossibly minimal design.
The trackpad
pushed even further with Force Touch.
With the new MacBook comes a whole new way to experience a trackpad. The Force Touch trackpad is engineered to deliver a responsive, uniform click no matter where you press the surface. And underneath, force sensors detect how much pressure you’re applying and give you new ways to interact with your Mac. You can now use a Force click to enable new capabilities, like quickly looking up the definition of a word or previewing a file just by clicking and continuing to press on the trackpad. You’ll also experience haptic feedback — a tactile vibration from the trackpad that adds the sense of touch to what you see on the screen. These advanced capabilities work in addition to all the intuitive Multi-Touch gestures Mac users love. You’ll be more in touch with your Mac than ever before. Without lifting a finger.
Fully equipped for a wireless world.
The new MacBook is designed to fit effortlessly into our increasingly wireless world. Just about anything you do with a notebook can now be done over the air, thanks to Apple software that takes full advantage of the latest Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth wireless technology. So no matter where you are, you can connect to the web, transfer files, organize your photos, listen to music, and more — without being tied down.
The most efficient way to charge a notebook is by connecting a charger to a port. And as long as we were going to include a port for charging the new MacBook, we wanted to make sure it was the most advanced and versatile one available. The new USB‑C port puts just about everything you need in a port all in one place. This amazing port provides charging, speedy USB 3 data transfer, and video output in a small, reversible design that’s one-third the size of the current USB port.
All-day battery life.
All-new design.
We know people rely on Apple notebooks for all-day battery life, regardless of how compact they are. And with the slim new MacBook enclosure, all-day battery life simply would not be achievable using traditional rectangular batteries. So we developed our own unique battery technology specifically designed to make use of every last millimeter of available space. The result is a terraced, contoured battery design that not only fits perfectly inside the incredibly slim MacBook, but also is unlike anything seen before in a notebook.
Processor(s) 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, with 4MB L3 cache
Storage 512GB PCIe-based onboard SSD
RAM 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
Display Retina display 12-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology 2304-by-1440 resolution at 226 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors 16:10 aspect ratio Supported scaled resolutions: 1440 by 900 1280 by 800 1024 by 640
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 615 Dual display and video mirroring: simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 4096-by-2304 resolution at 60Hz on an external display, both at millions of colors
Battery Up to 10 hours wireless web Up to 12 hours iTunes movie playback Up to 30 days of standby time Built-in 41.4-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery 29W USB-C Power Adapter; USB-C power port
Warranty Your MacBook comes with 90 days of free telephone support and a one-year limited warranty. Purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan to extend your service and support to three years from your computer’s purchase date. Only the AppleCare Protection Plan provides you with direct telephone support from Apple technical experts and the assurance that repairs will be handled by Apple‑authorized technicians using genuine Apple parts. For more information, visit Apple Support or call 800-823-2775.
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GRiZ Returns for first music release in more than a year
with double A-side release ‘It Gets Better (feat. DRAM)’ and ‘Can’t Get Enough’
Urban Rebel PR
Posted by shaun on Nov 2, 2018
GRiZ makes his grand return today with two new singles––one featuring DRAM, and one marking his own vocal debut. The pair of tunes is the first music the Denver-based multi-instrumentalist has released in over a year. Following an extended social media blackout, GRiZ surfaced 15 minutes ago, breaking an eight-month-long silence by way of a Facebook Live stream. Today’s return is one long awaited by fans; after announcing his departure from social media last year, fans feared that it was the end of GRiZ. Little did they know, he would spend that time not only holed away in his studio but also traveling the country recording new music.
It’s been an eventful few years for GRiZ, the launch of his 15-piece live band, cannabis-debut GRiZ Kush, his own name brand Ale, his coming out publicly, and the annual holiday-charity smashes GRiZMAS in Detroit. The past few years’ saw career highlight performances from Grant, including back to back massive shows at Red Rocks, Chicago’s Navy Pier, Santa Barbara Bowl, San Francisco’s Warfield and more. For the great unveil, GRiZ enlisted none other than rapper, singer, songwriter and actor DRAM to feature on ‘It Gets Better’. DRAM’s ethos is simple and parallels that of GRiZ; stay true to yourself, spread love and positivity. Both artists aim to preach openness, acceptance, and love to their devout fanbases, deeming the collaboration a Cinderella’s glass slipper.
The second single, ‘Can’t Get Enough’, features GRiZ’s first ever rap verse. A homage to the classical GRiZcography, guitar riffs, twangy basslines and festival-worthy soundscapes lay the perfect foundation for the long-awaited self-performed verse. It’s the final piece to the puzzle, and one that has taken almost a decade to master. The double A-side displays Grant’s mission to dig deeper and evolve his signature sonic palette, looking for internal and external inspiration, while eschewing du jour musical trends, to explore his range of sound design and arrangement. Appropriately, the group of songs will be paired with two lyric videos to parallel the remarkability of the features from both DRAM and GRiZ himself.
For more information, check socials:
facebook.com/mynameisGRiZ | instagram.com/griz
twitter.com/Griz | https://soundcloud.com/griz
GRiZ Tour Dates
Dec 14th - Masonic Temple - Detroit, MI*
Dec 15th - Masonic Temple - Detroit, MI
Dec 29th - Hi Jinx - Philadelphia, PA
Dec 31st - Decadence Music Festival - Phoenix, Arizona
Jan 10th - Holy Ship!
Feb 28 - March 3rd - Envision Festival
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Scottish Synth-Pop Band CHVRCHΞS Bringing Their First Solo Concert to Hong Kong This Summer
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Chamber Symphony No. 1 for Marimba
McCarthy, Daniel (b. 1955)
Genre: Solo Marimba & Chamber Winds
# of Players:
Level: Medium Difficult | Duration: 14:30
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
-- None -- Score & Parts Score Only
The title Chamber Symphony indicates that the wind ensemble is more intimately involved (musically speaking) with the soloist than an accompaniment as in a concerto. In this regard, the single winds and marimba are treated integrally although the marimba is the featured instrument.
Genre: Solo Marimba & Chamber Winds | # of Players: 12
Solo Marimba (5-octave)
B-flat Clarinet
B-flat Trumpet
F Horn
Percussion (snare drum, low tom, woodblock, low temple block, claves, afuche, bongos, suspended cymbal, gong, castanets)
This piece was commissioned by Cort McClaren, president of C. Alan Publications and the School of Music at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. The piece was premiered at the Southeast chapter of the Music Educators National Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina in the fall of 1994 with the American Marimba soloist Michael Burritt, professor of percussion studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
The lush outdoors of northwestern Michigan's lower peninsula directly inspired the first and third movements, respectively "Deer Hunting in Michigan" and "The Stuff of Adventure." McCarthy developed a strong attachment to this region, being born in Onekoma, Michigan, growing up in Bay City, Michigan, and attending the Interlochen Art Academy during his High School years. While at the Interlochen Arts Academy he studied trumpet and piano for four years. McCarthy dedicated this composition to his trumpet teacher at Interlochen, John Lindenau. Recorded by The University of North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Corporon, conductor, Mark Ford, marimba soloist.
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Tayto
George Hirsch August 11, 2010
I recently realized that with all the places I have traveled to around the globe there's a spud of a common thread to all those destinations. You could say my common thread is the chip, or crisp if you are in the UK and parts of the EU. I’ve de-bagged a couple in Greece, flavored with rosemary; very tasty. An interesting twist was the peri-peri version I noshed on in the outback of South Africa. And of course have nibbled on a few, purely for research in the US. Ahem. Sorry, those pre-formed spuds in a can don't make the cut.
So what makes this the unique link to my travels? The seasoning usually becomes very localized, like ketchup or pickle flavored - a favorite up in Canada. Mostly, I like them plain-n-simple like the way they were origially made.
Limerick Market - buying Taytos, Barry's and Jam
The original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs by another Chef George; George Crum and they were called "Saratoga Chips". It’s said Chef George came up with this crispy thin chip when soggy potatoes kept being returned to the kitchen from a Mr. Vanderbilt. The chip was such a hit they made it on the menu full time. See sometimes good stuff can come from a flop!
In 1920, Frank Smith was one of the first to season a slice. Smith's crisps were originally packaged with a twist of salt in grease proof paper bags - and sold in London. Smith’s today is known as Walker’s Crisps. Other than salt, the potato chip remained unseasoned until an innovation by Joe "Spud" Murphy, the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, developed a way in the 1950’s to produce the world's first seasoned crisps. Flavors; Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar.
You may be asking, George I thought you only ate healthy? I Sure do, but part of a healthy eating regemin is moderation, not sacrifice. I enjoy a few. I don't suggest parking in front of the TV with a 6 1/2 gallon can Grandma Utz’s Chips (one of my favorite’s made in the US).
So far Utz has me sold for chips in the US. What’s my top travelled chip? Without a doubt the original "Cheese and Onion" made by Tayto. My crew recently introduced me to Taytos when filming in Ireland for GH Living it UP!. It's time to go back, I finished my last bag.
images: Hirsch Productions
In chips, condiment Tags As seen on George Hirsch Living it UP! TV series, Grandma Utz’s Chips, Tayto
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New In Vitro Study Data Shows that Wound Dressing with Silver Kills MRSA and Other 'Superbugs' Resistant to Antibiotics
DALLAS, TX (April 15, 2011) - ConvaTec, a world-leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care, today announced new in vitro study results showing that a wound dressing containing ionic silver is able to kill several strains of highly-resistant bacteria, commonly referred to as 'superbugs.' The study showed that bacteria found beneath the dressing died within 48 hours.1 The study results were presented at the 24th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society (SAWC/WHS) in Dallas, Texas.
In the in vitro study, a simulated wound fluid (serum and peptone water) model was designed to measure antimicrobial activity over a seven-day wear time. A sample of the silver-containing sodium carboxymethyl cellulose wound dressing was aseptically transferred to the simulated wound fluid containing 1x106 cfu/ml of a wound pathogen (A. baumannii,C. difficile, CA-MRSA, or ESBL-producing bacteria). Following incubation, total viable counts (TVCs) were performed on each test model using a pour plate method. TVCs were performed on each model at four, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours, and at seven days. All models were re-inoculated with a fresh challenge of the same bacteria at 72 hours.
Bacteria from external sources such as the surrounding skin, gut and mouth are often found in wounds associated with surgery, trauma, disease or other causes. Any wound, especially one that does not heal quickly or at all, presents an opportunity for bacterial colonization and difficult-to-treat infections. An increasing prevalence of bacteria with enhanced virulence that are resistant to antibiotics is becoming a major concern for treating clinicians and hospitals. To reduce the risk of infection, many wound dressings are designed to conform well to a wound's unique topography to position an antimicrobial agent to be in contact with threatening bacteria.
In the study, bacteria samples were covered with silver-containing sodium carboxymethyl cellulose wounddressing. The dressing was shown to be effective against emerging pathogens over a seven-day test period, including against re-inoculation. The dressing killed ESBL-producing bacteria andA. baumanniiquickly and consistently, with an approximate 100,000-fold reduction of all pathogens within 24 hours. The rate of kill forC. difficilewas rapid, with an approximate 100,000-fold reduction of all bacteria after four hours. The potency of silver-containing sodium carboxymethyl cellulose wounddressing against CA-MRSA was effective with a 100-fold reduction in bacterial population within 48 hours and no bacteria detected by day seven.
About Methicillin ResistantStaphylococcus aureusand Community-Associated Methicillin ResistantStaphylococcus aureus
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics called beta-lactams. These antibiotics include methicillin and other more common antibiotics such as oxacillin, penicillin, and amoxicillin. In the community, most MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections are skin infections and they are genetically and phenotypically distinct from the typical MRSA strain. More severe or potentially life-threatening MRSA infections occur most frequently among patients in healthcare settings. While 25% to 30% of people are colonized in the nose with staph, less than 2% are colonized with MRSA.2,3
About Acinetobacter baumannii
Acinetobacter is a group of bacteria commonly found in soil and water. While there are many types or "species" of Acinetobacter and all can cause human disease, Acinetobacter baumannii accounts for about 80% of reported infections. Outbreaks of Acinetobacter infections typically occur in intensive care units and healthcare settings housing very ill patients. Acinetobacter infections rarely occur outside of healthcare settings.4
AboutClostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that can colonize in the gut most often following the prolonged use of antibiotics during healthcare treatment. Clostridium difficile infections cause diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions such as colitis.5
About Extended-Spectrum beta-Lactamase Bacteria (ESBL)
ESBLs are enzymes that mediate resistance to extended-spectrum (third generation) cephalosporins (e.g., ceftazidime, cefotaxime, and ceftriaxone) and monobactams (e.g., aztreonam) but do not affect cephamycins (e.g., cefoxitin and cefotetan) or carbapenems (e.g., meropenem or imipenem).6
About ConvaTec
ConvaTec is a leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies that have helped improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. With four key focus areas - Ostomy Care, Wound Therapeutics, Continence and Critical Care, and Infusion Devices - ConvaTec products support healthcare professionals from the hospital to the community health setting.
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Welsby S, Towers V, Joseph A, Booth R, Hogarth A, Bowler P. The In VitroSusceptibility of 'Superbugs' to a Silver-Containing Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose Wound Dressing. Poster Presented at: 24th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society Meeting; April 15-17, 2011; Dallas, TX.
MRSA information page. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/index.html. Accessed April 6, 2011.
Gorwitz RJ, Kruszon-Moran D, McAllister S, et al. Changes in the Prevelance of Nasal Colonization withStaphylococcus aureusin the United States, 2001-2004.J of Infect Dis. 2008;197(9):1226-34.
Healthcare-associated infections information page. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/acinetobacter.html. Accessed April 6, 2011.
Heathcare-associated infections information page. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/cdiff/Cdiff_infect.html. Accessed April 6, 2011.
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Use of a Simple Three-Step Process and Prevention Algorithm to Protect Skin shown to Reduce Pressure Ulcers
ConvaTec Healthcare Announces Plans to Refinance Secured Term Loans
ConvaTec Healthcare Postpones Plans to Refinance Secured Term Loans
ConvaTec Supported Studies to be Presented at the 24th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) and Wound Healing Society (WHS)
ConvaTec Healthcare Announces 2010 Year-end Earnings Call
ConvaTec Donates $10,000 to AAWC Global Volunteers Program Through SAWC Walk for Wellness
ConvaTec Announces Acquisition of Trent Direct
ConvaTec Introduces Thinner Versiva XC Dressing Designed to Improve Conformability
ConvaTec Healthcare Announces 2011 First Quarter Earnings Call
Preliminary Results of a Large Scale Study Show ConvaTec Moldable Technology™ Skin Barriers Help to Prevent and Improve Peristomal Skin Issues in Ostomy Patients
ConvaTec Healthcare Announces 2011 Second Quarter Earnings Call
ConvaTec Announces Acquisition of Boston Medical Device
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ConvaTec First Company Granted Ethical Business Logo By Eucomed
ConvaTec Healthcare Announces 2011 third Quarter Earnings Call
ConvaTec Awarded Mediwales 2011 Innovation Award
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...This very short story may be of interest to fans of alien abduction stories, but there's not really much new here for those already familiar with the genre...
A young man wakes up to find his dream of having something implanted into his skull was not a dream. There’s a wound in his head and a small silver device on his pillow…and then things get worse
This is a very short story with a slow start, but once the action kicks in the story picks up the pace almost too quickly. Things happen with little explanation and scenes change very quickly. The ending is abrupt and, to me at least, the weakest point. It tries to be deliberately ambigious, but actually negates most of what has already happened.
This may be of interest to fans of alien abduction stories, but there’s not really much new here for those already familiar with the genre, and not really enough of a story to draw in those who aren’t.
I’m suggesting another reviewer look at this in case I am being unfair, but despite the good writing, the lack of explanation and weak ending knock it down to a 2 for me.
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9-11 hero tells of explosions in the the WTC
by brian 26 Jun 2005
WTC janitor pulls burn victim to safety after basement explosion rocks north tower seconds before jetliner hit top floors. Also, two other men trapped and drowning in a basement elevator shaft, were also pulled to safety from underground explosion..
by you WTC Basement Blast And Injured Burn Victim Blows 'Official 9/11 Story' Sky High; Eye Witness Testimony Is Conclusive That North Tower Collapsed From Controlled Demolition
By Greg Szymanski
What happened to William Rodriguez the morning of 9/11 is a miracle. What happened to his story after-the-fact is a tragedy.
But with miracles and tragedies comes truth. And truth is exactly what Rodriguez brings to the whole mystery surrounding 9/11.
Declared a hero for saving numerous lives at Ground Zero, he was the janitor on duty the morning of 9/11 who heard and felt explosions rock the basement sub-levels of the north tower just seconds before the jetliner struck the top floors.
He not only claims he felt explosions coming from below the first sub-level while working in the basement, he says the walls were cracking around him and he pulled a man to safety by the name of Felipe David, who was severely burned from the basement explosions.
All these events occurred only seconds before and during the jetliner strike above. And through it all, he now asks a simple question everybody should be asking? How could a jetliner hit 90 floors above and burn a man’s arms and face to a crisp in the basement below within seconds of impact?
Rodriguez claims this was impossible and clearly demonstrates a controlled demolition brought down the WTC, saying "Let’s see them (the government) try to wiggle out of this one."
Well, they haven’t wiggled out of it because the government continues to act like Rodriguez doesn’t exist, basically ignoring his statements and the fact he rescued a man burnt and bleeding from the basement explosions.
His eye witness account, ignored by the media and the government, points the finger squarely on an official cover-up at the highest levels since the government contends the WTC fell only from burning jet fuel. And after listening to Rodriguez, it’s easy to see why the Bush administration wants him kept quiet.
Bush wants him quiet because Rodriguez’s account is ‘proof positive’ the WTC was brought down by a controlled demolition, not burning jet fuel. And Bush knows if he’s caught lying about this or caught in a cover-up, it’s just a matter of time before the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
In fact, Rodriguez’s story is so damaging – so damning – it literally blows the lid off the government story, literally exposing the whole 9/11 investigation as a sham and a cover-up of the worst kind.
And it appears the cover-up also extends to the media.
NBC news knew about his story several years ago, even spending a full day at his house taping his comments. But when push came to shove, his story was never aired. Why?
His eyewitness account, backed up by at least 14 people at the scene with him, isn’t speculation or conjecture. It isn’t a story that takes a network out on a journalistic limb. It’s a story that can be backed up, a story that can be verified with hospital records and testimony from many others.
It’s a story about 14 people who felt and heard the same explosion and even saw Rodriguez, moments after the airplane hit, take David to safety, after he was burnt so bad from the basement explosion flesh was hanging from his face and both arms
So why didn’t NBC or any other major news outlets cover the story? They didn’t run it because it shot the government story to hell and back. They didn’t run it because "the powers that be" wouldn’t allow it.
Since 9/11, Rodriguez has stuck to his guns, never wavering from what he said from day one. Left homeless at times, warned to keep quiet and subtly harassed, he nevertheless has continued trying to tell get his message out in the face of a country not willing to listen.
Here is his story:
It’s a miracle Rodriguez, 44, who worked at the WTC for 20 years, is even alive. Usually arriving to work at 8:30am, the morning of 9/11 he reported 30 minutes late. If he’d arrived on time, it would have put him at the top floors just about the same time the jetliner hit the north tower.
"It was a miracle. If I arrived on time, like always, I’d probably be dead. I would have been up at the top floors like every morning," said Rodriguez about the quirk of fate that saved his life.
But since he was late, Rodriguez found himself checking into work in an office on sub-level 1 when the north tower was hit, seemingly out of harms way. However, the sound and concussion of a massive explosion in the sub-levels right below his feet changed that.
"When I heard the sound of the explosion, the floor beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started cracking and it everything started shaking," said Rodriguez, who was huddled together with at least 14 other people in the office.
Rodriguez said Anthony Saltamachia, supervisor for the American Maintenance Co., was one of the people in the room who stands ready to verify his story.
"Seconds after the first massive explosion below in the basement still rattled the floor, I hear another explosion from way above," said Rodriguez. "Although I was unaware at the time, this was the airplane hitting the tower, it occurred moments after the first explosion."
But before Rodriguez had time to think, co-worker Felipe David stormed into the basement office with severe burns on his face and arms, screaming for help and yelling "explosion! explosion! explosion!"
David had been in front of a nearby freight elevator on sub-level 1 about 400 feet from the office when fire burst out of the elevator shaft, causing his injuries.
"He was burned terribly," said Rodriguez. "The skin was hanging off his hands and arms. His injuries couldn’t have come from the airplane above, but only from a massive explosion below. I don’t care what the government says, what scientists say. I saw a man burned terribly from a fire that was caused from an explosion below.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/28031.htm
Re: 9-11 hero tells of explosions in the the WTC
by Veteran
RT (nospam) AS (unverified) 27 Jun 2005
You clowns need to stop watching the X FIles and wake up. Absolute nonsense.
by Maslauskas
maslauskas (nospam) riseup.net (unverified) 27 Jun 2005
"NBC news knew about his story several years ago, even spending a full day at his house taping his comments. But when push came to shove, his story was never aired. Why?" -- a typo I believe. Should this be "months: instead of "years"?
As for the comment left by veteran. I have nothing to say... but George Orwell does: "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
The Only Bozo Is Bush!
by Plain Truth
Hey neo-nuts! Face it. Too many witnesses. And too much evidence!
You right-wing people need to wake up! Considering, you are in denial...about the downing street minutes and the other eight meetings prior to downing street memo. Face it...Your stalin-mini-me, is guilty as Benedict Arnold! And shouldn't the guilty do time? I'd say...
WTC was takin' down. There is no conceivable way those building would have falling straight down without explosives. And why was building 5 takin' down many hours later? Sure wasn't jet fuel that took it down. Well neo-lovers? Let's hear your rocket science theory...
by Accuracy Bot
(No verified email address) 02 Jul 2005
Plain, it was actually WTC 7 that was pulled by the lease holder, Larry Silverstein hours later. Larry is not a Martian or a Zombie as far as I know, but a very wealthy individual, especially after collecting the insurance money for the buildings he allowed to be destroyed. If that so-called freedom tower ever goes up, it will be cursed and haunted by the oh about 3000 ghosts demanding justice. Good luck Larry!
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Diana's Murder - Latest / Analysis
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: Diana's Murder - Latest / Analysis
Former Top Cop Whitewashes Diana's Murder
The UK establishment's hand-picked cover-up cop has decided
that the murder of Diana was an "accident." Big surprise!
It's all a bit reminiscent of the 9/11 issue. A lot of diversionary claims
are manufactured and then dismissed. These claims get all the media
attention and the really substantial issues are ignored. Like this one:
"Sceptics of the official account question why a crucial witness, the driver
of a second car involved in the crash, has never been identified and how
it took nearly two hours to get Diana to a hospital just four miles away."
This exposes the Stevens' inquiry as the farce it is:
Jeweler Was Told To Lie In Princess Diana Case
December 6, 2006 - Maira Oliveira - All Headline News Reporter
London, England (BANG) - A key witness in the inquiry into the death
of Britain's Princess Diana recently claimed police threatened him to
change his evidence.
Jeweler Alberto Repossi - who claims he sold Diana's lover Dodi Al Fayed
an engagement ring the day before the couple were killed in a car crash
in Paris on August 31, 1997 - alleges he was put under pressure by
investigators to retract the statement he gave to Lord Stevens, who is
leading the inquiry.
There is speculation that investigators did not want evidence that Diana
and Dodi were to become engaged to be made public, as it would fuel
conspiracy theories championed by Dodi's father Mohammed Al Fayed
that the princess was murdered as part of a secret plot to prevent her
from marrying a Muslim.
Repossi told Britain's Daily Express newspaper, "These are things which I
am absolutely certain about. They warned me if anyone lied to Lord
Stevens - and anyone could include the prime minister or even the secret
service - then he had the power to get people sent to prison.
He added, "They kept repeating the warnings of the risk to my reputation
and the bad press coverage I would get. But despite all this, I was not
prepared to change what I'd said before because it was the truth."
Repossi's testimony - backed up by receipts and CCTV footage - reveals
Dodi and Diana picked a $305,000 emerald and diamond ring from a
range of engagement bands called "Did-Moi Oui" which means "Tell Me
Yes" at his Monte Carlo jewelry store in August 1997.
Dodi - the son of Harrods owner, Mohammad Al Fayed - asked for the
ring to be sent to Repossi's Paris branch so he could collect it on August30.
Repossi said, "I strongly support any attempt to determine exactly what
caused this terrible tragedy. Until now I thought I could play my part by
co-operating fully with the inquiry. But my treatment during the
interviews has convinced me that they are not interested in establishing
the truth."
He continued, "My real concern is that attempts were certainly made to
get me to change what I knew to be the truth. I believe they were doing
this in order to support theories or conclusions they had already arrived
at before they saw me. They only seemed interested in trying to show
me I was lying."
The investigation is expected to conclude that the crash was an accident
due to driver Henri Paul being under the influence of alcohol and driving
over the speed limit.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005768564
The Observer headlines a claim that US Intel was bugging Diana, and
pushes further down their story the revelations that her driver was
working for French Intelligence.
US bugged Diana's phone on night of death crash
Mark Townsend and Peter Allen in Paris
Sunday December 10, 2006 - The Observer
The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana's telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death, to be published this week.
Among extraordinary details due to emerge in the report by former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens is the revelation that the US security service was bugging her calls in the hours before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.....
Scotland Yard's inquiry, published this Thursday, also throws up further intelligence links with the Princess of Wales on the night she died. The driver of the Mercedes, Henri Paul, was in the pay of the French equivalent of M15. Stevens traced £100,000 he had amassed in 14 French bank accounts though no payments have been linked to Diana's death.
Stevens's conclusion is that Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed, and Paul himself died in an accident caused by Paul driving too fast through the Pont de l'Alma underpass in Paris while under the influence of drink. The car was being pursued by photographers at the time.
Tests have confirmed that Paul was more than three times over the French drink-drive limit and was travelling at 'excessive' speed. The inquiry will quash a number of conspiracy theories that have circulated since 31 August 1997, among them that Diana was pregnant. It also found no evidence that the princess was planning to get engaged to Dodi, son of Mohamed Fayed.
The Harrods tycoon believes that Paul's blood samples were swapped to portray him as a drunk in an elaborate cover-up by the establishment to stop Diana marrying Dodi, a Muslim.
Stevens is expected to concede that while there was a mix-up it was an accident and that the original French post-mortem which found that Paul was three-times over the French drink-drive limit was correct.
He is also expected to discount the role of the white Fiat Uno which struck Diana's car shortly before the crash, even though British police officers have failed to track down the vehicle which left paintwork on the black Mercedes.
The inquiry will support the findings of the original French accident inquiry in criticising the paparazzi as a possible reason for encouraging Paul to speed. The 'bright light' theory - the claim that the driver was deliberately blinded by a beam immediately before the crash - is also dismissed by Stevens.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1968664,00.html
Dodi's father Mohammed Al Fayed has forced them to hold the
inquest in public. But it's a stacked deck anyway, as he well knows.
Al Fayed wins bid to have Diana inquest held in public
Lady Elizabeth Butler-Sloss has decided to hold the preliminary
hearings of the Diana inquest in public, a spokesman for the Judicial
Communications Office said today.
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a former senior judge, has come out of
retirement to hear the inquests into Princess Diana and Dodi's deaths.
Mohammed Al Fayed, the father of Diana's lover Dodi who was also killed
in the 1997 Paris car crash, had threatened legal action over the matter.
A spokesman for the JCO said Lady Butler-Sloss sent a letter to
interested parties outlining her change of mind.....
"The reasons she had in mind that led her to conclude initially that the meeting should be held in private were entirely pragmatic - such as the size of the courtroom."
Matters that will be decided at the preliminary hearing include whether a jury will sit on the inquest.
If so, they would be made up of members of the Royal Household as Diana was still considered a member of the Royal Family when she died.
Let's leave the final words on this to Diana' words in her letter;
to Mohammed al-Fayed; and to Britain's former Spy Boss:
Conjecture was further fanned in 2004 by revelations that Diana had written a letter to her former butler Paul Burrell 10 months before her death in which she said she suspected Charles was trying to kill her.
"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous," the letter said, according to excerpts leaked to the British media. "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury."
Al Fayed's father Mohamed, multi-millionaire owner of the exclusive London store Harrods, has campaigned ever since the deaths for a full public inquiry to be held into the events.
"It is absolute black and white horrendous murder," he said.
However suggestions of a murder plot have been dismissed by witnesses, officials and royal commentators.
Dame Stella Rimington, Britain's one-time spy chief, totally dismissed suggestions there had been a sinister plot.
"It was a car accident and that is that. Basically all conspiracy theories
are mad," she said in a newspaper interview.
Following Stevens' report, preliminary inquest hearings will take place in early January under Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a former senior judge who has stepped out of retirement to replace Burgess. An initial decision to hold them in private was overturned last week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10414705
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:41 am Post subject:
But just what DID happen on that night?
For the last 9 years I have heard lots and lots of accusations but not ONE logistical outline of what might really have happened that night.
Fintan, do you have a minute-by-minute likely scenario?
Rumpl4skn
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:04 am Post subject:
Well, I'm just a preipheral observer, but my first impression is... if it took 2 hours to get her to a hospital 4 miles away, then all you do is cause an accident in a particular area, and make sure the "emergency response team" is more interested in delivering her to the morgue than the hospital.
Has anyone investigated the EMT's (or whatever they call them in France) and if there were any anomalies regarding their activities that evening? They would certainly have to have been compromised in some way, and someone certainly would have a clue. You don't have to buy off every witness, just the ones you think have a conscience and/or friends in higher places who aren't payroll (a rapidly decresing commodity these days, I admit).
"No matter what happens, ever... there's ALWAYS at least one reason. And the top reason is ALWAYS money."
For example, 911 was the work of American intelligence operatives on American soil.
Wouldn't it be a bit(or very) difficult for British intelligence to pull something like 'Diana's murder' on foreign soil? I mean, it would take a lot of cooperation with for the most part dis-interested and possibly hostile French. And also, why would the French have cooperated at all with something like this? What's in it for them?
MichaelC wrote:
You mean France, the G8 member nation?
How or why would their intel cooperate?
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:
Rumpl4skn wrote:
It would seem that gang members are asked to kill someone to stay in the gang. So France must kill Diana to stay in the G8. This also gives cover to the real G8 gang member who ordered the hit. Its mafia all round.
I'll get rid of your problem if you agree to get rid of one of mine.
I fail to see what importance Diana could have had to "G8 business".
I mean, she was just sort of an annoying character who was a pain in the ass for the British Royal family.
But cetainly no $$billions were hanging on whether she remained breathing or not.
I guess I just don't get it.
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: An Engagement with Death
MichaelC: I fail to see what importance Diana could have had to "G8 business".
I mean, she was just sort of an annoying character who was a pain in the ass for the British Royal family. But cetainly no $$billions were hanging on whether she remained breathing or not. I guess I just don't get it.
Ok, maybe other people also don't get it, so.....
An Engagement with Death
Imagine the effect of Diana going out with some "muslimaniac",
or even married to some "muslimaniac" like Dodi al-Fayed....
...just as the 9/11 "anti-Muslim Crusade" was gearing up to drop
thousands of tons of bombs on Muslim women and children.
Including napalm and even cluster bombs.
Imagine what Diana's stance on all this would have been.
Imagine the UK anti-war resistance that would spring up
as the most popular member of Britain's Royal Family
took on the military-industrial establishment.
It would have made the invasion of Iraq impossible.
It would have made the UK's involvement in the "crusade" impossible.
As I reported above:
When Diana picked out that engagement ring with Dodi, the prepared plan
was sanctioned and went into high gear. After a public announcement
of an engagement a hit would have been difficult --because the
suspicions of the British public would have make it a very risky move.
The Palace might have been burned. (I'm only half kidding.)
So, Diana picked out an engagement ring, and was dead within 24hrs.
That's how to describe this to anybody who doubts she was murdered.
"Diana picked out an engagement ring, and was dead within 24hrs."
Then connect the dots for them.
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:
We sometimes have a tendency to underestimate how important public opinion is. The globalist perps don't just go off half-cocked and do whatever they want without public support. They court, sway, or manufacture public opinion to fit the plan.
They didn't pull the trigger on Iraq War I when they decided it was necessary. GHW Bush didn't just invade Iraq when he felt like it - he had to manufacture a picture of the Iraqi's as bloodthirsty, maniacal killing machines first. That was the purpose of the "Kuwaiti incubator deaths" lie - get get the American public to see the Iraqi military as a collection of ruthless baby murderers.
Once that psy-op was pulled - enlisting the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter posing as an 'anonymous' nurse, giving her tearful, coached testimony before Congress - public opinion swelled, and the War was a go.
The Brits knew what was already on the table for 2002, and they couldn't have a positive Arab role model and his hugely popular pacifist Brit wife speaking out against the war. You remove the threat before it is revealed WHY it is a threat. Then it's just an unfortunate 'accident'.
Fintan is right on the money here.
They couldn’t have the mother of the future King of England married to a swarthy Moslem.
These Anglophiles mean business.
Thats why they killed her and Dody.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: Diana: The 18 missing witnesses
Diana: The 18 missing witnesses in £4m inquiry
13/12/06 - By John Twomey UK Daily Express
EIGHTEEN key witnesses have been ignored by the £4million Lord Stevens inquiry into the death of Princess Diana.
Their evidence to French police had raised several questions about the fatal crash in Paris.
But detectives working on the three-year inquiry – which will publish its findings tomorrow – didn’t interview them to gather fresh testimony.
The revelations come after the Daily Express revealed disturbing allegations from a crucial witness in the Diana probe who claimed that British detectives tried to pressure him into changing parts of his evidence.
The claims by jeweller Alberto Repossi – who insists Diana and Dodi were engaged when they died in the crash – have been dismissed by the Operation Paget squad.
Lord Stevens’ inquiry was set up to finally discover the truth behind how Princess Diana’s Mercedes, driven by Henri Paul, came to crash in the Alma tunnel in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Dodi’s father Mohamed Al Fayed has spent the past nine years mounting a determined campaign for the truth, spending millions of pounds uncovering fundamental flaws in the original French inquiry.
He remains convinced that the pair were murdered in a plot organised by the British Establishment, including the intelligence services.
One of the many theories put forward is that the Princess’s car was struck by another vehicle as it entered the tunnel under the River Seine.
And yesterday it emerged that one family which gave detailed statements to French police – but not to their British counterparts – told how they saw two large cars heading at speed towards the Pont de L’Alma underpass in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
Moments later, the vehicles disappeared into the tunnel and the family heard the screeching of brakes, the “scrunching” of metal, a first sickening impact and a louder bang followed by the haunting sound of a jammed horn.
As the witnesses looked down into the underpass, they saw the wreckage of the Mercedes car which was carrying Diana and Dodi slewed across the carriageway. But there was no sign of the second car.
The family also told how a taxi, following at a normal distance, stopped at the tunnel entrance but no-one got out.
They also recalled seeing a mystery man running straight past them and into the tunnel. The family, which has declined to be named, was interviewed by Captain Eric Crosnier of the Paris crime squad shortly after the crash. The family says it has given no other interviews.
Lord Stevens will present his findings at a press conference to the world’s media tomorrow.
The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner is understood to have concluded that Diana and Dodi died because their chauffeur Henri Paul was drunk and driving too fast.
Paul was also killed and Dodi’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was seriously injured but survived.
Harrods owner Mr Al Fayed suspects British intelligence officers were involved in “organising” the crash and covering up afterwards.
He fears the deaths were ordered because the Establishment could not bear the thought of the mother of a future king being pregnant with a Muslim’s child.
Last week, his lawyers forced the former senior judge in charge of the inquest to back down over plans to hold preliminary hearings in private. Lady Butler-Sloss said she was persuaded to reverse her decision because of “strong public interest in the case”.
But Mr Al Fayed’s victory has only fuelled suspicions that a cover-up is being attempted.
Statements made by the French family have been backed up by another witness, Clifford Gooroovado, 41.
He said: “The Mercedes car was driving behind another car. The car in front of the Mercedes was probably running at normal speed. The consequence was that the Mercedes probably accelerated so hard in order to pull out and overtake this car.”
Grigori Rassinier, who was also near the underpass, said in a statement: “There were a number of cars in the tunnel and it was certainly possible that there was one or more other cars travelling ahead of the Mercedes at the time of the crash.”
Mr Rassinier said he had been contacted by the Operation Paget squad last year and offered to travel to London to give a statement. But he claims he never heard from them again.
Last week, the Daily Express revealed how Monte Carlo-based jeweller Mr Repossi alleged he was put under pressure to change his story during lengthy interviews with officers from Lord Stevens’ squad.
The jeweller claims – backed up by receipts and CCTV footage from his Monaco showroom – that Diana and Dodi picked out a £230,000 emerald and diamond band from a variety of engagement rings in a prestigious range called Dis-Moi Oui – Tell Me Yes.
Dodi later asked for the ring to be sent to the Repossi store at the Place Vendome in Paris, which the jeweller opened especially so he could visit on August 30 – the day before the crash.
The fabulous engagement ring was later left at Dodi’s Paris apartment where he had planned to present it to the princess. Detectives from Lord Stevens’ team interviewed Mr Repossi three times and his wife once.
In the final meeting in July this year, officers told him that the jewellery was not an engagement ring. Mr Repossi said: “They warned me that if anyone lied to Lord Stevens then he had the power to get people sent to prison,” he said.
“They kept repeating the warnings of the risk to my reputation and the bad press coverage I would get. But despite all this, I was not prepared to change what I’d said before because it was the truth.”
The inquiry team vehemently denies any attempt to put pressure on any witness to tell anything other than the truth.
Sources close to Lord Stevens’ investigation yesterday suggested that the 18 witnesses may not have been spoken to because their original statements were perfectly adequate and there was no need to interview them again.
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The spin last night on MSNBC's Fucker Carlson show was along the predictable lines that "this Princess Di Thing is all being blown out of proportion" because the "incompetant govt officials" mishandled the situation, and now the "conspiracy theorists" are out of control. Again.
This truly is the problem, you know. Normal, non-conspiratorial things happen every day, but because of the scourge of "govt incompetence" (see: 9/11, Iraq War 2, 7/7 Bombings, Waco, Katrina, et al) , those whacky conspiracy theorists get the wrong idea, and voila, we have a problem manufactured out of thin air (see: 'Manufacturing Out Of Thin Air', Fed, The). There's nothing untoward going on in high places, folks, we just simply have to get better at ignoring these feelings of unease. Conspiracies are not the enemy - the "real killers" are those delusional types who toss away their generationally-entrenched blind faith in higher power (see: God, Govt, TV, etc.) and waste their time trying to research things that everyone of normal mind has already accepted as "shit" that "happens". As Rodney King said: "Can't we all just move along?"*
Please give generously, and with your help and generous donations, the governments of the world can hopefully stamp out Conspiracy Theorism in your lifetime, making the world a more placid, less cynical, unquestionably unquestioned, spent-plutonium sandbox for all of God's chillun. Oh wait... we already do donate generously to that.
(*Obviously, I was kidding about the Rodney King quote. Rodney King's famous quote was: "Ow! Ouch! Hey, stop it! Owwwww!")
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Trains get ready to depart Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea, for the beachside city of Busan and other destinations around the country. Courtesy Greyson "GoldenGlue" Gilmer/Cloud9
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SEOUL, South Korea -- A group of weary young men shuffled through Seoul Station early Monday afternoon. They walked up the stairs to the second level of the Korea Train Express terminal in search of sustenance, coffee, caffeine and food. After a hard-fought play-in stage, North America's Cloud9 League of Legends team was headed to the 2018 World Championship group stage in Busan.
They made their way back down to the first floor with about 20 minutes left until their train departure. Their luggage and equipment had been sent ahead of time, with the exception of a few backpacks and Robert "Blaber" Huang's Maryland Terrapins pillow, currently in the possession of Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen. Jensen sniffled a bit, blinking widely behind red-framed glasses. He was still recovering from a cold.
A large LED screen featuring famous South Korean trot singer Hong Jin-young beamed down at them as they reached the entrance to the KTX platform. The number of their 2 p.m. train from Seoul to Busan flashed red, signaling it was time to board.
At previous events, the team had traveled by bus. "Never again," C9's founder and CEO Jack Etienne said. A few of his players had become motion sick on bus rides. Hopefully, the Gyeongbu high-speed railway would serve his charges better, he said as they began to fill up one of the first-class cars.
While the rest of the team was ushered by general manager Gaylen Malone, their coach, Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu, immediately settled in for the two-and-a-half hour ride. Clad in a London Spitfire sweatshirt, he placed his luggage on the rack above, and claimed the single seat at the front of the car. He neatly tucked his electronics in his suit jacket pocket and hung it on a nearby coat hanger.
"This is my seat," he said. "Goodnight."
Later, his soft snoring would become oddly soothing background noise, combined with the whirr of the train engine and occasional clacking of wheels against the tracks. The rest of the team paired off into twos.
At precisely 2 p.m., the KTX 241 train left Seoul Station bound for Busan with nearly an entire business-class car filled with members of C9, potentially bound for their doom: the worlds quarterfinals.
Hour 1: Cheonan-Asan, Osong, Daejeon
The countryside rolls by as North American League of Legends team Cloud9 rides a train from Seoul to Busan for the world championship group stage. Courtesy of Greyson "GoldenGlue" Gilmer/Cloud9
"Oh, I wonder if there will be zombies on this train?"
"I wonder how many times they've heard that? I bet every person who works here is so sick of that joke."
"Good movie though."
Two players in the back of the car were joking about "Train to Busan," a well-known South Korean zombie movie that has become the namesake of this oft-traveled route.
Above the din, someone made a joke that none of the tickets were paid for. Somehow Blaber, rookie jungler and newest member of the squad, was volunteered by team manager Lee "Robin" Seung-hwan to pay for everything, most likely because he piped up first.
"Sure," Blaber said affably. "My card doesn't work but ..."
Finding a global ATM to take a foreign credit card is but one of a myriad of small issues that can crop up as a foreigner traveling in South Korea. Somehow they came up with the money.
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On the train, bot laner Zachary "Sneaky" Scuderi and mid-laner-turned-coach Greyson "GoldenGlue" Gilmer began one of their toughest battles at worlds thus far: a tug-of-war between the plug adapter and the train electrical outlet. The outlet won. A few of the other business-class passengers began to complain about the noise, and Robin stepped in to quiet the team.
Reapered blissfully slept through it all, a truly seasoned business traveler.
When the groups for the world championship play-ins were drawn, C9 was put in a tough position. The team was bound for Group B, home of defending world champions Gen.G (formerly Samsung Galaxy) and 2018 Mid-Season Invitational champion Royal Never Give Up. The third team drawn into the group was Europe's second seed, Vitality.
Based on play-in performances, C9's chances to get out of Group B were perceived as even lower than they were prior to the start of worlds. C9 had two shaky victories against Japan's DetonatioN FocusMe, and their qualifying series against Gambit Esports had gone to five games. Simply put, in the words of top laner Eric "Licorice" Ritchie, "It didn't feel good." Yet others on C9 talked about the entirety of the play-in stage as necessary practice for the rookie players.
"We have three rookies on the team so them getting the stage experience is really helpful," veteran jungler Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen said. "It doesn't matter too much that the first games are shaky as long as we continue to improve throughout worlds."
Cloud9 stands on the main stage in Busan, South Korea, after a train ride from Seoul to Busan, ready to play in the group stage of the League of Legends World Championship. Courtesy of Riot Games
Casting a looming shadow behind the train was the dreaded spectres of RNG and Gen.G. The players were relaxed, chill and happy to sit back and chat about solo queue escapades, play "Magic the Gathering" online once the Wi-Fi network had been discovered -- this, more than the battle of the electrical outlet, had been the most important order of business when the team had boarded the train. Yet, the size of the task in front of them was daunting. Each of the C9 players talked about the strengths of RNG and Gen.G, focusing on RNG's AD carry Jian "Uzi" Zi-Hao.
"We're going to have to play some of the strongest teams in the tournament in our group," Goldenglue said. "We did hold back some picks from the play-ins that we've been preparing for our groups. We were able to get out of play-ins without showing those picks so we've been preparing specific strategies since it is a [single-game format] so there's a chance we can take some games off of the big teams and have a chance of making it out."
He paused and then laughed.
"[Single-game format] is definitely preferred. God bless."
Unlikely upsets are the only way C9 would make it out of its group, and the team was under no illusions to the contrary. Every bit of experience, whether it was watching these teams' qualifying runs to the world championship, studying drafts, or even facing them in solo queue, could be seen as valuable if the correct information could be gleaned from it.
"Going up against either [Liu "Mlxg" Shi-Yu] or [Hung "Karsa" Hau-Hsuan], I played solo queue and was up against Karsa four games in a row and he was doing the same thing every single game," Svenskeren said, laughing. "I'm not sure if he was trying to get into my head, but he would do red buff to Level 2 gank mid legit four games in a row so I was like, 'Is he trying to make me think this is what he's going to do onstage or something?' It didn't work out very well but he kept doing it. It's going to be exciting either way."
C9 would also have to sweep Vitality, who the team faced earlier in its bootcamp immediately after Vitality had arrived in South Korea.
"We scrimmed them when they first got here," Licorice said. "[Daniele "Jiizuke" di Mauro] is an animal. He'll fight you under tower. He's actually crazy -- that's all of their players actually. They try to fight you and that's how they get advantages. It's always fun playing against them so I'm excited for that."
Hour 2: Dongdaegu, Singyeongju, Ulsan
The train to Busan, the actual train, not the zombie movie, is a winding path through mountains and farmland with occasional cities peppered along the way. It's bright, comfortable and relaxing. By the second hour, the members of C9 had settled down and were quietly talking, or perhaps dozing off. Blaber had reclaimed his Maryland pillow, and Sneaky, running a green and white deck had, in the worlds of Goldenglue, been clapped by his opponent in "Magic the Gathering." Assistant Coach Jung "Rapidstar" Min-seong provided translation whenever necessary as the train attendants, dressed in pale seafoam green uniforms, bowed politely every time they exited or entered the train car.
When faced with insurmountable odds, what is a team to do outside of preparation? Is it better to go into each match playing, as the old adage says, with nothing to lose? The answer for C9 seems to be to play more aggressively, much like how the team transformed when Blaber first joined the starting lineup in the middle of NA LCS Summer Split. Unfortunately for C9, the team has had some difficulty finding that aggression.
"I would like to say our aggression," Sneaky said when listing his team's strengths. "But it's been really hard for us to show it as much during this worlds."
Blaber, who is credited for the team's new in-your-face style, was also realistic.
"This is the first time that I'm going into a tournament where I think my opponent might actually be better than me," Blaber admitted. "Even when we played against Team Liquid in the finals we had 2-0'd them in the regular split. When I first came to LCS I had never played these teams before and I didn't think about that the first time against them. Hopefully I'll still be able to keep my aggression."
Epilogue: Busan
As the train screeched to a slow stop coming into Busan Station, Reapered sat up and yawned. If he hadn't slept for the entirety of the train ride, he was a good actor. C9 shuffled as a group, continuing to chatter amongst themselves, as Robin ushered them into the salty ocean breeze, packing them into taxis four at a time, with instructions in rapid-fire Korean to take the team to Haeundae Beach.
On Wednesday at 5 p.m. local time, the worlds group stage began at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO). A few hours later, C9 was obliterated by RNG in what must have appeared to starting jungler Svenskeren and Blaber watching from the sidelines as a rerun of one of their solo queue games on the South Korean ladder.
"I think Karsa is going to do the same thing [as Mlxg], regardless of who plays," Blaber said, laughing a bit. "I played against Karsa too and he did red to dive my bot lane into dive my bot lane, into dive my bot lane again. I was up in farm by like 30 but he was 4-0 so, I don't know what to think of that."
Interestingly enough, it was also Blaber's words from the train trip that predicted one of the more unlikely Day 1 outcomes: Vitality's upset victory over reigning world champions Gen.G.
"I feel like Vitality might have some chance to upset either of the two teams and us for sure," Blaber said. "They didn't seem that strong when we played against them but I do think that if we want to get out of groups we need to get all the wins we can against Vitality but I think they have a chance to upset the better teams, too."
The Vitality that C9 met on Day 2 was not the Vitality of scrims. Vitality saved initiations for key teamfights, taking advantage of C9's vision gaps. It was still a kill-heavy game with flashy performances from Jiizuke's Leblanc and bot laner Amadeu "Attila" Carvalho. The game was all but lost until C9 turned it around through teamfighting. Still lacking was the early aggression that C9 had hoped for, but it was a start. After an exhausting 40-minute contest, C9 finished the first two days 1-1.
If worlds was a horror movie, perhaps C9 would struggle through groups but, in the final few moments, miraculously manage to survive against all odds. This isn't a movie, and there are no zombies. But the odds are still equally stacked against them.
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Newtown Debates Letter Asking Trump to Denounce Sandy Hook 'Truthers'
By Evie Blad on February 3, 2017 1:11 PM | No comments
The Newtown, Conn., school board wants President Donald Trump to denounce Sandy Hook "truthers"—people who claim the 2012 mass shootings at the town's elementary school were an elaborate hoax.
The board this week authorized its chair to sign a letter to the president, calling on Trump to speak out against people who perpetuate the conspiracy theory that the shootings, in which 20 children and six adults were killed, were staged to drum up public support for stricter gun laws, the Newtown Bee reports. Other Newtown city boards are also considering whether to sign and send the letter.
The letter, which was drafted by Democratic Town Committee Chair Eric Paradis, singles out Infowars personality and controversial radio host Alex Jones, who has supported Trump and who popularized the hoax theory, the Bee reports. Trump praised Jones during the 2016 campaign. The White House has denied rumors that it offered a spot in its daily media briefings to Infowars.
Sandy Hook truthers have tormented families of the shooting victims. One was arrested in 2016 for a death threat against a victim's relative.
Erica Lafferty, whose mother died in the shootings, previously called on Trump to denounce Jones in a November letter published in USA Today:
"Even after an election that exposed deep divisions in our country, surely we can all agree on this: The mass shooting at Sandy Hook happened. Twenty-six families, including mine, were torn apart and will never be the same. Any preposterous ideas to the contrary cannot be allowed to seep into our country's mainstream discourse. They must be swiftly and publicly refuted.
Surely, the newly elected leader of the free world can see that."
Not everyone in Newtown, which has notably shied away from the media spotlight since the shootings, supports the letter. At public meetings of other Newtown town boards, some residents, including the relative of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, said they feared it would be unproductive or stir up backlash and "give oxygen to something that doesn't deserve it," the Bee reports. Some town officials have been hesitant to sign onto the letter, the paper reports.
Newtown finance board Vice Chairman James Gaston, spoke in support of signing and sending the letter.
"Families have been threatened and sometimes you have to speak up as someone who had conspiracy theorists supporting him," Gaston said in a town meeting, according to the Bee. "We're asking [Trump] to recognize that 26 were killed—denounce all who spread lie —and to not support those who are promoting something hurtful and untrue. We're not asking to pass a law, we're asking for support. We received support from President Obama, now we're asking for support from President Trump."
Photo: White roses with the faces of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are attached to a telephone pole in January 2013, on the one-month anniversary of the shooting that left 26 dead in Newtown, Conn. --Jessica Hill/AP-File
Related reading on the Newtown shootings:
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A Year Later, Newtown Tragedy Yields Little Policy Change
Sandy Hook: Words and Actions
School-Violence Tip Lines Get a Second Look After Sandy Hook
Use of School Shooter Drills Has Increased Significantly Since Newtown Shootings
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ONE FC’s Adrian Pang: Friendships and Fighting
It was Oct. 30, 2011. Inside the City of Dreams Grand Hyatt Ballroom in Macau, a bond was forming. Within the confines of the roped ring, Adrian Pang and Jadamba Narantungalag were about to embark on what both men would later call the toughest fight of their respective careers.
Neither man gave up an inch throughout the entertaining bout. Scrambles, exchanges and attempted submissions kept the crowd on the edge of their seats as both men spilled blood on that warm October night. It wasn’t until round three, when Narantungalag landed punch after punch after punch on a forward-marching Pang, that these men would realize exactly what they had signed up for. In the end, a title changed hands and a mutual respect was born.
Only one man could win the fight, but both were rewarded with a friendship. It would become a bond between two warriors, and it’s a bond that will never be broken. A little over three years later, the two would meet again. However, this time, no blood would be spilled.
Pang (R) (Cheryl Tay/ONE FC)
“Jadamba was there [in Beijing], and he came up to me in the locker room after the fight,” Pang recalled to Combat Press. “We got a photo together, and he had this massive bodyguard with him and they were all wearing suits and stuff. The bodyguard was like, ‘Jadamba tell you he come from Mongolia just to watch you fight.’ I said thank you and said how good Jadamba was, then he said, ‘Jadamba want you to be ONE FC lightweight champion,’ and I was kinda like, ‘Yeah, thanks mate’ [laughs].
“He’s awesome, though. I’ve never really formed a friendship with anybody that I’ve fought and lost to, but him and I have a mutual respect. He said I was the toughest fight he’s ever had, and he was mine too — that’s what made me go and do strength training. After I recovered from the fight, I knew I had to do something. It was like trying to hold down a baby bull; I couldn’t keep him down. Even [Yui Chul] Nam wasn’t that strong, and he was like 10 times bigger. Seeing Jadamba there was a nice little highlight. It’s nice to get that respect from him.”
After almost 18 months out of action, Pang made his return to the cage on Dec. 19, 2014. He faced Vincent Latoel at ONE FC 24: Dynasty of Warriors. The fight marked the first time Pang had fought internationally since losing his Legend FC lightweight title to Narantungalag. While he won his much-anticipated ONE FC debut bout, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the 37-year-old.
“I’m not waiting another 18 months, man. That was a killer,” Pang confessed. “That weight cut killed me. I made 70.8 [kilos] with my usual struggle — that’s the usual allowance, 70.3 with a 500-gram allowance — but in ONE FC there’s no allowance at all. I think I had four goes at it. In the end, I made it and I just looked massive [laughs], I’m definitely gonna be leaner next time I cut that weight. I felt a bit tired, but after 18 months off, I fuckin went all right [laughs].”
Throughout the ONE FC broadcast, commentators Josh Thomson and Steve Dawson alluded to the fact that Pang had struggled to make weight for his bout. Pang, a veteran of 31 fights, has always been proud of his gas tank when it came time to enter battle, but this time around it was a little different.
“It’d been 18 months and I was just empty,” Pang admitted. “I made the weight in the end, but it was just hard. It took me an extra couple of hours and took so much out of me. I’ve never been so big, though. I was 79.6 [kilos] before I went to bed that night, and I only ate once. I’ve never been that big, ever. When I was fighting [Bernardo] Trekko and guys like that, and when I fought Jadamba, I was 75 kilos. We worked out that for three years after I fought Jadamba just before my injury and doing a proper weight program, I’ve put on one kilo a year of proper muscle. I’m lean as hell now. There’s no fat to come off me.”
As Pang pushed forward throughout the entertaining bout with Latoel, his body felt completely different to what it had in any fight before. As he reared back and landed one of his notorious right hands in the second round to send Latoel to the mat, he tried his hardest to finish the deed in front of him. However, he couldn’t quite get over the line.
“I felt like I was a hundred kilos,” Pang recalled. “I couldn’t smash his head in. I jumped on him and I cracked him, but I can’t remember if I tried to soccer kick him or I missed. I remember going for that guillotine and thinking, ‘I don’t have it.’ And I swept him into the anaconda d’arce choke, but my hands couldn’t even grip my bicep properly.
Adrian Pang (L) (Cheryl Tay/ONE FC)
“It was a cracker of a fight, and Vincent, he was hungry. He was just coming off that loss to Caros Fodor and he was hungry to win. I think they were a bit concerned about my size, even though he was heaps taller than me. He just seemed to really want that win. I could see it in his eyes. He thought he was gonna win that fight, but I was never gonna let him have it.”
On the back of his successful ONE FC debut, the question has been raised: What is next for the veteran Australian lightweight? A fight that has been suggested by many, including Combat Press, is a showdown with Koji Ando, who is also a former Legend FC lightweight champion.
“I think Koji has done enough to earn himself a shot at the title,” Pang said. “I’d like to have another fight before I get thrown up there again. With the layoff — even though I won every round, I out-struck him and took him down and whatever — I felt that it wasn’t my best. I don’t feel good yet. In my career, I’ve never gassed. That’s my enemy. My mortal enemy. I don’t really care who they put me in with, I’ll be ready no matter what.”
Adrian would like to thank Fairtex, Australian Sports Nutrition and Instinct Sports Nutrition. He would also like to thank everybody at Integrated MMA. Follow Pang on Twitter: @adrianpangmma
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Professor Shittu Wins ECOWAS Grant
Professor Adebayo Shittu of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agricultural Management and Rural Development (COLAMRUD) of the University, has won an international grant to the tune of Euros 118,956 from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Professor Shittu stated that a proposal titled, “Incentivising Adoption of Climatic Smart Practices in Cereals Production in Nigeria: Sociocultural and Economic Diagnosis”, was prepared by his team to apply for the funding in collaboration with the National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI), Badeggi, Niger State, following the Call for Proposal on “Innovative Projects for Food and Nutrition Security in West Africa”, courtesy of the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF), Support Programme for Food and Nutrition Security in West Africa (PASANAO), with the funding assistance from the French Development Agency (AFD).
Professor Shittu noted that the nation-wide study sought to evaluate the socio-economic impacts of adopting Climate Smart Practices (CSPs), in maize and rice production, adding that it was also to Identify appropriate mechanisms by which wide-spread adoption of CSPs might be incentivised to stop or reverse land degradation, evaluate the restoration of ecosystem health, enhance livelihood outcomes and build resilience to climate change using the examples of rice and maize farmers in Nigeria, while the duration of the project is one year, which ends in October 2017.
The Professor Agricultural and Resource Economics further stated that members of his research team comprise Professor Oluwakemi Fapojuwo, Department of Agricultural Administration; Dr. Bolarinwa Senjobi, Department of Soil Science and Land Management; Dr. Thomas Fabunmi, Department of Plant Physiology and Crop Production; Dr. Dare Akerele, Department of Agricultural Extension and Farm Management; and Dr. Rahman Sanusi, also from AEFM. Others are Dr. Abiodun Obayelu and Dr. Elizabeth Oluwalana, from the Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre (AMREC), while the collaborating scientists from NCRI include Dr. Saliu Tiamiyu; Miss Uduma Ugalahi; and Mr. Jude Eze.
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There Are No Wasted Auditions (Part 2)
Sometimes big disappointments prepare you for bigger opportunities.
How can you protect your kids from having their self-esteem crushed but also prepare them for real life? How do you teach them to work hard, chase their dreams, and take leaps of faith, and at the same time explain to them that working hard doesn’t always pay off, that dreams are sometimes just fantasies, and that the net doesn’t always catch you when you jump?
How do you prepare them to plow forward, when you struggle with this paradox in your own life?
We faced this dilemma when our son poured his heart and soul into getting a role for a play, Pippin, and his younger brother who didn’t work as hard—and isn’t passionate about acting—got the part instead. (Click here to read last week’s post)
We’d been afraid that this might hurt their relationship, but Orly showed incredible grace and maturity when he was able to separate being happy for his brother from being sad for himself.
Orly continued acting and auditioned for a role in Winnie the Pooh at another local children’s theatre, landing the character, “Peter The Rabbit.”
Winnie The Pooh’s opening night coincided with Orly’s birthday. He received a gift like no other, when four 21-year-olds from the Pippin cast, showed up to watch Orly perform. We’d gotten to know these students from the UM Theatre School since we spent a lot of time waiting around for Justin during rehearsals. I’m sure they had much better things to do on a Friday night than attend a kids’ show, but theater people are special.
This goes to show that you can build relationships even when you’re on the side-lines. You never know what those relationships will mean in your life. We’d connected with these young adults in a magical way—and we knew someway, somehow, we’d meet again.
Our son’s wounds scabbed, and our family bond grew stronger. It was a time of learning and healing.
One Saturday morning, Orlando sat in the terrace browsing through his phone as he enjoyed his morning coffee and weekend mini-cigar. I swung in my hanging chair, writing on my laptop.
“Check this out, Caro.” He interrupted me. He’d seen a cool event happening in New York that the kids would love, and immediately looked up flights.
“Tickets to New York are super cheap.” He also found discounted prices and availability in a great hotel in the heart of Midtown.
It was a great deal. “Let’s do it, babe.” I agreed.
“You know what would make this trip perfect?”
Uh oh, I thought, knowing my husband.
“If we took the kids to see Hamilton.”
“Are you nuts?” I yelled. “Hamilton tickets are way too expensive. Forget it.”
“But we’ve saved so much money on everything else,” Orlando pleaded. “Experiences like this one is what we work so hard for. Our sons love Hamilton right now. We don’t know how long that’ll last. Besides, I’d love to do something special for them after the whole Pippin thing. Let’s make this an amazing experience. It’ll be our Christmas present to our family. ”
This conversation pretty much sums up our marriage:
I’m conservative and calculated.
He’s impulsive and spontaneous.
I think about it.
He acts on it.
We find a way to meet in the middle.
After an hour debating the pros and cons, I begrudgingly agreed to buy the Hamilton tickets.
Goodbye cheap trip to NYC.
Nonetheless, we couldn’t wait to surprise our kids on Christmas.
But on December 14th, an email arrived that would change everything:
I was given your contact information from the director of Pippin…
We are doing a developmental reading of a new musical called Devotion…
There is a part in the musical for a 10-year-old boy…
The workshop/reading will take place from January 20th through January 25th…
If you’re interested in your son being considered…
There is nothing better than kids who trust their parents. I adamantly dislike pre-teen shows and kid super hero movies that make the parents look like morons. I’ve never understood why these companies would program children to distrust their parents. That programming encourages children to turn to their peers and social media for guidance when they need it, and that can steer young people in the wrong direction.
We strive to avoid this. We’re honest and open with our kids when they ask us questions (regardless of how uncomfortable the answers are), we follow through on our word, and we don’t make promises we can’t keep. It’s why I was nervous when my husband promised my son that the director would call him one day for another role. But Orlando was confident. “The director said she looked forward to working with Orly in the future. Something has to come up one day where she recommends him for a role.”
He was right.
He called the director who emailed us. “Thank you for your email. Orly would love to be considered for this role. Please let us know when the audition is,” Orlando said.
“Oh, there isn’t an audition.” The director replied. “If Pippin’s director thinks he’s perfect for this role, that’s all we need to know.”
“Wow, okay.” Orlando replied surprised. “What’s the play about?”
“It’s actually a workshop/reading. We’ve received a grant to feature our theater students in a new musical, Devotion, by musical composer and lyricist, Mark Sonnenblick and Broadway director, Maggie Burrows. The play has one child role.”
We couldn’t wait to share this news with our son. As soon as we got home, we sat Orly down on the sofa. His brothers gathered around being nosy.
“Orly, you remember how sad you were that you didn’t get the part of Pippin?” His dad asked.
“Of course I do.” Orly smirked.
“Well, guess what? We just received an email from UM. They’re bringing in a composer and director from New York to do a workshop of a new musical. They need a 10-year-old boy for one of the roles. Would you like to audition?”
“Yea, sure.” Orly said but his half-hearted response showed he wasn’t confident about getting the part.
“Well, you can’t audition.”
“Why not?” His face turned serious.
“Because you already got the role!”
“What?”Orly’s eyes lit up.
“Remember when we told you there are no wasted auditions? Well, it turns out your Pippin audition was really an audition for Devotion. They saw your talent and your behavior, and now they don’t need to look for someone else to fill that role. They want you.”
Orly jumped off the couch and ran around the house. Justin ran behind him, hugging him and screaming. “Dad, you promised she’d remember me, and she did! I can’t believe it.” Orly hugged his dad.
It was a golden moment in parenting world. A moment that we hoped would yield our kids’ trust in the future.But it was also a life lesson for all of us.
We audition for roles, interview for jobs, submit articles for publications, and invest our resources hoping for that opportunity which is right in front of us. It’s devastating to be rejected. It feels like we’re not good enough or smart enough or connected enough. But the work is never wasted. The investment of time, energy, and honing your skills is not lost—unless you quit.
If you stay on course, other opportunities will appear. All that work and effort will suddenly be worth it. You’ll realize you’d been in training for something bigger; you just didn’t know it at the time.
For a moment, everything was right in our world.
And then, I opened my calendar to pencil in the dates of the workshop.
“Orlando, can I talk to you for a minute in private?” We walked into our bedroom and closed the door.
“What’s wrong?” He asked.
“The reading is on January 25th. Our flight to New York leaves on the 24th and it’s non-refundable. What do we do now?”
God sure has a sense of humor.
Do we lose thousands of dollars and cancel the surprise trip we planned for our children with so much love? Or do we decline the opportunity our son was given in furtherance of his dream of becoming an actor?
Stay tuned for the final post on this story next week, and find out how we handled this conflict.
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How Is a Ritual Like a Dutch Bike?
9 March 2018 Ron Grimes
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When I first began teaching in the Netherlands, I marveled at the herds of Dutch bikes that swarmed the streets. Exiting Velorama, Nijmegen’s tightly packed little bike museum, I jokingly said to a colleague, “The Dutch imagination is profoundly ‘bicyciular.’” Each time I was back in Nijmegen, I had to walk past a bike shop. I would stop and press my nose to the window. Shouldn’t a man, now ensconced upon a Dutch chair of ritual studies, ride a fine Dutch bike? The high prices of those hardy, brilliantly engineered machines only intensified my lust. Dutch bikes are sexy, but not in the cheesy way that Harley Davidson motorcycles are made to appear sexy by draping a babe across the rear fender. Until recently, no one in North America thought Dutch bikes were sexy. They are so heavy. Their rear ends (their booties) are too big and their tires, skinny. Their chains are not tantalizingly exposed to public view. And you perch on the saddle, upright, exposing little that is interesting from behind.
I was proud to be magnificently alone in my appreciation of the beauty of Dutch bikes. As far as I knew, no one else in Canada or the U.S. was lusting after them. Then suddenly everything changed. Dutch bikes have now become a fashion accessory for American males. The phrase “Dutch-inspired”[1] i s selling not only bikes in Seattle, Brooklyn, and Toronto but men’s clothing in New York.[2] So now I am a little embarrassed to be casting such a fashionable item as the privileged symbol for this article. I’ve begun to worry that, should I ever own a good Dutch bike, I might have to adopt a classier dress code.
I could argue that a rite is a structure, placing myself in the august company of Claude Levi-Strauss. Or I could claim that it is dynamic, casting myself as a fellow traveler of Heidelberg’s Dynamics of Ritual project.[3] But probably because I was teaching ritual studies in the Flat Land of the Bike, an odd sentence lodged like a thorn in my brain: “A rite is like a good Dutch bike: If it is broken, it’s worth fixing.” The sentence may seem flippant, but it would not go away.
I made the mistake of telling some doctoral students about my not-so-secret desire for a fine Dutch bike. Later they invited me on a country ride and loaned me a “true” (not a “fine”) Dutch bike: only one gear, a fender needing to be wired on, and its paint fading. The experience tempted me to modify the sentence in my head, “A rite is like a ‘true’ Dutch bike, so it probably needs fixing.”
Before I begin the Quixotic task of comparing rites with bikes, some context: I have spent much time and energy working to demonstrate that ritual activities can be both creative and critical, and therefore, that theorizing about them should be as well. Creativity and criticism are two sides of the same coin. If ritual creativity is weak, ritual criticism will be too. If ritual criticism is muted, ritual creativity will suffer. I’ve also argued that rites are practical; they do important cultural, physical, moral, and intellectual work. Rituals should be as shapely as a good Dutch bike and as useful as a monkey wrench in the hands of a plumber.
When I first began studying ritual, I asked how ritual practices shape, or fail to shape, people’s attitudes, values, and decisions. I wanted to know how ritually enhanced images and practices shaped their views of the world. Currently, however, I have taken one step back and am asking theoretical and methodological questions: How do scholarly practices—applying for grants, conducting research, applying theories, and writing books—generate the scholarly world we call “ritual studies?” Where do theories of ritual come from? What do they really accomplish, or fail to accomplish?
Barry Stephenson and I built Ritual Studies Dot Com, a Web site for international, interdisciplinary discussion.[4] We had to choose an image for the home page and could have taken the easy way by merely putting up a picture of a ritual, but we decided to be suggestive rather than literal. We used two images—both a bit of a tease. One suggested that ritual is processual, flowing. However, this image was of Laurel Creek in winter, so the water was frozen.[5] It leaves viewers with a question: Is ritual flowing or fixed?
The second one playfully and critically asks viewers: If you think ritual is a structure, how about this kind? The photo showes the rear end of a Chinese restaurant, one that has, over the years, been patched in mismatched ways. Each image says something about how scholars might conceive ritual. There are other, contending models. The images are invitations to a friendly argument, a debate.
When I first began work on The Craft of Ritual Studies,[6] I thought of ritual-using and theory-using as two distinctly different activities. Later, I changed my mind, having found that scholars, like ritualists, inescapably wield metaphors, analogies, and images. I began to see that figures of speech and visual images are as essential to theory-making as they are to ritual-making. The theorist’s question isn’t only, “What convincing words can we use to describe ritual?” but also, “How should we imagine ritual?”
Theory-construction isn’t only about crafting words into credible statements, but also about images, visual as well as verbal. Even in the sciences, not to mention the social sciences and humanities, images and diagrams buttress verbal theory-construction. Theorizing, then, is an audio-visual production; we not only speak and write theories, we also visualize them. So I began hunting for the images that now litter this article.
I began plowing through theoretical writings, trying to understand not only the terms and concepts but the images that lie beneath them.
For instance, if we are going to speak of a ritual as a structure, what kind? What does it look like?
A set of interlocking stones?
A hierarchically arranged pyramid?
If a ritual is a system, is it like
a subway system?
a nervous system?
a solar system?
If a ritual is a dynamic process, how does it work? What does it look like?
A circular set of feedback loops?
A river’s course?
The aerodynamics of a speeding automobile?
If a ritual is deep or layered, how many layers are there,
and what are their names?
How does one know which layers are superficial and which ones, deep?
If a ritual exercises power,
what kind of power?
where and how is it generated?
how is it transferred, through what kinds of lines?
If ritual is embodied power,
in whom is it embodied?
how is it embodied?
in muscles? in minds? in hearts?
If a ritual has dimensions, what are they?
Which ones matter most?
Which ratios between dimensions are the most determinative of ritual efficacy?
If ritual is a language constructed of symbols,
and they mean things in the ways that words mean them,
what “language” does ritual speak?
Who can “speak ritual” and who cannot?
If ritual is constructed of elements how many are there and what are their names?
If ritual has building blocks, what are their shapes, and of what are they made?
If riiuals have a backstage area and a front of house, how do we know when we’ve entered the one zone and exited the other? Where’s the curtain?
If a rite of passage transports a person across a threshold ,
how shall we envision such betwixt and between zones.
To what extent are they actually spatial?
You could object that no one takes such terms literally, that in scholarly discourse these are abstractions not figures of speech. However, all analogies are meant to “hold,” that is, be literal in some ways but not in others. My attempt to visualize or literalize a metaphor, is a way of learning more about how it works in a theory. Images do matter, because they shape and reflect attitudes, so the more explicit we become about them, the more effective we can be in both constructing and criticizing theories of ritual. It is fair to ask of any theoretically deployed image, analogy, or metaphor: In what respects does it hold, and in what respects does it not?
I began digging metaphors, images, and analogies out of abstract theoretical prose, because, in reading scholarly works on ritual, I was too often uncertain when, or even whether, I was reading theory. In ritual studies rarely does anyone say, “I am now writing a theory, and here it is.” So readers are left to ferret out the theory, and, worse, to guess at the methods implied by that theory. How does one distinguish between an ethnographic description of a single ritual performance and a generalized description of a ritual, or between a formal definition and a generalizing statement? I discovered that others, graduate students and professors alike, were often having the same difficulty knowing which parts of a book are theoretical. Eventually, I drafted a guide for reading articles theoretically and methodologically. Even though it is only a question set, it implies a tight connection between theorizing, imagining, and writing.
Before I return to evangelizing in favor of Dutch bikes, we should make an elementary distinction between analogy and metaphor. For a dad to boast about his son, “Paul is like a lion,” is an analogy, a mere comparison, but when Paul’s classmate Heather screams, “Paul, you are a stupid skunk,” that is a metaphor, although not a very strong one, because we know Paul is not really a skunk but a mere boy who has been teasing Heather. She probably means either, “I don’t like you, Paul” or more maybe, “You smell bad, like a skunk.” Weak metaphors are easily reducible to analogies, and analogies are easily explained as comparisons that hinge on one or two similarities.
A metaphor is a stronger kind of symbol, because it equates the “vehicle” (the symbol that points) with its “tenor” (that to which it points). A metaphor is also more complex, not merely x = y, but also x ≠ y. A metaphor simultaneously and paradoxically posits both identity and dis-identity.
The most rooted, or radical, metaphors are those that resist translation or reduction. If a ceremonially authorized person dresses up in robes and hands you a piece of bread while saying, “This is my body,” that is radically metaphoric, especially if you’re a Catholic, because the priest is declaring both: “This is bread; this is not bread.”
We can lose sight of metaphors, and they can become weak. “Head of the table” and “foot of the table” are rarely recognized as metaphors until someone comments on them or shows us an image that reactivates them. Where is the “head of a table?” Where is the “foot” of a table. Not usually on the “leg” of a table.
However, if your society expects you sit at the foot of the table, and lower body parts are associated with the sinister left hand, you are in a metaphorically reinforced position of subservience. The metaphor has force.
In Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, two American philosophers, show how entire worldviews and value systems are encoded in the adjectives “right” and “left” or innocent prepositions such as “up” or “down.”[7] Determinative metaphors are not mere cute turns of phrase or single images. Rather, they form clusters, systems, or webs, and they do so not only in ordinary social life but also in the rarified atmosphere of ritual theory. Because invisible metaphors embedded in theories can be even more determinative than visible ones, it is important to locate and reflect on them.
One of the most pernicious and widespread metaphors in ritual theory is that of “structure.” Jan Snoek says, “most ritual behavior is more formally stylized, structured, and standardized than most common behavior.”[8] Eugene d’Aquili defines ritual behavior as “a subset of formalized behavior that involves two or more individuals in active and reciprocal communication and that is structured….”[9] Catherine Bell treats ritualization less as a noun than as a verb. Even so, for her, ritual is “the strategic production of expedient schemes that structure an environment….”[10]
“Structure,” whether used as a verb or noun, may not sound to your ear like a metaphor, but it is. Even though none of these theorists would actually claim that ritual is unchanging, the architectural metaphor, “structure,” connotes something solid, reinforcing the widespread assumption that rituals are comparatively stable, that they don’t change, or change very little.
Since the mid-1960s, to counteract static theories rooted in static metaphors like “structure,” we have learned to speak of ritual as “dynamic.” Now rituals compete with racy sports cars and motivational public speakers. Ritual is no longer stodgy and unchanging but dynamic (it changes) and transformative (it changes things). But this idea too rides the back of a metaphor, since, literally speaking, the term “dynamics” refers to that branch of mechanics which studies motion and equilibrium. In speaking of ritual as “dynamic,” we are transposing the notion of driving forces from physics and hydraulics to psychology and politics, where the sources of action are really motivations rather than physical causes. In other words, if the notion of “ritual dynamics” leads us to imagine rites as causes or effects rather than as motivated actions, we have been seduced by the hidden metaphor.
A variant of dynamics is hydraulics, the branch of science that studies liquids in motion. Sigmund Freud made extensive use of hydraulic metaphors. Libido was liquid-like energy welling up from the unconscious, exerting upward “pressure,” like water heated in a boiler system. For Freud, catharsis was a kind of “emptying,” and cathexis, a kind of “filling.” Sublimation amounted to “channeling.”
Hydraulic metaphors helped 19th century thinkers get beyond the notion of information as discreet units. These metaphors enabled people to embrace the idea of continuous flow. But the metaphors carried other implications, and they were often unrecognized. For instance, communication came to be imagined as flowing through “lines,” and those “pipelines” could get “clogged.” Consequently, neurotics required therapists for the same reason that toilets require plumbers, to help clean out the grunge.
To nuance and complicate the hydraulic model by imagining “multi-channels,” does not get beyond the root hydraulic metaphor of a liquid flowing through a pipe or through several discreet channels. We bump up against the limits of the metaphor when try to imagine multiple voices “flowing” through a single telephone wire.
There are plenty of other concepts that are used like abstractions but which hide analogies or metaphors that can lead their users into absorbing attitudes conditioned by the images that lie beneath. Think, for instance, about Emile Durkheim’s notion of ritual “solidarity.” Don’t just think it, try to feel it, sense it. What does the idea or feeling of solidarity do for your understanding of ritual? In my imagination ritual solidarity is hardwood, oak, safe and supportive. Or consider Durkheim’s claim that rituals are characterized by “collective effervescence.” The images makes you want to rise up, like bubbles in a drink. I can’t contemplate the image-idea of collective effervescence for long without feeling Jamaican ginger beer bubbling up in my throat.
I am not trying to convince you that you should buy into my preferred metaphors instead of someone else’s, just to recognize that theorizing is not only about cobbling together verbal abstractions.Theorizing is also a way of imagining, consequently different from, but similar to, imagining in the arts.
Theorizing is not only imaginative, it is also strategic, thus similar to advertising. To theorize is to make a pitch, mount an argument for choosing this over that. The choice of key metaphors is not merely arbitrary, nor is it innocently aesthetic, a matter of turning phrases or deploying attractive images. It is culturally and historically conditioned, and it expresses strongly, if not sacredly, held values. Theorizing, however much it appears to mask or play down passion, is passionate to the point of being evangelical. Most of the theorists I know, regardless of how they write, will fight to defend their theories. So do not be fooled by the desiccated prose that too many theorists proffer.
By now, you are probably wondering what happened to that promised Dutch bike (the “fine,” idealized one, or the “true” one owned by a doctoral student’s boyfriend). I have latched onto the analogy, “A rite is like a bike” partly because no one is fooled by it. It is a mere analogy, not an invisible, determinative metaphor. It has no pretentions to power. Thinking of a rite as bike-like is modest—not very sexy—because everyone knows a rite is not a bike. You immediately understand that you could select other analogous objects: airplanes, computers, dresses, saxophones, or Chinese bikes. No one thinks a bike is a rite in the same way people do when they talk about rites as structures or rites as dynamic.
A rite as bike-like seems far-fetched, but I could make the connection more obvious by selecting certain kinds of bikes, this one, for instance, which tows a coffin on wheels.[11] A bike used as a ritual tool makes the bike-rite connection clear. Once you see the photo, the link is obvious.
It’s worth playing out some of the possible answers to the question, How is a rite like a Dutch bike? One answer is: For both a rite and bike, you can produce a parts list, and parts lists are handy. Try putting on a wedding or funeral without a list, and you are courting disaster. Try shooting a rite with no idea of its components and you’ll leave something out.
A rite is like a bike insofar as the whole can be factored into parts or the parts cobbled together into a whole. I call these “elements,” because they are primary, but you could call them something else, micro-structures, or more plainly, “the nuts and bolts of ritual.” Thinking this way has a certain plumber-like utility to it, but we shouldn’t let the analogy fool us. Adding elements—ritual objects to ritual spaces to ritual actors—doesn’t produce a ritual any more than a bucket of nuts, bolts, sprockets, and spokes equals a bicycle.
Unless you repair your own bike or you are a bike mechanic, you would not know how to assemble a bike out of a bunch of parts. An exploded diagram would get you one step closer, because it helps you conceive the spatial relations properly. Let’s say that you do, in fact, succeed in assembling a bike out of a bucketful of parts, there are at least two other problems: You must learn how to balance a bike, that is, to ride it, and you must know the rules of the road and understand biking culture. If don’t, getting “doored” is a distinct possibility.
So there is more to a bike (not to mention, a ritual) than just a bunch of static parts. Bikes and rites have a statics, evident in frame ratios, tubing, and joints, but also a dynamics. Riders need to know not only what the components are but also how they go together; how they work; how to use a bike physically; and how to use it socially and legally. In other words, to theorize them properly, we must put action into the picture, and then frame the picture in a cultural context.
So, a rite is bike-like insofar as it has “parts,” but how far can we go with the analogy? Imagine playing a game in which the winning side is the one that comes up with the most ways in which a rite is like a bike:
A rite is a like a bike; each can be schematized as a parts list or exploded diagram.
A rite is a like a bike; each can be fixed if broken. (Some would contest this claim.)
A rite is a like a bike; each will transport you from here to there.
A rite is like a bike; it can carry a heavy load.
Mechanical metaphors are useful insofar as they capture the material, tool-like aspects of ritual and because they help us grasp part-whole relations. However, because we are critically minded scholars, we’d should play the opposite game by running out the counterargument:
A rite is not like a bike; a rite disappears immediately after it is performed.
A rite is not like a bike; a rite cannot be invented or tossed in the junk yard.
A rite is not like a “true” Dutch bike; rites are always well oiled. (Is this true?)
A rite is not like a bike; rites don’t rust.
You get the general point, I hope: Not only that critical thought can be playlike, and that play is a form critical thinking but that metaphors and analogies have consequences and limits; we can only “ride” them so far.
Then what? We get off and proceed without benefit of analogy and metaphor? I think not. I doubt that is even possible. Then, we shift to another metaphor in the way scientists have to shift between particle theory and wave theory. The mechanical analogy of the bike can help us understand part/whole relations, movement through space, and some of the material aspects of ritual, but it does not, for instance, help us much with progression through time.
A rite unfolds through time. Noting this fact, some opt for a narrative metaphor: A ritual is, or is like, a story; it has a beginning, middle, and end. This is a popular idea because it makes ritual seem synchronous with myth or biography, two kinds of narrative. Fine, then we should test it by trying to create a plotline or storyboard for the ritual that we are studying. How well does that work? Does a rite really follow a plot-like course?
Or are the phases of a rite more like the rotating of a kaleidoscope than a turn in a plot? Do the actions of the ritual start at point A and go to point B like a story, or do they just go round and round a center? How far can you ride on the narrative metaphor?
When I have to give up my bike because the mechanistic metaphor has gone as far as it can, I turn to performance. My particular academic tribe venerates dramatistic metaphors.[12] Because actions, including ritual actions, are shaped by human perspectives and intentions, not merely driven by forces and powers, dramatism and the resources of performance studies can do theoretical work that bikes and mechanistic metaphors cannot. Dramatistic theories suggest that movement and change occur through the interactions and decisions of human characters, that things are not “driven” forward in the way bikes and trucks are but in the way a plot is.
Whereas the bike analogy compares ritual to something distant (a mechanical object), the drama metaphor compares ritual with something quite close, namely theater. The strength of dramatistic metaphors (or performance approaches, if you prefer) is that they compare one kind of strongly bounded human activity with another kind of strongly bounded activity. When we compare ritual with theatre, it’s like comparing apples with oranges rather than apples with Volkswagens. The kinship between ritual and drama is so strong that some of my compatriots would argue that ritual is (not merely, is like) dramatic. I don’t, because there are significant differences. One difference is that the roles and actions of plays are typically framed as “not real, make-believe,” whereas in rites, the roles and actions are framed as “believed” or at least “accepted.” Another difference is that, plays have audiences, whereas rituals have congregations or tribes or communities. Audiences are not, or not for very long, communities; rather, they are consumer groups. Having paid admission, they sit side by side for a couple of hours, but they do not feel obligated to look out for each other’s welfare after the performance is over.
I conclude by considering briefly a third metaphor (not a bike, not a performance): a web, a nexus of interconnectedness that rituals are supposed to facilitate. Neither mechanistic models nor dramatistic ones quite capture the networking nature of ritual traditions. Although in plays characters interact and are thus interconnected, dramatistic models are homocentric, human-centered, so we need something more “ecological,” such that a change in one part ripples through another and finally through the whole system. A web is suggestive of systemic interconnection, reminding us that, although we may be talking about a ritual, this ritual may be embedded in a ritual system, which is embedded in a cultural system, which is embedded in a global, or even interplanetary, system.
Systems metaphors keep returning in different guises, not only the 19th century hydraulic variant but mid-twentieth century cybernetics and more recently in cognitive science, computer-modeling, and complex systems theory.
Imagining ritual as a form of web-making, helps us reconceive ritual interconnectivity and boundaries, of the relations between rites and their contexts—social, economic, and environmental. Webs not only can connect, they can also entrap.
A web creates segmented boundaries, but they are permeable. If rituals are weblike, they do not have walls but membranes. If rituals have boundaries, and they are not like stone walls but like membranes, how do rituals select what can, and cannot, pass through? Or maybe you don’t think that things, values, “pass through?” Fine. Then maybe there are “carriers,” like bees. People who “carry” values from inside a ritual to the environment outside the ritual.
In any case, if we begin to reflect on ritual as weblike, we may wish to draw upon images of the WWW with nodes connected by hubs. Computer hubs connected by communication lines resemble the human nervous system, which utilizes a set of nodes connected by axons.
Currently, there is great interest in complex systems modeling that would enable us to connect various kinds of systems: nervous systems, computer systems, economic systems, and ecosystems with ritual systems. Both the Santa Fe Institute and the New England Complex Systems Institute foster complex system modeling. If you examine this example from the New England Complex Systems Institute, you can see that many of the metaphors and analogies that we have discussed are combined in this model: levels, hierarchy, dynamics, plotlike directionality, and recursive circularity.
Few ritual studies scholars have paid attention to complex systems modeling. The most explicit complex system theorizing is carried out by theologian-philosopher Mark Taylor in The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture.[13] Anthropologist Roy Rapport in Religion in the Making and other works approaches an ecological model.[14] Thomas Lawson and Robert McCauley, using cognitive psychological modes, in Bringing Ritual to Mind could, but haven’t yet, moved in this direction.[15]
Once we humans model a single system and then do the same with another, we begin trying to imagine a meta-system that contains all the others. Soon we are conceiving a series of nested, interacting systems. A very attractive but undeveloped idea is that of fractals. A fractal is a micro-geometrical structure which, when repeated with slight variation, accounts for a macro-structure.
The Sierpenski Triangle is an example; the big triangle is made of smaller triangles, which are, in turn, made of even smaller triangles. In a fractal, the pattern appears to be the same regardless of the level of magnification. The branches of a tree replicate the pattern of the entire tree. A stalk of broccoli consists of hundreds of repetitions of each floret.
The strength and weakness of all modeling is simplification. You try to explain the most complicated things by identifying the fewest number of simple things out of which they are constructed. The temptation, then is to leap, to stitch together the entire universe, the macrocosm, by imagining it as a repetition, reiteration, or reflection of something much smaller.
There is something almost hypnotic about seeing how the coast of Norway as photographed from space seems be a fractal of a microscopic photo of a capillary in a blood vessel.
Fractals, used as models, sit on a precipice where science meets art and mysticism.
I am not so much recommending fractals as trying to illustrate the range of metaphors and models on which one might draw in trying to theorize ritual.
By now, your head is probably spinning, and you can begin to sense the Faustian temptations of theoretical modeling. I have taken you on an intellectual roller coaster ride. First, we are riding around on hardy Dutch bikes. Then, we are romping across the fronts and backs of stages full of players. And now I am tangling you up in a knot of weblike systems.
Lest we become unnerved by this little tour of the ritual theory universe, let us “return” to biking imagery. Comforting, isn’t it? A theoretical model should be as practical, reliable, and, dare I say it, imaginative as a well made bakfiets, don’t you think? Or do you? If the bakfiets is a little too old fashioned fo r your tastes, then how about a Conference Bike? Made in Holland, where else? Who else but an American living in the Netherlands, Eric Staller would design a bike that combines the practical mechanism of bikes and the weblikenss of the human brain and the fractal universe? You can even imagine the sociodrama that would set up if members of your work team or family were to spend 8 hours pedaling this to Leiden. You can buy this expensive machine, a model of ritual solidarity, either as “Conference Bike” (to attract Dutch buyers) or as “Love Bike” (the American version). You can bike in any direction, provided the seven peddling, effervescent conference-goers, or lovers, ride it cooperatively.
Maybe you have had enough of this bike and web play, and you just want to know where all this get us regarding ritual theory. Fair enough, I’ll summarize the argument line:
Western theories of ritual are constructed largely out of words.
Sometimes these theories are grounded on actual rites, but more often, they are based on the words of other theories.
Beneath theoretical verbalizations are images, analogies, and metaphors.
Because theorizing is imagination-driven, it is as artistic as it is scientific.
Underlying metaphors are not mere illustrations but either generative forces, creating new insights, or inhibitive blockers, obstructing insight.
Unrecognized, they can be either irrelevant or profoundly determinative.
Because of these dangers, sustained criticism of theories is essential to the construction of new theories.
In the humanities and social sciences, a crucial form of theory criticism is that of exposing the assumptions buried in determinative metaphors.
Although theoretical critique can dislodge such images, it is not possible to circumvent them altogether.
For a model of ritual to be adequate, it must enable one either to build or explain rituals by taking into account their
static elements, using, e.g., mechanical models
internal dynamics, using, e.g., narrative / dramatic models
interactions with their contexts, using, e.g., complex systems (cybernetic, ecological, cognitive) models
Any theory that fails to account for all three, regardless of the metaphors it uses, cannot produce an adequate model for ritual studies research.
Why would anyone want to model ritual? Probably, if all is going well with a ritual, participants would not want to model it at all, but if things are going badly, then they may be forced to create a model. If your ritual is broken, or if there is an important occasion with no ritual means of marking it, then having a blueprint is helpful. If you are a scholar, you want to model ritual because, among other things, scholars build theories.
I end with a counter-argument and a question. The devil, if given his dues, would put this question to my argument: What do you do about mixed metaphors? Let’s say that you write this sentence in an essay, “Milking the workers for all they were worth, the manager barked orders at them.” When your teacher writes “mixed metaphor,” in the margin, this is a criticism. First the manager is a milker of cows, then he is a dog? Your teacher is saying, “Choose one or the other but not both.” Mixing two metaphors in the same sentence makes it sound ridiculous. So how many metaphors can a theory tolerate? Should there be only one? If more than one, how many?
That’s my killer question. Now, here’s yours: What’s your most frequently deployed theory of ritual, and what images, analogies, or metaphors inform it? If your model for understanding ritual is not a Dutch bike, what is it?
Bell, Catherine M. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
d’Aquili, Eugene G. , Charles D. Laughlin, and John McManus. The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Goffman, Erving. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1967.
Grimes, Ronald L. The Craft of Ritual Studies. Oxford Ritual Studies Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Schechner, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2002.
Snoek, Jan. “Defining ‘Rituals’.” In Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, edited by Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg. 3-14. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Taylor, Mark C. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Turner, Victor Witter. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Symbol, Myth, and Ritual. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.
[1]. Bowery Lane Bicycles in New York City manufactures such bikes.
[2]. See, for instance, the online magazine, Por Homme, http://www.porhomme.com/2009/04/dress‑codes‑the‑dutch‑bicycle/#more‑7799
[3]. For more information on the project: http://www.ritualdynamik.de/
[4]. It is no longer live.
[5]. Photo by Robert W. Harwood, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rwharwood/
[6]. Ronald L. Grimes, The craft of ritual studies, Oxford Ritual Studies Series (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). The book borrows some of the argument, but none of the illustrations, from this presentation.
[7]. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors we live by (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
[8]. Jan Snoek, “Defining ‘rituals,’” in Theorizing rituals: issues, topics, approaches, concepts, ed. Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek, and Michael Stausberg (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 13.
[9]. Eugene G. d’Aquili, Charles D. Laughlin, and John McManus, The spectrum of ritual: a biogenetic structural analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979). 29.
[10]. Catherine M. Bell, Ritual theory, ritual practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). 140.
[11]. Photo courtesy of Meike Heessels.
[12]. See, for example: Victor Witter Turner, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, Symbol, Myth, and Ritual (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974); Richard Schechner, Performance studies: an introduction (London: Routledge, 2002); Erving Goffman, Interaction ritual: essays on face-to-face behavior (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1967).
[13]. Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
[14]. Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual and religion in the making of humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
[15]. Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson, Bringing ritual to mind: psychological foundations of cultural forms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
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Wednesday, 20th October, 2010
07.00 p.m.
Council Chamber, Town Hall, High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 1AU
The Worshipful the Mayor (Cllr Colin Leckonby); Cllr Hilary Aggio, Cllr Mrs Lynne Apedaile, Cllr Paul Baker, Cllr Jim Beall, Cllr Mrs Jennie Beaumont, Cllr Phillip Broughton, Cllr Mrs Ann Cains, Cllr Dick Cains, Cllr Julia Cherrett, Cllr Aidan Cockerill, Cllr David Coleman, Cllr Robert Cook, Cllr Ian Dalgarno, Cllr Ken Dixon, Cllr Jackie Earl, Cllr Mick Eddy, Cllr Kevin Faulks, Cllr John Fletcher, Cllr Mrs Suzanne Fletcher, Cllr Maurice Frankland, Cllr John Gardner, Cllr Robert Gibson, Cllr David Harrington, Cllr Miss Barbara Inman, Cllr Mohammed Javed, Cllr Paul Kirton, Cllr Terry Laing, Cllr Miss Tina Large, Cllr Alan Lewis, Cllr Ken Lupton, Cllr Mrs Ann McCoy, Cllr Mrs Kath Nelson, Cllr Steve Nelson, Cllr Bill Noble, Cllr Mrs Jean O'Donnell, Cllr Maurice Perry, Cllr Mrs Maureen Rigg, Cllr Roy Rix, Cllr Fred Salt, Cllr Andrew Sherris, Cllr Michael Smith, Cllr Mick Stoker, Cllr Steve Walmsley, Cllr Mrs Mary Womphrey and Cllr Mick Womphrey.
N Schneider (CE); D E Bond, P K Bell,(LD); P Dobson (DNS); J Danks, L King, A Kelly (R); J Humphreys (CESC).
Mr F W Hayes (Chairman of the Standards Committee).
Cllr Eileen Craggs, Cllr Jean Kirby, Cllr Liz Nesbitt, Cllr Ross Patterson, Cllr Sylvia Walmsley, Cllr Bill Woodhead and Cllr Barry Woodhouse.
152/10 THE RIFLES - LETTER OF THANKS
Preamble for item C 152/10
153/10 FORMER COUNCILLOR NORMAN TEASDALE
155/10 MINUTES
(Attachment: 1)Minutes
156/10 THE JOINT AUTHORITIES GROUP (JAG) UK - AWARD
157/10 NORTHUMBRIA IN BLOOM AWARDS
158/10 ENTENTE FLORALE AWARDS
159/10 APSE AWARD
160/10 PUBLIC QUESTION TIME
The Director of Law and Democracy informed the Worshipful the Mayor that no Public Questions had been received.
161/10 APPOINTMENTS PANEL (HEADS OF SERVICE) MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Mrs McCoy, seconded by Councillor Gibson and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Appointments Panel (Heads of Service) held on 10th September 2010 (Minute APP 13/10 - APP 15/10) be received.
163/10 AUDIT COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Womphrey, seconded by Councillor O Donnell and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Audit Committee held on 23rd August 2010 (Minute A 24/10 - A 30/10) be received.
164/10 CABINET MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Lupton, seconded by Councillor Mrs Beaumont and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Cabinet held on 30th September 2010 (Minute CAB 66/10 - CAB 79/10) be confirmed or received as appropriate.
Moved by Councillor Lupton, seconded by Councillor Mrs Beaumont and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Cabinet held on 14th October 2010 (Minute CAB 80/10 - CAB 81/10) be received subject to the following correction:-
At minute CAB 80/10:-
Following the paragraph relating to Councillor Patterson's declaration of Interest insert:-
"He also had a personal, non prejudicial interest in the item as he was a Director of Barwick's Own 2 nd Secondary School".
166/10 CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE SELECT COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Harrington, seconded by Councillor Eddy and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Children and Young People Select Committee held on 9th June 2010 (Minute CYP 12/10 - CYP 13/10) be confirmed.
Moved by Councillor Harrington, seconded by Councillor Eddy and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Children and Young People Select Committee held on 30th June 2010 (Minute CYP 14/10 - CYP 19/10) be confirmed.
Moved by Councillor Harrington, seconded by Councillor Eddy and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Children and Young People Select Committee held on 14th July 2010 (Minute CYP 20/10 - CYP 24/10) be confirmed.
Moved by Councillor Harrington, seconded by Councillor Eddy and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Children and Young People Select Committee held on 1st September 2010 (Minute CYP 25/10 - CYP 30/10) be confirmed.
170/10 CORPORATE, ADULT SERVICES & SOCIAL INCLUSION SELECT COMMITTEE MINUTES
(Attachment: 10)Minutes
Moved by Councillor Stoker, seconded by Councillor Apedaile and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Corporate, Adult Services & Social Inclusion Select Committee held on 20th July 2010 (Minute CAS 10/10 - CAS 15/10) be confirmed.
171/10 EMPLOYEE APPEALS PANEL MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Mrs Nelson and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Employee Appeals Panel held on 17th June 2010 (Minute EAP 7/10 - EAP 9/10) be received.
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Mrs Nelson and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Employee Appeals Panel held on 6th July 2010 (Minute EAP 10/10 - EAP 12/10) be received.
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Mrs Nelson and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Employee Appeals Panel held on 12th July 2010 (Minute EAP 13/10 - EAP 15/10) be received.
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Mrs Nelson and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Employee Appeals Panel held on 2nd August 2010 (Minute EAP 16/10 - EAP 18/10) be received.
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Mrs Nelson and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Employee Appeals Panel held on 17th September 2010 (Minute EAP 19/10 - EAP 22/10) be received.
176/10 ENVIRONMENT SELECT COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Mrs Rigg, seconded by Councillor Smith and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Environment Select Committee held on 9th August 2010 (Minute ENV 13/10 - ENV 18/10) be confirmed subject to the following correction:-
Minute ENV 15/10, Page 370:-
At the first line delete "9th August 2010" and replace with "28th June 2010".
177/10 EXECUTIVE SCRUTINY COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Gibson, seconded by Councillor Miss Large and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Executive Scrutiny Committee held on 27th July 2010 (Minute EXC 9/10 - EXC 14/10) be received.
178/10 HEALTH SELECT COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Mrs Cains, seconded by Councillor Faulks and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Health Select Committee held on 5th July 2010 (Minute H 15/10 - H 21/10) be confirmed.
179/10 HOUSING & COMMUNITY SAFETY SELECT COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Cherrett, seconded by Councillor Earl and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Housing & Community Safety Select Committee held on 10th August 2010 (Minute HCS 17/10 - HCS 22/10) be confirmed.
180/10 LICENSING COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Mrs Nelson, seconded by Councillor Kirton and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Licensing Committee held on 28th July 2010 (Minute L 23/10 - L 28/10) be received subject to the following correction:-
Minute L 26/10 Page 384:-
In the first resolution second line delete the word "attainted" and replace it with the word "obtained".
Moved by Councillor Mrs Nelson, seconded by Councillor Kirton and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Licensing Committee held on 23rd August 2010 (Minute L 29/10 - L 41/10) be received.
182/10 LICENSING SUB COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Mrs Nelson, seconded by Councillor Kirton and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Licensing Sub Committee held on 2nd August 2010 (Minute LSC 22/10 - LSC 24/10) be received.
Moved by Councillor Mrs Nelson, seconded by Councillor Kirton and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Licensing Sub Committee held on 16th August 2010 (Minute LSC 25/10 - LSC 27/10) be received.
184/10 PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Salt and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Planning Committee held on 25th August 2010 (Minute P 48/10 - P 53/10) be received.
Moved by Councillor Rix, seconded by Councillor Salt and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Planning Committee held on 15th September 2010 (Minute P 54/10 - P 59/10) be received.
186/10 REGENERATION & TRANSPORT SELECT COMMITTEE MINUTES
Moved by Councillor Perry, seconded by Councillor Cains and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Regeneration and Transport Select Committee held on 26th July 2010 (Minute RTS 28/10 - RTS 32/10) be confirmed.
Moved by Councillor Perry, seconded by Councillor Cains and RESOLVED that the minutes of the Regeneration and Transport Select Committee held on 16th August 2010 (Minute RTS 33/10 - RTS 39/10) be confirmed.
188/10 CLEVELAND FIRE AUTHORITY AUTHORITY MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of the Cleveland Fire Authority held on the 30th July 2010 were noted.
189/10 CLEVELAND POLICE AUTHORITY MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of the Cleveland Police Authority Executive held on the 15th June 2010 were noted.
190/10 CLEVELAND POLICE AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE MINUTES
191/10 PARISH COUNCIL LIAISON FORUM MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of the Parish Council Liaison Forum held on the 20th September 2010 were noted subject to the following correction:-
At minute PCL 9/10 delete the words "Council appointed" from the declaration by Councillor Mrs Beaumont.
192/10 SCHOOLS' WORKFORCE JOINT CONSULTATIVE PANEL
The minutes of the meeting of the Schools' Workforce Joint Consultative Panel held on the 14th July 2010 were noted.
193/10 PROPOSED DISPENSATION FOR NON-ATTENDANCE - COUNCILLOR NESBITT
RESOLVED that Council grant a dispensation to allow Councillor Nesbitt to remain qualified as a Member until such time as she has recovered from illness and is able to attend a meeting of the Council.
194/10 MEMBERS' QUESTION TIME
195/10 FORWARD PLAN AND LEADERS STATEMENT
152/10 The Worshipful the Mayor read out a letter of thanks that had been received from Brigadier J C W Maciejewski DSO MBE regarding the recent Freedom Parade for The Rifles.
153/10 Members stood in a minute's silence as a mark of respect for former Councillor Norman Teasdale.
154/10 Councillor Dixon declared a personal, non prejudicial interest in respect of agenda item 13 - Cabinet Minute CAB 81/10 as he was a Director of Barwick's Own 2nd Secondary School.
Councillor Harrington declared a personal, non prejudicial interest in respect of agenda item 13 - Cabinet Minute CAB 81/10 as he was a Director of Barwick's Own 2nd Secondary School.
155/10 The minutes of the meeting of Council held on 8th September 2010 were signed by the Worshipful the Mayor as a correct record.
156/10 The Worshipful the Mayor presented the JAG (Joint Authorities Group) UK Award to Steve Dodds (Engineer - Highway Network Management Team) for his efforts and contribution in connection with street works and traffic management issues.
157/10 The Worshipful the Mayor informed Members of the results of the Northumbria in Bloom Awards.
The Northumbria in Bloom Gold Award 2010 went to Stockton on Tees for achieving Best City in 2010 for a seventh successive year.
The Northumbria in Bloom Best Park in a Town Award 2010 went to Stockton on Tees for Ropner Park.
The Worshipful the Mayor and the Cabinet Member for Environment congratulated the Care For Your Area team on their achievements and presented the awards to the Jamie McCann (Head of Direct Services), Dave Mace and Dave Snowden (Direct Services).
158/10 The Worshipful the Mayor informed Members of the results of the Entente Florale Awards.
Stockton on Tees won the prestigious Entente Florale 2010 Gold Plaque. Stockton on Tees achieved the highest possible standard after representing the UK in Europe's biggest environmental competition.
159/10 The Worshipful the Mayor informed Members of the results of the APSE (Association of Public Service Excellence) Awards.
Stockton on Tees won Best Team of the year 2010 award for Parks, Grounds and Horticulture.
The Worshipful the Mayor and the Cabinet Member for Environment congratulated the Care For Your Area team on their achievements and presented the awards to the Jamie McCann (Head of Direct Services) and Nigel Clark (Horticulture Manager).
Stockton on Tees also won the APSE (Association of Public Service Excellence) Overall Council of the Year 2010 award in Service Delivery.
From more than 300 entries across the UK this award was testament to the hard work of all of the staff, who provided a consistently high standard of front-line services.
The Worshipful the Mayor presented the award to the Chief Executive and the Leader of the Council.
193/10 It was reported that Section 85 of the Local Government Act 1972 provided that where a Council Member failed, throughout a period of six consecutive months, to attend any meeting of his/her authority then he/she ceased to be a member of the authority unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the authority before the expiry of that period.
Councillor Nesbitt was incapacitated due to illness and had been unable to attend any meeting of the authority for a period in excess of 4 months. It was requested that Council consider granting her a dispensation.
194/10 The following question was submitted by Councillor Walmsley for response by the Leader of the Council:-
"As the only group to argue against the re-branding of the former Teesside International Airport - ironically referred to as TIA - can we now assume that with the introduction of extortionate charges to all would be passengers to keep the airport afloat that the other TIA (Thornaby Independent Association) were absolutely right in opposing the utter nonsense which has now led to the airport being in such a perilous state?"
The Leader of the Council responded with:-
"The Chief Executive Officer from Peel Airports has supplied the following response:-
It would be quite misleading to suggest any relationship between the issue of the name change at Durham Tees Valley, introduced some years ago, and the current urgent need to achieve financial stability at the airport.
The reality, as outlined to our local authority shareholders recently, is that, in common with all sections of air transport industry, Durham Tees Valley has been severely affected by the impact of the global recession, leading to significant falls in passenger numbers.
When Vancouver Airport Services took the decision earlier this year to invest in Peel Airports it was made clear that putting Durham Tees Valley on a firm financial footing would be a top priority�along with working to increase the range of flights and services.
Already significant savings in operating costs have been put in place and the drive to improve efficiency will continue. At the same time it has to be recognised that some services, such as air traffic control and firefighting, must be maintained regardless of passenger numbers.
The decision to introduce a Passenger facility fee was taken only after a great deal of careful consideration. We recognise that no-one likes to be asked to pay money, but it must be understood that this measure is a vital element in the plans for securing the future of the airport.
We are continuing our efforts to attract new services and develop new opportunities, despite conditions in the air transport industry remaining very challenging.
We are aware of the ongoing debate over the area's identity and views on the airport name. It is matter which we will keep under consideration and review but at present our key objective is to achieve financial stability."
Councillor Walmsley asked the following supplementary question:-
"I was sitting up here when the presentation was made to us on the re-branding and how this would make the airport as good as Newcastle. Flying over ICI will not be the same as flying over Durham Cathedral. We do not want to see the airport in financial difficulty but the people that agreed the re-branding should step down. Re-branding has not worked?"
"Over �30 million has been spent on the airport including new runway lighting. The airport can only make money from airlines and passengers which makes it difficult for the airport in the current economic climate."
The following question was submitted by Councillor Walmsley for response by the Cabinet Member for Housing & Community Safety:-
"TriStar: How much was spent on Decent Standards and how much can TriStar legitimately guarantee to be spent on housing following stock transfer?"
The Cabinet Member for Housing & Community Safet responded with:-
"In the eight years of the ALMO there has been �200million spent on improvements, maintenance and repairs.
Following transfer, Tristar plans to spend:-
around �140million on improvements, maintenance and repairs in the first five years
around �600million on improvements, maintenance and repairs over thirty years
All of the spend alongside the income coming into the new company forms part of the detailed Tristar Business Plan which gets submitted to funders as part of the transfer process.
Details of investment in Tenants homes is part of the offer document that was sent to tenants as part of the ballot process. Post transfer it will be part of the legally binding agreement between the Council and Tristar Homes."
"I am delighted the Cabinet Member has responded. Is the �600 million a guaranteed figure and can residents have confidence in that?"
The Cabinet Member for Housing & Community Safety responded with:-
"Yes the figure is a legally binding guarantee. There will be a programme of works to replace windows and kitchens."
The following question was submitted by Councillor Walmsley for response by the Cabinet Member for Regeneration & Transport:-
"The Mandale Triangle Gyratory scheme - oddly suggesting that it will improve bus transport - has led to a glut of complaints to ward and town councillors about what purpose it really serves. Can the Cabinet member inform us who designed this project and at what cost?"
The Cabinet Member for Regeneration & Transport responded with:-
"The Mandale Gyratory bus works form part of the Tees Valley Major bus scheme, which received funding from Central Government in June this year.
The detailed design of the works was undertaken by the Council and the cost of the works was �600K, which is funded directly from the major scheme. Works to repair Victoria Bridge were also completed at the same time, which were funded from maintenance budgets."
"This is leading to my next question but are the only beneficiaries the occasional bus that travels over the Victoria Bridge. Whoever inherits Thornaby Town Hall will also have �100k of improvements. Isn't all this a waste of public money?"
"The answer to the second part of your supplementary question is no. The answer to the first part is that the scheme was developed by the Council and former JSU to improve overall bus journey times between Stockton and Middlesbrough, with over 40 buses per hour in each direction using the route. The works have deliberately taken out capacity for cars to use the route as the opening of 1825 Way to the A66 was always intended to reduce traffic over Victoria Bridge.
Improvements in reliability for bus services are key to improving the experience for users and increasing patronage. The Mandale works, together with the improvements scheduled for Riverside Roundabout will reduce journey times for buses significantly."
"I have sat on the Licensing Committee when taxi drivers were not only obliged to pay for the cost of improving or replacing vehicles, but also pay the consequences of not providing an acceptable service. Therefore, why should this Council fork out �450k or thereabouts to subsidise bus companies who routinely do what they want? Isn't this akin to the tail wagging the dog?"
"I am glad you have toned down your question Councillor Walmsley and you should apologise to the Licensing Committee Members.
The bus companies run commercial services that don't always suit the ideals of the Council for covering community areas. The Council has to therefore fund additional services for those areas that are not commercially viable yet do have a demand for public transport, including some de-minimus diversions.
This is a national position since bus deregulation in 1985. Some examples include:-
- 588/589 service linking The Clarences with Billingham and Stockton
- 507 daytime services running through Yarm and Thornaby to Stockton Town Centre.
All services that are subsidised are done under contract that specifies the route, timings and frequency to ensure the Council's objectives are met."
"I will not apologise to Licensing Committee Members. Taxi drivers have a job to do and should be treated with the respect they deserve. I was at a recent meeting regarding the houses on Westbury Street. Some of the houses have structural damage because of the buses and the kids take their life into their own hands when they are going to school. Why couldn't we do something sensible with the �600k that was spent on the Mandale Triangle Gyratory scheme?"
"We are looking at the problems in Westbury Street but it is because of the bus patronage that the buses travel on that street. We can not tell the bus companies not to use the street. I have asked officers to have a further look at the situation. Licensing Committee Members have a job to do as well as taxis drivers."
"(P 317) refers to the White Water Course and other matters related to the initiative. Does the Cabinet member agree that should an Olympic Steering Group ever truly scrutinise the state of the area on the Thornaby side of the river that they might re-think staging anything in this area?"
The Cabinet for Regeneration & Transport responded with:-
"It is recognised that the land ownership on Teesdale development has left inconsistencies that mean the Council does not control all areas and are therefore unable to maintain them to the levels that are seen elsewhere around the Borough.
A Member, Officer and resident group have been working towards some piecemeal solutions around the anti-social behaviour, street cleanliness and maintenance. The challenge remains around the land that is not owned by Stockton Council and that's why for some time now we have been pursuing the private developers of this site to fulfil their legal duty to properly maintain their land, with little success.
British Waterways are one organisation that owns many areas of riverside walkway that need attention. I have asked that Senior Officers ensure British Waterways responsibilities are followed up as a matter of urgency.
I am also conscious that the legal position is frustrating, particularly with the seemingly unwillingness of the private developers to take action, but before we can adopt this land and take control, we must pursue all avenues to try and make the landowners accountable for their responsibilities.
Nevertheless the Council will continue to support local residents and try and target some resources, albeit piecemeal, to improve the area whilst continuing to actively lobby and pursue legal means against the landowners to pay for the clear-up."
"The white water course is incidential to the question and is an excellent facility. It wasn't meant to trip the Cabinet Member up. I went on a walk with a BBC reporter recently near Trinity Mews and we discussed the poor state of the area on the Thornaby side of the river. How are these companies allowed to be set up and then be dissolved leaving Stockton Council to pick the bills up? The local MP's could help the people that have moved in there and I don't mind saying that these people that set up these companies are crooks.
"It only costs �100 to form a company and the liaibility is only �1 for each member. It should be a criminal offence to do what these people are doing. Two years a go I went round the site with somebody from Durham University to look at the some of the areas. Officers have looked at costs for remedial work. We are trying to pursue these companies and it is a disgrace what these companies are doing to the Teesdale area."
195/10 The Leader of the Council gave his Forward Plan and Leaders Statement.
The Leader of the Council outlined it would be easy for Members to look on the awards received by the employees and the Council as self indulgent and self congratulatory but he believed that the success in the areas involved was an expression of the dedication and professionalism of everyone concerned in the Council in serving the community and added his thanks to everyone concerned.
By way of contrast Members were aware that the Chancellor's announcement on public spending was made earlier on the day of this meeting.
While it would take a while for the Council to understand the full details of what had come through, the Leader of the Council shared a few headlines with Members:-
As with all budget announcements the devil would be in the detail. The headline statement for local government was that it was going to face cuts of 7.1% each year for 4 years. However, it was not yet clear whether these totals took into account additional changes to Local Government Finacing.
All Councils that freeze their council tax in 2011/12 would be funded at a flat rate of 2.5%.
Capital funding from all departments to Councils would fall by 45% over the period of the review.
The PFI funding for the replacement of the street lighting stock had also been withdrawn.
A more detailed briefing would be sent to all Members and there was also a Member's seminar on Monday, 25th October 2010 in the Lecture Hall, Stockton Central Library.
On the Economy:-
There were some positive announcements that could be seen in the coming weeks.
At the next Cabinet the Council would learn the outcome of two very important inspections into Safeguarding and Looked after Children and Adults inspections. These were extremely thorough and far ranging and while they won't be public until later in the week and into next - the Council had every confidence that they reflected the progress that had been made in these areas.
the Council were also expecting next week an announcement of the Tees Valley's bid to become a Local Enterprise Partnership. Again, all the signs pointed to a positive outcome for the Tees Valley which would be a tremendous opportunity for our area.
The Council had recently learnt that Stockton was one of the Country's three fastest growing places for new business start ups with the Business Barometer, published by Royal Mail showing the number of new businesses in the UK increasing for the first time in 18 months.
The news that Stockton was a leader in enterprise growth followed last month's announcement naming it as the most enterprising place in the North east, as regional winner in the Enterprising Britain competition.
Some Local Investment News included:-
TAG Energy Solutions was developing a plant at Haverton Hill to manufacture offshore wind turbine foundations, which was likely to create 100 jobs initially with a further 300 coming on stream to service orders in a �20m investment programme.
And to recognise all this work Stockton would host next month - Stockton Enterprise Week - a whole host of enterprising activities to encourage local people to set up businesses.
From the 15th to 19th November 2010 an ambitious programme of events would offer people the chance to find out about anything from becoming a market trader, to setting up in the digital industries or getting on in the music business.
There were over 500 businesses now signed up to receive electronically a "Business Briefing" called Connected to Business an initiative from the Council outlining recent investments, regeneration news and how the Council could help business.
And finally:-
The Council was coming to the end of a legal process which would see the demolition of Billingham House starting on site early in the New Year.
And today the Leader had received a letter from the store manager of Debenhams stating that the rumours that the High street store was closing had no foundation and that they were proud to have a store in Stockton and value the support and loyalty of their customers.
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Michael O'Reilly | November 22, 2004 | Archive, Video Game Reviews, Xbox | No Comments
System: Microsoft Xbox
Players: 1-16 (Via X-Box Live & LAN Party)
When the X-Box first launched, there was really just one game that was considered must have. Sure you had your niche games that satisfied fans of whatever genres you wanted, but only one game on launch day could be considered truly awesome. That game was Halo, and it remained the only real reason to own an X-Box for quite a while. Eventually, with the help of their online service X-Box Live, and a few key game releases, the system grew in stature. Yet still in many peoples minds the best game on the system was Halo, just like Goldeneye on the N64 before it. When Halo 2 was announced much blood rushed and many palms did get sweaty. Message Boards exploded with anticipation. The hype for this game has been staggering, rivaled only by Half-Life 2 in terms of the amount of people expecting it to be the best ever.
So now the hour of our anticipation arrives, Halo 2 has been released and has already made Microsoft $125,000,000. So was the hype justified? Is this the be all and end all? Let me preface this review by stating there will be some spoilage. Now then, enough small talk, lets get down to business.
We start off the review with the first spoiler. Halo 2 isn’t the story of Master Chief. Bungie have gone and made the game the story of both Master Chief and the leader of the Covenant military forces on the first Halo, who becomes known as the Arbiter. So you will go through Halo 2 playing as both characters, first as MC (Master Chief), then as Arbiter, being switched off when it was time to move the story forward. The only real difference between them is Chief has a flashlight and Cortana in his ear, while Arbiter can cloak for short periods of time.
As for the story, it starts off shortly after Chiefy gets home from Halo, and goes on ti show you for the first time both sides of the story, as Arbiter is proclaimed a Heretic for allowing the first Halo to be destroyed. He is stripped of his rank, tortured and condemned to die. He is eventually spared his death sentence and is instead given a suicide mission as the “Arbiter” to stop other heretics from diverting true believers from the path of the righteous. Eventually a portion of the Covenant fleet mistakenly attacks Earth, not realizing it is humanity’s home planet, and MC is off to stomp more Covenant. I don’t think I’m spoiling the story here by saying eventually another Halo is found.
I actually found the Covenant side of the story to be more interesting myself. The Arbiters actions, as well as those of a few other power hungry leaders, lead to some very dramatic storylines. The human story just seems to be there, as they rely more on the feelings created in the first game to make you care about the characters. Especially troubling is Cortana, who now talks and poses like she’s your girlfriend instead of an Artificial Intelligence. Maybe having an AI inside your head isn’t such a good idea after all.
Story: 8/10
How do you go about describing the best looking game on the system without making you think its going to blow your socks off? That’s the problem I face with Halo 2. The game IS the best looking thing to hit the X-Box, but the graphics won’t give you a heart attack when you see them. This is partly because the graphics are so similar to the first Halo, yet still look better than before. There are levels in Halo 2 that made me stop what I was doing and look around, only to be killed shortly after. The glow of computer monitors, the shine on the armor of various Elites. The scope of your sniper rifle actually showing a small image when you aren’t looking through it. All of this and more easily makes Halo 2 the best looking game on the system, but because so much of it looks so similar to the first Halo, you might be disappointed that it doesn’t grab you by the throat.
Graphics: 10/10
This game sounds really good. So good in fact you probably don’t have a stereo good enough to listen to it. The quality of voice acting has continued to rise in the past couple of years, so the time is probably going to come when voice acting will only be mentioned when there is a poor job done. Halo 2 is another example of this. The voice cast is superb, and while it’s never really mentioned how the Humans and Covenant can understand each other where in Halo they couldn’t, when they speak they sound right. Lines are delivered fluidly, without any of the usual pause that some games have where the script turns a page, and each of the voice actors cast fits the characters. Except perhaps the Flood Overmind, but who knows how a talking plant is supposed to sound (Except for Levi Stubbs perhaps)?
The excellent sound track to Halo has returned for Halo 2, with the theme being reworked a little to sound even better than before, amazingly. Starting a mission while listening to that gets the blood going. Master Chief tends to get the older Halo music, remixed at times but recognizable. Arbiter’s music is more understated. It’s there, and it is noticeable when you are looking for it, but it gets drowned out during battle most of the time, only really making it’s presence felt when a battle is coming to a crescendo. Both the Chief music and the Arbiter music are enjoyable, though Arbiters feels a little sad, almost as though the music is conveying how he feels.
Sound effects are fantastic here. Sub Machine Guns rip into the air like buzz saws, especially when there are lots of them firing at once. The surround sound experience in some of the battles is very intense, as there are some battlefields where you will be completely surrounded by the enemy and fire will be coming at you from all angles. This game is a reason to own a surround sound stereo on its own.
Sound: 10/10
Not a lot has changed since Halo in the Control department. You still run around using the same joystick configuration, the L trigger still throws grenades, unless you have a second weapon in your hand, then it fires that instead. The ability to wield a second weapon is the biggest change for the controls, really. You run over a small enough weapon, hold down Y to pick it up with your left hand, and presto you’re now twice as deadly. You cannot target two separate targets, but you can kill twice as fast.
There are some minor changes to the Covenant vehicles. They all still move the same way, but someone at Bungie clearly played Crimson Skies and figured all the neat tricks you could do would be a nifty addition to the Banshee. So don’t be surprised if you find a Banshee in Crimson Skies 2 some day. Second, all of the Covenant vehicles now have an afterburner function. You hold press the L button and your vehicle shoots forward a little. Nothing too dramatic, but useful when you want to ram something in a tank, or to get yourself up a hill. The single player mode vehicles are also slightly different from multiplayer. The Banshee, for example, has a bomb you can drop in the single player campaign, and that isn’t available (at least not that I found anyway) in the multiplayer.
All of the vehicles, like the Puma…I mean Warthog, now take visible damage, so you can tell when its time to abandon ship. Also, as a nice addition, you can now carjack enemy vehicles. It isn’t the easiest thing to do, so don’t go thinking Halo has gone GTA. It goes against every instinct I might have in combat to stand still and hold X while near a vehicle that wants to kill you, then melee attack the entrance until it opens and finally dropping a grenade in to clear your passage. Finally you get off the vehicle and hold X again to enter the presumably gooey interior.
Controls: 9/10
I have for the most part discussed the single player campaign in the review so far. Now its time to switch over to the multiplayer. The first Halo was at one time supposed to be Live enabled, but Live wasn’t ready on time so that got delayed and the game shipped without it. The rest of the multiplayer features in Halo made it the classic it has become, but there were still people who wanted to play it online. After all, 4 players on a split screen can be pretty crummy if you don’t have a 50 inch TV. And while lugging 3 X-Boxes and 12 friends to a conveniently vacant house for an evening or a weekend may sound fantastic, it is very often unachievable due to technicality’s like wives not wanting 16 men lounging around her house. Never mind the question of what videogame geek even KNOWs 15 people at any given time. So the addition of online play to Halo 2 was not only expected, it was all but demanded by the public. And Bungie, being the nice amiable people that they are, agreed.
At any given time, there are roughly 35,000 people playing Half-Life or Half-Life based Modifications, making it the most popular game to play online. Or at least it used to be. That crown now belongs to Halo 2, where even at 6 in the morning you can find 16,000 people playing this game on X-Box Live. As I write this Bungie’s stats page shows there have been just under 350,000 unique players on their servers in the past 24 hours. While that is fantastic in many ways, it’s also the cause of my number one complaint about Halo 2 online. As you no doubt have heard by now, Halo 2 doesn’t use a standard server browser to let you find games to play in. Instead, you select the kind of game you’d like to join and Halo 2 goes out and finds a game that has the gametype you want PLUS players who are of roughly equivalent skill to your own, which Bungie measures and assigns using math that makes nuclear physicists shudder. The fact that so many people are playing should make it easy to find a game, but its bogging down Bungie’s servers so much that it can take as much as 5 minutes to find a game. Bungie has recently released a patch that is to relieve the waiting time, but we at Inside Pulse review games as released, so what they released is what you see reviewed here. While Bungie could have been lazy and released a game with a server browser that lets level 50 players go nuts on little level 4 players, they chose to instead make you play against people your own size. And it works. Every game I played online in Live was competitive. It may not have been me being competitive that particular game, but the games were always close until the end. So yes, I can forgive Bungie for going that route with their game browser.
What I can’t forgive, due to it’s blatant oversight, is the lack of a rematch feature in Live. You can form a party and get rematches that way, but who has time to add 7 people to your friends list for a rematch? Or better yet, 15 other players for a team match? All it would have taken is a button that says rematch yes or no. It would also have cut down on the amount of complaining about the 2 to 5 minute waiting periods to get into games. I’m hoping this gets patched at some point also, but for now I’ll have to live with it.
Balance: 7/10
Replayability:
I’m going to live with the lack of rematch options because the game is fantastic, to put it bluntly. While at times the game just feels like any other online FPS, the level design, game type design and the customization that is allowed for game types makes this a paradise for those who get bored easily. That’s a good thing, because the game shipped with a limited number of multiplayer maps. More will probably be coming via X-Box Live Downloadable Content, but for now you best get used to the maps on the disk.
I found when I first started playing online that it was difficult to tell who was friend and who was foe in the team battles. Various icons over players heads were difficult to understand. And the Red and Blue battle armor isn’t always easy to differentiate on some of the maps, at least not right away. Eventually I did come to get the hang of things, and my opinion of the game improved as I did so. The more I understood the game types the more I wanted to play them.
The single player campaign is not the hardest game in the world while playing on normal, but once you increase the difficulty to Heroic things become much more interesting. Enemys all at once become even more deadly then before, making the experience more enjoyable yet also more frustrating. Story elements change a little bit as you play the game on harder levels, cut scenes are voiced a little differently. Little things like that are what make a person curious enough to play the game again if the game is good enough. This one is.
Replay Ability: 8/10
Appeal:
If you own an X-Box this is quite simply must have material. If you don’t have one and have been waiting for an excuse to try out the system and X-Box Live, this here is your reason. You will not find a better reason to try this system out, if only for its Live abilitys. Sitting on your couch blasting people half a continent away with little or no lag while listening to trash talking in your headset is just too fun to describe in words. It has to be experienced. Quite simply this game is a system seller.
Appeal: 10/10
Nothing in this game could be considered original, really. Instead this is just a blending of the best parts of many other original games. Online connectivity, voice chat, blasting aliens, giving you another character to control, etc. It’s all been done before. None of it has ever been brought together in one complete package quite so well though. There are flaws in Halo 2’s armor, and the lack of true originality one of them.
Originality: 2/10
Addictiveness:
The single player campaign ends quite abruptly, very much like Legacy of Kain did at one time. It might just end too soon because it’s so good that I wanted more, but no, the real reason I think the end comes too soon is because the end does come too soon. I’m not going to say what happens, but don’t be surprised when you see the credits role. It feels very much like at some point Bungie said “Ok we’ve got a deadline of November 9, we have to ship then, where can we end this story and get away with it, then finish it in Halo 3”
The real addictive quality found in this game, the reason this game should be studied by the cigarette industry if they want to increase the potency of their product, is it’s online component. Quite simply, when you are in the game it’s impossible to tear yourself away. You may get frustrated at the minute waiting to get into games, but thats just proving my point. If you weren’t all that bothered by the waiting then the game probably wouldn’t last that long in your X-Box. It would be out the door and in some used bargain bin by now. Much of the gameplay is similar to that found in the first Halo, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the game is addictive.
Addictiveness: 10/10
There are some issues I have with this game, they just feel very minor when compared to the rest of the game. For instance the Plasma Sword is far too over powered to be in multiplayer matches as it is. The waiting for online matches and the lack of a usable rematch function makes for an irritation that is badly in need of some soothing lotion, in the form of a patch.
There are times during the single player campaign where I had no idea where I was supposed to be heading. What happened to those useful waypoint markers from the first Halo? And while I enjoyed playing as the Arbiter, I bought the game to play as Master Chief. I think they should have been upfront about the character switch, just like I think Konami should have been with their sequel to a megahit.
Miscellaneous: 4/10
Short Attention Span Summary
While we may have to wait for Halo 3 before the story is truly completed, and the promised battle for Earth is really and truly engaged, we can take solace in the fact that what Bungie has delivered is a fantastic multplayer experience wrapped around a great single player mode whose only fault is that it ends far too soon.
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Opinion: Presidential Transition—Page 8 Sports: Women's golf capture WCC tourney—Page 20
llpl H San Francisco
The University of San Francisco
WWW. /■()(,'/ rORNONLINE.COM
Student Credit Use Sexual Assault at Storyville
Spivttls Out of CotltVOl Female student attacked in nightclub restroom
Shayna Coleon
FOGHORN STAFFWRITER
Like a fortune teller laying out her
tarot cards, University of San Francisco junior Tarrah Tokishi methodically placed her monthly credit card
bills on her dorm floor and groaned
at the bleak oudook.
After receiving her first
credit card in
1998, the 20-
year-old biology
major "maxed
out" her five
since then, and is
now working to
pay off her
$3,000 debt.
Tokishi realizes that even
working five
days of the week at three different
campus jobs won't relieve many of
her financial burdens.
"Every paycheck I get, I don't
see," Tokishi said. "I already want
so many things, like I wanted these
jeans at Old Navy for $6.99, you
know? But, I can't buy anything
anymore."
Tokishi said she felt so confident
when she charged her first big investment: a $300 Ralph Lauren bedset
from Macy's her
sophomore year.
"I saw it in
the store,
thought it was
nice, and said,
'I'll pay it back,'"
Tokishi said and
shrugged. "I figured, $300, that's
so easy if you
pay it in installments."
mark mcnef/foghorn She becan
buying clothes,
airplane tickets to visit her boyfriend
in Las Vegas, and eating out.
Tokishi said that her spending
Students: Page 2
Jessica Dryden-Cook
A senior female student at the
University of San Francisco was sexually assaulted in the bathroom at a
nightclub a few blocks from campus
last Thursday.
"You can't understand it unless
you go through it," she said. "You see
it in the movies but you never ever
think it's going to happen to you."
At approximately 1 a.m., the student went to use the bathroom at
Storyville, a nightclub located on
Fulton St. at Masonic. She noticed a
man leaving the women's restroom,
but thought he must have used it accidentally.
She entered the single stall bathroom and while she was urinating, the
same man opened her stall door. "I
thought I was dreaming. I was like
what is he doing here," she said.
As she quickly tried to pull up her
pants, the man grabbed her calves and
yanked her to the ground. She hit her
head on either the wall or the toilet
and landed on the tile floor on her
Storyville has a reputation for serving alcohol to minors and employing
former criminals, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
The man then quickly attempted
to pull down her pants. She pushed
the man away and got up but was still
trapped with him in the stall. He said
to her, "Don't say anything or I'll kill
you." He was serious.
A rush of adrenaline went through
her body, and she thought to herself,
"This is not going to happen to me,"
and psyched herself up to fight back.
Authorities': Page 5
School of Americas Protestors
Learn to Lobby in Washington
Nelson Toriano
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Sarah Slakey, 19, is a history major and a student in the Saint
Ignatius Institute. She is also a
member of USF's chapter of the
School of America's (SOA) Watch.
From March 29 through April 3,
USF's SOA Watch made a trip to
"It was amazing that we were
able to bring more consciousness
to Congress," she said. "It's empowering to know that we helped
make a difference and our voices
were heard."
They hosted rallies, learned
lobbying techniques and the functions of Congress, and publicized
the group's cause. Their purpose
was to join the national effort to
close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Operations
(WHISC), formerly known as the
School of Americas.
Among the representatives
and respective aides with whom
the group met were Tom Lantos
(D-CA), Ed Royce (R-CA),
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
SOA Watch West, the national
organization's chapter on the West
Coast, helped the group to develop
public speaking skills for an audience of such high power.
"Keep things simple. Stay focused. Try to not let your emotions get the better of you," Sarah Silva, 19, theology major with
a public service certificate, said.
"The most important thing
about the meetings was just to
maintain a dialogue."
Political science major Carlos
Must Pass Board Test
to Graduate
COURTEfY OF SCHOOL OF AMERICAS WATCH
A group of USF students visited various politicians, learning how to
protest the former School of Americas through lobbying tactics.
Menchaca, 20, said, "Anyone can
lobby. You just need facts, passion,
and an open and analytical mind."
The group reported that one of
the most challenging representatives was Silvestre Reyes (R-CA).
Reyes is the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and is
in support of the WHISC.
Nina Ardalan, 20, psychology
"Anyone can lobby.
You just need facts,
passion, and an open
and analytical mind."
—Carlos Menchaca
major and philosophy minor, said
that some representatives and their
aides gave general comments
fluffed with political and nonsensical jargon. "Some of them defended the WHISC because the
school maintained 'civilian control,'" she said.
Such representatives referred to
the WHISC's effort to fight drug
trafficking along American borders.
Silva said that the WHISC is killing the cocaine plants in Latin
America. Therefore, they are controlling the illegal imports of drugs
into the US "They are also carelessly
fumigating the nearby corn plants.
Corn is the staple and livelihood for
many Latin American families."
The group left representatives
Some nursing students at the
University of San Francisco are
upset that they have to pay $30 to
take the Health Education System,
Inc. Test, which students are required to pass to pass (with an 85
percent) in order to complete the
Clinical Lab VI course and graduate.
The School of Nursing told the
students that they would have opportunities during the semester to
take the test. If a student did not
pass the test by graduation time,
he or she could walk but not officially graduate, and would be
charged $30 for each additional
test. However, the first test date was
AH HITCIIINCS/fOCIIORN
Cowell School of Nursing.
scheduled for a week after the
course began, leaving only two remaining test dates.
When some students found out
they had to pay for the test, they
were more than unhappy. "When
my friends found out they had to
Nursing: Page 5
COURTESY OF DELIA ZHIA SORORI'lY
The Delta Zeta Sorority kicked off its annual Teeter-Totter-a-
Thon on April 24 to raise money for Project Insight, a San Francisco after-school and summer camp that builds a community for
children with hearing impairments and their families. Sorority
members teeter-tottered in Harney Plaza for 48 hours straight,
raising close to $2,000. Project Insight is fully funded by donations that enable children to assimilate through weekend trips and
outdoor adventures.
Issue Title San Francisco Foghorn Volume 97 Issue 16
Page size (W x L) in inches 11X17.25
Notable content Sexual Assault at Storyville
Transcript Opinion: Presidential Transition—Page 8 Sports: Women's golf capture WCC tourney—Page 20 llpl H San Francisco Foghorn The University of San Francisco MAY 3,2001 WWW. /■()(,'/ rORNONLINE.COM VOLUME 97, ISSUE 16 Student Credit Use Sexual Assault at Storyville Spivttls Out of CotltVOl Female student attacked in nightclub restroom Shayna Coleon FOGHORN STAFFWRITER Like a fortune teller laying out her tarot cards, University of San Francisco junior Tarrah Tokishi methodically placed her monthly credit card bills on her dorm floor and groaned at the bleak oudook. After receiving her first credit card in 1998, the 20- year-old biology major "maxed out" her five credit cards since then, and is now working to pay off her $3,000 debt. Tokishi realizes that even working five days of the week at three different campus jobs won't relieve many of her financial burdens. "Every paycheck I get, I don't see," Tokishi said. "I already want so many things, like I wanted these jeans at Old Navy for $6.99, you know? But, I can't buy anything anymore." Tokishi said she felt so confident when she charged her first big investment: a $300 Ralph Lauren bedset from Macy's her sophomore year. "I saw it in the store, thought it was nice, and said, 'I'll pay it back,'" Tokishi said and shrugged. "I figured, $300, that's so easy if you pay it in installments." mark mcnef/foghorn She becan buying clothes, airplane tickets to visit her boyfriend in Las Vegas, and eating out. Tokishi said that her spending Students: Page 2 Jessica Dryden-Cook MANAGING EDITOR A senior female student at the University of San Francisco was sexually assaulted in the bathroom at a nightclub a few blocks from campus last Thursday. "You can't understand it unless you go through it," she said. "You see it in the movies but you never ever think it's going to happen to you." At approximately 1 a.m., the student went to use the bathroom at Storyville, a nightclub located on Fulton St. at Masonic. She noticed a man leaving the women's restroom, but thought he must have used it accidentally. She entered the single stall bathroom and while she was urinating, the same man opened her stall door. "I thought I was dreaming. I was like what is he doing here," she said. As she quickly tried to pull up her pants, the man grabbed her calves and yanked her to the ground. She hit her head on either the wall or the toilet and landed on the tile floor on her Storyville has a reputation for serving alcohol to minors and employing former criminals, according to the San Francisco Police Department. back. The man then quickly attempted to pull down her pants. She pushed the man away and got up but was still trapped with him in the stall. He said to her, "Don't say anything or I'll kill you." He was serious. A rush of adrenaline went through her body, and she thought to herself, "This is not going to happen to me," and psyched herself up to fight back. Authorities': Page 5 School of Americas Protestors Learn to Lobby in Washington Nelson Toriano ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Sarah Slakey, 19, is a history major and a student in the Saint Ignatius Institute. She is also a member of USF's chapter of the School of America's (SOA) Watch. From March 29 through April 3, USF's SOA Watch made a trip to Washington D.C. "It was amazing that we were able to bring more consciousness to Congress," she said. "It's empowering to know that we helped make a difference and our voices were heard." They hosted rallies, learned lobbying techniques and the functions of Congress, and publicized the group's cause. Their purpose was to join the national effort to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Operations (WHISC), formerly known as the School of Americas. Among the representatives and respective aides with whom the group met were Tom Lantos (D-CA), Ed Royce (R-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). SOA Watch West, the national organization's chapter on the West Coast, helped the group to develop public speaking skills for an audience of such high power. "Keep things simple. Stay focused. Try to not let your emotions get the better of you," Sarah Silva, 19, theology major with a public service certificate, said. "The most important thing about the meetings was just to maintain a dialogue." Political science major Carlos Nursing Students Must Pass Board Test to Graduate Jessica Dryden-Cook MANAGING EDITOR COURTEfY OF SCHOOL OF AMERICAS WATCH A group of USF students visited various politicians, learning how to protest the former School of Americas through lobbying tactics. Menchaca, 20, said, "Anyone can lobby. You just need facts, passion, and an open and analytical mind." The group reported that one of the most challenging representatives was Silvestre Reyes (R-CA). Reyes is the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and is in support of the WHISC. Nina Ardalan, 20, psychology "Anyone can lobby. You just need facts, passion, and an open and analytical mind." —Carlos Menchaca major and philosophy minor, said that some representatives and their aides gave general comments fluffed with political and nonsensical jargon. "Some of them defended the WHISC because the school maintained 'civilian control,'" she said. Such representatives referred to the WHISC's effort to fight drug trafficking along American borders. Silva said that the WHISC is killing the cocaine plants in Latin America. Therefore, they are controlling the illegal imports of drugs into the US "They are also carelessly fumigating the nearby corn plants. Corn is the staple and livelihood for many Latin American families." The group left representatives Students: Page 2 Some nursing students at the University of San Francisco are upset that they have to pay $30 to take the Health Education System, Inc. Test, which students are required to pass to pass (with an 85 percent) in order to complete the Clinical Lab VI course and graduate. The School of Nursing told the students that they would have opportunities during the semester to take the test. If a student did not pass the test by graduation time, he or she could walk but not officially graduate, and would be charged $30 for each additional test. However, the first test date was AH HITCIIINCS/fOCIIORN Cowell School of Nursing. scheduled for a week after the course began, leaving only two remaining test dates. When some students found out they had to pay for the test, they were more than unhappy. "When my friends found out they had to Nursing: Page 5 COURTESY OF DELIA ZHIA SORORI'lY The Delta Zeta Sorority kicked off its annual Teeter-Totter-a- Thon on April 24 to raise money for Project Insight, a San Francisco after-school and summer camp that builds a community for children with hearing impairments and their families. Sorority members teeter-tottered in Harney Plaza for 48 hours straight, raising close to $2,000. Project Insight is fully funded by donations that enable children to assimilate through weekend trips and outdoor adventures.
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Interview: Donuts’ Richard Tindal on new gTLD outreach
This is the full transcript of an interview DI conducted with Donuts chief operating officer Richard Tindal, January 23, 2015 which covers Donuts plans to market its huge portfolio of new gTLDs in 2015. Additional topics include search engine optimization, smart search, registrar relations and the potential impact of dot-brands. It’s been lightly edited for clarity and readability.
DI: Before we talk about 2015, let’s recap 2014 from your point of view.
Richard Tindal: We found 2014 to be very successful, certainly for us and certainly for the program. The sorts of volumes that have been seen are in line with our expectations. If you break down the types of registrants, the types of people who have been buying the names, you can see things that do not surprise us.
Very, very low levels of trademark protection activity. We expected that, and it’s actually even lower than we expected it and we expected very low levels. So, that was not surprising to us. That sort of segment of buying is not really a sustainable part of the business. It is not what we are in business to get — and nor are other registries — those protectors. They certainly did not turn up in any numbers and that did not surprise us in any regard.
There are really three segments, I think: the protectors, the investors, and then the end users who are typically companies using them. So, the investors certainly turned up. They turned up more heavily, I think, in the first months.
Of course we think of this as one product. We do not view it as a collection of individual, different products, all the different TLDs, but rather a “category”, if you like. We think the category got good adoption.
The investors certainly turned up. In our view, it is good to have domain investors in there, but not too many. It is a bit of a balance. You want the bulk of your population of names to be owned by businesses and users, but certainly domain investors play an important role because they are a sort of catalyst, if you like. They become an unpaid sales force out there and spread the word, and certainly a lot of the investors have sold names and there has been some good price appreciation for those that have.
So, we think the level of investor activity was
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Interview: ICM president bearish on new gTLD prospects
This is the full transcript of an interview DI conducted with ICM Registry president Stuart Lawley, January 22, 2015 in which Lawley frankly addresses the prospects for new gTLDs — including ICM’s .porn, .sex and .adult — in 2015 and beyond. Topics include marketing, search engine optimization, registrar relations and the potential impact of dot-brands to the marketplace. It’s been lightly edited for clarity and readability.
DI: You’ve told me before that you’re not convinced that a lot of new gTLDs are viable businesses. Can you explain your thoughts on that?
Stuart Lawley: I’m probably more of a bear on the new gTLD prospects than many I guess that are necessarily bullish at this time. I mean from what I’ve seen, we saw the initial sort of, dare I say, over-performance of some of the early releases. To name a few, but not pulling them out particularly, there’s the .gurus and .ninjas of this world, and .photography’s early days. And one can assume that, or one can presume, whether it would be right or not, that a lot of those names were domainer-bought on a speculative basis.
And the average launch numbers per TLD… it clearly seems to be that the new “Well Done!” number seems to be a lot less than it was six months ago or 12 months ago or even expected before. So, it would be interesting to note how many of each TLD’s names are held in the three main camps I guess you’d call it. One – and I don’t like the word necessarily – the defensive camp. The people that are buying them for whatever reason without any real intention to use. The domainer camp: speculative. And the actual user-users. And I wouldn’t like to cast aspersions on what those numbers were.
The domainers are somewhat capped by the depth of their own pocketbook. I mean there’s an array of names coming out and
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Where are They Now? Michèle Thill
Child Stars - Where are they Now?
The 21-year old Luxembourg Michèle Thill was at one point in her young career one of Luxembourg's most successful young dressage athletes in the international show arena. Michèle had her last year in the competition ring four years ago in 2014. Where is she now?
The blonde Michèle Thill made a striking appearance in the pony show ring, especially on her funky coloured blue roan Virgil (by Valido x Bright Moon), which she took over from German Karina Isselhorst.
Michele began competing Virgil nationally in Luxembourg in 2007 and made a strong rise on the international show scene. With the German Riding Pony gelding Virgil she competed at her first European Championships in 2008 in Avenches, Switzerland, finishing 12th in the individual test finals. In 2009 she campaigned Daily Daylight (by Dornik x Golden Dancer) at the European Pony Championships in Moorsele, Belgium.
In 2010 Michele returned with Virgil and rode at the 2010 European Pony Championships, which became their swan song. They were 22nd in the consolation finals.
Trained by Coby van Baalen and at home by Tim Keersmaekers, Thill made the transition to junior level in 2011 on the renowned Oldenburg stallion Don Cardinale (by Donnerhall x Feinbrand). Under Marrigje van Baalen, the licensed breeding stallion had represented The Netherlands at the 2008 and 2009 European Young Riders Championships. In 2009 Marrigje won Kur bronze.
Thill and Virgil at the
2010 European Pony Championships
Thill and Don Cardinale had a strong year in 2011 and was selected to represent Luxembourg as an individual at the 2011 European Junior Riders Championships in Broholm, Denmark, where they finished 10th in the Kur to Music.
In 2012, Thill disappeared from the scene, only to return in 2013 on the now 17-year old Hanoverian bred Windhook (by Waikiki x Arogno). They won their debut CDI in Stadl Paura, Austria, and throughout the season figured in the top five at shows in Roosendaal and Compiegne. At the 2013 European JR Championships, they were 11th. In 2014 they continued their strong firm in Stadl Paura and Roosendaal. At the European JR Championships in Arezzo, they were 20th in the individual test. It was the end of Thill's dressage career so far.
"Since 2015 I have been studying to become a construction engineer in Munich and therefore had very little time to ride," Thill told Eurodressage. "So that is why I have decided to stop riding during my studies."
Thill and Don Cardinale at the
2011 CDI Roosendaal
Thill came back into the news this week as her top junior rider's horse Windhook has been allocated to the Dutch Grade III-IV para-rider Glasten Krapels, who trains with Coby van Baalen. This is already the second collaboration between Krapels and the Thill family. In 2015 he received Thill's Wisconti (by Wolkenstein II x Calypso II).
Don Cardinale has not competed internationally since 2014. In 2012 and 2013 he stayed at home, but in 2014 Thill had her try at Young Riders' level with him and showed at the CDI's Nieuw en St. Joosland and Stadl Paura, but ended up competing Windhook at the Europeans. The stallion's last show was in April 2014.
"Because I still own Windhook and Don Cardinale and because I still want them to be ridden, I decided to give both horses to my trainer Coby van Baalen. Glasten tried Windhook and because it worked so well with both horses (Wisconti), I decided to give Windhook to Glasten."
The now 21-year old Don Cardinale is retired from sport. "He is no longer competing at shows, but Marrigje van Baalen is riding him at home," Michèle explained.
Thill and Windhook at the 2013
European Junior Riders Championships
Her pony string went on to fulfill their roles as schoolmaster. Virgil returned to the spotlight for one year in 2014, competing internationally with Luxembourg's Camille Reiminger, and taught the ropes of several other Luxembourg pony kids. He is now retired from sport. Daily Daylight went on to become the ride for Luxembourg's Renee Thommes at the 2011 European Pony Championships and Mastwood Blackberry returned to the Prijs family in Holland, who then sold the pony to Italy.
When asked if Michèle doesn't miss her time on horse, she replied, "yes I miss the riding much and I would have preferred not to take a break, but with my studies it's not possible because they are too time consuming."
Photos © Astrid Appels
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Scarlett Johansson Talks Freedom of Film Casting – Hollywood Reporter
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The actress shared her opinions via an interview with culture magazine ‘As If,’ noting also that society would be “more connected” if everyone allowed others to have their own feelings.
Opening up about the intricacies of political correctness in film casting, Scarlett Johansson shared her opinion that as an actor, she should be free to interpret a wide range of characters — anything she sees fit.
“You know, as an actor I should be able to play any person, or any tree, or any animal, because that’s my job and the requirements of my job,” she said in a cover story for As If magazine.
Johansson added, “I feel like [political correctness is] a trend in my business and it needs to happen for various social reasons, yet there are times it does get uncomfortable when it affects the art because I feel art should be free of restrictions.’
She went on to say, “I think society would be more connected if we just allowed others to have their own feelings and not expect everyone to feel the way we do.”
Last June, Johansson pulled out of the film Rub & Tug, in which she had been cast to play a trans man, real life figure Dante Tex Gill, gangster and massage parlor owner. “In light of recent ethical questions surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project,” said Johansson at the time.
Back in 2016, the actor was the subject of widespread controversy when she appeared in an adaptation of Japanese anime hit Ghost in the Shell. Fans were disappointed that a Japanese actor was not cast in the lead role instead, declaring an outrage of “whitewashing.” The film was poorly received upon its release.
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Georgii Sviridov | Article about Georgii Sviridov by The Free Dictionary
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Georgii Sviridov
Sviridov, Georgii (Iurii) Vasil’evich
Born Dec. 3 (16), 1915, in the city of Fatezh, in what is now Kursk Oblast. Soviet composer and public figure. People’s Artist of the USSR (1970); Hero of Socialist Labor (1975).
In 1941, Sviridov graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition under P. B. Riazanov and D. D. Shostakovich. From 1962 to 1974 he served as secretary of the administrative board of the Composers’ Union of the USSR. Simultaneously, from 1968 to 1973, he held the post of first secretary of the administrative board of the Composers’ Union of the RSFSR.
Sviridov’s creative originality and talent as a composer are most vividly manifested in his vocal compositions. These include vocal chamber and symphonic works to texts by A. S. Isaakian (Land of Our Fathers, a poem for tenor, bass, and piano, 1950), R. Burns (cycle of songs, 1955), S. A. Esenin (Poem in Memory of Sergei Esenin for tenor, chorus, and symphony orchestra, 1955–56, and the cycle of songs My Father Is a Peasant for tenor, baritone, and piano, 1956), and V. V. Mayakovsky (Oratorio Pathétique for bass, chorus and orchestra, 1959; Lenin Prize, 1960) and choral works to texts by Russian poets (1958 and 1967). These contain the most important theme of the composer’s creative work—the motherland. Using his extensive knowledge of the poetry of various epochs and peoples and, above all, Russian poetry, Sviridov has breathed new life into many vocal genres. His style, which is firmly rooted in the traditions of Russian classical and Soviet music, is highly original. Much of it is shaped by the composer’s broad use of peasant folklore together with the techniques of 20th-century music. Sviridov’s music is distinguished by a refined simplicity, the national characteristics of song melodies and modal harmonies, the brilliance and coloration of his orchestration, and the very selective and economical use of expressive means.
Sviridov’s tendency toward laconism and compositional conciseness is manifested in such works as Kursk Songs (1964; State Prize of the USSR, 1968), the minor cantatas Wooden Rus’ (text by S. A. Esenin, 1964), It Is Snowing (text by B. L. Pasternak, 1965), and Spring Cantata (text by N. A. Nekrasov, 1972) and the choral Concerto in Memory of A. A. Iurlov (1973). Among Sviridov’s other compositions are musical comedies, including Little Flames (1951), a trio for violin, cello, and piano (1945; State Prize of the USSR, 1946; revised version, 1955), and music for films and dramatic works.
Sviridov was a deputy to the seventh and eighth convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. He has been awarded two Orders of Lenin.
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Sokhor, A. Georgii Sviridov, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1972.
Person, D. G. G. V. Sviridov: Noto-bibliograficheskii spravochnik. Moscow, 1974.
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Pateticheskaia oratoriia (Pathetique Oratorio, on words by Vladimir Maiakovsky) by Georgii Sviridov (1915-1998).
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Stephen King on His 10 Longest Novels
In an interview with TIME, the prolific author reflected on his ten most monstrously large books.
King on King
By Gilbert Cruz Nov. 06, 2009
Author Stephen King has a reputation for the big book. Not big as in Tom Wolfe-esque, “the way we live now” big, but big as in “this book is literally, physically huge.” It’s a reputation that doesn’t seem to bother him. King’s latest, Under the Dome, is his third longest novel ever.
King talked to TIME about his top 10 biggest books, reflecting on the circumstances under which they were written and the critical reception that they received. The list of books and their page counts was supplied by King’s office and refers to the American hardcover editions. It does not include books co-written with other authors or any of the seven parts of King’s Dark Tower series, which he typically considers one long book, à la The Lord of the Rings.
The Stand: 1,153 pages
It: 1,138 pages
Under the Dome: 1,072 pages
Insomnia: 787 pages
Desperation: 690 pages
Needful Things: 690 pages
Dreamcatcher: 620 pages
Duma Key: 607 pages
The Tommyknockers: 558 pages
Bag of Bones: 529 pages
Stephen King’s Longest Novels
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Print for the rag brands
Micha Weidmann
Graphic Design for Fashion
By Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek
Laurence King, £26
Graphic Design for Fashion features inspiring work for small to mid-size fashion labels, such as Eley Kishimoto and Acne, by mainly up-and-coming design studios. Short introductions give insights into each studio’s approach to both brief and client. Designed by ByBoth (aka authors Hess and Pasztorek), the book is a source of inspiration and research into innovative approaches to design for fashion.
Samples of work are well photographed but the typography is less satisfying: neither adventurous nor classically simple.
The book falls short of having a ‘global selection of the best graphic design studios in the industry,’ as claimed in its synopsis, since it omits more established designers such as David James or Fabien Baron.
Similarly, the book does not feature bigger fashion labels such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Prada. I would have liked to see the works of brands such as Comme des Garçons – who use a very distinct graphic style as their identity and in their advertising rather than focusing on photography as most other labels do.
The book focuses primarily on show invitations, look books and packaging. The brand section briefly touches how graphic design works across various applications and how it evokes aspiration. Acne (with its in-house Acne Art Department), is a great example of an aspirational brand. Further information about the role of trademarks and online applications would have given us a more comprehensive picture of graphic design in fashion.
Perhaps the book is mislabelled, as it does have an appreciable amount of insight to offer. It would be appropriate to promote the book for its fantastic collection of work by contemporary designers, including Paolo Bazzani, Sean Carmody’s Commissioned Works NY for Rachel Comy and Aboud Creative. The book has enough content to inspire young designers to create stylish and engaging print material for an industry that continues to set its own standards within graphic design.
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Aesthetic Values », Core Values », Flux Retreat », Mission Statement »
Friday, October 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
(Photo by Heather Cohn from the Flux Retreat)
Mission Statement: Flux Theatre Ensemble produces transformative theatre that explores and awakens the capacity for change. As an ensemble-artist driven company, we believe that long-term collaboration and rigorous creative development can unite artists and audiences to build a creative home in New York.
Believe it or not, that mission statement is the result of four years of battling over the meaning of every single word. That journey wasn't easy in part because of my feeling that a mission statement was somehow antithetical to the creation of art, like pinning butterflies to the wall; and our mutual fear in crafting one of the interchangeably generic mush statements that abound.
But gradually, others in Flux made compelling cases for how a mission could prove useful, and we lurched fitfully towards carving one out. At our annual retreat, we finally hammered it out. What follows is an unpacking of our mission statement, with an eye towards both its conceptual history and practical application.
(Photo: Heather Cohn. Pictured at some late night retreat gaming, Kelly O'Donnell, August Schulenburg and Isaiah Tanenbaum)
Flux Theatre Ensemble: That's us.
Produces: We used this word as opposed to creates because some of the work we do comes from outside the development process outlined in the second sentence; and our identity as artist-producers is important to us.
Transformative theatre: What on earth does this mean? We've long valued this expression without being able to quite define it. Our recently posted aesthetic values will give you a sense of what it means to us on the stage; we value the capacity for change in every element of production. This means characters who either enact great change in the world of the play or are themselves significantly transformed; themes which compound layers of meaning as the action builds; worlds that live on the edge of some fundamental shift; contrasting aesthetic styles in a single play that, juxtaposed, create some new way of playing; staging that celebrates the transformative power of the audience's imagination; and above all, a charged ambiguity of meaning that lives in the audience's body and mind long after the play ends.
That explores and awakens: The plays we do not only stake out new territory in the evolutions of the human spirit, but awaken the capacity for that evolution in our audience.
The capacity for change: The patterns of narrative that give human life meaning must constantly be challenged and expanded by the communal, creative act of art; doing so allows new, more vital narrative patterns to emerge, increasing our mutual capacity for life. That may sound lofty, but it is entirely practical; the plays we do must wrestle with some new way of seeing; they must create the possibility of some new pattern of meaning. It's important to note that doesn't mean a traditionally avant-garde style; we do not seek to take simple things and make them seem complex; rather we hope to take complex things and tell them as simply and directly as possible.
(Photo: Heather Cohn. Pictured at the retreat's closing circle - Ken Glickfeld, Jane Lincoln Taylor, Cat Adler-Josem)
As an ensemble-artist driven company: This sentence has a blood-soaked pedigree! The battle between driven and led, the long journey to hold many values in those three words, "ensemble-artist driven", could hold a stage or two in terms of drama. We are artist driven, and so all decisions come out of the forward propulsion of our ensemble's creative interests. All administrative and producing decisions are driven by that creative propulsion; we are not an institution that exists to perpetuate an institution. However, driven rather than led allows the possibility of one day taking on administrators who are not directly participating in the creative work, provided the balance always tilts towards the ensemble-artists' leadership.
We believe that long term collaboration: Flux is not into one night stands! We hope that every artistic and audience relationship will develop into a long term relationship, allowing for the fact this won't always be so. Not only do we believe that a higher quality of work is possible when artists commit to a long term collaboration, but we believe that holds true for the audience, as well. Theatre is not a product to be made by temporary workers and sold to strangers, but an ongoing communal process between artists and audience. To that end, we are establishing a relationship category, Friends of Flux (hereafter FOFs), that puts audience, donors, and artists on equal collaborative footing, and places value on the sustained commitment of time, talent and resources between Membership and this community. More details on this anon!
And rigorous creative development: A company is defined as much by what they do as what they say, and one thing Flux does a LOT of is creative development. Through our weekly workshop Flux Sundays, through our more in depth processes of Have Another and Food:Soul, through our communal theme-wrestling of ForePlay, through our annual retreat and through the independent development process that many of our full productions go through; Flux develops not only new plays but artists, and the relationship between artists, and the relationship between the work, artists, and audience. We are developing a creative community, and that community is developing a creative process, and that process leads to new work.
(Photo: Heather Cohn. Pictured: Retreaters engaging in some after hours creative development)
Can unite artists and audiences: As you can see from the past two definitions, redefining the relationship between our artists and audience is very important to Flux. Our audience drinks with us at Have Another, eats with us at Food:Soul; responds to the work in person and online; and in a new bit of programming, SpeakEasy (stay tuned for more info on that), engages with us directly in the governance of the Ensemble. The goal is to create a more sustained, meaningful relationship between these normally divided partners in making theatre, to help them feel responsible to and for each other.
To build a creative home: One of the defining challenges of the field is the feeling of homelessness of artists in their relationship to institutions; and for the institutions, losing the subscriber base that made their theatre a home. Creating this home for both artists and audience is the ultimate mission of Flux; believing a vibrant artistic home united in exploring our capacity for change will lead to both more empowered individuals and interconnected community.
In New York: Cause that's where we live.
(Photo: Heather Cohn. Pictured: Christina Shipp, Matthew Archambault, Marnie Schulenburg)
As we go forward here on the blog, I'll be trying more often to link the discourse here to the mission, core values, and aesthetic values as a means of clarifying their practical definition and sounding the Fluxy-ness of the things we do.
UnActing
Flux Sunday, October 24th
A Congress for Theatre
In Direct Address
NYTR Party and Lesser Seductions Reunion
2010 Flux Raffle!
Thoughts On Casting
NYTR Party Tomrorow
Flux SATURDAY, October 9th
Save the Date - Flux Family Feud
Two Fates
Casting for Flux's 4th Season
Interview: Jonny Goodman
Flux Sunday, October 3rd
All Art Is Quite Useless
Judson's Next Bailout Theater - Living Wage
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1242. Claims of Virgin Birth in the U.S. Close to One Percent, Study Finds
By Sharon Begley, Reuters, December 19, 2013
Nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins, according to a report in the Christmas edition of Britain's BMJ medical journal.
The authors of "Like a virgin (mother)" - whose prose is devoid of irony - say such scientifically impossible claims show researchers must use care in interpreting self-reported behavior. Fallible memory, beliefs and wishes can cause people to err in what they tell scientists.
Based on interviews with 7,870 women and girls ages 15 to 28, 45 of the 5,340 pregnancies in this group through the years - 0.8 percent - occurred in women who reported that they conceived independent of men. The figure does not include pregnancies that result from in vitro fertilization or other assisted reproductive technology.
Each year, the BMJ Christmas edition publishes untraditional science papers. In addition to the report on virgin pregnancies, the latest BMJ includes papers on whether there is a local baby boom nine months after home sports teams triumph (only a small one, but statistically significant) and whether an apple a day would keep the British doctor away (yes, saving about 8,500 lives in the United Kingdom each year, about as many as would expanding the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs to everyone over 50).
For the study of putative virgin pregnancies, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed data from the thousands of teenage girls and young women who took part in the long-running National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
The girls were 12 to 18 years old when they entered the study in the 1994-95 school year and were interviewed periodically about their health and behavior over 14 years, including via computer as a way to encourage them to be candid when answering questions about their sexual history.
The 45 women and girls who became pregnant despite, according to what they told interviewers, being virgins at the time of conception differed in several ways from peers who acknowledged that men had had a role in their procreation.
Of those who said they became pregnant as virgins, 31 percent also said they had signed chastity pledges; 15 percent of nonvirgins who became pregnant said they had signed such pledges, in which a girl vows not to have sex until she marries.
The 45 self-described virgins who reported having become pregnant and the 36 who gave birth were also more likely than nonvirgins to say their parents never or rarely talked to them about sex and birth control. About 28 percent of the "virgin" mothers' parents (who were also interviewed) indicated they didn't have enough knowledge to discuss sex and contraception with their daughters, compared to 5 percent of the parents of girls who became pregnant and said they had had intercourse.
The ostensibly chaste mothers were also less likely to know how to use condoms, according to the report. UNC biostatistician Amy Herring and public health expert Carolyn Halpern led the group.
The researchers found that although the mothers in question were more likely to have boys than girls, and to be pregnant during the weeks leading up to Christmas, neither similarity to the Virgin Mary was statistically significant.
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2326. How Soil Microbes Fight Climate Change
By Esther Ngumbi, Scientific American, May 17, 2017
Around the globe, 2016 has been a dusty year. Just this month, massive dust storms enveloped Guazhou County in China, engulfing five-story buildings. Dust storms in Kuwait suspended oil exports, while another storm engulfed the Texas Panhandle. In January, red clouds of dust swept across Free State, South Africa, while scientists warned that the erosion of nutrient-rich topsoil threatened food security.
But the loss of soil also presents a less obvious challenge: it robs us of a key ally in fighting climate change. That ally is soil microbes.
Global soils already hold three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere, and there’s room for much more. According to a recent study in Nature, enhanced carbon storage in the world’s farmland soils could reduce greenhouse gas concentrations by between 50 and 80 percent.
To realize this stunning potential, farmers would need to adopt certain game-changing farming practices that restore depleted soils, largely through spurring the activity of the soil microbiome, a web of microscopic life that includes fungi, nitrogen-fixing bacteria and trillions of other bacteria that promote plant growth. Like the microbes that live in and on our bodies, helping us with everything from nutrition to immune responses, soil microbes are allies. They can help us deal with many of the climate challenges facing agriculture.
Indeed, we are just beginning to understand how to harness the potential of soil microbes. Research has shown they can help restore degraded soils, including land in Mexico’s southern Sonoran desert. This capacity gives soil microbes the potential of revolutionize agriculture. Healthier soils produce higher crop yields, hold water more effectively, sequester more carbon and allow for increased agricultural productivity on existing land.
Secondly, soil microbes can help plants tolerate hot temperatures and drought brought about by climate change. Recent research has shown that soil microbes can help plants like wheat, rice , pepper and maize to withstand drought. Plants treated with soil microbes have a deeper root system and their shoots grow more quickly. Consequently, under drought stress, plants inoculated with microbes can more effectively take up water from drying soil and maintain near-normal shoot growth rates resulting in increased crop productivity.
Thirdly, soil microbes increase plant defenses against insect pests whose populations are expected to increase due to the changing climate. In India, researchers have shown that soil microbes applied directly to seeds helped plants combat the rice leaf-folder insect, an important rice pest in China, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam. In another study, treatment of cotton plants with soil microbes helped them fight off beet armyworm, by killing its larvae.
What’s more, soil microbes can improve overall plant growth. This is especially important to the world’s 500 million smallholder farmer families, many of whom live in Africa and produce one-quarter of the average global yield of cereal crops . Increased productivity and income would power a virtuous cycle, enabling poor farmers to invest even more in the sustainability and productivity of their farms. The use of soil microbes to improve soil health and mitigate climate change would be invaluable in parts of the developing world hardest hit by drought and rising temperatures.
The challenge is to develop products that work for these smallholder farmers. To date, the handful of soil-microbial products that have reached the market are being manufactured by big companies like BASF, Syngenta and Monsanto. After spending millions of dollars to make these products, which were created for the world major cash crops such as soy and corn, they are unlikely to come at a cost that many small-scale farmers can afford.
Furthermore, to ensure that smallholder farmers benefit from new biological products, research is needed to map out the diversity of microbes in different crops and climates. Once identified, industry needs to develop cheaper methods to grow the microbes on a scale that would be available to millions of farmers.
We can’t expect private sector companies alone to undertake the research and product development needed to serve poor farmers across Africa and Asia. Rather, private companies, public research institutions, governments and other partners need to work together to deliver soil microbial products useful to small-scale farmers in developing countries.
We must continue to protect and restore our soils. We must also invest in understanding and harnessing the many benefits presented by the trillions of microbes that exist in healthy soils. As researchers continue to develop promising new biological products, there is the need to educate and guide farmers to better steward the populations that already exist in their soils. At a time when climate change is threatening our ability to sustainably grow food, protecting the soils that are home to our allies-soil microbes-is a game changer, providing novel solutions to address the challenges presented by climate change.
Labels: Climate Change, Global Warming, Soil science
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Another triumph: "Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds"
Humans are so impressively brilliant that we haven't even learned not to shit where we eat. What an impressive species! How noble in action!
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.
The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.
“We are sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff” said Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF. “If there was a 60% decline in the human population, that would be equivalent to emptying North America, South America, Africa, Europe, China and Oceania. That is the scale of what we have done.”
“This is far more than just being about losing the wonders of nature, desperately sad though that is,” he said. “This is actually now jeopardising the future of people. Nature is not a ‘nice to have’ – it is our life-support system.”
So, the battle is between wanting for ourselves and, uh, like, the reach of our collective unselfishness. Take a wild guess which will win out. And as the resources run out, and people move in their tens of millions, take a wild fucking guess how sharing and welcoming people, in the main, will be. "People"--and "nation-states" alike.
Well, to be fair, it's not all bad.
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Forums > Prince: Music and More > SOTT v Dear Mr Man
Thread started 09/13/16 9:45am
SOTT v Dear Mr Man
Sign O The Times is one of my favorite Prince songs because of the addictive rhythm, thought-provoking lyrics and sparse arrangement. When Dear Mr Man was released in 2004 I liked it and regarded it as a sort of SOTT for the new millennium. However, although it's a funky jam it just doesn't seem to work as well as it's predecessor but I can't put my finger on why that is. Any thoughts on how these 2 social commentary songs compare?
Reply #1 posted 09/13/16 11:19am
CAL3
Where to begin...
"Mr. Man" is full of unimaginative sloganeering. It's also preachy. There's no poetism in his choice of words. And musically it is hurt by an equally unimaginative arrangment. Plus, IMO it's argument is completely idiotic - "maybe we should write a letter" but "ain't no sense in voting"?? I know the voting is a JW thing, but c'mon - write a letter?? Not only is it a corny idea that's been done to death in a lot of other songs, it's still political activism (which is what voting is, too). What's the real difference, except that the vote actually (theoretically) counts?
SOTT on the other hand is everything that "Mr. Man" is not. It also has the added benefit of being cryptic in places. SOTT is pop genius, whereas "Mr. Man" is lazy workmanlike "craft."
Reply #2 posted 09/13/16 12:48pm
PeteSilas
i liked it, as a native american i loved it. SOTT is a classic and was of a differenct Prince era, when he was quirky beyond belief. Sott is hardly even a song really, almost some mutant rap/funk. A couple spooky chords thrown in and some Temptations psychedelic era melody lines with lots of words on social conditions.
Prince.org: With fans like these he didn't need haters.
steakfinger
"Dear Mr. Man" is an Al Green rip-off musically and lyrically it's pretty silly as CAL3 described above. DRINKING water is a precious commodity. Sea water, not so much. Oil spills don't make the news because the sea water is ruined.
SOTT is pretty sweet. I'm not into the message in the chorus because we DO need to be exploring the universe. It is possible to take care of the poor AND be curious at the same time.
steakfinger said:
i always thought it was a marvin gaye ripoff, like his what's going on stuff. I still like it though.
FullLipsDotNos
I prefer DMM.
full lips, freckles, and upturned nose
Pretty sweet? it sounds like a dismiss. I love both of them, but Sign is better and it really has the psychedelic sound.
WhisperingDand
elions
Prince always gets flack for "following" the hip-hop trend too late to the party, but I'll always argue "Sign O the Times" was actually right on time for the movement. It's basically vocals over a very legit rap beat.
IstenSzek
it always reminds me of this ben harper song. thematically i think this is what
prince was going for? but i find 'dear mr man' one of prince's lesser songs for
some reason. i was never able to get into it. i should give it another try soon.
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Forums > Prince: Music and More > Help with locating a site
teoalcantara
Help with locating a site
There was a site some years ago that was a database of Prince's concerts and the best available boot for them. I remember it had a grey background and was divided in columns. One could select a date and find the setlist and available boot. There was even a section for TV performances.
Does anyone know which site was it?
http://www.prn-archive.net
Yes!!! That's the one!!!
Thank you, Kara!
teoalcantara said:
I just want to point out to the mods or whoever, that there aren't any boots available there to download. Just basic info.
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Art of another kind | Michel Tapié
ONCE IT IS ACCEPTED that in art the actuality of a certain period amounts to a few highly individualized general lines, which mean that such and such a style is unexpectedly recognized, it seems to us that, for aficionados worthy of the name, the especially exciting points are, rather than those common features, the profound differences existing between Individual and Individual, all the more so when it involves the period in which we happen to live, with its pioneers and the ineluctable necessities it brings.
So, then, nothing can be as efficacious and, therefore, as explicit as a confrontation at an international level of authentic individuals who at the same time feel and do what is of the Now.
[…] The outcome of this confrontation, in 1957, is already of such importance that it is possible to think of the elaboration of an “other” aesthetic which might correspond in turn to “other” structural and psychic needs.
The “Dada” movement has permanently liquidated the extremely glorious era of a classicism that produced unprecedented masterworks for more than 2,500 years. Ever since 1943, and in every latitude, absolutely “other” artworks have been created, ones which ineluctably march alongside all the similarly “other” notions of modern science and philosophy. […] Today, we are very pleased to attest to this “other” art in the land of Gaudí, Picasso, Miró and Dalí, without whom that shift from one structural force to another, which now resides marvellously in us, would not have been effected.
Chance has nothing to do with the fact that an Homage to Gaudí goes hand in hand with the works of Antonio Tàpies. In the century of generalised form, a likewise geographically generalized art has some extraordinary surprises in store for us.
Henceforth we can say that in Spain, where the Individual always attains his highest pitch, he participates to a superlative degree in the great Adventure of Art at the dawn of a totally “other” era.
Installation view of Art of Another Kind, Sala Negra, Madrid, 24 April-15 May. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sala Negra (Galería Gaspar, Galerie Stadler-Galerie Rive Droite, Paris). Courtesy Alfonso de la Torre Archive.
Art of Another Kind by Michel Tapié
Galerie Stadler / Sala Gaspar (Paris, January 1957). [Excerpt]
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Pros And Cons Of PlayStation Now
Playstation Now is a streaming service offered by Sony to play past games on any of their consoles, phones and certain TVs. It’s basically an answer for backwards compatibility but with a price tag attached with it. There’s definitely some great potential for this service but it is an uphill battle as of now. We’re going to unfold this PS Now dilemma to see if it’s worth it or if it’s a hit and miss.
Prices for Games
The PS Now has over 100 titles from PS3 that can be played, and some games are pretty recent while others are quite old. Now not all the prices are bad but for example the F1 2013 racing game is $50 for 90 days and GameStop is currently selling it for $40 while Amazon has it for $35. So is it worth to spend 50$ for 90 days and not even own the game or go to Amazon or GameStop and actually buy the disc?
With the new subscription plan Sony put out, it is a little better than paying for each game individually. You can either choose a 1 month package for $19.99 or 3 months for $44.99. Some games alone are $20 or more for 90 days such as Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. The bad thing about this subscription is that you can’t play all the games in the PS Now library. Certain games will make you pay for their own rental cost for “x” amount of days. Also the cloud that Sony built with gaikai allows you to play on any device , save the game and then open the game on another device and load the last save and continue playing where you last left off. That is definitely one of the most coolest features of PS Now.
Connection and Latency Problems
I have a couple of issues with the latency with PS Now. Latency is the milliseconds of lag that it takes for the controls to communicate with the TV. Most games have latency even when owning the disc especially if you own a bigger TV/monitor than 26 inches. It’s basically not noticeable while playing with a disc version of a game unless you’re playing super competitively in a Battlefield or Call of Duty online match, which then means that every second counts. PS Now’s suggested requirement is to have an internet speed of 5 mb or higher to stream games wirelessly. It also suggests to plug your internet box straight into the back of the PS4 console. I don’t know about anyone else but my internet box is not set up close to a PS4 which means I’m going to have to stream it wirelessly which could bring on a host of other problems such as interference, all of which can get extremely annoying. Before actually purchasing a rental it will make sure that you’re able to stream the game, and this is what really bothers me. After completing the online test you can jump into your rental, and for maybe 5-10 mins it’ll run smooth but then bam! Out of nowhere your game starts to lag all over the place. It’s similar to the Telltale’s The Walking Dead game on PS3 or PS Vita where some scenes lag for like 5 seconds and the game responds 5 seconds late after you press your control buttons. This really just kills the whole PS Now for me and I totally don’t want to waste my time with it. Plus I tested it out on 4 separate occasions with 4 different games: 1)Crazy Taxi 2) Resident Evil 5 3) MGS Collection 4)Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. It’s not like its sub-par internet in my house, but the gameplay experience via PS Now streaming does disappoint. I’m starting to have doubts for PS Now.
PlayStation’s Ecosystem
Sony’s been around for a while so no doubt they have a HUGE collection of great games to be played. We don’t have any PS1 or PS2 classics yet but Sony did promise they were planning to bring them to PS Now in the near future.
Bringing back games like Crash Bandicoot or the Spyro games would be an asset to the PS Now library. This will definitely bring newcomers to PS Now who didn’t get a chance to play any of these classics. This could even boost subscriptions for the service. Nintendo’s built up their library, enabling you to go way back and play classics like the original Super Mario Bros, Metroids, and Mega Man. It’s a good thing Sony finally realizes that they also have classics like Nintendo and people will pay to play these games. Rumors were that Sony’s 1st party developers might have been working on a Crash Bandicoot for PS4. If this were to happen there is no doubt in my mind that people would go crazy and absolutely buy the game. Imagine a “Knack” version of Crash Bandicoot? Knack was a decent game but replaces Knack with Crash and it’s instantly nostalgic, especially if you were lucky enough to grab yourself a retro PS1 theme version of the PS4.
PS Now Overall
PS Now could be Sony’s answer to backwards compatibility and make it work in their benefit or it could turn around and burn them real hard. One thing I would have preferred instead of this PS Now rental service was if they did what the Wii U did and allowed PS4 users to play old games digitally from the PSN store. I’m not a huge Nintendo fan but that is definitely one of the greatest features of the Wii U. Let me know what you guys think about PS Now in the comments below. Is it worth the subscription cost? Does it play smoothly for you guys? Or is it better to just buy an old console and own the discs instead? Im interested to hear your thoughts!
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First Mower of Its Kind Leverages, Applies Same Efficiencies as the Company’s Award-Winning Automated Harvester Used by Turf Farms Worldwide; Mower Highlighted at Turfgrass Producers International in Tucson This Week
SALT LAKE CITY—Feb 14, 2018—FireFly Automatix, Inc. today launched the M220, a revolutionary self-propelled, hybrid turf mower that enables the fastest precision cut possible, while decreasing the average cost per acre. The automated, high-performance mower will be highlighted this week at Turfgrass Producers International (TPI) in Tucson, Arizona.
“The M220 represents a paradigm shift in turf farm mowing,” said Steve Aposhian, the company’s founder and CTO. “Like our ProSlab turf harvester, the mower has been designed and purpose-built from the ground up to be the most efficient mowing machine on the market. We’re in the business of creating value for our customers, and by combining proven best-of-breed technologies with new innovations, we deliver on that promise.”
According to FireFly CEO Andrew Limpert, increasing labor costs and labor shortages in areas previously flooded with available workers continue to threaten the future of farming in the United States and beyond, so automating manual repetitive tasks is critical to its survival. “While sod harvesting only happens once a year, it needs to be mowed weekly to keep it healthy, so we’ve expressly designed and built this mower from the engine to the decks for this specific and necessary task, with future versions offering even more autonomy,” Limpert said. “As a result, farmers can trust they will get a perfect cut every time without requiring increasingly scarce and costly labor.”
Unlike other industrial mowers, the M220 features:
• Front-mounted mowing decks for a 22-foot-wide precision cut (with speeds up to 10 mph) before anything runs over the turf.
• One-touch height adjustments, enabling operators to change the height while maintaining the precise level of the mower’s decks.
• High flotation tires and balanced design, which keep fields in great condition, minimizing soil compaction and rutting.
• No PTOs—The M220’s elegant design allows direct power transfer without gears and power take-off (PTO) shafts to wear out. Eliminating PTO’s provides increased safety, more efficient power, and decreased ongoing maintenance. No more belt slipping or greasing PTOs and U joints.
• Automated, adaptive speed control for optimal mowing speeds for each environment.
• A high comfort, high visibility, climate controlled cab that provides full heating and A/C, comfort suspension seating, Bluetooth stereo system and cup holders.
For more information regarding FireFly’s M220, please visit: fireflyequipment.com/m220
• Additional M220 press materials, including a brochure and datasheet, can be found at: fireflyequipment.com/m220
• Download high resolution product photos at: fireflyequipment.com/m220
About FireFly Automatix, Inc.: FireFly Automatix, Inc. is bringing key, advanced technologies to the agricultural industry. The company manufactures automated, self-propelled equipment for niche agricultural markets more efficiently than any other equipment vendor in their targeted markets. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in North Salt Lake, Utah, the company was named Utah’s fastest growing company in 2016 and 2017 by MountainWest Capital Network. FireFly equipment brings increased productivity, fuel savings (50-75 percent less fuel burned than competitors) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to agriculture. The company has advanced rapidly and is now the predominant U.S. provider to many of the country’s largest turf farms and is also serving a progressively growing international customer base, with its first non-U.S. dealership in Australia. For more information, visit fireflyequipment.com
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Authors: Paul Campbell, Reuben Bennet, Louise Joyce Lim, Helen D. Brasch, Reginald Marsh, Tinte Itinteang and Swee T. Tan
Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedical Science (2019). doi:10.14302/issn.2576-6694.jbbs-19-2625 https://openaccesspub.org/jbbs/article/1014
Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma is the 15th most common cancer worldwide with substantial geographical differences and greater incidence in developing countries. It affects males most commonly, in their fifth and sixth decades of life, although the incidence is increasing in women and those under the age of 45. Risk factors include alcohol abuse, tobacco smoking and betel quid chewing.
The prognosis depends on several factors, including the development of new blood vessels. Quantification of this development has led to its use for determining tumour-related prognosis. One method is Chalkley counting, which has been shown to be appropriate for predicting the survival of patients with gastrointestinal tumours. However its applicability for quantifying blood vessel development in breast cancer has been questioned.
The GMRI team and collaborators have investigated the effectiveness of Chalkley counting for quantifying blood vessel development in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma and its relation to cancer progression and metastasis. Only one of the four markers for the vessel development showed any correlation with the prognosis. We conclude that Chalkley counting is not a reliable prognostic method for oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma.
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5 Things To Do This Week in Santa Cruz: April 24-30
‘Naretoi’ film premier, Pie for the People and more
Local filmmaker Kelsey Doyle is behind 'Naretoi,' a film following a group of Maasai women’s expedition to the summit of Mt. Kenya on April 25.
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This fundraiser for local nonprofit Save Our Shores will include food and drinks from local businesses like Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery, Primal Santa Cruz and Tacos El Chuy, plus live music by Bay Area-based Crawdad Republic and local talent like Eric Morrison and the Mysteries.
INFO: Noon-5 p.m. Sunday, April 28. Wrigley Building USGS Parking Lot, 2801 Mission St., Santa Cruz. envision831.com. $15 admission. Photo: Lilianne de la Espirella.
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Local filmmaker Kelsey Doyle is behind the magic of Naretoi, a film following a group of Maasai women’s expedition to the summit of Mt. Kenya at more than 16,300 feet. The Maasai tribe, located in parts of Kenya and Tanzania, is deeply rooted in patriarchal, polygamous culture. With that in mind, the film focuses on self-empowerment and sufficiency for women specifically. Naretoi means “women helping women” in Maasai, and the mountain symbolizes the challenges that women face in fighting an uphill battle to gain equality.
INFO: 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25. Patagonia Santa Cruz, 415 River St. #C, Santa Cruz. 423-1776, naretoikenya.org. Free. Photo: Katie Sugarman.
Pie for the People
Sure, Thanksgiving may be a ways away, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start testing and tasting pies for the holidays. Join the Homeless Garden Project in a community pie potluck that benefits the TransFamilies nonprofit. A great opportunity to try out new recipes or break out the ol’ faithful family pie, the community pie potluck welcomes all vegetarian sweet or savory pies. Don’t forget your own plate, utensils, napkins, and a cup.
INFO: 1-3 p.m. The Homeless Garden Project Farm, Shaffer Road at Delaware Avenue, Santa Cruz. pieforthepeople-santacruz.org. $5 donation suggested, plus a pie.
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Learning to swim is a critical part of every child’s life. Drowning is one of the main causes of accidental death—an average of 10 children drown every day, according to the Center for Disease Control. But many parents don’t put their kids in swimming lessons because they are often time-consuming and expensive. In light of this, Seahorse Swim School is offering free swimming lessons for anyone and everyone this spring. The lessons happen rain or shine.
INFO: 1-2 p.m. Seascape Sports Club, 1505 Seascape Blvd., Aptos. 476-7946, seahorseswimschool.com. Free.
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by Brian Phillips on December 8, 2011
You take me more seriously than sometimes I take myself,” David Stern said during the lockout, and he’s been saying the same thing, or at least acting it out, for 25 years. It’s the key to his whole persona. Stern is the tyrant-as-entertainer, the mob boss who winks while he’s calling in the hit. He’s always kidding when he seems serious, but he’s always deadly serious when he’s kidding. Having decided that one of his tasks is to chaperone a skittish (white) public through an intimidating (black) sports league, he’s cast himself simultaneously as the cop who keeps you safe and the clown who reminds you that really, it’s only a movie.
For a long time, the two pillars of David Stern’s commissionership were his air of absolute authority and the sense of easy whimsy with which he inhabited it. Other sports commissioners were functionaries or bureaucrats: Paul Tagliabue was a responsible steward more than a dynamic leader, Bud Selig was a slack-haired joke. But when Stern took the stage to his annual chorus of boos at the NBA draft, he radiated the amused self-confidence of someone who knows he’s invincible. That’s OK, it’s only a game, his smile seemed to say, and everyone knows no one fucks with me. His perspective was always larger than yours, which meant he could afford to be patient with you — even if you hated him, you just couldn’t see the whole picture. It also meant that if he decided to kneecap you,1 you might never understand his reasons, but either way you weren’t getting up.
In 1994, during an earlier round of collective bargaining, Stern famously called himself “Easy Dave.” For all the achievements on which his legacy supposedly rests — instituting the salary cap, expanding the league’s global reach, and so on — it’s the creation of the Easy Dave persona that’s really Stern’s signature accomplishment. Easy Dave could be a buddy from Wednesday-night poker; he could also be a breezily nicknamed crime lord who’s launched a fleet of corpses into the East River.2 Compared to football and baseball, which embody unhumorous American virtues like family and militarism and Kevin Costner, the NBA has always been about show business, and Easy Dave was above all a master of show business, a wry emcee whose union-busting was part of the act. Where other commissioners pushed paper and signed contracts, Stern transformed himself into another item on the NBA’s varied menu of entertainment, a sort of dry hybrid of Vince McMahon and Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Like all born entertainers, Stern has always had an instinct for giving the public what it wants. In the past 15 years or so, the NBA has been haunted by a specter, one that began to coalesce around the advent of Allen Iverson before fully emerging in the wake of the Palace brawl. The specter is, to put it simply, the Red State Fan. To put it a little less simply, the specter is “the guy who boasts about preferring college basketball to the NBA without examining the reasons why,” or “the suburban dad who wants to take his kids to a game but can’t because Stephen Jackson might go on a rampage and kill them.” There’s a very distinct form of punitive desire that tends to well up in sports fans who see young men living lavishly on their nickel, and it’s not always related to race.3 As the lockout showed, though, it’s practically impossible to separate race from the tangle of fan/player and player/management relations in the NBA. Stern, who is almost certainly not personally bothered by hip-hop, gave the Red State Fan what he wanted by handing down a lot of petty decrees that — whatever the intention — came off as an attempt to make the NBA more palatable to white fans. There was the dress code in 2005, the automatic suspensions for taking two steps forward during a fight, the infamous Iverson-tattoo airbrushing, last season’s ejections for “excessive complaining,” and on and on, all culminating with the mildly amazing 2010 rule that headbands shall not — must not! — be worn upside-down.
The Easy Dave persona took some of the sting out of this, since there was obviously nothing behind it but canny pandering. Step right up! Stern seemed to be shouting. Zach Randolph will not eat your family! What’s more, the player-humiliation era happened to coincide with some of the most exciting and profitable NBA seasons in recent memory, so from a league-management standpoint, it might even look like a tactical success.
The problem is that you can’t run a sports league on the premise that the players are the fans’ natural enemies without undermining the compact that holds the sports league together in the first place. We’re supposed to like watching these guys play. The moment Stern started pushing coded cultural messages about making NBA players look and act like the world’s last Bear Stearns interns, the league’s wires got crossed in a very ugly way. It’s hard to reduce all the overlapping messages of the NBA’s self-presentation over the past few years to one line, but if you tried, it would look something like: “Carmelo Anthony is spectacular! Buy a ticket and we’ll put him in his place.”
David Stern didn’t create American social realities, he only tried to exploit them. But because he did, two things happened. (1) Stern’s persona curdled into something far more paternalistic and unlikable, “perspective” suddenly turning into condescension and “authority” turning into arrogance; (2) the conditions that made this lockout so much more damaging and acrimonious than anyone expected fell into place. The most widely reported scene from the negotiations — Dwyane Wade effectively telling Stern to get his finger out of his face — was the worst possible thing that could happen to the Easy Dave character. It revealed the limit of Stern’s power. It killed any sense that he was still in sync with basketball as a mechanism for delivering entertainment. And it showed the extent to which he’d alienated the players by, essentially, siding with soft cultural bigotry against them.
And so, with the lockout finished, Stern finds himself in a strange place. He won the negotiations. But he looks like he lost. He’s less relevant and more vulnerable than at any previous point in his reign. The Easy Dave of dry quips and unchallenged power has been replaced by a nastier and more bitter figure, one who no longer seems like a perfect fit for the NBA’s mood. The old twinkle has been replaced by a bleary impatience. Among wide swathes of the audience, the attempt to caricature the players as greedy thugs fell totally flat during this lockout. For the first time, he’s lost the crowd. They’re not just booing him, they don’t believe in him. Well, crowds can be won back, and he works for the owners, anyway. But it’s hard to escape the sense that right now David Stern is a ringmaster who nearly burned down his own circus and can’t understand why we don’t want him to go on with the show.
Brian Phillips is a staff writer for Grantland. You can find him on Twitter at @runofplay.
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Stern was arguably 5-0 in NBA lockouts — three with players and two with referees — before whatever the hell happened last week.
Quick story: Three weeks after Stern gave himself the Easy Dave moniker, Charles Grantham, who was then the executive director of the players’ union, had the gall to use it during a press conference. “I consider him a friend,” Stern smiled. Then after a beat: “I didn’t say a close friend.”
One of the first things Fabio Capello did after taking over the English national soccer team in 2008 was to leak a bunch of details about all the rules he’d imposed on the players — they had to eat together every night, no cell phones, etc. This had nothing to do with developing the players and everything to do with humiliating them in front of a public who saw them as pampered underachievers. Capello quickly developed a popular reputation as a Godfather-like enforcer, “Don Fabio,” which was not entirely unlike Stern’s persona in the NBA.
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For the Record: Radio-Canada’s Ombudsman stated that “Before the controversy erupted” a senior documentary director “purchased the right to some very interesting Israeli documentaries that will be broadcast in the first six months of 2009.”
HRC commends Radio-Canada Ombudsman for concluding that a pro-Palestinian propaganda film “should not have been broadcast” on its airwaves
Toronto, December 9, 2008 — HonestReporting Canada (HRC) commends Radio-Canada Ombudsman, Ms. Julie Miville-Dechêne, for carrying out an independent review of our public broadcaster’s airing of a pro-Palestinian propaganda film, which concluded in a report released today, that the “documentary should not have been broadcast” in the first place due to numerous failures of “editorial control.”
“We are satisfied that our concerns have been addressed, both promptly and professionally, by the staff at Radio-Canada,” said Mike Fegelman, Executive Director of HonestReporting Canada. “As the network has voluntarily disclosed many of its journalistic lapses, as it will air “very interesting Israeli documentaries” set to broadcast in early 2009, and has implemented stricter editorial policies to prevent an incident like this from occurring in the future, Radio-Canada has strengthened its credibility and has become a better news organization.”
Ms. Miville-Dechêne acknowledged in her review that she “received 156 complaints about this broadcast. Most of those filing complaints, who were in various countries, did so in response to an appeal by HonestReporting Canada, a pro-Israel media watchdog that encouraged visitors to its website to send complaints to my office.”
According to the review: “The film claims, without proving it, that the government of Israel controls U.S. print and electronic media… There is no fairness, balance, or nuance here: this pro-Palestinian documentary presents one point-of-view, one side of the coin… The documentary, produced five years ago, contains anachronisms and inaccuracies, and militant pro-Palestinian groups were involved in researching the film. Given the circumstances and the acknowledged failures of editorial control, this documentary should not have been broadcast.”
In conclusion, Ms. Miville- Dechêne points out that: “Journalistic Standards and Practices were not followed in the presentation (of the film). Radio-Canada should have indicated that the film was a point-of-view documentary and that the situation on the ground had changed in the last five years. The film’s production date should have been indicated, especially since Israel had withdrawn form the Gaza Strip. Finally, it should have been clear that the documentary was a foreign-produced work.”
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View our original complaint here entitled: “Radio-Canada Wrong In Airing Pro-Palestinian Advocacy Film”
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Home Comics Now You Can Become An Avenger With The All-New Life-Size Nano Gauntlet
Now You Can Become An Avenger With The All-New Life-Size Nano Gauntlet
It is now time to take on the might of the Mad Titan with your very own Gauntlet.
The manufacturer, Hot Toys has now revealed their latest Marvel Cinematic Universe merchandise-a life-size Nano Gauntlet made by Tony Stark. This was the one that we had seen in Avengers: Endgame. We had seen Stark and Banner create their own Infinity Gauntlet to reverse the snap.
This replica measures 52 cm, has a light-up feature for the Infinity Stones and also includes a very special base which holds it upright. Hot Toys has not yet revealed the price as of now, but it will be available when the pre-orders for the Nano Gauntlet collectible start.
Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Don Cheadle as War Machine, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Danai Gurira as Okoye and Bradley Cooper as Rocket, with Gwyneth Paltrow Pepper Potts, Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, Benedict Wong as Wong, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie and Josh Brolin as Thanos. The film is in theatres now.
This is the synopsis of the movie:
“Adrift in space with no food or water, Tony Stark sends a message to Pepper Potts as his oxygen supply starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the remaining Avengers — Thor, Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner — must figure out a way to bring back their vanquished allies for an epic showdown with Thanos — the evil demigod who decimated the planet and the universe.”
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Azula sighs and holds her head in her hands. "My emotions are confusing me," she mutters angrily.
Shane nods. "I understand." he says to her in a gentle tone.
'Yeah right,' Azula thinks, but for once she begins to doubt herself. What if he really does understand? What if he really does understand her? What if he actually cares?
Shane thinks for a moment not knowing what to do.
Azula sighs and looks up at Shane.
Shane looked backed at Azula, partially enthralled.
Azula sighs and asks Shane in a small voice, "Do you really like me?"
"I wouldn't ask you to go out with me if I didn't." Shane replied softly.
Azula looks down and sighs. Never in her entire life has anyone admitted that, and here she is with a boy saying that he likes her. And she's completely unprepared.
Shane waited for an answer. He still had no idea what to say next.
"No one has ever admitted that they like me. Never in my entire life," Azula mutters.
"Then I guess I'm the first one." Shane tells her.
"I guess," Azula says, staring at the floor. 'Should I say yes? No? WHAT?!?!?' she thinks.
Shane shrugged and he looks down at the floor.
Azula sighs agrevatedly. "I just don't know what to f*cking say!"
"I can understand that." Shane replied.
Azula sighs again, the same way as before. Even if she did know what to say, and it was a yes, she wouldn't deserve him. He's so understanding, and she isn't.
"If you need more time to think about this, then I can go..." Shane suggested.
Azula shakes her head and says, very quietly, "I'll go out with you."
Shane smiles at her. He nods at her. "Do you want to go somewhere?"
Azula shrugs and stands up. "I don't care."
"Do you want to go see a movie?" Shane asked.
"Sure," Azula says.
Shane nodded. "Okay... do you want to go to the library and check which movies are on? I hear they have computers..."
"Hm sure," Azula says, smiling slightly.
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“too much dissipation and frivolity of amusement”
An article by Margaret L. Brown on Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography includes several impressions of ANNE WILLING BINGHAM by women that give a good idea of what she was like. Anna Rawle wrote to her mother shortly after the Bingham wedding in 1780:
Speaking of handsome women brings Nancy [a nickname for Anne] Willing to my mind. She might set for the Queen of Beauty, and is lately married to Bingham, who returned from the West Indies with an immense fortune. They have set out in highest style; nobody here will be able to make the figure they do; equipage, house, cloathes, are all the newest taste,—and yet some people wonder at the match. She but sixteen and such a perfect form. His appearance is less amiable.
The Binghams traveled to London in 1783 and Anne had her second child there. When the family went to Paris in 1784 the Adamses—Abigail, John, and daughter Abigail called Nabby, were often in their company. Mrs. Adams described Anne in a letter to her friend Mercy Otis Warren as “a very young lady, not more than twenty, very agreeable, and very handsome. . . .” Nabby noted in her journal after a dinner party her parents gave which included the Binghams:
Mrs. Bingham . . . is pretty, a good figure, but rather still. She has not been long enough in this country to have gained that ease of air and manner which is peculiar to the women here; and when it does not exceed the bounds of delicacy, is very pleasing. . . . I admire her that she is not in the smallest degree tinctured with indelicacy. She has, from the little acquaintance I have had with her, genuine principles; she is very sprightly and very pleasing.
The Adams family were invited to dinner at the Binghams some time later after which Nabby wrote:
{Mrs. Bingham] is possessed of more ease and politeness in her behaviour, than any person I have seen. She joins in every conversation in company; and when engaged herself in conversing with you, she will, by joining directly in another chitchat with another party, convince you that she was all attention to everyone. She has a taste for show, but not above her circumstances.
The Adamses did not regard William Bingham so highly and became rather critical of the lavish life style of the Binghams in Paris. Mrs. Adams was quite shocked when Anne confessed that she was so delighted with Paris that she preferred to stay there rather than return home. In a letter to her niece Mrs. Adams wrote that Mrs. Bingham “was too young to come abroad without a pilot, [and] gives too much into the follies of this country. . . . ” In the following year she wrote to her sister:
The intelligence of her countenance, or rather, I ought to say animation, the elegance of her form, and the affability of her manners, convert you into admiration; and one has only to lament too much dissipation and frivolity of amusement, which have weaned her from her native country, and given her a passion and thirst after all the luxuries of Europe.
The Binghams returned to Philadelphia in 1786 and Anne brought with her clothing in the latest Paris styles. Molly Tilghman remarked on her appearance at a party given by Mary White Morris and her husband Robert. Mrs. Bingham appeared
in a dress which eclips’d any that has yet been seen. A Robe a la Turke of black Velvet, Rich White sattin Petticoat, body and sleeves, the whole trim’d with Ermine. A large Bouquet of natural flowers supported by a knot of Diamonds, Large Buckles, Necklace and Earrings of Diamonds, Her Head ornamented with Diamond Sprigs interspersed with artificial flowers, above all, wav’d a towering plume of snow white feathers.
The Binghams in Philadelphia wanted to impress and entertain in style. To do so they had built a large, and some said, pretentious home. In the next post read what a visitor had to say about it.
Margaret L. Brown, “Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham of Philadelphia: Rulers of the Republican Court”, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 61, No. 3 (July 1937), 286, 290, 291, 293, 294. Sources include William Brooke Rawle, “Laurel Hill,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1911), XXXV. 398, Anna Rawle to Mrs. Samuel Shoemaker, November 4, 1780; Charles Francis Adams (ed.), Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams (Boston, 1848, 4th ed.), 203, September 5, 1784; C. A. S. DeWindt (ed.), Journal and Correspondence of Abigail Adams Smith (N.Y. 1841), I. 19, September 25, 1784 and I. 28-29, October 26, 1784; Letters of Mrs. Adams, 207-208, December 3, 1784 and September 30, 1785; “Letters of Molly and Hetty Tilghman,” Maryland Historical Magazine (1926), XXI. 145-46, Molly Tilghman to Polly Pearce, February 18, 1787.
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'Catholic' Parents and would-be Parents, beware!
St. Anne, Mother of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit (Mt. 7.18 - the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost)
Learn from this, brethren, that a good father brings up good children. But, if parents be wicked, how can the children be virtuous? Have you ever, says the Redeemer, in the same Gospel, seen grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? “Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?" (v. 16.) And, in like manner, it is impossible, or rather very difficult, to find children virtuous, who are brought up by immoral parents. Fathers and mothers, be attentive to this sermon, which is of great importance to the eternal salvation of yourselves and of your children. Be attentive, young men and young women, who have not as yet chosen a state of life. If you wish to marry, learn this day the obligations which you can contract with regard to the education of your children; and learn also that, if you do not fulfil them, you shall bring yourselves and all your children to damnation. I shall divide this sermon into two points. In the first, I shall show how important it is to bring up children in habits of virtue; and in the second, I shall show with what care and diligence a parent ought to labour to bring them up well.
First Point. How very important it is to bring up children in habits of virtue.
1. A father owes two obligations to his children; he is bound to provide for their corporal wants, and to educate them in habits of virtue. It is not necessary at present to say more on the first obligation, than that there are some fathers more cruel than the most ferocious of wild beasts; for these do not forget to nourish their offspring; but certain parents squander away in eating and drinking, and gaming, all their property, or all the fruits of their industry, and allow their children to die of hunger. But let us come to the education, which is the subject of my discourse.
2. It is certain that a child’s future good or ill conduct depends on his being brought up well or ill. Nature itself teaches every parent to attend to the education of his offspring. He who has given them being ought to endeavour to make life useful to them. God gives children to parents, not that they may assist the family, but that they may be brought up in the fear of God, and be directed in the way of eternal salvation. ”We have," says St. Chrysostom, ”a great deposit in children; let us attend to them with great care." (Hom, ix., in 1 ad Tit.) Children have not been given to parents as a present, which they may dispose of as they please, but as a trust, for which, if lost through their negligence, they must render an account to God. The Scripture tells us, that when a father observes the divine law, both he and his children shall prosper. "That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of God." (Deut. xii. 25.) The good or ill conduct of a parent may be known, by those who have not witnessed it, from the life which his children lead. "For by the fruit the tree is known.” (Matt. xii. 33.) ”A father,” says Ecclcsiasticus, ”who leaves a family, when he departs this life, is as if he had not died; because his sons remain, and exhibit his habits and character. His father is dead, and he is as if he were not dead; for he hath left one behind him that is like himself." (Eccl. xxx. 4.) When we find a son addicted to blasphemies, to obscenities, and to theft, we have reason to suspect that such too was the character of the father. ”For a man is known by his children." (Eccl. xi. 30.)
3. Hence Origen says, that on the day of judgment parents shall have to render an account for all the sins of their children. “Omnia quæcumque delinquerint filii, a parentibus requiruntur. ” (Grig., Lib. 2, in Job.) Hence, he who teaches his son to live well, shall die a happy and tranquil death. ”He that teacheth his son ...when he died he was not sorrowful, neither was he confounded." (Eccl. xxx. 3, 5.) And he shall save his soul by means of his children; that is, by the virtuous education which he has given them. ”She shall be saved through child-bearing." (1 Tim. ii. 15.) But, on the other hand, a very uneasy and unhappy death shall be the lot of those who have laboured only to increase the possessions, or to multiply the honours of their family; or who have sought only to lead a life of ease and pleasure, but have not watched over the morals of their children. St. Paul says, that such parents are worse than infidels. “But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." (1 Tim. v. 8.) "Were fathers or mothers to lead a life of piety and continual prayer, and to communicate every day, they should be damned if they neglected the care of their children. "Would to God that certain parents paid as much attention to their children as they do to their horses! How careful are they to see that their horses are fed and well trained! And they take no pains to make their children attend at catechism, hear mass, or go to confession. "We take more care” says St. Chrysostom, "of our asses and horses, than of the children.”(Hom, x., in Matt.)
4. If all fathers fulfilled their duty of watching over the education of their children, we should have but few crimes and few executions. By the bad education which parents give to their offspring, they cause their children, says St. Chrysostom, to rush into many grievous vices; and thus they deliver them up to the hands of the executioner. Hence, in Lacedemon, a parent, as being the cause of all the irregularities of his children, was justly punished for their crimes with greater severity than the children themselves. Great indeed is the misfortune of the child that has vicious parents, who are incapable of bringing up their children in the fear of God, and who, when they see their children engaged in dangerous friendships and in quarrels, instead of correcting and chastising them, rather take compassion on them, and say: ”What can be done? They are young; they must take their course." Oh! what wicked maxims! what a cruel education! Do you hope that when your children grow up they shall become saints? Listen to what Solomon says: ”A young man, according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov. xxii. 6.) A young man who has contracted a habit of sin will not abandon it even in his old age. ”His bones," says Job, ”shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust." (Job xx. 11.)
When a young person has lived in evil habits, his bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, so that he will carry them with him to death; and the impurities, blasphemies, and hatred to which he was accustomed in his youth, shall accompany him to the grave, and shall sleep -with him after his bones shall be reduced to dust and ashes. It is very easy, when they are small, to train up children to habits of virtue; but, when they have come to manhood, it is equally difficult to correct them, if they have learned habits of vice. But, let us come to the second point that is, to the means of bringing up children in the practice of virtue. I entreat you, fathers and mothers, to remember what I now say to you; for on it depends the eternal salvation of your own souls, and of the souls of your children.
Second Point. On the care and diligence with which parents ought to endeavour to bring up their children in habits of virtue.
5. St. Paul teaches sufficiently, in a few words, in what the proper education of children consists. He says that it consists in discipline and correction. "And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord." (Ephes. vi. 4 ) Discipline, which is the same as the religious regulation of the morals of children, implies an obligation of educating them in habits of virtue by word and example. First, by words: a good father should often assemble his children, and instil into them the holy fear of God. It was in this manner that Tobias brought up his little son. The father taught him from his childhood to fear the Lord and to fly from sin. ”And from his infancy he taught him to fear God and to abstain from sin. ” (Tob. i. 10.) The Wise Man says that a well educated son is the support and consolation of his father. "Instruct thy son, and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul." (Prov. xxix. J7.) But, as a well instructed son is the delight of his father’s soul, so an ignorant child is a source of sorrow to a father’s heart; for the ignorance of his obligations as a Christian is always accompanied with a bad life.
In the year 1248, an ignorant priest was commanded, in a certain synod, to make a discourse. But while he was greatly agitated by the command, the devil appeared to him, and instructed him to say: ”The rectors of infernal darkness salute the rectors of parishes, and thank them for their negligence in instructing the people; because from ignorance proceed the misconduct and the damnation of many." The same is true of negligent parents. In the first place, a parent ought to instruct his children in the truths of faith, and particularly in the four principal mysteries. First, that there is but one God, the Creator, and Lord of all things; secondly, that this God is a remunerator, who, in the next life, shall reward the good with the eternal glory of Paradise, and shall punish the wicked with the everlasting torments of hell; thirdly, the mystery of the holy Trinity that is, that in God there are Three Persons, who are only one God, because they have but one essence; fourthly, the mystery of the incarnation of the Divine Word the Son of God, and true God, who became man in the womb of Mary, and suffered and died for our salvation.
Should a father or a mother say: I myself do not know these mysteries, can such an excuse be admitted? that is, can one sin excuse another? If you are ignorant of these mysteries you are obliged to learn them, and afterwards teach them to your children. At least, send your children to the catechism. Oh! what a misery to see so many fathers and mothers who are unable to instruct their children in the most necessary truths of faith, and who, instead of sending their sons and daughters to the Christian doctrine on festivals, employ them in messages, or other occupations of little moment; and when grown up they know not what is meant by mortal sin, by hell, or eternity. They do not even know the Creed, the Pater Noster, or the Hail Mary, which every Christian is bound to learn under pain of mortal sin.
6. Religious parents not only instruct their children in these things, which are the most important, but they also teach them the acts which ought to be made every morning after rising. They teach them, first, to thank God for having preserved their life during the night; secondly, to offer to God all the good actions which they will perform, and all the pains which they shall suffer during the day; thirdly, to implore of Jesus Christ and most holy Mary to preserve them from all sin during the day. They teach them to make every evening an examen of conscience and an act of contrition. They also teach them to make every day the acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity, to recite the Rosary, and to visit the Blessed Sacrament. Some good fathers of families are careful to get a book of meditations read, and to have mental prayer in common for half an hour every day. This is what the Holy Ghost exhorts you to practise. "Hast thou children? Instruct them and bow down their neck from their childhood." (Eccl. vii. 25.) Endeavour to train them from their infancy to these religious hahits, and when they grow up they shall persevere in them. Accustom them also to go to confession and communion every week. Be careful to make them go to confession when they arrive at the age of seven, and to communion at the age of ten. This is the advice of St. Charles Borromeo. As soon as they attain the use of reason make them receive the sacrament of confirmation.
7. It is also very useful to infuse good maxims into the infant minds of children. Oh! what ruin is brought upon his children by the father who teaches them worldly maxims!”You must," some people say to their children, ”seek the esteem and applause of the world. God is merciful; he takes compassion on certain sins." Miserable the young man who sins in obedience to such maxims. Good parents teach very different maxims to their children. Queen Blanche, the mother of St. Louis, King of France, used to say to him: “My son, I would rather see you dead in my arms than in the state of sin."
Oh! brethren, let it be your practice also to infuse into your children certain maxims of salvation, such as, “What will it profit us to gain the whole world, if we lose our own souls? Every thing on this earth has an end; but eternity never ends. Let all be lost, provided God is not lost." One of these maxims well impressed on the mind of a young person will preserve him always in the grace of God.
8. But parents are obliged to instruct their children in the practice of virtue, not only by words, but still more by example. If you give your children bad example, how can you expect that they will lead a good life? When a dissolute young man is corrected for a fault, he answers: Why do you censure me, when my father does worse. "The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach. ”(Eccl. xli. 10.) How is it possible for a son to be moral and religious, when he has had the example of a father who was accustomed to utter blasphemies and obscenities; who spent the entire day in the tavern, in gaming and drunkenness; who was in the habit of frequenting houses of bad fame, and of defrauding his neighbour? Do you expect that your son will go frequently to confession, when you yourself approach the tribunal of penance scarcely once a year? Children are like apes; they do what they see their parents do. It is related in the fables, that a crab-fish one day rebuked its young for walking crookedly. They replied: Father, let us see you walk. The father walked before them more crookedly than they did. This is what happens to the parent who gives bad example. Hence, he has not even courage to correct his children for the sins which he himself commits.
9. But though he should correct them, by words, of what use is his correction when he sets them a bad ex ample by his acts? It has been said in the council of Bishops, that”men believe the eyes rather than the ears." And St. Ambrose says: ”The eyes convince me of what they see more quickly than the ear can insinuate what is past." (Serm. xxiii., de S. S.) According to St. Thomas, scandalous parents compel, in a certain manner, their children to lead a bad life. ”Eos ad peccatum, quantum in eis fuit obligaverunt" (in Ps. xvi). They are not, says St. Bernard, fathers, but murderers; they kill, not the bodies, but the souls of their children. "Non parentes, sed peremptores." It is useless for them to say: ”My children have been born with bad dispositions." This is not true; for, as Seneca says, ”you err, if you think that vices are born with us; they have been engrafted." (Ep. xciv.) Vices are not born with your children, but have been communicated to them by the bad example of the parents. If you had given good example to your sons, they should not be so vicious as they are. O brethren, frequent the sacraments, assist at sermons, recite the Rosary every day, abstain from all obscene language, from, detraction, and from quarrels; and you shall see that your sons will go often to confession, will assist at sermons, will say the Rosary, will speak modestly, and will fly from detraction and disputes. It is particularly necessary to train up children to virtue in their infancy: ”Bow down their neck from their childhood ;" for when they have grown up and contracted bad habits, it will be very difficult for you to produce, by words, any amendment in their lives.
10. To bring up children in the discipline of the Lord, it is also necessary to take away from them the occasion of doing evil. Hence a father must, in the first place, forbid his children to go out at night, or to go to a house in which their virtue might be exposed to danger, or to keep bad company. ”Cast out," said Sarah to Abraham, ”this bondwoman and her son." (Gen. xxi. 10.) She wished to have Ishmael, the son of Agar the bondwoman, banished from her house, that her son Isaac might not learn his vicious habits. Bad companions are the ruin of young persons. A father should not only remove the evil which he witnesses, but he is also bound to inquire after the conduct of his children, and to seek information from domestics and from externs regarding the places which his sons frequent when they leave home, regarding their occupations and companions.
Secondly, he should take from them every musical instrument which is to them an occasion of going out at night, and all forbidden weapons which may lead them into quarrels or disputes. Thirdly, he should dismiss all immoral servants; and, if his sons be grown up, he should not keep in his house any young female servant. Some parents pay little attention to this; and when the evil happens they complain of their children, as if they expected that tow thrown into the fire should not burn. Fourthly, a father ought to forbid his children ever to bring into his house stolen goods such as fowl, fruit, and the like. When Tobias heard the bleating of a goat in his house, he said: "Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen; restore ye it to its owners." (Tob. li. 21.) How often does it happen that, when a child steals something, the mother says to him: ”Bring it to me, my son." Parents should prohibit to their children all games which bring destruction on their families and on their own souls, and also masks, scandalous comedies, and certain, dangerous conversations and parties of pleasure. Fifthly, a father should remove from his house romances, which pervert young persons, and all bad books which contain pernicious maxims, tales of obscenity, or of profane love.
Sixthly, he ought not to allow his children to sleep in his own bed, nor the males and females to sleep together. Seventhly, he should not permit his daughters to be alone with men, whether young or old. But some will say: ”Such a man teaches my daughters to read and write, etc.; he is a saint." The saints are in heaven; but the saints that are on earth are flesh, and by proximate occasions they may become devils. Eighthly, if he has daughters, he should not permit young men to frequent his house. To get their daughters married, some mothers invite young men to their houses. They are anxious to see their daughters married; but they do not care to see them in sin. These are the mothers who, as David says, immolate their daughters to the devil. ”They sacrifice their sons and their daughters to devils." (Ps. cv. 37.) And to excuse themselves they will say: ”Father, there is no harm in what I do." There is no harm! Oh! how many mothers shall we see condemned on the day of judgment on account of their daughters! The conduct of such mothers is at least a subject of conversation among their neighbours and equals; and, for all, the parents must render an account to God. O fathers and mothers! confess all the sins you have committed in this respect, before the day on which you shall be judged arrives.
11. Another obligation of parents is, to correct the faults of the family. "Bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. ” There are fathers and mothers who witness faults in the family, and remain silent. A certain mother was in the habit of acting in this manner. Her husband one day took a stick and began to beat her severely. She cried out, and said: "I am doing nothing. Why do you beat me ?" "I beat you, ”replied the husband, ”because you see, and do not correct, the faults of the children because you do nothing." Through fear of displeasing their children some fathers neglect to correct them; but, if you saw your son falling into a pool of water, and in danger of being drowned, would it not be savage cruelty not to catch him by the hair and save his life?”He that spareth the rod hateth his son." (Prov. xiii. 24.) If you love your sons correct them, and, while they are growing up chastise them, even with the rod, as often as it may be necessary. I say, ”with the rod," but not with the stick; for you must correct them like a father, and not like a galley sergeant. You must be careful not to beat them when you are in a passion; for, you shall then be in danger of beating them with too much severity, and the correction will be without fruit; for they then believe that the chastisement is the effect of anger, and not of a desire on your part to see them amend their lives. I have also said that you should correct them “while they are growing up ;" for, when they arrive at manhood, your correction will be of little use. You must then abstain from correcting them with the hand; otherwise, they shall become more perverse, and shall lose their respect for you. But of what use is it to correct children by so many injurious words and by so many imprecations? Deprive them of some part of their meals, of certain articles of dress, or shut them up in a room. But I have said enough. Dearly beloved brethren, draw from the discourse which you have heard the conclusion, that he who has brought up his children badly shall be severely punished; and that he who has trained them to habits of virtue shall receive a great reward. - by St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church.
Labels: Catholic Tradition, Neo-Catholicism, Novus Ordo, St. Alphonsus Liguori
Take heed lest ye fall
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand,
let him take heed lest he fall
(1 Cor. 10.12).
Destruction of the Great Temple and slaughter of "perfidious Jews" (traditional Church Liturgy for Good Friday) in Jerusalem in chastisement for the Synagogue's mocking refusal of the saving design by the Eternal Word (Jn. 1.1) "made flesh" (Jn. 1.1): that "every knee, of those who are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, should bow [before] Him Whom they pierced" (Phil. 2.10; Jn. 19.37).
Pride "goes before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall" (Prov. 16.18); its beginning is "to fall off from God [cf., "Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary"]: because his heart is departed from Him Who made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he who holds it shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end" (Ecclus. 10.14-15). How pride blinds us to God's hour of merciful visitation - "The Time of God's Visitation"
Labels: pride, Synagogue
Our boundless blessed hope
Feast of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces
(Traditional Calendar of the "Order of the Virgin")
When the Eternal Word was made flesh in the womb of the Immaculate Virgin, the very Source and Fount of all graces placed Himself at the disposal of this Most Blessed Mother so that Holy Church applies to Her the passage spoken by the Prophet Isaias in today's Office: All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price. Why do you spend money for that which is not Bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness. Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live... (55.1-2,3).
With the suppression of today's blessed Feast in the " New 'Liturgical Calendar'", the " New 'Catholic' disorder" of the 'official' mainstream institutionalist 'Church' has done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of Living Water [cf., our post "The Ultimate Delusion of Vatican II 'Catholicism'"], and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jer. 2.13) - they have impiously spurned the main cistern : cf., our post, " The Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sacrificed to the Protestants in the name of Vatican II 'Ecumenism'".
Our hope, our confidence in God can never be excessive or exaggerated, because it is founded on God's mercy which has no limits for those who sincerely try to do everything they can to please Him. His helpful power and His desire for our eternal good, for our sanctification, infinitely exceed our most ardent hopes through the strength of Him Who Is Omnipotent, through the infinite mercy of Him Who loves to bend over souls who knows how to confess and do penance for their sins and acknowledge their miserable frailty, Who loves, as our Blessed Mother said, to exalt the humble and to fill the hungry with good things (cf., Lk. 1.52,53). God's mercy is waiting to come to us, to purify, heal, sanctify and perfect us, but it will not come until we open the doors of our heart by complete confidence in His Divine Providence, delivering and calling us... not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace... given us in Christ Jesus (2 Tim.1.8,9) Who was given to us except through the Immaculata.
A most blessed Feast to everyone!
Labels: Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix, Neo-Catholicism, Vatican II
Our blessed hope
Feast of the Prophet Elias
Father and General of the "Order of the Virgin"
To the Discalced Carmelite Tertiaries and the Scapular Confraternity of Catholic Resistance
(by Rev. Friar John Marie-Therese of the Holy Eucharist, C.D.)
“Clothe me, O God, with the green garment of hope. A living hope in You gives the soul such ardor, so much courage and longing for the things of eternal life that, by comparison with what it hopes for, all things of the world are without value. Give me then, a strong hope, O my God, so that it may strip me of all the vanities of the world, that I may not set my heart upon anything that is in the world, nor hope for anything, but live clad only in the hope of eternal life. Let hope be the helmet of salvation which will protect my head from the wounds of the enemy, and will direct my gaze to heaven allowing me to fix my eyes on You alone, my God. As the eyes of the [Great Prophet of Carmel and his descendants and their followers on the fruitful plantation of the Blessed Virgin] are set upon the hands of [their Mistress, Mother, and Chief of Your elite army], even so are my eyes set upon You, until you take pity on me because of my hope. Grant that I may set my eyes on naught but You, nor be pleased with aught but You alone. Then you will be pleased with me, and I shall be able to say in all truth that I receive from You as much as I hope for” – St. John of the Cross, Dark Night, II.21,6-8
As the Lord of hosts lives, before Whose Face I stand… (3 Ki. 17.1) When we place ourselves in the presence of the true God of our Catholic Tradition with the intention of uniting ourselves to Him, we sense immediately that the great obstacles which separate us from Him are our sins with all the subtle errors, contrivances, schemes, and snares in and out* of us prepared by the head of our infernal enemy, which our Immaculate Mother of Carmel, intimated to our Father Elias on Mount Carmel in that little cloud [arising] out of the sea like a man’s foot (3 Ki. 18.44), shall crush (Gen. 3.15), to lead us to his service and worship; followed by our frailty, and our wretchedness – all of which make it so difficult for souls to live in a manner worthy of God. But our blessed hope comes to assure us, on the part of infinite mercy, of both the pardon of our sins and the graces necessary to live not just a good but rather holy life in intimacy with our Blessed Mother of Carmel which intimacy is the foundation of our intimacy with Her Little Jesus. What consolation then floods our soul when we think that to the few of us gathered under though the little cloud of Carmel has, more than ever, it so seems, greatly expanded to cover souls with Her garment of salvation God wants to be not only our eternal possession and our eternal beatitude, but even here below He desires now to be possessed by us through charity and grace – through their same uncompromised cisterns with Catholic Resistance, that is, through the traditional ministry of His ministers by the unalloyed Word and ever valid and legitimate Sacraments and blessings together with our Traditional life of prayer. May the Immaculata and Her Great Prophet diffuse liberally this blessed dew of hope in and around us.
*Especially that bondwoman (Gen. 21.10) clothed round about with purple and scarlet… mother… of the abomination and filthiness of [ecumenical] fornication (Apoc. 17.4) - the pseudo-Catholic Church of the “New World Order” of the enemies of the Crucified (cf., our post "The Year that was 1929") to which the regime of Bp. Fellay is leading back, by astute maneuverings, the mainstream Traditional Catholics.
Related posts: "Trouble-Maker Prophet", "The Seraphic Tongue of God and the Teresian Carmel of Catholic Resistance". See also: The Teresian Carmel
Labels: Catholic Tradition, Novus Ordo, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Prophet Elias, SSPX, St. John of the Cross, Teresian Carmel
The "Great Sign in Heaven" Clothes Us with Her Garment of Salvation
Solemn Commemoration of the
Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel
The Great Sign in heaven (Apoc. 12.1) has clothed us with the garment of salvation
and has enclosed us with the cloak of justice"
(2nd Antiphon, First Vespers)
"To Fly the Colors of the Immaculata"
See: "Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Her Brown Scapular"
Labels: Apocalypse, Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Teresian Carmel
Seed of the Devil: Enemies of the Faith
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, 2nd day
Feast of St. Elizabeth
A Great Sign appeared in heaven ... and the dragon was angry against Her: and went to make war with the rest of Her seed: who keep the commandments of God and have the [unchanging] testimony of Jesus Christ (Apoc. 12.1,17). The REST OF HER SEED - that is, what is left of the mainstream: the Catholic Resistance who must not only reject but fight what is not of Catholic Tradition for all that is not of Faith is sin (Rom. 14.23). Antipope Bergoglio (cf., the 'Declaratio' of 'resignation' read by Pope Benedict XVI promotes a different 'gospel' with the "New Evangelization" devoid of Catholic proselytizing in Quito, Ecuador (ZenitNews, 7th July 2015). Our Lady of Good Success @ Quito on 21 January 1610: "The devil... will labor with... subtle astuteness to deviate them [vocations to the priesthood] from the spirit of their vocation [as also ministers of the Truth, the real holders of the office of an evangelist -- no Protestantized Vatican II-'empowered' lay 'evangelist' please : for this I came into the world: that I should give testimony to the Truth (Jn. 18.37)] and will corrupt many of them (cf., "At the heart of Catholic crisis - the priesthood") to become ecumenical 'priests' or ministers of 'One World Religion' (the 'New disOrder' of religious harlotry).
Labels: antipope Bergoglio, Blessed Virgin Mary, Catholic Tradition, ecumenism, priesthood, Vatican II
Decline of Religion
First Day of Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel
"Flos Carmeli, vitis florigera. Splendor coeli, Virgo puerpera singularis. Mater mitis, sed viri nescia. Carmelitis da privilegia, Stella Maris" (Flower of Carmel, fruitful vine. Splendor of heaven, unique Virgin giving birth. Mother most gentle but unknown of man. To your Carmelite children, grant the laws of favor O Star of the sea!) Thus St. Simon Stock implored the Immaculata's intervention for Her Order besieged in and out by the devil. "All that is not of Faith is sin" (Rom. 14.23) : Let us then implore with our Holy Mother Church (from the Collect of the Mass last Sunday, the 6th after Pentecost) that the Immaculata may sooner arrest the decline of the virtue of religion, that total and complete adherence to the Rights of Christ the King - 1, the due reverential worship of Him in the Traditional Liturgy in Latin He irrevocably decreed through Pope St. Pius V to be "the norm... in all churches whatsoever.. forever;" and, 2, individual and social living according to the irreformable teachings and moral norms of Catholic Tradition (2 Thess. 2.14; 3.6), among her children and its cause : "[Not in Rome will] the dogma of the Faith [be] always preserved, etc." (Our Lady of Fatima concluding the Second Part and introducing the Third Part of Her "Secret" She wished be fully revealed as early as 1960 to stall the diabolical vehicle of apostasy - Vatican II and its Neo-Catholicism, the "pseudo- Catholicism" of infiltrated Freemasons and Communists working to subvert the flock of Christ Crucified from within: "The Year 1929").
Labels: Catholic Tradition, faith, Neo-Catholicism, Our Lady of Fatima, Sin, Teresian Carmel, Traditional Latin Mass, Vatican II
The Catholic "Mystery of the Faith"
Solemnity of the Most Sacred and Precious Blood
of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
The Most Sacred and Precious Blood of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the Traditional reference of the "Mystery of Faith" in the Apostolic formula of the consecration of the wine : It is the prize and seal of our redemption from the dominion of the devil. The abolition of today's Solemnity in the "New Calendar" reflects the deconstruction of the reference of the "Mystery of Faith" in the formula of consecration of wine in the Protestantized "New 'Mass'" (the 'official' Mass since 1969) for its re-invention : the "anamnesis" proclaiming the diabolical version of redemption, the "Paschal Mystery" of Neo-Catholic 'theo'-logists which asserts that redemption is not in its traditional central locus (place) [the Passion and Death of Christ on the Cross] but at the end in the resurrection (why the Neo-Catholic cross : the Crucified replaced by a resurrected but not in history and body, rather in the 'faith' - the personal belief - of a modernist 'free-thinking Catholic'). The difference : with the popular 'Mass’, sins, esp. the unnatural ones, abounded - not that the Precious Blood even when VALIDly confected on the neo-Catholic table brings it about but that, as St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, It refuses to give grace as with any ILLEGITIMATE rite (in a manner displeasing to God).
Now, what need was there that the Son of God should suffer for us even to pour out His Blood to its last drop? There was a great need; and indeed it can be assigned to two reasons. The first is that it was a remedy against sin, and the second is for an example of what we ought to do.
Remedy against sin and its evils
It was a remedy to such an extent that in the Passion of the Crucified we find a remedy against all the evils which we incur by our sins. And by our sins we incur different evils.
The first evil that man incurs by sin is the defilement of his soul. Just as virtue gives the soul its beauty, so sin makes it ugly - conforming it to the filthy, proud, and stupid mind of the devil and to his perverse will. "How happened it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies' land? Thou art defiled with the dead" (Bar. 3.10-11). But all this is taken away by the Passion of the Crucified, whereby the Crucified poured out His Blood as a laver wherein sinners are cleansed: "Who has loved us and washed us from our sins in His own Blood" (Apoc. 1.5). So, too, the soul is washed by the Blood of the Crucified in Baptism because then a new birth - supernatural, in which we are "made sons of God" (Jn. 1.12) - is had in virtue of His Blood, and hence when one defiles one's soul by sin, one offers insult to the Redeemer and sins more gravely than before one's Baptism. "A man making void the law of Moses dies without any mercy under two or three witnesses. How much more do you think he deserves worse punishments who has trodden under foot the Son of God and has esteemed the Blood of the Testament unclean!" (Heb. 10.28-29).
Secondly, we commit an offense against God. A sensual man loves the beauty and the inordinate urges of flesh, but God loves spiritual beauty which is the beauty of the soul - conformity with the mind and heart of the Redeemer and to His image and likeness. When, however, the soul is defiled by sin, God is offended and he sinner incurs His hatred. "To God, the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike" (Wis.14.9). This, also, is removed by the Passion of the Crucified through His Most Precious Blood Who made an infinite satisfaction to God the Father for sin - something which man of himself could never do. The charity and obedience of the Crucified Redeemer were greater than the sin and disobedience of the first man: "When we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son" (Rom. 5.10).
Thirdly, we have been weakened by sin. When a person sins the first time, he believes that he will thereafter keep away from sin, but what happens is the vey opposite. This is because by that first sin he is weakened and made more prone to commit sins, and sin has power moe and more over him. Such a one, as far as he alone is concerned, has lowered himself to such a condition that he cannot rise up, and is like to a man who jumps into an abyss from which, without God's help - what we call grace - he would never be rescued. After the Fall of man, our nature was weakened and corrupted, and we are made moe prone to sin. The Redeemer, however, lessened this sickness and weakness, although He did not entirely take it away - that through humility we may always be dependent on His merciful redemption; how un-Christian therefore is the doctrine of the Book-worshippers that they are already saved and therefore need no longer any divine assistance! So now, man is strengthened by the Passion of the Crucified Redeemer, and sin is not given such power over him. Moreover, he can rise clean from his sins when aided by God's grace conferred by the Sacraments - but only in their Traditional pre-Vatican Rite in Latin (the "New Rite of Sacraments" since 1969, even when they happen to be validly conferred, but because they are and will always be illegitimate, that is, not pleasing to God, do not, like to an always valid "Black Mass" of the Satanists, confer grace - which receive their efficacy from the Passion of the Crucified: "Our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin may be destroyed" (Rom. 6.6). Indeed, before the Passion of our Crucified Redeemer few there were who lived without falling into mortal sin; but, afterwards, many have lived and we living without mortal sin.
Fourthly, we incur the punishment due to sin. For the justice of God demands that whosoever sins must be punished. This punishment, however, is in proportion to the guilt. But the guilt of mortal sin is infinite, because it is an offense against the Infinite Good, namely God, Whose commands the sinner holds in contempt. Therefore, the punishment due to mortal sin is infinite - the everlasting fire of hell originally "prepared for the devil and his angels" (Mt. 25.41). The Crucified Lord, however, through His Passion has taken away this punishment from us and borne it Himself (cf., 1 Pet. 2.24). The Passion of the Crucified was of such value that it sufficed to expiate for all the sins of the whole world, even of a hundred thousand worlds. And so also is it that the Catholic Resistance priest forgives sins by pouring over the penitent the Most Precious Blood; and, again, the more one conforms himself to the Passion of the Crucified and has frequent recourse to the Most Precious Blood made available still on the Catholic Resistance* altar, the greater the pardon and the grace which he gains.
* The devil and his forces through their most cunning schemes (the ancient heresies and schisms, 'Bible-only' salvationism, the 1789 Masonic Revolution of the 'dignity and rights of man', 'free-thinking', and the so-called 'Novus Ordo' or the 'New World DisOrder': the liberal-secularist neo-Sodomitic Masonic republics dominated by the bankers of the "Synagogue of Satan", the pseudo-Catholic Church breathing in and out the same 1789 Freemasonic Revolution 'consecrated' by Vatican II, Sedevacantism, Ecclesia Dei-Tridentine Mass 'conservatism' and the cult of Fellayism by the mainstream-Priestly Society of St. Pius X), now that their time is almost up with the coming 100th year since the unfolding of Apocalypse XII in 1917, are in their rabid drive either to deprive souls of that certain cisterns which God has elected to convey His grace to dependent rational beings who are made not only of spirit but also of matter (rather, generally perceiving through matter) or to provide them but with actually "tampered" (Pope John Paul II) and "fabricated" (Card. Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI) Protestantized 'Mass' of an infiltrated Freemason dissimulatingly WISHed for by a Masonic fag in Papal trappings (the 'Blessed' Papa Montini, Paul VI, of Vatican II-"New 'Catholic' DisOrder" in his pseudo-Apostolic Constitution 'Misale Romanum' of April 1969 - the basis of a most lying formal Fellayite declaration that the New 'Mass', foundation of Vatican II Neo-Catholicism, was 'legitimately promulgated.') or coy ones (the Traditional Rite of divine service sacrilegiously used by the Fellayites, the Ecclesia Dei 'conservatives', and the Sedevacantists for a facade).
And fifthly, we incur banishment from the kingdom of heaven. Those who offend kings are compelled to go into exile. Thus, man is expelled from heaven on account of sin. Adam was immediately driven out of paradise immediately after his sin, and the gates of paradise was shut. But the Crucified Redeemer, by His sufferings and death, opened this gate and recalled all the exiles to the Kingdom. With the opening of the side of the Crucified, the gate of the true and everlasting paradise is opened; and, with the pouring out of His Most Sacred and Precious Blood, guilt is washed away, satisfaction is made to God, infirmity is removed, wrath and punishment expiated, and the exiles as called back to the Kingdom. Therefore, St. Augustine says that the Passion of the Crucified can bring about a true and solidly complete reformation of our life inundated and inebriated by the Most Sacred and Precious Blood of the Redeemer flowing from the uncompromised Traditional altars of Catholic Resistance - with references to the "Catechetical Instructions of St. Thomas Aquinas". May the Immaculata allow us not to loose this unalloyed fount of our eternal happiness.
Labels: Ecclesia Dei, Hell, Neo-Catholicism, New Mass, Sin, SSPX, the Most Precious Blood, Vatican II
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Dem. Congressman on Kellyanne Conway Kneeling: ‘She Looks Familiar in That Position’
by Benny Johnson March 2, 2017, 12:06 pm 30.7k Views 9 Votes
It is a tradition at the Nation Press Foundation Dinner in Washington, D.C., for members of opposing parties to roast one another. However, at last night’s dinner, Democratic Louisiana congressman Cedric Richmond may have taken it a step too far.
Rep. Richmond and Republican Senator Tim Scott (SC) were both invited to give remarks at the dinner. Scott was first to speak and joked about the recent Kellyanne Conway White House couch controversy. Scott remarked about the now-infamous photo:
Has anyone seen the controversy around Kellyanne Conway and the couch in the Oval Office? Come on, people. You remember the ’90s. That couch has had a whole lot of worse things. Come on now.
The photo of Conway was a point of controversy. Some thought the act of kneeling on the couch by the Counselor to the President was disrespectful.
Getty Images/Brendan Smialowski/AFP
It turns out Conway was, in fact, taking a photo for members of the Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) who were visiting the Oval Office.
Getty Images/Brendan SmialowskiI/AFP
After Senator Scott’s well-received remarks, Rep. Richmond took the stage. He got off to a slow start and then fumbled into a strange comment about the photo of Conway:
You even mentioned Kellyanne and the picture on the sofa. But I really just want to know what was going on there, because, I won’t tell anybody. And you can just explain to me that — that circumstance, because she really looked kind of familiar there in that position there. But don’t answer. And I don’t want you to refer back to the ’90s.
The joke was met with groans in the room. This reporter chased down Rep. Richmond after the remark and asked directly if the comment about Conway on her knees was intended to be lewd. Rep. Richmond’s response:
Hey man, I just said she looked comfortable in that position. I can’t let Tim get away with making a Clinton joke without making one of my own.
Rep. Richmond left the building without further clarification.
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) who was sitting at the Politico table as a guest for the dinner told IJR that he found the joke unbecoming of a congressman:
On the first day of Women’s History Month, it’s pretty sad to hear a sitting congressman say that about a woman who has made so much history.
The Washington Post has called the joke “downright offensive.”
Conway has been married to her husband 16 years and is a mother of four.
UPDATE: RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has addressed the comments on Twitter, calling for Richmond to apologize:
.@RepRichmond, you may think this is funny, but it’s not. It’s disgusting & offensive. 1/3https://t.co/3FOrBnweX0
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 2, 2017
A snarky joke for you is just a reminder of the demeaning comments women hear every single day. And trust me, it happens to all women. 2/3
Don’t “clarify,” @RepRichmond – apologize. I’d suggest using Women's History Month to lift us up instead of knocking us down. 3/3
UPDATE: Comment from the White House:
A spokesperson from the White House, speaking on background, tells IJR: “Rep. Richmond’s should immediately apologize for his disgraceful and derogatory comment that was insulting to all women.”
UPDATE: Richmond offers statement, non-apology to the Washington Post:
In a statement to The Post:
Since some people have interpreted my joke to mean something that it didn’t I think it is important to clarify what I meant. Last night was night of levity. Where I grew up saying that someone is looking or acting ‘familiar’ simply means that they are behaving too comfortably.
I decided to use that joke due to the large social media backlash over her inappropriate posture considering there were more than 60 HBCU Presidents in the room.”
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Ecological Inventory Manual
Authors: Noel Soucy, Benjamin Marckmann, Keith Slauson, Daniel Boiano, and Shayne Green
Produced by: LEGACY – The Landscape Connection, June 2001
This is a not-for-profit, non-published, uncopyrighted manual created and compiled for community use in the conservation of wildlands. This manual offers valuable ecological inventory techniques for community members who wish to understand and steward their homesteads for wildness.
Rare and Threatened Vegetation of the California North Coastal Basin
Author: Shayne Green
Produced by: Legacy-The Landscape Connection, 1999
The purpose of this document is to provide information that will help citizens and resource managers identify, protect and restore rare and threatened vegetation in the California North Coastal Basin. It addresses floristic diversity primarily at the series-level, but contains information that will be useful in both broader and finer-scale approaches to conservation. The primary project objectives are to:
Identify series of the CNCB that are uncommon, rare and threatened on a statewide and/or global scale,
Identify habitats and community types associated with high numbers of uncommon, rare, and threatened series within the region,
Recommend strategies for identifying and protecting rare and threatened vegetation, and
Present this information in a format that is useful to citizens, scientists, educators, and others interested in the rare and unique vegetation of the region.
Klamath/Central Pacific Coast Ecorecion Restoration Strategy: Vol. 1 – Description of the Ecoregion
Authors: Allen Cooperrider and Ron Garrett, September 30, 1998
This volume is the first of three volumes describing a strategy for restoring the function and health of the Klamath / Central Pacific Coast Ecoregion (Figure I-1), hereafter termed the “Klamath Ecoregion.” In this volume, we describe the ecoregion from an ecosystem perspective and summarize some of the human forces that have caused or are continuing to cause ecosystem degradation.
Ecological Assessment of Potential Wilderness Areas in the Klamath-Siskiyou Region of North Western California Appendix
Authors: Chris Trudel, Curtice Jacoby, Karin Riley-Thron, Per Tillisch
Produced by: LEGACY – The Landscape Connection, 2002
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and U.S. Representative Mike Thompson are considering forty-six potential wilderness areas (PWAs) in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of northwestern California for wilderness designation. The northern California portion of the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion contains many unprotected roadless areas of varying sizes and ecological importance.
The California Wild Heritage Campaign (CWHC) is now proposing legislation to protect millions of acres of land that are mapped as PWAs across the state and in the northern California portion of the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion. However, the PWAs mapped by CWHC have no documented ecological attribute information from which to support their inclusion in the proposed wilderness legislation.
The purpose of this report is to document the individual contribution of the PWAs to a regional reserve design for the California portion of the Klamath-Siskiyou region. The information contained in this report documents the important ecological contribution the PWAs make to the regional reserve system of the Klamath~Siskiyou Ecoregion in northwestern California. The information will be used to assist the CWHC, conservation groups, and legislators in documenting the importance of PWAs in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion and ensuring their inclusion in the proposed wilderness legislation.
Ecological Integrity Assessment of The North Coastal Basin
Authors: Keith Slauson, Danny Boianno, Shayne Green, and Noel Soucy
Produced by: LEGACY – The Landscape Connection, November 16, 1998
One of Legacy’s primary goals is to create a biodiversity conservation strategy for the California North Coastal Basin (NCB). This plan will highlight a network of areas within the region that stand out from the others due to their ecological function and conservation value. One step in the process of locating these areas is to understand the current level of ecological integrity within the major community types across the NCB.
Forsythe Wildlife Uplands Ecology
Author: Linda Gray
Produced by: LEGACY – The Landscape Connection, August 14, 2005
The primary purpose of this wildlife assessment is to demonstrate the value of the Forsythe Watershed as part of a potential wildlife linkage between Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) on the west side of Mendocino County and the Mendocino National Forest (MNF) on the east side.
LEGACY-The Landscape Connection Long Range Strategy: Creating a Biodiversity Conservation Network
Authors: Curtice Jacoby, Noel Soucy, Daniel Boiano, Steven Day, Shayne Green, KayDee Simon, Keith Slauson, and Chris Trudel
Produced by: LEGACY – The Landscape Connection, April 29, 1999
The long-term goal of LEGACY – The Landscape Connection is to implement a Biodiversity Conservation Plan (BCP) for the California North Coastal Basin. Based on scientific analysis and collective community input, we are currently delineating ecologically and culturally important areas in the California North Coastal Basin (CNCB). Upon completion of this mapping process, we will work collectively to develop watershed level biodiversity conservation plans that responds to the site-specific requirements of each community within the planning area and the CNCB as a whole. We promote social, cultural, and economic practices that maintain or restore the region’s ecological integrity.
The Bioreserve Strategy for Conserving Biodiversity
Authors: Allen Cooperrider, Stephen Day, and Curtice Jacoby, February 7, 1997
The bioreserve strategy is a promising but largely untested approach to conserving biodiversity. The strategy involves zoning regional landscapes into areas that range from total protection (minimal human activity) to areas of intensive human use. Zoning, in this context, does not necessarily refer to a formal regulatory designation, but rather to a societal agreement to limit certain human activities and uses on certain lands. This agreement may be expressed and played out in a variety of ways ranging from formal designation as reserves or parks to conservation easements or landowner agreements.
Conservation Value: Focal Species and Connectivity in California’s North Coast
Authors: Robert Brothers, Chris Trudel, and Curtice Jacoby
Produced by: LEGACY – The Landscape Connection, February 7, 1997
The Pacific Fisher, a rare small carnivore, was used as an indicator species for the mature forest habitat that once dominated this 5.5 million acre region. Six basic factors were used to assess the values of land for the conservation of biodiversity, and the largest concentrations of high value areas were used as “core areas” for the Fisher and other mature forest species. Connectivity between these areas was then assessed using road and habitat information. The result is a map of places that will be most important to protect if biodiversity in this region is to be maintained and restored.
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Home » Food & Drink » Susanna Reid weight loss: Good Morning Britain star sheds 2st by making two changes
Susanna Reid is a British television presenter who is best known as the co-presenter of Good Morning Britain, alongside Piers Morgan.
The 48-year-old decided to kick-start her weight loss journey following a visit to the doctors.
After suffering from skin problems, a medical professional advised the presenter to make changes to her lifestyle.
Speaking on Lorraine earlier this year, the TV star revealed the simple changes she made to lose more than 2st.
“It can creep up without you noticing”
Susanna Reid
How did Susanna Reid lose weight?
The broadcaster said: “It can creep up without you noticing and what I did was cut out snacking.
“I found waking up so early in the morning, and you’re in a sort of energy deficit and all your body can think of is to have toast and biscuits, have calories.
“And you can pile it on really quickly.”
Susanna followed her doctor’s advice and reduced the amount of snacks that she ate, as well as cutting her alcohol consumption.
By ditching the booze for a month, the star lost a whopping 14lbs.
She told Prima Magazine earlier this year: “I feel fantastic.
“This time last year, I went to the doctor with a skin problem and he told me I could do with losing some weight.
“It turned out I was at the upper end of my BMI and, I have to admit, I’d been feeling a little heavy for a while. I’ve lost a stone-and-a-half since then and I feel fantastic.”
What other ways did Susanna Reid credit for her weight loss?
She maintained a relatively healthy lifestyle, which includes a passion for running and doing the occasional Zumba class.
And Susanna even took tips from Tyson Fury, who recently revealed his 10st weight loss transformation.
What other celebrities have shared their weight loss stories?
BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills unveiled his incredible weight loss transformation recently.
While MasterChef’s Gordon Ramsay also revealed how he dropped 4st with one easy diet.
And TV chef James Martin has opened up about his 6st weight loss.
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When we talk about college lacrosse recruiting, the conversation too often stops at Division I. Each year, I sit down with young players, and I ask them to outline their top three priorities for their collegiate experience. Next, I ask for a list of 20 schools they think fit that framework. I’m often left with a list that doesn’t match those priorities, because their list contains only Division I programs.
Division III offers get overlooked, misinterpreted or downplayed. I chatted with Washington and Lee coach Brooke O’Brien and Dickinson coach Kim Lowry to gain some insight about the common misconceptions of Division III lacrosse.
“Division III is not competitive enough or too casual.”
Lowry: When people ask if there is a higher commitment level with Division I, I usually tell them that I believe the commitment level is just as high at the Division III level. Our student-athletes are highly motivated and committed to winning. The only difference is the requirements that Division I programs may impose on its athletes, that Division III may not.
O’Brien: The NCAA allows D-III schools 16 days over a four week period to practice during the fall season, so we typically practice four times a week over four weeks in the fall. Our spring season is a six-day a week commitment [similar to D-I], so it is a significant commitment to play D-III lacrosse as well.
“I can’t decide which sport I want to play in college, but feel that I have to choose.”
O’Brien: We encourage our student-athletes to play a second varsity sport. Our dual-sport athletes are not only our most athletic, but they just love to compete, which improves both the training and competition environment for our whole team.
Lowry: It is a huge bonus to have athletes that are dynamic and can excel in different athletic environments.
“I want to study abroad, but have heard that is very difficult to do if you play lacrosse in college. I’ve also been discouraged from studying pre-med because it would be too time-consuming if I also played lacrosse. Help!”
O’Brien: Our philosophy is that academics are the priority. Students can take any classes that they want. We often have pre-med students. Also, the ability to study abroad in the fall is a very attractive option. We only ask that they study abroad in the fall or summer and that they come back in shape and prepared for the season’s start in January.
Lowry: Currently, seven of our eight juniors are studying abroad in places like Australia, Copenhagen, Barcelona and Bologna. And our student-athletes are welcome to major in any academic area. It is up to each student-athlete to make an informed decision of what they would like to pursue academically.
“I’m interested in the full college experience and perhaps exploring Greek life, but have heard being in a sorority and playing lacrosse is not looked upon highly.”
Lowry: Whether its Greek life or an a cappella group, we do not disallow our players to do anything. The beauty of the Division III experience is the balance between academics, athletics and extracurricular activities.
O’Brien: The unique experience of the Division III student-athlete is that they have the time to pick one or two other things that they are passionate about on campus outside of lacrosse and academics. Students graduate having enjoyed a full college experience. It is important to be aware that D-III women’s lacrosse is made up of more than 260 different programs with a wide variety of experiences, ability levels and commitment required. Student-athletes should ask numerous questions to the coaches at each school as they investigate the program that will provide them with the best fit and overall college experience.
Kate Hickman is the director of the Bay Area Lacrosse Club and founder of Balance Lacrosse. This post originally appeared in her monthly column from the October 2015 edition of Lacrosse Magazine.
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Keith scores in OT to lift Blackhawks over Avalanche 2-1
Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith (2) celebrated with Alex DeBrincat (12) and Brandon Saad (20) after scoring against Colorado goalie Philipp Grubauer during overtime on Sunday night.
— Nam Y. Huh, AP
By TIM CRONIN , Associated Press
CHICAGO — Duncan Keith is a two-time Norris Trophy winner because of his defense, not his scoring skills.
This night was different. When the Blackhawks needed it most, Keith played the role of power forward perfectly Sunday.
The veteran defenseman's goal 1:23 into overtime gave Chicago a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in a matchup of Western Conference playoff contenders.
Keith took a feed from Brandon Saad, bulled his way down left wing, shrugged off a check from Nathan MacKinnon and beat goaltender Philipp Grubauer between the legs to snap the Blackhawks' three-game losing streak.
"I don't score too many overtime goals but I think MacKinnon was coming down and I was trying not to get embarrassed there because he's a pretty good player," Keith said. "I had the jump on him so I was trying to maybe pull it to my backhand. I saw that I wasn't going to have enough room so I just tried to slam it at the net as hard I could."
Chicago pulled within five points of Colorado for the second wild card in the West, one night after the Avalanche beat the Blackhawks in the first game of their home-and-home set.
"It was pretty much a must-win game, especially after losing the last one against these guys," Keith said.
Artem Anisimov had a power-play goal for the Blackhawks, tying it 1-all early in the third period. Corey Crawford made 19 saves.
Alexander Kerfoot scored on a 5-on-3 power play for the Avalanche, who had won four straight.
"It was really important, especially against that team," Anisimov said. "They're ahead of us. Got to get that extra point. There's not much time left so every game's important, but we just go one by one."
Colorado has 81 points in the final wild-card spot. Arizona and Minnesota have 79, and Chicago has 76, with a game in hand on Colorado and Minnesota.
For the Avalanche, it was a squandered chance to put more distance between them and their pursuers.
"I don't want to blow this one too much out of proportion," coach Jared Bednar said. "I know our guys are tired tonight, and I know it's no excuse, because they played back-to-back as well, but we've been on a busy stretch and running some guys for some hard minutes.
"It wasn't our best performance. We'll get rid of this game and get ready for our next one. You've got to be on top of your game, and we learned that here tonight."
Kerfoot opened the scoring with Colorado's second 5-on-3 goal in two games. He deflected Tyson Barrie's slap shot past Crawford with 4:34 left in the second period while Marcus Kruger and Jonathan Toews were in the penalty box.
Chicago tied it on Anisimov's goal 1:44 into the third. Anisimov moved to the slot after winning the faceoff from Carl Soderberg and deflected Brent Seabrook's slap shot from the point past Grubauer. It was Chicago's second power-play goal in 11 games.
Chicago coach Jeremy Colliton was as much relieved as anything.
"We're in a spot where we're desperate. You can respond in different ways to that and I really liked how we responded tonight," Colliton said. "We found a different level, a lot of pressure on the puck, forced them to play D-zone. We defended really well."
The Avalanche controlled play early, with Sven Andrighetto hitting the post 65 seconds in, but the Blackhawks gradually took over. They forced Grubauer to make 40 stops, including a brilliant glove save on Toews with 3:26 remaining in regulation.
Colorado didn't get a shot in overtime. The Avalanche controlled play for the first 50 seconds, but Chicago took control of the puck after a battle on the boards and it eventually came to Saad, who found Keith open on the left side.
NOTES: Colorado is 11-5-2 in its last 18 games. ... Chicago is 9-7-1 in its past 17 after going 10-2 to climb into the playoff race. ... Colorado LW Gabriel Landeskog (upper body) missed his eighth straight game. ... Chicago C Drake Caggiula (concussion) missed his 11th consecutive game. ... Chicago juggled its line combinations, putting a slumping Alex DeBrincat back with Toews and Patrick Kane. They combined for 15 shots but no points.
Avalanche: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday night.
Blackhawks: At the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.
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Alpha-Omega 200 • The CCAS • PNM #3 Pages 20-21
Last week we gave you the low-down on Alpha-Omega and Comics APA’s in general. This is a follow up to that info.
Alpha-Omega # 200
It began back in the 1980’s…
March 1985 to be exact. Some of the initial members had been in other APA’s, buy many like Mark Poe, our resident publisher in training, had never been part of such a group. He had read lots of fanzines some of which gave the background of APAs, Amateur Press Associations. He says he can’t remember where he heard about Alpha-Omega but, most likely, it was either an article or ad in one of those fanzines. That was 33 years ago! Now with the next A-O, due out in may, the APA celebrates it’s 200th Mailing Issue! A lot of APA’s only make it a few years or in some cases a few months before ceasing distribution for one reason or another. A few like Kappa-Alpha, which we told you about last week, go on for years. Alpha-Omega is in that class.
Following is a post by current Central Mailer Kevin Yong:
“Alpha-Omega #200: Calling All Former Members!
Posted by Kevin Yong on February 14, 2018 at 3:00pm
Hi! As some of you may know, I’m not posting here online that often because so much of my time is involved offline with Alpha-Omega, the Christian Comic Arts Society’s long-running Christian comics APA (which stands for Amateur Press Association.)
For those who don’t know what an APA is, there’s a Wikipedia article on the history of the concept. It’s basically a short-run, members-only fanzine that works sort of like a pre-internet equivalent of a private discussion forum, bulletin board and blog, printed out and shipped back and forth through regular postal mail. Each member of the APA produces their own mini-zine (called “contributions”, or “tribs” for short), mails their ‘trib to the group’s “Central Mailer”, who then collates and combines the individual ‘tribs into complete photocopied/stapled issues of the APA-zine which is then mailed back out to all participating members, who then are generally expected to review/critique/comment on each other’s work in the following issue. It’s a much slower paced (and given the cost of photocopies and postage, much more expensive) alternative to the free and instantaneous fellowship available through modern online forums and social media, but it tends to provide an outlet for a different set of creative muscles and provides a different style of feedback and fellowship.
So, if you’ve never heard of an APA before and would be interested in joining, you can talk to Ralph Miley (the current “Editor” of our APA, who coordinates stuff between members) or myself (the current “Central Mailer”, who physically assembles and mails each issue) to find out more.
However! This blog post isn’t specifically about recruiting new members. What I’m trying to do is spread the word to former alumni members of our group and let them know that the Alpha-Omega APAzine will be celebrating its 200th issue this year! Ralph and I are trying to contact and invite all our many alumni members to participate in this upcoming special anniversary issue!
(Additional Note: I originally wrote this post with former Alpha-Omega members in mind, but the invitation to participate is open to other friends and supporters of the Christian comics movement as well. Contact us if you’re interested!) – Kevin
And so, I hereby present: The official AO#200 participation Q&A!
Who are we looking for? If you’ve been a member of the Alpha-Omega APA at any point during our past 30+ years, we’d love to see you back in our pages for this anniversary special. We have been trying to reach out and contact former members via our last known contact info from back issues of A-O, but many of us have moved and/or changed email providers in the years since we first joined. That’s why I’m making a more public announcement here on the CCAS site, to get the word out more easily. (This invitation is also open to any other friends and supporters in the Christian comics movement who want to celebrate with us.)
Who to contact? Ralph Miley is our main coordinator for this project. Kevin Yong is the Central Mailer who is compiling all the ‘tribs and will be formatting the book for print. If you don’t have our contact info already, drop me an email and we’ll follow up!
What’s the plan? Alpha-Omega #200 will be a special issue featuring content from our past and current members, as well as from friends and supporters within the Christian comics movement. We envision the book as a “best of” tribute to our past 33+ years of APAzine fellowship, and a celebration of both Christian comics and Christian comics fandom.
The book will be printed as a squarebound trade paperback using print-on-demand, and in addition to copies being printed for participants, the book will later be available for sale at Amazon.com to the general public. (Any money eventually raised from sales of the book will go back towards funding Alpha-Omega and the CCAS.)
Deadline? The 200th issue will be dated May/June 2018. The deadline for contributing for the issue will be May 7th, and the printed issue will be sent out (Lord willing) by late May.
Costs? As an all-volunteer APAzine, the costs of printing this issue will be paid for out of pocket by the participants. We estimate a printed copy will cost somewhere around $5, plus postage, depending on the final page count.
For those alumni who want to be a part of AO #200 but who don’t want to purchase a physical copy, we’ll work on creating a free digital PDF version to be available for all participants.
What we’re looking for. The length of your ‘trib is up to you. You can submit anything from a full length ‘trib to a single page of congratulatory artwork in the tradition of those Comic-Con “Souvenir Books”. Our theme for this issue is “Celebrating Christian Comics Fandom”.
Ideas for ‘tribs
A “Best of” collection of your past Alpha-Omega content. Do you have essays, reviews, artwork or writing from your past time in A-O that you would like to see reprinted? Also, If you previously wrote content for the CCAS 25th Anniversary book, we can reprint your essays/memoirs from there as well!
You can share your own personal memories or experiences with the Christian comics movement, or updates on what you have been involved with since you were last in AO. (But don’t forget that this book will have a wider audience than normal, so don’t go into more personal detail than you would be comfortable sharing on a public forum.)
Feel free to share and promote your own work. Members of our group has produced a lot of content over the years, but much of it was in the form of small-press indie comics from the pre-internet era and so many of our comics may still be largely unknown to wider audiences. Let people know what you’ve worked on, and how to find it!
Artwork in the “Congratulations on 200 issues!” tradition of those ubiquitous Comic-Con Souvenir Books. Artwork can feature your own characters, or if you want a “mascot” character for AO, you can do a tribute using The Golden Protector — a Christian superhero created by Don Ensign, the co-founder of A-O & the CCAS who passed away a few years ago. (Reference art available if needed.)
Personal contact info. If you’re a creator who wants to promote your website, social media or email, great! Go for it! But it’s probably not a good idea to share your home address and phone number, since extra copies of this “best of” book will eventually be available for sale to the general public.
Mailing comments. These are usually the lifeblood of an APA, but this issue will have many new one-time readers, so mailing comments referencing any specific back issue content will be needlessly confusing. Save it for next time, regulars!
Serialized stories. Like above, don’t share “Chapter 2 of 5” or start a teaser cliffhanger that will never be resolved for our guest readers. Let’s stick to standalone stories this issue.
Copyrighted material. Feel free to share any of your own art and writing, but avoid photocopying articles or artwork from elsewhere.
All our usual AO content restrictions apply: no graphic sex/violence/objectionable content, no personal insults, no inter-denominational arguments, no political flame-wars.
Copyrights You will retain all copyright ownership of your individual content. By submitting your work for this issue, you are granting Alpha-Omega/CCAS a nonexclusive right to publish it as part of this 200th issue compilation anthology.
This standard disclaimer will be included in the front page of the book: “The views and opinions expressed here are those of the individual creators, and do not necessarily reflect the Christian Comic Arts Society or the Alpha-Omega Amateur Press Association as a whole. The copyright for all contents of this anthology are the property of their respective creators, and are printed here with permission.”
How to send your ‘trib: The book will be 8.5” x 11”, B&W. Try to design your pages accordingly.
Clearly label your pages with your name, and your ‘trib’s title too, if applicable.
Also please include your own copyright notices if you want to be more specific than our generic AO disclaimer listed above.
If you can send your ‘trib digitally, send it to Kevin via email or by using a file sharing upload site like Dropbox. PDF is the preferred file format (Word Documents can be used if absolutely necessary, but we can make no guarantees that the formatting will remain consistent.)
If you prefer to create your ‘trib in hardcopy form, you can mail us one clean set of B&W pages for your ‘trib, and we will scan it as needed for the final book. You can mail your hardcopy pages to:
Kevin Yong
Contact Ralph and Kevin to RSVP if you’re interested. If you don’t already have our contact info, you can send us an email and one of us will follow-up. God bless!”
So there you have it! If you are interested go the Alpha Omega Facebook page or the Christian Comic Arts Society website. You will find the email addresses listed there.
We didn’t talk a lot about the Christian Comic Arts Society. But we included some stunning art from their website. The CCAS is the mother organization which ushered A-O into the world. We’re out of space so we can’t tell you any more about the CCAS but here you have the link if you want to check out their web site.
Since my first contribution to the Amateur Press Association (APA) called Alpha-Omega was number 2, I guess that makes me like a founding member, or at least close to it. I’m an alumni if nothing else. Many APAs over the years only lasted for a short period of time, months or maybe a year or two. Most of time it was due to strife inside the ranks, or a lack of sustained interest.
Alpha-Omega could have gone the same way. The early days were controversial at times but most of the time everyone got along. Even though we had established guidelines which were well written there are always gray areas where rules are concerned. Some members would push the envelope to try these guidelines on purpose. Others would find themselves in violation of a guideline unintentionally. I was one who found himself in the latter group. In any group, whether it’s Christian or some other discipline, there will be some members who are more tolerant than others. A few older members had problems with my art and in particular the way I had depicting females. It wasn’t that I was drawing naked ladies or anything, but one member thought my super powered character, Beth Champion a.k.a. Laser was naked in my very first trib showing a drawing of her flying! She wasn’t naked, of course. When Beth manifested her power of transforming into living light (Yeah, I had the idea before Monica Rambeau, Marvel’s second Captain Marvel) I depicted her transformation much like the Human Torch was always shown in the ’70’s. My drawings of Laser, like those of the Torch, revealed her form as if she were wearing a skin tight costume without seams. I was naive to say the least. I recall reading that one of Stan Lee‘s concerns in artists drawing the Silver Surfer in the ’60’s was his seamless “costume” as Jack Kirby designed it originally. That’s why he had Jack and others add the lines indicating trunks in subsequent appearances after the character debuted in Fantastic Four #48. Now, back to my character, Laser. Once it was pointed out I could see how my intentions could be misconstrued. In my defense, I had grown up in the ’70’s with comics which had become more and more unrestrained in it’s depiction of sex and the human form. Artists were gravitating more and more toward the realistic style of Neal Adams, Jim Starlin and others. Comics artists of that era were discovering the Sexual Revolution so anything went, and often the first thing was as much clothing as possible especially where the females were concerned! Not an unusual development for artists of any era, mind you. 😉 But I recognized the problem and determined to adhere more closely to the A-O Guidelines. You can see the results in this last drawing which appeared a few Mailing Issues later in A-O. Now instead of Beth Champion’s form adhering to the human female form as it would be depicted without cloths, or a skin tight costume, she would appear to radiate light in a clothed form, as the outlines shows here. Problem solved!
I have to say, at the time, I resented the adjustment but I humbled myself and realized it was for the better and was actually a more realistic solution for the character, who was suppose to be a more realistic version of a super powered human than the traditional super-hero. As the old saying goes, “Live and learn.”
I was not the only one who learned from his mistakes. Almost every member of A-O had to humble themselves at one time or another to adjust to different viewpoints which made up the group. We were all Christians with different denominational backgrounds, so even though we shared fundamental basic beliefs we varied on a lot of topics. However, we grew together and learned to bend and understand a little. I think this is one of the primary reasons why A-O has lasted 33 years and is about to have its 200th Mailing Issue. Not bad, eh? 😉
Onward! Mark
(Sources: Wikipedia, and Mark’s memory, the Christian Comic Arts Society website. )
Archive’s Spotlight is designed to look at all which has come before and add new comments as well. This posting we are reviewing Project New Man 3 Page 20-21!
Project: New Man #3 – Page 20-21– Once again we have made more changes in the art mainly in the backgrounds and specifically in the simulated Duo-Shade tones used to produce the black and white pages of Project: NewMan #3.
Pages 20 and 21 was all we had time to do this week. As was the case with page 19 there was no background halftones originally on these two pages either. Those were the first pages by Chris Torres and Mark Poe which were reproduced straight form the original inked art with no additional halftones. The scans of pages 19 through 32 for Project NewMan # 3 were of better quality than the old Duo-Shade boards from the previous chapter. These art boards were regular Bristol board without the emulsion shading. But thanks to the wonders of Photoshop we can simulate the shading as we did in repairing the previous pages which were done on the Duo-Shade boards.
As usual, since beginning these revisions we are posting a couple of examples here which show what it looked like before and results after the adjustments. There are other minor art adjustments to these pages too. See how much of a sharp eyed art critic you are by identifying all the changes.
The original digital scans of these pages were done 10 years or more back. Adobe Photoshop and some of the other programs we use to clean up the images and add the effects, make corrections and changes have evolved a lot in that time. We can do a lot more with the scans now than we could 10 years ago. It sure beats the old school way we did these pages back in the early ’90’s!
Check back next week for more pages in PNM #3 as we continue updating these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics.
Remember, we have digital editions at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99ç each! And if you want actual hard copy prints the Indyplanet will sale those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1 featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract.
What are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group / Legacy Comics right now! Check out the cover link to the left here which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather got to DriveThru Comics.
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Majority of voters see America on wrong track
Tuesday Nov 6, 2012 4:22 PM
Slideshow: Election 2012
See images of voting from around the country.
As voters left polling places Tuesday, a majority told exit poll interviewers they felt the country was “seriously off on the wrong track.” But the mood of the electorate was markedly more optimistic than it was four years ago, when a record three out of four voters said the country was on the wrong track.
In preliminary results from early voters in the national NBC News exit poll, 52 percent said America was on the wrong track while 46 percent said the nation was"generally going in the right direction."
Preliminary results from exit polls also showed that most voters, 53 percent, thought the federal government is doing too much, a sharp contrast with four years ago, when the country was in the midst of a financial and economic crisis. At that time only 43 percent of voters said the government was doing too much and a majority, 51 percent, thought the government ought to do more to try to solve the nation’s problems.
Not surprisingly three out of five voters Tuesday said the economy was the most important issue facing the country, but poll respondents were divided as to what specific economic challenge loomed largest.
When asked, “Which one of these four is the biggest economic problem facing people like you?” 39 percent chose unemployment, nearly that many (36 percent) said rising prices, while 14 percent said taxes were the biggest problem and 7 percent said housing.
Voters in preliminary exit poll results were sharply divided in their views of the president’s signature first-term accomplishment, enactment of the Affordable Care Act, which aims to overhaul the nation’s health insurance system.
Twenty-five percent favored total repeal of the 2010 law, while another 23 percent wanted to see some of it repealed. Nineteen percent favored leaving the law as it is, and another 25 percent want expansion of the law.
Exit poll interviews will continue across the nation as voters cast their ballots Tuesday; some of the preliminary results may be modified later in the evening as more data becomes available.
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PREMIER LACROSSE LEAGUE AND NBC SPORTS GROUP ANNOUNCE TELEVISION AND LIVE STREAMING SCHEDULE FOR INAUGURAL PLL SEASON
Three PLL Games on NBC; 16 Games on NBCSN; 20 Games Exclusively for Subscribers on NBC Sports Gold
Paul Rabil and Atlas LC Matchup Against Myles Jones and Chaos on Sun., June 9, at 2 p.m. ET on NBC
First Game in PLL History to Live Stream Exclusively on NBC Sports Gold; Justin Guterding and Chrome LC Face-Off Against Tom Schreiber and Archers LC from Gillette Stadium on Sat., June 1, at 1 p.m. ET
First NBCSN Game Airs on Sun., June 2, at 1:30 p.m. ET from Gillette, Featuring Battle Between Greg Gurenlian of Redwoods LC and Trevor Baptiste of Atlas LC
Inaugural PLL Championship Game Airs Live on Sat., Sept. 21, at 2:30 P.M. ET on NBC
STAMFORD, Conn. – April 25, 2019 – The Premier Lacrosse League and NBC Sports Group jointly announced today the television and live streaming schedule for the PLL’s inaugural 39-game season, which begins on June 1.
The PLL is a six-team, tour-based league featuring 160 of the best lacrosse players in the world. The teams that will take the field for the league’s first season are Archers LC, Atlas LC, Chaos LC, Chrome LC, Redwoods LC and Whipsnakes LC. NBC Sports Group is the exclusive media partner of the newly-founded PLL, and will present games across NBC, NBCSN, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, and NBC Sports Gold.
Fans will be able to watch three games on NBC and 16 games on NBCSN, all of which will be live streamed via authentication on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app. NBC Sports Gold – NBC Sports’ direct-to-consumer live streaming product powered by Playmaker Media – will live stream 20 games exclusively for subscribers. More details about NBC Sports Gold’s lacrosse product will be announced soon.
The first two games in PLL history will be live streamed exclusively to subscribers of NBC Sports Gold when Justin Guterding and Chrome take on Tom Schreiber and Archers on Sat., June 1, at 1 p.m. ET, followed by Mike Ehrhardt and Whipsnakes vs. Tyson Bell and Chaos at 4 p.m. ET. NBC Sports’ opening weekend coverage concludes with the first game on NBCSN when Greg Gurenlian and Redwoods face Rabil and Atlas on Sun., June 2, at 1:30 p.m. ET.
NBC’s coverage begins in Week 2 when Paul Rabil and Atlas face Myles Jones and Chaos at the New York-area Red Bull Arena on Sun., June 9, at 2 p.m. ET. The game is reminiscent of the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship gold medal game, as ten players from Team USA and team Canada play key roles on the Atlas and Chaos rosters.
PLL coverage on NBC continues the following week on Sun., June 16, when Atlas LC plays Chrome LC at 2:30 p.m. ET, and concludes with the league’s championship weekend at the Philadelphia-area Talen Energy Stadium on Sat., Sept. 21, at 2:30 p.m. ET.
The inaugural 2019 Premier Lacrosse League season spans 14 weeks, with stops in 13 major-market cities nationwide. The PLL season will include 10 regular-season weekends, an all-star weekend and three playoff weekends, culminating with the championship weekend games on Sept. 21.
Following is the 2019 Premier Lacrosse League broadcast schedule across NBC Sports platforms:
DATE TIME (ET) LOCATION VENUE GAME PLATFORM
Sat., June 1 1 p.m. Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium Chrome at Archers NBC Sports Gold
Sat., June 1 4 p.m. Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium Whipsnakes at Chaos NBC Sports Gold
Sun., June 2 1:30 p.m. Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium Redwoods at Atlas NBCSN
Sat., June 8 1 p.m. Harrison, NJ Red Bull Arena Whipsnakes at Chrome NBC Sports Gold
Sat., June 8 4 p.m. Harrison, NJ Red Bull Arena Redwoods at Archers NBCSN
Sun., June 9 2 p.m. Harrison, NJ Red Bull Arena Chaos at Atlas NBC
Sat., June 15 2 p.m. Bridgeview, IL SeatGeek Stadium Chaos at Redwoods NBC Sports Gold
Sat., June 15 5 p.m. Bridgeview, IL SeatGeek Stadium Archers at Whipsnakes NBCSN
Sun., June 16 2:30 p.m. Bridgeview, IL SeatGeek Stadium Atlas at Chrome NBC
Sat., June 22 1 p.m. Baltimore, MD Homewood Field Chrome at Redwoods NBCSN
Sat., June 22 7:30 p.m. Baltimore, MD Homewood Field Whipsnakes at Atlas NBC Sports Gold
Sun., June 23 3:30 p.m. Baltimore, MD Homewood Field Archers at Chaos NBC Sports Gold
Fri., June 28 8 p.m. Atlanta, GA Georgia State Stadium Atlas at Archers NBCSN
Sat., June 29 1 p.m. Atlanta, GA Georgia State Stadium Chaos at Chrome NBC Sports Gold
Sat., June 29 4 p.m. Atlanta, GA Georgia State Stadium Redwoods at Whipsnakes NBC Sports Gold
Sat., July 6 5 p.m. Washington D.C. Audi Field Archers at Redwoods NBC Sports Gold
Sat., July 6 8 p.m. Washington D.C. Audi Field Whipsnakes at Atlas NBCSN
Sun., July 7 3 p.m. Washington D.C. Audi Field Chrome at Chaos NBCSN
Sun., July 21 5 p.m. Los Angeles, CA Banc of California Stadium Skills Competition NBC Sports Gold
Sun., July 21 8 p.m. Los Angeles, CA Banc of California Stadium All-Star Teams TBD NBCSN
Sat., July 27 5 p.m. Commerce City, CO Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Atlas at Redwoods NBC Sports Gold
Sat., July 27 8 p.m. Commerce City, CO Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Chaos at Whipsnakes NBCSN
Sun., July 28 4 p.m. Commerce City, CO Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Archers at Chrome NBC Sports Gold
Sat., Aug. 10 4 p.m. San Jose, CA Avaya Stadium Redwoods at Chaos NBC Sports Gold
Sat., Aug. 10 7 p.m. San Jose, CA Avaya Stadium Chrome at Whipsnakes NBC Sports Gold
Sun., Aug. 11 7:30 p.m. San Jose, CA Avaya Stadium Archers
at Atlas NBCSN
Sat., Aug. 17 12:30 p.m. Hamilton, Ontario Tim Hortons Field Chaos
at Archers NBCSN
Sat., Aug. 17 3:30 p.m. Hamilton, Ontario Tim Hortons Field Chrome
at Atlas NBC Sports Gold
Sun., Aug. 18 6 p.m. Hamilton, Ontario Tim Hortons Field Whipsnakes at Redwoods NBCSN
Sat., Aug. 24 8 p.m. Albany, NY Tom and Mary Casey Stadium Redwoods at Chrome NBC Sports Gold
Sun., Aug. 25 1:30 p.m. Albany, NY Tom and Mary Casey Stadium Whipsnakes at Archers NBC Sports Gold
Sun., Aug. 25 4:30 p.m. Albany, NY Tom and Mary Casey Stadium Atlas
at Chaos NBCSN
Fri., Sept. 6 7:30 p.m. Columbus, OH MAPFRE Stadium Playoffs
Round 1 NBCSN
Sat., Sept. 7 5 p.m. Columbus, OH MAPFRE Stadium Playoffs
Round 1 NBC Sports Gold
Sat., Sept. 14 5 p.m. Harrison, NJ Red Bull Arena Playoffs
Sat., Sept. 21 11:30 a.m. Chester, PA Talen Energy Stadium Consolation Game NBC Sports Gold
Sat., Sept. 21 2:30 p.m. Chester, PA Talen Energy Stadium Championship Game NBC
For more information on NBC Sports Group’s overall media partnership with the Premier Lacrosse League, please click here.
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Patrice Evra tells Paul Pogba he should confront three Man United players
Patrice Evra believes that Paul Pogba has been subjected to too much criticism from Manchester United fans (Picture: Getty)
Former Manchester United captain Patrice Evra has defended Paul Pogba from his critics by suggesting that Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford and Romelu Lukaku have performed worse than he has and not been singled out.
Pogba’s commitment to the club has been questioned in recent weeks after the Frenchman’s form tailed off towards the end of the campaign following an exceptional run after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was initially appointed as manager.
The 26-year-old has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid in the summer to link up with his compatriot Zinedine Zidane and speculation over his future has led to further alienation between himself and United’s supporters. However, Evra believes that Pogba – a former teammate of his for Juventus and the French national team – has borne the brunt of unfair criticism considering his goalscoring record last season.
Man United's top goalscorers 2018-19Paul Pogba13Romelu Lukaku12Anthony Martial10Marcus Rashford10Jesse Lingard4
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Q & A for Owners requiring a new tenant
We work extremely hard to lease your property as soon as possible.
Firstly we invest in specialist staff training, carefully developed internal quality systems, databases and leasing programs.
We spare no effort to recruit and retain high quality experienced operators with a record and passion for high performance.
We provide recommendations on preparing the property for lease as well as proposing marketing elements such as boards and the internet to generate quality enquiries. We keep you informed of our progress throughout.
Upon finding a prospective tenant we make every effort to ensure they have good references and are suitable businesses for the property that will ultimately add value to your investment.
The following is a guide only and it is strongly urged you read all
associated documentation, and make your own enquiries.
What do I need to know about leasing commercial & industrial property?
Leasing a Commercial & Industrial property is different to leasing a residential property. Every client's property requirements are unique.
Activity within the local area that may effect commercial property values include:
Current business confidence in the area
Recent leasing evidence
Council planning requirements
Presentation and positioning of your premises in comparison to others
Leasing process
We have a disciplined leasing process which is summarised hereunder;
Formalise our appointment - by signing a standard REIV authority;
Property preparation - understand aspects of the property;
Heads of agreement (HOA) preparation - outline all aspects of the basic terms of the lease be sought;
Marketing preparation - remember we cannot lease a secret;
Negotiation phase - focus is on the Heads Of Agreement document;
Completion phase - tenant does not get access until lease documentation is signed by both parties, first month’s rent and security bond is paid;
Management phase - the property is then handed to our expert management team.
What is an agency authority and why do I need to complete one?
We need to pre-agree and formalise our role that you want us to perform.
The Estate Agents Act requires that any arrangement for the provision of Agency services must be in writing. As members of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) we use the standard REIV Authority forms which have been designed to meet the requirements of Estate Agency Law.
Why do I need a lease?
This is the contract between the landlord and the tenant. It sets out the obligations of each party. Whenever there is a query of dispute it is always the first document we refer to.
Heads of Agreement (HOA)
Most of our lease transactions involve the preparation of a HOA. This document summarises the basic terms and conditions which upon agreement is signed off by both parties. The HOA is then provided to the owner's solicitor to prepare the lease documentation.
What is the difference between gross and net rentals?
Gross rentals cover all tenant obligations in a single charge. Rent and all outgoings (excluding consumables) are combined together in a gross rental paid monthly.
Net rentals are paid monthly whilst outgoings are charged when they fall due. For details of types of outgoings see Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on this subject.
How is the rent determined?
The rent is based on the comparable rents of other properties within the area that are of similar size, presentation, and positioning. The rent is ultimately determined by the owner on the basis of these facts and on the advice of the agent.
How do rent reviews work?
Normally there is a fixed or CPI annual increase during the lease term. However upon your lease renewal (if any) the rent is determined at market levels.
What is an outgoing?
Outgoings are the expenses attributable to and necessary to maintain a functional property. Most commercial leases require the tenant to reimburse the owners outgoings. These are paid by the tenant in addition to the agreed rental.
For a 'gross lease', outgoings are included within the rental as a single payment. There are no further outgoings for the tenant to pay as they are settled by the owner of the property other than such things as phone, electricity and water consumption.
What do outgoings consist of?
Property charges such as:
Statutory charges such as: (council rates, water rates, drainage charges)
Building operating costs
Owners corporation fees if a strata title property
Who pays land tax?
Under the Retail Leases Act the owner is required to pay land tax on their premises. This is a non-recoverable expense. For properties not covered by the Retail Leases Act, these outgoings are recoverable from the tenant based on a single holding basis.
What is an Owners Corporation fee and what does it include?
Owners Corporation is the new term for Body Corporate.
An Owners Corporation is a company appointed to manage the shared areas of a building or a number of adjoining premises. The owners corporation will collect charges for utilities, cleaning etc for the common areas and will charge a portion to each premises as defined by the deed of
incorporation. The Owners Corporation charges will in most cases be chargeable to the tenant as part of the lease obligations.
An owners corporation exists where a property is part of a strata plan. The owners corporation ensures the wishes of the collective owners are implemented, owners corporate outgoings are paid and the owners corporate rules are adhered to.
It should be noted that with most owners corporations the building insurance is arranged by the owners corporation and incorporated into the owners corporation fees.
For further information refer to the Owners Corporation Act 2006 www.legislation.vic.gov.au
What is included under the term 'insurance'?
This includes the lessor's building, public liability and plate glass insurances.
Additionally, the tenant is required to take out their own contents insurance. For more specific information regarding insurance, contact your insurance provider.
What is a lease term?
This is the number of years the tenant agrees to lease your property. If the landlord has undertaken their lease obligations this term cannot typically be broken by the tenant. It is 'term certain' you are allowing the tenant to use the premises.
What is the minimum lease term allowed?
This will be determined by the owner, however under the Retail Leases Act, the minimum lease term allowed is five years. This can come in the form of a 2 x 2 x 1 year lease or a 3 x 2 year lease, as examples.
Short term leases (eg. 12 month lease) are acceptable but a waiver needs to be obtained and accepted by the Small Business Commissioner. For further information look up www.sbc.vic.gov.au
What is an option period?
After the initial lease term most leases provide for the tenant to extend their lease by a pre-determined period.
What is the security bond?
This is a cash amount which is paid by the tenant and held in an interest bearing account as required under the Retail Leases Act to secure against non-performance of the lease obligations by the tenant - this will usually be between one and three months rent inclusive of the GST or more subject to the level of security provided.
What is a bank guarantee?
The Retail Leases Act requires landlords to offer tenants the opportunity to pay a cash security deposit or by bank guarantee. A bank guarantee is an irrevocable undertaking by an Australian Bank to pay upon demand.
A bank guarantee can be provided as an alternative to a security deposit but only if it is unconditional (Nil Expiry Date). Your bank can provide an unconditional bank guarantee. If a bank guarantee is provided with an expiry date, Nixon Industrial will require it to be returned to the bank to provide a nil expiry date bank guarantee.
Director's guarantees
Director's guarantees are there to provide additional security to the owner. In the event that the lease of a premises is under a company name and these are in place, then the directors who signed the lease are personally liable for the company obligations under the lease.
Do all directors need to sign the Heads of Agreement (HOA) and Lease?
In a technical sense, yes they have to. If the lease in under a company name then the directors of that company must sign the lease agreement.
What is the Retail Leases Act?
The Retail Leases Act was put into legislation in 2003, It is designed to enhance;
a) the certainty and fairness of retail leasing arrangements
between landlords and tenants; and
b) the mechanisms available to resolve disputes concerning
leases of retail premises
In the Act, retail premises means premises, not including any area intended for use as a residence, that under the terms of the lease relating to the premises are used, or are to be used, wholly or predominantly for;
(a) the sale or hire of goods by retail or the retail
provision of services.
Retail leases legislation applies to a retail premises lease used for the sale or hire of goods by retail or the retail provision of services and where the occupancy cost is less than $1 million per year.
What is a Disclosure Statement?
The disclosure statement forms part of the lease and is a statement that is required to be completed by the landlord under the Retail Leases Act 2003.
The disclosure statement outlines aspects such as:
The landlords’ details
The tenants details
The details of the premises
The retail shopping centre (if applicable)
The terms of the lease
The permitted use of the premises
The occupancy costs
The rent payable
The outgoings and what they are
Tenants fit out and/or refurbishment works
Relocation/Demolition clause (if applicable)
Additional Representatives (if applicable)
The declaration by the landlord or landlords agent
Why do we request a tenant provide credit/business references?
Credit references provide some indication to the owner and the agency that the potential tenant is reliable, timely, honest and trustworthy with regards to the payment of invoices and bills. The references could include, past landlord(s), regular business suppliers, audited financials, and estate agents who they have leased premises from previously.
Essential Safety Measures & Fire Safety
Under the Building Regulations 2006, owners are required to provide a premises that complies with the Essential Safety Measures legislation. Premises are required to be inspected annually (some bi-annually) to ensure the premises remains compliant. The owner is required to pay for the cost of these inspections in accordance with Lease obligations.
Should the premises be found to be non-compliant then significant fines could be imposed.
Make good / Re-instate
Most leases state the premises upon lease termination must be in the same condition as the lease commencement fair wear and tear accepted. If we manage your property we ensure the tenant is aware of their obligations and inspect the premises to ensure the lease has been complied with.
Can the tenant request the owners to carry out works during their lease term?
Yes you can, but the details of the actual works including what needs to be done, time period, costs etc. needs to be correctly stipulated via a written request to the landlord which can then either be accepted or denied by them.
Goods and Services Tax is added to charges relating to all commercial property. Once registered GST can be claimed back as part of the quarterly BAS Statement, depending on the business ownership and reporting structure. If you need specific information regarding GST on leased premises, speak to your accountant.
Where does GST come into it?
Nixon Industrial issues Tax Invoices and collects "consideration plus GST" from tenants on the behalf of owners. Monthly statements are provided with the information necessary to complete BAS statements. Monthly statements also serve as a Tax Invoice and set out the management fees and GST levied and collected/deducted from the income collected.
What about GST on Outgoings?
Current tax law has a special interpretation of leases and considers that any amount which becomes payable according to the terms of an agreement (lease) is to be considered "consideration for supply".
If under a lease a tenant is required to reimburse or pay an amount eg: council rates, then as soon as that payment is made by the tenant, that amount paid is deemed to be "consideration for supply".
As soon as payment becomes due by the tenant, under a lease it changes its nature under tax law interpretation. Accordingly technically, reimbursement of rates becomes "consideration of supply" and is legally indistinguishable from rent.
The tax law deems that the payment has been received by the landlord and 1/11th of the amount received is payable by the landlord as GST.
When is a leasing fee payable?
The leasing fee is payable immediately the lease becomes unconditional. Nixon Industrial will issue a tax invoice and deduct this from initial rentals as they are collected.
What legal costs are involved in leasing a property?
The owner needs to have a lease prepared by their solicitor. There are no legal costs for the tenant unless they hire a solicitor to verify that the lease document reflects the agreements made between both parties.
Disclaimer: Particulars herein are for information only and do not constitute any representation by Nixon Industrial. Interested parties should make their own enquiries.
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Newsroom / News Releases / Russ Ruhnke named senior vice president, team leader with Associated Bank’s Home Builder Finance Banking Division
Russ Ruhnke named senior vice president, team leader with Associated Bank’s Home Builder Finance Banking Division
Thursday, January 08, 2015 | New Hire Release, General Release
CHICAGO – January 8, 2015 – Russ Ruhnke, age 51, joins the Homebuilder Finance Banking Division of Associated Bank as senior vice president, team leader. Ruhnke and his team will be targeting opportunities with single family residential and condominium developers across all of Associated Bank’s markets.
Ruhnke brings an extensive background in homebuilder and condominium finance to this new role, having previously originated national lending platforms with Key Bank and LaSalle Bank. His background also includes serving as corporate manager with the F.D.I.C.’s Asset Marketing & Sales group.
A graduate of the University of North Dakota, Ruhnke holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master’s in Business Administration degree from the University of South Carolina. His office is located at 525 W. Monroe St.
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Book reviews, etc.
Blog Tour: The Hometown Hazard – Review + Author Playlist
February 10, 2016 2:20 pm \ by Tina
The Hometown Hazard by Dawn Lanuza
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Jules Coronado has been away from her hometown for almost a decade but when an intruder breaks in to her childhood home, she finds herself coming back. Changes evidently took place in her small town, including her childhood best friend’s younger brother, Kip – now tall, slightly scruffed, all grown up and caught climbing into their garden wall.
Kip Villamor has a mission and despite Jules’ doubts, they team up: going on fieldtrips, tackling unsuspecting men, and trespassing offices to dig up dirt. But Jules has secrets of her own, one that might be exposed – unless she keeps her walls up. But climbing walls are Kip’s forte, remember?
Will her secrets keep her on his side, or will it force her to disappear again?
I wasn’t completely sure what to expect with Dawn Lanuza’s The Hometown Hazard, except that it was romance because it seemed like it. I read and enjoyed Dawn’s first book, The Boyfriend Backtrack, and I love spin-off stories, so when the blog tour came up, I signed up immediately.
This was different, definitely. Like I said, I came in expecting romance – and there was romance, definitely – and finished the book finding more. The Hometown Hazard had a small town, childhood friends, secrets, and a mystery that will keep you on your toes, wondering if there is really something in what Kip and Jules were following.
First, the mystery: what fun. I liked how Jules’ small town came alive in this story, and how all the people that the duo contacts rises from the pages, too. It was easy to imagine why Jules left without really finding out why because if you’ve been in a small town for so long, it’s just natural to go to the city, right? But don’t take my word for it, because there’s more in the main character Jules, and even more in the lead interest Kip. The mystery was unveiled skillfully, and like any good mystery, it makes you want to reread to get the clues again.
And of course, the romance: oh, Kip. I think anyone who’s read this will agree that Kip is his own character, totally different from the other boys that Dawn wrote about in The Boyfriend Backtrack. Kip was charming and adventurous and I totally get why one would want to follow him around. In some ways, I felt that the romance didn’t really take centerstage here, but I didn’t mind because it played off great with the other aspects of the book.
The Hometown Hazard has great pacing, lovely characters, and an adventure you wouldn’t want to miss. It’s the kind of book you’d want to bring home to a trip to the province…and then you’d end up wishing there’s a Kip wherever you’re staying. :)
Favorite quotes:
I think it’s possible for you to love someone but not necessarily like them at times. Do you get that?
If I haven’t forgiven myself, I wouldn’t be strong enough to love someone this much.
“How do you undo a ghosting?” Leslie asked.
“You make an appearance,” I laughed. “And stick around.”
Check out The Hometown Hazard playlist:
Dawn Lanuza started writing stories when she was just a kid (they weren’t good or even finished). She works for the music industry by day and writes meet cutes and snappy comebacks by night. ‘The Boyfriend Backtrack’ is her first book. She currently lives with her family and an adopted dog.
Author Links: Amazon / Goodreads / Twitter / Facebook
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Blog Tour: Rumor Has It – Review
Rumor Has It by Farrah F. Polestico
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It’s senior year and it’s now or never. Callie Rivera always wanted to be part of her school’s drama club, and she finally musters the courage to audition for Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Only she got the audition dates wrong and landed a role that only existed in her wildest dreams. And her co-actor? None other than Landon Arcival, theater actor extraordinaire, not to mention Callie’s (former) crush— or so she says.
Callie is living the dream, until she wakes up to a nightmare. According to the rumor mill, she is sleeping with different guys in her school. Of course, it isn’t true, but who would believe her? And the worst part? It may or may not be her fault the rumors spread in the first place.
What to do? Callie finds herself in the middle of a hot mess. But then Landon proposes the perfect plan that can fix everything, but only if they don’t fall for each other first.
First off: look at that cute cute cute cover. It’s so cute and sweet that I wanted to take a bite from it, or at least eat some candy while I was reading it. :D
Callie Rivera finally took the chance to audition for the school’s drama club, but she got the audition dates wrong and found herself landing a role in the club’s major production for the year. What made it even more awesome was she was playing a role with her (former) crush, Landon Arcival, also known as Golden Boy in her head. All seemed to go well, until a rumor that she sleeps with different guys spread in her school. (Not true, although she did lie about it at one point.) As Callie tried to find a way to get out of the mess, Golden Boy comes up with a plan. Should she go for it?
Rumor Has It reminded me of two things: Easy A, and Amy Spalding’s The Reece Malcolm List. There’s rumors, performing arts and so many interesting characters only reminiscent of high school. Rumor Has It has all those interesting characters, from Callie to her best friend Beatrice and to the theater folks. I liked the entire dynamic of their high school — a lot different from what I grew up with but still believable that it was easy to get lost in the entire rumor mill.
And Landon – I agree with Callie: he was definitely charming. I liked it every time he was on scene, although some of the things he did was a little bit cheesy (or maybe I’m just getting old haha). But he was such a joy to read and all his little ways charmed me, too. I liked how he made his way in Callie’s life and stood up for her, and I was really rooting for him to get the girl (and for Callie to get the guy). And star gazing! That was cute. :)
Overall, Rumor Has It is a book as cute as its cover. Not too candy sweet, but still sweet enough to leave a smile on your face when you’re done. :) Looking forward to reading the author’s other books!
Farrah F. Polestico wanted to be a lot of things in life— an engineer, a nurse, an astrophysicist. But it wasn’t until she was thirteen when she knew for sure she was going to be a published writer. And now she is. When she’s not up all night writing her next book, you can find her reading anything and everything from a Charles Dickens novel to old grocery receipts.
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Paper Planes Back Home
December 22, 2015 2:34 pm \ by Tina
Paper Planes Back Home by Tara Frejas
My copy: ebook/print
When Gianna wakes up on a cloud, she is disoriented yet fascinated. She thinks she’s only dreaming until she gets a storm of paper planes—”They’re thoughts of people who remember,” a man on another cloud tells her—each pleading for her not to leave. The man tells her these planes are the key to get out of there, and while she thinks it’s hard to believe, she decides everything is worth trying if it meant finding her way back home.
Gianna wakes up on a cloud, and she’s confused. What was she doing there? Then she meets Skylar, a soldier on another cloud, who tells her that the paper planes that were landing on their clouds were thoughts and messages of people who remember. It turns out they were in some kind of limbo, and the paper planes were their way back home.
I wasn’t really sure what to make of Paper Planes Back Home when I first read its synopsis, because it didn’t seem like the usual romance novel for me. But then again, it wasn’t really just a simple romance novel. Tara Frejas’ debut had love in almost all of its forms – romance, family, and friendship, and this is what makes this book the kind I think people will read regardless of the genre they usually try.
There’s something heartwarming with how Tara wrote this book, and you can see that there’s already a lot of heart in it. I loved the four main characters – Gianna, Skylar, Aaron, and Anna. They had very distinct voices, and they all had different goals and motivations in the story that tied up nicely when you get to the end. In a way, you can kind of see what’s going to happen after all the situations were laid out, but even if it was predictable in that way, you won’t really mind because you just want to have a good ending for all these people. They deserve it, after all that they’ve gone through.
And the world-building in this was on point, too. No one really knows what limbo, or after life is about, but reading this book would make you want to believe that what Tara wrote was real. It was easy to see that the world was lovingly created by the author, and I admit that I always liked it when the book was back on those clouds. There was also an element of fear there, but more of fear for the characters and what could happen to them there.
This book left me with a smile on my face, and some tears, too. It’s not sad, although the premise seems like it. But trust me, warm, fuzzy feelings and happy tears will be around when you reach the end of this. :) And if you happen to be in the same shoes as Aaron in this book, Paper Planes Back Home will give you hope that will make you send more thoughts and prayers, hoping that these will be strong enough to bring the person you love home.
The stronger the love, the stronger the plane.
You can read an excerpt of Paper Planes Back Home here!
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Posted in: Reviews \ Tagged: #romanceclass, 2015, 4 stars, Contemporary Fiction, ebook, fantasy, Filipino, indie, Kindle, romance, Tara Frejas
What You Wanted
December 6, 2015 9:41 pm \ by Tina
What You Wanted by Mina V. Esguerra
Chic Manila # 5
Publisher: Bright Girl Books
My copy: ARC from author
It’s the classic one-night stand: Beach wedding, bridesmaid, groom’s friend. When Andrea and Damon meet, sparks fly, and they give in to the attraction. Sounds simple, but Andrea’s still getting over someone, and Damon thought he’d be hooking up with another person that night. It could still be simple, really, if they chalk it up to a weekend tryst and move on.
But one night becomes lunch the week after, and then dinner the next weekend…and before they know it, Andrea and Damon are still together, dealing with the feelings they know they might still have for other people. How hard can it be to get exactly what you want? How do you even know what it is?
The moment I started reading Mina V. Esguerra’s latest book, What You Wanted, I thought: I missed this. I’ve read some of Mina’s Spotlight New Adult books and liked them enough, but there was something that felt like coming home when she’s writing something based in Manila again. And it helped that I read and liked the prequel to this book, Wedding Night Stand, so I was pretty excited to have first dibs on this book.
Andrea met Damon at her sister’s wedding. It was just supposed to be a one-night stand, but days and weeks after the wedding, Andrea finds herself seeking out Damon, seeing and spending more time with him. But it’s not a completely simple romance as both of them have issues of their own: Damon is pining over Geraldine, known as the ice queen who he has been pursuing for a while, and Andrea is still nursing a broken heart from Thad, who dropped her after a weekend together and got married to someone else. Andrea and Damon agreed to use each other to get what they want…but what do they really want, anyway?
I wasn’t even halfway through and I was already charmed by Andrea and Damon, and I was rooting for the two of them to get what they wanted, whatever that was! I mean, I sort of knew what it was, being the reader, but I had such a good time watching things unfold for the two of them. I was a little surprised with how some of Andrea’s angst with Thad resonated with me but I’m not going to go there because that’s in the past. Let’s just say I get what she meant about that, and how awful it feels when there’s a Naomi. I remember feeling all ranty whenever Andrea was alone with Thad and how I wanted to shoo him away. (But other than that, I still think I am more of a Julie, haha)
And speaking of Damon! I liked Damon a lot. There’s so much about him that’s easy to like, in an alpha-male kind of way. Like how he was focused, and how he didn’t resort to manipulation and instead just proved himself to show that he deserved to get what he wanted. I liked how he seemed so dangerous and in some ways, wild, but also can be pretty gentle at times. I would probably be intimidated like hell if I meet someone like Damon in person, but I think I will still be secretly watching him. :P (Haha, see, I’m a Julie.) I liked him so much that I told Mina that it seemed like there’s competition for Lucas of Fairy Tale Fail’s spot in my heart. Gasp!
I really liked What You Wanted. While most of the story revolved around the “extended” hook-up, there’s a lot more in their story that gives reader a chance to see how characters like Andrea and Damon change, find out, and eventually, get what they really wanted. :)
Also – lots of food in this book, so yeah, don’t read this with an empty stomach. Sushi, grilled fish, juice, and siopao. :D
Favorite dog-eared quotes:
“You’re never going to be able to introduce him to them as yours, Andrea. He burned that bridge when he chose someone else. Walk away.”
That was it. This was where my first attempt at relationship feelings went to die. At a table for six, in a restaurant that served really fat duck. It would die among my closest friends, none of whom knew what had happened to me, what I had lost, and who killed it.
Food and coffee, was how you became friends with anyone, I learned.
It was legitimately scary for me to even attempt anything with Thad because when we were good together, it already felt like we were us. Committed.
And now we were nothing.
…If there’s one part of him you pretend doesn’t exist, then you don’t love the man; you love the version of him that exists in your head.
Posted in: Reviews \ Tagged: 2015, 4 stars, ARC, Chic Manila, contemporary, ebook, Filipino, Kindle, Mina V. Esguerra, romance
Songs of Our Breakup
September 26, 2015 11:13 pm \ by Tina
Songs of Our Breakup by Jay E. Tria
Playlist # 1
My copy: ebook
Every breakup has its playlist.
How do you get over a seven-year relationship? 21-year-old Jill is trying to find out. But moving on is a harder job when Kim, her ex-boyfriend, is the lead guitarist of the band, and Jill is the vocalist. Every song they play together feels like slicing open a barely healed tattoo.
Jill’s best friend Miki says she will be out of this gloom soon. Breakups have a probation period, he says. Jill is on the last month of hers and Miki is patiently keeping her company.
But the real silver lining is Shinta. Having a hot Japanese actor friend in times like these is a welcome distraction. This gorgeous celebrity has been defying time zones and distance through the years to be there for Jill. Now he is here, physically present, and together he and Jill go through old lyrics, vivid memories, walks in the rain, and bottles of beer. Together they try to answer the question: what do you do when forever ends?
As I mentioned in my Open Road Summer review, I like books with music and bands. So when Jay E. Tria’s book, Songs for Our Breakup surfaced in my radar, I was curious although I was a bit hesitant with the Japanese-sounding characters because I’m not a huge fan of foreign lead interests in my Filipino romance novels. I think I was in line at a bank without a book when I decided to read this, and a few pages in the book, I was hooked.
Jill and Kim have been together for seven years, until their break-up came that ended the relationship that Jill has known for a third of her life. It’s even more difficult to move on, because her ex-boyfriend is the lead guitarist of the band where Jill is the vocalist. And as expected, most of the songs they sing share memories of their relationship and Jill’s not sure how much her heart could take. Her best friend, Miki, stays by her side, picking her up when things get too hard, and then there’s their other friend, Shinta, a Japanese celebrity that they befriended during one music festival. Shinta provides the distraction that Jill needed, as she wrestles with the questions that the break-up has left with her.
Let me get the obvious thing out of the way: the book shares an almost similar title with the Piolo-Sarah movie that came out a few months ago, but like what other reviews said, it’s different from that. I should know, because I watched that movie. :P There’s so much more going on in Songs of Our Breakup compared to that movie, and it was made entertaining because of the fun cast in this book. I loved everyone in the band, Trainman, and how their friendship seemed to spring alive in every page. I loved their banter, how they played off one another and know each other so well that even if there’s this elephant in the room with them, the rest of them fought for their friendship and the band just to keep them together.
And then of course, there’s Shinta, who was a delight to read. I liked him, and perhaps all his screen time made me join his team early on in the book. I liked how he also felt like a member of the band because of his friendship with them, and how he was especially fun and gentle with Jill. His storyline wasn’t so surprising, but it was still a pleasure to watch that unfold and I was really cheering for him at the end of the book. However, I also can’t deny that my heart went out for Miki, the best friend, because…well, he’s the best friend, and I also have a soft spot for those characters! I liked him, and I wished that he did something different in the book to give him his share of the spotlight…but if he did, then we probably wouldn’t have book 2. ;)
As with every book with a band and songs, I wished the songs here were real. I’m not sure if Trainman would be the kind of band I would religiously follow, but I would probably enjoy their songs if I catch them in a gig or something. I liked how the songs in this book fit exactly with the major moments in the book. And because we’re all about heartbreaks and feels for this book, I have to say that the last duet kind of destroyed my heart (and made me almost waver with my team choice haha). If there’s any song in the book that I want to be real, it’s that duet. Please let that happen?
With all those points, plus the great writing, I thoroughly enjoyed Songs of Our Breakup. It gave me so many feelings after I was done (which I realized probably contributed to the feelings I had later that night when I watched Heneral Luna, but that’s another story) that I couldn’t stop thinking about it after. This book also made me kind of appreciate Japanese lead interests, because hey, if it’s someone like Shinta, then why not? :P Songs of Our Breakup is not exactly for light reading because of all the feelings, but there’s something pretty cathartic about this if you allow yourself to indulge and accompany Jill in her story. I can’t wait to read the next book (because Miki!), and really, just read whatever Jay comes up with next. :)
“You don’t really stop loving someone…it’s just that you’re different now from the person you were yesterday. And you can’t go back. Even if you can, why would you want to?”
Why don’t they teach that in school? Emotional Safety 101. How to love without losing your sanity. Instead of people running around claiming they feel it, while not knowing what to do with it, how to handle it, how not to break it, how to keep it whole. It’s a terribly dangerous thing in the wrong hands.
“Oh, you’re not built for depression. You have too much sarcasm in your veins. That protects you.”
So I stand here on the train tracks,
Waiting for you to look back
And see me
Sliding in the slipstream
Tumbling in this daydream
But you don’t see me
No, it’s never me.
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THE MALTESE CROSS by Kyle Dodd
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The Maltese Cross is an ancient symbol of honor and courage originating sometime in the 15th century. Whoever the men or women may be that wears it proudly, the way it should be worn, would courageously risk his or her own life for the sake of another. The men and women who wear this symbol now are looked highly upon and called upon by someone daily.
The Maltese Cross has an amazing and very interesting history and evolution. Though many historians have taken a serious interest into the Maltese Cross there have been no concrete date on when and how the eight pointed Maltese Cross was introduced. There were many different variations of this symbol of courage we now know as the Maltese Cross, but the one we know and use today was used by the Knights of St. John sometime in the 1500’s.
This cross has a whole story and list of men behind its importance to the people who wear it now; it is the badge of a firefighter. When the Crusaders known as the Knights of St. John fought the Saracens for possession of the holy land, they encountered a new weapon unknown to them. It was very simple but yet very powerful and destructive. With this new amazing tool of war came excruciating pain and agonizing death to the brave crusaders for the cross. As the warriors advanced on the walls of the city the Saracens used this new weapon of choice, fire. The Crusaders were struck with bottles filled with naphtha. When they were covered with extremely flammable liquid, the Saracens would then hurl a flaming torch into the front of the Crusaders. Hundreds of Knights were burned alive; but others risked there own lives for the sake if there fallen brothers-in-arms from dying a painful and fiery death.
Thus, these brave men became known as our first fire fighters one in the long list of courageous men and women to wear that title. These men were awarded for there bravery by there fellow crusaders. They were awarded by a badge of honor, a simple cross simile to the one fire fighters wear today. And since the knights of St. John lived four centuries on a small island named Malta, the cross finally found its name, The Maltese Cross.The simple badge of honor is now a symbol of protection. It means the person wearing this is a firefighter who is willing to lay down his ir her own life for someone he may know or to a complete stranger, just as the Knights risked there lives for their fallen comrades hundreds of years ago.
The Maltese Cross is a firefighter’s badge of honor, signifying that he works in courage alone; a ladder’s rung from death.
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Q fever battle: the boy we almost lost
Nine-year-old Beau Beissel nearly died after a hospital failed to order a PCR test for Q fever, despite the urging of his rural GP.
9 year old Beau Beissel being treated for Q fever in hospital last year. Source: Supplied.
IT was a Thursday afternoon in August last year when nine-year-old Beau Beissel complained of feeling unwell. His mum, Bec, thinking it was a passing virus, kept him off school. She had no idea of the drama about to unfold – or the incredible battle to get Beau correctly diagnosed.
“You could make a movie out of it,” she says now. “It was that dramatic.”
By Sunday, Beau’s high temperature, sore joints and stomach pains hadn’t eased, so Bec took him to their local hospital in Roma, Queensland. They too diagnosed a virus, said he’d be better in a few days and sent him home.
However, when the little boy developed temperatures of up to 41°C and his stomach pains became excruciating, Bec took him to their GP. Dr Rosie Geraghty was aware the Beissels lived on a cattle farm and as a rural GP with special training she immediately suspected Q fever. By this time Beau was so ill, however, he needed to be in hospital. Dr Geraghty sent him to Emergency with a referral and a pathology form requesting a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Q fever test. Crucially, that request was ignored.
PCR test critical for diagnosing Q fever
The PCR test is relatively new and not all pathology labs offer it, but it produces an accurate result for Q fever within a few days of the patient becoming unwell. However, the hospital instead conducted a serology test. Although used for many years, the test has a failing. It works by detecting antibodies in the blood produced in response to the Q fever microbe. If a patient’s immune system takes time to respond to that microbe – as often happens – the test will initially come back negative even if the patient does have Q fever.
Sure enough, Beau returned a negative result and as he continued to deteriorate, concerned doctors decided to fly him to Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital (now known as Queensland Children’s Hospital).
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Source: Getty Images.
There he had a further 108 blood tests, says Bec. But once again, despite urgent requests by Dr Geraghty and Bec, the PCR Q fever test was not among them. “I was told the test had been done but, again, only the serology test had been done. It was a massive mistake,” Bec says.
The deadly effects of Q fever
By Friday night, Beau’s liver had stopped producing albumin. His stomach was distended and an X-ray of his chest showed his lungs were starting to become wet. His oxygen levels were dropping and his heart rate was going up. His immune system was turning in on itself. “His body was starting to shut down,” Bec says.
As doctors decided to inject a dose of steroids into his drip to shake things up, Dr Geraghty intervened. She called in a favour with a friend at medical testing lab Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology in Brisbane and had Beau’s blood couriered over. It arrived at the lab at 6pm on Friday night. By 10pm she had her result.
“She rang Lady Cilento literally 30 seconds before they were due to put the steroids into Beau,” says Bec.
“They ran into the ward and said: ‘Stop everything! He’s got Q fever!’”
Beau was given doxycycline, the standard antibiotic for Q fever. Within 24 hours, he was feeling better.
“I don’t like to guess what the outcome would’ve been otherwise,” says Bec. “I really feel like we nearly lost him but because it went right to the brink for him, he still has long-lasting issues we’re coping with.
The Beissel family in happier times before Beau got sick. From left: Mother Bec, Beau, sister Maggie and Dad Craig. Source: Supplied.
“He’s been diagnosed with having post-Q fever fatigue syndrome. His knees and ankles become swollen and sore. Because he had the acute form, it took some time for his liver to start functioning properly and his white blood cell count to return to normal.
“They hoped the chronic fatigue would alleviate within six months but we’re getting close to that and he’s still not the little boy he should be. He’s absolutely mad about cricket but in the heat he can only play a little while before he goes white, nearly passes out and feels very unwell. We have to constantly keep an eye on him.”
Hospital admission leads to Q fever awareness
Bec says the hospital has apologised and she wants to make it clear that everyone at Lady Cilento worked really hard to find out what was wrong with Beau. “It was just unfortunate this one crucial test wasn’t done despite the coercing of our GP.”
The one good thing is that after an exchange of emails, Bec has been told the hospital will in future be more open to communication from GPs, especially in rural areas, and the PCR blood test is now part of its own pathology testing unit. Now if a child comes in from a rural area with Q fever symptoms, it’s one of the first things they’ll be tested for.
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A reader of The Farmer magazine, Bec is keen to tell her story in the hope of supporting NSW Farmers’ petition to the federal government to raise awareness of Q fever and the need for a new vaccine that is safe for children and easier to administer. There’s currently no vaccine available for under-15s.
She also wants to see more training in city hospitals so staff are aware of the risks faced by rural children.
“As farmers we know about Q fever. My husband Craig and I have been tested and vaccinated, Unfortunately we weren’t aware of it in kids.”
“We didn’t know of any kids who had got it so we weren’t as vigilant as we could’ve been if we were more informed.”
“We suspect Beau contracted it from a poddy calf because the bacteria is prevalent in the amniotic fluid on newborn calves. We’ve had a few as the kids have grown up and never thought about it – kids being kids, they lie on them, hug them, kiss them, all those sorts of things and as parents we weren’t on guard. Now we are.”
"If you can get a quick diagnosis, Q fever doesn’t have to be a scary thing. It can be easily treated,” Bec says.
Bec also has a daughter Maggie, seven. She worries that with the drought and dust, Q fever is becoming more prevalent. However, although offered the vaccination for her daughter, she turned it down.
“She is only seven and we feel with it not having been tested on under 15s, we’d been through enough. If there were side effects it would be another trauma we’d have to go through unnecessarily. If she was older we’d certainly do it but instead we’ve decided to be hyper vigilant so if she does present with symptoms we will immediately ask for the PCR test.
“If you can get a quick diagnosis, Q fever doesn’t have to be a scary thing. It can be easily treated.”
“Lots of families need kids helping out on farms. If there’s work to be done, you go out and do it as a family. I don’t like to tell Maggie: ‘You can’t go here, it’s high risk’, and I’m not going to stop her world from turning in terms of what we enjoy on our farm, but it will definitely be balanced by our knowledge of getting onto the illness early.”
Expert explains importance of both Q fever tests
Q fever expert Dr Stephen Graves recommends doctors testing for the disease should order both PCR and serology tests.
Dr Graves, who is working on a new vaccine, explains this is because the PCR test becomes positive within a few days of the patient becoming unwell, when the Q fever microbe is circulating in the patient’s blood. However, when the microbe leaves the blood to go into other tissues, the PCR test becomes negative but the patient still has Q fever. It is at this time, however, that the serology test becomes positive.
Support has flooded in for a free Q fever vaccination to help our farmers and rural residents. The Farmer and NSW Farmers set up an official federal government petition pushing for the vaccination, that closed on 14 February reaching over 1000 signatures. The issue will now be debated in the House of Representatives.
Read Q fever health crisis: time to fight rural discrimination for more background knowledge about the disease.
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Our oats & porridge from Quaker and Scott’s, offer the delicious goodness of wholegrain oats with great options on flavours and ways to prepare them. You can now choose whether to make your Quaker porridge on a stove, in the microwave, in a pot or even in a cup. We are providing delicious, nutritious breakfasts to suit modern day lifestyles.
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Luton Town will be at home whole they expect the Portsmouth side to visit and both side put up another league matchup.
The visitors, Portsmouth as well will aim for nothing different from getting past the host Luton and get themselves the best points.
However, Luton’s march towards the top of League One continued on Saturday afternoon, as they overcame Southend by a goal to nil away from home.
And of course, With that confidence-boosting win under their belts, the Hatters will be hoping to get the better of Portsmouth, who now find themselves sat in second position.
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Therefore, It would’ve been easy for things to fall apart when Nathan Jones decided to abandon his Luton project and take over at Stoke
But the Hatters have got on with the job and, under the temporary stewardship of Mick Harford, have continued to push hard for promotion.
However, while the Hatters, who’ve now kept five clean sheets on the bounce at Kenilworth Road, have kept things tight at home, it’s tough to discount Pompey.
The visitors were knocked off their lofty perch this weekend, though that was mainly because they were engaged in the FA Cup and thus didn’t get the chance to defend themselves.
Moreover, with players like the electric Jamal Lowe in their forward-line, they ought to enjoy playing on the break against an attacking Luton side.
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Portsmouth’s recent defensive efforts on the road haven’t been great, they conceded twice against Oxford, twice against Fleetwood and twice against Gillingham
But they’ve got the tools to compete offensively, which is why they’re League One’s third highest scorers on the road.
Their goals rate away from home tells us that they can cause teams plenty of problems, as does the fact that they have the best away record (in terms of points accumulated) in the division.
Luton are probably the more forceful side in terms of getting forward, but Portsmouth are no slouches in that respect
so it would be no surprise whatsoever if the goals flowed at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday night.
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Interestingly, these are two teams that have scored 58 goals between them in their respective home and away matches.
Meanwhile, Their recent thrashing of Peterborough and their solid win away against Southend last time out shows that they’re in the automatic promotion race for the long haul.
Actually, it’s very hard to criticise anything that Luton have done on home soil this season. As things stand, the Hatters have the best home record in the division
The hosts, Luton Town have scored more home goals than any other team, while they remain without defeat at Kenilworth Road.
And obviously, Their attacking performances suggest that they can get at Pompey, while their defensive efforts also bode well.
Updated: January 29, 2019 — 3:51 pm
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Quick Sips - Beneath Ceaseless Skies #254
The two novelettes from the most recent Beneath Ceaseless Skies find characters looking for ways out of oppressive situations. People who have dealt with the loss of their parents and other family members, and who seek through building families of their own to try and find a place of safety in an unsafe world. Unfortunately, both main characters also discover that even just trying to be questions the foundation on which injustice is built, at least in their cases because of who they are. And so trouble comes looking for them, and both must decide if they will try to bend to the will of those with power or if they will embrace a power of their own, even if it leaves a trail of bodies in their wake. Let’s get to the reviews!
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“The Sweetness of Honey and Rot” by A. Merc Rustad (8845 words)
No Spoilers: Jiteh loses her twin brother to the tithe of the Life Tree. As she lost her father before that. And through this grisly practice of sacrificing people to feed the Tree and sustain it’s shield isolating the village from the rest of the world, Jiteh sees the cage that she’s living in. The injustice that infuses this cycle of death and grief. She wants something more, something different, and slowly a method to give shape to her desire comes out. Though it doesn’t end up working in quite the way she anticipated. There is a draining weight to this story, a sense of happiness and joy contained in a fragile bubble. So easily shattered, and never whole again after that. And a growing realization that this system exists not to keep people safe from danger or harm (because that’s finding them anyway), but from change. The character work is at turns inspiring and heartbreaking, and Jiteh’s struggle shows how resistance and revolution can look like when it cannot exist openly.
Keywords: Tithes, Family, Queer MC, Trees, Bees, Sloths, Fire
Review: For me this story is a lot about resistance against a corrupt system, and especially a more religious and authoritarian one. The Life Tree is in control here, maintaining its power with the help of enormous murderous sloths (which is pretty kickass, I admit) and with ritual that allows it to get rid of seditious influences within the village. People are made part of the death that goes on, are made to participate and to help it continue. And so their own culpability deepens, and their own resistance to change. If they broke free, if things are not objectively like the Life Tree says, they would have to accept responsibility for their actions, for the deaths they allowed and the injustice they carried out. Jitah refuses, though, constantly working to try and weaken the Life Tree, to get it to leave them alone and open the borders. When her plan backfires, though, and more people are selected to die to feed the Life Tree, to undo her work, she is faced with a choice: give up, and hope that less people will die, or keep going despite the death, despite the weight it has on her for in some way causing those deaths. And I love that she keeps going, that she knows exactly what it will mean but also knows that the only way to be free of this cycle is to break it down completely, is to kill the Life Tree, and it’s a moving and rather terrifying moment when she has done all she could and has to wait to see what happens next. But it’s also a moment of hope, and a possibility that freedom is possible, that the next generation doesn’t have to face the same fate Jiteh and her family did. A fantastic read!
“Three Dandelion Stars” by Jordan Kurella (8408 words)
No Spoilers: Shai and Amarine are in love, living in the moments they can steal for themselves together and away from the watchful eyes of either Amarine’s noble family or Shai’s overly protective brother. And Shai has a wish, a wish that she and Amarine can marry and be happy together. It’s a wish that she’s offered a granting of by a swamp fairy, and though she knows that such wishes often come with a price, she agrees for a chance to live and love authentically. And the magic works, after a fashion. The true price of the bargain, though, isn’t exactly what she thought it would be, and not necessarily in the diabolical way that normally implies. It’s a story that plays with tropes and the shape of stories only to reject them, and craft its very own kind of appropriate happily ever after.
Keywords: Fairies, Magic, Queer MC, Bargains, Intolerance, Witches
Review: I think what I like about this story most is how it plays with form and with expectations. It’s a fairy tale, quite literally, that’s self-aware of it being a fairy tale. Amarine tells the stories of knights and princesses—stories that always erase away her and Shai’s relationship. That never quite getting around to showing two women being happy and free with each other. Even the villagers have this lack of imagination—the moment that Shai and Amarine marry and move in together, despite the love and affection they have for one another, Shai is labeled a witch, and Amarine as a princess needing to be rescued. And most everyone has a vested interest in pushing that narrative forward—for financial gain, for power, for revenge. Only Shai and Amarine are left out, and so they are vulnerable to the violence that the villagers can organize and direct their way. Only I love that the fairy bargain made here is only dangerous and “bad” if you accept the values of the dominant. For Shai and Amarine, there is no loss in walking into that fairy realm. In giving up the bodies that they had and embracing who they are elsewhere. Where many stories would frame this as the punishment they receive for defying the natural order, here it is viewed as a celebratory escape. It’s not that they are losing their humanity so much that they are gaining a world that is better for them, one where they don’t have to hide and where no one is going to come for them with weapons and torches. It’s a great way to twist how fairy tales normally end. I mean, there’s still blood and guts and dark magic, but it’s not a story that wallows in despair. Instead, it takes joy in how people who don’t fit in and who are marginalized can sometimes find a home and community, just one that the dominant views as evil or wrong. Another amazing read!
Posted by Charles Payseur at 1:00 AM
Labels: A. Merc Rustad, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Jordan Kurella, June 2018
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A PART OF OTHERMINDS.ORG | CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | JIM NEWMAN, FOUNDER
Ode To Gravity:
Word-Tape Works of Liam O'Gallagher
Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 69 min
Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA
A program of word art by San Francisco inter-media artist Liam O'Gallagher. O’Gallagher was for many years a painter, and he studied with Hans Hoffmann. In the late 1960s however, he became very active as a leader in the San Francisco Bay Area, of activities in the field of event art, including a collaboration with the pioneering choreographer Anna Halprin on "Ceremony of Us". His book of concrete poetry, “Planet Noise”, was published by Nova Broadcast Press. Perhaps his masterpiece in the field of sound art is “Border Dissolve and Audio Space”, in which he seems to engages a variety of telephone operators in convoluted requests for assistance. In this program, recorded in March of 1970, O’Gallagher introduces sound poems produced especially for this original KPFA broadcast. O’Gallagher died in 2007 at the age of 90.
Warning: some of these pieces include obscenities.
Musical Selections: Command Module -- [Three More Stories] -- Border Dissolve and Audio Space -- 23 Extensions (1968) -- An Inventory of Change
Genres: Sound Poetry; Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Subject: Sound poetry; Text-sound compositions; Electro-acoustic; Poetry -- Readings with music
People: Amirkhanian, Charles; O'Gallagher, Liam; Weissner, Carl
Recording Date: 3/25/1970
First Broadcast Date: 3/25/1970
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Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. - Duke Leto Atreides
"There always seems to be a problem with Maryland"
so sayeth the head of Beretta, Ugo Gussalli Beretta, after visiting Beretta's Maryland plant and meeting with Maryland's governor Martin O'Malley. You see, in a move straight out of a Colorado Democrat's playbook, Maryland is moving swiftly to take advantage of the tragedy in Connecticut in order to ban "assault weapons" and those eeevil "high capacity clips." Copying the Colorado Democrats closely; when warned that a revenue generating gun manufacturer will leave; the morally unctuous Democrats (worshiping at the alter of Mammon) quickly added an exception for manufacturers of the tools of baby killing in order keep that dirty money in state. Remember the lesson of Colorado; we will ban high capacity magazines in state but are happy to reap to rewards of selling them out of state. Drat that company Magpul who is planning to shrug!
However, there's a problem...... This whole "Atlas shrugging" business. Beretta generates a lot of income and jobs for Maryland and they are planning to start manufacturing the civilian version of the ARX-160 rifle in Maryland. But....as their legal counsel notes:
Why expand in a place where the people who built the gun couldn’t buy it?” said Jeffrey Reh, general counsel for Beretta
In other words, Beretta has nearly had enough. In the 90's Beretta moved a warehouse to neighboring, gun friendly (and with a much, much lower crime rate) Virginia in the 90's in response to Maryland's gun control antics back then. Again from Mr. Reh:
I think they thought we were bluffing” in the 1990s, Reh said. “But Berettas don’t bluff.”
You know, it's time for this. Time for gun manufacturers to leave the sanctimonious hypocrites. All over the country, companies are standing up for our rights. I still encourage the individual to stand up for their rights in these states that could care less for the Constitution and individual rights but it's time for companies to leave these states. Hit these states in their pocketbooks. Maybe then the voters will wake up come next election cycle as the Democrats who voted for these measure become forever remembered as "they who sent jobs away in the name of doing nothing for crime, jobs, or rights."
To truly understand the hypocrisy of the Maryland Democrats, ponder the below statement from Governor O'Malley's spokeswoman. Think upon how staggeringly hypocritical said statement is from the governor that wants to ban "assault weapons" but is apparently FINE with exporting "assault weapons from his state:
“We think getting assault weapons off the streets and keeping this company (here in Maryland) can both be accomplished,” said Raquel Guillory, O’Malley’s spokeswoman.
Posted by Anonymous at 10:08 AM 0 comments
Atlas may be packing his bags for a different state
And by "Atlas," I mean the Colorado company that plans on 85 million dollars worth of payroll for the state of Colorado. Magpul Industries.
The legislators of Colorado were feeling the need to do something for the children, literally.
"This is about kids who have been shot, over and over and over again," said Democratic Rep. Crisanta Duran said. "I am tired of seeing kids die, year after year, after year, after year."
Apparently kids are getting shot over and over again in Colorado. No word on whether or Duran is in favor of ending the war on drugs as opposed to a statistically meaningless move on "high capacity magazines."
However, there's a problem. How can a Democratic politician save the children of his own state from the eeevil high capacity magazines but keep the 600 jobs and 85 million a year in payroll from Magpul Industries? Well, just backpedal and allow Magpul to export from the now safe state of Colorado. Duh! I have emailed Representatives Kagana and Salazar; asking if they are OK with taking in tax money from high capacity magazines sales in other states.
State Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Cherry Hills Village, said he plans to offer an amendment Friday that seeks to soften the bill's impact on magazine makers in the state.
"It needs to be clear that manufacturers will be able to still sell and transfer these high-capacity magazines to individuals in other states, the U.S. military and law enforcement," Kagan said. "We want them (Magpul) to stay here in Colorado. It would be sad to see them leave."
State Rep. Joe Salazar, D-Thornton, agrees with Kagan and insists state lawmakers are still giving the Erie-based company an option to do business in Colorado.
"It's imperative to keep jobs here," Salazar said.
Still, neither Kagan or Salazar said they would be willing to vote against the bill banning high-capacity ammunition magazines in an effort to keep Magpul in Colorado.
Read more:Colorado ammo magazine maker Magpul threatens to leave state over gun bill - The Denver Post
(IT guys, note the "if, then" reference)
Problem solved, right? Export the baby killing high capacity magazines. Keep the profits from these baby killing tools in Colorado. You know, for dolphins, children, and green power. Fortunately, Joe "Tactical" Biden (described as like a drunken, unfunny uncle by the SEALs of DEVGRU) is buys making phone calls to kill Colorado businesses, encourage Colorado Democrats to stand firm for the children and against evil.
But.....Magpul is getting ready to shrug. Magpul has made it crystal clear that Magpul will uproot and leave the state if Colorado bans standard capacity magazines and enacts legislation to serialize and track said magazines in the state. As in Magpul understands that gun owners in other states won't buy from a manufacturer so hypocritical as to make high capacity mags in a state where said magazines are banned. Also, one gets the impression that the leadership at Magpul absolutely agrees with these sentiments. I wouldn't be surprised to see Remington pack up and leave after Governor Cuomo refused to meet with Remington factory employees before he saved the children of New York State from 10 round magazines by limiting magazines in New York to seven round magazines (those three rounds are deadly!). Also, Alfred Manufacturing as one of Magpul's contractors (they make PMags for Magpul) has signified their intention to shrug and take 150 jobs with their company out of Colorado. In fact, there's more than one Alfred Manufacturing like company planning to leave with Magpul. You see, Magpul's innovation begat jobs. Jobs and an in state proliferation of polymer (plastic ) based jobs and manufacturers. Ever hear of Otterbox? Magpul had something to with that (indirectly). An entire cottage industry leaving and taking their jobs and tax money with them. Good move, Colorado. Talk about bringing
Seriously, it's time for the other manufacturers to sack up and follow Magpul's lead. Les Baer fled Illinois (the most broke state in the country but IL's unions and politics have nothing to do with that, right?). Colt has already built a facility in Florida. Fears are mounting in Hartford, CT as some folks suddenly realize the real cost of unions and anti gun state governments. Armalite is fielding offers from three other states to leave. Now if DSA and Springfield leaves, maybe Illinois legislators will join Colorado politicians Daniel Kagan and Joe Salazar in being the true shining lights of genuine money grubbing hypocrisy in this uncertain age.
Magpul? Wyoming is about 4 hours away and calling. No state personal income tax. Just desolate enough to keep out the non native Coloradans that ruined Colorado. A state that is firmly libertarian/conservative.
Magpul's statement:
n addition to the national battle to protect our firearms rights, many states are currently engaged in their own fights. Here in CO, a state with a strong heritage of firearm and other personal freedoms, we are facing some extreme challenges to firearms rights. We have been engaged in dialogue with legislators here presenting our arguments to stop legislation from even being introduced, but our efforts did not deter those of extreme views.
After the NRAs visit last week, several anti-freedom bills were introduced by CO legislators, and a very aggressive timeline has been set forth in moving these bills forward.
The bills include:
HB 1229, Background checks for Gun Transfers--a measure to prohibit private sales between CO residents, and instead require a full FFL transfer, including a 4473.
HB 1228, Payment for Background Checks for Gun Transfers-- a measure that would require CO residents to pay for the back logged state-run CBI system (currently taking 3 times the federally mandated wait time for checks to occur) instead of using the free federal NICS checks.
And finally, HB 1224, Prohibiting Large Capacity Ammunition Magazines--a measure that bans the possession, sale, or transfer of magazines over 10 round capacity. The measures and stipulations in this bill would deprive CO residents of the value of their private property by prohibiting the sale or transfer of all magazines over 10 rounds. This bill would also prohibit manufacture of magazines greater than 10 rounds for commercial sale out of the state, and place restrictions on the manufacture of military and law enforcement magazines that would cripple production.
We'd like to ask all CO residents to please contact your state legislators and the members of the Judiciary Committee and urge them to kill these measures in committee, and to vote NO if they reach the floor.
We also ask you to show your support for the 2nd Amendment at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb 12, for the magazine ban committee hearing and Wednesday,
Feb 13, for the hearing on the other measures.
Due to the highly restrictive language in HB 1224, if passed, and we remained here, this measure would require us to cease PMAG production on July 1, 2013.
In short, Magpul would be unable to remain in business as a CO company, and the over 200 jobs for direct employees and nearly 700 jobs at our subcontractors and suppliers would pick up and leave CO. Due to the structure of our operations, this would be entirely possible, hopefully without significant disruption to production.
The legislators drafting these measures do so in spite of the fact that nothing they are proposing will do anything to even marginally improve public safety in CO, and in fact, will leave law-abiding CO residents less able to defend themselves, strip away rights and property from residents who have done nothing wrong, and send nearly 1000 jobs and millions in tax revenue out of the state.
We like CO, we want to continue to operate in CO, but most of all, we want CO to remain FREE.
Please help us in this fight, and let your voices be heard!
Magpul's ad this Sunday in the Denver Post
Posted by Anonymous at 9:33 AM 4 comments
Magpul's statement on proposed Colorado bills
In addition to the national battle to protect our firearms rights, many states are currently engaged in their own fights. Here in CO, a state with a strong heritage of firearm and other personal freedoms, we are facing some extreme challenges to firearms rights. We have been engaged in dialogue with legislators here presenting our arguments to stop legislation from even being introduced, but our efforts did not deter those of extreme views.
After the NRA's visit last week, several anti-freedom bills were introduced by CO legislators, and a very aggressive timeline has been set forth in moving these bills forward.
We have included the contact information for the House Judiciary committee for your convenience:
Rep. Daniel Kagan, Chair: 303-866-2921, repkagan@gmail.com
Rep. Pete Lee, Vice Chair: 303-866-2932, pete.lee.house@state.co.us
Rep. John Buckner: 303-866-2944, john.buckner.house@state.co.us
Rep. Lois Court: 303-866-2967, lois.court.house@state.co.us
Rep. Bob Gardner, 303-866-2191, bob.gardner.house@state.co.us
Rep. Polly Lawrence, 303-866-2935, polly.lawrence.house@state.co.us
Rep. Mike McLachlan, 303-866-2914, mike.mclachlan.house@state.co.us
Rep. Rep Carole Murray, 303-866-2948, murrayhouse45@gmail.com
Rep. Brittany Pettersen, 303-866-2939, brittany.pettersen.house@state.co.us
Rep. Joseph Salazar, 303-866-2918, joseph.salazar.house@state.co.us
Rep. Jared Wright, 303-866-2583, jared.wright.house@state.co.us
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I'm not really hating on Haley but damn dude....... Who saw this coming? I mean; shaving and skin care products " "Designed for military, law enforcement, adventurers or businessman who spend time in the outdoors or on the road."
No word on Costa's rumored beard trimmer release date........
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Commentary from a friend in Baltimore
On the Superbowl (Baltimore Ravens won).
17 people have now been murdered in Baltimore as celebration. Rumor is they will try to get to 52 tonight, just to honor Ray.
Obviously, this is a joke. Only sixteen people have been murdered in Baltimore in the past 30 days (six in the past week). Oddly enough, Maryland's strict gun control and limitation of carry permits have not made it a safer place to be than say....neighboring, gun friendly Virginia. Perplexing indeed but Governor O'Malley's bill banning "assault weapons,' "high capacity magazines," and fingerprinting gun buyers will fix this problem.
Governor O'Malley is considering a 2016 presidential bid. It is not known at this time if he owns a shotgun like everyone else who wants to ban guns.
Joe Biden Tactical
“Guess what? A shotgun will keep you a lot safer, a double-barreled shotgun, than the assault weapon in somebody’s hands [who] doesn’t know how to use it, even one who does know how to use it,” the outspoken vice president, a shotgun owner himself, replied. “It’s harder to use an assault weapon to hit something than it is a shotgun. You want to keep people away in an earthquake? Buy some shotgun shells.”
No harm is confusing this with Jack Booted Thugs Tactical
Yes, of course! You see, the lesser recoil, adjustable for arm length stock, better sights. and far faster reloading of the "assault rifle" (Unky Joe means mo dern sporting rifles (MSRs) or military style sporting rifles?) are impediments. Because, you don't have to aim a shotgun, right? And 2 shots are all you'd ever need to defend yourself or "keep people away in an earthquake." Which is why Biden's security team carries double barreled shotguns instead of rifles.
Any attentive gun owner will be scratching his or her head at this point, wondering how the anti gun folk can bray on about how "assault rifles are designed to spray bullets from the hip" (sans aiming, we can assume) but a shotgun that you allegedly don't have to aim is just fine, folks.
Fresh from imparting these hard won tactical lessons from a life of politics in Washington DC (Joe has never served in the military nor law enforcement), our dear drunken, uncle had another sewer of the mouth moment and just happened to mention that:
Nothing we’re going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down to 1,000 a year from what it is now,” he told the group of reporters.
Remember folks, fuck those military veterans, cops, and anyone else who tells you otherwise about weapons choices. Especially, those damned sheriffs that keep on running their mouths about Unky Joe's gun control efforts. Look for more nonsensical drivel like this as people that want to ban guns explain that they are on your side because they own a shotgun (like Governor Cuomo )or because they shot a shotgun once like Obama. Also, remember gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.
A legal immigrant makes a dignified, well reasoned call for sanity regarding the latest gun control hysteria in Connecticut. The man's diction is perfect, his reasoning sound, his demeanor calm. Watch for yourself and it's OK to applaud.
What does his Senator Beth Bye do as this man reads his carefully prepared speech and pleads for his lawmakers to listen?
Talk shit on Facebook. Her mind is already made up and see what she was doing while at her job. While a man makes a reason, calm, prepared speech; his Senator cannot be bothered to get off Facebook while at work. Whether you disagree with Mr. Ong or not, anyone can and should be infuriated with the loathsome Beth Bye's juvenile and reprehensible conduct.
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FATIMA COLLEGE 4X100 TRACK TEAM HEADED FOR PENN RELAYS, 2015
National Secondary Schools Cross Country Championship 2015
Fatima College shines at the International Mathematics Olympiad!
Congratulations to the staff and students of St. Joseph’s Convent POS, having copped the Trinidad and Tobago Mathematics Olympiad Round I Team Prize 2015. Congratulations to the students and staff of Fatima College for their resounding success at the TTMO Awards 2015 having copped the more advanced Round II Team Prize, which meant that Fatima’s combined team score was the highest among all the schools who made it to this difficult final stage. Also, a special thank you to the members of the Round II team which consisted of students from forms 2 – 6 , in particular Alex Navarro, Christian Seerattan, Andrew Scoon and many more for their valiant and consistent efforts in doing our school proud. In addition, kudos to Alex and Stephen both of Fatima College for representing the College and the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago at the International Mathematics Olympiads in 2013 Colombia, 2014 South Africa and 2015 Thailand
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1873 news of the Kincardineshire Colony
Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jean
From the archives, a transcription of the article from St. John Daily News, Aug. 28, 1873 follows. (Images are for illustrative purposes and were not published in the newspaper originally.)
The Kincardineshire Colony
New Kincardineshire, August, 23, 1873
“Several rather serious accidents have recently occurred in this settlement, two to workmen from their axes; two, to little children in play with edge tools; one to a lumbermen in felling a tree; and while these have been surmounted with less or more pain and loss of time, a more serious calamity occurred on Thursday to two settlers, B. Annand and C. Chapman, while engaged in blasting rocks on the Kincardine Road. Both men are very much injured, although up to this evening the extent of their injuries or all the danger from them are not ascertained fully.
The danger of walking into our woods without guide company or a reasonable knowledge of wood-craft was illustrated in a previous week by a settler who took a near cut through a part of the forest to see some of his land, and got not out again for 48 hours, or until quite a hundred men were engaged in searching for him.
Kincardine School
Having attained to the dignity of a tri-weekly post delivery we have next been recognized in the Educational Department of the Government, and the settlement has been divided into two Educational districts––the Kincardine and Kintore roads––schools appointed and teachers named for them––Mr. Stratton, jr. to the Kincardine and Mr. James Ledingham, to the Kintore. The schools at present are too [two] log buildings which will be made quite comfortable, and will be a great boon to the many children of educational age on the two roads.
Although our settlers have experienced immediate attention on these and other topics from all the members of the Government with whom they have required to communicate; yet on all these points they have been particularly indebted to Mr. Stevenson, who, in the discharge of his official duties is brought early into some acquaintance with the character objects and wants of new settlers in the Province.
Hay harvest, although late, is now ended in the district; it has been light, but the recent rains will bring up a rich abundance of clover and grass in the second crop. Buckwheat is called very light and short, but the rains will also improve this crop. Oats are thin and short, with good heads and cars, but cannot now improve in straw. Indian corn and wheat are both better, and might be more extensively cultivated with advantage. Turnips as grown by the older farmers, or by the new settlers are extremely late, and little would be expected from their appearance at this date in Scotland; although they may make more rapid progress in this climate. New potatoes have been in a common use for nearly all this week. Planting was very late from the severity of the early spring, and the long time that passed before the soil dried sufficiently for the process, but the crop is good and apparently sound without any symptom of disease.
The new colonists have acquired a considerable number of cattle and other stock; and a large breadth of forest at some points is cut, burned or ready for burning. Their crops in the present year are chiefly confined to potatoes, and oats, the latter many only be useful for their cattle, as they must be in many places late. Potatoes are a good crop.
The construction of the road, which are now assuming a better appearance than they presented in their early history, has agreeably occupied many settlers, but necessarily less has been done on their land, yet without the assistance from this work, many of the immigrants could not have got on.
A long purse is necessary to support a family until money can be drawn out of a new land. Hence the advice from this side against the departure of emigrants without means to settle on land at any season, is correct, and the contrary is erroneous. Immigrants with capital can employ their capital and their skill with advantage at any season. But the case is altogether different with immigrants possessing little money, but trusting to labour for their support, and they should arrive here early in the spring.
The experience of the present year is perhaps not inferior for the benefit of the settlers to that of a more favourable season. They see what the soil has done in a later year than any one of the last twenty five and if they have wrought through disadvantages with a considerable measure of success, they can naturally expect for average times more than present returns. One farmer, with adequate means, who along with members of his family, has cut, burned, cleared, planted, sown, dug and reaped, and is cutting and burning still, says that he has written nothing home, and will write nothing home, until the days be shorter and the nights longer, and will then inform old neighbours that those who are prepared and willing to work hard may come here, especially with a little means, and have good reason to expect permanent success and independence. His opinion is confirmed by many other practical men, but who also believe with him, that men who expect to find fortunes in the grass by merely looking for it, should remain at home. We remember to have met this settler beside a team, dragging part of his household goods through a flood, or the remains of a flood, to a small log house two or three hundred yards beyond and having informed him that there were no windows as yet put into his future house, we had for reply the assurance that his windows were in the cart. He looked at the debris from the flood as so much mud and nothing more, at the moment when younger men of less experience were engaged in writing those two or three gereminds [jeremiads] defective in nothing more than genius and truth–– that have been made a great deal too much of by different parties, who now call on Government to provide against a similar calamity, i.e., against a fall of snow, and longer than the average frost, forgetting surely, that while this Government of New Brunswick has done, and is doing its part in a great work cheerfully, it is entitled to expect a careful selection of capable immigrants; and that the selection of persons capable of misrepresenting, fails, in foolish letters, and incapable of doing good out-of-door work, in farm or field, is a description of carelessness that the government is not entitle to expect. It must be borne in mind that the percentage of dissatisfied colonists in this settlement was always remarkably small, that the immigration has been extremely useful to the Province, for many of its members are doing good and hard work steadily in different parts, while others are carefully carrying out a clearance that, in efficiency and extent, will be a benefit and an example for future years.”
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Books, Non-Fiction, Reviews
Fleeing Eden: a Pedro Pan’s account of life on the lizard-shaped island
Waiting For Snow In Havana
by Carlos Eire
Swearing portraits, firecrackers, haunting blue-eyed Jesus, evil lizards, Italian Jesuits and Castro all add vibrancy and humor to Carlos Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana. Eire’s memoir about his childhood in revolution crazed Cuba is a great blend of hindsight, older-self reflection and raw child anecdotes. When I first picked up Waiting for Snow in Havana I expected a historical autobiography about Operation Pedro Pan that airlifted 14,000 children out of Cuba and to the United States. Instead, I was more than pleasantly surprised to discover Eire’s memoir read like fiction. From the first pages in which Eire introduces his parents as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the vivid imagery and lively language captures a reader.
In the first parts of the book humor and light heartedness abound, with only a distant hint of something ominous in the future. Between car surfing monstrous waves with Louis XVI, sex-ed classes at his Catholic all-boys school, and exploding firecrackers, it seems that Carlos enjoyed a carefree, ideal childhood on an island referred to as Eden by the adults. Yet, Eire never lets the reader get too comfortable in his Eden as he describes distant explosions, revolutionary plots, and Batista’s regime. Eire does such a great job of describing the Cuban revolution from a child’s perspective that when Batista is overthrown the book reads as if life continued as normal…for a little while at least.
One of the aspects of Waiting for Snow in Havana that I enjoyed the most is the Christian and philosophical theme. Having attended a Catholic school and as a professor of history and religious studies at Yale, Carlos Eire truly makes the book unique to his interests. I am probably partial to this aspect of the book simply because I am a religious studies major and was able to understand and appreciate religious references, such as Aquinas’ proofs for the existence of God. Also, through religious comparison Eire is able to adeptly express his bitterness for a lost childhood and grasp at the humor of a country going through revolution.
“Doomsday really did arrive that year, when I was in the third grade. And the judge sported a beard all right, just as in Catholic iconography. But the rest was all wrong. He also dressed in olive-green fatigues, sported cool-looking tortoiseshell eyewear, smoked large Cuban cigars, and rode a Sherman tank. Surprise!”
Even if your interest in religion differs from Carlos Eire’s, his writing, which is at time poetic and feels like a conversation with the reader, will keep you enthralled. Waiting for Snow in Havana is a wonderful account of a part of history and an exodus of children, about which many are not aware. I believe this book, while dealing with a heavy topic, is a great summer read – especially if you live in a place where you have your own lizard anecdotes. So, go out and pick up Carlos Eire’s book or download it to your ereader, you won’t be sorry.
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Like many adults, Carlos yearns for the naïve, simple and innocent life of a child, a world in another dimension from the vitriolic one of adults. Is there not irony that Carlos was forced to forego his comfortable childhood and thrown into a chaotic and foreign culture so as to be safeguarded from the sinister society created by the bearded one? Carlos moves from one portentous world to another and, consequently, lost his childhood.
I am left unclear why Carlos later adopted his mother’s maiden name and rejected his paternal surname. His father made the monumental sacrifice sending his young sons to America and yet Carlos repudiates his father by such abandon. Perhaps Carlos believes that his father, a delusional dreamer, stole that childhood for himself.
Carlos Eire does indeed introduce the perfect dose of humor which not only makes the reader laugh out loud, but causes one to reflect on the almost humorous insanity which envelopes the government and the close family in which Carlos lived while growing up in Havana. If his father can believe that he was truly Louis XVI, maybe Carlos can rightfully hope it one day will snow in Havana.
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UFood Grill CEO George Naddaff is known as the “guru of franchising” and founded Boston Chicken. President and COO Charlie Cocotas has decades of experience in leadership positions with brands like Boston Chicken, Dairy Queen, Church’s Fried Chicken and TCBY, among others. They both lead a seasoned management team of industry experts, chefs and nutritional advisors who know the importance of making healthy eating taste great.
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UFood Grill is a publically traded company under the stock symbol UFFC.
In 1997, a group of Bostonians had an innovative idea to address an emerging consumer need. Tim Kurtz and his wife-to-be, Joli, teamed with fitness center proprietor, Mike Gervais, to create Flex Appeal II, a high quality sports nutrition store. Quickly, the store developed a loyal cult following among fitness enthusiasts.
Soon after opening, the trio decided that their customers also wanted a restaurant where they could find mainstream food prepared in a healthy way. Tim had the perfect food expert in mind, his gym buddy Chris Pappas, who happened to be a chef. The four partners decided to expand their business and create a two-in-one concept that combined a healthy restaurant with an in-house nutrition center. In 1999 Lo Fat No Fat was born in Watertown, MA.
Five years of steady growth passed until one day, George Naddaff, franchising guru and founder of Boston Market, happened to be driving by the store. His curiosity was piqued by the long line curling out the door, so he pulled over to see what all the fuss was about. He was impressed not only by the number of customers and the taste of what he sampled, but also by the two-in-one restaurant plus nutrition center. This was something unlike anything he had ever seen!
In early 2004 George teamed with entrepreneurs Eric Spitz and Gary Jacobus, aquired Lo Fat No Fat, and founded KnowFat Franchise Company, an entity dedicated to growing a chain of better-for-you quick serve restaurant/retail outlets. As the concept grew it retained its loyal following and was loved by the press. Yet, they realized that the concept was not reaching many of the people to whom the offering would appeal. After careful research, the team changed the name to UFood Grill, emphasizing consumers’ various definitions of healthy eating and placing more of a spotlight on what had always been the most important thing— serving delicious food. Naddaff and his team are now opening UFood Grill locations throughout the U.S. with stores in airports, urban centers, and suburban storefronts. UFood Grill is committed to making it easy for people to eat smart.
UFood Restaurant Group is a publicly traded company (OTCBB: UFFC).
UFood Grill is where delicious meets nutritious, because we offer better-for-you food, fast. We know what you want…healthy comfort food, ready when you are. And that’s what you’ll find at UFood Grill.
It’s food you know and love, cooked in a healthier way. Burgers, fries, sirloin tips, wraps, salads and paninis. All baked, steamed, or grilled, but never, ever fried. We use natural and organic ingredients whenever possible as well as whole grains, light cheeses and dressings. It’s good to know our produce is fresh, our steak tips are grass-fed, and our burgers are 100% USDA lean. And it’s great to know you can choose from a wide variety of menu items that include vegetarian, reduced sodium and fat, gluten free, low calorie and low carb options.
Our mission at UFood Grill is to provide great tasting, better-for-you options for people who want good food, fast.
There’s a growing health crisis in this country. Obesity and heart disease have reached epidemic proportions. The need for better nutrition is all over the media and supported by government and community leaders. Today, smart consumers are beginning to look for more. More taste from healthier alternatives – in their homes, in their schools and on-the-run. It’s the beginning of a food revolution, and UFood Grill is leading the way.
UFood Restaurant Group, Inc. is a fully reporting SEC company, publicly traded on the OTC Market under the symbol, “UFFC”, and within the OTCQB market tier. As such, Business, operational and financial information on UFFCis fully transparent and available to public view.
Visit http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/UFFC/quote for more information.
On December 7, 2011, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of UFood Restaurant Group, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the engagement of Grant Thornton LLP (“Grant Thornton”) as the Company’s new independent registered public accounting firm. CCR LLP (“CCR”) the Company’s former independent registered public accounting firm resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm on December 2, 2011. This change was a result of Grant Thornton’s acquisition of CCR on December 1, 2011.
Form: S-1 CIK: 0001369233
Company Name: UFood Restaurant Group, Inc. File Number: 333-177888
Lastest 10-Q filed 10/16/2011 for period ending October 2, 2011
http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=8249315
Per 10-Q… As of November 15, 2011, there were 48,269,598 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, issued and outstanding.
10 million Prefered Shares
Authorized 300 million shares checked with Nevada state as well
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http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/UFFC/company-info
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UFood Restaurant Group Announces Franchise for 10-Unit Development in British Columbia, CanadaMarketwire (Tue, Jan 17)
UFood Restaurant Group Names General Manager for New Aberdeen Proving Ground Military Base LocationsMarketwire (Tue, Jan 10)
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UFood Restaurant Group Begins Construction on First Aberdeen Proving Ground Military Base LocationMarketwire (Mon, Jan 9)
UFOOD RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. Files SEC form 8-K, Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant, Financial StatementsEDGAR Online (Thu, Dec 8)
UFood Grill Helps College Students’ Appetites for Healthier Food With Buy One, Get One Discounts in BostonMarketwire (Mon, Dec 5)
UFOOD RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. FinancialsEDGAR Online Financials (Tue, Nov 22)
UFood Restaurant Group Offers $5.00 Coupons With Purchase of $20.00 Holiday Gift CardsMarketwire (Mon, Nov 21)
UFood Restaurant Group Tests Naan Flatbread Sandwich Menu ItemsMarketwire (Mon, Nov 14)
VIDEO NEWS RELEASE: UFood Restaurant Group/George Nadd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfIrDSTchuw
UFood Grill MENU
http://www.ufoodgrill.com/Food/
UFood Grill Catering Service
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George Naddaff – Chairman and CEO
George Naddaff is considered by many to be the “Guru of Franchising”. He developed Boston Chicken/Boston Market into a national franchise brand and in 1992 sold it to a group of Blockbuster Video executives. In 1993 he shared in its record-setting IPO (143% first-day increase). Naddaff has founded and/or been significantly involved with several other successful concepts including: Mulberry Child Care Centers, which had over 90 company-owned childcare centers when it was sold to KinderCare; Sylvan Learning Centers, the nation’s leading after-school learning facilities; Ranch*1, a New York-based chain of grilled chicken sandwich restaurants; Living and Learning Schools, which operated more than 50 upscale childcare facilities and was sold to KinderCare; VR Business Brokers, the nation’s largest business brokerage franchise with over 350 offices, which was acquired in 1986 by Christies, London. Naddaff began his career in food service when he co-founded International Foods, which operated 19 KFC franchises in the Boston area and was sold in 1970.
Charlie Cocotas — President and Chief Operating Officer
Charlie Cocotas is a restaurant industry icon and has had a distinguished career in foodservice. He served with International Dairy Queen, a company with 4,000 units, where he was Executive Vice President in charge of its Golden Skillet chain. He joined George Naddaff in the early days of Boston Chicken as President and Chief Operating Officer and helped Mr. Naddaff launch the brand that is now Boston Market into a nationwide chain. In addition, Mr. Cocotas served as the President and CEO of TCBY systems where he helped turn around the troubled 2,000-store chain. He also served as Chief Operating Officer as part of a turnaround team for the 1,500-unit Church’s Fried Chicken chain. As Chairman of the Board and CEO of Best Friends Pet Care, Inc., Mr. Cocotas raised more than $100 million in capital to grow the chain of upscale pet grooming facilities. Mr. Cocotas earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University.
Tom Mackey – Senior Vice President, Operations
Tom Mackey has spent his entire career in the food and restaurant industry. Prior to joining the KnowFat! team, Mackey was president and chief operating officer of LoFat KnowFat where he oversaw all of the company’s operations. Prior to joining LFKF, he was the vice president of new growth for Metromedia Restaurant Group, parent of Bennigan’s, Steak & Ale, Ponderosa, Bonanza, and several other casual dining restaurant concepts. Before joining MRG, Mackey held various senior management positions including vice president of franchising within American Hospitality Concepts Incorporated (parent of Ground Round, Tin Alley Grill, et al.). He is a certified “Serve-Safe” instructor and has served as director of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. Mackey holds a B.S. in Hotel, Restaurant and Travel from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Irma Norton – CFO
Irma Norton is an operations-oriented financial executive with over 15 years experience with businesses ranging from start-ups to large multinational companies. Most recently, Norton was the controller for Handmade Bow Company, a privately held consumer products company. Prior to that position, Norton was the CFO for the Dunkin’ Donuts master franchisee in Mexico. In her five year tenure with Dunkin’ Donuts, she was instrumental in growing the chain from zero to 100 stores in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Tijuana. She also was a leader in the start-up of La Fabrica, a chain of convenience stores in Mexico owned by Minsa, a large publicly held flour processing company. Norton holds a B.A. degree in Accounting from the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and is a graduate of the distinguished Executive Management Program of ITAM in Mexico City.
Pat Chiacchia – Vice President, Real Estate
Patrick Chiacchia has over 30 years of real estate development experience including several national multi-unit rollouts. He specializes in precise market planning for corporate and franchise territories, greenfield development, business acquisitions, owner-financed acquisitions, leases, 1031′s, and ground leases. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chiacchia served as the Director of Real Estate for Wienerwald GMBH, the largest chain of restaurants in Europe. He then served alongside UFood’s George Naddaff and Charles Cocotas as Boston Chicken’s Director of Real Estate. He later became Vice President of Real Estate in the Northeast Quadrant for Boston Market. He also worked with Mr. Cocotas as Vice President of Development for Best Friends Pet Resorts and Salons. For the past eight years Mr. Chiacchia has assisted public companies and start-up companies in developing their real estate departments and strategies, including Microsoft, Unilever USA, Wingstop, iFLOOR, and Rapido Rabbit Car Washes.
Walter Pomerleau – Vice President of Franchise Operations
Walter Pomerleau has been in the restaurant industry for 25 years. After graduating from UMass Amherst, Walter began his hospitality career with Ground Round Restaurants/American Hospitality, Inc.. He held various positions within multi-unit operations management for Ground Round where he won numerous achievement awards. Walter joined the UFood Grill Operations Team in 2005 and now serves as the Vice President of Franchising and Franchise Operations while also assisting with IT, Marketing, Training and Operations.
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Almost too late, both swerved from their paths. Spruance pulled the Hovercraft into a hard turn, making the vehicle vibrate twice as hard as it usually did, which was indeed saying something. Buckethead faltered under the empath's assault, breaking away, fortunately in the other direction. George could feel the malice radiating from the villian, but there was a hint of something else, a hint of pleasure, elation. The monster was playing with them...
Arazi aimed the netcaster and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. Realizing that the weapon was a one-shot deal she threw it down and cussed a word that would take a few bars of soap to wash out of her mouth. Ignoring weapon and reason she pointed her palms towards Buckethead and screamed as she focused her power.
A jet of flame erupted from her palms, blistering the paint on the hull of the hovercraft. Buckethead's cape ignited, but his armor only glistened under the onslaught. Undaunted, he cast off the flaming cloak and lifted himself into the sky, out of the range of the earthbound hovercraft.
"Maybe next time, kids, maybe next time." he said in an oddly musical, albeit, synthsized, voice.
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George heaved a heart felt sigh of relief as Buckethead sped away into the horizon. ''I though we were gonners there for a moment. Good for us that Bucket Head thinks we're make great sport. You should have felt that twisted feeling of pleasure emating from him... I guess that's how the sicko gets his kicks,by spooking a bunch of super hero wannabes like us. ''
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Ace saw him threaten the hover craft and without thinking, for if he thought he would of hesitated, streaked towards him. At full speed.
Even though he did not see the speeding Ace flying at him from his four, he few away.
Unfortunately for Ace, he didn't impact him like he hoped... to kill his momentum.
He flew straight on.
With a loud crash.
Ace shook his head and slowly stood up. He would of swore, but his mother raised him better. He took the sky in a wobbly fashion to give chase.
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Arazi pulled herself out of the hovercraft, and hopped down onto the ground. "Praise God, land." she said, glad to be out of the out of control dryer that was the hovercraft. "That was one of the roughest ride's I've ever had." She gave Zero a look to make sure he didnt make any sort of derogatory comment.
"We should get his staff, it might have clues," she said. "d**n, did I really just say that?" she said, "What do I think this is, Scooby Doo?" she asked rhetorically, as she tried flaming the pile of ice that encapsulated the weapon. Rather than melting, the ice seemed to flow into a glass-like state that ablated the heat of her flame into the ground. The interaction...she forgot.
"Hey Ace...nice landing...wanna do some superhero-kung-fu and break the ice?"
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"Aaah... s**t."
Zero stumbled behind the hover and puked. Taking a seat on a rusty girder, the pale man cooled himself down by chilling the metal.
"What the hell was that? Did your trick work, mental boy?" he said towards George, rubbing his brows.
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George wrinkled his nose as the sour smell of puke wafted up to his nostrils It looked like tough guy Zero did have a very major flaw after all:a weak stomach,hence the vomit that he had just so liberally decorated the foor of the Hovercrat with. Not that he blamed the ice man. He himself was close to swooning,and if wasn't for the girder he found himself clutching,he would probably be sprawled on the floor right now.
''Well,the answer to your question would be yes and no. Yes,as in I managed to instill intense,irrational fear in his mind for a few seconds,thereby averting the lethal collison,and no,as in the effect on Bucket Head didn't last very long. He recovered so quickly,that for a moment,I found myself wondering whether my litttle trick had actually failed. Needless to say,I've never seen anything like this before. Obviously,this guy is in a league of his own.''
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Sullenly, Ace helps break the ice.
He was hoping that deprived of a focus, "BucketHead", might be weakened. That was not the case. So now all he managed to do was create a clue for Perceptor to follow. It was not a total loss... so why did he feel like he was.
"Next time, he is going to clean my clock," he thought.
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"So George," Spruance said, bumming a smoke from Perceptor, "Did you get any good pictures of Buckethead? And come on, you're the writer journalist here, this guy is a sicko in a black suit, we gotta call him something better than Buckethead. If we call 'im that he might hunt us down one by one, just to make a point of it." he said, drawing heavily on the cigarette. He wished that Zero hadn't puked, but it was sometihng to focus on other than thinking about the Fast Responce team that he had been a member off. Those ppor bastards, even a full squad of geeked out police SWAT didnt stand a chance against a zeo like Hellbender.
He held his head for a moment, trying to block out the images, so many had died, some consumed in flames, others had been crushed under flaming debris. One, a blonde woman he had considered dating died the worst, the fiend liquified the steel girder that pinned her down, cooking her legs and...
"Well, at least no one got hurt right?" Arazi said.
"My sense of well being was murdered." Perceptor said. "What do you think Ace, we need a follow up plan, it seems obvious that Buckethead is less than friendly, and blowing up stuff doesnt make him much of a good guy."
"Huh? Oh. Um." Ace looked up with a confused expression at Perceptors question. Ace blew on his hands to warm them, and to buy himself some time to think.
"Well we know he is a psycho of somekind. " Now we need to either find out his problem or find him, which ever is faster." He responded to Perceptor's rolling of eyes, "If we know his damage, we will know what will set him off and where he will probably be next."
"However, I am betting on finding him." Ace pointed at the now released staff lying among the powdered ice. "Perceptor can you check this out for ... fingerprints, energy signature, dirt smudges that might identify where the stick has been, composition so we can backtrace a source... anything your xeosenses can figure out. Then maybe our good friends can use their resources to track down the details.
The same with Empath. Maybe you can get a lock on him or some psychometric reading."
Ace took a deep breath.
"Once we have an idea on how to find him, we can consider how to take him down. Does that thing, he pointed at the hovercraft, have an anti-tank rocket option?"
"Rocket launcher, huh?" Spruance said, patting the side of the hover-tank. "She doesnt have one, but I dont think it will be hard to get the boss to pony up the money to put a TOW missle launcher, or maybe something lighter like a Dragon missle in the gun rack." he stubbed out the cigarette that Perceptor had given him. The new focus seemed to help him shake off the case of nerves from facing Buckethead.
"I bet while I'm at it I could get the gearheads back at the concern to mount a heavy machine gun on the coupola. So, something like a M-60 with belt fed ammunition. I dont think that it would do much against him, but I bet it would it would make him think twice about getting too close. Old Hellbender wasnt hurt by machine guns, but when the lead started to fly, she took cover. Guess bullets still hurt, even if you're bullet proof." He looked over to Ace.
"Anyone every take a pot-shot at you, kid?" he asked.
Perceptor scowled, lighting what might be his forth or fifth cigarette since exiting the craft. He wanted to track Buckethead, but his xeo-sensitivity had been all but blinded by being too close to Arazi, and Zero when they let loose with their power. It was like sitting inside of a lightbulb trying to see what was on TV. Impossible. He could still feel the ghost images of their xeo-coronas. Still, somewhere he knew that he could feel Buckethead, terrible and irresistable as the sun itself.
"My power focuses more on sensing xeo-energy, maybe George got a better fix on our new nut-job. All I could see was Arazi's ass, if you know what I mean." he said. "So, maybe if you can do psychometry George, we should let just you pick up Buckethead's stick. I hope it isnt booby-trapped." he said with a acerbic smile.
Ace nodded. He rubbed his hand absently across his chest where the sting of their impacts was his first reminder that he was bullet resistant, not bullet proof. Sure they would never penetrate his skin, but they would still pass on their kinetic energy.
Ace knew he could duplicate that forcefield, if he freed up a full slot of xeo-energy. Unfortunately, using the forcefield would limit his offensive options.
"Pssh. Serves him right, the little show-off," grumbled Zero under his breath, and went to sit on a heavy metal girder.
The white-haired man produced a small metal flask, as if from nowhere, and began to swig from it.
"Let's all get poisoned, eh?" he growled, letting the liquor spill down his chin.
Back at the Center
The ride back to the center was quiet, or as quiet as riding in the ill fated offspring of a lawn mower and a power blender could be. Arazi was silent, her eyes had what some would call the 1000 yard stare. Spruance laughed and took a swig from Zero's proffered flask, knowing all to well what happened to those saps who dwelt on what happened too much.
George was left sitting with Buckethead's staff, not quite sure if it was metal, or a superdense plastic. The entire thing resonated with the self-aggrandizing malice that was Buckethead. It made him feel vaguely nauseous.
Ace was left with the thought that out of all of them, he was the one that the villian had looked dead in the eye...the one that he spoke too.
George finally broke the silence. ''I think I may have a way of tracking the Dark Nemesis down. Dark Nemesis,do you guys dig that name? Sure sounds a lot more sensational than Bucket Head,doesn't it? But to get back on subject,I may be able to identify the goon's whereabouts. Certain emotions,if they are strong enough,give off an unpleasant odour. In the case of Bucket Head's staff,the smell is so bad,it smells worse than dog poo,which must explain why my stomach is suddenly churning.''
Zero snickered at the thought of the psychic smell of dog s**t.
"That's... quite the description, thinking man. Can you back it up? Are you sure you can track that @!#$er by his emotions?" said the albino, frosting over a metal panel with his handprint.
George shrugged. ''I could try. I can't promise you we'll find him,but there is a good chance I might be able to discover a trail.''
"Lets see about getting a more stealthy vehicle than the floating lawnmower." Spruance said.
"This bucket of bolts is giving me a migraine." Perceptor nodded in agreement, as he tore the cellophane off of a new pack of smokes.
Back at the Braggadaccio Center
Perceptor and George had a better look at the staff. THe weapon was placed in a psychically insulated container that vaguely resembled a telephone booth lined with floral styrofoam. Perceptor scowled.
"I'm not getting much of anything off of it, the residual xeo-power has drained off too much." he said. George, on the other hand a perfect view of the weapon. He could seemingly feel the bitterness and malice of Nemesis, the heartless cynicism. He was male, and older than they were, that was easy to tell. As for his appearance, that was harder to tell, it was as if he had only bathed the weapon in his aura of evil, but had never touched it with his own hands.
"When you have a moment, Mister Cranston would like to see you in private, Ace." the recpetionist said.
So, it's been a while Zero, how've you been?" Arazi asked while the two brains had their go-over with the staff.
"Sssure," Ace said. He walked away calmly. His stress only betrayed by the amount of sweat he was producing. The pounding of his heart might give him away as well.
His mind was running a mile a second. "Oh-my-God! Oh-my-God! Oh-my-God! I must of screwed up. I am so screwed. I really should just go home and forget about all this. I can't talk to him. Oh-my-God! Oh-my-God. I am so unworthy. He probably wants to tell me to hang up might tights. He is the Big Guy. I can't face him. I don't wanna face him. Oh-myGod- I am so screwed. I screwed up. "
While his mind was checked out, his body walked slowly on autopilot to Crantston's waiting area.
Ace had to wait for half an hour while one of the nurses looked in on the old man. She was polite, but adamant that he would have to wait. Pushing past her would have been easy, about like hopping over the velvet rope in a movie theatre. It might as well have been a twelve foot barb wire fence with cyclone wire wrapped around the top. After a nerve wracking wait, the nurse gestured that Cranston was ready to see him.
The old man was the same as he remembered, still hooked up to the banks of machines that beeped and whirred, keeping his body alive when any normal human would have been two years in his grave. He fixed ace with his eagle's stare, and he could see that there was weariness in his eyes, a tiredness that seemed to permeate his frail body.
"I've been briefed. I understand you were face to face with the new xeo, and it seems he is less than noble in intent." He said, a glimmer in his eye. "Tell me about it boy, I've not been able to fly in years and I think that's been the worst of my losses."
Ace just stood there. He was in the presence of greatness. Here was his chance to show himself off, to learn at the feet of a great hero. And he stood there like a total idiot. Of course, he had let the buckethead get away. He had gotten his butt kicked. Oh sure it was a tactical retreat to line up another suprise shot. But really, he installed the wiggens into Ace.
His mouth must of been moving with no sound coming out, Cranston responded. "Was he your first boy?"
"My first xeo no. The first possibly more powerful than Hellbender Xeo, yes. " Ace took a deep breath. "He is not Evil, a demon or anything. He is just super confident in his powers which are pretty extreme, much more than mine. The Forcefield takes much of what I can dish out. His energyblast is an entire level of magnitude than mine. He can fly faster too. He might have Xeo senses, but can't tell. The Bucket might have be a power source, as the staff we took isn't. "
Ace stared off into space. It was less distracting .
"I just wish I knew what drove him. He's a people and people have reasons they do what they do. So what has he to gain from blowing up the oil refinery? Is it money? Does he have a beef with them. Did they fire him? Is he an eco-terrorist? Does he have a solar technology put out of business by the oil company?"
"I discarded the idea that he was looking for something under the field. He was not searching. He was just destroying. He could of been being flashy, to see what kind of resistance he drew out. "
He took another deep sigh. "I don't know. I don't know where he will strike next. I don't know why he is doing this. I don't know how we are going to stop him. I don't know if I can do this. " Ace's face went blank. He hadn't meant to say that. It just slipped out.
Zero grunted in a fashion he supposed the most manly possible.
"Yeah, a while," he said, tossing white hair out of his eyes. "I've been... Fine. Uh, fine."
He sat down in a plush red-leather couch, and put hands behind his head, fogging the stylish metal wall. "Been boozing. Fighting. Y'know. Just general @!#$ing around. There isn't much to do in this city when you're a xeo. Plus they kicked me out of the XXX-Mart. Said I was spending to much time there. @!#$in' bulls**t that is." He turned a pale eye toward Arazi.
"How 'bout you?"
"Hmmm." Cranston muttered, tapping his one good hand against the point of his chin. There was a fire in his eyes as he pondered the ceiling. "You say he is more powerful than you, that might be the case. Experience and age can make us stronger. You are still quite young and have grown to the full of your potential. It sounds like this xeo is well into his prime if he can perform as you have described." The pop and hiss of his resperiator was loud, an almost uncomfortable distraction.
"From what you have told me, it seems that his goal seems to be simply power. Destroy things and people pay attention to you, they will watch you. If you do it well enough, they will come to follow you. Hellbender was strong, but it was only in the last confrontation that she was alone." Cranston said. "She had a certain charisma that drew others to her, other weaker xeos."
"Well, I was promted into the Special Affairs department of the Cranston Concern," Arazi said. "I was used to recruit xeos and on occassion help some of them get help, even if they didn't want it. There was this kid in Austin Texas who could phase through walls, neatest thing really. Except that he was only interested in breaking into peoples homes, stealing from them. It was kind of funny that he could shift through a wall more than a foot thick and he was stealing a few hundred dollars here and there from houses. When the police raided his house, they found out he had been stealing panties, of all things." She said. She really had missed the foul-spoken xeo. She was made uncomfortable by the fact that she could feel the reserve of thermal power inside of her wanting to reach out around the cold kernel in Zero and destroy it. He was probably having the same feeling.
"They've discovered a xeo-inhibitor." She said. "Dependant on the dosage it can reduce or completely suppress xeo powers. They give it to the kids who arent able to cope with their newfound power."
"The Staff," Perceptor said, reading from a handout that a technician handed him, "Is of a unique carbon polymer that was created under enormous physical pressure, and then extruded like a piece of wire. It has a very high metallic content, likely to conduct xeo energy. It has no power source, no points for power adaptors, or any other mumbo-jumbo crap." He lit a smoke and puffed on it a time or two.
"So, it seems that he uses it to aim his attacks. Odd, given his strength." He stubbed out the smoke, having whittled it down to ash and butt. "Another thing, all of the buildings destroyed belong to the Cranston Concern, it seems that this guy might be trying to draw Ultraman out of retirement. Either that or he is an investor who really lost his ass when Endron tanked." He said mostly to George.
''Ok.'' George replied. ''So is it safe for us to assume that Nemesis either has a grudge against Mr.Cranston or is simply plagued by a burning desire to succeed where HellBender failed? If that's the case, we'll need to take him down. Barring of course,the last possibility you mentioned. That was supposed to be a joke right? Or is it something we should explore? ''
"Investors are all insane, at least that is my opinion." Perceptor said, "Besides, if it is an attack on Cranston, Nemesis is a bit behind the times. The board of directors ousted Cranston from his controlling interest of the Concern. He's still the head of the Carravaggio center and the departments that deal mainly with xeo-science. The rest, the ship yards, and oil investments, the Concern and the Board all have controll over that." He puffed on his cigarette.
Arazi brushed her hair back, catching the last part of the conversation between the two. "Yeah, it was a little hairy for a while, I thought we were all going to be unemployed." She shot a hot look at Zero, "This was during one of your porn and booze benders so I don't expect you to know anything about it."
"Yup, we were all thinking it was going to be looking for a real job after that, but the old man pulled it together and had one of his nurses roll him into the board room so he could shout at all of the self-absorbed *******s in there. It was classic Cranston, I mean he was like back in the old days when he kicked ass and took names. It really took alot out of him too."
The doors of the suite opened with a soft whisper. Three men in dark suits, carrying attache cases the way a soldier would carry an M-16 walked into the room. The lead man wore a pair of wire rimmed bifocals, his blonde hair gelled back into a bomb-proof comb-over. The other two more nondescript, with similar brown hair and almost matching cornflower blue ties.
The man in the glasses snatched the forensic report from Perceptor with the speed of a street magician removing a tablecloth from a loaded table. He fixed them all with a stare that would have melted lead and softened steel. "This material belongs to the Cranston Corporation, not the Concern. We will be taking care of this matter ourselves and dont require the...assistance of the Concern. It is only be our great respect for Cranston and what he used to be that we have allowed him to retain control of the the Concern." He folded the paper and tucked in into his attache case.
"You are all formally reminded that you do not have permission to trespass onto Cranston Corp. property and should you choose to do so, any damage inflicted during your stay you will be held accountable for. This includes collateral damage, punitive damages, and compensation for loss of profitabilty on the part of the location's damage."
"You xeos are relics, a by-blow of the atomic failure. you should have the good grace to let your legacy go with the great heros. All you are doing is making yourselves all look like fools." He said.
"Good day."
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TSBA is a Tennessee striper fisherman club
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“I was honored this evening, as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Striped Bass Club, to present the Knox County 4-H Horse and Pony Club with our donation of $ 500.00. The 4-H Club members were thrilled to receive the donation which will benefit many young children in the club.”
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How tech entrepreneurs think of Universal Basic Income
By NY - NewsRoom on May 7, 2019
As tech has grown, policy debates have become an important pastime. Today’s tech industry aspires to replace human drivers with self-driving cars, secretaries with AI assistants, permanent jobs with gigs — and as a result, the human impact of tech has become an everyday conversation.
No other idea is as emblematic of this as Universal Basic Income, a policy that would distribute a monthly sum to every adult regardless of their income or employment status.
The conversation is widespread. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have said that UBI may be desirable or necessary. Y-Combinator Research and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes are running basic income studies. Tech-friendly presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang support the issue.
But should the average tech entrepreneur or investor support UBI? The answer is not entirely clear.
The good news is that the tech industry is deeply familiar with risk, which is an important component of arguments for UBI. The bad news: risk isn’t the whole story, and both positive and negative evidence for the policy are currently thin.
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The role of risk
Entrepreneurs understand the risk component of UBI because it’s the same risk they take in starting companies. Many entrepreneurs start with savings or seed funding that reduce their downside risk — and it’s not hard for them to imagine that others lack these resources. A UBI could solve the issue.
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I left the US for Guatemala right after I graduated in 2002. A couple of months later I moved to Taiwan, where I spent 7 wonderful years. After that I spent a bit of time in Hong Kong, then headed into China and lived for a while in Kunming and finally Beijing. Though I visited the US a few times during those years, it took me nearly a decade to move back.
Having just done a stint at a start-up, working on a framework for educational iPad and iPhone games, I found myself drawn to California, more specifically the Bay Area. It’s been a shock in all kinds of ways, mostly good.
I couldn’t help but feel excited as the plane touched down. I don’t remember if I’ve flown through SF Airport on the way to visit family or friends in the US before or not, but this time was memorable. I knew I was at a life inflection point, returning with the intention of staying.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
As expected, the subway system was accessible directly from within the airport. It was sort of an odd experience. On one hand, everything was in English. On the other, it felt like I’d traveled back in time. The subway system felt horribly dated compared to those I’d used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or even Beijing. When buying tickets, instead of a pictoral display from which to select the station I wanted, there was a paper subway map, a paper chart of station names and prices and a text only ticket vending machine. After seeing that a trip to Powell station would cost $8.10, I put in my $20 bill and then had to hit the -$1 button 11 times and then hit the +10¢ button.
Inside the trains, there isn’t a visual display showing what station you’re approaching or a map of where you’re headed. You’ve got to know the names of terminal stops and hope you can understand the garbled announcements over the loud speaker… or just ask random people until you get there like I did. People were surprisingly helpful!
The money has just gone weird. When I left, American money was green. Canadian money, monopoly money and other currencies were funky and rainbow colored, but real money mean greenbacks. I do have some recollection of some $20s that were blue-ish when I was visiting my ex at Dartmouth a few years ago, but it wasn’t enough to prepare me for what was waiting. Five dollar bills with a big, obnoxious purple 5 on the back! Ten dollar bills with HUGE Alexander Hamilton heads not reined in by any oval-shape frames! Dollar piece coins given to in change at multiple locations! I wasn’t gone that long, was I?
The weirdest thing happened to me, multiple times. As I was walking up to an intersection, I saw some approaching cars. So I slowed down. And they stopped! Multiple cars in different lanes stopped for me, a single pedestrian! In China I always had to kind of wait until there were 5-10 pedestrians waiting with me to cross in a group. Drivers really had a lot less patience for pedestrians there, crosswalk or not. This change is still catching me off guard now and then, but I’m sure I’ll adjust quickly.
In Taiwan it wasn’t too bad, especially out of the cities or up in the hills on the jogging and biking paths. There was some wonderful natural beauty. It was also unbearably hot and humid.
In Beijing, the air was absolutely terrible. During my first week there, I made the mistake of going out for a 90 minute jog in the Hutongs. I spent the half hour in a shower clearing out phlegm, all of it brown. I became well acquainted with bjair.info and learned to see any pollution index of under 200 as “pretty good”.
In San Francisco, it’s been great! The air is clean, the sky is blue, and the bay view is breathtaking from the hills, especially after climbing them! I feel like this is just a healthier life than I had in Beijing.
It seems that almost everywhere I go, there’s free beer being offered. The hostel where I stayed gave out free beer every night at 9:30. They had some kind of vodka company sponsoring them and the manager kept trying to get us to play beer pong with vodka shots. My second night in town I went to a talk at Adobe on mobile gaming, and got free pizza and beer along with some great talks, including one by the creator of the Corona SDK. The next night, at a SFJS meet-up, I got some organic burritos and free beer as I learned about the Meteor.js framework. Ditto for the Ruby on Rails hackathon I attended.
Also, it’s worth adding that not only is it free beer, but it’s free good beer, including stuff from my home state of Colorado– Blue Moon, Sunshine Wheat and others.
While the subways may have felt like a jump back in time, everything else feels like a huge leap forward. It’s absolutely stunning how many tech people are out here and also how technical a lot of random people working in other jobs are. A random lady I asked for directions on a train tried to recruit me to do mobile development for her ad agency. I heard coffee shop employees discussing the possibility of a 15″ MacBook Air.
On my way to a meet-up at Change.org, I incidentally passed the main offices of Adobe, airbnb and Zynga. I was looking for this when I moved, but I didn’t fully comprehend just how much different the concentration of smart technical people was here than in other places. Even compared with Boulder, CO, where I lived before, this is amazing.
Never before in my life have I seen so many homeless, desperate and just crazy people concentrated in one area as I did walking back to my hostel near Market Street from the talks at Adobe. I’ve seen poorer people, for sure. In Beijing, the high-end beggars may have been doing alright for themselves, but in Kunming there was a good deal of outright poverty.
San Francisco is different. Its neighborhoods are very granular. Walk 10 minutes in one direction from the financial district and you’ll be in the center of Chinatown. Walk further up hill and you’ll be in a very gentrified old neighborhood. Another ten minutes down another side of the hill and you’re in a street full of homeless, hopeless and mentally ill people. Another 10 minutes and it’s upscale tech offices. While I’m grateful that I’m not personally confronted by beggars outside my apartment and that I feel safe in my neighborhood, it’s still disturbing. I’ve only been here a week. I don’t understand the situation, its background or what people are doing to help.
It serves as motivation though, both selfishly to get a job and not fall through the cracks, and altruistically to gain the kind of power to help people who most need it.
Surprisingly here in the home of so many lucrative tech companies, I’ve met a lot of people here who genuinely seem focused on making the world a better place. In some other places I’ve lived, I’ve gotten a very strong sense that money rules. Here, despite incredible disparities in wealth, I’ve found a lot of people to be cooperative with potential and even current business competitors. A girl I met on the subway told me her dream of being a volunteer worker. Highly paid professionals collaborate to make free classes for those wanting to break into their industries. Strangers at every meetup.com I’ve gone to have gone out of their way to help me. I’m embarrassed to admit that having lived in Beijing even for a couple of years, I feel wary. I’m not used to such a high-trust society, yet. On the plus side, I’m feeling more inspired and more motivated than I have in quite a while.
This is probably just the beginning of a much longer adjustment, but so far it feels good to be back in my home country.
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San Francisco is sort of extreme itself in the USA on a few accounts-
first-Cars stop for pedestrians. Try walking in front of a car in New York and see what happens. I think you would find NY drivers similar to Beijing.
Social Ills- San Francisco has a homeless population way higher than other cities in the USA, you can read about the reasons here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States in the SF section.
Obviously the tech, idealism and scenery are a part of the Bay Area, and the reasons you are there.
I owe you a blog posting myself. I will let you know when that is done.
I really enjoyed this post and can relate to a lot.
Regarding public transportation, yeah, it seems outdated in the states, but lets face it, most Americans have cars. Also, I look at the poor public transit as a sign that the government is starved, which I equate to mean taxes are low, and the business climate is favorable.
I can also totally relate to the cars stopping to let you walk. It is great!
In regards to the homeless situation in San Francisco I came to the conclusion that most of the people are out there because they are alcoholics or on drugs. This is sad, but it is so. There are free facilities for shower and laundry for them in the city. The church at Washington Square also gives out free sandwiches and blankets everyday.
Further, they might not be so bad off. One time outside a Chase bank I saw a homeless person counting his change into rolls to deposit. I looked a bit surprised and he caught my eye and said: “Spare any change?” It is ridiculous! 😉
Anyway, enjoy it out there. Inspiration and motivation are great and valuable things.
Paul, you’ve gotta see Taiwan! The taxes there are much lower than in the US and the public transit is amazing! The health care system is, too. Cars stopping to let you walk… well that aspect is kinda between what it is in the US and China.
Haha, that’s a great story about the guy at Chase. What a case of context-switching! I had begun to get the impression that SF might be drawing in homeless from other regions as opposed to just being a reflection of a poor safety net for the local populace.
Living in the Bay Area all my life, I never really thought how it would be anywhere else. It’s interesting to see a new perspective… your shocks help me understand how life in Taiwan might be.
Ha! I’m late to this discussion, but found it interesting because of the BART machines. They are hopelessly outdated and really a puzzle to understand. I am visiting from NYC. Subway there isn’t great but at least buying a Metrocard is fast and easy. Of course it’s not a zoned fare. But the Long Island RR fare varies by station. The machines have you input your starting and ending points on a touch screen and do the work for you. No paper charts to figure out fares. Plus pay-by-cellphone is supposedly coming soon (we’ll see how long that takes!) Anyway, thanks very much for your discussion as I feel quite foreign too at the moment. Homeless beggars abound in a few areas in NYC but SF dresses to have a LOT more per capita. And welcome back. But never expect cats in NYC to stop like that. It’s shocking for me too.
Mark Wilbur lived in Taiwan as a student, EFL teacher and entrepreneur, and later joined tech start-ups in Beijing and SF and is now nomadic.
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This article is cross-posted from the October issue of Austin Fit Magazine. You can also view the full piece here: 2013-2014 Austin Distance Challenge Preview
The Austin Fit Magazine Distance Challenge is one of the longest on-going running series of its kind in Texas, working on 15-plus years of combining distances of 10K to the marathon. There have been countless modifications since the beginning—races come and go—but with a record 700-plus participants in 2012, the AFMDC is as strong as ever.
There are many reasons why one should take on the series (to challenge yourself, run in some of the best races in the state, make fitness a priority in your life) but there’s one key reason that doesn’t get enough attention.
The charities.
Each of these top-notch events benefits a very worthy cause that should motivate you to get out and sign up before it’s too late. And to make it extra worthy of your entry, the AFMDC even has it’s own beneficiary—The Trail Foundation!
IBM 10K Presented by Luke’s Locker
Benefiting: Austin Parks Foundation
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This may be the last year for a course through the Domain in north Austin for the AFMDC’s traditional kickoff event. This 10K benefits the Austin Parks Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to building public/private partnerships to develop and maintain parks, trails, and open spaces in Austin and Travis County.
Currently, APF is assisting in the efforts of a long-term redevelopment of Auditorium Shores to better accommodate walkers, runners, dogs, and others who enjoy open, public spaces.
Run for the Water 10-Miler Presented by Keller Williams Realty
Benefiting: The Gazelle Foundation
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In it’s seventh year, Run for the Water has raised over $350,000 for the Gazelle Foundation, a registered nonprofit. Their goal for 2013 is to exceed $150,000, which translates to clean water for life for more than 6,000 citizens in Burundi.
Co-founded in 2006 by Austin-based runner Gilbert Tuhabonye, the organization constructs water projects in his home country. This October marks 20 years since he escaped death in a horrific genocide that took the lives of more than 100 classmates, an event that lead to a 15-year civil war.
The Gazelle Foundation owns and operates the event, meaning that all race entries and sponsorships go directly to their charitable mission. Since 2010, they report that 100 percent of donations have gone to building water projects.
Decker Challenge Half Marathon Presented by Rogue Running
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Austin Runners Club, founded in 1974, is a registered 501(c)(3) that produces and benefits from the Decker Challenge. ARC’s mission is to improve the overall running community in this great capital city. ARC is also the overall producer of the AFMDC, whose primary beneficiary is The Trail Foundation.
More than 1,500 members make up ARC, and the all-volunteer organization strives to keep overhead at a minimum while providing competitive and non-competitive activities for members and the general public. Their main fundraiser is the Decker Challenge, which celebrates 35 years this December.
Rogue Distance Festival 30K
Benefiting: Cedar Park High School Project Graduation & Citizen’s Police Academy
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In it’s second year as part of the AFMDC, Rogue took what used to be the Buda 30K and moved it up north to Cedar Park. With the new venue, they’ve chosen two local charities to support – Cedar Park Citizen’s Police Academy Alumni Association and the Cedar Park High School Project Graduation.
The Police Alumni Association’s goal is to increase the understanding between the citizens in the community and the police. More than 100 people have attended the Academy, and they hope the participation will greatly increase after being tied to the race.
Project Graduation is run solely by volunteer parents of graduating seniors and fully funded by donations and contributions. Over the years, statistics have shown that graduation night is one of the deadliest for young kids who may be drinking and driving. Through a safe, alcohol-free event, Cedar Park High School joins the national movement to keep their youth safe after graduation.
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Benefiting: Communities in Schools of Central Texas
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The fastest half marathon in the state continues to support Communities in Schools of Central Texas, an Austin-based nonprofit that focuses on dropout prevention. With the help of a guaranteed $40,000 donation from 3M after the race, CIS will continue their work across numerous middle school and high school campuses.
Through a network of professional staff counselors, volunteers, social service organizations, businesses, and community resources, students are empowered to stay in school and achieve higher goals in life. During the last school year, an astonishing 99 percent of students referred to CIS stayed in school!
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Benefiting: Austin Gives Miles
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The marquee event of the AFMDC takes a different approach to charitable giving, providing a platform to Central Texas nonprofits with the opportunity to advance their missions through community awareness and active fundraising. This platform—Austin Gives Miles—has 32 partners for this year. Big and small, all are locally based and help change lives in the area.
Unique to Austin Gives Miles is the chance for race participants to use their running to support one of the charities. They can help fundraise, volunteer, and promote any of the organizations through the Austin Marathon.
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By Kasey Giard | December 24, 2018 - 7:00 am | December 15, 2018 Blogger's Favorites, Book Review and Content, Fantasy, Young Adult/Teen Fiction
A Crown of Embers
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Published on September 8, 2012
About A Crown of Embers
She does not know what awaits her at the enemy’s gate.
Elisa is a hero.
She led her people to victory over a terrifying, sorcerous army. Her place as the country’s ruler should be secure. But it isn’t.
Her enemies come at her like ghosts in a dream, from foreign realms and even from within her own court. And her destiny as the chosen one has not yet been fulfilled.
To conquer the power she bears, once and for all, Elisa must follow a trial of long-forgotten—and forbidden—clues, from the deep, hidden catacombs of her own city to the treacherous seas. With her go a one-eyed spy, a traitor, and the man whom—despite everything—she is falling in love with.
If she’s lucky, she will return from this journey. But there will be a cost.
I sometimes forget how refreshing and wonderful it can be to read about a really smart girl. I like that Elisa cares about people around her and that her faith is a deep part of her life. One of my favorite things in A Crown of Embers had to be watching the relationship between her and Storm develop. They started as unlikely allies, but seemed to really grow to respect each other, and I liked that a lot.
Court politics plays a large role in the plot of A Crown of Embers. Elisa struggles to balance what she wants with what her country needs and on top of that has to navigate around people who would use her for their own gain. It also becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that someone wants her dead, and it might be someone within her court.
I was a fan of Hector from Girl of Fire and Thorns, so I definitely wasn’t sorry to see him have a more significant role in A Crown of Embers. I also loved the little prince Rosario and Elisa’s attendants. Each of the characters has a really specific voice and some of them really kept a spark in the story with their dialogue or banter.
I enjoyed the first book in the series, and I loved A Crown of Embers, too. I’m looking forward to reading the third book—definitely eager to see what happens to Elisa and her kingdom.
Recommended for Ages 12 up.
Cultural Elements
Elisa has paler skin and black hair, but her people have brown skin and dark hair. The enemy sorcerers are very fair-skinned with blond hair. Two men (both minor characters) are discovered to be lovers.
Profanity/Crude Language Content
Romance/Sexual Content
Elisa asks her handmaiden about love (sex) and she shares that she’s had lovers before. She and Elisa take an herb that is meant to prevent pregnancy, each hoping to have sex soon. Elisa considers whether she’d take a lover as many monarchs do. She’s tempted by her feelings for a man she believes she would never be allowed to marry.
Intense kissing between a man and woman. Elisa discovers two men embracing.
Elisa bears a gem in her navel which marks her as God’s chosen one. She prays often and recites scriptures which resemble Christian scriptures. Some rituals and ideas, like the quoted scriptures, resemble Christian faith and others are less connected (like the stone in her navel, which changes temperature when she’s in danger or God’s presence is with her.).
Carrying the stone means Elisa will have to perform some great act of service, so Elisa is always on the lookout to understand what she’s called to do.
Some situations of peril and assassination attempts. At one point, a man shouts threats at her and then lights himself on fire. Another assassin attacks an unarmed woman, leaving her for dead. A soldier is beheaded as a traitor. Elisa witnesses the executioner’s arm raise but can’t see more because of the crowd. A man begins vomiting after ingesting poison. Servants are flogged for negligence. A man holds a woman at knife-point.
Drug Content
Wine is served with dinners.
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Just Checking In #14 with Jake Hall
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In the fourteenth edition of our ‘Just Checking In’ series, we spoke to journalist, blogger and LGBT and queer advocate Jake Hall. Check out our conversation below.
How are you feeling about your mental health currently?
At the minute I’m feeling good. I’m living between Sheffield and London at the minute which can definitely be stressful and Sheffield can definitely be lonely as I don’t really know many people here. I made the choice to establish a base somewhere way cheaper so I could take time out for myself and not feel overwhelmed. At the moment, it’s working.
When was the first time you became aware of your own mental health and realised that it wasn’t just physical pain you experienced?
Last summer. I had a housing contract that was coming to an end, so I did what I always tend to do and tried to run away. It’s a bad habit I’ve developed but I’ve tried hard to break it.
I remember just feeling overwhelmed by anxiety and eventually canceling a flight — I’m so grateful to a close friend, because she just invited me to come and stay with her for a few nights and we just talked through everything.
What mental health conditions do you have (if any) and how long have you lived with them for?
Anxiety – I can only really remember it being prevalent over the last decade or so.
If you had to describe how your mental health conditions affect you in your day-to-day life, what would you say?
Mostly it just makes it extremely difficult to plan my days and tends to manifest in the form of relentless overthinking that leads me to make really reckless, quite self-destructive decisions.
You’re an accomplished writer and freelance journalist. Have you always been a writer or is it something you just discovered and developed organically?
I always enjoyed writing, although I never really considered it as a career choice. A lot went on in my life when I was around 16 or 17; that was when I really started to use writing as a way to organise my thoughts and take a step back from situations I knew would bring out any self-destructive tendencies. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that writing can act as a coping mechanism for me.
What topics on the mental health spectrum do you cover, if any?
I personally haven’t written about my own mental health but I write about LGBTQ issues a lot — for obvious reasons, writing about LGBTQ mental health is important to me. It’s been statistically proven we’re much more likely to struggle with mental health and I don’t think people recognise how unique factors – street harassment, familial abandonment due to identity and general everyday encounters of discrimination can really build up and destroy even the strongest queer people over time, so that’s something I’m keen to highlight.
What effect does writing have on your mental health?
It definitely helps in the sense that it lets me step outside of my own thoughts for a while and really get lost in an article. Sometimes I write as catharsis. It soothes me.
On the other hand I’ve been criticised in the past for being a workaholic; I think when you do something you love for a living it can be difficult to introduce boundaries, especially as a freelancer. That can sometimes just exacerbate my anxiety; it makes me feel like I’m drowning.
What other topics do you cover in your writing?
Everything from porn, HIV activism and sex education to digital rights, music and fashion — I’ve worked with some amazing editors in the past who have really given me free rein to delve deep into projects and topics I’m passionate about.
What’s been the proudest achievement in your career as a journalist/writer so far?
Being retweeted by Lady Gaga. I remember being laid out in a capsule hotel in Hiroshima with an eye infection and then seeing my name on her profile, so I cried and phoned my grandparents!
When did you ‘come out’ and what affect did that have on your mental health?
I tried to come out at 13 but it didn’t go well – I understand now that my mum just couldn’t comprehend that I knew my sexuality before I even had sexual experience but that experience was still painful and definitely made me miserable for a while.
My circumstances were quite unique, so coming out for me wasn’t as painful as it can be for a lot of people – I properly ‘came out’ to my mum on my 18th birthday at a Chinese buffet in Durham (very glamorous I know!) and she was hugely accepting.
Having said that, I think there’s a misconception that you only come out once. It’s every day and that can really take a toll on my anxiety sometimes.
When I meet new people, I panic about mentioning it; I overthink and assume they’ll judge me; I think back to times in the past where I’ve told someone I’m queer and then been met with nastiness or violence. In that sense, meeting new people who aren’t queer and don’t necessarily know I am can feel like walking a tightrope.
You’re also a queer advocate and openly write and post about queer and LGBT issues in the community. What issues are you passionate about and why?
There are so many and I think they’re really dependent on context. I’m really focused on being the best ally I can be and spotlighting relentless transphobia in the media or the discrimination that queer people of colour still face on a daily basis, even from within their own community.
I think it’s important to realise that queer people in the UK are more likely to be impoverished; to suffer with mental illness; to be homeless. These are things we don’t talk about enough because the media likes to stereotype us or commission writers that write strictly from a personal standpoint and don’t spotlight wider issues within the community.
We need to use our platform to be talking about the reports of queer people being murdered in Chechnya or supporting the activists in countries fighting their governments’ policies – these issues don’t get anywhere near enough airtime.
Asking whether straight people should play queer roles is another issue that frustrates me — I’m not discrediting issues like this because we do need to be mindful of who is telling our stories and who is profiting from them but I really wish the media would pay as much attention to human rights violations as it does to click-bait op-eds. Companies love us when they can cash in but they turn a blind eye when we’re being killed.
Have you told anyone close to you about your mental health issues like your friends or family and have you asked for support for them?
I have friends struggling with similar issues, so definitely — one of my closest friends is always there for me no matter what and she listens to me even when I convince myself I’m being irrational or self-destructive.
Sometimes when I’m feeling particularly anxious I dissect my character relentlessly and end up hating myself, so it’s really wonderful to have people that will listen to you.
My granddad in particular has been a real rock as well. He doesn’t really understand my world – I’m the first in my family to move far away from home, let alone come out but he’s so supportive and never judges. There’s nothing I feel like I couldn’t tell him.
What tools and methods do you find useful in helping you manage your mental health or mental health issues?
This is definitely something I’m still working on. Logging off helps me; music helps me; writing helps me. In the past I’ve leaned heavily on alcohol as a coping mechanism, so rebuilding a healthy relationship with alcohol has been difficult; I can also still do hugely reckless things to cope. I’m learning every day.
If you could say, what do you think have been your lowest and highest points in your mental health journey so far?
My lowest points was definitely during the six months I lived in Paris. I was failing university due to circumstances out of my control. I was necking litres of whisky and trying to manage by controlling my body; I developed a disordered relationship with food and starting rationing myself intensely. Writing and my friends were all that got me through that period.
In terms of high points, I’d say it’s now. Things that use to spike my anxiety – mainly stressful tasks that I’d avoid and obsess over, or big decisions – are becoming easier to manage and I tend to be better at knowing when to withdraw from a situation now.
Do you think the conversation around mental health is changing and if so, in what way?
To an extent, yes. There are some really wonderful writers discussing their mental health and I feel like people are more understanding than they once were but more still needs to be done, especially in the workplace.
Employers will claim to support their employees but drop when their mental health issues interfere with their productivity; the government will feign an interest in mental health but then deprive vital NGOs of funding; people will claim to be understanding but drop their friends when their mental health issues become too much — also something I’ve been guilty of doing in the past.
To really change the conversation requires a radical change and I think people underestimate how difficult it will actually be. Lots of my friends see therapists but what about the people struggling that can’t afford them? I know people that have been crippled by extensive waiting times but they haven’t had the cash to bypass them. To be poor and mentally ill is still the ultimate disadvantage and that’s something we don’t acknowledge enough.
OH, and the #1 song in the world right now is literally called ‘Sweet but Psycho’ and it’s about a woman whose sex appeal is more or less linked to her ‘psycho’ personality. Have we really moved past the fetishisation of mental illness?
What more do you think needs to be done to ensure everyone, but especially men and boys who have mental health issues get the support they need?
I unfortunately can’t see an end to the government’s austerity measures any time soon, so I think it’s crucial to support NGOs doing vital work, check in on your friends and – in terms of men and boys – deconstruct masculinity.
Weakness in men is too often linked to emasculation, so we need to reinforce that ‘masculinity’ as we know it isn’t exactly an aspirational standard. The Gillette ad tried to do that, but it was met with huge backlash – which shows that any conversations around the negative effects of ‘toxic masculinity’ still leave some men feeling like they’re being implied as the problem.
I’ve always had a pretty strained relationship with masculinity. I was raised in a working-class village by a family whose entire bloodline consists of miners and manual labourers, so I was expected to follow the same path. Careers advisers told me there was no hope for me academically (my school’s GCSE pass rate was around 30%), so I was encouraged to ‘take up a trade’ because it was seen as the only viable way to live comfortably.
Because I had no interest in those things I was deemed effeminate; I was bullied; my life was dominated by this really fucked up idea that I wasn’t ‘man enough’.
It’s obviously difficult for me to speak outside my own experiences as a visibly queer guy, but so often I end up in conversations with straight men who tell me they wish they had the confidence to wear make-up or to paint their nails. My granddad once told me he wanted to get his ear pierced but was worried it might make him look ‘gay’ – imagine!
We need to relax these standards of what it means to be a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’, because they’re pressuring people into self-censorship and that automatically has a knock-on effect on mental health. It makes you self-critical and that can exacerbate anxiety.
That’s one basic thing I think we can all do – just think about ‘masculinity’ critically, realise that it’s essentially a made-up code that looks different to everyone. Once you acknowledge that, it’s easier to stop feeling so much pressure to live up to it.
Jake is a Sheffield-based journalist whose work covers everything from porn and sex work to drugs and queerness. He is also studying for a PhD in Gender & Sexuality at the University of Birmingham.
You can follow Jake on Twitter @jake2103.
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Peacefully with family by his side, on Friday, January 25th, 2019, in his 91st year. Beloved husband of the late Mary Elizabeth ‘Betty’ McKinnon (1981). Loving father of Jonathan McKinnon and his wife, Suzanne; Robert “Bob”, and his wife, the late Jeannie; Roderick ‘Rocky’, and his wife, Leslie; Christena McDonald, and her husband, Eugene; Ainslie, and his wife, Karen; and Ian and his wife, Bianca. Survived by his grandchildren: Jacqueline, Alex, Stephen, Patrick, Claire, Grace, Joseph, Jude, James, Matthew, Nicholas and Liam; his two sisters and one brother; and by three great-grandchildren. Predeceased by his daughter, Anne (1983); his grandchildren, Jonathan and Joshua; and by nine brothers and sisters. Ron was a long-time, dedicated Kellogg’s employee and a devoted harness horseman. Visitation will be held on Monday from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at WESTVIEW FUNERAL CHAPEL, 709 Wonderland Road North, London. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated at ST. MICHAEL’S PARISH, 511 Cheapside Street, London, on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Private family interment at Mount Carmel Cemetery at a later date.
Jim + Lorna MorrisseySending our deepest condolences to the entire family. May your many memories of Ron give you comfort a this difficult time. Jim + Lorna
jim macdonald and wife RitaRonald was my uncle, and a truly wonderful man. We shared a love for Iona Cape Breton,his birthplace . I will miss his frequent phone calls and his corny jokes. He would pass on stories of Iona from his use and it was truly enjoyable to listen to his stories from his youth. Sending condolences to his loving family and know that I loved him as you did. I will miss you and never forget. Jim and Rita
Peggy (MacNeil) MacKinnonRonald was a great fellow. He was a wonderful friend to my father, James RJ MacNeil from Iona and came to his funeral in Hamilton and was such a support yo us. He and Duncan Frank M were extremely helpful to Buddy MacNeil who was brought up at Stephen Dunns and also lived in Hamilton. I looked forward to hearing from Ronald every Christmas and his entertaining phone calls. He always had me in stitches laughing at his jokes. He kept his Gaelic throughout the years and often burst into a Gaelic ditty or two. I was concerned this year when I didn't hear from him. I taught school with Ruth MacDonald who is married to Charlie and we all live in Baddeck. It was Ruth who gave me the sad news of Ronald's death. I was shocked to hear it as Ronald never seemed to age and always had such a light joyful way about him. Years ago my mother knew Betty also. I loved Ronald and offer my sincere condolences to all his family. We prayed for Ronald in Iona church tonight. (St. Columba) Peggy MacKinnon
Kim HandsonMy deepest condolences to the entire family.What a wonderful man he was and still my favourite dance partner.
Raylene and Greg MacLeodOur deepest condolences Bob and to all of Rons family. We previously lived across the street from Bob and so were fortunate to have met Ron and we thoroughly enjoyed his story telling and sense of humour. He was always quick with a joke and a wonderful smile. You are all in our thoughts Take care Raylene and Greg
Lynn GénierMy deepest sympathies to the family. I have fond memories of Mr McKinnon: going to see the horse races as a child to his funny anecdotes and his wonderful humour. He had a full and wonderful life, surrounded by a loving family. Lynn, Corrine and Isabelle Génier
Kate and RoySending our deepest condolences to the entire family. You are in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time. Roy and Kate Van Doorne Lachance in Victoria BC
Joe and Rose ButtigiegMay the memories and love of friends and family, bring you comfort at this time, and in the times ahead. May he rest in peace!
Denise CapitanoAinslie, Ian & Family, Sending you my deepest condolences. You and your entire family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Bob & Janice MacKayPlease accept our deepest sympathies on your Dad’s(my uncle) passing as you celebrate his life. We remember fondly his humour and kindness and his pride in his roots in Iona. Regards, Bobby and Janice
Gerry & Sandra MacPhersonUpon hearing about the passing of my Uncle Ron my heart immediately went to his family and my mom, his sister Effie. My thoughts then went to how much fun he was and his entertaining sense of humour and how I always looked forward to seeing him. He will always be remembered with great fondness and a smile. Gerry, Sandra, Scott and Gillian.
Max and Donna WillsieBob and family, please accept our deepest sympathies on the passing of your father. Great memories, we are sure, will help you through these difficult times.
John and Janice MacKayTo all of Uncle Ron’s family we wish to express our sincere sympathies on his passing. Ma always spoke of her brother Ron with much affection and love. Our thoughts and prayers are wth you. Sincerely John & Janice MacKay
GwenGod bless Ron. Such a beautiful soul.
Deb Morrissey Ian & family. I am sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences .
Nathan GrayIan, Ainslie and families. Sending your whole family my thoughts and prayers
Leona & Dave Morrissey& FamiyOur sincere condolences to you & all your family Ian with your loss of your father. You will have the good memories to treasure in your heats to comfort you @ this time of loss. Thinking of you, the Morrissy’s.🌺
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Rock of Ages – Review
13th June 2012 13th December 2015 Jason Korsner
Worth seeing: for anyone looking for the next rock sing-a-long musical
Director: Adam Shankman
Featuring: Alec Baldwin, Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise, Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta Jones, Malin Akerman, Mary J Blige, Paul Giamati, Russell Brand
Certificate: 12A
Released: 13th June 2012
Smalltown girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough) heads from Oklahoma to the City of Angels to try to make it as a singer. After being mugged on arrival in LA, she bumps into city boy Drew (Diego Boneta), an aspiring rock singer, who offers to help her get a job at the music venue where he works – the slightly sleazy Bourbon Room on the Sunset Strip.
The pair are instantly attracted to each other and vow to help each other achieve their dreams.
The venue’s owner Dennis (Alec Baldwin) has struck hard times – he’s deep in debt and only the takings from a bumper gig from the world’s greatest heavy metal star Staycee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) can save his business.
But the mayor’s puritanical wife Patricia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is trying to close the club down, while Staycee’s oily manager Paul (Paul Giamatti) has his own devious plans that could yet sink the Bourbon Room.
Rock of Ages is many things.
It’s a big screen adaptation of a successful Broadway and West End musical.
It’s a love story about two aspiring young singers, hoping to work their way to the top of their profession by starting out serving beers to gig-goers.
It’s the story of a bunch of housewives trying to clean up LA’s sleazy Sunset Strip, as a club owner is struggling to keep his business – and music – alive.
It’s the story of a self-important, hard-living rock-star who’s still the toast of the industry, although his personal life is crumbling into mindless, womanising and alcohol fueled unreliability.
But packed with some of the biggest glam metal hits of the late 1980s, it’s also a nostalgia trip for 40-somethings to recall their long-haired, head-banging youth, to a soundtrack of classics by Def Leppard, Journey, Poison, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, among others – sung by the cast – and occasionally mashed up with lesser known songs.
Yes – this is a full blown musical, where the action stops so that the cast can have a sing-song – often with different characters in different scenes, performing the same musical numbers.
You get the peculiar sight of a character who’s just jumped onto the counter at a record shop (remember them?) to sing about his dreams of being a rock star, before he climbs back down and says “But the problem is, I have stagefright.”
And rockers exclaiming “Here’s a little song I wrote,” when we all know it was actually hit for Journey six years before the film is set.
Even for those not put off by the contrived nature of the genre, it’s all nonsense – particularly the central love story, which is derivative and uninspired – ironic for the tale of two aspiring artists striving to achieve their dreams. And when the film strays from its rocker roots and starts exploring the world of pole dancing, it literally starts to lose the plot.
But the older cast members are outstanding, from Alec Baldwin (OK, so he can’t sing, but that’s part of the fun), to a Brummie Russell Brand as his assistant, to Paul Giamatti’s slimy manager and Tom Cruise, aping Axl Rose, in one of the most surprising but intentionally hilarious performances of his career.
If only the Academy had a sense of humour, he’d be dead cert for an award.
It’s one of those odd films with a difficult target audience. Would fans of musicals enjoy 1980s heavy metal? Would the 40-somethings who’d be taken back to their high school days be interested in a love story about two teenaged dreamers?
But despite the film’s shortcomings, the music is so cleverly entwined in the narrative with such remarkable performances – particularly from Cruise, Baldwin and Brand – that only the most hardened thrash metalheads could leave the cinema without feeling that they’ve just had two of the most enjoyable hours of their film-going year.
For many viewers, to borrow the title of the opening number, experiences Rock of Ages “must be just like living in paradise.”
It’s certain to be doing the rounds as a sing-a-long-a-film for years to come.
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Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen
Date of Submission: 05/09/2017
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)
National Commission of China for UNESCO
State, Province or Region:
Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province
Coordinates: N29 17 52 E117 12 0
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The major component of Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen is the Imperial Kiln Site, which fired, produced and served porcelains for the imperial family during Ming and Qing dynasties. It includes porcelain-firing workshops and kilns ruins as well as those abundant porcelain pieces of Ming and Qing dynasties deposited underground. There also exist several civil kiln sites which reflect the system of “moulding by imperial kiln and firing by civil kiln” as well as other important kiln relics showing the imperial kilns' technical origin. Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen also include sites of porcelain-making raw materials mining and processing, trade associations guild halls, water transportation docks and other cultural relics, which are related to the production and transportation of porcelains.
These heritage sites, scattered around imperial kiln in Jingdezhen and its surrounding areas, demonstrate a complete course of development of the imperial kiln in workshop layout, kiln structure, processing technique, management system and other aspects, and provide concrete evidence for the highest level of porcelain-making craftsmanship in China and over the world. As a whole, they reveal the features and key contents of Jingdezhen as a world porcelain-making centre and an integrated model of China porcelain-making industry.
Imperial Kiln Site and other major kiln sites in Jingdezhen fully demonstrate the evolution process of China porcelain culture, reflect porcelain-making technique development course from matured to its peak, and genuinely reveal the material and technical foundation of imperial kiln established in Ming Dynasty, as well as its significant influence on the later development of the porcelain industry. The remained porcelain shards existed in the cultural deposits of different historical periods represent the spiritual pursuit of Chinese people and aesthetic taste of different times and uniquely testify the evolution of the Chinese civilization.
The exquisite craftsmanship and products of imperial kilns make great contributions to China porcelain culture as well as the development of human civilization. The large-scale porcelain export promoted intercultural communication and interaction. It clearly demonstrates China's outstanding contributions to the world trade with porcelain production in the Age of Discovery. Therefore, Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen is the exceptional testimony of the global influence of Jingdezhen porcelain-making industry.
Justification of Outstanding Universal Value
Criterion (ii): Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen are a symbol of international cultural exchanges in ceramic art. Porcelain shards deposits and kiln workshop relics reveal the innovation and evolution of porcelain-making techniques and products during the past 500 years when Jingdezhen city was crowned as the world porcelain-making centre during Ming and Qing dynasties. The scale of porcelain shards in Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Site and the comparison between porcelain specimen and survived exported porcelain prove that these kilns were main production sites of exported porcelains in Ming and Qing dynasties, where porcelains as global commodities disseminating Chinese culture to the world. To some extent, it changed other nations' lifestyles and aesthetic taste and enhanced cross-cultural dialogue. Great contributions had been made by imperial kilns porcelain-making technique to the world civilization. In the meanwhile, the porcelain products of Jingdezhen were influenced by foreign cultures, and further innovated, showcasing the cultural exchange and interaction between civilizations.
Criterion (iii): Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen reflect the unique art and culture taste of Chinese society. The porcelain-making technique reflected by the sites of workshops and kilns is a representative part of Chinese culture. Imperial kiln site and associated major kilns demonstrate the overall evolution of porcelain-making technique and management system. The porcelain shards unearthed are embodiment of Chinese people's unique characteristics and personalities, cultural ideology, and the pursuit of artistic life, especially the life and aesthetic preference of imperial family in Ming and Qing dynasties. Hence, imperial kiln and relevant kiln sites are extraordinary testimony of Chinese porcelain culture spanned over a thousand of years from late Tang Dynasty to Qing dynasties.
Criterion (iv): Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen represent the highest standard of Chinese porcelain-making industry in its peak period. They witnessed a historical phase of Jingdezhen, fast growing into the porcelain-making centre of China and the world. The sites of relevant kilns and workshops reveal the material and technical basis of imperial kiln establishment, exquisite porcelain-making techniques and advanced management skills. The layout of imperial kiln and surrounding civil kiln sites reflects the great impact of the imperial kiln establishment on the growth of porcelain industry, and testifies the system of the official supervised porcelain-making, the system of “moulding by imperial kiln and firing by civil kiln”, and other efficient management practices recorded by ancient books and records. The processing, producing, transporting and managing facilities including mines of raw materials, docks, and guild halls demonstrate the complete structure of porcelain-making industry and the scale of production with imperial kilns as the core. These elements jointly illustrate the prominent position of Jingdezhen imperial kiln in the global porcelain-making industry.
Statements of authenticity and/or integrity
The authenticity of the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Site has been proved by the archaeological discoveries and historical records. It meets the conditions of authenticity in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of theWorld Heritage Convention.
For form and design, every kiln site preserves porcelain shards deposits from different periods which illustrate the diverse porcelain product style and type features in respective era. The major kilns and workshop sites by and large maintain the original structure form and production information. For material and substance, main sites were buried underground, thus original materials were mostly preserved; For the traditions, techniques and management system, the historical information such as technological process, firing technique and management system related to Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Site, has been verified by the archaeological evidence and the historical documents; For location and environment, all the heritage elements remain at their original location, so they jointly illustrate the characteristics of key elements of Jingdezhen as a craft industry complex and its exceptional natural resources.
Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen satisfy the conditions of integrity of the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention. The heritage elements of Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen jointly demonstrate outstanding universal values that they bear, and reflect the integrated structure of Jingdezhen porcelain-making industry as a handicraft industry complex with imperial kiln as the core in Ming and Qing dynasties.
Firstly, Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen preserve all the core elements of the porcelain production process. Major historical relics exist in every aspect from raw material exploiting and processing, porcelain moulding and firing, to imperial porcelain selecting and transporting, as well as production management. Relevant environmental elements are sufficient supporting evidence for the heritage’s integrity of historical information and cultural connotation. Secondly, the kiln sites as a whole include most traditional porcelain kiln types and illustrate the evolution process of imperial kiln systems during Ming and Qing dynasties. They preserved porcelain shards deposits in a continuous historical period, covering most porcelain types from Yuan to Ming and Qing dynasties, which illustrate the development of Chinese porcelain from mature period to peak period. Thirdly, Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen are overall well preserved, with threatened elements under effective control and important historical relics buried underground without disturbance and damage.
Comparison with other similar properties
The current List of World Heritage barely contains site which is directly related to porcelain-making industry. The list has inscribed several gold, silver, copper, iron mining cities, a textile factory and a watchmaking city. Most of them are related with industrial production, while handicraft items and especially traditional handicraft property is still lacked in the list. If the Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen were inscribed into the World Heritage List, this gap can be filled in this regard.
Compared with sites in the Tentative List, Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site in China, Yue Kiln Sites and Longquan Kiln Sites, Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen has many advantages: The kiln and furniture reflect advanced technique, the vast products embody aesthetic taste of Chinese traditional culture, and it represents the most complete industry system of porcelain-making craftsmanship in China.
Compared with the domestic "Most Famous Five Kilns" (i.e. Jun, Ru, Guan, Ge, Ding Kiln Sites), Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen has a longer history in ceramic firing industry, more advanced techniques, more variety of product categories, more optimized production management and play a more vital role in the global porcelain-making industry.
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Parker Cleveland Wheel & Brake New Upgrade Kit Is Now Available for Daher TBM 900 and TBM 930 Aircraft
Published : Saturday, June 15, 2019, 6:15 am
New aftermarket conversion kit available exclusively from Parker features higher-strength design, lighter weight, and ease of maintenance
PARIS, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Aerospace--Parker Aerospace, a business segment of Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE:PH), the global leader in motion and control technologies, today announced the availability of its Cleveland Wheels & Brakes conversion kit for the Daher TBM 900, TBM 930, and the current production TBM 940 single-engine turboprop aircraft. Manufactured by the Parker Aerospace Aircraft Wheel & Brake Division, the conversion kit is stronger and lighter with many design improvements for easier maintenance. Additionally, the kits can also retrofit the TBM 700B, TBM700 C, TBM 850, TBM 900 aircraft, and current production TBM 910.
Upgrade benefits over previous assembly
Supported globally through Parker’s worldwide distribution network, the new wheel design features high-strength forging that has been optimized to provide a 14.7 percent weight reduction. Wheel enhancements also include the addition of rupture discs to help prevent accidental over-inflation of tires and a sleeker, bold design that better integrates with the stylish look of the Daher TBM 900/930 models.
In terms of brake improvements, Parker redesigned the housing to be free of helical inserts and to incorporate wear-pin indicators, making tools unnecessary to check minimum wear-life thickness. In addition to a 3.7-percent weight reduction, the number of nuts and bolts used to fasten the torque tube and housing together is optimized for easier assembly and maintenance.
Certification and availability
The Aircraft Wheel & Brake Division received its technical standard order (TSO) authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the aftermarket configuration of the wheels and brakes of the Daher TBM 900/930 models. In addition to being certified as a drop-in replacement assembly, the new wheels and brakes will also become the original equipment on the newly manufactured turboprops.
“Daher’s TBM family of aircraft holds the distinction of being among the fastest single-engine production airplanes in existence while also being elegantly stylish,” said Parker Aircraft Wheel & Brake Business Team Leader Tom Dorinsky. “We are thrilled to provide owners and operators of these high-performance airplanes with a wheel and brake conversion kit that matches up to their standards.”
The new conversion kit (P/N 199-291) is available now. For more information, or to obtain pricing and order the kit, please call the retailer of your choice, Aviall, or the Parker Wheel & Brake Division directly at 1-800-BRAKING (1-800-272-5464).
The Parker Aerospace stand is in hall 5, stand #C210, at the Paris Air Show, June 17-23, 2019.
About Parker Aerospace. Parker Aerospace is a global leader in the research, design, integration, manufacture, certification, and lifetime service of flight control, hydraulic, fuel and inerting, fluid conveyance, thermal management, lubrication, and pneumatic systems and components for aerospace and other high-technology markets. The company supports the world’s aircraft and aeroengine manufacturers, providing a century of experience and innovation for commercial and military aircraft.
About Parker Hannifin. Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than 100 years the company has engineered the success of its customers in a wide range of diversified industrial and aerospace markets. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.
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The Journal report says the 3-2 vote by FTC commissioners broke along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition to the fine.
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Bristol UA/City
Statistical comparisons will be made with South Tyneside (change comparison)
Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1861 to 2011: In 1861, only 4.67 per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 2011 13.05 per cent were.
Infant Mortality Rate 1861 to 2011: The highest rate recorded was 153.4 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1861, and the lowest was 3.1 in 2011.
Changing Industrial Structure 1841 to 2011: In 1841, 38.33 per cent of all workers worked in manufacturing, but in 2011 this had fallen to 5.74 per cent.
Precentage of workforce with degrees 1951 to 2011: In 1951, only 2.238 per cent of occupied males had stayed in education past age 20, but in 2011 32.78 per cent of the population had degree-level qualifications.
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Israelis Kidnap Palestinian Boy and Burn Him Alive. Enough.
By Kerry-Anne on July 3, 2014 11:32 am ·
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu called for revenge or the murders of three Israeli teens, citizens took matters into their own hands by kidnapping a 16-year old Palestinian boy and burning him alive.
This climate of state sponsored racism (Israeli politicians now refer to African immigrants as ‘Infiltrators’) has filtered through into the body politic and the blood of Israeli society. ‘Price Tagging’, the local term for acts of random violence against Palestinians, has been broadened to describe a general trend toward racial assaults across Israel. Not surprisingly, there has been a stunning escalation of late in racial violence on non-Jewish citizens, particularly by teenage and young Israelis.
The Tel Aviv Race Riots
The racist riots were left virtually uncovered by western media
Tel Aviv is one of the most liberal, multi cultural areas of Israel. Yet in May 2012, thousands of protesters were addressed by politicians from mainstream political parties in outrage at 60,000 asylum seekers arriving in Israel in recent years.
Leading politicians queued to slam non-Jews.
Miri Regev, a member of the ruling Likud party told the crowds that asylum seekers are a “cancer in our body,” and promised to do everything “in order to bring them back to where they belong”.
This racist crowd, sufficiently whipped up by the politicians then proceeded to go on a rampage of racially motivated violence. Dozens of African immigrants were injured. Witnesses reported seeing men and women being beaten in the streets, whilst properties and shops were also attacked. This riot is hauntingly reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht, where Jews were attacked in the streets, and their businesses were destroyed in an orgy of hate-fuelled violence sanctioned by the state. It was fascist then and it is fascist now.
Racially Motivated Assaults
There has been a spate of racially motivated attacks on Palestinians and African immigrants to Israel in recent years.
A group of young Jewish women attacked Palestinian woman Hana Amtir at a light rail station (pictured above), pulling off her hijab and punching her in the face. The perpetrator, said eye witness Jordan Dotan, was soon joined by other young women. She said several passengers and bystanders – including a security officer working for the city – looked on apathetically and did not intervene.
This is not an isolated incident.
During the religious festival of Purim, on February 24th 2013 a group of some 20 Jewish Israeli teens between 15 and 17 mobbed and beat Palestinian cleaner Hassan Ausruf in Tel Aviv whilst shouting racist slogans at him. Describing the vicious assault Ausruf said:
“Suddenly a large group came over; they yelled at me ‘You’re an Arab. You want a state? Is that what you want?’” reported Israeli news site Ynet.
These are two stories among many across Israel in recent months of vicious assaults perpetrated on non Jewish citizens whilst passers by simply look the other way.
(Zion Square, the night of the attempted lynching; Photo credit: Mondoweiss.net)
As disturbing as these other attacks were, there was a special kind of horror reserved for the attempted lynching of several Palestinian teenagers in Zion Square in Jerusalem. Dozens of Jewish teenagers launched an unprovoked attack on three Palestinian teens last August. Eye witnesses reported seeing one of the Palestinian teens repeatedly kicked by the mob even once he was crumpled on the ground, whilst their peers chanted racist slogans. Meanwhile dozens of Israelis in the square looked on without lifting a finger. over the years, also bear responsibility.”
The Arrest and Torture of Palestinian Children
The Israeli Security Services have been documented and filmed forcing Palestinian children into making false confessions through intimidation and torture. According to ABC’s Four Corners program:
“Imagine in…(your city): regular late night raids on family homes, by heavily armed soldiers, to take away children in blindfolds and handcuffs for interrogation. Imagine a military prison where the inmates include children as young as 12, in shackles.”
This is the reality of life for Palestinian families across the West Bank and Gaza, as footage and witness testimony reveals in the documentary Stone Cold Justice (full programme below). More than 720,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been through the system since Israel began occupying the Palestinian Territories in 1967.
A Unicef report last October, reported that during interrogation by Israeli Security Forces, Palestinian children had been “threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault, against themselves or a family member” in efforts to gain confessions for alleged offenses, most commonly for throwing stones.
The ABC report has put faces to these Palestinian children and families.
A One-Sided Story
While much of the US media and Britain’s BBC have devoted days of coverage to the tragedy of the missing Israeli teens, the discovery of their bodies, the devastated reaction of their friends, families, communities and political leaders – no such treatment is provided for the daily death and violence against Palestinian children.
Just two months ago, Israeli troops shot and killed two unarmed Palestinian teenagers just an hour apart in the same street.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting last week Israel‘s police spokesman and IDF officials insisted preliminary investigations had established that no live fire had taken place and that the boys were killed during a serious riot.
But footage caught by a CCTV camera installed above a nearby office shows the deaths of Nadeem Nawara, 17, and Mohammad Salameh, 16, who were both shot through the chest in separate incidents just over an hour apart – and clearly just walking the street, presenting no immediate threat to anyone.
The incident perfectly captures the emotional apartheid built into our media systems, which creates a sympathetic narrative towards the relatively few Israeli victims of violence, versus the more frequent number of Palestinian victims of violence.
Bottom line – it is Israel that is maintain an illegal military occupation over Palestinians, cutting off essential supplies of water, food, fuel and the most basic construction materials. Any security issues Israel has, are the issues of a military occupier – not a benign nation state.
We Must Call Time on Support for Israel
The violence and vitriol which Israel persists in perpetrating against Palestinians is unprovoked, immoral and unacceptable to any nation considering itself a civilized state. Israeli society is imploding under the weight of this hatred. The streets are teeming with, mostly young, Israelis screaming for the blood of Arabs.
Just yesterday, at the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall, a group of some 40 teens gathered around a woman sitting outside a restaurant who had told them to leave, and poured water on her, according to a bystander.
Since the bodies of the teens were found on Monday afternoon, over 32,000 people (as of Wednesday afternoon) had “liked” a Facebook page titled “The People of Israel Demand Vengeance!”
One of the boys spat at her, and then at me,” Sara Miriam Liben, who was sitting nearby, recounted. One of the teens smashed a glass on a restaurant table.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz explained this inexorible and inevitable state of affairs at the time of the attempted lynching in Zion Square:
“They absorbed their hatred of Arabs from their environment: perhaps at home, certainly from the educational and political systems. When incitement against Arabs has become politically correct, when rabbis urge the public to treat Arabs in a racist manner and aren’t fired from their posts, when the Knesset passes legislation over which a nationalist and racist flag waves, when the education minister extols Jewish supremacy over the Palestinians in Hebron, it’s impossible to complain solely about those teens, who translated all this into the language of violence.”
Israel is raising its children on racism and fear, and the result is a generation so hateful, so terrified, that they will happily cheer the slaying of children.
Israel has been bombing Gaza back to the stone age overnight – causing further destruction to an area that Israel’s action is already rendering “uninhabitable”, according to a UN report.
And now we have Mohamed Hussein Abu Khdeir, kidnapped before morning prayers in East Jerusalem by three Israeli settlers. He was forced into a vehicle, and later burned alive. His charred corpse was dumped in nearby forest.
At the core of it all – Americans are funding Israel’s government to the tune of $3.1 billion a year plus a bunch of undisclosed free stuff which Business Insider calculates to be $10.5 BILLION in American taxpayer handouts to the Israeli government. So not only is the US government providing legitimacy to the Israeli regime and diplomatic cover for its atrocities – but the US tax payer is actually financing the whole sorry mess.
Author: Kerry-AnneKerry-anne Mendoza is an independent journalist. She is well know for investigative reports on politics, economics and social policy and is author of Amazon best-seller "Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy". She has been traveling to and reporting from the Middle East for 13 years, most recently reporting from Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, and making the film 'Palestine: What Hope Peace?' After a career as a management consultant holding senior positions in Banking, Health and Local Government - she gave it all up to live in a tent at Occupy London and has been writing ever since. She is based in the UK.
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Project date: 2009 - 2011
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Already in 2009 AGRU Kunststofftechnik GmbH delivered concrete protective liners which were used for the rehabilitation of tanks in a facility for anodic treatment of aluminium in Grünburg (Austria). Due to the success further tanks followed in 2010 and 2011.
Initial situation
For the surface treatment during the anodisation of aluminium basins with different chemicals are used. In particular sulphuric acid, chromic acid as well as detergents and rinsing agents are applied.
The existing tanks were satisfactorily used for more than 30 years. For corrosion protection they were lined with standard PP sheets on the inside surface. Over the years the concrete showed significant corrosion due to the continuous contact with vapour from sulphuric acid. Consequently the load bearing capacity was reduced. Furthermore the leak tightness could not be ensured in the long run. Hence, the decision was made to renovate the basins.
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The planning started in May 2008. It was soon evident that the biggest challenge for this project would be the timeline. To ensure occupational health and safety it was not possible to conduct the renovation during production. As a result all the work on-site had to be scheduled for the shut down during winter holidays. Altogether only 3 weeks in December 2008 and January 2009 were available.
Due to the excellent operating experience using polypropylene over a period of 30 years, PP was chosen for the renovation. In particular concrete protective liners made from PP-R were used. In order to reduce the risk of accidental damage and also to have enough safety in case of abrasion, sheets with a thickness of 8 mm were selected. Furthermore all attached and built-in parts were fabricated from PP-R sheets and pipes.
The only possibility to meet the stringent timeline was to prefabricate the entire basin and the built-in parts. The fully welded basin made from concrete protective liners was delivered to the facility. It was lifted into the existing concrete tank by a crane. There it was aligned, applied to an inner formwork and cast into concrete.
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Tesla Powerpacks are now used to charge a fleet of electric buses - Electrek
Tesla Powerpacks are now used to reduce the cost of charging a large fleet of electric buses operated by Stagecoach in the UK.
At Stagecoach’s bus depot in Guildford, a town in southern England, energy company Zenobe installed 78 Tesla Powerpacks and several charging stations.
They explain how the system works:
“Over an eight-week period, we sourced and installed our battery – including software and hardware solutions – to optimise performance. The battery charges during the day from the current grid connection and provides power to the buses in the night so that they are ready to go in the morning for commuters. Our solution eliminated the upfront capital cost. It is mobile in case the bus operators move depot and it was implemented in less than twenty per cent of the time and total cost quoted by the grid operator.”
Zenobe released an infographic about how the system with Tesla Powerpacks works into the charging process:
They claim that the project will result in a reduction of 594 tonnes of CO2 a year and 5.93 tonnes of NOX a year.
In the UK, Zenobe says that it can get government grants to help with the deployment of its commercial electric vehicle charging infrastructure:
“The Zenobe EV scheme can be used alongside grants from the ULEB scheme. With council funding for buses almost halving since 2010, these schemes are critical in helping to plug this gap, connect communities and improve air quality.”
The project in Guildford is one of the biggest deployment of Tesla Powerpacks in the UK to date:
However, it’s not the first deployment of Tesla Powerpack in the UK.
We previously reported on Amazon adding Tesla’s energy storage systems to its distribution centers in the UK.
Tesla also deployed a system at the Manchester Science Park (MSP) last year.
The company has been guiding a ramp up in stationary energy storage deployment in 2019.
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New gluten free grain for people with coeliac disease: Sorghum
Posted by AFN Staff Writers on 10th April 2013
New biochemical evidence shows that the cereal grain sorghum is a safe food for people with coeliac disease, according to new research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
The new study, which was undertaken by researchers at chemistry science representative body American Chemical Society, found molecular evidence that sorghum lacks the proteins dangerous to people with coeliac disease.
People with coeliac disease must avoid wheat, barley and some other grains, because the gluten proteins in those grains triggers an immune reaction that can cause abdominal pain and discomfort, constipation, diarrhea and other symptoms. The only treatment for coeliac disease is lifelong avoidance of gluten.
Sorghum, researchers noted, has traditionally been used in Western countries as animal feed, but in Africa and India it has long been a food for people. Recently, US farmers have begun producing sorghum hybrids that are a white grain, known as ‘food grade’ sorghum.
The researchers said that an analysis of the recently published sorghum genome, which detailed the complete set of genes in the plant, showed that the grain did not contain the problematic gluten proteins.
Sorghum also has a high nutritional value, according to the researchers. “Food-grade sorghums should be considered as an important option for all people, especially coeliac patients,” the published report said.
Sorghum (image credit: DOE Joint Genome Institute)
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Modeling Particulate Matter Concentrations in Makkah, Applying a Statistical Modeling Approach
Volume: 13 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 901-910
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.11.0314
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Said Munir , Turki M. Habeebullah, Abdulaziz R. Seroji, Essam A. Morsy, Atef M.F. Mohammed, Waleed Abu Saud, Abdellatif E.A. Abdou, Abdul Hamid Awad
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, P.O. Box 6287, Saudi Arabia
Particulate matter originates from a variety of sources in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Since Makkah is situated in an arid region and is a very busy city due to its religious importance in the Muslim world, PM10 concentrations here exceed the international and national air quality standards set for the protection of human health. The main aim of this paper is to model PM10 concentrations with the aid of meteorological variables (wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and relative humidity) and traffic related air pollutant concentrations (carbon monoxide (CO), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and lag_PM10 concentrations), which are measured at the same location near Al-Haram (the Holy Mosque) in Makkah. A Generalized Additive Model was developed for predicting hourly PM10 concentrations. Predicted and observed PM10 concentrations are compared, and several metrics, including the coefficients of determination (R2 = 0.52), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE = 84), Fractional Bias (FB = –0.22) and Factor of 2 (FAC2 = 0.88), are calculated to assess the performance of the model. The results of these, along with a graphical comparison of the predicted and observed concentrations, show that model is able to perform well. While effects of all the covariates were significant (p-value < 0.01), the meteorological variables, such as temperature and wind speed, seem to be the major controlling factors with regard to PM10 concentrations. Traffic related air pollutants showed a weak association with PM10 concentrations, suggesting road traffic is not the major source of these. No modeling study has been published with regards to air pollution in Makkah and thus this is the first work of this kind. Further work is required to characterize road traffic flow, speed and composition and quantify the contribution of each source, which is part of the ongoing project for managing the air quality in Makkah.
Particulate matter Air pollution Generalized additive model Makkah Saudi Arabia
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