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Badmovies.org Forum | Movies | Bad Movies | Off topic discussion, but interesting nonetheless « previous next »
Author Topic: Off topic discussion, but interesting nonetheless (Read 5637 times)
Chadzilla
Re: Off topic discussion, but interesting nonetheless
Squishy wrote:
> It tastes like crap, but if you complain John Ashcroft has
> you shipped off to Gitmo for "questioning," traitor.
Listen here you *(#(&#(%(# UnAmerican Commiefagpinko*! You are one more snide UnAmerican comment away from getting your snotty UnAmerican buttocks tossed into a re-education class, where you'll LEARN TO LOVE THIS COUNTRY RIGHT! RIGHT!?
Uh, wrong. :-(
(* This is a term that George Carlin used in a routine, some Squishy will no dount know, but some of you might actually think I'm insulting our dear poster.)
Gosh, remember when the Internet was supposed to be a wonderful magical place where intelligent, articulate people shared information? Neighborhood went to hell real fast... - Anarquistador
Evan3
OK Pete. The most fascinating thing about this is that we get less than 5 percent of our oil from Iraq. Do you know who gets the majority of Iraqi oil? France. Why is France for peace? Because they want their oil. In no way is this war a direct or fringe oil war. It may help to crack OPEC open, but hell, thats not that big of a deal.
Now I will entertain you and let us say that yes, this is a self interested war, just to set up a Pro American "democracy." In doing so, we will free people who have been abused and destroyed from a clearly evil dictator. We will have a stronghold in which we could potentially stabilize a very dangerous region. So the question is, do the means justify the ends? That is a question which I will leave to you..
While I personally love French bashing, the new names are ri-cock-ulous. Fries are from Belgium, not France. France is totally free to do what it feels is right, without such silly condemnation.
Also, I dont think any of you have the right to call the President dim witted. Have any of you met him personally and had a one on one discusiion with him no. And these allegations that the govt. isnt controlled by our elected officials is ridiculous. The government is controlled by Bush and the senate and house, who are controlled by money, which is the only unifyiying factor throughout time.
Secondly, saying that the majority of the country is anti war is ridiculous. The last poll stated a slight favor towards war (at least in AMerica). Protests make news, however, protesters seem to be the loud minority of people. Also, this is in no way a war vs. innocents.
Why are the people sick and hungry? Because the aid that Iraq receives is funneled straight to Sadam (very similar situation happens in Palestine, dont Arafat and Saddam both look fat while their people starve). With our new technology, there is no way that civilians will be the majority of people killed. And America in no way will kill more civilians than Saddam has. That is a ridiculous assumption.
However, my one wonder is why Iraq? Most of the 9/11 terrorists were funded by Saudi Arabia. North Korea is a MUCH bigger threat that really needs to be stopped. Iraq had been quiet recently. I think if we are going to police the world (which we do, because the UN is as ineffective as the League of Nations), we should attack the right spots.
Chris K. you also made some great points
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
--His reply
Evan3 wrote:
> Chris K. you also made some great points
Thanks Evan3 and I also felt that you made some excellent points too. I was hoping that this subject wouldn't get too "political", but what can you do?
Also, I was recently told this story at Columbia College today and I remember very little of it. I was told that some news commenator on Fox News made a comment that "The Statue of Liberty should be taken down and returned back to France". That's what I basically heard, so if anybody here has the full detals or that I was mislead please feel free to comment.
But if true, this just proves that their are more morons comming out of the woodwork. And if that half-witted, dumbass George Will makes a comment about it in his so-called "news collumist" section, then it still proves that more morons are on the way.
I don't pretend to understand all the issues involved. I'm not completely against war with Iraq (I think they should have finished off SH during Desert Storm, rather than letting him "save face"), but I'm not completely for it either.
What bothers me is that Bush reminds me more and more of Martin Sheen's character in The Dead Zone.
Sorry, Evan--I remember The Dimwit telling us he'd pay for everything out of The Surplus--tax cuts, additional spending, the whole Magilla. "Surplus," unfortunately, is a word of French origin. Now facing deficits that boggle the mind, AND an open-ended "war," he insists upon further tax cuts--suggesting that he can't handle basic math. I could go on...and on...and on...but. Dimwit is as dimwit does.
Iraq is not about to be "liberated"--any more than Afghanistan was. Sure, we blew up (some of) the Taliban (and the occasional wedding party, whoopsie), but we've turned the country back over to the control of the same warlords who sent the people of Afghanistan into the loving clutches of the Taliban in the first place. If "free" comes in degrees, then they're...well, actually, they're no more liberated now than before. Will Iraq fare any better? Remember, Bush isn't "into nation-building." He's more into blowin' s**t up then finding new toys to play with.
It's not just France that opposed this invasion. It's fourteen organized world religions; our closest neighbors to the north and south; and most people with real military experience. (Remember, even Powell opposed Bush on this--before being taken out back to the woodshed.) Even Bush's own pastor opposed it. Bush's "Coalition of the Willing" is padded with "bought" allies (watch what happens when we stop ponying up) and countries (like Turkey) that can't wait to start carving Iraq--and/or its people--up for themselves.
George Will may get his tiny little penis semi-hard by suggesting that refusal to get in line with Dimwit is tantamount to cowardice and treason, but that's hardly the case. And there's only one country for which this is "all about oil."
Oh, and look who's bidding for contracts to "rebuild" Iraq (after it's leveled)! A subsidiary of Halliburton! And look who's still on the payroll of Halliburton! Why, it's Dick Cheney! Well!
(Bonus question: Who was negotiating an oil deal with the Taliban right up until September 11th, 2001? Aw, you cheated.)
peter johnson
Since Afghanistan has no oil, what was the form of this oil deal being negotiated "right up until 9/11"?
In what sense did we help the Germans defeat the French in WWII? What about Lend-Lease?
There seem to me to be reasons to oppose and encourage the war, but to have George be stupid and George be crafty at the same time smacks to me of just wanting anything at all to prove the view of Wicked America/Everything's Our Fault.
Afghanistan is too freer now than before the Taliban. You can go to movies, sing, fly kites, go to school and go out in public (If you're a woman), travel freely, etc. etc. To cynically say that nothing has changed isn't correct or fair. There are several woman-run human-rights organizations in Afghanistan today that could not have even existed during the time of the Taliban.
One detailed article on Curious Dick and The Afghanistan Deal. (Never mind all the money we gave the Taliban to stop growing poppies. All for nothing now, by the way.)
The Human Rights Watch's report on women in Afghanistan, dated December 2002. Outside of Kabul, you're still property, baby. Fly kites? Go to school? Hah.
American-Nazi connections before, during, and after WWII...oh my, THAT's an interesting family connection.
Loads of other articles, some better than others. I'm just citing these for brevity. Feel free to Google. (Or you can go over to a "conservative news outlet" and buy a book about how "Clinton Sold The Country To The Chinese Before Having Sex With Osama Bin Laden." Only thirty-nine ninety-five!!!)
Let's make one thing clear: Bush is a complete idiot. His school record reflects it; his "business career"--one failure after another, rescued every time by Poppy and his friends--reflects it; everything he says that he isn't reading directly off the teleprompter reflects it. He is a drunk driver and an AWOL chickenhawk. People who have experience taking care of "dry" drunks and their bouts of delirium readily see that he's just about "gone" upstairs.
It is the people pulling the strings on this walking, talking Puppetoon who are crafty. Or at least, think they are--which leads us right back to "Curious Dick and The Afghanistan Deal," and "The Adventures of Little Lord Rummy and His Good Friend Saddam In The Land of Heathens."
Bush is only there because smarm is easily confused with charm, and he can read a script when lucid--and just in case the Zero-Year-Rule merely skipped Reagan out of pity.
A lighter note. Seriously. (An ongoing story. The monkey's a semi-super-intelligent lab escapee. That means he can talk, but likes "Jerry Springer.")
http://www.zen15631.zen.co.uk/bb.mpg
I'm really, really sorry about the rapid-fire multipostings, but this is PRICELESS. (Maybe I should make this my last nightly stop instead of my first, then I can get all this stuff into one post instead of three.)
Thankyou for your reply -- That's a lot to digest & I'm sure it'll take awhile to winnow through --
I've only just looked at the US/Nazi site. While it makes for interesting reading, I think I already know a lot of this, and I'm even more up on the Henry Ford stuff than they seem to be. Doesn't even mention Charles Lindbergh and the America Firsters, but I'm sure that's out there too --
What it doesn't address, really, is my question of in what sense "we", as a country, helped the Germans defeat France. Really, a bunch of under-the-table financial dealings doesn't constitute a national policy, do you think? Maybe it's just the wording of the statement I find puzzling -- I think it a bit of a leap to demonstrate ongoing bank-deals behind the scenes by individual corporate entities, not approved of by our government, to actively assisting Rommel's push through the Ardennes. But then again perhaps it just reflects our different take on things -- I do tend to want to believe the best & you seem to want to believe the worst, re. American intentions on the world stage. You could be right, of course. You say that history will bear you out. Well, we'll see, won't we?
Well, lets get our stories straight. My original statement was: "we stood by and watched--even helped--the Nazi war machine roll over them," which can be misinterpreted. My meaning: many US entities--with the Government's knowledge and tacit approval; there was no way the Government could NOT know*--helped the Nazis when it was in their interests to do so. Not that they specifically aided them in their attack on France. They knowingly and willfully aided and abetted mass murderers for the sake of The Almighty Buck. And they've gone largely unpunished for it (in this life).
That wasn't in my history book in high school, and that's my larger point. We accuse, for example, the Japanese of glossing over their own unsavory moments in history, and that's pure hypocrisy.
Some people--there are examples on this board--want to believe that the United States is some sort of infallible, all-knowing, completely-responsible entity, personally blessed by God Himself, that SHOULD be running the world. But we're no more above the old "absolute power" saw than anyone else; we're just as given to corruption as any other country, and we musn't ever lose sight of that.
I do not claim that America is evil; I simply repeat that old adage: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Our worst enemies come from within, and they claim to have our best interests at heart. They want you to keep watching "Friends" and leave the driving to them. Don't let them take the wheel out of your hands.
*Large-scale "legal" and official international dealings can't be conducted outside of government scrutiny; ask da tax man. I still remember Reagan repeating "I can't recall" over and over again--and Bush The Elder claiming he was "out of the loop"--in a similar matter during their administration; cutting illegal deals with our enemies in order to make a political "score." That's entirely possible. These men had far less to do with the decision-making than the corporations that owned the men who controlled them. Again, the main perps in that crime went unpunished.
Seriously, thankyou very much for a lengthy and thoughtful commentary on my questions. I really mean it. It is, of course, patently obvious that you are a thoughtful and reflective individual who has read widely and doesn't come by your points-of-view by arbitrary adoption.
Having said that, and I do repeat here that I have not, as yet, reviewed all of your suggested websites, I still got some problems heah . . .
Now, I have to say that my inclusion of the "kite flying" thing re. the Taliban was very stupid on my part. It is one of those things that comes out & you don't realise until later what the hell it really means, and you made no allowance for it in the first place.
I'll stop riffing: I spent quite a bit of time in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- as well as Turkey and Iran -- at various times from 1977 to 1979. I was in Iran one step behind the Shah & in Afghanistan one step ahead of the Russians. I was not in any way at that time an agent of the Government. I was a hitch-hiking, drug & stone & fabric smuggling so-and-so hippie. Now, much of the social fabric of Afghanistan -- especially in and around the Kabul area -- was determined by kite-flying duels -- along with camel, dog, and goat-fighting duels. The kites -- Pakistani in design -- were square and not rectangular in shape. The duelists would draw glue along their strings and roll them in ground glass. This was done to create a weapon sufficient to slash the strings of the opposing kite. It was a gambling game, as well as an excuse to chat. This, along with Bus-ash-kashi, or "Goat Game", was one of the true groovy things that these people did. It was the telegraph, the telephone, and the local pub, as far as local culture went.
The point is, is that this essential social activity, along with going to the movies, watching TV, listening to secular music, playing unapproved sports, listening to unapproved radio, being a woman anywhere in the company of men, shaving, or so many other similar trivial things that I simply can't list every single one, were all banned by the Taliban on pain of torture or death.
When I was in Afghanistan in 1977, it was indeed a very tribal & mysterious place. I could fill too many pages with stories. My clumsy point was that even though the modern Afghanistan does not approximate a modern secular Republic, its current state is far closer to where it was before the Russian invasion and WAY before the advent of the Taliban. It is, as far as I can tell, back to where it was when I knew it, and far more succeptible to further change.
I do, in fact, appreciate your final comments very much & see them as an attempt to find a common ground.
A side note I keep forgetting to put up:
Waaaaaaay back when Rumsfeld shook hands with Satan--I mean, Saddam--and called him our good friend, it was Those Damn Liberals who were warning everyone about snuggling up with The Butcher of Baghdad. Conservatives replied the usual way: dismissing Those Damn Liberals as a bunch of know-nothing pointy-headed intellectual hippy-queer tree-huggers. Who cared that he gassed his own people--he hated the same people we hated...the Iranians!
The fact that überconservatives consider "intellectual" to be an insult says volumes.
Today, Those Damn Liberals are being told: sure, we made some mistakes in the past, but you didn't say anything then, la-la. And you can't criticize our actions NOW, because EIDN (Everything Is Different Now). Trust us...we won't make the same mistake again!
Here's a fun game: try to predict which of our current "allies" that we'll be pouring money or arms into--Turkey? Pakistan? Saudi Arabia (you know, where Osama and the 9-11 hijackers came from)? Someone else?--will be our NEXT big mistake.
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Jim Pflaging
Chertoff Group
Francoise Gilbert
Fidelity Bank of Florida
Ondrej Krehel
LIFARS LLC
NIST Unveils a Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Tool
Gauging the Effectiveness of Risk Management Initiatives Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • September 16, 2016
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft of a self-assessment tool that's designed to help enterprises gauge the impact and effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management initiatives.
Known as the Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder, the self-assessment tool is based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and the risk management mechanisms of NIST's cybersecurity framework. The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, like the cybersecurity framework, is designed to help organizations worldwide guide their operations, improve performance and achieve sustainable results. NIST, a Commerce Department unit, administers the Baldrige program.
Commerce Deputy Secretary Bruce Andrews says organizations have been calling for a way to measure the effectiveness of the cybersecurity framework, and the Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder is designed, in part, to do that. "The builder will strengthen the already powerful cybersecurity framework so that organizations can better manage their cybersecurity risks," Andrews said in announcing the tool at an Internet Security Alliance conference.
Baldrige's Robert Fangmeyer explains how the self-assessment tool aligns cybersecurity with overall enterprise goals.
The builder tool is intended to help organizations ensure that their cybersecurity systems and processes support the enterprises' larger organizational activities and functions. "These decisions around cybersecurity are going to impact your organization and what it does and how it does it," says Robert Fangmeyer, director of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. "If your cybersecurity operations and approaches aren't integrated into your larger strategy, aren't integrated into your workforce development efforts, aren't integrated into the results of the things you track for your organization and overall performance, then they're not likely to be effective."
Builder's Adaptability
According to NIST, organizations can use the Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder to:
Identify cybersecurity-related activities that are critical to business strategy and the delivery of critical services;
Prioritize investments in managing cybersecurity risk;
Assess the effectiveness and efficiency in using cybersecurity standards, guidelines and practices;
Evaluate their cybersecurity results; and
Identify priorities for improvement.
The builder and framework are not one-size-fits-all tools; they can be adapted to meet an organization's specific needs. NIST says the builder guides users through a process that details their organization's distinctive characteristics and strategies tied to cybersecurity. A series of questions helps define the organization's approaches to cybersecurity in the areas of leadership, strategy, customers, workforce and operations, as well as the results achieved with them.
The tool's assessment rubric helps users determine whether their organization's cybersecurity maturity level is reactive, early, mature or a role model, according to NIST. The completed evaluation can lead to an action plan for upgrading cybersecurity practices and management and implementing those improvements. It also can measure the progress and effectiveness of the process. NIST recommends organizations use the builder periodically so they can maintain the highest level of cybersecurity readiness.
Genesis of Initiative
Fangmeyer says the genesis of the builder tool dates back a year ago when Tony Scott, the federal CIO, approached the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program to create a cybersecurity equivalent to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award given annually by the Commerce Department. That award recognizes U.S. organizations that demonstrate performance excellence involving products, services and customer quality. Winning enterprises maintain a role-model organizational management system that ensures continuous improvement.
Instead of initially creating a cybersecurity award, however, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program worked with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where Scott is based, and the NIST Information Technology Laboratory's Applied Cybersecurity Division to create the self-assessment tool.
NIST issued the builder as a draft and is seeking comments from stakeholders before it publishes a final version of the self-assessment tool. Fangmeyer say he hopes stakeholders will employ elements of the tool, not just read the 35-page draft, before submitting their comments on it. NIST will accept public comments on the draft until Dec. 15 via e-mail to baldrigecybersecurity@nist.gov.
NIST produced a video to promote its cybersecurity framework.
Responding to an executive order issued by President Obama, NIST released in February 2014 the cybersecurity framework to help critical infrastructure operators manage cybersecurity risk. But many other types of organizations have adopted the framework, which provides a risk-based approach for cybersecurity through five core functions: identify, protect, detect, respond and recovery.
Citing research from IT adviser Gartner, NIST says 30 percent of U.S. organizations used the framework in 2015, and it expects that percentage to grow to 50 percent by 2020.
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https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/nist-unveils-cybersecurity-self-assessment-tool-a-9401
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Home > Announcements > Releases 2008
The list of the Bank's releases by year and date.
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Table : Releases 2008
Dec. 19, 2008 Amendment to "Principal Terms and Conditions for U.S. Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral" [PDF 16KB]
Dec. 19, 2008 Schedules for auctions of U.S. dollar liquidity provision through March, 2009 [PDF 79KB]
Dec. 19, 2008 Establishment of "Principal Terms and Conditions of the Special Funds-Supplying Operations to Facilitate Corporate Financing" [PDF 24KB]
Dec. 19, 2008 On Monetary Policy Decisions (Announced at 2:05 p.m.) --Additional Measures regarding Money Market Operation Tools [PDF 86KB]
Dec. 12, 2008 The Bank of Japan and the Bank of Korea Announce an Increase in the Size of the Yen-Won Swap Arrangement
Dec. 10, 2008 Time table and schedule of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations (Preliminary, Revised on December 10, 2008) [PDF 38KB]
Dec. 2, 2008 Establishment of "Temporary Rules regarding the Eligibility Standards for Corporate Bonds and Loans on Deeds to Companies" [PDF 24KB]
Dec. 2, 2008 Introduction of Money Market Operation Measures to Facilitate Corporate Financing [PDF 43KB]
Dec. 2, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (Policy unchanged, Announced at 2:34 pm) [PDF 48KB]
Dec. 1, 2008 Calling of an Unscheduled Monetary Policy Meeting
Nov. 28, 2008 Time table and schedule of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations (Preliminary, Revised on November 28, 2008) [PDF 31KB]
Nov. 21, 2008 Statement on Monetary Policy (Policy unchanged, Announced at 12:34 pm) [PDF 65KB]
Oct. 31, 2008 Establishment of Principal Terms and Conditions of Complementary Deposit Facility as a Temporary Measure to Facilitate Supplying of Funds [PDF 26KB]
Oct. 31, 2008 On Monetary Policy Decisions (Change in the Guideline for Money Market Operations, Announced at 1:58pm) [PDF 99KB]
Oct. 27, 2008 Designation of Board Members to Perform the Duties of the Chairman when the Chairman is Prevented from Attending to His Duties
Oct. 24, 2008 Fiscal 2008 reference institutions of Tokyo Repo Rate [PDF 10KB]
Oct. 15, 2008 Time table and schedule of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations(Preliminary, Revised on October 15, 2008) [PDF 22KB]
Oct. 14, 2008 Introduction of Measures regarding Money Market Operations to Ensure Stability in Financial Markets [PDF 12KB]
Oct. 14, 2008 Amendment to "Principal Terms and Conditions for the Purchase/Sale of Japanese Government Securities with Repurchase Agreements" [PDF 238KB]
Oct. 14, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 9:38 pm) [PDF 54KB]
Oct. 14, 2008 Suspension of Selling Stocks Held by the Bank of Japan [PDF 13KB]
Oct. 14, 2008 Calling of an Unscheduled Monetary Policy Meeting
Oct. 13, 2008 Further Measures to Improve Liquidity in Short-Term U.S. Dollar Funding Markets [PDF 80KB]
Oct. 12, 2008 Confirmation of the Launch Date of Phase 1 of the RTGS-XG Project
Oct. 8, 2008 On the Policy Actions by Major Central Banks [PDF 65KB]
Oct. 7, 2008 Schedules for auctions of U.S. dollar liquidity provision through December, 2008 [PDF 20KB]
Oct. 7, 2008 Amendment to "Guidelines on Eligible Collateral" [PDF 130KB]
Oct. 7, 2008 Statement on Monetary Policy (Policy unchanged, Announced at 12:58 pm) [PDF 80KB]
Oct. 2, 2008 Time table and schedule of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations (Preliminary, Revised on October 2, 2008) [PDF 19KB]
Sep. 30, 2008 Launch Date of Phase 1 of the RTGS-XG Project
Sep. 29, 2008 Further Coordinated Actions Designed to Address Elevated Pressures [PDF 11KB]
Sep. 29, 2008 Amendment to "Principal Terms and Conditions for U.S. Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral" [PDF 11KB]
Sep. 29, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 11:00 pm) [PDF 46KB]
Sep. 22, 2008 Time table and schedule of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations (Preliminary) [PDF 16KB]
Sep. 18, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 4:00 pm) [PDF 20KB]
Sep. 18, 2008 Introduction of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral [PDF 24KB]
Sep. 18, 2008 Coordinated Measures Designed to Address Elevated Pressures in Short-Term Funding Markets [PDF 11KB]
Sep. 17, 2008 Statement on Monetary Policy (Policy unchanged, Announced at 12:47 pm) [PDF 65KB]
Aug. 19, 2008 Statement on Monetary Policy (Policy unchanged, Announced at 12:30 pm) [PDF 61KB]
Jul. 15, 2008 Maintenance of a Designated Minimum Balance by The Shoko Chukin Bank with the Bank of Japan [PDF 17KB]
Jul. 15, 2008 Further Enhancement of Communication Strategy under the "Framework for the Conduct of Monetary Policy" [PDF 94KB]
Jul. 15, 2008 Statement on Monetary Policy (Policy unchanged, Announced at 1:34 pm) [PDF 111KB]
Jun. 30, 2008 Signing of the Bilateral Swap Arrangement between Japan and India
Jun. 13, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 12:23 pm) [PDF 71KB]
May 20, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 12:04 pm) [PDF 50KB]
Apr. 30, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 1:28 pm) [PDF 77KB]
Apr. 9, 2008 Chairman of the Policy Board
Apr. 9, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 12:24 pm) [PDF 72KB]
Apr. 3, 2008 Use of External Data for Op Risk Management Workshop
Mar. 21, 2008 Chairman of the Policy Board
Mar. 19, 2008 Governorship of the Bank of Japan
Mar. 11, 2008 On the Measures Announced by Five Central Banks on March 11, 2008
Mar. 7, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 12:52 pm) [PDF 51KB]
Feb. 15, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 12:51 pm) [PDF 72KB]
Feb. 8, 2008 Financial Issues in China from the Perspective of Japanese Companies and Banks -- Summary of Discussions from "Research Group on Financial Issues in China"
Jan. 22, 2008 Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions (unchanged, Announced at 12:19 pm) [PDF 68KB]
Monetary Policy Meetings (including the Outlook Report)
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Bank of Japan FAQs
Introductory Video "The Bank of Japan in Our Daily Lives"
Bank of Japan: Its Functions and Organization
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Jul. 12, 2019 Speech by Deputy Governor Amamiya at a Reuters Newsmaker Event on July 5, 2019 (Should the Bank of Japan Issue a Digital Currency?)
Jul. 10, 2019 Speech by Board Member Funo in Hiroshima on July 3, 2019 (Economic Activity, Prices, and Monetary Policy in Japan)
Jul. 2, 2019 Release of a Public Consultation on Benchmark Reform
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TEN YEARS AGO ...
Today 10:00am - Ten years ago, New Zealand was hopeful of making progress on the way greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture were treated in international climate agreements.
Tuesday - Ten years ago, Al Gore was telling Australia to get on with carbon trading.
Monday - Ten years ago, we got the first hint that the Maori Party was going to support changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Bob Carden
James M. Scott’s ‘Target Tokyo’ tells Doolittle Raid story with new twists
Posted on March 24, 2017 by Bob carden
Target Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
By James M. Scott
W.W. Norton. 672 pp. $35
Reviewed by Bob Carden
Few World War II stories are better known than that of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s daring bombing raid against Japan in April 1942, just a few months after Pearl Harbor.
A string of demoralizing losses to the Japanese at Wake Island, in the Philippines, and in Singapore had made Japan look increasingly invulnerable and the American people desperate for a victory, or at least a hero. Enter Doolittle. The 5-foot-4-inch former stunt pilot and boxer helped plan and execute the raid that lifted the hearts of America and pierced the aura of Japanese invincibility.
But do we really need another book about this well-worn tale? Yup, and James Scott’s Target Tokyo is it.
Scott’s tight prose and meticulous research provide a gripping and at times heartbreaking account of the raid. Scott also has uncovered new information, tapped from Japanese and American sources, about how the raid itself often went off target, strafing a Japanese elementary school and killing many civilians, as well as the brutal retaliation the Japanese directed at the Chinese who harbored Doolittle’s men.
The raid was close to a suicide mission. Sixteen B-25 medium bombers with 79 airmen took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet. But because the Hornet could not accommodate the B-25 landings, after the bombings the pilots had to land at night in unfamiliar terrain – mainland China, much of it occupied by the Japanese.
No one was sure whether they even had the fuel to get to China. Fifteen of the 16 planes crash-landed or had to be ditched, with the airmen bailing out. It is a miracle that only three died in those crash landings. Eight more were captured by the Japanese. Of those, three were tried and executed as war criminals. One crew, low on fuel, had to fly to Vladivostok in the Soviet Union, where they were held for 13 months. The remaining raiders made it through China with the help of missionaries and courageous Chinese.
The Japanese public was outraged. Eighty-seven civilians were killed in the raid, including a number of schoolchildren. The military was humiliated. Someone had to pay. The cruelty of the Japanese army in China has been vividly told. The retribution exacted there, however, is on an even a more horrifying scale.
“They shot any man, woman, child, or cow, anything that moved,” said one missionary, adding that “they raped any woman from ages 10 to 65.” This part of the Japanese army, he said, “were totally barbaric.”
Some accounts are difficult to read. Sadism knew no bounds. Torture was common. Some were forced to eat their own feces before being shot in the head. A Chinese man who had helped Doolittle was soaked in gasoline and his wife was forced to set him afire. More than 250,000 Chinese were killed in retaliation.
It is accepted that the raid did little actual damage. On the ground, yes – but strategically, it forced Japan into its biggest mistake of the war.
The raid pushed the Japanese military to extend its defensive perimeter to the island of Midway to prevent carriers from getting close enough to bomb the homeland. Many in the Japanese army opposed the move because it stretched Japan’s defenses too thin and left them vulnerable. They were right. The ensuing Battle of Midway, a decisive loss, turned the tide of war in America’s favor.
Scott, author of The War Below and The Attack on the Liberty, recounts some touching moments that will move many readers to tears. Raider Ted Lawson had to have his leg amputated in China’s back country as anesthesia wore off. In the States later, he feared facing his wife in his condition. Their joyous reunion was orchestrated by Doolittle.
But nothing compares to the final letters the Japanese allowed doomed airman Billy Farrow, one of the three U.S. raiders executed, to write to his family. They are filled with hope, faith, and the joy of living, imploring his family not to despair, but rather to “live a rich full life.” Something the Japanese denied Farrow.
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Statement from Bishop Jim Moriarty on the Holy Father’s acceptance of his resignation as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has today formally accepted my resignation as Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin, which I offered on 23rd December, in the wake of the Murphy Report.
The decision to offer my resignation was the most difficult decision of my ministry. I did not anticipate resigning when I first read the Murphy Report, because I was not directly criticised. However, the Murphy Report covers far more than what individual Bishops did or did not do. Renewal must begin with accepting responsibility for the past. I served as an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Dublin from 1991 until my appointment to this diocese in 2002. I was part of the governance of the Archdiocese prior to when correct child protection policies and procedures were implemented. Again I accept that from the time I became an Auxiliary Bishop, I should have challenged the prevailing culture. Once more I apologise to all survivors and their families.
I know that words of apology are not enough. Before speaking on other matters, it is important to be able to report that, learning from the past, the Irish Church now has excellent child safeguarding procedures in place. Kildare & Leighlin Diocese has fully subscribed to the definitive ‘Standards and Guidance’ document published by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in 2008. This is exemplified in the policy document we subsequently produced ourselves, in our training programmes undergone by priests and lay people, many of the latter having volunteered to act as ‘designated person’ in their parish, our use of Garda vetting and our co-operation with civil and Church audits. We remain keenly aware of the need for constant vigilance and updating to ensure that the Church is the safest possible place for children.
When I announced before Christmas that I was offering my resignation to the Holy Father, I explained what I hoped it might achieve – “I hope it honours the truth that the survivors have so bravely uncovered and opens the way to a better future for all concerned”.
The truth is that the long struggle of survivors to be heard and respected by church authorities has revealed a culture within the Church that many would simply describe as unchristian. People do not recognise the gentle, endless love of the Lord in narrow interpretations of responsibility and a basic lack of compassion and humility. This has been profoundly dispiriting for all who care about the Church. As I stated in my contribution at the recent gathering of Irish Bishops with the Holy Father – “Let us be clear, our failures have damaged our people’s faith and the strength of our witness”.
The truth is also that the Church is ‘at the same time holy and always in need of being purified, always follows the way of penance and renewal’ (Lumen Gentium 8). I believe the spiritual well-being of the People of God demands that this principle of the Church as always in need of reform, which was embraced at the Second Vatican Council, should again come to the forefront of Church life. I believe, as I said at the recent Vatican gathering “that the goal should be a new fellowship (cf. Acts 4:32-37); a deeper sharing of the mission that transcends the kind of clerical culture that led us here.”
In his Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland, as well as stressing the need for justice for survivors, Pope Benedict called for ‘a new vision… to inspire present and future generations’. Baroness Nuala O’Loan, who addressed two subsequent open forums in our diocese, surely spoke for many when she said such a vision “must involve an open, transparent, accountable Church… valuing each person as made in the image of God”. I believe that there is a tremendous wellspring of support for her conviction that “walking away from our Church is not an option’ and that, although ‘working to reform it is going to involve a long and hard road… it is one which we must and can walk”.
As I recounted at the Chrism Mass in Holy Week, this fidelity and commitment is being lived out in a real and active way by members of the Church every day. I think of all the inspiring deeds of so many in our diocese – in pre-sacramental programmes, on school boards, in youth ministry, in our work with Trócaire, as part of our annual diocesan ‘Reach Out’ initiatives, in our Polish and African chaplaincies, in liturgy groups, in church choirs, in care for the aged, in bereavement groups, and in all the countless other acts of Christian kindness carried out unseen.
As I leave office today, this will be my abiding memory of my time as Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin – the witness of faith, hope and love in which we have been able to share in so many ways as the People of God, laity, religious and clergy, in this diocese. I offer my heartfelt thanks to one and all. It has been a privilege to serve among you these past eight years and to be part of all this.
I have every confidence that the diocese will continue on this path and rise to the challenges that lie ahead. In this season of Easter we are inspired by the account of the early Church’s proclamation of the Good News of the Risen Lord in the Acts of the Apostles. The Holy Spirit who strengthened and unified those first believers is still at work in our day. I would like to end as I began eight years ago at the time of my installation with this prayer for the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin:
Lord, bless the faith community which traces its origins to Brigid, Conleth and Laserian.
May it be outstanding in charity as St. Brigid was,
may it be constant in faith as St. Conleth of Old Connell,
wise and prayerful as St. Laserian of Leighlin.
Bless its Bishop, priests, religious and laity;
fill them with the light of your love.
Bless its young people; help them to seek your truth.
Bless all who are poor or weak or wounded by life’s hurts;
grant them justice, light and hope.
Sin é ár nguí tré Críost ár dTiarna, Amen
Bishop Moriarty will not be making any further statement at this time.
Fr Mícheál Murphy, Kildare and Leighlin, Diocesan Communications Officer 086 824 4629
Ms Brenda Drumm, Catholic Communications Office, Maynooth 087 233 7797
Announcement by Pope Benedict XVI on the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty
Statement by Cardinal Seán Brady on the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
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Self-organized retinal tissue from human embryonic stem cells
June 14, 2012 – Pluripotent stem cells such as embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are valued for their ability to give rise to all the many cell types in the adult body. Since the first derivation of human ESCs in 1998, scientists have developed a variety of techniques for inducing these cells to differentiate into specific cell populations at reasonably high efficiencies. More recently, a number of reports have shown that mouse ESC can be prompted not only to form formless cell aggregates, but remarkably well-organized tissue-like structures in vitro, a feat that has been likened to the recapitulation of developmental phenomena in a culture dish.
Now, Tokushige Nakano and colleagues in the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis (Yoshiki Sasai, Group Director) have shown that human ESCs exhibit that same capacity for generating self-organized, complex tissue structures with their report of an hESC-derived optic cup. Published in Cell Stem Cell in collaboration with Sumitomo Chemical, the report also describes the group’s development of a cryopreservation technology capable of freezing these retinal tissues intact.
Formation of optic cyst- (top) and optic cup-like structures from human ESCs (bottom left). Staining reveals neural differentiation in inner layer (bottom center), and distinct laminar structure of retina (bottom right).
This represents the latest in a series of achievement in induced differentiation from ESCs by the Sasai group. Using a cell culture system (SFEBq) developed in the same lab, Sasai has previously shown controlled differentiation of a range of neuronal cell types including dopaminergic neurons, cerebellar Purkinje cells, as well as cortical, sensory and motor neurons. In recent years, the group has shown that mouse ESCs can be steered to self-organize into complex tissue-like structures involving multiple cell types, including cerebral cortex, optic cup, and pituitary hypophysis, revealing an intrinsic developmental capacity in these pluripotent cells independent of signals from the surrounding microenvironment.
The most recent achievement built on the lab’s previous demonstration of optic cup formation from mouse ESCs, but required modifications to that protocol to account for difference in tissue size, number of cells, culture media, and the time points at which the growth factors that steer the process needed to be added. The optimized 22-26 day process began with a population of around 9000 hESCs, which formed retinal precursors after about two weeks in culture, after which the structure gradually remodeled to form the optic cup. Interestingly, the resulting structure was around twice the diameter of that derived from mouse ESCs, apparently reflecting the size differences in the embryos of the two species.
When the neural retina was cut away from induced optic cups and cultured it showed even further differentiative capacity, giving rise to ganglion cells, photoreceptors and other cells types by day 40, and forming a laminar retinal structure resembling that of the adult retina by day 126. Intriguingly, Nakano also observed cone photoreceptors, a cell type not seen in mouse ESC-derived tissue. Recognizing that the long culture times required to give rise to these tissues could represent a pitfall for clinical use, the group also developed a system for pre-treating the optic cups prior to cryopreservation, allowing them to be frozen, stored, and thawed with minimal damage.
“The question of just how complex a structure we can obtain from embryonic stem cells is a fascinating one from the developmental perspective,” says Sasai. “We are hopeful that these findings may help to lay a foundation for a regenerative medicine in which intact organized tissues, not just groups of cells, can be developed for use in cell transplantation.”
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10 Hugh Green
Green played 5 years in Tampa and made two pro bowls. His career in Tampa was cut short by injures. Leading the team to trade him away. But Green still put up good numbers with the Buccs. 54 games played 12.5 sacks, five interceptions, and two career touchdowns.
9 John Lynch
Lynch played 11 years in Tampa making 5 pro bowls 4 all pro teams. Made 6 sacks and 23 interceptions with the Buccs. Always a fan favorite in Tampa was the first player to wear a microphone during the Super Bowl.
8 James Wilder
Wilder is the teams all time in rushing yards with 5957 and receptions with 430. The work horse of the 80’s for the buccaneers. Wilder set league records for carries in game with 43, carries in a season 407 and touches with 492 all in 1984. Thi was James only pro bowl and all pro season in the NFL.
7 Ronde Barber
Ronde is a 5 time pro bowler 3 time all pro selection. The Buccaneers all-time leader in interceptions with 43 returning 7 for touchdowns. Ronde has made 1140 tackles, 27 sacks which is the most ever by a cornerback, most consecutive starts at cornerback in NFL history, and named to the all decade team for the 2000’s.
6 Tony Mayberry
Mayberry played ten years for the Buccaneers from 1990 till 1999 at center. A three time pro bowler played 160 career games. Including the last 144 to end his career. Mayberry only missed starts of his career was during his rookie year.
5 Mike Alstott
The A-Train did more than just run over would be tacklers. In his 11 year career Mike piled up 5088 yards and 71 total touchdowns. Led the way for 6 pro bowls and 4 all pro selections. In the late 90’s was a big part of the Buccs ground and pound offence. Also part of the 2002 Super Bowl team.
4 Paul Gruber
Gruber was about the only solid good thing for the Buccs in the late 80’s thru early 90’s. Started in 183 straight games a franchise record until it was broke by Derrick Brooks. Three time all pro selection. If Gruber didn’t play on some of the worst teams in Tampa history some people think he could have a shot at the Hall of Fame
3 Derrick Brooks
The silent force in the Tampa defense. The linebacker tackled everything that moved. Played 14 years for the Buccs. In that time piled up 1,715 tackles, 13.5 sacks, 25 interceptions, and 6 touchdowns. 11 time pro bowler, 9 time all pro, Super Bowl Champion, 2000 Walter Paton Man of the Year winner, 2002 AP NFL Defensive Player of the year, and All Decade Team for the 2000’s.
2 Warren Sapp
The mouth that led the turnaround in Tampa. Sapp a seven time pro bowler all with the Buccaneers, four time first team all pro, 1999 NFL Defensive Player of the year, and named to the NFL’s all decade team for the 1990’s and 2000’s. Sapp’s 96.5 career sacks are 2nd most in NFL history for a Defensive Tackle. 77 of those sacks came in Tampa. Sapp won a Super Bowl in Tampa in 2002. With all that Sapp did in his career it’s no wonder that during the 1995 Draft Jet fans chanted “we want Sapp!”
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The only Buccaneer currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Of course Lee Roy will be at the top of this list. The first pick in franchise history. Selmon was a six time pro bowler, one time first team all pro. Selmon played nine years with the Buccaneers. Only credited with 23 career sacks, but played most of his career before sacks were a credited stat. Played a major role in 1979 team that made it all the way to the NFC Championship game. At the time it was the fast that an expansion team had made it that far in the playoffs.
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Ed Madden is author of four books of poetry--Signals, which won the 2007 SC Poetry Book Prize; Prodigal: Variations; Nest; and Ark, forthcoming in 2016. His chapbook My Father’s House was selected for the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2007, The Book of Irish American Poetry, and in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Poetry Ireland Review, Los Angeles Review, and online at The Good Men Project.
He was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC in January 2015.
April is National Poetry Month and this year’s recognition took many forms. While we didn’t pull pranks the same way as last year, we worked hard to get poetry out to as many people in their daily lives as possible. Through partnerships with the Comet, Indie Grits, Main Street District, Enjoy SC and Soda City, we were able to feature poetry in a public setting in a variety of ways.
“A lot of things we’ve been working on all came together this year,” says Madden. “I love that we’re putting poetry into daily life in so many ways, and I’m especially grateful to all the writers who were so generous with their work.”
Poetry on the Comet – In it’s third year, the Poetry on the Comet project brings together 30 different poems by authors from Columbia and South Carolina based on the Indie Grits 2018 theme “Two Cities.” Poetry has been posted prominently on the buses, was shared daily on Ed Madden’s Facebook page and is being published as a chapbook. Select poems were also displayed on screen during the 2018 Indie Grits Festival.
Main Street Banners – Poems by eight South Carolina poets were displayed on banners along Main Street for the month of April. The selections include phrases by James Dickey, Susan Laughter Meyers, Nikky Finney, Ed Madden, Ray McManus, Terrance Hayes, Marjory Wentworth and DeLana R.A. Dameron.
Free & Clear – Similar to the ubiquitous Little Free Libraries that families host in their yards throughout the city, poetry boxes are being hosted in neighborhoods across Columbia and offer free poems about homeownership and community. Passersby are offered the chance to take home a poem of their own.
EnjoySC: Make Poetry at the State House – Hosted by One Columbia for Arts & History and Ed Madden, Columbia’s Poet Laureate, in partnership with the City of Columbia through a Knight Cities Challenge Grant, the Enjoy SC: Make Poetry event featured poets from across South Carolina reading poetry on April 18 and April 21 . Attendees consulted with poets on-site who will type a take-home poem on typewriters.
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Hispid Hare, Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh
by Rohit Jha
Rohit Jha / Bridesh Chauhan
A rare glimpse of one of the most secretive and endangered mammals in the world.
Chosen as 'Picture of the Week'
Some species are so rare or secretive that they disappear from public consciousness. We hope that this picture will rekindle interest and lead to more studies of this highly endangered denizen of our grasslands.
This image of the globally endangered Hispid Hare (Caprolagus hispidus) may have some conservation significance considering that this is one of the first wild images taken from northern India.
The hispid hare is a lagomorph in the Leporidae family (hares and rabbits). It is identified by its distinctively short ears and, unlike other members of the Leporidae family, short and stout hind legs barely exceeding the length of the forelegs. The animal is rarely seen due to its extremely shy and secretive nature. As such, it is rarely found outside the shelter of the tall grassland habitats in its range. Its elusive nature thus makes studying this enigmatic mammal extremely challenging. It is no surprise then that we know very little about its presence, leave alone its ecology.
The hispid hare’s range historically spanned all suitable tall grassland habitats across much of the terai in north India and southern Nepal, and the floodplain grasslands of north-eastern India and northern Bangladesh in the 100-250m elevation range. However, this species is now restricted to small isolated pockets, perhaps only in protected areas (PAs), in southern Nepal and north and northeastern India. Some of the principal threats the species faces include habitat destruction, increased isolation, succession of grasslands into woodlands, thereby reducing the extent of suitable habitat, and persecution by hunting.
These images of a hispid hare were captured in June 2016 when we were on our way to observe Bengal Floricans in a grassland patch off the Dudhwa-Chandan chowki road in Dudhwa National Park.
Rohit Jha
Rohit is an alumnus of the post-graduate program in wildlife biology and conservation (WCS-NCBS), Bangalore. He is currently with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) studying the critically endangered Bengal Florican.
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Partner at Affinity Law LLP celebrates her achievement at the Houses of Parliament
Sue Roberts, Partner at Affinity Law LLP was recently invited to a Champagne Reception at the Houses of Parliament to celebrate becoming one of the first 100 Legal Executives in the Country to become a Partner in a Law Firm.
Sue became the first Legal Executive in the East Midlands to be made a Partner in a Law Firm.
Sue set up Affinity Law LLP nearly 3 years ago with Nicola Smith, Solicitors specialising in Personal Injury Claims arising from road traffic accidents and any injuries sustained from any other accidents.
She said that it was fantastic to be invited to celebrate her achievement with other Legal Executive Partners in such wonderful surroundings.
This achievement supports the view of Sue and Nicola that there really is no glass ceiling for females in the Law.
Image: Sue Roberts Partner at Affinity Law LLP
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Forillon National Park of Canada
At the end of the Appalachian Mountains, Forillon National Park of Canada offers both stunning landscapes and a fascinating history of late 19th and early 20th centuries. Located at the farthest reach of the Gaspé Peninsula, the park's majestic landscape covers a 244 square km area that is carved from the sea, cliffs and mountains. The presence of ten different rock formations, seabird colonies and enigmaric arctic-alpine plants give this park its unique character.
Bonaventure Island and Percé Rock National Park
A jewel of a park, where nature is at it grandest and the discoveries are memorable. Percé Rock, the haunting limestone formation that rises out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of the largest and most spectacular natural arches in the world. Equally impressive, Bonaventure Island is home to the largest accesssible gannet colony in the world; the site of 120,000 of these seabirds is something you will never forget. Take a stroll through the village of Percé and you'll discover its rich historical and architectural heritage.
Percé Geopark
Awaiting UNESCO certification, Percé’s Geopark offers geology enthusiasts, adventure lovers and thrill seekers, a unique opportunity to explore 500 million years of history right in the heart of Percé village.
The tip of the Gaspé Peninsula is a great spot to enjoy whale watching. In addition to attracting blue whales, humpback whales, fin whales and small rorquals, you will often see dolphins, porpoises and seals.
Birthplace of Canada Heritage Site
Discover the reconstitution of Gaspé’s former shipping wharf in the heart of downtown Gaspé where historical figures, events and activities that shaped Gaspé for over four centuries are featured.
Musée de la Gaspésie and Gespeg Micmac Interpretation Site
Set up on the Pointe Jacques Cartier site, the Musée de la Gaspésie conserves and promotes the cultural, artistic and historic heritage of the region. The Gespeg Micmac interpretation site invites you to experience the lives of the first Gaspesians in the 17th century.
And if you have a little more time:
Manoir LeBoutillier
Atlantic Salmon Fishing
La Vieille Usine and the Magasin Général
Cap-des-Rosiers Lighthouse National Historic Site of Canada
The tip of the Gaspé Peninsula offers a wide variety of restaurants. Choose among gourmet specialities, and cafés and bistros with local and regional specialities that are always on the menu.
In the heart of the village of Percé, stroll among an impressive variety of boutiques, artists' workshops and souvenir shops. Take a walk on Rue de la Reine in downtown Gaspé and discover a multitude of boutiques offering regional products, arts and crafts and much more. The region also has two shopping centres to meet the needs of passengers and crew members.
Gaspé's regional airport offers direct flights to Québec and Montréal. The airport is located 10 km from Gaspé's cruise terminal, 70 km from Percé and 113 km from Chandler.
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Foods Invented By Accident
When the Toll House Inn's Ruth Wakefield ran out of baking chocolate one day in 1930, she smashed up a bar of semi-sweet chocolate and added the pieces to her dough. Upon their removal from the oven, the cookies weren't uniformly infused with melted chocolate, but rather studded with little chunks throughout. The signature sweet put her Whitman, Massachusetts inn on the culinary map.
In the early 1920s, a Minnesota health clinician spilled some of the hot bran gruel he was prepping for his patients onto a hot stove top. It sizzled into tasty flakes, and the creation was brought to the attention of George Cormack, the head miller at the Washburn Crosby Company. He perfected the process, and Washburn's Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flakes were brought to market in 1924. The name was shortened to "Wheaties" as the result of an employee contest, and eventually the company became known as General Mills.
Back in 1853, a customer at Saratoga Springs' Moon's Lake House had a chip on his shoulder. He sent batch after batch of fried potatoes back, claiming they weren't up to his crunch standards. Fed-up chef George Crum sliced the final batch as thinly as possible, sizzled them in hot grease and laid on a healthy measure of salt. The then much more chipper customer proclaimed these crispy 'taters a hit, and they quickly became a hit all throughout the region.
One chilly night in 1905, eleven-year-old Frank Epperson left his soda making equipment outside on his San Francisco porch. The next day, he found that stick with which he'd been stirring flavored powder into water had frozen upright in the mixture. In 1924, he applied for a patent for this "Epsicle," which he then redubbed "Popsicle," supposedly at the urging of his children.
Strict Seventh Day Adventists John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg weren't about to waste the stale, boiled wheat Will had left sitting out at their Battle Creek Sanitarium. They attempted to make long sheets of dough, but the process resulted in flakes, which they then toasted. Patients loved the new dish, and after experimenting with various grains, including corn, the brothers sought a patent for this Granose. The Kellogg's company was formed in 1906, but John refused to take part, as he felt the addition of sugar to the corn flakes decreased their health benefit.
About 10,000 years ago, Mesopotamians abandoned their nomadic ways and became the world's first agrarian society. Stored grains for bread became wet, and began to naturally ferment. Some hardy soul dared to drink the frothing mess, thus knocking back the world's very first brewski.
The same fermentation that gives beer its bubbles is also what gives sourdough bread its distinctive tang and small holes. What likely happened is that Egyptian bakers' accidentally dampened grain was left to sit at room temperature, and wild yeast spores from the nearby beer brewing made their way into the mix. The spores ate the grans' natural sugars, resulting in a sour flavor and carbon dioxide that caused the bread to rise higher than their usual flat breads.
The truth of this one is a bit murky, but the Legend of Kaldi maintains that an Abyssian or Ethopian goat herder noticed that his flock was acting especially frisky after chowing down on some bright red berries. After sampling some for himself and verifying the mood shift, he brought the berries to a local imam who studied them, eventually roasting and boiling a batch in water, thus brewing up the original cup o' joe.
In 1879, a Johns Hopkins University researcher named Constantine Fahlberg spilled a chemical on his hands, but neglected to wash it off before sitting down to lunch. The chemical transferred an incredibly sweet taste to the bread he was eating, and in 1884, he obtained a patent for saccharin.
As early as 1490 B.C., Egyptian writings mentioned raisins being used as food, medicine, sporting contest awards, temple decor and tax payment. Evidence suggests that unharvested grapes were found dried on the vine, and determined to be sweet and delicious.
Pleased by cheese? It was likely discovered when an Arabian nomad toted along some milk in a container made from an animal's stomach lining. The liquid hardened along the way in reaction to rennet - a naturally occurring stomach enzyme, making for the world's first fromage.
Rumor has it that John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich found leaving the gambling table to be a royal pain, so he ordered meat to be delivered to him between slices of bread. An alternate tale suggests that work matters kept him pinned to his desk, thus necessitating the fork-free meal.
Iceberg lettuce, that Titanic of the American produce aisle, was discovered when a crop of Crisphead lettuce changed toward the crunchier, paler and sweeter one season in the 1920s. This proved so desirable to shippers and consumers that growers took measures to breed these traits into future plantings.
Shards of Honduran pottery indicate that as far back as 1100 B.C., beer makers used cacao pods to ferment into beer. About 300 years later, a thrifty soul reclaimed the previously discarded seeds to brew into a non-alcoholic beverage all their own. Little did they suspect that they were in fact cooking up an obsession for the ages.
While it's impossible to pinpoint the particulars, one popular origin story maintains that in ancient China boiled, ground soybeans were accidentally mixed with impure sea salt containing calcium and magnesium salts, causing the slurry to gel. Another legend has it that a different Chinese cooked mistakenly dropped nigari, a natural coagulant, into a pot of soybean milk, resulting in a surprisingly edible curdle.
In the 17th century, vintners would boil their wine before shipping in order to lessen its volume (and the associated taxes) in Dutch cargo holds. It would then be reconstituted with water on the receiving end. What they didn't expect was that the subsequent trip in the wooden casks substantially transformed and improved the original product.
Former Bengal colonial governor Lord Marcus Sandy was, upon returning to England, pining for his favorite Indian sauce and commissioned drugstore owners John Lea and William Perrins to recreate it from his descriptions. They'd hoped to sell it in their store, but the stench was too powerful, and they stashed it in their basement for two years. During this time, it aged and improved radically in flavor and odor and became a hit with their customers.
Restaurateur Mr. Lee Kum Sheung stumbled upon his trademark savory sauce one day in 1888 in Guangdong Province, China. He over-cooked a pot of oyster sauce, thus condensing the flavors of oysters and brine and the rest is delicious history.
Rhubarb can be grown year-round, thanks to the accidental discovery of the forcing technique. In 1817, a load of soil was dumped on rhubarb crowns in London's Chelsea Physic Garden. When it was removed, especially tender pink shoots were revealed. Now, the year's early rhubarb is grown in candlelit sheds in the UK's "rhubarb triangle" of Wakefield, Leeds and Morley.
During 1904's St. Louis World's Fair, Syrian pastry vendor Ernest Hamwi helped out a nearby ice cream seller who'd run short on dishes. He rolled his pastry into a cone so the ice cream could be scooped inside. It was a hit, but Italian immigrant Italo Marchiony had also arrived at that combo, acquiring a patent for an ice cream cone earlier in the year.
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I've got to hand it to them, after viewing last nights Panorama show on the tele, it seems like the BBC did the unthinkable. They grew some balls and tackled the thorny issue of the muslim community in the UK following the apparent rise of extremism that lead to the bombings.
I watched it and near as I could tell, they bent over backwards to allow the boss of the Muslim Council of Britain the right of reply on a whole bunch of thorny issues. As the picture built up, it became clear that the MCB isn't in a position of leadership which has a chance of steering the muslim community to deal with extremism. Rather it sees itself as a body that has to right wrongs of the oppressed muslim etc.
Now the latter point is fair enough, and maybe they do need some body to act as a voice whenever the inevitable ugly face of racism appears. However, I think the show adequately called out that there is no actual logic applied to when it is appropriate to step up and beat the drum. Two cases rammed home the point to me; the first was the female student that demanded to be allowed to wear an ankle length dress on religious grounds. This is blatantly a cultural and not a religious issue, no one else has problems with the attire but the MCB turned it into a huge issue, apparently being a case of discrimination.
More recently, in the aftermath of the bombings, they were highly active in criticising the police concerning how they dealt with acts like searching homes and so on. You would have thought that would have been a good time to be helpful but apparently it needed some firmer encouragement to begin the process of getting leaders together to denounce the bombings and so on.
For whatever reason it is, the politically inclined arm of the muslim community (as opposed to the silent majority who view Islam as being a personal and spiritual relationship for them) is capable of some remarkable demonstrations of double standards as was very skillfully demonstrated in the in interview of John Ware (the interviewer and narator of the episode) and Dr Bari, deputy secretary general of MCB and so on.
When taken to task about various highly offensive views that some of the Islamic organisations have that are represented by the MCB (things like no Kaffar can be your friend, the West is generally corrupt etc etc you know the sort), he downplayed all of that saying that these are views and these organisations are entitled to them and the MCB cannot influence them.
And yet... the same chap lead the fight to ban Salman Rushdie's book the Satanic Verses and when quizzed directly, still believes that the book should be banned. So it's fine to ban a view so long as it's anti Islam (even in the case of that, it's a work of fiction) but of course if there's any anti secular, anti West, anti Christian etc view points then those are just 'views' which they are powerless to influence.
I found the combination of the obvious making politics out of Islam and this rampant double standards are being quite disturbing because the programme left the viewer with the real sense that in the first instance, muslim leaders were in denial of extremism and in the second instance, that there was no real chance of the MCB (or anyone like it) doing something collectively about it because it didn't serve their political agenda.
I was also touched by the comments from many of the other muslim representatives being interviewed - who offered insights which you were highly enlightening. Explaining the backdrop of the MCB and, perhaps most worryingly, the claim that there's generally one set of language for the public (promoting cross-faith tollerance) and quite another behind closed doors (promoting isolation from the Kaffars etc).
I came away from the show worried. It seems obvious that the MCB will do nothing to assist the issue but instead will continue their agenda of portraying muslims as victims at every turn. This view was reinforced by reading their statement today, responding to the Panorama show. Here's an extract from the Media Guardian story:
"It was dishonestly presented and mischievously edited to present a pre-conceived view. We are absolutely disgusted with the clearly Islamophobic agenda of this programme," the spokesman said.
It's hard to comment about how it may have been mischievously edited but I didn't get that sense at all. Whatever the programme was, it was certainly not Islamophobic. I guess it's hardly surprising to see the MCB attempt to equate any attack on it as an attack on Islam but it's clearly not going to wash with any thinking viewer.
Make your own mind up by reading the transcript for yourself.
The danger here is that if a representative body for muslims in the UK cannot (or more accurately will not) help to deal with extremism in the ways it needs to be dealt with, then it'll be left to legislation and police who will be galvanised by a generally unsympathetic public following the right-wing agendas of the tabloid press. That treatment might very well lend factual weight to the victim mentality that desperately needs to be dismantled to tackle extremism for real.
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Beej 24 August 2005 at 07:23
I hope that Muslims will start to speak more openly and vocally as British people. A spokesman from a body isn't helping much. What is needed when extremists home or abroad fuck something up is for Brits to be quite vocal about it being unacceptable in our society. I think we need to see this much more vocally at the grassroots level. The grassroots provide the power that brings change. Britain must become unfertile for extremism. It needs to be impossible for Imams to preach the twisted stuff, and difficult for extremist groups to try to hide within the legitimate British community.
The MCB is not necessarily the definitive body for British Muslims and perhaps it shouldn't be unless it encourages discussion and reform and a pro-active removal of extremism. If it doesn't drive solution-finding then maybe the MCB is unwittingly positioning itself as an obstacle rather than as an ally.
Brit 25 August 2005 at 09:58
The MCB are apologists and defenders for those that seek to spread the cancer of Islamic fundamentalism throughout this country, whilst simultaneously screaming "Islamic Rights!" when challenged or asked to clarify their absurdly murky opinions on a whole range of matters.
I formed this opinion a while ago, when it became clear that they had no real objective relevant to every day followers of the Islamic faith, but were simply a vehicle for the progression of self inflated ego and political finger pointing amongst those who have somehow convinced their fellow believers that they are the right people for the job.
They can kick and scream as much as they like about the Panorama programme; I personally thought it was absolutely on the money - the retarded lack of comprehension from the MCB and others when asked simple questions demonstrated admirably that they are completely clueless when it comes to actually understanding and acknowledging that yes Houston, they have a fucking problem.
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Originally Published: February 10, 2014
1. Loyer Up? New Voice Aims For Turnaround
By Dan Feldman | TrueHoop Network
John Loyer's voice carried through The Palace of Auburn Hills.
It's both the problem and potential solution for the Detroit Pistons.
The Pistons' 109-100 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Loyer's debut as interim coach Monday showed why the Pistons fired Maurice Cheeks and why Loyer just might be the man to turn around the downtrodden franchise.
Tim Fuller/USA TODAY Sports Pistons interim coach John Loyer talks to Brandon Jennings during the 109-100 win over the Spurs.
In an apparent attempt to boost their playoffs odds, the Pistons ousted Cheeks only 50 games into his Pistons tenure -- giving him the NBA's shortest leash since the Seattle SuperSonics fired Bob Weiss just 30 games into the 2005-06 season. Detroit, which has hovered near the postseason cutoff for weeks, is clearly getting desperate, and the mindset starts at the top.
It's impossible to view owner Tom Gores' playoffs-or-bust insistence without acknowledging the Pistons' meager attendance since he bought the team in 2011. In a state with one of the nation's highest unemployment rates, only a quality team will draw fans and revenue for Gores.
However, despite increased preseason promise, the Pistons got off to a 21-29 start, and fans have largely stayed away. The Pistons rank near the bottom of the NBA in attendance, and that doesn't even account for the fans who eat their tickets rather than brave the harsh winter while paying for gas to reach the suburban arena.
The announced attendance of 13,628 during Loyer's debut as interim coach was even lower than the Pistons' paltry season average and a reason he could be heard so clearly.
But Cheeks coached in front of similar crowds too, and he rarely made his mark so emphatically. He could be a meager sideline presence, sitting in his chair (or, in a quirk, the vacant seat of an absentee fan farther down the sideline) with looks of disgust.
Rather than following his predecessor's lead, Loyer -- whose last multigame head-coaching stint was at Wabash Valley College -- jumped into his new post with aplomb and a refreshing passion. He roamed the sideline, encouraging his players to run offensively and demanding they close on shooters defensively.
The Pistons responded, playing with extra bounce while building a lead that peaked at 23 points over one of the NBA's top teams.
To the uninitiated, the victory seemed like a turning point. But Detroit beat the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers earlier this season. The Pistons are a talented team capable of playing at a high level when everything clicks.
It's far too early to say whether things will click more often under Loyer, whose players might have been temporarily eager to play for anyone other than Cheeks. Several of the usual problems -- fourth-quarter malaise, defensive confusion, poor 3-point and free throw shooting -- once again reared their ugly heads.
But even a glimmer of hope, especially for the head coach, is welcome in Detroit.
Just nine years ago, the Pistons and Spurs met in the NBA Finals. Gregg Popovich, then already the NBA's third-longest-tenured coach*, guided San Antonio over Detroit in seven games.
*Popovich has outlasted Jerry Sloan (Utah Jazz) and Flip Saunders (Minnesota Timberwolves) to claim the No. 1 spot.
Since those NBA Finals, the Pistons have run through failed coaches: Flip Saunders (too offensively minded), Michael Curry (too inexperienced), John Kuester (too meek), Lawrence Frank (too rigid) and Cheeks (too terrible).
Could Loyer be the just-right porridge?
Despite Monday's result, it's doubtful. He hasn't been a hot commodity on the coaching market and got this chance mostly by being in the right place at the right time.
He came to Detroit with Frank in 2011 and, as a former Cheeks assistant in Philadelphia and Portland, stayed through the transition last summer. The Pistons reportedly also offered Lionel Hollins a spot on Cheeks' staff, but the former Memphis Grizzlies coach turned them down, and they failed to add a logical successor for Cheeks.
So Loyer, who's respected for passion toward coaching, got the big opportunity in a season in which the playoffs are still realistic. In fact, the Pistons are now tied with the Charlotte Bobcats for the No. 8 seed.
Wouldn't it be something if Loyer, the byproduct of two failed regimes, becomes the coach who finally succeeds in Detroit?
We can't know what his future holds, but Loyer should feel good on his first night as an active head coach.
By beating the NBA's longest-tenured coach, the league's newest coach now holds the group's best career winning percentage at 1-0 (2-0 if you count filling in for Kiki Vandeweghe, who missed a 2010 New Jersey Nets game for personal reasons).
Irrelevant? Soon enough.
But right now, it's a nice distinction for Loyer, who waved appreciatively to the crowd after the game.
Moments later, Andre Drummond wrapped his arm around his new coach and smiled.
There's no question Drummond is integral to the Pistons' future. If Loyer is too, that would be a surprising development.
But after Monday, you can't claim you didn't hear him coming.
Dan Feldman's work appears on Piston Powered, part of the TrueHoop Network.
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2. Around the Association
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MVP: Dwight Howard made his presence and humongous deltoids fully felt. He overpowered the Wolves' frontcourt for 18 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and even shot 4-for-5 on his free throws.
X factor: While his box score won't stand out, Jeremy Lin quietly played an effective "glue game." With Harden struggling (4-for-14 shooting, four turnovers), Lin came in off the bench and successfully put his teammates in scoring positions. He led the team in assists, was second in minutes with 33, and played the entire fourth quarter while Harden sat.
That was ... a one-man Minnesota show: With Kevin Martin and Nikola Pekovic injured, Kevin Love shouldered the burden but could not be in five places at once. He finished with a game-high 31 points, 10 rebounds and a loss.
-- Richard Li, Red94
MVP: High post. Low post. It didn't matter where he was on the floor. David West scored at will, particularly in the game's opening stanza -- 17 of his 25 points came in the first quarter.
Defining moment: This game got out of hand in a hurry. The Pacers -- thanks to the aforementioned West -- jumped out of the gates in the first quarter, building a double-digit lead and never looking back.
That was ... ruthless: After blowing a 17-point lead in a 93-92 loss to the Magic on Sunday, Indiana was out for blood against the Nuggets from the opening tip. The Pacers showed no mercy in a 39-point rout.
-- Eddy Rivera, Magic Basketball
MVP: Patrick Patterson was a part of two large Raptors runs that proved to be the difference in this game, and hit the dagger jumper with just less than two minutes left. On the night, he scored 22 points on just 11 shots against a Pelicans team that was trying to win with a small ball lineup.
LVP: Al-Farouq Aminu played just 19 minutes, but the Pelicans were minus-24 while he was on the court. Toronto simply did not respect Aminu on the offensive end, and that clogged up the lane for all the other Pelicans. Meanwhile, Aminu's poor rotations on the defensive end were a major reason why the Raptors were raining 3-pointers anytime he was on the court.
Defining moment: Austin Rivers drove to the basket, trying to cut the Raptors' lead down to four with just less than five minutes to go. His layup attempt rimmed out and the Raptors quickly got the ball up the court to Terrance Ross, who nailed a wide-open 3. It was a night of missed opportunities for the Pelicans.
-- Michael McNamara, Bourbon Street Shots
MVP: Brandon Jennings. The Pistons used a balanced attack to best San Antonio, but that attack was spearheaded by Jennings. After a quiet first quarter, Jennings came alive in the second, hitting 3-pointers and making plays for his teammates. He set the tone for his team in the second, and the Spurs could never quite get back into it.
X factor: Detroit's starting five. It takes more than one guy to beat the Spurs, and the Pistons got contributions from all over. All five starters scored in double figures, including Greg Monroe, who posted a double-double. Jennings put up the most points (21), but each starter played a part in the Pistons' win.
That was ... reminiscent: The game was a rematch of the 2005 NBA Finals. The Pistons' lineup looks nothing like it did in 2005, but the Spurs' looks similar, and the result was much the same. Again, the Pistons used a balanced attack, rather than a singular scorer, to best a Spurs' squad led by Duncan and Parker.
-- Michael Kaskey-Blomain , TrueHoop Network
3. Monday's Best
Detroit Pistons: Anytime a team from the woeful Eastern Conference beats the defending West champs, then attention must be paid. Josh Smith even reined in his 3-point shot, taking his fewest attempts (1) over the past seven games from the range that he makes just 23 percent.
4. Monday's Worst
Quincy Miller, Nuggets: Missed all five of his shots and committed three turnovers in the Nuggets' 119-80 trouncing by the Pacers. With Andre Miller still not playing for disciplinary reasons, it is clearly not Miller time for Denver.
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6. Tweet Of The Night
All we do is judge, like we have it all together
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) February 11, 2014
7. Quote Of The Night
"I'd win it."
-- LeBron James, after putting on a spectacular dunk display in practice, on how he would fare if he ever entered the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
8. No Slowing Rockets
Brace Hemmelgarn/USA TODAY Sports Kevin Love (31 points) could not overcome Dwight Howard (18 points and 15 rebounds) as the surging Rockets used a fourth-quarter push to hold off the Timberwolves 107-89 on Monday night for their sixth consecutive victory.
9. Stat Check
By Elias Sports Bureau
Marreese Speights scored a career-high 32 points in 26 minutes, 17 seconds of playing time in the Warriors' rout of the visiting 76ers. He became the first Warriors player to produce 30-plus points in a game in which he played less than 27 minutes since Chris Mullin scored 32 points in 26 minutes in a 153-91 win over the Kings on Nov. 2, 1991 -- in the game that produced the largest margin of victory in the Warriors' 68-year history.
10. TrueHoop TV
MVP: Jeff Green. Boston's leading scorer shook off a slow start and took command of the contest with a dominating performance during the second half in Milwaukee. Green scored 19 of his game-high 29 points after intermission, enabling Boston to pull away late.
X factor: Turnovers. The shorthanded Bucks showed off why they have been the worst team in the NBA this year by committing 21 turnovers. The Celtics took advantage of those mistakes by scoring 32 points off Milwaukee's miscues.
That was ... impressive: Jared Sullinger, the reigning Eastern Conference player of the week, posted 13 points and 10 rebounds. Those numbers gave the second-year power forward his sixth consecutive double-double, continuing a red-hot month of February for the 21-year-old.
-- Brian Robb, Celtics Hub
MVP: Marreese Speights. He scored a career-high 32 points on 12-for-15 shooting, a performance that triggered "M-V-P" chants at Oracle Arena. The Mo Show started in the first half, when he dropped 17 second-quarter points to help give the Warriors a 33-point halftime lead. The Sixers had no answer for their 2008 first-round draft pick.
Defining moment: On Philadelphia's first offensive possession, former Sixer Andre Iguodala intercepted a pass from rookie Michael Carter-Williams, dribbled down the floor and fed a wide-open Stephen Curry for a 3-pointer. The Warriors led from start to finish, and it didn't take them long to get going.
That was ... pathetic, again: This was as bad, if not worse than Sunday night's 45-point loss to the Clippers. The offense was dysfunctional, the defense was nonexistent, and the players seemed like a combination of fatigued and checked out. Fun fact, via ESPN Stats & Info: The Sixers are the second team in NBA history to lose by 40-plus points in consecutive games. The 1993-94 Sixers were the other one.
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Volume 16 No.10
Angels dance before our eyes
Andrew Hamilton
Every schoolboy knows that medieval theologians were isolated from the real world. They spent hours discussing how many angels could fit on the head of a pin.
Like most things that every schoolboy knows, this detail is not as straightforward as it seems. Benjamin D’Israeli, an English writer of the late eighteenth century, seems to have been the first to pin theologians to angels in this way.
But D’Israeli’s version of the tale was sharper. He had mediaeval theologians, notably Thomas Aquinas, ask how many angels could dance on the point of a needle. A man of the Enlightenment, he suggested that theologians had missed the point. They wove cloudy theories on topics that no-one could ever know anything about. Real thinkers focused on the real, substantial world before their eyes.
Earlier on, Renaissance schoolboys also knew that the theologians had missed the point. But they would have seen the theologians not as too ethereal, but as too earthbound. They pedantically burrowed into their books to pursue questions that had little contact with the central and powerful reality of the Gospel.
That two groups of people should agree that the theologians were detached from reality, but should differ on what reality they had missed, makes one pause. Perhaps the connections between speculation and the reality of our tangible world are more complex than we assume, and certainly much more complex than polemic allows.
The story of the angels suggests that important connections run through the imagination—the way we give stability and focus to the cloudy flux of our world. Thomas Aquinas never worried about needles, but he spelled out in great detail the differences between angels and human beings. This focus on the distinctive qualities of pure spirits did not necessarily blunt theologians’ perspective on the world or on the Gospel. It may have sharpened their intuition that the universe is more mysterious and rich than we can ever understand. It may also have encouraged them to treat the world with respect, and not simply with proprietorial interest.
That would represent a fairly straightforward connection between recondite speculation and reality. But ideas also feed the imagination in less organised ways. They are strings in a network of culture in which no part is ever totally disconnected. The attention paid to angels by medieval theologians certainly inspired Isaac D’Israeli to satirise it with the image of dancing angels. But D’Israeli also wrote novels. One of them, Despotism; or, the fall of the Jesuits, was as ungallant—the Jesuits had been suppressed at the time—as it was premature—they rose again soon afterwards.
D’Israeli was the father of the future Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, and passed on to him through his novel his association of Jesuits with despotism. The novel is mainly remembered through Mary Shelley’s bare diary entry for 6 March, 1815, the day her child Clare died: ‘Find my baby dead—send for Hogg—talk—a miserable day—in the evening read fall of the Jesuits’. She herself is remembered both through her own writing, particularly the novel Doctor Frankenstein, and through her marriage to the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. These events form together a needlework of contingency in which speculation and intractable human predicaments form ever changing and illuminating patterns.
D’Israeli’s image of angels dancing on the points of needles also discloses other points of connection. Although it is linked unforgettably to fatuous theology, it also forms a lovely image in its own right. It can be drawn upon to illuminate aspects of reality that are too exigent to be represented by empirical description. The Salvadorean revolutionary poet Roque Dalton, for example, wrote a haunting collection of poems. He had been imprisoned under a regime in which disappearance and torture were common. His short poem Fear seems to reflect this experience:
A solitary angel on the point of a needle
hears how someone is urinating.
The image catches exactly the isolated, wasting condition of prison experience, the heightened perception that fear gives, and the contrast between spirit and the predicament of the life of caged human animals. Even Renaissance schoolboys would have to concede that here we are drawn close to the crucifixion, the central reality of the Christian Gospel.
The heavenly image of angels dancing on the point of needles is not that far from common earthly reality, in which human beings are made pincushions. That is certainly a privileged field for human study.
Recent articles by Andrew Hamilton.
Joan Chittister's humility
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Why it's futile to beg for refugees' human rights
Angels on the heads of pins is a myth all right, but it's older than the eighteenth century. Details at
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/headsofpins.html
James Franklin | 08 August 2006
It's good to see that at last someone is interested in how many muons can fit on photon! In short, at last someone acknowledges that what the mediaeval theologians were taling about is that which still challenges our immagination today.
Joe Goerke | 09 August 2006
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Google’s searching for stalkers
6 April 2006 > Articles, SMH blog 2006-8
Google’s mission, famously, is to organise the world’s information. And they’ve broadened this in recent years to include pretty much anything. Now the boffins want to organise your socialising. But do we really want a bunch of Californian nerds controlling how we socialise? And, scarily, how stalkers socialise?
The internet makes pretty much anything you want to do with your life easier. So just as it’s made it far simpler to be antisocial, and never leave your bedroom, a string of social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace have sprung up that allow people who actually have friends to catch up with them. Most popularly, it lets you make new friends, on the principle that you’re more likely to get along with friends of friends.
But a new American site called Dodgeball, which has just been bought by Google, lets inner-city hipsters in the US meet up with their friends using their mobile phones when they’re away from their computers. We already send out tentative SMSes to friends when we’re out to see if they’re around, and Dodgeball is like the deluxe version of the drunken “Whereareya?” SMS.
First you sign up your friends to a contact list. Then you text Dodgeball the details of where you’re at and it flips an SMS with the address to all the friends on your list. But trickier yet is the friend-of-a-friend feature. If someone else who’s in the contact list of one of your friends is within 10 blocks, it sends you a photo of them saying “This is x, you know them through y”. Which provides the perfect beginning to a conversation, of course – you just get to bitch about your mutual friend.
The other feature – which is very Sex & The City (more’s the pity) – is a feature that lets you register up to five “crushes” – any user on the site, I think. If they’re in the vicinity, it’ll alert you and tell you where they are. You’re apparently allowed to have a couple of people on the go in the States – so imagine how complicated things could get if your crushes all converged, you were chatting one up and then another popped up?
Dodgeball sounds to me like a social nightmare – would you really want people you were interested in to find out about that in such an unromantic fashion, let alone be forewarned you were approaching? But the Americans are always strangely straightforward about these things.
This all seems well and good, but tracking people’s movements like this is also a fantastic way to invade someone’s privacy. Even without signing up, I can randomly click on people’s photos on the website and find out which bars they regularly hang out in. What a brilliant way to attract crazy stalkers!
But it’s not as bad as another site specifically designed for obsessive fans: Gawker Stalker. It’s a central repository for sightings of famous people in NYC, And of course, the sophisticated mapping engine it uses is provided by the ubiquitous Google. For instance:
Stocking up on turkey chili at Balducci’s, see a dude in a black sweatshirt. I realize it’s David Schwimmer. Looked like he rolled out of bed. He was there with a guy stocking up on provisions.
Schwimmer is probably stoked that anyone’s still interested in him, but George Clooney has complained about the site, as well one of its victims might. In particular, it seems like a fantastic way to put mentally ill people in touch with the famous people they want to stab. One of the sightings on there at the moment is Christian Slater coming out of the Dakota – the same building John Lennon lived in when he was shot by a crazy fan. Well done, Gawker and Google!
Clooney suggests that celebs get their underlings to just post fake sightings, but what a total waste of time. And surely not everyone has a phalanx of PAs. You can’t tell me John Stamos (“doing the breakfast thing at the Millenium Hilton’s Church & Dey eatery”) can afford to keep a staff anymore.
As always, Google’s got great technology, but serious privacy problems. But there’s a brilliant solution. Clooney should pay people to obsessively stalk and post the movements of Gawker’s staff, and the nerds at Google whose technology makes it all possible. Even if it’s just “Larry Page spent all night at his office programming. Again.” They’d soon become passionate privacy advocates.
But Gawker Stalker could have its uses. Imagine the reassurance for women of being able to avoid the pub where Warney and his mates were trying to pick up. And I’d pay good money to receive a warning SMS to stop me from accidentally visiting a pub where Russell Crowe was singing.
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What helped increase heart attack deaths from 3,000 in 1910 to 500,000 in 1960? Hydrogenated oil.
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"[Myocardial infarction / heart attacks were] almost nonexistent in 1910 and caused no more than three thousand deaths per year in 1930," writes lipid biochemist, Mary Enig, PhD, and journalist, Sally Fallon Morell in a wonderful, eye-opening article about fats and heart disease titled The Oiling of America.
"By 1960, there were at least 500,000 [heart attack] deaths per year in the US," they continue.
"What life-style changes had caused this increase?" Reduction in Infectious Diseases
Reduction in Infectious Diseases Allowing People to Live Long Enough to Die from Heart Attacks
“One change was a decrease in infectious disease, following the decline of the horse as a means of transport, the installation of more sanitary water supplies and the advent of better housing, all of which allowed more people to reach adulthood and the heart attack age.
“The other was a dietary change.
“Since the early part of the century, when the Department of Agriculture had begun to keep track of food “disappearance” data—the amount of various foods going into the food supply—a number of researchers had noticed a change in the kind of fats Americans were eating.
Butter Consumption had Dropped; Margarine Consumption Had Increased
Butter Consumption Dropped from 18 lbs in 1910 to 10 lbs in 1950; Margarine Consumption Increased from 2 lbs in 1910 to 8 lbs in 1950
“Butter consumption was declining while the use of vegetable oils, especially oils that had been hardened to resemble butter by a process called hydrogenation, was increasing—dramatically increasing.
“By 1950 butter consumption had dropped from eighteen pounds per person per year to just over ten.
“Margarine filled in the gap, rising from about two pounds per person at the turn of the century to about eight.
Consumption of Margarine plus Vegetable Shortening Had Increased From 5 lbs to 18 lbs
Consumption of Margarine plus Vegetable Shortening Increased from 2 lbs in 1910 to 8 lbs in 1950
“Consumption of vegetable shortening—used in crackers and baked goods—remained relatively steady at about twelve pounds per person per year but vegetable oil consumption had more than tripled—from just under three pounds per person per year to more than ten.3
[Hobbs: Both margarine and vegetable shortening contain hydrogenated vegetable oil where hydrogen atoms are added to vegetable oil to make it semi-solid at room temperature.]
We Should Go Back to Eating Meat, Eggs, Butter And Cheese
We Should Go Back to Eating Meat, Eggs, Butter And Cheese, and Avoid Foods Contains Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
“The statistics pointed to one obvious conclusion—Americans should eat the traditional foods that nourished their ancestors, including meat, eggs, butter and cheese, and avoid the newfangled vegetable-oil-based foods that were flooding the grocers’ shelves; but the Kritchevsky articles attracted immediate attention because they lent support to another theory—one that militated against the consumption of meat and dairy products.
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Jay Z Releases Song Following Police Shootings of Black Men
July 08, 2016 Entertainment
Jay Z performing
Jay Z has released an emotional new song in response to this week’s fatal police shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
On ‘‘spiritual,’’ Jay Z raps, ‘‘Got my hands in the air, in despair, don’t shoot, I just want to do good.’’
In a statement accompanying the song’s release, the rapper says he began working on it ‘‘a while ago.’’ He says someone encouraged him to release it following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, but he says he knew Brown’s death ‘‘wouldn’t be the last.’’ He says he’s ‘‘saddened and disappointed in THIS America — we should be further along,’’ He adds, ‘‘WE ARE NOT.’’
The song is available on Tidal, the subscription-based streaming music service that Jay Z owns.
Jay Z Releases Song Following Police Shootings of Black Men Reviewed by E.A Olatoye on July 08, 2016 Rating: 5
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Volume: BSAC 023:89 (Jan 1866)
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BSac 23:89 (Jan 1866) p. 108
The Catholic Apostolic Church
Rev. W. W. Andrews
[This is the Fourteenth of the Series of Articles representing the peculiar views of different theological sects or schools.]
Every great movement of God in the church is known by its conformity to the principles laid down in the New Testament, and by its suitableness to meet the necessities of its own time. He will never depart from the fundamental laws of Christianity, and, holding’ the times and seasons in his own hand, he will do at each epoch its proper work.
The history and claims of the body of Christians known as the “Catholic Apostolic Church” will be best understood if we first briefly review the facts connected with the origin and progress of the Christian dispensation.
After the death and resurrection of our Lord and his ascension into heaven (acts by which humanity, assumed by the Son of God in his incarnation, was redeemed and glorified), he sent down the Holy Ghost to form his body, the church. He had gathered materials for this during his earthly ministry, but the living organism first came into existence on the day of Pentecost, through the descent of the Comforter. That which distinguishes the church from the faithful who lived before the incarnation is its oneness with Christ Jesus as raised from the dead and exalted into glory. This is a condition of spiritual dignity and blessing which was unattainable until manhood had first been glorified in the person of the Son of God.
The oneness of the church with Christ is such as no symbols or analogies can fully express; but the figure of the body, so often used by Paul, sets it forth more adequately than any other. The Head and the members
together form one divine organism, the Christ mystical of the old divines, so framed as to be God’s instrument for carrying forward his work of salvation in the earth. Jesus does from the heavens by his church, through the Holy Ghost, what he did personally when in mortal flesh. Then he was the Apostle (Heb. 3:1), the sent one of the Father, entrusted by him with authority to be the founder, legislator, and ruler of his. church; the Prophet (Luke 24:19), anointed with the Holy Ghost to reveal the mysteries of God; the Evangelist (Luke 4:18), sent to preach the gospel to the poor, and to unloose the bonds of the curse; and the Pastor (John 10:11), whose office it was tenderly to watch over and care for the little company that followed him.1
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From Book to Screen: “Carrie”
by Connor Adamson · September 14, 2016
Welcome to the beginning of a brand new blog series on Flickchart: The Blog. This series will be conducted under our Book to Screen category and will trace the adaptions of one of America’s most prolific authors. A master of horror, his work has received over 100 different adaptations over the past five decades, scaring and tantalizing us with works both excellent and mediocre. The series will cover every adaptation and highlight the wonderful work of — you guessed it — Stephen King.
It is my great pleasure to begin this series, as King is my favorite author of all time. Horror is my favorite genre of both film and literature. The supernatural has always fascinated me, as it has many others. It has an ability to stimulate our imaginations and fears unlike anything else, making supernatural horror among the most visceral genres of fiction.
Stephen King is a master of the craft, having told tales that are uniquely horrific yet infinitely relatable due to his magnificently-created human characters. This mixture of humanity and inhumanity is part of what keeps his fans engrossed. Though not all adaptations of King stories are of high artistic quality, each features a particular vision of King’s work. Let’s start our journey into the darkness with the first ever adaption of King’s work: Carrie.
The Novel
The first edition cover
Carrie was first released in April of 1974. It was King’s first published novel, yet it was the fourth one that he wrote. He wrote it after receiving criticisms from women about his earlier short stories, who claimed that he couldn’t write about women. Taking the challenge personally, King soon developed an idea about a girl who got her period in a women’s locker room and would be tormented by her classmates pelting her with sanitary napkins. The catch? The bullied girl would have telekinesis. This scene would become the opening part of the novel.
King originally hated the idea, though, and threw the pages away. It was at only his wife’s urging — she grabbed the discarded papers from the trash — that he continued to work on it and develop it into a full-length novel. Throughout the writing, he struggled to relate to the central character of Carrie, which led him to write the novel from the perspective of multiple outside parties. The novel was ultimately written in the epistolary format; in other words, it is written as a series of reports, diary entries, and other “documents” that revolve around a commission investigating the Carrie White incident.
This format placed Carrie in the world of grim reality. It felt realistic to readers, myself included, and that made the horror all the more powerful. The story of a adolescent girl bullied by peers and dealing with a religious zealot of a mother is supplemented by the supernatural dimension of the telekinetic power. A dreadful tension builds throughout the piece as a cataclysmic event approaches: prom.
Carrie has been adapted three times into film, as well as into a Broadway musical. We will compare the 1976 adaption, the 2002 made for TV adaption, and the most recent 2013 adaption. Excluded will be the 1999 sequel to the original Carrie, as it is not based on a direct written work of King. Which adaption is most faithful, and which is the best?
This adaption of Carrie was directed by Kimberly Peirce, notable for her striking and controversial debut feature Boys Don’t Cry. The themes raised in that film are not entirely dissimilar to the themes raised throughout Carrie, which made her a natural fit to direct a new adaption. Unfortunately, it seems like little of the director’s voice made it through to the final product.
Don’t be mistaken, this version of Carrie is not a bad film. The acting throughout the cast is very solid. Chloë Grace Moretz is quite capable in the titular role. She is a fine actress and seems willing to take on a variety of roles. Her take on the character captures the full range of the character’s up and downs well enough. However, she is much too beautiful to pull off the comely character in a truly convincing manner. Carrie is the metaphorical ugly duckling throughout the story, constantly picked on by the more popular and beautiful girls. This helps make her glowing moment at prom stand out all the brighter. Moretz, however, never really looks the part, and instead looks more like one of the girls who ought to be picking on Carrie.
Here, Julianne Moore plays the crazed mother, Margaret White. Moore’s take on the character is a much more overt insanity that makes her look like Crazy Horror Lady. While this does allow Moore to do some good character work, including a scene where she sinks her nails deep into her legs, it seems to overdramatize the events of the novel.
That is a common problem of the movie. The film ultimately falls short of the source material by turning it into blander horror fare. The director and producers seem intent on making everything as “shocking” and “horrifying” as possible. Moretz and Moore deliver their lines with this highly dramatic fervor that turns it into bland cheese. Moretz’s deliver of the line “If I concentrate hard enough, I can make objects move” is delivered with enough dramatics that one would expect a hilarious hand-over-the-mouth-in-shock move to follow.
The blandness permeates the film. Shots are boring and typical. The scene of Carrie sending a small, taunting boy flying away on his bike is conducted in a slow-motion that overdramatizes the event and robs it of its human elements. Later, Carrie’s explosion of anger at the prom is turned into superhero theatrics. This scene should be a horrifying and sad moment when the culmination of all of Carrie’s heartbreak and anger is let loose. Instead, Moretz points her hands around like Magneto and contorts her face in an exaggerated scowl.
The strength of the story still shines through despite the bland and lifeless take on the material. A small cyber-bullying element is introduced when one of Carrie’s tormentors uploads a video of the locker scene to the internet. The character of Billy Nolan is probably the closest to the novel, as he was given an appropriate level of sadism. John Travolta‘s goofier take in the 1976 movie seems tame in comparison to King’s conception.
The effects in this film are given an appropriate update, making it the strongest of the three films in this department. Still, the subtler language of film is more important when it comes to creating an atmosphere of dread and tension. The bland studio take on the material robs it of any horror. It’s telling when the creepiest visual in the entire film is delivered subliminally and you can’t even see it.
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This adaption is barely worth mentioning aside from saying that it’s a curiosity. Not unlike the 2013 version, it is not bad per se. The strength of the story elevates each of these adaptions into something beyond its cinematic construction. Still, this adaption is the epitome of cheap, made-for-TV production. Visual effects are shoddy, the acting of every supporting player is mediocre, and the film lacks in the visual language of cinema.
Angela Bettis makes a more appropriate-looking Carrie than the 2013 version’s. Bettis’s acting is capable, too; I was completely unfamiliar with her prior to watching this film. In this adaption, the mother is portrayed by Patricia Clarkson, who is likely the biggest name in the production. Clarkson’s take on Margaret never strays into the overdramatic theatrics of Moore’s version, but it also lacks in any level of creepiness. Indeed, her character is a non-factor in this version compared to the other two adaptions.
There’s not much to be said here outside of the trivial. It was intended to be the pilot for a full length TV series, but failed to take off. This does result in it being the adaptation that is most different from the source material, as the ending is changed to show Carrie heading to Florida to avoid persecution for the murders of her classmates. Interestingly enough, though, this adaption is closest to the novel’s structure since it is framed as an investigation into the Carrie White incident. A better film that adapts the novel in this way could make for an interesting product.
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Brian de Palma’s seminal work still stands strong today. It’s commonalities with the latter adaptations largely lie in the plot: all three films mostly stick to the events of the novel. In that sense, all three are pretty faithful adaptions of the work. But unlike the two later versions, de Palma’s film captures the spirit and horror of King’s story. Using his own mastery of his craft, de Palma made a film often considered a watershed moment for horror being taken seriously as a genre.
Comparing this version to the 2013 adaption could almost be used as a film school 101 lesson in the importance of visuals. Where the most modern adaptation is bland and mostly uninteresting to look at with its static shots and ergonomic framing, this film is a visual feast. Here we are treated to a variety of tracking shots, confined framing, and other techniques that help build an atmosphere of confinement and tension. Instead of the themes being communicated merely through the story, de Palma is able to make the audience feel the isolation and loneliness of Carrie through images and sound. Carrie is often framed as a small figure amongst a background of space to generate the idea of her separation from her peers. In scenes with her mother, she is framed as bowed in the shadows and made to appear smaller than the towering stature of her mother. Later, she is framed oppositely as she moves to stand against her mother’s draconian religious lifestyle.
All of this framing and other technique would be naught without the two powerhouse Academy Award-nominated performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Spacek’s take on Carrie is nothing short of pure excellence. She looks the part of a comely and isolated girl early in the film. Her use of her eyes and mouth is so subtle and yet so powerful in communicating the mood and nature of the character. In sharp contrast to the 2013 version, Spacek’s delivery of the telekinesis line to her mother is a simple and direct statement. But through its simplicity, it carries the weight of defiance in a manner much more relatable than the modern version.
Likewise with Piper Laurie’s Margaret. She is convincing as a religious zealot without becoming a heavy-handed lunatic. Here, insanity is demonstrated through small details such as a spark of madness in the eye and the religious fervor of her prayers. This Margaret is not unlike a lady you may have met once in your life. She is more realistic and thus more horrific.
The only negative points of this film are minor details. The film’s insistence on a Psycho-like screech upon every use of Carrie’s power becomes annoying and cheesy, as it is slightly overused. The film’s telekinesis effects look slightly dated now. Yet these minor points are not cracks in the near-flawless armor of de Palma’s seminal horror masterpiece.
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The Best & The Most Faithful
As should be fairly obvious by now, de Palma’s original 1976 is easily the best version by a long shot. The film is a stunning and shocking take on struggles that many adolescents face and indeed many people face throughout their lives. This version understands that the horror of the story comes not from a bucket of blood or magical telekinesis powers. These are merely symbols and factors that help unveil the true horror. One could write an entire blog article devoted to the rich and layered symbolism and elements of the original Carrie. But its quality is made clear in the key scenes of the story.
Compare the opening shower scene of each. Here, de Palma utilizes the medium of film for slow moving shots of Carrie feeling her body underneath the warm and gentle pelt of the water. Spacek’s face is formed into a subtle pleasure as she moves her hands across her breasts. This is a scene of girl developing into a woman which makes the trickle of blood down her leg all the more effective. This version is vastly more interesting to watch than the boring flat shot we are given the 2002 or 2013 version.
Watch the titular prom scene. The 2013 version relies on theatrics with Moretz waving her arms around and giving an evil snickering glare to her classmates. The scene of the bucket of blood falling is repeated over and over again to the point where it loses all of its shock value. It was as if the editor received seven shots from the filming and decided that they should use each one. In the 1976 version, Spacek is largely rooted in place with only her large, expressive eyes moving to shoulder the weight of the scene. Instead of silly overplayed horror, we are simultaneously horrified and saddened by this young girl lashing out in anger and pain.
It is these moments that help define the sharp difference in quality between the adaptions. Brian de Palma’s film is still remembered today as a fantastic addition to the horror genre whilst the 2013 version is likely already largely forgotten (ditto the 2002 version). It also easily takes the title of the most faithful adaption of the novel as well. Not only does it capture the tone and character of the novel better, but it features no major changes to the plotting or content. The 2002 version easily loses this contest for an altered ending. While the 2013 version may still largely stick to the book, it does make some modern updates, making it less faithful than the 1976 version.
The final verdict for fans of King’s debut novel is to stick with the 1976 version. It is a great film not only for fans of the book but for movie fans in general. The only reason to watch the 2013 version is as a lesson in why the language of cinema matters. As for the 2002 version, it can easily be forgotten and never seen. I’ve already forgotten it myself.
Which version do you like best? Tell us below in the comments and rank them all today at Flickchart.com
Tags: Angela BettisBrian De PalmaChloe Grace MoretzJulianne MooreKimberly PeircePatricia ClarksonPiper LaurieSissy Spacek
Connor Adamson
Connor has a JD from Villanova Law and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from West Virginia University. He will soon reside in Corpus Christi, Texas and practice insurance defense litigation. When not in the courtroom, he enjoys every type of film possible and hopes to give an insight or two when possible.
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by Jim Mash
Fluid Energy Theory
An entirely new theory based upon energy being a real substance
What is Fluid Energy Theory?
Wot, no bang?
FET: The theory of everything
Surface energy
Life and consciousness
FET versus current theories
The number of substances
Olbers’s paradox
The cosmic microwave radiation and dark energy
The creation of matter
The creation of radiation
The origin, operation and strength of forces
The nature of photons
The nature of electrons
The nature of space
The number of dimensions
The creation of solar systems and galaxies
FET predictions
Questions Answered by FET
'Wot, no bang?' Out now!
Over 100 questions answered by FET
Home page > FET versus current theories > The origin, operation and strength of forces
Current theories FET
According to the big bang theory, at the moment of the big bang there was one superforce that then split into the strong and weak nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force and gravity.
Electricity is said to result from the opposite charges carried by protons and electrons.
Magnetism is still thought by some to originate from magnetic monopoles.
Quantum theory explains forces as operating through either the exchange of virtual particles that just happen to pop in and out of existence from the continuum or from as yet undiscovered real particles.
Relativity explains the gravitational force as not being a force at all but the distortion of space/time by the presence of matter.
Measurements show that the electromagnetic force is around 1039 times stronger than the gravitational force but the strengths of the strong and weak nuclear forces cannot be directly measured but only assumed values suggested.
Current theories do not tell us how the superforce arose or how it split into different forces.
No magnetic monopoles have ever been detected.
The creation of particles requires vast amounts of energy and this is said to be borrowed from the future and can be paid back as long as they disappear again almost immediately. All forces therefore appear to act as if by magic.
FET shows how the first force that came into existence was the centripetal force that led to the creation of neutron particles and their maturing into hydrogen atoms, the collapse of gas clouds to make stars and the formation of stars into galaxies and clusters.
It also shows how the gravitational force developed as particles were created.
And lastly it shows how the electromagnetic force finally came into existence as neutrons flipped into hydrogen atoms.
FET shows how all forces arise from the flow of fluid energy and are therefore forces of contact between bodies.
FET predicts that the strongest force is the centripetal force and depends upon the size and age of a whirlpool followed by the electromagnetic force which is shown to be 1039 times stronger than the gravitational force.
No other forces are required by FET to explain any known phenomenon or how nucleons are held together within the nuclei of atoms.
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Social Networking Site: Google+
A look at how the search engine's latest offering works
By Peter Griffin
For years now, I’ve been wondering why Google hadn’t made a proper social networking play. Aside from search and advertising, look at its services: Gmail, Blogger, YouTube, Docs, Sites, Maps, Calendar, Shopping, Picasa (picture storage), Picnik (picture editing), Groups, Books, Scholar, Questions, its Chrome OS and browser, not to speak of the Android OS for cellphones, some developed on its own, some from acquisitions. Put them together, and you pretty much have all you need. Except that Google seemed reluctant to put them together.
Instead, we saw Wave, which didn’t exactly disturb the waters, Buzz, a sort of Twitter me-too, which soldiers on obscurely in a tab in our inboxes, and most recently, the +1 button, which works like Facebook’s ‘Like’ button.
Now, finally, the search behemoth is in, with the Google+ Project, launched on June 28 in a ‘limited field trial.’
G+, as we’ve already abbreviated it, requires a free Google ID, which is easily got usually, but not exclusively, by signing up for Gmail. If you use a Google service, you would have noticed some changes, most notably a slim black bar that runs across the top of your browser window with, on the left, the G-products you use and, on the right, your settings and a link to your profile. G+ launches from that bar, and keeps you updated with a discreet icon that turns red when you have new G+ notifications, visible even when you’re using other G-services.
G+’s most visible feature, Circles, operates like Facebook’s little-used Lists: You sort people you follow into Circles; you can then post messages to, or share things (links, video, photographs) with individuals privately, selected Circles or combinations of Circles, or make ‘public’ posts or sharings that can be found by anyone on the Web. No Facebookian walled garden. The other big difference from Facebook: It is asymmetric; you don’t have to ‘friend’ someone to follow or message them (“Hi Larry Page! Hi Sergei Brin!” don’t count on them replying, though), but you can block or be blocked. Which is Twitteresque, but then it’s much more than Twitter, with granular control over who you share with, plus lots more power, flexibility and user-friendliness. Like Sparks, which throws up fresh content for you on subjects you’re interested in (which you can then ‘+1’). G+ also plays nice with handhelds: Huddle lets you exchange messages via your phone with groups that you assemble on the fly; and Hangouts — a big hit already — is a group video chat application with little conceits like automatically enlarging the visual of the person speaking, with the video adjusting to bandwidth and device limitations. (Caveat: Huddle isn’t private. Anyone with your Huddle link can join in.)
Some limitations are already visible and annoying. Personal URLs are long: 21 numerals after the base http://plus.google.com/, impossible for most to remember. But the ecosystem is finding ways: Within days you could get shortened vanity URLs that redirected to G+ pages (I’m gplus.to/griff). Then, Google sternly says that companies shouldn’t set up IDs, G+ is only for real people. Naturally, a number of organisations are blithely ignoring that injunction. (Proving Google hasn’t really anticipated what users will want. Marketers will kill to be where their audiences are.) And there’s the requirement to use a real name, which runs counter to Google’s much-trumped support for anonymity and pseudonymity.
But the big deal here is in the naming: This is the Google+ Project, part of a much bigger plan, a reshaping of the Google experience and really, of Google itself. No longer does Google want to send you on your way after your search results; now, they’re betting the company on keeping you engaged, tearing you away from the world’s biggest time sink: Facebook.
Google hasn’t said when the rest of the world can jump in, but rumour is that should be by end-July. Which, in Internet time, is an aeon, so don’t be surprised if it’s public by the time you read this.
(This story appears in the 29 July, 2011 issue of Forbes India. You can buy our tablet version from Magzter.com. To visit our Archives, click here.)
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Public Service Broadcasting at The O2 Academy, Leeds, UK – 19th October 2017
Public Service Broadcasting arrive in Leeds halfway through the UK leg of the tour promoting their third album, Every Valley. Recorded in Ebbw Vale it’s an album specifically about the South Wales mining industry although it can easily be translated to include not only any UK coal field but any industry in the Western World. It’s a chronological album taking us from when coal was king, through the miners’ strike to pit closures and finally onto how a community copes when its lifeline has been taken away.
TAGS: @PSB_HQ, Academy, band, Concert Photography, Every Valley, Fans, Gig Junkies, Gig photography, Gig Photos, Gig Review, Gig reviews, Gigjunkies, Gigs, J. Willgoose Esq., JF Abraham, Leeds, Live, Live Music, Live Music Photography, Live Music Photos, Live Music Reviews, Mark Loraine, Music, Music Photographers, Music Photography, Music Writers, O2 Academy, October 2017, Photos, Public Service Broadcasting, review, Reviews, Simon Saynor, Tour, UK, Wrigglesworth, Write Up
Inner City Live: The Flaming Lips + Public Service Broadcasting @ Birmingham o2 Academy – 12 August 2017
INNERCITY LIVE BIRMINGHAM comes to town, putting the senses into overload with a night of exceptional live music and extraordinary visuals with The Flaming Lips, plus special guests Public Service Broadcasting, Amber Run and Hoopla Blue.
TAGS: @amberrun, @flaminglips, @HooplaBlue, @PSB_HQ, @PUBLICSERVICEBROADCASTING, Academy, Amber Run, August 2017, band, Bands, Birmingham, Concert Photography, Concert Photos, Concerts, Fans, Gig photography, Gig Photos, Gig Review, Gig reviews, Gigjunkies, Gigs, Helen Williams, Hoopla Blue, Inner City Live, Live, Live Music, Live Music Photography, Live Music Photos, Live Music Reviews, Music, Music Photographers, Music Photography, Music Writers, O2, O2 Academy, Photos, pics, pictures, Public Service Broadcasting, review, Reviews, Rock, set list, setlist, support, The Flaming Lips, Tour, UK, Write Up
PREVIEW: Inner City Live comes to Birmingham with The Flaming Lips and Public Service Broadcasting – 12 August 2017!
This Summer, INNERCITY LIVE BIRMINGHAM looks to put senses into overload with a night of exceptional live music and extraordinary visuals with The Flaming Lips, plus special guests Public Service Broadcasting, Amber Run and Hoopla Blue. This Saturday 12th August 2017, neo-psychedelic extraordinaires The Flaming Lips will be cramming their flight cases with their finest fancy dress, confetti cannons and whacked-out visuals as they head to the The Rainbow Open Air Arena with a face-melting live performance in mind.
TAGS: Amber Run, Birmingham, Festival, Hoopla Blue, Inner City Live, preview, Public Service Broadcasting, The Flaming Lips, The Rainbow Open Air Arena
Live at Times Square: Manic Street Preachers, The Cribs, Public Service Broadcasting, Dream Wife + The Old Pink House @ Newcastle Upon Tyne – 5 August 2017
Inner City music events seem to be de-rigeur for a lot of Britain’s cities and the ‘Toon is not one to be left out of a trend! This particular event was interestingly called “Live from Times Square” and although it was not the New York square made famous by New Year, it was certainly busy busy and eager with anticipation for the bands of the evening…. The Old Pink House, Dream Wife, Public Service Broadcasting, The Cribs and headliners the Manic Street Preachers - that and it was sold out and it was Saturday night in Newcastle which, if you don’t know, is always a damn good party.
TAGS: @brianwilsonlive, @dreamwifedream, @manicstreetpreachers, @oldpinkhousemusic, @PUBLICSERVICEBROADCASTING, @thecribs, August 2017, band, Bands, Concert Photography, Concert Photos, Concerts, Dream Wife, Fans, Gig Junkies, Gig photography, Gig Photos, Gig Review, Gig reviews, Gigjunkies, Gigs, Live, Live Music, Live Music Photography, Live Music Photos, Live Music Reviews, Manic Street Preachers, Mark Loraine, Music, Music Photographers, Music Photography, Music Writers, Newcastle, Old Pink House, Photos, pics, pictures, Public Service Broadcasting, review, Reviews, Rock, setlist, support, The Cribs, Write Up
bluedot Festival, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire 22-24 July 2016
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Public Service Broadcasting at The Refectory, University Of Leeds, UK – 7th February 2016
Public Service Broadcasting’s debut album Inform-Educate-Entertain (with the emphasis on Entertain) seemed to come out of nowhere to a myriad of excellent reviews. Coupled with live shows that took the whole PSB concept to another level Public Service Broadcasting were obviously ones to watch, although every review seemed to come with the caveat ‘limited shelf life’.
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Public Service Broadcasting + Smoke Fairies @ The Library, Birmingham Institute – Wednesday 6th May 2015
“This is a public service announcement. We would like to welcome the people of Birmingham to Birmingham Institute. Tonight performing for your delectation and entertainment will be Public Service Broadcasting with support artists the Smoke Fairies. Thank you for coming along and enjoy tonight’s performance. Yes."
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Galtres Festival at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, York, UK – 22nd – 24th August 2014
Galtres opened with Doncaster band and personal friends Bang Bang Romeo, their first performance on a main festival stage. No surprises in that they nailed it. Just a shame more people couldn't see them due to the site opening not long before they came on stage. I spoke to a few people that night who could hear the band from the queue and were gutted they didn't get to see them.
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Public Service Broadcasting + Story Books at the Library, Institute, Birmingham, UK – 12th November 2013
Tonight’s gig is brought to you by Public Service Broadcasting; a London based duo consisting of J. Willgoose, Esq. on guitar, banjo, other stringed instruments, samplings and electronic instruments; and Wrigglesworth on drums (but also plays piano other instruments), and accompanied on stage by “Mr B.” for the visuals, projections and some ad-hoc live video footage of Willgoose and Wrigglesworth.
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Public Service Broadcasting + The Grafham Water Sailing Club, The Institute, Birmingham, UK – 18 May 2013
They might not be the first group to have ever used samples from vintage films (older readers may recall through an ecstasy addled haze that The Prodigy started off their career by sampling that old Government ad advising kids not to go off with strangers...possibly using ‘charly’ in an entirely different context altogether) and I’m pretty sure there may have been a few others (answers on a postcard please...). But whereas these bands have often just used the odd sample to flavour one of their tracks Public Service Broadcasting (the band) are building their entire career around them. It’s a neat twist, enhanced by the duo’s adoption of stiff upper lip monikers – J. Willgoose, Esq and Wrigglesworth – and their distinctly vintage live shows.
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Lisa Lorentz 10.06.2014 11:50 AM
You’ll Be Sickened When You Hear How GOPer Thinks Women Who Have Abortions Should Be Punished
The subject of abortion has been controversial for years. Many people are very vocal about their support for or against abortion being legal. An author and journalist named Kevin D. Williamson has landed in some hot water for an article that he wrote for the National Review. Williamson is pro-life and in his statements he said that people who identify themselves as liberals or who are young do not have the intelligence to vote and should be restricted from doing so.
Williamson cited the fact that Lena Dunham who is a famous liberal who is pro-choice has used her star power and celebrity to try to get young people to vote. He went on to say that Dunham actually likes that people are having abortions.
Williamson is a conservative and does not believe that anyone should be allowed to have an abortion. He has also stated that while rape and incest is horrible, that women should also be denied the right to abortions in these circumstances.
If abortions were deemed illegal by the government then Williamson has suggested that women who do get abortions should be executed by being hanged. This basically negates a pro-life stance when a person is being killed as well.
He stated that he believed that the taking of an unborn life justifies the punishment because he had seen someone hung for the crime of a homicide. Many conservatives like Williamson believe that abortion is murdering children. His remarks have yet again churned up the abortion debate in the country.
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Sexbots and Violence
Tag: film criticism
Insidious Last Key Is Unwatchable
Bring your tomatoes. The movie about Churchill looked empty. However, Insidious The Key, which leads off with a dad beating on his four year old daughter, then further abusing her by locking her in the basement with demons is doing big business. Prior to beating her the dad asks the daughter to say there are no ghosts, but the daughter likes to get abused (I suppose). We get the usual creepy basement with demon claw hand emerging shots. Then the mom comes down to check on daughter, and gets hung to death by some weird electrical chord (ya! really believable!!). And the child wakes up like 90 years later looking super old, though she died in a previous film. And she is drawing the demon and writing ‘turn the key’, as if she is retarded or something and needs to be writing this down due to lack of intelligence. I have given up on keeping track of the timeline of this series. I cannot in good conscience recommend a film that is essential child beating and demon porn. I walked out 5 minutes into the film and got a well deserved refund. There was a large audience there who seemed to enjoy the film.
Films like the Exorcist were good because they dealt with the battle between good and evil, and the crisis of faith which allows demons in. Insidious and Paranormal Activity are totally failures substantively, because they fail to address the spiritual gap in America which has led to the corrosion of virtue, and lead to the worship of darkness, power, and evil. Instead of priests being called and family members taking up faith, we get a bunch of psychic mediums, who probably couldn’t even predict a stock market rally or a ballgame outcome. These psychics are frauds, and what they see in their visions are merely illusionary lies made by demons, which further opens doorways to more demons. The film actually realizes this and puts it into the plot, which makes it intelligent on one level at least. However the overall goal of the series legitimizes child abuse, and encourages false new age crap that we all know to be lies like psychic BS (paging Miss Cleo!). I personally have strong intuition, but I combine it with faith and also do not presume anything. Medical studies of psychics such as card game draws and such have been shown to only give very slight statistical advantages to those with intuition. Enough to grind out consistent (but small) profits in the casino. But not enough to be omnipresent like a God, as in these films.
Demons are as afraid of light and gospel as non-Christians are of demons. When confronted with demons do not idolize them like in this movie. Instead look down upon them, for they are afraid to come out into the light. Fear no evil.
Or hell, if you wanna be evil, then at least do it consciously and go join those dang demons! Maybe they will kick you down some power or some shit. I am just sick of these wishy-washy in between psychic people. Choose a side already please!
In the meanwhile, if you wanna scare yourself, go listen to some Slayer, or something that doesn’t involve making money off watching four year olds take a beating. That’s really low-brow!
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018 Tags film criticism, Insidious, Last Key, movie review
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“Blade of the Immortal,” a fantastic, gory supernatural Japanese samurai movie from master of horror Takashi Miike, is one of the year’s most entertaining films. Based on a hit manga series in Japan, the plot has many similarities to this year’s hit “Logan” but this movie is actually better! It concerns a little girl who must convince a world-weary, immortal samurai to avenge her family. And so he does, in one of the goriest, craziest, and most epic action films in a long time. The director, whose 100th film this is, may be familiar to American audiences through “Audition,” “Ichi the Killer,” the original “One Missed Call,” and “13 Assassins.” This time he tops himself, giving us a film that is a cross between Akira Kurosawa and Quentin Tarantino. It’s longish but never dull, and is now playing in select theaters and Amazon Prime streaming.
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on November 16, 2017 November 16, 2017 Tags Blade of the Immortal, film critic, film criticism, movie reviews, ninja movies
Thor the Bore
How could a film that is certified fresh at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes be one of the year’s worst films? Its simple, 92% of the public are fucking morons. Watch “Thor Ragnarok” and find out. This Thor sequel could be a good place to start the purge!
In the tradition of “Superman 3” and “Batman and Robin,” this film tosses away any semblance of seriousness to sling joke after joke at us. If the film was funny, like “Superman 3” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” are, this might be forgivable. But with the exception of a great cameo by Stan Lee, this film is not so much funny as painful. See Thor spar with Loki (again)! See Anthony Hopkins (for about a minute)! Watch Cate Blanchett and Jeff Goldblum embarrass themselves (though Goldblum is funny)! Witness the pointless humiliation of the Incredible Hulk character for laughs! Watch scene after scene of elaborate but pointless special effects! Thrill to horrible puns! It’s in 3-D (actually they did OK on that part)! Watch actors fail at conveying emotion in scene after scene! And watch your hard-earned dollars go down the toilet! If you miss one big-budget blockbuster this year, make it “Thor Ragnarok.” I walked out near the end, catastrophically disappointed. “Thor 3” is a bore and a chore, and I couldn’t wait to get out the door.
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on November 14, 2017 Tags film critic, film criticism, movie review, Thor
Harry Dean Stanton’s Last Film Reviewed
Film buffs should take note that a new film called “Lucky” is making the rounds starring the late, great Harry Dean Stanton. The film is about a 90-year old free spirit who is very eccentric and interesting. Du ring the course of the film, we find out about him and his beliefs and we meet other residents of the small town he lives in. The cast also includes Tom Skerritt and Ed Begley Jr., but it’s David Lynch who steals the film as a charming, home-spun oldster who has an unusual bond with his pet turtle Columbus. This is a solid, sometimes hilarious, well-made film that shows conservative people in a good light. Stanton’s and Skerritt’s character are war veterans and it’s nice to see a positive depiction of American veterans for a change. Be sure to stick around for a great gag at the very end! Stanton (from “Repo Man,” “Paris. Texas,” “Christine,” and “Escape from New York”) is incredibly affecting and deserves an Oscar. Don’t miss this excellent, bittersweet comedy!
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on November 11, 2017 November 11, 2017 Tags film critic, film criticism, Harry Dean Stanton, movie reviews
Thank You For Your Service Says ‘Fuck You’ to Kneelers
Everywhere I go in Salinas these days people pull me aside to talk shit about the NFL kneelers. “Too many people in my family died for that flag”, “Those motherfuckers”, and stuff like that are the common small talk here. To start with, fans were not happy their local team the Raiders up and decided to move to Vegas despite sell-outs. Meanwhile the 49ers lost all their first 7 or 8 games, following the Colin Kap debacle where he started the kneeling trend.
I wasn’t expecting much from “Thank You For Your Service,” but I ended up being very pleasantly surprised. This film, which stars Miles Teller and is directed by the writer-producer of “American Sniper,” paints a bleak picture of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It shows the terror of war by following three Iraq War vets through their post-war experiences, which tend to be scarier than any horror film I’ve seen this year. One of the soldiers is an African American who has almost completely lost his ability to remember dates. Your heart goes out to him. Because the film is a true story, the resolution is not as exciting as it seems like it could be. But it’s a powerful film, and Amy Schumer (who I’m not wild about) is fine in a straight dramatic role. This movie is definitely worth seeing and probably better than “American Sniper.” Don’t miss it if you like serious films!
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on November 4, 2017 November 4, 2017 Tags film critic, film criticism, movie review, red pill, Thank you for your service movie
Walter Hill’s Assignment is Twisted
If there’s one movie you’re not supposed to like this year, it’s “The Assignment.” If you’re a member of the LGBT community, you’re supposed to be offended by its mere existence. If you’re the regular average Joe, the themes of sex change combined with copious male and female nudity will offend. Conversely, we at GROIN kind of like it! “The Assignment” (2016) is the new film by Walter Hill, a consistently good director whose work includes “The Warriors” and “Streets of Fire.” Perhaps dissatisfied with well-crafted but non-distinctive recent work like “Bullet to the Head,” Hill has opted to make the first action flick (that I know of) about a sex change.
Sigourney Weaver plays a brilliant, quite mad doctor who wants revenge for the death of her estranged brother. Frank Kitchen (played by Michelle Rodriguez) is a super-macho gangster who committed the crime and is about to get the surprise of his life. He is now a she, and will have to discover his feminine side as he enacts bloody revenge for an operation he never wanted. Meanwhile, the audience gets graphic male and female nudity so we are convinced that Frank is authentically male and female.
This movie kind of trashes the SF Tenderloin District lifestyle in its immorality and seediness. In between scenes there are comic book like jump cuts reminiscent of his earlier classic The Warriors. The antagonists include mad plastic surgeons, psychiatrists, Chinamen Mafioso types, and dive bar trolls. The best thing is the quick pace of the film, and the high number of action sequences. The film’s use of SF as a dark backdrop of societal collapse is effective. This movie subversively does not give the gay lifestyle a pass. As such, it is a brave film.
We are supposed to be offended, apparently, that Frank didn’t want the operation and doesn’t like being female. I was more interested in the performances of Rodriguez and Weaver. Rodriguez, who was also good in “Girlfight,” is convincing as the transgender protagonist. We believe her as both sexes, and we also believe she is tough and unhappy. For Weaver, this is her best work since the 1990’s. Proclaiming her superiority to all of mankind and outraged that more people don’t know Shakespeare and Poe front and backwords , she is the most memorable antagonist in a long time. Rent it to sneer and watch it to gasp, because “The Assignment” is the rare B-action flick that doesn’t suck.
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on October 18, 2017 October 18, 2017 Tags action movies, cult movie reviews, cult movies, film critic, film criticism, The Assignment, Walter Hill
American Made Delivers
“American Made” is Tom Cruise’s best movie in awhile. It’s a dark comedy based on true events about a pilot who gets in way over his head working for the C.I.A. and, later, Pablo Escobar and Manuel Noriega. Because his actions shed so much negative light on America’s activities in the Middle East (detailed in the Iran-Contra scandal), he is able to escape punishment for an extraordinarily long time. Although Cruise has trouble with his character’s southern accent, he fearlessly portrays his character’s lack of moral qualms. In fact, in terms of having access to planes, a ton of money, and guns for no good reason, his character resembles the Vegas shooter. Is this just a coincidence, or is it some kind of deeper message from Hollywood about how history repeats. Look at Obama’s cash pallet Iran deal. Or how the CIA accidentally armed ISIS when the Iraqi army forfeited their weapons.
One of the best things about this film was that the cinematography was excellent. Many of the shots of the vast forests of South America are breath-taking as Cruise flies above. There are some similarities to the film Gold, starring Mathew McConoughey, released not long ago. Its good that films about serious subject matter are sometimes still hitting the mainstream.
Director Doug Liman of “The Bourne Identity” and “Edge of Tomorrow” fame keeps the story focused and the satire sharp. It’s definitely better than the similar “Lord of War” and “War Dogs.” And compared to “Air America” it is golden. The problems with those other films is that they were too whimsical. In short, if you’re looking for a serious film that happens to be very entertaining, go with “American Made.”
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on October 13, 2017 October 13, 2017 Tags American Made, CIA, film critic, film criticism, Iran Contra, movie review, movie reviews, Noreiga, Pablo Escobar, Tom Cruise
Battle of the Sexes (Women Won)
This new flick Battle of the Sexes, about the chauvinist gambler and former Wimbleton winner who took on female tennis pro Bill Jean King, is a good combination of humor and social commentary. The film is well balance in a way that few films are. Kind of reminds me of Rain Man in that regard. The sets and costumes really capture the era of the 70s very well.
Do you remember hearing about the tennis match in the 70s between them, in which Billie Jean King won? I remember HBO sports pushing documentaries about it really hard when I was like 5 years old, in between Mike Tyson boxing decapitations. This movie makes an interesting point: that women won the battle of the sexes, in terms of independence, pay, and social prestige. Billie Jean King becomes liberated from her husband by a dike lover to rub in the fact that she wins this charade of a tennis match. It is rather unsettling. The husband has to cuck. And that’s the problem. Don’t blame women for being misguided. Its the men who cucked societally and allowed this corrosion, where men get walked all over.
Steve Carell plays the male chauvinist very effectively. He is a dead look-alike in fact. At the time the guy was so past retirement that the match was a bogus litmus test for the make species. John McEnroe would have kicked Billie Jean’s ass. Anyhow, Carell brings a zeal and enthusiasm to the role which is unmatched in the film. He does manage to beat the #2 tennis star in the world at the time, who is the more traditional woman. Strangely and wrongly, the movie subtly hints that a traditional woman does not handle pressure as well as a gay one.
This is a hard film to review and grade so I would recommend you see it yourself and come to your own decision. Prepare to have a few laughs and possibly be outraged at dike scenes where you were not invited in as a threesome.
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on October 11, 2017 October 18, 2017 Tags Battle of the Sexes, film criticism, movie critic, movie reviews, red pill, Steve Carell
St. Ives: A Bronson Classic
Whenever you’re looking for quick action fix, you can’t do any better than a 1970’s or a 1980’s Charles Bronson film, but for different reasons. The 1970’s films like “Death Wish,” “The Mechanic,” and “Hard Times” are genuine classics, whereas the 1980’s films like “Death Wish 2,” “Death Wish 3” and “Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects” are so-bad-they’re-good. “St. Ives,” a 1976 film I just watched, falls into the former category. It has a “Chinatown” film noir feeling that I really like, and the music is appropriate for the time.
The cast includes John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximallian Schell, and also Jeff Goldblum and Robert Englund as hoods. Bronson plays Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter and ex-policeman who is hired by the nefarious John Houseman to retrieve five stolen ledgers. Many deaths ensue, and Bronson ends up spear-heading a robbery to get revenge for a job gone wrong. My favorite scene in the movie is the first, in which Bronson is being confronted and accused at gunpoint, which throws us into the narrative right away because we want to know why he’s in trouble. This film is classic 1970’s cinema because it combines action, conspiracy, and a detective story. The director, J. Lee Thompson, made “Cape Fear” and “The Guns of Navarone,” as well as 8 other Charles Bronson films. This is probably the best one. If you’re looking for a classic 1970’s Charles Bronson experience look no further than “St. Ives”!
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on August 28, 2017 August 28, 2017 Tags action movies, Charles Bronson, film criticism, film noir, movie reviews, retro movie reviews, St. Ives
Anabelle Sucks
OK, so the original “Annabelle” sucked pond water, but “Annabelle: Creation” got good reviews, so I decided to check out. It fucking sucks too! With a lame poster like this, who could go wrong:
They could not think of a better cliché , so instead the opening scenes were the only good scenes in the picture, as they detail the sad (and based on fact) story of a family that has a tragic accident involving a little girl named Annabelle. Where have I seen this before? Well like a thousand other movies (because its supposedly based on a true thing!). Well -so far, so good. But then we get this “Little Orphan Annie” bullshit about the bereaved family letting an orphanage of little Catholoc girls shack up in their luxurious (and creepy) estate which makes no sense. We also get a plot that exploits the disability (polio) of a little girl, including a creepy lift to the upstairs of the house. The little girl unlocks a door she’s not supposed to and soon the jump scares and “Exorcist” and “Conjuring” rip-offs begin. At no point is the orphanage, led by a nun who’s not very bright, ready to pack up and leave despite many terrible things happening. Geez. What’s wrong with the nuns these days??
If you’ve been following this review, you’ll notice that this film is not content with putting little girls in jeopardy, but has decided to double down and put a little disabled girl in jeopardy. Its a movie about whatever it will take to fill seats and sell popcorn basically. After a while, it becomes simply a succession of jump scares. You can go take a leak at any point in this film and you won’t miss anything. Go refill that $7 soda. When this happened, the packed audience became more entertaining than the movie. Dozens of cries of “aw hell no!” as well as predictions of what was going to happen provided the entertainment the film itself was lacking. It was one of those crowds where there is a really low IQ going on, and you have to duck and hide on the way out.
So although the film is slightly better than the first “Annabelle,” it still comes down on pandering to the audience rather than telling a good story. Its like sex with a fat chick, not very good!
Horror fans are advised to skip it and wait for “Stephen King’s It,” which generated more creepiness and atmosphere in a two-minute clip before the film than both “Annabelle” films combined. I have no idea why the crowd applauded loudly at the end. My cash would have been better spent at the racetrack frankly.
Author Lord Beardschlimmer Wilhelm Bartholomew IIIPosted on August 15, 2017 August 15, 2017 Tags Anabelle, film criticism, horror movies, movie reviews
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One of Hollywood’s best action franchises gets bigger — if not always better — in a bloody sequel that functions as a meditation on fame.
For a semi-retired super assassin who’s killed more people than the Bubonic plague, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is actually a pretty relatable guy. Beneath the concave cheekbones, the magical handguns with infinite bullet capacity, and the byzantine criminal underworld that stretches to every corner of the globe, he’s just a monosyllabic middle-aged man who wants to be left the fuck alone.
When the first movie of this increasingly ridiculous saga began, Mr. Wick was grieving his wife’s death in peace—then some Russian mobsters made the mistake of killing his dog (her name was Daisy, and she was very cute). This aggression, unknowingly committed against a man so dangerous that he used to be known as “Baba Yaga,” forced John back into the network of contract killers he’d once left behind. And ever since the shadowy crime lords of the High Table sniffed blood, they haven’t lost the scent or minded their own business.
At the end of “John Wick: Chapter 2,” our laconic hero committed a big no-no by shooting a pest on the consecrated grounds of the Continental Hotel, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and every New Yorker knows what it’s like when the world gets a bit too close for comfort.
Giddy, exhausting, and breathtakingly violent, “Spider-Man: Far from Home” begins a few seconds Spider-Man: Far from Home the previous installment left off, with the excommunicated assassin trying to make the most of the hour-long headstart he’s been given to hide before the $14 million bounty on his head is triggered and the entire criminal underworld comes Spider-Man: Far from Home him. Of course, anyone who’s seen the previous films in this unexpected franchise knows that its criminal underworld is more of an overworld, and that almost every featured extra?—?from street vendors and waiters to dog-walkers and homeless people?—?is a heat-packing hired gun who uses their role in the capitalist system as a disguise for their deeper allegiance to a veiled society that operates on an ancient market of codes and blood oaths.
Now that Mr. Wick is square in the middle of all of those crosshairs, it’s become comically impossible for the deathless widower to find the solace he seeks. He’s a target, and it seems like the entire world has its finger on the trigger; he used to be anonymous, but now he’s a celebrity.
In its most enjoyably demented moments, “Parabellum” is nothing short of a non-stop metaphor for being famous. Less artful but more concussive than its immediate predecessor, this latest outing finds Mr. Wick being clocked by strangers every time he enters a room, stalked by his biggest fans, and so desperate for someone who will treat him like an actual human being that he travels all the way to the Sahara Desert to find them. Everyone in the world knows him by name, New York City is the only place on Earth he can hide in plain sight, and the perks of his job don’t seem to compare with the harassment that comes with them.
As Wick stumbles through the wet neon streets of Times Square—returning us to a surprisingly involved film world that flows like “The Raid” and looks like a hyper-saturated Instagram feed?—?it’s hard not to think of Reeves’ recent experience on a malfunctioning airplane, and how even that death-defying ordeal was turned into a viral moment (to the actor’s mild chagrin). Reeves once said that Wick was 40% him, but that number seems to have crept up a bit this time around. No movie has ever expressed the fight for anonymity with such viscerally literal force.
True to the serialized nature of its title, “Spider-Man: Far from Home” starts in media res and ends on a cliffhanger. For an 131-minute film that devotes roughly 110 minutes of its runtime to people shooting each other in the head at close range, it would be almost impossible to follow for someone who isn’t up to speed. Still, the gist of the plot is pretty simple: John Wick kills a lot of people. Like, a lot of people. By the end of “Parabellum,” he’s basically the leading cause of death in henchmen between the ages of 25 and 50.
More of a one-man massacre than ever before (but just raggedy enough to keep things “real”), Mr. Wick fights in a punishingly brutal style that builds on what director Chad Stahelski invented for the character in the previous films. This is a character who appears to know every single language under the sun, but violence is the most expressive part of his vocabulary (Reeves speaks maybe 100 words in the entire movie). Chinese wushu, Japanese judo, Southeast Asian silat, American Glock… Wick is fluent in them all.
But while Stahelski and his team have obviously put a great deal of thought into every frame of fisticuffs, “Parabellum” is so relentless that it often devolves into a numbing flurry of shoulder flips and headshots. If “Chapter 2” bordered on high art for how cleverly it weaved tactical shootouts into public locations (and made every fight operate like an organic bit of world-building), “Chapter 3” is more out in the open. A sneaky little skirmish in Grand Central Station doesn’t live up to Stahelski’s creative potential, even if it’s amazing they pulled off the scene at all.
Elsewhere, a motorcycle chase along an empty Manhattan bridge is too rushed and blurry to deliver the “Fury Road” ferocity it teases, and the climactic brawl?—?which makes great use of some familiar faces, and hinges on a funny dynamic of mutual respect—is overwhelmed by a set that looks like a high-end watch commercial, and feels like a watered-down retread of the house of mirrors sequence from the end of the previous movie.
Driven by a profound respect for the expressive power of beating someone to death, and empowered by their 54-year-old star’s remarkable skill and commitment, Stahelski and the other poets of percussive carnage that work at his 87Eleven Productions are still (a severed) head and shoulders above the rest of Hollywood’s stunt community. But they can do more with this character, even if it means slowing things down and widening them out.
To that end, it’s telling that the most exciting brawl in “Parabellum” (with the possible exception of a knife fight in a Chinatown antiques store) maintains a more expansive vision, as Mr. Wick fights alongside Halle Berry and some four-legged sidekicks. Traveling to Casablanca for reasons that are never adequately explained, Mr. Wick meets up with an assassin named Sofia who owns a pair of well-trained Malinois dogs; like every other supporting character in this movie, there’s mixed blood between them, and she owes him something for some reason.
There are coins and seals and lots of jibber jabber about High Table manners and then “Game of Thrones” star Jerome Flynn shows up as a Bronn-like business type who’s a bit too greedy for his own good (it’s hard to tell what accent Flynn is doing here, but he’s most definitely doing it). When the bullets fly, Sofia’s very good boys lend a valuable assist, and Stahelski has to open things up in order to frame the dogs as they chew on fresh corpses. The sequence is very “John Wick” and horribly terrific in a hand-over-your-mouth kind of way; it does more than any of the tossed-off business with the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburn) or the Continental Hotel owner (Ian McShane) to whet our appetites for another adventure. Anjelica Huston is also somewhat wasted as the matriarch of a Harlem ballet academy with ties to Wick’s past, but her scenes are so immaculately shot that you’re willing to let it slide.
In a film that plays fast and loose with NYC geography, all is forgiven by turning 175th street’s United Palace into the “Tarkovsky Theater,” where people are trained to be killers in between performances of “Swan Lake.”
The film’s world-building works best in small doses. A meeting in the middle of the desert is a total dead end, whereas all sorts of fun details can be inferred from Stahelski’s frequent cutaways to the High Table nerve center, where dozens of tattooed and lip-glossed workers monitor Wick’s bounty with an old-fashioned switchboard (imagine a SuicideGirls reboot of “Mad Men” and you’ll have the right idea). Non-binary “Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon plays a stiff and slinky High Table adjudicator who’s covered in Thierry Mugler coture; part referee and part femme fatale, their performance speaks to an underworld that’s sustained by a mutual respect for all people so long as they don’t shoot the wrong target.
While this franchise is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth, such details suggest that screenwriter Derek Kolstad (here sharing credit with three other scribes) can still mine this world for plenty of new life, so long as future installments find a way to deepen the John Wick mythos instead of just stretching it out. With the significant exception of “Mission: Impossible,” this is easily the best action franchise Hollywood has going these days, and it would be great for it to keep going with renewed focus.
The fact that Keanu Reeves is nearing 60 won’t matter to his fans. For one thing, the man is seemingly ageless. For another, retirement no longer seems like a realistic option for a guy who still gets recognized everywhere he goes. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Hollywood star or a $14 million bounty—fame can be a difficult thing to shake. It’s a work-or-die world, and being forgotten is neither on the table nor under it.
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"That's really all that I have left to dream about and hope about."
July 30, 2008 by Joanna
I was away and busy, so no baseball. A few quick thoughts:
That was a completely waste of a genius Doc effort.
Fuck the homeplate ump. Yes, Garza pitched really well, but it's easy when pitches on the outside of both sides of the plate are called strikes.
Scott Rolen is hurt, which is why his play has kind of blown. See, puckheads? This is why these guys shouldn't "man up and play hurt." Cause it doesn't work.
Let's just re-up AJ already. I mean, come on. Why go after another free agent who isn't as good? To paraphrase DJF, he's a douche, but he's our douche.
And can we get Manny already? He's a flake, he's weird but he's one of the sickest right handed hitters in the history of the game. Hits a shit load at the Rog Mahal. And it'll give me someone to make fun of if AJ leaves.
I feel strangely ok for staying quiet before the trade deadline.
Oh, I've been wondering where Gregg Zaun has been. Well, here he is! Yeah...Cito isn't much of a fan.
And JP's in fine asshole form here "Part of making a trade is someone has to want you. Right now, there's no one that has expressed an interest in him. That's where we're at."
Translated, it goes like this "Bitch, I took you on when no one wanted your ass cause you were drunk and now you think you can go to the press and bitch about something. Talk to Cito. Motherfucker"
July 30, 2008 /Joanna
The ballad of Doc and AJ, shut up fans, supreme suckage
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The far-right’s plan to capture Europe
Published by UnHerd (6th August, 2018)
When future generations try to make sense of this turbulent chapter in European history, the name of Viktor Orban will loom large. For one thing, the Hungarian prime minister symbolises the sudden dramatic shifts we are seeing in Western society. Having started out as a democracy activist who dared challenge Communism, he has ended up, three decades later, as the influential architect of an illiberal form of populism that is infecting our continent like a virulent disease.
This is the man who set the template for Donald Trump, albeit without the tantrums on social media. Steve Bannon, the United States President’s repellent former strategist, even called him ‘Trump before Trump’. Since winning untramelled power in Budapest eight years ago, Orban has created the model for a new nationalism sweeping through Rome, Warsaw and Washington, with its admiration of autocrats, scapegoating of refugees, hostility to Muslims, attacks on globalisation and creeping erosion of checks on power.
Having just won another election, campaigning with a barrage of assaults on the Hungarian-born philanthropist George Soros that carried the sickening stench of antisemitism, Orban now seeks nothing less than the transformation of Europe in his image. We cannot say we have not been warned – since he is open about his intentions despite governing only two per cent of the continent’s population. The latest version of the speech he gives annually to young Hungarians at a summer camp in Transylvania sets out his vision of ‘illiberal democracy’.
This speech echoes Trump’s tropes with hostility to China, sympathy for Russia and savage attacks on elites (obviously ignoring the ones at home growing rich through closeness to his own Fidesz party). Orban poses as champion of traditional Christian identity and values, demanding rejection of ‘the ideology of multiculuralism’, an end to ‘open society Europe’ and curbing of ‘the Muslim influx’. He even parrots those tedious claims about censorship and political correctness thwarting debate of immigration, ignoring how this issue dominates headlines.
Orban scorns the elites in Brussels. But unlike his populist pals in Britain, he does not seek exit from the club, nor its demise. This would be even crazier than Brexit, since Hungary receives more European Union cash per capita than any other member, accounting for much of its public investment. This flow of funds provides the bedrock of his economic success and often ends up in the hands of friends. So, instead, he wants control. He is calling for his allies to ‘concentrate with all our strength’ on next year’s European elections – not least by continuing to weaponise migration, despite the big drop in new arrivals this year.
Orban uses refugees and religion to accuse his opponents of undermining Hungary’s cultural identity. He has passed a barrage of hostile measures including criminalising those who help undocumented migrants win asylum and shackling NGOs, while his party even appoints theatre directors to guard against any subversion. Now he wants to dominate the European stage, claiming next year’s elections are critical. ‘We must demonstrate there is an alternative to liberal democracy: it is called Christian democracy,’ he told the crowd of young Hungarians. ‘We must show the liberal elite can be replaced with a Christian democratic elite… Liberal democracy is liberal, while Christian democracy is, by definition, not liberal: it is, if you like, illiberal.’
This is a declaration of war on human rights, minorities and tolerance. Orban and his fellow travellers admire autocracies in China, Russia and Turkey. They want border fences and conformity, not civil rights and refugees. They believe majorities can trample over minorities, whether on moral issues such as protecting people fleeing conflict or social issues such as non-traditional lifestyles. The results can be toxic; just look at the hideous treatment of Roma communities in Hungary and now Italy. Or indeed, those migrant families ripped apart at US borders.
This is all part of the current struggles over identity and race, wrapped up as ever in complex issues such as economic dislocation, social exclusion and technological advance. Just as those areas of Britain most alarmed by immigration are often ones with fewest migrants, this challenge to core values comes from Europe’s most ethnically homogenous area. Foreign citizens make up less than two per cent of the Hungarian population – which is, ironically, less than numbers emigrating over the past decade from a rapidly ageing society with low birthrates.
This assault from the east, stoking fears of minorities and outsiders to mask cronyism and domestic decline, comes as Western societies bicker over diversity and integration. Orban is joined in battle by Bannon with a new foundation aiming to forge a far-right alliance to cause maximum disruption in Brussels and Europe. ‘He’s a hero…the most significant guy on the scene,’ said Trump’s former strategist while touring Europe recently. Bannon is a man, remember, who also told far-right French activists that accusations of racism should be seen as ‘a badge of honour.’
Having presided over a slide towards authoritarianism at home, Orban wants to ‘wave goodbye to liberal democracy’ in Europe next year. So how will progressive forces respond to his paranoid politics, especially since this comes at a time when leading nations such as Britain and Germany are obsessed with internal issues and riven with their own divisions along lines of age, class and region? So far, the omens are not good; Orban’s party is still allowed to sit with the main conservative group in Brussels, for instance, while he was permitted to wreck efforts to solve the migration crisis by rejecting a plan to assist frontline states by sharing refugees.
We are witnessing a fight over Europe’s identity as a bastion of decency, birthplace of democracy and home of human rights. Orban rules a small land with a fractured history, but he presents serious challenge to our values with his crass illiberalism, majoritian popularism and an ugly brand of nationalism. Liberals of all colours need to rediscover confidence and remake their creeds for the modern era. Yet what tragic irony if ideals forged in wake of terrible war, then exported eastwards after the defeat of communism, should rebound by corroding our own democracies.
Animals. Are they so different to us?
Warped priorities
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Islamophobia should be called out
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With the election of Shelly Yachimovich to head Israel’s Labor Party, two major political parties are led by women for the first time in the country’s history. This is an encouraging development not only because it helps advance gender fairness in Israeli society, but also because it potentially signals a new era for Israeli politics, one that has implications for issues as wide-ranging as the military, the peace process, the role of the Haredim and the movement for social justice.
My Son, the Babysitter?
There are moments when I feel bad for boys. Like every time my son tries to get a babysitting job. The scene is almost always the same. A parent — almost always a mother — calls up to ask my oldest daughter to babysit. My daughter, in age-appropriate behavior for a 17-year old, will often say that she is busy, but that she has a younger brother who may be available. “But does he know how to babysit?” usually comes the reply. Other times there is an awkward silence, when the offending mother realizes she is about to be obnoxious — sexist really — and tries to make other excuses. Lately, questions about the availability of my son’s younger sister have increased in frequency. She is 12½ , by the way, and is now in high demand, with at least one weekly job. My son, by contrast, has had about two babysitting jobs in the past six months. (Not to worry, he is in high demand as a dog-walker, so he still has money to go to the movies with his friends.)
How internet trolls are destroying women's creative work: Guest blog by Elke Weiss
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Trolls no longer live under bridges. In today’s age of the Internet, anyone with a fake name, a keyboard and far too much time on their hands can spend their time posting insults and harassing writers. According to an unscientific but still illuminating yougov.com poll, 30% of men have admitted to trolling online, as compared to 18% of women And while all people suffer, women have an especially vicious gauntlet to navigate when creating an online presence. I was trolled yesterday on the question and answer site, Quora. I’m a blogger, who writes about Israeli politics, agnosticism, Jewish feminism and Marvel Comics. (Guess which one doesn’t get me hatred?) Around 20 questions were posted about me, and more than half were directly gendered. It fascinated me that the insults that came up over and over again was that I was “fat” and “ugly” and “no man would have me.” Comments about my sex life and my weight were posted over and over again, including questions about how I “gorged” myself on food. I admit it, I briefly considered shutting down my account. I knew that as I got more followers and more attention, I would become even more targeted. The internet can magnify a small amount of people into an angry mob. At first, I was reduced to tears, but the gendered insults instilled in me in a sense of rage. Why was the worst thing to say about a woman was that she wasn’t pleasing to a man? If this piece of trash was going to insult me, why pick those? It hit me hard that to a small but vocal minority, questioning my desirability is a way to put me in my place. I might be a well-known writer with over 17,200 followers, and two advanced degrees, working on my dream project, but anonymous trolls can still attempt to reduce me to “How much does this woman please men?” Is that the worse they can say about me? I must be doing something right. As of now, Quora has done nothing to help. Because of the anonymity feature, there is no way to track my abuser and the form email I got advised me to block the person. Problem is? I can’t block anonymous people, since I have no idea who they are. Even if I could block them, another fake account can easily take its place. I should be able to ignore trolls, but the constant abuse wears away at women. Friends of mine have been trolled and have reduced their public writing, because putting themselves into the fire is just too exhausting. Women are prevented from getting a platform, for fear of reaching a level of fame that will invite abuse and scorn from keyboard warriors. No single comment is significant, but it’s a death of a million paper cuts. Male friends on Quora are dumbfounded by the hate. Of all of the ones I asked, none has experienced the language I have endured. And the trolls...
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When rabbis don’t know right from left; or, learning to listen to the God within
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There is a fascinating debate in the rabbinic literature about how far rabbinic authority goes. It is an argument over two words in a verse in Deuteronomy (17; 11) that admonishes the people of Israel not to deviate from the word of the Torah “right and left” yamin u’smol . The dispute sheds light on what some rabbis thought about their followers and themselves. This particular verse is very significant for the rabbis over the generations, because the Talmudists shrewdly manipulate the words in a way that constructs rabbis as exclusive agents of the word of God. “Do not deviate”, they argue, is a commandment meant for the mere plebian Jews who are too boorish to know what the Torah means. These run-of-the-mill Jews need rabbis to reveal God’s intentions. “Do not deviate” gave rabbis justification to invent a plethora of practices – such as lighting Shabbat candles or washing hands before eating bread – and claim that they are directly from God. Jews funnily recite the words, “…as God sanctified us and commanded us”, over some of these customs, even though they are not written in the Torah. The rabbis said, so it’s as if it’s from God. Do not deviate. Rabbinical cleverness has often served us well. The rabbis created, for example, the notion of pikuach nefesh , that saving of a life justifies breaking Shabbat. Apparently in non-rabbinical Jewish communities, such as the Ethiopian Jewish community pre-Aliyah, the concept of pikuach nefesh doesn’t exist. So that, for example, years ago when a group of Ethiopian boarding school students in Israel watched the fire department extinguish a blaze on Shabbat – which is against the bible – the kids refused to return to the boarding school because in their view, putting out the fire was a violation of Judaism. The idea of pikuach nefesh, the primacy of saving a life, may be a biblical fiction, but it’s a good one. The rabbis who invented it listened to their own hearts and understood right from wrong, and shared that with all of us. As arbiters of change, the rabbis have made many rules over the generations that radically alter the letter of the Torah, such as allowing Israeli banks to charge interest, allowing Israeli farmers to grow crops in the seventh year, allowing Jews to keep bread hidden in their closets over Passover, and more. They have changed everything except arguably (in Orthodoxy at least) the status of women in marriage and in leadership because, well, that is apparently just going too far. In any case, in a class this week with Rabbi Shlomo Fox at Hebrew Union College, we discussed these issues along with a particularly riveting set of rabbinic writings on these verses. We first read an interpretation by Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, one of the primary medieval commentators on the Bible and Talmud. Rashi wanted to know what the Torah meant by “right and left”, and he wrote, “Even if [your rabbis] show you something...
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Breaking worlds: Noach, Trump, Meredith Grey, and me
“ Sometimes doctors have to break things before they heal them ,” Meredith Grey recently said in one of her famous Grey’s Anatomy voiceovers. I wasn’t actually watching the show, but just passing through a room where someone else was watching. The words sort of seeped into my subconscious, the way so much of the Jewish prayer does when you are listening absentmindedly to someone else reading the words. “Sometimes,” she continued (trigger warning: graphic content ahead), “if a broken bone did not set right, we have to break it again and reset it.” Ouch. Seriously, ouch. Once I got over my squeamishness, I realized that this metaphor really speaks to me. Actually, I think it describes me. And perhaps also much of the world. I am broken. I have been broken by flawed ideas that seek to own me, by people who were supposed to love me, by societies and communities that treat people like me as objects rather than as human. I have been broken by words and by deeds, by individuals and by groups, by others and ultimately by myself. But now, I am the one who has done the breaking. I broke out, I broke free, I broke norms, I broke conventions, I broke expectations, I broke rules established by others, I broke down ideas that are wrong, I broke gender constructs, and I finally broke through. My decision to become a Reform rabbi is about all of this. It is about breaking what was already broken in order to create something that is healthy and healing. I thought about this around yesterday’s Torah portion as well, Noach. This is a story about a great being (God) who created a great thing (The World) and then broke it all (via flood) in order to start again. Ouch. Reading this, you can’t help but wonder why God thought that this was the only option. Did he really have to break the entire world? Wasn’t there any good in it? I guess God knows, as Meredith Grey knows, that sometimes there is no way to fix something other than to start all over. I think about this regarding the world we are living in now. We are living in such a broken place. The election of Trump was the act of such wanton destruction. His election broke so much. It broke hope, it broke integrity, it broke belief in humanity, it broke compassion, it broke decency, it broke honesty, it broke care, it broke logic, it broke truth, it broke progress, it broke bridges, it broke connections, it broke cooperation, it broke generosity, and it broke the movement towards creating a better world. We are all experiencing the impacts of that breaking on a regular basis. And there is so much that is breaking that he allows to continue to break. Floods. Fires. Hurricanes. Mass shootings. One after another, breaking, breaking, breaking. And he does this actively and on purpose, not just by neglect or stupidity. Trump seeks to continue breaking everything that he can. He is trying to...
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Because shaming or humiliating women is still okay....
JewFem Blog: Gender in Judaism and Orthodoxy
I have been getting so many notes from women, from across the Jewish world, about my decision to become a Reform rabbi. Even though I know that this is really hard for Orthodox feminists, who are constantly trying to prove that they are Orthodox and not Reform, I have also been receiving a lot of camraderie along with mourning. The note that I am sharing here is in that category, too. But I have decided to share it because this story she writes about humiliating women happened YESTERDAY. In 2017. It is still okay to literally ask women to leave, to roll over, to abandon her own needs and spiritual practices, because men come first. We need to air these stories. "Hi Elana. Mazal tov on your choice, I truly wanted to reach out and tell you this story, because I finally understand your choice. When you first announced it, I admit that I was sad. I wasn't disappointed in you, I totally supported you doing what worked best for you. I just felt my heart break that this would be used against Orthodox feminists, who would say 'See? A little feminism and you leave the Torah' and tighten restrictions more. But then my friend, an Orthodox Jewish woman with kids, was humiliated today, with her husband being told to ask her to leave [the sukkah] (my friend was sitting right there, but no one spoke to her) because women and children do not have a 'chiyyuv' [obligation] and men who have that chiyyuv might need the seats. Even though there were other empty seats, it was offensive my friend was taking up seats that in the minds of some rightfully 'belonged' to men, men who weren’t in the restaurant or who might not even exist." And it hit me. It finally hit me why you left. It's because intelligent men who learn plenty blatt Gemara [page of talmud] can decide my friend and her beautiful children are not really people, and don't deserve basic courtesy. They're just...appendages to be stored away at the convenience of men who aren't even there. My friend's Judaism isn't as vital as a potential male's Judaism, she should be considering men and making herself smaller so she doesn't take up room. In what world is 'Reform' more problematic than advocating women be so invisible that they sacrifice for potential men? The cudgel is there, no matter what we do. Those advocating the silencing of women will silence even modestly dressed Orthodox women for eating in public. You're just saying 'I won't take it anymore.' Good for you." When i say "compassion first", this is what I mean. A world in which it is considered "okay" to humiliate women because of how a particular man reads halakha, that is not a world built on compassion. It is not a world that is built in the Divine image. And it is not Torah.
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News or cautionary tale? When an Orthodox feminist becomes a Reform rabbi
My decision to become a reform rabbi is apparently newsworthy. It was reported in a whole bunch of Jewish papers -- Forward , Times of Israel , JTA , E jewishphilanthropy , and a few others. Most of these articles covered the story from the angle of Orthodox feminism to Reform, as in the Forward headline, "Former Orthodox Feminist Leader Now Studying To Be Reform Rabbi". It sounds like I'm a former KGB agent defecting. Like a vegan suddenly becoming a spokesperson for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Like a Mac user buying a PC. Shocking! This has a lot to do with the way Reform is presented in Orthodoxy. It is that enemy thing. Indeed, one Orthdoox woman who is trying to arrange a Simchat Torah celebration for women in her synagogue told me that her rabbi opposes women even holding the Torah because if women start doing that, they will become Reform. I said, I feel like I've become the cautionary tale. First women want to be part of the synagogue ritual, and then what? OMG they may decide to become a RABBI! Of course it isn't that way. Putting aside for a moment the gender double standard -- that is, men who want to be more engaged are celebrated while women are feared -- this whole attitude to the movements is misguided at best. For one thing, the way that Reform is presented in Orthodox discourse is wrong. Reform isn't the enemy of Judaism, or even the enemy of halakha. Reform is, as I keep saying, the big tent. It is also the movement that places compassion first. Neither of these negates Torah. They are completely legitimate and beautiful ways to interpret Torah. Moreover, if an Orthodox woman is disillusioned by her religious practice and is already marginalized and slipping away from communal life, then I would say it is much better for her to decide to take an active role in Reform Judaism than to walk away entirely. This decision is my way to step inside the community -- deep inside, as it were, completely enmeshed -- rather than, say, become Buddhist, or just a completely disconnected Jew. Miriam Shaviv, in a pained and honest response to my news, wrote about her own feelings of being disengaged from her community . In her oped in The Jewish Chronicle, she wrote that reading my news felt like ,"watching a caged bird fly the coop." She added that "part of me was jealous", because after 20 years of fightihng for a greater role for women in synagogue, she feels "the same tiredness" that I expressed. She wrote: "When even the smallest issue is an ongoing, uphill battle, it wears you down.Every time a rabbi tells you, 'Yes, it’s halachically allowed, but no, it’s 10 years too early'… Every time you hear, 'Yes, it’s halachically allowed, but my Board won’t let me'… Every time you arrive at shul to discover that the women’s section isn’t open… Every time a shul Board member makes...
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Ramonda myconi, the most representative plant of Montserrat
Creado en Lunes, 15 Abril 2013 00:01 | Escrito por José Luis Espejo | | Imprimir | | Email | Visitas: 1991
After the realization of my article The picturesque Botany of Leonardo da Vinci, published at the section Hidden History of my website, arrived to my hands two precious documents that show that Ramonda myconi (plant that -according to two botanists of my confidence-appears, along with the Narcissus, in the London version of the Virgin of the rocks of Leonardo) is perhaps the more representative flower of Catalonia; and, especially, of Montserrat. Not only because "grows on the rocks" (which would justify its presence in the painting of Leonardo), but especially because it is endemic of this area (i.e. can only be found here, and nowhere else in Europe).
The Virgin of the rocks (London version, 1506)
Detail of flowers in the Virgin of the rocks of London (Ramonda myconi and Narcissus)
Comparison of the leaves of the painting with the ones of the Ramonda myconi
The Ramonda myconi in the book Plantas medicinales by Pius Font i Quer
The first document is the cover of an important book of medicinal plants, Plantas medicinales, el Dioscórides renovado, of the famous catalan botanist Pius Font i Quer. Here it is featured, expressing its importance in the local flora.
The second one is even more shocking. It's an herborization made in Montserrat by the illustrious philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill. I have read some of his works (On Liberty, in English, and Principios de Economía Política and El utilitarismo, in Spanish). This circumstance produces in me an special satisfaction and pride.
In addition to his activities as an economist, philosopher and civil servant, John Stuart Mill had a non-negligible activity in the area of the natural sciences. He was a friend of George Bentham, director of the Botanic Gardens, in London (which was nephew of Jeremy Bentham, Stuart Mill teacher and inspirer of his philosophical "utilitarian" line). Collaborated habitually in the magazine The Phytologist, where the author of the article which I now quote has obtained this precious information (Antoni Blanquer Hernández, “Una herborització a Montserrat a la primavera de 1860”, published by the Butlletí de l’Institut Català d’Història Natural, number 71, pages 51 to 58; year 2003).
In short, in his catalogue of 124 plants, collected in two days of visit to the monastery (which took place, according to the article, on 10-11 may of 1860), John Stuart Mill presents as most representative of Montserrat two plants, as follows:
1) The different Narcissus: “The small yellow Narcissus, N. juncifolius [Narcissus assoanus], formerly confounded with N. jonquilla, grew copiously in the same region; and near the summit of the mountain (on the grassy ledge on which are the ruins of the highest hermitage, that named after St. Jerome), N. biflorus [Narcisus tazetta], more beautiful than even N. poeticus, filled the air with rich fragrance”.
2) Ramonda myconi: “But the plant most associated with Montserrat is Ramondia pyrenaica, known to those who have botanized at Gavarnie, Esquierry, and other places in the Higher Pyrenees, as one of the most exquisite vegetable productions of the mountain chain. This plant, the only European representative of the Order Cyrtandraceae, was earliest known and described (under the name Verbascum myconi) as a Montserrat plant; these excepted it has, I believe, no other known habitat. I was fortunate enough to find on a rock a plant or two already in flower; not on the higher part of the mountain, but on its lower slope, very near the carriage-road. Though I possessed far more beautiful specimens collected on the rocky side of the torrent at Gavarnie, it gave me great pleasure to find it in what, if not its first abode, is at least the first place in which it was scientifically recognized”.
Remember that the current scientific name of this species, Ramonda myconi, derives from the name of the naturalist that catalogued it, Francesc Micó. And what is more interesting, this botanist was born ten years after the death of Leonardo; in particular, in 1528. Thus, this plant was already known -and recognized- in the surroundings of the monastery at the beginnings of the 16th century. If Leonardo had been there at that time quite possibly would have been shown the Ramonda as characteristic and representative of the place.
John Stuart Mill considered the Narcissus, as well as the Ramonda myconi, as the more typical plants of Montserrat (both are highlighted, as we know, in the picture of Leonardo). Pius Font i Quer attached to the Ramonda such importance that stands on the cover of his magna opera: Plantas medicinales. Furthermore, the Ramonda grows in rocky environments; precisely the representative landscape of the Virgin of the rocks by Leonardo.
Ramonda myconi is, according to the two experts that have helped me, the plant more similar to the one which appears to the feet of Saint John child in this picture, both in their leaves, as in their flowers, and -especially-in the fruits. We can rule out other species with similar flowers or leaves, as the Campanula muralis (see below), because the fruit is different.
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Fruit of the Ramonda myconi. Compare with the detail of the painting
It squeals a little that the flower is white, while -mainly- the ramonda tends to be blue. We don't have to forget the symbolic value of the white in the religious iconography (it represents the "purity"), but on the other hand is not rare to find specimens of "ear of bear" (its popular name) of white color, as this one (of Ordesa, in the Pyrenees of Aragon):
In an earlier version of this article, I wrote the following sentence: "[Leonardo outlines some details in his drawings of plants] perhaps with the intention that we can identify them more easily". It seems that this presumption is correct, as we can see in the following text: "According to Heydenreich, on the other hand, the painter [Leonardo], still young, tends -deliberately- to accentuate certain forms which, having little importance from the artistic or aesthetic point of view, typify botanical species drawn by him" (Annalisa Perissa Torrini: "Drawings from the Galleries in the Venice Academy", in the catalogue Leonardo da Vinci and France, of the exhibition held in the castle of Cloux, Amboise, in the year 2009). It is clear that the representation of the fruit and the petals at the same time [which is impossible] could be an example of what was said above.
But not always Leonardo is exact depicting the plants: in the following image, some narcissus have six petals, and another ones five. It seems he wasn't sure of the exact number:
That explains why, in the Ramonda myconi, he draws six petals, not five (look above). Perhaps Leonardo made a bad sketch or drawing of the plant; or perhapts he remembered it wrongly.
So I reiterate the conviction that Leonardo placed a plant of Ramonda myconi, and another of Narcissus, at London's Virgin of the rocks, trying to give clues of the scenario: the rocky -and picturesque- landscape of Montserrat. Not in vain, such plants are very representative of this mountain.
A last thing. The Ramonda myconi not only appears in the Virgin of the rocks of London, but also in the versión of Paris, painted in the year 1483. Again I thank David Vilasís for this precious information.
The Virgin of the rocks of Paris (1483), detail. Although less clearly, it also appears the Ramonda myconi. Compare with this photo (below)
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KATE BEN-TOVIM
Asia TOPA
Asia TOPA (Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts) was a festival celebrating Australia's connection to contemporary Asia.
Taking place across the summer of 2017 (January- April), Asia TOPA was a bold new initiative by the major cultural institutions of Melbourne presenting a broad program of performing arts, visual arts, film, digital arts and discussion from across the Asia Pacific region.
Along with presenting some of the flagship artists and companies from across the region, Asia TOPA actively encouraged new work with over 70% of the program commissioned for Asia TOPA.
Kate was Associate Director of Asia TOPA, and took a leading role in the development and creative direction of the inaugural program. Engaged by Arts Centre Melbourne (Asia TOPA's initiating organisation), Kate continues her engagement as Creative Associate to Arts Centre Melbourne as the planning for Asia TOPA 2020 begins.
"on the strength of this first showing it bids fair to be among the most exciting events on our calendar" The Monthly
"In the age of the festivalisation of everything, some arts events stand out from the pack" The Australian
"Now Melbourne has Asia TOPA, a triennial event with a rich performance program manifesting a multitude of origins, forms and collaborations" Real Time
Read more about Asia TOPA in The Guardian, Fairfax and The Australian and The Monthly
Satan Jawa
From Indonesia’s most celebrated director, Garin Nugroho, comes Satan Jawa, a silent feature film steeped in Javanese mythology with a live score by Australia’s Iain Grandage and Indonesia’s Rahayu Supanggah featuring a blend of Western symphonic tradition and Indonesian gamelan music.
Nugroho’s Satan Jawa evokes Javanese mythology through the genre of contemporary horror as inspired by the perennial silent film classic, Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. The film explores Indonesia’s pre-orthodox Islamic stories of the seven deals man makes with the devil in order to gain wealth and the live score dramatically underpins the mysticism and sensuality of Nugroho’s tale of love and sacrifice.
Satan Jawa was commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Singapore Esplanade for Asia TOPA.
Already a highly sought after work for international presenters, Satan Jawa will be presented at the prestigious Holland Festival in June 2017 and Singapore Esplanade in July 207, with many future seasons in the planning.
Turning World are the producers of Satan Jawa's future international seasons, and Kate was involved in the project's extensive development process as Executive Producer.
If a single word could sum up the world première of Satan Jawa, it would be ‘bewitching’. Australian Book Review
Satan Jawa - Behind the Scenes [English Subtitles]
Asia Pop Fest
Marking the end of Asia TOPA with a bang, Asia Pop Fest was a celebration of Asian pop culture to coincide with the start of the university year and to welcome our city’s international students.
After the official Lord Mayor's Student Welcome and live broadcast by SBS Pop Asia, 6000+ screaming fans enjoyed a huge concert in Melbourne's iconic Sydney Myer Music Bowl.
Highly anticipated headliner Ailee was every bit the K-pop superstar with her powerful voice and energetic dance routines.
Sing! China runner-up and Singaporean singersongwriter Nathan Hartono charmed the crowd with his hits in English and Mandarin, and Australian-Singaporean singer Charlie Lim found many new fans in the enthusiastic crowd. A special appearance by virtual Japanese pop star IA (from voice synthesiser software Vocaloid) was a first for Australian audiences and IA was accompanied on stage with her live dancers.
An event of this scope and scale has never been held anywhere in Australia, and where better to celebrate international students than in a city where they have transformed the cultural landscape of our CBD.
“The first ever Asia Pop Fest was held at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl last night and stating it as a runaway success would be an understatement ..... I think this festival will be the benchmark and will be looked back on in years to come as the moment that Asian pop music made its mark in Melbourne"
Kate conceived Asia Pop Fest, was Executive Producer of the event and co-curated the lineup with event agency Imagikai.
#AsiaPopFest17 trended #5 on Twitter Australiawide and #24 worldwide
Kate was Creative Producer for Kuda Lumping, a contemporary setting of a Javanese ritual calling on the tradition of spiritual possession through trance induced music and dance ceremonies,.
Featuring a group of 20 performers from the mountains of East Java alongsideDirector Gideon Obarzanek and Indonesian based producers Volcanic Winds, Kuda Lumping was presented for Arts Centre Melbourne's Supersense Festival of Ecstatic Performance in August 2015.
The performance over three hours with the performers entering states of intense trance led by shaman Pak Ki Iswandi. The audience and performers were together on the stage of the State Theatre, surrounded by four large screens saturated by intense colour projections that were triggered by changes in the accompanying music.
You can read an extensive feature in The Age on the process of creating this work and read a longer description from Gideon and Kristi Monfries here.
The 8 minute highlight video of the full performance has been produced by Arts Centre Melbourne.
Director: Gideon Obarzanek
Featuring: Padepokan Gunung Ukir (East Java)
Creative Producer: Kate Ben-Tovim
Producer (Indonesia): Volcanic Winds
Lighting Design: Ben Cistern
Photography and promo video: Tim Mummery
Kuda Lumping Promo
Kuda Lumping performance highlights
'Sita's Garden' at White Night Melbourne
Kate was engaged by White Night Melbourne to curate a headline Indian focus event for the 2015 festival.
'Sita's Garden' was the spectacular result- a floating 'garden' of 10 metre lotus flowers on the Yarra river (designed and manufactured in Melbourne by inflatable genius Filipe Reynolds) that entranced over 300,000 people across the 12 hour festival.
Each hour the audience were treated to a 15 minute performance on a floating stage weaving it's way through the lotus flowers. Kate Co-Curated the performance components with Melbourne's own Bollywood star Pallavi Sharda. We featured two outstanding classical dance groups from Melbourne along with Bombay Royale, a Bollywood-tastic dance set by Pallavi and the Jhoom Dancers and a sunrise yoga session for those that lasted the 12 hour marathon.
Oz Fest India
Kate was Co-Creative Director and Producer of Oz Fest India 2012, the largest Australian cultural diplomacy initiative ever staged in India.
The festival was aimed at presenting a contemporary view of Australian culture to young Indian audiences, and featured bands, comedy, food, theatre, dance, visual arts, sport and design.
With over 150 events delivered across 18 cities in India, it was an ambitious and highly successful initiative that is seen as best practise for Australian cultural diplomacy. Oz Fest was an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Kate was based at the Australian High Commission in New Delhi for 20 months to plan and deliver the festival.
Oz Fest exceeded all expectations in terms of reach and impact. It generated over AUD$3.5million AVE (Advertising Value Equivalency) in press coverage including special coverage on India's national TV broadcaster Doordarshan, beamed to more than 90 percent of homes in India. Thirty Oz Fest projects were finalists in the 2013 Australian Arts In Asia Awards, and the team received a DFAT Secretary's Citation in recognition of the project's success.
"the thoughtful and diverse Oz Fest cultural festival" The Australian
"It was really the manner in which the great civilisational histories of both countries came together, against the gorgeous backdrop of the Sher Mandal Observatory bought to life with mesmerising 3D light projections, that the foundation of a new friendship was really cemented". The New Pioneer
You can read the full Oz Fest program here - enter archived site for details.
[Pics by Graham Crouch]
BT River of Music- London Olympics
Kate returned to the UK in July 2012 as Executive Producer of the Oceania Stage for BT River of Music, a major event in London Cultural Olympiad program the week before the Games, produced by Serious .
BT River of Music London filled central with free music with 5 stages down the Thames representing the music of every country participating in the Olympics.
Kate's role was to oversee the Oceania Stage, featuring music from across the Pacific region including a special commission from The Black Arm Band and Wantok's SingSing.
TROPIS//SUBSONICS Jogjakarta
Tropis//Subsonics Jogjakarta was a week-long program of music performances, workshops and talks focusing on the different ways Indonesian and Australian musicians make and create sounds- focusing on the more experimental and improv traditions.
Featuring Australian exploratory music legends Oren Ambarchi, Robin Fox, Rob Avenaim, David Shea and Tim O'Dwyer in collaboration with a range of electronic and acoustic Indonesian musicians including the incredible Senyawa, the program introduced a community of musicians to the richness of the experimental music scenes in Jogja and Australia. Connections between these two scenes have since flourished.
Kate produced the program in collaboration with Kristi Monfries, funded by Australia Council for the Arts & Arts Victoria
See the full website here
Bungalow Song Alice Springs
A moving music theatre work commissioned by Mbantua Festival, a new indigenous arts festival presented Alice Springs in October 2013 directed by Nigel Jamieson and Rachel Perkins. Bungalow Song was co-commissioned with Opera Australia and directed by Nigel Jamieson.
The show told the story of life at the Old Telegraph Station, home to multiple generations of forcibly removed Indigenous children that were separated from their families and robbed of their culture. The superb Indigenous cast were untrained young people from Alice Springs that created the work with Nigel over six weeks in an intense and extraordinary process. Kate produced Bungalow Song in her role as Executive Producer of Mbantua Festival.
"The story cannot be forgotten. Bungalow Song is a milestone in not forgetting" Alice Springs News
DRIFT- Antony Hamilton
A 'drive-in' dance production by Antony Hamilton set in an urban wasteland with audience viewing the work from inside their cars, DRIFT was a haunting voyeuristic glimpse at a subterranean people in limbo, a fleeing and poetic vision of the rising and falling of fragile cultures through the passage of time.
Kate produced the premiere season in Melbourne as part of 2011 Dance Massive, and the Sydney season at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
"Strange humans, wastelands, ritual, sex and a dash of violence" Realtime
Read more about Anthony here
[pics by Byron Perry]
Pop-Up Project- Melbourne Festival 2010
Pop-Up Project was produced by Melbourne International Arts Festival, involving 100 untrained dancers appearing in unexpected locations in the Melbourne streets.
Devised by choreographer Stephanie Lake and performance art company One Step at a Time Like This, Pop-Up Project was a wonderfully engaging and joyous celebration of dancing in public.
Kate produced Pop-Up Project in her role as Associate Producer- Special Projects for Melbourne Festival 2011
Pop-Up Project : Melbourne 2010 (video by One Step at a Time Like This)
7 Songs to Leave Behind- Melbourne Festival 2010
The closing night event of Melbourne Festival 2010, 7 Songs to Leave Behind was an epic evening of performance by seven major artists- Sinead O'Connor, Rickie Lee Jones, John Cale, Meshell Ndegeocello, Gurrumul Yunupingo, Archie Roach & The Black Arm Band, supported by Orchestra Victoria.
Performed to over 8500 people at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, the concert was a triumphant combination of loved repertoire, surprising new interpretations and new collaborations.
Kate produced the concert in her role as Associate Producer- Special Projects for Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010
"An inspirational finale to an unforgettable evening" The Australian
Seven Songs To Leave Behind
We Don't Dance For No Reason
We Don’t Dance For No Reason is a cross-cultural music collaboration directed by Papuan/Australian pianist and composer Aaron Choulai, working with music artists from Tatana Village, his home village in Papua New Guinea and Melbourne jazz artists VADA.
Inspired by the stunning Papuan choral tradition of Peroveta Anedia (Prophet Songs), it was a joyous collaboration that has introduced to Australian audiences to a musical tradition previously un-explored outside of Papua New Guinea. The music production was set against the backdrop of evocative film pieces created by film-maker Peter Szollosi that highlight the historical, social and political context of village life.
“the choir members exuded delight and devotion as their voices combined in exquisite harmonies… [they] were so infections and uplifting that they made me feel like jumping to my feet and dancing for no reason at all.” Jessica Nicholas, The Age Newspaper
Kate was the Creative Producer of We Don’t Dance For No Reason, working in partnership with Aaron to create and realize the project.
The collaboration was originally commissioned by the 2007 Queensland Music Festival. The work was then re-presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival in October 2007. In March 2008 the group presented the work in Port Moresby with support of DFAT, a landmark event for the group and for the arts community of Papua New Guinea. In March 2009 the group presented an adapted version of the collaboration at the WOMADelaide festival to a combined audience of over 100,000 people. The project is also the subject of a documentary film currently in production.
We Don't Dance For No Reason (video promo by Peter Szollosi)
ILMU Indonesia
ILMU was a two day hip hop and electronic music festival bringing together some of Australia and Indonesia's finest music communities in 2009. A unique collaboration between the two neighbours, ILMU invited four established Australian artists (Urthboy, Ozi Batla, Elgusto & Luke Dubs) from hip hop label Elefant Traks to perform and engage in workshops with the Indonesian community.
ILMU in Indonesian means knowledge. The goal of the program was to share knowledge between Indonesia and Australia through music.
Kate was Producer of ILMU, working with Program Co-Directors Kaho Cheng and Kristi Monfries. The program was supported by Australia Council, Arts Victoria and Asialink.
Read more at the ILMU website
ILMU Festival - Indonesia 2010 (Urthboy, Hermitude, Ozi Batla, Unkle Ho)
Padang Cultural Centre development disaster relief
In 2009 Kate assisted leading Indonesian dance company Nan Jombang in development of a new cultural centre in Padang, West Sumatra.
Padang was the site of a catastrophic earthquake. The earthquake had a devastating effect for the city and the people of West Sumatra, and the re-development of the cities essential infrastructure was a long, slow process
Nan Jombang are one of the leading dance companies in Indonesia, and lost their rehearsal and performance space in the quake.
Kate visited them in Padang whilst on her Asialink Residency, and assisted with strategic planning and a fundraising strategy for the centre. In June 2010, Nan Jombang successfully received funding from the Australian Embassy for the first phase of construction.
The centre will not only be a studio for Nan Jombang, but is envisioned as a cultural facility for the artists of Padang to assist in the re-generation of cultural activity in the region.
The building- Ladang Tari- is now complete and is a cultural centre, home to Nan Jombang is creating a number of new festivals in Padang.
The project was subject of a public forum at OzAsia festival Rebuilding Communities on creative approaches to disaster reconstruction, where Kate spoke alongside the project's architect and Indonesia disaster reconstruction expert Marco Kusumawijaya.
Australian program at Salihara, Jakarta
Kate curated a small Australian cultural program for Indonesia's leading venue, Salihara which was presented as the highlight of the the 2010 Salihara Festival.
Chunky Move's GLOW and Brisbane contemporary music ensemble Topology were presented as part of the Festival, to outstanding reviews and audiences.
The Black Arm Band
One of the projects dearest to Kate's heart is Australia's peak indigenous music ensemble, The Black Arm Band, and her part in the creation of this project.
During her role as Associate Producer at Arts House, Kate worked with director Steven Richardson to establish The Black Arm Band. Beginning with a small workshop in 2006, The Black Arm Band is now Australia's premiere organisation for Indigenous music and has been seen at ever major festival and venue in the country and many high profile overseas appearances.
Kate was producer of the first two productions by The Black Arm Band, murundak and Hidden Republic in collaboration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She helped establish the funding base for the company, and toured the ensemble to ever major state in Australia and it's first overseas tour to London's Southbank Centre.
This period of The Black Arm Band history is the subject of the wonderful, award winning documentary murundak- Songs of Freedom.
"I feel very honoured and very proud to be up there amongst everyone. We are sharing the stage. We’re sharing the strength. You don’t have to be overpowering another one. You don’t have to be the star of the show. We’re all stars. We’re all stars lined up. It’s like looking up at the sky. Which is the best star? You can’t say because they’re all beautiful, see, so that’s what it’s all about. None of us is better than the other. We’re all just great. We’re too good. We’re deadly". Ruby Hunter on murundak
Visit The Black Arm Band website here
[pics by John Sones- Singing Bowl Media]
murundak - songs of freedom - Official Trailer
Workshops and Panels
Kate has developed and presented workshops on a range of topics including Producing, Event Management, Music Management and Strategic Business Planning. During her Asialink Residency she presented a two day intensive course for emerging producers in Jogjakarta at Padepokan Seni.
Kate has been a featured panelist at The Wheeler Centre [Soft Diplomacy Forum], Trading Ideas Conference Darwin, Oz Asia Festival [Rebuilding Communities], at the Indonesian Performing Arts Market in Jakarta and at Asialink [ArtsAsiaFuture]. She has also presented guest lectures in Cultural Diplomacy and Arts Management at the University of Melbourne.
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Kansans Begin Primary Voting
KSCB News - July 15, 2010 12:00 am
The candidates are still out on the stump pleading their case, but Kansans have begun casting votes for the Aug. 3 party primaries.
Secretary of State Chris Biggs says the early voting period began Wednesday and runs through noon on Aug. 2.
Registered voters can vote early using absentee ballots. They can also cast early votes at their county election office, beginning either July 27 or 20 days before the election depending on the county.
All absentee ballots must be received by the county election officer by the close of the polls on Aug. 3.
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Clarke hitless in L.I. title game defeat
Posted Tuesday, June 11, 2019 12:08 pm
Sophomore Matt DeStefano made contact but nobody wearing a Clarke uniform was able to get a hit in last Saturday night's 1-0 loss to Sayville in the L.I. Class A title game.
J. Heck/Herald
By Andrew McClure
The gutty performance turned in by pitcher Brendan Turton and the stellar play of the defense around him would ordinarily result in a victory. But, this was no ordinary Saturday night at the ballpark. This was Clarke vs. Sayville for the Class A Southeast Regional championship and Long Island bragging rights.
Turton was terrific. Brock Murtha was a little bit better. The Sayville junior tossed a no-hitter to lead the Golden Flashes to a 1-0 win before a boisterous, overflowing crowd on the campus of SUNY Old Westbury. Sayville, which scratched out a run in the top of the seventh inning, advanced to the state semifinals where it will meet Ballston Spa.
Senior Jack Davis’s two-out single to right barely got past the outstretched glove of diving second baseman Nick Campagnoulo to bring home Nick Buffardi with the game’s only run. Murtha, who has already committed to play at Notre Dame, struck out nine, walked two, and hit a pair of batters.
“We hit a lot of balls hard, they just had us played right and they were playing deep,” Clarke coach Tom Abruscato said. “Both guys pitched great. There’s a reason Murtha is going to Notre Dame. He had to be throwing about 90, and he was consistently around the plate.”
After Buffardi reached on a walk, sophomore CJ Messina placed a bunt between Turton and first baseman Pavlos Papoutsakis that resulted in a hit to put two on with one out. Turton got leadoff hitter Thomas Nielsen to fly out, setting the stage for Davis. A sliding Buffardi beat the strong throw from right fielder Derek Smith.
Like Murtha, Turton was dealing all night. Despite allowing at least one runner to reach base in the first four innings, the senior right hander was dominant. Turton retired eight consecutive batters before yielding a double to freshman catcher Jack Quinlan in the top of the sixth.
“He’s been doing this for us all season,” Abruscato said. “I’m so proud of him. Game in, game out, you know what you’re getting from him. They were able to get one timely hit, and we weren’t. You not going to win if you don’t get any hits.”
Each time Sayville put runners on base, the Rams came up with a defensive gem. Papoutsakis, shortstop CJ Cumbo, center fielder Tyler Cox, and catcher Chris Giardino all took turns flashing leather for Clarke. The Rams, who won their seventh county title in what is considered the toughest class in the state, finished at 24-4-1.
“It was a terrific baseball game,” Abruscato said. “My guys have no reason to hang their heads. You know, anything can happen when it comes down to one game. It’s always about the journey to get to this point, and all the hard work that was put in. That’s what’s most important.”
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KNOTS LANDING Episode 184 of 344: NEIGHBORLY CONDUCT
Episode Title: Neighborly Conduct
Written by Lynn Marie Latham
Directed by Lawrence Kasha
The Plot (Courtesy of TV.Com): Ben is upset that Greg sent Jean to Paraguay instead of pressing charges. He is ultra paranoid and thinks he sees Jean everywhere. Greg fires Ben. Jill questions Gary about whether she comes first in his life. Olivia joins Peter's Youth Commission against drugs. She admits to Paige she has a huge crush on Peter. Abby and Paige vie for Peter's affection. To win his affection, Paige tells Peter that Sylvia gave Olivia a letter, and that he can use Olivia's crush on him to get the letter back. Peter sends Olivia flowers, thanking her for her help. Anne rents Laura's house, and hangs out at the MacKenzie's. Karen doesn't like this, and tells Anne to stop coming on to Mack because she doesn't stand a chance. Anne sends herself a package, but has is delivered to the MacKenzies. When Mack brings it over, she tells him she wants him to stay and get reacquainted.more
Hello, all, I hope my lovely readers are still with me even after having to suffer through the 48 minute toxic fart that was Nightmare. I also apologize for missing the last few weeks, but I'm seriously considering turning the blog into a biweekly thing because I am now a busy boy with a part time and a full time job and about 60 hours of work per week, so I'm tired. Anyway, I have officially declared Nightmare the worst KL ep up to this point, but the good news is that I think we’re beginning an upswing in quality now, or at least I hope so. Neighborly Conduct is far from a perfect KL ep, but at least it’s returning to characters I care about and at least it’s starting to feel a little more like that classic KL I know and love. Let me explain.
I’ll get the stupid stuff out of the way first, and that of course is the stuff involving Hackney. Rest assured, for all intents and purposes, this character has been retired after last week’s abomination. She got arrested and taken away and that was pretty much the end of her story. The only reason that “actress” Wendy Fulton is still credited with appearing in this ep and our next one is that we have a couple of microscopic flashes of her face while Ben suffers from an explosion of paranoia. What I mean by that is that we get several scenes where Ben looks at a woman and briefly thinks the woman might be Hackney, and then the camera will cut to reveal that it’s actually just some other white chick and that Ben is going crazy.
The reason this is stupid is because of the sloppy writing and exposition delivery. Our almost first scene is Mack and Ben going for a nice California jog, talking about Hackney. Ben says something about how he’s having nightmares about her coming to kill his family, and then he says, “I know she’s dead and all that,” but then Mack interrupts him to say that Hackney is not dead, but rather she was shipped off to Paraguay. This is dumb because it asks us to believe that, in the gap between the last ep and this one, Ben never bothered to confirm with Mack whether Hackney was killed or not. Hackney has been making Ben’s life and the viewer’s lives miserable since the very first ep of the season, and after 23 arduous eps involving her and her ridiculous schemes, you’re gonna tell me they haul her off in handcuffs and Ben is just like, “Well, good work, guys!” and doesn’t bother to double check that they killed her? Ugh.
Ben also gets fired by Sumner in this ep because, you know, he tried to kill him. Generally, I’d say it’s a bad idea to try and shoot your boss to death, mostly because if your boss lives, you can kiss any chances of promotion goodbye. This is a small scene taking place on Greg’s ranch and occurring between just the two characters. Really, the only reason I bring it up is because Sumner lights a cigar at the end of it, so we can now induct Cigar #27 into the Sumner Cigar Counter. Boy, does Sumner like those cigars. I enjoy cigars as much as the next guy, but I do think Sumner is consuming too much; maybe just one per month or something in that ballpark would be no big deal, but he’s having them every day now, and I’m worried he’s gonna gum and/or lip cancer, or that his teeth will turn brown and Laura won’t want to kiss him.
Also, before Ben arrives on the scene, we get a little bit of Greg and Laura talking to (get out your pillow and your nightcap) Peter, scolding him for a statement he gave to the press while Greg was “dead.” I bring up Peter because, a little later in the ep, the character of Sylvia is finally mentioned again (remember her?). What happens is that Olivia and Paige are hanging out, talking about how much Olivia wants to blow Peter (I do not understand this universe where every single woman wants to immediately shag Peter, who is not an attractive man by any stretch of the imagination) and then she brings up how Sylvia gave her a letter way back in the middle of the season somewhere. She tells Paige she didn’t open it because it’s private and personal and it’s only supposed to be opened in the event of her death. This is a major red flag to me that the writers are going to kill Sylvia offscreen, and I say blah to that. What the hell kind of storytelling is this? This is, like, Dallas lazy writing. It reminds me of the exact season that was going on concurrently this year (it would be season ten of Dallas) and how they spend fucking forever building up this mystery of whether Steve Forrest is actually Jock Ewing back from the dead, and they drag it on and on and on and on, and then it’s all resolved offscreen when Miss Ellie is like, “He told me he’s not really Jock,” and that’s the end of it. In this case, we’ve had major buildup with Sylvia as an important character since the halfway point of season seven, and then she was figuring heavily into the stories at the start of this season what with Peter trying to poison her and all that, and now I can tell they are going to just kill her offscreen and then somehow have this letter business come into the forefront. Did Ruth Roman take a walk and they had to scramble to finish this up? Or did they just not want to hire her on to do the whole year? This is really sloppy and I don’t understand how the writers could let it pass.
But I am actually greatly fond of the main storyline of this ep, so let’s switch over to that so I can say some positive things. I don’t know what the general fan consensus is on Michelle Phillips as Anne or her flirtations with Mack and this building “Will they have an affair?” storyline, but I do know that I like it. I am an Anne fan and think Michelle Phillips brings something special to this character and I just love watching her. Also, even if maybe the writers flirting with another “Will Mack cheat on Karen?” storyline is kinda lazy (after all, it was only last season that he was nearly cheating with J.B.), at least it feels like KL to me and at least it’s moving the focus back into the cul-de-sac and the domestic environment that’s at the heart of the show.
Anne’s been living in California for a few eps now, and in Neighborly Conduct, she decides to rent out Laura’s house and live literally right next door to Karen and Mack. Karen doesn’t like this and phones Laura to yell at her and ask how she could have sold the house to Anne, but Laura reminds her that she turned the house over to a rental agency and has no involvement in who decides to live there. This is a cool little scene because Karen has some bad timing, saying something like, “I don’t even like seeing her occasionally and now she’s right next door!” just as Anne comes walking into the room from behind. Whoops. The scene plays in an interesting way, because even though there’s a sense of awkwardness in the air, it’s not entirely clear whether Anne actually heard Karen or not. Anyway, Anne says how she wants to have Mack and Karen over for dinner to show off the house, and even though Karen doesn’t wanna go, Mack talks her into it.
I like this part a lot, because, again, it’s reminding me of classic KL, and when I say classic KL, I mean really classic KL, like the first three seasons when we barely ever ventured off the cul-de-sac. I’m just glad that we’re hanging around the cul-de-sac more and having those classic neighborly tensions and dramas that were the foundation of the series all the way from the very first ep. Also, I just find the scene funny. Karen wears a very strange outfit that looks like it came out of Prince’s wardrobe. It looks like an ugly brownish reddish bath towel and it happens to have gaudy gold, like, bracelets? It has to be seen to be believed, and it’s as ugly as any of the outfits throughout this ugly, ugly season of clothing. Also, I greatly enjoyed a little part where they enter the house and are looking at these framed black and white nudes that Anne has hung up all over the house, and then Anne says how she did those photos, and at first Karen is like, “Oh, you’re a photographer?” and Anne is like, “No, I’m the subject!” and brags about how some super famous photographer took these nudes. I liked this cuz it reminded me of myself, actually. A few years back, after I lost all my weight and got emaciated and as skinny as I will ever be and I was so unbelievably thin and beautiful, I went and posed for nudes myself, and I had a great time. I met up with this gay accountant photographer who wanted to take nudes just for practice and we took hundreds. Since I am a huge narcissist and obsessed with my own appearance, I was totally pleased with the way this photographer managed to make me look so good in glorious black and white, with all sorts of cool arty lighting and shadows and compositions. It was a total blast and I saved all the nudes to one day show off to my children and my children’s children and say, “Look at how fucking beautiful I used to be way back in my ‘20s!” Honestly, if I ever am rich enough to have my own super nice house, I wouldn’t be above hanging up my nudes on the walls, just like Anne does here. The human body is beautiful and we all have the same basic bits and pieces; why be shy?
You can sense Karen’s sphincter unclenching after there’s a knock at the door and some boring ‘80s white guy comes in and Anne declares him to be her date. Oh yay! No need to be worried about Anne going after Mack if she’s got this boring ‘80s white guy to shag her instead, right? Also, I really honestly think that Anne’s intentions here might be pure, that she really might just want to have Karen and Mack over as her friends and she got this boring ‘80s white guy as a way of showing peace between her and Karen, of helping Karen to relax. I could be way off on this, but I think she might be being truthful, and it’s only after something happens a little later that she decides to change her game plan. For the moment, though, she and Karen go off to talk about girl stuff and Mack is forced to interact with the date (his name is Al) and talk about what all white people in the ‘80s liked to talk about, which is their stocks and how much money they have. I’m with Mack in this scene, because I can’t imagine being trapped in a conversation this boring and having to listen to this block of wood talk about his portfolio or whatever nonsense and verbal diarrhea he has spewing out of his mouth.
Okay, so for a brief period of time, it looks like there might be peace between Anne and Karen, but what could happen to possibly shatter that? What happens is that Karen gets pretty directly confrontational with Anne after Anne stops in for some coffee in the early morning in the kitchen. This caused me flashbacks to season one’s Civil Wives, in which Karen sat down in the kitchen with Sid’s ex-wife and talked directly to her and essentially said to take a hike. It worked in that ep, so I wonder if that’s why Karen does the same thing here, although it backfires in this instance. She basically tells Anne that she knows what she’s doing and she knows that she’s going after Mack, and the scene concludes with a bold declaration from Karen: “You don’t stand a chance with my husband.”
Well, the very next scene is Anne cooking up a plot that would make both Abs and J.R. smile, ordering herself a package and intentionally having it delivered to Karen and Mack’s place. She knows that Mack will come home and find the package and be forced to bring it over to her, ooooh, how devious. The fact that Anne enacts this plan directly after our previous scene adds weight to my theory that she was ready to be nice with Karen and was pushed over the edge by Karen’s comments. I respect Karen for being candid and direct, as she always is, but I think she made a mistake here. By saying what she said, she has opened up a challenge for Anne, and now Anne is thinking, “Oh yeah? I don’t stand a chance? We’ll see about that.” Anyway, Mack comes home to find the package and, right on schedule, takes it over to Anne’s. She answers the door and immediately turns extra flirty, reminding him that his wife won’t be home for hours, that he could sneak on inside her house and hang out for awhile and that she’d never tell Karen about it. I feel like you could substitute the word “house” for “vagina” and still have the same basic outcome. She is telling Mack that whatever they may do together, she’ll keep it a secret between the two of them. Hmmmm, how interesting.
That about does it for Karen, Mack, and Anne, but we do get some pretty big stuff involving Gary, Val, and J.B. in Neighborly Conduct. I’m very glad to see J.B. going in a direction that I approve of this ep, because my God has she been underutilized this season. When she first showed up on the scene in very late season six, I immediately came in my pants and was so excited to see this beautiful and wonderful character be brought to life so splendidly by Teri Austin. I loved her all throughout season seven and thought she was a highlight, but she’s been rather wasted in season eight and it’s a shame. I’ve gone on about it enough, but having her fall off a cliff and slip into a coma for a few eps and then just snap out of it? Really? Clearly the writers are struggling this year with what to do with J.B., but I feel like she’s now beginning a path that will lead us into the J.B. we truly love through seasons nine and ten.
I’ve kinda been neglecting what’s going on with Gary and J.B., so let’s do a quick recap. Basically, the two got engaged a few eps back, somewhere around the time J.B. woke up from her Plot Contrivance Coma, and then they were supposed to get married in Tahoe last ep, but those plans were delayed when Gary had to go and heroically stop Val from blowing away an innocent cleaning woman. The fact that J.B. was neglected so that Gary could go and help out his nutty ex-wife is clearly irking her, and it forms the basis for her material this week. I’d also say that Abby’s immortal line about “The first Mrs. Ewing doesn’t go away,” is eating at J.B., because she tells Gary this ep, “I’m not so sure I want to join the ranks of Mrs. Ewings.” Later, she pays Val a private visit and gets very direct, asking Val if she’s still in love with Gary. Of course we all know Val is in love with Gary and we all know Gary is in love with Val because they are soul mates and they are meant to be together, but Val deflects and says, “I love Gary as a friend and that’s all.” She also deflects when J.B. repeats the question of, “Are you in love with Gary?”, because she just answers, “I am married to a wonderful man.” Note how she doesn’t directly deny loving Gary; she just brings up Ben and kinda moves on. J.B. doesn’t care for this, pointing out that Gary seems closer to Val than to anyone and that he’s always eager to rush out and help her when she’s in a jam, like when she goes crazy and steals his gun to go and almost murder cleaning women. Val gets mad and tells J.B. to leave, and I’m pretty excited about this whole scene. Hmmm, how to get into it without being too obvious or full of spoilers? Let’s just say that the season nine finale of KL has possibly my favorite cliffhanger ever, and let’s just say that I feel like the seeds for that season nine cliffhangers are being planted right here in this scene in this ep.
That’s all I got for this ep. You know, I liked it. I bitched about some bad writing in some aspects, but I was able to get on board with Karen/Mack/Anne and Gary/Val/J.B. I liked all that stuff and I do feel like we are getting back to what KL should be. In a way, I’m reminded of the dream season of Dallas, which I feel hits its rock bottom at around episode 24 or so (the one with the ridiculous masked ball that J.R. and boring-as-fuck Jack Ewing attend with goofy, vamping Angelica Nero) and then it actually sorta seems to correct itself in the last six or seven eps of the season and start returning to what Dallas is meant to be about. In a very similar fashion, season eight of KL has been polluted by a terrible central storyline that ruined everything in its path, but now that the storyline is finishing up, I feel we’re getting back to what I want to see, which is the characters being interesting and dealing with domestic problems and potential affairs and who’s in love with who and all that good, soapy drama.
Next up is the last ep of this particular disk, entitled Deadly Combination.
KNOTS LANDING Episode 183 of 344: NIGHTMARE
Episode Title: Nightmare
Written by Diane Messina Stanley and Lou Messina
Directed by Bill Duke
Original Airdate: Thursday, March 5th, 1987
The Plot (Courtesy of TV.Com): Jean's superior tells her she needs to kill Greg. Mack, Greg, and an agent find out that Jean and her associate are trying to kill Greg. Mack punches out Jean's superior, and he's arrested. Not knowing he's on to her, Jean invites Greg to her hotel room. Greg says he knows what she's up to and pulls a gun. Mack and the agent come in and arrest her. Mack explains to Karen that he couldn't tell Val that Ben was alive, because she would give it away. Val, hysterical about Ben, tries to buy a gun. Unsuccessful, she goes to the ranch and takes Gary's gun. Val breaks into Jean's store, and almost shoots a cleaning woman by accident. Gary finds her and brings her home. Ben walks in and they hug and kiss and cry. That night Ben dreams that Jean kills Val. Abby tells Jill, "Let the second Mrs. Ewing give the soon to be third Mrs. Ewing some advice. The first Mrs. Ewing doesn't go away - ever!" Gary and Jill decide to get married some other time.
Okay, here we go. All of our collective sphincters should be tightening up as we prepare to discuss Nightmare, because things are going to get very rough. We haven’t seen an ep this bad in a long, long time, and I’m already yearning for, say, A Turn of Events, in which J.B. falls off a cliff and they repeat the scene 700 times in flashbacks while Peter speeds his car along for 72 minutes. That ep looks like it was helmed by Stanley Fucking Kubrick when you put it up against this monstrosity, and the most awful part about it is that this ep is being directed by a genius who I love with all my heart and soul. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the swan song for one Bill “Cooke” Duke, a most fabulous actor and an even more fabulous director who has brought us so much joy throughout this time contributing to KL. The fact that his brilliant collection of eps, which began way back in season three with Power Play and has now spanned up through season six’s The Deluge, is going to finish up with Nightmare just hurts me deep down in my soul. It hurts me even more that has sorta been off the scene since The Deluge, not directing any eps from season seven, and that he now returns for one last ep and that the last ep he contributes is this. Before I start shitting all over this ep, let’s make sure to put things in perspective. Yes, this ep sucks and I’m sad that Bill “Cooke” Duke directed it, but he also directed nine other eps and I pretty much loved all of them. He has been one of my favorite directors of the series alongside trusted veteran Nicholas Sgarro, Nick Havinga, and, of course, the amazing and brilliant Larry Elikann. Rather than getting all upset that he directed this ep, let’s stay positive and remember he also gave us such stunning television accomplishments as Celebration, Forsaking All Others, and Out of the Past.
I don’t think anyone comes out looking good in this ep, but the worst of the worst has to be Val. I talked last ep about how J.V.A. says L & L turned her into “the village idiot” and that is absolutely true in every single scene of this ep. Also, J.V.A. is giving us a pretty terrible performance throughout all of this, but I don’t even know if I can blame her or even completely understand why the performance is so bad. We all saw season six and we all know the stunning range and depths of emotion that J.V.A. can display when she’s under the guided hand of an amazing writer and producer like Peter Dunne. What I think is happening here is that J.V.A. is being handed shit by the writers and then having to figure out how to make it work, and she’s simply not able to. I’m not even judging her for it; I don’t know if anyone could make this wretched dialogue sound good. To set the stage, our very first scene of the ep is Val and Lilimae talking at the house and Val is all upset because Greg Sumner came back from the dead at the end of the last ep but there was still no sign of Ben. She is now convinced that Ben is dead, and as she talks to Lilimae, she raises her voice all loud and she’s way over-the-top as she screams, “SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT AND SHE DID IT! SHE STOOD RIGHT THERE AND SHE DID IT IN GREG SUMNER’S OFFICE!” When Lilimae asks who Val is talking about, Val continues to scream, “JEAN HACKNEY, THAT’S WHO! I COULD HAVE STOPPED HER, BUT I DIDN’T! I DIDN’T EVEN RAISE A HAND! I COULD HAVE STOPPED HER, I COULD HAVE…” Then there’s a short pause where we all hope Val will stop screaming, but she instead doubles down with a total Nancy Kerrigan, shrieking, “WHY DIDN’T I STOP HER, WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!” Oof, it’s bad, but it only gets worse.
Now that Val is convinced Ben is dead (Spoiler Alert: He’s not; the writers are just using the same lazy “Is this character dead or not?” device that they used one episode ago with Sumner), she decides she needs to get a gun pronto. Her first stop is a gun shop, and this is actually one scene that I didn’t have a problem with, and let me tell you why. We’re all watching this together (My Beloved Grammy, Brother, and myself, I remind you) and Val comes in to get her gun, and then I said how I don’t think Val should be able to get a gun because you need to wait two weeks or whatever. My Beloved Grammy said how she doesn’t know the rules about buying guns, and then Brother jumped in by quoting Dick Miller in Terminator and saying, “There’s a fifteen day wait on the handguns, but the rifles you can take right now.” Then a second later, the clerk says how she has to wait fifteen days, that’s the law, that the law exists to keep people from getting all angry and running out to buy a gun, but Val doesn’t wanna hear it and just storms out of the gunshop and says never mind. So yeah, this scene wasn’t that bad mostly because at least it adheres to reality and doesn’t let her just get a gun immediately.
Oh no, wait, this scene is that bad and I almost forgot to bring it up except that I have it pulled up on the old computer as I’m typing this and I’m watching the scene again and, yup, surely enough there’s something stupid in this scene. Right after Val tells the clerk that she wants to buy a handgun, we then do a dissolve to a flashback of her in Ben’s arms at that cheap Lotus Point broom closet party from Survival of the Fittest and we again see him kissing her and saying, “You take care of those children!” while she cries and says, “Please don’t do this.” This scene was stupid back in that ep, so why show it again? We get it, we’ve been watching the show, we know why Val wants to buy a gun, and we don’t need to have a flashback to that stupid scene shoved into the middle of this gun shop scene. However, this scene is high art compared to what’s to come.
Next up, Val hits Mack’s office, not expecting to run into J.B., who’s burning the midnight oils in her own office. The beginning portion of this scene functions to remind us that Gary and J.B. are going to get married, because J.B. tells Val how she and Gary are heading off to Lake Tahoe soon to get hitched (great place to get married, by the way, and if I ever decide to get gay married, I’d probably go do it there). Then Val has another facepalm moment where she’s like, “Aren’t you a little afraid being up here all alone on night? With all the things you and Mack do, with all the criminals you deal with, must make you kinda nervous. I know it would me, but I’m sure you keep a gun up here for protection.” In writing the dialogue out like that, it’s impossible to convey how hysterically funny J.V.A.’s acting here is, because she’s clearly trying to sound casual with, “Aren’t you a little afraid…” etc., but then as she says, “but I’m sure you keep a gun up here for protection,” her eyes get all wide and she cranes her neck up and over in another direction, essentially announcing to J.B. that she’s here snooping for a gun. J.B. just has to be watching this crazy woman prowl around the office and be thinking to herself how much better a wife she’s gonna make for Gary than this deranged chick.
But wait, there’s more. Val is not to be deterred, so her next stop is a late night convenience store, very 7-Eleven style. She grabs, oh, something off the shelf, and then she goes up to the register and the guy says how much she owes him, and then, I kid you not, Val whispers, “I’ll give you two hundred dollars for the gun that you have in that drawer right there. I know that you people keep guns there.” The clerk doesn’t like this and says how she’d better leave or he’s gonna call the police, but Val then ups her offer to 250 dollars. It’s only after the clerk picks up the phone and puts it to his ear that Val decides to stop embarrassing herself and take a hike. Oh my, how this scene made us laugh. This is another instance where I was able to have a nice time and enjoy watching because I was enjoying making fun of it with My Beloved Grammy and Brother, but when I gave it another look all by myself in order to prepare for this essay, it just made me feel sad and embarrassed for Val and embarrassed for J.V.A. for having to perform this scene and have it broadcast for all the viewers in 1987.
But she’s still not done. Next up, she hits Westfork to pay Gary a visit and act like she wants to talk about his engagement, but really she’s after his gun, which we learn Gary inherited from his grandfather (I did kinda like that little detail; Gary is a peace-lover and I don’t see him as the type that would want to be packing heat). I will say that I appreciate the fact that Gary can clearly tell something is wrong with Val. She’s acting like a fucking lunatic, of course, but the writing is so bad that I wouldn’t be surprised if she hyperventilated and paced around in front of Gary and he didn’t even notice. Fortunately, Gary points out how weird she’s acting and says, “Right now, this moment, I’m concerned for you.” Then Val says how if both she and Ben were to die, she would want Gary to raise Bobby and Betsy. Then the scene explodes to new levels of high camp, because Val goes into Gary’s bedroom and just starts…..trashing it? She’s looking for a gun, but it’s just bizarre, because the first thing she does it fling open a drawer (which kinda makes sense), but then the next things she does is pull up all the covers on Gary’s bed. Huh? Does she really think the gun is just, like….under the blankets? Does Gary sleep with a gun under his pillow like James Bond? Also, why is she making such a fucking mess? We’re supposed to think she’s just kinda nutty from all the stress and worrying about Ben, but it comes off like complete absurdity. Surely this silliness is over after this scene, right?
Wrong. Val manages to find Gary’s gun and she hits the road for Hackney’s dress shop. Again, it’s like the creative team is trying as hard as possible to make this as campy as possible, because we have this ultra-dramatic music playing as Val parks her car, then we get another dissolve flashback to Hackney threatening Val, and then, brace yourself, we hear Val’s inner monologue as she says, “I won’t let her get away with this; I won’t let her do it.” Oh dear God, no. Actually, the inner monologue begins even before the stupid little flashback, as we see shots of the car driving and hear Val saying, “I love you, Ben. I won’t let her do this to us. She can’t do this to our family!” Who thought this was a good idea? In what world is a big group of staff writers and showrunners sitting around and somebody says, “This scene would really be good if we pipe in some terrible inner-monologue dramatic dialogue while Val drives!” But, God help us, and I know I keep saying this, but Val’s still not done.
Next up, Val slips into Hackney’s stupid little dress shop, it’s all dark and there are mannequins everywhere, and she makes her way into the office, where she finds a woman with her back to her, the woman bent over the office desk. Well, Val’s got the gun in hand and she’s ready to go, ready to blow away this woman she assumes is Hackney. Well, I’m sure you’re all not surprised at all to learn that this is not Hackney, but rather some innocent cleaning woman who just wants to get her work done (what fucking time is it even supposed to be right now? Isn’t it like midnight? Why is this cleaning woman working so late?). The cleaning woman would be suffering an exploding head like Tom Savini in Maniac were it not for the intervention of Gary, who comes powering into the scene to wrestle the gun out of Val’s hands. Then they leave together and, well, that’s it. I do wonder what ends up happening to this nameless, lineless cleaning woman. Do you think she just continues cleaning and going about her life? Do you think she reports this crazy woman with a gun to her bosses? This is a situation where something happens and then the characters just walk away and I’m like, “But, wait….what happens to the cleaning woman?”
Do you realize I’ve been going on for fucking ever about how stupid this ep is and yet I’ve only talked about the Val portions of it? All of those scenes are so bad that they would be the worst aspects of any other ep, but in Nightmare, they are but one facet of the ep’s extreme badness. Let’s move on over to Mack and Karen and Sumner and, of course, the main character of the series at this point, Hackney. Things are finally starting to wrap up in the Hackney storyline with this ep, thank Christ, but my God is it stupid. We catch up with Mack when he attacks Hackney’s co-conspirator or boss or whatever in a parking garage. It’s all part of Mack’s epic plan to make this storyline stop, I suppose, because as the scene begins, this car is getting towed and then the Hackney boss guy is like, “Hey, don’t tow my car,” and Mack starts screaming at him about how he parked in a handicapped zone and he doesn’t like it. Then the guy says, “I’m not handicapped,” and Mack, brace yourself, punches him in the stomach and says, “You are now!” in a line that sounds a lot like bad A.D.R. Oh God, no, what a horrible line, the kind of line I would love if you had Arnold deliver it in a good piece of cheese like Commando but that makes me throw up in my mouth when watching this series. Holy shit, what terrible dialogue, and even the staging of the scene looks stingy and cheap and badly choreographed.
At the same time, Greg is drinking Zombies, which I had never heard, so I looked them up and discovered it’s a classic cocktail from like 1934 that consists of fruit juices, liqueurs, and lots of rum. I was briefly tempted to try one of these, but don’t think I will, as rum is one of my least favorite types of alcohol (I’m a vodka guy), so I highly doubt I would enjoy the taste. So yeah, Greg is drinking zombies at a fancy hotel with, you guessed it, Hackney. If I remember correctly, the scene starts with him and Peter talking about, you know, something boring involving Peter, and then Hackney shows up and Greg is like, “Take a hike, Peter,” echoing the overall sentiments of me at this point as far as Peter’s involvement in the series. Then he and Hackney sit and exchange bad dialogue I’m not gonna bother to remember and sip Zombies, all happening concurrently with other scenes involving Mack and Karen and, of course, other scenes involving Val.
Karen has been fretting and ringing her hands a lot because she’s feeling left out, like she doesn’t know what the hell is going on with this story (she’s not alone). Mack is evasive when she tries to get answers out of him, but finally Karen has had enough of being ignored and so, when Mack arrives home and then receives a phonecall and immediately goes running out of the house again, Karen chases after him and announces, “I’m coming with you,” which I have so very many problems with. There’s no way that Mack would allow Karen to come with him on this dangerous mission; I know my Mack and I’ve known him well since season four and I know he wouldn’t just let Karen hop in the car and ride with him to go bust some bad guy (or bad girl, in this case). What Mack would really do if they were writing true to character is he’d get all firm with Karen and maybe put his arms on her shoulders and say how this is very important and he’ll tell her all about it in a few hours but he needs her to trust him and leave him alone. The real reason this is here is so that we can have an unbelievably terrible scene in which Karen and Mack drive around while Mack takes a big exposition dump all over the viewing audience.
Look, I get that this story has been going on forever (TWENTY THREE EPISODES!!!) and it’s long and stupid and confusing, and I get that the writers probably wanted to get viewers up to speed if they were confused, but this is not the way to do it. We begin the scene with a shot of the car driving and bad A.D.R. from Karen going, “I just don’t know how Ben could have considered such a thing!” Then we cut to inside of the car so that Mack can recap the entire season. I’d type all the dialogue out, but I don’t want to, because it’s awful, and typing the words out might make my fingers bleed (my ears are already bleeding as I re-listen to the speech while writing this essay). Basically he just explains, complete with a lot of clips from previous eps throughout the season, all the shit that’s been going down, starting with, “Ben didn’t want to kill Sumner; we had it planned for Ben and his family to escape and Sumner blew it by showing up at the club opening.” This scene goes on for over three minutes and is just oozing with clip show style footage from prior eps and awful A.D.R. from Karen and Mack. I’m embarrassed for The Dobsonator for having to deliver the dialogue, and as I listen to the A.D.R., I can just imagine him standing in the recording booth with those big headphones on and looking at the lines he needs to read and being like, “Really?”
I’m gonna get bold. This is the worst scene we have ever seen on the entire series. There are so many better ways to keep an audience up to date on a long running storyline. L&L and the creative team should have busted out their notebooks and given a really close look to seasons four, five, and six, and studied the way those years managed to balance long, complicated arcs throughout the year without becoming confusing. Having watched those brilliant years of television very recently, I can tell you I don’t recall any scenes of characters hopping into cars to deliver over three minutes of exposition to the audience through bad A.D.R. and clips of old scenes. Ugh ugh ugh, this is just the worst, and it was actually during this atrocious abomination of a scene that My Beloved Grammy opined, “This definitely feels much more like a daytime soap,” and I told her of course I agree. This kind of shitty storytelling might fly on General Hospital, but KL is a classier affair and the writing has never stooped this low before. So yeah, truly awful, and yeah, the worst scene we have ever watched in nearly eight years and nearly 200 eps.
Let’s speed along here so I can be done talking about this piece of crap. Greg has been sipping Zombies (double Zombies, if I’m not mistaken) with Hackney for awhile, and then she says how she’s in room 444 and what an easy room number that is to remember and she departs. Greg follows after her and finds her in the hotel room, having slipped into something more comfortable, her legs spread open and waiting for Greg’s penis to enter her. Actually, she’s obviously going to try to kill Greg, but I do wonder if she intended to shag him first before killing him, kinda like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct or those spiders that eat their mates after sex. I bring this up because the two do a whole lot of kissing and heavy petting before the camera pans underneath her pillow to show that she’s got a knife waiting there. After Greg starts to, you guessed it, spit out expository dialogue (“That body you followed out to the ranch wasn’t me; I went to the airport, but I didn’t take Ben’s escape route”), Hackney whips out her little knife and, I guess, tries to attack Greg in a very badly staged sequence. Then, and I can barely type this out without groaning, Greg pulls out a gun and says, “I didn’t want to hurt your feelings, but I wasn’t that glad to see you; that was a pistol in my pocket.” Oh dear God, no, and even though Devane is weirdly good at delivering pretty much any dialogue, no matter how terrible, and even though he actually does find a way to come out of this scene relatively unscathed, this is still awful. Anyway, then the good guys bust in and take Hackney away and, well, that’s about it. Oh yeah, Greg also throws in some dialogue about how Hackney’s evil buddies have all been neutralized, but nobody could possibly even care at this point.
All pretty campy and terrible, huh? And yet, God help us, there’s still one more part, a scene that I can’t believe I had forgotten about, because it’s just about the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, and that’s the very ending of the ep. Now that we’ve learned Ben is alive and well (we were all in such suspense), our final scene starts with Ben and Val in bed together, a bright new sunshiny day, and Ben declaring that he’s going to tidy up the garage. Really stupid “happy” music plays over the soundtrack as Ben declares that he’s going to take a shower and hops out of bed. A second later, who should come walking into the bedroom? Why, it’s Hackney, a pistol in hand, and she shoots Val three times. We get a quick shot of a bullet ridden Val (meaning a couple of red spots on her robe), then a very dramatic, Anakin Skywalker-esque “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!” from Ben, and then of course he comes snapping awake because, duh, this was a nightmare (ooooh, just like the title of the ep, isn’t that clever?). Then the ep ends there. Oh boy. Here’s another scene that, when I watch it all by myself, I’m just kinda embarrassed for everyone involved and it makes me sad, but when watching with My Beloved Grammy, it was a laugh riot. We all almost peed our pants at this; I don’t know that I’ve ever seen My Beloved Grammy laugh so hard. In terms of scenes of high camp, this is maybe #1 out of everything we’ve seen so far. “WE’RE RUINING LIIIIIIIIIIIVES” looks as subtle and understated as Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part II when put up against this Hackney shooting nightmare.
Oh God, there’s just nothing good about this storyline or the way they wrap it up. In fact, I wanna talk about that, because I didn’t realize when we started this ep that it would basically finish up the Hackney stuff. See, early in the season I did a peek at her IMDb to see how many eps we’d have to suffer through looking at her and I saw her last appearance was in the 25th ep of the season, and this is the 23rd. That’s accurate, but all we get of her in the next two eps is quick flashes where Ben thinks he sees her and then it’ll turn out to be someone else, you know what I mean? For all intents and purposes, this finishes Hackney’s time on the show, and I’m happy about that, yet it’s still awkward and badly done. It’s also weird how they finish this up and we’ve still got seven more eps to go in the season. Now, by no means did I want Hackney to span all the way to episode thirty of the season, so I’m grateful we at least get to finish up with her here, but then it’s also awkward, its placement in the series bizarre. In fact, a little later, I mentioned to Brother how we have one more disk in the season and he was very confused and said he thought these eps were the end of the season, as the Hackney stuff gets all wrapped up. I told him no, that there’s still five more eps (please God let them be better than this). So, the Hackney storyline somehow manages to span on wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too long while also simultaneously wrapping up way too abruptly and fast. It’s just fucked in every way imaginable.
Now brace yourselves, because after all my bitching and moaning, there is one good thing in this ep, maybe I would even go so far as to call it a great thing. It’s small, just one line of dialogue, but it’s a classic exchange all KL fans should remember. It occurs in a scene between Abs and J.B., in which Abs has stopped by Westfork to pick up some of her stuff. She and J.B. have a little chat and Abs is sharp enough to figure out that Gary has rushed off to go help Val with something, so she says the classic line, which is, “Jill, let the second Mrs. Ewing give the soon-to-be-third Mrs. Ewing a friendly warning. The first Mrs. Ewing doesn’t go away, ever.” Yeah, I do love this line and it’s definitely a classic, but it’s a line that takes up maybe ten seconds out of a 48 minute ep; is that enough to give Nightmare a pass? Um, no.
Time for my concluding thoughts, and as I sit here staring at my computer and typing, I find myself asking the difficult question: Is this indeed the very worst ep of KL we’ve ever watched or even, possib ly, the very worst ep of KL ever made? My faithful readers may recall that season three’s Silver Shadows is my current vote for worst ep, and yet I think this one is possibly worse. I did some serious chewing on this and thought about the two eps side by side and I realized that a lot of my rage against Silver Shadows came from its placement in the season, from being sandwiched in-between two very good eps, Best Intentions and Letting Go, for interrupting that flow for a boring, shitty ep about Abs and some old guy and his stupid butler. But, in terms of simple competency and writing, I think if I just took a look at Silver Shadows all by itself and without the context of the eps around it, it might not be so bad, whereas Nightmare……aye yai yai yai yai. You know what, who am I kidding by even having this debate? This is obviously worse than Silver Shadows because nearly every second is terrible. It’s Hackney heavy, has that awful scene with Karen and Mack and the exposition dump montage, has nearly 500 scenes of Val being stupid, and then ends with an unbelievably corny and campy dream sequence. Not only that, but it soils Bill “Cooke” Duke’s legacy. This Green Beret who gave us nine stunning eps of television finishes his KL legacy with this turd, and that makes me sad, though I also don’t blame him. This is television, not film, and I know the directors aren’t nearly as in control with standard network TV as they are with their own films. In this case, I’m sure he got the job and was handed the script he had to direct and was like, “Well, this is clearly terrible,” and then just did the best he could. The show has morphed into something much cheaper and crappier in the gap between Duke’s last ep and this one, so I imagine he didn’t have the same artistic resources he may have had when working in the glory years of seasons four through six.
So yes, Nightmare is, of the first 183 eps of the series, the worst of them all. I really think it might remain the worst ep of all time when all is said and done, and I truly hope this is our rock bottom and that the series never gets worse than this. I like to think this ep is Gary’s season four bender and everything after this bottoming out with be an upward swing. Certainly I can tell you that our next two eps, while not great, were a huge improvement over this. So let’s be positive and assume that things are going to get better, shall we?
Next up, we mercifully start to move away from all this Hackney nonsense and focus on some characters I actually like and care about with Neighborly Conduct.
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1757 - Prussian invasion of Bohemia – Invasion
Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Campaigns >> 1757 - Prussian invasion of Bohemia >> Invasion till the Battle of Prague
The campaign lasted from April to June 1757
2.1 Prussian armies enter into Bohemia
2.2 Battle of Prague
3 Continuation
The general context of the campaign, winter operations and the preparations of Austria and Prussia for the incoming conflict are described in our article Context and preparations (January 1 to April 17, 1757).
After a careful preparation, King Frederick II of Prussia was ready to enter into Bohemia. His armies would converge on Prague from several directions.
Map of the movements of the Austrian and Prussian corps in April 1757.
The map being quite large, it is presented in three separate sections.
Austrian Corps (in red)
A = Arenberg
B = Browne
Bk = Beck (detached from Serbelloni's Corps)
G = Gersdorf (detached from Serbelloni's Corps)
K = Königsegg
P = Puebla (detached from Serbelloni's Corps)
Py = Pálffy (detached from Serbelloni's Corps)
S = Serbelloni
U = Ursel
Prussian Corps (in blue)
B = Braunschweig-Bevern
K = Der König (King Frederick II)
M = Prince Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau
S = Schwerin
W = Winterfeldt
Wg = Wartenberg
Source: Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, volume III by the German Grosser Generalstab
Courtesy: Tony Flores
Prussian armies enter into Bohemia
Order of battle of the Prussian Army of Silesia (Schwerin) on April 18
On Monday April 18:
Prince Moritz's troops initially left behind in Saxony during his incursion in Bohemia effected a junction with the rest of his corps at Marienberg. Prince Moritz then resumed his advance up to Annaberg.
Field-Marshal Schwerin came out of Silesia with a force of 44,000 men (32,000 foot and 12,000 horse). It was the first Prussian column to advance. It marched in four columns (the first and second columns effected their junction at Trautenau (present-day Trutnov) the same day):
first column (4 bns, 10 sqns) under Major-General Manteuffel marching from Schmiedeberg by Schatzlar (present-day Žacléř) where it drove back a small Austrian outpost
second column (13 bns, 25 sqns) under Lieutenant-General von Winterfeldt (accompanied by Field-Marshal Schwerin), marching from Landeshut (present-day Kamienna Góra) by Liebau (present-day Lubawka) and Goldenöls (present-day Zlatá Olešnice) and having to skirmish with Grenzer light troops while marching through the mountains
third column (8 bns, 10 sqns) under Lieutenant-General von Hautcharmoy, marching from Friedland (present-day Mieroszów) towards Starkstadt (present-day Stárkov)
fourth column (10 bns, 15 sqns) under Lieutenant-General Fouqué, marching from Tannhausen and Wünschelburg towards Politz/Mettau (present-day Police nad Metují)
On Tuesday April 19:
Schwerin's Army
the united first and second columns marched unmolested by Soor (present-day Hajnice) to Königinhof (present-day Dvůr Králové nad Labem) where they encamped on the right bank of the Elbe. However, the train had not followed and had been left behind at Trautenau, protected by the rearguard.
the third and fourth columns had to march through difficult roads in the mountains. Fouqué was forced to stop west of Starkstadt to re-assemble his troops. The Prussian left flank was dangerously exposed to an attack from Königgrätz (present-day Hradec Králové) and Fouqué renounced to take the good road from Starkstadt to Nachod to avoid this danger.
GdC Count Serbelloni, when he heard of the advance of Schwerin's Army, sent 7 bns, 7 grenadier coys and 3 cavalry regiments to Schmirsitz (present-day Smiřice) and posted 3 bns and 3 grenadier coys on the left bank of the Elbe near Königgrätz while his outposts retired in front of the advancing Prussian columns.
Most Austrian reinforcements were still on the Iser but some were already on the march.
Field-Marshal Browne, as he was returning to Prague in the evening after a new inspection of the frontier in the areas of Königgrätz and Lusatia, was informed of Schwerin entry into Bohemia. These news did not worry him, on the contrary he felt that Frederick was exhausting his troops by constant and useless marches and counter-marches.
On Wednesday April 20:
Prussians: the three other Prussian columns began their march towards Prague
In Saxony, erection of entrenchments around the suburb of Dresden was completed (work had started in February). Overall, 12 redoubts had been built in the area between Weisseritz and the Elbe, and blockhouses had been erected to protect the bridge across the Elbe.
Schwerin's Army had reached Königinhoff on the Elbe. During its advance, a detachment of Winterfeldt's Corps bumped into 200 men of the Slavonisch-Gradiskaner Grenzer posted in an advantageous location near Gülden-Else (unidentified location). The Grenzers, even though they were facing a vastly superior force, held their ground for several hours before retiring from their position, losing 4 officers and 31 men in the engagement.
2 bns of Garrison Regiment Mützschefahl were sent from Schweidnitz (present-day Swidnica) to escort Schwerin's delayed train, thus replacing Tresckow Infantry
Fouqué being late for the rendez-vous with the rest of Schwerin's Army at Königinhof, Schwerin was forced to wait for his arrival.
Bevern's Corps: set off from its quarters around Zittau in Lusatia with 13,000 men (8,000 foot and 5,000 horse) in two columns and marched by Gohlig, Kleinschönau, Reibersdorf (present-day Rybarzowice in Bogatynia) and Oberwittig (present-day Horní Vítkov) to Kratzau (present-day Chrastava) on the road to Reichenberg (present-day Liberec). The bread wagons and the army chest accompanied the left column. The provision train followed escorted by Jung Braunschweig Fusiliers and the troops formerly occupying the outposts (400 foot and 100 hussars). In the evening, Bevern's Corps encamped to the north of Berzdorf (present-day Ostašov) with its right wing anchored on a forest and its left on the Neisse River. During the night, Grenzer light troops harassed Bevern's right wing.
Puttkamer Hussars (5 sqns) covered the right flank of the marching columns in the direction of Gabel (present-day Jablonne v Podještědi).
A detachment (Grenadier Battalion Kahlden, Grenadier Battalion Möllendorf, 150 dragoons and 150 hussars) under Major-General von Kleist advanced from Zittau to Grottau (present-day Hrádek nad Nisou) which was occupied without any resistance.
A detachment (Grenadier Battalion Waldau, Grenadier Battalion Alt-Billerbeck and 5 sqns of Puttkamer Hussars) ) under Major-General Schöning marched from Kleinschönau and took position in the neighbourhood of Castle Grafenstein (present-day Grabštejn). The hussars of this detachment engaged 500 commandeered cuirassiers and dragoons under the Colonel Fürst Liechtenstein near Gohlig, driving them back and taking 3 officers and 60 men prisoners. Liechstenstein retired to Kratzau and Wachendorf (unidentified location) where, supported by a weak detachment of infantry, he vainly tried to oppose the advance of Bevern's Corps whose vanguard had been reinforced with 10 dragoon sqns.
A garrison of 400 commandeered foot and 30 hussars under Major von Gohr had been left behind to defend Zittau; furthermore Wietersheim Fusiliers previously posted in Torgau reinforced the small garrison of Zittau in the following days.
Frederick's Corps was still cantoned in Freiberg, Dippoldiswalde, Gottleuba and Berggiesshübel in Saxony. It had received bread and forage for 10 days. Furthermore, 3,900 wagons had been requisitioned in Saxony.
Maquire's Corps (12 bns and 14 grenadier coys for a total of approx. 10,200 men) was posted at Gabel. He intended to march from Gabel on Kratzau to turn the right flank of Bevern's advancing corps. On that day, he sent Major-General Count Würben forward with 2 bns. This detachment found Kratzau already occupied by the Prussians.
Browne, still in Prague, received a message from Hadik informing him of Prussian movements in front of his outposts. Browne still consider these manoeuvres of the Prussians as unimportant.
General Königsegg, totally surprised by this unexpected offensive, ceased gathering magazines in the Lusatia and Erzgebirge regions and retired on Prague.
Serbelloni abandoned his positions on the left bank of the Elbe and retired towards Königgratz (present-day Hradec Králové). He also sent General Gemmingen to occupy Neustadt (present-day Nové Město nad Metují) and Nachod with 3,700 Grenzers (Slavonisch-Brooder Grenzer, Slavonisch-Gradiskaner Grenzer and Warasdiner-Creutzer Grenzer) and 400 Grenz-Hussars.
Field-Marshal Daun was in Vienna when he heard of the invasion. He was sent north with reinforcements consisting of 20 infantry regiments, 8 dragoon regiments and artillery. Upon arrival, he was supposed to take command of the Austrian Great Army in Bohemia.
In the night of April 20 to 21, Würben's 2 bns marched by Engelsberg (present-day Andělská Hora) and Christofsgrund (present-day Kryštofovo Údolí) to make a junction with Königsegg's left wing. Meanwhile, Maquire marched on Kratzau with the rest of his corps, leaving only 3 bns (one bn of each of the following rgts: Königsegg Infantry, Andlau Infantry, Batthyányi Infantry) under Major-General O'Kelly on the heights between Ringelshain (present-day Rynoltice) and Grottau to secure the pass leading to Zittau.
On Thursday April 21:
Schwerin's Army: Hautmarchoy's column finally arrived at Königinhof and Fouqué's column getting closer, Schwerin decided to march to Miletin with his own columns. Schwerin wrote to the king, complaining about strong desertion among the Upper Silesian regiments (especially in Tresckow Infantry and Brandes Fusiliers).
the 2 bns of Garrison Regiment Mützschefahl previously sent at Trautenau returned to Schweidnitz.
Bevern's Corps: At daybreak it marched in two columns by Haberdorf (present-day Ovesná) towards the Austrian Corps (26,000 men) under the command of Count Königsegg who had managed to concentrate 16,000 men near Reichenberg. The Combat of Reichenberg ensued.
Frederick`s Corps: Frederick assembled the infantry and heavy artillery of his army in a camp near Ottendorf while his cavalry concentrated in the neighbouring villages. His outposts at Berggiesshübel and Gottleuba, along his planned line of march, were reinforced by 9 bns (Grenadier Battalion Dieringshofen, Grenadier Battalion Jung-Billerbeck, Grenadier Battalion Gemmingen, Grenadier Battalion Ramin, Grenadier Battalion Wangenheim, Grenadier Battalion Kanitz, Zastrow Infantry, Frei-Infanterie von Mayr), 15 sqns (Meinicke Dragoons, Szekely Hussars), the Fussjägers and two 50-pdr mortars.
Ferdinand of Brunswick, seconded by General von Zastrow and General von Manstein, commanded Frederick's vanguard.
Prinz Moritz's Corps crossed the border at Reitzenhain. Near Sebastiansberg (present-day Hora Svatého Šebestiána), Zieten Hussars engaged a detachment of Austrian hussar, taking 22 of them prisoners.
Königsegg, after his defeat at Reichenberg, retreated to Liebenau (present-day Hodkovice nad Mohelkou), 32 km farther south. He then paused for a few hours in these difficult grounds.
Serbelloni's Army: troops previously occupying outposts on the frontier kept arriving in Königgrätz.
Maquire's Corps reached Weisskirchen (present-day Bílý Kostel nad Nisou) early in the morning and marched noth-westwards on Kratzau. His Grenzer light troops had already entered into Kratzau and started to plunder the Prussian baggage but they were soon chased away by the fire of some Prussian artillery pieces while I./Münchow Fusiliers took position in front of the town. Meanwhile Prussian hussars thwarted an attempt by some Austrian troops to cross the Neisse between Weisskirchen and Kratzau. After his failed attempt, Maquire marched back to Gabel.
On Friday April 22
Schwerin's Army: part of the third and fourth columns joined Schwerin at Miletin.
Bevern's Corps: Bevern repatriated his soldiers wounded in the Battle of Reichenberg while his train joined him.
Frederick's Corps: Frederick marched in two columns with the infantry of his main body and the 3 sqns of his Garde du Corps. On his way, he was informed of Bevern's victory at Reichenberg. In the evening, Frederick encamped on the heights of Nollendorf (present-day Nakléřov).
Ferdinand of Brunswick set off from Ottendorf at 3:00 a.m. with Frederick's vanguard. By 8:00 a.m., he had reached Oelsen and the pass near Nollendorf. He drove some weak Austrian outposts out of Tellnitz (present-day Telnice).
From Nollendorf, Zastrow with 3½ bns (Grenadier Battalion Gemmingen, Zastrow Infantry and ½ bn of Frei-Infanterie von Mayr) and the two 50-pdr mortars took the direction of Aussig (present-day Ústí nad Labem). Meanwhile, Ferdinand marched to Karbitz (present-day Chabařovice). Around midnight, Zastrow reached the heights to the north of Aussig which was still occupied by Austrian troops (2 infantry bns, 1 bn of Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment nr. 1, 1 bn of Karlstädter-Oguliner Grenzer, 1 bn of Warasdiner-Sankt Georger Grenzer, 1 bn of Karlstädter-Ottochaner Grenzer and a few hussars under Drašković). Frei-Infanterie von Mayr distinguished itself during the recapture of the Castle of Tetschen (present-day Děčín).
Bevern's Corps marched to Saskal (present-day Záskalí) in front of Liebenau and encamped there. Bevern's two wings were anchored on woods occupied by units of Karlstädter Grenzers. In the afternoon, Bevern tried to dislodge the Austrians from their positions.
Königsegg concentrated his entire corps at Liebenau.
Maquire's Corps marched to Oschwitz (present-day Osečná) where it effected a junction with the 3 rgts of Major-General Würben.
Serbelloni, realising that Schmirsitz would not be attacked, sent back 1,000 men to occupy the town. Lieutenant-Colonel von Gersdorff reconnoitred the Prussian positions with 300 cuirassiers while Major-General Gemmingen secured the Austrian right flank with 3,700 Grenzer light troops and 400 hussars posted at Neustadt and Nachod.
On Saturday April 23
Scherin's Army: Schwerin remained encamped between Miletin and Policzan (present-day Bílé Políčany) waiting for the arrival of his train and taking the occasion to reorganize his army. Major-General von Manteuffel foraged in the direction of Horzitz (present-day Hořice) with a detachment (800 foot, 100 dragoons and 40 hussars) but encountered a superior Austrian force.
Frederick's Corps: Frederick marched from Nollendorf at 8:00 a.m. with his main body in two columns. His troops encamped on the heights to the North of Hlinay (present-day Hlinná) while Frederick established his headquarters in Hlinay under the protection of the I./Garde.
Ferdinand of Brunswick at the head of the vanguard advanced from Karbitz to Hlinay. On his way, he pushed back Hadik's force (6 bns, 6 grenadier coys, some Grenzer bns, 1 hussar rgt, 200 commandeered German horse and 15 artillery pieces) posted on the heights to the North of Hlinay. Hadik abandoned the left bank of the Biela stream (present-day Bořislavský stream) and destroyed the bridges in the Pass of the Pascopol (present-day Paškapole). Ferdinand followed the Austrians up to Biela (present-day Bílka by Paškapole) and occupied the access to the town on the right bank of the river with his grenadier battalions while his Freikrops and his hussars advanced against Hadik's right flank in the mountains.
Major-General von Hülsen was sent forward to Türmitz (present-day Trmice) at the head of 4 bns (Grenadier Battalion Schenckendorff, II./Wied Fusiliers, Kannacher Infantry) and 3 sqns (Garde du Corps) to hinder the retreat of the Austrian garrison of Aussig.
Colonel von Grumbkow was sent at Teplitz (present-day Teplice) with Grenadier Battalion Grumbkow and 1 sqn of Meinicke Dragoons to bring back a provision of oat still stored there.
After the evacuation of Aussig by the Austrians, Zastrow occupied the place but he found very little in the magazines. Indeed, the Austrians had thrown most of their contents into the Elbe. Colonel von Kleist then returned to Tetschen with I./Zastrow Infantry and the two mortars to besiege the castle.
Bevern's Corps marched forward, leaving I./Prinz Heinrich in Reichenberg as garrison. Bevern's vanguard, under Major-General von Schöning drove Austrian troops out of Langenbruck (present-day Dlouhý Most) and pursued them up to Saskal. From there a strong Austrian force (approx. 10 infantry rgts and 25 sqns according to Austrian deserters) could be seen on the heights near Liebenau. It was Königsegg's Corps. Bevern deployed his corps on both sides of Saskal but abandoned the idea of attacking these strong Austrian positions. Bevern's Corps then pitched tents and spent the night under arms. In fact, Bevern expected that the rear of the Austrian corps would soon be threatened by Schwerin and he wanted to be ready to pursue them.
Prinz Moritz's Corps, marching by Komotau (present-day Chomutov), reached Brüx (present-day Most).
Browne finally realized that he was facing a well prepared invasion of Bohemia. He was astonished to see that Serbelloni had remained idle in Königgrätz when the surrounding country was so suitable to the use of his light troops. Browne immediately left for the camp of Budin (present-day Budyně nad Ohří).
Maquire's force made a junction with Königsegg at Liebenau and so did FML Fürst Hohenzollern with 15 sqns. Königsegg was now at the head of 21 bns, 27 grenadier coys and 49 sqns.
Drašković managed to escape encirclement near Aussig, retiring along the Elbe up to Lobositz (present-day Lovosice). He deployed part of his Grenzer light troops across the Elbe in the shrubs of the right bank.
Serbelloni remained at Königgrätz, awaiting the arrival of further reinforcements.
During the night of April 23 to 24, Hadik retired through the mountains towards Lobositz. A Prussian detachment (3 bns, Freikorps, Fussjägers and 5 sqns of Szekely Hussars) occupied the pass of the Pascopol unopposed.
On Sunday April 24
Schwerin's Army marched towards Gitschin (present-day Jičín). Winterfeldt led the vanguard (5 bns, 20 sqns). The heavy artillery, the provisions train and the baggage each forming a column between the two lines of the main body. Major-General von Treckow led the rearguard (8 bns, 5 sqns).
Bevern's Corps remained in its position in front of the Austrians. Lieutenant Zabow of the Wartenberg Hussars with an escort of 40 hussars arrived at Bevern's camp with a letter from Schwerin instructing him to effect a junction with Schwerin's Army near Jungbunzlau (present-day Mladá Boleslav) on the following day.
Frederick's Corps remained in Hlinay waiting for its cavalry. Frederick made an unsuccessful attempt against Drašković's positions in the mountains to the north of Lobositz, sending Manstein to Salesl with 4 grenadier bns (Dieringshofen, Kanitz, Jung-Billerbeck, Ramin) and 5 sqns (Szekely Hussars) and Hülsen (reinforced with II./Hülsen) from Türmitz. Hülsen returned to Türmitz while Manstein remained in Salesl (present-day Dolní Zálezly).
Prince Moritz's Corps established contact with Frederick's Corps
Colonel von Moller set off from Magdeburg with the artillery destined to the siege of Prague which was transported on the Elbe
Browne was able to assemble only 12 infntry rgts and 4 cavalry rgts in his camp of Budin. He immediately recalled Hadik's Corps. When he heard of the estimated force of the Prussians, he guessed that they were seeking a decisive battle as soon as possible.
Königsegg took position at Altbunzlau (also known as Brandeis, present-day Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav) and broke the bridges across the Elbe, leaving his Karlstädter Grenzers and his hussars on the right bank of the river. He also covered the magazine at Nimburg (present-day Nymburk) and tried to re-establish communications with Serbelloni who, despite being continuously reinforced, was still lying idle at Königgrätz.
Drašković occupied Leitmeritz (present-day Litoměřice) with 1,000 Grenzer light troops and instructed his troops defending outposts in the neighbourhood of Rumburg (present-day Rumburk) to withdraw.
Arenberg's Corps (6 infantry rgts and 2 cavalry rgts) reached Luditz (present-day Žlutice) and from there marched by Podersam (present-day Podbořany) towards Laun (present-day Louny) where he was not expected before April 27.
On Monday April 25
Schwerin's Army marched to Sobotka in four columns. His vanguard counted 7 bns and 15 sqns. Seydlitz Hussars formed the rearguard and the flankguards.
Bevern's column was at Turnau (present-day Turnov) on the Iser.
Frederick's Corps: Frederick's infantry marched in two columns, protected by a vanguard. The right column marched by the Pascopol and Wellemin (present-day Velemín) to Tschischkowitz (present-day Čížkovice). The left column marched to the east of the first, towards Lobositz and Sullowitz (present-day Sulejovice). The detachments of Hülsen and Manstein joined the left column on the way. Most of Frederick's cavalry and heavy artillery were left behind in the camp of Hlinay. Engulfed between the mountains to their right and the Elbe to their left, Frederick's columns came under the fire of numerous Grenzer detachments hidden in the bushes along the Elbe from Schreckenstein (present-day Burg Střekov) to Salesl. Several baggage wagons, whose horses had been killed, fell into the hands of the Grenzers. Frederick's infantry finally reached Lobositz and encamped with its right wing at Tschischkowitz and its left at Lukawetz (present-day Lukavec u Lovosic). Lobositz was occupied by Frei-Infanterie von Mayr and Tschischkowitz, where Frederick established his headquarters, by I./Garde.
From Aussig, Major-General Zastrow covered the left flank with Grenadier Battalion Gemmingen and II./Zastrow Infantry, marching along the Elbe towards Lobositz. During the march Grenzer light troops attacked General Zastrow's detachment who covered Frederick's columns, Zastrow's detachment lost 4 officers (including Zastrow himself) and 103 men dead or wounded. Zastrow's detachment remained in Salesl where Manstein assumed command with orders to secure transportation on the Elbe.
Prince Moritz's Corps finally effected a junction with Frederick's troops left behind at Hlinay. Their combined force amounted to 60,000 men (45,000 foot and 15,000 horse).
Prinz Ferdinand Infantry was sent to reinforce Kleist, still besieging the Castle of Tetschen. During its march, the second battalion was attacked by a party of Grenzer light troops, losing 40 men.
Königsegg, facing Bevern's Corps and realizing that his rear was threatened by Schwerin coming up from Silesia in the north-east, decided to withdraw towards Jungbunzlau. At 9:00 p.m., his army marched in two columns with the cavalry in vanguard, followed by the regular infantry and the light troops in rearguard.
On Tuesday April 26
Schwerin's Army: The main body encamped at Wesela (present-day Veselá, Mnichovo Hradiště) with the Iser to its front while the baggage and provisions remained at Sobotka protected by 2 bns and 200 commandeered foot under Major-General von Kalckreuth. Münchengrätz (present-day Mnichovo Hradiště) was occupied by 2 Prussian bns.
Winterfeldt's and Wartenberg's vanguards (7 bns and 45 sqns: the 3 hussar rgts, Blanckensee Dragoons, Geßler Cuirassiers, Prinz von Schönaich Cuirassiers) established communication with Lieutenant-General Prince von Schönaich of Bevern's Corps. Wartenberg passed to the right bank of the Iser at Swijan (present-day Svijany) and advanced on Münchengrätz while Winterfeldt and Schwerin (Blanckensee Dragoons, Geßler Cuirassiers, Prinz von Schönaich Cuirassiers) marched in the same direction, following the left bank. In front of Münchengrätz, Wartenberg encountered Austrian hussars who soon retired on Jungbunzlau after burning the bridge across the Iser. The Prussian hussars pursued them and captured 30 men and 100 baggage wagons. Meanwhile, Schwerin (Blanckensee Dragoons, Geßler Cuirassiers, Prinz von Schönaich Cuirassiers), marching full speed by Bakow (present-day Bakov nad Jizerou) and Kosmanos (present-day Kosmonosy), reached Jungbunzlau just in time to prevent the destruction of the Austrian magazines who contained enough provisions for 40,000 men for three weeks. Königsegg's cavalry appeared on the opposite bank but too late to secure the town.
Bevern's Corps passed the Iser at Podol (present-day Podoli, Mnichovo Hradiště). In the evening, its left wing linked with the right wing of Schwerin's Army near Wesela despite Königsegg's vain attempts to prevent this junction.
Frederick's Corps: Frederick, letting his infantry rest for the day, reconnoitred the course of the Eger River (present-day Ohře River), sending Frei-Infanterie von Mayr and 100 hussars towards Libochowitz (present-day Libochovice) to make a diversion. His heavy artillery and cavalry, as well as Prince Moritz's Corps finally made a junction with his infantry at Lobositz. In the evening, Frederick's Army (now including Prince Moritz's Corps) set off from its camp at Lobositz and marched in two columns towards Koschtitz (present-day Koštice), leaving its train, baggage and 45 heavy pieces behind at Trebnitz (present-day Třebenice) under the protection of Wied Infantry and 5 sqns of Szekely Hussars. Prince Moritz formed the vanguard with 4 grenadier bns accompanied by 30 heavy pieces and 42 pontoons.
Königsegg reached Münchengrätz too late to prevent its occupation by the Prussians and realised that he could not reach Jungbunzlau before them. He then detached his cavalry forward to secure the town. However, when his cavalry appeared on the opposite bank in front of Jungbunzlau, it saw that the town was already in the hand of the Prussians. It contented itself to save the 100 foot guarding the magazines and to retreat to Neubenatek (Benátky nad Jizerou). In the evening, Königsegg's exhausted infantry finally reached Weisswasser (present-day Bělá pod Bezdězem).
Serbelloni moved his camp at Königgrätz from the left to the right bank of the Elbe. He threw 6 bns in the entrenchments behind the Adler. He also posted Major-General von Gemmingen at Königinhof and Major-General Count Nikolaus Esterházy with 2,000 Grenzer light troops and 200 hussars at Schmirsitz.
Arenberg's Corps marched from Podersam to Sterkowitz (present-day Strkovice).
In the night of April 26 to 27, the 3 first bns of the Prussian vanguard finally arrived in Jungbunzlau.
On Wednesday April 27
Schwerin's Army then counted 54 bns and 85 sqns. Its camp was moved closer to the Iser while the provision train of the former Bevern's Corps remained near Münchengrätz under the protection of 2 bns.
Frederick's Army: At 1:00 a.m., Frederick's cavalry followed the infantry who had set off in the evening to pass the Eger. Night was very dark and some confusion occurred in the marching columns. Prince Moritz's vanguard lost its way, followed by the main body. These delays caused the vanguard to reach Koschtitz in broad daylight. The vanguard immediately started to throw bridges across the 50 m. wide Eger, covered by 3 grenadier bns occupying Patek (present-day part of village of Koštice by Louny) and by its artillery deployed along the left bank of the river. By 8:00 a.m., two bridges were ready and crossing began. The mere appearance of Austrian troops on the commanding heights on the right bank of the Eger would have sufficed to postpone the crossing. However, only a few Austrian hussars could be seen observing the manoeuvre and Prussian hussars were sent to contain them. As these Prussian patrols advanced on Stradonitz (present-day Stradonice, Peruc), they came to contact at Perutz (present-day Peruc) with quartermasters of Arenberg's Corps who were installing a camp there. While his army was passing the Eger, Frederick made a reconnaissance in force in the direction of Budin with 30 sqns (10 sqns of Zieten Hussars, 5 sqns of Szekely Hussars, 10 sqns of Bayreuth Dragoons, and 5 sqns Meinicke Dragoons). From the heights to the west of Czernochow (present-day Černochov, Peruc), Frederick saw a large dust cloud in the direction of Charwatetz (present-day Charvatce by LItoměřice), indicating that Browne's Corps was on the move. Frederick would have liked to engage Browne but by this time only the head of his infantry had crossed the Eger at Koschtitz, 7 km away. By noon, Frederick received intelligence that Browne had retired south-eastwards to Welwarn (present-day Velvary) to avoid being cut from Prague. Frederick sent Zieten at the head of 20 sqns (10 sqns of Zieten Hussars, 5 sqns of Szekely Hussars, and 5 sqns of Meinicke Dragoons) to follow the Austrians. He then returned to Stradonitz where he established his headquarters. His army encamped (infantry in two lines and cavalry behind in a third line) with its right wing near Slavetin and its left wing anchored on the Eger. Grenadier Battalion Wangenheim remained at Koschtitz to protect the pontoon bridges.
Arenberg, ignoring how close Frederick's Corps was, marched from Sterkowitz towards Budin. After the encounter with Prussian hussars near Perutz, he realised that he could not continue his march towards Budin. He rather tried to effect a junction with Browne's Army by making a detour south-eastwards. In the evening after a march of 45 km, his exhausted corps finally reached Schlan (present-day Slaný) out of reach of Frederick's Army, leaving behind a large number of stragglers.
Königsegg recalled his cavalry from Neubenatek, destroyed all crossings on the Lower Iser and then marched to Altbunzlau. In the evening, he finally reached the Elbe at Brandeis where reinforcements were waiting for him. Only his rearguard under Colonel Loudon, remained on the right bank of the Elbe at Altbunzlau while his hussars roamed the area between Nimburg, Benatek and Melnik. With his reinforcements, Königsegg was now at the head of 26⅓ bns, 32 grenadier coys, 49 sqns, 20 heavy artillery pieces for a total of approx. 20,000 foot and 5,000 horse and hussars. Königsegg then dismantled all bridges across the Elbe between Nimburg to Melnik to the exception of the bridge at Brandeis.
In the night of April 27 to 28, Zieten's exhausted detachment had to halt at Charwatetz. Important Austrian magazines were captured at Charwatetz and Budin.
Schwerin's Army rested for a day now that its junction with Bevern's Corps had been effected. Lieutenant-General Winterfeldt was at the head of the vanguard consisting of 6 bns (Grenadier Battalion Kahlden, Grenadier Battalion Möllendorf, Grenadier Battalion Östenreich, Grenadier Battalion Waldau, Schwerin Infantry) and 25 sqns (Stechow Dragoons, Seydlitz Hussars, Werner Hussars) took position at Neu-Wirthshaus (nowaday, the village does not exist anymore but it was known in Czech as Nová Hospoda) to the south of Jungbunzlau on the road to Brodetz (present-day Brodce). Major-General Wartemberg (2 bns, 20 sqns) advanced to Dobromitz (probably Dobrovice) to guard the flank of the army. Schwerin was now certain that Königsegg would not attack him. However an attack by Serbelloni still remained possible and Schwerin rearranged his camp with his right wing anchored at Jungbunzlau and the Iser River behind his positions.
Frederick's Army: Frederick allowed a day rest to Prince Moritz's Corps who had marched for 7 days and undertaken 2 night marches. He then marched with the rest of his army and took position between Charwatetz and Raczinowes (present-day Račiněves), establishing his headquarters in Charwatetz. Rochow Cuirassiers joined Zieten's vanguard, bringing its total force to 25 sqns. Zieten then advanced up to Welwarn trying to catch up with Browne's rearguard.
Charles de Lorraine, commander-in-chief of the Austrian Army, left Vienna in the morning.
Browne marched from Welwarn and took position behind the Zakolaner Stream (present-day Zákolanský stream) were he was joined by Arenberg's Corps. Browne (now at the head of 46 bns, 48 grenadier coys and 71 sqns) then took position on the heights to the north-west of Tursko with his right wing anchored on the Moldau (present-day Vltava River).
The Austrian commander of the Castle of Tetschen; who had defended the place for five days with 300 men, 2 guns and 6 Doppelhaken; finally retired upstream along the Elbe.
Serbelloni was so preoccupied by his own security that he sent Major-General Gemmingen to Königinhof (present-day Dvůr Králové nad Labem) at the head of the Slavonisch-Brooder Grenzer, Slavonisch-Gradiskaner Grenzer, Warasdiner-Creutzer Grenzer and some hussars. Similarly, he sent Major-General Count Esterházy with Slavonisch-Peterwardeiner Grenzer (2,000 men) and 200 hussars to Smirschitz (present-day Smiřice). All communication with Königsegg's forces was now impossible.
Such was the speed of the advancing Prussian columns that considerable portions of the supplies, gathered in the Austrian magazines fell into their hands. These provisions were so important that they amounted to three months of supplies for the entire Prussian Army.
On Friday April 29:
Schwerin's Army advanced, leaving 3 bns (Münchow Fusiliers, I./Sers Fusiliers) and 80 hussars behind to garrison Jungbunzlau, and encamped between Brodetz and Zamost (present-day Zámostí, Písková Lhota) facing eastwards. His vanguard occupied Altbenatek (present-day Benátky nad Jizerou). Wartenberg remained at Dobromitz. Kalckreuth Fusiliers and 80 hussars remained in Kosmanos to guard the magazines. The bridges across the Iser at Zamost, Brodetz and Benatek were re-established. Furthermore, a pontoon bridge was set up on each side of Brodetz.
Frederick's Army: Frederick was forced to give a day rest to his army. He repaired the bridge at Budin. His baggage and his heavy artillery joined his army at Charwatetz. Prince Moritz was sent forward to Hospozin in the direction of Welwarn with his infantry (16 bns). The pontoon bridges at Koschtitz were dismantled and brought back to the army under the escort of Grenadier Battalion Wangenheim. A field hospital was established in Budin and bakeries erected in Lobositz and Charwatezt. The captured Austrian magazines and abundance of corn in the fields around Budin were most welcome for Frederick's Army whose supplies were lagging two days behind. The surrender of the Castle of Tetschen the previous day had also freed navigation on the Elbe allowing for faster transportation of supplies. Frederick received confirmation of the junction of Schwerin's and Bevern's corps at Jungbunzlau.
On the same day, Frederick was informed that there were large Austrian magazines in the district of Pilsen. He immediately sent Lieutenant-Colonel von Mayr from Charwatetz with Frei-Infanterie von Mayr, Frei-Infanterie von Kalben and 2 sqns of Szekely Hussars to destroy these magazines to make more difficult the assembly in Western Bohemia of an Austrian force destined to support the Reichsarmee. Mayr's detachment was also instructed to launch an incursion in Franconia, spreading terror in the neighbouring Imperial principalities to impede the assembly of the Reichsarmee.
Charles de Lorraine arrived in Prague in the evening. As he was approaching the city, he saw a great number of inhabitants fleeing with their belongings. Within the walls all was confusion, the train of his army filling the streets and places.
Browne's main army remained at Tursko.
Königsegg detached Major-General Duke d'Ursel with 6,000 men to cover the magazines at Nimburg and to maintain communication with Serbelloni's Corps. Up and downstream from Brandeis, small detachments guarded the Elbe. At Brandeis, Königsegg kept a force of approx. 12,000 foot and 3,500 horse.
Schwerin's Army: Schwerin remained in camp between Brodetz and Zamost to bake bread and receive provisions. However, his vanguard crossed the Iser at Altbenatek, remaining in the area of Neubenatek. Schwerin finally received news about the crossing of the Eger by Frederick's Army and of its march on Welwarn.
Frederick's Army marched in four columns towards Welwarn where it encamped with its left wing anchored on the Moldau, Frederick establishing his headquarters in Budschin (present-day Bučina) to the south of Welwarn.
Prince Moritz, already posted at Hospozin, acted as vanguard during the advance.
Detachments (Zieten with the hussars of the army and Meinicke Dragoons; Major-General von Hülsen with grenadier bns Bülow, Ramin, Jung-Billerbeck, Frei-Infanterie le Noble and the Foot Jägers) occupied Zemech (present-day Zěmechy by Kralupy nad Vltavou), Minkowitz (present-day Mikovice) and Kralup (present-day Kralupy nad Vltavou) to secure the crossing of the Knobisbach (present-day Knovízký stream).
The first 28 Prussian barges laden with forage navigated the Elbe and passed the Castle of Tetschen. These supplies were overdue because, during their advance, the Prussian armies had lost 1,500 cavalry horses as well as many artillery horses.
Browne's Army fell back on Tuchomirschitz (probably Tuchoměřice) where Charles de Lorraine joined it and replaced Browne as commander-in-chief as planned. During a war council, only Browne advocated an offensive. However, the Austrian main army counted by then only some 30,000 men while Frederick's forces were estimated to approx. 55,000 men. Furthermore, communications with Prague and with the corps of Königsegg and Serbelloni could be easily cut. Finally, the war council decided to retreat on Prague and to take position on the right bank of the Moldau.
Serbelloni, now at the head of 24,200 foot and 9,800 horse was still sitting idle at Königgrätz. According to the instructions received from Prince Charles, Serbelloni finally advanced to Nechanitz (present-day Nechanice) and Neubidschow (present-day Nový Bydžov) with the main body of his army, leaving 6 weak bns (2,300 men) to cover the magazines at Königgrätz and Pardubitz (present-day Pardubice). He also detached FML Count Puebla (1 bn of Karlstädter-Szluiner Grenzer, 24 grenadier coys, 40 horse) towards Nimburg to cover its magazines. Major-General von Beck, now at the head of the Grenzer light troops formerly led by Gemmingen, advanced on Neubidschow. Meanwhile, Major-General Count Pálffy took position at Chlumez (unidentified location) with 500 hussars; Lieutenant-Colonel von Gersdorff advanced on Königstadtl (present-day Městec Králové).
At the beginning of May, the Austrian FML Duke of Arenberg gave order to the 8 infantry rgts and 3 cavalry rgts posted at Eger (present-day Cheb) to take position on the road between Plan and Eger. Alt-Wolfenbüttel Infantry (3 bns) and Harsch Infantry (3 bns) were left behind at Eger as garrison.
On Sunday May 1
Schwerin's Army: The main body passed the Iser in four columns from Zamost to Draschitz (present-day Dražice, Benátky nad Jizerou) and then marched to Zdietin (present-day Zdětín), encamping between Untersliwno (present-day Dolní Slivno) and Neubenatek. Pontoon bridges across the Iser were then removed and other bridges destroyed to the exception of the bridge at Zamost.
Winterfeldt at the head of a vanguard of 6 bns (Grenadier Battalion Kahlden, Grenadier Battalion Möllendorf, Grenadier Battalion Östenreich, Grenadier Battalion Waldau, Schwerin Infantry) and 25 sqns (Stechow Dragoons, Puttkamer Hussars, Werner Hussars) marched from Neubenatek to Bischitz (present-day Byšice) and Lieblitz (present-day Liblice).
Major-General Wartenberg protected the line of communication with Jungbunzlau by Brodetz, taking position on the left wing of the army at Turzitz (present-day Tuřice) to cover any advance from Brandeis: Grenadier Battalion Nimschöfsky in Zamost, Grenadier Battalion Manteuffel in Stranow (present-day Stránov), Grenadier Battalion Ingersleben in Bezno, Grenadier Battalion Alt-Billerbeck in Horka (present-day Horky nad Jizerou) and I./Alt-Württemberg Fusiliers protecting the baggage in Bezno.
Frederick's Army: The main body, under Field-Marshal Keith marched in two columns up to Tursko. Frederick asked for 18 sqns (Garde du Corps, Rochow Cuirassiers, Driesen Cuirassiers and the Leib-Carabiniers) to reinforce his vanguard.
Frederick vainly tried to intercept the retreating Austrians at the head of his vanguard of 12 bns (I./Garde, Grenadier Battalion Bülow, Grenadier Battalion Jung-Billerbeck, Grenadier Battalion Ramin, Grenadier Battalion Wedell, Grenadier Battalion Wrede, Grenadier Battalion Kanitz, Grenadier Battalion Wangenheim, Grenadier Battalion Finck, Grenadier Battalion Dieringshofen, Grenadier Battalion Grumbkow, Grenadier Battalion Kleist), 23 sqns (Meinicke Dragoons, 10 sqns of Zieten Hussars and 8 sqns of Szekely Hussars), the Foot Jägers, Frei-Infanterie le Noble and twelve 12-pdr guns). He reached Tuchomirschitz by Minkowitz and Tursko. Only the hussars of Frederick's vanguard, under Zieten, managed to catch up with the rearguard of the northern Austrian column (Baranyay Hussars, 1 bn of Grenzer light troops and 6 grenadier coys), capturing 2 officers and 27 men. Frederick's vanguard finally encamped between Lichtendorf (present-day Lichoceves) and Statenitz (present-day Statenice) while Frederick established his headquarters at Tuchomirschitz, guarded by I./Garde and Grenadier Battalion Bülow.
Prince Charles marched in two columns towards Prague along the right bank of the Moldau. One of the column passed the Moldau on the Prague bridge while the other passed it below Prague at Bubua (present-day Bubny, part of Prague). The army encamped between Maleschitz ()present-day Malešice) and Nusle where Prince Charles established his headquarters. He sent order to Königsegg to march to Prague with his corps and to Serbelloni to march from Nimburg to Kolin. Prince Charles was not considering any action before the arrival of Königsegg from Jungbunzlau. Prince Charles' main army filed through Prague, leaving a fit garrison (including 3,787 grenzers: 2 bns and 1 grenadier coy of Karlstädter-Oguliner Grenzer, 2 bns of Karlstädter-Ottochaner Grenzer, 2 bns and 2 grenadier coys of Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment nr. 1. Their camp was spread out over km on the Ziskaberg Heights on the eastern side of the city.
On Monday May 2
Schwerin's Army: Schwerin remained at Sliwno
Major-General Wartenberg was sent forward up to Altbunzlau with 800 hussars and 200 grenadiers with instructions to make himself master of the bridge across the Elbe. On the right bank of the Elbe, in an oak forest near Altbunzlau, Wartenberg bumped into a force of some 3,000 Grenzer light troops led by Colonel MacElliot. Wartenberg immediately engaged them and drove them back to the bridge, inflicting them losses of 4 officers and 300 men. A great number of Grenzer light troops, now unable to recross the Elbe, took refuge in the forest, pursued by the Prussian hussars up to the bridge. Nevertheless, the Grenzers, who had previously coated the bridge with pitch, managed to set it afire. The Prussians were unable to extinguish the fire and the bridge burnt. In this action, the Prussians lost 23 men killed and 2 officers and 21 men wounded. They also lost Major-General Wartenberg who was killed in action.
Winterfeldt occupied Melnik with two grenadier bns.
Schwerin's lines of communication were still covered by Grenadier Battalion Nimschöfsky in Stranow, Grenadier Battalion Manteuffel in Horka, Grenadier Battalion Ingersleben in Neubenatek (Grenadier Battalion Alt-Billerbeck and I./Alt-Württemberg Fusiliers had rejoined the army).
Frederick's Army: Early in the morning, Frederick marched with his reinforced vanguard in the direction of Prague, hoping to catch up with the Austrian rearguard. However, he found only a few hussar and Grenzer detachments who immediately retired on Prague. Frederick then realized that the Austrian main army had already passed the Moldau. Frederick's main body marched by Rufyn (present-day Ruzyně, part of Prague). Its new camp extended from the Weisse Berg (present day Bílá hora) in the direction of Podbaba, encircling Prague “small side”. His right extended behind the Convent of Margareth (present-day monastery of Břevnov, part of Prague) and his left to the Moldau near Podbaba. His cavalry encamped behind the infantry wings at Libotz (present-day Liboc) and Lysolei (present-day Lysolaje). Frederick established his headquarters at Weleslawin (present-day Veleslavín), a small hamlet to north of Prague, which was occupied by the I./Garde.
Frei-Infanterie de Angelelli arrived in Pirna to escort the siege park leaving for Prague.
Prince Charles held a council of war. He was of the advice to throw a large garrison into Prague and to then retreat to make a junction with Serbelloni's Corps. However, Browne, the General-Commissary Baron Netolitzki and several other generals advocated to defend Prague. Finally, the council resolved to remain near Prague. The garrison of Prague was reinforced with 13,000 men (18 bns, 18 grenadier coys, 210 commandeered horse) and placed under the command of FML Count Thürheim.
Königsegg's Corps arrived at Prague and the Austrian army redeployed facing north with its right wing to the north of Maleschitz and its left on the Ziskaberg.
In the night of May 2 to 3, Schwerin, informed that the Austrian had evacuated the left bank of the Elbe and left a small garrison in the Castle of Brandeis, sent 2 howitzers and 20 pontoons to Altbunzlau. Before daybreak, Lieutenant-General von Fouqué arrived at Altbunzlau with 6 bns (Lestwitz Infantry, Kurssell Fusiliers and Fouqué Fusiliers) and 5 sqns (Katte Dragoons). However, the Austrians had already evacuated the Castle of Brandeis.
Battle of Prague
The Weisse Berg was on the western side of Prague while the Hradschin lied on the slope or shoulder of the Weisse Berg, a good way from the top. The Hradschin had a web of streets rushing down from it till they reached the bridge over the Moldau. From the bridge, the streets became level and spread out to right, left and eastward across the river up to the Ziskaberg. The distance from Ziskaberg top to Weisse Berg top was about 8 km, from the Hradschin to the foot of Ziskaberg (north-west to south-east) it was about 4 km. Prague stood nestled in the lap of mountains and was not in itself a strong place in war. However, the country round it with the Moldau ploughing its passage through the heights was difficult to manoeuvre in. Moldau Valley came straight from the south, crossed Prague and made a big loop of horse-shoe shape. It then proceeded straight northward towards the Elbe. It was narrow everywhere, especially fairly north of Prague.
On Tuesday May 3:
Schwerin's Army: Most of Schwerin's forces still remained in his camp of Sliwno, awaiting further developments. Schwerin, who was at Sliwno, received Frederick's orders to pass the Elbe and to make a junction with his own corps.
Fouqué suffered delays in the setting of a pontoon bridge at Altbunzlau. However, by evening, a pontoon bridge was finally ready below Brandeis and Fouqué left 2 bns in Brandeis.
Winterfeldt, who was posted at Bischitz, suffered delays too in the setting of a bridge at Kosteletz/Elbe (present-day Kostelec nad Labem).
Frederick's Army remained in its positions to the west of Prague. Frederick reconnoitred the area.
Grenadier battalion 35/36 Schenckendorff, quitted Aussig to join Keith's Corps, leaving the Wylich Fusiliers (former Saxon regiment forcibly incorporated into Prussian service in 1756) to guard the place as well as Tetschen.
Prince Charles sent Colonel Fürst Lobkowitz (500 horse, 200 hussars) forward in the direction of Brandeis and Meschitz (present-day Měšice) to observe Schwerin's Corps. Hadik secured the front of the army at Lieben (present-day Libeň) with two hussar rgts.
Königsegg's last units joined the Austrian Great Army. Nevertheless, Prince Charles continued to act defensively.
Frederick's first problem was to make his junction with the combined columns of Bevern and Schwerin. This junction could not take place south of Ziskaberg with Austrians positioned on the high grounds. Supplies came by boat on the Elbe up to Leitmeritz which was garrisoned by the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen Fusiliers (another former Saxon regiment forcibly incorporated into Prussian service). From Leitmeritz, supplies were transported by wagon.
Order of Frederick's Army on May 4:
King Frederick's Corps
Keith's Corps
On Wednesday May 4:
Schwerin's Army: Early in the morning, Fouqué passed to the left bank of the Elbe with his troops and those of Wartenberg's detachment. Similarly, Winterfeldt's vanguard passed the Elbe at Kosteletz. The heavy artillery crossed the pontoon bridge at Brandeis immediately after Fouqué's troops. The main body of infantry followed in two columns and passed the bridge simultaneously in two rows to deploy more quickly on the opposite bank. Then the cavalry crossed, followed by infantry escorting the baggage. In the evening, Schwerin's main body encamped with its right wing at Brazdim, where the field-marshal established his headquarters, and its left wing at Brandeis. Kalckreuth Fusiliers escorted the bread-wagons arriving from Jungbunzlau up to the new camp.
Winterfeldt bivouacked with Kosteletz/Elbe to his rear.
Schwerin sent Lieutenant von Borcke to inform Frederick that his army had now passed the Elbe.
Frederick's Army: Preparations were undertaken for a junction with Schwerin. Accordingly a corps of 17,000 foot and 7,000 horse and hussars (20 bns, the Fussjägers, 38 sqns and 50 field pieces) was assembled under the direct command of Frederick to pass the Moldau below Prague while the remaining corps of 25,000 foot and 7,000 horse and hussars (30 bns, 38 sqns) was placed under the command of Field-Marshal Keith and charged to maintain the blockade of Prague from the left bank of the Moldau. Grenadier Battalion Gemmingen was left behind at Welwarn to guard the field bakery (it would later accompany Frederick's Corps to the right bank of the Moldau). Some 95 pontoons were assembled at Lysolei on the Lower Moldau for the planned crossing. In the afternoon, Lieutenant-General Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and Prince Henri established an infantry camp on the heights between Lysolei and the Moldau. Meanwhile Frederick established his headquarters in Lysolei. Keith was ordered to place a corps of 30 sqns under the command of Prince Moritz von Anhalt who was instructed to throw a bridge of pontoons (he had 35 pontoons) across the Moldau above Prague under the protection of a few grenadier battalions and heavy pieces. After the crossing Prince Moritz would then cut the line of retreat of the Austrians.
Regiments Prinz Ferdinand von Preußen and Zastrow joined Keith.
Frei-Infanterie de Angelelli was on the road from Pirna, escorting the siege park.
Prince Charles sent orders to Serbelloni to march on the Elbe to make a junction with the main army. Prince Charles was convinced that the two Prussian armies would not dare to make their junction between the Elbe and the Moldau in front of the Austrian main army.
Colonel Fürst Lobkowitz had a skirmish with Werner Hussars where he lost 3 officers and 95 men taken prisoners.
Serbelloni contented himself to send Puebla, who he had reinforced to 9,000 men, to Podiebrad (present-day Podiebrady); and to sent FML Ariosti from Humburg (present-day Humburky) to Zizelitz (present-day Žiželice nad Cidlinou) with 4 bns. Beck remained at Nimburg.
Desertion of the former Saxon regiments
Frederick had been wrong when he considered that the former Saxon regiments forcibly incorporated in his army would serve appropriately. In fact, problems had arisen from the very first days when some units refused to swear allegiance to him.
Contrarily to several armies of the era, the Saxon Army had been composed mainly of Saxons with few foreigners. Accordingly the bonds of its soldiers with Elector Friedrich August II were very strong and a great number seized the first opportunity to desert.
Some desertion caused violence. At Chemnitz, 100 soldiers of the former Garde zu Fuss used their weapons against Prussian soldiers and escaped. While marching from Wittenberg to Görlitz, some 500 soldiers of the new Flemming Fusiliers killed some of their officers and escaped through Guben to Poland.. Of course, deserters enjoyed the support of the Saxon population.
During the march into Bohemia, the Prussians escorted the former Saxon regiments (for example, and escort of 300 Prussian soldiers was considered necessary for a unit of 500 Saxon). At night, these regiments were often placed under heavy guard. Some of them even had to mach without their weapons. Furthermore, these regiments were often left to the rear as garrison in various places.
Despite these measures, Saxon soldiers continued to desert. For example, during their march to Bischofswerda, Sergeant Heissing with 42 dragoons of the former Graf Rutowsky Light Dragoons, now incorporated into the Herzog von Württemberg Dragoons, escaped at night. A detachment was sent to catch these deserters but part of it joined them while other intentionally missfired. Sergeant Heissing arrived safely at Hainsbach (present-day Lipová/CZ) with his dragoons. The following month, another 200 dragoons of the same regiment escaped under the lead of Corporal Eichler. Indeed, due to the absence of Saxon officers in these regiments, deserters were often led by NCOs.
Further desertions took place when the Saxons realized that the promise that they would serve only within Saxony had been broken. Two bns of the former Prinz Friedrich August Infantry (now Loen Fusiliers) refused to march to Berlin and deserted when passing near the Polish border, reaching Blesen (present-day Bledzew/PL) three days later. Their soldiers elected Sergeant Christian August Richter as commander (Richter was later promoted captain). Within a few days, these 2 bns were followed by 5 coys of the former Prinz Xaver Infantry (now Jung-Braunschweig-Bevern Fusiliers) under command of Sergeant Johann Michael Knabe (later promoted captain) who had taken their officers as hostages.
The dreaded Frei-Infanterie von Mayr was among the Prussian regiments used to chase and capture Saxon deserters. Frederick even threatened to confiscate the properties of the families of the deserters.
In the night of May 4 to 5, Lieutenant von Borcke, Schwerin's courrier, was intercepted and captured by Colonel Fürst Lobkowitz. Meanwhile, Frederick was still waiting to know if Schwerin had effectively managed to pass the Elbe.
Map showing the positions of the Austrian and Prussian corps on May 5 1757.
On Thursday May 5
Schwerin's Army: The passage of the baggage across the pontoon bridge at Brandeis was finally completed. Work continued on this bridge. Grenadier Battalion Manteuffel was moved from Horka to Brandeis to secure the bridge while Grenadier Battalion Nimschöfsky was left behind at Stranow and Zamost. The combined columns of Bevern and Schwerin then waited for the signal indicating that Frederick was actually crossing to their side of the Lower Moldau.
Wintereldt's vanguard advanced from Kostelezt/Elbe to Meschitz on the right flank of the advancing main body. Indeed, Schwerin and his commanders were under the impression that the Austrian corps of Serbelloni, concentrated at Kolin, would try to make a junction with the main army near Prague.
Frederick's Corps:
At 5:00 a.m., Manstein at the head of Grenadier Battalion Wedell, Grenadier Battalion Wrede and the Foot Jägers took position at the foot of the heights located to the west of Bohnitz (present-day Bohnice) on the right bank of the Moldau.
At 5:00 a.m., Grenadier Battalion Kanitz and Grenadier Battalion Finck took position above and below Selz (present-day Sedlec, Prague)). Furthermore, two batteries (each of twelve 12-pdr guns) were planted at the foot of the heights to the west of Selz under the protection of Manteuffel Infantry and Itzenplitz Infantry. Under this strong cover, the construction of the pontoon bridge progressed without perturbation, Austrian hussars observing the events from the distance.
By 9:00 a.m., the bridge was ready and crossing began. Manstein advanced his detachment to the heights east of Bohnitz to better cover the crossing. He was soon reinforced by I./Prinz Ferdinand Infantry and I./Zastrow Infantry who protected the bridge. The signal (three cannon-shots) was made for Schwerin.
At 2:00 p.m., Frederick's 38 sqns left their camp and started to pass the Moldau over the pontoon bridge at Selz. Frederick then remained in this position dangerously close to the Austrian main army with his back to the Moldau for the rest of the day, impatiently awaiting a signal or a message from Schwerin. Finally, he sent Adjutant von Stutterheim to Schwerin with the order to undertake a night march to meet him early the next morning. Before the passage was complete, Seydlitz Hussars sent by Schwerin appeared on the outskirts. In the evening, Frederick's Corps encamped on the hilltops to the North-West of Czimitz (probably Čimický). His heavy artillery, who had met many difficulties on its way, finally reached this camp late during the night. Hussars and Fussjägers secured the approaches of the camp, taking position at the outskirts of the forest near Kobilis (present-day Kobylisy) where enemy hussars and Grenzer light troops had retired.
Keith's Corps remained in its camp.
Charles de Lorraine moved his headquarters from Nusle to Maleschitz and encamped his army in two lines between Maleschitz and Wolschan behind the Roketnitzer Stream, his left anchored on Prague, his right between Sterbohol and Hostawitz, his extreme right wing deployed en potence in the direction of Sterbohol. His army consisted of 61 bns, 62 grenadier coys, 132 sqns for a total of 48,500 foot and 12,600 horse and hussars; altogether 61,000 men. Hadik with hussars and Lobkowitz with 700 horse, posted on the heights of Gbell and Prosek, secured the Austrian camp. At 6:00 p.m., Charles ordered the infantry to be ready by daybreak, the cavalry saddled, the baggage ready for departure. He also expected that at least part of Serbelloni's Corps would arrive on the following day.
in the evening, Field-Marshal Daun replaced Serbelloni as commander of the Austrian corps posted at Kolin. General-adjutant von Schultz was sent by Charles to Böhmisch-Brod to speed up the march of the first detachment of Daun's army under Puebla. With Frederick at Czimitz and Schwerin at Brandeis, Charles did not expect a battle before May 7.
In the night of May 5 to 6 at 2:00 a.m., Prince Moritz set off from Keith's camp with 4 grenadier bns and fourteen 24-pdr guns, followed by wagons transporting 35 pontoons. The infantry lost its way but finally reached the Moldau.
On Friday May 6
Schwerin was on the march shortly after midnight. He advanced over the Heights of Chaber and made his junction with Frederick as planned around 6:00 a.m. near the village of Prossik (probably Prosek). The Austrians did not try to impede the junction of the two Prussian forces.
in the morning, Prince Moritz was joined by General von Kyau (Gens d'Armes, Leib-Carabiniers, Prinz von Preußen Cuirassiers, Rochow Cuirassiers, Bayreuth Dragoons and 200 men from Szekely Hussars). Around noon, when the pontoons finally arrived Prince Moritz realised that he would have needed 60 pontoons to throw a bridge on the Moldau (he had only 35).
After the junction of Schwerin's and Frederick's armies, a long and heavily contested struggle ensued, the Battle of Prague, that the Prussians finally won. However, most of the Austrian Great Army, 50,337 men strong (including 5,792 Grenzer light troops), took refuge in the City. Meanwhile, Daun reached Podiebrad where he let his troops take a few hours rest after an exhausting night march. He then planned to advance to Bömisch-Brod but did not march farther than Sadska (present-day Sadská), only 4 hours march from Prague. The advanced elements of his army, under FML Count Puebla, reaching Auwal. Near Bechowitz, they saw the victorious Prussians advancing. When Daun heard of the results of the battle, he retired to Podiebrad.
The very same day (May 6) at 4:00 a.m., Major-General Baron Beck reached Mochov with his body of light troops (4,000 Grenzers and 350 hussars) to cover the right flank of Daun's Army. There, he received intelligence that the town and the castle of Brandeis had only a weak Prussian garrison (II./Manstein Fusiliers, a former Saxon rgt, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Mardefeld with 2 guns and Manteuffel Grenadiers covering the bridge). He immediately decided to attack this town and to destroy its bridge. At 5:00 a.m., Beck appeared in front of Brandeis and unsuccessfully summoned the garrison to surrender. He then launched the I./Slavonisch-Brooder Grenzer led by Colonel Brodanovic against the right gate and the II./Warasdiner-Creutzer Grenzer led by Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Riese along with one battalion of the Karlstädter-Szluiner Grenzer led by Major Passée against the left gate. During this time, Lieutenant-Colonel Mathesen with the II./Slavonisch-Brooder Grenzer and Lieutenant-Colonel Miljevic with the I./Slavonisch-Gradiskaner Grenzer made themselves master of the town and destroyed the bridge over the Elbe. The Prussian Lieutenant-Colonel Mardefeld was taken prisoners with most of the garrison (374 men of II./Manstein Fusiliers, 4 officers and 252 men of other units including 80 wounded). In this action, Beck also captured 5 colours, 2 guns, 3 ammunition wagons. He also freed 3 officers, and 104 cuirassiers, dragoons and hussars who had been taken prisoners by Schwerin a few days earlier when he had crossed the Elbe. Beck lost lost only 20 men killed and 20 wounded. Only 4 officers and 120 men of Manteuffel Grenadiers under Major von Momma managed to escape. In the evening, Beck returned to Mochov.
Still the same day (May 6), the Prussian siege artillery sent from Magdeburg on the Elbe reached Pirna where it was transferred on smaller boats.
The other phases of the campaign are described in the following articles:
Siege of Prague till the Battle of Kolin (May 7 to June 29, 1757) describing the siege of Prague, the Austrian relief attempt and the Battle of Kolin
Retreat (May 7 to June 29, 1757) describing the retreat of the Prussian armies
This article incorporates texts from the following books which are now in the public domain:
Anonymous: A Complete History of the Present War, from its Commencement in 1756, to the End of the Campaign, 1760, London, 1761, pp. 205-216
Archenholz, J. W.: The History of the Seven Years War in Germany, translated by F. A. Catty, Francfort, 1843, pp. 32-64, 88-89
Carlyle, T.: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, vol. 18
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763
Vol. 1 Pirna und Lobositz, Berlin, 1901, p. 127
Vol. 2 Prag, Berlin, 1901, pp. 4-123, 147, App. 3-4
Vol. 3 Kolin, Berlin, 1901, pp. 3, 13,
Schuster, O. and F. Francke: Geschichte der Sächsischen Armee, 2. part, Leipzig 1885
Tempelhoff, Fr.: History of the Seven Years' War Vol. I pp. 18-120, as translated by Colin Lindsay, Cadell, London, 1793
Vanicek, Fr.: Specialgeschichte der Militärgrenze aus Originalquellen und Quellenwerken geschöpft, Vol. II, Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1875, pp. 409-426
Pajol, Charles P. V.: Les Guerres sous Louis XV, vol. IV, Paris, 1891, pp. 40-42
Rona, L.: Geschichte des K.U.K. Infanterie-Regimentes Adolf Grossherzog von Luxemburg, Herzog zu Nassau Nr. 15, Prague, 1901
Salisch, M. von: Treue Deserteure – Das kursächsische Militär und der Siebenjährige Krieg, Munich, 2009
Skala, Harald: Rückzug des preussischen Heeres nach der Schlacht bei Kolin 1757, der Fall von Gabel und Zittau
Skala, Harald: Österreichische Militärgeschichte
Harald Skala for information on the Saxon Army during this period
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50 Crazy-Wonderful Things about the Earth (and Its Creatures) to Be Grateful for!
Published on April 15, 2015 in By Maria, Environment, Inspiration, Maria Recommends, Organic Living
I know, everyone is busy. But stop for a few minutes and consider just how amazing and magical our planet really is. This is an especially good time to consider the crazy-wonderfulness of Earth, with Earth Day and the Earth Gratitude Wave both on the 22nd.
It’s never too early to feel grateful, which is why I made this list. Share it with your kids! (Many of the facts here came from the Weird but True! books by National Geographic Kids, which my youngest LOVES!)
50 Crazy-Wonderful Things about Earth to Be Grateful for:
1. There are 8.6 million lightning strikes in a day (and when lightning strikes, the air around it gets five times hotter than the sun!).
2. Around 70 percent of the world’s surface is ocean, which is responsible for producing more than half of the oxygen we breathe.
3. About 97 percent of all the water on Earth is saltwater.
4. There are 5 million living organisms in teaspoon of seawater…but who’s counting?
5. Meanwhile, a tablespoon of soil contains more than 1 billion living organisms!
6. Earth has the same amount of water now as it did 100 million years ago.
7. But…if you rolled all the water on Earth into a ball, it would be less than a third the size of the moon!
8. Some storm systems in the sky can hold more water than the Mississippi river.
9. The oldest tree on Earth is nearly 5,000 years old—about as old as the pyramids of Egypt!
10. The earth is constantly in motion. New York and London are moving 2.5 centimeters apart from each other every year, and Hawaii is moving 10 centimeters closer to Japan each year.
11. In the past five minutes, the earth traveled more than 5,000 miles. Weeeee!
12. It would take 33 million people holding hands around the equator to make a full circle. Let’s do it! (Just kidding.)
13. We think we humans are so strong and special, but a caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
14. Leeches have 32 brains!
15. Slugs have 3,000 teeth and four noses!
16. Butterflies can taste with their feet (which is good because they have no mouths) and hear with their wings.
17. Some butterflies drink turtle tears…awwww!
18. Octopuses have three hearts—all the more to love with!
19. Not to be outdone…earthworms have five hearts!
20. Some fish can change from female to male, and oysters can change from male to female.
21. Sharks have more senses than humans. They have eight; we have five.
22. Humpback whale songs can become “hits” and sweep across the ocean.
23. A bottlenose dolphin has a brain bigger than yours.
24. Rabbits can see behind them without moving their heads.
25. In case you think insects don’t have feelings, ladybugs squirt smelly liquid from their knees when they get scared. Poor things!
26. If you thought time was getting faster, you may be wrong—the earth’s rotation slows by 1.5 milliseconds every century.
27. Fifty-five million years ago, palm trees grew at the North Pole…hmmmm.
28. A palm tree isn’t really a tree; it’s a type of grass!
29. Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a mythological god or goddess. The word “earth” comes from the Old English word “ertha,” meaning ground or land.
30. The rosy periwinkle flower is used in drugs for cancer treatment and has helped increase survival rates for childhood leukemia from 10 percent to 95 percent.
31. Mangrove forests help protect us from storms and other major weather events.
32. A typical forest can store up to 30,000 metric tons of carbon per square kilometer. Seagrasses can store more than 80,000 metric tons per square kilometer.
33. Bees are responsible for pollinating more than 75 percent of the leading global food crops.
34. Pandas eat 36 pounds of bamboo…every day.
35. A single bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquito-size insects an hour (and 3,000 a night!)
36. 1.9 billion years ago, the earth smelled a lot like rotten eggs. ICK! Let’s be thankful that’s no longer the case.
37. People throw away enough ribbon a year to tie a bow around the earth. How about using biodegradable ribbon instead?
38. Earthquakes can instantly create gold in the earth’s crust!
39. There is enough gold in the center of the earth to coat the planet in 1.5 feet of gold!
40. 90 percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.
41. The Great Barrier Reef is the biggest living structure on Earth. Go, Australia!
42. And yet, the Sahara desert is bigger than all of Australia.
43. Bees need about 5 million flowers to make one jar of honey. Plant flowers, people!
44. If you weigh all the earthworms in the United States, they weigh more than 10 times the total human population. Wow!
45. At least 1 quadrillion ants live on Earth (that’s 15 zeros behind a 1).
46. There are more than 1,900 edible types of insects on Earth…(just in case you get hungry.)
47. Half of the world’s land is still wilderness. That’s awesome!
48. Looking back: 400 million years ago, mushrooms grew really, really tall—taller than a giraffe!
49. Around 15 tons of dry soil per acre pass through one earthworm each year, and 1,400,000 earthworms can be found in one acre of cropland.
50. There’s a type of “immortal” jellyfish capable of regenerating and living forever.
Have a happy Earth Day next Wednesday, everyone! Tell us what you are grateful for! #EarthGratitude!
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Jairo Bochi
Facultad de Matemáticas, PUC-Chile
“It is, first and foremost, characteristic of human beings to seek and probe for the truth. And so when we are free from mandatory duties and concerns we are keen to see, hear, and learn things and we think that knowledge of arcane or wondrous things is indispensable for the happy life. From this we can conclude that whatever is true, simple, and pure is most suited to human nature.” – Cicero, De Officiis (translation by Brad Inwood)
“Who but a barbarian could fail to believe that a man cannot stand alone if he wishes to create, that tradition is actually the precondition of creation, not its antithesis?” – Theodore Dalrymple
“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for Mathematics, the cultural world is one country.” – David Hilbert
“In Mathematics, unlike elsewhere, wrong notions die off easily. Our capacity for understanding is hampered, foremost, by the inability to dispel false concepts.” – Alexander Beilinson
I am a mathematician. I completed my undergraduate studies at UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) in 1996, and my PhD at IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) in 2001. I have previsouly had tenured positions at UFRGS and PUC-Rio. I work at PUC-Chile since 2014. My research focuses on Dynamical Systems and its relations to Geometry, Linear Algebra, and Control Theory.
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2019/2 (August-November): Topología y Geometría de Variedades (MPG3403)
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Abundance of counterexamples to the finiteness conjecture in arbitrary dimension (working title) Çağrı Sert In progress...
Extremal norms for fiber bunched cocycles Eduardo Garibaldi Submitted
Ergodic optimization of Birkhoff averages and Lyapunov exponents - Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, Rio de Janeiro, vol. 2, pp. 1821-1842. / /
Equilibrium states of generalised singular value potentials and applications to affine iterated function systems Ian D. Morris Geometric and Functional Analysis, 28 (2018), no. 4, pp. 995-1028. /
Dominated Pesin theory: convex sum of hyperbolic measures Christian Bonatti, Katrin Gelfert Israel Journal of Mathematics, 226 (2018), no. 1, pp. 387-417. /
On the approximation of convex bodies by ellipses with respect to the symmetric difference metric - Discrete & Computational Geometry, 60 (2018), no. 4, pp. 938-966. /
Positivity of the top Lyapunov exponent for cocycles on semisimple Lie groups over hyperbolic bases M. Bessa, M. Cambrainha, C. Matheus, P. Varandas, Disheng Xu Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 49 (2018), no. 1, pp. 73-87. /
A criterion for zero averages and full support of ergodic measures Christian Bonatti, Lorenzo J. Díaz Moscow Mathematical Journal, 18 (2018), no. 1, pp. 15-61. /
Anosov representations and dominated splittings Rafael Potrie, Andrés Sambarino To appear in Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Flexibility of Lyapunov exponents Anatole Katok, Federico Rodriguez Hertz In progress...
Robust criterion for the existence of nonhyperbolic measures Christian Bonatti, Lorenzo J. Díaz Communications in Mathematical Physics 344 (2016), no. 3, pp. 751-795. /
The scaling mean and a law of large permanents Godofredo Iommi, Mario Ponce Advances in Mathematics 292 (2016), pp. 374-409. /
Ergodic optimization of prevalent super-continuous functions Yiwei Zhang International Mathematics Research Notices 2016 (2016), no. 19, pp. 5988-6017. /
Cocycles of isometries and denseness of domination - Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 66 (2015), no. 3, pp. 773-798. /
Peano curves with smooth footprints Pedro H. Milet Monatshefte für Mathematik 180 (2016), no. 4, pp. 693-712. /
The entropy of Lyapunov-optimizing measures of some matrix cocycles Michał Rams Journal of Modern Dynamics 10 (2016), pp. 255-286. /
Continuity properties of the lower spectral radius Ian D. Morris Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 110 (2015), pp. 477-509. /
Generic linear cocycles over a minimal base - Studia Mathematica 218 (2013), no. 2, pp. 167-188. /
Almost reduction and perturbation of matrix cocycles Andrés Navas Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré - analyse non linéaire 31 (2014), no. 6, pp. 1101-1107. /
Robust vanishing of all Lyapunov exponents for iterated function systems Christian Bonatti, Lorenzo J. Díaz Mathematische Zeitschrift 176 (2014), pp. 469-503. /
Universal regular control for generic semilinear systems Nicolas Gourmelon Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 26 (2014), no. 4, pp. 481-518. /
A geometric path from zero Lyapunov exponents to rotation cocycles Andrés Navas Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 35 (2015), no. 2, pp. 374-402. /
Perturbation of the Lyapunov spectra of periodic orbits Christian Bonatti Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 105 (2012), no. 1, pp. 1-48. /
Nonuniform hyperbolicity, global dominated splittings and generic properties of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms Artur Avila Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 364 (2012), no. 6, pp. 2883-2907. /
Opening gaps in the spectrum of strictly ergodic Schrödinger operators Artur Avila, David Damanik Journal of the European Mathematical Society 14 (2012), no. 1, pp. 61-106. / Correction:
Nonuniform center bunching and the genericity of ergodicity among \(C^1\) partially hyperbolic symplectomorphisms Artur Avila, Amie Wilkinson Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure 42 (2009), no. 6, pp. 931-979. /
Some characterizations of domination Nicolas Gourmelon Mathematische Zeitschrift 263 (2009), no. 1, pp. 221-231. /
Uniformly hyperbolic finite-valued \({\rm SL}(2,\Bbb{R})\) cocycles Artur Avila, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 85 (2010), no. 4, pp. 813-884. /
\(C^1\)-generic symplectic diffeomorphisms: partial hyperbolicity and zero centre Lyapunov exponents - Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 9 (2010), no. 1, pp. 49-93. /
Cantor spectrum for Schrödinger operators with potentials arising from generalized skew-shifts Artur Avila, David Damanik Duke Mathematical Journal 146 (2009), no. 2, pp. 253-280. /
A uniform dichotomy for generic \({\rm SL}(2,\Bbb{R})\) cocycles over a minimal base Artur Avila Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France 135 (2007), 407-417. /
Generic expanding maps without absolutely continuous invariant \(\sigma\)-finite measure Artur Avila Mathematical Research Letters 14 (2007), no. 5, 721-730. /
A generic \(C^1\) map has no absolutely continuous invariant probability measure Artur Avila Nonlinearity 19 (2006), 2717-2725. /
Dichotomies between uniform hyperbolicity and zero Lyapunov exponents for \({\rm SL}(2,\Bbb{R})\) cocycles Bassam Fayad Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society 37 (2006), no. 3, 307-349. /
A remark on conservative diffeomorphisms Bassam Fayad, Enrique Pujals Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 342 (2006), 763-766. /
\(L^p\)-generic cocycles have one-point Lyapunov spectrum Alexander Arbieto Stochastics and Dynamics 3 (2003), 73-81. Corrigendum. ibid, 3 (2003), 419-420. / +
Lyapunov exponents: How frequently are dynamical systems hyperbolic? Marcelo Viana Modern dynamical systems and applications, 271-297, Brin, Hasselblatt, Pesin (eds.) Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004. Correction:
Inequalities for numerical invariants of sets of matrices - Linear Algebra and its Applications, 368 (2003), 71-81. /
The Lyapunov exponents of generic volume preserving and symplectic maps Marcelo Viana Annals of Mathematics, 161 (2005), no. 3, 1423-1485. /
Robust transitivity and topological mixing for \(C^1\)-flows Flavio Abdenur, Artur Avila Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, 132 (2004), 699-705. /
Uniform (projective) hyperbolicity or no hyperbolicity: a dichotomy for generic conservative maps Marcelo Viana Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré - analyse non linéaire, 19 (2002), 113-123. /
A formula with some applications to the theory of Lyapunov exponents Artur Avila Israel Journal of Mathematics, 131 (2002), 125-137. /
Genericity of zero Lyapunov exponents - Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 22 (2002), 1667-1696. / ,
Discontinuity of the Lyapunov exponent for non-hyperbolic cocycles - Permanent preprint ,
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Genericity of periodic maximization: proof of Contreras' theorem following Huang, Lian, Ma, Xu, and Zhang:
A proof of Denjoy theorem:
Structures induced by the symmetric difference metric:
The basic ergodic theorems, yet again: CUBO 20 (2018) no. 3, pp. 85-95. /
Another proof of the spectral radius formula:
Note on robustness of periodic measures in ergodic optimization (with Yiwei Zhang):
Perfect matchings in inhomogeneous random bipartite graphs in random environment (with G. Iommi and M. Ponce):
An ergodic theorem for permanents of oblong matrices (with G. Iommi and M. Ponce):
Bochi-Fayad problem:
Note on the dimension of certain algebraic sets of matrices (with N. Gourmelon):
Disguised arithmetic means: (talk slides, in Portuguese).
Proof of the subadditive ergodic theorem (with A. Avila):
Notes of the course on Lyapunov exponents given at the Workshop on Dyn. Sys. at Trieste, with A. Avila: First week: ; second week: (manuscript by Aline Cerqueira).
Notes on a theorem of Furstenberg on random products of matrices:
Proofs of Oseledets theorem:
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Karlsson-Margulis Theorem: (talk slides, in Portuguese)
Two contractible compact spaces with a point in common whose union is not contractible (following Elon L. Lima): (in Portuguese).
Roots of polynomials with bounded integer coefficients: (in Portuguese).
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Properties of sets of isometries of Gromov hyperbolic spaces: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 12 (2018), no. 3, pp. 889-910. /
A new inequality about matrix products and a Berger-Wang formula: (October, 2017)
MSc dissertation (Jul 17, 2018): Negative curvature, matrix products, and ergodic theory.
Renato Velozo Ruiz. MSc dissertation (Jul 12, 2018): Characterization of uniform hyperbolicity for fiber-bunched cocycles.
Paulo N. Orenstein, co-advised by Carlos Tomei. MSc dissertation (Jan 23, 2014): Optimal transport and the Wasserstein metric.
Zhou Cong. MSc dissertation (Mar 11, 2013): Multiplicative ergodic theorem in non-positively curved spaces.
Miguel K. Schnoor. PhD thesis (Aug 3, 2012): The non-existence of absolutely continuous invariant probabilities is \(C^1\)-generic for flows.
Pedro Henrique Milet P. Pereira. MSc dissertation (Mar 25, 2011): Peano curves and line fields
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Antitrust: Commission welcomes General Court judgment in Microsoft compliance case
The European Commission welcomes today’s judgment by the General Court in case T-167/08 Microsoft v Commission. The judgement essentially upholds a 2008 Commission decision imposing a penalty payment on Microsoft for not complying with the Commission’s 2004 Microsoft Decision, which was upheld by the Court in 2007.
The judgement is the first in which the General Court rules on a penalty payment imposed on a company for non-compliance with an antitrust prohibition decision. The Court’s ruling vindicates the Commission’s efforts to ensure full compliance with its antitrust decisions, in particular the 2004 decision. As a result of the Commission’s enforcement action, a range of innovative products have come to market that would otherwise not have seen the light of day.
The 2004 Microsoft Decision found that Microsoft had abused its dominant position in PC operating systems by withholding critical interoperability information from its competitors. This meant that providers of rival work group server operating systems were unable to compete effectively even though they were rated more highly by users than Microsoft’s products on a range of parameters such as reliability, security and speed.
The Commission ordered Microsoft to disclose certain specified “interoperability information” on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms to vendors of work group servers, so that they could develop and distribute interoperable products.
The 2008 penalty payment decision , on which the General Court ruled today, was adopted under Article 24(2) of Regulation 1/2003 and found that, prior to 22 October 2007, Microsoft had charged unreasonable prices for access to interoperability documentation for work group servers and therefore did not comply with its obligations under the 2004 Microsoft Decision. Here to read more.
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Introducing Hyundai Engineering Projects, Donates Disaster-Resistant Modular Homes
December 26th, 2018 soheyla Comments off
In the United States, Hyundai is best known for their cars and other vehicles. That’s still a big part of the South Korean firm’s business, but they have a diversified presence in several industries, with “engineering” and industrialization in construction as common elements.
Hyundai Engineering said Wednesday that they’ve donated 5 prefabricated homes that are earth quake and disaster resistant.
Since 2015, the firm has reportedly given away 21 prefab/modular homes in remote areas in Gangneung Province, North Chungcheong Province and South Jeolla Provinces in South Korea. There aren’t a lot of details at this time, but the video posted reflects their global reach.
Domestic American factory-builders, take note. One of larger projects in this video is here in the United States. The Korean Herald says what industry builders already know, “Modular homes refer to prefab buildings for residential purposes. Such buildings involve a construction method in which sections of a house are manufactured away from a construction site, then delivered to the site and installed there.”
Each of the donated modular homes has a bedroom, a living room, and a restroom, as well as a storage detached from the residential area, according to the Hyundai.
An entirely different type of housing project in Tamil on the Indian subcontinent is shown in the photo below.
Several off-shore producers of industrialized housing have tested or are exploring the U.S. housing market. Chinese firms are often mentioned, but Europeans, Japanese, and others are in the hunt too.
It should be noted that when Hyundai’s cars hit the U.S. shores, they rapidly achieved significant numbers. They think big.
In 2017, AutoNews said that “Hyundai’s U.S. sales…685,555 vehicles in 2017. Kia’s U.S. sales fell 9 percent to 589,668 vehicles.” However you slice it, that’s many times the size of the entire HUD Code manufactured home market, which is currently larger than the modular single family home market.
Daily Business News on MHProNews will continue to monitor developments by offshore companies that have eyes on the U.S. prefab housing market. “We Provide, You Decide.” © ## (News , analysis, and commentary.)
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Billion Dollar Startup Modular Builder, Using Robotics, Could Soon Rival Clayton Homes’ Total Sales
Factory-Crafted Home Living, Reimagined – “The Art Park” vs. MHCs – Interview with Robbie Antonio, Founder of Unicorn Revolution Precrafted Homes
Categories: Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, disaster, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, News, research, Trends Tags: Disaster-Resistant, Donates, Hyundai Engineering Projects, industrialized housing, Introducing, modular homes, video
#$2Trillion U.S. GDP Growth via Affordable Housing Plan Few Discuss – Introducing #YimbyVictory2020
December 3rd, 2018 soheyla Comments off
Whatever your position is on Nancy Pelosi (CA-D), she is proving you can’t beat someone with no one. That principle applies in numerous aspects of one’s business or professional life too, including our once far-greater in scope industry.
Affordable housing advocates need more than a lament. Those who want more affordable homes can’t just be opposed to NIMBY. There should be an affirmative case made for YIMBY.
NIMBY = “Not in My Back Yard.”
YIMBY = “Yes in My Back Yard.”
That case is arguably #YimbyVictory2020 and #$2Trillion. Before diving in, bear in mind, these concepts originate from experts outside and inside of our industry.
Put differently, important groundwork for YIMBY is already in place. For example, research summarized in the graphics below from real estate giant Trulia demonstrate that affordable housing doesn’t harm the values of nearby existing housing. The reason that is good news is that is what causes many to oppose affordable homes.
The Trulia research reinforces what HUD’s PD&R on manufactured homes documented in a separate study that was MH specific, namely, that MH appreciated side by side with conventional housing discovered. See the HUD PD&R researched linked further below.
For federally regulated manufactured housing supporters, the research done by third parties – like the HUD PD&R linked below – reveals that despite contrary belief, conventional housing and manufactured homes appreciated side-by-side.
In a university-level study of actual homes in various cities in the U.S., HUD commissioned researchers learned that manufactured homes appreciated side-by-side with conventional housing. As part of a broader understanding of the facts, including the Trulia study noted above, this is a huge reason why manufactured homes ought to be embraced by the public, planners, advocates, and public officials. Click here or the image above to download the HUD research.
That was the lived experience of manufactured housing advocate, and factory-built home owner, the Rev. Donald Tye, Jr.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, a Novel Yet Proven Solution to the Affordable Housing Crisis That Will Create Opportunities, Based Upon Existing Laws
Value Penguin features an article by business-in-small-towns expert Tom Egelhoff and MHProNews publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach that explains how correcting the false impressions about modern manufactured homes could unleash another $2 trillion dollars a year in U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They cited the third-party experts that generated that $2-trillion-dollar PER YEAR Additional GDP estimate, plus other sources named in their research, make an unambiguous case for what our part of the affordable housing industry should be cheering and gearing up to do.
That case by Egelhoff-Kovach is based upon existing laws being enforced. ICYMI, or need a refresher, click the linked article, below.
https://www.valuepenguin.com/home-insurance/fear-manufactured-homes-affordable-housing-crisis
What is increasingly clear is that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and Clayton Homes purported claims of ‘promoting the industry’ are either
ineffective,
a smokescreen (diversion),
incompetent,
or some combination of factors that have arguably produced no demonstrable good results for the bulk of the industry, but have benefited a few ‘MHI insiders.’ Click the link on the image below to learn more.
Clayton’s Miss, Kevin and Tim’s Manufactured Housing Kill Shot, More
Clarity vs Ambiguity or Misinformation
For years, not unlike others in MHVille – a.k.a. manufactured housing land, or the MHIndustry – Tony Kovach asserted that virtually every major concern about contemporary manufactured homes was based upon misinformation.
But unlike others, Kovach and his colleagues went beyond asserting to what industry professionals is an obvious claim. They proceeded to launch what today is known as MHProNews. Later, they added MHLivingNews. Now after years online, those twin pro-industry trade publications have been acknowledged as dependable sources for accurate information on manufactured homes.
Interviews and videos,
Third party research,
Fact checks – fisking – or analysis of flawed information,
and periodic exposes on what are factors behind our industry’s decline are often found only on MHProNews among the industry’s trade media.
But the good news about manufactured homes, and factory-built housing has not been overlooked either. Quite the opposite, arguably no one in MH trade media has done more to promote the industry as the solution hiding in plain sight than MHProNews and MHLivingNews. As Skyline’s Terry Decio said, our publications are among the best things the industry’s got. See Decio’s comment in the video below.
PEP can = More Honest Profits and Opportunities
Deer Valley’s Chet Murphree and James McGee said near the end of the video interview below that education is the key. They also said that MHLivingNews and MHProNews are leading the charge on education.
All of that is done here on MHProNews and MHLivingNews have been accomplished in conjunction with sponsors, clients, and reliable industry sources that provide useful news tips.
We’re far from alone. Today, in a now modest industry – well over 10,000 readers like yourself will logon and read an average of 4½ articles per visit, per recent Webalizer data of our top two URLs, and we have dozens.
Understanding the Challenges Helps Clarify the Needs and Solutions
As long as most people who hear the words “manufactured home” (MH) have a knee-jerk negative reaction, that’s a problem. When people hear “manufactured home” relate it to pre-HUD Code “mobile homes” – or shudder, to the totally inappropriate ‘trailer houses’ – the MH industry has an image problem.
With respect to all of those who think that we should drop all terminology, that’s just not practical. First, it is a mistake to merely run away from who we are. Manufactured housing has a great story to tell, it just hasn’t been told with the ongoing vigor that is needed.
It’s self-evident from the latest two months of declines in new HUD Code home shipments that whatever Clayton or MHI claim to be doing to advance manufactured home acceptance hasn’t worked.
Production Flatline Continues in October 2018
But that 2 month drop in new HUD Code manufactured home shipments shouldn’t be accepted as the end of the story.
Rather, it should be what it is, proof that the industry’s co-called leaders – Clayton and MHI – are demonstrably unproductive.
Let that sink in.
Ironically, anyone who watches their own self-defense/self-promoting new video and does so with a questioning mind, will come to the conclusion that their own claims disprove their effectiveness. Want evidence? For more on that see a related report with examples, in the box linked below.
Crisis of Misinformation, Fact Checks, and Manufactured Housing
If Amazon/Jeff Bezos’ Alexa Fund is Right,
There’s Over $300 Billion A Year in Affordable Housing Opportunities
The opportunities in affordable housing are enormous. The industry should be – and could be – one of the hottest sectors in the entire U.S. economy. Keep in mind, that a third-party organization named the U.S. the hottest market in the world for the first time in years.
For more details on the potential for affordable housing in America, see the report linked in the box below.
$300 Billion Market, As Predicted, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Alexa Fund Dives Deeper into PreFab Homes
That’s why there is a need for a forward-looking effort, which we will hereby dub #YimbyVictory2020.
Part of that #YimbyVictory2020 must include an ADL type wing for manufactured housing, to protect the industry from errant media and avoidable problems from outside of our industry, or within.
Before Frank Rolfe went radio silent on such issues, Rolfe said that the bill board association vigorously defended their industry, every time they were challenged. Rolfe argued, that was needed in manufactured housing too. MHProNews has made that case for years, but it is becoming increasingly evidence that we were correct in doing so. Tim Williams admitted it was a wise strategy too. So, why does MHI and Berkshire Hathaway fail to do it?
http://www.mhpronews.com/blogs/industryvoices/about-responding-to-pbs-newshours-bad-bargain-report-by-stephen-fee/
Everyone has options to support an organization that is not beholden to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), and arguably their most powerful backer, the various Berkshire Hathaway brands operating in our industry. Those organizations include, but are not necessarily limited to:
MHARR,
The NFIB, less industry focused than MHARR, but nevertheless reportedly has hundreds of manufactured housing industry member independents, per NFIB sources to MHProNews.
NMHCO,
MHIdea,
are among the options already on the table.
The first two bulleted organization above have already demonstrated years of pro-growth policies. The next two are nascent, but arguably can only be better than MHI, because they’ve both publicly rejected MHI’s track record and lack of performance.
We as the industry’s leading trade media have been – and/or could be – supportive of any or all of the above. As needed, other new option(s) could also be established.
There are already some new HUD Code production independents taking shape in the wake of the 2016 election.
It’s clear that Warren Buffett and the Claytons have and are supporting those who favor higher taxes and more regulations. Buffett and his MHI/industry allies – like Nathan Smith – clearly oppose the lower regulations, lower taxes, pro-growth agenda of the Trump Administration. For the latest example, see the report found in the box linked below.
Nathan & Mary Lee Chance Smith, Leaders in ‘Anti-Trump Resistance,’ Manufactured Housing Impact?
#YimbyVictory2020.
Simple Concepts for Understanding, that Lead to Simple Concepts for Growth
Pay more attention to what people have done, than what they claim or say. That’s a paraphrase of what MHI award winner, Marty Lavin, JD has said. Here are some others…
Follow the Money. We’ve been doing that on MHProNews for some time, as links further below reflect.
You get more of what you encourage, less of what you discourage. The ways that Buffett and his billionaire friends have encouraged high regulation, high tax candidates, should speak volumes to the industry. So long as people take a clear eyed look at MHI’s leadership, the reality of how MHI has arguably deceived the industry’s independent companies becomes more clear.
Positive approaches to end the stranglehold of big-government supporting Democratic billionaires are already underway on numerous fronts, both within and beyond manufactured housing. Let’s note that while we are non-partisan, facts-are-facts. There are some in the GOP that are closer to the Democratic position than they want to admit. There are some in the Democratic party that are closer to the GOP than they want to admit.
The Democrats are not the same party that they used to be. Neither are the Republicans. Democrats have tilted socialist, and many say so openly. Members of both major parties need to look anew at what it means to be a ‘classical liberal.’ That could become common ground.
But overall, the Democratic Party of today is the party of the uber rich, as the graphic above illustrates. They have successfully postured being for the little guy for years. That’s been accomplished in part by wide segments of the media being de facto pro-Democratic, as are the giants of FAANG.
Manufactured housing advocates can easily ally with:
Potentially millions of Democrats who want to see wage growth, affordable housing, who on paper claim to be anti-monopolistic (antitrust), but it will require a sustained educational effort.
Investors that want their piece of that $2 trillion dollar a year in economic growth message, which manufactured housing is uniquely positioned to achieve.
With limited government GOP and Libertarian supporters.
With all people of good will, who want a level playing field and their shot at the American Dream, which includes home ownership.
The capital, NGOs, residents, downsizers, and renters can be attracted that will be needed to make #YimbyVictory2020 a reality.
It will take sustained messaging and engagement.
This is the continuation of a process that is already underway among dozens of potential allies, some of which MHProNews has already contacted and established initial relationships with. This methodology has proven potential.
Consider your role in the #YimbyVictory2020 effort, as we build up a positive plan for independent businesses success that is good for consumers, home owners, professionals, and public policy. “We Provide, You Decide.” © ## (News, analysis, and commentary.)
NOTICE: Readers have periodically reported that they are getting a better experience when reading MHProNews on the Microsoft Edge, or Apple Safari browser than with Google’s Chrome browser. Chrome reportedly manipulates the content of a page more than the other two browsers.
Back to Basics – What is Classical Liberalism, and What Can It Mean for Manufactured Housing Growth?
New York Times-David Leonhardt-“The Monopolization of America,” Manufactured Housing Slant
“I knew right from the beginning.” When President Trump, First Lady Melania, VP Pence Toured Manufactured Home Community
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The wisdom of crowds – how to get noticed at trade shows
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Have you ever wondered exactly what psychology is needed to get noticed at trade shows? What is it about a great trade show promo that brings crowds of people to meet you on your stand?
You can find some important clues in Robert Cialdini’s book “Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion” – one of those rare business books that is actually based on research, rather than the opinions of the author. Cialdini sets out 6 principles of influence that provide practical guidance for marketing and sales professionals looking for something beyond the latest fad. One of these principles, which he calls “social proof”, is the underlying factor why a good crowd-puller is so effective at exhibitions and conferences.
Using social proof to get noticed at trade shows
One of the ways, he says, we make quick decisions about what to respond to and what to ignore is by looking to see what everyone else is doing. In public spaces we don’t want to be seen to over-react or under-react to any situation and, experience tells us, the best way to assess this is by looking, surreptitiously of course, at other people to see what decision they have reached. “The evidence [social proof] offers about how we should act is usually valid and valuable”, says Cialdini. “With it we can cruise confidently through a myriad of decisions without personally having to investigate the detailed pros and cons of each.”
“…when we are unsure of ourselves, when the situation is unclear or ambiguous, when uncertainty reigns, we are most likely to look to and accept the actions of others as correct.” Robert Cialdini
So if you have a promo on your stand that causes one or two people to stop and stare, well, pretty soon you will have a crowd of people staring. You still have to choose your promo with care, of course. Cialdini knows that people aren’t stupid and will quickly see through a promo that lacks any real conviction, purpose or relevance. Think carefully if the promo you have chosen is really different enough to get those first few people to stop. While they stay long enough to feel comfortable on your stand? Is it stimulating enough to encourage them to actually start a conversation with you? What does it say about your product, service or brand?
Cialdini’s examples come from outside the exhibition hall, but the principle holds good. He reports a conversation with a traffic officer in the USA who had noted that there were regular traffic accidents when two drivers simultaneously decided to switch lanes in slow, but flowing traffic. If the two cars immediately behind them then concluded that there must be a blockage ahead, then pretty soon an entire lane of cars would be trying to veer into the next lane and collisions would be much more likely – regardless of whether there was a blockage or if the original switchers just needed to exit at the next junction.
The phenomenon of social proof has been picked up and validated by psychologists seeking ways to help people with certain behavioural issues. For example, Albert Bandura has shown how people suffering from phobias can be helped by watching film clips of people with normal, non-phobic responses. And Robert O’Connor was able to help socially withdrawn pre-school children by showing them a specially-made 23 minute film. When he returned to the school six weeks after showing the film to the group of socially isolated pupils, “[w]hile the withdrawn children who had not seen O’Connor’s film remained as isolated as ever, those who had viewed it were now leading their schools in amounts of social activity…Such is the potency of the principle of social proof.”
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Dear Poppa
Author Ruth Berman
Category: Biography, Memoir
Dear Poppa: The World War II Berman Family Letters
David, Betsy, and Sammy Berman were nine, six, and four years old in May 1943 when the U.S. Army sent their father, Dr. Reuben Berman, to Europe. Over the next two and a half years, the children regularly gathered around their mother, Isabel, in their Minneapolis home while she typed exactly what they wanted to say to their father. This collection of more than 340 letters, selected from more than a thousand exchanged by the Berman family via V-mail, captures the anxiety and loss that children experienced when their fathers left for war.
Ruth Berman, too young to write to Poppa during wartime, collected and transcribed her siblings’ and parents’ letters for publication.
Judy Barrett Litoff selected for this volume those letters that speak most clearly about the children’s experiences; her Introduction ties this family’s story to the history of wartime America. She is a professor of American history at Bryant College and the editor of Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women of the Home Front (1991).
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Mike Holmgren says he's done coaching
By Marc Sessler
Updated: Jan. 5, 2015 at 02:19 p.m.
Atkins off Bengals' PUP list
Panthers kicker pushes trombone player at halftime
Mike Holmgren is closing the door on a coaching comeback.
"That's it," the former Packers and Seahawks legend said Monday after telling Seattle's KJR-AM that the San Francisco 49ers were "not interested" in hiring him to replace the departed Jim Harbaugh, per the Bay Area News Group.
Saying that he was offered other NFL jobs last week, Holmgren acknowledged that only the Niners gig interested him. He reportedly turned down the Oakland Raiders, per Vic Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Holmgren, 66, has been out of the league since his unsuccessful front-office run with the Cleveland Browns. He told The MMQB in July that he's "quote-unquote retired," before changing that to "semi-retired."
Holmgren always finds a way to keep his name in the news cycle, but he sounds ready to walk away from the game in 2015.
The latest Around The NFL Podcast recaps every Wild Card game and looks ahead to the Divisional Round. Find more Around The NFL content on NFL NOW.
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A Disastrous Weekend
This weekend was simply a disaster for Pittsburgh sports teams. Pitt lost control of the Big East to Georgetown. The Penguins suffered a bad loss to Tampa Bay. Even the XPlosion lost, dropping their record to 4-30 after a defeat at the hands of the Butt Daredevils. It was pretty depressing all around.
We'll go chronologically, which means the Panthers are first in the firing line. During the game, I made an executive decision. The nickname "T.O" is hereby taken away from Terrell Owens and now bestowed upon Pitt's Mike Cook. There's never a good time for a turnover, but the ridiculous move Cook made with under 30 seconds to go was the topper, passing up an open shot for a pass, which, you guessed it, was stolen by a Hoya. Game, set, match, drive home safely. The only thing that held me back from launching the remote through the TV screen was the fact that I'd have to buy my father a new TV.
I thought for a brief instance that I was Marty McFly, as I watched Pitt lose to a team coached by John Thompson that featured Patrick Ewing. Who's next on the schedule, Rollie Massimino and Villanova? The way Pitt is playing, they wouldn't beat them either.
As you can tell, I'm down on Pitt right now, despite their incredible RPI ranking of 6. When you take an honest look at their results, they've only defeated one team in the RPI top 20: the same Georgetown team they just lost to (16th).
The Panthers have picked the wrong time to put it in reverse. They have zero momentum right now. I don't think they've looked the same since that shellacking at the hands of Louisville. Even their wins over Washington and Seton Hall were much tougher than they should have been. If Jamie Dixon doesn't get this team straightened out soon, we could be shown the door in an early round once again this year.
Pitt has nothing on the Penguins, though. The Pens' 5-1 loss in the land of Jon Gruden, Bubba the Love Sponge and Dwight Gooden was one of their worst efforts of the season. In fact, they've only suffered two four-goal losses all year, and both were at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes.
Watching their offense was like watching the Steelers' offense for most of the 2006 season: simply no rhythm whatsoever. The Pens could not even get near the net, let alone get shots off: 4 in the 1st, 10 in the 2nd, 4 in the 3rd. Ugh. This was one of the most difficult Penguin game to watch in a long, long time.
Tampa Bay continues their ownership of the Penguins, having now beaten them an amazing 12 times in a row. Jocelyn Thibault gave up three goals on 12 shots and was given the hook in the second period for MAF. But Fleury made little difference, because when you can't generate offense, it's hard to win games.
I'm glad the Pens picked now for such a horrible showing, especially after the valentine I wrote to them on Friday. But here are a few other things to consider about Sunday's game:
-Tampa filled the arena to a count of 21,119, or 106.9% full. And I thought it was a baseball town.
-Pirate Zach Duke is now 7-1 in Penguin games he's attended. And last year, Zach Duke was 10-15 in games he started. Maybe he should give up the baseball thing and become the new Penguins goalie.
-NL Batting Champ Freddy Sanchez gave Sid an autographed, inscribed baseball bat. That didn't help with his scoring: he's lit just one lamp in his last 13 games.
-The game had some chippy moments, as Ryan Malone dropped the gloves in the first period and Maxime Talbot threw down twice in the 3rd, including a spat as time expired. Unfortunately, we missed the start of both Talbot fights as a result of FSN not being able to switch cameras like a normal hockey broadcast should.
-The Pens were called for Too Many Men on the Ice in the 3rd period. No, they couldn't score with six guys either.
-Next up: Tuesday vs. the Devils. Maybe you'll see David Puddy there. Well, probably not. But you might see GwenJen.
Also this weekend:
--#1 Ohio State downed #1 Wisconsin, 49-48. Exciting, high-scoring Big Ten basketball at its best. And a classy move by novice OSU basketball fans, who rushed the court. Guys, stick to football. By the way, I think we're getting close to the point that the court will be rushed at the end of each and every college hoops game.
--Corey Dillon wants out of New England. Come on, Steeler fans...who's going to be the first to start the "Let's Sign Dillon" campaign?
--NFL players proposed a "three strikes and your out" conduct policy, as they've tired of the Pac-Men types now populating their fine league. Some of the attendees included Dan Rooney, Marvin Lewis, Lendale White, Steve Smith, and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. When the meeting was over, Houshmandzadeh shined Rooney's shoes with a Terrible Towel.
--Kenny Wiz blames the motorcycle crash for Big Ben's struggles last year. As to who to blame for that horrific picture of Roethlisberger in the article, well, you can only blame Ben for that.
--The Denver Broncos added another chapter to one of the most tragic offseasons of any pro team ever. Running back Damien Nash collapsed at a charity basketball game. The game was a fundraiser for his 25-year-old brother, Darris, who had to have a heart transplant. This comes shortly after the death of Bronco Darrent Williams on January 1.
--Keep sending over those links (mondesishouse@gmail.com) and get an entry in the contest. I'm arranging an all-star link gallery for you to fritter away your Monday afternoon.
Posted by mondesishouse at 10:41 PM
Labels: Damien Nash, David Puddy, Freddy Sanchez, Gwenjen, Marc-Andre Fleury, Maxime Talbot, Mike Cook, Pitt Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ryan Malone, Sidney Crosby, Zach Duke
The 21,000+ attendance mark was probably due to who they were playing more than anything else.
Older, more-established teams from northern cities that have lots of transplants in the Bay (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, etc) tend to draw bigger crowds at the Forum than usual.
Otherwise, Tampa's not much of a hockey town. Not much of a sports town in general. Although, they have gotten better at supporting the Bucs the past 6 or 7 years.
(As you can tell, I have no beef with the actual teams, but think the Tampa Bay sports scene in general is pretty lame.)
Also, Ben's hair in that picture is genius!! See, he didn't have a mullet, but he wanted one for that picture. So, being the smart guy that he is, Benjamin carefully crafted his hair into a mullet with some hair gel!
By the way, Tampa's also not above trumping up attendance figures for local teams to make their sports seem more legit.
For example, apparently over 45,000 people go to every USF football game. DESPITE the fact that the upper deck is closed, and the lower bowl, except for the student section (they get free tickets by the way) is about 55% full most weeks.
HotDog_Zanzabar said...
I am tired of FSN Pittsburgh. Steigerwald can't hold Lang's jock, Errey is too cheesy and how come they choose to show MAF watching Talbot get slammed instead letting us see him getting slammed?
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The Alley-Oop Pass to FHA Loans, Perhaps
In light of the growing fallout in the subprime mortgage market, this could be the year the long-suffering Federal Housing Administration gets its much-needed makeover.
Unfortunately, though, it's taking a brutal financial climate for some homeowners to trigger an increased push for modernization legislation. Despite that nasty climate, legislation now making its way through Congress that would revamp the FHA and its mortgage programs is still far from a sure thing.
Legislation that would overhaul and modernize the FHA recently met with approval in the House Financial Services Committee, and the entire House will likely vote on the measure sometime in June. Passage there would send the measure onto the Senate, which killed a similar legislative measure last year.
Some observers believe the disastrous climate surrounding the subprime crisis makes the legislation a no-brainer. Overall, about one in five people who obtained subprime mortgages in the last two years will wind up in foreclosure, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit advocacy group.
More than a half-million borrowers have lost their homes in the subprime market, and industry experts project that another 2 million or so are likely to meet a similar fate as the subprime crisis spirals.
A revamped and modernized FHA could help those borrowers recapture their financial futures through the administration's government-backed loans and refinance programs. But nationally syndicated real estate columnist Kenneth R. Harvey pointed to a few spots where the pending legislation could snag, including a provision that would divert new revenues created by a bigger FHA for homeowner counseling, technological improvements or use in an "affordable housing fund," according to Harvey's column.
He also notes that private mortgage groups have a keen interest in keeping this legislation from hitting the books.
Despite those possible obstacles, Harvey says the legislation has a decent shot at full passage.
"Bottom line for reform: Slam dunk? No way. But the bill has a shot — either in its current form or by having essential provisions transplanted into an appropriations bill that can sidestep the land mines buried and waiting in the Senate — without blowing up," he writes.
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NNN Reporters Newsroom Forum > RSS FEED > Odessa T-shirt HM shop owner gives negro ride, jacket gets stabbed in back several times, left dead
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Family reacts to latest investigation details after murder of Odessa T-shirt shop owner
Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 3:43 pm PST
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ODESSA, TX (KWES) -
The search for a man who police say killed an Odessa T-shirt shop owner took investigators all the way to the metroplex.
The trail of clues tells a terrible story of how the suspect appears to have taken advantage of the good deeds of someone just trying to help. Police said Joe “Pepe” Valenzuela was stabbed in the back several times and left for dead.
His family said they're ready for justice to be served.
The door to Pepe's T-shirts is closed. Pepe's nephew, Freddy Vasquez, said it won't open again, at least not in Odessa. On Wednesday morning, Joseph Benjamin Madden III, was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection to the death of Pepe.
"You shouldn't have taken him away,” said Vasquez. “He was a hardworking man that shouldn't have been gone."
The arrest affidavit said Pepe was eating with a friend at Love’s Truck Stop early Sunday morning. That's when he gave Madden a ride. Pepe's friend later got a text saying he was taking Madden to his shop.
"He gave him a jacket, it was cold that night,” said Vasquez. “He was going to take him to the Salvation Army but after that he was gone."
When Pepe's phone and car weren't found at his shop, police traced the phone back to Desoto, Texas. Desoto police found Pepe's car a quarter of a mile away from Madden's listed address.
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Forest CuBe :
A place in the sun, a cube in the forest, a large creative space for artistic developments, audiovisual projects and, a rough environment to rehearsal, play or film within the nature. Currently in use as a recording studio, making video clip, painting experience for the label NO FRIDGE.
How would you develop your artistic side in a huge space in the middle of the forest? Name it : theatre,dance & music rehearsals, music recording, filming, audiovisual activities, circus performance, yoga sessions, meditation, painting, sculpture, all sorts of artistic performances that may require a WIDE OPEN SPACE.
In the service of your creativity we can provide you with : 280m2 studio within the forest, available 24 hours, security 4X4m sliding door, ceiling at 6m high, dancing floor, backstage, bar & salon, rocket chimney corner, toilet & shower, lots of inspiration of the Girona surroundings.
Ask for more? plenty of natural light, quietness, relaxing ambience in nature, Catalan food.
Two loft apartments, with bathroom, wc & kitchen perfectly equipped are available in the forest CuBe site up to 10 people.
In house services :
We rent also Catering or food delivery from the restaurants or shops at the nearby villages which serve Mediterranean traditional food and seasonal products.
Hidden in the middle of Girona’s Mediterranean forest, in the region of l’Ampurdá on the hills that face the Costa Brava, 20km from the sea.
– 25 minutes from the Gerona airport: http://www.girona-airport.net/
– 90 minutes from the Barcelona airport.
– 60 minutes from the Perpignan (France) airport.
– 20 minutes from the TGV station Figueras (direct line to Paris)
– 5 minutes from the Spanish local train station Sant Jordi Desvalls (3 trains per day)
– 10 minutes from the Spanish national train station Flaça (1 hourly train from Barcelona)
On the highway AP7 from Barcelona or France : Exit n°5 L’Escala. Turn right after the toll booth, then immediately left to Viladasens direction, continue forward for 5 kms until Viladasens village.
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Long and Short Equity No Load Funds
Equity September 25th. 2009
Long and short equity no load mutual funds are ideal for some investors but they may be wrong for others
No load mutual funds offer lower costs, and usually better fund choices because the investor does all the work and makes the decisions
The best no load funds will depend on the investment goals, strategies, and risks involved
Long and short equity no load mutual funds can be the best no load funs possible for some investors, but these funds may not be right for other investors. Choosing no load options means being prepared to do all of the research and comparisons needed to fully evaluate every possible investment option. No load mutual funds do not offer professional investment advice from a broker or financial advisor, but these funds also do not pose any conflict of interest issues or charge expensive load fees that can be five percent or more. Most investors ar capable of dong the work and making the best possible decisions to meet their investment goals while following the strategies and acceptable risk levels that were set. There are many different fund families which offer long and short equity funds, and each one will have unique risks and potential rewards. Finding the best no load funds is not difficult, and there are many websites and financial investment tools available to locate these options. There are fund screener tools, fund profiles and performance pages, and much more which can make it very easy for any investor to locate and choose possible mutual funds no matter how little experience they may have.
One possible no load long and short equity mutual fund is the Aberdeen Equity Long Short Inst Fund. This fund trades under the symbol GGUIX, and it is rated four star quality by Morningstar. This fund has net assets valued at close to twenty million dollars, and it has been managed by Chris Baggini since 2004. The year to date return is small at only two point seven one percent, but that should not be the only reason to disqualify this fund from the list of possible choices. The minimum initial investment amount is high at one million dollars, and this does make it hard for most investors to access this fund. Akros Absolute Return trades under the ticker AARFX, and it is offered by Akros Capital. This long and short equity fund has an extremely high year to date return at sixteen point one nine percent, which may give some investors pause, but Morningstar has given the fund a four star quality rating. This makes it one of the best no load funds possible for many investors. An initial investment of only twenty five hundred dollars is needed for this investment choice, so it is available to almost everyone.
Another long and short equity option that is one of the most popular no load mutual funds is the Caldwell & Orkin Market Opportunity Fund, with the symbol COAGX for trading. The value of the net assets are close to four hundred million dollars, making this fund a decent size, and it has been in operation since 1991 so there is plenty of historical data available on the fund. Michael B. Orkin has been the lead manager and in charge since 1992, and he has done a great job so far. The yield for this long and short equity fund is only point five two percent, and the year to date return is only three point six nine percent, but this is still considered one of the best no load funds for a majority of investors. Twenty five thousand dollars is the minimum needed to invest in this fund, making it somewhat high for individual investors. The fund total operating expense ratio is two point three seven percent, and it is one of the true no load mutual funds because there are no load fees or 12b-1 marketing fees charged. These are the best no load funds possible, because investment costs are lower.
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Federico Poggiali
Email: F.Poggiali@liverpool.ac.uk
Website: https://liverpool.academia.edu/FedericoPoggiali
Bachelor’s degree; Archaeology, University of Florence
Master’s Degree; Archaeology, University of Siena
Environmental change and prehistoric landscape practices in the south-west Italian peninsula during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: a study of anthracological remains from Grotta del Romito, Grotta della Serratura and Grotta d’Oriente.
Eleni Asouti (University of Liverpool; Matthew Fitzjohn (University of Liverpool)
The main aim of the project is to investigate the environmental context of late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer landscape practices in the southwest Italian peninsula during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, through the analysis of wood charcoal macro-remains. A key focus of my research will be to assess the impact of climate-induced changes in past vegetation, and how these affected the evolution of the regional landscapes and subsistence strategies.
The project will integrate the direct evidence obtained about prehistoric vegetation from the study of anthracological remains with high-resolution palaeoclimatic datasets. The GIS-assisted reconstruction of prehistoric woodland vegetation catchments and vegetation management strategies will also contribute to the creation of more accurate predictive models for locating Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites in this part of the Mediterranean. This is especially pertinent for the coastal areas of the southern Italian peninsula where such research is very under-developed. Together these integrated approaches will lead to a deeper, data-informed understanding of the environmental history and landscape evolution of the central Mediterranean at a critical juncture of its prehistory.
Three cave sites from which archaeobotanical assemblages are currently under analysis have been selected for inclusion in this study: Grotta del Romito, Grotta della Serratura and Grotta d’Oriente.
Anthracology, Mediterranean prehistory, Archaeobotany, Archaeology, Human environment interactions and wood resource management, Archaeological GIS, Geoarchaeology, Wood anatomy, Landscape Archaeology, Vegetation history, Paleoecology, Paleoenvironmental change, Environmental Archaeology, Charcoal analysis.
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Vivaldi, The Four Seasons (CD)
Price: £9.99 Buy Now
With its vivid poetry and technical ingenuity, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons remains as fresh today as the day it was written – forever influential, transfixing and just plain catchy.
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Beethoven Symphony No.9 CD
Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Festival, with the late Sir Charles Mackerras.
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Monteverdi Vespers (2CD)
Price: £15.00 Buy Now
Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers is one of the towering musical achievements of the 17th century. A fascinating and rewarding musical experience, it is deeply spiritual, yet extraordinarily theatrical.
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CPE Bach, Symphonies (CD)
The newest CD on our OAE Released label features the music of CPE Bach – a trailblazer, whose music is bright and effervescent. Music that constantly shifts, wrong-footing the listener when they least expect it with wild changes of colour and direction.
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Mahler Totenfeier CD
Vladimir Jurowski conducts works by Mahler, including Songs of a Wayfarer with soloist Sarah Connolly,
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Beethoven 9 CD: “Euphoric”
Our recently released CD of Beethoven 9, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, has already been awarded 5 stars by the Financial Times, but we’ve just come across another rather flattering review for it, this time in BBC Music Magazine: “The sleeve-note of this disc describes Beethoven’s ninth symphony as ‘euphoric’, and that is exactly the word to apply to this performance…however many Ninths you own, add this one to your treasury”
Performance: *****
Recording: *****
You can buy the CD from our online shop here, priced £9.99
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OAE Released: Cover art
Through the history of recorded music the cover artwork on a CD or LP has always been an important part of the finished product, and in the pop world in particular, there are have been some truly legendary and iconic designs – just think of Abbey Road, The Dark Side of the Moon, Sgt. Pepper and Nirvana’s Nevermind. The fact I don’t feel a need to post pictures of these to remind readers is a testament to the way their cover art has entered the popular conciousness.
It has to be said though that classical music hasn’t done so well with its cover art (though do feel free to tell us about any of your favourite covers) and it’s probably easier to find some really bad cover art than anything really distinctive. There are some exceptions of course (two of my favourites being the Virgin Ultraviolet range and Decca’s Argo line, both now out of print, and some more in this blog article) but they are the exception and not the rule.
CD's design Harrison and Co Marketing Monteverdi Vespers OAE Released
Sensual, sultry and explicit; yep we’re talking Monteverdi Vespers
No, really, we are.
It’s also joyous, intense, life enhancing and dance-like. Sounds like pretty good stuff eh?
In this, one of our latest videos, Alison Bury (violinist and OAE Leader) and Nicholas Mulroy (tenor from the Choir of the Enlightenment) talk about this extraordinary piece, which as you will know, as just been released by us on our new label. Enjoy the video, and remember you can order it direct through us for the knockdown price of £15 for the two CD set. Plus first 100 orders get a FREE OAE book. Also on that link are directions to various places you can download the recording.
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5 Star Monteverdi
Mon 21 Feb 2011
The first reviews for the premiere recording on our new label OAE Released are in, and we were thrilled to be awarded a full 5 stars in The Independent, with the reviewer stating “Not all orchestras are the same, runs the message on the cover, and it’s true.”
Read this review and another online one below, and don’t forget you can purchase the CD direct through us on our website. Also click through for details of download sites and other suppliers.
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OAE Released. Released.
Tue 25 Jan 2011
Ok, three posts in a day on here is perhaps a little excessive. But we really did have to tell you about the arrival in our office yesterday of our very first OAE Released CD. When I arrived at work in the morning and saw a huge box with my name in it I at first thought it was a very generous birthday present. On closer inspection it turned out to be the first copies of our recording of Monteverdi’s Vespers (Honestly, I wasn’t disappointed). As with any new piece of print I could barely look at it for fear of finding mistakes, but all looks ok.
Later on in the day our designer Chris Harrison, whose company Harrison and Co devised the artwork for the CD, dropped by and took this picture. In due course we’ll be releasing some videos talking to some of the musicians featured in the recording and also to Chris who’ll talk about how the distinctive artwork for the CDs was arrived upon.
The Vesper’s CD is the first on our brand new label, OAE Released, which we’re developing with Signum Classics. We have more recordings planned so keep your eyes, and indeed ears, peeled for them.
Oh, you want to buy a copy? Well you can get one for the knock down price of £15 (It’s a double CD, and that’s even cheaper than Amazon) by ordering direct from us, details are on our website. You can’t order online at the moment, and we know that’s a bit rubbish. A new website is coming soon which will have a shop and we’re working on a temporary solution. Watch this space… UPDATE: Online ordering via Paypal is now availble on the link above.
As an added bonus, the first 100 orders also get a free OAE book. Wooo.
If you’re terribly modern you’ll be able to download it from places like iTunes, Eclassical, Naxos and Amazon in due course.
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CD CD's Harrison and Co Monteverdi Vespers OAE Released
OAE Released – Cover art revealed
Wed 5 Jan 2011
As you may have heard or read this year we’re launching our own CD Label (Though that sounds a little old fashioned given that so many will just be downloaded now). Called OAE Released, it’s launching late this month with the first release, a live recording of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. We asked Harrison and Co to work on the cover art for the line of CD’s and we’re very excited to reveal the first one now…We’ll have an video interview with creative director Chris Harrison up here soon, and will also let you know how to get your hands on our very first CD.
oh…and Happy New Year!
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“How many times have you wished you could make music? Well now you can! All you need is a tape recorder, some relatively simple skills, some curiousity, and a little imagination. This book has been used in classrooms throughout the country by students, many of them without previous experience in music, who are now composing electronic music projects. In this book you’ll be taken into the exciting world of electronic music and you’ll find the basic tape recorder as well as synthesizer techniques, explained in many step by step instructions, and a variety of experiments to help you make electronic music. You’ll also find a whole set of composing projects where your own creativity can run free and you’ will wonder why you didn’t start sooner.”
is a combination of oscillators, filters, ring modulators, etcetera, which are all devices invented that were developed individually over time.
When enough components had been invented for controlling all the elements involved in the creation of sound, they were compiled into a single unit and called a synthesizer.
Even though now the machine has a standardized name, the individual components are still called oscillators, generators, filters, and so forth. They make up the three basic foundational modules of synthesis building blocks:
Sources: produce the raw materials of sound in the form of basic waveforms
Modifiers: modify or alter these waveforms in a variety of ways
Controllers: control or regulate the actions of both sources and modifiers
In the same way pressure drives a flow of water or steam through pipes an electromotive fore called voltage drives electric current through the circuitry of any device that uses electricity as its power source.
Working with a synthesizer, the composer can regulate a components by hand or they can take advantage of automating voltage control for accomplishing the same task with a higher degree of precision and speed impossible with manual control. For example, you can open or close switches by hand, or turn a volume knob, yet voltages can perform operations at the rate of several hundred or even several thousand times pers second. Because this driving force can be applied in a vast number of ways to affect all of the elements of sound frequency, timbre, amplitude, and duration; the advantes to the composer are enormous.
Some of this choice (manual control versus voltage control) is determined by the peticular components being used, since not all components produce voltage and not all components can be voltage controlled. You must use a control voltage source for regulating a voltage controlled unit.
We will discuss this important interaction in greater detail. To start, however, not the labeling on the synth control panels for three of the most essential voltage controlled modules: VCO, for voltage controlled oscillator; VCF for voltage controlled filter, and VCA, for voltage controlled amplifier.
Sound Sources and Processes
The three main bodies of components used to synthesize sound are typically installed on the control panel for left to right(the same path taken by the audio signal as it moves across the sound production circuits. In order, these are the sound sources, the sound modifiers, and the controllers.
The synthesizers principal sound sources(some of which may also function as voltage controlled sources) are the oscillators. These produce for typical basic waveforms(sine, triangle, sawtooth, and square) with individual timbres, controlling frequencies, and fixed ampolitudes.
The frequency of the selected waveform(which can be regulated by manual or voltage control) can be anywhere in or out of the audible range: from sub audio frequencies below 20 hz to ultrasonic frequencies above 16,000 hz.
Noise Generators
The noise generator produces a mixture, called white noise, resembles the hissingwhen found tuning between radio station frequency bands. (Sound waves producing noise emitting from the very Sun nin our solar system) Since the ear is more sensetive to high frequencies, white noise seems high pitched. Some of the high frequencies can be finltered out to obtain a more audibly balanced mixture called pink noise. Noise is used mainly for creating percussive type effects and to colour other sounds.
Modulation in general is a form of control. In the case of sound sources, modulation is controlling the frequency, either manually or with control voltage from other sources.
For example, the frequency of one oscillator signal can be voltage controlled by the signal of a seconf oscillator. The one being controlled is called the audio signal, or carrier; the signal which does the controlling is called the modulator, or program signal.
In this interaction of two signals, it is the modulator’s waveform that determines the frequency change of the carrier. In fact, you can actually hear the controlling waveform if its frequency is sub audio: Sub audio sine waves produce a frequency change in the carrier that smoothly rises and falls in effect a siren sound.
Sub audio triangular waves produce a frequency change that gradually rises, the immedeately begins a gradual fall. Sub audio rectangular or square waves produce a frequency change that abruptly alternates between two frequencies, with no perceptable sloping. Sub audio sawtooth waves produce a frequency change that gradually rises the abruptly falls.
If, however, you increase the frequency of the modulator into the audio range, you no longer hear its waveform yet now hear an entirely different result: the generation of frequencies in addition to the carrier and modulator frequencies. These additional frequencies, called sidebands, are non harmonic overtones which produce complex new timbres. Besides frequency modulation, there are two other modulation techniques.
Modifiers and Processes
Filters and Subtractive Synthesis
Sound sources can be used alone or in combination , as is or modified in a number of ways. one modification process, called subtractive synthesis, involes use of synthesizer audio filters. Filters are modifiers that change the timbre. they do this by subtacting any part of the frequency range of any sound above or below a variable cutoff point. Depending on the filter, the cutoff point can be manually controlled, or both manually and voltage controlled.
The high pass filter subtracts the frequencies below the cutoff point and passes those abvove. The low pass filter subtracts the frequencies above the cutoff point and passes those below. The band pass filter, with two cutoff points, subtracts both the high and low frequencies and passes the center frequencies. The band reject filter, also with two cutoff points, subtracts or rejects the center frequencies and passes both high and lows. The fixed filter bandk divides the entire audio frequency range into a number of bands which can be subtracted from the whole, either individually or in any combuination . It has manual controls to pass or supress each individual band width.
Since filtration deals with a variable cutoff point, the composer is working with an adjustment element that can be regulated either by hand or by voltage control. Voltage control has superior advantages of speed and precision in controlling a specific synthesizer module function. This is obvious with the voltage controlled low pass filter. The lowpass filter is the most frequently used in electronic composition because of its usefulness in passing the fundamental and altering the overtones.
If you were to vary the cutoff point by hand, moving it quickly up and down, you would be alternately passing and rejecting a certain band of overtones. This action alternately enriches and dulls the sound without changing the pitch, creating that ever familiar wah-wah sound.
However, you can get the same effect by using a sub audio waveform from an oscillator as control voltage. (Using different forms of control voltage from sources other than an oscillitaor will produce various types of effects.) Besides being a more precise way to control the opening and closing of the filter, voltage control has the other obvious advantage of freeing the composers hands for manipulating other controls manually.
Another feature of the low pass filter is the resonance or regeneration control. This control emphasizes the overtones closest the cutoff point, thus brightening the sound.
Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Using a voltage controlled amplifier VCA, the degree of loudness can be controlled either manually or by control voltage from various sources such as an oscillator, for example. In the same way you can hear the frequency change corresponding to a sub audio waveform, you can now hear the amplitude corresond to a sub audio waveform:
Sub audio sine waves gradually increases then gradually decreases the loudness.
Subtractive audio rectangular or square wave alternates between two degrees of loudness. used in conjunction with manual control, the lower amplitude level can be set, if desired, to preduce zer amplitude(silence). This would have the effect of turning the amplifier on and off.
The rate of speed at which alternation occurs is determined by the frequency of the controlling waveform.
Amplitude Modulation
When you increase the frequency of the modulator into the audio range, you will hear additional frequencies. This modulation technique, called amplitude modulation (AM), produces fewer additional frequencies and consequently, a less complex timbre than the similar technique of frequency modulation (FM).
Envelope Generator
The most frequent used control voltage source for a VCA and probably the most important to the composer is the envelope generator. The VCA and the envelope generator, working together, shape the sound’s envelope by using the generator’s seperate controls for attack/decay/sustain/release ADSR.
These controls, which determine duration for each enevelope phase, can be set by the composer to produce a phenomenal range of envelope shapes: the envelope of any known sound, custom shapes, even backwards sounds.
As a control voltage source, the envelope generator can be used to control not only the amplitude yet also frequency (via controlling an oscillator) and timbre (controlling the filters).
A synthesizer keyboard is different from a piano or organ keyboard. As a control source, each key when depressed releases a different preset voltage. As in the case of the envelope generator, this voltage can be used to control frequency, timbre, or amplitude, alone or in any combination.
Depending on patching, moving from left to right on the keyboard produces higher pitches, greater brilliance of single pitch, or a progressively louder sound:
The increase in pitch level is a result of frequency control of an oscillator. Increased brilliance is a result of raising a filter’s cutoff point. The louder sound results from control of an amplifier.
One of the most frequently used combinations is simultaneous control, by the same keyboard voltage, of both an oscillator and a filter. This maintains a constant relation between frequency and cutoff point, producing a range of different pitches that have the same timbre.
Using the Keyboard as a Trigger
Another function of the keyboard is the production of voltage to trigger the action of certain components. When the keyboard is used with the envelope generator, for example, this is what happens:
1 Depression of a key triggers the beginning of the evelope cycle. 2 Following attack and decay, the sustain state is maintained as long as the key is held down. 3 Lifting the key triggers the release phase of the envelope.
Keyboard Controls
The synthesizer keyboard commonly has three controls. used in conjunction with frequency, they function as follows:
Tuning Control regulates pitch over an extremely wide range: tuning to concert pitch, to accompany instruments, or for transposition. Scale Control regulates the intervals between keys: from microtones through conventional half steps to larger intervals. Portimento or glide control regulates varying degrees of glide between pitches.
These controls produce a similar effect on timbre an amplitude. Microtone tuning, for instance, used with an amplifier, can produce cresendos and diminuendos.
Ribbon Controller
The ribbon controller is a metal ribon that produces a varying voltage when you move your finger along its length. The result is similar to the gliding effect produced by the portamento setting of a keyboard, but the more direct means of control enables you to produce minute variations as well as sweeping effects.
A foot pedal produces a control voltage which is varied by foot pressure. Although the degree of control is less precise than that provided by a ribbon controller, the foot pedal has the advantage of freeing the composer’s hands for other functions. This is of peticular advantage in live performances where subtlety of control is frequently sacrificed to speed and flexibility.
Sampler or Sample Hold
A sampler produces a sequence of control voltages. When it recieves a trigger impulse it samples a voltage level of a waveform and holds the level until it is triggered to make the next sample. The result is a voltage sequence of different levels.
The form of the sequence is determined by the form of the sampled wave. A triangular wave will produce a sequence of increasing and decreasing levels which, if used to control an oscillator, will produce ascending and descending pitch sequences resembling musical scales. A random waveform, like noise, will produce a sequence of random voltage levels.
The sequencer is a complex controller which gives the composer precise control over a number of aspects of a sequence of pitches. This is possible because each stage of the sequence produces up to three seperate voltages which can be pre set to control simultaneously the various elements of each sound in the sequence.
For example, one voltage can control frequency; another, amplitude; a third, either timbre or the rhythmic structure of the sequence itself.
Ring Modulator
Ring modulation produces an effect closely related to amplitude modulation. Whereas AM produces frequencies in addition to the frequency of the signal being modulated, ring modulation produces the same frequencies but eliminates the original signal. The result is unusual, rather bizarre forbidden planet timbre.
The synthesizer’s reverb unit artificially creates degrees of reverberation. Like any other modification techniques, reverb can be applied to signals either produced by the synthesizer or from external sources.
Electronic Switch
The switch interrupts the flow of a signal by opening and closing the circuit.
Switching a single signal has the effect of chopping holes in the sound by altering sound an silence, breaking continuity or flow. How effectively this alters or masks the sound’s identity depends on the switching speed.
Switching two signals creates an alternating sequence revolving door effect which, if done rapidly enough, modifies the colour of both signals by producing a third composite timbre.
Microphone Pre Amplifier
High level signals from tape recorders, for instance may be routed directly to any components without being pre amplified.
An unlimited array of external sources are available to the composer for synthesizer modification. Any sound that can be taped or picked up by microphone can be modified. Sounds from radio, TV, a record player, as well as any electronic instrument can be fed directly into the synthesizer through external line input, then subsequently modified.
These modifications include filtration, amplitude modulation, ring modulation, switching, reverb, as well as the control of envelope shapes on the external signals.
excerpt from How to Make Electronic Music circa 1977
I was given this book years ago plus mysterious 7″ Record titled Synthesis by Herbert A. Deutsch by my old mentor “Thee Master OV Metaphysiques” Ammon De Adda; thus exceptionally influencing my path since that “Magick” time.
Introduction to Musique Concrète
During World War Two the first tape recorder was used by the Nazi propaganda machine to broadcast material edited using a dextrous razor blade. The arrival of these machines into the rest of Europe after the war came as quite a shock and persuaded Britain to develop their own machines based on the German design. Although initially developed for the BBC, it was the enthusiastic amateur and experimenter who often saw the real potential for tape recorders as a tool to creatively change the nature of recorded sound.
One source of this creativity came from French composer Pierre Schaeffer, with the help of RTF (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française), who gave Schaeffer and his colleagues an opportunity to experiment with recording technology and later on, tape manipulation. His new techniques soon became known as Musique Concrète among artistic circles.
The idea behind Musique Concrète is that the composer begins with a set of “concrete” sounds and arranges them into a piece of music. This concept means that the composer is not limited by traditional musical instrumentation and theory. They can, in fact, collect any sound that appeals to them and use it in the realisation of a final piece of music.
Étude aux chemins de fer, by Pierre Schaeffer, is widely recognised as the first piece of Musique Concrète, and it was Schaeffer’s work, in particular, which pioneered in defining the style.
Musique Concrète can often be misunderstood as simply referring to music made entirely of naturally occurring sounds, and not containing instrumental and human input. While this plays a major factor in Schaefer’s early development of the style, it should generally be viewed in a slightly broader sense than this. In reality, and more accurately, the style embraces new sensibilities of musical expression and restructures the framework of everyday sounds in a way that does not rely on the traditional use of musical characteristics.
Before the age of recorded sound, composition meant the reproduction of written musical notation. In particular, a specific array of timbres such as instruments, for example, were assumed, as well as a particular tonal system. On the other hand, Musique Concrète breaks down the structured production of traditional instruments at their roots in an attempt to compose and structure music from the bottom up.
Technology and Development of Musique Concrète
In 1948, the typical radio studio consisted of a series of shellac record players, a shellac record recorder, a mixing desk with rotating potentiometers, a mechanical reverberation, filters, and microphones for recording. These machines offered Schaeffer and his colleagues a limited amount of creative options in which to define the characteristics of early Musique Concrète. Schaeffer began by using these early technologies to compose music consisting of a series of successive sound extracts. Schaeffer found that the issue with this method was that the composition drew particular attention to repetitive and overly familiar characteristics of the sounds. Schaeffer later concluded that using sounds that retained a significant proportion of their tonal characteristics had created the problems of association. He attempted to overcome this by experimenting with the effect of playing recordings at different speeds.
After his first piece of music (Étude aux chemins de fer) Schaeffer composed a series of short Etudes, which would see him re-assess the role of natural instruments, study their characteristics, and apply appropriate electronic procedures such as reversing or playing sounds at different speeds to create new music. This time, Schaeffer found that his early transformation techniques still failed to alter the complex characteristics of sound sources, and concluded that they failed to produce anything new. Therefore, he began to examine sounds on a more micro level in an attempt to expand the range of transformation techniques. He examined the details of their characteristics such as attack, timbre, and the body of a note, for example. He found it was possible to remove the familiarity of musical instruments by techniques such as removing the attack of the recorded sound. For example, Schaeffer discovered that if a record malfunctions and causes a loop within the sustained resonance of a sound and not during the attack, it could change the musical characteristics of the sound entirely. Schaeffer would then go on to develop and experiment with these principles in his piece, Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul, which made heavy use of record loop manipulation.
In 1951, the RTF provided Schaeffer with a new purpose-built studio, which saw the introduction of the tape recorder and opened up a wide range of possibilities. The tape machine made the manipulation of media, and procedures such as speed variation and looping much easier than previously possible. A completely new compositional procedure was born. Small bits of tape could be edited together, creating whole new sounds and structures. From here on technological advancements in tape machines and synthesis continued to extend the sound manipulation techniques available.
Legacy and Influence
Many people would argue that Musique Concrète is simply a collection of meaningless processed noises with no real musical substance. But it could also be argued that Schaeffer was simply using the best tools available to him at the time in an attempt to create something genuinely new and exciting. It could be easy to pass his compositions off as meaningless, but it should be noted that early Musique Concrète was fundamental in the development and influence of future musical genres. The following are some case examples of genres and tracks with clear Musique Concrète influences:
Psychedelic & Progressive Rock
Although predominately guitar based, these genres often took influence from the tape manipulation effects of high art genres like Musique Concrète. Some examples include:
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows – Perhaps one of the most important tracks, in terms of introducing Musique Concrète techniques into popular music. Experimental tape loops and studio effects would become ever more popular and eventually become common in the 1970’s with progressive rock artists.
The Beatles – Revolution 9 – A track that was intentionally influenced by concrète techniques such as tape looping and manipulated sounds. In fact, John Lennon is said to have had regular contact with Karlheinz Stockhausen – an early electronic composer – who has worked with Musique Concrète including some work within Pierre Schaeffer’s 1950’s studio.
Pink Floyd – Money: It’s hard to Imagine Pink Floyd creating the tape loops heard at the being of this track, without the pioneering efforts of Pierre Schaeffer and of course the introduction of such techniques into popular music by the Beatles before them.
Industrial music was a style that aimed to create music in the context of late industrial society and increasing alienation from nature. Artists would utilise industrial noises as a rhythmic backbone made from tape loops and later on, samplers. Some examples include:
Throbbing Gristle – Discipline
Laibach – Vier Personen
Collage/Plunderphonics
Born directly out of Musique Concrète, collage music is a highly controversial genre of electronic music that involves unashamedly sampling other people’s music or media to create new tracks. Some examples include:
The Evolution of Control Committee – Rocked By Rape
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu – Whitney Joins the Jams
John Oswald – Dab
Changing The Musical Landscape
So far, we have established that many people would view Musique Concrète as artistic fluff with no content. But we have also established that many essential 20th-century artists have been directly influenced as a result of the pioneering efforts before them. So arguably, Musique Concrète should be credited as essential groundwork for much of the music we listen to today. It was because of pioneers like Schaeffer and Pierre Henry that people began to question traditional musical sensibilities and explore a broader range of techniques in search of something original. They were daring to use sources that had until that point, not been viewed as musical at all, and in the words of Schaeffer himself:
“Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.”
Had the people involved in musique concrete not dared to be different, the musical landscape of the 20th century might have been quite different indeed. The Beatles may never have moved beyond 60’s 3-minute pop songs, progressive rock might not have happened. And, in a more modern context, the sampling and scratching techniques of rap and hip-hop might never have taken off. Throughout the 20th century and beyond, our perception of what music is has changed dramatically. The beginnings of this change – and indeed electronic music as a genre – can arguably be traced back to Musique Concrète. Therefore, in the eyes of many, Musique Concrète pioneered a sonic revolution that changed our perception of musicality & production forever.
We have managed to establish some of Musique Concrète’s influence on popular music, but there remains a distinct barrier and contrast between the two, which leaves one to ask: what is the difference between high art genres and popular music. But more importantly, where and how have the two managed to meet in genres such as Progressive Rock and Industrial?
Chiefly, the difference can often be put down to the context in which the musical content is presented to the listener. For example: take the noisy samples of industrial music, which on their own just sound like the early stages of a Musique Concrète piece. However, load these sounds into a sampler, give them rhythm, and you have something of superior commercial merit.
Consequently, we have a musical style that is viewed in very close relation to Musique Concrète but is perceived by listeners to be of greater commercial value. Thus, we can see that by simply giving noises structure and rhythm, we can transform high art foundations into something more digestible. In essence, this is exactly what groups like Pink Floyd and The Beatles were doing: Taking Concrète techniques and applying them to a commercial formula.
So on one hand we can see how Musique Concrète was – in the scheme of things – simply experimentation. But on the other hand you don’t have to go much further before you end up with something of real musical and social importance. Making Musique Concrète, very historically important indeed.
Alternatively, to read more about Musique Concrète from the pioneering man himself, pick up a copy of Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d’une musique concrète), which has recently been transcribed into English.
Gnostic Pythagorean Musical Theory
Welcome to the Wednesday Night Experimental Music Programs at the SPACE CAFE PERFORMANCE HOUSE. Tonight we are beginning a new series of performances which will occasionally begin with preliminary talks on the various aspects of our current work. The concerts are sponsored by the GIORDANISTI PRESS and EIDOLON TAPES and represent the continuing work of the EMERGENCY THEATER founded at Chicago in l980. That group of artists stated in their first manifesto their intention to make experiments on the “magical imagination” taking a term from one of the illustrious personages in their lineage: Giordano Bruno. Through ceremonial invocations of a discontinuity of atavistic imagery and pheumatic music their purpose was the transmission and reception of certain occult formulae which would deepen and intensify introverted reality. Our work tonight continues the investigation of what has become known as Gnostic Acoustics. By way of introduction and perhaps to suggest what the forgoing sounds may enliven in your thoughts, let me offer a very general plan for ideas to rise in the form of historical documents. According to ancient cosmogonies the world was created from an acoustical substance, an initial sound which became light. Eventually part of this light became matter. This materialization however was never completed because each material element still retained some of the sonorous substance out of which it was created. This implies some hidden influence which is affecting us today, moment to moment.
The Pythagorean idea of a Music Of The Spheres implies a similar influence. They theorized that as the planets of differing size, distance and activity push their way through etheric space they force subtle modulations and vibrations to penetrate throughout our Solar System. To the Ancients the sacred planetary number was seven, however as this philosophy evolved more were added including invisible ones until all puncitiform space was filled with metaphysical planets. The same fate was met by black holes in our own time by the Diabolicals.
Pythagoras reasoned that if sound exists as a natural element in the universe, the movement of the celestial bodies can be expressed as mathematical ratios in resonating bodies on Earth. The early partials of the overtone series arising from that resonating body eventually became our musical scales. Since music and consciousness depend upon the same principles of frequency, these ideas have increased to become a conceptual web for musicians and philosophers alike. The search still goes on well over a thousand years later to correlate sounds with corresponding things whether they be colors, gem stones, planets or chakras. However in the meantime people were listening to other forms of artistic invention. Thirty thousand Greeks were capable of following performances of the tragedies of Aeschyus with unflagging interest because of an alliance of all the arts uniting in a common object. Centuries later melodic phrases, leading motives and their thematic transformations referring to persons, things, sentiments or events quickened the attention of several hundred listeners to Wagners Operas.
The Music Of The Spheres idea went underground surfacing now and then in Gnostic Chant or Renaissance architecture. The “sacred sound” found in nature became systematized, first by Priest craft then by secularist tradition both overwhelmed by the first few partials- shutting out the higher and less audible ones. There could as easily be a case made for corresponding the higher partials of the harmonic scale with those heretical sects that were abhorred and equally banished: the Gnostics, the Templers and Alchemists, all thought of as being ‘dissonant’ to civilized progress. The association of good and evil put upon certain intervals by renowned composers like Stravinsky, or the lecturing of Leonard Bernstein on the subject of the first half of the 20th Century as being an “unhealthy” period for Mother Earthís tonal goodness, is only a continuation of an older fear of the dissonant. Remember the earlier stigma put upon the eleventh partial as the “Devils Triad”? Considering that the tri-tone (dim.5th/aug. 4th) is the glue that hangs together equal tempered harmony (making modulation possible), could Western classical music be a vast Satanic conspiracy? There are those who would argue that the tonic-dominant resolution is indeed an evil symmetry. This fear is not innate however, and is only built upon a few hundred years of musical habit directed by composers and specialists in their search for the elusive Goddess of Beauty. Perhaps an artist is like a fowler, he or she does not produce beauty but knows how to capture it. Here lies the aesthetic dichotomy- it is a matter of knowing whether Pythagorean ratios constitute beauty, or whether they are only a preparation for it- whether the rational organization or the spiritual charm inherent in the sensible is art. I tend to feel that a conscious embrace of Pythagorean spheres or “world music” results as Morton Feldman noted “When musicis universal it never gets beyond its freshman level.” (Arnold Schoenberg had said basically the same thing: “If it is art it is not for all and if it is for all it is not art”),Yet the temptation to tie into some cosmic scheme or claim angelic or demonic overshadowing at the site of your improvisations looms ever strong. Gnostic Acoustics merely wishes to map the range and reach of the “aesthetic arrest” (Joseph Campbell’s term), where one may enjoy as listener or player conceptualization, as well as experience where all contrived meaning has ceased. Sometimes it ís hard to tell the difference- or maybe the latter is impossible.
Following the holographic model of Pythagoras, who many site as the Father of our Western esoteric tradition, what we find in the harmonic series are serial modifications of a primal energy. Taking “Middle C” as a fundamental tonic or root monad (Kether in Atzilut), we travel four octaves away through the four Kabbalistic worlds and arrive at the eleventh overtone (the “Diabolus in Musica”) said to be the most dangerous interval. This is, according to Lurianic speculation situated in ëthe world of shells (olam h-klipot) the farthest reaches of cosmic catastrophy (shevirat h-kelim) or the “breaking of the vessels.” It was after this shattering or “fall” that all phenomena began and the “nations of the world” were produced from its cortices. Practitioners of the Thelemic Religion assign the number eleven to their “new aeon magick,” the “once beyond ten”, because it is situated at the core of what most needs redeeming. Dane Rudhyar indicated that the eleventh partial represented the key-note of the Atlantean Race and its ultimate fall into black magic adding that the element of occult-fire is the basis of “true magical operations.” (Liberation Through Sound, A Course in 10 Lessons , Dane Rudhyar,Brookline, Mass. Hamsa Publications, Mimeograph.)What Rudhyar’s insight was trying to shape (following Blavatsky) is nothing less than the panorama of history through the symbolism of harmonic overtones. He portrays our species as evolving millions of years through a series of drifting root races with certain tones signaling evolutionary epochs. (Fig.2) He calls the relationship between the tritone E and B flat (5th and 7th harmonics), “the revelation” for its “inner workings” and perhaps because it pulls out of existence the dominating power of the tonic from its home world. Considering the enigma that the eleventh overtone has with the tonic, the 11:7 ratio tells us in kabbalistic terms the vanishing nexus that could result if the holographic model is fully reified to collapse in a state of non-being. AIN 711.
During a sitting with the Chicago trance-medium Princess Andraes in the early Sixties there was an interlude of unexpected synesthesia. When notes accidently sounded on a piano in the room, she spontaneously responded with an intersense analogy– gustiferous in nature. Quietly moving to the keyboard hoping not to break her trance, I began an impromptu research in the analysis of intervals all of which resulted in some fairly precise information which convinced me she was actually tasting each interval. Thirds and sixes transformed into various modifications of sweetness. The Perfect fifth was neutral, almost tastless, a minor seventh had a “dissolving bitterness.” Then too quickly perhaps I sounded an augmented fourth (11th partial); first she looked totally bewildered then recoiling in a choking manner grabbed her throat and exclaimed she was being poisoned.
Research and experimental procedures could go on indefinitely and not bring any kind of spiritual conversion. What is all this heaping of esoterica in correspondence for? What is it a sign of? If it is to build lists of similes and catalogues, or give metaphor for poetry then the most powerful magic is lost and Pythagoreanism is indeed dead in our time. The essential identity through the introspective experiment that the Pythagoreans of the 5th century B.C. and the Neo-Platonists after them made, is a recurrent pattern-intuition of a field-type reality. (Reality and Empathy, Physics, Mind and Science in the 21st Centrry, Alex Comfort, Albany N.Y. SUNY Press 1984 p.30). They completely identified mathematics, music and philosophy. This constituted their state of knowing (gnosis). If an idea is eternal than all expressions of it are essentially the same. “A piper and the cosmos might sound the same note.” (The Music Of The Spheres, Jamie James, New York Grove Press, 1913). The identity of the Greek soul with this scheme was clear and solid. The Modern Gnostic revisionist can still make the introspective experiment but the “same note” can reveal other data. In a few hundred years, as James points out , the soul identity became increasingly unclear. In the age of Freud and William James music and mathamatics had no more inherent meaning than “smelling a rose or cutting one’s finger,” (ibid p 211), and an influential composer like John Cage could teach “to more and morecompletely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them andmore and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves” (A Year From Monday (Juilliard Lecture, John Cage, Middletown Conn. Wesleyan 1967, p 100), But I ask you-what is this a sign of? Isn’t it a heaping on of another kind of exoterica? The first extreme is Wagner’s wanting everyone to get the same message (German obedience), the second is total lack of a common denominator among diverse sounds of Cage’s post-metaphysical world. The latter is perhaps more in line with the latest physics hypotheses however unstable, of what “themselves” might be. But then theres the point of getting a better view of the attributes of diverse things not only independent of a particular vantage point but to determine their final nature. No matter how much Cage took appart things in order to let them “be”, they still cannot escape their antecedent contingence. This nit-picking does not detract from his genious or the idea of “music of chance”, on the contrary Cage has set the stage for a yogic analysis of momentariness.(An objects quality of disintagrating moment by moment is its subtle impermanence. Appearance & Reality, Guy Newland,Snow Lion Publications p 30).
When the Gnostic Revisionest implements the unresolved tri-tone drone, the very scales of impurity in the depths of the universe may peal off to reveal the so-called “cosmos” as really a cosmetic-job, a cover up. [In Gershom Scholem’s seventh lecture on MajorTrends of Jewish Mysticism, New York Schoken Books 1961, he speaks of the deepest roots of the klipot existing already before the shattering of the vessels, these being mixed up with the sfirotic lights (residue of Ain-Sof in primordial space). One may ask, when was their ever “cosmic order”?] What suddenly rouses to reality is a reeling blood-drenched gnashing Chaos, out of control and ready to burn us up. Rudhyar in his lessons on sound, states that the harmonic eleven is the “pulsatingheart“, quoting Blavatsky, the “bundle of electro-magnetic forces of maya,” meaning the illusion that phenomenon has true existence. The Gnostic will realize this assessment includes the whole harmonic scheme, where even the “sweetness” of a universal Father-tone eventually putrefies, and like the depleted billows of a cosmic organ exhausts itself as the impetus of his karma fades.
This interval in the possession of a skilled Alchemist can be the basis of the current Hermetic Opus, in that it expresses an inscrutable tension, having qualities of non-duality with an androgynous fever, as the axiom of the Alchemical Dragon goes: “the exact poison to cure poisoning”. Remembering that C-F sharp is in the middle of our tempered scale, dividing the octave exactly in half, unreconciled opposites within the Desire Realm may be solved by a “Centrist” philosophy that avoids resolution into the stifling requirements of an eternalism and the dispiriting nihilism of mechanistic reductionism. See The Central Philosophy of Tibet, Robert Thurman, Princeton University 1984, p 24
ADDENDUM II (Figure 2 )
The Gnostics of the early centuries turned the Tree of Life (Religion) on its head- actually back on its feet.Their most excellent way to connect with a spiritual path, that put the demands of the relative into the context of transcendence, was to adopt the ascending order of the sfirot, starting from the bottom and rising, through the development of the individual in an evolutionary advancement. [Gikatilla and Abulafia, eminent kabbalists of the 13th Century also adopted the ascending order (for still disputed reasons) as did Alchemists who depicted the Tree of Life growing out of ones heart.] The Gnostics could not be fulfilled by mere obedience to the laws of a static, (therefore paradoxical) identity at the top of the Tree of Life. What was both eternal and emanational presented a dichotomy to them and not a refuge. This logic and reasoned insight set their Religion apart from the accepted belief, and is heretical today as it was then in the Judean-Christian world. Through pathways of the mind a more powerful support for them, and indespensable for purified growth was through the laws of karmic evolution, where honoring the innuendos of spiritual action lead to their further effects toward freedom. This was not at all an unrealistic idealism with intangible benefits. Keeping ones beginningless karmic continuum in mind, notice that the harmonic process does not stop at the eleventh partial but goes on to infinity. One might ask where does this ever swarming panchromatic music play itself out – if not in our billion-celled neurological orchestra? Stop for a moment and listen to that hiss inside your head. Here is the infinity of the upper partials and their spawn – the impending down-pour for all sentient life. Can there be any more condensed musical prophecy than this? What better army of tantric allies can one have to vaporize the ego perspective, as we translate this space into number and deconstruct the whole of it?
1st Octave: (one interval) Sound of the “luminous Nous” The Great Breath as unitive state and cosmic measure of the future universe.
2nd Octave: (two intervals) The Chord of the Augoedies “the Deamon” in Throne Room of the Higher Mind. The Noumenal as creative “Archetypal Man”
3rd Octave (four intervals) Chord of the “Magical Link” and votary world. Dom. seveth and the ensuing Hermetic/musical “doctrine of signatures”
4th Octave (eight intervals+) The Chord of Yeldaboath “exiled” by egoic perspectives. The incarnation of Cthonic dissonance and mundane sensorial reaction with the ensuing state of amnesia (prison world).
Synthesis (SYNTH) (from the ancient Greek “with” and “placing”) refers to a combination of two or more entities that together form something new; alternately, it refers to the creating of something by artificial means. The corresponding verb, to synthesize (or synthesise), means to make or form a synthesis.
Wizard (WYZRD) n 1. a person who practises or professes to practise magic or sorcery 2. a person who is outstandingly clever in some specified field; expert 3. a wise man 4. computing a computer program that guides a user through a complex task adj 5. informal chiefly superb; outstanding 6. of or relating to a wizard or wizardry [ variant of wissard, from wise 1 + -ard ] ‘wizardly adj wizard c.1440, “philosopher, sage,” from M.E. wys “wise” (see wise (adj.)) ard. zynyste “magic,” zynys “sorcerer,” zyne “witch,” all from zinoti “to know.” The ground sense is perhaps “to know the future.” “wise magical power!”
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Originally from Paris, I spent most of my career as an interiors stylist, trends expert and design writer between Paris and London. Feeding on the influence of two of the most cutting-edge cities in Europe made my work considerably stronger. I was writing and styling for magazines on both sides of the channel, always a Eurostar away from a new exciting project, working for my dream clients. Imagine the pride when I phoned my mother to announce I was commissioned by her revered Designers Guild, a collaboration that lasted several seasons. Following this, I spent four years as in-house interiors editor at WGSN, where planes replaced trains, as I jetted to design weeks and professional trade shows around the world. Today, I am based in Tel-Aviv. The sun and the exciting, emerging design scene of the Middle-East called me. I happily report on lifestyle and retail trends for design-forward magazines, and advise influential brands in the region.
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Pasta is a staple food[1] of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily.[2] It is also commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta dishes. Pasta is typically a noodle traditionally made from an unleavened dough of durum wheat flour mixed with water and formed into sheets and cut, or extruded into various shapes, then cooked and served in a number of dishes. It can be made with flour from other cereals or grains, and eggs may be used instead of water.
Each traditional pasta dish is defined by a specific kind of pasta, a specific cooking style, and a specific sauce or condiment. There are large number of evolutions and variants of the traditional dishes. Pasta is also often used as a complementary ingredient in some soups, but these are not considered "pasta dishes" (except for the category pasta in brodo or 'pasta in broth').[3]
The various kinds of pasta are categorized as: pasta secca (dried pasta), pasta fresca (fresh pasta), pasta all’uovo (egg pasta), pasta ripiena (filled pasta or stuffed pasta, like ravioli), gnocchi (soft dough dumplings). The cooking styles are categorized in: pasta asciutta (or pastasciutta, in which the pasta is boiled and then dressed with a complementary sauce or condiment), pasta al forno (baked pasta, in which the pasta is incorporated into a dish, along with the sauce or condiment and subsequently baked), and pasta in brodo (pasta in broth, in which the pasta is cooked and served in a broth, usually made of meat). Pasta sauces (mostly used for pasta asciutta and pasta al forno) are categorized into two broad groups: sughi rossi (red sauces, with tomatoes) and sughi bianchi (white sauces, without tomatoes).
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Italian Region
Agnolini mantovani in brodo Lombardy A Mantua dish made with agnolini dumplings in broth
Agnolotti piemontesi al Plin Piedmont Agnolotti dumplings with Piedmont ragù sauce
Agnolotti pavesi in brodo d’oca Lombardy Agnolotti dumplings in duck broth
Anelletti al forno Sicily A Palermo baked pasta dish made with anelletti pasta, eggplant, meat sauce, cheese and peas
Anolini in brodo Emilia-Romagna A Piacenza dish of anolini dumplings in broth
Battolli Caiegue Liguria Battolli pasta, made with chestnut flour, with a sauce made of pesto, turnip and potato
Bigoli in salsa Veneto Whole-wheat bigoli pasta, with a sauce made salt-cured fish with onion
Bigoli con l’anatra Veneto Whole-wheat bigoli pasta, with a duck ragù sauce
Bigoli col musso Veneto Whole-wheat bigoli pasta, with a donkey ragù sauce
Bucatini all'amatriciana Lazio Traditional Amatrice’s dish, made with bucatini pasta, with tomatoes, guanciale, Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper.
Busiate con pesto alla trapanese Sicily A Trapani dish, made with busiate pasta, with pesto alla trapanese (a pesto sauce made of garlic and walnuts)
Caccavelle alla sorrentina Campania Caccavelle pasta, filled with a tomato sauce with mozzarella cheese, ground beef and ricotta cheese
Canederli allo speck in brodo Trentino Alto-Adige Canederli dumplings with Speck Alto Adige, in broth
Cannelloni ricotta e spinaci Emilia-Romagna A baked pasta dish, made with cannelloni (a cylindrical type of pasta) filled with a sauce of ricotta cheese and spinach and covered by a tomato sauce
Cappellacci di zucca ferraresi Emilia-Romagna A Ferrara dish, made with cappellacci dumplings, filled with a pumpkin cream, served with melted butter flavored with sage leaves and Grana Padano cheese
Cappelletti in brodo Emilia-Romagna A Emilia-Romagna dish, made with cappelletti dumplings in broth
Capunsei mantovani burro e salvia Lombardy A Mantua dish, made with capunsei dumplings, with melted butter flavored with sage leaves and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Caramelle burro e salvia Emilia-Romagna A Romagna dish, made with caramelle dumplings (filled with ricotta cheese, spinach, Nutmeg, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese), with melted butter, sage leaves and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Casoncelli bergamaschi Lombardy A Bergamo dish, with casoncelli dumplings, bacon, melted butter, sage leaves and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Casunziei ampezzani Veneto A typical dish of dumplings the culinary tradition of the Dolomites area. The Casunziei filling varies from area to area and typically includes vegetables and ricotta cheese. The original recipes are the "red" variant (casunziei rossi) with beet, potato, and red Veronese turnips; and the "green" one (casunziei verdi) with spinach, the wild-growing erba cipollina in the filling.[4] Other variants have fillings of pumpkin or radishes. They are typically served with melted butter, poppy seeds, and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Cavatelli con sugo e Cacioricotta Apulia Cavatelli pasta, with a tomato sauce with meat and cacioricotta cheese
Cavati alla ragusana Sicily Cavati pasta, with a tomato and meat sauce with ricotta cheese
Ceppe al sugo Abruzzo Ceppe pasta, with a tomato and meat sauce with pecorino cheese
Cicatelli al sugo Apulia Cicatelli pasta, with a tomato and meat sauce
Chnéffléné Walser con fonduta Valle d'Aosta Chnéffléné pasta, served with fonduta (a sauce of various cheeses, white wine, seasoning, garlic)
Ciceri e Tria Apulia A Salento dish prepared with pasta and chickpeas as primary ingredients.[5][6]
Cjarsons al burro Friuli-Venezia Giulia A Carnia dish, made of cjarsons dumplings, filled with potatoes, ricotta cheese, cinnamon and raisins, served with melted butter
Cocule salentine Apulia A Salento dish. The cocule are ball-shaped dumplings made of potatoes, bread crumbs, eggs, pepper, parsley and pecorino cheese and backed with tomato sauce and cacioricotta cheese
Corzetti ai pinoli Liguria Corzetti fresh pasta, dressed with pesto or alternatively with a walnut or mushroom sauce (the latter called “Tocco de funzi”, in Genoese dialect)
Culurgiones d'Ogliastra Sardinia Traditional Ogliastra dish. The culurgiones [it] dumplings are a typical Sardinian filled pasta stuffed with potatoes, pecorino Sardo cheese, onions and served with olive oil or tomato sauce
Ferretti 'Ndruppeche Basilicata A Potenza dish, made with ferretti pasta, with the 'Ndruppeche sauce (a typical ragù sauce, made with the salame pezzente)
Fettuccine Alfredo Lazio Dish, invented in 1914 by Alfredo Di Lelio, famous Roman chef. It is made with fettuccine egg pasta, tossed with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and butter. As the cheese melts, it emulsifies the liquids to form a smooth and rich coating on the pasta. Despite its popularity in United States, the dish is not known in Italy.
Fileja al sugo di capra Calabria Whole-wheat fileja pasta, with a ragù sauce with goat meat
Fregola con arselle Sardinia Fregola pasta, with a tomato-based sauce with wedge clams or clams
Garganelli prosciutto e piselli Emilia-Romagna Garganelli pasta, with a sauce of ham and Peas
Gnocchi al castelmagno Piedmont Soft dough gnocchi dumplings, with a sauce based on melted castelmagno cheese
Gnocchi alla romana Lazio A Roman dish of soft dough gnocchi dumplings, made with butter, eggs, milk and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and baked with butter and pecorino Romano cheese
Gnocchi alla sorrentina Campania A Sorrento dish of potatoes soft dough gnocchi dumplings, baked in a traditional crock pot (named pignatiello), with Neapolitan ragù sauce, mozzarella cheese, parmigiano reggiano cheese and basil
Gnocchi all'ossolana Piedmont A dish from the Ossola valley of soft dough gnocchi dumplings, made with potatoes and pumpkins, served with a tomato sauce with mushrooms and milk cream
Gnocchi di malga Friuli-Venezia Giulia A Verona dish of soft dough gnocchi dumplings, served with melted butter and Monte Veronese cheese
Gnocchi di zucca Lombardy A Mantua dish of soft dough gnocchi dumplings, made with pumpkin and served with melted butter flavored with sage leaves and Grana Padano cheese
Gnocchi ricci Lazio An Amatrice dish of soft dough gnocchi dumplings, made with egg, of yellow color and oval shape (the grocchi dumplings are squeezed between thumb and forefinger, to give them their characteristic curly), served in a ragù sauce, with sheep meat
Gramigna alla salsiccia Emilia-Romagna A Bolognese dish of gramigna pasta, with a tomato sauce with chopped sausage (or, in a variant, with a white sauce of milk cream with chopped sausage)
Insalata di pasta Campania The classic pasta salad, made with some kind of short pasta, dressed with cherry tomatoes, pitted black olives, diced mozzarella cheese, diced baked ham (or in alternative tuna in oil), fresh basil leaves and oil, to be served cold
Laina con i ceci Campania A Ciociaria dish, with laina pasta, with a tomato sauce with chickpeas
Lagane e cicciari Calabria Prepared with lagane, a wide pasta[7] with chickpeas, garlic, and oil.[8]
Lasagne al forno Campania A Neapolitan dish of baked lasagne flat-shaped pasta, prepared with several layers of lasagne sheets alternated with ragù sauce, mozzarella cheese (and/or scamorza cheese)
Lasagne alla bolognese Emilia-Romagna Bolognese variant of the lasagne al forno dish. For this variant, lasagne with egg (and sometimes lasagne verdi, "green lasagna" with spinachs in the dough) are used. In this dish the layers of lasagne sheets are alternated with Bolognese sauce, béchamel sauce and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Lasagne al pesto Liguria Liguria variant of the Lasagne al forno dish. For this variant, lasagne with egg are used. The layers of lasagne are alternated with pesto sauce, béchamel sauce and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Lorighittas con sugo di pollo Sardinia A dish originating from the town of Morgongiori of Lorighittas, with a tomato sauce made with chicken
Macarones de busa Sardinia Tripical Sardinia’s pasta of soft dough gnocchi dumplings, with pepper and cheese
Maccaronara al ragù Campania An Avellino dish, of maccaronara pasta, with ragù sauce
Maccaruni al sugo di capra Apulia A dish of maccaruni pasta, with a ragù sauce based on goat meat
Maccheroni alla pastora Calabria A dish made with maccheroni pasta with ricotta cheese, pecorino cheese and sausage
Maccheroni con la trippa Liguria A Savona dish, made with maccheroni pasta, in a tomato sauce, based on tripe and sausage
Maccheroncini di Campofilone al ragù Marche Maccheroncini di Campofilone pasta, with ragù sauce
Mafalde con ragù napoletano e ricotta Campania Mafalde pasta, with Neapolitan ragù sauce (a variety of meat sauces called ragù) and ricotta cheese
Malfatti di Carpenedolo con burro e salvia Lombardy A Brescia dish, of Malfatto di Carpenedolo dumplings, filled with spinach, chard, chicory, eggs, Grana Padano cheese, white flour, nutmeg and breadcrumbs, served with melted butter flavored with sage leaves
Malloreddus alla campidanese Sardinia Malloreddus pasta, with a ragù sauce made with sausage from Sardinia and Pecorino cheese
Maltagliati ai fagioli Emilia-Romagna A dish of maltagliati egg pasta, with cannellini beans or borlotti bean (a variant of the common pasta e fagioli)
Marubini cremonesi Lombardy A Cremona dish of marubini dumplings, filled with braising, salame Cremonese (Cremona salami), Grana Padano cheese, nutmeg, cooked in a broth with beef, pork and chicken
Mpurnatu Sicily A Campobello di Licata backed pasta dish, made of ziti pasta, a ragù sauce with pork, cauliflower, eggs and pecorino cheese
Nidi di rondine Emilia-Romagna A Romagna baked pasta dish, prepared a fresh egg pasta, with a tomato sauce and smoked ham, beef, mushrooms, béchamel sauce and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Orecchiette con cime di rapa Apulia A dish made of orecchiette pasta with rapini (sometimes called "turnip tops", broccoletti or broccoli raab), garlic, chilli and sometimes anchovies or pork
Pallotte cace e ove Abruzzo A dish of ball-shaped dumplings, made of breadcrumbs, pecorino cheese and eggs, baked with a tomato sauce
Pansoti alla salsa di noci Liguria A dish of pansoti dumplings, filled with prescinsêua cheese and a mix of boiled wild herbs called preboggion in Genoa’s dialect, served with a walnuts sauce
Pappardelle al cinghiale Tuscany A Maremma dish made with pappardelle egg pasta (a large, flat egg pasta noodles, similar to wide fettuccine or tagliatelle), with a ragù sauce based on wild boar meat
Pappardelle al ragù di cinta senese Tuscany A Siena dish made with pappardelle egg pasta (a large, flat egg pasta noodles, similar to wide fettuccine or tagliatelle), with a ragù sauce based on Cinta Senese meat
Pappardelle con i bisi Veneto A dish made with pappardelle egg pasta (a large, flat egg pasta noodles, similar to wide fettuccine or Tagliatelle), with a sauce of peas, bacon and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Passatelli in brodo Emilia-Romagna A dish of Passatelli pasta, made of breadcrumbs, eggs, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, a pinch of spices (nutmeg and/or lemon peel), cooked in a capon broth
Pasta al pesto di pistacchio Sicily A dish made with a short pasta, with a sauce of pistachio, cheese, lemon peel
Pasta alla Gricia Lazio A variant of the Amatriciana sauce, with fried guanciale, Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper (without tomatoes)
Pasta alla Norma Sicily A dish made with a short pasta, with a sauce prepared with tomatoes, fried eggplant, grated ricotta salata cheese, and basil
Pasta alla Palina Sicily A Palermo dish, made with a long pasta (usually bucatini or spaghetti), with a tomato sauce with a finely chopped mixture of sardines and anchovy. This dish is the red variant (with tomato) of the more famous ‘’Pasta con le sarde’’
Pasta ca nunnata Sicily A Palermo pasta dish, made with a long pasta, with a sauce of gianchetti (the whitebait of Mediterranean sardines and anchovies) and fresh tomato
Pasta con broccoli arriminati Sicily A Palermo dish, made of a short pasta, with a sauce made of cauliflower, pine nuts, raisin, caciocavallo cheese, sardines and toasted breadcumbs
Pasta con ceci e nduja Calabria A dish of long pasta, with a sauce of chickpeas and 'Nduja
Pasta con le sarde Sicily A Palermo dish, made with a long pasta (usually bucatini or spaghetti), with a sauce with a finely chopped mixture of sardines and anchovy.
Pasta e ceci Campania A chickpea and pastas soup with garlic and rosemary in Sammarinese cuisine
Pasta e fagioli Campania A beans and pastas soup, commonly prepared with cannellini beans or borlotti beans and some type of small pasta such as elbow macaroni or ditalini.[9] Additional ingredients may be used, and many variants exist.
Pasta mollicata Basilicata A dish of long pasta, with toasted bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish of the Basilicata cuisine of Basilicata but widespread throughout southern Italy; the pasta ca muddica is a Sicilian variant
Pasta 'ncaciata Sicily A Messina dish of backed pasta, made of maccheroni pasta with a tomato sauce, with minced meat, boiled eggs, eggplant, caciocavallo cheese, pecorino cheese and garlic
Penne all’arrabbiata Lazio A Roman dish of penne pasta, with the arrabbiata sauce, a spicy sauce made from garlic, tomato, and red chili peppers cooked in olive oil ("arrabbiata" literally means "angry" in Italian; the name of the sauce refers to the spiciness of the chilli peppers)
Penne alla norcina Umbria A dish of penne pasta, with a sauce of milk cream and sausage, flavored with fresh truffles, and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Pici all’aglione Tuscany A Siena dish of pici pasta (a hand-rolled pasta, like fat spaghetti), with a tomato sauce rich of garlic
Pisarei e fasö Emilia-Romagna A Piacenza dish of small soft dough gnocchi dumplings, made of flour and breadcrumbs, with a tomato sauce with beans, bacon and onion
Pizzoccheri della Valtellina Lombardy A Valtellina dish of pizzoccheri, with a sauce of cooked along with greens (often Swiss Chard but also Savoy cabbage), and cubed potatoes, layered with pieces of Valtellina Casera cheese, and dressed with garlic lightly fried in butter.[10][11]
Ravioli di borragine Liguria A Genoa dish made with Ravioli dumplings, filled with ricotta cheese and Borage, served with butter and walnuts
Ravioli di radicchio rosso Veneto A Venetian dish made with ravioli dumplings, filled with a dough made of ricotta cheese and Radicchio Rosso di Treviso, and served with butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Ravioli di patate Lazio A Roman dish made with ravioli dumplings, filled with a dough made of boiled potatoes, sausage, Grana Padano cheese, mint, and served with butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Ravioli Scarpolesi Molise A Molise pasta dish made with ravioli dumplings, filled with boiled potatoes, boiled chard, ricotta cheese, bacon, eggs, fennel, and served with a ragù sauce
Ravioli Capresi Campania A Capri dish of round ravioli dumplings, filled with caciotta cheese, eggs, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and marjoram, served with a fresh tomato sauce
Rigatoni alla silana Calabria A dish of Rigatoni pasta, with a tomato sauce with dried sausage, bacon, pecorino cheese
Rigatoni con la Pajata Lazio A Roman dish of rigatoni pasta, with the typical pajata tomato sauce. Pajata is the term for the intestines of an "un-weaned" calf. The intestines are cleaned and skinned, but the chyme is left inside. Then the intestine is cut in pieces which are bound together with white thread, forming rings. When cooked, the combination of heat and the enzyme rennet in the intestines coagulates the chyme and creates a sort of thick, creamy, cheese-like sauce. These rings can be served simply seasoned and grilled (pajata arrosto) or in the traditional Roman dish in which pajata is stewed in a typical tomato sauce and served with rigatoni
Sagne a lu cuttéure Abruzzo A dish of Castiglione Messer Marino, mostly pepared in carnival time, made with handmade sagne pasta, with a tomato sauce with sausage, bacon and sweet chili powder
Sagne 'ncannulate Apulia A Salento dish of sagne pasta, with a tomato sauce with ricotta cheese
Scarpinocc Lombardy A Bergamo dish of a variant of ravioli dumplings, filled with breadcrumbs, cheese, eggs, butter and raisin, with a sauce of cheese and melted butter, flavored with sage leaves
Scialatielli ai frutti di mare Campania A dish from the Amalfi coast, made of scialatielli pasta (a type of thick and short fettuccine or linguine-like pasta featuring a rectangular cross section), with a seafood sauce, existing in two variants: red (with tomato in the sauce, usually fresh cherry tomatoes) and white (without tomato). The sauce in made with shellfish (clams and mussels) and crustaceans (shrimp and prawn). This dish is a variant of the spaghetti allo scoglio
Scrippelle ‘mbrusse Abruzzo A Teramo dish made of scrippelle, a pasta similar to a thin pancake, made from wheat flour and eggs, served in chicken broth
Spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino Lazio A Roman dish of spaghetti pasta made by lightly sauteeing minced or pressed garlic in olive oil, sometimes with the addition of dried red chili flakes. Finely chopped parsley can also be added as a garnish[12]
Spaghetti alla carbonara/Carbonara Lazio A Roman dish of spaghetti pasta, with raw eggs, Pecorino Romano cheese, bacon (guanciale or pancetta), and black pepper[13]
Spaghetti alla carrettiera Sicily A dish of spaghetti pasta, with olive oil, raw garlic, pepper and pecorino cheese
Spaghetti alla chitarra ricotta, salsiccia e zafferano Abruzzo A dish of spaghetti alla chitarra, a long egg pasta with a square cross section (about 2–3 mm thick), whose name comes from the tool (the so-called chitarra, literally "guitar") this pasta is produced with, a tool which gives spaghetti its name, shape and a porous texture that allows pasta sauce to adhere well. The chitarra is a frame with a series of parallel wires crossing it. This dish is prepared with a tomato sauce with sausage, ricotta cheese made from ewe's milk and saffron
Spaghetti alla chitarra con sugo di agnello Abruzzo A dish of spaghetti alla chitarra, a long egg pasta with a square cross section (about 2–3 mm thick), whose name comes from the tool (the so-called chitarra, literally "guitar") this pasta is produced with, a tool which gives spaghetti its name, shape and a porous texture that allows pasta sauce to adhere well. The chitarra is a frame with a series of parallel wires crossing it. This dish is prepared with a tomato sauce with lamb meat
Spaghetti alla Nerano Campania A dish from the Sorrento peninsula, made with spaghetti pasta, fried zucchinis, and provolone del Monaco
Spaghetti alla puttanesca Campania A Naples dish, made with spaghetti pasta, with a tomato sauce, with anchovies, olives, capers and garlic
Spaghetti alla vesuviana Campania A Naples dish, made with spaghetti pasta, with a tomato sauce, with olives, capers, garlic, oregano, chili, chopped parsley and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Spaghetti alle vongole Campania Spaghetti with clams. Prepared in two ways: in bianco, i.e., with oil, garlic, parsley, and sometimes a splash of white wine; and in rosso, like the former but with tomatoes and fresh basil
Spaghetti allo scoglio Campania The spaghetti allo scoglio ("reef spaghetti") is dish of spaghetti pasta with seafood, existing in two variants: red (with tomato in the sauce, usually fresh cherry tomatoes) and white (without tomato). The sauce in made with shellfish (clams and mussels) and crustaceans (shrimp and prawn). This dish has many variants, named spaghetti ai frutti di mare, spaghetti alla pescatora, spaghetti alla marinara, with small changes in the selection of the seafood
Spaghetti cacio e pepe Lazio A Roman dish, prepared with spaghetti pasta, Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper. The spaghetti pasta can be substituted with other kinds of long thin pasta, such as tonnarelli, vermicelli or pici.
Spaghetti con puntarelle, acciughe e briciole Lazio A dish of Spaghetti pasta, with a sauce made of puntarelle (a variant of chicory), anchovy, breadcrumbs and garlic
Spätzle Trentino-Alto Adige Spätzle dumplings served with milk cream and butter
Strangozzi funghi e tartufo Umbria A dish of strangozzi long pasta with a rectangular cross section, with a sauce of truffles and mushrooms
Stroncatura Calabria A dish of struncatura pasta (similar to linguine with buckwheat flour which gives it a brown color), with a sauce of anchovies, breadcrumbs, garlic, oil and hot pepper
Strozzapreti alla pastora Emilia-Romagna A dish made with strozzapreti pasta (literally "priest-choker" or "priest-strangler"), with a tomato sauce with ham sausages, milk cream, saffron and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Tagliatelle al papavero Friuli-Venezia Giulia A dish of tagliatelle egg pasta (long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are typically about 6.5 mm to 10 mm wide), served with a creamy sauce made with poppy seeds and onion fried in oil
Tagliatelle alla Bolognese Emilia-Romagna A classical Bolognese dish, made with tagliatelle egg pasta (long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are typically about 6.5 mm to 10 mm wide), with the traditional Bolognese sauce made of tomato and minced beef (NB: Although very popular abroad, a dish named spaghetti alla bolognese does not exist in the Italian tradition, the Bolognese sauce is only used with tagliatelle or some other kind of egg pasta).
Tagliolini al tartufo Piedmont A dish of tagliolini egg pasta (a type of ribbon egg pasta, similar to tagliatelle but thinner, in Piedmont dialect called tajarin, served with butter and truffles
Testaroli con pesto (o Testaroli al pesto) Liguria A dish of testaroli egg pasta (a type of pasta is prepared using water, flour and salt, which is sliced into triangular shapes, called testaieu in Liguria dialect, served with pesto sauce A pasta
Timballo Campania A baked pasta dish, made with cheese, meat and vegetables.
Tordelli lucchesi Tuscany A Lucca dish of tordelli dumplings (a variant of tortelli, with a semi-circular shape and containing a filling of meat thymus and herbs), served with a ragù sauce
Tortel Dols di Colorno Emilia-Romagna A Parma dish of tortelli dumplings (tortel in Parma dialect) with sweet filling. They are stuffed with breadcrumbs, cooked wine and mustard. Once boiled, they are served with melted butter flavored with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Tortelli amari di Castel Goffredo Lombardy A Castel Goffredo dish, made with a type of tortelli dumplings (the tortello amaro di Castel Goffredo), with a filling of balsamita aromatic herb herbs, bread crumbs, eggs, nutmeg, sage, onion, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, garlic and salt and served with melted butter flavored with sage and sprinkled with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Tortelli cremaschi Lombardy A Crema dish of tortelli dumplings (dialect of Crema: turtèi cremasch) with sweet filling and the shape of a half-moon. The filling in made of amaretto biscuits minced, breadcrumbs, candied cedro, nutmeg, a typical spicy biscuit of Crema called mostaccino, egg yolks, Grana Padano cheese, grated lemon peel, marsala, mint candies, raisin. Once boiled, they are served with melted butter flavored with Grana Padano cheese
Tortelli della Possenta Lombardy A Mantua dish of tortelli dumplings with sweet filling and red color. The dough of the puff pastry is made with flour eggs, beetroot, olive oil and salt and the filling is made of cherries, ricotta cheese, red wine, mustard, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, sugar, breadcrumbs, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter. Once boiled they are served with melted butter flavored with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Tortelli di patate Tuscany A Mugello region and Casentino dish of tortelli dumplings of squared shape and bigger than the usual tortelli, with a filling made of boiled potatoes, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, nutmeg and salt, and served with a tomato sauce based on meat of beef or duck of wild boar
Tortelli di zucca Lombardy A Mantua dish of tortelli dumplings with pumpkin in the filling. The dough of the puff pastry is made with flour and eggs and they are stuffed with boiled pumpkin, amaretto biscuits minced, mustard, nutmeg and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Once boiled they are served with melted butter flavored with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Tortelli maremmani con spinaci Tuscany A Maremma dish of tortelli dumplings with a squared shape and stuffed with spinach. The dough of the puff pastry is made with flour and eggs and they are stuffed with ricotta cheese, boiled spinach, nutmeg and grated pecorino cheese. Once boiled they are served with a ragù sauce based on meat of Maremma’s beef or wild boar
Tortelli verdi Emilia-Romagna A Parma and Reggio Emilia dish of tortelli verdi (green tortelli dumplings), with a filling made of chard, spinach, ricotta cheese, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, bacon, onion and garlic. Once boiled they are served with melted butter flavored with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Tortellini di Valeggio sul Mincio Veneto Traditional tortellini di Valeggio sul Mincio dumplings, served in broth
Tortellini in brodo Emilia-Romagna A Bolognese dish made with the traditional tortellini dumplings, cooked in broth
Tortelloni burro e salvia Emilia-Romagna A Bolognese dish made with tortelloni dumplings
Trenette al pesto Liguria A Genoa pasta dish, made with trenette pasta (a dried pasta similar to flat spaghetti), with pesto sauce
Troccoli al ragù di seppia Apulia A Daunians pasta dish, made with troccoli pasta (a local variant of spaghetti alla chitarra), with a ragù sauce based on cuttlefish
Troccoli con pomodori secchi, acciughe e mollica Apulia A Daunians pasta dish, made with troccoli pasta (a local variant of spaghetti alla chitarra), with a sauce based on dried tomatoes, anchovies and breadcrumbs
Trofie al pesto Liguria Traditional Genoa pasta dish, made with trofie pasta, with pesto sauce
Trofie di Portofino Liguria A pasta dish, made with Trofie pasta, with a mix of pesto sauce and tomato sauce
Turtèl sguasaròt Lombardy A Mantua dish made with turtèl sguasaròt dumplings, filled with beans and chestnuts and served in a sauce made of cooked wine, bread crumbs, lemon and cloves
Vincisgrassi Marche A baked pasta dish, similar to ‘’lasagne al forno’’ (considered the marchigian variant). It is prepared made with vincisgrassi pasta, with ragù sauce, béchamel sauce and cheese
Ziti al forno Campania A backed pasta dish made with ziti pasta, eggplant, meat sauce and cheese
Other countries[edit]
Alphabet soup United States Prepared using alphabet pasta. In the U.S., it is commercially produced in a can of condensed broth.
American chop suey United States Consists of elbow macaroni and bits of cooked ground beef with sautéed onions and green peppers in a thick tomato-based sauce.[14]
American goulash United States Baked as a casserole in an oven, and has many variants, it has been mentioned in U.S. cookbooks since at least 1914. Core ingredients now usually include various kinds of pasta, cubed steak, and tomatoes in some form, (e.g. canned, sauce, soup, paste). Diced chuck roast, ground beef or hamburger is often substituted for cube steak.[15]
Baked ziti United States A baked casserole dish made with ziti macaroni and sauce characteristic of Italian-American cuisine. This plate has similar properties to a Lasagna, but using ziti pasta instead.[16]
Bryndzové halušky Slovakia It is one of the national dishes in Slovakia. This meal consists of halušky (boiled lumps of potato dough similar in appearance to small gnocchi) and bryndza (a soft sheep cheese), usually sprinkled with cooked bits of smoked pork fat/bacon.
Chicken riggies New York State A pasta-based dish usually consisting of chicken, rigatoni and hot or sweet peppers in a spicy cream and tomato sauce, although many variants exist.
Chicken noodle soup Northern Europe The primary ingredients are chicken and noodles in a chicken broth, possibly with pieces of vegetables (carrots, celery, peas, etc.).
Cincinnati chili Cincinnati, United States Spaghetti topped with a Greek-inspired meat sauce and grated cheddar, plus optionally onions and/or kidney beans.
Fideos al horno Gibraltar A baked pasta dish in Gibraltarian cuisine very similar to Maltese imqarrun which consists of macaroni, Bolognese sauce, and various other ingredients, including egg and bacon that vary according to family tradition
Fideuà Gandia, Valencia, Spain Originating in the 1920s in the city of Gandia,[17] it is usually made with white-fleshed fish and crustaceans,[18] and optionally served with allioli sauce. Many variants exist.
Filipino spaghetti Philippines Filipino adaptation of spaghetti in Bolognese sauce. Characteristically sweet due to the addition of banana ketchup or brown sugar to the sauce.[19]
Frogeye salad United States A type of pasta salad made with acini di pepe pasta, whipped topping and egg yolks
Giouvetsi Greece A baked or stewed meat dish made with either chicken, lamb or beef, orzo or sometimes egg noodles and tomato sauce
Johnny Marzetti Columbus, Ohio, United States A baked pasta dish or casserole, consisting of noodles, tomato sauce, cheese and ground beef, with additional shredded cheese typically added to the top before baking.
Kugel Central Europe A baked pudding or casserole, similar to a pie, most commonly made from egg noodles (Lokshen kugel) or potato. It is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish, often served on Shabbat and Yom Tov.[20]
Kusksu Malta A soup in Maltese cuisine prepared with vegetables and small pasta beads called kusksu, along with fresh broad beans when in season.
Lazanki (skryliai) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth A Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish pasta dish
Linsen mit Spätzle Swabia, Germany A traditional Swabian dish of Lentils with Swabian pasta that is normally accompanied with wiener sausages
Macaroni and cheese England Consists of cooked macaroni pasta and cheese, most commonly Cheddar cheese, though it can also incorporate other ingredients, such as bread crumbs and ham.
Macaroni and cheese pizza Unknown Includes macaroni and cheese in its preparation, sometimes using the macaroni and cheese as the pizza crust[21] or as a topping.[22]
Macaroni casserole Northern Europe A staple in northern European home cooking. It is a dish of cooked macaroni and a mixture of egg and milk with additional ingredients like meats, vegetables or fish.
Macaroni pie Scotland In Scotland, a macaroni pie is an open pie containing macaroni and cheese. It is also a part of other cuisines.
Macaroni salad Unknown A type of pasta salad, served cold made with cooked elbow macaroni and usually prepared with mayonnaise. It is often served as a side dish.
Makarony po-flotski Russia Literally "navy-style pasta", a Russian dish made of cooked pasta (typically macaroni, penne or fusilli) mixed with stuffing made of ground meat (usually beef or pork) and fried onions and seasoned with salt and black pepper.
Maultasche Swabia (in Baden-Württemberg), Germany A traditional German dish that consists of an outer-layer of pasta dough which encloses a filling traditionally consisting of minced meat, smoked meat, spinach, bread crumbs and onions and flavoured with various herbs and spices (e.g. pepper, parsley and nutmeg).
Naporitan Yokohama, Japan[23] Spaghetti, tomato ketchup or a tomato-based sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, sausage, bacon and Tabasco sauce. An instant Naporitan is also available in Japan today.
Naryn Uzbekistan Made with fresh hand-rolled noodles and horse meat. Naryn can be served as a cold pasta dish (kuruk norin – dry norin) or as a hot noodle soup (khul norin – wet norin).[24]
Pasta primavera Canada Consists of pasta and fresh vegetables.[25][26] A meat such as chicken is sometimes added, but the focus of primavera is the vegetables themselves.
Pizza-ghetti Canada Pizza served with (or sometimes containing) spaghetti
Spaghetti sandwich Japan, United States Prepared with cooked spaghetti, sauce and bread
Spaghetti with meatballs United States An Italian-American dish that usually consists of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs[27]
Strapačky Slovakia A base of dumplings with a sauerkraut and bacon dressing.
Tetrazzini United States Prepared with diced poultry or seafood, and mushrooms, in a butter/cream and Parmesan sauce flavored with wine or sherry, and served hot over linguine, spaghetti, or some similarly thin pasta, garnished with parsley, and sometimes topped with almonds and/or Parmesan cheese.
Túrós csusza Hungary A savoury curd cheese noodle dish[28] or cottage cheese noodle dish[29] made with small home-made noodles or pasta.
Commercially-prepared dishes[edit]
Hamburger Helper United States A line of General Mills packaged food products, sold under the Betty Crocker brand, which consist primarily of boxed pasta bundled with a packet or packets of powdered sauce or seasonings.
Kidfresh United States Launched in 2007 and first started with a concept Kidfresh store in New York City, it is a brand of all-natural children's meals.
Chef Boyardee Italian-American Canned pasta products, including Mini-Bites.
Kraft Dinner/Kraft Macaroni & Cheese United States and Canada[a] Tenderoni pasta with a cheese sauce made from powdered processed cheese, milk, and butter (or margarine).
SpaghettiOs United States Canned spaghetti featuring circular pasta shapes in a cheese and tomato sauce. It was introduced in 1965 by the Campbell Soup Company under the Franco-American brand, the pasta was created by Donald Goerke (1926–2010), "the Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs",[30]
Pastitsio Greek A Greek and Mediterranean baked pasta dish including ground beef and béchamel sauce in its best-known form
Penne alla vodka Italian-American Prepared with vodka and penne pasta and often includes heavy cream, crushed tomatoes, onions, and sometimes sausage or bacon
Pizza-ghetti Canada A combination meal commonly found in fast food or family restaurants throughout the province of Quebec[31][32] and other parts of Canada.[33] It is prepared with a pizza, sliced in half, accompanied by a small portion of spaghetti with a tomato based sauce.
Rosto Gibraltar A dish in Gibraltarian cuisine that is of Italian origin, consisting of penne in a tomato sauce with beef or occasionally pork, mushrooms and carrots (among other vegetables depending on family tradition) and topped with grated "queso bola"
Sabounee Italian A kind of ring-shaped pasta that is typically stuffed with a mix of meat (pork loin, prosciutto)
Toasted ravioli St. Louis, Missouri Breaded deep-fried ravioli, sometimes served as an appetizer. Pictured is toasted ravioli with a dipping sauce.
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USA Tax
Border-adjustment tax
The Oregon tax revolt is a political movement in Oregon which advocates for lower taxes. This movement is part of a larger anti-tax movement in the western United States which began with the passage of Proposition 13 in California. The tax revolt, carried out in large part by a series of citizens' initiatives and referendums, has reshaped the debate about taxes and public services in Oregon.
1 Major figures
2 National context and the passage of Measure 5
3 Measure 47 and the rise of Bill Sizemore
4 Later legislation
5 Notable figures in the Oregon tax revolt
6 Timeline of ballot measures
Major figures[edit]
The leaders of the tax revolt include Don McIntire, president of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon, and Bill Sizemore, leader of Oregon Taxpayers United. Much of the money spent to promote these anti-tax measures were provided by out-of-state backers including Americans for Tax Reform headed by Grover Norquist.[1]
National context and the passage of Measure 5[edit]
Oregon voters placed limits to property tax in the Oregon Constitution in 1990 with the passage of Measure 5. A majority of voters were frustrated by the increase in property taxes attributed to rapidly rising property values in the Portland area. Some attribute this home price inflation to an influx of population in the Portland metro, which is surrounded by an urban growth boundary that limits the supply of developable land. Others observe that the situation was much more complex, pointing to the loose monetary policy pursued by Alan Greenspan, including adjustments to the CPI that measured homeowners equivalent rent instead of actual home price, a recovering economy in the region, and numerous other factors.[original research?] Measure 5 shifted the burden of school funding to the state (which levies an income tax) and away from counties.[dubious – discuss]
Measure 5 also equalized school funding throughout the state, which meant that schools in rural areas benefited while schools in Portland saw budgets reduced.[dubious – discuss] The budgetary restraints caused by Measure 5 were responsible for funding cuts that were made in public schools and universities budgets.
Measure 47 and the rise of Bill Sizemore[edit]
However, even with the caps on property taxes, the continual increase in property values in Portland, exacerbated by the effects of Measure 5, brought higher tax bills for some residents.[dubious – discuss] This led to Bill Sizemore's Measure 47, which attempted to cap the annual rate at which property taxes could rise. Measure 47 also instituted Oregon's double majority rule, in which local tax levies could only pass in minor elections when voter turnout surpassed half of the registered voters. In November 1996, Measure 47 was passed by the Oregon voters 52.3% to 47.7%.[2] Problems with the legal wording of Measure 47 caused the Oregon Legislature to send Measure 50 to voters in 1997, which clarified Measure 47. During a special election in May 1997, Measure 50 was approved by the voters 55.7% to 44.3%.[3]
Later legislation[edit]
Bill Sizemore
The tax revolt manifested itself in a series of budget battles in the Oregon Legislature about school funding, the Oregon Health Plan, and other spending priorities during the late 1990s. Then Governor John Kitzhaber and the Republican leadership in the legislature clashed repeatedly over budget priorities.[citation needed]
In 2000, Don McIntire helped place Measure 8 on Oregon's ballot, which would have limited state spending to 15 percent of personal income for the previous biennium. Measure 8 was defeated by a margin of 43.5% to 56.5%.[4] However, in the same election Oregonians enshrined the so-called "kicker check"—a rebate check given to taxpayers in the event that state revenues sufficiently exceed forecasts—into the state constitution with Measure 86 which passed 62% to 38%.[5]
Anti-tax activists defeated two proposals in 2003 and 2004 (Measure 28 and Measure 30), which were referred to voters by the Oregon State Legislature to increase income taxes temporarily.[citation needed]
Sizemore's group ran into legal problems in 2002. Sizemore sparked the ire of several public employees unions with a series of initiatives aimed at reducing public employee pensions and reducing their political power. The unions responded with the Voter Education Project, which tracked signature gatherers hired by Sizemore to place measures on the ballot. After documenting instances of fraud by signature gatherers, the Oregon Education Association, a teachers' union, successfully sued Sizemore's organization under racketeering laws in 2003.[6] The $2.3 million judgment against Oregon Taxpayer's United severely hurt Sizemore's ability to put measures on the ballot. The fraud allegations also led to the passage of Measure 26 in 2002, which prohibits the payment of signature gatherers on a per-signature basis, and was approved by voters 75% to 25%.[7]
Tax activists generally claim that Oregon's government is wasteful and inefficient, arguing that the government could do better with less. They often highlight programs that they feel are unnecessary.[8] Opponents of the tax revolt argue that passing tax decreases via ballot measure leads to short-sighted policy making, in which voters are enticed to vote with the revolt by lower tax bills and without thinking about the budget problems caused by reduced revenues.[citation needed]
Notable figures in the Oregon tax revolt[edit]
Loren Parks
Timeline of ballot measures[edit]
Measure 5 (1990)
Measure 47 (1996) (initiative), Measure 50 (1997) (legislative referral)
Measure 8 (2000) (failed)
Measure 86 (2000) (kicker)
Measure 28 (2003) and Measure 30 (2004) (tax increase measures, defeated)
Measure 41 (2006) and Measure 48 (2006) (both failed)
Measure 59 (2008) (failed)
Measures 66 and 67 (2010) (tax increase referenda, passed)
List of Oregon ballot measures
^ Willamette Week | Lead Story
^ "Official Results, State Measure No. 47, November 5, 1996 General Election" (PDF). Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
^ "Official Results State Measure No. 50, May 20, 1997: Statewide Special Election" (PDF). Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
^ "November 7, 2000 General Election State Measure No. 8" (PDF). Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
^ "November 7, 2000 General Election State Measure No. 86" (PDF). Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
^ Hamilton, Don (May 13, 2003). "Sizemore sees his troubles doubled". The Portland Tribune. Retrieved 2007-01-20.
^ "November 5, 2002 General Abstract of Voters" (PDF).
^ "A Vision For Public Finance In Oregon" (PDF). Oregon Business Council Public Finance Task Force. April 15, 1998. p. 16. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
Embattled anti-tax advocate Bill Sizemore under fire again
Taxpayer Association of Oregon
Oregon Territory program on the tax revolt Part 1 Part 2(m3u audio stream)
Fund Oregon's Future Today
The Great Tax Revolt of 1994: Will anti-tax initiatives sweep the states this fall? from October 1994 Reason magazine
Modern history of Oregon (1890–present)
Tax revolt
Bottle Bill
Centennial Tokens
"Roll On, Columbia, Roll On"
Meier & Frank
Willamette Industries
Direct Legislation League
USS Oregon
Lewis & Clark Expo
Oregon land fraud scandal
Lookout Air Raids
Columbus Day Storm
Exploding whale
1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens
Rajneeshee bioterror attack
Rajneeshee assassination plot
New Carissa oil spill
Willamette Valley Flood
Celilo Falls
Fort Stevens
Harbor Drive
Kaiser Shipyards
Shanghai tunnels
Vanport
Victor Atiyeh
George Chamberlain
David B. Frohnmayer
Neil Goldschmidt
Mark Hatfield
Nan Wood Honeyman
Tom McCall
Douglas McKay
Charles McNary
Wayne Morse
Maurine Neuberger
Norma Paulus
Barbara Roberts
James H. Weaver
Pietro Belluschi
Gert Boyle
Abigail Scott Duniway
James A. Fee
Hall S. Lusk
Brian McMenamin
Bill Naito
Steve Prefontaine
Henry Weinhard
History of Oregon's native peoples
of Oregon to 1806
of pioneers in Oregon
of Oregon in modern times
History of Oregon
Nez Perce
Kalapuya
Takelma
Molala
Bannock
Missoula Floods
Fort Rock Cave
Cascadia Megathrust
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Fort Clatsop
Pacific Fur Company
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Hudson's Bay Company
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Donation Land Claim Act
Oregon Constitutional Convention
Modoc War
Rajneeshee Bioattack
New Carissa
Topics in Oregon legislation
Crime and sentencing
Measure 11 (1994) (mandatory minimum sentencing)
Measure 40 (1996) etc. (victims' rights)
Oregon Citizens Alliance
Measure 9 (1992) (homosexuality and education)
Coal power
O&C Lands
Beach Bill (1967)
Land Conservation and Development Act (1973)
Measure 37 (2004) & 49 (2008)
Death with Dignity Act
Measures 36 (1996), 25 (2002)
Measure 5 (1990) (landmark tax law)
Measures 47 (1996) and 50 (1997) (adjusted Measure 5)
Kicker tax rebate
Measure 97 (2016)
Compulsory Education Act
Adoption rights
Alcoholic beverages in Oregon
Bicycle Bill
Cannabis in Oregon
Background, further reading
Oregon legislature
Direct democracy in Oregon
Oregon government
Oregon ballot measures
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Articles with disputed statements from March 2008
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Realms of Wizardry
Realms of Wizardry: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy
Dust cover of the first edition.
Lin Carter
Robert Aulicino
Print (hardcover)
xv, 269
813/.0876
LC Class
PZ1 .R255 PS648.F3
Kingdoms of Sorcery
Realms of Wizardry: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy is an American anthology of fantasy stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in December 1976[1] as the second of two such anthologies continuing a series of nine assembled by Carter for the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.
The book collects sixteen tales and excerpts from novels by various fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes on the individual authors by Carter. The collection is a companion volume to Carter's earlier anthology Kingdoms of Sorcery (1976).
"Introduction: The Horns of Elfland" (Lin Carter)
I. Fantasy as Legend
"Lord Dunsany" (Lin Carter)
"The Hoard of the Gibbelins" (Lord Dunsany)
"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (H. P. Lovecraft)
"H. P. Lovecraft" (Lin Carter)
"Robert Bloch" (Lin Carter)
"Black Lotus" (Robert Bloch)
"Gary Myers" (Lin Carter)
"The Gods of Earth" (Gary Myers)
II. Fantasy as Satire
"Richard Garnett" (Lin Carter)
"The City of Philosophers" (Richard Garnett)
"James Branch Cabell" (Lin Carter)
"Some Ladies and Jurgen" (excerpt from Jurgen) (James Branch Cabell)
"Donald Corley" (Lin Carter)
"The Book of Lullûme" (Donald Corley)
III. Fantasy as Romance
"H. Rider Haggard" (Lin Carter)
"The Descent Beneath Kôr" (excerpt from She) (H. Rider Haggard)
"A. Merritt" (Lin Carter)
"The Whelming of Cherkis (excerpt from The Metal Monster) (A. Merritt)
"Hannes Bok" (Lin Carter)
"How Orcher Broke the Koph (excerpt from The Sorcerer's Ship) (Hannes Bok)
IV. Fantasy as Adventure Story
"Robert E. Howard" (Lin Carter)
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom" (Robert E. Howard)
"Clifford Ball" (Lin Carter)
"The Goddess Awakes" (Clifford Ball)
"C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner" (Lin Carter)
"Quest of the Starstone" (C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner)
V. New Directions in Fantasy
"Jack Vance" (Lin Carter)
"Liane the Wayfarer" (Jack Vance)
"Michael Moorcock" (Lin Carter)
"Master of Chaos" (Michael Moorcock)
"Roger Zelazny" (Lin Carter)
"Thelinde's Song" (Roger Zelazny)
"Other Realms of Wizardry: Suggestions for Further Reading" (Lin Carter)
^ Realms of Wizardry title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Works by Lin Carter
Callisto series
Jandar of Callisto (1972)
Black Legion of Callisto (1972)
Sky Pirates of Callisto (1973)
Mad Empress of Callisto (1975)
Mind Wizards of Callisto (1975)
Lankar of Callisto (1975)
Ylana of Callisto (1977)
Renegade of Callisto (1978)
The Green Star Saga
Under the Green Star (1972)
When the Green Star Calls (1973)
By the Light of the Green Star (1974)
As the Green Star Rises (1975)
In the Green Star's Glow (1976)
The Mysteries of Mars
The Flame of Iridar (1967)
"The Martian El Dorado of Parker Wintley" (1976)
The Valley Where Time Stood Still (1974)
The City Outside the World (1977)
Down to a Sunless Sea (1984)
The Man Who Loved Mars (1973)
Thongor series
The Wizard of Lemuria (1965/69)
Thongor and the Dragon City (1966/70)
Thongor Against the Gods (1967)
Thongor in the City of Magicians (1968)
Thongor at the End of Time (1968)
Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus (1970)
Young Thongor (2012)
The Sword of Thongor (Robert M. Price) (2016)
Conan series
Conan of the Isles (1968)
Conan the Buccaneer (1971)
Conan the Liberator (1979)
"Black Sphinx of Nebthu" (1973)
"Black Tears" (1968)
"The Castle of Terror" (1969)
"The City of Skulls" (1967)
"The Curse of the Monolith" (1968)
"Death-Song of Conan the Cimmerian" (1972)
"The Gem in the Tower" (1978)
"The Hand of Nergal" (1967)
"The Ivory Goddess" (1978)
"The Lair of the Ice Worm" (1969)
"Legions of the Dead" (1978)
"Moon of Blood" (1978)
"Red Moon of Zembabwei" (1974)
"Shadows in the Dark" (1978)
"Shadows in the Skull" (1975)
"The Snout in the Dark" (1969)
"The Thing in the Crypt" (1967)
"The Witch of the Mists" (1972)
Conan (1967)
The Conan Chronicles (1989)
The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990)
Conan of Aquilonia (1977)
Conan of Cimmeria (1969)
Conan the Swordsman (1978)
Conan the Wanderer (1968)
Sagas of Conan (2004)
Kull series
"Exile of Atlantis" (1967)
King Kull (1967)
The Gondwane Epic
The Warrior of World's End (1974)
The Enchantress of World's End (1975)
The Immortal of World's End (1976)
The Barbarian of World's End (1977)
The Pirate of World's End (1978)
Giant of World's End (1969)
The Chronicles of Kylix
The Quest of Kadji (1971)
The Wizard of Zao (1978)
Kellory the Warlock (1984)
Other speculative fiction
Tara of the Twilight (1979)
Beyond the Gates of Dream (1969)
Lost Worlds (1980)
The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter (1997)
Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle (2018)
Anthologies edited
BAFS and
Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (1969)
The Young Magicians (1969)
Golden Cities, Far (1970)
New Worlds for Old (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
Double Phoenix (1971)
Discoveries in Fantasy (1972)
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy (1972)
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (1973)
Kingdoms of Sorcery (1976)
Realms of Wizardry (1976)
Swords!
Flashing Swords! #1 (1973)
Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards (1976)
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (1977)
Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (1981)
The Year's
Best Fantasy
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1975)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2 (1976)
Weird Tales #1 (1980)
Other anthologies
The Magic of Atlantis (1970)
Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" (1969)
Lovecraft: A Look Behind the "Cthulhu Mythos" (1972)
Imaginary Worlds (1973)
Dreams from R'lyeh (1975)
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NYCC 2014: TERRAFORMARS Gave Fans A Bloody Good Time!
October 30, 2014 / Jovanni Febrero
At this year's New York Comic Con, Warner Japan and Crunchyroll presented an exclusive screening of the UNCENSORED version of episode 1 of Terraformars (English Subtitled) and the world premiere of the new EXTENDED trailer. The turn out for the panel was quite an unexpected surprise to the hosts as the room was filled by multitude.
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Interview Menh Voong (Owner and Founder of Beefy & Co)
October 28, 2014 / Benzar Lagumen
Hey Guys!!! Now that we all know that New York Comic Con is one of the biggest and greatest Con in the U.S. Otakus and Geeks did all it can to cover and explore this event and because of this we found a lot of great products and made a lot of new friends. One of the many great products we found are from Beefy and Co which is owned by Menh Voong (a.k.a BeeFy).
October 28, 2014 / Benzar Lagumen/ Comment
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NYCC 2014: KILL la KILL Got the Fans All Fired Up!
At this year's New York Comic Con, Aniplex of America hosted an exclusive screening of Kill La Kill. The screening included the US Premiere of Episode 25 (OVA) (Subtitled) and Episode 7 "A Loser I Can't Hate" (The Fight Club Saga!) (English Dubbed). Immediately after the screening, fans were treated with a guest appearance of the English voice of Mako Mankanshoku, Christine M. Cabanos. As a fan of the series, this was a panel I definitely didn't wanna miss. And boy did they deliver!
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VIZ Media Announces Special Voltron 30th Anniversary Release
October 20, 2014 / Justin D Williams
VIZ Media takes readers on an exciting journey to explore the history and legacy of VOLTRON®, the legendary giant robot anime series that marks the 30th Anniversary of its original North American broadcast premiere. VOLTRON: FROM DAYS OF LONG AGO, A 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION examines the entire VOLTRON universe and the property’s notable impact on pop culture and will be released in-print on October 28th from the company’s Perfect Square imprint.
October 20, 2014 / Justin D Williams/ Comment
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Even More Pics & Cosplay From NYCC 2014
We're not done with photos from NYCC. Our good friend Young Jeohn was onboard to take pics for us as well. Here are pics from his adventures. Be sure to check out his site at http://photos.youngfromnewyork.com.
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NYCC 2014 Sets Record Breaking Attendance
The numbers are in and this year's New York Comic Con breaks the all time attendance record with estimated 151,000 attendees surpassing San Diego Comic Con by 21,000. Thus, becoming the largest comic book convention in North America. However, should New York be so quick to claim victory and celebrate from this accomplishment?
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Adult Swim Tyrannic Maiden Voyage at New York Comic Con
Hey Otakus and Geeks Fans, New York Comic Con was amazing this year. One of the Highlights of the Con, was an Event thrown by Adult Swim on a Yacht. The Tyrannic Maiden Voyage was a RSVP only event that took fans on a cruise on the Hudson River around New York. Myself, Nice Guy J2P, and Nathaniel Huggins got our invites, boarded the yacht, and had no idea just what a great party this was going to be.
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New York Comic Con 2014 Day 4 Gallery
The end of New York Comic Con 2014 finally came and it’s time to bid farewell to a great con till next year. However, here in OtakusandGeeks the fun of the con hasn’t quite yet ended. Check out Day 4, the final day gallery below for some of the photos of the event. I hope you guys enjoyed the 4-Day gallery series of NYCC 2014.
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October 12, 2014 / Javits Center Roadway, New York, NY 10018, USA/ Benzar Lagumen
We are close to the end of New York Comic Con 2014 but before that happens enjoy the Day 3 gallery below for some of the event. Remember to con responsibly and stay tuned for more photo.
October 12, 2014 / Javits Center Roadway, New York, NY 10018, USA/ Benzar Lagumen/ Comment
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October 11, 2014 / Febrero
Check out Day 2 photo gallery below for some of the photos of the event. Please con responsibly and stay tuned for more photos to come of this 4-Day series.
October 11, 2014 / Febrero/ Comment
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New York Comic Con has finally arrived and OtakusandGeeks are all hands on deck for the event. Check out the gallery below for some of the Day 1 photos of this joyous 4-Day event.
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JUSTICE LEAGUE: THRONE OF ATLANTIS Debut Trailer
In the new DC Animated movie universe, Aquaman was replaced by Shazam as a founding member of the premiere superhero team - but don't fret, fans, as it was all to serve him getting a feature of his own. Make no mistake, while it says "Justice League" in the title, this is definitely an Aquaman movie.
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BATMAN Gets USPS Stamps in Time for New York Comic Con, 75th Anniversary
He protects Gotham City as the caped crusader. He lends a hand to the Justice League in keeping the whole universe safe. Now, Batman will protect your mail as it travels through the US Postal Service. Yes, Batman stamps are coming on October 9, 2014, in conjunction with this year’s New York Comic Con. The stamps will feature four eras of Batman, from the original 1939 design to the modern day. They’ll be sold in sheets of 20 as Forever stamps priced at the current 49 cents each (but will be usable even as rates rise).
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Interview with Madison Embrey at Marvel Universe LIVE!
September 30, 2014 / Milly Millhauser
Marvel Universe LIVE! is a full scale incredible stadium show of truly epic proportions. It brings together characters from across the Marvel Universe to save the world from Loki and the immeasurable perilous power of the Tesseract. Performers fly through the air. They are on motorcycles, flipping cars and engaging in incredibly choreographed fight scenes. Travelling to a city near you this is one show you won’t want to miss whether you’re a comic fan or a family ready for an adventure!!
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Comic News: First Look Avengers vs X-Men Axis #3
This October, it all comes crashing down. Today, Marvel is proud to present your first look inside AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #3, the next blockbuster chapter in the premier comics event of the fall. Superstar creators Rick Remender and Leinil Yu present your first look at the apocalyptic conclusion to Act I: The Red Supremacy as teams splinter, hearts are broken, and the fragile alliance of A and X shatters once more!
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Your First Look at AXIS: HOBGOBLIN #1!
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Got a Problem? Call Hobgoblin! Your First Look at AXIS: HOBGOBLIN #1!
This October, suit up with the one and only original Hobgoblin as he flies straight into the biggest event of the year in AXIS: HOBGOBLIN #1! That’s right, Roderick Kingsley, the one and only original Hobgoblin is back and fan-favorite creators Kevin Shinick (Superior Spider-Man Team-Up) and Javier Rodriguez (Daredevil) are taking him for a spin that’ll paint New York City orange! Only, Phil Urich, the city’s newly self-proclaimed Goblin King might have a thing or two to say about that! Yet as the threat of Inversion looms, prepare for a Hobgoblin book unlike any you’ve ever seen before. It all begins this October in AXIS: HOBGOBLIN #1!
AXIS: HOBGOBLIN #1 (of 3) (AUG140735)
Written by KEVIN SHINICK
Art & Cover by JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
FOC 09/29/14, On-Sale 10/22/14
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Spawn: The Recall an amazing fan made film
Hey Otakus and Geeks fans, today we are taking a look at an amazing fan made film by French writer / director, Michael Paris. Spawn The Recall, really raises the bar for those wanting to create a fan film. It captures the look and feel of the comic series even better than the Spawn feature film starring Michael Jai White. The film took only 2 days to film but since the director was also the editor and effects artist, post production lasted 2 years. Could this spark a Spawn Remake? Hopefully this film reaches Spawn creator Todd Mcfarlane and he considers it.
Check out the film:
Source: aggressivecomix.com
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Comic News: First Look: AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #2 INVERSION Variant cover
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Here is a look at the Avengers & X-Men Axis # 2 Variant Cover. Featuring Cyclops and Magneto.
AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #2 (OF 9) RICK REMENDER (W) • ADAM KUBERT (A)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
YOUNG GUNS VARIANT COVER BY MAHMUD ASRAR
INVERSION VARIANT COVER BY KRIS ANKS
ACT I: THE RED SUPREMACY
• The heroes of the Marvel Universe storm the beaches of Red Skull’s Genoshian Reeducation camps. What they discover within will lead to a bleak new era.
• The revelation of Tony Stark’s dark secret promises to shatter the fragile alliance between A and X.
• The all-new Captain America pays a terrible price.
• Nova’s attempt at solving the crisis leads to disaster.
• Magneto betrays his alliance to join an army of evil.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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TV News: Netflix-Marvel Cast DAREDEVIL's STICK
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SCOTT GLENN Joins DAREDEVIL As STICK
Marvel and Netflix announced Monday that veteran character actor Scott Glenn has joined Marvel's Daredevil, next year's 13-episode series, as Stick, Daredevil's martial arts mentor.
Glenn joins Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock/DD), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), Rosario Dawson, and Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk) in the cast.
Stick is one of the most important figures in Matt Murdock's life and Scott Glenn embodies all the qualities of someone so integral to this hero's journey," said Jeph Loeb, Marvel's Head of Television in the announcement. "There are few actors who could bring such the authenticity, gravitas and charisma to such a key role in Matt's journey to become the super hero we call Daredevil."
Stick was of course created by Frank Miller during his seminal Daredevil run and was introduced on 1981's Daredevil #176.
source: Newsarama.com
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10 Greatest WOLVERINE Villains of All Time
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Hey Otakus and Geeks fans, With the Death of Wolverine out and soon to wrap up, how will everyone's favorite X-men meet his end? Newsarama has put together a list of Logan's Top enemies. Who knows … one of them could be his eventual killer.
10. DOG LOGAN
The “Logan” name is Dog’s by birthright, but the man we know as Wolverine happened to take that from him. First appearing in the landmark 2001 series Origin, Dog Logan was once a childhood friend of Wolverine but his upbringing twisted him into a sadistic and vindictive soul.
Brandishing scars on his face from Wolverine’s first emergence of his claws, Dog Logan re-emerged in modern times continuing his pursuit of his one-time childhood friend. He’s traveled through time to take down Wolverine, most recently coming up upon him shortly after the emergence of the Jean Grey School. At one point Dog even met a future version of himself that only encouraged him more to hunt down Wolverine.
9. Lady Deathstrike
Lady Deathstrike wasn’t born as you see her today – she’s been damaged, scarred, forged and honed to be the killer she’s become.
Yuriko Oyama was born in the family of Lord Dark Wind, a Japanese crime lord and scientist created the process by which people like Wolverine can have their skeletons bonded with adamantium. After the death of her father, Oyama embarked on a misguided quest to restore the honor of her father by tracking down those who she feel appropriated, stole or used her father’s invention. After her first encounter with Wolverine proved disastrous, she turned to Mojo and Spiral’s Body Shoppe and underwent extensive cybernetic modifications to become the adamantium-fused, clawed woman you see today. In her second attempt, alongside the Reavers, Lady Deathstrike routed the X-Men from their Australian base and gave Wolverine a new measure of torture, eventually crucifying him.
8. Daken
Like father, like son? Daken shares much in common with his father, from his powers to his drive and viciousness, but his foster upbringing and the dark tutelage of Romulus turned the half-Japanese / half-Caucasian boy on a collision course – and a bloody family reunion – with his father.
Created by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon in 2007’s Wolverine Origins #10, Daken has fought alongside his father as much as he’s fought against him, but ultimately Daken’s more foe than friend. Despite being seemingly killed in a bomb explosion, Daken has shown a reluctance for death similar to his father and returned to continue his quest to kill Logan.
7. The Reavers
How can a group of simple un-powered humans be a major threat to Wolverine? Revenge, guns and cybernetics. This rag-tag group of Mad Max style mercenaries are bonded over a shared experience – being cut into by Wolverine.
A mix of Australian ravagers and disgruntled ex-Hellfire Club henchmen, the Reavers were kicked out of their Australian hideaway by the X-Men and returned – with Donald Pierce and Lady Deathstrike – to claim vengeance. They return finding only Wolverine, but put him through the beating of a life-time: beatings, torture and crucifixtion. The Reavers were so sadistic they ended up using Wolverine’s healing factor against him, allowing him to heal between near-death torture sessions. Although they’ve appeared subsequently in Uncanny X-men and Uncanny X-Force, they have yet to match their sadistic high point against Wolverine in Australia.
6. Ogun
How can someone’s mentor also be one of their worst enemies? Things change over time, and with Wolverine’s long lifespan that leaves a lot of room for change – the good and the bad kind. Originally created by Chris Claremont and Al Milgrom in Kitty Pryde & Wolverine, Ogun’s story is that he was a ninja and a mutant, and first met Logan in China after the Battle of Shanghai when much of China was controlled by Japan. Ogun was working as part of the Japanese army, and took Wolverine under his wing and training him in various fighting styles as well as combating a telepath – which Ogun was. Logan ran across Ogun again in the modern day, finding him working as a Yakuza enforcer. After Ogun possessed his protégé, Kitty Pryde, to act as an assassin, Logan reluctantly killed his mentor – only to see him return as a vengeful spirit possessing others. Wolverine has routed the spirit Ogun on several occasions only to see him spring up once again inhabiting other bodies, at one point even gaining control of a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier using a technology-based form of telepathy he had mastered after his “first” death.
Ogun’s purported to have been alive since the 16th century, attributing his long life to his mutant powers, so it’s tough to say if Ogun will ever truly be dead and might even outlive his one-time apprentice.
5. Romulus
Wolverine is purported to be over a century old, but what if there was another feral mutant whose history goes back even longer? Well there is, and his name is Romulus. Created by Jeph Loeb and Simone Bianchi in 2007’s Wolverine #50 (Volume 3, for those keeping track), Romulus is a shadowy villain that’s been revealed to be the puppetmaster for many of the darkest events in Wolverine’s life.
Born in ancient times from a species of canine that evolved to roughly resemble humans (as opposed to primates), Romulus has been rumored to have been the founder of the Roman Empire and was revealed to be the guiding force behind the original Weapon X program. In modern times, Romulus takes an interest in the more feral mutants existing, starting with Wolverine but also including Sabretooth, Feral, Thornn and Wild Child. He even took Logan’s son Daken from his mother’s womb and conditioned him to be a bloodthirsty killer with a single-minded goal of assassinating his father and picking up that mantle.
4. Red Right Hand
The newest characters that are part of our Countdown today, the Red Right Hand made it onto our list for debuting with an impact: sending Logan to hell. During Jason Aaron’s acclaimed run on Wolverine, the Red Right Hand were introduced as support group for people who had loved ones killed by Wolverine. Their method for coping? Putting Logan through as much grief, if not more, than they were in.
The Red Right Hand’s first act was finding a loophole in the longevity of the seemingly unkillable Wolverine by making a deal with a demon to possess the longtime X-Man and send his soul to hell. Wolverine eventually clawed his way out of the firey pits of hell, only to be confronted by a second attack by this shadowy group – a group of young mutants dubbed the Mongrels with mysterious grudge for Wolverine. Logan cut through them all and eventually kills them, only for the Red Right Hand to reveal they were all – all five of them – previously unknown children of Wolverine. In plain terms: the Red Right Hand had him kill or be killed by children he never knew he had. Still reeling from that revelation, Logan finally made it to a stare-down with the Red Right Hand only to be robbed of any kind of vengeance or justice when the entire group committed suicide before Logan could gain any sort of pleasure out of doing it himself.
3. Mystique
The relationship between Mystique and Wolverine is complicated. There’s hate, lust, distrust, respect and unresolved issues that litter their decades-long interactions.
For years comics readers never saw anything personal between Mystique and Wolverine; yes she was an ertzwhile adversary of the X-Men, but nothing put these two against one other personally. But in recent years, Jason Aaron and others have made this conflict between these two 100+ year old mutants personal. From their first meeting in the Mexican desert in 1921 and on through numerous conflicts including the critically acclaimed “Get Mystique” stories in Wolverine, these two have crossed, double-crossed and triple-crossed each other while still finding time for a little romance along the way. Perhaps they’re too different from one another, or perhaps too much alike. Mystique sits in a unique place in Wolverine’s life: able to fit in on a list of his top adversaries as well as his top lovers in his life. Now what does that say about their relationship?
2. Weapon X
Weapon X is more than one person or one team; it’s a system, an organization that put Logan through the worst moments of his life and, ironically, made him the hero he is today.
Hinted at from Wolverine’s very first appearance in Incredible Hulk #181in 1974, it wasn’t until 1991’s “Weapon X” arc in Marvel Comics Presents by Barry Windsor-Smith that we knew what Weapon X meant. The Canadian-based research facility kidnapped unsuspecting humans and mutants and experimented on them to enhance, subvert and explore superhuman abilities and augment them with technological means. This culminated with the brutal adamantium-bonding process on Logan’s bones, but also included the wholesale brainwashing of Logan which lasted up until House of M which cleared the mutant’s foggy head.
There were several notable people working in Weapon X and behind the scenes, ranging from Mr. Sinister to John Sublime and even Romulus. The test subjects of Weapon X and the other associated Weapon Plus programs are a Who’s Who of the Marvel U, ranging from the original – Captain America – and on through to Sabretooth, Deadpool, X-23, Fantomex, the Stepford Cuckoos and even the entire Deathlok program.
1. Sabretooth
You could call Sabretooth and Wolverine blood brothers. Even though the idea they were actually related was nixed from comics continuity, they’ve shared enough blood in fighting each other to be tied to each other in more ways than any family could be – or should be.
Originally introduced as an Iron Fist villain back in 1977 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, when that duo took over Uncanny X-Men they brought Victor Creed with them and found a potent rival in Wolverine. In many ways, Sabretooth was the man that Wolverine was fighting not to become – one unrestrained by civility and giving in to his primal and bestial urges. Originally depicted as a serial killer, Sabretooth has gone to kill countless people in Wolverine’s life (and outside of it), which we learned recently in Wolverine: Origin II all stems from Logan killing Creed’s brother and sister.
Given their long, bloody history and the fact that Sabretooth showed up in the final page of <>Death of Wolverine #1, for many people – myself included – Victor Creed could be the person who ultimately kills Wolverine by series’ end. Time will tell.
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Home Balochistan Strike Observed In Balochistan Over Gwadar-Kashgar Route Change
Strike Observed In Balochistan Over Gwadar-Kashgar Route Change
Feroz Jan
Markets observe a shutter-down strike in Gwadar
On May 6, 2015, the nationalist parties in Balochistan parliament issued a call for a shutter-down strike over the changes in Gwadar-Kashgar route.
As a result, a comprehensive strike was observed all over Balochistan, including Gwadar. The nationalist parties thanked the masses for responding to the call and said that they reject the changes in the route.
In the past, nationalist parties have vehemently debated the proposed changes in the route and rejected it because it bypasses the original route which included many parts of Balochistan. The parties have said that if the federal government refuses to address these grievances, they will expand the scope of their protests.
The key grievance over the change in route is that the original route passed through many parts of upper and central Balochistan, catering to both the Pashtun and Baloch areas in the province. Originally, the route was to pass through Quetta, Kalat, Besma, Panjgur, Hoshab, Turbat and Gwadar.
In the new route being pursued by the federal government, the route goes through mainly through Punjab and Sindh, and then turns towards Balochistan near the coast, taking a coastal route all the way to Gwadar. The original plan is currently being dubbed as the ‘Western Corridor’ while the new plan has been called ‘Eastern Corridor.’
An unverified map of the multiple Gwadar-Kashgar routes
The federal government vows that once the Eastern Corridor is operational, it will also start working on the Western Corridor. The government’s stance is that the Eastern Corridor already has most of the infrastructure in place in order to make the route functional as soon as possible. But both Balochistan and KPK have alleged that the route changes are meant to benefit Punjab and Sindh.
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B.C.’s Chiantelle Nicole Rey vies title of Miss Canada
She’s the embodiment of a woman whose beauty is more than skin-deep.
For Chiantelle Nicole Rey, a finalist in the 2019 Miss Canada pageant, real beauty comes from the inside out.
A holistic nutritionist, Chiantelle emphasizes the role of proper food and self care as the core foundations of a person’s development.
Holistic nutrition and self care form the platform she bannered at the Miss Earth Canada contest, in which she became Miss Earth B.C. + MEC ’16: Beauty For A Cause.
Chiantelle, who is the oldest daughter of dental doctor Nilo Rey and Juvie Rey, is also Miss Greater Vancouver 2015.
Chiantelle will compete in the Miss Canada pageant in Montréal from February 27 to March 3 at the Sheraton Laval Hotel.
“My platform was and still is to emphasize the importance of holistic nutrition and self care,” Chiantelle said. “I continually use my platform to support people and brands who focus on health and wellness, eco-sustainability, and giving back to community.”
Chiantelle is also an event and wedding coordinator.
She also said that everyone has a story to tell and a purpose in life.
“We’ve been given our own set of gifts and talents to serve others and to be the salt and the light of this world,” Chiantelle said. “As a certified wedding coordinator and event planner, I love getting to know people and establishing intentional relationships with them in order to create events that celebrates their story or brings awareness to the causes they value.”
She also related that food and nutrition play a huge role in her life.
“It’s amazing to see and to learn how food can be used therapeutically and how much of a role food plays in community building,” Chiantelle said. “In March 2019, I write my final licensing exam to become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist. With this designation, I hope to provide a safe space for people to learn about what’s in season, recipes and tips, and to share food photos that they’ve made themselves
or had at restaurants/cafes/food trucks.”
The Miss Canada event has been around since 1946, and Chiantelle hopes that through this pageant, she can reach out to more people with her platform of holistic nutrition and self care.
“This platform is something greater than myself,” she said. “Voting for me is voting for the causes and the values that you and I align with, whether that be in health and wellness, food and sustainability, and/or community building.”
Chiantelle describes herself as a lifelong learner.
“I love taking classes, listening to podcasts, reading books of all kinds to traveling and exploring, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures,” she said.
To support Chiantelle win the Miss Canada title, click on this link: https://misscanada.org/chiantelle-r/
Philippine election season begins
Memories lead to regrets in the film “Alone/Together”
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Erich Gonzales, one of ABS-CBN’s most exciting actresses, topbills “The Blood Sisters”
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — A bolder and sexier Erich Gonzales is set to portray three women whose lives are fused by love but destroyed by fate in ABS-CBN’s newest series “The Blood Sisters,” which can be seen in the Philippines via ABS-CBN channel 2, and outside the country via The Filipino Channel (TFC), with its pilot episode streaming simulcast its local airing via TFC online (www.TFC.tv) on February 12, in key countries worldwide.
Gonzales triples the thrill by playing the role of Erika, Carrie, and Agatha – triplets who were carried by a surrogate mother and got separated after an agreement their parents made fell through.
The story revolves around Erika, a dancer in a bar who uses her enthralling beauty to mesmerize men. However, behind the sultry moves lies a doting mother who strives to save her son’s life from a chronic illness.
As an entertainer, she is able to make ends meet and provide for her son’s hospital bills. However, the comfort her job gives comes with a great price — she witnesses a gruesome murder in the bar, and the suspects will try to chase her down to silence her.
With her life at risk, Erika will do everything to escape death and live for her son. But moments away from getting caught, she discovers a life-changing revelation — she has a twin named Carrie mistaken by the criminals as her, giving her another chance at life.
With the loss of her sister, Erika gets to experience the fabulous life of Carrie.
However, she soon finds out that aside from Carrie, she has another twin, Agatha, who will help her discover the truth behind their secret lives.
Their journey in finding out the truth will not be easy, as danger comes their way and will force them to make choices that will put their loved ones at risk.
Will the triplets be able to find answers to their questions? Will their reunion cause peace or chaos in their lives?
Also part of “The Blood Sisters” are Enchong Dee, Ejay Falcon, AJ Muhlach, Cherry Pie Picache, Dina Bonnievie, Jestoni Alarcon, Ruby Ruiz, and Pamu Pamorada. It is under the direction of Jojo Saguin.
The actress takes her acting prowess a notch higher as she portrays three roles in her latest TV series, with a pilot episode streaming live via TFC online (www.TFC.tv) in key countries worldwide
Don’t miss the thrilling story of Erika, Carrie, and Agatha in “The Blood Sisters” that will be seen outside the country via TFC. The pilot episode is streaming simulcast its local airing via TFC online (www.TFC.tv) on February 12 at 5:45 p.m. (Manila time), in key countries worldwide. Catch-up episodes will be available via TFC online (www.TFC.tv) and TFC IPTV, in key countries worldwide.
For more updates about the show, visit TFC’s Facebook page applicable for your area. Connect with fellow global Kapamilyas and follow @KapamilyaTFC and KapamilyaGlobalPR on Twitter and Instagram.
Pailalim goes to Sweden, Turkey, Belgium
Paolo Ballesteros not ready for his book
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Home > Academics > Full-Time Faculty Directory
Brendon Albertson (2018)
Assistant Professor of Foundational Learning and English Language Learners
B.S., Central Connecticut State University
M.S., Central Connecticut State University
balbertson@pmc.edu
Hannah Baker-Siroty (2007)
Assistant Professor of English: Writing and Literature, College Composition
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College
hbakersiroty@pmc.edu
Susan Bear (2005)
Professor of Biology
B.A., Connecticut College
Ph.D., Tufts University
bearsusan@pmc.edu
Kelly-Anne DeFao (2011)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Political Science
B.A., College of the Holy Cross
J.D., Suffolk University Law School
kdefao@pmc.edu
Joe Fargnoli (2013)
Assistant Professor of Business and Management
B.A., Providence College
M.S., Accounting, University of Rhode Island
M.S., Taxation, Bryant University
jfargnoli@pmc.edu
Layne Flynn (2017)
Assistant Professor of Community Health and Exercise Science
B.S., Bowling Green State University
M.P.H., University of Toledo
LFlynn@pmc.edu
Colleen Krieser (2008)
Associate Professor of Biology
B.S., LaSalle University
Ph.D., Dartmouth College
kriesercolleen@pmc.edu
Deborah Kronenberg (2015)
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performing Arts
M.A., New York University
dkronenberg@pmc.edu
Shelley Linso (2013)
Assistant Professor of English: Writing and Literature
B.A., St. Lawrence University
M.F.A., Columbia University
slinso@pmc.edu
Rachel Loischild (2007)
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
B.A., Clark University
M.F.A., Pratt Institute
rloischild@pmc.edu
Raquel Lopez (2018)
B.A., Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil
M.B.A., Everest University
Ed.D., Nova Southeastern University
RMlopez@pmc.edu
Dawn Mackiewicz (2015)
B.S., Suffolk University
M.P.A., Suffolk University
Ed.D., Northeastern University
DMackiewicz@pmc.edu
Sandra McElroy (2006)
Professor of Early Childhood: Education, Health, and Leadership
B.S., East Stroudsburg State College
M.Ed., Antioch Graduate School
Ed.D., Boston University
mcelroysandra@pmc.edu
Eileen McLaughlin (2011)
Associate Professor of Communication
B.A., Worcester State University
M.A., University of Connecticut
M.B.A., Southern New Hampshire University
PhD., Ohio University
EMclaughlin@pmc.edu
Rebecca Mitchell (2015)
Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.S., Mathematics Education, Florida State University
M.S., Mathematics Education, Florida State University
Ed.D., Learning and Teaching, Mathematics Education Focus, Harvard Graduate School of Education
rmitchell@pmc.edu
Ujwala Pansé (2000)
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Bombay
panseujw@pmc.edu
Michele O. Ramirez (1993)
Professor of Psychology, Assistant Dean for Foundational Learning
B.A., SUNY, Plattsburg
M.A., Boston College
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
ramirezm@pmc.edu
Christopher Rivera (2018)
B.A., University of Delaware
M.A., Indiana University
Ph.D., Rutgers University
crivera@pmc.edu
Barbara Schwartz (2004)
Assistant Professor of Computer Studies and Instructional Technology Specialist
B.S., Boston University
M.Ed., Lesley College
William Stargard (1995)
Professor of Art History, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and Teaching Excellence
B.A. Rutgers University
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
stargarw@pmc.edu
Michelle Barreto Wilson (2018)
B.A. Florida International University
M.S., Ph.D., Florida International University
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January 31, 2019 Uncategorized No comments
DONALD TRUMP DESERTS ANOTHER ALLY
The Kurdish YPG, or Kurdish People’s People‘s Protection Units did the grunt work of routing ISIS. At least 4,000 Kurdish workers were killed and 10,000 wounded in the fighting. The YPG are affiliates of the PKK that has fought for decades to establish their own nation on the border of southeast Turkey and northern Syria.
In early 2018, Turkish troops crossed the border and seized the region of Afrin from the YPG.
With Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw the final 2,000 American soldiers form the region, Turkey will be able to finish the job it started.
The Kurds believed that by sacrificing great numbers of their people in the fight against ISIS, America would stand with them in their goal to establish a homeland. But Donald Trump has allegiance to no one and feels obligated to nothing.
Other countries are now stepping up to fill the void left by America. French and British forces will act as a deterrent against Turkish designs in the territory and also act as a buffer against Iranian and Russian expansion plans.
Other former allies of America view the desertion and plan for alternative action. Some, like Korea, will turn to China. And Taiwan now sees itself as a pawn in America’s plans which change day to day.
Many countries, once strong allies, are abandoning ship and will more than likely wind up in the arms of America’s competitors: Russia and China.
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Mommy Adventures With Ravina Kurian
Family, motherhood, books, caffeine and life - seven words at a time.
7 Questions with #YA #Fantasy #Author A.C. Harrah
Q1: Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?
A: I was thirteen. I had just watched Finding Nemo when I turned to my parents and asked, “I can make money at any age if I’m a writer, right?”
Q2: When and why did you begin writing?
A: Once I determined a thirteen-year-old could theoretically make money by writing books, I began. Oddly enough, it wasn’t so much money I was looking for but independence.
Q3: How long have you been writing?
A: Technically speaking, the moment one picks up a pen and scribbles something on paper—even if it is a meaningless doodle to those around—one has started writing. Therefore, I have no memory when I started writing.
Q4: When did you first know you could be a writer?
A: I don’t think I ever thought I couldn’t be a writer. It was just a question of if I wanted to be one.
Q5: What inspires you to write and why?
A: Horrible plots and amazing characters. I want to fix the plots, and I want to recreate the characters’ speech patterns.
Q6: What genre are you most comfortable writing?
A: Young Adult Fantasy.
Q7: What do you consider the most challenging about writing a novel, or about writing in general?
A: Finding a chain long enough to let me reach the bathroom but short enough that I can’t wander so far away from my computer that I get distracted by something shiny.
Irresponsible was one word used to describe Prince Liam. Liam preferred fun-loving. After years of pulling pranks on his fellow nobles and ruining balls, Liam’s prospects for a bride are looking dim. At his wits’ end, Liam’s father arranges a marriage between Liam and his best friend Cordelia. She is the last person in the world Liam wants to marry. When Liam confesses this to her, she transforms Liam with a curse.
Now Liam must escape her clutches while breaking her spell, but he is trapped in her castle with no way to escape. His only hope is to persuade Cordelia’s servant Gabrielle to help him. However, Gabrielle has a secret of her own, and helping Liam is something she cannot do.
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Genre - YA Fantasy
Rating – PG-13
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7 Questions with #Romance #Author Lynn Murphy
1. Tell us a bit about your family.
I am married and have two teenage sons. We live in Peachtree City, GA, and enjoy running, biking, skiing and water activities.
2. How do you work through self-doubts and fear?
I just keep writing.I think I have more self doubt than fears.
3. What makes you happiest?
Spending time with my family, writing, creating art.
4. What’s your greatest character strength?
I am very optimistic. And compassionate.
5. Why do you write?
Because I have all these stories and characters walking around in my head and they have to come out….
6. Have you always enjoyed writing?
Yes. I wrote little books even as a child. I have always wanted to write.
7. What motivates you to write?
I seriously don’t need motivation. I need motivation to know when to stop writing and do something else!
Madison Walker never planned on falling for her boss when she accepted a teaching position at The Newport School For The Deaf. Seamus Lansing is handsome, wealthy, athletic, charming- and hearing impaired himself. As the only hearing person in her own family, Madison isn't sure she wants a long term relationship with someone who can't hear but she can't deny that she is attracted to Seamus. As their romance develops, Seamus will find himself questioning things he never considered about his disability.
Jim O'Brien has achieved worldwide acclaim for his musical ability. When unexpected circumstances threaten to take away his ability to play the piano how will it affect his recent marriage to Lady Berry Harrington?
Genre - Romance, Christian
Rating – G
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Fool for Love by Merry Farmer @MerryFarmer20
The Majestic rose up out of the water in its Liverpool dock with all the glory of its name. Amelia held one hand to her hat and stared at its iron sides, its two dun-colored funnels and three tall masts. The ship was a strange thing to her, a mixture of old and new, progress with hints of the past. It had sails that could be unfurled in a pinch, but with its powerful new engines, the ship could cross the ocean in a week.
Seven days to a new world. It was an exact description of everything her life had become. It was every bit as daunting.
“What am I doing?” Amelia whispered, staring at the hopeful monstrosity in front of her. It was one thing to accept an offer for a new life. It was another thing entirely to go through with it.
She turned away from the ship, swallowing the nausea that had plagued her since she’d left her mother’s house. This time it wasn’t morning sickness. That was long past. At the moment, the baby was the least of her worries. Her stomach rolled over the idea that she was about to board a ship heading for a new life at the mercy of a stranger, a man, no less. The last time she had trusted her life and her future to a man had been a disaster.
She paced, purse clutched to her chest, scanning the busy dock in search of her American savior. Men, women, and children crowded the gangplanks, eager to start their journeys, excited and hopeful. Many of the third-class passengers carried bundles that indicated theirs was a one-way trip as much as hers was. Eric had left her there to go buy her ticket, but there was nothing stopping him from running off and leaving her stranded. Like her father. Like Nick. She was a fool to agree to this. She pivoted and marched away from the ship.
No, she stopped herself after a handful of steps, this was the best decision she could have made. She may have felt small and lonely standing by herself, waiting, heart and stomach fluttering, but she was as much a part of the intrepid adventurers seeking a new life in America as any of her fellow passengers. This was right.
“Well, we got a minor problem on our hands.”
The twang of Eric’s accent shocked Amelia from her worries. She spun to face him as he approached her with wide strides, scratching his head and looking as guilty as a schoolboy.
“A problem?” she asked, voice fluttering.
“Yeah. I went to buy you a ticket, but they’re plumb sold out.”
Amelia’s chest tightened and her tender stomach lurched. “Oh. Oh dear. Well I suppose….”
She lowered her eyes, heart aquiver. As quickly as it started, her chance for a new life was over. All that worrying for nothing.
She squared her shoulders to face her fate. “I … I thank you for your efforts on my behalf regardless, Mr. Quinlan.”
Eric’s brow crinkled into a curious frown. “Regardless?”
“I suppose I could find work here in Liverpool,” she explained. “Surely there must be a shop somewhere that would look the other way from….” She lowered her hand to the mound of her stomach.
Eric’s lips twitched. The morning sunlight caught in his eyes. “I didn’t want to have to put you in third-class, so I told them you were my wife.”
Amelia blinked. “You what?”
“I told them we’re newlyweds. I reserved my stateroom in first class last year when I came over. Good thing I paid for it then too, ‘cuz after this fiasco of a trip I’ll never ride first-class again. Anyhow, when they said they didn’t have any more rooms, I told them you were my wife and that we would be staying in the same stateroom. They sold me a ticket for that.” He handed her a fresh, clean ticket with her name written as ‘Mrs. Amelia Quinlan’. “Sorry.”
Amelia held perfectly still on the outside, but on the inside her heart pounded and her stomach rolled with guilt for questioning him. He wasn’t abandoning her. He had gone out of his way to help her. Her heart squeezed as it never had before. She took the ticket from him with a trembling hand, hardly noticing when her fingers brushed his. She was rescued after all.
“Thank you, Mr. Quinlan. You have no idea how much this kindness means to me.” She had to concentrate on breathing, standing straight, and looking up into his handsome eyes with a smile to keep her tears at bay.
“You don’t mind sharing then?” he asked her.
Genre – Western Historical Romance
Rating – R
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7 Questions with #Christian #Author Nina Elaine Borum @NinaElaineB
If there was one word to describe my family, I think it would be crazy-beautiful. Everyone has a little crazy in their family and my family is no exception, but the beauty I see in my family far surpasses the craziness!
I have found that the only thing that cancels out fear and self doubt is the love of God. Loving God means I trust what His word says about me and his word tells me to fear and not to doubt.
3. What scares you the most?
That I wont reach my full potential. The world is full of mediocrity, but I want to rise above that.
Laughing with my family. We have a horrible sense of humor that is safe to use when we are around each other!
I hope it’s that I use my gifts and talents to encourage and inspire others.
6. What’s your weakest character trait?
Letting situations affect me more than they should. I am a very sensitive person and sometimes have a hard time not taking things personally.
I hate to sound cliché, but God told me to write. I was sitting in church service one day and the pastor ended his sermon with “What does God want you to do with your hands”. In that moment, I heard two things that God wanted me to do with my hands, one of those things was to write. So I write.
You didn't learn these prayers in Sunday school. Put your armor on, and get ready to see God move!
Do you ever get sick of praying? It's okay to admit. We all do. It is emotionally draining to beg God without ceasing. Christians often forget that under Christ's authority, we have the power to command God's promises to be released from heaven to earth and into our lives.
In Praying for Men of P.O.W.E.R., author Nina Elaine Borum challenges readers to stand confidently and command the promises of God for the men in your life. As someone who has struggled with prayer, Nina believes that God does not intend for his children to feel helpless in praying. His Word has instructed us in how to bring the kingdom of heaven to a world where Satan runs freely. We are all in the midst of a vicious spiritual battle, and Nina hopes this book will help you to fight on behalf of Christian men.
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Genre - Christian non-fiction
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7 Questions with Women's Fiction #Author Olga Soaje
1.- How do you work through self-doubts and fear?
I think we all face this issue from time to time and the answer most of the time will remain the same: Acknowledge those feelings and move past them. The most important thing is to “move” and not allow yourself to get stuck in those negative mind frames.
2.-What make you the happiest?
Seeing my kids smile, having “date” night with my husband, writing, traveling to places I’ve never been.
3.- Why do you write?
Because I found this inexplicable joy when I started writing, I simply knew I had to do it.
4.- Have you always enjoyed writing?
I have always expressed myself better in writing than verbally and when a serious topic was on the table, it was easier for me to do it with pen and paper. I was from an early age an avid reader but somehow I saw writing as something foreign. Little did I know it would be something that would bring me so much joy.
5.- What motivates you to write?
I wish I could explain something that seems so intangible, but the best I can do is describing it as a need to do it. To express myself and get rewarded every time a reader sends me a message of how my book touched their life or inspired them.
6.- What books did you love growing up?
I loved and still do Dr.Seuss books; I also loved “Little Women” and Jane Austen lather on. In high school I started a routine of mix-reading self-help books with novels (a thing I still do).
7.-What book genre of books do you adore?
Women’s Fiction.
Literary Fiction.
Can anything good follow the best thing that ever happened to you?
Amelia Weiss loved her husband of thirty-five years very much, but now he’s left her a widow. Without him, she is unable to work in her sculpture studio without crying. She no longer has a bridge to her estranged daughter. And she can’t seem to keep her mind in the present.
But when her daughter reaches out asking for her help and her agent threatens a lawsuit if Amelia doesn’t deliver for an upcoming exhibit, she’s forced to make a choice. Will she reengage with her life and the people in it—allowing room for things to be different than they were before? Or, will she remain stuck in the past, choosing her memories over real-life relationships?
Thrust fully into the present, Amelia stumbles into a surprising journey of self-discovery.
Genre – Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
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Labels: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Olga Soaje, Twelve Houses, Women's Fiction
7 Questions with #Romance #Author Georgia Le Carre @GeorgiaLeCarre
Self-doubt and fear usually come from being too invested in the outcome. Best way I have found to deal with them is by taking a step back and looking at the ‘What Is The worst That Can Happen?’ scenario. A heap of one star reviews, everybody hates it, nobody buys it, failure – and so what? Do something else then!
In general – the threat of any kind of physical pain. I am such a coward I can’t even throw myself overboard a boat. The water looks so flat and hard that I have to gently ease myself into the water. LOL.
I know I should say when my dog puts his head on my lap, but the truth is when my bank account looks healthy and all my bills are paid, and I can get on with the delicious business of enjoying my dog putting his head on my lap.
I haven’t truly tested it, so don’t quote me if it ever proves otherwise, but I think I’m a forgiving person.
Bone-lazy tendencies.
Because it is miles easier than working in slaughter house or a chicken farm.
No, I never thought of being an author. I consumed a lot of other people’s words and one day I guess, it just spilled out onto some paper.
Beyond the seductive power of immense wealth lies... Dark Secrets
Devastatingly handsome billionaire, Blake Law Barrington was Lana Blooms first and only love. From the moment they touched his power was overwhelming. Their arrangement quickly developed into a passionate romance that captivated her heart and took her on an incredible sexual journey she never wanted to end.
The future together looked bright until Lana made a terrible mistake. So, she did the only thing she could... she ran.
Away from her incredible life, away from the man of her dreams, but she should have known a man such as Blake Law Barrington was impossible to escape. Now, he's back in her life and determined that she should taste the bitterness of his pain.
Shocked at how rough the sex has become and humiliated that she is actually participating so willingly in her punishment, she despairs if she will ever feel the warmth of his touch--the solidity of his trust again? And even if she can win his trust, loyalties are yet to be decided, and secrets to be revealed--secrets that will test them both to their limits.
Will Lana be able to tear down the walls that surround Blake's heart, and break him free of the brutal power of immense wealth?
Can Blake hold on to Lana's heart when she discovers the enormity of the dark secrets that inhabit the Barrington family?
Lana has always believed that love conquers all. She is about to test that belief...
Genre – Erotic Romance
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7 Questions with #YA #Author Sheena Binkley @chevonbink
I think being around my family and friends makes me the happiest. If I’m having a bad day, I can always look at my son or husband and everything just goes away. I think that’s the most important to me.
Positivity is a very important trait of mine, because I try to look at everything through a positive prospective. No matter the situation, I will find something that will make it more effective.
Being oversensitive is my weakest character trait. Sometimes, it may not be a bad thing, but I think I can overanalyze or just be super sensitive on certain situations.
I’m an avid reader; I love to read various genres and picture the setting, characters, or situation and think about my own life. That’s why I started to write, because I want to be able to put a situation or setting into prospective and be able to focus on what the outcome will be.
I have a vivid imagination, so I think that’s the inspiration I need to come up with storylines, characters, etc. But I also think it’s my love for writing and being a reader that makes me want to create stories that are interesting and engaging.
6. What are you most proud of in your personal life?
Having a wonderful husband and son that are a joy to me are the most important to me. That and getting my master’s degree in Business Communication was a huge accomplishment for me.
7. What books did you love growing up?
I really loved The Baby-sitters’ Club and Sweet Valley High. I think I read every book pertaining to Sweet Valley High, including Sweet Valley Twins and the college version. I can also say that reading those books were inspiration for me to begin writing.
Tia Simmons has been happily dating Eric Taylor for the past 6 months, and could possibly see a future with him. He’s everything Tia wants in a man- smart, funny, and extremely sexy, but she feels something is missing in the relationship. Until she finds what she’s looking for, she’ll be with Eric as long as she can.
Charles Robinson always dated women without the concept of falling in love. He doesn’t even want to think about the word considering he was at one point in his life. When his ex arrives claiming she wants another chance with him, he starts to rethink the notion that love is not a bad thing.
While the two are living their lives, they both are centered around their best friends, Camille Anderson and Trevor Williams, who are madly in love. Seeing the two together put their own lives in prospective and wonder if their lives are where they should be; but there is one problem that have plagued them both.
Tia and Charles have known each other since high school. They were actually good friends, until one night changed their relationship forever. After that night, the two have been distanced, causing them to snip at each other any chance they got. But when a new merger unexpectedly puts Tia and Charles in the same company, the two have to come together not only for a big account, but also to settle their differences before both are out of a job.
Through a string of events, including a drunken night out, a game of strip Twister, and a wedding, the two realize that love can come when they least expect it.
(A Chance At Love is the sequel to In Love With My Best Friend, but the book is considered a standalone and can be read separately.)
Genre - Fiction- Young Adult/New Adult
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Labels: A Chance At Love, Sheena Binkley, Young Adult
7 Questions with #Author Amy L. Gale @amyg618 #Romance #Contemporary
Is your family supportive? Do your friends support you?
My family and friends are my biggest fans and my best supporters. I’m truly blessed.
Do you plan to publish more books?
Yes, I’m already working on my second novel
What else do you do to make money, other than write? It is rare today for writers to be fulltime…
I’m a pharmacist by day, romance writer by night.
If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Somewher with a beach.
How do you write – lap top, pen, paper, in bed, at a desk?
I write with a pen and paper, then on my laptop, on my couch and on my bed.
How much sleep do you need to be your best?
I need at least seven hours of sleep
Is there anyone you’d like to acknowledge and thank for their support?
There are lots of people who helped make this journey a reality but I’d really like to thank my husband, mom, and girls book club.
If you could have a dinner party and invite anyone dead or alive, who would you ask
Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, Albert Einstein, and Darth Vader
When you are not writing, how do you like to relax?
I like to bake and decorate cakes
How often do you write? And when do you write?
I try and write at least 5 days a week and I tend to write in the evening.
Sometimes love is more than tragedy or bliss.
Ambitious 22-year-old Lexie Waters is intent on taking the advertising world by storm. When she’s offered the soon to be open position she’s been vying for at a swanky advertising agency, there’s only one last summer separating her from dreams of corporate success. Still bitter from catching her boyfriend cheating, she heads out for a night of fun to see her favorite band, Devil’s Garden, but fun turns into utter embarrassment when she insults the enticingly confident lead singer, Van Sinclair.
Van is intrigued by Lexie’s ability to resist his charm and secretly obtains her cell number. Shocked but eager to get to know this captivating rocker, Lexie accepts Van’s invitation to see his next show, which requires an overnight stay. The overwhelming feelings that follow take them both by surprise, and with two months left before starting her sought after new position, Lexie joins the tour. As she’s catapulted into the world of groupies and wild parties, she questions Van’s commitment to her. So what happens at summer’s end when time runs out?
Genre - Contemporary Romance
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Website www.authoramygale.com
Labels: Amy L. Gale, Blissful Tragedy, Contemporary Romance
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The Hook - Charlottesville's weekly newspaper, news magazine
Now you can get the Hook delivered... through RelayFoods.com
By Hawes Spencer | hawesinsky@gmail.com
Published online 4:20pm Tuesday Mar 29th, 2011
and in print issue #1014 dated Thursday Apr 7th, 2011
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The Hook has never claimed to offer to-your-door service. However, a local grocery service called RelayFoods.com has just begun delivering copies of the free weekly newspaper along with the 10,000 foods and other products it had already been carrying.
"We're really excited to offer the Hook," says Cecilia Laseter, the company's marketing manager. "Our customers are well-informed, community-minded folks who like to stay up to date on the latest Charlottesville happenings– and we're happy to help them do it."
Launched about two years ago with a slightly different name, RelayFoods.com amalgamates the grocery experience by letting consumers go online to shop from such stores as Whole Foods Market, Reid's, and Foods of All Nations. There's no cost for the service, even though it also includes dozens of smaller niche and organic-food purveyors– some from as far away as the Shenandoah Valley.
RelayFoods.com lets consumers retrieve purchases from all these varied vendors– which include Gearhart's chocolates, Highland County-based Virginia trout, and chickens from Polyface Farm– in one convenient location. Or– for a fee ranging from $4.25 to $8– get the bundle delivered to home or office.
The Hook, of course, is free. And since late March it can be ordered, along with Charlottesville trash stickers ($2.20) and copies of Flavor magazine ($5.95), in the "Relay's Own" part of the website.
"We're also always happy to partner with great, community-focused local businesses like the Hook," says Laseter. "It's a win-win-win scenario."
Read more on: relayfoods.com
NancyDrew March 29th, 2011 | 8:21pm
In a town populated with those determined to age in place, and others just too busy to shop; this will be a great service.
Albeboy March 30th, 2011 | 11:29am
Will it come with the fish pre-wrapped now, or will we still have to do that ourselves?
? March 30th, 2011 | 12:53pm
Will Gasbag deliver it then trash your bathroom while there?
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Cannibal Girls (1973)
Author: Brett H.
Submitted by: Brett H. Date : 2008-04-11 05:40
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Written by: Ivan Reitman and Daniel Goldberg
Produced by: Daniel Goldberg
Reviewed by: Brett H.
“I notice you keep wearing the same kind of things, you girls. Are you sisters?”
“No, we share a lot of similar tastes.”
Years before Kevin Smith would put his balls on the line by making Clerks on credit, there was Ivan Reitman and Daniel Goldberg. After an unsuccessful film, the duo decided to crank out a totally commercial film made entirely on credit. After gathering up enough bucks to start shooting based on a tag line, “They eat men!” the two, along with a crew willing to work with a deferment clause, started their journey. The resulting film was shot in 9 days, virtually improvised as they went along. The filming went fine, but Reitman and Goldberg started doing re-shoots, which mounted up lab costs. Deals made with companies for cheaper equipment and processing went sour and the two wound up in the hole big time. They were threatened with physical violence should dollars promised not find their way into the desired pockets; cue the madness. Goldberg always made certain to keep a reel of film in his car as ransom should any business try to seize the movie. Nearly off his rocker, he laid down the law and said should anyone try to seize his film, essential parts of it would be destroyed and no one would make any money. While Goldberg was trying to finish the film and fend off threats, Reitman was at Cannes trying to sell a film that was not yet even completed. At the zero hour, a finished print made it overseas and a screening was put in place for American International Pictures. The story behind Cannibal Girls is crazier than the movie contained within the reels of film. Barely.
A young couple walks along the shoreline of a river and stops for a little love making session. Never mind the fact that there’s still snow on the ground and the river has barely thawed, this couple will make their own heat. As they begin to get down, eyes peer on them from the tall grasses. The young lovers sit down on their blanket and the guy kisses away with his eyes closed before hearing a scream. Quickly, he opens his eyes and turns his head, and just as quickly, a large pickaxe makes short work of his face. The killer drops the pickaxe and sets his attention on the cute blonde. A low shot of the pickaxe dropping tells a different story, the killer is not a man but a woman! As the blonde screams some more, the crazy bitch tears open her shirt and things get a bit nippley. The chilly weather makes a lot of sense now; her nipples could carve Mount Rushmore in ten seconds flat.
All is not going well with Clifford (Eugene Levy) and Gloria (Andrea Martin), either. Their junker is stalled in the middle of the woods in the Southern Ontario cold. With a little sweet-talking to the car, it finally starts and the two reach their small town vacation destination of Farnhamville. They find a place to stay, but are informed that not many stay where they’re about to. Legend has it that there’s a group of man eating vixens roaming around, but it’s no matter, because it was a long time ago. Foreshadowing and contradictions are plentiful and Clifford and Gloria end up dining at the local fine eatery, which just happens to be where the cannibal hotties carved up their prey years earlier. Soon things take a turn for the worse and the lovebirds have two options, end up alive… or end up in a stewing pot!
Cannibal Girls is a film that can be appreciated on its own, but the history of hell that Ivan Reitman and Daniel Goldberg went through to finish the film gives it an even greater charm. On the surface it’s a trashy, but magnificent horror comedy that serves up as much dark humor and hints as it does boobs and gore. On the inside, it’s much more juicy and tender, like the “soft, white meat of the thighs”. The heart of exploitation filmmaking is to make a profit, but Reitman and Goldberg’s natural artistic instincts got in the way of this and this caused most of the many problems the two were confronted with. New footage exploded the budget to epic proportions (for a film in which every penny had to scraped up from everyone from uncles to friends to a strip club owner). Well, almost a strip club owner. The owner of the exotic club was willing to pony up $15 000, but his lawyers intervened and wanted waivers from the cast, something implausible on short notice. While the new scenes went against the almighty law of the dollar, without a doubt the extra polish was worth it. The saving grace was a grand from Reitman’s father, which got him to Cannes and got the film sold. A.I.P. added a ringing gimmick (a bell would sound during an erotic or violent scene) and the film enjoyed moderate success, thanks in large part to the great tagline and trailer.
Sick humor plays a major role in the success of the film and there’s no shortage of cannibalistic puns and foreshadowing (and flesh chomping) and Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin are great as the lead characters. Afro-boasting Levy is the all around nice guy and Martin’s character comes across as sweet, needy, dumb and cute all at the same time. Of course, the film is unique as the cannibal girls themselves are downright hot and it’s cool to see sexy ladies wielding scissors, axes and knives (phallic when appropriate!) to take down unsuspecting males in gruesome fashion. Released in 1973, Cannibal Girls is a sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre without the chainsaw and the similarities in plot are undeniable. The tones of the films are on opposite ends of the spectrum and there’s no comparison as to which film is more terrifying. The entire population of Farnhamville are all in on the little cannibal operation, from the Reverend to the cop, all the way down to the lowly gas station attendants. Similar yet is the fact that everywhere in the town seemingly serves odd tasting meat. The alike but contrasting styles of Cannibal Girls and Texas Chainsaw Massacre would amount to an almost unbeatable double feature. The ladies aren’t shy to eat in front of you, they make quite the mess, and you’d think you were watching an Italian zombie flick with such gluttony.
As odd and dry as the humor is, the odd joke doesn’t work and the dialogue is a bit lame at times, but when the film is good, it’s good and it’s not until the final plot twist that one can fully appreciate the 84 minutes they’ve experienced. The ample amounts of nudity will keep the men smiling and the vixens slicing and dicing men will make the ladies squirm. It looks like a Canadian horror film, drabby and grey with a few decent shots (they didn’t exactly have time to or money to bring a crane in, if you know what I mean), but the drive-in goodness seeps through all the cracks and imperfections. Sure, there are thunderstorms in the middle of winter for some reason, but there are also hot, naked ladies who happen to eat men and kill violently. Suicide Girls, eat your hearts out before these Canadian flesh-eaters get to them first. As far as other characters go, the reverend is the Manson-like ringleader of the gut-munching cult and he has Dracula-like powers over the women and loves to sit back and sip on blood while everyone chows down.
So it’s not high art, but what drive-in film is? That’s the entire charm of the cheesy experience and its captured wonderfully in Cannibal Girls. When blood isn’t being drank and men devoured, even a drink of vintage house wine isn’t without disgust. The grapes used to make it were grown on the grave of the reverend’s grandfather, appropriately. “I don’t know, there’s something about human remains that add a certain, earthy quality to wine!” Seeing as the film was shot in the winter in Ontario, it’s Canadian and doesn’t try to hide it. Harry and Gloria are from Toronto and there’s a Canadian flag clearly on display, unlike the shunning of the Maple Leaf in Funeral Home. It’s hard to believe the CFDC denied funding to this stinking piece of tasty cheese because it wasn’t commercially viable. Ivan Reitman proved them wrong as he would many times in his career, from the controversial early Cronenberg films and plenty other genre effort he has been a part of during his ongoing career. Sadly, you won’t find this one of Ivan’s classics on DVD, but those who search hard for it will be blessed. Cannibal Girls is a must-see for Canadian horror enthusiasts, but there’s no need for a fork at this messy dinner party! Buy it!
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An Oil Used In Iraq And Day Care
Author: Joanne M.
Skill: Reiki Practitioner
My husband is serving in Iraq and uses Thieves in sleepig bags, sleeping quarters, etc. It has supported him with very few respiratory problems, unlike other men in his unit. Thieves has supported him for his sore throats, using the spray with one squirt into his mouth. I diffuse it in my day care, the colds are over in half the time, with less discomfort.
Additional keyword(s) assigned by the editor: foreign, travel, outdoors.
1. Associated topics: respiratory-system,colds — "In confirming the presence of peripheral airways dysfunction in nonsmokers with uncomplicated common colds, our data imply that the changes can be modified favorably by short-term aromatics inhalation." Link
2. Associated topics: respiratory-system,colds — "Cineole has mucolytic, bronchodilating and anti-inflammatory properties and reduces the exacerbation rate in patients suffering from COPD, as well as ameliorates symptoms in patients suffering from asthma and rhinosinusitis.... The effects of Cineole in the treatment of acute bronchitis were clearly measurable and could be proven after a treatment period of merely 4 days. This study corroborates the fact that Cineole actively and significantly reduces cough frequency after four days." Link
3. Associated topics: colds — "Taken together, we found an essential oil blend [Orange, Clove, Cinnamon Bark, Eucalyptus, and Rosemary] notably attenuates influenza virus PR8 infection in vitro via inhibition of viral protein synthesis at the post-transcription level. The lack of toxicity and potent specific inhibition ability make the essential oil a possible antiviral drug for influenza virus proliferation control and treatment." Link
4. Associated topics: respiratory-system — "Foeniculum vulgare Mill, commonly called fennel, has been used in traditional medicine for a wide range of ailments related to digestive, endocrine, reproductive, and respiratory systems. Additionally, it is also used as a galactagogue agent for lactating mothers.... Foeniculum vulgare has emerged as a good source of traditional medicine and it provides a noteworthy basis in pharmaceutical biology for the development/formulation of new drugs and future clinical uses." Link
5. Associated topics: respiratory-system — "The antibacterial activity of 14 essential oils and their major constituents in the gaseous state was evaluated against [respiratory tract pathogens] Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus. [The] oils [with cinnamon bark, lemongrass, and thyme being most potent] and their major constituents were shown to be effective against various bacteria tested.... These results indicate that the antibacterial action of essential oils was most effective when at high vapor concentration for a short time." Link
6. Associated topics: respiratory-system — "Essential Oil Diffusion [lavender, marjoram, balsam fir, and peppermint] for the Treatment of Persistent Oxygen Dependence in a Three-Year-Old Child With Restrictive Lung Disease With Respiratory Syncytial Virus [RSV] Pneumonia: A 3-year-old female with central core disorder, a static myopathy affecting type one muscle fibers, with an 18-day history of oxygen requirement, acute desaturation episodes on high-flow oxygen, and persistent upper-lobe atelectasis... experienced a rapid reduction in oxygen requirement when treated with diffused plant essential oils after insufficient response to N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and dornase alfa." Link
7. Associated topics: colds — "...its flowers and leaves are the most used parts in the treatment of health disorders such as allergies, colds, cough, skin, liver and gallbladder disorders, inflammation, infections and sleeplessness... In vitro studies characterized Helichrysum as an antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory agent. Its flavonoids and terpenes were effective against bacteria (e.g. Staphylococcus aureus), its acetophenones, phloroglucinols and terpenoids displayed antifungal action against Candida albicans and its flavonoids and phloroglucinols inhibited HSV and HIV, respectively.... Regarding Helichrysum italicum in vivo activity, the highlight goes to ...the anti-inflammatory properties exhibited by its flavonoids, acetophenones and phloroglucinols, as seen in animal models." Link
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Winterhalter helps two of London’s hottest restaurants clean up and stay cool
Two restaurants in the heart of Shoreditch are making a bit impact in their first year of business
Situated in the beating heart of Shoreditch, the Smoking Goat is the second restaurant started by Brian Hannon and his business partners Ben Chapman and head chef Ali Borer. Their company Super 8 Restaurants now owns three restaurants; Smoking Goat, which shares a building with Brat, a converted pub in Shoreditch. Their first, Kiln, is based in Soho.
Smoking Goat has a menu inspired by the late-night canteens of Bangkok, while Brat combines Welsh and Basque cuisines. Kiln offers a Thai-based grill menu. The restaurants use wood charcoal to deliver an authentically smokey flavour with their meals.
All three were recently included in the National Restaurant Awards’ top 100 restaurants of 2018, with Kiln taking the number one spot, Brat at 14 and Smoking Goat at 68. “We’re very happy with that,” says Brian. “Smoking Goat has an equivalent spend per head of Nando’s, and it’s in the top 100! And Brat got that high just weeks after opening, that’s an incredible achievement, we’re very proud of what the whole team has accomplished so far.”
Smoking Goat is a relaxed, informal eating spot, but as any restauranteur knows, you need to put in a lot of work behind the scenes to get that seamless customer experience. It has 100 covers, and is open from brunch until late every night. “We’re in a very large building here,” says Brian. “Both restaurants run separately, but they do share some back-of-house facilities.”
Quality is vitally important. “We are very particular about the suppliers we work with,” Brian explains. “Fresh seafood is delivered daily from Cornwall, our farmer Sean grows all our herbs and vegetables, and we have a butchery in the basement at Shoreditch that prepares all the meat used in all of our restaurants”.
With such high standards for the menu, the presentation needs to reach the same high standards. “Obviously we want the plates and glasses to be perfectly clean every time, so we needed to make sure we had the right equipment”.
Working with The Advance Group, they chose to continue the relationship begun in Kiln and picked Winterhalter to handle their dish, utensil and glasswashing requirements. “After we identified exactly what our requirements were, only Winterhalter had the customisation options and the backup service we needed.”
The equipment selected for Smoking Goat and Brat was based on each restaurant’s requirements and the amount of available space. “There’s more space available upstairs, so Brat has a large passthrough warewasher we can use to clean all the crockery as well as gastronorm pans. But downstairs space is tighter, so Smoking Goat’s passthrough is smaller and just used for crockery. But it’s more than capable of keeping up with the demand we face at peak times,” says Brian.
The layout of Smoking Goat also helped to define some of the other choices they made. “We only have room for a small clean up area at the Smoking Goat, with one small window. This could easily get warm and humid during the summer. So we chose the PT Energy, with the integrated extractor hood.”
All Winterhalter machines are designed to be as energy efficient as possible. The EnergyPlus unit captures any steam produced and uses it to help heat the incoming water, which helps to reduce energy consumption by up to 20% as well as reducing the amount of waste steam, helping to create a more pleasant working environment. Further energy is recovered from the waste water heat exchanger, which can reduce energy use by another 10%. “Being able to have that kind of cleaning ability so close to the dining area and without having to worry about excess heat and steam affecting the diner’s experience is exactly what we need.”
Meanwhile, a UC-XL is sited in the basement. “The butchery and prep areas are down there as well so space is really limited,” says Brian. “We have an undercounter unit to wash the pots and pans. It really helps to maximise the use of the space we do have.”
Besides perfect crockery, clean glassware is vital. The glasswashers in use across the two restaurants are undercounter models with integrated Reverse Osmosis units that filter minerals and other particulates, helping to guarantee perfect results every time.
The glasswasher in Smoking Goat has been fitted with the optional cooling function, which means glasses end the wash cycle cool. “In Smoking Goat, we freeze our glasses, to provide perfectly chilled drinks to diners. Once they’re cleaned, they go into a cabinet set to -22°C,” explains Brian. “It saves our staff time, not having to wait for the glasses to cool down before we can move them into the freezer. It’s been marvellous to be able to discuss our requirements with Winterhalter, and they provide solutions that suit our needs perfectly.”
As well as equipment, Winterhalter also offers a comprehensive range of chemicals specially designed to provide brilliant cleaning. Brian is impressed. “The chemicals are great, you can immediately see the difference on the glasses.”
The chemicals also highlight the quality of Winterhalter’s service. “They’ve been helping us to tweak the detergent levels, to get the results as good as they can be,” says Brian. “I tell you, with the combination of the Reverse Osmosis, the detergents and the rinse aid, the glasses are astonishingly clean.”
The service package was another important reason for choosing Winterhalter. “We’re planning on being in the restaurant game for a long time, so it makes sense to look for a long-term partner,” says Brian. “Discovering a company with the same drive to continuously improve their product obviously chimed with our ethos, and they’ve been a pleasure to work with. If we need to call them out, the engineers are here at a moment’s notice and always eager to help.”
The final fit was Winterhalter’s commitment to sustainability. “Obviously this is a vital part of any modern restaurant worth its salt,” says Brian. “We’re constantly looking for ways to reduce our consumption, of energy, of water, everything. You absolutely have to consider your environmental impact, so partnering with another company that feels the same means we’re both always trying to work out new ways to reduce our impact on the planet.
“We’re very excited with how our first year in Shoreditch has been shaping up,” says Brian. “With partners like Winterhalter behind us, the next few years are going to be even better!”
For more information about Smoking Goat, Kiln and Brat visit https://www.smokinggoatbar.com/
https://kilnsoho.com/
and https://www.bratrestaurant.com/
For more information about Advance Group visit http://www.advance-catering.co.uk/
Published by: Alison
Posted in: The Press Office, Winterhalter
Tagged with: Brat, dishwasher, glasswashers, Kiln, restaurant, Shoreditch, Super 8 Restaurants, the Smoking Goat, warewashers, warewashing, Winterhalter
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General Knowledge Quiz - 22
1. For which domestic Cricket trophy, the Ranji Trophy champions play against the Rest of India team?
[A]Irani Trophy
[B]Duleep Trophy
[C]Deodhar Trophy
[D]Nissar Trophy
2. 'Long Walk To Freedom' is the autobiography of which Bharat Ratna recipient?
[A]Jawaharlal Nehru
[B]S.Radhakrishnan
[C]Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
[D]Nelson Mandela
3. Pinaka, the multi barrel rocket launcher produced in India, is named after which Hindu God's bow?
[A]Indra
[B]Shiva
[C]Vishnu
[D]Brahma
4. 'Lawsons Bay Beach' and 'Ramakrishna Beach' are located in which port city on the Bay of Bengal?
[A]Paradip (Orissa)
[B]Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
[C]Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu)
[D]Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)
5. What does the Pisciculture refers to?
[A]Beekeeping
[B]Fish Farming
[C]Silk Farming
[D]Dairy Farming
6. When do we celebrate the Engineers Day of India, the birthday of Bharat Ratna recipient M.Visvesarayya?
[A]40558
[B]40602
[C]40784
[D]40801
7. Who was the first woman president in the world?
[A]Golda Meir
[B]Indira Gandhi
[C]Sirimavo Bhandarnaike
[D]Maria Isbel Paron
8. Palghat Gap, about 20 miles wide mountain pass between the Nilgiri Hills and the Anaimalai Hills, connects Kerala to which state?
[A]Tamil Nadu
[B]Karnataka
[C]Maharashtra
[D]Andhra Pradesh
9. To which ocean does Panama Canal connect the Pacific Ocean?
[A]Arctic Ocean
[B]Antarctic Ocean
[C]Atlantic Ocean
[D]Indian Ocean
10. Which Indian state has the longest coastline?
[A]Gujarat
[B]Maharashtra
[C]Tamil Nadu
11. On the banks of which river is the Jamshedpur, the steel city of India, situated?
[A]Tapti
[B]Narmada
[C]Subarnarekha
[D]Hooghly
12. In international cricket, Yuvraj Singh of India is the second batsman to hit 6 sixers in an over. Who was the first?
[A]Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
[B]Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
[C]Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa)
[D]Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
13. The subatomic particle 'Boson' is named after which Indian scientist?
[A]Meghnad Saha
[B]Jagdish Chandra Bose
[C]Satyendra Nath Bose
[D]Homi Bhabha
14. In 1892, who became the first Indian to be elected to the House of Commons (lower house of British Parliament)?
[A]Mahatma Gandhi
[B]Dadabhai Naoroji
[C]Tej Bahadur Sapru
[D]Gopal Krishna Gokhale
15. Which Article of the Indian Constitution gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir?
[A]Article 352
[B]Article 356
[C]Article 360
[D]Article 370
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Club Sign - Proposal 2010
Written by KarelAdmin
Club Logo - Proposal 2010
Stylized portrait of a fencer, wearing a mask, with a foil in hand. His shoulders and weapon arm consist of the text "ŠERM TJ SOKOL PRAHA VRŠOVICE". Gold (yellow) color on blue background corresponds to the sign of Vršovice (Prague city quarter since 1902).
Last Updated Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Fencing and fencers in Sokol Vršovice
Brief history of our club written by chairman of the club and main coach Miroslav Doležel.
The art of fencing in Prague had it's numerous followers and experts even during those ages, when nobody could have any idea about it's future sport form. Schools of fencing could be found here already in 16th century, when the fencing masters were still members of respectable cutlers guild in Prague, first clubs then – officers or academic mainly – since 17th century. The fencing was considered to be a beneficial and noble physical exercise also by Dr. Tyrš (1832-1884, Charles University of Prague professor and co-founder of Czech Sokol Community - an organization supporting modern sport development in Czech lands, translation of "Sokol" is "Falcon"). In spite of his best meant attempt to create Czech language fencing terminology was not successful, his fondness of fencing, and sabre fencing specially, didn't diminish. Fencing also become one of the first “establishing” olympic sports at the end of 19th century. This was the most fortunate beginning of change from martial art to modern sport.
Last Updated Monday, 16 July 2012
Weapons and Rules Club History Our Tournaments Recruitment Info
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Pusha T, Perfectionist
He's back from Wyoming with a clear perspective of his place in hip-hop.
Tim Casagrande
Thu Oct 4th, 2018 11:19am
Nearly two decades after he and his brother Malice electrified hip-hop heads and fellow rappers alike as Clipse, Pusha T is having the most productive year of his career. While overseeing label operations as the president of G.O.O.D. Music, he released his critically praised third solo album Daytona, a seven-track tour de force solely produced by close friend Kanye West, who chopped the album as if he had fallen in love with hip-hop production all over again. As the only other artist who stayed with West during his entire stint producing five albums while tucked away on a ranch in Wyoming, Pusha was hellbent on not merely working, but working efficiently, operating under the principle that releasing anything less than perfect is unacceptable.
On Daytona, Pusha and West have given listeners a rare hip-hop gem that is strikingly relevant for the moment our country is in, yet which feels appropriately in place in the larger picture of the genre’s history, a definitive instant classic. Even with the expected controversy with West’s very public team-Trump political platform — and his brutal, unexpected summer beef with Drake — Pusha’s demeanor has remained bold but composed in the face of newfound media scrutiny. He’s seemingly invincible to whatever’s hurled in his direction. On Daytona’s second track, “The Games We Play,” Pusha succinctly puts his place in hip-hop into perspective, exclaiming, “This ain’t a wave or phase / ’Cause all that shit fades / This lifestyle’s forever when you made.”
Pusha T, Saturday, Oct. 13, 7:35-8:25 p.m., on the City Stage.
See more from SF Weekly’s Treasure Island Music Festival issue:
A Decade of Postcoital Bliss, With Cigarettes After Sex
Years after it began, Cigarettes After Sex suddenly became a breakout YouTube sensation. Songwriter Greg Gonzalez got to the bottom of it.
Soccer Mommy Embraces ‘Chill but Kinda Sad’ Vibes
Clean follows the 21-year-old’s ‘very depressing and cool’ experience of moving to New York for college in indie heartbreak-style.
Serpentwithfeet Is No Performance Artist
Blended with soul and R&B, the traditions of the Black gospel churches that serpent grew up in flourish on his debut album, soil.
Courtney Barnett Is a Millennial Courtney Love
The Australian singer-songwriter speaks to the stereotype of the lazy, navel-gazing generation — and in doing so, sees rampant success.
George FitzGerald, Mr. Burns
An early-afternoon set rather suits a Londoner who finds himself at the center of the underground music scene.
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What does Mountie Pride mean to you?
By Adrian Kiva
We have made it to the end! The academic year is over, the final issue of volume 147 of the Argosy is complete, and volume 148 is well underway.
I want to use this special issue to thank those students who shared their voices by contributing articles to our opinion section. I want to bring these articles – specifically those critical of the university – together, and reconcile them with that unmistakable feeling welling up in all of us this week: university pride.
This year, students addressed many issues that have long been affecting our campus. Saskia van Walsum, Sarah Murphy and Dr. Brad Walters wrote about potential cuts to the anthropology department, emphasizing the importance of active listening in all areas of academia. Cara MacKenzie addressed shortcomings within the Sackville Pride Parade, calling for the centring of queer voices. Marissa Cruz called to centre racialized voices and called on white students to be more proactive about racial discourse. Ashley Rose Cummings asked potential allies to listen to Indigenous students before getting outraged. Lauren Latour called for divestment (again), this time in response to NYC’s decision to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Hannah Mackellar made a video highlighting accessibility issues on campus, while Jill MacIntyre called on the University to reconsider the meaning behind merit-based scholarships in a way that better prioritizes low-class students’ experiences.
Reviewing these articles draws attention to their intersections. Many issues on campus have to do with the increasing corporatization of Canadian universities. Many are calls for allies to stand up and speak out.
A lot of us are not directly affected by these issues, so it can be easy to ignore or discount them. I have had a fantastic time during my four years on campus. In many ways, Mount Allison has lived up to its promises to me: the personalized degree, the sense of community, the faculty, staff and administrators who genuinely care. It’s easy to be happy to be here. But that joy eventually changes: it becomes a feeling of pride, or gratitude, or belonging. I think it’s important to ask why we feel proud, grateful, or welcome, because it’s hard not to get defensive when those feelings are challenged.
Your university is not the sum of your experiences here. Your university is the sum of your experiences, those of all your classmates, and those of all the people who work here. Your university is also the money that supplements our tuition to fund this institution, as well as the public and private interests implicated by that money. Your university is the people who are excluded so that we can be exclusive.
Criticism and pride are often seen to be at odds with each other, both by the critical and the proud: my activist friends deriding the new football field, angry students messaging the paper about how our criticism damages the University, unending promotional content from the University itself that refuses to be critical in any way. But I think pride and criticism can be brought together.
It’s valid to be proud to be here. It’s valid to take cap and gown photos in Waterfowl Park, to cheer for basketball buzzer beaters and to celebrate seeing your thesis sitting snug amid one hundred–odd years of student research.
But I want us to collectively rethink what #mountiepride means. We can be proud of our time here while helping to make that time better for everyone else. Supporting the football team should not get in the way of being critical of the University. In fact it’s vital that it does not, otherwise we’ve already lost half the school. Vocal minorities can advocate change, however when go forward together, the work is not only less burdensome, but more representative.
This may read as naive, but I think it’s pragmatic. In anti-racist organization, a common tactic is to focus on changing institutional norms of behaviour rather than dealing with individuals’ racial biases one by one. But if we’re all jet-set to go off and be the movers and shakers Mt. A wants us to be, it would be fantastic if we were all better allies. University is special: it’s the ideal place for us to have these one-on-one conversations and learn from each other.
There are so many issues to get sad about or mad about – and then to engage with. I don’t think there is enough support given to those organizations that provide spaces on campus for this engagement. I’m talking about Divest MTA, ACID, Catalyst, and others. Where are the MASU policies for the issues these opinion pieces raise?
This is a call to action: a call to get involved in those issues that do not directly affect you. This is a call for critical spaces to open up. But mostly – in this issue read by parents, alumni and graduating students – this is a call to think long and hard about what Mountie Pride means to you.
Adrian Kiva
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Goodbye Saturn, Thanks for the Ride (1985-2010)
Posted by Charlie on December 31st, 2010
Executives,
Jill Lajdziak,
Saturn Closing,
SaturnFans,
Note: As General Motors gets ready to shut Saturn's doors at the end of this year, I'd like to take a moment to look back at why the brand was created and how it evolved over the years, what made the cars and company so special to me, and also address some concerns about how Saturn's closure will impact the future of SaturnFans.com.
Later tonight the giant ball in Times Square will be lowered when the clock strikes twelve and 2010 will come to an end. It's been a emotional year for Saturn employees, owners, and fans; October 31st marked the end of General Motors' grand Saturn experiment. Of all the news articles I've written for SaturnFans.com over the past 15 years, this one has been by far the hardest for me to write. Saying goodbye is never easy, and this time is no different. To me Saturn was more than just another car or company: it represented a fresh approach to running a business, and more significantly, it was a symbolic entry in America's ideological battle against the best vehicles the "import" car companies had to offer.
Flashback Friday: First Saturn Sold Today in 1990
Posted by Charlie on October 25th, 2013
S-Series,
1991 Models,
Retailers,
On this date in 1990, Saturn sold its first car. According to the St. Petersburg Times, the first Saturn - the blue SL2 sedan shown above - was sold just after midnight to Elaine Terry at Saturn of Clearwater. "I wanted an American-made car and decided to give it a try," Mrs. Terry told the newspaper. It was a 25th wedding anniversary present. USA Today and CNN were reportedly at the retail facility to document the event. "I kept it for 10 months and put over 5,000 miles on it. People all over the country wanted to buy the car from me. One man in Las Vegas was talking up to $100,000 for it."
First Saturn Prototype
This was the first Saturn demonstration prototype vehicle. It was completed for evaluation and shown to the media on September 15, 1984. General Motors Chairman and CEO at the time, Roger Smith, and GM's then-President and Chief Operating Officer, F. James McDonald, are pictured with the 1985 Saturn four-door sedan concept.
Virtual Polymer Body-Side Panel Demonstration
Posted by Charlie on December 2nd, 2009
Features,
SaturnFest
Over the years, one of Saturn's most impressive features was their innovative plastic polymer body panels that it used to cloth it's cars in. The panels resisted damage from small dents, dings, and minor bumps — they proved to be very popular among Saturn owners. The panels simply absorbed the impact, and bounced back into their original form. Back in the day, if you went to your local Saturn retailer, the sales folks would eagerly show you how well the panels worked by either pounding on the side of a car with their fists, or by inviting you to jump up and down on a sample door panel laying on the floor. No matter how hard you tried, the panels always went back to their original shape.
Saturn: A Car Relic and History Left Behind
Posted by Charlie on October 8th, 2009
Manufacturing,
Ken Newton from St. Joseph News-Press: General Motors, feeling the pinch of foreign imports, dangled the idea of opening a new plant to build a "revolutionary" car. Such a factory would employ 6,000 people while also creating 15,000 jobs in supporting businesses. Workers there would not only have the benefit of a paycheck, they would stand, shoulder-to-shoulder, at the vanguard of a new era of American industrial might. Perhaps to seem egalitarian, or more likely to create buzz and cajole some incentives, GM executives offered the pending plant to interested states, hoping they would compete for the car company's affections.
John McElroy: Why Saturn Failed
John McElroy from Autoline Detroit via AutoBlog: In the early 1980s General Motors launched a top-secret program to figure out how it could build a small car to successfully compete against the Japanese automakers. It was called the S-car program and the results of this study shocked top management at GM. It conclusively proved General Motors could not profitably build a small car in the United States that was priced against the Japanese — at least not under the current GM system. And that launched another study to figure out what it would take become competitive. GM concluded that it needed a clean-sheet approach to designing, engineering, manufacturing and retailing small cars in the American market. In other words, it needed a whole new car company.
Flashback Friday: When GM Gave Birth to Saturn
Posted by Charlie on October 2nd, 2009
Spring Hill,
ABC News looked back on its evening news telecast from July 26, 1985 when GM announced construction of the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Last Saturn Ion Ever Built For Sale by Owner in the SaturnFans.com Classifieds
Posted by BradleyRR on September 21st, 2009
Ion,
You may recall a couple of months ago GM had an auction, liquidating lots of classic cars. They even pulled the last built Saturn Ion out of the museum it was in to put it up for bidding. Well, this is that car. It was also featured in at least two articles on this website (here and here). This Saturn Ion is in fantastic shape, as it was stored in a museum. It now has 2,500 miles on it.
Flashback Friday: Saturn ICY Racing
Posted by Charlie on September 18th, 2009
Images,
Many years ago, Saturn Corporation participated in the Sports Car Club of America racing series. Dave Rosenblum, who ran the Inner City Youth (ICY) Racing Team, ran and managed the team that raced Saturn S-Series coupes, like the modified SC2 you see above. They not only raced, but they won – including the SCCA's World Challenge T2 Manufacturers' Cup.
Flashback Friday: Inside the Former Saturn Spring Hill Manufacturing and Assembly Complex
News Photos,
Saturn's former manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee was as revolutionary as the brand's innovative cars and industry-leading retail sales and service experience. This state-of-the-art plant was located approximately 30 miles south of Nashville on Highway 31.
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It's been more than three years since General Motors announced it was shuttering its "different kind of car" division. At the time, Roger Penske was attempting to purchase the brand and possibly stock it with cars sourced from plants in the US, South Korea, Mexico, or even Europe. Ultimately Mr. Penske couldn't get a deal done within GM's tight timeframes and Saturn was closed. While frantically attempting to keep up with rumors swirling around Saturn that fateful year, I made a decision to rethink the way I was collecting and reporting the news. In the midst of all the uncertainty surrounding Saturn, I began to draw up plans for new and improved version of SaturnFans.com that could not only help visitors track what Saturn news was happening, but where it was happening as it was happening.
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Tydskr. letterkd. vol.48 no.1 Pretoria ene. 2011
The poet as rainmaker: fertility and pluvial aesthetics in Osundare's The Eye of The Earth
Emma Ngumoha
In Niyi Osundare's The Eye of the Earth, the poet functions as a primeval community's shaman or rainmaker whose main duty is to ensure adequate rainfall whenever "the rains have kept their time" and drought persists beyond the vernal equinox. "Farmer-born" and "peasant-bred" in an agrarian community, the poet in the collection consciously and unconsciously assumes the role of rainmaker in his poetry. This is not only for the material good of his local agrarian Ikere-Ekiti community in Nigeria but also for the salubrious enrichment of the citizens of the universe whose well being depends on the pluvial fertility of the earth. Osundare notes that The Eye of the Earth was partly inspired by the Green Peace movement, which accentuates the significance of the poet's evocation of the ancient tradition of rainmaking in the volume. This essay highlights the magico-religious tradition of rainmaking and examines the symbolism of the poet's assumption of the role of a traditional rainmaker in synthesizing human experience in his poetry.
Key words: eco-criticism; fertility rites; mythology; Nigerian poetry.
The experience of the periodic return of the year over the face of the earth has greatly impressed the human mind in all ages and cultures, and it has moved them to meditate on the causes of such wondrous transformations on the earth plane. Their concern cannot be taken for granted for even savages perceive the relationship of intimacy which their lives have with the life of nature, for instance, the same forces which engender drought stripping the earth of vegetation also threaten them with hunger and extinction.
Of all the changes which the seasons bring, the most striking ones are those that affect vegetation. Thus, in The Eye of the Earth, Osundare celebrates rain, "the giver and sustainer of life. As agent of the difference between plenty and famine, life and death, the rain occupied a godlike place in the consciousness of Ikere's agrarian people" (xiii). Osundare's preface provides the reader with an outline of The Eye of the Earth, and by offering such he has cleared some of the paths to his poetic experience. "Farmer-born and peasant-bred" in the agrarian landscape of Ikere-Ekiti in Ekiti State of Nigeria, the poet stresses the crucial import of rainfall to a peasant populace famous for its large scale production of yams, corn and cotton. Such a community must, of necessity, associate rain with fertility or as a fertilizing agent and Earth as the feminine principle, as the personification of all the reproductive energies of nature. She bristles with plants, seeds, crops, fields, trees and various forms of vegetable life. While the Earth personifies the regenerative power of female sexuality, rainfall represents the flow of celestial creative energy whose force is patriarchal, logical and conventional. In "Forest echoes" the poet states as follows:
The rains have kept their time this year
(Earth has [finally] won the love of the sky)
Trees bob with backward sap
and leaves grab a deepening green
from the scanty sun. (3).
The mythic embodiment of this type of association of rain with the fertility of the earth can be found in what Eliade (1975) calls "cosmic hierogramy", i.e. the marriage of Heaven and Earth, and the power of the periodic return of the year and all its revolutions.
The myth of Heaven that fertilises the Earth or the marriage between Heaven and Earth is a cosmogonic myth of wide cultural distribution. It is found above all in Asia, and America. In the Greek classic, Theogony, which has grand themes dealing with the creation of the world and the history of the gods, Hesiod tells us about a more or less similar myth. Ouranos (Heaven) unites with Gaia (The Earth) and the divine couple engender the gods, the Cyclopes and other monstrous beings. In Indian tradition, Indra personifies the supreme celestial patriarchal creative energy. Eliade (1975: 139) observed that Indra became the most popular of the Vedic gods, for he comprises all the forces and all fertilities. Indra embodies all the exuberance of life, of the cosmic and biological energies; he releases the waters and opens the clouds, quickens the circulation of the sap and the blood, governs all moistures and ensures all fecundities. He is the god "of a thousand testicles," the "master of the field," the "bull of the earth," fertiliser of the fields, of animals and of women. Whether we are reading of his thunderbolts that strike Vritra and release waters of the storm that precedes the rain, or of the absorption of fabulous quantities of soma, of his fertilisation of the fields or of his gigantic sexual potencies, we are being continually presented with an epiphany of the forces of life. From this, we can understand the creation of plants, trees and other forms of vegetation from the earth, for Earth, on her part, is the universal Genetrix and Nurse. She embodies the archetype of fecundity, of inexhaustible creativity and creates by cosmic marriage with Heaven. When, in rainfall, Heaven meets Earth, life bursts forth in innumerable forms at every level of existence. The cosmic union is an act of creation. It is at once cosmogony and biogenes, both the creation of the universe and the creation of life. Of special significance, in this regard, is the image of a divinely personified anthropomorphic being (the Sky) a great cosmic male and also of the Earth as Woman, as the Mother. As pointed out, the situation draws our attention to the tremendous telluric profundities, which generate various forms of life. She that nurtures all is invariably the mother of all. Mother Earth gives birth to and nurtures all things in creation. The cosmic marriage of Heaven and Earth in pluvial terms signifies the union of the creative powers of fertility.
In "Forest echoes", Osundare dropped completely into the wells and seas of folk tradition rendering visions of the mystery of life. The main issue is that people, over space and time, have always attached much importance to the fertility of the earth that is the source of their sustenance, vegetable and animal. One can therefore imagine their reaction when the fertility of the source of their lives is threatened by droughts. Their survival instincts led them to perform certain magical fertility rites which they believed could aid the earth, which is the principle of life, against the opposing principle of death (or drought). These rites are more widely and solemnly celebrated in lands which are prone to desert encroachment and drought such as Egypt, Asia and the land bordering the Eastern Mediterranean. In this regard, Frazer (1964: 341) observes "under the names of Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis and Attis, the people of Egypt and Western Asia represented the yearly decay and revival of life, especially of vegetable life, which they personified as a god who annually died and rose again from the dead." In the tropics also, many agrarian communities engage in this practice, but with a variation; they do not only celebrate the revival of life at the time of the spring equinox, but also resort to the magical rite of rainmaking whenever "the rains have kept their time" and drought persists beyond the vernal equinox.
One of the main functions of a primitive community's shaman or magician is to ensure an adequate fall of rain; this he does for the general well-being of the people. In traditional society, the rainmaker is an august personality who belongs to a special class of magicians whose main function is to regulate the heavenly water supply. Osundare, in The Eye of the Earth, assumes the role of shamanic rainmaker not only for the material good of his seed-planting and food-growing Ikere community but also for the symbolic salubrious enrichment of the citizens of the universe whose ultimate well-being depends on the fertility of the earth. The poet's concern is predicated on the fact that "Waters are dying, forests are falling. A desert epidemic stalks a world where the rich and ruthless squander earth's wealth on the invention of increasingly accomplished weapons of death, while millions of people perish daily from avoidable hunger" (xiv). The poet seems to imply that only rainwater can purify the earth, only the pluvial showers of heaven can restore and enrich an impoverished earth. Prior to fulfilling his self-imposed duties as a rainmaker, the poet, in "eyeful glances", concentrates on images of desolate aridity and coldness presented as active forces that threaten existence.
The desert caller
comes on a camel
of clouds
undulates through the dunes
of hazy shadows
gliding through the open welcome
of January's door
whispers urgent tidings
in the ears of my skin
a tree leaflets the sprawling lawn
a grass reads between the veins
and up they rise
against trampling feet
borrowing anthems from the whistling wind
a timid rain peeps behind the clouds
then recoils abandoning the world to the gruelling heat
of a hungry season. (23-24).
The time of the year, in this poem, is the "tinder season" of drought with
a few teasing drops
on earth's gaping lips
vanishing like droplets
on a sheet plate
hot with the forge's red rage. (23).
The "desert caller" stands for the northeast trade winds that blow from the Sahara and usher in the harmattan season, a season characterized devastating chilly winds. The northeast trade winds allude, mythologically, to Boreas, that fiery north wind that "stirs up the seas, crashes towering trees, freezes the snow and lashes the earth with hail." In its various manifestations (whether as harmattan winds, cyclones, tornadoes or hurricanes) Boreas is the proverbial ill wind that blows no one any good. The dust-laden harmattan winds bring, in their wake, excessive aridity and parchedness of the soil. This is how the poet reacts to this unattractive landscape of desolation:
dust in brewing kitchens
dust in eating halls
dust in busy bedrooms
dust in scheming boardrooms
dust in retrenching factories
dust in power brothels. (27-28).
Although the lines above do express some elements of pessimism, the images do not detract from the poet's songs for rain, for the world, at this time, fervently longs for the "waters of March" when "earth's pain would be soothed".
In The Eye of the Earth, "Let earth's pain be soothed" is the opening invocation of "rain songs" - the third movement in that volume. This poem is "for the one who brought rainy news from under-the-Rock" and it is "to the accompaniment of a flute and / or the rain drum" (27). This implicit statement by the poet serves to link the poem to the folk belief of the people of Ikere-Ekiti; it is an evocation of the primordial experiences of their ancestors. The Ikere-Ekitians revere the Olosunta Rock, which is regarded as a physical manifestation of the spirit of Olosun who, it is believed, dwells in the rock. It is to this enigmatic legendary hero of the town, "the owner of the rocky place" that this poem is dedicated. Olosun is he who "brought rainy news from under-the-Rock," he who when he was angry with the people of Ikere caused drought, famine and barenness to come to the town and the people suffered; he who when he was propitiated (with a sacrifice of cocks, hens, yams, goats and kola nuts) made the rain begin to fall, the springs begin to flow. The crops grew again so that Ikere-Ekiti did not die but lived on (Courlander 1973: 157-61). To the people of Ikere Ekiti, Olosunta, giver of life and vitality, is the embodiment of fertility. The poem, dedicated to that deity, opens with tremendous verve and on a telegraphic urgent tone, its mood is that of desperate longing for the procurement of a vital need. We are invited to the following lines in which the poet bursts forth in mellisonant rhythm "to the accompaniment of a flute and / or the rain drum."
The sky carries a boil of anguish
Let it burst
Our earth has never lingered so dry
in the season of falling showers
clouds journey over trees and over hills
miserly with their liquid treasure
Prostrate like famished horses
brown hills cast vacant looks
at balded plains where playing kids
provoke dust in what once was
the cradle of green
The sky carriers a boil of anguish
Let it burst. (27).
This ceremonial invocation is born of the realisation that one short period of little rain at the critical moment would result in loss of the labour of a whole year and in famine. The special inscription of the poem's unique accompaniment with "a flute and / or the rain drum" draws the poem into the sphere of homeopathic or imitative magic. This recalls the law of similarity whose fundamental principle rests on the fact that like produces like, and effects resemble their causes. From this principle, the magician is firmly rooted in his art and concrete belief that he is capable of producing any effect he desires merely by imitating it ab initio. Frazer (1964: 70) rightly points out that this is one of the methods by which rainmakers attempt to discharge the duties of their office. "If they wish to make rain, they simulate it by sprinkling water or mimicking clouds." The flute in Osundare's song would simulate the sound of the rain-bearing winds and the thunderous drumming would mimic the patter of pluviosity. The musical instruments serve to enhance, as it were, the status of the poet as rainmaker, a strategic poetic ally of the pluvial powers. Herein lies the symbolic posturing of the flute and the rain drum in the rain song.
The impact of the poem is further enhanced by an imaginative visual representation of its rendering as a traditional ritual sing-song based on the melodic structure of its versification. Inherent in the poem is the musical concept of harmonic rhythm, which admits of the rapidity of harmonic change with respect to rhythmic flow. To the lead chanter (poet, priest or shamanic rain-maker) could be assigned the invocatory petition imploring the sky to let go of its "boil of anguish" while the procession or congregation would echo the refrains which decry the misery of an arid landscape, and in the background would be heard the flutist and rain drummer at their best. It expresses the general values relating to rainmaking rather than an immediate part of an actual rainmaking process.
Some lines in Osundare's poetry also portray him as functioning within a tradition of rainmaking that is widely recognizable in some parts of the world. Frazer (1964: 74), for instance, wrote that among the Greeks of Thessaly and Macedonia, when a drought has lasted a long time, it is customary to send a procession of children round to all the wells and springs of the neighbourhood. At the head of the procession walks a girl adorned with flowers, whom her companions drench with water at every haltingplace, while they sing an invocation, of which the following is part:
Perperia, all fresh bedewed
Freshen all the neighbourhood; by
the woods, on the highway. As thou
goest, to God now, pray: O my God,
upon the plain send thou us a still, small rain
that the fields may fruitful be, and vines in
blossom we may see that the grain be full and sound, and
wealthy grow the folks around.
Similar lines recur in Osundare's "Let earth's pain be soothed" and it is here presented, open for analysis and comparison with Fraser's quoted reference above. The poet's lines read as follows:
Let it rain today
that parched throats may sing
that earth may heal her silence
that corn leaves may clothe the hills
that roots may swell the womb of lying plains
that stomachs may shun the rumble of thunder
that children may bath, and bawl and brawl. (28).
Perhaps, in this poem, one important contribution that has been made by Osundare to the understanding of the emotional symbolism of poetic themes is that concerned with the cosmic marriage between Heaven and Earth, which assures a fruitful harvest. In those poetic lines the action of the drama appears concentrated. Caught in their ecstatic urgency, we are made direct participants in the faith that this song for rainfall, which aims at relieving the pains of suffering humanity, has consequences beyond itself. It would bring new life not only to him who sings, but also to those for whom he sings with responsive feeling. Osundare, here beautifully re-enacts a traditional fertility rite of rainmaking, and in this, he symbolically functions as a shamanic rainmaker, a sort of human thunderstorm whose main concern is the good of the populace. His success in his self-imposed role finds expression in "First rain," the logical sequence of "Let earth's pain be soothed." It is here that the mystic relation between the suffering of the people (drought) and the victorious love of the poet (rain) and the fertility of the earth find expression in a celebration of auspicious rainfall:
A tingling tang awakes the nose
when the first rain has just clipped
the wing of the haughty dust.
as a cooling warmth embraces
our searching soles
as the land vapour rises
like a bootless infantry
through her liberated pores
our earth breathes again. (29).
How do we explain these flashes of brilliancy in poetic achievement? The eventual coming of the rain opens the planting season, and farmers always begin to sow with the first rains. The cosmic marriage has taken place; fertility and a harvest have been assured. The poet demonstrates this in "Rain-coming":
the early rains ring the bell
and the earth springs green
from the sleep of brown [...]
the rain unties the farmer 's tongue
bursting famine yawns
into barns of lilting yams
plums and pumpkins
dense with drink and daring
roll juicily from furrow to furrow. (30).
From this look at the poetry of Niyi Osundare, a discernible pattern (involving "cosmic hierogamy" fertility and increase) has thus been identified and established. We shall now re-examine our findings. It has to be noted that, in more concrete terms, what we know as reality has at its centre human beings and their actions; it has to do with people's relationship to nature, with other people as well as their interaction with those means and objects with which they conduct the ritual of daily living, and the advancement of their material circumstances and consciousness. It is the totality of these variables that gives a sense of environment to a work of art. It is thus in this light that we have to view, for instance, Osundare's assumption of his role as the community's rainmaker. He seems to have felt through the experience of traditional rainmakers and wrought it into expressiveness in his realistic picture of human beings' relationship to nature and the means that they employ to enhance their livelihood and well-being on the material plane. In his rainmaking role, the poet demonstrates that any intentional act far transcends the specific nature of the act. If you view rainfall as a process of spiritual regeneration and intentionally ritualise the practice, the benefits will be greater than if you see rainfall merely as a phenomenon of the weather, especially during the planting season. A shower of rain seen in its creative form in terms of the cosmic union between Heaven and Earth is tremendously beneficial; its fertilising power restores the earth to its natural responsiveness. Without the rains, we can live but for a brief time. As one of the most essential elements of our well-being rainwater plays a great role as a sustaining and enriching element in our lives. Thus, it is worthy of honour for its symbolic and physical qualities. This accounts for why, in Osundare's poetry, "rain songs" is "a celebration of the giver and sustainer of life" the "agent of the difference between plenty and famine, life and death," which "occupied a god-like place in the consciousness of Ikere's agrarian people."
Writing on the poet (as rainmaker), Robert Graves (1959: 124) observed that "his characteristics and history can be deduced from a mass of legends, folk-customs and megalithic monuments. He is the rain-maker of his people and a sort of human thunderstorm." In the light of the present study and Graves's observation, is it any longer considered inappropriate to surmise that Osundare, in The Eye of the Earth, functions consciously or unconsciously within the magico-religious universe of his community as shamanic rainmaker?
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Emma Ngumoha teaches at Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of English. His publications include Creative Mythology in Nigerian Poetry (Jemezie, 1998) and Folk Tradition in Okigbo's Poetry (Alphabet, 1998). E-mail: dreambonaski@yahoo.com
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Dainik Hawk | 1 Feb 2019 12:48 AM GMT
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday termed the Modi government's decision to provide 10 per cent quota to the economically backwards sections among upper castes as "historic" and said it will help provide justice to the poor.
Addressing the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members at the beginning of the Budget Session of Parliament, Kovind said: "This historic decision will serve as justice to those poor girls and boys, who due to poverty felt deprived of their rights." Kovind said that the government has been making efforts to get the Triple Talaq Bill passed which is currently pending in the Rajya Sabha.
"To help Muslim women get over a life of fear and give them the right to live like other women, my government is making efforts to get the Triple Talaq Bill passed."
He also spoke of efforts to expedite justice in cases of crimes against women and said capital punishment in aggravated rape cases has acted as a deterrent.
Tags: New Delhi President Ram Nath Kovind Modi government Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Budget Session Parliament
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This course develops around the notion of the human, presenting it not as a static category, but as a process which is constantly evolving. In the first part of the course, we will explore key concepts such as: evolution (Darwin), the overhuman (Nietzsche), technology (Heidegger). In parallel, we will address the notion of the posthuman which, in the contemporary debate, has become a key term to cope with the urgency for an integral redefinition of the human. The philosophical landscape which has developed, includes several schools of thought such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and New Materialism. We will explore the differences between these movements, entering actively into the debate.
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There's time for me to knock out a couple of quick reviews before my date with armchair sport this afternoon, so here's the first.
This is the recent split that was put out by Greek label Scull Crasher as well as the following collaborators - Goodbye Mankind, Scimmia Bastarda, Sick Punk productions, Deathcrush distro, Zas records, Aback, Alcoholic Desaster, We Don't Fight It. It features Greek black metal band Black Trinity and Italian crust band Cancer Spreading. Both bands contribute a song each to this release and as they're both new to me, I was eager to check this out.
Tracklist -
1. A Bleak Existence (Black Trinity)
2. A New Dawn's Prophecy (Cancer Spreading)
Starting with Black Trinity. They kick things off with a menacing black metal intro of groaning noises and church bells, before their necro sound kicks in. It's subtly anthemic black metal with blood curdling screams. The instrumentation sits below the vocals and underpins them nicely. It the sort of black metal that could be used to get troops ready for battle, such is it's intensity. The vocals can't be made out, due to their shrieking volume, but the overall sound that Black Trinity produce is really good and the production gives it a massive sense of authenticity and charm. It's also great to here some black metal from another part of the world, that isn't trying to be especially Scandinavian.
Cancer Spreading are a different beast altogether, with a crust-ridden song, which is half the length of Black Trinity's offering. The guitars chug along at a decent pace and the drums are furious. The vocals are low and there are some nice, screaming solos to keep you entertained. The vocals do lean slightly towards black metal, but there's also a death metal element to their sound too. It's really cool when two bands with varying sounds get together a release something, as it gives fans an opportunity to listen to bands they wouldn't have otherwise heard.
A great split from two different stylistic bands, which gives you a good excuse to take the left hand path and bask in unholy music from two awesome European bands.
You can stream and download this split for free via the Scull Crasher bandcamp page below:-
Βlack Trinity/Cancer Spreading-split ep by Scull Crasher records
You can also pick up physical copies of this release from Scull Crasher Records at http://scullcrasherdis.blogspot.co.uk/.
Goodbye Mankind can be found at http://uk.myspace.com/gbmkdistro
Scimmia Bastarda are at http://www.discogs.com/label/Scimmia%20Bastarda
Sick Punk Productions are at http://www.discogs.com/label/SickPunkProductions
Death Crush Records/Distro are at http://deathcrushdiyrecords.blogspot.co.uk
Zas Records are at http://uk.myspace.com/zasrec
Aback Records are at http://abackdistrorecords.blogspot.co.uk/
Alcoholic Desaster are at http://alcoholicdesaster.espiv.net/
We Don't Fight It are at http://wedontfightit.blogspot.co.uk/
Black Trinity have blog at http://theblacktrinity.blogspot.co.uk/
Cancer Spreading are on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cancer-Spreading
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1.1 Call for poultry vaccination
1.2 Seafood exports from India
1.3 Upgrading meat sector in Korea
1.4 Transatlantic database on pathogens launched
1.5 Indian food exports to comply with new legislations
1.6 China allows GM products
1.7 Russia lifts import duties on soya beans and corn
1.8 China to combat insecticide residues on food
1.9 Indian processed food exports
1.10 New system to ensure food safety in Beijing
1.11 Food park scheme in India
2.1 Rapid ID system
2.2 Advanced technology for colour control
2.3 New MAP analyser
2.4 X-ray system to detect contamination
2.5 On-line detection method
2.6 UV disinfection
2.7 Metal detector for mushrooms
3.1 New technology reduces need for toxicity test
3.2 Healthier soya oil
3.3 Technology helps realize innovative products
3.4 New antioxidant powerhouse
3.5 New yeast products
3.6 Edible adhesives
4.1 Integrated food law
4.2 India curbs import of vegetables and fruits
4.3 Russia plans import regulation
4.4 Nutrition claims law in Taiwan
5.1 Ozone system extends shelf-life of foods
6 MEAT/POULTRY PROCESSING
6.1 Measuring meat and fat composition in pork
6.2 Thawing meat and seafood
6.3 Safer meat
6.4 Pork analysis made simpler
7.1 Automated conveyor for pasta
7.2 Fruit pulp/juice processing line
7.3 Mini milk separator
7.4 Coating with breadcrumbs
8.1 Tamarind juice concentrate
8.2 Banana juice
9.1 Automated labelling and tracking solution
9.2 Carton multipacker
9.3 Can filling, seaming and sealing machines
9.4 New packaging system
9.5 Snack packaging solutions
9.6 New horizontal packaging unit
9.7 New filling and sealing machine
9.8 Bio-plastic
10 FOOD BIOTECH
10.1 Pork DNA traceability programme
10.2 Probiotic bacteria: A boon
10.3 Seeing the UV light
10.4 Gene chip for the food industry
11.1 Analytical Methods for Food Additives
11.2 Dairy Processing: Maximizing Quality
11.3 Shelf-life
Call for poultry vaccination
According to international animal and human health experts gathered for emergency talks at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a targetted vaccination campaign for poultry at risk of being infected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus may be required in heavily affected nations to control the epidemic from spreading. Issuing a series of recommendations after two days of discussions, the group of experts, which included representatives from the World Animal Health Organization and the World Health Organization (WHO), expressed that vaccinating animals is one method, along with culling and other priority measures, to contain the spread of the virus.
Delegates to the meeting agreed that targetted vaccination would help prevent animals falling ill and reduce the amount of virus present in the environment. Minimizing the so-called viral load would lower the potential of avian influenza spreading to humans, along with strict control measures like surveillance, elimination of infected birds, animal movement control and observation of basic hygiene in animal production. Experts voiced that the vaccination plan, using a vaccine that fulfils international quality standards, should be accompanied by clear monitoring and surveillance of the rapidly changing scenario. Recommendations issued by experts include the necessity for substantial international financial support to fund the intensified control measures required, including personal protective equipment and the creation of country-specific guidelines and regional coordination programmes.
Seafood exports from India
India is one of the leading exporters of marine products and occupied the 16th place among the top exporting countries during 2001, as per statistics published by the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Indian government has initiated several steps to raise exports, including:
Imparting training to aquaculture farmers to adopt sound management practices to prevent outbreak of diseases;
Schemes for extending financial assistance to the seafood processing industry;
Expansion of aquaculture;
Steps for upgrading processing facilities to fulfil international standards of hygiene and quality;
Assistance to produce value-added products for exports;
Participation by the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) in international fairs; and
Conducting overseas market surveys.
The government has also issued guidelines for operation of Indian-owned deep sea fishing vessels in the Indian Executive Economic Zone (EEZ). These guidelines allow import of deep sea fishing vessels by Indian firms for operation in the Indian EEZ to promote production mainly directed at exports.
Upgrading meat sector in Korea
In the Republic of Korea, the government has presented the first draft of its plan for the livestock industry, as part of the countrys agreement to comply with the World Trade Organizations Doha development agenda. The key focus of this plan is increased commercialization of the industry, upgrading hygiene and safety standards, improved effectiveness of animal epidemic prevention steps and the development of eco-friendly products. It is planned that by 2013, 20,000 specialist livestock producers will produce 85 per cent of livestock.
The new draft measures foresee the government placing emphasis on competitiveness, environment, safety, branding and product differentiation. A focal point is the nurturing of specialized brands, and strengthening product grading and quality management. Apart from production aspects, the government will also attempt to increase consumption and demand for local products.
Website: www.meatnews.com
Transatlantic database on pathogens launched
The worlds largest on-line database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been set up. Scientists with the United States Department of Agricultures Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the United Kingdoms Institute of Food Research (IFR) have jointly established ComBase. The database is designed to help facilitate easier risk assessments and model development. It combines two software packages ARS Pathogen Modelling Programme software, a research and instructional tool to estimate the effects of multiple variables on growth, inactivation or survival of foodborne pathogens, and the Food MicroModel jointly produced by IFR and the Foods Standards Agency, which is used to describe bacterial responses to food environments. At present, the new database contains about 25,000 growth and survival data records.Microbiologists in academia, government and industry can submit data to ComBase, thereby eliminating unnecessary repetition of experiments among laboratories, improving models and standardizing data sources.
Indian food exports to comply with new legislations
Exporters of food and animal feed will henceforth have to comply with a new legislation in the United States. The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act, 2002 came into effect from 12 December 2003. Making a presentation of the new law, the United States Agricultural Attache for India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka said that this was not a protectionist measure. He assured that the law would be applied equally to both domestic and imported products. The new set of regulation will include registration of food facilities, prior notice of imports by importers, maintenance of records of imports and administrative detention.
Website: www.poultrysolutions.com
China allows GM products
Chinas Ministry of Agriculture has awarded its first batch of safety certificates for genetically modified (GM) crops used for processing purposes in the country. This development is the result of a series of environment and food safety tests on seven GM crop strains from Monsanto Co., the United States. This first-ever approval for biotech products has broken down a key trade barrier between China and the United States. During the first five months of the current marketing year, soya bean sales to China reached 8.3 million tonnes, over a third of the total soya bean sales to all of the United States export destinations.
According to the Ministry, of the seven applications, five were granted safety certificates Roundup Ready soya beans, a version of Roundup Ready corn, YieldGard Corn Borer, Bollgard cotton and Roundup Ready cotton. The certificates are valid for 3-5 years. The other two, NK603 maize and Mon863 maize, were rejected. Processing is underway for another 11 applications from the United States-based DuPont and Dow AgroSciences, Bayer of Germany and Syngenta, Switzerland for GM rapeseed and maize. Seen by some as a strategy to control its import trade, China previously required traders to get temporary safety certificates, usually valid for a few months, if they had to import biotech grains.
Russia lifts import duties on soya beans and corn
According to the American Soybean Association, the Russian government is not imposing import duties on soya beans, corn and fishmeal for nine months, starting 26 January 2004. The United States Department of Agriculture has reported that as feedstuff demand grows along with the livestock sector, this action will open up export opportunities for the nations agricultural products. The government of Russia has revoked the 5 per cent import duty on soya beans, corn and fishmeal in order to boost imports of feedstuffs crucial for the development of Russias poultry and livestock industries.
China to combat insecticide residues on food
In China, the Deputy Director of the Market Circulation and Adjustment Department, Ministry of Commerce (MOC), has stated that though overall food safety in the country is good, problems such as insecticide residues on fruit and vegetables, and fake products persist in a few areas. In this regard, MOC is working with other ministries to establish a monitoring system. A network would collect and analyse data on food safety in slaughter houses, wholesale and retail markets.
China has promulgated over 200 laws, regulations or standards on food safety at national or regional levels, including two sets of new criteria on the wholesale and retail market for agricultural and related products. The government has expressed that a further 500 measures on food processing and distribution would be passed over the next five years. The latest initiative aims to highlight companies that maintain good records on food safety and hygiene, and to publicize on the Internet the companies that do not meet the criteria.
Indian processed food exports
Indian food exports stand at about US$6 billion as against the worlds total of US$700 billion. Total food production in India is expected to double in the next ten years. According to latest official statistics, India exported processed fruits and vegetables worth around US$100 million in recent years. Horticulture production is about 120 million tonnes. There is an increasing demand, especially in the Middle East countries, for products such as pickles, chutneys, fruit pulps, canned vegetables and fruits, concentrated pulps and juices, dehydrated vegetables, and frozen fruits and vegetables.
Meat and poultry products are the other processed food products with great export potential. India ranks first in the world in cattle production, with 50 per cent of buffalo population and one-sixth of total goat population of the world. Compared with livestock, the poultry industry has registered significant growth. India ranks fifth in the world with an annual egg production of 1.61 million tonnes. India exports egg powder, frozen egg yolk and albumin powder to Europe, Japan and other countries. Poultry exports are mostly to the Maldives and Oman. Indian poultry meat products have good markets in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Milk and milk products are rated as one of the most promising sectors suitable for foreign investment.
Beverage and Food World, February 2004
New system to ensure food safety in Beijing
Health supervisory authorities in Beijing, China, will introduce a selective investigation system among catering companies in a bid to cut down on the increasing number of poisoning scares in the industry. Forty-two cases of food poisoning were reported in Beijing during 2003, involving 751 people. More than 85 per cent of these cases were caused by unhygienic practices in food processing.
The new system will classify catering companies into four grades based on their cleanliness and hygienic practices. This would first be applicable to hotels and restaurants. Food companies with good hygiene conditions and at low risk of food contamination and poisoning would get A-grade certification, while those classified as D will have to suspend operation and clean up their facilities within a fixed period of time or face permanent closure. HACCP hygiene management system, which has been applied to 57 food suppliers, would be extended to some other sectors, including dairy producers, and meat and vinegar companies.
Website: www.zhb.gov.cn
Food park scheme in India
The Ministry of Food Processing in India recently announced a new Food Park scheme as one of several measures to avoid wastage in the food processing industry. Each of the proposed park, with a basic grant of about US$725,000, would have a minimum of 20 food and processing units. New small and medium enterprises, which find it difficult to make capital investment, can make use of the facilities in the food park. Even the food packaging industry can avail itself of the scheme or function independently, but use the 25 per cent subsidy. Well-built infrastructure for vegetables and fruits, cold storage for milk processing, fish and meat products, and warehousing for rice and flour mills are some features of the Food Park scheme. Twenty such parks have already been identified.
Rapid ID system
In Australia, CSIRO Plant Industry has developed a simple high-throughput testing system which accurately identifies wheat and barley varieties. The new system tests leaf or grain samples using a panel of DNA markers. Each marker gives a yes or no result. The pattern of results generates an individual bar code for each strain. Designed to be simple and accurate, even for very closely related varieties, the system can easily process hundred of samples in a day, outperforming previous tests in accuracy and throughput. The wheat variety ID test is licensed by Agrifood Technology.
Contact: Dr. Kevin Gale, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia. Tel: +61 (2) 6246 5317; E-mail: kevin.gale@ csiro.au; Or Ms. Sophie Clayton, Communication Officer, CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. Tel: +61 (2) 6246 5139; Fax: +61 (2) 6246 5299
E-mail: sophie.clayton@csiro.au
Website: www.csiro.au
Advanced technology for colour control
John Morris Scientific Pty. Ltd., Australia, offers Lovibond range of colour measuring instruments, which includes two new reflectance colorimeters that provide spectral data for quality control of surface colour. Lovibond RT100 consists of a compact, hand-held spectrometer unit with an integrated measuring head for precision colour measurement and control of regular surfaces. Lovibond RT200 also incorporates a similar spectrometer unit, supplied with a flexible fibre-optic measuring head for colour measurement of small areas, challenging shapes, relatively inaccessible places, etc.
Both RT100 and RT200 combine advanced micro-spectrometer technology with the computing power of a PC. Results can be expressed in a choice of colour values and colour difference measurements. Key features of the Lovibond RT Colour Measurement System software, which works under MS Windows 95/98/NT, include:
Displays a choice of colour spaces or reflectance curves;
Allows input and selection of reference values;
Includes a verbal indication of colour differences; and
Averages multiple measurements.
Contact: Mr. David Proudlock, John Morris Scientific Pty. Ltd., Australia. Tel: +61 (2) 9417 8877
E-mail: DavidP@johnmorris.com.au
Website: www.johnmorris.com
New MAP analyser
Niche Gas Products, Australia, offers a cordless single-handed oxygen analyser to check modified atmospheres in food packages. Oxybaby V is an ideal instrument for portable, fast and accurate sample testing of packed foods like meats, fish, sausages, dairy and bakery products, pasta, pizza and salads. Oxygen levels can be checked at any time by simply picking out a pack off the line and inserting a needle. Oxybaby V now has a needle protection device for improved OH&S. To record measurements, the device can be linked with the exclusive WITT-Logger software. Other features include full LCD display, improved ergonomic design, analysis via needle, integrated micro pump, easy-to-clean plastic case, automatic calibration and chemical measuring cell with a lifespan of about two years.
Oxybaby V oxygen analyser comes complete in a plastic carrying case, mains adapter, rechargeable batteries, two needles, two filters, 100 rubber seals, CD-ROM with WITT-Logger (demo version) and manual. It is made in Germany to BS EN ISO 9001.
Contact: Niche Gas Products, Australia. Tel: +61 (3) 9484 1490.
X-ray system to detect contamination
Applied Sorting Technologies, Australia, has designed and developed XR3000J X-ray contaminant detection system for inspecting products in glass jars. Based on the companys successful X-ray contaminant detection system, the new system can also be used to inspect block cheese and a variety of packaged foods. XR3000J can be installed immediately after the jar capping machine and directly on to the main jar conveyor line. It detects and removes any jars suspected of containing foreign bodies. Contaminants that can be detected include non-metallic fragments such as pieces of glass or stone below 3 mm in size, pieces of metal too small to be detected by conventional metal detectors and a variety of plastics and special purpose rubbers. In addition, this system can detect, at production sites, jars with improperly fitting lids and underfilled jars.
XR3000J is controlled by an embedded Pentium 4 processor running on Windows 98/2000/NT and operates unattended. Each filled and capped jar is imaged using low-intensity X-ray as it passes through the machine. The resulting images are analysed by the processor using a range of detection algorithms. An operator can call up the stored X-ray images of the rejected jars at any time and examine them visually. This can be done while the machine is still on-line, without disrupting its normal operation. The system complies with all relevant health and safety standards. Different inspection parameters can be set up for the various products to be inspected, ensuring the machine is always set up to optimum detection standards.
Contact: Applied Sorting Technologies, Australia. Tel: +61 (3) 9850 7622.
Food and Pack, November 2003
On-line detection method
Food Radar Systems AB, Sweden, has developed technology to detect most kinds of foreign bodies in foods. This breakthrough in on-line quality control of food products can detect contaminants such as glass, wood, plastic, bone, shells, cartilage, rubber, seed and metal. Foreign substances are detected in embedding material by transmitting low-power microwaves through the material. The transmitted microwaves are detected in such a way that the damping and run-time of the microwaves are available as measurement data. The near-field microwave radar can detect objects measuring 2-3 mm.
Contact: Food Radar Systems AB, Stena Centre 1D, 412, 92 Goteborg, Sweden.
Website: www.foodoresund.com
Haslington Cheese, the United Kingdom, has installed two ultraviolet (UV) disinfection tunnels to ensure all packaging surrounding cheese entering a high-care area is free of microbial contamination. The UV tunnels disinfect packed blocks of cheese before they pass into the high-care production area of the plant. According to Dr. Aidan Wilson, Technical Director, UV was chosen to keep the high-care area dry, thus ruling out the usage of chemical sprays or dips. Satisfactory experience with a duct-mounted UV unit set up in the air-conditioning system was another reason.
UV rays cause permanent deactivation of micro-organisms by destroying their DNA. This low-maintenance technology does not leave behind any residues on the disinfected material.
Contact: Hanovia, 145, Farnham Road, Slough, Berkshire SLY 4XB, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (1753) 515 300; Fax: +44 (1753) 534 277.
Metal detector for mushrooms
The worlds largest fully integrated, single-site mushroom farm is located in the United States. Creekside Mushrooms site includes a 241 km labyrinth of abandoned limestone tunnels nestled 300 feet underneath the hills of southern Pennsylvania where 11.3 million kilogrammes of fresh mushrooms, including speciality mushrooms such as portabellas, shiitakes, oysters and enoki are grown every year and 2,036 acres above ground. The company developed a comprehensive food safety and HACCP programme soon after opening in 1994. The programme is designed to prevent any chemical, microbiological or physical contamination from occurring while growing, harvesting, packaging or shipping the products.
Creekside has also installed metal detectors to further ensure safety. Though mushrooms are harvested by hand and there is minimal exposure to metals, contamination could potentially occur when the mushrooms are sliced. Two Eriez E-Z Tec metal detectors were installed for the fresh cut mushroom packaging lines. These units are designed to detect even the most minute ferrous, non-ferrous and stainless steel metals. Creekside has added three more E-Z Tec metal detectors for its retail packaging lines. To ensure accuracy, each detector and rejection device is checked and its operation verified prior to start-up of the lines.
Contact: Mr. Jeff Kaveney, United States of America. Tel: +1 (814) 8356 000
E-mail: jkaveney@eriez.com
Website: www.foodengineering.org
New technology reduces need for toxicity test
Researchers at DSM Food Specialities have come up with the Markergene-free expression system, which effectively makes it possible to insert any desired gene in an expression cassette, making efficient production feasible. DSM worked on the food-grade micro-organism Aspergillus niger that is used as a basis in the production of several food enzymes, including glucose oxidase, pectinase and glucoamylase. According to Dr. Gert Groot, DSM, the Markergene-free expression system for A. niger strains and production processes means that new enzymes can be produced without having any genetic markers in the production process. As a result, food manufacturers and other enzyme users can test and develop new enzyme-based products without the need for additional costly and time-consuming toxicity tests.
Healthier soya oil
Researchers at ARS Soya Bean and Nitrogen Fixation Research Laboratory, the United States, have developed new germplasm using traditional breeding methods. Oil from soya beans bred from this line of germplasm could one day compete with olive oils front-runner position as highest in heart-healthy levels of monounsaturated fats. Oil from the germplasm line has less than half the highly unstable polyunsaturated fatty acids present in commercial soya bean oils. The germplasm will be a useful resource for breeding soya bean varieties suitable for different growing regions.
Oil from the new soya variety contains increased levels of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat stable enough for use in salad dressings or frying oils without treatment by the hardening process known as hydrogenation. Such hardening is achieved by chemically adding hydrogen to a chain of oil molecules. Hydrogenation serves as a stabilizer to make oils suitable for use in solid products like margarines, breakfast bars and baked goods. However, it also creates less healthy trans-fatty acids.
Technology helps realize innovative products
Astaris LLC, the United States, offers Nutrifos line of technologies that provide poultry, meat and seafood processors as well as spice blenders the flexibility to quickly implement cutting edge flavour systems. The new procedures improve processing efficiency, consistency, moisture retention and flavour of poultry, meat and seafood applications.
As a core ingredient in marinades and spice blends, Nutrifos BC and 088 enable flavour systems to penetrate deep into the food product and enhance the consumers taste experience. Nutrifos BC dissolves concurrently with salt, unlike traditional sodium tripolyphosphates that require dissolution prior to the addition of salt. This shortens preparation and processing time, and eliminates a significant challenge in formulating complex recipes. Whether used in solution for injection, tumbling or soaking, or as part of a spice blend, Nutrifos technologies increase absorption of marinades into the muscle tissue of poultry, meat and seafood. This enables even and complete flavour distribution for a tastier product with excellent moisture retention.
Website: www.dairynetwork.com
New antioxidant powerhouse
An international team of scientists have developed a new family to antioxidants that are up to 100 times more effective than vitamin E. Antioxidants are molecules that counteract the damaging effects of oxygen in tissues and other materials. In vitro tests on cholesterol molecules demonstrated that the new antioxidants protected LDL molecules from oxidation, an indicator to its potential use in the fight against the onset of coronary artery disease.
The team describes the changes made to a-tocopherol, which is a phenol containing a ring made of six carbon atoms with a hydroxyl group (OH) attached. In addition to attaching a nitrogen atom to the ring, a nitrogen atom was substituted for one of the carbon atoms in the ring itself. With both substitutions, the resulting molecules, called pyridinols, are expected to be more stable in air. Initial tests showed that pyridinols did indeed act as effective antioxidants. By attaching a chemical group that makes pyridinols greasy, giving them a chemical affinity for fatty acids, chemists then combined their antioxidants with low-density lipoprotein and found that they appear to protect LDL molecules from oxidation.
Chemists are currently working to make pyridinols that appear as much like vitamin E as possible. Another project aims to make pyridinols that are water soluble, unlike vitamin E. Water soluble varieties should perform a role similar to that of vitamin C, trapping and destroying water soluble free radicals.
New yeast products
Overseals Yesto-Seal range has been developed to either replace or work synergistically with yeast extracts. Through careful selection of inactive dried yeast blended with natural flavours, Yesto-Seal offers cost-effective yeast blends that provide excellent flavour and also overcome many of the processing issues associated with yeast extracts. The new range is targetted for use to enhance savoury flavours in snacks, seasonings, soups and sauces.
Edible adhesives
In the United States, researchers at ARS National Centre for Agricultural Utilization have developed a sugar-based edible adhesive for a beverage packing company. The company needed a strong, flavourless, fast-curing, food-grade adhesive that could bond drinking straws to a special holder that is lowered into beverage cans, cartons and bottles before they are filled and sealed. At this point, the adhesive should dissolve or else the straws remain fixed to the holders instead of rising freely when the containers are opened.
The team opted for sugar because of its availability, familiarity to consumers and widespread use in beverages. Sugar is mixed with water and various organic acids and the mixture is boiled until the sugar and acids bond, or cross-link, forming a dark yellow adhesive. Tests were undertaken with 10 different sugars, including sucrose, lactose and maltose, and 12 organic acids such as citric acid, malic acid and tartaric acid. Results have shown that the adhesives bond to wood, metal, leather, cloth, glass, plastic, paper and other materials. Exposed to liquids, the adhesives lose their grip in about 20-60 min.
Website: www.sciencedaily.com
Integrated food law
The Indian government is contemplating on an integrated food law to curtail and specify the residue limit for pesticides in food products. According to the Minister for Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry had prescribed MRLs for 71 pesticides, raising the total number of approved pesticides to 181. At present, new pesticides are not being registered and MRLs would have to be stringently calculated before approval. The government is also considering amending the Prevention of Food Administration Act (1954) and PFA Rule (1955) to make them more stringent. The government is advocating integrated pest management, including need-based and judicious use of pesticides, use of bio-pesticides and banning or phasing out of certain pesticides.
Indian Dairyman, January 2004
India curbs import of vegetables and fruits
The Indian government has prohibited import of several seeds, fruits and vegetables from Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Sri Lanka, and forest plant trees from the United States because of the destructive pests and diseases carried by them. Plant material imports have been restricted to commercially significant crops like banana, potato, citrus fruits, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, cotton and coconut to official agencies only. Stringent new quarantine rules as well as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) certification norms have been stipulated for flowers and products like rice, wheat, grapes, apples, pears, citrus fruits, peas, coffee, chick peas, cotton and tobacco leaves. In addition, governments in exporting counties have to certify that their shipments do not contain pests and weeds not present in India.
To ensure protection from destructive diseases and pests, India has banned imports of planting materials of bananas from Hawaii, Central and South America, the Philippines and Cameroon; cocoa from West Africa, Sri Lanka and Tropical America; coconut from Africa, the United States, Central America, Caribbean and Sri Lanka; coffee from Africa and South America; date palms from Algeria, the United States and Morocco; forest trees like chestnut from the United States and Canada, elm from the United States, Canada, the European Union and Russia, oak from the United States, pine from North America; potatoes from South America; sugar cane from Australia, the Philippines, West Indies and Indonesia; and sweet potato from Israel, the United States, South Africa, New Zealand and Nigeria.
Russia plans import regulation
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister declared that, taking into account the situation on different markets for agricultural products, the work on improving the policy on customs tariffs will be continued to protect the nations agricultural producers from unfair competition. The proposed measures include regulating the import of sugar and meat, and increasing custom duty rates for meat imports outside quotas and to ban poultry imports outside quotas. A customs duty rate for sugar, which will automatically adjust depending on world sugar prices, is to be introduced for regulating the importation of raw sugar. In general, major plans of the Agriculture Ministry for 2004 include:
Introducing discounted tax rates for the agricultural sector on the basis of the new Tax Code;
Implementing a programme of financial reforms in the agricultural sector; and
Extending the programmes of loans, especially long-term loans, on the basis of interest rates subsidized by the government.
Nutrition claims law in Taiwan
A regulation on nutrition claims for conventional foods has been published in Taiwan, thus establishing criteria for certain nutrition claims. The types of claims are categorized into nutrition claims for appropriate need and supplementary intake need. Criteria are laid down for terms such as low, free, reduced, excellent source of, contains, rich in, etc. The regulations apply to conventional food only and not for foods in capsule and tablet form with limited daily intake labelling, health foods or special dietary foods.
Website: www.leatherheadfood.com
Ozone system extends shelf-life of foods
BOC Industrial Gases has developed a range of controls using ozone and ultraviolet technologies, cryogenic gases and modified atmosphere packaging. One is a custom-built ozone wash system, which easy to install and operate, that integrates seamlessly with food processing operations. This system allows plants to incorporate a validated antimicrobial process. It pays for itself several times over in extended product shelf-life.
Fresh Mark, known in the United States for its Superiors brand and Sugardale wieners (frankfurters), hams, bacon, smoked sausage and deli meats, has set up two ozone systems as a centrepiece for the pathogen reduction programme at its meat processing facility in Ohio. The systems include an on-site generator to produce ozone from ambient air, dissolve the ozone in the plants process water and disperse it through a spray system directly on to unpeeled wieners and food processing equipment like slicing logs. The use of ozone improves pathogen control and extends the products shelf-life.
MEAT/POULTRY PROCESSING
Measuring meat and fat composition in pork
A researcher at the United States Agricultural Research Service has developed technology to efficiently indicate how much lean meat or fat is present in a commercial cut. In lab-scale trials, dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has accurately shown the composition of pork carcasses. This non-invasive and quick procedure utilizes X-rays of differing energy levels to scan for soft tissue of varying densities. The DXA instruments scanned carcass cross-sections at a speed of 0.0768 m/s, compared with the processing chain speed of 0.166 m/s.
Thawing meat and seafood
QuickThaw Technologies Pty. Ltd., Australia, offers an alternative to microwave and water tempering of meat and other foods. The Morep QuickThaw system is a specially designed wind tunnel using super high-speed turbine fans to move warm air over the surface of materials in a controlled pattern and at velocities not possible in a conventional cooler. The heat transfer process is monitored by a series of probes placed in and around the material. The probes feed back real-time temperatures to a PLC, which analyses the data, calculates the rate of heat rise in the material and changes the conditions in the sealed chamber adding more or less heat or cold, adjusting air speed, etc. to achieve the defined goal.
QuickThaw also enables the processor to define the limits of acceptable temperature rise. Once the defined core temperature is reached, QuickThaw automatically converts from an active thawing mode to passive storage mode, where the air speed and temperature are reduced to a point that heat transfer is suspended, enabling equilibration while holding the material at the proper process temperature indefinitely. Once the process ends, the entire thermal history of the product, from the time it was loaded into the chamber until it is removed, can be downloaded to a computer for HACCP or quality assurance documentation.
Contact: Mr. Michael Sutton, QuickThaw Technologies Pty. Ltd., Australia. Tel/Fax: +61 (02) 9521 6416
E-mail: michaelsutton@ozemail.com.au
Website: www.defrost.dk
Safer meat
Innovative technology developed in Australia has brought Traceable T-bones to the dinner tables of consumers in Japan. Following the Japanese governments announcement that meat trace-back systems must be set up in all abattoirs, Food Science Australia (FSA) facilitated an agreement whereby a meat industry IT specialist company, Thorsys Australia, supplied the required equipment to Japans Okinawa Meat Centre. Trace-back units use computer-based technology designed to record data about animals as they enter the abattoir. They produce documents and bar codes to track meat through processing to the consumer.
Contact: Mr. Terry Farrell, Thorsys Australia. Tel: +61 (07) 3371 2788; Or Ms. Rachel Jackson, Publications and Communications, Food Science Australia, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. Tel: +61 (02) 9490 8397; Fax: +61 (02) 9490 8499
E-mail: Rachel.Jackson@csiro.au
Pork analysis made simpler
Agilent Technologies, the United States, offers a method that is particularly useful for high-throughput laboratories monitoring drug residues in food. Sulphonamides are broad-spectrum antimicrobials. Feed additives based on sulphonamide are the major cause of residue problems. The new method uses conventional equipment, requires minimal sample preparation and has a maximum injection cycle of 10 minutes.
Samples extracted using the new process, with acidified methanol, are centrifuged. A portion of the extract is diluted with water. Analysis of the dilution is conducted by high-performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization/mass spectrometry (LC/APCI/MS) using an Agilent 1100 series LC/MS system. A statistically derived detection limit of 10-25 ppb is feasible for samples analysed by water dilution.
Automated conveyor for pasta
Industrial Conveyors Australia has installed an automated conveying system at Pasta Masters facility, in the chilling areas to cool the product core without freezing the outer pasta layers. The chiller/freezer spiral conveyor has raised the companys product handling operation by eliminating time consuming manual labour. A key benefit of the new system is the achievement of continuous product flow in controlled temperatures and conditions as well as reduction of manual handling. The spiral conveyors have been designed and fabricated in accordance with all current applicable codes, hygiene standards and Occupational Health and Safety requirements.
Conveyors run through a two-stage blast chilling process designed to maximize and circulate air around the product and to provide additional chiller dwell time. The conveyor speed is adjusted automatically with variable speed motors and specialized motor balancing systems. Conveyor speed ranges from 2-20 m/min. The system uses a 350 mm white acetal side flexing modular belt. A Clean-in-Place system that incorporates both water and air blower manifolds are provided to hygienically clean and dry the belt when necessary.
Contact: Industrial Conveying, Australia. Tel: +61 (3) 5440 5100.
Food and Pack, October 2003
Fruit pulp/juice processing line
Goma Engineering Pvt. Ltd., India, offers equipment suitable for processing juice and beverages. Fruits are inspected, sorted, washed and transferred to a roller conveyor so that unwanted fruits are removed manually. The sorted fruits are then discharged into a washing machine and subjected to peeling and cutting before being conveyed to the pulping section using slat or bucket elevator. Next, the fine pulp is pasteurized either through tubular/spiraflow type/scraped surface heat exchanger. The hot pulp is later fed to the filling section where it is filled into cans using a rotary pump filler. Other equipment used in this section include can seamer, body reformer, can lid sealing, hand flanging and data embossing machines. The filled cans are fed into retorts for sterilization of the product. Other range of products available include homogenizers, crate washers, sanitary pumps, high-pressure reciprocating pumps and plate heat exchangers.
Contact: Goma Engineering Pvt. Ltd., L.B.Sastry Marg, Majiwada, Thane 400 601, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tel: +91 (022) 2534 6436/0875; Fax: +91 (022) 2533 3634
E-mail: goma@vsnl.com
Website: www.gomaengg.com
Mini milk separator
MTC3 mini milk separator is Westfalias smallest production separator designed for use in the dairy industry. Ideal for farm installation, for milk and whey skimming, this system has a rated capacity of up to 600 l/h and can fit easily into any bench-top or its own foundation frame. All contact parts are made using stainless steel. It is easy to use, runs on 3-phase power and requires minimal maintenance.
Contact: Mr. John Cook. Tel: +44 (1908) 576 512; Fax: +44 (1908) 311 384
E-mail: jcook@wsgb.co.uk
Indian Dairyman, December 2003
Coating with breadcrumbs
Koppens BV, the Netherlands, offers equipment for coating foods with granular materials, such as breadcrumbs. This system comprises:
A rotating conveyor belt, which is permeable to the granular material and on which the food product can be held;
Guide plates beneath at least a section of the top part and bottom part of the conveyor belt;
A feed unit for the granular material;
Diverter means to guide granular material from the top part to the bottom of the conveyor and back;
Means for conveying granular material from the top of the conveyor to the feed unit; and
A divider plate to which granular material is fed from the top of the conveyor, situated between the top and bottom parts of the conveyor and through which selected granular material is fed to the bottom part of the conveyor.
Contact: Koppens BV, 5760 AA Bakel, the Netherlands.
Website: www.foodsciencecentral.com
Tamarind juice concentrate
Researchers at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), India, has developed a process to manufacture a concentrate form of tamarind juice. Tamarind is used as a condiment in several culinary preparations. The new process involves extracting all the water solubles from the fruit pulp by boiling with water under optimum conditions, concentration of the clarified extract, under vacuum, to about 65-70 per cent solids and packing in suitable containers. The final product becomes quite viscous and sets to a jam-like consistency on cooling. Tamarind seeds available as a by-product could be converted into tamarind kernel powder, which is used for sizing in the textile industry.
Contact: Mr. T.R. Prabhu, Head of Technology Transfer and Business Development, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore 570 013, Karnataka, India. Tel: +91 (821) 2514 534; Fax: +91 (821) 2515 453
E-mail: ttm@cscftri.ren.nic.in
Website: www.cftri.com
Banana juice
An agro-food research assistant at the Pech-Rouge INRA Centre, France, has succeeded in manufacturing pure banana juice. Flash Detente technology comprises heating fruits to 90-95C and then subjecting them abruptly to extreme vacuum. This breaks down plant cells, thus facilitating juice recovery. The polyvalent process can also be applied to other fruits. Pure banana juice obtained (100 per cent banana without added water or sugar) presents all the characteristics of flavour and colour of fresh bananas, as well as their nutritional qualities.
Earlier to this breakthrough, it was possible to find only nectars, i.e. drinks comprising 25 per cent of banana pulp, water and sugar. A new company, Tropicaline, has been set up to exploit this recent innovation. Flash Detente technology is presently being employed for the pretreatment of grapes during the production of red wine.
Contact: Ms. Nathalie Minatchy, France. Tel/Fax: +33 (4) 6875 0792
E-mail: nathalie.minatchy@wanadoo.fr
Website: www.inra.fr
Automated labelling and tracking solution
Peacock Bros., Australia, has developed a solution for a customer who needed a processing and packaging system to identify individual palletized packaged products on a conveyor system and automatically apply two bar code shipping labels on opposite sides of each pallet. Each bar code contains EAN SSCC symbols with human-readable data. Before the pallet leaves the application area, all bar codes had to be scanned, verified and the data recorded into a SAP host database.
The solution devised by Peacock involves mounting two Weber 5200 printer/applicators on tripods with adjustable height settings and a variable reach arm that could travel up to 900 mm to adhere a printed label of 145 163 mm on the side of the shrink-wrapped pallet. Using Erwin Sick Rastor scanners, all bar codes were verified prior to moving the pallets into the dispatch loading area. An allowance was made within the application to apply a second label if the initial bar code label could not be read by the scanner. The end processing, packaging and labelling system solution proffered several benefits:
It removed double-handling of pallets to a single-step process;
Does away with the need for multiple manual paper work practices during the warehouse-to-prime mover processing packaging, verification and delivery steps;
Eliminated manual stock handling and sorting;
Enabled a quicker order to delivery time-frame, while reducing excess stock; and
It automated the accurate tracking and verification of products from warehouse to point of delivery.
Contact: Peacock Bros., Australia. Tel: +61 (1300) 723 282. (Food and Pack, October 2003)
Carton multipacker
KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau, Germany, offers an innovative packaging concept that provides top quality and maximum flexibility along with high savings potential. A decisive feature of the new Innopack CMP carton multipacker is that it eliminates the need for carton blanks to be delivered pre-glued. This initial processing step of forming multipack can be completed in the Innopack CMP. Another benefit is that buying the machine involves no obligation whatsoever to purchase cardboard packaging. Consumers can use variable cardboard packaging supplied by different manufacturers.
Innopack CMP processes all products that can be inserted into carton sleeves and can operate at speeds of up to 220 cycles/min. After pre-gluing and folding the cardboard blanks, the machine forms the carton sleeves by feeding the products through special allocation starwheels at a series of stations. Each of the allocation starwheels is equipped with its own independent drive, enabling the machine to react immediately and individually to any missing or faulty packaging. This ensures that the production flow is uninterrupted.
Contact: KHS Maschinen-nd Anlagenbau, Aktiengesellschaft, Juchostae 20, D 44143 Dortmund, Postfach 105026, Germany. Tel: +49 (231) 5691 339; Fax: +49 (231) 5691 226
E-mail: rueckstein.manfred@do.khs-ag.com
Can filling, seaming and sealing machines
Grabher Indosa Maschinenbau AG, Switzerland, is reputed for its reliable can filling, seaming, dosing and applying machines and production lines. Each production line is in tune with specific requirements of the consumer. Semi- and fully automatic seaming machines are offered by the company for round preserve cans, aluminium cans, tin cans and composite cans. The can seaming machine range includes systems for evacuating, gasifying and can seaming. The product feeding and filling systems offered include machines adapted for lumpy products, granulates, powders as well as low-flow products. They include:
Volumetric dosing machines (cup fillers);
Filling balances, vibrator channels;
Filling and compression device for tobacco in cans; and
Auger dosing machines with an integrated net weigher and check weigher.
The seaming machines also perform gluing-in or sealing-in cardboard bottoms into composite cans, closing glass jars with screw caps, fixing snap-on lids on cans, and inserting round/non-round plastic closures for aluminium, plastic and paperboard cartridges. Indosas sorting and feeding systems for insert and snap-on lids, caps, shakers and cans include slope conveyors, feeding canals, sorting devices, destackers, air cushion transportation, transference stations and conveying systems. The feeding and accumulation systems for cans include conveyors, accumulation tables, turning stations, rotation devices, lane distributors, palletizing and depalletizing of cans and glasses.
New packaging system
Edale, the United Kingdoms leading manufacturer of flexographic printing machinery, offers its new dedicated packaging press Sigma. Based on its predecessor, the E430/510i, Sigma is a shaftless machine equipped with servo technology. It incorporates an ultraviolet (UV) flexo shrink sleeve application developed for high-impact container decoration. To guarantee heat management of the substrate, the system can be equipped with a water-cooled UV drying system.
The company also offers a 4-colour UV flexo Alpha unit producing a cosmetic label on self-adhesive PP. The press runs in conjunction with a Matho waste management system that chops and compacts the matrix. This system is also available with up to five colours and a range of options, including cold foiling.
Snack packaging solutions
Langnese-Iglo, belonging to the Unilever Group, has launched a new packaging system that showcases the latest trend in smart packaging, where technology and design go hand in hand. Micro-Baguette is an example of the growing trend where smaller snacks, weighing typically under 150 g, are taking over from hamburger products. Langnese-Iglos 115 g Micro-Baguette system was originally designed to meet the quality and speed requirements of the snack food market. This packaging concept was created to guarantee crispiness of the contents as well as to be distinctive and make the product stand out from other package designs.
The package was developed with cooperation from Langnese-Iglos packaging development department (Germany), CC Pack (Sweden), Stora Enso (Finland) and Henry and Leigh Slater (the United Kingdom). CC Pack implemented the packaging concept, using Stora Ensos Trayforma board as the material for the tray. Special coated Trayforma is suitable for demanding applications where good formability and durability are needed, at temperatures from -40 to 230C. The inside of the board tray is laminated with susceptor film manufactured by Henry and Leigh Slater. Susceptor heats the baguette or pizza quickly, keeping it crispy while ensuring safety. This product is a lightly metallized PET film that converts microwave energy into heat.
New horizontal packaging unit
Ulma Packaging, Spain, offers a new high-speed horizontal packaging machine equipped with a host of features, making it suitable for a range of food packaging applications. Atlanta Hi-Tech is ideal for installing on an automated packaging line, as the machine is equipped with three independent servo motors controlling the jaws, film feed and infeed section. This system can pack up to 400 units/min and works with a large variety of films, including BOPP, PVC, polyester cellulose, complex laminates and cold sealing films. These films, together with the ability to create a packaging length of about 90-450 mm and 10-250 mm wide, provide users with an exceptional level of flexibility. A touch screen control console allows for the storage of up to 50 different product parameters and provides status information, including adjustments, along with diagnostics. Also available is a full Windows-based system.
Atlanta Hi-Tech is suitable for packaging numerous items including meat, poultry, fruit, vegetables, sweets as well as a variety of durable products. The ergonomically designed system is simple to maintain, including a removable plate for easy cleaning. Operating as either stand-alone or part of a packaging line, the system is available with a range of different feed applications, including semi- and fully automatic as well as the range of Dakota high-speed infeeds. Other functions include longitudinal trim, double roll film holders and a motorized carrier through the sealing jaws.
New filling and sealing machine
Packaging Automation, the United Kingdom, is set to unveil its latest filling and sealing machine that provides three key packaging functions in one. An integrated automatic denesting system enables pots and trays to be removed from the stack. Pots are automatically filled and then sealed using either a pre-cut lid (foil or polyester) or reel fed film lid. A closed loop monitoring system linked to a check weigher provides feedback to the machines PLC and in the event of underweight or overweight packs, it adjusts the fill volume automatically. A highly flexible pot handling and changeover facility allows for a wide range of different size packs to be accommodated.
Manufactured using stainless steel, the machine has been designed for easy cleaning; traditional bug traps are said to have been eliminated and the new model is compatible with most customers existing cleaning-in-place facilities. According to the firm, the systems high level of flexibility is expected to please producers of sauces, soups and ready meals for whom frequent product changeovers can hamper productivity. An optional modified atmosphere packaging facility also allows shelf-life of the products to be extended, where needed.
Beverage and Food World, October 2003
Bio-plastic
Cargill Dow, the United States, offers the latest technological development in the green packaging revolution, bio-plastic. The new packaging material, made from polylactide (PLA), looks just like plastic but is biodegradable. PLA is produced by fermenting the sugar in corn syrup into lactic acid; the acid is refined into spin fibres. Wild Oats Market Inc., the first grocery chain in the country to introduce this new addition to green packing, is promoting the technology by packing salads, desserts and deli products in bio-plastic containers.
In addition to food containers, PLA technology has already found a range of applications. Cargill Dows joint venture with Dow Chemical has successfully marketed the bio-plastics applicability in a broad array of bedding products such as mattresses, pillows, comforters and rugs. Additionally, emissions released during the production process is 15-60 per cent lower.
Website: www.earthvision.net
FOOD BIOTECH
Pork DNA traceability programme
A DNA traceability programme for pork, developed by Maple Leaf Foods Inc. of Canada, offers the Canadian pork industry with a major competitive advantage. The new programme allows Canadian pork marketed anywhere in the world to be traced back to the maternal sow. DNA traceability provides assurance to consumers that they are getting the best pork from the worlds healthiest hogs, raised under the third-party audited Canadian Quality Assurance programme.
Maple Leaf worked with Pyxis Genomics Inc. in the R&D phase of the DNA traceability project for developing a panel of highly informative genetic markers. By combining well-proven fingerprinting technology, enhanced with its own innovation, Pyxis successfully developed a gene panel that provides the foundation for the pork traceability system, which can accurately and rapidly trace pork products back to the farm of origin. The system can also be applied for meat from other animals. Maple Leaf and Pyxis have chosen Orchid BioSciences to develop an assay for analysing the genetic marker panel and to implement a quality accredited laboratory process that will deliver rapid, high-throughput DNA analysis. Orchids proprietary genotyping and service testing expertise is expected to deliver cost-effective, accurate and rapid high-volume genetic analyses for animal food safety applications.
Contact: Maple Leaf Foods Incorporated, Canada.
Website: www.mapleleaf.com
Website: www.ibm.com
Probiotic bacteria: A boon
Researchers at the University of California, the United States, report that the digestive system can derive the same benefit with the presence of DNA from probiotic bacteria as when live bacteria are present. Mr. Eyal Raz and colleagues studied the effect of probiotic bacteria on mice with colitis, a condition similar to inflammatory bowel disease in humans. They found that the bacteria were just as effective when inactivated with gamma radiation as when live cultures were used. A similar scenario was observed when mice were treated with a synthetic DNA molecule known as an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide, which mimics the effect of bacteria on the immune system.
This new discovery may allow the health benefits of probiotic bacteria to be incorporated into a range of different types of foods, or even pills and injections. Live bacteria are generally restricted to products such as dairy foods, since cooking or heating the culture kills them. According to Mr. Raz, live probiotics are not the best way to deliver the DNA.
Website: www.nature.com
Seeing the UV light
Ultraviolet (UV) rays inactivate E. coli bacteria by degrading their cell walls and DNA. Researchers have further uncovered that in direct contrast to pasteurization, the sensory quality of food products is not affected by irradiation. Also, inactivation of the bacteria lasted for the entire shelf-life of the product. Heat pasteurization often affects both the flavour and consistency of food. Scientists working on the project hope that this represents a breakthrough in the fight against foodborne pathogens.
Gene chip for the food industry
BioMerieux sa, France, has developed a version of gene chips, invented by the United States-based Affymetrix, aimed at food producers, processors and retailers who want to check the source of products or monitor food safety. FoodExpert-ID is sensitive enough to detect the difference between tuna caught in drift-nets, which also tend to kill dolphins, and alba tuna, the more expensive fish that is caught using a more eco-friendly method. The new chip can even differentiate between duck and goose meat. Implications for the food industry, which is now more responsive to demands for ethical and hygienic food, are enormous.
While Affymetrix has been able to put the entire sequence of the human genome on a single chip the size of a thumbnail, BioMerieux puts just a few genes on cheaper chips. FoodExpert-ID will be marketed and produced under licence from Affymetrix.
Contact: BioMerieux sa, F-69280 Marcy IEtoile, France. Tel: +33 (4) 7887 2000; Fax: +33 (4) 7887 2090.
Website: www.biomerieux.com
Analytical Methods for Food Additives
Accurate measurement of additives in food is essential to fulfil both regulatory requirements and the need of consumers for accurate information about the products they eat. This book addresses the methods of analysis for 26 major additives, from azorubine and adipic acid to sunset yellow and saccharin. Each case reviews current studies to establish the best available methods and how they should be used.
Dairy Processing: Maximizing Quality
This book reviews key developments and their impact on product safety and quality. Part I summarizes the latest research on the constituents of milk, reviews how agricultural practice influences the quality of raw milk and delves into key aspects of safety. Part II reviews some of the major technological advances in the sector.
For the above publications, contact: Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Abington Hall, Abington, Cambridge CB1 6AH, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (1223) 891 358; Fax: +44 (1223) 893 694
E-mail: sales@woodhead-publishing.com
Shelf-life
This book provides essential information in a concise format to help tackle day-to-day problems related with the shelf-life of foods. Topics covered include introduction to the shelf-life of foods, ways in which food deteriorate and get spoiled, mechanisms of deterioration and spoilage, moisture/water vapour shelf-life, frequently asked questions and much more.
Contact: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., c/o. Marston Book Services, P.O. Box 269, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4YN, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (1235) 465 500; Fax: +44 (1235) 465 555
Website: www.blackwellpublishing.com
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Roosh V gives up: With no one paying attention to him any more, the pickup artist puts down his flagship website
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Roosh V, sadly realizing his 15 minutes are up
By David Futrelle
Roosh V is having another sad. Just three weeks after Amazon stopped selling nine of his books, the date rape expert, baking enthusiast and former Most Hated Man in the World has decided to shut down his flagship Return of Kings website. In a post on the site today, Roosh announced that
I’m putting ROK on an indefinite hiatus so I can take a break from the daily grind of maintaining the site. I don’t know when the hiatus will end.
The reason? A mixture of deplatforming and nobody giving a shit about him any more.
The first factor for this hiatus is that site revenues are too low. We’ve been banned from Paypal and countless ad partners, which forced me to lay off the site editor last year and also lower payments to regular contributors.
Huh. Apparently deplatforming hate sites works.
This started a negative spiral of declining content quality, site traffic, and revenues.
“Declining content quality?” Dude, the “content quality” on Return of Kings was a big fat zero to begin with. How exactly can something get worse than worst?
Even the beloved comments section, which many see as the highlight of ROK, was badly hit when Disqus banned us. Currently, ROK receives half the traffic of its peak and less than one-fifth of the income.
Your schtick has gotten old and tired, dude.
The second factor is that I’m burned out. Keeping ROK updated, writing books, posting articles on my blog, doing live streams, and maintaining the forum has put too much on my plate.
Aw. Work is hard.
Out of everything on that list, working on ROK has become my least favorite activity because duties are centered more around editing other people’s work than creating my own.
I can see why he might feel burned out editing crap for his crap site every day. I feel tired just skinning the headlines on Return of Kings.
I’m sure many of you understand that we are in the early stages of a censorship wave that will sweep through society. Scoundrels like myself get banned first, and then soon the hammer will come down on anyone who dares to share the truth.
Roosh wants us to believe that “censorship” — by which he means getting kicked off of platforms like PayPal for violating their rules on hate speech — is driving him out of business. While it’s certainly true that deplatforming makes life more difficult for hate-speechifiers like Roosh, that’s not why his traffic is down.
No, that slump in traffic is far more likely to be the result of two other factors. The first has nothing to do with Roosh himself: the fact is that traffic has fallen considerably at independent media sites across the political spectrum due in large part to changes Facebook has made since the 2016 election to the way it handles its news feed. (Indeed, Facebook used to be the single biggest social media source of traffic for We Hunted the Mammoth by far, but now it’s been overtaken by Twitter. )
But I’m guessing that most of the fall in Roosh’s traffic can be attributed to the fact that people — Roosh fans and Roosh critics alike — have just gotten sick of his shit.
Roosh first gained notoriety as a pickup artist selling a distinctly rapey kind of dating advice, winning himself worldwide infamy after a supposedly satirical article calling for the legalization of rape on private property. For a time, Roosh was able to successfully monetize his notoriety with endless outrage-by-the-numbers clickbait articles on Return of Kings.
But ultimately it became clear to his fans and critics alike that the profoundly unoriginal Roosh had run out of things to say, and they stopped paying attention to him. Even his publicity stunts don’t garner him any publicity any more. It’s hard not to be reminded of the famous Onion headline: “Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People.”
The weirdest thing about Roosh’s decline and fall is that it’s not like misogyny has gone out of style. To the contrary. While Roosh bemoans the unfairness of a world that no longer cares what he says, Jordan Peterson is soaking up all the attention once given to Roosh and then some; meanwhile, other internet misogynists who came up alongside Roosh — most notably Mike Cernovich and Stefan Molyneux — seem to have little trouble getting people to listen to them. The difference? For better or worse, these guys know how to keep it fresh.
Hopefully all of these terrible men will end up no more than footnotes in hisotry. In the meantime, let’s wish Roosh Godspeed on his journey to oblivion.
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Dormousing_it says:
I checked out RoK a little while ago, just to see the depths to which it had sunk. My 2 favorite article titles are: “35 Pretty Girls Who Became Fat and Ugly” and “If You Hate the Patriarchy, Give Us Back Our Electricity”.
I realize I may have given him views, but if the site is dead…
@Kat:
One of my favorite Urban Dictionary entries is for the phrase “Ketchup Dick” – a volunteer firefighter. I laughed guiltily, given that I may one day need their services.
Oh, and like I mentioned above, there’s always the bake sale idea. Maybe his mommy will help.
Yamara says:
@Katamount
A wide net, but a narrow cast: Anyone not for white male supremacy. As weirdwoodtreehugger pointed out, Roosh may have found himself proscribed by those standards. Especially by the ‘miscegenation’ crowd.
Yuuuup. Much like crank magnetism, bigotry magnetism is a thing.
Scildfreja Unnyðnes says:
It’s amazing how little this matters now.
I mean, imagine if this happened three years ago. We would’ve had a week-long celebration. The comment thread would be a thousand long by this point. It would’ve been a party. Now? Who cares, there are so many more important things.
I guess it makes sense – it’s been a long, slow slide into irrelevancy for Elam and Roosh and their unwashed ilk. This is just the footnote showing the end of that era.
On to the next! Let’s make the Alt Right the next footnote to plant in the ground.
Lumipuna (nee Arctic Ape) says:
I understand Roosh is still trying to drag on his “ebook hustle”, promoting himself on a personal blog and some obscure community forum. ROK was less directly related to himself, so it’d make sense to handle it as a separate (now undeniably failed) enterprise.
This reminds me of a depressing article I read a while back about the comedian Gallagher. He was depicted as trying to keep his performing career going, despite an increasingly obvious lack of interest by the potential audience. As Robert Frost put it in “Provide, Provide”:
“No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard
Or keeps the end from being hard.”
Pie says:
Hmmm… as much as I’d like to join in on the schadenfreude, I can’t help but be a tad concerned. Because as Dave points out, the only reason Roosh failed really, beyond sheer laziness, is that he didn’t diversify his hate portfolio. If he had broadened his appeal into the anti-Semitism, Islamophobic anti-immigrant animus and transphobia, he might have been able to keep up a Patreon following (unless he was banned there too).
As WHTM posts passim have documented, he did try and expand into other flavors of bigotry… he just a) wasn’t very good at it, b) he just wasn’t white enough and c) he tried to claim he was a muslim to cast his detractors as islamophobic bigots.
Here’s a few from the archives.
http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/12/20/roosh-v-hates-muslims-loves-ancient-muslim-wisdom-on-feral-unconstrained-women/
http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/08/13/roosh-v-prepares-for-toronto-by-pretending-to-be-muslim-urging-followers-to-have-sex-with-feminists/
http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/02/24/roosh-v-shocked-to-discover-that-white-supremacist-movement-is-full-of-white-supremacists/comment-page-1/
His act was stale when I was in junior high. It took me a few seconds to remember that he was the smash-o-matic guy, who crushed watermelons during his act.
jfredlee says:
Hey, Karma’s a cold-eyed bitch, eh, Roosh V? I would tell you that you’re in my thoughts & prayers (Hell, I even did THAT for Ted Cruz.) But there are s-o-o-o many other people and sites worth emoting over, that…well, I just don’t have ANY fucks to expend on your behalf.
Bina says:
@Dormousing_it:
My 2 favorite article titles are: “35 Pretty Girls Who Became Fat and Ugly” and “If You Hate the Patriarchy, Give Us Back Our Electricity”.
Snurk. Well, I know one man who’s aging very poorly, even if he’s not fat yet (hi, Roosh!), and as for electricity, I wasn’t aware that it was theirs. As I understand it, the stuff occurs in nature and can be readily generated by anyone with the proper equipment, as many off-grid friends have pointed out to me.
There’s a reason that site is dying, and it’s not because the alt-righturds stole its thunder. I don’t suppose I’m spoiling anything when I say it never possessed so much as a dim, distant rumble of thunder to begin with.
Also, it seems to me that the majority of men are going with progress, rather than this whole “me Tarzan, you should count yourself lucky” regression. Or at least the ones I’d rather hang out with are…
weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee says:
I think all those articles on how Trump supporters can’t find dates have falsified once and for all the “chicks only date assholes” hypothesis. It’s got to make the promises of PUA ring even more hollow now that everyone knows that women actually aren’t pining away for angry misogynists.
Z&T says:
@ Gijoel, &
@ Nikki,
“Kiss him goodbye” alternative lyrics:
Get high!
In case anyone hasn’t heard this version 😀
Pseudonym says:
Some part of me was hoping that the breadmaking thing might signal the start of Roosh actually doing something useful for a change. But no.
This is actually huge.
Sir Hasbeen Roosh says:
I can’t help but wonder if Roosh’s announcing his hiatus was also a furtive attempt to see how much outrage it would create. Maybe he was hoping that news outlets everywhere would go “Roosh is stopping indefinitely, come back!!”. Maybe his “indefinite” hiatus will depend on how much interest people show during his absence, and if no interest is garnered, then maybe “indefinite” will turn into “permanent”, at least I hope so.
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Evo nešto što spada u ostala čuda: Diznijevi R&D inženjeri od biljaka prave... er... daljinske upravljače? Muzičke instrumente?
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Ukratko:
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Tasp.
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For the study, the super-mice were trained to find chocolate milk in a maze. The genetically humanized mice learned the route just as well by seven days as regular mice did by 11. Not bad. MIT News reports:
The first phase of this type of learning requires using declarative memory, or memory for events and places. Over time, these memory cues become embedded as habits and are encoded through procedural memory — the type of memory necessary for routine tasks, such as driving to work every day or hitting a tennis forehand after thousands of practice strokes.
Using another type of maze called a cross-maze, [the researchers] were able to test the mice's ability in each of type of memory alone, as well as the interaction of the two types. They found that the mice with humanized Foxp2 performed the same as normal mice when just one type of memory was needed, but their performance was superior when the learning task required them to convert declarative memories into habitual routines. The key finding was therefore that the humanized Foxp2 gene makes it easier to turn mindful actions into behavioral routines. [emphasis added]
In other words, the FOXP2 gene accelerates learning in mice by enhancing the transitions from declarative to procedural memory.
And by isolating this one gene, the researchers are not only shedding light on its function, but also on how it may have led to the evolutionary changes that resulted in the unique capabilities of the human brain.
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How blind people use batlike sonar
Blind from infancy due to retinal cancer, Daniel Kish learned as a young boy to judge his height while climbing trees by making rapid clicking noises and listening for their echoes off the ground. No one taught him the technique, which is now recognized as a human form of echolocation. “He just used it, without knowing that he behaved like a bat,” says Lutz Wiegrebe, a neurobiologist at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.
Like Kish, a handful of blind echolocators worldwide have taught themselves to use clicks and echoes to navigate their surroundings with impressive ease—Kish can even ride his bike down the street, as his daring YouTube videos show. A study of sighted people newly trained to echolocate now suggests that the secret to Kish’s skill isn’t just supersensitive ears. Instead, the entire body, neck, and head are key to “seeing” with sound—an insight that could assist blind people learning the skill.
Bats and other animals that rely on sounds to detect prey in the dark move their ears much like humans use their eyes to track an object of interest, making constant adjustments to their ear positions. When bats echolocate, they emit rapid-fire, high-frequency clicks (usually out of range of human hearing), then swivel their ears like radar dishes to catch the echoes, a system sensitive enough to detect objects as thin as a human hair and tiny, night-flying insects. Unlike bats’ large, mobile ears, however, human ears are small and fixed—an obstacle to blind people who use their ears to “see.”
To test the extent to which people can compensate for this immobility, Wiegrebe and colleagues recruited eight undergraduates with normal vision to don blindfolds and learn some basic echolocation skills. The students were first taught to produce sharp, high-frequency clicks with their tongues. Then they were blindfolded and led into a long, narrow corridor, where they practiced sensing the position of the walls based on how long it took for an echoed click to reach their ears. Although some people are more naturally talented than others at echolocation, most got “quite good” after 2 to 3 weeks of training, Wiegrebe says, and could reliably orient themselves to walk down the corridor without running into any walls using just clicks and echoes.
Next, the researchers created a virtual version of the corridor to test how important head and body movements, rather than hearing alone, had been to the students’ accuracy. Blindfolded subjects sat in a chair wearing headphones while a computer program simulated the acoustics of the real-life corridor when they clicked into a microphone. To ensure that the acoustics of the simulated room were realistic, the researchers asked two blind echolocation experts to navigate it first; both were quickly able to orient their bodies toward the center of the aisle.
The blindfolded students were also instructed to use their clicks and echoes to line up their bodies with the center of the corridor. In one test, they were told to rotate the virtual corridor without making any head or body movements, using a joystick. In another, the corridor was fixed and participants were allowed to swivel their chairs and heads to determine their position in the room.
The difference between the two conditions was stark, Wiegrebe says. When the participants couldn’t move their heads or torsos, they zigzagged down the virtual hall and were unable to self-correct before hitting a “wall.” When the corridor’s position was fixed and their bodies and heads were free to move, however, the novice echolocators soon righted themselves, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The virtual corridor is a “very creative” way to determine just how important body movements are to echolocation, says Lore Thaler, a psychologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom. The findings fit well with her own recent study, which showed that head movements can enable blind echolocation experts to sense an object’s contours, she says. The research also provides a new way of studying echolocation that can’t be done in animals, she notes. After all, “a bat can’t use a joystick.”
Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions—whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes. “It’s not magic.” Though the research is still in its early stages, he hopes that a virtual reality program similar to that used in the study will eventually help blind people learn to use echolocation in the safety and privacy of their homes.
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Elem, postoji mineral za koji se smatra da čini do jedne trećine zapremine zemljiene kugle (!!!) a koji do pre neki dan nije imao ni ime niti ga je iko dotakao:
Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material on Earth
The most abundant material on Earth didn’t have a name, and, in fact, hadn’t been seen—until now. For the first time ever, scientists have gotten their hands on a sample of bridgmanite, a mineral that is believed to make up more than a third of the volume of the Earth. As you might expect with a seeming paradox like that, bridgmanite exists deep within Earth—it’s the material that is believed to make up the vast majority of the lower mantle, Earth’s widest layer, which runs from roughly 410 to 1,796 miles beneath the Earth’s surface. Overall, it makes up roughly 36 percent of the Earth’s volume.
But, like many minerals from deep within the planet, scientists had never seen it. In a new paper published in Science late last week, Oliver Tschauner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his team describe bridgmanite for the first time.
“Despite appearing for decades in numerous experimental and theoretical studies, characterizations of possible natural samples have not been sufficient to meet International Mineralogical Association criteria for naming new minerals,” Tschauner wrote. “Consequently, any detailed chemical, structural, and petrographic analysis of natural [bridmanite] has remained impossible.”
We haven’t suddenly figured out how to drill hundreds of miles beneath the Earth’s surface without destroying bridgmanite samples (which are volatile unless highly pressurized by something), and a bridgmanite sample wasn’t launched out of the lower mantle with a volcanic explosion or some other phenomenon. Instead, Tschauner found bridgmanite within a shocked meteorite—one that had undergone an intense, short period of pressurization.
“Hypervelocity impacts on meteorite parent bodies cause short pulses of very high pressures and locally high temperatures that melt and transform meteoritic materials into the same high-pressure phases that make up the deep Earth,” Thomas Sharp, a researcher at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration wrote in an accompanying article about the discovery.
By looking within shocked meteorites, scientists have been able to observe and categorize a few different deep-Earth minerals. But something from within Earth is obviously preferable. Earlier this year, for instance, scientists found the first naturally occurring sample of ringwoodite, which was trapped inside a diamond that had been expelled in Brazil.
Ringwoodite is a mineral that is prevalent in the “transition zone” between the upper and lower mantles. Within that sample, scientists found trapped water, a finding that suggests there is a subterranean ocean that may hold more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined.
Tschauner’s description of bridgmanite gives us no such insights about the inside of the Earth, other than to confirm what scientists believed to have been true for quite some time: The mineral exists, and it can occur naturally under highly pressurized conditions.
Millions of GMO insects could be released in Florida Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases. Never before have insects with modified DNA come so close to being set loose in a residential U.S. neighborhood.
"This is essentially using a mosquito as a drug to cure disease," said Michael Doyle, executive director of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, which is waiting to hear if the Food and Drug Administration will allow the experiment.
Dengue and chikungunya are growing threats in the U.S., but some people are more frightened at the thought of being bitten by a genetically modified organism. More than 130,000 people signed a Change.org petition against the experiment.
Even potential boosters say those responsible must do more to show that benefits outweigh the risks of breeding modified insects that could bite people.
"I think the science is fine, they definitely can kill mosquitoes, but the GMO issue still sticks as something of a thorny issue for the general public," said Phil Lounibos, who studies mosquito control at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory.
Mosquito controllers say they're running out of options. With climate change and globalization spreading tropical diseases farther from the equator, storm winds, cargo ships and humans carry these viruses to places like Key West, the southernmost city in the continental U.S.
There are no vaccines or cures for dengue, known as "break-bone fever," or chikungunya, so painful it causes contortions. U.S. cases remain rare.
Insecticides are sprayed year-round in the Keys' charming and crowded neighborhoods. But Aedes aegypti, whose biting females spread these diseases, have evolved to resist four of the six insecticides used to kill them.
Enter Oxitec, a British biotech firm that patented a method of breeding Aedes aegypti with fragments of genes from the herpes simplex virus and E. coli bacteria as well as coral and cabbage. This synthetic DNA is commonly used in laboratory science and is thought to pose no significant risks to other animals, but it kills mosquito larvae.
Oxitec's lab workers manually remove modified females, aiming to release only males, which don't bite for blood like females do. The modified males then mate with wild females whose offspring die, reducing the population.
Oxitec has built a breeding lab in Marathon and hopes to release its mosquitoes in a Key West neighborhood this spring.
FDA spokeswoman Theresa Eisenman said no field tests will be allowed until the agency has "thoroughly reviewed all the necessary information."
Company spokeswoman Chris Creese said the test will be similar in size to Oxitec's 2012 experiment in the Cayman Islands, where 3.3 million modified mosquitoes were released over six months, suppressing 96 percent of the targeted bugs. Oxitec says a later test in Brazil also was successful, and both countries now want larger-scale projects.
But critics accused Oxitec of failing to obtain informed consent in the Caymans, saying residents weren't told they could be bitten by a few stray females overlooked in the lab.
Instead, Oxitec said only non-biting males would be released, and that even if humans were somehow bitten, no genetically modified DNA would enter their bloodstream.
Neither claim is entirely true, outside observers say.
"I'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter," said Lounibos.
Creese says Oxitec has now released 70 million of its mosquitoes in several countries and received no reports of human impacts caused by bites or from the synthetic DNA, despite regulatory oversight that encourages people to report any problems. "We are confident of the safety of our mosquito, as there's no mechanism for any adverse effect on human health. The proteins are non-toxic and non-allergenic," she said.
Oxitec should still do more to show that the synthetic DNA causes no harm when transferred into humans by its mosquitoes, said Guy Reeves, a molecular geneticist at Germany's Max Planck Institute.
Key West resident Marilyn Smith wasn't persuaded after Oxitec's presentation at a public meeting. She says neither disease has had a major outbreak yet in Florida, so "why are we being used as the experiment, the guinea pigs, just to see what happens?"
Chemists find a way to unboil eggs
Univ. of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites—an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published in ChemBioChem.
“Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,” said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. “In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold. We start with egg whites boiled for 20 min at 90 C and return a key protein in the egg to working order.”
Like many researchers, he has struggled to efficiently produce or recycle valuable molecular proteins that have a wide range of applications but which frequently “misfold” into structurally incorrect shapes when they are formed, rendering them useless.
“It’s not so much that we’re interested in processing the eggs; that’s just demonstrating how powerful this process is,” Weiss said. “The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material.”
But older methods are expensive and time-consuming: The equivalent of dialysis at the molecular level must be done for about four days. “The new process takes minutes,” Weiss noted. “It speeds things up by a factor of thousands.”
To re-create a clear protein known as lysozyme once an egg has been boiled, he and his colleagues add a urea substance that chews away at the whites, liquefying the solid material. That’s half the process; at the molecular level, protein bits are still balled up into unusable masses. The scientists then employ a vortex fluid device, a high-powered machine designed by Prof. Colin Raston’s laboratory at South Australia’s Flinders Univ. Shear stress within thin, microfluidic films is applied to those tiny pieces, forcing them back into untangled, proper form.
“This method … could transform industrial and research production of proteins,” the researchers write in ChemBioChem.
For example, pharmaceutical companies currently create cancer antibodies in expensive hamster ovary cells that do not often misfold proteins. The ability to quickly and cheaply re-form common proteins from yeast or E. coli bacteria could potentially streamline protein manufacturing and make cancer treatments more affordable. Industrial cheese makers, farmers and others who use recombinant proteins could also achieve more bang for their buck.
UCI has filed for a patent on the work, and its Office of Technology Alliances is working with interested commercial partners.
Source: Univ. of California, Irvine
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First almost fully-formed human brain grown in lab, researchers claim
Research team say tiny brain could be used to test drugs and study diseases, but scientific peers urge caution as data on breakthrough kept under wraps
An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State University. The team behind the feat hope the brain could transform our understanding of neurological disease.
Though not conscious the miniature brain, which resembles that of a five-week-old foetus, could potentially be useful for scientists who want to study the progression of developmental diseases. It could also be used to test drugs for conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, since the regions they affect are in place during an early stage of brain development.
The brain, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, is engineered from adult human skin cells and is the most complete human brain model yet developed, claimed Rene Anand of Ohio State University, Columbus, who presented the work today at the Military Health System Research Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Read more Previous attempts at growing whole brains have at best achieved mini-organs that resemble those of nine-week-old foetuses, although these “cerebral organoids” were not complete and only contained certain aspects of the brain. “We have grown the entire brain from the get-go,” said Anand.
Anand and his colleagues claim to have reproduced 99% of the brain’s diverse cell types and genes. They say their brain also contains a spinal cord, signalling circuitry and even a retina.
The ethical concerns were non-existent, said Anand. “We don’t have any sensory stimuli entering the brain. This brain is not thinking in any way.”
Anand claims to have created the brain by converting adult skin cells into pluripotent cells: stem cells that can be programmed to become any tissue in the body. These were then grown in a specialised environment that persuaded the stem cells to grow into all the different components of the brain and central nervous system.
According to Anand, it takes about 12 weeks to create a brain that resembles the maturity of a five-week-old foetus. To go further would require a network of blood vessels that the team cannot yet produce. “We’d need an artificial heart to help the brain grow further in development,” said Anand.
Several researchers contacted by the Guardian said it was hard to judge the quality of the work without access to more data, which Anand is keeping under wraps due to a pending patent on the technique. Many were uncomfortable that the team had released information to the press without the science having gone through peer review.
Zameel Cader, a consultant neurologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, said that while the work sounds very exciting, it’s not yet possible to judge its impact. “When someone makes such an extraordinary claim as this, you have to be cautious until they are willing to reveal their data.”
If the team’s claims prove true, the technique could revolutionise personalised medicine. “If you have an inherited disease, for example, you could give us a sample of skin cells, we could make a brain and then ask what’s going on,” said Anand.
You could also test the effect of different environmental toxins on the growing brain, he added. “We can look at the expression of every gene in the human genome at every step of the development process and see how they change with different toxins. Maybe then we’ll be able to say ‘holy cow, this one isn’t good for you.’”
For now, the team say they are focusing on using the brain for military research, to understand the effect of post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.
Horses can use symbols to talk to us
There will never be a horse like Mr. Ed, the talking equine TV star. But scientists have discovered that the animals can learn to use another human tool for communicating: pointing to symbols. They join a short list of other species, including some primates, dolphins, and pigeons, with this talent. Scientists taught 23 riding horses of various breeds to look at a display board with three icons, representing wearing or not wearing a blanket. Horses could choose between a “no change” symbol or symbols for “blanket on” or “blanket off.” Previously, their owners made this decision for them. Horses are adept at learning and following signals people give them, and it took these equines an average of 10 days to learn to approach and touch the board and to understand the meaning of the symbols. All 23 horses learned the entire task within 14 days. They were then tested in various weather conditions to see whether they could use the board to tell their trainers about their blanket preferences. The scientists report online in Applied Animal Behaviour Science that the horses did not touch the symbols randomly, but made their choices based on the weather. If it was wet, cold, and windy, they touched the "blanket on" icon; horses that were already wearing a blanket nosed the “no change” image. But when the weather was sunny, the animals touched the "blanket off" symbol; those that weren’t blanketed pressed the “no change” icon. The study’s strong results show that the horses understood the consequences of their choices, say the scientists, who hope that other researchers will use their method to ask horses more questions.
Ne deluje spektakularno kao druga čuda navedena na ovom topiku ali zapravo je potencijalno vrlo korisno:
Soybean nitrogen breakthrough could help feed the world
Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
Bees Can Learn to Play “Soccer.” Score One for Insect Intelligence
Small as they are, bumblebee brains are surprisingly capable of mastering novel, complex tasks
Bees, despite their sesame seed-sized brains, are smarter than we think.
“Often people view insects as unthinking machines,” says Clint Perry, a biologist who studies the evolution of cognition in insects at Queen Mary University of London. Science has recently challenged that human-centric assumption, by revealing that the busy buzzers can use tools, count to four, learn “foreign languages" and even experience some semblance of sugar-derived happiness—traits usually associated with larger-brained animals.
Now, Perry and his colleagues have released the results of a creative new experiment in which they essentially taught bumblebees how to play "bee soccer." The insects’ ability to grasp this novel task is a big score for insect intelligence, demonstrating that they’re even more complex thinkers than we thought. Moreover, they did it all not just in spite of their tiny brains—but because of them.
For the study, published in the February 23 issue of Science, researchers gave a group of bees a novel goal (literally): to move a ball about half their size into a designated target area. The idea was to present them with a task that they would never have encountered in nature. Not only did the bees succeed at this challenge—earning them a sugary treat—but they astonished researchers by figuring out how to meet their new goal in several different ways.
Some bees succeeded at getting their ball into the goal with no demonstration at all, or by first watching the ball move on its own. But the ones that watched other bees successfully complete the game learned to play more quickly and easily. Most impressively, the insects didn't simply copy each other—they watched their companions do it, then figured out on their own how to accomplish the task even more efficiently using their own techniques.
The results show that bees can master complex, social behaviors without any prior experience—which could be a boon in a world where they face vast ecological changes and pressures.
Knowing some of the things bees are capable of might also inspire humans to do a bit more to aid their survival, adds Perry. “We often put ourselves atop a hierarchy, where we're smart and we have large brains, and anything far removed from us physically or morphologically, especially animals with small brains, must be not smart,” he says. “Understanding that bees and different insects have more complex cognitive abilities can allow us to appreciate them more. And it might help our efforts to manage living with them a little better.”
Previous research has shown that bees can learn from one another when performing tasks that resembled the forging and other behaviors they perform in the wild. For example, Perry and colleagues reported last year that bees could teach each other to pull strings attached to faux flowers for a tasty reward. But Perry wanted to test whether bees could truly learn a behavior unlike anything their evolutionary ancestors were likely to have performed.
“Even more complex tasks like communication or navigation are genetically preprogrammed and not really flexible,” he says. “What we really wanted to do is to test something unnatural, as far removed as we could outside what they would normally do.”
Scientists gained some insight on just how the bees learned by changing up the conditions of the game. For some bees, researchers provided no demonstration at all of the game’s objective, but merely a reward if the insect somehow succeeded. Two individuals still figured out the task, but most struggled. Other bees were shown a “ghost demonstration,” in which the ball moved to the goal controlled by a magnet. Around 80 percent of the bees learned to complete the task this way.
The most effective method was having bees learn by watching a previously trained bee perform the task. Every single bee that was taught this way learned the game correctly, and learned more quickly than the others. But the bees not only copied their companions—they also improved on what they'd seen and added their own flair to complete the task more efficiently.
There was one cognitive leap that especially impressed Perry and colleagues. In the bee demonstrations, demonstrator bees were trained with a setup in which only the farthest away of three balls was mobile, meaning they always moved that most distant ball. Untrained bees then watched a demonstrator perform the task in this same way, three times. Yet when they were given a chance to perform it on their own, they moved the closest ball—even though they'd never seen it moved before.
“Yesterday [co-author Olli J. Loukola] and I were wondering whether we would actually pick a closer ball,” Perry says. “If we were in a similar test with basketballs at a gymnasium would we try the closer ball or just go to the one that we saw someone use successfully? I think that I would probably just copy what I saw because I wouldn't want to risk not getting the reward.”
The new study helps demonstrate that how an animal thinks depends on its lifestyle, says Felicity Muth, a bumblebee researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno. Although the ball-rolling behavior isn't part of a bee's life, the cognitive powers that make it possible are a product of that environment, she says.
“We have this assumption that animals that look more like us are capable of complex cognition,” says Muth, who studies the cognitive basis behind bee foraging. “And it doesn't work like that at all. Bees have to learn things constantly … a bee can visit thousands of flowers in a single day and they can learn what colors of flowers have certain rewards. Bees learn shapes, patterns, textures. They can even detect the electromagnetic field of a flower and make associations with different fields.”
NASA has even sent bees into space, and found that they rapidly adapt their flight patterns to a near-zero gravity environment.
David Roubik, a bee expert at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, adds that bees can not only see and imitate another moving object, but they also gather olfactory, tactile and even auditory information as well.
“Learning takes place, for the social bees at least, on the broad stage of foraging and interacting with the outside environment, and doing a variety of other things, in more or less total darkness, within the nest interior,” he notes. “Because the same bee will have both venues to pursue, if it lives long enough, an acute adaptive flexibility is required. This is evidently what has taken place, in a novel new setting, in the bumblebee study reported here.”
Bees are well-known for the social dynamics and swarm intelligence that exists within the hive, a system that Thomas D. Seeley dubbed “honeybee democracy.” In 2010 book by that title, he investigates the bees' heated debates and collective decision making on life and death issues, such as how to choose sites for new colonies and navigate to them en masse. Honeybees are also famed for their booty-shaking method of communication, in which workers use symbolic gestures to describe and recruit others to a particularly tasty food source or promising new nest site.
The insects will need all of these intellectual strengths to deal with the multifaceted threats that have decimated many populations. A two-year study released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations last year reports that growing numbers of bee and other pollinator species worldwide are threatened by extinction. That’s bad news not just for pollinators, but for us: The same report estimates that 75 percent of the world's food crops depend on pollination, at least in part, and the annual value of the crops directly impacted by pollinators may top $500 billion.
Could bees’ surprising cognitive abilities help them to overcome such vast challenges? Perry says that their flexible minds may well help them adapt in smaller ways, like accessing food in new environments. But when it comes to the larger changes that are reshaping their ecosystems—climate change, pesticides and agricultural or urban development—it’s up to us to do the adapting. “I think most of the bigger problems they face are ones we'll have to deal with,” he says.
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting to Integrate
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Stable plasma ring created in open air for the first time
https://youtu.be/Ht0_Kkx5-YU
Harvard and MIT scientists have built robot muscles that can lift 1,000 times their own weight
‘Mind’s eye blink’ proves ‘paying attention’ is not just a figure of speech
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Best Practices on Data Definitions
ALL TOPICS ARE STILL ON DISCUSSION!
1 Overview of the Best Practice agreements
3 Streamlining and harmonising reporting requirements in Europe
4 Harmonisation topics
4.1 Decimals, Precision, Decimal separator, Percentages
4.1.1 Precision and decimal attributes
4.1.1.1 Definition
4.1.1.2 Business case
4.1.1.3 XBRL Perspective on the Business case
4.1.1.4 EUROFILING Best Practice Perspective
4.1.2 Units
4.1.3 Numeric items
4.1.4 Percentages
4.1.5 Currency conversion
4.2 Threshold/tolerance margin
4.3 Nil, null, zero and blank values
4.4 Non-numeric items: definition and values
4.5 Reporting entity identification
4.6 Report type (Solo, Consolidated, other options)
4.7 Audit status
4.8 ID and tagging of cells and (sub)totals
4.9 Administrative data and feedback parameters
4.10 Character codification (UTF-8 or others)
Overview of the Best Practice agreements
Precision / decimal attributes TWO DECIMALS, decimals="2". All monetaryItemType (or derivates) figures shall be reported in cents: 1755.89 equals 1755.89 Euro, or 1755 Euro and 89 Cents (or the currency actually used).
Percentages Percentages shall be reported between 0 and 1, with decimals="4". A ratio of 18,78% shall be reported as 0.1878 (1878 Basic Points).
Foreign exchange reference rates Common practice is the reporting of conversion rates with up to six significant digits, following the standard on Euro conversion rule for irrevocable rates.
Threshold/tolerance margin The tolerance shall be set to 1000 Euro (or the currency actually used), implying that 12500 Euro is considered as anything between 11500 and 13500 Euro when executing business or calculation rules.
Nil, null, zero and blank values Numeric values including zero are to reporting as facts in an instance. Unknown or not applicable information should not be included in an instance.
Non-numeric items: definition and values String, date, time and boolean shall be based in W3C datatypes as published in http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
Reporting institution identification To be defined in "Eurofiling Header"
Report type (Solo, Consolidated, other options) To be defined in "Eurofiling Header"
ID and tagging of cells and (sub)totals To be defined in "Eurofiling Header"
Administrative data and feedback parameters To be defined in "Eurofiling Header"
Character codification (UTF-8 or others) It is recommended to use only "UTF-8" for the CEBS XBRL reporting.
While national reporting frameworks that collect regulatory reports formulated on both IAS/IFRS and the Capital Requirements Directive are all based on the CEBS Guidelines on Reporting, each national implementation varies from one country to another. Therefore, CEBS has launched a project on the harmonization and streamlining of supervisory reporting frameworks with the aim of delivering the EU-wide reporting formats as requested by the ECOFIN.
The IT harmonisation started in 2005, with the development of the COREP and FINREP electronic reporting formats, the so-called XBRL taxonomies. A number of european countries are now using these formats (with national options as deemed necessary), on either a mandatory or optional basis. Currently, the existing technology makes feasible the use of EU-wide harmonised formats, including the validation of most of the reports from the banks, thereby reducing the number of invalid filings and thus speeding up the remittance process. The experience has clearly demonstrated the feasibility to make use of EU-wide harmonised formats. National options are not precluded, albeit with some effort and provided the rules have been strictly followed.
Streamlining and harmonising reporting requirements in Europe
The harmonising of supervisory data definitions is a necessary, but not sufficient condition, to enable an EU-wide harmonization at the IT level. A questionnaire, answered by most of the EU supervisors, shows the need for further harmonisation of IT details.
The CEBS XBRL Operational Network is aware of a lot of implications to harmonise also the XBRL reporting based on COREP and FINREP in Europe. This document lists several reporting issues where a common view of European Banking Supervisors using XBRL is needed and therefore the CEBS XBRL Operational Network recommends to find agreements between the Banking Supervisors involved. The reporting impacts for an harmonised reporting across Europe are described below:
Harmonisation topics
Decimals, Precision, Decimal separator, Percentages
Precision and decimal attributes
XBRL Specification states that in the case of numerical values it is necessary to specify either a decimals or precision attribute so they must not occur together on the same fact element. The CEBS XBRL Operational Network recommends the use of the decimals attribute instead of precision for numerical values in instance documents based on COREP or FINREP taxonomies. The integer value of the decimals attribute defines the number of decimal places to which the value may be considered accurate. It answers the question on how many digits the banking supervisor can trust because the value might be a result of rounding or truncation.
XBRL 2.1 Specification example:
decimals="2" The value of the numeric fact is known to be correct to 2 decimal places. If a value of 10 is reported than the value can range between 9.995 and 10.005
decimals="-2" The value of the numeric fact is known to be correct to –2 decimal places, i.e. all digits to the left of the hundreds digit are accurate. If a value of 2002000 is reported than the value can range between 2001950 and 2002050
XBRL parsers rely on the decimals attribute to process the rounding of fact values. While consuming instance data, numbers with the desired degree of precision can be produced by the financial regulator. This mechanism is important when aggregated values must match with the sum of its child item values depending on the rounded number of decimals. For rounding differences that cannot be preclude, each financial regulator defines thresholds for minor rounding variations.
Most financial regulators predefined the accuracy of the data to be reported, ie. in thousand or million. To ease the composition of the data for the reporting institut, the unrounded values of the database can be put into the fact and the decimals attribute defines how the value should be rounded.
The rounding is being done while consuming the data by the financial regulator.
The table below shows how the decimals might be set for a defined accuracy:
in thousand decimals="-3"
in million decimals="-6"
accurate value decimals="INF" or decimals="2"
percent decimals="2"
Multinational financial institutions underlying different supervisors must comply with the requirements set in different countries. Often these requirements differ. Regarding the reported values some countries ask for numbers expressed in thousands or millions but some require precise numbers expressed together with cents (or their equivalent). The accuracy of required numbers impacts the validation of these numbers on reporting gates of the supervisors. Especially for multinational financial institutions which use the same set of numbers to report to different supervisors it can lead to issues.
XBRL Perspective on the Business case
The issue mostly concerns the calculation linkbase not being able to calculate properly numbers with a given value of the decimal attribute.
Example below uses two supervisors (1 and 2) and a multinational bank reporting to both of them.
Elements A=B+C+D are modelled in the core taxonomy.
Supervisor 1 imposes use of decimals="2" and supervisor 2 imposes use of decimals="-3".
Multinational bank has following data in their system:
A=4000.00
B=1300.00
C=1300.00
D=1400.00
and reports these numbers to both supervisors.
The validation for supervisor 1 (decimals="2") will conduct a calculation for 1300+1300+1400=4000 and produce result "valid".
The validation for supervisor 2 (decimals="-3") will conduct a calculation for 1000+1000+1000=4000 and produce result "not valid". The instance document will be not accepted at the gate. To be accepted this multinational bank has to change one of the numbers.
For example it would require the bank to change the data from the system (which can be reported without issues to supervisor 1) to:
for supervisor 2. This leads to another issue if a bank is allowed to report two different set of numbers to two supervisors.
EUROFILING Best Practice Perspective
The background for the reporting of values in thousand and millions is historical and with regard to paper-based reports. Most of the reporting in Europe is actually being done electronically, so there is no need to ease the filling of reports by requesting only the main parts of an amount. As explained above, reporting accurate values reduces the complexity of rounding. Another argument for more precise amounts is the definition of rounding thresholds for calculations. Most of the European supervisors use variable thresholds. Sometimes also depending on the number of items included in the calculation or depending on the rounding definition (thousands, millions). Depending on the grade of accuracy of the amounts, smaller thresholds can be defined to adjust the rounding differences.
Agreeing on a certain value of the decimals attribute and establishing this as a best practice for EUROFILING will help financial institutions deal with creating instance documents. From the current perspective the greater common nominator required by the European supervisors is decimals="2". The established common practice could use this value.
An alternative to the use of decimals="2" would be decimals="INF" accepting for calculations the values with accuracy as reported. This can however lead to later problems in the databases of supervisors where certain accuracy is allowed (by the field/record definition). If a financial institutions reports numbers with for example 10 digits after comma (1999.3333333333) and the validation engine rounds/truncates the number in the ETL process the inconsistency in calculation will be still in place.
Numeric items have a unitRef attribute to be reported in an instance. Units that are referred have to be declared in the instance. According to XBRL rules monetary items must have a unit of measure from the ISO 4217 namespace of currencies. The unit "pure" could be used for dimensionless numeric items like percentages or rates. It is recommended by FRTA (2.7.4) to use standard units to increase the comparability of numeric items.
Numeric items
An XBRL numeric value is defined as an optional sign “+” or “-”, followed by one or more decimal digits (“0” to “9”) and, optionally, a decimal point “.” followed by zero or more decimal digits.
More formally, the definition on Extended Backus-Naur Form is:
<digit> = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9" ;
<number> = [ "+" | "-" ] { <digit> } <digit> [ "." { <digit> } ] ;
Examples: 0 +0. 1234 -1234 1234.56 +123456.7890123456
The decimal separator or decimal point or decimal comma is a symbol used to mark the boundary between the integral and the fractional parts of a decimal number in a positional numeral system. In the XBRL 2.1 recommendation, the period (.) it is used as the decimal separator.
A scale factor is a constant multiplier such as thousands, thousandths, etc. Scale factor MUST NOT be used (FRTA (2.7.5)). This means that is simply a matter of including enough zeroes before or after the decimal point so as to represent the fact correctly in the instance.
Percentages should be rounded to four decimals. Rates, percentages and ratios should be reported using decimal rather than in percentages where the value has been multiplied by 100. As percentages are reported between 0 and 1, a ratio of 18,78% should be reported as 0.1878 with decimals="4".
Currency conversion rates are not yet used in the EUROFILING reporting and the definition will be discussed when this topic comes up in the future. Common practice is the reporting of conversion rates with up to six significant digits, following the standard on Euro conversion rule for irrevocable rates.
Threshold/tolerance margin
To avoid rounding errors, tolerances must be applied. For the first case, so monetaryItemType (or types derived from this type), the tolerance should be set to 1000 Euro, implying that 12500 Euro is considered as anything between 11500 and 13500 Euro when executing business or calculation rules.
For percentages, the tolerance level is of course different. Here a tolerance of 0.0005 (0.05%) should be applied, implying that 0.1233 is equal to anything between 0.1228 and 0.1238 or 12.33% is considered as anything between 12.28% and 12.38% when executing business or calculation rules. If this seems too strict, 0.001 (0.1%) could be considered as a tolerance; this would imply that 0.1233 (12.33%) is considered as anything between 0.1223 (12.23%) and 0.1243 (12.43%).
Nil, null, zero and blank values
The nil attribute of XML Schema is used to allow facts to be reported with a "null" value to indicate that an information is unknown or an inapplicable information and this should be reported explicitly with an element.
The nil value doesn't appear as element content, instead an attribute is used to indicate that the content is nil. If the nil attribute is set to "true" in the XML schema than the attribute xsi:nil = "true" must appear in an element hat has no element text content.
In the actual COREP taxonomies all nil attributes are set to "true". This is also the recommendation of FRTA (2.1.6).
This table shows the different possible solutions to report zero, null and not applicable information:
zero value The value of the fact is "0". <p-cm-ca:CapitalRequirements precision="INF" unitRef="EUR" contextRef="ctx_1">0</p-cm-ca:CapitalRequirements>
null value The value of the fact is not known or can't be received. <p-cm-ca:CapitalRequirements xsi:nil="true" unitRef="EUR" contextRef="ctx_1"></p-cm-ca:CapitalRequirements>
equivalent to: <p-cm-ca:CapitalRequirements xsi:nil="true" unitRef="EUR" contextRef="ctx_1" />
not applicable information The value is an inapplicable information. The fact doesn't appear in the instance.
Best Practice: It is recommended not to distinguish between unknown and inapplicable information in the CEBS reporting.
Numeric values including zero are to reporting as facts in an instance. Unknown or not applicable information should not be included in an instance. The according fact should be left out. If a fact with a nil attribute is sent then the value should be treated as not existing and to be ignored.
Non-numeric items: definition and values
Non-numeric items are items that are not numeric, as string, text block, boolean, date or other. The facts reported in an instance on basis of these items doesn't contain unitRef or precision/decimal attributes. All XBRL specific numeric and non-numeric item types are listed in the XBRL 2.1 Specification .
In COREP these items are used to put in codes which give a special meaning to a number. In many cases, reported information is to be used for further processing, like aggregation or filtering. Non-numeric values therefore should be limited as much as possible to an exhaustive list or restricted by a pattern. From the European Banking Supervision perspective only a few non-monetary item types are considered as useful.
Best Practice:
stringItemType: This XBRL item type is based on the string datatype of W3. Defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#string It is recommended to use only free string item types and maintain restrictions and other patterns in the Formula Linkbase. Changes on the validation won't have influence on the main taxonomy and the maintenance is more convenient in a linkbase.
dateItemType: This XBRL item type is based on the date datatype of W3. Defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date
timeItemType: This XBRL item type is based on the time datatype of W3. Defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#time
booleanItemType: This XBRL item type is based on the boolean datatype of W3. Defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean. According to W3 this datatype can contain the following values: "true" or "false"; "1" or "0". There is a need to be consistent here and the suggestion here is to follow the guidelines in http://www.w3.org/ for how to deal with issues such as the Boolean value being left blank. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#rf-whiteSpace
In case of the necessity to define additional types this topic will be discussed in the CEBS XBRL Network. The goal is to define a definite amount of data types to be used in the European Supervision context.
Reporting entity identification
The "Entity Code" in any COREP and FINREP XBRL instance document SHOULD be a valid "MFI ID code" in the ECB-MFI list, as published by the European Central Bank.
"Monetary Financial Institutions" (MFIs) are central banks, resident credit entities as defined in Community law, and other resident financial entities whose business is to receive deposits and/or close substitutes for deposits from entities other than MFIs and, for their own account (at least in economic terms), to grant credits and/or make investments in securities. For further details on definitions, please refer to www.ecb.int/stats/pdf/money/mfi/mfi_definitions.pdf.
The MFI ID code is unique to each entity listed in the List of MFIs. Each National Central Bank is responsible for allocating an unique MFI ID code for every MFI resident in their territory. Most of the reporting entities in Europe have a MFI ID code but there are also several entities that have to report their solvency data but they are not to be categorised as MFI, f.e. holding companies or asset management companies.
The MFI ID code convention is 2 characters -ISO code of the country of residence of the MFI- followed by up to 28 alphanumerical characters as asigned by the National Central Bank. The MFI ID lengths observed on 2010/12/12 are different country by country, and also inside a country, as follows: 3 (PT); 4 (PT); 5 (GR, IE, NL, PT); 6 (DK, ES, GB, GR, LT, NL); 7 (AT, DE, FR, IT, LT, PL, PT, SE); 8 (CY, DK, ES, HU, IE, LU, LV, MT, PT); 9 (DK, PT, RO, SI); 10 (BE, , BG, CZ, EE, FI, HU, IT, SK); 11 (EU); 12 (BE, FR, RO, SI); 13 (BE, LU); 14 (FI, RO, SK); 15 (SK); 17 (RO); 18 (RO). It was also observed that in an EU country the MFI ID is different of the respective National Supervisory Authority register, as in the examples (GB0040 vs. 114724) and (GB0075 vs. 204590)
The Joinup initiative European Commission has released the Core Business Vocabulary providing a minimum set of classes and properties for describing a legal entity. The vocabulary is closely integrated with the Person and Location Core Vocabularies.
The international Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is an initiative of the Financial Stability Board.
Best Practice: If available, the "MFI ID code" should be used as value of the xbrli:identifier element in the instance to report on COREP and FINREP and additionally the value of the scheme attribute should refer to the ECB website: "http://www.ecb.eu/stats/money/mfi".
Example: <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.ecb.eu/stats/money/mfi">DE00002</xbrli:identifier>
In case that a "MFI ID code" doesn't exist, i.e. for Norway (not part of the EU), it is recommened to use a proprietary national id code with the scheme refering to the corresponding national central bank. <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.kredittilsynet.no">NO12345678</xbrli:identifier>
Report type (Solo, Consolidated, other options)
Most of the national supervisors use the same taxonomy for the discrimination of solo and consolidated. It is being done by adding a dimension in the segment or scenario element or by providing the information in the header of the file. As the reporting on solo or consolidated basis is a common information it should be integrated in the harmonised taxonomies for COREP. Proposal to distinguish the different status of consolidation:
non consolidated head & branches
non consolidated head
non consolidated branch
Audit status
Several national central banks receive reports on basis on FINREP templates twice, before and after the audit of the report. It is proposed to include this information in the XBRL taxonomy or as part of the header information. Proposal to distinguish between the following audit status:
ID and tagging of cells and (sub)totals
COREP and FINREP reports are traditionally form-driven. In an average series of reports, a preparer faces a multitude of forms which in the ideal case get sourced automatically from underlying data systems.
Mapping data structures to forms can only be as efficient as the coordinates which are given to each reported cell.
In order to avoid that each country authority or by the lack of, each preparer of that country, applies another set of coordinates, it is advisable that basic line and column numbering is applied in the forms which are released to the community.
Administrative data and feedback parameters
The CEBS XBRL taxonomies represent the content of the COREP and FINREP framework defined as templates that were agreed on European level. It does not contain organisational or general information that is often needed for the reporting between the national central banks and the credit institutes as well as investment firms.
In national supervisors have chosen different ways of implementing these information in their reporting. Several supervisors have extended the CEBS taxonomies to integrate those information, others have additional taxonomies or an XML envelope around the XBRL instance.
XBRL International has published the GCD (Global Common Document) taxonomy as Public Working Draft. It covers common information which may typically be required in business reporting but the draft exists since several years and the work seems to have stopped.
XBRL Spain published a first version of a taxonomy for general identification information (DGI Taxonomy) in 2005. This taxonomy is widely used in Spain and Latin America to add administrative data to XBRL instances. This taxonomy is regularly maintained and extended as well as proven by XBRL International. The last publication the version 2.3.2 was published in January 2008.
The DGI Taxonomy provides elements to identify the informing unit and the circumstances that define the context in which the XBRL instance is developed. In comparison to the GCD the DGI Taxonomy is much broader. Further information about the content and the structure of this taxonomy that was presented in the 19th XBRL International Conference in Paris can be found here.
Character codification (UTF-8 or others)
In most of the European countries that adopted the CEBS XBRL taxonomies the encoding UTF-8 is used to report XBRL instances. In a few countries they provide the opportunity to report also in the encoding ISO-8859-15.
The Unicode UTF-8 is a charset defined by the Unicode Consortium to build up all characters that exists world-wide. The most important encodings based on Unicode are UTF-8 and UTF-16 whereas UTF-8 is more used because it needs less space and it is also able to display all Unicode characters.
The differences between those character codification is that ISO-8859-15 include most of the west and middle European characters and also special characters. The ISO code 8859-15 is the ISO code 8859-1 extended by the Euro sign. The ISO codes are frozen and no longer maintained because they are going to be replaced by a Unicode standard like UTF-8.
One argument to support this old-fashioned charset is that old systems might have problems to process Unicode charsets. A number of Character Set Converters are available for free use, converting from legacy Character Set to UTF-8 before sending the XBRL instance document.
Best Practice: It is recommended to use only "UTF-8" for the CEBS XBRL reporting.
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Poem for Malala
A free woman's voice opens as a flower to the sun.
thoughts of a free woman...
We need to be reminded of the unique individuality and creativity of the forgotten. #Homelessness, blog by Womensvoice1
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
There goes a troubled woman
She dreams a troubled dream,
She lives out on the highway,
She keeps her money clean.
Soon she'll be returning
To the place where she's queen.
Down where the drunkards roll,
Down where the drunkards roll.
Down where the drunkards roll
Homelessness is something that I hope I never experience, but I am reminded of it every day when I drive to work. Isolated men or women of all ages,(sometimes hard to tell), ragged and tired, ambling down the center of the road , pushing shopping carts piled high with plastic bags and sleeping quilts; sleeping in bus shelters; hanging around the Seven Eleven, and diving for food in garbage cans. Others congregate in the library, because it is warm, were there is access to the internet , or in coffee shops, where they might sit and read a newspaper, and spend all morning sipping on one cup of coffee.
I work in a hospital and used to work in Psychiatry, so I am familiar with the high correlation between mental illness and homelessness, as well as the difficulties in finding adequate health care and shelter for those in need.
Most homeless people are grateful for social services, such as shelters and food banks, but sometimes they are too paranoid to accept it, and prefer to sleep outside away from crowded dorms. Many have drug and alcohol problems.
“If you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.”
Erik McCormack
People can be very intolerant of the homeless, when ones’ personal space is invaded, being asked for money, particularly when you know it’s for alcohol not food, or when personal hygiene is not optimum. But it is important to look at the homeless population with as much diversity as one would look at any demographic. Within this microcosm is a huge amount of determination, and positive creative energy, looking for a way to swim back to the main stream.
Not all homeless people are poorly educated, or necessarily from poor backgrounds. Many of them have “dropped out” of society because of endogenous depression, or schizophrenia, but often, people have just landed on hard times, or followed the path of addiction. Others have become homeless as a result of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, or a devastating event, or because of financial ruin, or they may be migrants who have not yet become legal. Some are victims of conflict, both domestic, and wartime. There are millions of young people made homeless by the death of their parents, or because they have been abandoned by the adoption system, or run away from home.
There are many organizations that have sprouted up to help the homeless earn their own money, and many organizations that are actually owned and run by the homeless population. Artists poets and musicians come together to create art and music that can be exhibited and sold, and there are many of the previously homeless population who have managed to pull themselves out of a quagmire of poverty and helplessness.
Finding a job is not an easy process when you have nowhere to shower, or no appropriate clothes for an interview, let alone owning a cell phone or having a contact address.
Back in the 60’s Ralph Mctell wrote a very touching and poignant folk song about the homeless, to raise public awareness, called The Streets of London.
In a television interview, after his song became a national hit, Ralph confessed that he was inspired to write the song while in Paris, seeing all the homeless people in the Metro and on the streets; but realizing it was a global problem, ( and there was already a song about the poor in Paris, ) he brought it right back to London.
The Lyrics song can be read here:
The Streets of London,
by Ralph Mctell
Have you seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
Hand held loosely at his side
yesterday’s paper telling yesterday's news
So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
Show you something to make you change your mind
Have you seen the old girl
who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.
In the all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his teacup,
Each tea lasts an hour
And he wanders home alone
Outside the Seaman's Mission
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears
In our winter city,
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care
Paul Simon wrote a song on his album Graceland, with Lady-Smith Black Mombasa, where they sing about homelessness caused by “Strong winds “that blew away their homes in Africa.
Homeless, by Paul Simon
Emaweni webaba
Silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
And we are homeless, we are homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Zio yami, Zio yami, nhliziyo yami
Nhliziyo yami amakhaza asengi bulele
Nhliziyo yami, Nhliziyo yami
Strong wind destroy our home
Many dead, tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
And we are homeless, homeless
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Now the global homeless are beginning to fight back, and project a different perspective on homelessness, one where tolerance and inclusion mixes with hope and perseverance.
Cities are building housing projects to encourage community acceptance, people are being given a chance to own their own space, and make it their own. There are many newspapers being published by the homeless, available for purchase on the streets.
#“Street Sense” publishes the only newspaper by and for the homeless in Washington, D.C. The organization has long trained participants in journalism and writing, and now it's expanding to offer more education in the arts and digital media, like photography and filmmaking, in hopes of giving people a toehold in new creative careers. “
Anne Davenport
#Forgotten Voice is a street paper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, in which homeless and formerly homeless people, as well as homeless advocates, write and produce. Their mission is to be a voice for homeless people.
Forgotten Voice welcomes all submissions in the form of fiction, journalism, artwork, photography, and poetry. We especially encourage those living on the streets to use this space to debate and discuss issues of poverty, housing, and homelessness.
#‘The Challenger’ is a newspaper published by Austin’s homeless
http://www.challengernewspaper.org/
“Run by homeless people and their advocates, street papers provide an outlet to writers and artists to express their talents. They also create readily available jobs for people looking to get back on their feet. At The Challenger, homeless people can buy copies of the paper, usually for 25 or 50 cents, and then offer it to passersby for a recommended $2 donation. Distributors keep the profits.”
From #The Rag blog, by Aaron Schnautz
#The Big Issue is a newspaper published by people who are homeless in London and all over Europe .
“The Big Issue offers people who are homeless the opportunity to earn their own money; a livelihood. The Big Issue Foundation, as an independent charity for people who are homeless, offers vendors the opportunity of a life. We work tirelessly alongside our vendors to help them deal with the issues that have caused their homelessness or have developed as a result of hitting the streets.”
Their mission as a charity is to connect vendors with vital support and personal solutions that enable people to rebuild their lives and determine pathways to a better future
The papers are full of current affairs, fiction and poetry written by the homeless. Art exhibitions are advertised and profits from sales go directly to the artists themselves.
Here is an anonymous example of "Street Poetry"
A droplet of rain falls from the sky.
As I mingle with passers by.
And I simply relax my poor old brain.
as the traffic is on the move again.
This is the start of a perfect day.
The city is just ten miles away.
And I think of the joy a nice walk brings.
To the heart of a boy as the blackbird sings.
I slept in peace all through the night.
With some Canada geese on internal flight.
And another mile has slipped on by
in the easy style of a winking eye.
Well my body parts are all on the move.
And my beating heart's right in the groove.
And when I arrive I’ll have biscuits and tea.
Great God I’m alive! Oh lucky me!
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"Homeless that’s what they call us
They say we have no home
Because we live out on the streets
And choose to drift and roam
We might be sick and tired
We may be down and out
But were still the long lost relatives
This world tries to forget about"
Excerpt from Homeless
By Benjamin T. Fisher II
Community newspapers produced by the homeless encourage vulnerable people to develop their creative potential; especially self-expression, self-confidence, teamwork and communication.
We need to be reminded of the unique individuality and creativity of the forgotten. If we focus on random acts of kindness and work on promoting the social inclusion of homeless people they will acquire equal access to services and then become a part in the life of the community.
Even advertising art is beginning to show a new attitude towards homelessness.
A print campaign from the eyewear brand “Morela Optics “in Slovenia carries the slogan 'We see things differently' while revealing images from a different perspective.
A homeless man smiles mischievously and confidently while modelling his “Urban Fashion “ .( The ad was created by Imelda Ogilvy in Ljubljana.)
(The picture has been altered slightly so that I hope I do not violate any copyright...)
Caption reads, "We see the same things differently "
Just Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins (1989)
Addressing the issue of homelessness and poverty, this song encourages people not to turn the blind eye when encountering the homeless, and to appreciate how lucky we are in our own little paradise.
She calls out to the man on the street
'Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?'
He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh think twice, it's another day for you and me in paradise
Oh think twice, 'cause it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise, think about it
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
She can't walk but she's trying
Oh Lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh Lord, there must be something you can say
You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
'Cause she didn't fit in there
Oh think twice, 'cause another day for you and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise, just think about it, think about it
Songwriters: MERRILL, GEORGE ROBERT / RUBICAM, SHANNON / CLAYTON, ADAM / EVANS, DAVE / HEWSON, PAUL DAVID / MULLEN, LARRY / WALDEN, NARADA MICHAEL
Another Day In Paradise lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
“Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.”
Pras Michel
“There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.”
Jan Schakowsky
“I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.”
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.
I have not even touched the surface when it comes to the creativity and the art of the homeless communities. Graffiti, published works, and recorded music abound. Perhaps though, this article might have focused your eyes and ears to this incredibly rich world, just in it's budding phase....
Have a great week, .....in the comfort of your own homes.
Picture courtesy of Marie Lopicki Photographer
Susan Golden
Born, raised and educated in Cornwall, England., Sue moved to America in 1981.
After many years of life experience, her first bookof poetry for social change, is published. Available on iBooks.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-moon-of-compassion/id892598396?mt=11
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(AP) — The Boston Bruins debut without Claude Julien behind the bench for the first time since the 2007-08 season when they host San Jose tonight.
Boston fired its long-tenure coach Tuesday after losing six of nine and falling out of a playoff spot.
The reins have been turned over to assistant Bruce Cassidy on an interim basis. He has previous head coach experience with Washington.
The league-leading Capitals will try to keep their home success going when they host Detroit. The Caps have won 10 in a row at the Verizon Center and have scored five or more goals in the last nine of those games.
Montreal is hoping to snap out of its recent funk when the Canadiens visit Arizona. The Atlantic Division leaders are just 1-4-1 in their last six games. All-Star goalie Carey Price has struggled recently, winning just three times in his last 12 games for Montreal.
There are 11 games on the NHL schedule.
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The following guest post is written by Alexis Jackson, a graduate student at Brown University in the History of Art and Architecture department.
Monks for the Masses: Why I Decided to Crowdfund
You can find my project, “Of Monks and Men” at https://experiment.com/projects/of-monks-and-men-how-medieval-construction-brought-monasteries-and-lay-communities-together.
The Problem of Funding
In any field, one of the major challenges of graduate school (and, I believe, academic careers more generally) is finding funding for our research. Even in the most generous Ph.D. programs, reasonable funding for the summer months is limited. The problem is exacerbated for archaeologists, who are expected to travel and participate in costly excavations during the summer, often with considerably less support from universities than during the academic year. Yes, there is competitive funding available from a variety of sources, including the much-maligned NSF as well as smaller and more specific grants.
However, the majority of grants (especially those involving larger sums of money) require applications to be ABD (i.e. to be working on a dissertation project). For those in the first few years of their programs, this creates a problematic catch-22: need money to travel and research to develop a viable project, cannot apply for money without said project. Experiment.com, the scientific crowdfunding site that is hosting my project, calls these “edge cases”: situations where traditional funding structures fall short. Crowdfunding gives researchers to do two things at once: generate reasonable funding to move their research projects forward and find new ways to communicate to the public about the value of archaeology and to interest them in “real” archaeological projects.
Public Outreach and Shared Investment
How much does the public care about archaeology? The public perception of archaeology lies somewhere between the ivory tower and Indiana Jones. Public outreach is undoubtedly important, but the tone of public interaction and the form outreach takes is under hot debate: we want to spark people’s interest in history and the experiences of historical (and pre-historic) people without waving “treasure” around, as archaeologist April Beisaw argues. On one hand, we are trying to make archaeology more approachable. There is an increasing push toward open access research, which should grant a greater number of people (researchers and the public alike) access to academic publications. There are other movements among archaeologists to improve the quality of public writing about archaeology.
There are excellent websites, pages, blogs, Tumblrs, and Twitters run by archaeologists (as well as heritage groups, museums, and professional organizations) which reach out to the public. Although most crowdfunding sites, like the popular Kickstarter.com, focus on the product (“give us money and we will give you something in return”), newer academic crowdfunding websites shift the focus onto the process of research. This shift works hand-in-hand with what researchers are trying to do with the public image of archaeology: move away from splashy headlines about mysterious treasure and the rusticating corpses of long-lost kings and move toward an interest in the genuine value of archaeological research.
It is my hope that crowdfunding my project will both help me to reach a varied “crowd” that includes and interests members of the non-academic public, and that it encourages people to invest themselves literally and figuratively in the production of new archaeological knowledge.
Alexis Jackson studies the architecture and archaeology of medieval monasteries. She received her B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, where she studied European History, Art History, and Classical Studies. In 2011, she participated in the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project, which inspired her interest in landscape archaeology. In 2013, she excavated with the University of L’Aquila at the site of Amiternum, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Alexis’ research interests include the study of how hospitals and monastic outbuildings relate to the greater (physical and social) monastic landscape in the Middle Ages. As an S4 Fellow with Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences at Brown, she is also interested in employing GIS applications for mapping social networks that include people, places, buildings, and objects as active participants.
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Paddy Stapleton: Don’t ever say Kilkenny don’t do tactics
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When you hear murmurs in the crowd it’s never a good sign. I was after catching Richie Power’s faceguard in the second half of the drawn All-Ireland in 2014, and it was the first time I had ever felt like I was going to get a straight red card in my career. My heart skipped a few beats when Barry Kelly pulled out his cards but thankfully he only flashed a yellow. I was fully up beside Richie for the high ball, but just as I was about to challenge for it, he used his strength and more importantly cuteness to shove me out of the way. If he had caught the ball he was through so I reached out to catch a hold of him, anywhere I could. Unfortunately, it was his faceguard caught between my fingers as I dragged him down — and the Kilkenny supporters who went berserk. Lucky boy.
It is symbolic of the way a Kilkenny forward played during my playing career and how important it is to Brian Cody’s game plan. Their approach rarely deviates and as a player I always knew what it was going to be. The problem was stopping it.
The ball nearly always came long and high out of their defence; in five All-Ireland finals I can only remember two balls coming directly into my corner below head height. The beauty of this is that they always have a compact shape in their backline, so when it comes back the half-back line is there to protect the full-back line.
When it does come in high they are extremely aggressive and skilful at challenging for it. They know they can really gamble at catching it because they always have at least one, two or even three runners coming from the corner forward area or half forward areas. I remember in 2010, a couple of weeks before the final, we were walking through this play with Eamon O’Shea at Carton House. He noted how the ball went in high to the full-forward but the corner-forwards ran right across the 21-yard line as it broke. This means that if it breaks to either of the multitude of players anticipating the break, they are already on the run when they collect the ball – so, game over. You can practice defending this but Kilkenny have perfected it and we were still caught on occasions that day.
Fast-forward to 2017 and although the first two rounds did not exactly go their way, the return of Colin Fennelly to the line-up against Cork has given them back this game plan. Fennelly, Richie Hogan, TJ Reid and Walter Walsh represent what Kilkenny forwards have been about for the past 10 years. All very strong, quick, hard to dominate in the air and, most importantly, they will go to any area in the pitch to work for the team. We could see in the last few minutes against Cork that Fennelly was tackling back to his own 21, snuffing out a Cork attack.
Now, Kilkenny have the option of two of the four in the half-forward line and the other two up front. They can now unleash their game plan of quick ball in from any area knowing that the players up the field will do the damage. In the Clare loss, I thought the Cats were trying things they normally would never do, with shorter passes and running into trouble. There were some frustrated gestures and body language from players like Reid, Hogan and Cillian Buckley, which was down to not being able to play in the style they are used to. There was no sign of this against Cork.
On top of playing to the plan they have trained for, they are also adept at making other teams play their game too. Even though you go into games thinking about playing a particular style — for example, short passing — the pressure that their forwards put on usually means you will be drawn into their tried-and-perfected style of striking long and trying to win your own ball.
In 2011, we were going into the All-Ireland having not been tested many times that year. Kilkenny forwards were like dogs after a bone and we were hitting balls over our shoulder because we had no time. If a team comes out that strongly, you even find it hard to settle on the balls that you do have time with. I can remember turning with one ball and striking it blindly down my wing, making an idiot of Noel McGrath who had come short for the ball, and making Tommy Walsh look superhuman as he jumped high to field it.
It used to really annoy me in training games when the puck outs would not be modelled on the vast majority of match-day puckouts. There are between 50 and 70 puckouts in most games with 90-95% of those long. Yet we were letting goalkeepers pop easy balls into space for forwards and midfielders when it would never happen in a game. I always felt we were neglecting then to practice winning primary ball as well as breaks.
Kilkenny are, in fact, the originators of playing deep-lying half backs too. If the forwards and midfielders work hard enough, the half-backs will never have to worry about marking up high on their men. They can concentrate on reading the play, intercepting long balls and getting the breaks from the full-back line. It is a sure-fire way of playing, however not every team has the honesty and athleticism to pull it off. It involves running and closing space when no one in the crowd will see it. It involves trusting your management team to see that you are working your backside off even if it is not registering in the scoring column.
Don’t ever say Kilkenny don’t do tactics, they are just very simple tactics. The last day out, only for a couple of individual bits of attacking play, Cork found it hard to get around the Cats defence. You could see the aggression levels coming up as the game wore on and the confidence was suddenly there again. Contrast that to the Clare game where the Banner were running out of defence with the ball and opening up the Kilkenny backline like a book.
At the same time, we know that Cork are struggling at the minute. This weekend, Kilkenny are playing a Tipperary team that has looked pretty good for their first three games of 2017. The league is important for a team's development for the coming year and I have experienced it in both defeat and victory against Kilkenny. In ’09 we got the mother and father of all beatings down in Nowlan Park but I genuinely believe it was the start of Tipp being back at the top table of hurling. It opened players’ eyes to the level that you need to be at and when we played them a number of weeks later in the League final in Thurles, it was one of the most physical matches I had ever been involved in. That set the tone for the next few years and the ’09 and ’10 All-Ireland finals were just as intense. The referees were even treating it differently – they were waving play on in situations that would render a yellow card in usual situations.
In the 2010 league, I remember we put a massive emphasis on winning our group game against Kilkenny. The null-null was buzzing with lads itching to get out and compete. In a poor match we just edged them and it was the first time we had beaten them in a few years. We needed the psychological boost of beating them so that we could draw on it as the year went on. Although we were terrible in the rest of the league and the first round of the championship against Cork, the Kilkenny game was important and benefitted us as we went on, culminating in our best performance in the final.
In 2017, the wheel has turned and it’s a role reversal. Kilkenny are now looking to gain a big confidence boost by beating Tipperary in their own backyard. That would be a double whammy as they can partially put the All-Ireland display of 2016 to bed as well as drawing a line under the toothless performances of the first two league games.
Tipp, on the other hand, will want to hammer a psychological blow that might benefit them as the year goes on. The more times you can beat a team, the less belief they will carry against you going forward. I’m sure that won’t be lost on the Tipp backroom team and I’m sure will have stressed the importance of this game throughout the week. Kilkenny did a lot of their null work in the league for the past 10 or so years, blunting teams’ belief before the championship even begins. Now Tipperary have begun to use that model too.
One thing is for certain, the most important element on Saturday night is for the Kilkenny forwards to give the Tipperary backs a hard time with and without the ball. If they don’t, the Kilkenny backs may hear plenty of murmurs from the crowd.
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Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey is sworn in as Alabama governor, Monday, April 10, 2017. [Photo Credit: Governor's Office | Sydney Foster
The fact is Kay Ivey likely would not have been touchable at all this election cycle by anyone in the state; her popularity is just that high. People were so ready for Governor Robert Bentley to be gone by the time he finally resigned that Ivey’s quiet and calm demeanor have been a God-send. His failures, personally and professionally, made her one lucky woman who slipped into the governor’s race with ease.
Her luck continued when her primary race was anything but a race. That luck for her however might have cost the rest of us. If she had drawn a true challenge, if her primary opponents had taken the time to do the same level of opposition research that Walt Maddox has started pushing out in the last two weeks then maybe she could have been forced into a debate or at least some have a reason to rethink the direction of her office, the way its been run since her days as Lt. Governor and the way it is being run now.
The steady drip of information, documents, and statements against and about her and her staff have been damning. The questions posed aren’t about partisan politics or even the election; they go right to the heart of the type of administration Ivey is running versus the type she has repeatedly promised the state to run.
Let’s look at the questions we’re left with at the moment based on just the three stories reports coming from the Maddox campaign. Imagine if they had come from a Republican instead while conservative voters were paying attention:
Did Ivey and her staff lie to the media and public about her Colorado hospitalization?
Did Ivey and her Chief of Staff Steve Pelham have a state trooper reassigned for his refusal to lie and/or cover up the events of Colorado?
Did the governor and her staff purposefully evade public records laws by using personal email addresses for state business while she was LG?
Are they still using these email addresses?
Who set up the governor’s fake (alias) email address and when and how much state business has been conducted using said email?
What budget transfers have been made beyond the transportation to court diversions that the Maddox campaign highlighted today?
The people of Alabama deserve more answers and accountability than what we’re getting right now. Luckily for Ivey and her team they can point to these reports as election shenanigans and most of the base will see that the questions are a result of Maddox releases and dismiss them based on that. Again, that Ivey luck.
I don’t think we’re going to get full answers with defensive staff who are more interested in protecting their power and her reputation than the people. When Ivey took over from disgraced Robert Bentley, she promised accountability and transparency. In the last week and a half, the Walt Maddox campaign has brought forth questions that I hope lead to: a new way of doing business in the Governor’s office, some serious internal investigations and some true changes. Will it? That remains to be seen but it’s going to take more than Maddox raising the questions to get there so here’s looking at you conservatives who turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the Bentley scandals until it was too late. Will you call on Ivey to make real changes and give real answers or will you just sit back and wait for the inevitable train wreck that’s coming?
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Best/Worst of 2008 #5; Hleb out, Nasri in
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Tags: Andrei Arshavin is mentioned in this blog, Best/Worst of 2008, Hleb hates Arsenal, Hleb to Barcelona, Nasri signs for Arsenal, Samir Nasri, Transfer Speculation
The transfer window opens on Thursday and we all know what this week holds; a week of speculation about Arsenal’s transfer targets. I’ll put that information at the end of the post for those of you who are interested but really it’s just speculation and please take it with a huge grain of salt.
Instead of just talking about transfer targets or how Steven Gerrard should be banned for life for his part in a bar fight (that’s a joke, kids) for the rest of this week I want to do a top five best/worst Arsenal year in review. One a day, like vitamins for your football mind, starting with the #5 best/worst story of 2008 and culminating in the #1 best/worst story. One more thing, the reason that the stories are both best and worst is because as I was thinking through each of these, with only one exception, even the best stories had a negative component. So, they are best/worst — you’ll see what I mean.
#5 Hleb out, Nasri in
I don’t know about you, but by the time that Alex Hleb raised a hand to Graeme Murty and got sent off — the last act of futility in a career at Arsenal that defined the word — I was well and truly done with Alex Hleb.
Now, before you get all nostalgic and claim that Arsenal could use Hleb this year, “Arsenal need some width!” you might claim. Let me remind you just how bad Hleb was: this was a guy who had 25 shots, SHOTS not shots on goal but SHOTS, in all competitions in his last year at Arsenal. Of course it’s nice to have a guy on the team who passes the ball but Hleb took passing the ball to a whole different level: he routinely passed up wide open shots in order to pass the ball to a teammate.
To his credit Hleb did have a career high 11 assists last year, but it took him two years of utter futility to reach that apex.
Arsene sold him, to his dream team (where he rots on the bench), and used the money to bring in a guy who has almost all of the same qualities that Hleb had. Arsene bought Samir Nasri.
The difference between Hleb and Nasri is glaring: Nasri already has 32 shots, 4 goals, and 2 assists in just 17 games, Nasri took all the corner kicks and set plays on Sunday (and he was able to clear the first defender which we haven’t seen in a long time), and Nasri’s most important quality is that he plays on the left and actually provides width to this Arsenal team. If you remember, Hleb always, always, always dribbled the ball into the middle of the park — I can only guess he did that because he’s was not capable of playing in a cross.
But the best part about Samir Nasri? He scores game winning goals in big matches. I mean, his second goal against Man U was, well… Hleb could never do that.
So, in his first year Samir Nasri has already shown himself to be a better player than Alex Hleb, a great addition to this team, another coup by the Professor, and the #5 best/worst Arsenal story of 2008.
Transfer Targets
I saw a story that said Arsenal are going to buy three Newcastle players: Shay Given, Charles N’Zogbia, and Steven Taylor. I’ll admit that I’m no fan of Almunia but Shay Given? Hmmm… I’m not a very good judge of keepers so I’m inviting you all to comment on this rumor. Given or Almunia, who would you pick and why?
N’Zogbia has been linked to the club before and nothing has ever come from it. He’s a pacy little winger and I think he would be a good addition to the squad even if he is really struggling this year. After all, a guy can’t get any assists if he doesn’t have any targets! Of course, this could also be the press doing the age old “link every French player to Arsenal” trick, so grain, salt, etc.
Honestly, I don’t know anything about Steven Taylor except that he’s tall, he’s a defender, and he plays for a team that has allowed 32 goals.
Does this make any sense to anyone? That Arsenal are struggling defensively and they are going to bring in the keeper and defender from one of the worst defensive teams in the EPL?
The other target that I hear is the every day transfer speculation that Arsenal are going to sign Andrei Arshavin from his racist ass club. Zenit wants at least £20m for Arshavin which is an insane fee for any player, much less a player who’s only acheivement this year is one good game in Euro 2008. One little problem with this rumor is that Arsene told Canal + that thinks Arsenal don’t have the money. Make what you will of that, I haven’t had enough coffee to figure out how a team that made £20m or so in profits last year, keeps saying that the club and the Highbury redevelopment are separated, and who’s board members insist that the boss has all the money he could ever need, suddenly doesn’t have any money.
Right, that’s it for today, tune in for the #4 top story of 2008!
un jour heureux!
Tags: Adebayor transfer, Arsenal 2008/09, Chelsea cheats, Hleb hates Arsenal, Overpriced Arshavin, Trizia Fiorellino stupid windbag
After what seems like an ice age, the hundred years’ war, and the occupation of Iraq all rolled into one, Arsenal have gone back to training. Of course notable for their absence are Adebayor, Hleb, Nasri, Gallas, Fabregas, and well, a whole bunch of guys but the training got underway none-the-less.
It’s good to see the boys in red back, and even better to see our new no.14 smiling and buddying up with teammate Clichy. Ok, now I’m excited about the season. I’ve got a season kickoff party to plan, the annual mecca, lots of stuff, work work work!
Speaking of Hleb and Adebayor, they both made the columns since yesterday morning, albeit for two totally different reasons. Hleb, because he said some “very bad” things, and Ade because I ran across a rather comical article.
First, Hleb had this to say to the press yesterday
My view of how I should be playing didn’t coincide with the manager’s. I told him last season I wanted to leave and think he was quite upset about it. But ask him. It may turn out he’s happy to see me go.
If Wenger isn’t happy to see you go, I’ll be double happy for him! We’ll turn that frown right upside down!
All kidding aside, this isn’t really as shocking of a statement as the press folks are making it out to be. It was clear to everyone with eyes that Hleb didn’t like playing on the wing and that he was often unhappy on the pitch. Anyone with a brain could have guessed that Hleb spoke to the manager about playing him more centrally and anyone with a brain could see that that desire was in direct conflict with the fact that Arsenal have one of the best central attacking midfielders in the world already at that spot. There was no way that Hleb was going to usurp Fabregas in that role and that’s really what this all seems to be about because he follows up that statement with a “blast” at Fabregas
When we get scoring opportunities, Fábregas is much more selfish than me. Given a chance to shoot, he always goes for it – unlike me.
And much like his few shots on goal, this “blast” is ineffectual and raises nothing but guffaws from the opposition.
He’s actually saying that he feels that he’s a better player because HE PASSES UP ON OPPORTUNITIES TO SCORE. BWahahahah ahahaha hahaha. Dude. We already knew that about you and it’s the quality that we (and I speak for all Arsenal fans) HATE about you. What the hell is wrong with you, you moron?
Of course this could all be lies and mistranslation, it is a story broken by The Sun, but still you have to have a laugh at the idea that Hleb fancies himself the better teammate because he passed up on open looks. He might even have an argument is Cesc wasn’t the team’s leading assist man and is widely praised for adding goals to his bag of tricks. Too funny.
Second, there’s the ongoing saga of the “Adebayor non-transfer” and it’s looking like Milan are out of the race for his signature… again. Yawn. In “real” news I did run across an inadvertently funny article in the Telegraph that mentions Adebayor. The paper took 4 “experts” and asked them their views of the top 5 EPL transfer targets (Barry, Ade, Ronadinho, Ronaldo, and Lampard). Typically this wouldn’t be a cause for reprinting here in the blog but I ran across this quote and thought it was funny
Fan’s view: Another who’s been linked with Chelsea, as well as Milan and Barca. I hope we miss out on him. I get the impression he’s a guy who believes he’s bigger than the club. He also has a discipline problem, as many Arsenal players tend to have.
Wh wh what? Many Arsenal players have a discipline problem? I was confused, so I looked at who the fan was, giving their all important view on this topic.
The fan: Trizia Fiorellino is the chairwoman of the Chelsea Supporters’ Group.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH BNEHAYEHHEHEHAH (choke) hah aha hah (gasp) (cough). Ahem. Excuse me. Uhh, yes, it’s the Arsenal players with the discipline problems. Let’s see, what objective measures would we like to use to measure the relative discipline problems of the two teams. I know, how about the Fair play table? Oh looky, there’s Arsenal in 4th place and there’s Chelsea in 19th place. Or how about the whole Ashley Cole incident with the ref? Or, let’s compare off the field adventures… That woman is seriously demented. Good for a laugh, but seriously demented.
That’s really it for today, there’s some press about a few players that are not signing for Arsenal, a story about Arshavin being valued at £400 billion or some such nonsense but I’m going to leave you on that high note; how much you want to bet there’s a signing this week?
Update: See, the whole Hleb thing was a lie manufactured by The Sun. You gotta love them though for trying and for providing us with some brief comedy.
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By Activestills
|Published September 25, 2016
PHOTOS: Palestinians hold pray-in to protest road closures
Palestinian residents of a village cut off by Israeli military closures hold prayer services at the roadblock to protest.
Photos and text : Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills
Palestinians from the village of Beita hold Friday prayers at an Israeli military roadblock in protest of the collective punishment, September 23, 2016. (Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org)
Tens of Palestinian residents of the village of Betia, south of Nablus, moved their Friday noon prayer from mosques to in front of Israeli dirt mounds that block the main entrance of their town, to protest an Israeli closure that was in its fifth day. The Israeli military roadblocks are unmanned, and entirely block Palestinian residents from using their vehicles on the main roads leading in and out of their villages.
Palestinian protesters condemned what they consider to be collective punishment and called on Israel to re-open the main entrance of their village, a road that serves tens of thousands of Palestinians who travel on it to and from their homes.
The road, which connects several Palestinian villages and town, leads to Road 60, a major Israeli-controlled highway that serves as an artery connecting the northern and southern West Bank.
An Israeli military spokesperson told Ma’an that the road was closed following numerous incidents of Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli settler vehicles. He could not immediately specify whether any Israelis had been injured in stone-throwing incidents in the area recently.
It is worth mentioning that access road to Beita, in addition to six other Palestinian roads, was blocked in the beginning of September for about a week, before they were reopened again for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
It is quite common for the Israeli military to block and shut down Palestinian roads in the West Bank. Usually, Israeli explains such steps as being necessitated by “security reasons” while Palestinians consider them to be collective punishment.
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I hope this becomes the norm for Friday prayers.
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Man arrested, charged again in stabbing death of boy, 11, who begged for his life
HOUSTON, Texas -- The man who was accused of murdering 11-year-old Josue Flores three years ago and was later released has been charged again in the case.
Andre Jackson now faces a new murder charge. Houston police arrested him without incident Tuesday morning in Baytown.
Members of the @houstonpolice department have taken the suspect into custody without incident. We are proud of the steadfast work of our women & men and our partners @FBIHouston, and all who played a role in getting us to this point. Our thoughts are with the Flores family. https://t.co/qdDgbeYBd0
— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) June 18, 2019
Harris County D.A. announces a murder indictment in the case of Josue Flores
Josue was stabbed to death while walking home from Marshall Middle School on May 17, 2016 in north Houston.
Witnesses said in his last moments, Josue could be heard screaming, "Don't kill me, please!"
"We were able to make a case to the grand jury that Jackson is in fact the murderer of Josue Flores," said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.
Jackson was initially arrested and charged on June 3, 2016 for the murder, but the charges were dropped.
Then this year, on the three-year anniversary of Josue's death, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and cold case detectives reiterated that Jackson is still a person of interest in the case.
Acevedo said in May that advances in DNA technology could help point to Josue's killer.
After Acevedo's comments, Jackson claimed his innocence in a 10-minute YouTube video.
"I am innocent and need the public to understand institutionalized racism and systematic prejudice, which will be the topic of a book that I am publishing," Jackson said at the time.
Jackson also claimed he was being "harassed."
"I have nothing to do with this case. You can stop considering me a suspect. You can stop mentioning my name in this case," Jackson added.
Last Friday, ABC13 Eyewitness News was the first to report that investigators discovered new physical evidence in the murder case.
Now Jackson has been charged. Police said they had him under 24/7 surveillance for several days.
Ogg said that though she is not allowed by law to discuss the specifics of the grand jury proceedings, she pointed again to the newly-tested evidence.
"I am willing to stand with these prosecutors that it is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of Andre Jackson's guilt," Ogg told the media.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said that he and Acevedo met with Josue's family last week about the developments.
"The sixth grader was a smart, loving and respectful student. His family misses him dearly every day, the community misses him," Turner said of Josue.
"For the past three years, our department has worked tirelessly to bring justice to Josue, the Flores family, and our extended community," Acevedo said in a statement. "Today's true bill is a significant step in our journey to justice, and we look forward to supporting the Flores family as this case proceeds through the criminal courts."
Statement from Chief @ArtAcevedo on update in Josue Flores investigation: #hounews pic.twitter.com/n66yg1vrxy
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) June 18, 2019
The news of the arrest Tuesday was a long time coming for Flores' family and neighbors.
Some of them started crying as Jackson's arrest was announced.
"We were just waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting and this day has finally gotten here. I'm just so happy," said Stella Mireles-Walters.
Mireles-Walters is the organizer of "Safe Walk Home Northside," the group that was started after Josue was murdered walking home from school.
BREAKING: New charges announced in the murder of 11-year-old Josue Flores!! The man who was arrested and later released has been charged AGAIN.
Neighbors are watching the announcement with tears in their eyes. https://t.co/XHdCxmvAK7 pic.twitter.com/cG3wzXK08N
— Katherine Marchand (@KatherineMABC13) June 18, 2019
"I'm just so happy." Neighbors were relieved to hear that an arrest has again been made in Josue Flores' murder.
"I just ask you to put yourself in that mother's position, three years waiting for justice. No one is going to rush, and nobody is going to say anything to jeopardize that because the ultimate justice is when he's locked up in prison, and that's what I want us to focus on today," said HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner.
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