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Strip plot of Lake Chad Basin fatalities. This graph was produced in R with the ggplot2 package. Fatalities data are from ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.
In an attempt to improve my quantitative research skills I am learning the R programming language. I am primarily relying on courses from DataCamp and lessons gleaned from the R Bloggers blog.
One of the first steps in data analysis, after cleaning and tidying your data, is visualizing your data. This is my first strip plot. The strip plot shows each incident that includes a fatality. How many fatalities in the incident determines how high that incident is plotted. There are four countries in the Lake Chad Basin. Incidents are plotted according to which state they occurred in, and then states are grouped by their country.
In R, this meant faceting my graph by country. I also had to assign a "sum of fatalities" aggregate value to each state and reorder them in decreasing order within each facet (country), otherwise ggplot2 would order the states by number of incidents per state when the order I really want is sum of fatalities. I used the jitter geom width and height adjustments to slightly separate points that would otherwise be directly on top of one another. So, this graph is not about the precision of the points. It's more about generally comparing levels of fatal violence between states in the region.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to add text annotations (like my title) to a faceted graph in ggplot2 in R. Text annotations want to repeat in each facet, but I only want my title in one place. There is a way around this. You can pass a new dataframe to ggplot2 in order to plot a text label at a specific coordinate in a single facet. But I could not make it work for my graph. So I simply exported my graph as a jpg from R Studio, then opened the jpg in Photoshop to add my title.
From the visualization it is obvious that more people are dying in Nigeria than elsewhere (according to this ACLED data). Also, Cameroon and Niger each have a single state that is a major outlier in terms of number of fatalities compared to their other states. These are the kinds of simple observations that elicit more specific questions that will guide further analysis of the data. Another observation is that incidents are clustered around the 200 and 400 levels in Nigeria. When I turn off the jitter adjustments, these incidents fall exactly on the 200 and 400 marks. This suggests to me that the reports from the field are rounded or that the reports are general to begin with, which is something to be noted about the data set when trying to interpret any further findings.
The histogram below shows the number of incidents that occur by the number of fatalities per incident.
From here down I am putting fatalities back on the y axis. If we look at fatalities by country by year we see a huge change after 2013. And we see how many more fatalities occur in Nigeria than in the other basin countries.
Increase in fatalities in the Lake Chad Basin after 2013.
Next we will look at how each country's average number of fatalities moves per year.
In 2015, Niger's average fatalities was 18.37, up from 5 in 2012. Cameroon's average in 2015 was 17.9, up from 6.6 in 2012. Nigeria's 2015 average was 16, up from 6 in 2012. Chad's latest average was 15.7, up from 2 in 2012.
Even though Nigeria experiences many more fatalities than the other three countries, when it comes to the average number of fatalities, Niger and Cameroon outpaced Nigeria in 2015, though the differences are relatively small. Here is the same graph with the trend lines plotted. When looking at these trends of the averages, Cameroon comes out on top in 2015.
Trend lines. In 2015, Niger's average fatalities was 18.37, up from 5 in 2012. Cameroon's average in 2015 was 17.9, up from 6.6 in 2012. Nigeria's 2015 average was 16, up from 6 in 2012. Chad's latest average was 15.7, up from 2 in 2012.
Now I'll put fatalities back on the x axis so we can look at just those fatal incidents involving Boko Haram between 2011 and 2015.
Boko Haram fatality densities, considering only incidents with fatalities between 1 and 40. By 2015, fewer incidents caused less than 6 fatalities and more incidents caused more than 6 fatalities.
After 2012, the proportion of Boko Haram incidents that caused more than 6 fatalities began to increase. These densities show that the proportion of low-fatality incidents (1-5) was high in 2011 and 2012. Starting in 2013, the proportion of low-fatality incidents decreased as the proportion of higher-fatality (6+) incidents began increasing.
Now let's see these Boko Haram densities by country instead of by year.
Chad has far fewer fatalities overall, but higher fatalities per incident. Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon have higher proportions of low-fatality (1-9) Boko Haram incidents. Nigeria has exponential more fatalities, but they are spread across a much higher number of low-fatality incidents.
If we look at the densities for fatalities caused by government forces, we see a pattern similar to the Boko Haram densities. By 2015, fewer incidents killed less than 6 people and more incidents killed more than 6 people.
Government fatality densities, considering only incidents with fatalities between 1 and 40. By 2015, fewer incidents caused less than 6 fatalities and more incidents caused more than 6 fatalities.
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2017 NCAA Tournament Super Regional | 4 NCAA Tournaments | 3 Conference Championships
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Inside Look at Babson Softball
Celebrating Babson's Centennial with an inside look at the College's 22 varsity programs, continuing this week with softball. The Beavers are coached by veteran Dave Canan.
2018-19 Top Moments: #13-11
Nationally-ranked victories by men's ice hockey and men's soccer, and a historic first-inning uprising by softball highlight the latest group of top moments as we near the midway point of our countdown.
Women Finish Fourth in NEWMAC Presidents Cup Standings
WESTWOOD, Mass.—Following a year that included three regular season titles and one conference tournament crown, Babson College finished fourth when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced its final Presidents Cup women's standings on Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Reflection: Field Hockey's and Softball's Ashley Tango
My athletics career as a two-sport student-athlete at Babson has been unconventional, but it is what made it so special to me. Not many people know this, but I originally only planned to play softball at Babson.
Mares, Paul, Tango Earn NFCA All-New England Softball Honors
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—For the first time in program history three Babson College softball players received All-New England honors when the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) announced its all-region teams on Wednesday evening.
Four From Softball Collect NEWMAC All-Conference Honors
WESTWOOD, Mass.—The Babson College softball program had four players earn New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference when the league announced its postseason award winners on Tuesday.
Softball Tops Springfield 1-0, Falls to Wellesley in NEWMAC Tournament Elimination Game, 5-4
WORCESTER, Mass.—After staying alive with a 1-0 win over fourth-seeded Springfield College, the Babson College softball team saw its New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament run come to an end with a 5-4 nine-inning loss to sixth-seeded Wellesley on Friday evening at Rooftop Field on the campus of WPI.
Tango Collects NEWMAC Softball Academic All-Conference Recognition
WESTWOOD, Mass.—Babson College senior Ashley Tango (Reading, Mass.) was honored for her work in the classroom for the third consecutive season when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Academic All-Conference team was announced on Wednesday.
NEWMAC Tournament Day Two Preview: Softball Faces Springfield in Elimination Game
THE SERIES • Babson and Springfield will meet for the 61st time on Friday in a series that dates back to 1999. The Beavers are 23-37 all-time against the Pride and have won five of the last seven games in the series.
Softball Edges Wellesley, Falls to No. 21 MIT on Opening Day of NEWMAC Tournament
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Third-seeded Babson College split a pair of games on the opening day of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament at Briggs Field on the campus of MIT on Wednesday. The Beavers edged sixth-seeded Wellesley College 4-2 in their opener before suffering a 1-0 loss the second-seeded and 19th-ranked Engineers.
NEWMAC Tournament Day One Preview: Softball vs. Wellesley
THE SERIES • Babson and Wellesley will meet for the 39th time in a series that dates back to 2005 in Wednesday’s NEWMAC Tournament opener. • The Beavers are 24-14 all-time against the Blue and have won seven of 10 games between the programs since 2016.
Babson Athletics Celebrates Class of 2019 at 38th Annual Senior Awards Banquet
BABSON PARK, Mass.—The Babson College Department of Athletics held its 38th Annual Senior Awards Banquet on Friday night to honor 74 student-athletes in the Class of 2019. A Night of Champions was highlighted by the selections of field hockey and softball's Ashley Tango (Reading, Mass.) as the Female Athlete of the Class and Jackson Greenspan (Meriden, N.H.) of the men's soccer program as the Male Athlete of the Class.
Regionally-Ranked Softball Sweeps UMass Boston in Final Regular Season Doubleheader
BABSON PARK, Mass.—Junior Brooke Stock (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) fired a one-hitter in the opener and senior Ashley Tango (Reading, Mass.) drove in classmate Josephine Mares (Houston, Texas) with an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh in game two as Babson College swept visiting UMass Boston in non-conference softball action on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Doubleheader Preview: Softball vs. UMass Boston
THE SERIES • Babson and UMass Boston will meet for the 24th and 25th times on Saturday in a series that dates back to 1987. The Beavers are 15-8 all-time aginst the Beacons and have won six straight games in the series since 2014.
Doubleheader Preview: Softball at Coast Guard
THE SERIES • Babson is 22-35 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to 1991. The Beavers have won five in a row against the Bears, which included doubleheader sweeps in each of the last two seasons.
Softball Sweeps Coast Guard in Final NEWMAC Doubleheader
NEW LONDON, Conn.—Senior Alex Corrigan (Middletown, N.J.) drove in three runs in game one and junior Katie Gademsky (Hillsborough, N.J.) fired a four-hit shutout in the nightcap as visiting Babson College swept the Coast Guard Academy in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader on Thursday afternoon.
Softball Swept by Endicott
BABSON PARK, Mass.—In a battle of regionally-ranked programs, Babson College dropped both games of a doubleheader to visiting Endicott College in non-conference softball action on Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Field. The Beavers were defeated 6-4 in opener and suffered a 5-4 loss to the Gulls in the night cap.
Doubleheader Preview: Softball vs. Endicott
THE SERIES • Babson and Endicott will meet for the 20th and 21st times on Wednesday in a series that dates back to 2002. The Beavers are 10-9 all-time against the Gulls and have won the last five matchups between the programs.
Doubleheader Preview: Softball at Springfield
THE SERIES • Babson and Springfield will meet for the 59th and 60th times on Friday afternoon in a series that dates back to 1999. The Beavers are 22-36 all-time against the Pride and have won four of six matchups between the teams over the last two seasons.
Regionally-Ranked Softball Takes Game Two, Splits Doubleheader at Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Following an extra-inning loss in the opener, junior Katie Gademsky (Hillsborough, N.J.) tossed a complete-game five-hitter to help visiting Babson College earn a split of Friday's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader at Potter Field.
Stock, Gademsky Help Softball Shut Down Framingham State in Doubleheader Sweep
BABSON PARK, Mass.—Juniors Brooke Stock (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Katie Gademsky (Hillsborough, N.J.) tossed back-to-back shutouts, and classmate Jacqueline Paul (Burlington, N.J.) drove in two runs in each game as Babson College swept visiting Framingham State University in a non-conference softball doubleheader on Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Paul, Stock Earn NEWMAC Softball Weekly Honors
WESTWOOD, Mass.—Babson College juniors Jacqueline Paul (Burlington, N.J.) and Brooke Stock (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) were both recognized when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) released its weekly awards on Tuesday afternoon. Paul was selected as the league's offensive co-player of the week, while Stock collected pitcher of the week honors.
Doubleheader Preview: Softball vs. Framingham State
THE SERIES • Babson and Framingham State will meet in a doubleheader for the third season in a row on Wednesday. The Beavers are 12-6 all-time against the Rams in a series that dates back 1988 and have won 11 of the last 12 games in the series.
Softball Clinches NEWMAC Tournament Berth with Sweep of Emerson
BABSON PARK, Mass.—Junior Brooke Stock (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) recorded a win an a save, and classmate Kayla Schinik (Watchung, N.J.) finished with three hits and drove in a run in each game to help Babson College sweep visiting Emerson College in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Softball Rides Timely Hitting, Solid Pitching to Sweep of Wheaton
BABSON PARK, Mass.—Senior Alex Corrigan (Middletown, N.J.) and junior Jacqueline Paul (Burlington, N.J.) both had two hits in each game to help Babson College sweep a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader against visiting Wheaton College on Friday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Weekend Preview: Softball Continues Home Stand Against Wheaton, Emerson
The Babson softball team will continue its eight-game home stand with a pair of NEWMAC doubleheaders against Wheaton on Friday afternoon and Emerson on Saturday.
Softball Takes Opener Behind 10-Run Fifth, Splits Doubleheader with Tufts
BABSON PARK, Mass.—Babson College put together a 10-run fifth inning in game one, but stranded 12 runners on base in the nightcap on the way to splitting a non-conference softball doubleheader with visiting Tufts University on Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Doubleheader Preview: Softball vs. Tufts
THE SERIES • Babson and Tufts will meet for the 40th and 41st times on Monday in a series that dates back to 1987. The Beavers are 13-26 in the all-time series but own a win over the Jumbos in each of the last three seasons.
Softball Takes Game Two to Earn Doubleheader Split at WPI
WORCESTER, Mass.—Visiting Babson College overcame a one-run loss in the opener by scoring in each of the first three innings of game two on the way to earning a split of Saturday's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader at Rooftop Field.
First-Inning Fireworks Help Softball Roll to Sweep of Smith
BABSON PARK, Mass.—Babson College scored six first-inning runs in the opener and exploded for 12 in its first at-bat in game two on the way to sweeping visiting Smith College in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) doubleheader on Friday afternoon at Alumni Field.
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2019 Season Program
Red-Hot Otterbein Jumps on Amherst in Season Opener
Amherst (0-1) 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 13 1
Otterbein (9-4) 0 6 0 3 1 3 0 3 X 16 14 2
2B: Max Steinhorn 2; Ariel Kenney; Joseph Palmo; Zach Horwitz
2B: Ben Beachy; Adam Stotler; Tim Snyder 2
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – In the opening game of the 2018 season, Amherst College faced a streaking Otterbein College team, and the Cardinals jumped out to a 6-0 lead en route to handing the Mammoths a 16-5 defeat on Sunday.
Amherst starts the season 0-1, while Otterbein has now won five straight and improves to 9-4 on the season.
Topher Brown '21 went 3-4 with a run scored and an RBI, and Max Steinhorn '18 and Ariel Kenney '18 each had two hits on the day for the Mammoths.
The Cardinals scored six runs in the second frame after sending 12 runners to the plate and chasing Amherst starter Sam Schneider '18 after an inning and two-thirds.
Amherst pulled two runs back in the third inning. Brown singled down the right field line to score Kenney after Kai Terada-Herzer '21 crossed the plate for the first run of the year. Terada-Herzer drew a lead-off walk, advancing to third on a Kenney double and came home on a throwing error.
It would be all Otterbein as the innings progressed, opening a 9-2 lead by the fourth and then blowing the margin open with a pair of three-run frames later on. Five Cardinals had multi-hit days, led by junior Tyler Thompson reaching all five times on a pair of singles and three walks.
Joe Palmo '21 and Zach Horwitz '20 each had RBI doubles in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, for the Mammoths.
Otterbein freshman Ethan Doty, improving to 2-0 on the mound after striking out seven batters over six innings. He surrendered just two runs, both unearned, before giving way to the bullpen.
On Monday, Amherst takes to the field in Fort Myers for a double-header against Wisconsin Lutheran. First pitch of game one is slated for 12:00 pm.
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York charity challenge event, 26 Sept
michaelshallcross
Team captain of the Golden Ball, York.
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Jun 17, 2015 10:43:25 GMT iang, bigjimsilverfox, and 2 more like this
Post by michaelshallcross on Jun 17, 2015 10:43:25 GMT
We're holding a charity challenge event at the Golden Ball in York on 26 September 2015, in aid of St Leonard's Hospice. I'm thrilled to say that Dave Ingram and Curt Driver have agreed to come along and take on all challengers. We'll have a cash prize for anyone who can do the seemingly impossible and beat the masters, with a £2 entry fee to have a game against either the world champ or the England captain.
More details will follow about our specific plans for the day. We're hoping to have an all-day barbecue, weather permitting, and maybe hire some other traditional pub games to put in the beer garden and round about for the kids (and grown ups!). We've also got lots of brilliant micro-breweries around these parts, so I'm thinking about trying to commission a bar billiards themed beer for the day!
We're hoping that this event will attract bar billiards enthusiasts from across Yorkshire and even further afield, and will get lots of local publicity that will help promote the game in York and the north more generally. As well as making money for charity, the event will also go a little way to helping the Golden Ball continue thriving as a community-owned pub. So please do shout about this from the rooftops, and we hope to maybe see you there!
God save tudor houses, antique tables and billiards
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Jun 17, 2015 12:28:21 GMT michaelshallcross and syorksbilliards like this
Post by tommo on Jun 17, 2015 12:28:21 GMT
What a great idea ! This, and events like the York/Sheffield/Northants 3-way challenge can only be good for the furtherance of the game.
Best of luck with the venture.
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 2, 2015 10:13:43 GMT curtd likes this
Post by michaelshallcross on Sept 2, 2015 10:13:43 GMT
Just a reminder to everyone that this event is coming up at the end of the month, on Saturday 26 September. We'd be really grateful if everyone in the bar billiards community could let people know the details through any channels available to them - social media, word of mouth, etc - so that we can get as big a turn-out as possible. Thanks!
BB Warrior
Venerable Master
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 2, 2015 10:58:56 GMT barbelman, curtd, and 2 more like this
Post by BB Warrior on Sept 2, 2015 10:58:56 GMT
I am really looking forward to my first visit to York later this month and to meeting all of the players up there.
I think this event was a great idea and hope that it will be well supported by the local players, it would be brilliant if some of them decide to enter some of the national tournaments in the future and for Yorkshire to join AEBBA again at some time.
World Champion - 2014
Oxon Open Winner - 2014
AEBBA Mixed Pairs Winner - 2014 (with Colleen Park)
Highest Break - 23,930 (Brighton League @ Albion Fishersgate 18/05/2016)
Bucks Plate Winner - 2009 & 2010 (The ONLY player to ever "successfully" defend a Plate Competition!)
gandalf the untidy
I'll beat you one day..... but it might take a while
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 2, 2015 12:02:15 GMT michaelshallcross likes this
Post by gandalf the untidy on Sept 2, 2015 12:02:15 GMT
Sept 2, 2015 10:58:56 GMT BB Warrior said:
Well done to Curt and Dave for taking the little jaunt up north, i wonder wether they have pegs or mushrooms?
PS just checked on the Tables map looks like they are pegs.... phew!
Last Edit: Sept 2, 2015 12:28:16 GMT by gandalf the untidy
bobhall
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 2, 2015 19:22:47 GMT via mobile curtd and michaelshallcross like this
Post by bobhall on Sept 2, 2015 19:22:47 GMT
Might have to drive up and try and take out the world champ and England captain
Finally hit 1st 20k break (20670) v kt sussex interleague 2013
Highest break and score 22830 Brighton singles @ Albion fishergate
First 20k against the break 20400 v Colin southouse Surrey open 1st round 2017
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 3, 2015 13:35:10 GMT
Post by milko on Sept 3, 2015 13:35:10 GMT
I like the sign on the outside of the pub.
iang
The Giff
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 10, 2015 13:33:02 GMT
Post by iang on Sept 10, 2015 13:33:02 GMT
A great Idea good luck and hope you raise lots of money.
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 23, 2015 10:52:17 GMT barbelman, iang, and 4 more like this
Post by BB Warrior on Sept 23, 2015 10:52:17 GMT
Well, I have just enjoyed my 5 minutes of fame recording an interview that will go out on Minster FM Radio about this event in the next couple of days.
I think it is great the amount of publicity and media support that the organiser (Michael Shallcross) has managed to arrange with articles also running in the local press in Yorkshire, including this one....
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/13772248.York_residents_invited_to_take_on_world_champion_at_classic_English_pub_game/
Hopefully this event will help to raise the profile of our game in Yorkshire as well as raising money for an excellent cause as proceeds from the day will be given to St Leonards Hospice for cancer.
I am really looking forward to the whole weekend and meeting some new friends.
"Silent"
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 23, 2015 11:22:14 GMT milko, curtd, and 1 more like this
Post by "Silent" on Sept 23, 2015 11:22:14 GMT
Good luck to everyone taking part, hope you raise plenty of money. Excellent article too look forward to hearing that 'Mr' Ingram and 'Mr' Driver get plenty of points scored against them
Matt Knight???
barbelman
Has whiskers and eats anything......
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 23, 2015 16:22:45 GMT gandalf the untidy, Auntie Pauline, and 1 more like this
Post by barbelman on Sept 23, 2015 16:22:45 GMT
Hope you all have a good day and well done to Curt and Dave for putting their heads on the block....
When religious people ask me "But don't you believe there's something better than us in the universe?", I answer, "Yes, most dogs." (R.Gervais)
Post by michaelshallcross on Sept 25, 2015 10:51:56 GMT
Thanks everyone - really looking forward to tomorrow. Here are a couple of other articles that have just been published in the last couple of days. The first one features some imaginative use of Dave's image on the part of the web designer!
www.yorkmix.com/life/sport/world-champion-celebrates-astonishing-revival-of-pub-game-in-york/
Some of the text in that one is adapted from the Ouse Boozer article that I wrote a while back. Here's another one in the University of York's student newspaper:
www.nouse.co.uk/2015/09/24/world-bar-billiards-champion-to-attend-charity-event-in-york/
We'll post up some pictures of the event on our website afterwards, and hopefully should get a follow-up article in the York Press with pics and details of the £50 winner, money raised, etc.
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 25, 2015 16:08:49 GMT barbelman, BB Warrior, and 1 more like this
Post by curtd on Sept 25, 2015 16:08:49 GMT
The day started at 5.30am for me. I was helping Mrs Driver muck out her horses.
Left home at 7.45 to make my trip to Reading to pick up a table from Dave Alder. 1 hr 45 mins later I got to Dave's and was invited in for a coffee. Mrs Alder was in a state of shock as apparently Dave doesn't normally offer to make drinks
Left Dave's at 10am to make the 4hr journey to York.
An hour into my journey I started to get the uneasy feeling that something wasn't right.
Van running ok......... Check
Suitcase.............check
Money ...........check
Cue........... Oh dam it ( or words to that effect)
Cue or no cue, really looking forward to the weekend .
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 25, 2015 21:47:35 GMT gandalf the untidy likes this
Post by tommo on Sept 25, 2015 21:47:35 GMT
Good luck to all with the event, the matchplay, the fundraising, the local publicity. I'm sure Dave and Curt will be able to pass on some encouragement and some useful tips......most of us have learned by watching others.
Something like this can only be good for the game: everyone's a winner.
Have picked this up from Twitter:
All set and ready to go !
No other details so far........
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 28, 2015 9:16:14 GMT NigelS, barbelman, and 5 more like this
Post by BB Warrior on Sept 28, 2015 9:16:14 GMT
Well, what can I say about the weekend....Unlike Curt I did remember to take my cue but sadly I had to leave Colleen behind as she had to work. So, I set off at around 11am with the SatNav telling me that it would be a 5 hour journey.... 5 hours later I was less than half way there with the SatNav telling me that I was still 2 hours 45 minutes away from York! Accidents on both the M25 and M1 had meant that lanes were closed and the roadworks on the M1 are simply a joke.... miles and miles of 50mph speed limits, narrow lanes and traffic cones but not a workman in sight anywhere.
Eventually arrived at the Waggon & Horses where we were staying around 8pm, it's one of the venues in the York League and the landlord (Tom) and staff immediately made me feel very welcome. I had a lovely room with ensuite bathroom and a great view out of the front of the pub. Curt and I headed over to the Golden Ball to meet Michael who had organised the event. Arrived at the pub and the first thing you see is the Bar Billiard table in the window of the front room.... full of people playing and watching. Their enthusiasm for the game hits you like a tidal wave and both Curt and I received an amazing welcome from Michael, Ben and all of the others.
The pub was too busy to put the table up that night so we had a couple of doubles games on the home table with Curt and I narrowly winning against Michael and Chris. Chris is the landlord of the Fulford Arms, one of the other venues in the League and they now have 2 teams in the League and THREE tables!! It would be fair to say that he is very, very enthusiastic about the game!
We arranged to meet up at 9am on Saturday morning and Michael and Chris were there to help us unload and set up the AEBBA table that Curt had bought up in the van. The original idea for the weekend was that Curt and I would take on challengers alternately during the course of the afternoon but Michael asked if we would be willing to also use the home table as well to play more games as there were so many people wanted to play, we happily agreed and moved that table slightly away from the window so that we didn't have to use the small cue that you normally had to use to play some shots.
With both tables ready to go by about 11am, we took a walk down into the city for a couple of hours and found a food festival going on, Curt proved that the American Cop films are totally true by not wanting to share any of the donuts that he bought.... so I had to buy some myself! We returned to the Golden Ball to find that a number of the York players were already there and Michael & Ben were setting up the BBQ in the garden area, the sun was shining and it looked as if we were going to have a great day for it.
We started promptly at 2pm and the challengers came thick and fast, Curt suffered an early defeat (to Chris from the Fulford Arms who played superbly to score nearly 6k which won him the high score award for the day) and we both had some very close games with players that ranged from complete beginners to people that played in the League regularly up there. The games were all played in a friendly spirit with both Curt and I offering a few tips here and there as we went to help the players to keep their scores and learn some new shots. A lot of the players were quick to learn with one of my opponents (Ian) stunning me by starting off with a perfect 3 times, one up and 100 split shot combination and nearly following it up with another one.... when I asked him after the game where he had played before he said that he had only started playing earlier this year in York and he had learned that from simply watching me play for the previous hour.... WOW!!
The afternoon soon became evening and more people were arriving and keen to play, some came back for a second game while Chris came back for a third game.... I think that I said he was enthusiastic! The BBQ looked great and was well supported although sadly I never got round to trying the food as there was always somebody else to play. Eventually, just after 10pm it was agreed that Curt and I would play an exhibition game to finish the day. I won the toss, put Curt in and watched him play the table out for a superb 18,200. Having been playing the other table for the previous 2 hours myself, that was a tough ask to try to catch a break like that and I duly came off early in my reply and Curt put me to the sword again.
Time to pack up then.... oh.... not quite. Even as we were about to dismantle the table one of the local players pulled the handle again and wanted Curt to help her learn the split shot! 15 minutes later she was still practising it! A few pictures taken around the table and eventually we got it loaded into the van (we nearly lost it to the lady who wanted to take it home and put it in her garage!) said our farewells and headed back to the Waggon & Horses. Fair to say that we were both pretty tired by then, I think we had probably both played around 25-30 games during the course of the day.
So, what is next for the York League. I know that it only started a couple of years ago as a challenge between 2 of the local pubs and that Michael Shallcross was one of the people that first started it as, at one stage, it looked likely that the table would be taken out of the Golden Ball. Since then it has grown to be a thriving League and will have 9 teams playing this season from 8 different venues and more pubs in the area have shown an interest in getting a table and having a team. At a time when we know that other areas areas around the country are losing venues, teams and players it was simply amazing to find the opposite here in York.
How has this happened.... in a word - enthusiasm! They have managed to get a lot of publicity from local media, both in the newspapers and on local radio. Chris told me that he was amazed that the local press had run lots of articles about the league first starting up but they had hardly mentioned the very large music festival that had taken place in York at around the same time. I think that may explain part of the reason that he has become so enthusiastic about the game as he knows that people want to support their local pubs and the Golden Ball (which is owned by shareholders from the local community) is a wonderful example of how much the people in York want to retain traditional pubs and pub games.
I know that it has been discussed that York will join the AEBBA in the future and, hopefully, that will happen this year. They hope to run other events in the future, maybe (given time) even an Open Competition although they want to walk before the start to run. Their League is played on a very friendly basis with all games played as doubles matches, inevitably some players are better than others and some of them are keen to improve further. Playing in AEBBA Competitions would help that in the long term.
I would certainly go back up to York for another similar event to this in the future and I know that they really enjoyed the recent challenge matches they had against Sheffield and Northants so hopefully things like this will be arranged again in the future as a way to bridge the long journey between Yorkshire and the rest of the counties that are members of AEBBA.
On a final note I would like to thank Michael and the others involved with organising and running the event for all of their hard work in arranging everything.... I was totally amazed at the welcome and the sheer enthusiasm you all have up there and I truly hope that continues for many years to come. Certainly a weekend that I will remember for a very long time for all of the right reasons.
York charity challenge event, 26 Sept Sept 28, 2015 11:15:01 GMT BB Warrior likes this
Nice report Dave...well done to you both and to the York league.
First chance to take a look on the forum since the big day, and overwhelmed by David's brilliant account!
It was a great day, and we have David and Curt to thank for that. You couldn't ask for two better ambassadors for the game. Incredibly generous with their time and know-how, endlessly enthusiastic and committed despite a punishing schedule after a massive journey up the day before. It was basically an eight hour + shift that they each put in at the table on Saturday, and everyone who challenged them was given an inspiring hand up as well as a masterclass. Talking to other league players afterwards they were all saying how much they had learned, and what a boost it had given their game. It was great to see people grinning like little kids because they had racked up a respectable score against a top player!
Curt's 18,000+ tally in the penultimate exhibition match is something I won't forget in a hurry - absolutely amazing to watch. He certainly showed everyone who's boss after his surprise defeat to our Chris earlier in the day. Chris will be dining out on that story for a fair while!
I'm not yet sure how much we raised for the charity - I'll hopefully be taking back the sealed collection boxes tomorrow, so will post again when I have a total. I'm also trying to get some more photos collected up, and will hopefully get some up on our website and twitter before too long.
We'll definitely get our act together on joining the AEBBA soon, as we have a good half-dozen or so players who are keen to link up for more competitive events.
So finally a big thank you again to David and Curt for a proud and long-to-be-remembered day in the history of our league. It's a long trek up here from the South East, but you both have lots of friends here ready for another game whenever you fancy making another trip up to York.
Post by gandalf the untidy on Sept 28, 2015 23:19:07 GMT
Sept 28, 2015 20:52:59 GMT michaelshallcross said:
Nice to see some energy and enthusiasm for the game up north, looking forward to see some match reports coming through
regs cs
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Post by curtd on Oct 2, 2015 7:37:21 GMT
All I can do is agree with what Dave and Michael have already said.
A great day of billiards with a bunch of very enthusiastic players.
A great way to raise some money for charity .
I would like to thank Michael for inviting us up to take part in the day and congratulate Chris(3 tables) for getting the highest score of the day and beating me. The grin on Chris's face for the next 8 hrs said it all.
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The dream begins as it always does, with no air. At first she struggles, screaming bubbles into the darkness as she drags her hands through the water, frantic in her search for an escape. But there is nothing to cling to, nothing that can lead her to an exit or can pull her out. There is only her, surrounded by the fizzy blackness of the sea. Water glugs, settling into the dips of her ears, and her hands glow pale and ghostly, frosted by the moon.
The currents grip her arms and legs and down and down she sinks until her knees touch the grit at the bottom. Her head moves in slow motion as she looks around, trying to make out shapes in the darkness. Mottled shadows quiver and peer out through crevices of rock. Their jagged outlines look like huge mouths that curve over her. There is certainly something wicked here, but it does not reach her – she is numb and, like a soft floating statue, she drifts on.
A curtain of silver fish, with pure white eyes, flicker into view. They flash and spark through tangles of weed emerging from the darkness, and there is a faint tug, a flutter at the back of her heart that tells her to follow them. Whispers of tongue-twisters float gently through the currents. From all sides they come. They are important and so she listens.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
The voices are hushed and terribly sad and she does not recognise that they are her own. She then remembers she should not be alone, and twists around to look for him swimming this way and that.
“Where are you? Why aren’t you here?” The words come out muffled, get trapped in bubbles and then drift away. He is not here, though he said he would come, that they would do it together. He said they would no longer be soulless, hopeless things, that they would find their souls and be able to live. She can’t do this without him, she is certain of that.
It is when she realises that she is truly alone and that he will never come that the fear takes hold. It starts at the tips of her toes before smashing through her blood as she senses the thing; something black, fat and huge slowly gliding beside her. She stiffens, rotates and kicks. She scratches at rocks to find a way out, but cannot.
She goes on and on this way, unable to speak or breathe, with the dark shape by her side. It is a bad thing, the shape. Something so awful it is almost unbearable. It presses down on her, gets right into her bones, but she can’t swim faster than it, nor can she slow down and drop away. Gently the shape cocoons around her, its wet flesh sucking her in, its stinking, sweating skin trying to suffocate and seal her up.
It is just before she is nearly gone that the light appears. It is a far-away light which glimmers a bright sapphire blue. It always seems to be calling out to her with a desperate, high-pitched song.
She wakes from this dream as usual, tangled in a sticky nest of linen and sweat with such a terrible feeling of misery and hatred towards the world that it feels as though she has been soaked in lemons. Eyes shift to the clock. A curse is muffled and she shoves her face deep into her pillows. With no hope of returning to dreams she clambers out of bed with shallow breath and stiff knees and eyes still clinging to sleep. Sitting by the window on a little wooden chair she begins to make lists – lists of anything – things she needs, or things that must be done, but soon, as always, she grows tired of this and writes lists of words that rhyme, of all the street names she can remember in the town where she used to live, or of all the people she once knew. She sticks them on the wall around the solitary picture that hangs there – a rough shadowy painting of a man holding a flower stretched up above his head in a despairing offering to the stormy skies that swirl around him. It is a focused and diligent task, one which dismisses the noises that filter through the walls of her room – the moans and groans that come in the night – ignoring the footsteps and the shadow that passes by momentarily blocking out the light which glows through the gap where her door meets the floor. When she is satisfied, she turns back towards the window and stares at the glass. On catching glimpses of her face she glares at the faint creases on her forehead which, to her, serve as cruel reminders of age and of death.
There was nothing left to do
My son is dead and he is gone. These were the eight words that repeated themselves over and over in Deborah’s head like an annoying song to which she knew only a single line, being stuck, wedged in her brain until it slowly drove her mad. It was not the first time she’d thought this, of course, but so far she’d always found a way to distract herself, to think of something else. Tonight, however, it didn’t seem these thoughts were going to go away.
Deborah was curled like a cat on her sofa, a shabby, uncomfortable two-seater affair with a thin dusting of crumbs over the burgundy cushions and a half-empty bottle of gin stuck firmly down the middle. Her feet were tucked neatly under her, chin resting on her hands, elbows resting on knees. She stared at the television, which flickered and crackled, barely revealing the picture on the screen, as if the people within it were drowning in the middle of a huge, snowy blizzard. This did not matter to Deborah because ‘Germ busters!’ was on – it was her very favourite show. Glaring at the screen she hoped that, if she concentrated hard enough, she would forget those words that were incessantly being sung in her head. My son is dead and he is gone.
Today a woman in a pink suit and perfectly neat hair was swabbing the backs of people’s necks, their shoes, the insides of their sleeves and their coats. This woman would then inform the viewer, with unnecessary pleasure, that millions of germs were breeding all over them. The swabbed ones appeared mostly unfazed by this. Some would half-heartedly try to please her, coiling their faces into expressions of shock and dismay. Most would just shrug and then mutter “Oh well” before flashing the woman a feeble grin and then cracking a joke about eating dinner from the toilet seat.
Today Deborah’s face was like a fruit basket; plum and peach around the eyes, banana yellow and cherry red on her forehead where week-old scratches had formed scabs. She pulled up her T-shirt and winced at the red mark on her stomach and the dark, blood-speckled bruise that formed around it. She held some ice wrapped in cloth and was cradling it to her chest like a baby, then winced as she raised it to her swollen cheek.
Today had not been a good day – not from the beginning, when the screech of the alarm had forced her, naked and wrinkle-faced out of sleep. There was always that split second, before morning stuck its claws in, when she forgot. My son is dead and he is gone.
It had been six years since Deborah’s son had been born. They’d named him Jamie after her late grandfather. In a haze of screams and blood he’d squeezed his way out. He was a pink-skinned, bug-eyed scab of a thing. She remembered holding him. He’d had such a serious face! He frowned up at her as if to say “you are not what I bargained for” before letting his displeasure be heard with a huge red scream. Deborah had never been more frightened in all her life. In that moment, just for a split second, she’d toyed with the idea of calmly handing him back and then making a run for it down the hospital corridor, arse exposed, gown flapping in the breeze.
Before she’d got pregnant, it had just been the two of them. They’d rented this huge run-down cottage right by the loch and scraped a life together, surviving off cereal and watery cans of potato soup. Jack, her husband, though unqualified, had charmed his way into getting some building work in the town, while she had pulled pints for the local drunks in the shabby, sour-smelling pub down the road. On a Saturday, as a tradition, they’d walk up to the top of the hill behind their house, armed with a bottle of vodka, singing love ballads at the tops of their voices. Slogged up to the eyeballs, drunk as skunks and high as kites, they’d paraded around like a couple of thugs in love without a care in the world. They’d wedge close together, wrap themselves up in an itchy woollen blanket and stay all night long, looking up at the stars and slurring dreamily about all the greatness and the riches that were right around the corner.
A piss on a stick and everything changed. They got sensible. They had to leave, to get proper jobs, to be adults. So they’d upped sticks and moved, to their own little slice of the city to be a family. And that they were. Deborah had never felt it again, after that day in the hospital; she’d never regretted her son for an instant.
She sighed and raised the ice up to her face again, still staring at the television. She took a huge slug of gin from her glass, swilling it around her cheeks like a mouthwash to get a good sting before gulping it down. The woman on TV was now talking to a man in a white coat in a lab. There was a large window at one end of this lab and behind it a room with beige walls that appeared to have nothing in it. The woman in the pink suit and the man in the white coat were peering into the microscope in front of them and, each in turn, came up with faces of equal and appropriate horror. The man then said something and the woman in pink laughed, a lusty crinkled laugh, before touching his arm.
Deborah sighed again. No, it had not been a good day at all. She’d arrived at work just moments before Jo-Jo, the new PA, had bustled in making her usual spectacular entrance. Jo-Jo was so polished you could almost see your reflection if you looked into her shiny, perfect face. She would walk into the office, heels clip-clopping like a show pony across the floor, hair glossy, and swishing back and forth in time with her hips. She was so bloody perfect and so nice to everyone too – one of those ‘couldn’t say a bad word about her’ types. It was nonsense of course. Deborah had it on good authority that Jo-Jo was a nympho bulimic who had only got the job because she’d seduced Gary from accounts. Besides, Deborah was of the opinion that there was always something one could find to say that was bad about a person if one really truly tried.
Today, mere moments after Jo-Jo’s arrival, Deborah had been called in to Mr Dogman’s office. It was then that the day really took a turn for the worse. He had sat her down with a look of practised concern and explained to her that he thought it was best for the company’s ‘image’ if she took some time off.
“Miss Green,” he’d sighed, sitting unnecessarily close to her on the edge of his desk as he loosened his tie, as if to say ‘we’re all friends here, you can tell me things.’ “I want you to know how much we value you here. I don’t want you to think what I’m saying is a reflection on your ability as a member of the team. However, we do think it would be best for everyone if you took a little break.”
He then smacked his lips together and sighed. He had big crusts of sleep in clumps around his eyelashes and there was a blotch of something yellow and greasy on his tie. “Don’t worry – we’re happy to pay you up until the end of the month and of course keep your position open until you” – he paused and looked at the floor – “feel better.”
There had been a dreadful moment, a split second when Deborah had thought she might cry. It wasn’t that she wanted to cry. What she wanted to do was say something extraordinarily witty and suitably scathing – a perfect sentence that would encapsulate how little she enjoyed working for his poorly paid, no prospects, sad little company. That he could stick his job and that she couldn’t care less if she never set foot in his pathetic office again. The words just wouldn’t come though, and she became distinctly aware that there was a large lump in her throat. In the end she said little in protest and instead did what was normal and sensible by quietly packing her things in a box, shaking his hand and smiling and nodding when he said he would be in touch.
It hadn’t been a shock, of course. In many ways she was surprised that the self-important idiot had let her stay that long. When her son had died, naturally everyone had been suitably sympathetic. They’d given her time off and when she’d returned everyone had expressed how very sorry they were. It was the months after that the problems started, the days where she couldn’t get out of bed, the days where she couldn’t even be bothered to pick up the phone to tell them that she couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed. Then the rumours started that when she did show up she was drinking at work. It was when the bruises appeared that Deborah realised how uncomfortable they were around her. Everyone would hush when she walked to the vending machine and no one could quite look her in the eye.
She stifled a sob, took another gulp from her drink and glanced to the window. It had begun to rain. It wasn’t ordinary rain – the kind that starts in tiptoes while it makes up its mind whether to continue. It stamped from the sky in gusts, right up to the glass, insisting on her attention. She shut her eyes and wished it could wash away the words that spun in her head, around and around like a revolving door – one which was moving too fast to let her out. She wished that the rain would become so strong that it would dissolve the walls of her apartment and that everything would just be washed away until it was only her, on her sofa, surrounded by a vast sea. In fact Deborah wished that it would rain so hard that her skin would give in, and slip from her, and she would be nothing but a mess of veins and insides which would swell like balloons, great giant organs floating in solitude, until, too fat to stay afloat, they would sink to the bottom, and only then the rain would stop.
It was after their son had died that it had begun to brew in Jack. Deborah had seen it curdling in his eyes, all the sadness, all the regret, all the things he didn’t know how to put into words. It had started with a shove after an argument as he’d pushed past her to storm out of the house. It had been a reasonable reaction – that’s what she’d told herself while she rubbed the bruises on her arms and waited for him to come home. A shove and an apology – that’s how it started. Then the shove became a punch and the apology became extinct.
Deborah reached for the remote to turn the TV off. Just as she did, she swore in the flash before it went dead that she could see herself in the empty room leading off from the lab, her hands and face pressed up tightly against the glass.
The living room was large and square, with two sofas forming an L shape in the centre. Both were ratty and dirty and they didn’t match. In the corner, the TV sat unsteadily on a pile of books with torn edges and next to this a mantelpiece overhung a fireplace from which a hissing electric fire gave off a dusty, sour-smelling heat. On the shelves above stood an unloved, browning plant in a stone pot, empty photo frames, more books, and a row of tiny studded trinket boxes lined up neatly in silver and blue. A bare bulb hung precariously from a thin stretch of wire in the middle of the ceiling, casting a shadowy glaze over everything as it almost imperceptibly moved back and forth.
Deborah stood up and walked towards the window at the back of the room where she looked out at the skyline of endless cement. It wasn’t a bad area of the city they’d moved to, just up from Old Street tube. The flat was ex-council, but it had suited them well enough and they’d been happy here for a time. Even so, she’d always missed the country. It was where she had felt most at home – where she’d first met Jack, with his ice-blue eyes and that slight curl upwards of his top lip whenever he was laughing that made him look so mean, but so attractive at the same time. It wasn’t just the sense of freedom they’d had back then, the ‘us against the world’ attitude that they’d adopted fuelled by booze and youth. She also missed the weaves of the trees, the smells of bonfires and wild flowers and sounds of crickets and birds competing to be heard as the sun, as round and fresh as an orange, dipped low over the weather beaten hills. She missed the rain, the freezing winters, even the mice in the cupboards. Here a constant groan of traffic, a view of grey bricks and a smoke-sliced sky was all that greeted her.
Deborah turned and walked to the bathroom, just off the small hallway through a door on the left. This was her favourite room in the flat, mostly due to the huge free-standing bath that stood in the middle. The porcelain was a bit cracked and the water took ages to heat up but, even so, every time she lay in that bath she felt she was living in the lap of luxury. She leaned down and turned on the taps, rinsing away the rim of scum that had formed around the edges, before pushing the plug in. She listened to the familiar hiss before the water spluttered and coughed its way out. After a while the room filled with a thick steam and she stood back upright, faced towards the mirror, and watched herself fade away.
He’s gone. He is really gone. He is never coming back.
Deborah glanced at the clock above the sink. In exactly five minutes it would be precisely seven days since he’d left. She frowned as she tried to remember how it had happened – her on the floor, him leaning over her, leg cocked like a pissing dog. But he hadn’t been pissing, he’d been kicking. Every muscle, every tendon, was all coiled up like a spring, until he’d smashed it down over and over again, and she had felt her head knock back against the wall. She had tried to cover her face with her hands, but not before her tongue had split and the warm metallic taste of blood filled up her mouth until she was coughing and choking and spitting it everywhere.
He had been leaning over her, leg still raised for one last kick, and then, just like that, something in him had snapped like an elastic band. Suddenly he was no longer taut and ready to strike but instead a loose, rubbery thing that slumped to the floor. He’d pawed at the wall, crimson-faced and wailing like a child. Then he got up. He didn’t say sorry. He didn’t beg for her to forgive him. He just left – his final way of fucking her up.
Deborah took a deep breath and sighed into the empty room, her head throbbing. The memory of that night always exhausted her. For some reason, every time she thought of it she would find it harder and harder to remember the details. Must be blocking it out, she supposed.
As she waited for the bathtub to fill she crossed the hall to her bedroom. The window was wide open, propped up with a huge red-backed book with gold letters down the spine. The mirror which hung above her bed was a smudged circle of glass in a blue plastic frame. Walking to it, she gently pulled down the bits of paper that had been stuffed around its edge – the little scribbled reminders of things she had yet to do. When she had taken them all down she carefully gathered up the bits, walked over to the window and threw them out. The rain had stopped now. The buildings opposite glistened, illuminated by streetlights and framed by the night sky. A bus pulled up at the stop on the street below. A frail old man helped a frailer old lady step down and they shuffled off together arm in arm.
Deborah slammed the window down, pushing the memories out into the night, as if they were solid things, as if this would keep them out. She then stared at her feet, hoping an explanation would somehow creep out of them – a worm of hope that would make her change her mind. Nothing happened. There was nothing left to do.
It was as though she should be thinking something, doing something more significant – perhaps weeping as she clutched photos depicting scenes from her childhood, or writing heartfelt letters to her nearest and dearest with some sort of explanation or an appeal to them not to blame themselves. But it all seemed rather pointless. What she was about to do was so insignificant, so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, that she didn’t want to flatter herself by thinking that anyone would truly care about it, least of all people that knew her.
With her bath almost full, Deborah carefully smoothed the bedspread down and left her bedroom. Outside she paused and looked at the room opposite for a moment, its door firmly shut. If she turned her head in a certain light she could still make out the greasy outlines of little handprints on the paint.
“Happy birthday,” she whispered, and her face pinched, sour with grief as she forced herself away, and moved to the kitchen to check it one last time before switching off the light.
As the room absorbed itself into the night, Deborah turned and stretched for the black-bladed knife that was lying ready on the counter, grinning up at her through the darkness. My son is dead and he is gone. She walked back towards the bathroom door. As she opened it steam poured out and enclosed her, making her appear momentarily indistinct, as if neither dead nor alive. Then she disappeared into it and slowly, purposefully, shut the door behind her.
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Cloudera Lands $40 Million From Ignition, Accel Launches $100 Million Big Data Fund
November 8, 2011 at 5:03 am PT
Elephants, it seems, are attracting money. As Hadoop World gets underway in New York today, Cloudera, the start-up company that is putting on the event, has landed a big new investor.
A day after teaming up with the storage concern NetApp, Cloudera announced today that it has landed a $40 million series D round of venture capital funding from Ignition Partners, in a round led by its partner, Frank Artale. Previous investors include Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and In-Q-Tel. Cloudera says it will use the funds to expand its marketing and sales operations. By my count, the round brings Cloudera’s total capital raised so far to $76 million.
Cloudera has been on a roll — it’s the Hadoop outfit that many companies are turning to when they decide to tackle their big-data problems. Among its customers are eBay, AOL, Facebook and Groupon. While Hadoop itself is free for anyone to download and install from the Apache Software Foundation, Cloudera provides support and training, and an enterprise-ready version of Hadoop that has been tweaked for easier deployment in big companies.
And that’s not all the new money sloshing around the world of Hadoop, the open source project with the cute cartoon elephant as its mascot. (Hence the money-origami elephant pictured above.)
Accel Partners, which led Cloudera’s last round, is launching a $100 million “Big Data Fund,” with Cloudera as a partner. The point, Accel partner Ping Li told me, is to fund companies working in what he calls the “big data stack,” whether that’s in infrastructure like storage or security or management, or building applications that run on Hadoop. And the opportunities for that are multiplying, he told me.
“We’re seeing an undercurrent of picks-and-shovels kind of innovation around solving big data problems,” Li told me in an email. The volume of data is exploding at such a rate that it’s breaking traditional data-management technology like relational databases. It’s a problem that touches practically every industry. The fund will be overseen by several Accel partners based in the U.S., Europe, China and India.
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State Chiefs Pledge to Maintain Teacher Evaluation Post NCLB
By Stephen Sawchuk on March 1, 2016 3:39 PM
The nation's state superintendents are trying to send the message that, even though there are no longer any federal requirements for teacher evaluation, states aren't abandoning their commitment to review their teachers on a regular basis.
"A question I get asked by reporters is, 'Aren't states just going to back away from teacher evaluations [post No Child Left Behind]?', and my answer is 'No,' " said Chris Minnich, the executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers in a press call with reporters. But in the future, states must emphasize teacher development, he said: "These systems had a tendency to err more on the evaluation side than the support side."
And so in a document released March 1, the CCSSO lists a set of principles for teacher evaluation.
Teacher evaluation, the chiefs say, should be linked to broader efforts to improve teaching, such as by connecting the feed back teachers receive directly to the standards and curricula they have to teach. They should be geared to improving teacher practice, by serving as the foundation of professional development. And they should be fair, credible, and transparent, achieved by engaging educators in the refinement of the system, the use of multiple measures, and communicating the purpose of evaluations to parents and teachers.
The CCSSO says evaluations should also be connected to and inform "every component of the talent development system, including preparation, hiring, induction, and retention. Results should inform individual coaching, professional learning, assignment, tenure, career advancement, and teacher leadership opportunities."
"What we've found is that through our experience [with the NCLB waivers], we have had some unintended outcomes," said Virginia Superintendent Steven Staples. "The biggest one is that there's an over-reliance on a single measure; too many of our divisions defaulted to the statewide standardized test ... and their feedback was that because that was a focus [of the federal government], they felt they needed to emphasize that, ignoring some other factors. It also drove a real emphasis on a summative, final evaluation. And it resulted in our best teachers running away from our most challenged schools."
Staples said the state is looking to refine the way it incorporates student growth into teacher evaluation, away from crude measures like "student growth percentiles" and toward more sophisticated approaches.
Virginia Superintendent Steven Staples, at right, is eyeing ways to improve teacher evaluation in the state. Photo courtesy Virginia Department of Education
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Blue Ridge Uprooters!
I’m please to announce the immediate availability of our very own pair of neighborhood Uprooters! These were purchased with funds provided in part through the City of Bloomington’s Housing and Neighborhood Improvement Grant Program and your Blue Ridge Neighborhood Association dues. If you have invasive plants on your property, these tools are an excellent, herbicide-free way to remove them for good—roots and all.
We have one full-sized Uprooter (jaw capacity: 2.25 inches) and one Uprooter Mini (jaw capacity: 1.125 inches) available to loan out to any Blue Ridge residents. If you’d like to borrow one or both, just contact me. You will receive a “use and care” instruction sheet and will have to sign an indemnification form (please don’t sue us). The loan period will vary depending on demand, but I’d like to keep it to two weeks at the most.
For more information about these tools, see: https://www.theuprooter.com
Thanks to Vickie Provine (HAND) and Ralf Shaw (BRNA) for making this possible.
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2017 Election Results and Analysis
Thanks to everyone that came to the meeting this past week. Even though we didn’t have any real competition among the candidates and the result was practically predetermined, we still had to hold an election by ballot because the constitution (now bylaws) required it. I also had forgotten to add an amendment to forego an election in cases where we only have one candidate. In any case, I think it was good to hold a ballot election because having the data would allow me to do an analysis of the results.
The analysis of elections in Indiana is a topic that I’ve been very interested in recently. I have already done analyses of several Monroe county elections including an analysis of IU Bloomington Faculty Council elections. I’m currently working on a website to publish these finding and hope to have it ready in the near future.
But back to our election. There were two voting systems used in this election: plurality vote and majority vote. The bylaws called for a plurality vote for the officers (Article IV § 6) and a majority vote for amendments (Article VII). A plurality vote means the winning candidate or proposition is determined by whichever has the largest number of votes. A majority vote means more than half of the votes cast are required to win. FYI: plurality voting is the system that is used in most (if not all) elections in Indiana.
The primary metric I look at when analyzing an election is its efficiency rating. The efficiency (or effectiveness) of an election can be determined by looking at the ratio of wasted votes to effective votes. Wasted votes are either unnecessary or insufficient to elect a candidate, while effective votes are both necessary and sufficient to elect a candidate. In general, voting systems that produce a greater percentage of effective votes than wasted votes are better for voters in that more of their votes actually matter in determining the outcome. Greater efficiency means that more voters’ voices are heard.
For the election of the officers, we only had one candidate for each office so there was really no need for an election in these cases. Each officer received a 100% of the votes cast and there were no write-in candidates. The threshold for election using a plurality vote is usually the second-highest number of votes. But when there isn’t any other candidates, the question becomes: “Are any votes necessary to elect a candidate?” The two possible answers are that either no votes are necessary or that only one vote is necessary. I searched Robert’s Rules of Order for guidance, but didn’t find any definitive answer. So I asked Brad King, the co-director of the Indiana Election Division. He said that as far as state law is concerned, there is no requirement that a candidate receive any votes to be elected. So without any other guidance or bylaw of our own, I set the election threshold to zero. The end result is that none of the votes cast in these races were necessary. This gives them a 0% efficiency rating.
Since the results were the same for each office (president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer), I’m only displaying the charts and graphs once.
President: Debora (Ralf) Shaw
Vice-President: Mike Trotzke
Secretary: Ann Birch
Treasurer: Shirley Watkins
Votes Wasted Votes Wasted % Effective Votes Effective % Total %
Directors-at-Large
For this race, we had four seats and four candidates. The efficiency rating of this race would have been identical to the officers’ races (100% waste) except there was one difference. We did have one write-in vote. This one vote actually increased the effectiveness of this race by about 7%.
This means if you cast a vote in this race, you had a 7% chance that your vote was effective.
Directors-at-Large:
Carole Canfield
John Grigutis
Jillian Kinzie
Jeremy Nation
Votes Wasted Votes Wasted % Effective Votes Effective % Vote % Ballot %
Grigutis
Basey
According to Article VII, a majority vote is required to make amendments to the bylaws. This is the basic principle that most organizations should be using to make decisions. It ensures that any choice or decision is supported by a majority of the voters as well as ensuring that a majority of the votes are also effective.
Compare the efficiency ratings of these results with the results of the plurality elections above.
Amendment 1: Shall the main document of the BRNA be renamed from constitution to bylaws?
Amendment 2: Shall the parliamentary authority referred to in article VIII be changed to reflect the current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order and the name change from the previous amendment (if passed)?
Amendment 3: Shall Article IV § 6 be removed in order to require a majority threshold for electing officers?
In closing, I believe it’s the duty of those of us running elections (at any level) to make sure that they are as efficient and effective as possible.
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Blue Ridge: The Way It Was
These notes were made by Beverly Watkins, daughter of Odell and Velma Watkins, residents at 2908 Bankers Drive in “Blue Ridge Estates” from September, 1962 until May, 1973.
My father had his eye on the grassy hill that was later to become Blue Ridge Estates as early as the late fifties. He would drive us to a spot on Dunn Road – where he would slow down so that we could gaze up at the hill and he would say “If ever they develop this property I’d like to build a house here.” There were no roads….it was still farmland…only a grassy knoll above a rolling field, spotted with cows, but there was speculation that the area might one day become a sub- division.
Later, maybe ’59 or ’60, when it was announced that Urban Developers were, indeed, developing the property, Dad was one of the first in line to purchase a lot. He picked a spot that he had walked many times before the roads were ever cut, on the north side of the hill below the crest, a location that looked out to the horizon on three sides….to Cascades Addition across the valley to the west, north as far as the eye could see, down to Griffy Lake and the heavily wooded hilly terrain that wrapped around to the east. The half-acre lot was on a corner….the street in front was to be named Ramble Road West and the street on the side was to be called Drane Drive. Later, when Bankers Growth took over the development, Ramble Road was changed to Bankers Drive and Drane Drive thankfully changed to Blue Ridge Drive. The first winter after the lot was purchased, Dad would take my best friend and me to the “hill” and we would all three go sledding down “Drane Drive”!!
For the next two years my dad spent many a late night alone at his desk, working on a floor plan that would take advantage of the tremendous vista. Harold Bender, local architect, finalized those plans and Howard Young was hired as the builder. The house was begun in the early spring of ’62. I think we drove out to inspect almost every evening and we moved in over Labor Day weekend. (Our dachshund, Heidi, formerly a “city” dog, had her first encounter with a skunk and spent her first night in the garage following a tomato juice bath. Ugh!)
Our house was, I believe, the third house completed, following Delbert and Rosemary Miller’s and Russ and Joan Ide’s (who lived just east of us). The vacant lots surrounding us were covered in high grass and weeds. (Heidi would sneak into the weeds and spend hours digging for field mice and rabbits, coming home with her mouth and front paws caked with mud, flopping down on the kitchen floor with satisfied exhaustion! There were few trees on the north side of the hill, and the wind swept freely across the open space, rattling the windows, blowing patio furniture into the wrought iron railing and occasionally blowing out the gas lamp at the end of our driveway.
I was starting seventh grade that first fall at Dyer Junior High and we learned that there was no school bus service planned for Blue Ridge. My mother would take me to school and I would ride the bus home to the edge of Matlock Heights on Dunn and walk home. In the meantime, my dad and one other neighbor battled with the school board to get them to provide bus service to our addition. One day that first winter, while attempting to walk home, it was so cold that I finally had to drop my books in the snow at the entrance to Blue Ridge and run to the nearest house (the
Johnsons’, the only house east of the Millers’) where Mrs. Johnson tried to warm my frost-bitten hands while waiting for my dad to arrive. Shortly thereafter, the school board agreed to extend the bus route through Blue Ridge!
By the summer of ’63, many more houses were going up, and, with every new rooftop, someone, including us, lost a part of their beautiful “view.” In spite of that, it was exciting to see new families, some with small children, beginning to populate the neighborhood. The Berkleys (Dean and Dottie) lived just down from us, across the street, and had two small boys and a new baby. The Rockwells (Perry and Kathy) lived on the lower drive and had a young daughter and son. Together with the Ides’ young son, these little kiddies provided ample opportunity to earn baby- sitting money and I took full advantage! There were also a few children in junior high and high school (my sister was in college at IU).
Most of the homes ran down the hill in front of our house and around the “loop,” across to Dunn and back up the hill beside us. Beyond the bottom of the “loop,” just across the road to the northwest, there was still a farm house, complete with barn and silo. The family living there later moved and their land became part of the new phase of Blue Ridge, but the silo remained for a long time.
I remember a tumultuous time growing up at that time. 1963 was a year of protest marches and violence in the South, all captured on TV. In June, Medgar Evers was gunned down. In September, four little girls were killed in a church bombing in Birmingham. For me and my friend, Nancy Hall (daughter of Wayne and Martha who had moved in across the street), the grim realities we were watching every night rocked our young world. Then on Halloween night, there was an explosion at the Coliseum in Indianapolis, during the Holiday on Ice show, killing over sixty people. And of course, the event that rocked everyone’s world occurred in November, when President Kennedy was assassinated. Nancy and I said that 1963 was the worst year ever and celebrated its end on New Year’s Eve.
However, the tragedies kept coming and hitting closer to home. In May of ’64 there was a fiery and fatal crash at the Indy 500, killing two drivers, including Eddie Sachs, Nancy’s favorite driver, in full view of Nancy and her family who attended the race every year. But the tragedy that struck next was the one that ripped away any sense of safety that Nancy and I might have had. The Masseys lived at the bottom of the “loop” and they had a son that was close to our age. We didn’t know him but had seen him riding his bike around the neighborhood. One afternoon, he and some friends rode their bikes down Dunn near the Griffy dam, where there is a short but very steep hill that makes a sharp turn at the bottom near the treatment plant, a hill that no one I knew would ever risk biking down. The Massey boy, on that day, took the risk, went airborne, and crashed. He died a few days later. Nancy and I were so distraught that her father sat us down and tried to tell us that tragedies will always be a part of life…..not a lesson we wanted to learn at thirteen.
Sadly, this was to be only the first of three tragedies involving young Blue Ridge residents during my time there. Jody Miller, University High School cheerleader and daughter of Tom and Ruthie Miller, was severely injured in a car crash near the stadium and has been in a
convalescent center ever since. And one of the young sons of the Enguidanos family, who lived down the hill from us, was walking down Dunn when he was struck by a car and killed.
Living in Blue Ridge, however, was a wonderful experience. It was a favorite place for my classmates to bring their skateboards (yes, my dad took a few turns on mine) and a great place to walk your dog. Some neighbors kept to themselves and others were, well, neighborly! The wives met for coffee, the men would visit when they were out working on their yards. And the yards were immaculately kept back then…it was a matter of personal pride! There was a Blue Ridge “picnic” every summer and holiday lights decorated the yards at Christmas-time.
My dad and his good friend and neighbor, Wayne Hall, were always playing little tricks on each other. Once, Wayne, who envied my dad’s fruit trees, planted an apple tree and kept waiting for apples to appear that first fall. My dad knew that Wayne probably wouldn’t see any apples until the second season so he took an apple and tied it onto Wayne’s bare tree. The next day Wayne came over and proudly said “look, Odie, my first apple!” My dad finally confessed. So the following summer, Wayne tied a pear on my dad’s apple tree, shocking my dad until he realized he’d been “paid back.”
I moved away from home in 1973 but my parents continued to live there until my mother’s death in 2002. My dad lived there alone until he was moved to Indianapolis in 2006, where he died in 2007. My sister and I kept and maintained the home as our little weekend getaway until we sold it in 2011.We will always miss our home in Blue Ridge!
2017 Blue Ridge Neighborhood Association (BRNA) Spring Cleanup
What: Subsidized pick up of brush and limbs.
Why: The BRNA is sponsoring this collection of plant debris to help BRNA members secure a volume discount. In addition, the collection helps property owners comply with Bloomington’s Municipal Code Title 12, Chapter 12.24.040 (2), which requires property owners to keep brush trimmed from sidewalks and streets.
When: Saturday/Sunday, April 1–2, 2017. Holding the cleanup in early spring, before plants leaf out, reduces the volume and cost.
Who: Property owners and residents who are current on their BRNA dues are eligible to participate.
Note: According to the BRNA constitution: “New members shall owe no dues for the remainder of the calendar year in which they become residents of Blue Ridge.” So, if you are a new resident in 2017, you don’t have to pay any dues in order to participate.
Cost: Participants will pay $20 for the first load (4x4x8 feet). The BRNA will underwrite the remaining cost. Additional loads may be purchased for $40 each. Sign up by Tuesday March 28! Complete the online form and send your payment to BRNA President John Grigutis. You will receive distinctive tag(s) that identify your pile(s) for the contractor, Andy Fosnaugh.
How: By noon on Sunday April 2, stack the material in pile(s) (4x4x8 feet) near the street (NOT in it, please) and tie on your tag(s). The contractor will review the work on Sunday afternoon, so do not add to your pile after that time. Please do not cut brush into small pieces, as this takes longer to load or chip. Individual limbs should be less than 6 inches in diameter. No logs. And, be sure it is only organic material (no rocks, wire, dirt…). These rules allow the BRNA to offer this cleanup and will not be waived. The brush will be collected on Monday and Tuesday, April 3 and 4.
Help recycle! If you would like to have chips from the brush, let us know. The contractor can dump the chips on your driveway or other easily-reached, designated place on your property. This will help save time and cost by keeping some volume in the neighborhood.
Assistance: If you need help moving plant debris to curb, would be willing to assist our elderly or disabled neighbors, and/or can help with the management of this effort, please contact us.
Questions? Call/email John Grigutis (+1 812 369 1008 / jonukas@icloud.com) or Debora “Ralf” Shaw (+1 812 331 1322 / shawd@indiana.edu)
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Jo Basey Thanked for Eight Years as BRNA President
Jo Basey was President of our Blue Ridge Neighborhood Association from 2007 to 2015. Milestones accomplished during her time in office include:
Blue Ridge annual meeting and election of officers conducted as an official meeting separate from the annual picnic
Blue Ridge website, which received the City of Bloomington’s 2011 Mayor’s Excellence Award
New landscaping and repair for the front gate
Spring brush pick-up
Smithville fiber optic cable installation
Jo’s fellow members on the Board of Directors thanked her for her service at our latest BRNA meeting. She was presented with a gift certificate from Bloomington Valley Nursery and an illustrated scroll with a limerick commemorating her contributions.
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Looking for help on the Blue Ridge Neighborhood Association Board
Dear Blue Ridge Residents,
Our esteemed vice-president of the BRNA, Don Granbois, will soon be moving out of the neighborhood. This means that we are in need of a new vice-president to take his place and are looking for any potential candidates. The duties of the VP “… include performing the duties of the President in his/her absence or incapacity and performing whatever other duties as may be given him/her by the President, Board or membership.”
So if you’d like to get more involved in making your neighborhood a better place, please email blueridgebloomington@gmail.com.
Hand in Hand Program
Do you have non-perishable food items that you’d like to clear out of your pantry? Consider donating them to area food pantries though Stone Belt’s Hand in Hand program. This program provides individual with disabilities meaningful work by helping to collect food donations in neighborhoods in Bloomington and the surrounding area.
Call +1 812 332 2168 or email handinhand@stonebelt.org for more information or to schedule a pickup.
Photos from the 2015 Annual Picnic
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Photos from the Smithville Fiber launch event
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2015 Neighborhood Brush Cleanup Weekend
When: Saturday/Sunday April 4/5 2015.
What: Free pick up of brush and limbs.
Who: All property owners and residents of Blue Ridge who are current on their Blue Ridge dues are welcome and encouraged to participate.
How: On Sat/Sun 4/4-5 stack the material in piles by the street (NOT in it, pls). The collection will actually occur on Monday and Tuesday of the following week, but it must be in place by Sunday afternoon so we can check and verify the amounts. We need to impose limitations on volume in order to stay within budget.
If you want to use some of the chips that are created in this process, contact us. We can have the contractor dump a load on your property. This will help save some resources by keeping some volume in the neighborhood.
Limits: 1 pickup-size load. This is a pile about 4ftx4ftx8ft or the amount a crew can pick up in 20mins or so. Please do not cut into small pieces to reduce volume, this takes longer to load or chip. Cut only into a managable size to be able to get to curb. Individual limbs should be less that 6inch in diameter. No logs. If you have more than this limit, contact us we may be able to arrange some extra volume for a reasonable price. And, be sure it is only organic material (limbs, brush).
We will verify the size limits, count and tag the piles before dark on sunday. Please do not add anything after that as it will not get picked up. The pickup will take place the following Monday-Tuesday.
Why: The Blue Ridge Neighborhood Association (BRNA) is sponsoring this collection of plant debris to help neighbors out with the discount of volume. In addition, it is to help folks achieve compliance with Bloomington’s Municipal Code Title 12, Chapter 12.24.040 (2) , that requires property owners to keep brush trimmed from sidewalks and streets.
Help: If you need assistance with moving plant debris to curb or conversely would be willing to assist our elderly or disabled neighbors, and/or help with the management of this effort, please contact us.
Questions? Call/email Rex Tayloe at 337-9525/rex@tayloehome.com, call Don Granbois at 332-5781, or email the BRNA board (board@blueridgebloomington.org).
Watch for additional details near the cleanup day.
If you're a resident who wants to get involved in neighborhood initiatives and events, we'd love for you to email us!
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সেভেরাস স্যাপে Severus Snape *spoliers*
Lady_Hamilton posted on Jul 26, 2007 at 09:11PM
Okay so how many of you really believed that he was on Dumbledore's side the whole time?
And did you really like the way he died? I think you know my stand on that one...*bitter*
My heart skipped a beat when I saw that Doe in the book. I don't like how Rowling hardly gave us anything to go off of in the last book and then crams it at us in the end. I mean I guess she had to seeing as thats how she set up the book.
সেভেরাস স্যাপে 20 উত্তর
বছরখানেক আগে berly said…
I always thought he was on Dumbledore's side until he killed him, which changed my mind until 'the princes tail'.
বছরখানেক আগে piperpayton22 said…
I HATE HIM IT IS SO NOT KOOL THAT HE WAS IN LOVE WITH LILY OK CUZ LILY WAS IN LIVE WITH JAMES AND JAMES LILY SO SNAPE IS NOT IN THE FREAKIN PICTURE OH I HATED THAT PART IN THE BOOK
বছরখানেক আগে Lady_Hamilton said…
বছরখানেক আগে meeee said…
I never really liked Snape but I thought he was on Dumbledore's side.When he killed Dumbledore I thought he made the unbreakable vow and Dumbledore was probably going die that night anyway(don't hate me)because he was really weak from drinking the potion or whatever it was so I gave him the botd
বছরখানেক আগে ecconitro said…
I thought that was one of the greatest parts of the book. A man that is so deepley in love with a woman that he gives his whole life away in order to protect the one thing she left behind. He never needed to care about Harry. His love for Lily was strong enough get past the fact that harry looked like James.
How hard must that be to be so in love with someone and NEVER be able to move on. He devoted his whole life to protecting the last remaining memory of Lily Evans.
বছরখানেক আগে Saul_Mikoliunas said…
I always wanted Snape to be on Dumbledore's side but then after the sixth book I was just thinking how?? It's not possible. Especially the way JK made Dumbledore almost beg him and I was thinking that's terrible, killing him after he has practically begged you not to and then when Harry saw Snape's memories I was just like Awww!!
I love how she managed to keep everybody guessing until the very end. Although I have no idea how they are going to cram it all into a movie. I might nhot go and see the seventh movie because to be honest it will never be as good on screen as it was in my head. Maybe I'm just weird thinking that though.
বছরখানেক আগে Jillywinkles said…
I loved Snape from the very first book, he was awesome in his sarcasticness and he was actually a very good teacher!
When the sixth book came out, I thought the whole time that he was good. The way she wrote it, it could have gone either way, but I would have been EXTREMELY disappointed if she had made him evil in the last book. As it was, I was still disappointed a little in the 7th book, but at least all the Snape parts were fantastic.
As to how he died...I didn't want him to, but it made sense for him to die, and for Voldemort to kill him. That's the danger for people in Snape's position, playing both sides carefully. It was such a thin line, and I kinda knew from the beginning of that meeting with Voldemort that he was going to die.
Thinking on it now, I do wish that his death had been more climactic... imo Snape was a very powerful wizard, I mean he fooled Voldemort for years!
Still, the death fundamentally made sense, and it felt pretty right to me.
And I'm writing way too much now but let me just say one more thing: I feel that Rowling's quality of writing went down in the last book. That was my first impression after finishing the book, and people told me "No, no, you know what? It's because it's been so long since the first book that you don't realize how much she's improved." So then I reread the first book and reread the 7th book, and I still say that the first book is better written than the last book by far. The reason I mention this is that the facts of the plot----Snape dying, being good, being in love with Lily, saving Harry all along---were dramatic, beautiful, tragic, exciting. And while I did feel some of that, I wasn't sobbing my heart out by the end, and what's more, I felt that I could have been, had it been written better.
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বছরখানেক আগে dragonrider said…
I always loved snape evil or good. I just like him. He is a negative character and that's why i like him because of his attitude. I knew that he was always on Dumbledor's side even though he killed him it was part of the plan
বছরখানেক আগে shortynme said…
I always liked Snape too. He pissed me off but there was something about him, the underdog. Everyone was always against him, and for no good reason! The 6th book killed me. I was so sad that he killed Dumbledore. My dad and I were talking about it though and we both agreed that there was more to the story than Snape being evil. After we both read the 7th book we were thrilled. Snape is the true hero of Harry Potter!
বছরখানেক আগে LadyAzkaban said…
I always thought he was on Dumbledore's side too.
I think that he couldn`t be on Tom Riddle`s side.
বছরখানেক আগে SnapesRose said…
I always knew he was on the good side. His death though could have been more meaningful. As for the rest, I have no issues of watching The Prince's tale, however, I can't bear watching Severus death. Sorry. Was it obvious that he had feelings for lily?
He picked on Hermione, yes, but he never had a nasty word. So in a sense in his ways he was trying to make good, which most still misunderstood.
বছরখানেক আগে Belatrix said…
He is one of my favourite characters. He maybe just seems so rude becouse he have a realy bad life. Lily left him, hes parents were bad, no one acctualy loved him. But he is good somewhere realy...REALY deep. But he is on the good side...probably.
বছরখানেক আগে bri-marie said…
He was (was? Is!) my favorite character from the very beginning. I too hated how she crammed most of his history into that last chapter and the way he died.
She could have given us more during the Occlumency lessons, or had least made Harry curious enough to dig a little deeper. (before the Worst Memory, obviously. I think after that fiasco, Harry would have left Sev's past in the past). I consider Severus to be one of the more important characters. We learned everything about Dumbledore's past, Voldemort's past, and Harry's past during the course of the series. We should have learned more about the man who saved Harry's life countless times and who, in my eyes, kept the war at bay.
Him dying by being bitten by a snake angered me. You mean to tell me that the youngest teacher in Hogwarts, the brilliant Slytherin who invented spells and perfected potions before he graduated could have found a way to save himself? You mean to tell me that the brilliant spy who fooled Voldemort, who made everything he'd fooled Dumbledore hadn't seen that coming? Nah. I'm not buying it.
Plus, it was very undignified.
বছরখানেক আগে popo6 said…
Snape is my favprite character i always knew that he was the best person and an amazing men but seriously i hated the way JK killed him of course it was romantic and heroic but still it was better that he never died :/ But still she is the creator of the book soo she is the master of the story but still she could have put more memories and more in the occlumency lesson with Harry. I totaly like agree with bri-marie she could have put more xD bri-marie love your answer xD ;)
বছরখানেক আগে severusgirlx said…
i beleved he was on dumbys side not sure why really he just gave me that fealing of loyalty even after his mistake we can all be drawn into things that are bigger than us when we are young and i think this is what happened to sev with disatorous conciquensus.. as for the death what rubbish he was a master of magic voldy wouldnot have fooled him ..after all he knew where harry was when he took him the sword voldy didnot!!! rowling was rushed into that last book when she was herself an emotional wreck and the outcome was as it stands...she wasnt happy with the ending herself..and now at the last minute the directors have changed severus death which is utter garbadge sure rowling has approved it but will we.. we who believe in sevs pain and dispare has his dimise met by a SNAKE????? for goodnasake i think not...
বছরখানেক আগে frostydragon said…
I have wondered if Rowling intended on going farther. That she had intended on more book and drawling the story out more but in no way did she figure the entire series being so successful. To live well was on thing but it has made her a multi-millionaire.
I have many issues as to how she made sure it was all closed out. Killing off just about everyone who made the story. Severus Damn, that is almost an insult to such an intelligent man. It's to me she wanted to (no pun intended) close that chapter in her life, and put Harry Potter behind her.
If she had drawn out the ending out at least in 2 books the movies could have been more complete instead of cramping so much info in 1 and a half to 2 hours. To much is getting lost.
Even up to the Half Blood Prince and Severus killing Dumbledore there was something more in my mind behind those two. The hand of Albus starting giving it away and then the search for horcruxes.
Just wish she had been more respectful to Severus. If he had to die why couldn't it have been decent. A Heroes Death, he knew to watch out for the snake. Albus gave him a hint. Even an accident protecting Harry or Draco by a Deatheater would have been more respectful than or at least of by snake they killed each other. Hello.
বছরখানেক আগে BlackHound said…
Death by snake is symbolic though. His House is Slytherin, its mascot a snake. The Serpent represents "forbidden knowledge", and in this instance, the Dark Arts which never truly lost its hold on him. The Serpent also represents the Kundalini, which has come to mean different things to different cultures, but ultimately, it is a Spiritual power; it is the Serpent that coils around the spine and anchors one's Soul to one's body.
But alas, I wax metaphysically.
Not everyone is open that line of thought, and I appreciate that. I also appreciate the fact that not everyone will understand why I have no issue with Severus' death by Nagini. I'm certainly not happy that his fate was to die, or die cruelly, but to me it is a far, far better way for him to go than being Cruciato'ed to death, or being AK'ed by that freak bastard Moldybutt. Or being left to the sick, derranged machinations of that bitch Lestrange. Or being brutalized by that walking dungbag Greyback. It was out of necessity that he die *by Nagini*, because there simply no other way for there to be time for him to give Harry what he had to give him.
In my belief, Severus *did* die a Hero's Death. He did not run. He didn't plead or beg for his life. His only thought was to get to Harry, and I can imagine those first few moments following the bite, what he must have been thinking...that he had failed Lily, that he had failed Dumbledore, that he had failed Harry. But there by the Grace of some Fate, there was Harry, and that man had the courage still to do what he did. A true Hero, in my book.
And if we're talking about ignominious deaths, whose death was more so? Severus', or Mad-Eye Moody's? I'll never get passed that one. Shot in the bloody damed FACE by Moldybutt because that coward MunDUNGus Fletcher couldn't hack it, and plummeted to the ground, but his body wasn't found by The Order of the Phoenix because the Death Eaters found it first, and that c-bomb Umbridge had his magic eye put ON HER DOOR so she could spy on people! How's that for ignominious? I don't even want to think about what horrible things they might have done to that mightiest of Aurors' body before they finally disposed of it. At least with Severus, we're spared that, and we can have a sense of closure (those of us who can accept it). Honestly, he *did* die Undefeated because he did what he set out to do, and he was not defiled after death.
And in a twist of poetic irony, our beloved Potions Master is avenged, and by none other than Neville Longbottom. I get such a giggle out of that.
And he's not *really* dead, you know. None of the characters we love are. As long as we love them, they live. So by that logic, he's Immortal.
Hope no one thinks I don't think he died a Heroes way but I would have rather him take someone or thing with him, even if it was that damned snake. I believe thats a better way of expressing how I personally would have loved it yet still having time to give Harry the memories. He did die protecting Draco but it would have been even better.
Ok, I get you there, I understand now what you meant. And I agree with you completely, I would rather have seen him go out fighting as well. I would have liked it even better if he'd been the one to kill Lestrange before dying. Or even Greyback. Or Lucius. But I got a lot out of the "Death by Nagini" thing. :p
Shortly after I made my post I did a stupid thing and read something I shouldn't have, and now I'm feeling really sick to my stomach and I'm praying that it's just bullshit speculation. I have a feeling it's not, but it damn well better be. Because if it's not, I think Rowling, Yeats and Snow aren't going to be able to out safely in public for a while.
All I can say is that if they're really going to have him die on the dock of the boat house, and if they're really going to have him have the time to whip out his damned wand and rip out a memory to give Harry, then he DAMN WELL would have had time to HEAL HIMSELF, give Harry the memory and tell him to go, then slip back into the Castle and to his lab, drink a potion, then join the battle somehow on the side he was always on. The Right Side. He could have gone out fighting, then. They way he *should* have. Not the way it looks like he's going to now.
I'm getting more and more worried about this ending. They done messed up the 1st part bad enough what are they gonna do to the end to f--- it up.
If there is anything Yates has done good is he got rid of the Disney Farie Tail look of the Characters. Other than that he's not done to well.
It reminds me of Ann Rices "Interview With the Vampire" then how messed up "Queen Of The Damned" was as compared to the book. And I agree Ms. JKR best take her multi-millions and buy an island some where and hide out if this is messed up. Not just for Severus but all the characters sake.
And the second part best be more than an hour and a half.
I lay the mess ups on JKR because she has to approve the go ahead for these changes. So it all falls on her shoulders. Heck maybe she's realizing how bad she messed up thee way she rushed through the Deathly Hallows to get it over with.
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Feminist Film Club: Mad Max: Fury Road
Are you tired of sexist tropes in Hollywood blockbusters? You need to watch this feminist action blockbuster.
A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.
I’m not the biggest fan of action movies so I had no intention of watching Mad Max. I honestly thought people were trolling me when they told me it was this super feminist movie. How wrong I was! Mad Max: Fury Road sublimely subverts movie sexism in a number of impressive ways. On the surface Fury Road looks like your stereotypical Hollywood film; big budget blockbuster with well known stars, but really it challenges everything Hollywood stands for.
It’s essentially a story about escaping sexual slavery and it has zero sex in it. Can we just take a minute to realise how rare this is? Most mainstream movies abuse women on screen for “entertainment”. In this movie, we don’t meet the wives until they are free from the clutches of Immortan Joe.
Director George Miller definitely opts for show over tell as all these ideologies surrounding gender are just crushed repeatedly. There’s no narration or voiceover and Miller trusts his audience enough to figure it out. The movie completely rejects the “macho manliness” stereotype of action blockbusters too. The strongest example of this how Max’s stereotypical “Lone Wolf” status nearly gets him killed. Action movies are the worst for overlooking the danger of being alone against the world. He’s does pretty well on his own at the beginning, but it’s not until he teams up with Furiosa (and later, the Vuvalini) that he really stands a chance for survival. He’s 100% on board with this too, he even hands a gun to Furiosa as he knows she is a better shot. Max is the title character, but he essentially plays a supporting role.
Everything about this movie allows characters to shed tired tropes and constrained gender stereotypes. Miller has changed the game and set the bar very high; all Hollywood blockbusters should be like this.
WHAT DID OTHERS THINK?
I went back to the theater a second time for Fury Road, and I was ready to grab the blu-ray the day it came out – so safe to say, I liked it.
I am not a connoisseur of action film the way I am horror, but when something in a genre hits every note, it is a brilliant thing to watch. If I was only reviewing this Mad Max entry based on its skillful mastery of action, violence, and ingenious car chases, this would still be 100%.
However, we’re here for Feminist Film Club, and this is really Imperator Furiosa’s movie – or maybe every woman in the cast.
I cannot think of another time I’ve seen women so clearly dominate an action film – especially one woman receiving double billing with a male star (I nearly teared up at that title card with Theron and Hardy on it). The film allows Theron’s Furiosa to go toe-to-toe with Max: in service of her own redemption and that of a bevy of mistreated and abused women. It also places Max in direct service of Furiosa’s mission – his hand-off of a rifle with one shot to her better aim is about the most romantic thing I’ve ever seen, so who says chivalry is dead?
In my opinion, this is as feminist a film you can get, let alone inside the action genre. Edited by Margaret Sixel (also his wife), George Miller’s incredibly deft directing is quite literally guided by a woman, and I do think you can see this in the cut. Best sequence of shots? It may be any number of chase scenes, but for me, it was the women hosing themselves off outside the rig – it’s the stereotypical “ogle” of the male gaze, but the shots shift that focus from their bodies, to their chains, to the pregnant belly of Splendid. The film’s purpose is represented here: women reclaim themselves for themselves, and deliver water (and life) to the rest of the world.
– Alex Landers (@1CriticalBitch)
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Some have criticized the way in which Furiosa is a ‘Strong Female Character’ because she takes on masculine values in the pursuit of her goal, but I still believe in her central feminism as a character. She’s a product of her world and her world sucks; in order to thrive, she has to be a kind of terrible person. She’s a total badass behind the wheel and a trigger, but she believes in a better world where she can stop being that terrible person. Everything she does is a direct response to the terror, in hope that there will be no more terror.
Everything about this movie’s message screams awareness of feminism, Immortan Joe’s masculinity is toxic to the point that he shuns water. What kind of insane nonsense is that? Instead he prefers real human milk, which doesn’t even begin to make dietary sense, and shows very concrete subjugation of women in the process. He abuses ignorance, craving of acceptance, and youth to achieve his goals. He harvests a seemingly endless supply of young boys whose entire identities rest on the acceptance of a single father figure. Everything about the guy is so toxic, he can’t even breathe regular air. Even the world which produced Immortan Joe is the result of that same toxic masculinity: an entire world depopulated by war, resource exploitation, and the certainty of human exploitation that goes with it.
The fact that the only people who can visualize what’s wrong with Immortan Joe, and verbalize it enough to do anything about it, is a small group of women is telling.
– Jesus H Montogomery
The message I took away from this film was: feminism comes in all shapes and sizes.
Most people point to Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) as the key symbol of feminism in this film and I can see why; she aims better than Tom Hardy, she has an unrelenting self preservation and she’s all about protecting the women in her charge. Not to mention the fact that she was literally in the driver’s seat of the film. Another key symbol is the Vuvalini; women on their own rejecting gender stereotypes and surviving without men, they too fit a specific construct of feminism. However, this movie is feminist in far more ways than these two, perhaps ‘stereotypical’ examples.
Throughout, there is a clear undertone that women are in power and men do not challenge of doubt this. Women are responsible for some of the most satisfying kills, both Furiosa and Toast (Zoë Kravitz) take down the antagonist, Immortan Joe. The Splendid Angharad (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), the favourite of the wives, uses her status as a coveted and beautiful object as an asset. All of these characters are feminists, simply because they treat, or learn to treat, each other as equals.
Amidst all the explosions, radiation, death and dehydration, there is a powerful undercurrent of teamwork. With everyone utilising their diverse skill sets and working together, gender doesn’t even come into the equation.
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DannyUK (@DannyUK) says
Sounds interesting and well worth looking at! Thanks
Like you I’m not a fan of action movies either, in fact I generally dislike them. But the story and characters were so compelling in this I just couldn’t take my eyes off the screen, even though there are some very disturbing scenes in this, the movie isn’t dwelling on the nudity or gore, it’s all in the service of the story which I really REALLY loved.
And even though there are plenty of women who are very strong physically, I love how physical strength is not valued more than other kinds of strength. The wives are not physically strong but that never stops them from being badass. The pregnant one puts herself in front of the gun to save Furiosa, and one of them uses the sexist perception that men have of her, to her advantage and pretends to be helpless just so she can get on the car and help Furiosa in the end. They are so compassionate and supportive of each other and they have so much resolve, their defiance and desire to be free is as strong as any man or woman holding a gun in their hand, and they are all fleshed out characters and their own individual, they all have knowledge and value.
Also the movie is never endorsing violence, in fact, several times it asks the question “Who killed the world?” to which I think the response is war and violence, and when we meet the Vuvalini (Oh God I LOVE them so much) one of them shows you her bag of seeds and it when she’s telling her story you understand she never wanted to shoot or kill anybody, but that is forced upon them.
Furiosa and Max are both disabled(Max has braces on his leg) but their disability is not defining their characters, it’s never a big deal. This movie just gets so many things right it’s unbelievable, and it’s so exciting, I was so invested in the characters and the story everytime the movie would give me a few moments of calmness I’d realize I was either curled up or I was digging my nails into my arm.
Tara | C&CO. says
On the surface, it looked stereotypical that all the wives were flawless models but it makes perfect sense here narrative-wise. Since they’re ‘looked after’ like delicate objects and I loved that they played to that! That’s such a good point about Furiosa and Max actually, I didn’t even think of it that way. You’re totally right, it’s such an exciting movie and it really does give me hope for future blockbusters. Thank you for reading.
Rhian Westbury says
I never really thought about how much sex some movies have in them but now you’ve mentioned it you’re right. I might have to watch this movie now you’ve kinda sold it more than the trailers did x
Stressed Mum says
I don’t like action films, but am always open to watching new things, the only thing I wont watch is a horror film x
TheLondonMum says
It sounds like a really interesting and thought provoking watch. I’ll have to add it to my list.
fashionandstylepolice says
Love this blog series. I am not a huge fan of action movies, the story line has to make sense.
Eleanor Hirst (@elleanorwears) says
Ahh I’ve been wanting to watch this film for so long!
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Rebecca Smith says
I will definitely be watching this now, I hadn’t been that interested before but it seems like a good watch!
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says
I have actually really gotten in to action films recently, so I will add this to my never ending list of films to watch 🙂
Nayna Kanabar says
This sounds like a movie worth watching, think I will add it to the list to watch when we have a movie night in.
Laura Hartley (@WhatsHotBlog) says
I NEED to watch this! Everyone has told me such great things about it though I had no idea that there was a feminist angle too. Even more desperate to watch it now!
It’s such a fantastic film, isn’t it? I know when I started hearing from people that they felt it was a really feminist film, according to them, and I just thought ‘naaaah’, they’re just saying it (I don’t know exactly WHY they would!) So when I got around to seeing it? Fell in love with it. Honestly adored all the women in it, and that Max took a back seat (pardon the vehicle pun).
I also love that George Miller was going to initially have the entire film in black and white – supposedly it was going to be on the blu-ray as an extra but I don’t think it is, from Googling. But there was an edit done of it, and feel it looks just as good as it does in colour! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq233t0JiRE)
I agree, the women were fantastic. I think that was the favourite part of the movie, how many title characters play a supporting role? Oh this is interesting. I think the film would be really cool as a fade to black/white version like Park Chan-wook did for Lady Vengeance, so beautiful! Definitely check it out if you haven’t already!
Coline says
I think this movie was a huuuuuge improvement in the representation of women in Hollywood…but I’m still reluctant to call it a complete feminist film. The women were still scantily clad, hosing each other down to meet the male gaze, and in the end it was still Max who got the last word and saved the day. But Furiosa is fucking amazeballs, and it’s truly wonderful to see a kickass woman “action hero”!
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Ana De Jesus says
See I genuinely enjoy action movies but I definitely would love a female James Bond I think it is time that women took center stage.
Emma White (@TheRealSupermum) says
oh I haven’t seen this film but it sounds amazing and right up my street I will have to see if I can find it will give me something to watch this weekend
fabfood4all says
Sounds much like Big Brother, love it when people come together:-)
I thought it was a pretty great movie too, and my son who is really into film making loved it as well. He was expecting typical Hollywood, but was pleasantly surprised.
kacielmorgan says
I haven’t watched a good film in ages. This sounds like just my thing!
Laura Haley says
You’ve definitely made me more interested in Mad Max, I really didn’t think it was worth watching before I read this.
Sarah Bailey says
I have to admit I haven’t seen this movie – I shall definitely add it to my too watch list now though. x
.Sara. (@OoSerzoO) says
This isn’t usually something I would watch but after reading your thoughts, I’d quite like to watch it now. It sounds really quite good! Thanks for sharing xx
Charli James says
As someone who doesn’t really watch films, this post has spiked an interest… maybe I need to branch out from Harry potter!!
I am a huge Mad Max fan and this for me was the weakest of all the films x
See watching this film has never once appealed to me but after reading these reviews my opinion has slightly changed!
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dublinfeminist says
Yessssss I seen this in the cinema and it is deadly. I love to see women unquestionable IN CHARGE. ❤️
leeshastarr says
Mad Max really doesn’t appeal to me, it’s just not my type of film. Great reviews though
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Northwestern Football Is Exhilarating, Terrifying, and Bowl-Eligible
Northwestern is vincible. We all knew that the Wildcats would face trouble once they got into the Big Ten schedule, and they lost both games against difficult opponents. At the same time, they took care of business on the road in Minnesota and became bowl-eligible for the fifth consecutive season. Northwestern had only qualified for six bowl games in the entire history of the program before Fitz took over, although bowl requirements were much stricter in the 1950s and 60s; you didn't have the Winston Cigarettes T-Zone Bowl, or the Coppertone Asscheeck Bowl, or the Score a Touchdown/Give 'em Trouble/Lick 'em Like You'll/Lick That Stubble/Burma-Shave Bowl.
Unlike today's bowls named for ridiculous corporations, earlier bowls were
named after solid staple crops and advertised to people with the exciting prospect
of a gigantic naked infant lounging menacingly in the stadium. Note in both
programs, the stadiums are full of people who seem to be perfectly content
with their football game being converted into a crib for a baby the size of the
Chrysler building with no control over its own bladder and no sense of remorse
Northwestern has played more or less the same game for several weeks. The 'Cats go into halftime with the lead, then the coaching staff unveils its Sword of Damocles packages on offense and defense as we watch the lead evaporate. During the fourth quarter, the best word to describe Northwestern's playing style is "besieged." It's tremendously exiting.
Someone who actually knows something about numbers will probably see in one
second that this graph doesn't really show anything, but I would counter that a falling
blue line and rising red line correlate directly with the number of household objects
that I am destroying with my forehead as I watch Northwestern games because that is
the proper way to watch football. That's why I bring a briefcase full of scrap wood
with me when I watch a game at a bar, so I can quietly excuse myself after a big play
and smash it into smithereens with my forehead in a parking lot
COME BACK!
Northwestern has allowed comebacks in all but two of its games this season-- the South Dakota steamrollering, and the actual Northwestern comeback against Vanderbilt. The Commodores were so confused by the ordeal that they have refused to play Northwestern in football, canceling future dates with a letter to the athletic department instead of the traditional method of football scheduling, which involves sending a courier with a wax-sealed parchment or, at the very least, a falcon. Fitz faxed the Vanderbilt Athletic Department 145 pages of ASCII pictures of a fist that, when bound together, create an animated fist-pump flip book.
The Wildcats managed to hold on until the Penn State game, when the offense disappeared in the second half. This gave the Penn State offense the opportunity to unleash Matt McGloin, the flame-headed hobgoblin of Northwestern football. McGloin and human battering ram Mike Zordich found new life against an exhausted Northwestern defense in the second half, took over the game, and rallied the Nittany Lions to victory.
Last week, Northwestern was unable to hold the lead against Nebraska, as Taylor Martinez led the Cornhuskers to two unanswered touchdowns. Martinez has had two of his best games doing whatever it is he does that resembles passing against the Northwestern defense; the Wildcat coaching staff will be training DBs before next year's game by firing footballs at them from Napoleonic War cannons.
Allumez la mèche et trouvez le trou dans la zone de couverture
The comeback also happened while Northwestern was wearing its fancy new Big Game Black Alternates, which marks another loss in dandy duds. These new uniforms featured a stenciled Wildcat on the helmet instead of the traditional sculpted N, although by the end of the game, the logo seemed to be yowling in frustration as the Huskers marched towards the with the aid of the inconsiderate forces of inevitability.
Northwestern's running game remains impressive. Venric Mark is an electric back who terrorizes opposing special teams coordinators, and the option game with Colter is dangerous near the goal line. The passing game, however, is still developing. Northwestern averages just over 172 yards per game, good for dead last in the conference. That's less than Wisconsin, a team with a playbook that consists of two plays labeled "give the ball to Ron Dayne," with the words "Ron Dayne" scratched out and replaced by whoever is the current running back.
The Badgers are trying to find an Aaron Gibson equivalent for their Replacement
Daynes to run behind, but NCAA regulations currently prohibit tying two tackles
together and letting them share the same pair of pants
Kolter has drifted back into his role from last year, working as an option quarterback and slot receiver. Siemian is sent in on obvious passing downs. Fitz plans on slowly rotating running backs, receivers, and backup linemen into the quarterback spot; one day the entire Wildcat offense will come off the sideline all yelling "I'M QUARTERBACK," which will confuse the defense.
THROW OUT THE RECORD BOOKS, SORT OF
Northwestern has a burgeoning quasi-rivalry with the Hawkeyes: we don't like them, and they are vaguely indifferent. The Hawkeyes suffered some tough losses in their non-conference schedule, but are in the mix for the LEGENDS DIVISION. Like Northwestern, they've struggled in the passing game as they learn Greg Davis's system. It is Davis's sorry fate in life to be universally despised by fans of whatever team he happens to coach for-- crowds gather to chase him from town like a Reverse Pied Piper. Their offense has been boosted by unheralded walk-on Mark Weisman, who has managed to stagger out of the Hawkeyes' gruesome human rights disaster at running back to the backfield, like the football version of William Brydon at Jalalabad.
Weisman reports to practice after avoiding a diseased piece of dining hall turkey,
an out-of-control cement mixer, a crate of marbles spilled precariously around
the quad, a pack of wild dogs, and a crazed pre-med student desperate to collect
as many knee ligaments as he can before the authorities find him
Both teams see this as a crucial and winnable game. The game will be played at Ryan Field, and I expect a supportive crowd of 30,000 Nebraska fans who will be staying in Evanston as fans in residence after winning a grant from the Northwestern Department of Football Culture. Like all Northwestern games, this will probably come down to the last minute because I picked the wrong football season to stop sniffing glue.
FUCK IT DUDE, LET'S GO BOWLING
This season was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Instead, we've seen the emergence of exciting young players on defense, such as Chi Chi Ariguzo and NickVan Hoose, and Venric Mark is as dynamic a playmaker as the Wildcats have ever had. Northwestern has qualified for a bowl game, and the Big Ten's new status as a national joke has kept them in the LEGENDS DIVISION title hunt, where a championship will allow them to take their place in the pantheon of LEGENDS with the Legends of the Fall, Hercules's Legendary Journeys, and the Legends of the Hidden Temple. It is important to keep that in mind as the 'Cats dangle precariously from another fourth quarter cliff. And Northwestern is in position for an eight or even a nine win season, in position to go to a marginally less crappy bowl, and in position to wrench The Hat off of Tim Beckman's head and parade it in victory down Sheridan Road. Northwestern and Iowa may not have a fancy rivalry trophy, but they do have the opportunity to ruin each other's season, and that may be the sweetest trophy of them all.
Actually, it is not, it is still the hat, give us our damn hat back.
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Northwestern Fans, Let Us Become Unreasonably Overconfident
Northwestern will not lose another football game ever again. They will keep rolling through the competition all the way to Indianapolis, to Pasadena, to the very gates of the ancient capital Moscou.
Keep going east, men, what could possibly go wrong?
The Wildcats are 5-0 and ranked #24 in the AP Poll with only one win standing between them and a wretched bowl game. Of course, Northwestern fans are dreaming bigger with the dire state of the Big Ten. What looked to be a rebuilding year could be a triumph for Pat Fitzgerald and his invincible legions of perfect footballmen.
Meanwhile, the Northwestern trustees have approved a quarter-billion dollar football facility upgrade that will ensure that the team gets all of the triangular weights, vibrating belt machines, and tug of war ropes that they need to keep their competitive edge against other programs.
The facilities should have everything a modern college football program needs to succeed at the
highest level
RUSH AND ATTACK
Northwestern's offense took off against South Dakota, and exploded for a school-record 704 yards against Indiana. Kain Colter, Venric Mark, and Mike Trumpy have formed a three-headed rushing monster that has become unstoppable against inept defenses that specialize in mystified flailing (chin up, Hoosiers. We'll meet one day in the Big Ten Championship game through a combination of bowl bans, a flu that hits every city but Evanston and Bloomington, or a national obsession with Australian Rules football that leaves the two squads as the only rump club teams in the conference).
The 'Cats raced out to a 27-0 lead against Indiana until the third quarter struck and the team decided to momentarily terrify Northwestern fans.
The third quarter triggers a horrifying transformation for Northwestern's defense,
much like how Lon Chaney transformed from the mild mannered Dr. Jeckyll to
a guy who just put some Boston on the jukebox and c'mon it's Boston what
are you you going to do, just sit there huddled in the corner let's go get out
there, c'mon, I love this one, let's go, alright fine, but the next four plays are
all going to be Speedwagon
Colter rushed for 161 yards, grabbed another 131 yards receiving, scored four touchdowns, and returned to the multifaceted skill position role he played with Dan Persa last year. Meanwhile, Siemian connected for more than 300 yards in the air, and Venric Mark continued to do Venric Mark things. The ability to play Colter and Siemian at the same time should open up some interesting trick plays, including one where Colter disguises himself as an official and fakes an illegal shift flag on himself before running amongst confused defenders for an easy score.
A VALLEY
Things get tougher for Northwestern as they have to do the unthinkable and leave the welcoming confines of Ryan Field for the first time in a month. Penn State is certainly a program in disarray as the dust from the criminal investigation and NCAA sanctions settles and the wind sweeps away the makeshift Joe Paterno Ozymandii from the tailgate parking lots. The Nittany Lions are improving after a not entirely shocking slow start against Ohio and Virginia. They've handily beaten Navy and Temple, and they clobbered an Illinois team that looks bad enough to surrender The Hat to the rightful collective heads of the Northwestern faithful. Though Northwestern is undefeated and ranked, they will go into Happy Valley as underdogs.
Penn State has been a perpetual obstacle for Northwestern who have beaten the Lions in only three of fifteen tries. The last Northwestern win came in 2004 and half of 2010.
Dan Persa runs for a touchdown during his glorious return to
Pennsylvania, where he led the 'Cats to a 21-0 first half lead in
his home state and then I turned off the game and just assume
everything went swimmingly from there
Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin has successfully passed for more than 400 yards, six touchdowns, and no interceptions in his two games against Northwestern. Running back and Dickensian villain Silas Redd, who effortlessly ran through the Wildcat defense last year, has transferred to USC, though he still returns to State College to berate the indigent workers at his iron foundries and get his tophats and pince-nez fitted.
Workers asking for a Christmas goose can expect threats of dismissal, stiff arms,
and chop blocks
The Northwestern offense will face its stiffest test yet. Penn State's defense is currently fourteenth in the country in points allowed (a little over 13) and has given up just 127.8 rushing yards per game (Northwestern is ranked 14th in rushing yards allowed with a stingy 90), and I imagine that Colter and Mark will have a tougher time getting to the edge. On defense, Northwestern will have to contain Allen Robinson, who already has 32 catches for 439 yards and 5 TDs. I expect Bill O'Brien to test the Wildcat passing defense early with long passes, play-action, and a diabolical series of riddles delivered to the Northwestern sideline in wax-sealed parchments that will distract the DBs by making them search the Penn State bench for the secret to their defense while being unaware, for example, that the signals are stored on backup quarterback Steve Bench.
THANK GOODNESS THE BASEBALL SEASON IS OVER
The success of Northwestern has fortunately overshadowed a dark baseball time for Chicago. The White Sox surprised everyone by challenging Detroit for the AL Central title, but sputtered in their final few weeks. The Cubs, on the other hand, were out of it on April 2. They barnstormed to 101 losses as they train-hopped from city to city bringing opposing fans joy with their ineptitude on the mound, in the field, and in the batters' box. The pitching struggles could be partially explained by the inexperienced bullpen and loss of three top starting pitchers to trades and injury; no term better explains the Cubs in the second half than "staff ace Jeff Samardzija." They also finished close to the bottom in runs scored and tied the Astros for dead last in OPB with a paltry .302. The only chance Cubs fans will have to see the ivy turn brown on TV for the next several years will involve a deranged White Sox fan poisoning it and then calling in a radio show before signing off with "Let's go, go-go damn Sox."
The Cubs' futility was expected this season as Epstein and Hoyer are committing to a scorched-earth rebuilding program. They seem to have found a first baseman in Anthony Rizzo. Starlin Castro may inspire heated debates in mustard-soaked Cub fan antechambers, but he has become an elite league leader in making outs. Other prospects may take awhile to arrive. Neither Josh Vitters nor Brett Jackson seemed ready in their limited debuts; Jackson struck out in nearly 40% of his at-bats and was last seen with a shopping bag full of Jobu dolls.
The 2012 campaign has taken a toll on Theo Epstein, who plans to spend the
winter meetings ranting about those damn trains and gumming things
I expect the Cubs to make the playoffs when Bud Selig or any Future Bud Selig equivalents decide to do the right thing and allow all teams to make the playoffs, although the first round will be one game where teams rotate pitching, batting, and fielding and are eliminated on an inning-by-inning basis and then they have to flee from robotic tigers or a professional scythe-wielding bounty hunter named The Rt. Hon. Justice of the Scythe in order to escape because we all know that future sports immediately turn into horrifying post-apocalyptic death sports with elaborate betting systems for some reason.
Until then, we can be nothing but patient as the Cubs stave off triple digit losing seasons, failed prospects, nincompoopical base running, and all of the other hallmarks of hopeless baseball. In other words, it's basically reverting to pretty much every year of the Cubs, so you might as well stock up on overpriced bleacher tickets and t-shirts about drinking beer and try to inadvertently injure someone in a drunken high-five gone awry as Cubs fans have for generations.
THE UNDEFEATABLISTS
Northwestern has gotten to 5-0 with a string of narrow and occasionally harrowing victories over opponents who do not exactly bring to mind Notre Dame's Four Horsemen. The Penn State came may well be a sobering preview of a difficult end of the season. While no Big Ten team has looked like world beaters, it also means that they will be unlikely to take the Wildcats lightly as they will also be scrapping for every conference win they can get in order to get a chance to be publicly humiliated in the Rose Bowl. A win at Penn State, however, does a lot to show that Northwestern's record is not a scheduling fluke. I expect the Wildcats to go up 65-0 in the first half, then allow seven consecutive Penn State touchdowns before tackling Robinson three inches from the goal line as time expires and then Pat Fitzgerald explodes on the field leaving a pile of oakleys, crew cuts, and headphones.
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Labels: Damn Trains, Dickensian Facotries, Lon Chaney, Moscou, Napoleon, Ozymandii, The Rt. Hon. Justice of the Scythe
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Investing in the S&P 500 Index July 16, 2019
I am quoted in U.S. News & World Report: “How to Invest in the S&P 500 at All-Time Highs” “Since the outlook for the U.S. economy over the next few years is good with GDP projected to grow at 2% or higher, interest rates expected to remain near historically low levels and corporate profits expected […]
CCT to buy 94.9% stake in German building for 133.4m euros from CapitaLand, Lum Chang July 17, 2019
CAPITALAND Commercial Trust (CCT) will acquire an effective 94.9 per cent interest in the holding companies of a freehold office building in Frankfurt, Germany, from its sponsor CapitaLand and mainboard-listed property and construction group Lum Chang Holdings.
Frasers Property secures novel A$500m green loan for two Singapore properties July 17, 2019
FRASERS Property Limited has secured a A$750 million (S$715.2 million) term loan, comprising a A$500 million green loan tranche and a A$250 million five-year tranche, the real estate developer said on Wednesday morning. The A$500 million tranche is Singapore’s first green loan with a pricing structure linked to the BCA Green Mark, said the company.
Prudential Singapore sues former top manager for up to S$2.5b July 16, 2019
PRUDENTIAL Assurance Co Singapore is suing its former top agency manager Peter Tan Shou Yi for up to S$2.5 billion for allegedly plotting to recruit at least 250 top Prudential agents for Aviva Singapore.
Discretionary portfolios finding favour with Bank of Singapore clients July 16, 2019
BANK of Singapore is seeing a surge in interest from clients in discretionary portfolio management (DPM) - with a 40 per cent jump among its Singapore clients seeking out the service between 2016 and 2018.
Best World gets SGX nod on expanded independent review July 16, 2019
BEST World International said the scope of its expanded independent review has been finalised and approved by the Singapore Exchange (SGX RegCo), with the independent review in progress.
Stocks to watch: CapitaLand, Lum Chang, CCT, Frasers Property, Keppel-KBS US Reit July 17, 2019
THE following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their shares on Wednesday:
Retail tranche for Prime US Reit IPO set at 40.9m units July 16, 2019
THE manager of Prime US Reit has set aside about 40.9 million units of its initial public offering (IPO) for public subscription - well above the minimum offer size of 16.8 million units for retail investors.
Data lull sees quiet day on Singapore bourse July 16, 2019
LACKING fresh catalysts, there was little impetus in the local equity market for a session with vibrant or at best, average turnovers.
Prime US Reit sets public offer at 40.9m units, cites 'strong demand' July 16, 2019
THE manager of Prime US Reit has set the number of units under the Singapore public offer at about 40.9 million units, above the minimum offer size of 16.76 million units.
Philosophical basis for valuation
“A postulate of sound investing is that an investor does not pay more for an asset than it is worth,” says Aswath Damodaran, the well-known author of “Damodaran on Valuation”, a book on security analysis for investment and corporate finance. “The statement may seem logical and obvious, but it is forgotten and rediscovered at some
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LES EDGERTON - THE GENUINE, IMITATION, PLASTIC KIDNAPPING (2014)
Synopsis/blurb......
A mix of Cajun gumbo, a couple tablespoons of kinky sex and a dash of unusual New Orleans settings and you wind up with Les Edgerton’s latest romp fest!
Pete Halliday is busted out of baseball for gambling and travels to New Orleans to make his fortune hustling. Five years later, he’s deep in debt to bookie and in cahoots with Tommy LeClerc, a Cajun with a tiny bit of Indian blood who considers himself a red man.
Tommy inveigles a reluctant Pete into one scheme after another, the latest a kidnapping scheme where they’ll snatch the Cajun Mafia King and hold his amputated hand for some serious jack.
Along the way, Pete is double-crossed by Tommy and falls in love with part-time hooker and full-time waitress Cat Duplaisir. With both the Italian and Cajun mobs after them, a chase through Jazz Fest, a Tourette’s outbreak in a black bar and other zany adventures, all seems lost.
Fans of Tim Dorsey’s character Serge Storms, and readers who enjoy Christopher Moore and Carl Hiaasen will enjoy this story.
“A hard-driving, relentless story with grab-you-by-the-throat characters.”—Grant Blackwood, New York Times bestselling author
With Plastic Kidnapping, author Les Edgerton serves up an intriguing caper novel with plenty of black humour, some madcap ill-thought out criminal schemes, a pair of amateur bunglers, the Cajun Mafia and a hooker with a heart.
By the end (spoiler alert) we have a reluctant romance as main man Pete Halliday gets the damaged girl, Cat after surviving the worst their common enemy can throw at them and in Cat's case exacting some retribution on one of her former abusers.
In mostly chronological order we have......a hopeless gambler, a lost baseball career, moderate career ambitions with a po-boy joint, some low level New Orleans hustling, an ill-advised partnership with an incompetent crook - part-Indian Tommy LeClerc, a failed kidnap, some valuable lessons learned, on the run and hiding out, permanent pursuit by an unsympathetic debt collector, a dog fighting sting, jail time, a second go at the main event, amateur amputation hour, some kinky sex, a double cross, an unintentional love affair, a bale of cash, some time on the river, a new career beckoning, into the heart of the lion's den, a rescue mission, a chase, a showdown, some help from an unlikely source, freedom, forgiveness, dodgy plastic surgery and pastures new.
Events are recounted through from Pete's perspective and throughout there is plenty of banter and tension in his relationship with Tommy. Pete has an awareness of the seriousness of their situation and several times considers flight as the only sensible option. (Still aware that there is no rock far enough away on this earth that he can hide under.) However, he is weak in regards to acting on his impulses and is a sucker for Tommy's schemes. Just as well, or we wouldn't have have the book we have if fleeing the city won out.
Throughout I was rooting for Pete and it was interesting seeing him evolve and embrace love for probably the first time in his life. A more successful criminal career or even legit one might have beckoned if Cat was his partner from the start instead of Tommy.
Cat Duplaisir has her own troubled history and past, but part of her appeal is her refusal to be cowed by the cards life has dealt to her. Sold by a parent as a young girl to an abuser, who dispensed with her when a young teen and she was too old for his sick predilections. Damaged yes, but she's a survivor and retains her humanity and heart, whilst having the chops to ensure she won't be taken advantage of again. She's by far the strongest character in the book.
Funny, irreverent, non-PC, larger than life, darker undertones at times, outlandish and highly improbable but extremely satisfying. Great characters, great setting, fantastic outcome. There's nothing fake or plastic about Edgerton's ability to fashion an entertaining and exciting story with a heart.
4.5 from 5
Plastic Kidnapping was my second dance with Les Edgerton's work. The Bitch was enjoyed back in 2014 - thoughts here.
More from him sits on the pile. I shouldn't leave it so long next time - four years plus? Really!
Les Edgerton has his website here.
Source - purchased copy
Format - kindle
It does sound as though there are some great funny moments in this one, Col. I like the New Orleans setting, too. Sometimes, a madcap, strange adventure like this can work very well, especially if you let your disbelief go. Glad you enjoyed this.
Margot, I really liked this one - madcap sums it up with great characters and a strong sense of place.
Les Edgerton 23 August 2018 at 05:19
Thank you so much for this, Col. Here's something that may be of interest. The character Cat is based on a real person by that name, one of my girlfriends while living in New Orleans. She was a call girl and was sold by her mother to the head of the Mafia when she was 8 or 9 and when she turned 12 that was a major career mistake as that was too old for this guy's tastes. The "real" Mafia is vastly different than the fictional one created by Mario Puzo. While this story was fiction, Cat appears in my forthcoming memoir. Adrenaline Junkie, again, as herself and with a real account of her. She is, indeed, a fascinating character. And, I used her real name--she's not a reader so I'm not worried she'll find herself in these pages, but if it ever gets made into a movie, I'll be in trouble. However, I'd bet the house she's room temperature these days with her lifestyle... Again, thank you so very much!
Les thanks for stopping by - a great book sir. I did read your notes at the back of this volume and found them fascinating. Thanks for sharing them.
I'm hoping it's not another four years before I shine a light on your work again!
It would be interesting to read about New Orleans, for sure. Cover is eye-catching also.
Trayc, you might like this one. Echoes of Donald Westlake perhaps.
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HomePublication HighlightsEnhancing Australia’s Clinical Research Capacity to Respond to Methamphetamine and Emerging Drugs: A Consultation Paper to support the Development of Workforce Development Strategy
Enhancing Australia’s Clinical Research Capacity to Respond to Methamphetamine and Emerging Drugs: A Consultation Paper to support the Development of Workforce Development Strategy
Nicholas, R., Ryan, K., & Roche, A.M. (2019). Enhancing Australia’s Clinical Research Capacity to Respond to Methamphetamine and Emerging Drugs: A Consultation Paper to support the Development of Workforce Development Strategy. National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University, Adelaide.
NCETA was commissioned by the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED) to develop a Workforce Development (WFD) strategy. The Strategy will specifically address the WFD needs of the clinical research workforces that focus on methamphetamine and other emerging psychoactive drugs. A key priority for NCCRED is to develop current and future workforces which initiate, undertake and implement clinical research ranging from early intervention to tertiary interventions.
The aims of the WFD Strategy include:
Enhancing the understanding of the profile and characteristics of the current and future AOD clinical research workforce
Assisting the creation of a clinical research workforce that can innovate and rapidly transform research findings into practice
Identifying the capabilities that will be required of the future clinical research workforce
Identifying barriers and enablers to engaging clinicians in research and engaging researchers in clinical settings.
To inform the development of the WFD Strategy, NCETA conducted a literature review of the factors influencing clinical researcher WFD. A condensed version of the review was produced in the form of a consultation paper which is available from the NCETA or NCCRED websites.
NCETA’s review highlighted recent changes of relevance to the clinical research workforce including:
Shifting patterns of AOD use, and the shift towards the use of stimulants, pharmaceutical drugs and poly-drug use
New synthetic drugs
An expanding range of pharmacotherapies and other treatment options
Greater prevalence of co-existing mental health disorders and multiple morbidities
Increased awareness of trauma and trauma-informed practice in the AOD treatment sector
Problematic drug use across a widened age spectrum
Enhanced awareness of the adverse effects of stigmatisation of drug use.
The review also identified a range of recent WFD initiatives that have a direct bearing on the AOD clinical research workforce. These include:
Development of three e-Learning Modules by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to provide an introduction to the clinical trials environment, clinical research ethics, ethical review and research governance processes.
Provision of support by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for clinical trials proponents and clinical trials networks
Development by the NHMRC of Australia’s first V.E.T. accredited course (10562NAT - Course in Clinical Trials Application Preparation, Submission and Review)
Development by the NHMRC, in conjunction with Australian Clinical Trials Alliance, of competencies for non-commercially sponsored (investigator-initiated) clinical trials.
NCETA’s research also found that international efforts, particularly in the United Kingdom (UK) provide examples that could be used in the Australian context. For example, the UK’s Researcher Development Framework provides a professional development framework for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, professional and career development of researchers. It describes the knowledge, behaviours and attributes of successful researchers.
Copies of the consultation paper can be accessed from the NCETA or NCCRED websites.
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You are here: Home / Podcasts / Bonnie Whitmore: Getting To The Root Of It All At Mile of Music
Catch one of Bonnie Whitmore’s show at Mile of Music
http://corbininthedell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Bonnie-Whitmore-at-Mile-of-Music-.mp3
It’s Mile of Music this weekend in Appleton, Wisconsin where one of the most inclusive music festivals happens with the artists in mind. A most thought provoking songwriter, Bonnie Whitmore, will be included in the line-up. This is one voice of Americana which cannot be mistaken. On her latest album, Fuck With Sad Girls, Whitmore offers a certain Friedanesque soundtrack for a new generation of feminism. Listen in as she and I talk about why it’s so important for us all to come together and talk it out with vulnerable and honest hearts.
Special thanks for the support y’all have given me, as I launch this new Corbin In The Dell podcast. Be on the lookout for a new Itunes subscription link coming later this month. It takes a whole village of folks who give a damn to make a difference. Thanks for including me in your village!
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Job Title: Gateways Program Management and Support (16-333-A5/8/9)
Posted by: OASIS Systems on May 23, 2019
Support all aspects of Airborne C2 capabilities, capability gaps, systems integration, and developing JCIDS documents. Assisting with achieving interoperable, affordable, responsive, and sustainable C2 systems which satisfy Service, Joint, Interagency, and Coalition C2 information exchange requirements. Development of C2 investment strategies and providing technical assistance for airborne C2 systems integration planning. Support the generation of operational requirements for acquisition and integration of new or modified airborne C2 capabilities, recommending executable courses of action and providing technical reports, development and coordination of JCIDS documentation and Air Force (AF) Program Objective Memorandum (POM) documentation.
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in computer science, information systems, business administration, business management, mathematics, operations research or engineeringFive (5) years' direct operational experience in C2/TDL systemsFive (5) years' direct experience in analyzing, developing, and evaluating directives, policies, and procedures associated with modernization and sustainment of Air Force SystemsTwo (2) years' experience fielding of military systemsTwo (2) years' experience developing tactics, techniques and procedures for C2/TDL systemsThree (3) years' experience in a HHQ (e.g., MAJCOM, HAF or equivalent) staff officer or equivalent position creating, preparing, conducting, delivering, oral/written decision briefs, reports, positions, draft messages and other correspondence.Minimum of four (4) years' experience in developing JCIDs requirements documentsCandidate must be able to obtain, and maintain, the proper personnel clearance required for this position.
Provide personnel to support TDL gateway programs from concept approval, through operational field employment, integration into C2 network(s), transition to Program of Record status and sustainment such as but not limited to Roll On Beyond Line of Sight (ROBE - AN/USQ-175), Joint Air Defense System Integrator (JADSI - AN/TSQ-214), Joint Range Extension (JRE) Joint Range Extension TPMG Equipment (JTEP - AN/TYQ-123, AN/TYQ 235, and AN/FSQ 225), , Pocket J - (AN/FSC-134, and AN/FSC-135), Link 16 gateway for Situational Awareness Data Link (SADL - R/T 1719 and R/T 1720, Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), etc. Support the generation of operational requirements for acquisition and integration of new or modified C2/Comm/TDL capabilities, recommending executable courses of action and providing technical reports, development and coordination of JCIDS documentation and Air Force (AF) Program Objective Memorandum (POM) documentation. Support Weapon System Teams for programs and concepts, fielded (or fielding) under Joint Urgent Operational Needs (JUONs), Urgent Operational Needs (UONs), Joint Emerging Operational Needs (JEONs), and Quick Reaction Capability (QRC). Analyzing new requirements and interoperable solutions, planning, programming, and integration. Provide personnel to support program/project management and analytic support for TDL and tactical edge network requirements, planning, and integration with air, space and terrestrial networks.Support generation of TDL, C2 and communications requirements; TDL planning; and TDL integrationProvide technical, analytical, cost and life cycle expertise to support the integration and implementation of TDL systems across the USAF, other US Services, and partner nations.Function as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for assigned systems. Employ SME expertise to assist operational users and provide constant liaison between operational users and product centers/program offices.Assist in all phases and subjects of program requirements management; e.g., Requirements Working Group, Requirements Review Board, etc.Advise and assist on cryptologic matters in support of future architectures (as an example JALN) to include Link-16 modernization, radio systems and data storage. Coordinate with platforms and monitor integration schedules.Coordinate, facilitate, and support requirements definition, refinement and validation through JCIDS processes to include but not limited to include development of JCIDS documents and supporting requirements analysis documents. ICD/CDD/CPD, Modification Proposals (AF Form 1067).Examine and analyze solution's ability to satisfy capability needs to include cost benefit analysis, operational benefit analysis and operational feasibility of potential solutions to satisfy requirements. Support design reviews and make recommendations/evaluations of approaches to include technical evaluations.Provide technical, analytical, cost, and lifecycle expertise.Assist in developing plans for sustainment and modernization of airborne gateway systems, to include integrated logistics support, maintenance, and training.Assist in oversight of the security, testing, and fielding accreditations. Assist with efforts required by Air Force Instructions to gain certification and accreditation in support of System Security Accreditation Authority, Certificate to Operate, Interim Authorities, and Spectrum Certification required for systems associated with TDL Transformation programs.Support development of migration strategies for current capabilities towards programs of record and their integration into future architectures.Support documenting Certification and Accreditation of IT systems in the Enterprise Information Technology Data Repository (EITDR).
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About OASIS Systems
Oasis Systems is a premier provider of customer-driven, cost-effective and quality Engineering Services; Enterprise Systems and Applications; Human Factors Engineering; Information Technology and Cyber Security; Professional Services; and Specialized Engineering Solutions to the Department of Defense, FAA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other federal agencies. We strive to be an exciting and welcoming company that attracts, develops, motivates and retains the most talented, skilled and dedicated people in the industry; where they are encouraged to achieve personal excellence, purpose, and their full potential and career aspirations; while supporting mission-critical national security technologies and programs.
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Luis Morales
Birth Date December 2, 1984 (34 years old)
Home Town San Salvador
NORCECA 6th $450
Overall 6th $450
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2013 NORCECA 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 5.0 1 0 1 0
(78th) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 $450.00
(181st) 242.5 1 0 1 0
Total 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 $450.00 242.5 1 0 1 0
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Money Points 12th 13th 17th 25th
Franklin Flores 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $0 5.0 1 0 1 0
David Vargas 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 $200 95.0 0 0 0 0
Carlos Escobar 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 $100 67.5 0 0 0 0
Rafael Vargas 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 $75 35.0 0 0 0 0
Ovidio Osorio 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 $75 40.0 0 0 0 0
Total 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 $450 242.5 1 0 1 0
Location Summary
Season Summaries 2008-14
2008 NORCECA
Date Location Partner Seed Finish Winnings Points
4/23-28 San Salvador, El Salvador Carlos Escobar 9 27.5
4/1-5 Guatemala City, Guatemala Rafael Vargas 8 $75.00 35
PB: l. Sergio Gonzalez / Karell Pina 15-21, 13-21
PB: d. Alberto Ozuna / Tirso Pineda 21-18, 21-19
PD: l. Jorge Bolanos / Erick Garrido 17-21, 21-16, 16-18
W1: l. Anthony Medel / Hans Stolfus 14-21, 11-21
C4: l. Ramon Calderon / Francisco Castro 15-21, 19-21
Matches Won-Lost: 1-4
Sets Won-Lost: 3-8
Points Scored-Allowed: 183-218
Best Finish: 8th
Winnings: $75
Ranking: 61st
3/23-25 Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Ovidio Osorio 7 8 $75.00 40
3/30-4/1 Guatemala City, Guatemala Carlos Escobar 5 7 $100.00 40
Winnings: $175
Ranking: 47th
11/22-24 San Jose, Costa Rica Franklin Flores 9 12
11/29-12/1 Maracas Bay, Trinidad and Tobago Franklin Flores 10 17 5
Best Finish: 12th
Ranking: 112th
5/9-11 Antigua, Guatemala Franklin Flores 12 10
9/19-21 Boqueron, Puerto Rico David Vargas 4 6 $200.00 55
10/3-5 Chula Vista, United States David Vargas 10 40
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Lighting The Artwork Or A Photo Gallery
August 20, 2018 Lela
Flower art may be very beautiful. That is helpful for artists who work in a variety of media. Tretchikoff had considerable business acumen, turning work akin to The Dying Swan and Chinese Girl (additionally known informally as The Blue Lady) into prints and selling thousands and thousands world wide.
Although the meaning of the grid to artists is difficult to describe in phrases, it’s more than only a visual armature. The Summary Expressionists of the 1940’s and ’50’s also used this technique, for example, Jackson Pollock’s “drip” work. This exhibition of Shapiro’s work is an introduction to his numerous themes, his processes, and the meant which means of his work.
One could even venture to say that it is artists drawing how they really feel. For instance, there have been hundreds of paintings of Hercules choosing between Virtue and Vice. Every portray has a story behind it. Every brush stroke and each drop of color used is a written phrase on the canvas.
On the other hand, the Dutch painter and artwork theoretician Gérard de Lairesse (1641-1711), in a chapter of his ‘s Groot Schilderboek devoted to the subject of sunshine and shade, contends that probably the most good form of lighting in a painting is subtle or indirect gentle, gemeen licht.
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Over that time, they created an unlimited physique of art on the walls of caves and rock shelters – the largest and most concentrated group of rock work in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Artwork has the potential to inspire some deep feelings in each of us. We will have a look at an ideal piece of artwork and really feel inspired and moved deeply, finding a type of beauty on the earth that we never before really although existed. The Indiana Plein Air Painters Affiliation (IPAPA) has partnered with Indiana Landmarks for Painting Indiana III: Heritage of Place. Chinese paintings it seems had been meant to be perpetually dealt with and embellished with nice calligraphy. Clearly, paintings became a big part of this motion.
El Caballo: The Horse in Mexican Folks Artwork, celebrates this enduring legacy through twenty-two examples, including ceramics, metalwork, paintings, paper art, and sculpture. Impressionist period painters include well-known artists like Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Canvas Artwork is a particular graphic oil painting executed on a strong heavy cotton or material material. During the mid-century, globally renowned architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) envisioned the design for a chimerical arts campus where the Arts United Center and Fort Wayne Museum of Art presently sit. 13. The objects of interpretation are artworks, not artists.
Process: The check consists of 30 pairs of paintings, for each pair you will need to select which you favor and by how much. It’s most useful within the classical strategy of oblique painting, the place the drawing and underpainting are established ahead of time anad allowed to dry.
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Art remedy involves the use of creative techniques similar to drawing, portray, collage, coloring, or sculpting to help people specific themselves artistically and look at the psychological and emotional undertones in their art. The country’s influential innovators included avant-garde muralist Amelia Peláez; painter Wilfredo Lam, who studied underneath Salvador DalÃ’s instructor and specialized in surrealist-fashion hybrid figures; photographer Alberto Korda, best known for his pictures of Che Guevera within the early days of the Cuban Revolution; and Corso de Palenzuela, whose folksy work depicted icons resembling Che, Celia Cruz and Ruben Gonzalez in a vibrant Cuban panorama.
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29th District / San Fernando Valley - VOTE FOR BEN BERNAL!!
CALI-gula
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Cross posting this to the LA/San Fernando Valley forum for broader awareness.
The 29th District is comprised of the following:
North central San Fernando Valley, including the communities of Van Nuys, San Fernando, Pacoima, Arleta, Panorama City, Sylmar, parts of Sun Valley and North Hollywood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo...ional_district
Vote this jerk-off out on Tuesday June 5th.
Ridiculous California, and its even more ridiculous Democrat Stalinists.
(See photos below.)
With Democrat idiots like Eric Swalwell and Rob Bonta calling for an Australia style gun grab, and Democrat Reggie Jones Sawyer claiming "This is California; we don’t pay too much attention to the Constitution" it's now become an all-out thing to promote you simply want to repeal the 2nd Amendment.
So out comes politico Tony Cardenas to try to up the ante on his colleagues' dictatorial agendas.
I got this junk-mail campaign flyer from Tony Cardenas who not only and proudly pro-claims he passed strict gun control laws and is fighting the NRA in Congress - which I'm not sure how he is doing that "in Congress" - but goes on a misguided attempt to persecute his opponent by claiming Ben Bernal "Vowed to Protect the Second Amendment in Congress", as if that were a bad thing.
I've seen a lot of asinine campaign statements, but this is one of the most grand. Ironically, I see it as a pro-campaign flier for Ben Bernal!!!
Benny Bernal for Congress in 29th District. My favorite quote from the LA Daily News article below is the following:
"Bernal is no limousine liberal. He’s a school bus driver, an L.A.-born father of six. Bernal’s activism included a role in the 2001 San Fernando Valley secession campaign."
The fact that Ben Bernal was a proponent of the San Fernando Valley secession is all the more reason I would vote for him!
Seeing that Tony Cardenas is willing to go rogue totalitarian, be Anti-American, and break his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, I can't even begin to understand why ANY Californian would vote for him, regardless of his stance on these other noted issues.
Cardenas is essentially bragging, promoting, and blatantly vilifying his opponent for protecting civil-rights, and the most important one of all; the 2nd Amendment.
And ironically, the claims in his flier are outrageous; if anything, it's Tony Cardenas who is the carpet-bagger career-politician "Political Outsider" propped up by schemes, back-room deals, and is fighting questionable high-dollar expenditures even as he puts out this kind of repugnant propaganda.
Even the Los Angeles Daily News agrees:
https://www.dailynews.com/2016/05/17...29th-district/
In the race for Congress in the northeast San Fernando Valley, the incumbent and his best-known challenger are running under legal clouds. Fortunately, an earnest outsider offers a bright alternative.
The Daily News editorial board endorses Benny Bernal in the 29th House District.
If Bernal can finish in the top two among five Democrats on June 5th and advance to the November election, he will be poised to pose tough questions to either Rep. Tony Cardenas or Richard Alarcon.
Cardenas, D-Panorama City, is shadowed by speculation about why he has spent $300,000 in campaign funds on lawyers in the past year, apparently in connection with federal investigations involving a Cardenas aide.
Bernal is no limousine liberal. He’s a school bus driver, an L.A.-born father of six. Bernal’s activism included a role in the 2001 San Fernando Valley secession campaign.
TO THOSE OF YOU WHO CAN - 29TH DISTRICT - VOTE OUT THIS JACKASS!!
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The Importance of Elections for UK Economic Activity
Question 1: Do you agree that the austerity policies of the coalition government have had a positive effect on aggregate economic activity (employment and GDP) in the UK?
© 2019 CFM
Question 2: Do you agree that the outcome of the general election will have non-trivial consequences for aggregate economic activity (employment and GDP)?
In the week before the dissolution of Parliament, the Centre for Macroeconomics asked its panel of experts about the effects of governments on aggregate economic activity.
The great majority of respondents disagree with the proposition that the coalition government’s austerity policies have had a positive effect on aggregate economic activity. And an overwhelming majority of respondents agree that the outcome of the general election (assuming a stable government is formed) will have non-trivial consequences for economic activity.
The policies of the coalition government
Summary of responses
The great majority disagree or disagree strongly with the proposition. Of the 50 economists in the survey, 33 responded: two thirds disagree or strongly disagree that coalition policies have had a positive effect on aggregate economic activity. To be precise, no one strongly agrees, 15% agree, 18% neither agree nor disagree, 33% disagree and 33% strongly disagree. Ignoring those who sat on the fence, 19% agree and 81% disagree with the proposition. This ratio is unaffected by confidence weighting.
Many of the respondents begin by noting that it is far from clear what the counterfactual is and that austerity policies were significantly loosened in the second half of the term.
Nevertheless, the clear majority of our respondents disagree or strongly disagree with the proposition. Simon Wren-Lewis (Oxford) even goes so far as to ask whether ‘this is a joke’ before pointing out that by using numbers from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), one can ‘derive a lowest estimate’ for the cumulative loss in activity of 5% of GDP (or £1,500 per capita) and ‘a best guess could be nearer to 10% of GDP.’ Ethan Ilzetzki (London School of Economics, LSE) strongly disagrees, noting that ‘interest rates were at historical low levels and there was no indication that the debt burden was a drag on growth.’ John Van Reenen (LSE) also strongly disagrees, although he says that austerity was correctly relaxed after 2011-12 as the ‘nascent recovery stuttered.’ He and Tony Yates (Bristol) both mention the zero lower bound on interest rates as an argument for less austerity.
Some of those who neither agree nor disagree say that austerity may have had an initial positive effect in preventing a loss in confidence in UK economic policy. Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge) notes that a key achievement had been to insulate the country from ‘the most damaging type of financial crisis – the loss of market confidence on “sovereign signature”.’ Sir Charles Bean (LSE) makes a similar point: that the motivation for consolidation was to ‘reduce the likelihood of a loss of market confidence… which, had it occurred... would have necessitated a much larger consolidation.’ John Driffill (Birkbeck) disagrees with the proposition and suggests that ‘markets might have found less austere policies equally credible.’
Of those who agree that there has been a positive effect on activity, Nick Oulton (LSE) suggests that austerity has been ‘greatly exaggerated’ as real current expenditure by general government has been higher in each year between 2010 and 2013 and general government investment is higher than it was in most of the years under the preceding government. Patrick Minford (Cardiff) also agrees, noting that the coalition has set a definite direction towards deficit reduction ‘without moving so rapidly to destabilise the economy.’ Jagjit Chadha (Kent) suggests that the coalition’s fiscal policies are better thought of as ‘sound money’ as deficits have continued to fall.
After the general election, assuming a stable government is formed (perhaps in coalition)
An overwhelming majority of respondents agree or strongly agree that the outcome of the general election will have non-trivial consequences for aggregate economic activity. Of the 33 economists who expressed a view, 77% either agree or strongly agree with the proposition, and excluding those who were neither agree nor disagree, the majority rises to 93%. If the responses are weighted by confidence, and excluding those who sat on the fence, the share of those who agree or strongly agree edges higher to 94%.
Of the many respondents who agree or strongly agree with the proposition, many cite differences in fiscal policy as the main reason. David Bell (Stirling) agrees, suggesting that the difference would come down to ‘which party is making the right judgement call on the speed of deficit reduction.’ Michael McMahon (Warwick) agrees, saying that the election would ‘determine the balance between tax increases and expenditure cuts. Morten Ravn (University College London, UCL) also agrees, noting that the difference between the main parties looks likely to be tax rises versus spending cuts: ‘there is ample empirical evidence that shows that differences... matter for the economy.’ Christopher Martin (Bath) strongly agrees and estimates that the difference in spending plans is ‘about £40 billion per year’ and that even most hard-core anti-Keynesian would argue this has ‘non-trivial consequences.’
Two survey respondents disagree that the outcome will have non-trivial consequences for activity, but neither offers an explanation. Of those who neither agree nor disagree, Martin Ellison (Oxford) notes that the difference between party platforms is not huge in respect to their commitment to austerity and Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE) suggests that ‘no party has put forth proposals that are a magic bullet for the UK's long-term economic challenges.’ Charles Nolan (Glasgow) suggests that it is very difficult to know what the major parties are really planning and that ‘the lack of information is worrisome.’
It is notable that Wouter Den Haan (LSE), Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE), John Driffill (Birkbeck), Simon Wren-Lewis (Oxford), David Cobham (Heriot-Watt) and Costas Milas (Liverpool) all highlight important economic consequences that may arise from an EU referendum in the next Parliament.
How the experts responded
Austerity and Economics Activity
Wouter Den Haan London School of Economics Neither agree nor disagree Not confident at all
I think that the macroeconomics profession doesn't have the evidence to answer this question. Personally, I would have chosen for less austerity and in particular would have taken advantage of low interest rates to invest more in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment. But it is not completely implausible that the austerity policies of the coalition government prevented confidence from deteriorating further and by doing so had a positive effect on investment and employment.
Giancarlo Corsetti University of Cambridge Neither agree nor disagree Confident
A key achievement of the UK economic policy in the aftermath of the crisis has been the insulation of the country from the most damaging type of financial crisis---the loss of market confidence on “sovereign signature”. The UK was at the center of the financial storm in 2007-2009. The Bank of England intervened massively---showing markets its determination in guaranteeing orderly conditions in UK financial markets. The fall in the exchange rate made sure that all the increase in risk of UK denominated assets was reflected upfront in their price in international portfolios. In this context, the announcement (without the implementation) of tough fiscal measures had the consequence of further reassuring investors---while de facto automatic stabilizers were working and opening a large current account deficit. Words were tough, deeds were OK. The problem in the UK, like elsewhere, was that initially policymakers operated on expectations of a much shorter crisis. So talking (again just talking) tough measures two-three years down the line seemed reasonable. The crisis turned out to be much longer (alas, wishful ignorance, as, a part from the Japanese experience, Andre Meier at the IMF had already shown the type of macro outlook to expect). So over the years, government had the problem of maintaining promises that ex post were not appropriate. To put it simply. There is a unfinished, dangerous deleveraging process, which is particularly difficult in the Eurozone. The UK so far has surfed the crisis by enjoying inflow of physical and human capital. It is now facing the aftershock of a severe European slowdown. Cash-generating austerity measures are of no use in these circumstances. Rigorous fiscal policy needs to focus on sustainability, which is not only health care and pension but also infrastructure and services. On balance, it would have been useful to sustain some spending programme, with an eye on its medium to long-run effect.
David Bell University of Stirling Disagree Not confident
Really difficult period to assess. The austerity programme itself varied in intensity and employment has done spectacularly well given that the downturn in output exceeded all recorded previous instances.
Jagjit Chadha National Institute of Economic and Social Research Agree Very confident
I really do not like the term austerity, as I see these policies have essentially been those of "sound money": deficits have continued. But the final level of aggregate demand was really being set by the BoE with QE. Thus even looser fiscal policy might have meant less room for QE and with as a result more debt to sell to the private sector, at a risky juncture, long term interest rates may have reacted in way to offset much of the impact and ultimately delay the recovery. In the end it was a judgement about the appropriate policy mix and it is hard not to think that relatively tight fiscal policy - at least in terms of plans about the future level of public debt to GDP - and loose monetary policy was an appropriate choice.
Mike Elsby University of Edinburgh Disagree Not confident
Gianluca Benigno London School of Economics Disagree Not confident
it is hard to disentangle the effects of an individual policy measure. The coalition government run a fiscal contraction in 2010 and 2011 and then reduced the pace of the fiscal contraction from 2012. The reduction in the pace of the contraction, along with expansionary monetary policy and international factors that have kept interest rates low in the UK, could explain the recent recovery of the UK economy and its better relative performance.
Ethan Ilzetzki London School of Economics Strongly Disagree Extremely confident
There was no evidence of any need for austerity when the UK embarked on this path. Interest rates were at historical lows and there was no indication that the UK debt burden was a drag on growth. The UK's recent stronger economic performance perfectly coincided with a recovery elsewhere in the world, including in the US which followed a path of stimulus, not austerity. The recovery was also in the context of oil price that were very low.
Richard Dennis University of Glasgow Disagree Confident
Sir Charles Bean London School of Economics Neither agree nor disagree Very confident
It all depends on the counterfactual! While fiscal consolidations can have an expansionary effect on demand (e.g. the mid-1980s consolidation in Denmark) that is only likely to be the case when market participants have already lost confidence in a government's economic policies. The UK consolidation was never undertaken in the belief that it would boost demand directly but rather that it would reduce the likelihood of a loss of market confidence in the UK government's economic policies, which - had it occurred - would have necessitated a much sharper consolidation. So it all depends on whether slower consolidation would have led to a loss in market confidence or not.
John VanReenen London School of Economics Strongly Disagree Very confident
UK GDP is about 15% below where we would have expected on pre-crisis trends. Employment rates back at pre-crisis levels at are 73%, but this is largely due to real wage falls of 8-10% - unprecedented in post-war recessions - which has kept labour costs low. As I discuss in my briefing paper http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/EA020.pdf it is now clear that fiscal consolidation was introduced too early into the UK especially in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 period. The cut of public investment by 40% over this time period was the opposite of sensible macro-economics. The OBR estimate that UK GDP was reduced by 2% due to this austerity. This was bad enough, but is likely to be an underestimate of the economic damage as more recent econometric evidence by the IMF and (e.g.) Jorda and Taylor (2013) have found that fiscal multipliers are much higher in severe downturns when interest rates are at the zero lower bound. After 2011-12 austerity was relaxed as the nascent recovery stuttered, and this was correct. Had the Chancellor still tried to eliminate the deficit by the end of this Parliament as originally planned in his 2010 Budget, employment and GDP would be much lower. So the answer is that premature austerity has damaged UK welfare and as I and others argued at the time, delaying consolidation would have left the UK in a much stronger position than it is today. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/cepsp27.pdf We face the prospect of repeating this mistake over the next 5 years. Attempting to reach a surplus on the total budget deficit without any tax increases (as in the most recent Budget) implies cuts to public service spending (resource DEL) in 2016-17 and 2017-18 over over 5%: higher than anything else seen in the last parliament. It would be better to have a smoother path of adjustment (spending bounces back in 2019-20 on a "rollercoaster" as correctly described bu the OBR); to treat capital investment differently in the fiscal plan (in order to deal with the UK's long-term investment problems as highlighted by the LSE Growth Commission); and to mix tax rises with spending cuts in achieving balance on the current budget. See http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/budget-2015-what-the-chancellor-did-and-didnt-say/ for my post-Budget analysis
Panicos Demetriades University of Leicester Neither agree nor disagree Very confident
We really don't have a counter-factual, we don't know what GDP and employment would have been had we had less or no austerity. Austerity reduces aggregate demand by more than it's usually assumed, as the value of the fiscal multipliers is larger than has typically been predicted, as has also been recently recognised by the IMF. This could mean that the reduction in GDP it causes is larger than the reduction in the public debt, making debt sustainability more of an issue. Also, excessive austerity can impair long run growth, by eroding the quality of a country's physical infrastructure and human capital. These are long run effects but there's plenty of research, including some of my own published in the Economic Journal in 2000, which shows that the returns to public capital are quite high, once the indict effects on the productivity of private capital are taken into account.
Jim Malley University of Glasgow Disagree Confident
Martin Ellison University of Oxford Strongly Disagree Very confident
The idea that fiscal contractions can be expansionary has largely been discredited. The work by Alesina, Favero and Giavazzi shows that it matters whether austerity comes about through rises in taxes or cuts in expenditure, but the evidence is that spending-based consolidations are at best neutral and that taxation-based consolidations are contractionary. There is scant support for spending-based austerity having a positive effect on output, and clear indications that tax-based austerity does not.
Michael McMahon University of Oxford Disagree Confident
The fact that the pursued austerity have reduced aggregate economic activity is not to say that the UK is not overall better having pursued the policies. The counterfactual can not simply be what would have happened without any austerity. Perhaps the right comparison is what would have happened under an alternative government. In this regard, the actual plans pursued are quite close to what labour had proposed as the scale and timing of deficit reduction (though the coalition revised the plans in a major way in 2012 and it is likely that a labour or other coalition government would also have changed their plans).
Andrew Mountford Royal Holloway Strongly Disagree Extremely confident
The coalition's austerity policies have had a significantly negative effect on the UK economy relative both to the best potential policy and to the lower bar of what alternative governments would have done. The biggest shortcoming in the coalition is their failure to invest in public capital while being able to borrow at close to 0% interest. The productivity of the UK both now and in the future is consequently significantly below potential. What are these public capital projects? Well one can argue about which gives most bang for buck (I would argue for education, science and public housing) but when interest rates are 0% any project only needs to cover its costs and surely there is no shortage of projects that do this. For an accessible discussion of some public investments that would increase future growth see http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/productivity-the-elephant-in-the-room Another big problem is the housing crisis which the coalition has exacerbated. Their failure to invest is in my view linked to their austerity agenda although their failure to tax housing may be something separate. Too much of UK savings is currently spent on housing and real estate lending is far too large a proportion of UK banks' balance sheets. This means that not enough is being lent to the productive economy which again reduces growth. This also has a direct result on people's well being as their living costs are higher than they need be. House prices are too high and should be taxed much more with the proceeds spent on a huge investment in public housing. See The Economist's recent article for the scale of the problem http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21645735-david-camerons-housing-policies-are-all-posturing-weak-foundations
Charles Nolan University of Glasgow Disagree Confident
There is probably little real disagreement that fiscal retrenchment has been necessary: high government debt can leave economies vulnerable. The issue is whether austerity has been overly rapid and too damaging to public investment at a time when the UK government can borrow cheaply.
Richard Portes London Business School and CEPR Strongly Disagree Extremely confident
The data are clear. The recovery is aborted immediately after austerity begins, then revival when it is (semi-covertly) relaxed.
John Driffill Birkbeck College, University of London Disagree Confident
As compared with what? Spending and tax plans that made no effort to control the national debt might have been worse, but plans that were slightly less austere might have been slightly better, in terms of stimulating more employment and GDP over the last few years. The coalition policies have convinced the financial markets that the public debt would be sustainable, and the government's borrowing costs have fallen to very low levels. The markets might have found less austere policies equally credible.
Alan Sutherland University of St. Andrews Disagree Confident
Patrick Minford Cardiff Business School Agree Confident
The coalition government has managed to set a definite direction towards deficit reduction without moving so rapidly as to destabilise the economy. Essentially it has halved the deficit/GDP ratio in this Parliament. In spite of this correction and the reduction in public sector jobs employment has grown strongly and recovery has been established. The correction needs to go further- about the same again- to bring fiscal affairs back under proper control. Interest rates have been negative in real terms and are likely to continue to remain low. This has made it easier to delay the correction. The only risk in the delay of the correction compared with the original plans to have eliminated the deficit by now, is that an incoming government might refuse to complete the process. However, this risk is quite small.
David Cobham Heriot Watt University Strongly Disagree Very confident
No claim of expansionary fiscal contractions could possible be upheld in this case. Fiscal consolidation knocked the top off a recovery started by the combination of fiscal and monetary expansion under Labour, it took another two years (and a significant prolonging of the consilidation timetable) before any more recovery emerged, and in the meantime the government had to seek desperately for more methods of monetary expansion.
Paolo Surico London Business School Disagree Confident
While austerity measures may have long-run benefits (because they may encourage structural reforms), there is little empirical evidence to support the hypothesis of expansionary austerity in the short-run. But the choice of cutting government spending more than increasing taxes (if any) the coalition government has probabibly minimized the negative impact of austerity in the short-run.
Nicholas Oulton London School of Economics Agree Very confident
The fact of the matter is that "austerity" has been greatly exaggerated. In every year from 2010 to 2013 real current expenditure on goods and services by general (local plus central) government has been higher than in any previous year. In 2013 it was 5% higher than in the last year of the boom, 2007. The much smaller total of investment by general government was cut a bit after the coalition came to power but is now much higher than it was during most of the Labour years. The budget deficit is a good deal higher than in anti-austerity France. Of course one can always argue that the government should have followed a still more expansionary fiscal policy (its monetary and exchange rate policies were also expansionary). But at some point any government would have had to get a grip on the deficit and the rising debt-GDP ratio, unless one believes that debts don't matter since they can always be inflated away. The financial crisis dealt a huge blow to the UK economy. But unemployment is now pretty low and still falling while employment is up.Productivity, for reasons not yet understood, has not recovered. But it is not clear how this would have been improved by additional government spending.
Morten Ravn University College London Neither agree nor disagree Very confident
I am not sure that the question is precise enough: I think the austerity policies may have triggered negative short run effects on activity but that the positive medium to long term effects are starting to show up now. A standard tax smoothing argument would suggest that the optimal response to a temporary shock to government spending - such as what followed the financial crisis - should be accompanied by a budget deficit. The coalition government chose to adjust government finances rather quickly. I think this might have had negative consequences in the shorter run but that the positive effects (relative to allowing for a larger increase in government debt and a later stabilization) are now setting in. It would have been useful perhaps to have considered a larger palette of policies (including money finance implemented for example through an adjustment of the inflation target) and a closer analysis of the extent to which the financial crisis may have implied semi-permanent effects on the UK economy. However, to return to the question: The austerity policies probably have had negative effects in the short run but positive effects over longer horizons.
Francesco Caselli London School of Economics Strongly Disagree Confident
The UK took much longer than the USA to get back to pre-recession levels of economic activity. Austerity is the culprit.
Costas Milas University of Liverpool Agree Confident
IMF World economic outlook data suggest that UK GDP (based on Purchasing Power Parity per capita GDP; current international dollar) increased by 14.5% over 2010-2015. This is less than the 16% increase recorded for the G7 group as a whole but quite a substantial increase if one considers that the UK budget deficit is expected to shrink from 10% of GDP in 2010 to 4.1% of GDP in 2015 (IMF data).
Tony Yates University of Birmingham Disagree Confident
I agreed with the initial plan, but thought it should have been relaxed sooner than it was, given that it was soon clear we would not be 'like Greece'; and that some of the stimulatory effect of the eventual relaxation was lost because the Coalition covered up, for political reasons, the fact that they were opting for plan B. More recently, as inflation drifted below target, I think the Coalition should have relaxed fiscal policy further to help out potentially ineffecive monetary policy, at least as a precautionary response, given the asymmetric risks posed by the zero lower bound.
David Smith Sunday Times Agree Very confident
The simple answer would be that austerity has reduced growth but we cannot know the counterfactual, which is that a failure to reduce the deficit could have had serious consequences. Critics of austerity tend to underestimate the extent to which Britain was close to a full-blown fiscal crisis in 2010.
Ray Barrell Brunel University London Strongly Disagree Extremely confident
Austerity policies have reduced GDP below where it would have otherwise have been over the last five years. Fiscal contractions are almost always negative in their impact on GDP in the short to medium term. The short term multiplier from a spending led contraction is unlikely to be much above a half. The impacts of austerity are unlikely to have been large in the last three years. The effects of lower interest and exchange rates will not have offset the initial negative impact of austerity on demand. Deficit reduction is necessary, but the pace could have been slower, and GDP would have been higher, if not by much. There is no risk of default on UK government debt, and a ten per cent variation in the level of debt would leave interest rates unaffected.
Christopher Martin University of Bath Strongly Disagree Very confident
In 2010 George Osborne introduced austerity, arguing that the UK economy needed to be "re-balanced" away from consumption and government expenditure and towards higher investment and exports. This has not happened. Investment has fallen and the current account deficit as as high as ever. Over the past five years, productivity has fallen and real wages have stagnated. Many of the most vulnerable have become worse off but "welfare" spending has not fallen. The only positive is that the rise in unemployment was only modest.
Paul De Grauwe London School of Economics Strongly Disagree Confident
Michael Wickens Cardiff Business School & University of York Neither agree nor disagree Very confident
The short-run aim of the coalition was not to stimulate economic activity but to repair public finances and thereby create the conditions for higher economic growth in the longer term. They have been moderately successful in their short-term aim and are starting to achieve their longer-term aim.
Simon Wren-Lewis University of Oxford Strongly Disagree Extremely confident
This is a joke, right? The only interesting question is how much GDP has been lost as a result of austerity. Based on OBR numbers, you can derive a 'lowest estimate' cumulative GDP loss of 5% of GDP (that is about £1,500 for each adult and child). A best guess could be nearer 10% of GDP, although a lot depends on how monetary policy would have reacted. That loss has, somewhat unusually, been more evenly spread as a result of a substantial decline in real wages.
Impact of Next Government
Wouter Den Haan London School of Economics Agree Confident
I typically would disagree with such a question, since the differences between proposed policies become substantially smaller when you take into consideration the difficulties in implementing them. This time could be different. The possibility of a referendum on UK membership of the European Union could be the kind of thing that does have far reaching consequences and it may, thus, this election may turn out to be quite important.
Giancarlo Corsetti University of Cambridge Agree Confident
As a foreign observer, I answer this question drawing on the international experience. The answer is yes, and it will crucially depend on whether the new government, regardless of their tough or mild words during the electoral campaign, will exert the required realistic approach, based on sound empirical evidence. The UK has solid institutions providing important inputs to decision making. It would be useful to have a pledge, by all candidates, that they will make sure proper weight is given to their analyses.
David Bell University of Stirling Agree Confident
Which party is making the right judgement call on the speed of deficit reduction? A prori, a difficult call but one that is likely to have significant effects on overall economic activity.
If either of the main two parties form the government, then I would expect sound money policies to continue. But if the extremes end up having some undue influence or create a long period of uncertainty with the need for another election, then the hiatus may have the propensity to stall aspects of the recovery.
Mike Elsby University of Edinburgh Disagree Confident
Gianluca Benigno London School of Economics Agree Confident
Ethan Ilzetzki London School of Economics Neither agree nor disagree Not confident
My response is based on both political and economic factors. On the political side, my current expectation is of hung parliament. Whoever will govern will have difficulty in setting a clear agenda. From an economic perspective, no party has put forth proposals that are a magic bullet for the UK's long term economic challenges. Overall, the public tends to overstate the ability of governments to affect economic outcomes in the short run--except in some extreme cases. I do see a couple of downside risks. These include a referendum on the EU that creates economic uncertainty and populistic anti-imigration policies.
Richard Dennis University of Glasgow Agree Confident
Sir Charles Bean London School of Economics Agree Confident
John VanReenen London School of Economics Agree Confident
Panicos Demetriades University of Leicester No opinion Very confident
Martin Ellison University of Oxford Neither agree nor disagree Confident
There is heightened uncertainty in the run up to the general election, which may continue for some time in the aftermath if the result is not clear or there are difficulties forming a new government. This will filter through to inflation and GDP to some extent, but of more importance is how much the new government is committed to fiscal austerity. The differences between party platforms are not huge in this respect, so the impact of the election on aggregate macroeconomic variables is likely to be muted.
Michael McMahon University of Oxford Agree Confident
I think the election winner will face a need for further austerity and the result will (broadly speaking) determine the balance between tax increases and expenditure cuts.
Andrew Mountford Royal Holloway Strongly Agree Extremely confident
The different parties have different attitudes to public investment. The low level of investment in the UK economy (both public and private) means that the productivity of the UK both now and in the future is significantly below potential. Any government that significantly increases public investment will have a significantly positive effect on the UK economy.
Charles Nolan University of Glasgow Neither agree nor disagree Not confident
It is very difficult to know what the major parties are really planning by way of tax rises and government expenditure cuts. The lack of information is worrisome.
Richard Portes London Business School and CEPR Neither agree nor disagree Not confident at all
This is not a well-specified question. It requires the respondent to forecast the outcome of the general election. Some outcomes would be unlikely to have non-trivial consequences for aggregate economic activity, others very likely. But as of writing (24 March) this is the most uncertain and indeed complex election in living memory - and perhaps much further back.
John Driffill Birkbeck College, University of London Agree Confident
There is a range of possible outcomes, each of which would be associated with different levels of activity, and, perhaps more importantly, different policies regarding the level of public spending and taxation, the amount of redistribution, Britain's continued membership of the EU. If, as seems likely, the two largest parties get a small share of the vote, say 30 percent each, and the smaller parties get the rest and win a reasonable number seats, the outcome may be a weak and fractious coalition. If UKIP and conservatives do well, that may increase the prospects of Britain leaving the EU in the coming years, which would have a negative effect on GDP, as well as being damaging to the UK socially and politically.
Sean Holly Cambridge University Strongly Agree Extremely confident
Alan Sutherland University of St. Andrews Agree Confident
Several coalition combinations could make difficulties for the economy- notably a Labour/SNP/Plaid/Green coalition which could refuse to continue the correction. This is the risk I mentioned in the first answer. Even if this coalition obtained power however I would expect some reasonable extent of correction, even if carried out mainly by general tax increases. The best outcome for the economy would be some sort of continuation of the current coalition, perhaps supported by UKIP and the DUP. The basic point is that public opinion in the UK would punish any government that put the economy at risk and therefore there will be strong pressure on any governing coalition to avoid damage to the economy either by inadequate correction or by aggressive tax increases.
David Cobham Heriot Watt University Agree Confident
There is a danger that a new Conservative government will just do the same again with fiscal consolidation, while a referendum on EU membership could have a chilling effect. A Labour government will at least largely avoid making that fiscal mistake, and would enable the UK to avoid a referendum.
Paolo Surico London Business School Neither agree nor disagree Not confident
Nicholas Oulton London School of Economics Agree Confident
The difference between what Labour and the Conservatives say that they will do about spending and deficits is now quite small. So if these plans are taken literally, it should not matter much which of the two major parties leads the next government. But this happy outcome could be put at risk if it is Labour in the lead since they will most likely need an accomodation with the SNP who are committed to big spending (at least in Scotland). Labour might also be tempted to follow the Gordon Brown strategy: fiscal restraint initially, then a surge in the size of the state after the 2020 election.
Morten Ravn University College London Agree Confident
This will of course depend crucially on the extent to the different parties will pursue different policies which is still unclear. But, it looks likely that Labour will raise taxes more than the Tories and that the Tories will allow for larger cuts in spending than Labour. There is ample empirical evidence that shows that such differences in policies matter for the economy. Of course, if the outcome is yet another coalition government involving LibDem, the outcome will be less sensitive to the relative performance of Labour and the Conservatives.
Francesco Caselli London School of Economics Agree Confident
This is conditional on whether a Brexit referendum takes place.A Brexit referendum will add to investor uncertainty, pushing up borrowing costs that companies face and therefore delay their investment decisions. As a result, economic growth will take a hit. So far, those arguing for a British exit have (in my view) failed to present an economically convincing argument of the advantages of leaving the EU. That said, the "in" camp, have also been reluctant to confidently articulate their case. With both camps equally unprepared to push forward their arguments, one is left wondering why we really need a referendum. An unnecessary distraction we could definitely do without.
Tony Yates University of Birmingham Agree Not confident
All parties have chosen to conceal the details of their plans - for fear that they give their opponents too much to attack, or us too much to disbelieve - so it is hard to know what they will do. Other uncertainties are how formal or informal Coalition deals will work out. And the fact that just as with the last govt, plans may not be stuck to.
The fiscal policy differences between the parties have narrowed but still exist and there are also important supply-side differences. The outcome of the election could give us an interesting test of the long-term impact of higher taxation and greater government intervention on growth.
Ray Barrell Brunel University London Agree Extremely confident
The outcome of the general election will have an effect on GDP. The potential coalitions will have markedly different debt reduction and spending policies. A Labour dominated coalition will have higher spending on infrastructure and slower debt reduction than a Conservative dominated coalition. A Labour dominated coalition is likely to see higher growth and lower unemployment in the first three years of the parliament. A Labour led coalition may see growth ¼ to ½ percent a year higher for three years, closing the output gap more quickly than would otherwise happen.
Christopher Martin University of Bath Strongly Agree Very confident
The difference between current Conservative and Labour spending plans is about £40 billion per year by the end of the next Parliament. On the most hard-core anti-Keynesian would argue that £40 billion a year has "non-trivial consequences". But the real issue is which party would best address the UK's long-standing economic weaknesses: inadequate infrastructure, insufficient investment, poor management and a lack of skills, factors which have combined over the years to give a dismal record on productivity. There is enough common ground in British politics for a serious attempt to put right these historical weaknesses, but little sign of any major party being willing to move out of their comfort zones in order to do this.
Paul De Grauwe London School of Economics Agree Confident
Michael Wickens Cardiff Business School & University of York Strongly Agree Extremely confident
The election could drastically alter macroeconomic policy in the UK, and for the worse. Given the closeness of the likely outcome of the election, the Labour Party's denial of their role in ruining the public finances prior to 2010, their continued focus on increasing public expenditures and the likelihood of needing a working arrangement with the even more spendthrift SNP, the prospects for the UK are very precarious - almost on a knife-edge.
Simon Wren-Lewis University of Oxford Strongly Agree Very confident
Additional austerity will have some negative impact on GDP, as recent analysis in the National Institute Economic Review suggests, unless monetary policy is very active. The real danger is if some significant negative shock hits the UK. In that case interest rates will be forced to their (new) lower bound, and the negative impact of additional austerity could be much greater, as was the case in 2010-2011. The election could also have a significant impact on activity because of the proposed EU referendum. We have little idea on how much investment might be postponed because of this, but it could be significant in macro terms.
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There's nothing more pathetic than watching a country performer sweat bullets on television while performing a gospel song, seemingly to try and prove - with all this overt effort - they truly believe what they're singing about. You won't get that impression from Alan Jackson, at least not from his second collection of hymns, "Precious Memories: Vol. II." Even during There Is Power in the Blood, a song that could easily have gotten revved up beyond control, the guitar and piano solos are skillful, yet restrained.
Jackson chooses to perform his hymns the way he must surely remember them from childhood Sunday services. Some of these are so powerful; they don't require any music business polish to make them hit their marks. Just As I Am, with its positive association with Billy Graham crusades over the years, is the ultimate Altar Call song, and Jackson sings it as though the pastor has asked him to provide the music at the end of Sunday service.
While there are many gospel songs that are nearly requirements on albums such as this one, including Amazing Grace and Precious Memories, Jackson also gives us Love Lifted Me and Only Trust Him, which might only be thoroughly familiar to lifetime Baptists.
Jackson respects these songs the way a man loves his mamma, and it shows throughout this subdued, but enjoyable, collection. These memories are, indeed, precious to Jackson. For those of us that share Jackson's religious upbringing, "Precious Memories: Vol. II" is a wonderful walk down memory lane. You'll probably like it, too, even if you've never traveled that path before.
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Explanatory Preface
1:1 Now 1 many have undertaken to compile an account 2 of the things 3 that have been fulfilled 4 among us, 1:2 like the accounts 5 passed on 6 to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word 7 from the beginning. 8 1:3 So 9 it seemed good to me as well, 10 because I have followed 11 all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account 12 for you, most excellent Theophilus, 1:4 so that you may know for certain 13 the things you were taught. 14
Birth Announcement of John the Baptist
1:5 During the reign 15 of Herod 16 king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to 17 the priestly division of Abijah, 18 and he had a wife named Elizabeth, 19 who was a descendant of Aaron. 20 1:6 They 21 were both righteous in the sight of God, following 22 all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly. 23 1:7 But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, 24 and they were both very old. 25
1:8 Now 26 while Zechariah 27 was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 28 1:9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, 29 to enter 30 the holy place 31 of the Lord and burn incense. 1:10 Now 32 the whole crowd 33 of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering. 34 1:11 An 35 angel of the Lord, 36 standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared 37 to him. 1:12 And Zechariah, visibly shaken when he saw the angel, 38 was seized with fear. 39 1:13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, 40 and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you 41 will name him John. 42 1:14 Joy and gladness will come 43 to you, and many will rejoice at 44 his birth, 45 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of 46 the Lord. He 47 must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. 48 1:16 He 49 will turn 50 many of the people 51 of Israel to the Lord their God. 1:17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord 52 in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, 53 to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”
1:18 Zechariah 54 said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? 55 For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.” 56 1:19 The 57 angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands 58 in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring 59 you this good news. 1:20 And now, 60 because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, 61 you will be silent, unable to speak, 62 until the day these things take place.”
1:21 Now 63 the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they began to wonder 64 why he was delayed in the holy place. 65 1:22 When 66 he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They 67 realized that he had seen a vision 68 in the holy place, 69 because 70 he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak. 71 1:23 When his time of service was over, 72 he went to his home.
1:24 After some time 73 his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, 74 and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. 75 She said, 76 1:25 “This is what 77 the Lord has done for me at the time 78 when he has been gracious to me, 79 to take away my disgrace 80 among people.” 81
Birth Announcement of Jesus the Messiah
1:26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, 82 the angel Gabriel 83 was sent by 84 God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, 85 1:27 to a virgin engaged 86 to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, 87 and the virgin’s name was Mary. 1:28 The 88 angel 89 came 90 to her and said, “Greetings, favored one, 91 the Lord is with you!” 92 1:29 But 93 she was greatly troubled 94 by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting. 95 1:30 So 96 the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, 97 Mary, for you have found favor 98 with God! 1:31 Listen: 99 You will become pregnant 100 and give birth to 101 a son, and you will name him 102 Jesus. 103 1:32 He 104 will be great, 105 and will be called the Son of the Most High, 106 and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father 107 David. 1:33 He 108 will reign over the house of Jacob 109 forever, and his kingdom will never end.” 1:34 Mary 110 said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with 111 a man?” 1:35 The angel replied, 112 “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow 113 you. Therefore the child 114 to be born 115 will be holy; 116 he will be called the Son of God.
1:36 “And look, 117 your relative 118 Elizabeth has also become pregnant with 119 a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month! 120 1:37 For nothing 121 will be impossible with God.” 1:38 So 122 Mary said, “Yes, 123 I am a servant 124 of the Lord; let this happen to me 125 according to your word.” 126 Then 127 the angel departed from her.
Mary and Elizabeth
1:39 In those days 128 Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah, 129 1:40 and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. 1:41 When 130 Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped 131 in her 132 womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 133 1:42 She 134 exclaimed with a loud voice, 135 “Blessed are you among women, 136 and blessed is the child 137 in your womb! 1:43 And who am I 138 that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me? 1:44 For the instant 139 the sound of your greeting reached my ears, 140 the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 141 1:45 And blessed 142 is she who believed that 143 what was spoken to her by 144 the Lord would be fulfilled.” 145
Mary’s Hymn of Praise
1:46 And Mary 146 said, 147
“My soul exalts 148 the Lord, 149
1:47 and my spirit has begun to rejoice 150 in God my Savior,
1:48 because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant. 151
For 152 from now on 153 all generations will call me blessed, 154
1:49 because he who is mighty 155 has done great things for me, and holy is his name;
1:50 from 156 generation to generation he is merciful 157 to those who fear 158 him.
1:51 He has demonstrated power 159 with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance 160 of their hearts.
1:52 He has brought down the mighty 161 from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position; 162
1:53 he has filled the hungry with good things, 163 and has sent the rich away empty. 164
1:54 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering 165 his mercy, 166
1:55 as he promised 167 to our ancestors, 168 to Abraham and to his descendants 169 forever.”
1:56 So 170 Mary stayed with Elizabeth 171 about three months 172 and then returned to her home.
The Birth of John
1:57 Now the time came 173 for Elizabeth to have her baby, 174 and she gave birth to a son. 1:58 Her 175 neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown 176 great mercy to her, and they rejoiced 177 with her.
1:59 On 178 the eighth day 179 they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name 180 him Zechariah after his father. 1:60 But 181 his mother replied, 182 “No! He must be named 183 John.” 184 1:61 They 185 said to her, “But 186 none of your relatives bears this name.” 187 1:62 So 188 they made signs to the baby’s 189 father, 190 inquiring what he wanted to name his son. 191 1:63 He 192 asked for a writing tablet 193 and wrote, 194 “His name is John.” And they were all amazed. 195 1:64 Immediately 196 Zechariah’s 197 mouth was opened and his tongue 198 released, 199 and he spoke, blessing God. 1:65 All 200 their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about. 1:66 All 201 who heard these things 202 kept them in their hearts, 203 saying, “What then will this child be?” 204 For the Lord’s hand 205 was indeed with him.
Zechariah’s Praise and Prediction
1:67 Then 206 his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, 207
1:68 “Blessed 208 be the Lord God of Israel,
because he has come to help 209 and has redeemed 210 his people.
1:69 For 211 he has raised up 212 a horn of salvation 213 for us in the house of his servant David, 214
1:70 as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago, 215
1:71 that we should be saved 216 from our enemies, 217
and from the hand of all who hate us.
1:72 He has done this 218 to show mercy 219 to our ancestors, 220
and to remember his holy covenant 221 –
1:73 the oath 222 that he swore to our ancestor 223 Abraham.
This oath grants 224
1:74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our 225 enemies,
may serve him without fear, 226
1:75 in holiness and righteousness 227 before him for as long as we live. 228
1:76 And you, child, 229 will be called the prophet 230 of the Most High. 231
For you will go before 232 the Lord to prepare his ways, 233
1:77 to give his people knowledge of salvation 234 through the forgiveness 235 of their sins.
1:78 Because of 236 our God’s tender mercy 237
the dawn 238 will break 239 upon us from on high
1:79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, 240
to guide our feet into the way 241 of peace.”
1:80 And the child kept growing 242 and becoming strong 243 in spirit, and he was in the wilderness 244 until the day he was revealed 245 to Israel.
5 tn Grk “even as”; this compares the recorded tradition of 1:1 with the original eyewitness tradition of 1:2.
6 tn Or “delivered.”
7 sn The phrase eyewitnesses and servants of the word refers to a single group of people who faithfully passed on the accounts about Jesus. The language about delivery (passed on) points to accounts faithfully passed on to the early church.
8 tn Grk “like the accounts those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word passed on to us.” The location of “in the beginning” in the Greek shows that the tradition is rooted in those who were with Jesus from the start.
9 tn The conjunction “so” is supplied here to bring out the force of the latter part of this Greek sentence, which the translation divides up because of English style. Luke, in compiling his account, is joining a tradition with good precedent.
10 sn When Luke says it seemed good to me as well he is not being critical of the earlier accounts, but sees himself stepping into a tradition of reporting about Jesus to which he will add uniquely a second volume on the early church when he writes the Book of Acts.
11 tn Grk “having followed”; the participle παρηκολουθηκότι (parhkolouqhkoti) has been translated causally.
12 sn An orderly account does not necessarily mean that all events are recorded in the exact chronological sequence in which they occurred, but that the account produced is an orderly one. This could include, for example, thematic or topical order rather than strict chronological order.
13 tn Or “know the truth about”; or “know the certainty of.” The issue of the context is psychological confidence; Luke’s work is trying to encourage Theophilus. So in English this is better translated as “know for certain” than “know certainty” or “know the truth,” which sounds too cognitive. “Certain” assumes the truth of the report. On this term, see Acts 2:36; 21:34; 22:30; and 25:26. The meaning “have assurance concerning” is also possible here.
14 tn Or “you heard about.” This term can refer merely to a report of information (Acts 21:24) or to instruction (Acts 18:25). The scope of Luke’s Gospel as a whole, which calls for perseverance in the faith and which assumes much knowledge of the OT, suggests Theophilus had received some instruction and was probably a believer.
15 tn Grk “It happened that in the days.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
16 sn Herod was Herod the Great, who ruled Palestine from 37 b.c. until he died in 4 b.c. He was known for his extensive building projects (including the temple in Jerusalem) and for his cruelty.
17 tn Grk “of”; but the meaning of the preposition ἐκ (ek) is more accurately expressed in contemporary English by the relative clause “who belonged to.”
18 sn There were twenty-four divisions of priesthood and the priestly division of Abijah was eighth on the list according to 1 Chr 24:10.
19 tn Grk “and her name was Elizabeth.”
20 tn Grk “a wife of the daughters of Aaron.”
sn It was not unusual for a priest to have a wife from a priestly family (a descendant of Aaron); this was regarded as a special blessing.
21 tn Grk “And they.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.
22 tn Grk “walking in” (an idiom for one’s lifestyle).
sn The description of Zechariah and Elizabeth as following… blamelessly was not to say that they were sinless, but that they were faithful and pious. Thus a practical righteousness is meant here (Gen 6:8; Deut 28:9).
23 tn The predicate adjective has the effect of an adverb here (BDF §243).
24 sn Elizabeth was barren. Both Zechariah and Elizabeth are regarded by Luke as righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly (v. 6). With this language, reminiscent of various passages in the OT, Luke is probably drawing implicit comparisons to the age and barrenness of such famous OT personalities as Abraham and Sarah (see, e.g., Gen 18:9-15), the mother of Samson (Judg 13:2-5), and Hannah, the mother of Samuel (1 Sam 1:1-20). And, as it was in the case of these OT saints, so it is with Elizabeth: After much anguish and seeking the Lord, she too is going to have a son in her barrenness. In that day it was a great reproach to be childless, for children were a sign of God’s blessing (cf. Gen 1:28; Lev 20:20-21; Pss 127 and 128; Jer 22:30). As the dawn of salvation draws near, however, God will change this elderly couple’s grief into great joy and grant them the one desire time had rendered impossible.
25 tn Grk “were both advanced in days” (an idiom for old age).
26 tn Grk “Now it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
27 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Grk “serving as priest in the order of his division before God.”
sn Zechariah’s division would be on duty twice a year for a week at a time.
29 tn Grk “according to the custom of the priesthood it fell to him by lot.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make it clear that the prepositional phrase κατὰ τὸ ἔθος τῆς ἱερατείας (kata to eqo" th" Jierateia", “according to the custom of the priesthood”) modifies the phrase “it fell to him by lot” rather than the preceding clause.
30 tn This is an aorist participle and is temporally related to the offering of incense, not to when the lot fell.
31 tn Or “temple.” Such sacrifices, which included the burning of incense, would have occurred in the holy place according to the Mishnah (m. Tamid 1.2; 3.1; 5-7). A priest would have given this sacrifice, which was offered for the nation, once in one’s career. It would be offered either at 9 a.m. or 3 p.m., since it was made twice a day.
32 tn Grk “And,” but “now” better represents the somewhat parenthetical nature of this statement in the flow of the narrative.
33 tn Grk “all the multitude.” While “assembly” is sometimes used here to translate πλῆθος (plhqo"), that term usually implies in English a specific or particular group of people. However, this was simply a large group gathered outside, which was not unusual, especially for the afternoon offering.
34 tn The “hour of the incense offering” is another way to refer to the time of sacrifice.
35 tn Grk “And an angel.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, δέ (de) has not been translated here.
36 tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” Linguistically, “angel of the Lord” is the same in both testaments (and thus, he is either “an angel of the Lord” or “the angel of the Lord” in both testaments). For arguments and implications, see ExSyn 252; M. J. Davidson, “Angels,” DJG, 9; W. G. MacDonald argues for “an angel” in both testaments: “Christology and ‘The Angel of the Lord’,” Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation, 324-35.
37 sn This term is often used to describe a supernatural appearance (24:34; Acts 2:3; 7:2, 30, 35; 9:17; 13:31; 16:9; 26:16).
38 tn The words “the angel” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
39 tn Or “and he was afraid”; Grk “fear fell upon him.” Fear is common when supernatural agents appear (1:29-30, 65; 2:9; 5:8-10; 9:34; 24:38; Exod 15:16; Judg 6:22-23; 13:6, 22; 2 Sam 6:9).
40 tn The passive means that the prayer was heard by God.
sn Your prayer has been heard. Zechariah’s prayer while offering the sacrifice would have been for the nation, but the answer to the prayer also gave them a long hoped-for child, a hope they had abandoned because of their old age.
41 tn Grk “a son, and you”; καί (kai) has not been translated. Instead a semicolon is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
42 tn Grk “you will call his name John.” The future tense here functions like a command (see ExSyn 569-70). This same construction occurs in v. 31.
sn “Do not be afraid…you must call his name John.” This is a standard birth announcement (see Gen 16:11; Isa 7:14; Matt 1:21; Luke 1:31).
43 tn Grk “This will be joy and gladness.”
44 tn Or “because of.”
45 tn “At his birth” is more precise as the grammatical subject (1:58), though “at his coming” is a possible force, since it is his mission, as the following verses note, that will really bring joy.
46 tn Grk “before.”
47 tn Grk “and he”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun in the translation.
48 tn Grk “even from his mother’s womb.” While this idiom may be understood to refer to the point of birth (“even from his birth”), Luke 1:41 suggests that here it should be understood to refer to a time before birth.
sn He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. This is the language of the birth of a prophet (Judg 13:5, 7; Isa 49:1; Jer 1:5; Sir 49:7); see 1:41 for the first fulfillment.
49 tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
50 sn The word translated will turn is a good summary term for repentance and denotes John’s call to a change of direction (Luke 3:1-14).
51 tn Grk “sons”; but clearly this is a generic reference to people of both genders.
52 tn Grk “before him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
53 sn These two lines cover all relationships: Turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children points to horizontal relationships, while (turn) the disobedient to the wisdom of the just shows what God gives from above in a vertical manner.
54 tn Grk “And Zechariah.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
55 tn Grk “How will I know this?”
56 tn Grk “is advanced in days” (an idiom for old age).
57 tn Grk “And the.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
58 tn Grk “the one who is standing before God.”
59 tn Grk “to announce these things of good news to you.”
60 tn Grk “behold.”
61 sn The predicted fulfillment in the expression my words, which will be fulfilled in their time takes place in Luke 1:63-66.
62 sn Silent, unable to speak. Actually Zechariah was deaf and mute as 1:61-63 indicates, since others had to use gestures to communicate with him.
63 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
64 tn The imperfect verb ἐθαύμαζον (eqaumazon) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.
65 tn Or “temple.” See the note on the phrase “the holy place” in v. 9.
66 tn Grk “And when.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
67 tn Grk “and they.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
68 tn That is, “he had had a supernatural encounter in the holy place,” since the angel came to Zechariah by the altar. This was not just a “mental experience.”
70 tn Grk “and,” but the force is causal or explanatory in context.
71 tn Grk “dumb,” but this could be understood to mean “stupid” in contemporary English, whereas the point is that he was speechless.
72 tn Grk “And it happened that as the days of his service were ended.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
73 tn Grk “After these days.” The phrase refers to a general, unspecified period of time that passes before fulfillment comes.
74 tn Or “Elizabeth conceived.”
75 sn The text does not state why Elizabeth withdrew into seclusion, nor is the reason entirely clear.
76 tn Grk “she kept herself in seclusion, saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
77 tn Grk “Thus.”
78 tn Grk “in the days.”
79 tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).
80 sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).
81 tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.
82 tn Grk “in the sixth month.” The phrase “of Elizabeth’s pregnancy” was supplied in the translation to clarify the exact time meant by this reference. That Elizabeth’s pregnancy is meant is clear from vv. 24-25.
83 sn Gabriel is the same angel mentioned previously in v. 19. He is traditionally identified as an angel who brings revelation (see Dan 8:15-16; 9:21). Gabriel and Michael are the only two good angels named in the Bible.
84 tn Or “from.” The account suggests God’s planned direction in these events, so “by” is better than “from,” as six months into Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God acts again.
85 sn Nazareth was a town in the region of Galilee, located north of Samaria and Judea. Galilee extended from about 45 to 85 miles north of Jerusalem and was about 30 miles in width. Nazareth was a very small village and was located about 15 miles west of the southern edge of the Sea of Galilee.
map For location see Map1-D3; Map2-C2; Map3-D5; Map4-C1; Map5-G3.
86 tn Or “promised in marriage.”
87 tn Grk “Joseph, of the house of David.”
sn The Greek word order here favors connecting Davidic descent to Joseph, not Mary, in this remark.
88 tn Grk “And coming to her.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
89 tn Grk “And coming to her, he said”; the referent (the angel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
90 tn Grk “coming to her, he said.” The participle εἰσελθών (eiselqwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
91 tn The address, “favored one” (a perfect participle, Grk “Oh one who is favored”) points to Mary as the recipient of God’s grace, not a bestower of it. She is a model saint in this passage, one who willingly receives God’s benefits. The Vulgate rendering “full of grace” suggests something more of Mary as a bestower of grace, but does not make sense here contextually.
92 tc Most mss (A C D Θ Ë13 33 Ï latt sy) read here εὐλογημένη σὺ ἐν γυναιξίν (euloghmenh su en gunaixin, “blessed are you among women”) which also appears in 1:42 (where it is textually certain). This has the earmarks of a scribal addition for balance; the shorter reading, attested by the most important witnesses and several others (א B L W Ψ Ë1 565 579 700 1241 pc co), is thus preferred.
93 tc Most mss (A C Θ 0130 Ë13 Ï lat sy) have ἰδοῦσα (idousa, “when [she] saw [the angel]”) here as well, making Mary’s concern the appearance of the angel. This construction is harder than the shorter reading since it adds a transitive verb without an explicit object. However, the shorter reading has significant support (א B D L W Ψ Ë1 565 579 1241 sa) and on balance should probably be considered authentic.
94 sn On the phrase greatly troubled see 1:12. Mary’s reaction was like Zechariah’s response.
95 tn Grk “to wonder what kind of greeting this might be.” Luke often uses the optative this way to reveal a figure’s thinking (3:15; 8:9; 18:36; 22:23).
96 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Gabriel’s statement is a response to Mary’s perplexity over the greeting.
97 sn Do not be afraid. See 1:13 for a similar statement to Zechariah.
98 tn Or “grace.”
sn The expression found favor is a Semitism, common in the OT (Gen 6:8; 18:3; 43:14; 2 Sam 15:25). God has chosen to act on this person’s behalf.
99 tn Grk “And behold.”
100 tn Grk “you will conceive in your womb.”
101 tn Or “and bear.”
102 tn Grk “you will call his name.”
103 tn See v. 13 for a similar construction.
sn You will name him Jesus. This verse reflects the birth announcement of a major figure; see 1:13; Gen 16:7; Judg 13:5; Isa 7:14. The Greek form of the name Ihsous, which was translated into Latin as Jesus, is the same as the Hebrew Yeshua (Joshua), which means “Yahweh saves” (Yahweh is typically rendered as “Lord” in the OT). It was a fairly common name among Jews in 1st century Palestine, as references to a number of people by this name in the LXX and Josephus indicate.
104 tn Grk “this one.”
105 sn Compare the description of Jesus as great here with 1:15, “great before the Lord.” Jesus is greater than John, since he is Messiah compared to a prophet. Great is stated absolutely without qualification to make the point.
106 sn The expression Most High is a way to refer to God without naming him. Such avoiding of direct reference to God was common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.
107 tn Or “ancestor.”
108 tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. A new sentence is begun here in the translation because of the length of the sentence in Greek.
109 tn Or “over Israel.”
sn The expression house of Jacob refers to Israel. This points to the Messiah’s relationship to the people of Israel.
110 tn Grk “And Mary.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
111 tn Grk “have not known.” The expression in the Greek text is a euphemism for sexual relations. Mary seems to have sensed that the declaration had an element of immediacy to it that excluded Joseph. Many modern translations render this phrase “since I am a virgin,” but the Greek word for virgin is not used in the text, and the euphemistic expression is really more explicit, referring specifically to sexual relations.
112 tn Grk “And the angel said to her.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. The pronoun αὐτῇ (auth, “to her”) has not been included in the translation since it is redundant in contemporary English.
113 sn The phrase will overshadow is a reference to God’s glorious presence at work (Exod 40:34-35; Ps 91:4).
114 tn Or “the one born holy will be called the Son of God.” The wording of this phrase depends on whether the adjective is a predicate adjective, as in the text, or is an adjective modifying the participle serving as the subject. The absence of an article with the adjective speaks for a predicate position. Other less appealing options supply a verb for “holy”; thus “the one who is born will be holy”; or argue that both “holy” and “Son of God” are predicates, so “The one who is born will be called holy, the Son of God.”
115 tc A few mss (C* Θ Ë1 33 pc) add “by you” here. This looks like a scribal addition to bring symmetry to the first three clauses of the angel’s message (note the second person pronoun in the previous two clauses), and is too poorly supported to be seriously considered as authentic.
116 tn Or “Therefore the holy child to be born will be called the Son of God.” There are two ways to understand the Greek phrase τὸ γεννώμενον ἅγιον (to gennwmenon {agion) here. First, τὸ γεννώμενον could be considered a substantival participle with ἅγιον as an adjective in the second predicate position, thus making a complete sentence; this interpretation is reflected in the translation above. Second, τὸ ἅγιον could be considered a substantival adjective with γεννώμενον acting as an adjectival participle, thus making the phrase the subject of the verb κληθήσεται (klhqhsetai); this interpretation is reflected in the alternative reading. Treating the participle γεννώμενον as adjectival is a bit unnatural for the very reason that it forces one to understand ἅγιον as substantival; this introduces a new idea in the text with ἅγιον when an already new topic is being introduced with γεννώμενον. Semantically this would overload the new subject introduced at this point. For this reason the first interpretation is preferred.
117 tn Grk “behold.”
118 tn Some translations render the word συγγενίς (sungeni") as “cousin” (so Phillips) but the term is not necessarily this specific.
119 tn Or “has conceived.”
120 tn Grk “and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren.” Yet another note on Elizabeth’s loss of reproach also becomes a sign of the truth of the angel’s declaration.
121 tn In Greek, the phrase πᾶν ῥῆμα (pan rJhma, “nothing”) has an emphatic position, giving it emphasis as the lesson in the entire discussion. The remark is a call for faith.
122 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
124 tn Traditionally, “handmaid”; Grk “slave woman.” Though δούλη (doulh) is normally translated “woman servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free woman serving another. BDAG notes that “‘servant’ for ‘slave’ is largely confined to Biblical transl. and early American times… in normal usage at the present time the two words are carefully distinguished” (BDAG 260 s.v. δοῦλος). The most accurate translation is “bondservant,” sometimes found in the ASV for δοῦλος (doulos), in that it often indicates one who sells himself or herself into slavery to another. But as this is archaic, few today understand its force.
125 tn Grk “let this be to me.”
126 sn The remark according to your word is a sign of Mary’s total submission to God’s will, a response that makes her exemplary.
127 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
128 sn The expression In those days is another general time reference, though the sense of the context is that the visit came shortly after Mary miraculously conceived and shortly after the announcement about Jesus.
129 sn The author does not say exactly where Elizabeth stayed. The location is given generally as a town of Judah. Judah is about a three day trip south of Nazareth.
130 tn Grk “And it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here either.
131 sn When the baby leaped John gave his first testimony about Jesus, a fulfillment of 1:15.
132 tn The antecedent of “her” is Elizabeth.
133 sn The passage makes clear that Elizabeth spoke her commentary with prophetic enablement, filled with the Holy Spirit.
134 tn Grk “and she.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
135 tn Grk “and she exclaimed with a great cry and said.” The verb εἶπεν (eipen, “said”) has not been included in the translation since it is redundant in contemporary English.
136 sn The commendation Blessed are you among women means that Mary has a unique privilege to be the mother of the promised one of God.
137 tn Grk “fruit,” which is figurative here for the child she would give birth to.
138 tn Grk “From where this to me?” The translation suggests the note of humility and surprise that Elizabeth feels in being a part of these events. The ἵνα (Jina) clause which follows explains what “this” is. A literal translation would read “From where this to me, that is, that the mother of my Lord comes to visit me?”
139 tn Grk “for behold.”
140 tn Grk “when the sound of your greeting [reached] my ears.”
141 sn On the statement the baby in my womb leaped for joy see both 1:14 and 1:47. This notes a fulfillment of God’s promised word.
142 sn Again the note of being blessed makes the key point of the passage about believing God.
143 tn This ὅτι (Joti) clause, technically indirect discourse after πιστεύω (pisteuw), explains the content of the faith, a belief in God’s promise coming to pass.
144 tn That is, “what was said to her (by the angel) at the Lord’s command” (BDAG 756 s.v. παρά A.2).
145 tn Grk “that there would be a fulfillment of what was said to her from the Lord.”
sn This term speaks of completion of something planned (2 Chr 29:35).
146 tc A few witnesses, especially Latin mss, (a b l* Irarm Orlat mss Nic) read “Elizabeth” here, since she was just speaking, but the ms evidence overwhelmingly supports “Mary” as the speaker.
147 sn The following passage has been typeset as poetry because many scholars regard this passage as poetic or hymnic. These terms are used broadly to refer to the genre of writing, not to the content. There are two broad criteria for determining if a passage is poetic or hymnic: “(a) stylistic: a certain rhythmical lilt when the passages are read aloud, the presence of parallelismus membrorum (i.e., an arrangement into couplets), the semblance of some metre, and the presence of rhetorical devices such as alliteration, chiasmus, and antithesis; and (b) linguistic: an unusual vocabulary, particularly the presence of theological terms, which is different from the surrounding context” (P. T. O’Brien, Philippians [NIGTC], 188-89). Classifying a passage as hymnic or poetic is important because understanding this genre can provide keys to interpretation. However, not all scholars agree that the above criteria are present in this passage, so the decision to typeset it as poetry should be viewed as a tentative decision about its genre.
148 tn Or “lifts up the Lord in praise.”
149 sn This psalm (vv. 46-55) is one of the few praise psalms in the NT. Mary praises God and then tells why both in terms of his care for her (vv. 46-49) and for others, including Israel (vv. 50-55). Its traditional name, the “Magnificat,” comes from the Latin for the phrase My soul magnifies the Lord at the hymn’s start.
150 tn Or “rejoices.” The translation renders this aorist, which stands in contrast to the previous line’s present tense, as ingressive, which highlights Mary’s joyous reaction to the announcement. A comprehensive aorist is also possible here.
151 tn See the note on the word “servant” in v. 38.
153 sn From now on is a favorite phrase of Luke’s, showing how God’s acts change things from this point on (5:10; 12:52; 22:18, 69; Acts 18:6).
154 sn Mary is seen here as an example of an object of God’s grace (blessed) for all generations.
155 tn Traditionally, “the Mighty One.”
156 tn Grk “and from.” Here καί (kai) has been translated by a semicolon to improve the English style.
157 sn God’s mercy refers to his “loyal love” or “steadfast love,” expressed in faithful actions, as the rest of the psalm illustrates.
158 tn That is, “who revere.” This refers to those who show God a reverential respect for his sovereignty.
159 tn Or “shown strength,” “performed powerful deeds.” The verbs here switch to aorist tense through 1:55. This is how God will act in general for his people as they look to his ultimate deliverance.
160 tn Grk “in the imaginations of their hearts.” The psalm rebukes the arrogance of the proud, who think that power is their sovereign right. Here διανοίᾳ (dianoia) can be understood as a dative of sphere or reference/respect.
161 tn Or “rulers.”
162 tn Or “those of humble position”
sn The contrast between the mighty and those of lowly position is fundamental for Luke. God cares for those that the powerful ignore (Luke 4:18-19).
163 sn Good things refers not merely to material blessings, but blessings that come from knowing God.
164 sn Another fundamental contrast of Luke’s is between the hungry and the rich (Luke 6:20-26).
165 tn Or “because he remembered mercy,” understanding the infinitive as causal.
166 tn Or “his [God’s] loyal love.”
167 tn Grk “as he spoke.” Since this is a reference to the covenant to Abraham, ἐλάλησεν (elalhsen) can be translated in context “as he promised.” God keeps his word.
168 tn Grk “fathers.”
169 tn Grk “his seed” (an idiom for offspring or descendants).
170 tn Grk “And.” Here (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the conclusion of the topic.
171 tn Grk “her”; the referent (Elizabeth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
172 sn As is typical with Luke the timing is approximate (about three months), not specific.
173 tn Grk “the time was fulfilled.”
174 tn The words “her baby” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied for clarity.
175 tn Grk “And her.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
176 tn Grk “had magnified his mercy with her.”
177 tn The verb συνέχαιρον (sunecairon) is an imperfect and could be translated as an ingressive force, “they began to rejoice.”
178 tn Grk “And it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
179 sn They were following OT law (Lev 12:3) which prescribed that a male child was to be circumcised on the eighth day.
180 tn This could be understood as a conative imperfect, expressing an unrealized desire (“they were trying to name him”). It has been given more of a voluntative nuance in the translation.
181 tn Grk “And,” but with clearly contrastive emphasis in context.
182 tn Grk “his mother answering, said.” The combination of participle and finite verb is redundant in English and has been simplified to “replied” in the translation.
183 tn This future passive indicative verb has imperatival force and thus has been translated “he must be named.”
184 sn “No! He must be named John.” By insisting on the name specified by the angel, Elizabeth (v. 60) and Zechariah (v. 63) have learned to obey God (see Luke 1:13).
185 tn Grk “And they.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
186 tn The word “but” is not in the Greek text but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
187 tn Grk “There is no one from your relatives who is called by this name.”
188 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the consequential nature of the action described.
189 tn Grk “his”; the referent (the baby) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
190 sn The crowd was sure there had been a mistake, so they appealed to the child’s father. But custom was not to be followed here, since God had spoken. The fact they needed to signal him (made signs) shows that he was deaf as well as unable to speak.
191 tn Grk “what he might wish to call him.”
192 tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
193 sn The writing tablet requested by Zechariah would have been a wax tablet.
194 tn Grk “and wrote, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant is English and has not been translated.
195 sn The response, they were all amazed, expresses a mixture of surprise and reflection in this setting where they were so certain of what the child’s name would be.
196 tn Grk “And immediately.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
197 tn Grk “his”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
198 sn The mention of both mouth and tongue here is a figure called zeugma and emphasizes that the end of the temporary judgment came instantly and fully upon Zechariah’s expression of faith in naming the child. He had learned to trust and obey God during his short period of silence. He had learned from his trial.
199 tn “Released” is implied; in the Greek text both στόμα (stoma) and γλῶσσα (glwssa) are subjects of ἀνεῴχθη (anewcqh), but this would be somewhat redundant in English.
200 tn Grk “And all.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
sn Fear is the emotion that comes when one recognizes something unusual, even supernatural, has taken place.
201 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. A new sentence was begun at this point in the translation because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence.
202 tn Grk “heard them”; the referent (these things, from the previous verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
203 tn Grk “heart.” The term “heart” (καρδία, kardia) could also be translated as “mind,” or “thoughts,” and the entire phrase be rendered as “kept them in mind,” “thought about,” or the like. But the immediate context is clearly emotive, suggesting that much more is at work than merely the mental processes of thinking or reasoning about “these things.” There is a sense of joy and excitement (see the following question, “What then will this child be?”) and even fear. Further, the use of καρδία in 1:66 suggests connections with the same term in 2:19 where deep emotion is being expressed as well. Therefore, recognizing both the dramatic nature of the immediate context and the literary connections to 2:19, the translation renders the term in 1:66 as “hearts” to capture both the cognitive and emotive aspects of the people’s response.
204 tn Or “what manner of child will this one be?”
205 sn The reference to the Lord’s hand indicates that the presence, direction, and favor of God was with him (Acts 7:9b).
207 tn Grk “and he prophesied, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.
sn Prophesied. The reference to prophecy reflects that Zechariah is enabled by the Spirit to speak God’s will. He does so in this case through a praise psalm, which calls for praise and then gives the reason why God should be praised.
208 sn The traditional name of this psalm, the “Benedictus,” comes from the Latin wording of the start of the hymn (“Blessed be…”).
209 sn The verb come to help can refer to a visit, but can also connote concern or assistance (L&N 85.11).
210 tn Or “has delivered”; Grk “has accomplished redemption.”
sn Has redeemed is a reference to redemption, but it anticipates the total release into salvation that the full work of Messiah will bring for Israel. This involves both spiritual and material benefits eventually.
211 tn Grk “and,” but specifying the reason for the praise in the psalm.
212 sn The phrase raised up means for God to bring someone significant onto the scene of history.
213 sn The horn of salvation is a figure that refers to the power of Messiah and his ability to protect, as the horn refers to what an animal uses to attack and defend (Ps 75:4-5, 10; 148:14; 2 Sam 22:3). Thus the meaning of the figure is “a powerful savior.”
214 sn In the house of his servant David is a reference to Messiah’s Davidic descent. Zechariah is more interested in Jesus than his own son John at this point.
215 tn Grk “from the ages,” “from eternity.”
216 tn Grk “from long ago, salvation.”
217 sn The theme of being saved from our enemies is like the release Jesus preached in Luke 4:18-19. Luke’s narrative shows that one of the enemies in view is Satan and his cohorts, with the grip they have on humanity.
218 tn The words “He has done this” (referring to the raising up of the horn of salvation from David’s house) are not in the Greek text, but are supplied to allow a new sentence to be started in the translation. The Greek sentence is lengthy and complex at this point, while contemporary English uses much shorter sentences.
219 sn Mercy refers to God’s loyal love (steadfast love) by which he completes his promises. See Luke 1:50.
220 tn Or “our forefathers”; Grk “our fathers.” This begins with the promise to Abraham (vv. 55, 73), and thus refers to many generations of ancestors.
221 sn The promises of God can be summarized as being found in the one promise (the oath that he swore) to Abraham (Gen 12:1-3).
222 tn This is linked back grammatically by apposition to “covenant” in v. 72, specifying which covenant is meant.
223 tn Or “forefather”; Grk “father.”
224 tn Again for reasons of English style, the infinitival clause “to grant us” has been translated “This oath grants” and made the beginning of a new sentence in the translation.
225 tc Many important early mss (א B L W [0130] Ë1,13 565 892 pc) lack “our,” while most (A C D [K] Θ Ψ 0177 33 Ï pc) supply it. Although the addition is most likely not authentic, “our” has been included in the translation due to English stylistic requirements.
226 tn This phrase in Greek is actually thrown forward to the front of the verse to give it emphasis.
227 sn The phrases that we…might serve him…in holiness and righteousness from Luke 1:74-75 well summarize a basic goal for a believer in the eyes of Luke. Salvation frees us up to serve God without fear through a life full of ethical integrity.
228 tn Grk “all our days.”
229 sn Now Zechariah describes his son John (you, child) through v. 77.
230 tn Or “a prophet”; but since Greek nouns can be definite without the article, and since in context this is a reference to the eschatological forerunner of the Messiah (cf. John 1:17), the concept is better conveyed to the English reader by the use of the definite article “the.”
231 sn In other words, John is a prophet of God; see 1:32 and 7:22-23, 28.
232 tc Most mss, especially the later ones (A C D L Θ Ψ 0130 Ë1,13 33 Ï sy), have πρὸ προσώπου κυρίου (pro proswpou kuriou, “before the face of the Lord”), but the translation follows the reading ἐνώπιον κυρίου (enwpion kuriou, “before the Lord”), which has earlier and better ms support (Ì4 א B W 0177 pc) and is thus more likely to be authentic.
233 tn This term is often translated in the singular, looking specifically to the forerunner role, but the plural suggests the many elements in that salvation.
sn On the phrase prepare his ways see Isa 40:3-5 and Luke 3:1-6.
234 sn John’s role, to give his people knowledge of salvation, is similar to that of Jesus (Luke 3:1-14; 5:31-32).
235 sn Forgiveness is another major Lukan theme (Luke 4:18; 24:47; Acts 10:37).
236 tn For reasons of style, a new sentence has been started in the translation at this point. God’s mercy is ultimately seen in the deliverance John points to, so v. 78a is placed with the reference to Jesus as the light of dawning day.
237 sn God’s loyal love (steadfast love) is again the topic, reflected in the phrase tender mercy; see Luke 1:72.
238 sn The Greek term translated dawn (ἀνατολή, anatolh) can be a reference to the morning star or to the sun. The Messiah is pictured as a saving light that shows the way. The Greek term was also used to translate the Hebrew word for “branch” or “sprout,” so some see a double entendre here with messianic overtones (see Isa 11:1-10; Jer 23:5; 33:15; Zech 3:8; 6:12).
239 tn Grk “shall visit us.”
240 sn On the phrases who sit in darkness…and…death see Isa 9:1-2; 42:7; 49:9-10.
241 tn Or “the path.”
242 tn This verb is imperfect.
243 tn This verb is also imperfect.
244 tn Or “desert.”
245 tn Grk “until the day of his revealing.”
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Methods in ecology: counting things and sampling
You do ecology by counting things. But it's not easy...
There are many ways to generate questions about ecology. Maybe you are looking for a new question no one has asked before, or a new way to ask a question about an old debate, or maybe you just want to ask for yourself a question that has been asked many times, to experience finding the answer. In any case, you might do things like observe, form a mental image, make an abstraction, recognise a pattern, create a pattern, form an analogy, use your kinaesthetic senses (body thinking), empathise with something in the world, make a model, or just play. Now you have a question in the form of an observation, a pattern, an analogy, a model, or a feeling, for example. So far, you would be doing the same thing as an artist, an inventor, a philosopher, a physicist, or an anthropologist. Let's say your observation/ pattern is what Thoreau wrote about how squirrels create forests by forgetting about their buried hickory nuts: "This, then, is the way forests are planted. . .If the squirrel is killed, or neglects its deposit, a hickory springs up." So far this is a nice observation/ image/ speculation, and could be described as natural history. But let's say you want to be an ecologist.
Ecologists count things. Your job as an ecologist is to convert this observation/ image/ speculation into something that can be counted.
There are several ways of counting, here with examples from beetles:
Nominal scale: Categories. Can measure mode (the most frequently occurring number in a sample), frequencies (e.g. percents).
Example: Number of detritivores, herbivores, omnivores, predators.
Ordinal or ranking scale: Ordered but without equal intervals, cannot use arithmetical operations (e.g. the average)
Example: Number of eggs, larvas, adults (the egg comes first in time, followed by the larva, then the adult, so there is an order to the categories)
Interval scale: ordered with equal intervals. Good for most arithmetic operations.
Example: Dates of egg laying
Ratio scale: Interval scale with true zero point. Good for all arithmetic operations.
Example: Beetle body masses
So, if we go to Thoreau's squirrel observation again, we might think of a number of countable things:
-squirrel density
-hickory tree density
-percent hickory trees producing nuts
-distance nut carried by squirrel before deposit
-number of hickory nuts deposited by squirrel
-number of hickory nuts eaten later by squirrel
-number of hickory nuts germinating
-number of hickory nuts surviving n number of years
However, we can rarely count everything that might be relevant to our question, because (1) the world is BIG, (2) time goes on for a long time, (3) detectability: we cannot find all the squirrels and all the buried hickory nuts and all the germinated hickory nuts (4) the world is very complicated and even figuring out whether one squirrel is really two squirrels or whether five squirrels is actually one squirrel, is more complex than you might think. Consequently, ecologists count a subset of things, and then use statistics to make claims about what would have happened if they had been able to count everything. The subset has to have a couple of key features. Each of the samples that is counted has to be independent: that is, if we say it is one squirrel it really has to be one squirrel and not half of a Siamese squirrel, or five squirrels. In addition, all the samples have to be strictly comparable. This means, in practice, not only that all squirrels are squirrels and not chipmunks, but also that all the observations of squirrels are done in the same way. If I observe all the squirrels at midnight in a blizzard from 100m, some of them may not be squirrels, but they all have a comparable likelihood of being squirrels given the observing conditions. However, if some of my squirrel observations were made at noon in clear weather from 1 m, these are definitely squirrels, with a much higher certainty than in the other sample. According to sampling logic, these two kinds of observations are different and can never be compared.
Of course, we do ultimately end up comparing things that are not comparable, for example when trying to summarise the results of several studies, and this is where interpretation and argument come in.
But going back to counting things, if samples are not independent, this is called "pseudoreplication". Since everything interacts and is connected in ecology, sometimes you could argue that all sampling procedures in ecology lead to pseudoreplication. This can be problematic. In any case, when you measure the same thing multiple times (knowingly), you calculate measurement error; there are no other things you can say about what you counted if everything you counted is the same thing. Measurement error is expressed as the little error bar you see on bar charts or graphs.
One of the goals of sampling is to make a good, non-biased, representation of the "everything" we can't actually count. There are two ways to do this: being very methodical (grids, quadrants or transects (lines), for example), or being very random. You can also carefully combine these. This is also where comparability can be really important, because you have to ask if your methodological or random approach can be carried out in an exactly comparable way in all circumstances. For example, if my methodological approach is to sample every 1 meter along a North-South line, what do I do when I reach a cliff, or a tar pit?
Even detecting the things you are counting can be a big challenge. Hence all the kinds of live traps (that don't kill the trapped animal), sensors, binoculars, camera traps, etc. etc. that we use in ecology. The bat sensors, that record the bats' squeaks and calls, that we use in this project, are an example. Of course, detection problems are almost the entire game in some scientific fields where all the objects of study are microscopic.
Sampling is a big part of BIOVEINS, so I asked Pedro Pinho, from the Lisbon team, about the team's sampling strategy.
Me: How were the cities chosen for the projet?
Pedro: Mostly because these were the cities with which our partners already work with. But we can say that the cities were chosen to represent a large climatic gradient within Europe, from Mediterranean to Hemi-Boreal. They also represent a number of different urbanization types (from the oldest Lisbon and Paris to the more recent types in Poznan and Antwerp. And also city size, from huge Paris to small Tartu. But the main reason is climate, "how does habitat fragmentation influences biodiversity and ecosystem services and how climate influences that relationship"?
Me: If I remember correctly, you chose to have almost equal numbers of parks of different size classes in each city. So, the sampling strategy doesn't represent the true distribution of park sizes in each city; on the other hand it has an equal sample size in each size class for each city. Can you explain why you chose equal sample sizes over representativeness? How does that effect the kinds of conclusions that we can draw from the study?
Pedro: Exactly, we choose not to represent a city, but rather the phenomena under study (the fragmentation). If we wanted to represent the city, this could occur: 80% of the parks chosen would be small, 15% would be medium and 5% large. That would provide a very poor cover of what we are actually interested, fragmentation. Thus this ensure that we would end up with 33% of large, medium and small parks. Representing the environmental gradient of fragmentation ensures that we can make models regarding the effects of fragmentation: rather that representing a city we want to create an "universal" explanation of the effects of fragmentation.
Me: What is the current paper about?
Pedro: We are working in two papers. [The one about sampling] aims at understanding how can we use remote sensing [satellite images] directly to choose where to sample. Normally we decide this using maps (meaning land-cover that was classified a priori for some reason, like Corine or the Urban Atlas). Here we are testing if this could be done directly from remote sensing, with the advantages of being universal and permanently up-to date.
How to ask questions in ecology: Root-Bernstein, M., Root-Bernstein, M., & Root-Bernstein, R. 2014. Tools for thinking applied to nature provide an inclusive pedagogical framework for environmental education. Oryx. 48(4), 584-592.
--Meredith Root-Bernstein
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About: Johann Mickl
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Johann Mickl (18 April 1893 – 10 April 1945) was an Austrian-born Generalleutnant and division commander in the German Army during World War II, and was one of only 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He was commissioned shortly before the outbreak of World War I, and served with Austro-Hungarian forces on the Eastern and Italian Fronts as company commander in the Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops.
Johann Mickl (18 April 1893 – 10 April 1945) was an Austrian-born Generalleutnant and division commander in the German Army during World War II, and was one of only 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He was commissioned shortly before the outbreak of World War I, and served with Austro-Hungarian forces on the Eastern and Italian Fronts as company commander in the Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops. During World War I he was decorated several times for bravery and leadership, and was wounded on four occasions, finishing the war as an Oberleutnant.Immediately after the war, Mikl served in the Volkswehr militia which was formed to resist the incorporation of his home town of Radkersburg into the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He served with the Austrian Army from 1920 until the Anchluss in 1938, when it was absorbed by the Wehrmacht, and he transferred to the German Army as an Oberstleutnant. He commanded an anti-tank battalion during the invasion of Poland and Battle of France, during which he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class, and was promoted to Oberst. Through the intervention of a friend, the adjutant of Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, under whose command he had served in France, Mickl was transferred to North Africa to command a rifle regiment. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his leadership of a kampfgruppe during the Battle of Sidi Rezegh, during which he and 800 of his soldiers were captured by New Zealand troops. Two days later he precipitated a successful mass escape from a prisoner of war collection point.He briefly commanded the 90th Light Division Afrika in late 1941 before being wounded. After he recovered he was sent to the Eastern Front. Mickl commanded the 12th Rifle Brigade of the 12th Panzer Division in the east, taking over the 25th Panzergrenadier Regiment when his brigade headquarters was disestablished. Transferred to the Führerreserve, he was promoted to Generalmajor, and received the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his outstanding commitment and leadership during the Soviet 1942–1943 winter offensives around Rzhev. He then commanded the 11th Panzer Division during the Battle of Kursk. Later in 1943, he was appointed to train and command the 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division, and led it in fighting against the Yugoslav Partisans before dying of wounds inflicted in the last month of the war. In 1967, the Austrian Bundesheer barracks in Bad Radkersburg was named after him. (en)
Johann Mickl (18 April 1893 – 10 April 1945) was an Austrian-born Generalleutnant and division commander in the German Army during World War II, and was one of only 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He was commissioned shortly before the outbreak of World War I, and served with Austro-Hungarian forces on the Eastern and Italian Fronts as company commander in the Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops. During World War I he was decorated several times for bravery and leadership, and was wounded on four occasions, finishing the war as an Oberleutnant. Immediately after the war, Mikl served in the Volkswehr militia which was formed to resist the incorporation of his home town of Radkersburg into the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He served with the Austrian Army from 1920 until the Anchluss in 1938, when it was absorbed by the Wehrmacht, and he transferred to the German Army as an Oberstleutnant. He commanded an anti-tank battalion during the invasion of Poland and Battle of France, during which he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class, and was promoted to Oberst. Through the intervention of a friend, the adjutant of Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, under whose command he had served in France, Mickl was transferred to North Africa to command a rifle regiment. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his leadership of a kampfgruppe during the Battle of Sidi Rezegh, during which he and 800 of his soldiers were captured by New Zealand troops. Two days later he precipitated a successful mass escape from a prisoner of war collection point. He briefly commanded the 90th Light Division Afrika in late 1941 before being wounded. After he recovered he was sent to the Eastern Front. Mickl commanded the 12th Rifle Brigade of the 12th Panzer Division in the east, taking over the 25th Panzergrenadier Regiment when his brigade headquarters was disestablished. Transferred to the Führerreserve, he was promoted to Generalmajor, and received the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his outstanding commitment and leadership during the Soviet 1942–1943 winter offensives around Rzhev. He then commanded the 11th Panzer Division during the Battle of Kursk. Later in 1943, he was appointed to train and command the 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division, and led it in fighting against the Yugoslav Partisans before dying of wounds inflicted in the last month of the war. In 1967, the Austrian Bundesheer barracks in Bad Radkersburg was named after him. (en)
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Antonin Scalia just kicked Clarence Thomas off the Bench and promoted Abigail N. Fisher
The admirable, but ultimately tragic and sad career of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just took another dramatic strange twist as his fellow Justice Antonin Scalia plainly stated blacks can not do well in higher education. On page 67-68, of the 113 page Official Oral Arguments in the newly revisited, Abigail N. Fisher vs. University of Texas case, Scalia has this to say,
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well.
One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re — that they’re being pushed ahead in — in classes that are too — too fast for them.
I'm just not impressed by the fact that - that the University of Texas may have fewer. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe some you know, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less. And and I I don't think it - it - it stands to reason that it's a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible. I just don't think ...
And that is what Clarence Thomas faced when he went to Yale University. Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas underwent withering racial bigotry at Yale. He was told he didn't belong there, that he was there simply there because of the color of his skin. After getting his JD, Justice Thomas found rampant racism from Law Firms who dismissed his accomplishments as all being owed to Affirmative Action. As Thomas himself recounted,
"I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."
In response to this, Thomas did what so many do when faced with bullies, he adopted the language and beliefs of his oppressors and began to advance the agenda of his racist enemies. To congratulate him for his supplication, conservatives set about getting him onto the Supreme Court and rewarded him with a white woman, Ginni, an ultra-conservative woman rife with her own fascist, oppressive, intolerant agenda.
In gratitude, Justice Thomas has gone along as conservatives stole the 2000 election and created a broad category of rights for Corporations, to enforce their owners discriminatory beliefs, to be free of criminal neglect for their actions, and to place them in position to buy the American Democracy.
As to the Abigail Fisher, she's been at this most likely at the behest of some conservative Svengali, since 2012. What's at play here is the plain white power belief that in America if a black person or minority is given a chance, a job, or a college admission it has been taken away from a more deserving white person. Because the reactionary right-wing bigots believe America is a Zero-sum Game. The right-wing calls of reverse-racism have been building for years and now have reached the Supreme Court. The details surrounding Fisher, that by no metric or standard would she have gotten into the University of Texas, are irrelevant.
It's a chance for right-wing bigots to soothe the anguished cries of undeserving white people. Take Back My Country and Make America Great Again are not even thinly veiled references to a time in American History when undeserving white people were elevated, given jobs, legacy admissions, government support, aid, and assistance simply because of the color of their skin. The only affirmative action White America has ever supported is for unqualified whites.
Conservatives yearn for a time when an ignorant white man was the pinnacle of creation, lauded and revered. This has been the message of Faux News for the last 20 years, and this is the unvarnished message of the 2016 Republican Presidential Campaign. This is the goal of the American Conservative.
Labels: abigail fisher, african-americans, antonin scalia, clarence thomas, reverse racism, right-wing luminaries, scotus, white power government
When Republicans offer their "thoughts and prayers" they literally care nothing about gun violence and won't do anything about it (Updated)
As the horrific mass shooting in San Bernadino was ending, Republicans once again offered up their "Thoughts and Prayers". And do you know why?
Because that hollow statement amounts to literally nothing. Go into your pharmacy and pay for your prescription with your "thoughts and prayers" and see how many pills you get. After eating at Ruth Chris Steakhouse tell the manager he has your "thoughts and prayers" and leave. Buy Bill O'Reilly's latest dreck-filled fact avoidant book Killing-Jaysus with your thoughts and prayers and see how long it is before Bill-O calls his Faux News secret police on you.
When the NRA endorses a Republican candidate for Office do they send them their "Thoughts and Prayers"? No, the NRA sends them money. Because the NRA knows "Thoughts and Prayers" are worthless and they want something from the candidates they buy.
The NRA has a Golden Ring of Freedom, which are Corporations who have contributed at least $1 million to the NRA, Gun Makers the Freedom Group, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, and Springfield Armory, as well as 6 Firearm related Corporations are in the Golden Ring of Freedom.
And so, the Gun Makers have been funneling massive amounts of blood-soaked money to the NRA and the Republicans get the blood-soaked money from the NRA and they dutifully vote to allow guns anywhere and everywhere. Go see how much the NRA paid for your Congressman because the Republicans have been bought and bought cheaply.
What Republicans have been doing in exchange for the Golden Ring of Freedom money has been to systematically weaken gun regulations, offer protection to the Gun Industry and ensure that gun makers can enjoy massive profits of the death of 30,000 Americans every year with no fear of retribution.
The NRA and Firearm Manufacturers are feeding the money they make off the deaths of thousands back into the political machine to make deaths by guns more likely.
In 2005, George W(orst President Ever) Bush backed by the Republican Controlled House and Senate at the behest of their NRA masters, passed Legislation making Gun Manufacturers immune to Lawsuits for their Negligence.
Wayne LaPierre stated the 2005 law had been the "No. 1 legislative priority of the National Rifle Association". Of course, the NRA "lobbied lawmakers intensely for it". Sickeningly 59 Democrats joined in the House to pass it a vote of 283 to 144.
Over at Think Progress, Igor Volsky has catalogued how much the NRA paid the Republican Party to do literally nothing about the flood of guns and the unsurprising resultant mass shootings in America.
We have let an insane hard-core of gun worshiping fanatics, egged on by a blood-soaked Industry fronted by cowardly chicken shit cynical Lobbyists* in the NRA control the gun debate in this Nation. Hence we are flooded with firearms and we have daily mass shootings.
And the Republican Party with their hollow thoughts and prayers constantly let's the American People know they have nothing to offer them and will do nothing about it.
*- Here's some neat facts about Wayne LaPierre and David Keene. LaPierre spent the late 60's and early 70's going to college. As soon as he got his Master's he went to work as a DC Lobbyist. David Keene started work in Washington DC in the late 1960's working for noted Republican criminal Spirio Agnew. The Leaders of the NRA are Typical Conservatives. They never had a real job. Never worked for a living. Never served a Day in Uniform. Chicken Hawk Cowards who skirted Vietnam to spend 40 years as lobbyists in Washington DC. Just your Average American Conservative.
Fortunately, the shooting in San Bernadino might motivate Republicans because these gun-wielding killers have scary names Sayeed R. Farouk and Tashfeen Malik, unlike gentle-loner and conservative hero Robert Lewis Dear. So, the only gun control we might get in this country will come in the form of making it illegal for brown and black people to have guns just as the Founding Fathers intended.
On MSNBC Morning Joke, Republican Congressman Max Thornberry of Texas, whose been in office for 20 years, pounded home that Republicans aren't going to do anything about Guns. Eventhough they are the common element in 355 mass shooting in 2015 thus far. Thornberry played the game about the term "assault rifle" and semantics about gun parts that gun nuts bust out to confuse the situation and offered up the canard that Laws won't stop gun violence. As we all know since Laws can't stop crime therefore the only option is to abolish all laws.
What is needed, and what has always been needed, is the Will to Act. The Will to enforce Gun Laws. It's not that the Will is Lacking or that a large segment of Soceity is opposed, it's that the Will of the American People is actively being thrwarted by the Republican Party, who are wholly owned by the blood-soaked NRA.
Labels: blood money, guns, nra, republican bloodsuckers, san bernadino, terrorism, thoughts and prayers, wayne lapierre
Another Mass Shooting, Guns will Destroy Us
"We're living in a country, a free country, where people have a right to express their Second Amendment rights." NRA President David Keene.
12 people are apparently dead with another dozen people wounded in San Bernadino California as 3 camo-wearing, tactically-outfiited, heavily armed men became the latest people to express their Holy Second Amendment Rights. The attack possibly targeted the Inland Regional Center, a free clinic for the disabled.
Does it really matter why? There is nothing to write about this other than these incidents will continue because Gun Law Policy in this country is controlled by a hard nut of gun-humping fanatics, who will never allow any laws whatsoever to contain/control guns. We have ceded our lives to the whims of short-dicked maniacs who absolutely consider guns and gun rights more precious human beings. These Mass Shooting are the Ultimate Expression of White Privilege.
Now, the internet dance will begin again the Gun-Humping Maniacs who will descend upon every internet news story and scream and scream and scream until everyone gets tired of trying to rationally debate and Americans return to their daily routine until the next mass shooting* at which point the dance begins again.
*- Mass Shootings are occurring on average more than once per day.
American Society is being held hostage to the NRA, gun nuts, and the Gun Manufactuering Industry whom absolutely love these mass murder events because it drives up sales and makes them millions in profits.
And you never know when some Faux News-fueled, anti-Obamacare white conservative domestic terrorist is going to Take His Country Back and go off and slaughter some of America's Enemies in a Planned Parenthood Clinic, a Yoga Studio, or a Movie Theater.
If we had a functioning Government in this Nation each of these shooting would be investigated by Congress at the same level the Republicans are investigating Benghazi, Obamacare, and Planned Parenthood. But, we do not we have a Republican Government. And the Republican Government's role and goal is crush the American People and grind us down into obedient, docile, broken Wage Slaves, willing to accept whatever crumbs the Nietzcheian UberClass deems us worthy to receive.
So, as you leave for work or to return home just ask yourself is today the day some gun-totting madman decides he wants to smoke a cigarette inside a diner, or is today the day some Second Amendment Hero decides he's going to strike a blow at Obama's Tyranny.
A smoking Bushmaster, overwhelmingly the symbol of these massacres, will be used to etch Sic Transit Gloria into history when people wonder why America ceased to be.
Labels: guns, murder, nra, sic transit gloria, wayne lapierre, white power government
Conservatives wished Robert Dear killed more people at Planned Parenthood
Now, that a few days have passed Faux News has picked up the White Man's Burden and begun the slow and steady justification of the Domestic Terror Attack on Planned Parenthood.
Right-Wingers follow a set pattern in their process of justifying these incidents of right-wing violence. And groups who ostensibly are not supposed to be right or left are always shown to be front groups for the advancement of white conservative power, because there is no pushback by the Pro-Police #Bluelivesmatter, who should conceivably be upset a Police Officer was killed, but in reality is just another right-wing group dedicated to pushing for white power.
First is misdirection, the conservative internet was awash in bullshit claiming this was a bank robbery and had nothing to do with Planned Parenthood. Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger was brought on CNN to demand Planned Parenthood apologize while the terrorist attack was still unfolding. Afterwards, the Media aided conservatives by playing, 'Oh goodness we don't know what the motivations might be...' for 2 days.
Next comes accusation. Cuban Refugee and potential Communist Infiltrator Ted Cruz jumped in on Jim Hoft's claim that Robert Lewis Dear is actually a "Transgendered leftist activist". The proof of this is a claim by Hoft, is that Dear is registered "female" on his voter registration in North Carolina. But, this tactic is a dual-edged sword because the Conservatives whole-heartedly agree with murdering people who do not adhere to their rigid ideology of hatred, oppression and intolerance.
So, then comes endorsement. Bill O'Reilly when talking about the attacks on Planned Parenthood, devoted his talk show intro to justifying his demonization and call to kill Doctor George Tiller and accentuated words like deserved while Bill-O echoed Robert Lewis Dear by claiming PP is in the "baby parts business".
Meanwhile, the entire conservative media infrastructure is playing the tired old tune, 'Biased liberal media! Biased liberal Media!' Conservative Power must always be served. And conservatives are more than willing to sacrifice anyone, even their so-called revered heroes (Veterans and Cops) to advance their Agenda. Toma over at Sick Horses captured the tweets of Republican Presidential Candidates which showed a remarkable lack of acknowledgment, let alone condemnation, of the Right-Wing Domestic Terror Attack.
And this whole right-wing kabuki dance has one goal in mind, to allow conservatives to wash their hands of any guilt and allow the right-wing wurlitizer to go back into cranking up the conservative domestic terrorists for their next attack. It's the same pattern they follow in murders of black people, although in those cases conservatives viciously slander the dead African-American victim (even if it's a child) with a non-stop smear campaign to justify the murder.
Because what Faux News is doing is letting every liberal, minority, woman, or LBGTQ person in America know that it's open season on them. Faux News is torquing up their pack of "lone wolves" and letting them loose on society. And after a right-wing white terrorist murders you, Faux News and the Conservative Internet will celebrate your death and call for more.
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Labels: #Blacklivesmatter, conservative values, faux news, murder, oppression, planned parenthood, white power government
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Artist Caroline Jones on Coproducing Her Album and Newest Single, "The Difference"
Artist Caroline Jones on Coproducing Her Album and Newest Single, “The Difference”
Ariel Zedric
Courtesy of Caroline Jones
Country-pop singer/songwriter Caroline Jones, has just released a new single, “The Difference“. In 2017, Jones released her album, Bare Feet, and in 2018, she toured with Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band; now, in 2019, she will hit the road again, this time with Kenny Chesney.
Jones has been featured on the TODAY Show, the Wall Street Journal, Taste of Country, and performed at the Country2Country Festival in London. In light of her new single and upcoming tour, I sat down with Caroline Jones to get the inside scoop on all her ongoing projects.
Ariel Zedric: Could you talk a little about the inspiration behind your latest single, “The Difference”? How is it similar and different from other songs on, Bare Feet?
Caroline Jones: “The Difference” is a song about lasting love and real trust, about morals and values brought into the context of modern romance. It is a fun, sassy, sexy song and I wanted those emotions to come across in the video. It well represents the sound and production style of my album, “Bare Feet”, which fuses the pop-country and electronic-organic worlds.
Do you have a favourite track on Bare Feet? Or is that like asking you to choose a favourite child?
“Country Girl” is a song very close to my heart, as it’s an autobiographical song about my upbringing and my family. Every word of that song is true to my life. In terms of production, I’m very proud of “YOUR HEART IS MINE.” and “The Difference (Goshdamn)”.
Are there parts of your childhood or upbringing that you pull from for inspiration? How so?
My Dad loves hunting, fishing and spending time outdoors, so I grew up spending a lot of time in nature. I believe that this connection with the natural world sparked my imagination and informed my creativity. I use a lot of natural metaphors in my lyrics, especially “Bare Feet”, “Country Girl”, “Worth the Wait” and “YOUR HEART IS MINE.”
You’re about to head on tour again! Are there any places or shows you’re especially excited about? Are you excited to join Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown Band this year?
Very, very excited. There is nothing in this world I love more than touring and playing shows onstage. It is the reason I was born! I am especially looking forward to watching Kenny and his band and crew — how they operate, how they conduct themselves. Kenny’s fan base, No Shoes Nation, is super dedicated and passionate. They feel a personal connection with Kenny and what he stands for. I feel honoured to have the opportunity to experience that first-hand. This will be my third year touring with Zac Brown Band, which is a total dream come true. I couldn’t love, respect or appreciate those musicians and their crew and fans (Zamily!) more. It’s an honour to share their stage, and I never take it for granted.
Talk a little about your The Heart is Smart Tour. What inspired it? Do you have plans to continue or expand the program?
The Heart is Smart is a nationwide school tour and workshop series that I developed to inspire and connect with high school and college students through music. From 2012-2016, I had the honour of touring hundreds of schools and performing for hundreds of thousands of students of all ages, socio-economic backgrounds and demographics. I am extremely passionate about music education, but even more so about educating young people about the validity and meaning of their emotions and their inherent creativity. I want to live in a world where children are encouraged to follow their emotional guidance and their natural creative inclinations, and I will continue to do my part as an artist to connect with students on that level. I just signed on to be an ambassador for the Grammy Education Coalition, and we have been inviting students to watch my soundcheck and meet before my shows. I’m really excited about that initiative.
You’re also the host of Art & Soul on Sirius XM’s Coffee House channel. What is it like getting to speak with artists from all over the world?
I have always loved hearing the stories behind the songs from my favourite artists, a la “VH1 Storytellers”. That kind of peek behind the curtain is what drew me to artists like Jewel, who is a storyteller and philosopher as much as a singer/songwriter. So having a forum to have those conversations about songwriting and inspiration on Sirius XM’s Coffee House has been a joy. We’ve had some incredible artists on the show — James Bay, Regina Spektor, Devin Dawson, Steve Cropper, Butch Walker, Us the Duo…the list goes on.
What has been the most difficult thing you’ve had to do or obstacle you’ve had to overcome in the music industry?
The constant second-guessing of your natural creative inclinations for a business gain is the biggest Achilles heel for any artist. But sticking to your guns and building a career and a fan base knowing that your integrity and authenticity are intact is also the greatest reward and fulfilment possible. So the greatest challenge becomes the greatest achievement. I’ve observed it in so, so many of my heroes.
What moment in your career so far has left you the most satisfied or proud?
Earning the respect and support of heroes like Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill, Zac Brown, Kenny Chesney, and Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. That those superstars would take me under their wing and trust me enough to share my heart and soul in front of their fans means the world to me and I will never forget their kindness and encouragement as long as I live. I owe the career that I have thus far to them.
Who is your biggest inspiration? Why?
My biggest inspirations are people in all fields who follow their dreams in the face of fear and adversity and achieve great things because of their courage. People like Tom Brady, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Willie Nelson, Alex Honnold.
Do you have any advice for aspiring artists in the field? How has your success story panned out?
My advice is: spend all your time and energy on your craft, your talent, and your “product”. Decide what your product is — is it music? Is it singing? Dancing? Songwriting? Or is it your image? Or your social life? None of these aspects are “good” or “bad”, I just recommend being clear with yourself and not allowing any outside influences to distract you from your dream. For me, my product is music, and the joy and authenticity that it brings to me and hopefully others. When you have your vision for yourself very clear, it makes your path and your decisions much easier. You’re like a tree with a strong trunk that can withstand any storm.
Anything you’d like to add?
I have some new music coming later this month, so stay tuned!
To keep up with Caroline Jones, make sure to follow her on her website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube!
Caroline Jones – 2019 Tour Dates:
Mar 8-10 – C2C Festival 2019 – London, Dublin & Glasgow
Apr 2 – KFC Yum! Center – Louisville, KY- Kenny Chesney
Apr 5 – State Farm Center – Champaign, IL – Kenny Chesney
Apr 6 – Van Andel Arena – Grand Rapids, MI – Kenny Chesney
Apr 12 – Greensboro Coliseum – Greensboro, NC – Kenny Chesney
Apr 13 – Daily’s Place Amphitheater – Jacksonville, FL – Kenny Chesney
Apr 14 – Tortuga Music Festival – Fort Lauderdale, FL
Apr 18 – The Anthem – Washington, DC – Kenny Chesney
Apr 25 – Volvo Car Stadium – Charleston, SC – Kenny Chesney
Apr 26 – Donald L. Tucker Civic Center – Tallahassee, FL – Kenny Chesney
Apr 27 – The Wharf Amphitheater – Orange Beach, AL – Kenny Chesney
May 2 – Mizzou Arena – Columbia, MO – Kenny Chesney
May 3 – INTRUST Bank Arena – Wichita, KS – Kenny Chesney
May 4 – Chesapeake Energy Arena – Oklahoma City, OK – Kenny Chesney
May 5 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – New Orleans, LA
May 9 – Times Union Center – Albany, NY – Kenny Chesney
May 10 – Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza – Wilkes-Barre, PA – Kenny Chesney
May 11 – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena – Atlantic City, NJ – Kenny Chesney
May 16 – Wells Fargo Arena – Des Moines, IA – Kenny Chesney
May 17 – Denny Sanford PREMIER Center – Sioux Falls, SD – Kenny Chesney
May 18 – Pinnacle Bank Arena – Lincoln, NE – Kenny Chesney
May 24 – Tuscaloosa Amphitheater – Tuscaloosa, AL – Kenny Chesney
Jun 9 – LaureLive 2019 – Cleveland, OH
Jun 21 – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel, NY – Zac Brown Band
Jun 22 – PNC Bank Arts Center – Holmdel, NJ – Zac Brown Band
Aug 9 – Coors Field – Denver, CO – Zac Brown Band
Aug 11 – Iowa State Fair – Des Moines, IA – Zac Brown Band
Aug 23 – Jones Beach – Wantagh, NY – Zac Brown Band
Aug 25 – Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA – Zac Brown Band
Sep 19 – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – Chula Vista, CA – Zac Brown Band
Sep 20 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA – Zac Brown Band
Want to hear Caroline Jones live? Buy tickets to see her on tour here!
Feature Image Courtesy of Caroline Jones
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Teresa Margolles: Translating The Horror
Imagine you live in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
The “City of Evil”, one of the most violent places on the entire planet. Here, in the past few years, murders have reached inconceivable numbers. More than 3000 victims only in 2010 – an average of eight to nine people killed every day.
So every day, you leave your home praying you won’t be caught in some score-settling fight between the over 900 pandillas (armed gangs) tied to the drug cartels. Every day, like it or not, you are a witness to the neverending slaughter that goes on in your town. It’s not a metaphor. It is a real, daily, dreadful massacre.
Now imagine you live in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and you’re a woman aged between 15 and 25.
Your chances of not being subjected to violence, and of staying alive, drastically drop. In Juárez women like you are oppressed, battered, raped; they often disappear, and their bodies – if they’re ever found – show signs of torture and mutilations.
If you were to be kidnapped, you already know that in all probability your disappearance wouldn’t even be reported. No one would look for you anyway: the police seem to be doing anything but investigating. “She must have had something to do with the cartel – people would say – or else she somehow asked for it“.
Photo credit: Scott Dalton.
Finally, imagine you live in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, you’re a woman and you’re an artist.
How would you explain this hell to those who live outside Juárez? How can you address the burden of desperation and suffering this carnage places upon the hearts of the relatives? How will you be heard, in a world which is already saturated with images of violence? How are you going to convey in a palpable way all this anguish, the sense of constant loss, the waste of human life?
Teresa Margolles, born in 1963 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, was a trained pathologist before she became an artist. She now lives in Mexico City, but in the past she worked in several morgues across South America, including the one in Ciudad Juárez, that terrible mortuary where an endless river of bodies keeps flowing through four huge refrigerators (each containing up to 120 corpses).
“A morgue for me is a thermometer of a society. What happens inside a morgue is what happens outside. The way people die show me what is happening in the city.“
Starting from this direct experience, Margolles oriented her whole research towards two difficult objectives: one one hand she aims at sabotaging the narrative, ubiquitous in Mexican media and society, which blames the victims (the afore-mentioned “they were asking for it“); on the other, she wants to make the consequences of violence concrete and tangible to her audience, translating the horror into a physical, universal language.
But a peculiar lucidity is needed to avoid certain traps. The easiest way would be to rely on a raw kind of shock art: subjecting the public to scenes of massacre, mutilated bodies, mangled flesh. But the effect would be counter-productive, as our society is already bombarded with such representations, and we are so used to hyperreal images that we can hardly tell them apart from fiction.
It is then necessary to bring the public in touch with death and pain, but through some kind of transfer, or translation, so that the observer is brought on the edge of the abyss by his own sensitivity.
This is the complex path Teresa Margolles chose to take. The following is a small personal selection of her works displayed around the world, in major museums and art galleries, and in several Biennials.
En el aire (2003). The public enters a room, and is immediately seized by a slight euforia upon seeing dozens of soap bubbles joyfully floating in the air: the first childish reaction is to reach out and make them burst. The bubble pops, and some drops of water fall on the skin.
What the audience soon discovers, though, is those bubbles are created with the water and soap that have been used to wash the bodies of homicide victims in the morgue. And suddenly everything changes: the water which fell on our skin created an invisible, magical connection between us and these anonymous cadavers; and each bubble becomes the symbol of a life, a fragile soul that got lost in the void.
Vaporización (2001). Here the water from the mortuary, once again collected and disinfected, is vaporized in the room by some humidifiers. Death saturates the atmosphere, and we cannot help but breathe this thick mist, where every particle bears the memory of brutally killed human beings.
Tarjetas para picar cocaina (1997-99). Margolles collected some pictures of homicide victims connected with drug wars. She then gave them to drug addicts so they could use them to cut their dose of cocaine. The nonjudgemental metaphor is clear – the dead fuel narco-trafficking, every sniff implies the violence – but at the same time these photographs become spiritual objects, invested as they are with a symbolic/magic meaning directly connected to a specific dead person.
Lote Bravo (2005). Layed out on the floor are what look like simple bricks. In fact, they have been created using the sand collected in five different spots in Juárez, where the bodies of raped and murdered women were found. Each handmade brick is the symbol of a woman who was killed in the “city of dead girls”.
Trepanaciones (Sonidos de la morgue) (2003). Just some headphones, hanging from the ceiling. The visitor who decides to wear one, will hear the worldess sounds of the autopsies carried out by Margolles herself. Sounds of open bodies, bones being cut – but without any images that might give some context to these obscene noises, without the possibility of knowing exactly what they refer to. Or to whom they correspond: to what name, broken life, interrupted hopes.
Linea fronteriza (2005). The photograph of a suture, a body sewed up after the autopsy: but the detail that makes this image really powerful is the tattoo of the Virgin of Guadalupe, with its two halves that do not match anymore. Tattoos are a way to express one’s own individuality: a senseless death is the border line that disrupts and shatters it.
Frontera (2011). Margolles removed two walls from Juárez and Culiacán, and exhibited them inside the gallery. Some bullet holes are clearly visible on these walls, the remnants of the execution of two policemen and four young men at the hands of the drug cartel. Facing these walls, one is left to wonder. What does it feel like to stand before a firing squad?
Furthermore, by “saving” these walls (which were quickly replaced by new ones, in the original locations) Margolles is also preserving the visual trace of an act of violence that society is eager to remove from collective memory.
Frazada/La Sombra (2016). A simple structure, installed outdoors, supports a blanket, like the tent of a peddler stand. You can sit in the shade to cool off from the sun. And yet this blanket comes from the morgue in La Paz, where it was used to wrap up the corpse of a femicide victim. The shadow stands for the code of silence surrounding these crimes – it is, once again, a conceptual stratagem to bring us closer to the woman’s death. This shroud, this murder is casting its shadow on us too.
Pajharu/Sobre la sangre (2017). Ten murdered women, ten blood-stained pieces of cloth that held their corpses. Margolles enrolled seven Aymara weavers to embroider this canvas with traditional motifs. The clotted blood stains intertwine with the floreal decorations, and end up being absorbed and disguised within the patterns. This extraordinary work denounces, on one hand, how violence has become an essential part of a culture: when we think of Mexico, we often think of its most colorful traditions, without taking notice of the blood that soaks them, without realizing the painful truth hidden behind those stereotypes we tourists love so much. On the other hand, though, Sobre la sangre is an act of love and respect for those murdered women. Far from being mere ghosts, they are an actual presence; by preserving and embellishing these blood traces, Margolles is trying to subtract them from oblivion, and give them back their lost beauty.
Lengua (2000). Margolles arranged funeral services for this boy, who was killed in a drug-related feud, and in return asked his family permission to preserve and use his tonge for this installation. So that it could speak on. Like the tattoo in Linea frontizera, here the piercing is the sign of a truncated singularity.
The theoretical shift here is worthy of note: a human organ, deprived of the body that contained it and decontextualized, becomes an object in its own right, a rebel tongue, a “full” body in itself — carrying a whole new meaning. Scholar Bethany Tabor interpreted this work as mirroring the Deleuzian concept of body without organs, a body which de-organizes itself, revolting against those functions that are imparted upon it by society, by capitalism, by the established powers (all that Artaud referred to by using the term “God”, and from which he whished “to have done with“).
37 cuerpos (2007). The remnants of the thread used to sew up the corpses of 37 victims are tied together to form a rope which stretches across the space and divides it like a border.
¿De qué otra cosa podríamos hablar? (2009). This work, awarded at the 53rd Venice Biennial, is the one that brought Margolles in the spotlight. The floor of the room is wet with the water used to wash bodies at the Juárez morgue. On the walls, huge canvases look like abstract paintings but in reality these are sheets soaked in the victims blood.
Outside the Mexican Pavillion, on a balcony overlooking the calle, an equally blood-stained Mexico flag is hoisted. Necropolitics takes over the art spaces.
It is not easy to live in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to be a woman, and to be an artist who directly tackles the endless, often voiceless violence. It is even more difficult to try and find that miraculous balance between rawness and sensitivity, minimalism and incisivity, while maintaining a radical and poetic approach that can upset the public but also touch their heart.
For this post I am indebted to Bethany Tabor, who at Death & The Maiden Conference presented her brilliant paper Performative Remains: The Forensic Art of Teresa Margolles, focusing on the Deleuzian implications of Margolle’s works.
A couple of available essays on Margolles are What Else Could We Talk About? and Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death.
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This and That - Aug.2, 2010
The latest issue of Costume Chronicles is available! You can check out this free online magazine of period drama here.
This issue focuses on Untamed Lands (Westerns) with articles on:
- John Wayne, the Cowboy
- The Face of Feminism, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Australia
- The Devil You Know, Reflections on Mary Carson
- The Man From Snowy River
- Oklahoma!
- Snowy River, Perfecting the Aussie Western
- It's Not Dyin' I'm Talkin' About, Lonesome Dove
- Stagecoach & the Creation of the American Western
- Four Legged Best Friend, Hidalgo
- The Thorn Birds
- Banditas
Currently filming: The Kennedys, an eight hour miniseries,
which is set to be broadcast on The History Channel in 2011
Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear on set in Toronto
Robin Wright in The Conspirator about Lincoln's assassination,
directed by Robert Redford
-> Director Paul Anderson chats about the upcoming Three Musketeers (cast includes Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Christoph Waltz, Mads Mikkelsen, Milla Jovovich, Juno Temple.) Read article.
-> TIFF (Toronto Film Festival) has announced the films that will be shown in September (period dramas include The King's Speech, Brighton Rock, The Conspirator, Miral, Mysteries of Lisbon)
-> Venice Film Festival announces its lineup...period dramas include Shakespeare's The Tempest (starring Helen Mirren) which will close the festival.
JaneGS August 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM
I do hope The Kennedys is good--so much good material there!
I hadn't heard of The Conspirator, but I do like Robin Wright (aka The Princess Bride!).
Charleybrown August 5, 2010 at 8:12 PM
Jane, I do hope that The Kennedys is done with style and not overly focused on the sexual exploits which I read might be the case according to one article.
The Conspirator does sound interesting and the cast and director make this true story sound like it will be a winner!
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2016, CCR, Circuit Racing, Sidecar, Champions, Pekka Paivarinta, Kirsi Kainulainen
Pekka Päivärinta & Kirsi Kainulainen
2016 FIM Sidecar World Champions
Driver Pekka Päivärinta: Born on 11 January 1971 in Helsinki, Finland.
Passenger Kirsi Kainulainen: Born on 23 November 1985 in Lisalmi, Finland.
PEKKA PICKS A PERFECT PARTNER
The long history of the FIM Sidecar World Championship reached a watershed chapter in 2016, with the final year of 1000cc racing. This was also to go down in the annals as the first season to see not only a female Grand Prix winner but also a female World Champion, thanks to passenger Kirsi Kainulainen and her male driver Pekka Paivarinta (BMW LCR). The Finnish pair clinched the title thanks to a podium-perfect campaign that began at the first of nine rounds, at a rain-soaked Le Mans, where they came second to Tim Reeves and Gregory Cluze (Yamaha LCR).
The Anglo-French pairing had some technical issues after that, but fought their way back by the final round at Donington Park. However, their victory at the British circuit was not enough to deny the Flying Finns with their perfect partnership, who took a safe second to clinch a memorable first title together.
The French pairing of Sebastien Dellanoy and Kevin Rousseau (Suzuki LCR), who joined the World Champions on the podium no fewer than six times, were worthy third-place finishers. With the 2017 season set to welcome in a new 600cc era, the face of the FIM Sidecar World Championship has already been changed forever.
Pekka Päivärinta (Driver) (FIN) – FIM Sidecar World Champion
5 Sidecar World titles (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016)
Kirsi Kainulainen (Passenger) (FIN) – FIM Sidecar World Champion
1 Sidecar World title (2016)
Tagged: 2016, CCR, Circuit Racing, Sidecar, Champions, Pekka Paivarinta, Kirsi Kainulainen
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You are here: Home / About / José Navas
Founder and artistic director of Compagnie Flak, José Navas carries out his overall artistic approach in three distinct ways: he dances with intensity in solo shows charged with emotion, he constructs abstract and captivating group pieces, and he creates pieces of contemporary ballet with classicism and sensitivity. As guest choreographer for prestigious ballet companies, he created an iconoclastic version of Giselle (2013) for Ballet BC, Watershed (2013) for the National ballet of Canada, and Dénouement/Auflösung (2015) for the German company tanzmainz. He has performed his latest solo show, Rites, many times in Europe and Quebec. An Associate Dance Artist of the National Arts Centre, José Navas has presented his work in 30 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Photo: Nina Konjini
José Navas began his choreographic career in 1991 and was quickly recognized on the international scene as a talented and charismatic soloist. His first group creations were characterized by their assertive sensuality, bold statements and unexpected universes. These pieces included an element of theatricality that is reflected today only in his solo work. Since 2005, Navas has opted for sobriety and the pursuit of pure movement, giving his artistic approach two distinct directions.
As a dancer, José has devoted himself entirely to his passion for solo work, exploiting the wealth of his maturity to create more personal, sensitive works, with transcendent musicality. As a choreographer of group work, he has an entirely different voice. Fascinated by the resonance of the body in space and by the calligraphy of formal movement, the choreographer shows himself to be an architect in his group pieces. A worthy successor of Cunningham, he constructs abstract pieces geometrically, which are always delivered by virtuoso performers. His choreographic scores, created in a similar manner to a musical composition, fascinate the viewer with the successive structures they reveal in the space. They are characterized by their hypnotic beauty and their meditative character and sometimes by the vivacity and playfulness of the movement that points discreetly behind the sleek lines and technical prowess.
With a beautiful visual aesthetic, creations such as Portable Dances, Anatomies, and S reflect his architectural sense of composition while the solos in Miniatures and Personae arouse feelings of a more visceral nature. With more than thirty creations to his credit, Sterile Fields (1996), One Night Only 3/3 (1998), Perfume de Gardenias (2000), Solo with Cello (2001) and Adela, mi amor (2004) represent landmarks on his choreographic journey.
Read more in José Navas’ Biography.
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Features Published 29 January 2019
"I want it too much": Kitty Drake writes on Channing Tatum's West End stripshow/phenomenon, and what it says about female sexual hunger.
Kitty Drake
Magic Mike Live. Photo: Trevor Leighton
Channing Tatum is straddling a woman six inches in front of me and I am crying. I can’t hear myself cry, because I’m in a strip club at the Hippodrome Casino with 324 other women and everyone is screaming. This is Magic Mike Live: when sales opened last June, the box office took £1,000,000 in the first sixty minutes. Channing is clothed: he’s here to introduce the show, and he’s telling us now – through the screams and a sea of iphones – “You can touch the men. Use your hands.” In the flesh, he’s smaller and more slender than he looks in photos, like a little antelope. I feel I would like to do something to make him remember me. Ideally, I would like to bite him. He gyrates ever so slightly on the woman’s lap and I’m still crying – for him, and probably a bit for me. It’s a peculiarly female experience: to laugh and scream and cry all at the same time. It’s cathartic, and it says something about our capacity for joy. Tomorrow, a woman will become so overwhelmed the show will have to stop while she’s carried out to an ambulance.
Transferred to London from Las Vegas, this is the stage spin-off of the wildly successful Magic Mike film franchise about male strippers – based loosely on eight months the real-life Channing Tatum spent stripping in his teens. The first film (2012) was a druggy, Steven Soderbergh-directed tale of money and sex and exploitation at the hands of an (inhumanly greasy) Matthew McConaughey. At the end of it, the eponymous Mike stops stripping to pursue his true dream: designing custom-made furniture. In the 2015 sequel, Magic Mike XXL, Mike returns for one last ride: a stripping convention at Myrtle Beach! Any anti-capitalist messaging has evaporated. This is basically one long, deeply erotic road trip movie in which hot men take their clothes off to R&B every 10 minutes or so across 1.55 hours. Both films feel genuinely radical, though, because they managed to tap into and dispel something very specific about female sexual shame. “XXL, particularly, was a cultural moment”, says Grace Barber-Plentie, who founded Reel Good Film Club, which celebrates racial diversity in cinema. Usually, we are made to feel embarrassed of female desire if it’s loud – even audible – or if the woman expressing it isn’t size 8, white, and aged 18-24. “In Magic Mike, we see women of colour of all ages allowed to desire, and touch men in a consensual way.” Audiences went mad for it: the films made $289 million worldwide. “We can be shy about wanting sex”, explains one 74-year-old superfan, speaking to me anonymously over the phone from Gospel Oak. “Watching the films is a kind of Bacchic ritual; you get carried away and you’re free”.
At its purest, this show is designed to put a woman inside a scene from the films and watch her squeal. Pink dollar bills rain from the sky; dancers invite women onstage and slither all over them; the finale is a group floor-hump to the tune of Channing Tatum’s most iconic strip-tease: Ginuwine’s ‘Pony’. Most significantly, there are no dicks, and no fireman’s outfits. Instead, the boys are introduced as “sexy CEOs”, and “vets”. The fantasy, says co-director Alison Faulk, is that these are just normal guys – but better: “they could have just wandered in from Leicester Square”. Apart from demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of the quality of man to be found in Leicester Square, Faulk’s fantasy points out something interesting about the nature of female desire. Rather than offering some kind of regressive emulation of women’s objectification by men, Magic Mike Live is doing something different. “It’s deliberately putting not just bodies on stage, but people – to encourage women to fantasise not just about the flesh but the person,” explains audience research specialist Dr Kirsty Sedgman. No one’s saying Magic Mike Live is an idyll. One performer told me there was a recent incident where a woman tried to forcibly remove his pants. But in the main – as Sedgman has written for Exeunt – whereas male lust gets weaponised against women, female lust tends to build its subjects up. Perhaps this is best encapsulated by an email I received from a fan a few days ago, asking me to please hurry up and finish this piece because, “Channing has been through a lot and he just lost his dog. I want him to have a good year and be happy again.”
Opening the live show in London wasn’t an accident. On a per capita basis, the films actually did 1.5x better in the UK than in the home market of the US. Then, when the Las Vegas show opened in 2017, producers noted a disproportionate number of women travelling over from the UK to see it. London became the next logical step: the box office took £8 million before opening night, and tickets are now going on resale websites for £675. It’s not like we didn’t have own strip shows already – the UK’s first male lap dancing club Tricky Dicky’s opened in Birmingham in 2006; in London you’ll find Dreamboys, Hunkomania and Forbidden Nights. They’re characterised, though, by a quiet thrum of disdain for their audience. One Dreamboy was quoted in the Guardian in 2015 about what he’d learned on the job: “I know out there there are some amazing women, but the majority are insane.” The overwhelming response to Magic Mike Live suggests hunger for space where female desire isn’t sneered at.
Channing’s boys go through an extensive interview process to make sure they “are not douchebags”, says Faulk. Most interestingly, though, they need to be able to expose themselves, not just physically but emotionally: “They have to want to lay themselves open to connect in an intimate way: whether they’re kissing a hand, or giving a lapdance.” It’s this commitment to male vulnerability – rare in our culture – that made the films feel so groundbreaking, and, according to doctoral researcher Kristen Cochrane, so queer: “Channing makes his body vulnerable; I would attribute that to a feminization of his body, like wearing a thong and providing a service to a person who is giving him money.” Men, in this schema, were presented as sex workers whose labour was taken seriously – because women’s pleasure wasn’t irrelevant, or shameful anymore. It was a serious business. The shamelessness all had a lot to do with Tatum himself. When, in 2009, a former boss leaked a video to Us Weekly of him dancing in a Florida strip club he didn’t apologise: “I had wanted to tell people,” he said at the time. “I’m not ashamed of it. I’m not a person who hides shit.”
But when Magic Mike Live boys take off their clothes they are wearing boxers, not thongs. Interestingly, while the whole franchise was born out of Tatum’s embrace of his stripping past, the theatre show seems to be purposefully moving away from it. Because after Channing leaves the stage and I stop crying, what unfolds is less like a strip show, more like a corporate female empowerment summit. Sex is being simulated – but so is affection. A female MC, played by Sophie Linder-Lee, is brought up who talks a lot about our mutual romantic disappointment. The boys are introduced as antidotes to the modern London dating scene. The bar is frighteningly low: there’s the fuck boy who actually texts you back; the Adidas model who would like nothing more than to give you head. Then there’s the man who arrives onstage to fulfill what is presumed to be our wildest, most deeply held sex dream: he’s holding a baby. During an Ed Sheeran slow-dance segment, women are picked out of the crowd and held tenderly. One of the lucky ones, Alexa – who owns an inflatable penis called ‘Channing’ – tells me that as she was led back to her seat afterwards her partner touched her hair lightly and whispered, “You’re amazing”. Did she think he really meant it? “No, probably not. But at that point I was like: yes. Thank you.” She has just bought tickets to go and see the show again.
Romance played a part in the films, too: in one moment, Donald Glover appears, like a half-naked angel, to serenade an under-confident girl named Caroline; in another, he describes male strippers as women’s emotional ‘healers’. But this show turns things up a notch. Post #metoo, Magic Mike Live seems to be capitalising on a female audience’s perceived need for validation, even love. The MC, played by Sophie Linder-Lee, tells us, again and again, that we are enough. It’s even printed on the programmes: YOU ARE ENOUGH. The assumption appears to be that we don’t think we are. And while Alexa got two dances and loved it, she says her friends who got none were jealous. I am blessed with one but by this point in the night I am a wreck. A man is on my lap and I feel his lovely slippery six pack and fumble for my fake dollar bills but I’m not really laughing anymore I’m just screaming. I want it too much. The shame comes rushing back. It’s well-intentioned, but where the films position male strippers as something women can enjoy because we’re sexually liberated; the show frames them as something we desperately need because the men in our lives treat us so badly.
You could see Magic Mike Live as a kind of utopia: a vision of London where women have real sexual power. From the sounds coming out of that Hippodrome we were all getting high off it. But for me, the bleak open secret of the show is that it’s all so unreal. The films created a coherent fictional world with new models for masculinity, and desire. In the flesh, there’s a tacit acceptance that this could only ever be a fantasy. It says something uncomfortable about sexual inequality that this picture of ‘empowerment’ looks so much like a caricature.
For more writing on female desire in performance, read Dr Kirsty Sedgman’s essay on thirst in theatre or Ava Wong Davies’ review of True West.
Kitty Drake is a writer with an interest in sex and gender. She is co-editor at Ladybeard Magazine and contributing editor at Dazed Beauty. @kitty__drake
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Explore Mississippi Mills
Mississippi Mills
Historical Interests
The Auld Kirk and Cemetery
360 Wolf Grove Road
The early settlers of the 1820s from Ireland and Scotland brought their bibles and religion with them and met in different homes before any buildings were erected as churches. The ancestors of the Hamiltons and Aiken drew the stone for this church in 1829 and 1830 from the Huntley area by wagon and sleigh, but with the determination to fulfill a dream of accomplishment. It was constructed in 1835 -1836 in an early form of Gothic Revival architecture, on land obtained from James Mitchell, one of the townships earliest settlers. It ceased to be used as a church in Jan 1864 when a new church was opened in Almonte, but the cemetery continues to be used. The church, long unused, was restored in 1938 when JB Ilingworth was Chairman if the Cemetery Committee. The high pulpit and seats were brought from the Pakenham Church. A stone floor was laid, a vault installed, windows and doors restored, and a fence and gate installed.
The cemetery here is one of the most interesting and beautiful cemeteries of the area. Many of the old stones have been repaired and reset.
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Drowning islands warn of future perils for 'environmental refugees'
Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea losing land to rising sea levels
Evacuation of islanders planned; number of environmental refugees predicted to rise
From Greenland to Lake Chad many areas feeling negative effects of climate change
Many groups warn of caution when using term 'climate refugee'
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By Matt Ford
For CNN
(CNN) -- There is one holiday destination that should shake the faith of even the most vehement climate change skeptic: the Carteret Islands, part of Papua New Guinea, located northeast of Bougainville.
The Carteret Islands are just one of a number of places already feeling the effects of climate change.
The palm trees sway gently under a balmy sun, the beaches are perfect, and stretched out as far as the eye can see is the wide blue of the Pacific Ocean.
The only problem with this idyllic scene is that the water is getting closer; slowly but surely, as global warming bites and sea levels rise, the islands are being swallowed up, leaving the few hundred inhabitants pondering an uncertain future.
"King tides and sea surges are floodling the island to a knee high and it is difficult for the salt water to dry up," says Ursula Rakova, a Carteret islander and campaigner.
"Fruit trees and nut trees have lost their leaves and only skeleton branches are left standing. The only greenery is from coconut and sago palms... People have no garden food to feed on... We have lost more than 60 percent of our land already."
The problem is that on the Carteret Islands, a horseshoe shaped scatter of small islands around a central lagoon, nowhere is more than 1.2 meters above sea level.
If anywhere was the canary in the mine forewarning us of the disaster predicted in low lying areas of the world if runaway climate change takes hold, it's right here.
Rakova says there is a growing dependency culture on the island as people rely on international aid for food, which is destroying the social and cultural fabric of the Carterets.
"This is a state of emergency," she says. "Why are the rich nations ignoring the fate of the Carterets Islanders? Are the rich nations waiting for the islanders to float before they can act and put money where their mouths are in terms of human rights?"
It's a cruel irony that the people with some of the lowest carbon footprints are already paying the price for the emissions of far richer countries, and are forced to leave their homes for an uncertain future. But the Carteret Islanders aren't alone.
Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects. Watch the effects of warming temperatures on Arctic ice »
"The issue of environmental refugees promises to rank as one of the foremost human crises or our time," says British environmentalist and Oxford University professor Norman Myers, who has published extensively on the subject.
A report by Friends of the Earth in 2007 identified communities all over the world, from Brazil and Honduras, to Malaysia, Mali, Peru and even the UK, that were directly under threat from a mix of drought, rising sea levels, other extreme weather and disease.
Climate refugees: Causing controversy
As much of the primary research on our future climate looks increasingly gloomy -- and privately some scientists will make far blacker predictions than they publish - the world seems faced with a growing challenge.
Experts at the climate change conference in Copenhagen in March issued a stark warning when they revised up the scale of projected sea level rises, saying many coastal areas around the world could be completely inundated by 2100.
"It is now clear that there are going to be massive flooding disasters around the globe," said Dr David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey, in Copenhagen.
As well as low-lying areas of Bangladesh and the Maldives, the scientists warned that the Netherlands could face catastrophic floods, and large areas of Florida and the UK, including the Thames Estuary, may disappear under the waves.
But despite the threat of widespread future problems -- and the reality of life for the Carteret Islanders now - the term "environmental refugees" remains controversial.
Some NGOs, such as Greenpeace, have spoken in terms of 150 million displaced people being driven from their homes by 2050 as climate change makes their lives impossible. Their figures are backed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Other groups, notably the Norwegian Refugee Council, have urged caution and said such quantities are impossible to verify, even suggesting that they could play into the hands of right wing groups keen to create a fear of a tide of immigration.
"Because one cannot completely isolate climate change as a cause however, it is difficult, if not impossible to stipulate any numbers," the NRC writes in the 2008 report, Future Flood of Refugees.
But while the controversy rages, some experts warn the needs of people such as the Carteret Islanders are being ignored. As the numbers of similar soon-to-be refugees looks likely to grow exponentially, the world needs to wake up to the problem and decide fast how to deal with it.
"There is no legal recognition of people displaced by environmental causes and no international treaty protecting them," says Stephanie Long, Climate Coordinator at Friends of the Earth International.
Meanwhile back on the Carteret Islanders time is running out and an entire cultural group needs relocating because of rising seas.
By 2015 Friends of the Earth International estimate the islands will be largely uninhabitable. Islanders have tried to fight the sea by planting mangroves and building walls, but storm surges and high tides continue to destroy homes and crops, and contaminate fresh water.
Since 2007 the slow process of evacuation has been ongoing. Not for the first time, a quiet, remote group of people seem to be slipping through the fingers of the global community. It is unlikely they will be the last.
"I wish that the people causing the melting of the icecaps would do something to help us stay in our homes," says John Sailik from Han Island, Carterets. "Because we love living on our little island."
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Queen Victoria and the Munchi – A Comforting Friendship
I am so very fond of him. He is so good and gentle and understanding… and is a real comfort to me.”
These were the words of Queen Victoria speaking to her daughter-in-law, Louise, Duchess of Connaught, on November 3, 1888, at Balmoral. Perhaps surprising, though, is who she was talking about – not her beloved husband, Albert, who had died in 1861. Nor John Brown, her loyal Scottish ghillie, who in many ways filled the void left by Albert, since Brown had died in 1883.
Instead, Queen Victoria was referring to Abdul Karim, her 24-year-old Indian servant.
Her relationship with Karim was one that sent shockwaves through the royal court – and ended up being one of the most scandalous periods of her 64-year reign.
Indeed, such was the ill-feeling that when Victoria died, her son King Edward ordered all records of their relationship, including correspondence and photographs, to be destroyed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8349760/The-lost-diary-of-Queen-Victorias-final-companion.html
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TonyB_ Posts: 1,208
2018-07-08 - 10:39:47 edited 2018-07-08 - 10:42:00
evanh wrote: »
I've wiped all the parity sourced Practrand report files and started the culling and gridding runs afresh.
EDIT: Here's the culled tables, both with and without parity, for comparison. Notably [11 10 12]s parity scores means it shouldn't be included now but I've thrown it in to fill the final score chart.
Xoroshiro32(16)+ PractRand Score Table. Build 2018-07-06 03:34:09 +1200
PractRand v0.93 options: stdin -multithreaded -te 1 -tf 2 -tlmin 1KB
Scoring ran from 2018-07-06 03:08:16 to 2018-07-06 03:33:18. Byte Sampled Double Full Period = 8 GB
Sampling apertures of the generator output, labelled as most to least bit-significance
Candidate ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ A B C] 15:00 6:15 5:14 4:13 3:12 2:11 1:10 0:09 15:08 14:07 13:06 12:05 11:04 10:03 9:02 8:01 7:00
==========================================================================================================
[14 2 7] 256K 512M 512M 256M 256M 256M 128M 256M 16M 64K
[13 5 8] 256K 128M 64M 128M 128M 64M 128M 256M 16M 64K
[10 3 11] 256K 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 128M 16M 64K
[11 10 12] 256K 64M 128M 128M 256M 128M 64M 256M 16M 64K
[ 3 2 6] 2M 1M 64K
[ 6 2 3] 512K 512K 64K
[10 7 11] 256K 256M 256M 256M 64M 64M 64M 256M 16M 64K
[ 8 9 13] 256K 256M 256M 256M 128M 512M 256M 512M 16M 64K
[13 9 8] 256K 256M 256M 64M 128M 256M 256M 64M 16M 64K
Xoroshiro32(16)+p PractRand Score Table. Build 2018-07-08 18:42:39 +1200
[14 2 7] 512M 512M 512M 256M 256M 256M 128M 256M 16M 512M
[13 5 8] 128M 128M 64M 128M 128M 64M 128M 256M 16M 128M
[10 3 11] 512M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 128M 16M 256M
[11 10 12] 64M 128M 128M 256M 128M 64M 256M 16M
[ 3 2 6] 2M
[ 6 2 3] 512K
[10 7 11] 256M 256M 256M 256M 64M 64M 64M 256M 16M 512M
[ 8 9 13] 256M 256M 256M 256M 128M 512M 256M 512M 16M 512M
[13 9 8] 64M 256M 256M 64M 128M 256M 256M 64M 16M 512M
Here's completely updated frequency distribution reports for the ten candidates:
Thanks, Evan. [14,2,7]+p pair/XORO32 distribution is better than [14,2,7]+. Table updated at
http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1441593/#Comment_1441593
Above results confirm several points:
1. Best xoroshiro32+ triple is [14,2,7].
2. Parity trick makes a huge improvement to bit 0.
3. Bit 1 is much better than bit 0 without parity but weaker than higher bits.
4. Improved bit 0 with parity masks relatively weak bit 1 for [7:0].
Formerly known as TonyB
Comparison of xoroshiro32+/+p/++:
PractRand scores, single iteration
# a, b, c, d, 15:0, 15:8, 14:7, 13:6, 12:5, 11:4, 10:3, 9:2, 8:1, 7:0
14, 2, 7, +, 64K, 512M, 512M, 256M, 256M, 256M, 128M, 256M, 16M, 64K
14, 2, 7, +p, 512M, 512M, 512M, 256M, 256M, 256M, 128M, 256M, 16M, 512M
14, 2, 7, 5, 256M, 1G, 1G, 1G, 1G, 1G, 1G, 1G, 1G, 1G
Pair/XORO32 frequency, double iteration
Actual and Expected
# a, b, c, d, pfreq0, pfreq1, pfreq2, pfreq3, pfreq4, pfreq5, pfreq6, pfreq7, pfreq8, pfreq9, pfreq10, pfreq11, pfreq12, pfreq13+
14, 2, 7, +, 1360520517, 1842746126, 858490998, 200964795, 29117354, 2902521, 212668, 11793, 509, 14, 1, 0, 0, 0
14, 2, 7, +p, 1419103690, 1764224504, 850000354, 220741984, 36364139, 4160939, 348172, 22317, 1148, 45, 4, 0, 0, 0
14, 2, 7, 5, 1576661053, 1583423321, 791674049, 262776786, 65121487, 12864448, 2110786, 295138, 35867, 3945, 372, 41, 3, 0
#expected, , , , 1580030169, 1580030169, 790015084, 263338361, 65834590, 13166918, 2194486, 313498, 39187, 4354, 435, 40, 3, 0
|Actual-Expected|/Expected
# a, b, c, d, pfreq0, pfreq1, pfreq2, pfreq3, pfreq4, pfreq5, pfreq6, pfreq7, pfreq8, pfreq9, pfreq10, pfreq11, pfreq12
14, 2, 7, +, 0.13892750, 0.16627274, 0.08667671, 0.23685712, 0.55771952, 0.77955957, 0.90308983, 0.96238253, 0.98701099, 0.99678456, 0.99770114, 1.00000000, 1.00000000
14, 2, 7, +p, 0.10185025, 0.11657646, 0.07592927, 0.16175530, 0.44764387, 0.68398534, 0.84134234, 0.92881294, 0.97070457, 0.98966467, 0.99080459, 1.00000000, 1.00000000
14, 2, 7, 5, 0.00213231, 0.00214752, 0.00209991, 0.00213252, 0.01083173, 0.02297196, 0.03814104, 0.05856496, 0.08472197, 0.09393661, 0.14482758, 0.02500000, 0.00000000
evanh Posts: 7,262
The question marked 15:0 score in your Xoroshiro32+ above is 64K.
PractRand scoring of Xoroshiro32(16)+ candidate [14 2 7]. Byte Sampled Double Full Period = 8 GB
|===00====01====02====03====04====05====06====07====08====09====10====11====12====13====14====15=
16 | 64K 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 64K 1M 1M 1M 1M 256K 256K 256K
15 | 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M
14 | 64M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 128M 64M 64M
13 | 32M 64M 64M 64M 64M 64M 128M 128M 64M 64M 128M 256M 256M 256M 256M 32M
12 | 2M 8M 16M 16M 64M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M 2M
11 | 512M 256M 128M 256M 256M 256M 128M 256M 128M 256M 512M 1G 4G 512M 1G 1G
10 | 256M 32M 32M 512M 512M 512M 512M 128M 256M 256M 512M 512M 1G 1G 256M 1G
09 | 1G 1G 128M 128M 2G 2G 4G 4G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 1G 2G
08 | 64K 16M 256M 128M 256M 256M 256M 512M 512M 256K 256K 256K 256K 256K 256K 256K
07 | 256M 256M 512M 1G 512M 512M 512M 256M 256M 256M 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G
06 | 256K 32M 64M 128M 128M 128M 256M 256M 64M 128M 128M 256K 256K 256K 256K 256K
05 | 512M 1G 128M 256M 256M 1G 1G 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 256M 1G 1G 1G
04 | 64K 16M 256M 64M 256M 512M 256M 256M 1G 512M 512M 512M 256M 64K 64K 64K
03 | 256K 128M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 2G 1G 1G 512M 2G 1G 1G 256K 256K
02 | 8K 16M 256M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 8K
01 | 8K 2M 64M 128M 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 256M 512M 1G 512M 1G 1G
Lowest Exponent = 13 Exponent Average = 26.335
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TonyB_ wrote: »
I'm most interested currently in which 16-bit subsample of double-iterated xoroshiro32++ [14,2,7,5], i.e. the P2 v1 XORO32 instruction, has the highest PractRand score. Frequency test results below suggest it will be [25:10].
# a, b, c, d, size, lsb, low freq, high freq
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 0, 0FFFF, 10000
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 7, 0FEE8, 1011A
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 8, 0FACD, 10532
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 9, 0F815, 1092D
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 10, 0F64A, 10A52
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 11, 0F8AB, 107D6
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 12, 0FD88, 1025F
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 16, 0FFFF, 10000
How much better will the top score be than [15:0] or [31:16], I wonder?
Thanks, Evan. Do you think you might have time this week to do 16-bit double iteration tests for [14,2,7,5]? The results would have practical use on the P2 v1 and FPGA implementions. The three scores needed are [15:0], [31:16] and whichever other one is the highest.
How much info are you wanting? Just a few Practrand scores only? I could hand build and score a few individual cases one by one I guess.
What's the chances of doing any more later? If this is likely to recur I should probably work on getting the automation to do it. EDIT: We could grid them all too then.
[15:0], [31:16] and [25:10] if individual, just to see the difference. Automated grid to test all 16-bit subsamples (and possibly higher) could be handy, though.
Damn it. There has still been more BCFN glitches getting by undetected. This time at least no need to start over.
Latest scoring logic:
if [ ! -f "$PRreport" ]; then # If no pre-existing Practrand report then run and score the case
"$RNGbin" | stdbuf -o L $PRcommand >"$PRreport"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
printf "Aborted ${RNGbin} - PractRand error\n"
# Output the score to console/logfile. This is not score extraction for score table.
extract_score
if [ $bcfncnt -eq $failcnt ]; then # probably incorrect score due to too sensitive BCFN testing
if [ $bcfncnt -gt 2 ];then
printf "Passing because "
else # rerun testing from +1 power
mv "$PRreport" "${PRreport}.tmp"
printf "BCFNs: $bcfncnt, ${RNGbin}, PractRand score: ${scoresize}B - Trying larger ...\n"
scoresizedn=$scoresize
sizeup=$(( $sizekb * 2 ))
"$RNGbin" | stdbuf -o L $PRcommand -tlmin "${sizeup}KB" >"$PRreport"
if [ $sizekb -eq $sizeup ] && [ $bcfncnt -gt 0 ]; then # recuring fails
if [ $bcfncnt -lt $failcnt ] || [ $bcfncnt -gt 2 ]; then # initial score was valid, revert
rm "$PRreport"
mv "${PRreport}.tmp" "$PRreport"
printf "BCFNs: $bcfncnt, Fails: $failcnt, Reverted - "
scoresize=$scoresizedn
bcfncnt=0
else # two BCFN glitches in a row! raise another power, rerun again
printf "BCFNs: $bcfncnt, Fails: $failcnt, ${RNGbin} - Larger again ...\n"
if [ $sizekb -eq $sizeup ]; then # plain giving up at three tries, revert
else # got through it, any more glitches for this case won't be detected on this run
rm "${PRreport}.tmp"
else # revised report is normal, BCFN glitch cleared
if [ $bcfncnt -lt $failcnt ]; then # report the correction
printf "BCFNs: $bcfncnt, Fails: $failcnt, Accepted - "
if [ $bcfncnt -eq $failcnt ]; then
printf "BCFN & Fails: $failcnt, "
printf "${RNGbin}, PractRand score: ${scoresize}B\n"
rm "$RNGbin"
Revised chart attached:
scores_xo+s16.png
scores_xo+s16.zip
Is is Thursday already? Time flies!
Bouncing around the walls again? Hehe. Yeah, I went all in for automatic testing of double iterating the generator. The C source was quick to change although it did require concentration for keeping sorted the separation of word widths. I needed to be fresh for sure.
While working my way through the scripts it started getting messy enough that I decided to do a cleaning round ... and that proved troublesome due to ripple effects right throughout.
Had a day off. Started a functioning culling run today - Looking to be twice the number of passing candidates with 512 MB threshold. Again, none of the [14 2 7 x] candidates made the grade.
I've only just finished the gridding clean-up right now. I'll have a grid done for [14 2 7 5] first ...
I've done the faster half (even-sized apertures) first:
Full 16x16 single iterated grid: Lowest Exponent = 27, Exponent Average = 30.957
Even 8x16 single iterated grid: Lowest Exponent = 27, Exponent Average = 30.242
Even 16x32 double iterated grid: Lowest Exponent = 26, Exponent Average = 31.126
Note the heightened average even though the worst case is lower. And it'll be higher again with the odds included.
Gridded scores of single iterated Xoroshiro32(16)++ candidate [14 2 7 5].
Byte Sampled Double Full Period = 8 GB
15 | 4G 2G 8G 8G 4G 4G 4G 2G 4G 4G 4G 8G 4G 8G 4G 16G
14 | 4G 4G 4G 2G 2G 2G 1G 2G 1G 2G 2G 2G 4G 4G 4G 2G
12 | 512M 512M 1G 1G 512M 512M 1G 1G 1G 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 512M 512M
08 | 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 256M 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G
06 | 4G 2G 512M 2G 1G 2G 2G 4G 2G 2G 2G 2G 1G 2G 4G 2G
04 | 128M 1G 2G 1G 1G 2G 1G 2G 2G 1G 1G 2G 1G 512M 1G 512M
02 | 1G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 1G 1G 2G 2G 2G 512M 512M
Gridded scores of double iterated Xoroshiro32(16)++ candidate [14 2 7 5].
|===00====01====02====03====04====05====06====07====08====09====10====11====12====13====14====15====16====17====18====19====20====21====22====23====24====25====26====27====28====29====30====31=
32 | 256M 1G 1G 1G 1G 2G 512M 512M 512M 256M 256M 256M 1G 1G 1G 1G 256M 1G 1G 2G 2G 1G 512M 512M 1G 1G 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G
30 | 8G 8G 4G 8G 4G 16G 8G 16G 8G 16G 8G 8G 4G 8G 4G 8G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 8G 8G 4G 4G 8G 8G 16G 8G 8G
28 | 2G 2G 4G 4G 2G 4G 1G 4G 2G 4G 4G 4G 2G 1G 2G 8G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 4G 4G 4G
26 | 8G 8G 4G 8G 4G 16G 8G 16G 8G 16G 8G 8G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 8G 8G
18 | 4G 2G 4G 2G 2G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 8G 8G 2G 2G 4G 4G 4G 8G 4G 4G 16G 4G 4G 4G 8G 8G 4G 4G 4G 2G 2G 4G
16 | 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 512M 256M 128M 128M 1G 1G 512M 512M 512M 512M 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G
14 | 2G 2G 2G 4G 2G 16G 2G 4G 2G 4G 8G 16G 4G 4G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 4G 2G 2G 4G 8G 4G 8G 8G 16G 16G 8G 4G 4G
12 | 1G 512M 1G 1G 512M 1G 4G 2G 1G 1G 1G 1G 2G 2G 2G 2G 512M 1G 1G 1G 512M 1G 1G 256M 256M 1G 1G 4G 4G 8G 4G 2G
10 | 2G 8G 4G 2G 2G 1G 1G 1G 1G 2G 4G 8G 8G 1G 512M 1G 2G 8G 4G 4G 2G 1G 1G 2G 1G 1G 2G 8G 4G 8G 512M 1G
08 | 64M 512M 1G 2G 512M 1G 128M 128M 1G 2G 4G 4G 4G 2G 2G 256M 64M 512M 1G 2G 512M 1G 128M 128M 1G 4G 2G 1G 1G 2G 2G 256M
02 | 2G 1G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 512M 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 2G 512M 2G 2G 2G
Thanks for the results, Evan.
Here are the double-iterated xoroshiro32++ [14,2,7,5] low and high frequencies for selected 16-bit subsamples, with PractRand scores above appended:
# a, b, c, d, size, lsb, low freq, high freq, PractRand score
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 0, 0FFFF, 10000, 512M
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 7, 0FEE8, 1011A, 1G
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 8, 0FACD, 10532, 512M
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 9, 0F815, 1092D, 256M
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 10, 0F64A, 10A52, 128M
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 11, 0F8AB, 107D6, 128M
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 12, 0FD88, 1025F, 1G
14, 2, 7, 5, 16, 16, 0FFFF, 10000, 512M
The subsamples with the greatest frequency variations have the lowest PractRand scores. This is the opposite of what I predicted they might be.
I gather you've got access to another computer to generate those numbers with.
At any rate, Practrand scoring has consistently matched the distribution scores all along. I've been a little surprised by how good your numbers are for predictability.
I guess you could say we've done a pretty good job verifying distribution scoring as a rapid candidate selection method. My Practrand based mass scoring approach has been a good test bed for doing the proving but it isn't practical to carry on using for longer worded engines. Although shorter engines would be fine.
I'd like to continue down current track. Finish the double iteration mass scoring. Then also do some testing of XoroshiroXX** as well - Try and get a gauge on the Prop2's free running generator too.
Full 32x32 double iterated grid: Lowest Exponent = 26, Exponent Average = 31.839.
Compared to an average of 30.957 for the single iterated grid scoring, that's not far off average scores being doubled in value. And lowest is half value.
So, based on this one candidate, double iterating destabilises the quality a little ... and distribution likewise?
31 | 8G 8G 16G 8G 16G 8G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 8G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G
29 | 32G 16G 16G 16G 16G 4G 8G 16G 16G 16G 32G 8G 8G 8G 32G 32G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 16G
27 | 16G 16G 8G 4G 8G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G
25 | 8G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G 8G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 8G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G
23 | 8G 8G 16G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 8G 16G 8G 8G 16G 16G 32G 16G 8G 8G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G
21 | 4G 4G 4G 8G 16G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 8G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 4G 8G 8G 8G 8G
19 | 8G 4G 4G 4G 8G 16G 16G 4G 4G 4G 8G 8G 4G 8G 8G 8G 16G 8G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G 4G 8G 8G
17 | 8G 4G 4G 8G 4G 4G 4G 8G 4G 2G 4G 16G 4G 4G 8G 8G 8G 8G 16G 8G 16G 16G 8G 8G 16G 8G 16G 16G 16G 8G 8G 8G
15 | 4G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 4G 8G 16G 8G 4G 16G 8G 8G 8G 4G 4G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 16G 16G 8G 16G 16G 8G 16G 16G 8G 8G
13 | 4G 4G 8G 4G 8G 8G 8G 4G 4G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 8G 4G 4G 4G 8G 4G 4G 4G 4G 4G 8G 8G 16G 16G 16G 16G 8G 8G
09 | 1G 8G 8G 8G 4G 512M 512M 512M 4G 8G 8G 8G 8G 4G 1G 512M 1G 8G 8G 8G 4G 512M 512M 1G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 1G 512M
07 | 512M 1G 4G 4G 8G 4G 4G 256M 2G 8G 8G 8G 4G 8G 8G 8G 256M 512M 8G 4G 8G 4G 8G 256M 2G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G 8G
01 | 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 512M 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G 1G
Running at about 3 hours per grid (for easy half). Currently at #4 of 53 candidates, so maybe another week to finish the gridding.
Hmm, one thing that has been getting on my wick is the amount of unusable RAM on PCs these days. It crazily increases with total RAM installed. This newish Ryzen setup I've got is losing about 600 MB for no apparent reason. Given the CPU has the whole memory controller built-in, the loses aren't likely to change with motherboards. EDIT: I'd be okay at 1% of that, say 5 MB unusable.
CPU AuthenticAMD, Features Code 178BFBFF, Model Code 00800F11
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor
Measured - Minimum 3992 MHz, Maximum 3992 MHz
get_nprocs() - CPUs 16, Configured CPUs 16
get_phys_pages() and size - RAM Size 31.41 GB, Page Size 4096 Bytes
And here's with one DIMM removed. Now the unusable amount is down to about 340 MB. I totally don't get why it's dynamic at all.
Back to random number testing now. I note me CPU cooler is in need of a dust out too. Packed dust forming into top and bottom fins.
EDIT2: Big Oops! Those Physical RAM sizes weren't actually truly the amount of DRAM addressable. Asking google the right question made a huge difference to my understanding. Turns out those numbers exclude the whole Linux kernel space! And that has a reserved space that sizes as a percentage of the physical RAM installed.
Here's some corrected numbers:
evanh@controlled:~/hoard/coding/rng_testing$ dmesg|grep Memory:
[ 0.000000] Memory: 16289976K/16710308K available (12300K kernel code, 2470K rwdata, 4240K rodata, 2408K init, 2416K bss, 420332K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
User available (16289976 KB) + Kernel reserved (420332 KB) = Kernel available (16710308 KB)
+ Kernel code&data (23834 KB) = CPU addressable DRAM (16734142 KB).
Installed DRAM (16 GB = 16777216 KB) - Addressable (16734142 KB) = 43074 KB unaccounted for.
Yay! The unusable space is a much smaller, and fixed amount, of slightly over 42 MB. I can handle that.
EDIT3: Looks like I've assumed too much again. My older PC doesn't conform to the above allocations. It seems that all kernel code and data must reside within the "reserved" space. So, the 23834 KB piece is gobbled up and that leaves a bit over 65 MB unaccounted for. It's only 1.5 MB unaccounted on the older PC!
evanh@control:~$ dmesg |grep Memory:
[ 0.000000] Memory: 8043912K/8387064K available (12300K kernel code, 2470K rwdata, 4240K rodata, 2404K init, 2416K bss, 343152K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
Evan, I added your PractRand scores. I can test low and high frequencies up to 16 bits.
If the equidistribution is disturbed by a fairly small amount then PractRand scores go up a bit, but too much disturbance makes the quality worse.
Looking at max scores, single iterated has one 16G for 15-bit, several 8G for 7-bit, plus 3-, 2- and 1-bit. Double iterated has four 32G for 29-bit and one for 23-bit, with more maximums for 15-bit and under than single-iterated, as would be expected.
Some double-iterated scores are lower, e.g. 8-bit [7:0]. Would it be worthwhile appending +/-/= to the double-iterated scores to show how they compare to single?
As for the distribution, the only one we have is 32-bit [31:0]. As the period is 2^32-1, each non-zero output would occur exactly once and zero never if they were equidistributed, which is not the case and the distribution is a binomial one instead. I don't know what the expected distributions are for less than 32-bit. The average frequency for 16-bit is 2^16, but there is no equation that can predict the distribution that I know of and the results will vary for each lsb, as my tests have shown.
Running full double-iterated grid tests for all non-culled candidates might not be the best use of the resources at the moment. I'd like to know:
1. Does the 32-bit distribution (pair/XORO32) vary with different lsb's for [14,2,7,5]? The ones to try are 5 or 19 or 20 as these have 2G score and 0 is only 256M. The C code would need a new constant to rotate the 32-bit output before incrementing the 4GB byte array.
2. How long does each 32-bit distribution test take? About a minute? I'd prefer to see all the [31:0] pair and zero distributions before any more PractRand grid tests. Which [a,b,c,d] is closest to the ideal? Currently it's [3,2,6,5] for pair frequency but lots of candidates have not been tested yet.
3. What is the distribution for scro's generator with 32-bit output and max score of 32G? Is it a binomial?
Oh, ah, I couldn't run that same distribution code for a 32-bit output word. The memory allocation would be 2^64 or 16 x 1024^6 or 16 EB.
EDIT: Or was it based on period length? I never really studied the purpose.
EDIT2: Array index is formed from the pairing:
ipair = (next_prn << 16) | prev_prn;
So that means a 32-bit output word would require 64-bit indexes.
So you're really wanting a distribution run for each and every grid score then.
Rotation is the columns the grids. If I start doing some I may as well do the lot.
Point 1 could well be a dud - how can rotating bits change the distribution?
Point 1 was no good. Rotating will change the array index, but the number of different outputs that occur 0, 1, 2, etc., times will not change.
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ROGER MILLER – “King Of The Road”
Tom • Popular • 39 comments • 3,187 views
#194, 15th May 1965
The beat boom tide has begun to recede, having changed root and branch the way music gets made, bought and taken seriously (as commerce, as art) in the UK. Its main players are changing their sound, its successors are plotting their various coups. At the top of the charts, though, this means a return to normality. Which is…?
Let’s imagine a kind of popular music that has a direct origin in youth subcultures (leaving aside the question of how to define those). This – we won’t try and name it – is fairly well-represented in a list of No.1s, but it’s obvious that it doesn’t cover most of the material on said list. Expand the definition to include music that is indirectly linked to those subcultures – that imitates or tries to exploit them – and you cover a lot more ground. But there are still plenty of enormous hit records which seem to have nothing to do with any history of pop that bases itself on what ‘youth’ does or listens to.
This is part of why I find the charts so interesting. As well as being a barometer of what happens when subcultural trends bubble up to the surface, they’re also a log of whatever whims happened to grab the occasional record buyer. Filtering out the whims pasteurizes the story. “Normality” in the world of No.1 hits means a stew of novelties, trinkets, and songs which history and her assistants have fished out and wiped down as ‘classics’. All of which give one another a kind of context.
Lecture over. Roger Miller’s charming “King Of The Road” must have won a lot of friends through the simple likeability of his voice. Perhaps it won others because in 1965 people had begun to like the idea of the free life, of “means by no means”, beholden to none.
I think – and honestly I have no basis for this other than a few old childrens’ books – that the British were once culturally (if not actually) friendlier to vagabonds and men of the road than they are now. And here is the lifestyle presented crisply, evocatively, romantically – with a sprinkling of US exotica. Trailers and stogies, far more other than caravan parks and fag ends. I’m still very impressed by the economy and poetry of the lyric (“pushing broom”) – and the warmth. If ever a song could have a glint in its eye, this does.
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Anonymous † on 23 Feb 2005 #
In what kind of bizarre world does Roger Miller outscore the Rolling Stones?
No, there is nothing you can say to redeem yourself now. Don’t beg, don’t blame the drugs (which you evindently did not take enough of), don’t say that you are Roger Miller’s grandchild. Nothing. You may as well be the representative of my parent’s generation – tonedeaf, confused and left behind.
Val Doonican anyone?
Vicus Scurra | Email | Homepage | 02.21.05 – 7:31 pm | #
Isn’t that what the third paragraph explains? Doesn’t everyone like “King Of The Road”?
I know some twins from Auchtermuchty who do. Or are they from Musselburgh?
Alan Connor | Email | Homepage | 02.21.05 – 8:24 pm | #
YOU’VE BEEN LEFT BEHIND TOM
blount | Email | 02.21.05 – 9:19 pm | #
Not even my mother liked it. Nor did my father who liked Perry Como.
Doctor Mod | Email | 02.22.05 – 2:11 am | #
Have never been able to stand it by dint of (if nothing else) the upwards vaudeville vocal flourish throughout (“roooooom to let 50 cents”) which makes me think of it as virtually a Morecambe and Wise song (every bloody song they did had that flourish in it).
Marcello Carlin | Email | Homepage | 02.22.05 – 3:05 am | #
I am genuinely surprised by the outpouring of hate for poor old “King Of The Road”!
I think I wouldn’t have marked it quite as high if the Northern Line hadn’t been shut yesterday evening, forcing me into a brief period of vagrancy between Balham and Tooting Broadway.
Readers whose tender sensibilities are offended by this outscoring a Rolling Stones song are advised to hide behind the sofa when the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s get going.
Tom | Homepage | 02.22.05 – 3:20 am | #
70s? Were people still recording music? I thought Hendrix and Janis were dead by then.
Vicus Scurra | Email | Homepage | 02.22.05 – 5:25 am | #
But it’s true, Tom, it’s true. We REALLY hate this one. (But have you noticed that the song we really LIKED, even loved so far this month was “Concrete and Clay”?)
Readers’ reactions (not to mention Tom’s reaction) to the biggest selling single of 1965 (which comes up towards the end of the year) are keenly awaited, by me at any rate. Some might say that it makes “King Of The Road” sound like Coltrane’s Ascension.
one thing i like alot about this song is it’s probably one of the more silent songs i’ll still hear alot on commercial radio (college radio is filled with cat power and various other residue from the velvet’s and big star’s third album + hardly as normally compressed and, well, alive (?) as commercial radio); i can’t think of anything else with a similar emptiness to it i’ll hear outside of oldies radio, where it wouldn’t leap out at you anyhow.
blount | Email | 02.22.05 – 6:01 am | #
King Of The Road vs Sixteen Tons anyone?
Pete | Email | 02.22.05 – 6:21 am | #
Much prefer 16 Tons, though you could argue that King Of The Road is how the protagonist of 16 Tons ends up if he’d decided to quit “the company store.”
I like its inauthenticity. Was it big in the States? It’s kind of ersatz Kerouac, which is all most kids could afford. The single was hitting around the time that beat culture was big in England on a mass level, with Bob Dylan still on a beat tip (just) and the big Ginsberg/Corso gig at the Albert Hall. Dylan was in the Uk April and May. I like Wenders’ ‘Kings of the Road’ too — the song is meant to represent the impossible road-myth in eastern West Germany there.
Henry Miller | 02.22.05 – 6:46 am | #
i’d be surprised if brit-based beat culture caused this to be a hit (tho it may be why it wz written and sung i spose) (i’d be surprised at this too)
but pro-tramp cultural fascination long predated kerouac (my mum’s mum owned and loved this book, and she could hardly have been less vagabondish herself
p^nk s | Email | 02.22.05 – 6:56 am | #
Clearly “Breakfast In America” was the sequel to “King Of The Road” then.
I always preferred “Engerland Swings Like A Pendulum Do” which later, er, inspired “Dick-A-Dum-Dum (King’s Road)” by Des O’Connor, whom readers will be pleased to hear we will be encountering further down the Popular road!
the stones ultimate prob = they called into being this triumphant world in which they were a eternal SHOO-IN for best-pop-ever w/o even thinking (ie they won ALL comparisons aLWAYS INSTANTLY): hard to think of a set-up which could do more to corrode their anti-authority authority, really)
certain mark s as a punkity little late 70s punk tht them very ladidah and established and lame, and it took me years (and frank kogan) to persuade me otherwise
ie i wz v.counter the “counterculture qua culture” – to get the force of stones et al, you had to take seriously the notion that eg roger miller etc might conquer and rule pop, and to do THIS you have to be able to explain this would-be takeover CONVINCINGLY (ie not by saying “well ppl are lame of course”, when actually the stones won after all, hence ppl can’t be lame, hence RM cd never have “won” hence hence hence)
Ignore the hippies: King of the Road is a fine song.
Mark M | Email | 02.22.05 – 7:19 am | #
“i’d be surprised if brit-based beat culture caused this to be a hit (tho it may be why it wz written and sung i spose)” — indeed. i was thinking False Beat might’ve been at work in the song’s popularity.
the Proclaimers cover is far superior – it made my 1990!
stevem | Email | 02.22.05 – 7:49 am | #
The charts of ’64-7 were essentially a pitched battle between Radio Caroline and the Light Programme.
I like the Joe Tex version, of course.
Tim | Email | Homepage | 02.22.05 – 12:31 pm | #
People DISLIKE “King of the Road”? It’s the best country song of all time!
And all the Stones songs so far have been pretty weak.
My name is Kenny | 02.22.05 – 12:54 pm | #
Three cheers for a great simple songs.
Roger Miller would have been 29 when KOTR became # 1 in the UK
Until then , Miller was a recognized country artist. Country music was still very much alive in the USA & Canada at this time. Four years later Dylan would release ” Nashville Skyline” but country never went off the screen.
Indeed country is probably closer aligned in singer/songwriter terms to ” Pop” at this time than. lets say, Al Martino or , dare I say it Jackie Trent or even Tom Jones.
Obviously it crossed over from North America to the UK and presumably around the world. .It won 6 Grammy Awards.
He wrote many country classics “Invitation To The Blues,” by Ray Price , Ernest Tubb’s “Half A Mind,” Faron Young’s “That’s The Way I Feel” and Jim Reeves’ “Billy Bayou,” “If Heartache Is The Fashion” and “Home.”
Today he’d be a major cross over artist.
Brian C | Email | 02.22.05 – 12:59 pm | #
Count me in with the folks who are fond of “King of the Road.”
Some time in the 1980s, there was a good career overview of Miller published in the Village Voice. It noted that Miller’s peak period, the two or three years when he had a bunch of hits, coincided with his years as an amphetamine user. Those hits stood out in part because of the narrator’s unusual voice, wry, ironic, and mordant (best heard in “One Dyin’ and a-Buryin'”), and the music’s blend of country, novelty, and some darker tones. Before the hits, Miller wrote some popular, if nondistinct country songs, and after he kicked his habit on advice from his doctor, he didn’t write much of interest, until his comeback in 1985 with the Broadway success of “Big River,” a musical adaptation of “Huckleberry Finn.”
The irony here is that the guy who appealed to the parents of the hippie crowd was a success in large measure due to his enlistment in the drug culture.
wwolfe | Email | 02.22.05 – 2:11 pm | #
Loved it then. Love it now. will always love it. Honest, simple country music, and a great lyric. I have to report that if you crank this one up on an acoustic guitar in a pub even now – in 2005 – people love to sing along. I’d have given it 9, just for coming out of left-field and winning us all over at a time when all the hip money was waaaaaaaaaaaay over there at the edges of psychedelia.
Mark Gamon | Email | Homepage | 02.22.05 – 4:01 pm | #
“Honest, simple” “an acoustic guitar in a pub” “people love to sing along”
Everything I despise in two lines! Thanks Mark!
Look, chaps, it got to number one because Bob Holness kept playing it on Junior Choice.
Aww Marcello. Sorry to have touched a nerve. Suggest you go to pubs with jukeboxes in future. Then you won’t have to listen to people actually (shock, horror) singing anymore.
As for your reaction to ‘honest’ and ‘simple’, I can only conclude you prefer ‘devious’ and ‘overblown’. Probably a Queen fan, then…
Mark Gamon | Email | Homepage | 02.23.05 – 4:32 am | #
It’s not King of the Road VERSUS Sixteen Tons. Or King of the Road VERSUS A Love Supreme. Or King of the Road VERSUS the Rolling Stones. Dammit, I like them all. What I can’t stand is cynical.
And before all you idiots who love the Stones say anything else about country music, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go back and listen to the country that’s all over every Rolling Stones record ever made (except maybe We Love You).
I don’t like pubs or jukeboxes either. Dishonest and convoluted is much more up my street.
King Of The Road VERSUS Bohemian Rhapsody = stuff Chinn & Chapman wrote for Smokie VERSUS stuff Chinn & Chapman wrote for the Sweet.
Stand by your instincts Tom. Don’t let the tunnel-visioned absolutists bully you into only acknowledging their own music!
I didn’t like this at the time. This was mainly because it was the sort of thing my dad liked, and would sing along to. It was uncool to like the things your parents liked. Now my dad has been dead for twenty-eight years and I remember him very largely for his joy in singing things like this. And I love a lot of the things my parents liked these days – they were, I realise, far from tone-deaf and happy to be where they were without feeling they had to try to keep up.
I rather like KotR too, now. One reason is its singalong character. Music is affective, and it reminds me of my former partner Frank, who sadly died last year. He did a splendid rendition of KotR. He did a fine Dean Martin impersonation too. He didn’t care if anybody thought he was uncool and I admired him a lot for that.
So it’s a sentimental song of life at the bottom. It’s a
rosie | Email | 02.23.05 – 6:24 am | #
“Crank this one up on an acoustic guitar” is the best sentence I have read on the internet this year.
Matt DC | 02.23.05 – 6:25 am | #
(whoops)
It’s a world away from John Lee Hooker’s ‘Hobo Blues’ (which reminds me to mention in passing that much of the music I liked didn’t make much impact on the charts) but it’s not so far removed from Steinbeck’s ‘Cannery Row’ – one of my all-time favourite books.
Some people should open their minds a little!
Dean Martin’s “Houston” is way better than KotR. “I haven’t eaten in about a week/I’m so hungry, when I walk, I squeak.” Now that’s class.
The urgent and key question, however, is: does anyone here ever smoke old stogies they have found?
cannery row also in the “diary of the supertramp” literary vein re um wannabe hobo culture
(that term sounds more snarky than i mean it to be: i think the “wannabe other than myself” element in chartpop is a good thing)
of course the stones deliberately played up the ludicrousness and imposture of “wannabe other than myself” (i mean in a good way)
use other lies please: bob holness did NOT play sax on “baker street”
actually i’m amused and sorta plzd that the arrival of the stones has introduced a crackle of conflict into popular’s comments, since – to get ahead of ourselves – the key to stones innovation is contained in “two’s a crowd on my cloud”: their new unseemly sexiness wz directly related to their willed ability to divide audiences against themselves (this insight is pure uncut kogan incidentally)
(and now i am going to summon kogan to this commentary) (tho i doubt he is awake yet, in denver)
According to Jimmy Young, the sax on “Baker Street” was played by an obscure squadron named R.A.F. Ravenscroft (You See).
Perhaps it was John Peel all along!
Matt DC – thank you for noticing. Please throw money…
37 comments. Is this a record?
(Whoops. That’s 3
(It’s a record for Popular yes, I think.)
Tom | Email | Homepage | 02.23.05 – 6:55 am | #
My partner literally cannot bear to hear this song. If it comes on the radio or TV unexpectedly, he begins shouting and wailing and putting his hands over his ears and going LA LA LA very loudly until I switch channel or kill the volume. He doesn’t do this with a trace of irony, either – the song genuinely causes him intense distress. The same thing happens with Billy J Kramer’s “Little Children”.
He admits that this has little to do with the objective merits or flaws of either record.
mike | Email | Homepage | 02.23.05 – 7:22 am | #
Marcello Carlin wrote “The urgent and key question, however, is: does anyone here ever smoke old stogies they have found?”
I’ll be celebrating Supersmug Day on Thursday of next week to mark the first anniversary of my last fag. In my days an an inveterate smoker of Old Holborn rollups I quite often found myself, when skint, rooting through the ashtray in order to recycle the unsmoked tobacco.
That’s why rollups have to be short but not too big around. That way all the deposited tobacco would be used up.
The urgent and key question, however, is: does it ever rain in Indianapolis in the summertime?
I once had the dubious pleasure of staying the night in a flophouse in Davenport, Iowa. I have to report that in 1976 at least there were a lot of grubby looking people for whom two hours of pushing broom bought a eight by twelve four-bit room. Allowing for a little inflation, of course.
In point of fact we didn’t complete the night in the flophouse. We went and slept in the local park instead. It felt safer.
In those days I frequently pirated the ashtray when the Golden Virginia ran out…
Doctor Mod † on 23 Feb 2005 #
In the words of Noel Coward, strange how potent cheap music is.
Mark Gamon † on 23 Feb 2005 #
Well he would know…
As Muddy Waters is to Last Time , King of The Road is to Country Honk
Frank Kogan † on 24 Feb 2005 #
Yikes, had to set up a blog to get an automatic sign-in here! Don’t worry, I’ll never post to it.
(Does having a blog mean I’m no longer King of the Road?)
Alan Connor † on 24 Feb 2005 #
I know some twins from Auchtermuchty who do. Or are they from Musselburgh?Oh, I see. Looks like my radar for “what folk like” is as keen as ever.
Welcome to the pro-KotR team, Giant Sand.
I don’t think of Miller and Stones as representing some kind of poles in regard to old MOR vs. new Youth. The problem with such a division isn’t just that (1) while Stones might have represented some Youth (and no non-Youth), Miller wasn’t crossing from (or to) non-Youth specifically, and (2) Youth and Grownup cultures/subcultures were hardly unified in themselves, and tended to interpenetrate by age (e.g., country wasn’t a youth subculture, but some of the kids in high school who’d be called hoods, and many others who’d be called farmers or rednecks, would listen to some country), but also (3) the success of the Beatles and (esp.) the Stones totally disrupts the social map, and things don’t even begin to settle until 1968, and don’t achieve much (temporary) stability until about 1971. E.g., the kid social map in 1963 is, let’s say, Preps vs. Hoods [adjust names according to your own locale], with most kids actually being in-between but leaning one way or another, as do the other subgroups – brains leaning towards preps, farmers leaning towards hoods, etc., jocks leaning towards preps but being a potential path of mobility between prep and hood, and artsy-fartsies being the wild card. Then as now there’s no easy matchup in relation to musical taste, and pop bands tend to hit across the board. Nonetheless, and despite their being hoods themselves, Beatles tend to be marketed as pop and to play to the preps. Whereas hoods tend to be sticking to the 4 Seasons and that sort of stuff, which is about to become pass�, with the Stones in the wings to become the hero of the hoods. But the wild card is that both the Beatles and the Stones play to the artsy-fartsies, i.e., to the freaks. And the freaks are the ones who threaten to destabilize the system (the system not being “Preps Rule” but “Preps vs. Hoods”), since the freaks can claim to be more out and oppositional than the hoods, even, but also are willing to challenge the preps’ claim to authority and respectability. The hoods know their place, the freaks don’t, and the more powerful the freaks become, the more everyone else loses his or her sense of place.
So, where does “King of the Road” fit? Well, it’s gentle enough to appeal to adults for whom the Beatles are “What’s that?” and the Stones are the devil’s spawn, but is devoid of show music and old pop (Perry Como, et al.) signifiers, is folky and hobo enough to play to the bohos, is slick enough to play to the sophisticates, but has enough subtle country inflections to appeal to the farmers. Which is to say that despite the hate evidenced on this thread (which has more to do with 2005 than with 1965, I think), “King of the Road” didn’t play as anyone’s other – except maybe the guy who thinks everything turned to shit after Debussy – hence didn’t raise sociological barriers to enjoyment.
As for the difference between Roger Miller and the Rolling Stones 1965, Miller thinks you can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd, whereas the Stones are trying to roller skate in a buffalo herd.
Thank you, Frank, for the acute analysis–I think you are, by and large, quite right. My own personal disdain, though, is as grounded in 1965 as it is in 2005, and for the same reasons. As an unusually bright fourteen-year-old (neither “prep” nor “hood” but surely a “freak”), I could intuit (but probably not articulate) what offended me.
It seems to me that the political context has been completely overlooked here. This recording represents something of a backlash against all the other trends of the moment, particularly what many Americans, at least, would see as the infiltration of “furners” (trans., foreigners) into a traditionally American popular music culture. Thus we have this bit of hokey Americana, a nostalgic pseudo-pastoral apotheosis of American freedom that, in reality, never was–at least not in this glorified manner. Growing up in the US, I saw this as what I was “supposed” to like as opposed to what I did like, a reimposition of the standards of the previous decade.
In 2005, I still thoroughly dislike this song–perhaps even more than in 1965–because I know exactly who wants to blind us with counterfeit nostalgia for a “lost” America and reimpose those falsehoods and repressions NOW.
It’s not so much that I can’t stand the song itself (“hate” is too strong a word), but rather the idea of it.
Would this song be a hit in 2005? I can imagine a performance of it in the White House, even in the age of “compassionate conservatism” that would call any self-styled king of the road a “homeless person” and therefore a problem.
Doctor Mod
Wouldn’t say that Muddy Waters has much to do with “The Last Time.” The riff is a descendant of “Smokestack Lightning” (perhaps played by future NY Dolls fan Hubert Sumlin) and “Susie Q” (riff by James Burton), the song structure and some of the lyrics from an old gospel song (the Staples Singers version called “This Could Be The Last Time,” James Brown’s slightly secularized version “Maybe the Last Time”). While Pa Staples would put some bluesiness in his guitar playing, in general dirty blues lines don’t make it into gospel or pop material until the Stones put them there. And with good reason, since you have to be looking for a fight if you’re going to include such socially antagonistic elements. In its gospel versions, the reason this could be the last time we see each other is that death can hit at any moment. But the gospel songs have a sense of basic social unity, a common pool of shared belief (and the gospel groups promise that we’ll meet again on the other side). The Stones take a razor to that unity, and Brian’s guitar line is the sound of that razor.
Tom’s right about words, guitar, and singing playing at odds with one another, and though Jagger may sound upbeat and as if he holds the cards, his words say otherwise, divide Jagger the lyricist from Jagger the singer. Girl holds power by saying no, and put “The Last Time” with “Heart Of Stone” and you’re planting the seeds for Iggy going “Come and be my enemy so I can love you too,” and Axl saying “Turn around bitch I got a use for you.” But where does that get you? I don’t know… [into the fade out, the best and longest fadeout to that point in music history, and he really doesn’t know].
Staples Singers are to “The Last Time” as Ptolemy is to Copernicus.
It’s somewhat closer with, say, Valentinos’ “It’s All Over Now” vs. the Stones’, but the Valentinos going “Hurt my nose open, that’s no lie, tables turn now it’s her turn to cry” still feels, in that version, like standard man-woman stuff, while the Stones going “Hurt my eyes open, that’s no lie, tables turn now it’s her turn to cry” is done with threat, arrogance, a social tough-guy-ness like Brando in The Wild One. It’s meant to hurt our eyes open, about a world that is wrong, and is the precursor to “God save the queen/The fascist regime/Made you a moron…” etc. and there is no future in England’s dreaming. Her turn to cry.
Of course, now that the songs are golden oldies, a lot of this is lost; we’re used to that guitar line, and there’s no way it’s a razor anymore. You want a razor, you make one yourself.
D. Mob, what you say is interesting; in 1965 I was to young to have understood that part of the subtext, and didn’t hear KoTR anyway since I was averse to pop at the time. At age 11 I liked folk music and sneered at (and feared) the Top 40. Had I heard KoTR in a Kingston Trio cover, I’d have liked it fine. But seems to me that in its time KoTR could go in at least two very different directions, (1) to off-road vehicles and survivalism, wide open spaces, (2) to the mystery tramp and Miss Lonely meeting in the urban wilderness, where if you ain’t got nothin you got nothin to lose, and anything is possible. Dylan simply takes the frontier and brings it to the street. And the freaks could be said to be acting out that Myth – “Myth” not meant to mean “lie” but (as per def’n 2 in the American Heritage) “any real of fictional story, recurring theme, or character type that appeals to the consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions.” There’s nothing inherently conservative about the myth, even if George W. Bush is more adept than Kerry at exploiting it, at pretending to adventure.
Being a “freak” under this paradigm differs radically from being either a “prep” or a “hood” because the two latter categories generally require conformity and thus consensus. “Freaks,” on the other hand, are freaks because they don’t conform and like what they like regardless of consensus; ergo, what one freak likes is not necessarily what another freak likes.
This freak, for one, never bought into the Dylan myth either–which is not to say that I can’t appreciate Dylan on some level–and, indeed, hasn’t been much impressed with the “American frontier” mythos in more recent figures such as Springsteen and Mellencamp. Rather, I see all these figures (with the exception of Dylan, who has a keen sense of irony) as the mourners of an American dream that is rapidly becoming more and more untenable. Being American, white, straight, and male might not be the passport to an absolute freedom that answers to no one that it was, in previous decades, imagined to be. Even so, to our own perdition, there are still those who try ferociously to cling to this notion.
What does this have to do with “King of the Road”? It is both a throwback and a harbinger of things to come in this vein.
You say you’d have liked it better by the Kingston Trio. I’d have been able to like it by Fairport Convention or the Strawbs, artists who would have put it in a rather different context and who weren’t invested in this particular myth.
Don Allred † on 26 Feb 2005 #
Not too surpising that such a laidback song would get run right over by all sorts of if-you-start-me-up-I’ll-never-stop autocommentary. It’s really just a pleasingly skewed view, like Morgan Freeman provides in Million Dollar Baby: not dispensing Funky Wisdom, as is usually the function of black people (incl, females of all ages, not just Cool Old Dudes). He does care, and does comment, to viewers and other characters. He’s an audience/character-gatekeeper, and an embodiment (not a speech/wisdom-giver) of a saner/more appealing lifestyle than that of the two obsessos, Eastwood and Swank. But the King Of The Road is even more laidback. Shady and funky even in the context of the King Of The Road Motel (an actual place in Nashville, which I’ve always assumed is the setting of the aong, although I suppose the latter might’ve been the daddy of the former). Much appreciated by mid-60s teenage me, even though I dug all the songs that, implicitly or explicitly, were urging me on! To catch up! Get Down and Get With it! Like a Rolling Stone, a college loan, join the Pepsi Generation and the Dodge Rebellion, get your Mama to buy you some striped bells in the Mod Corner at J.C. Penny! Clearasil that zit, Dippity-Do and Scotch Tape those bangs, and for godssakes buy every rock-‘n-roll book on the magazine stand, but last week’s singles, this one’s too! Be a Marlboro man, and figure out,”Should a gentleman offer cigarillos to a lady?” Certainly,*don’t* go sniff old stogies, whatever you do…not like…that guy over there, in the corner of the speaker of that transistor, crackling on the Fartown bus. H’mm. And especially a h’mm appeal to teenage me in in the American South, with prosperity and any sense of buyable happiness and standing, of Pop Culture, for instance, being a precarious novelty. Maybe some of its appeal in mid-60s England too, for similar reasons? (Or older people may have been less likely to take *general* prosperity, vs, teen-self conditions, for granted, cos they were old enough to remember how rough things had been, and of course were still paying their teen’s bills).Thanks to Marcello for explaining “short, but not too big around.” I thought–well, never mind. Mark mentioned hobo literature. I entered “Hobo” on Amazon UK, and got over 100 items, although quite a few had no pubisher’s description or reader’s reviews. On the original Amazon, entered You Can’t Win, Wm. Burroughs’ fave, and got a ton of items and descripions. Hit record predecents of “King” might include pleasingly skewed (funning on stuff that just ev’rbody knows about, funning on the wide-eyed outsider who just wandered in, too, but he turns being an outcat into something charming, kinda cool and kinda not, “kinda dumb and kinda smart,” as in Bobby Goldsboro’s very kinda touching hit, “Honey”): Andy Griffith’s early hit monologue (pre-rap-rap? Anyway, a hit spoken single, not even musical accompaniment):”What It Was, Was Football.” (or just “Football,” mebbe). Before that: Spike Jones with Homer & Jethro, and hillbillies report on the Opera-not-Opry:”Hillbilly Pagliacci.” Homer and Jethro did a lot of stuff like this, and may well have influenced Roger, but the “King” and England Swings” and othees say later for H&J’s acrobatic pickin’. (PS: in a slight slice of S.F. archived at thefreelancementalists, Dylan is referred to as “our King of the Road,” since he really is, beyond our Motel King, and also, when I’ve seen him, usually does look like he’s gonna sniff stogies and check locks in between sets. Also said in the Voice that Luc F.’s Les Anecdotiques “as Ferrari intends, swings in and out of meaning like a pendulum do”(while privately imaging Luc Sante in a Ferrari with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Mary Quant, as per Donovan’s “Portobello Road)If you start me up
Matt † on 27 Feb 2005 #
The biggest batch of bullshit in this comments line is being peddled by Marcello, who is peddling some kind of English music-hall snakeoil because he does not understand the very American impulse to hit the road, to start over, to drop one kind of life for another. He also seems to imply that there was some kind of payola conspiracy to ram this song down the throats of good sensible British folk. Even if this was true, it would have been a really good kind of conspiracy, one I heartily approve of.
This song is about many things but the Rolling Stones is not one of them; neither are the Proclaimers nor amphetamines. What is about is the grimy glamo(u)r of living on one’s own terms, ready to drop everything in a heartbeat and move on, the mobility that guarantees freedom from all commitment and therefore heartbreak, even if that means that you are a useless bum.
No one ever heard this song and said “Hey I wanna be like that guy,” but if you have never met any one of these completely untethered off-the-grid individuals then I can understand why you think this is hokum. I don’t know why so many of these guys are named Fred, but many of them are, and they all have lived in Wyoming at some point. They don’t have to smoke old stogies anymore, but sometimes they probably do just to do it. It’s kind of like hono(u)ring fallen homiez by pouring out a 40.
Phew. I’ll say that again. Phew. Who’d have thought a simple country tune about hobos would have got all the Popular commenters so hot under the collar? Tom, you must be reeling under the onslaught.
Here’s my sixpennyworth. King of the Road was a hit because it’s a damnably singable tune with a well-crafted, memorable lyric. Anyone who thinks Roger Miller was thinking about subtexts on the nature of the American Dream is just plain crackers.
Ditto some of the comments about the Stones. Give us a break, guys.
Mark:
1. Roger Miller was a hit songwriter for many years and won a Tony Award for “Big River,” a huge Broadway show about “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” To say that he never thought about subtext is to be frightfully naive.
2. If you really think that all songs with damnably singable melodies and well-crafted lyrics hit #1, and that the opposites of that never happen, you need to learn more about the way pop music works. Songs strike chords with people, or don’t.
3. And if you think that music can really be reduced to “good words, good melody, don’t think more about them,” then you aren’t very familiar with Tom’s work. Yeah, I went overboard with my comments; I’m trying to work something out. If all I had to say was “it’s a good song,” I wouldn’t bother to write anything down.
4. But yeah, I AM crackers.
I accept being called “crackers” with grace and dignity.
“To say that he never thought about subtext is to be frightfully naive.”
That’s not what he said.
Matt – thanks for the biog info on Roger Miller. I had no idea he was such a professional. I’m still not convinced concepts like subtext have anything to do with it, though: most pro songwriters are far too busy trying to A/make it rhyme; B/make it witty; C/make a tune people want to whistle (or dance to). Then, as you so rightly point out, all they can do is sit back and pray it strikes some kind of public nerve.
If I’ve got this right, understanding why a number one hits that magic button is exactly why Tom is doing this site, and I applaud him for it. All I’m saying is let’s not invest the songwriters and musicians and producers themselves with too much intellectual engagement. Most of them run on instinct, and music (popular or otherwise) is all the better for it. Look what happened when rock musicians started thinking too much about what they were doing: Jon Lord gave us ‘Deep Purple and the London Philharmonic’ (or whatever it was called), and Pete Townsend gave us ‘Tommy’.
Of course I’m crackers too, so the above may just be a load of old hooey of the sort you might find in a Chinese fortune cookie…
Frank Kogan † on 1 Mar 2005 #
Subtexts tend to be felt more than thought about. That’s why they’re called “subtexts.” They’re there whether you want ’em or not, whether you think about them or not.
I have no trouble sympathizing with Mardello’s and D. Mod’s antipathy, though I don’t share it. Did spend a few hours last week trying to find what services there are in Denver for homeless teens. Not a lot (presumably fear of lawsuits is a big deterrent from helping the young and disenfranchised).
Fingersnappin’ and walkin’ bass = hipster signifier (but one that’s already out-of-date)
Text that no one but Don has noted: “every lock that ain’t locked when no one’s around.”
I’d also sympathize with Mod’s and Marcello’s irritation with me, should they feel any, for misspelling their monikers.
he does not understand the very American impulse to hit the road, to start over, to drop one kind of life for another…. This song is about many things but the Rolling Stones is not one of them; neither are the Proclaimers nor amphetamines. What it is about is the grimy glamo(u)r of living on one’s own terms, ready to drop everything in a heartbeat and move on, the mobility that guarantees freedom from all commitment and therefore heartbreakMatt, it seems as if some parts of your mind are not in communication with the others. Just what do you think the phrase “A rolling stone gathers no moss” means? Cf. “Ruby Tuesday” – or “Heart of Stone,” for that matter. Or “I’m free to choose who I see, any old time.” Jeez!
Of course, the Stones, being more thoughtful than Miller, portray such “freedom” as very problematic.
But even if there were no thematic connection between Stones and Miller, they’re connecting by sharing the same pop chart at the same time (and are automatically connected on this blog when “King of the Road” 7, “The Last Time” 6 come in near succession). Furthermore, back in the day, once the Stones hit, a “you’re-either-with-’em-or against-’em” vibe was created. You can’t understand 1965 if you don’t understand this. Mick Jagger was one of the most hated men in the world. And therefore everything on the charts was somewhat defined as either being similar to the Stones or dissimilar. You didn’t have a choice. And, obviously, as Mark Sinker points out upthread, traces of this vibe remain 40 years later, hence Popular gets testy once the Stones show up.
Lena † on 13 Mar 2005 #
Wow, all these posts and no one has mentioned R.E.M.’s rather late night and drunken take on it…as for the Rolling Stones, I cannot imagine any of them rollerskating anywhere.
Alan Connor † on 15 Mar 2005 #
Resurrection Watch: Swingers, a film I hate more the more I think about it.
Pete (Not the usual Pete (ed - Pete)) † on 2 May 2005 #
Ah, R.E.M.’s version is magnificent. And, IMHO, it’s a good song, so what if it ain’t the Stones?
Frank Kogan † on 10 Jun 2005 #
Roger Miller is the only contemporary country performer to cultivate a large rock audience as well…. He mixes rural earthiness with urbane whimsy and comes up with a cogent blend of Hank Williams and Ogden Nash.
–Richard Goldstein, The Poetry of Rock p. 96
Doctor Casino † on 15 Nov 2006 #
….wow, this is a HELL of a comment thread, I’ve never encountered one so fierce on this blog before.
I love “King of the Road.” It’s not my favorite Roger Miller recording, but it’s one of his best compositions, and it definitely feels natural that this be his biggest hit. Like many, many texts about hobos, it appeals to people who in real life have little actual fondness for the unhoused. It’s certainly a dated trope – Miller’s proud rambler somewhere along the way turned into Oasis’s caricature (“sniffin’ in a tissue, sellin’ the Big Issue”) and society’s elephant in the room. I wonder if part of “King of the Road”‘s success can be traced to its ambiguity – if you’re convinced the hobo is a noble wandering philosopher (we’re a few short years from Easy Rider), the material is certainly there to support it – but you could also probably dig on this if you were inclined to think of him as a seedy, unwanted tramp: he’s breaking and entering while puffing on a gross discarded cigar, and you can take the lyric as Miller making fun of this stereotypical creep who is telling himself he’s got it made. Obviously the slant is towards the former reading and you’d be hard-pressed to miss it, but I think it’s at least sort of open-ended.
(Compare to the more direct statement – in a very different context – from Dylan: “…where people carried signs around saying ‘Ban the Bums’ / I jumped right in line, said I hope that I’m not late / When I realized I hadn’t eaten for five days straight.”)
A girl I once dated could never get her head around “Don’t pay no union dues.” “Why does he say that?” Well, because he’s the sort of grinning fellow who sees a bright side in the fact that he’s unemployed. “What’s so bad about paying union dues?” etc.
pcwag † on 13 Dec 2006 #
You can always make “Dang me” the encore.
Waldo † on 21 Feb 2007 #
Why would any self-respecting hobo ride in a boxcar to Bangor, Maine? This boy’s a fool.
jeff w † on 2 Nov 2007 #
This got an airing by Radcliffe and Maconie* on R2 earlier this week (or was it last week?). If it wasn’t for this thread I probably wouldn’t have paid much attention to the song. On reflection, I think I’m with Tom on this one.
*who also pointed out that Miller was the voice of Allan-a-Dale in the Disney animated Robin Hood, a movie with which I was mildly obsessed as a nipper.
Marcello Carlin † on 2 Nov 2007 #
I still say it sounds like a Morecambe and Wise song.
flahr on 29 May 2010 #
It’s been quite eye-opening reading the comments to this entry, seeing what strong feelings people have either way. My prominent association with this record is a road safety campaign from around the time I was growing up – and thus “King of the Road” has a rather comforting presence. It feels like a standard, faintly fatherly & warm, with a roguish charm in his travails (how can a record with that many fingerclicks be anything but roguish?).
The other result is that when listening to the actual song, the sudden change in the tune just over one minute in is faintly disturbing. But I still find the record as a whole pleasantly comforting (moreso than enjoyable, really). A 5.
TomLane † on 1 Jun 2010 #
Didn’t realize that this went #1 in England until I glanced at the recent comments thread. For a very short period of time in the ’60’s, Roger Miller was some kind of genius. “Dang Me”, “Chug-A-Lug” and his other off-beat hits and album cuts are inspired lunacy as much as this is inspired American lyricism.
But what is going on with this thread? Dean Martin’s “Houston” better than KOTR? The Proclaimers cover better? A comparison to Perry Como or the Stones? And what does “Sixteen Tons” have to do with anything?
The original 7 score by Tom Ewing made me cringe as well as surprised me. Seems like a lot of the earlier posts just followed his advice and dissed this. A great song is a great song no matter what genre. I think a lot of the posts are by people who don’t know much about Country music. That this reached more than just the Country audience tells you how far-reaching Miller’s lyrics are.
Billy Smart on 5 Jan 2011 #
TOTPWatch: Roger Miller performed King Of The Road on the Top Of The Pops transmitted on 8 April 1965. Also in the studio that week were; Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, Dave Berry, Donovan, The Bachelors, The Barron Knights and Them. David Jacobs was the host. No copy survives.
crag † on 14 Apr 2011 #
DESERT ISLAND DISCS WATCH:
Jackie Charlton, Football manager(1996).
hectorthebat on 11 Apr 2014 #
Critic watch:
1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2010)
Bruce Pollock (USA) – The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
CMT (USA) – The 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music (2003) 37
Heartaches By the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles (USA, 2003) 63
Pause & Play (USA) – Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
RIAA and NEA (USA) – 365 Songs of the Century (2001) 88
The Recording Academy Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
Toby Creswell (Australia) – 1001 Songs (2005)
Giannis Petridis (Greece) – 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
Grammy Awards (USA) – Record of the Year Nominee
Duro on 14 Sep 2014 #
All these comments and not one reference to his exploits at Italia ’90 a quarter of a century later? Smh
lonepilgrim on 25 Jul 2015 #
it’s fascinating to see the controversy that this generated back in the day. Given the passage of time and with a larger number of hits and marks to compare I wonder if this seems such a big deal. I feel quite fondly towards the song, probably because I associate it with the Junior Choice show of my childhood and also because I’m a sucker for songs about the exotic lure of America. There’s a line in the Grateful Dead’s ‘Jack Straw’ which goes: “Catch the Detroit, running out of Santa Fe/The great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea” which makes me want to tie a hanky full of essentials to a pole and hit the road.
It’s interesting to think of this song after seeing the ‘Mad Men’ episode ‘The Hobo Code’ (and others), where men of Don Draper’s generation who grew up in the Depression were vividly aware of how close they were to a life of insecurity and poverty – as well as the appeal of walking away from daily responsibilities. Of course the disparities of wealth weren’t as great then as they are now – the song isn’t very aspirational – so what may have sounded complacent back then sounds downright irresponsible compared to the studied self-centredness of the Stones
wichitalineman on 25 Jul 2015 #
No one has mentioned Gentle On My Mind, lyrically the most comparable UK hit (no.2 for Dean Martin in ’69, radio hit for Glen Campbell), though more self-conciously poetic:
“I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling, crackling caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile, and a dirty hat pulled low across my face”.
As for King Of The Road, doesn’t Roger Miller’s style bear some resemblance to Lee Hazlewood’s (who Tom gave a 10 in his only Popular appearance)? An urban country, with lyrics residing in a mythical west, a distant, disappeared frontier? Hazlewood played the “cowboy” thing to the hilt, even though he’d been a DJ and record producer for more than a decade before Boots and Houston.
To be honest, though, King Of The Road gets on my nerves. But I loved it when I was a kid and objectively (the finger clicking, the disappearing over the horizon coda) I should like it, so I’m not sure why this is.
Also, if we were following the NME charts this whole conversation would never have happened (KotR was kept off the top by Ticket To Ride). But we WOULD have got to talk about the Yardbirds’ cosmic For Your Love a couple of entries back. Too bad! Damn you, Guinness.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 4K Blu-ray looks and sounds fantastic
by Harold Gaylord | Posted on December 12, 2018 June 10, 2019
While there might have been a little controversy over Green Book winning the Oscar for Best Picture a few weeks back, there was little debate about ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ picking up an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Now the movie, already available to on digital streaming, heads to home theaters with the standard Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray available to own starting Tuesday, March 19.
Both versions look and sound great, but the more expensive 4K version is a bit more visually impressive for those who have the appropriate gear — namely a 4K Blu-ray player and 4K HDR TV (there is also a Dolby Atmos surround mix if you have an Atmos set up).
Not only does the film put a completely new spin on the Spider-Man franchise, but it has a unique look that’s inspired by the graphic style of actual comic books — right down to the half-tone dots and multi-panel images. Not much is lost with the Blu-ray version, but watching the 4K HDR version on my OLED TV played through an Xbox One S, everything seemed a little bit enhanced. Color saturation and overall detail look better, and those half-tone dots are subtly more apparent.
As far as bonus features go, the included ‘Spider-Ham Caught in a Ham’ short is in 4K too. On the other hand interesting extras like the Alternate Universe Mode Viewing Option, which adds about 25 minutes of raw, unfinished material to the film, is only available on the Blu-ray disc (yes, the Blu-ray is, as usual, included with the 4K version).
We compile a list of Best 4K Blu-rays and this will certainly make the list. That said, I wish Sony had done a combo 4K/3D package because there are those of us who still occasionally watch 3D flicks, and this is one I’d like to own in 3D.
The 3D Blu-ray will be released separately on April 10 in some countries outside the U.S. and the UK (it will be region-free, however).
If you don’t own a 4K Blu-ray player or 4K TV, it’s worth noting that Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon and Target have exclusive Blu-ray editions including bonus items. All are available for preorder and ship March 19.
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Could the Hastings Democratic Alliance be revived?
In 2005 the Hastings Democratic Alliance (HDA) was formed, aiming to promote participation and involvement in the democratic process, and to maintain a watching brief on the activities of public and private bodies. HOT’s Chandra Masoliver interviews former local councillor, Sue Palmer, and artist and activist, Colin Booth, both founder members of the HDA. They discuss the background of HDA, the achievements of the alliance and the prospect of its revival.
“Authority wins if there’s no unity, and a single group can be disregarded, but with everybody sharing the same cause, it is harder to be ignored.”
“We go to the streets with banners, organise demonstrations and protests, but the real politics happen elsewhere…”
Local activist and artist Colin Booth
CM: Sue, please tell me a bit about your political background and how you got involved with the HDA.
SP: I’ve lived in Hastings Old Town for 30 years. I joined Old Hastings Preservation Society (OHPS) to find out about the history and architecture of the Old Town and I contributed to setting up a database of local properties. I took a keen interest in Planning Committee meetings and the decision-making process, and I observed residents objecting to plans affecting their areas – for example the Amusement Park and Boating Lake, Stade car park and the Jerwood, the hotel on the beach opposite St Mary in the Castle and the Observer building.
CM: What was the background to the formation of the HDA?
SP: At Planning Committee meetings, I was hearing many disaffected residents’ groups from all over Hastings and St Leonards protesting against intrusive and unwanted schemes in their areas. After the introduction of the Cabinet system by the late Jeremy Birch, then leader of Hastings Borough Council (HBC), there was very little consultation. Decisions were made behind the scenes. The HBC Cabinet system was modelled on Blair’s creation at government level when elected in 1999. Blair side-lined his members of Parliament – and council leader Birch did the same with the 32 HBC councillors. The so-called ‘Gang of Four’ made the decisions – Cllrs Jeremy Birch, Deputy Leader Jay Kramer, Godfrey Daniel and one other. The standard phrase was: ‘We make the decisions and you abide by them.’
A past employee of HBC, Ted Newcomen, was quoted in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer (21.04.06): “The claim that the new Cabinet system is more democratic will go down as one of the great lies of the early 21st century. Public consultation is a joke…the chief beneficiaries are out-of-town consultants and talentless yes-men.”
“If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.”
CM: Colin, what actually triggered the formation of the HDA?
CB: In the autumn of 2005, HBC decided to demolish the 90 concrete chalets at West St Leonards, the last remnant of the Old Bathing Pool, known as West Marina Bathing Station. These chalets were designed and built in 1934 by borough engineer and ‘Concrete King’, Sidney Little. In protest, my partner Louise and I and two close friends formed the Chalet Restoration Action Group (CRAG). The huts were described as ‘architecturally unique’ and appeared to be structurally sound, so CRAG questioned the legality of it – and 784 signatures were raised.
Sydney Little’s chalets
I enlisted the help of John McAslan Architects who had undertaken the restoration of the De La Warr Pavilion. Their chief engineer and project manager agreed that the chalets could very easily be put back into full use. With the support of local residents, we set up West Marina Partnerships and prepared a community plan for the Old Bathing Pool site, which included restoring the chalets.
Cllr Jeremy Birch said their decision was made on ‘all the expert advice’, although later he admitted that was not so. CRAG offered to lease the chalets from the Council and raise the £900,000 for their restoration – both English Heritage and Twentieth Century Society expressed interest. This was ignored by HBC.
We made CRAG a high-profile campaign and everybody was watching to see how the Council would respond. When the bulldozers moved in to demolish the chalets we were devastated. The injustice still lingers. There’s something structurally wrong in the way we undertake all politics in this country. We go to the streets with banners, organise demonstrations and protests, but the real politics happen elsewhere, decisions are made, and consultation counts for nothing. We kept meeting people involved in other campaigns and we felt we needed to form an umbrella organisation to make HBC answer for its actions. Authority wins if there’s no unity, and a single group can be disregarded, but with everybody sharing the same cause, it is harder to be ignored.
CM: Sue, when was the HDA formed?
SP: In the autumn of 2005 a public meeting was called in the Pig in Paradise pub (now The Palace), and the HDA was born from the realisation that the views of local residents were being ignored and that a common voice was needed in defence of the democratic process – not about what, but how decisions were made.
The HDA was non party-political: it was made up of individual members from all parties – and none.
People marching through town centre
CM: What were the HDA’s main aims?
SP: Our aim was to speak with a united voice against bad governance and biased decision-making, made without recourse to the voters.
We wrote a constitution of the Hastings Democratic Alliance of Hastings and St Leonards (HSL); the four key aims were:
To restore and promote true local democracy within the Borough of Hastings and St Leonards.
To promote the widest possible participation and involvement in the democratic process among HSL residents.
To keep a watching brief on public and private bodies and take necessary action.
To act as an umbrella group and to work with and alongside any other organisation or individuals who are in sympathy with and support the aims of the society.
CM: I notice you produced a leaflet called The Buzz. Please tell me about this venture, and the impact it had.
The Orange and Lemon Awards
SP: The Buzz was a double-sided flyer informing people about alleged abuses of power by HBC. Everyone was asked to cast votes for the four Orange awards, to go to people or organisations that enhanced democracy. Also there were three Lemon awards for those who had done democracy a disservice.
The Buzz informed and helped motivate the protest march on Saturday April 22, when about 200 people marched from the pier to the Town Hall. Dee Howard designed posters with slogans like ‘Knock Birch off his Perch’, ‘Our Space not SeaSpace’, ‘No More Gang of Four’, ‘HBC Putting the Con into Consultation’ and ‘HBC Needs Recycling’.
Hastings Democratic Alliance outside Town Hall
People wore orange T-shirts (the colour of the Ukranian Orange Revolution of 2004), and masks, some with the faces of Cllrs Birch and Kramer.
Mr Birch and Ms Kramer came out of the Town Hall and said they realised they had been high-handed and would be more consultative if re-elected.
CM: Colin, what sort of groups were involved?
CB: There was Save Our Seafront (SOS), opposed to the building of a hotel on the beach opposite St Mary in the Castle, Pelham Place. On Monday 3 October 2005 about 60 furious residents crammed into Hastings Council Chamber with a petition of over 4,000 signatures, to force councillors to listen to their objections. Residents had been given no official opportunity to object to these plans. They insisted that there should be no building on the beach, which was given to the people of Hastings in the terms of the Foreshore Trust (FT).
Representing those who signed the petition, Evelyn Modlinger asked: “Why is the Council so anxious to ignore the opinions of the residents?” (Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 7.10.04). To which Jeremy Birch replied “You are here to listen.”
Also: People Against Rises in Council Tax (PART) conducted a poll, in which 85% of Hastings residents voted that future council tax rises should be approved by a public vote if they went above inflation. Their secretary – and HDA member – Mike Mitchell said: “Councils should give residents a direct say in how heavily they are taxed, as well as how their money is spent.” This was approved by the Mayor, Pam Brown, who said, “Don’t give up on the work that’s being done today, because you can make a difference” (HSLO, 28.04.06).
And No Slipway: CRAG enlisted various groups to stop the construction of a concrete slipway for jet skis near the Old Bathing Pool site.
And The Union of Residents Association was formed to combat the perverse planning decisions of developments.
No Slipway campaign
CM: What was the outcome of the campaigns Save Our Seafront, People Against Rises in Council Tax, No Slipway and the Union of Residents Association that you refer to?
CB: The concrete slipway project was abandoned directly due to our campaign, and the proposal to build a hotel on the seafront (the SOS campaign) never went ahead. I’m not sure what happened with PART and the Union of Residents.
CM: To what extent were the more general aims of the HDA achieved?
CB: I think we won the battle, but lost the war. We were told on good authority that the Labour Party lost control of the Council at the subsequent local elections as a direct result of our campaign. As a lifelong Labour Party supporter I had mixed feelings about that particular result. I would have preferred the then controlling faction within the Labour Party to have listened to all our concerns.
We lost the chalets, but for a rare moment we showed what is possible when community groups come together to form a united front to stand up for local democracy.
People challenging the local council’s decisions
CM: Sue, what led to the HDA’s discontinuance?
SP: After the April 2006 protest march, with the May elections coming up, in spite of their promise to be more consultative, the Council were rattled.
When the Labour Council lost their majority, HDA members felt they had achieved all they could and disbanded. The Tories had said they would do it all differently, however they found themselves unsupported and ridiculed by Labour when they wanted to reassess decisions, and two years later, Labour were back in power.
Unfortunately, the Council has slipped back into its old ways, defining democracy as, once elected they have the mandate to make decisions without informing and consulting with their electorate.
“I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft.”
Rock-a-Nore: currently saved from development Photo LB
CM: As reported in HOT, there are a variety of issues affecting local people over which HBC’s lack of consideration has caused widespread frustration and opposition:
The unpopular harbour proposal at Rock-a-Nore – Hastings Harbour Quarter Company has withdrawn its proposal (see recent HOT article Hastings Harbour Proposal to be withdrawn).
Ecclesbourne Glen landslips, allegedly due to unregulated development at Rocklands caravan park. HBC has refused to release documents which might throw light on the cause of the landslips.
Sea Change Sussex criticized by SeaChangeWatch (previously Combe Haven Defenders) for not giving a briefing to HBC, leaving buildings empty or unused, roads through unspoilt countryside, and not creating the promised number of jobs.
Affordable housing: HBC has failed to insist on developers including a quota of affordable homes in house-building projects, allowing them to plead that it makes them unviable.
Proposed extension and refurbishment of the Amusement Park, which threatens the public right of way along the footpath.
Unnecessary tree felling at Beauport Caravan Park.
The Isabel Blackman Centre’s threatened closure by East Sussex County Council (ESCC).
Hastings Greenway Group: ESCC switching funds intended for walking and cycling projects to cover cost overruns on Sea Change road schemes.
The area action plan for White Rock and Bohemia, which proposes extensive house-building on much-needed green spaces.
Yet Hastings is a vibrant town with exciting grassroots activity reflecting local people’s views and initiatives as to what our town needs.
Amongst the current community groups written about in HOT are:
Transition Town Hastings: Encourages local residents to share their vision of how they see the town’s future in the areas of local economy, housing, waste and recycling, food, sustainable transport and energy.
Energise Sussex Coast/1066. Local Energy: A community benefit co-operative set up to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future through the development of community-owned renewable energy generation projects and energy efficiency schemes.
Heart of Hastings: A project set up by Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust, to use the land at Ore Valley for community events, with future hopes of affordable, sustainable housing and employment opportunities for local people.
Fossil Free Hastings/Divest East Sussex: Campaigns to persuade the East Sussex Pension Committee to switch funds out of fossil fuels.
Hastings Doughnut Economics Action Group: Explores the ideas and suggested actions in Kate Raworth’s book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist.
Hastings Sustainable Transport Forum: Aims to bring together local not-for-profit groups with an interest in sustainable transport.
The West Marina Diving Tower Project: Colin Booth’s project to create a full-size concrete and LED rendition of the original diving tower, once the centrepiece of the Old Bathing Pool (Hastings Independent Press, 24.08.2018).
Making a difference to local decisions
CM: Individuals and groups in Hastings and St Leonards do their best to hold public and private bodies to account, but collective action is fragmented and individual activists may become isolated, burnt out or ‘silenced’.
Sue and Colin, do you think the aims of the HDA remain relevant today? And would its revival prevent fragmentation, and inspire and empower people to take co-ordinated action, ensuring their voices are heard?
SP: Yes! A resounding yes! It has been done before, and there is absolutely no reason why it couldn’t be done again. It just needs the right spark.
CB: Anything that is pro-democracy, pro-activist and pro-local people coming together to take responsibility for what happens in this town has got to be a good thing.
Do you think that it would be a good idea for local groups to collaborate and for the Hastings Democratic Alliance to be revived?
Please use the Comments section below.
Posted 08:56 Saturday, Sep 29, 2018 In: Grassroots
Siobhan McHugh
While it’s understandable that you all have your reasons for criticising the decisons made by HBC and the cabinet etc, just be thankful that at least you have decisions made for Hastings by councillors from Hastings. In Bexhill we have decisions made for us by councillors from up to 30 miles away from our town. We recently had a “consultation” where we were invited to have our say on whether we should have a Town Council like Rye and Battle do which is the equivalent of a Parish Council. Needless to say that the people of Bexhill wanted this and 97% of those responding voted for a Town Council. When the decision was made by Rother District Council we were told to get lost by rural Tories with no connection whatsoever to Bexhill and at least one of the councillors denying us a Town Council don’t even live within the Rother District area but in Wealden. We have also seen our town deprived of funds and services while outlying areas are heavily subsidised by the countil tax payers of Bexhill. The majority of Rother residents live in Bexhill but the numbers on the Council give the culchies a built-in majority.
Comment by Siobhan McHugh — Sunday, Oct 14, 2018 @ 14:26
Chris Hurrell
Excellent article.The Cabinet system and the party whipping system has eviscerated local democracy. Elected members do not hold Officers to account. There is no separation of powers.
HBC is not accountable and its claims of being an open and transparent council are laughable.
Hastings is ruled by a cabal of senior officers in collaboration with the leader and a handful of Cabinet members. Councillors have little say and their main function is to rubber stamp decisions.
Internal party democracy is deeply flawed and ordinary party members have no say in decisions made at Cabinet – the general public have even less say – witness the way the Marina proposal was railroaded through Cabinet in 10 days without any consultation.
There are many campaign groups who work in isolation on single issues – they have very little impact. HBC sideline them and if they remain persistent close down all communication and vilify the group.
The resurrection of the HDA is essential – it would allow sharing of knowledge and resources and help to hold HBC to account.
A return to the committee system would be welcome and would return some control to councillors. However this would only work if our councillors would free themselves of the party whipping system and unconditional loyalty to the leader and HBC officers. The political dominance of a single party does nothing for democratic accountability – a PR system would be a much better option but is unlikely to happen.
Comment by Chris Hurrell — Saturday, Oct 13, 2018 @ 08:25
Councillors who support the majority party here in Hastings will never disagree with the Leader or their colleagues – they will have one opinion and it will not be supportive of the resurgence of the HDA.
Of that I am certain.
Comment by Ms.Doubtfire — Friday, Oct 12, 2018 @ 13:19
Terrific article – and equally terrific comments! I’ve been coming back to read the comments every few days, and it’s heartening to see such enthusiasm to get out and do something.
I would particularly support Julia Hilton’s point that we will be more effective by finding out what individual councillors think – while working towards a “positive vision for Hastings”.
Comment by Susan Tyler — Thursday, Oct 11, 2018 @ 15:00
How many residents are aware that not all important decisions are made via the Cabinet or Council meetings. Some decisions, considered of little importance to residents, are made via the delegated decision route – i.e. paid officers make the decisions and that is that.
This applies to the recent huge increases in beach hut rentals and other issues such as closing beach lavatories at 5pm in the summer months.
It also applies to the majority of planning applications to fell trees which carry Tree Preservation Orders. No commitee discussions and no public representation. You can complain if you are fortunate enough to find these applications but your complaints will be ignored.
There is no platform for protest. It just happens and tough luck if it hurts.
Comment by Ms.Doubtfire — Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018 @ 08:56
Julia Hilton
I think Russell’s suggestion of a petition asking for HBC to hold a referendum on whether to change from the current cabinet system to a more democratic and representative Committee system is a good one. Wherever Green councillors have either held power (as in Brighton) or held the balance of power (as in Worcester) they have changed the council back to a committee system.
For this to work in Hastings you would ideally need to get support from both Conservative and Labour councillors and voters. It’s not enough to just get the signatures, you would need a groundswell of support to win the referendum as well. It would be worth finding out what your individual councillors think of this, particularly those who are not in the cabinet. I am sure many of them would like to have more influence over decisions. If the HDA was revived I would like to see it working on what would be a positive vision for Hastings not just fighting against issues.
Comment by Julia Hilton — Sunday, Oct 7, 2018 @ 16:15
I’m in.
Don’t “they” realise this constituency is knife edge ?439 majority? for Amber Rudd. We are in a rare constituency where our votes actually DO matter.
Comment by Sunbear — Saturday, Oct 6, 2018 @ 17:53
Peter Bolwell
I remember that crazy scheme to build a hotel on the seafront – the brazen cheek of confiscating our beach matched only by the blind stupidity of putting such a building in that location when sea levels were known to be rising!
I agree that the “cabinet” system is pernicious, and tends to reinforce the general perception that “democracy” means in practice an elected dictatorship, the people having no power other than to swap one set for another at election time. There is always I am afraid the tension between the need to “get things done” and the awkward and messy business of listening to the people.
Interestingly, the problem is not a new one, nor is the suggestion for action to deal with it. Many readers are no doubt aware that a very distinguished resident of Hastings at the end of the 19th century was Elizabeth Blackwell, famous as the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain, who moved to Rock House on the West Hill in 1979 when she retired. Not so many perhaps will know about her brush with local politics. I have a copy of her pamphlet written in 1885 entitled “On the decay of municipal representative government”. The title says it all! On the first page she describes how candidates standing in the Council elections would come to call on her before the election and agree with everything she told them but, she continues, “I soon perceived that all influence ceased with the election; that matters went on in the same way without me as with me, and my supposed privilege of voting seemed really to be very much of a mockery.” Does this sound familiar at all?
What is also interesting is that she responded to the particular situation she was dealing with – basically Councillors forcing through measures that not only had no popular support but which were actually harmful to the interests of local residents – by forming a Ratepayers Committee, and she closes her pamphlet with this appeal: “An unofficial organisation sufficiently suited to respond promptly to any sudden municipal call, has really become of vital importance”. Interesting, isn’t it?
Comment by Peter Bolwell — Friday, Oct 5, 2018 @ 21:59
Michael Madden
Sorry to comment so late Chandra – busy lately. But having finally read your article I think it’s truly excellent – really in-depth and making a very strong case for reviving the HDA. It’s true that small groups taking up separate issues can achieve far less than a bigger one; so I think this is a fine idea.
Just to say that regarding Hastings threatened built heritage, I am very concerned about the proposed White Rock Masterplan, which will involve the demolition of the 1927 theatre building, which is one of the most interesting and elegant older buildings on the seafront. It’s irreplaceable and should be listed, but it probably won’t be because it wasn’t designed by a famous architect. I’ve made an application for its listing but it may fail. I should say, by the way, that the entrance columns are not original to the building but were added by the council some decades ago and are in fact modified sewer pipes. They should be removed.
The problem I see is that planning officers are not visually or historically trained. They seem to have no idea of the quality of such remaining buildings, and so they don’t appreciate the fact that many of the building they demolish are finer than their replacements could ever be.
I do not believe that the W.R.Theatre’s under-use is because of its size or capacity. I think it’s because of the standard of the shows that are put on. At the moment its management is subbed out to a company who are subsidised by Hastings’ taxpayers on every ticket sold. So it seems that the “Masterplan” may just be another case of this council’s tendency to cosy up to developers.
This is just one more instance, added to the others menationed in your fine article, why the HDA should be revived. The council is shockingly non-transparent, which doesn’t help. Russell’s idea of the petition is alson very good.
Anyway, well done. Excellent stuff, as always.
Comment by Michael Madden — Friday, Oct 5, 2018 @ 09:29
I agree with all. Hastings Council is the opposite of transparent.
It is even in their interest to come out of their caucus, listen to comments, and explain why they decide things. This is especially true of planning issues. Let’s face it: we won’t always like their decisions (eg for more housing development) but if we understand the pressures they are under then the atmosphere will improve.
Sometimes too there is scope for negotiation – for exmaple, if the playing fields are build on then what area and what money is to be set aside for recreation, perhaps designed to cater for a wider section of society than use the space at the moment?
Comment by Bea — Thursday, Oct 4, 2018 @ 11:17
Oona Ball
Inspirational article. Yes to a relaunch of the HDA and to happy to sign Russel Halls suggested petition!
Comment by Oona Ball — Thursday, Oct 4, 2018 @ 08:07
Chris Coverdale
An excellent article Chandra. A revival of HDA is exactly what is needed.This time however we must ensure that it has teeth – the decision making power to decide for ourselves what Hastings needs and the financial power to put it into effect.
I suggest that we set up a public meeting in the near future to revive HDA and set it on a new course.
Comment by Chris Coverdale — Wednesday, Oct 3, 2018 @ 12:18
I certainly remember that march, and stand by my comments at the time.
Most of the anger was directed at the planning process as practised by the Labour Party. This has in fact got worse, and when the Tories were involved, they were no better.
The problem with Labour is that they do not believe in REAL consultation which to work properly, needs – not just listening, but being prepared to change if this is clearly the majority view.
Under the Liberal Democrats, planning was far more ‘out in the open’. Less delegeted powers, and less authoritarian decisions. Way back, the Lib Dems introduced the ‘Petition’ system, which others have tried to decry and even get rid of!
Local groups have much expertise, and strong links with the community – neither major political party will commit to involving local groups – a real change is needed to bring back those who are genuinely committed to WORKING TOGETHER for the good of our town.
Comment by Pam Brown — Wednesday, Oct 3, 2018 @ 11:15
Eye on the ball
We definitely need the HDA. There is no effective consultation in Hastings. It would seem from the recent council meeting that the only reason the Rock a Nore marina proposal was withdrawn was that H M Treasury did not come up with the £1.5M for a feasibility study.
(The proposer was clearly not going to risk any of its own money). I’ll sign up to the HDA today.
Comment by Eye on the ball — Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018 @ 11:55
An excellent call to action. Just what we need in Hastings. A central group able to bring to attention matters that ‘the public’ value.
Comment by James Buchanan — Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018 @ 01:12
Lynda Foy
Yes, I think it would be a good idea to revive the Hastings Democratic Alliance to act as an umbrella group for residents who are tired of seeing their legitimate concerns ignored by the borough council.
For example, the current Rock a Nore Marina plan has been withdrawn, but there’s a good chance that it will be revived in a modified form. If so, a residents’ group is needed to try to get the government’s planning minister to call this scheme in for a public inquiry. A proper, public examination of any future proposals is needed and a residents’ group could gather and present its planning objections in a coherent and professional way.
Comment by Lynda Foy — Monday, Oct 1, 2018 @ 18:58
Anything that curtails the cavalier attitude to development, democracy and transparency is to be welcomed. I concur with Russell Hall about abandoning the Cabinet system re: HBC.
FYI, the appalling decision (by a mere 6 votes to 2 when not all planning committee members were present) to develop the publicly-owned Harrow Lane Playing Fields (140 dwellings) means that this land grab will deprive the area of its last green space for recreation. This, in tandem with a proposed development for Holmhurst St Mary (65 dwellings) adjacent to the playing fields can only mean more traffic congestion in The Ridge area and more pressure on already-stretched public services (schools, GPs, dentists etc.).
Comment by DAR — Monday, Oct 1, 2018 @ 14:31
This is an excellent article, Chandra. Hastings needs local well-wishers to preserve its unique charm. The town has so much beauty and it requires vigilance to maintain that distinctive character. The Hastings Democratic Alliance would likely be the required platform to focus attention where it matters.
Comment by James — Monday, Oct 1, 2018 @ 12:13
ELSA79
Excellent article, Chandra. Thanks for the inspiration. I think it would be a very good idea to revive the HDA. Eg am delighted that the harbour proposal at Rock-a-Nore has been declined. Apart from what a monstrosity it would have been – think also of the amount of CO2 emitted, when eg building a tunnel underneath East Hill,(yes, that was mentioned) – so as to give access to the “project of building a marina within a new harbour wall for 600 berths, 1,300 houses, a hotel, a leisure facility, a new venue for events – and permanent jobs for five hundred to a thousand people”. How would all those occupants and the 500-1000 new workers move around? I thought Hastings was in the process of REDUCING CO2 emissions…
So it would be good to revive the HDA.
Comment by ELSA79 — Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 @ 23:01
The only language elected councillors understand is the ballot box. A campaigning group outside the party political divide can hold the council to account and demand proper consideration of the will of the people if they make enough noise to threaten the electoral majority of those in power. So yes to relaunching the HDA. In Hastings you seem to have got their attention with the harbour proposal being dropped. Now follow through with a general campaign against all abuse of power by campaigning for a change of the Cabinet system to a representative committee system.
Comment by Edward — Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 @ 19:30
Lets get cracking on this petition – I am sure we would be able to get more than the required amount of signatures.
We need some democracy in this town – the current system is operating behind closed doors and this has to stop.
Comment by Ms.Doubtfire — Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 @ 16:50
S Serf
I think its time for some people power here – I would support the revival !
Comment by S Serf — Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 @ 16:31
Bolshie
Well covered article about the problems with HBC, the lack of democracy and transparency. Some thing is desperately needed to bring this council into line. Russell Hall’s suggestion is something I have raised with others as I can see that will be the only forward way to go if there is to be a drastic change in the way HBC operates.
Another stab at local democracy not mentioned is the Planning Application changes: From five minutes to three minutes for anyone speaking on an application. From three objections to five objections to avoid a delegated decision. Tree applications all now delegated and not going before the planning committee. The apparent reason for this is councillors on the planning committee don’t know anything about trees and their decisions on such matters is not considered sound. As if their knowledge on ordinary planning applications is something to shout about. Then there is the £120 charge you will be expected to pay if you want to ask the planning department a question on something that is not a current active application. that of course stops most people in their tracks.
And while on the democratic issue – who in the council decided to buy two retail units costing the taxpayer £16million – without costs.
Comment by Bolshie — Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 @ 15:54
Russell Hall
A 3,169 signature petition would force Hastings Borough Council to hold a referendum on whether to change from the current Cabinet system of governance to a more democratic and representative Committee system (see: https://www.hastings.gov.uk/voting_elections/petitions/)
Brighton & Hove City Council did this in 2012 (see: https://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?AIId=26051).
Comment by Russell Hall — Saturday, Sep 29, 2018 @ 15:02
Well, yes, let’s relaunch the Hastings Democratic Alliance! It worked last time, there’s a crying need for greater democracy here, there’s an army of activists in the town, let’s bring them together. Thanks again for another piece of effective campaigning journalism, Chandra.
Comment by John Baker — Saturday, Sep 29, 2018 @ 10:10
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Young, Free, and Positive: CSO leads HIV awareness
by Jomar Villanueva
Aiming to raise the HIV/AIDS awareness of Dasmariñas City’s Sangguniang Kabataan (SK), the Council of Student Organizations (CSO) and the Lasallian Community Development Center (LCDC) organized an outreach activity titled Young, Free, and Positive at the Alumni Auditorium yesterday, February 23.
According to Gerard Maro, CSO Coordinator for Outreach Activities, there is a need for people in and outside the perimeters of the university to take the issue of HIV/AIDS seriously. “Kailangang isapuso talaga ang mga ganitong advocacy [tungkol sa HIV/AIDS],” he said, “Kasi napapanahon at kailangan na talaga nating kumilos [bilang] mga kabataan.”
On HIV-prevention and stigma-reduction
The speakers of the event involved HIV/AIDS advocates from non-government organizations and local government units. Symson Maquera, counselor from Dasmariñas Social Hygiene Clinic, bolstered the knowledge of the participants on Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). He said that abstinence, faithfulness to a single partner, proper sex education, and early HIV/AIDS detection can be effective in preventing the spread of the disease.
Meanwhile, Dr. Soledad Mendiola, a physician from the same clinic, said that the participation of the youth in educational seminars like this is significant in HIV-prevention and stigma-reduction. They also shared that a person with HIV/AIDS can receive free Antiretroviral Therapy which help slow down the replication of the virus.
Mr. Joseph Cadelina, an HIV/AIDS volunteer, likewise shared their story as advocates from Love Yourself, Inc., an organization that boost the self-worth of people with HIV/AIDS. He said that as youth leaders, local SK Officials can ask for the Adolescent Health and Development Program framework from DOH to combat health issues like HIV/AIDS in the local community.
At the event, an advocate named Kuya Louie, 34 years old, was invited onstage to share his story being HIV- positive. He said that having HIV is not a curse. For him, it was in fact a blessing that bridged him to realize his mission in life to be an advocate and a living testimony against the stigma. He said that “Pag-unawa, pagtanggap, at patas na karapatan” is what people with HIV need at these trying times when discrimination is still rampant.
Mobilizing the youth
The Young, Free, and Positive outreach event aims not only to educate people about HIV/AIDS but also to compel them to take action—especially the youth who are at most risk. The United Nations AIDS Council (UNAIDS) reported in 2018 that 32 Filipinos on average are infected by HIV on a daily basis. From 1984 to 2018, there are almost 7,700 diagnosed individuals in CALABARZON alone. According to the 2018 report of DOH, three of the eight HIV/AIDS high risk areas are found in Cavite (Bacoor, Imus, and Dasmariñas). In Dasmariñas, 262,562 people aged 10 to 29 or 40% of the total population are at risk of acquiring the disease.
This is why Van Dofitas, President of Bahaghari Advocacy Group, reiterated that there is a need for proactive action to combat the issue of HIV/AIDS especially in the local community. “As SK Officials, you are duty-bearers; meron kayong responsibilidad na dapat gampanan.” He added that the advocacy group had been continually communicating with the LCDC to raise more consciousness to the Lasallians. “Ito ay upang magising ang mga kabataan sa [DLSU-D] tungkol sa [mga dapat nilang malaman ukol sa] HIV at AIDS.”
The mobilization of the youth sector to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS is a challenge for the SK Officials of Dasmariñas City, according to Jerome Gonzales, Vice-President of the Provincial SK Federation. “Hamon sa [amin] na ilapit ang mga organisasyon sa kabataan, ilapit ang karunungan, at maging proactive,” he said. In response, SK Chairman John Buenaobra aims to coordinate with HIV/AIDS advocates to ask them for more events ideas other than a seminar. Lasallian alumni and current SK Councilor Arvin Agetano, meanwhile, said that they are planning to integrate HIV/AIDS education on their upcoming youth camps, which they have been conducting for the past six years.
The Young, Free, and Positive outreach event of the CSO and LCDC gave light to the issue of HIV/AIDS—this time, enlightening those who can create actual platforms and frameworks to combat the spread of the disease in the local community. The event is also a reminder that to create ripples of change towards the issue of HIV/AIDS, the SK officials—and the youth of Dasmariñas as a whole—must first be immersed in the water.
Here are the following Primary HIV Care Facilities in CALABARZON to seek assistance or help, if a person or their loved one has HIV/AIDS:
Antipolo Social Hygiene Clinic
Santos St., Brgy. San Roque, Antipolo City
Dasmariñas City Health Office I (SHC)
Zone 2, Manggubat St., City Health Office I, Dasmariñas, Cavite
(046) 416-0279/09177902168
Bacoor Social Hygiene Clinic
Floraville Subdivision, Panapaan 1, Bacoor City
Imus Social Hygiene Clinic
Medicion 1C, Velarde Subdivision, Imus
(046) 434-4057/09267013539/09258787158
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Addressing students’ concerns regarding the abolition of Green Day Friday, Office of Student Services (OSS) Dean Arch.
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Potteraholic on Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:23 am
This topic serves as an archive of a thread from the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum as hosted on World Crossing, which ceased operation on April 15, 2011. It was copied/saved by Lady Arabella and reformatted/reposted by Potteraholic. ~Potteraholic
Phelim Mcintyre - Aug 7, 2005 8:26 am
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Inferi appear in Book 6, and are similar to zombies. We know that they are the bodies of dead people reanimated to serve a dark wizard. We know that only fire affects them. But can the bodies of people who become ghosts be used. Do they have to die in a specific way (e.g. killed by the wizard who then reanimates the corpse). What can we infer from HBP? Any comments?
NOTE: This thread was originally entitled 'Inferi'. But on this forum: "The length of the title for this topic must be ranging between 10 and 255 characters", is the message that appeared when I tried to post the header post. So I added extra spaces after 'Inferi', and it worked!
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Inferi (posts #1 - #50)
Choices - Aug 7, 2005 9:11 am (#1 of 188)
It is my belief that anyone can become an Inferi. After all, when you're dead you really have no say in what becomes of your body (other than the obvious pre-death arrangements you make). A dark wizard could rob a grave and turn the occupant into an Inferi that would serve/obey that dark wizards commands. I don't think the dark wizard necessarily has to kill that person - any dead body would do.
Nathan Zimmermann - Aug 7, 2005 12:01 pm (#2 of 188)
Can those who have been demented become Inferi?
Star Crossed - Aug 7, 2005 12:37 pm (#3 of 188)
I have a terribly sinking feeling that Lily and James may become Inferi. The comment Voldie made (It may just be in the film, I'm not sure.) in SS/PS saying, "Would you like to see your parents again?" That struck me really hard when we learned what Inferi are.
Dr Filibuster - Aug 7, 2005 1:08 pm (#4 of 188)
Edited Aug 7, 2005 2:09 pm
Aly, that's exactly what I was fearing as I got nearer to the end of HBP.
When the Inferi did make an appearance it wasn't as bad as I had imagined. I was impressed with Dumbledore's calm, matter-of-fact approach to them.
Puck - Aug 7, 2005 6:17 pm (#5 of 188)
I was pretty creeped out by the idea, no matter how calm DD remained.
I doubt someone who goes through the veil body and soul -like Sirius- could become an Inferi. Their bodies have left this realm, so can not be used.
Marie E. - Aug 7, 2005 9:19 pm (#6 of 188)
I was creeped out, too. That was some awful mental imagery there. *shudder*
Saralinda Again - Aug 7, 2005 9:44 pm (#7 of 188)
Unfortunately, when the one Inferius popped up when Harry said "Accio Horcrux," I was instantly burdened with the image of the lake full of Inferi randomly leaping like porpoises. I cannot shake it, and that makes it hard for me to take these truly creepy things seriously.
I'm sure JKR will straighten me out in Book Seven, though.
Puck - Aug 8, 2005 9:52 am (#8 of 188)
I was wondering whether a soul can be truly "at rest" if the body has been turned into an Inferi.
Verbina - Aug 8, 2005 11:01 am (#9 of 188)
I got the feeling that the Inferi can only come from a recently dead body. Not sure why that is. Someone said in the HBP book that Voldemort had an army of them from the people killed by the DEs. So it struck me that perhaps not just any dead body but a .... * gulp* freshly killed corpse.
The Sword and the Lion - Aug 8, 2005 1:36 pm (#10 of 188)
The Inferi don't seem to be that powerful other than the fear-factor they generate. The Inferi are more or less like zombies, no? Walk briskly and you’re safe!
TwinklingBlueEyes - Aug 8, 2005 2:38 pm (#11 of 188)
"or provoke the aggression of the Inferius" - a bloody mass upon ground." HBP pp 178
Might even want to trot a little... :-)
Herm oh ninny - Aug 8, 2005 3:42 pm (#12 of 188)
I always assumed that there was nothing left of Lily and James' bodies. Since the house went up in flames I assumed that their bodies got burnt as well. Was I wrong in assuming this?
Madam Pince - Aug 8, 2005 4:38 pm (#13 of 188)
Not any more wrong than any of our other many assumptions. I don't recall that the house went up in flames, although I could be wrong -- I thought Hagrid just said it had been completely destroyed. Could've been just exploded apart or something. That's how I always pictured it.
Harry says at the end of HBP that he might want to visit his parents' graves, which indicates there might have been bodies, although not necessarily, I suppose. (That begs the whole question of why he's only NOW considering visiting their graves, after all these years, but anyway...)
Choices - Aug 8, 2005 5:18 pm (#14 of 188)
I never thought the house burned either. It was more like an explosion if I remember correctly. There was evidently enough of Lily and James to bury, cause Harry wants to go to Godric's Hollow to visit their graves.
virgoddess1313 - Aug 8, 2005 7:28 pm (#15 of 188)
I wonder though if Inferi have any specific "powers" for lack of a better word... and if they do if this has any relation to the power of the witch or wizard who made them.
The fear of them might just come from the repulsion of a dead body or the horror that a corpse is being desecrated in such a manner, but I doubt it. There must really be something to fear from the Inferi, just judging by the fact that they appeared in the Ministry pamphlet, something that the average witch or wizard might not be able to handle.
Steve Newton - Aug 9, 2005 5:28 am (#16 of 188)
We do have some evidence that an AK that misses will start a fire. In the MOM interchange between Voldemort and Dumbledore one of Voldemort's spells (green the color of the AK) goes astray and hits Eric's desk. The desk catches on fire.
Choices - Aug 9, 2005 9:13 am (#17 of 188)
But, Voldemort's AK didn't miss.
Classicsquid592 - Aug 9, 2005 10:00 am (#18 of 188)
There must really be something to fear from the Inferi"
On the first day of DADA, Snape had a picture of what resulted from an attack by an Inferius. It was a pretty gruesome picture. I should think that they would be something to avoid at all costs, especially since they seem immune to most attacks.
Steve Newton - Aug 9, 2005 10:08 am (#19 of 188)
Choices, one of Voldemort's green spells missed and started a fire. (uh oh, could it have be Bella's. I'll have to recheck.)
LooneyLuna - Aug 9, 2005 10:12 am (#20 of 188)
Right. How do you kill/stop something that is already dead? If you cut a hand off of an Inferi, will the hand still crawl around?
Harry was stupefying them, but that charm can wear off. When Dumbledore created the fire, did the Inferi burn?
Herm oh ninny - Aug 9, 2005 11:28 am (#21 of 188)
I don't think that they burned. I think that they just kind of shrank away from the light/warmth caused by the flames.
Steve - "Choices, one of Voldemort's green spells missed and started a fire. (uh oh, could it have be Bella's. I'll have to recheck.)"
Oops, guess we are talking about two different times. I was talking about the time when Harry was a baby. Someone had suggested that the Godric's Hollow house had burned because Voldemort's AK had started a fire. I said the AK didn't miss, but caused an explosion more or less when it backfired on him.
Steve Newton - Aug 9, 2005 8:07 pm (#23 of 188)
But in Godric's Hollow there seem to have been at least 3 AK's thrown. Maybe more if the Potters got in their licks. Some may have been used and missed.
Puck - Aug 11, 2005 6:29 pm (#24 of 188)
Either way, I doubt the Potters could be made into Inferi. I'm guessing it wouldn't have been done right away, as LV was gone, and the DE trying to decide how to handle his demise. I'm guessing a corpse has to be made into an Inferi within a certain time frame, or else the body would be too far into a state of decomposition. (Sorry, not trying to be gross.) I'm guess by this point it is much too late to use James and Lily in this way. Besides, I think that is just a little too dark and creepy for JKR.
Madam Pince - Aug 12, 2005 8:37 am (#25 of 188)
I sure hope so, Puck. I can't think of anything much worse than for Harry to see James and Lily as Inferi, much less have to conquer them or something. Yuck. I have never quite forgiven Stephen King for what he did with the little boy in "Pet Cemetery." That was just a little beyond the bounds for me. If JKR did that with James and Lily, I'd feel the same way. Those Inferi are seriously creepy.
Solitaire - Aug 12, 2005 9:41 am (#26 of 188)
I do not remember anything from the text to make me think a corpse must be turned into an Inferi within a specific window of time from death. I may change my mind upon a reread, but this is my opinion for the moment.
Given this conviction, I must admit that the moment I found out what Inferi were, I began to fear that Lily might have been turned into one. I posted about this early on the Horcrux thread. Consider the horror Harry would feel if he were to be faced with her in that state when he was trying to redeem a Horcrux--or defend himself against DEs or Voldemort. That would be a pretty effective way to attempt to neutralize him.
Verbina - Aug 12, 2005 10:32 am (#27 of 188)
In HBP, the Inferi still had flesh on them, though it struck me as being pretty disgusting. This seems to suggest that they were made into Inferi before the worst of the decomposition sets in. No mention was made of anything like a animated skeleton in the Inferi Harry saw. So unless the process of reanimating a dead body involves creation of new flesh to cover the bones, it would seem that there is a time limit to the creation of an Inferi from a corpse.
virgoddess1313 - Aug 12, 2005 6:16 pm (#28 of 188)
I completely agree with Verbina... at some point things stop holding together. Once the remains become skeletal, I think the dark wizards job might become a little too difficult.
Thanks Verbina, that's what I meant, but you said it better.
Ms Amanda - Aug 13, 2005 6:12 pm (#30 of 188)
I wonder if Cedric knew about Inferi. He did ask that his body be returned to his parents, and at the time I thought it was just normal sentiment. But if the "smoky" Cedric somehow knew what was going on, perhaps he feared becoming one.
After all, the other ghost-like echoes of people seemed to know what was happening and could create a plan. Maybe Cedric's echo was aware of something Voldemort was planning to use.
Interesting thought. It makes a lot of sense.
LooneyLuna - Aug 14, 2005 5:27 am (#32 of 188)
That's chilling, Ms. Amanda. Cedric may have known about the Inferi.
Solitaire - Aug 14, 2005 7:42 pm (#33 of 188)
But suppose some of those who were killed many years ago have already been made into Inferi? Just because we have not yet seen them does not mean it has not happened.
Puck - Aug 15, 2005 1:38 am (#34 of 188)
Yes, I agree that some of the Inferi could have been waiting in idle for a command, but I doubt the Potters are among them. LV wouldn't have had the chance, and his followers were busy either covering their own behinds or trying to find their master.
I doubt many that have been listed as killed will turn out to be Inferi, as it seem there was a body found, and likely buried (Not that the DE are beyond grave robbing). I figure we should be more concerned with those labeled as "missing".
vanessa cave - Aug 15, 2005 6:51 am (#35 of 188)
I really don't think the potters will turn up as Inferi, it is just too dark and creepy for these books it would be going too far. Was anyone else reminded of the dead marshes from lord of the rings when Harry and Dumbledore crossed the lake?
azi - Aug 15, 2005 9:54 am (#36 of 188)
Vanessa, I thought of the Dead Marshes too! I don't mind though, it just makes the description more life-like and vivid after seeing it in the Lord of the rings films. I also remember the Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix with the use of dead-bodyness.
I agree, we should be more worried about those people who are labeled as 'missing', such as Caradoc Dearborn possibly? Original member of the Order of the Phoenix, if you recall. Maybe his body is lying in a lake somewhere.
I remember that Karkaroff's body was found 'up north'. Why didn't anyone turn it into an Inferi? I suppose Karkaroff may have just been left to show what happens when a Death Eater leaves the Dark Lord.
We don't know how complicated the spell is, or if there are certain conditions under which it must be done. I would hazard a guess that the body must be fresh and once buried and decomposing it would be useless. The bodies described in the lake were not ragged or falling apart. Isn't this a morbid subject?
M A Grimmett - Aug 15, 2005 10:28 am (#37 of 188)
It is morbid, but strangely fascinating... :-)
LooneyLuna - Aug 15, 2005 4:15 pm (#38 of 188)
It would all come down to whether wizard/witch bodies decompose after death like Muggle bodies. We do not know whether they decompose or not. It's magic, after all.
Or, is there a spell to give a skeleton back its body. Cloak it in flesh, as it were.
Questions for the next open letter or poll.
vanessa cave - Aug 15, 2005 9:21 pm (#39 of 188)
Oooh I really don't like the Inferi, I hate zombies the whole idea of them just creeps me out more than anything else. Lets hope just walking briskly to get away from them works and they aren't like the zombies from the dawn of the dead remake they could move!
Phelim Mcintyre - Aug 16, 2005 6:07 am (#40 of 188)
I know something else which could be used to defeat the Inferi. The Michael Jackson song Thriller
Herm oh ninny - Aug 16, 2005 11:07 am (#41 of 188)
LOL Phelim! I can see it now.... Harry is being stalked by a group of Inferi. Harry quickly summons a cd player and hits the play button. The Inferi immediately stop chasing Harry and start to dance to the groovy music!!
Herm oh ninny - yes leaving Dudley defenseless.
All together now......"And it's thriller"
HungarianHorntail11 - Aug 21, 2005 5:16 pm (#43 of 188)
"There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water. . . . "
That is the description of a Dementor's hand in PoA (pg. 83, Scholastic ed., hardcover). Sounds an awful lot like Inferi, doesn't it?
"A slimy white hand gripped his wrist. . . " pg. 575, hardcover Scholastic ed. HBP. That is the description of Inferi.
They're both slimy and one is grayish and one is whitish. So, which comes first when decomposing - graying or whitening?
timrew - Aug 22, 2005 1:53 pm (#44 of 188)
Hungarian Horntail 11, what are you Inferring?
I can handle anything as long as it's not another joke with Umbridge in it timrew! (Still trying to shake off that - ick - sight.)
The giant squid - Aug 23, 2005 12:46 am (#46 of 188)
I toadally agree, HH.
I think I missed something. Umbridge as an Inferi? Okay, she's a scary toad to start with!
I can't see anyone Harry loves/cares for become an Inferi, because that is just too creepy, but it is a possibility for other characters. Or do we think they will all remain "faceless" (Not literally, just that they won't be known/recognized.)
Oruma - Aug 29, 2005 1:54 pm (#48 of 188)
Hmm, remember the people that Moody mentioned, who went missing and were never found when fighting Voldemort during VoldieWar1? Could some of those people, presumed dead, have been turned into Inferi?
Also, someone mentioned that the Inferi may have some special attributes, that's why they're feared as such. Perhaps...an Inferius cannot be killed at all, only driven away?
Just my 2 knuts...
haymoni - Aug 29, 2005 5:56 pm (#49 of 188)
I didn't understand the big deal about the Inferi.
I thought we were going to have a bunch of dead people walking down the street like Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
A bunch of body parts in the lake didn't seem like the army of Inferi that I thought we were going to see. It was gross and made me feel kind of sick inside for all the victims, but I kept thinking something more was going to happen.
How could anyone mistake Inferi for anything else?
Oh, I don't think we saw the true evil of the Inferi, I think that is yet to come. I mean, we saw them come after Harry and DD, but we have no idea of what happens if they actually get you.
I'm guessing the danger would be in seeing some you know from a distance, perhaps someone who has been missing, you run up to them, not noticing that are not quite "themselves" until it is too late, until you are too close to get away.
Inferi (posts #51 - #100)
haymoni - Aug 30, 2005 5:19 am (#51 of 188)
It's just gross, no matter how you look at it.
M A Grimmett - Aug 30, 2005 8:12 am (#52 of 188)
It is gross. I agree that I was waiting for them to do something truly unpleasant. It seemed rather mild, especially for LV.
I agree with Puck that we probably haven't seen the last of the Inferi. It seems to me that they are too formidable a weapon to waste. Even if they are just intimidating, they would be worth it to Voldemort.
Madame Pomfrey - Sep 6, 2005 7:35 pm (#54 of 188)
Edited Sep 6, 2005 8:35 pm
They sound like Night of the Living Dead if they are anything like the poster in Snape’s DADA room.---"Or provoke the aggression of the Inferius-a bloody mass upon the ground."
Choices - Sep 7, 2005 5:32 pm (#55 of 188)
They would be even scarier if they could not be stopped, but it seems only to take a little fire to fend them off. Perhaps that is not widely known.
Abracapocus - Sep 8, 2005 4:34 am (#56 of 188)
The Dead Marshes had number one in my opinion of overall creepiness until the Inferi. That is what I like about JKR - she gives us some detail and lets our minds fill in the rest. I really don't need a more graphic description - my mind did a good enough job on its own!
I hope we do see them again, but I think it would go beyond creepy and gross to ultimately terrifying for Harry to recognize one of them. *shudder*
dizzy lizzy - Sep 8, 2005 5:45 pm (#57 of 188)
Why is it when I first read of Inferi, I thought of Harry's parents being Inferi??
In the cold hard light of day, I no longer think this to be the case, but gee it gave me the creeps when reading HBP the first time.
Solitaire - Sep 24, 2005 1:20 pm (#58 of 188)
I agree with Puck. I do not believe we have seen the last of the Inferi at all. I also have a sick feeling that Lily, in particular, might be used as an Inferi against Harry. Such dirty tricks would hardly be out of character with Voldemort.
timrew - Sep 24, 2005 1:53 pm (#59 of 188)
Edited Sep 24, 2005 2:53 pm
Lily's Inferi:- "I am your mummy, Harry!"
Harry:- "No. You're just a mummy!"
Choices - Sep 24, 2005 5:15 pm (#60 of 188)
Tim - that was a very Inferi-or joke. Then why am I laughing??? LOL
Hm ... perhaps you're being magnanimous because it's his birthday? Happy Birthday, Tim!
Really, though, I just can't shake the feeling that Inferi are going to be important in Book 7--and that it will be difficult for Harry to deal with them because Lily or James will be one of them.
RoseMorninStar - Sep 25, 2005 12:47 am (#62 of 188)
Um... I had kind of avoided this thread because it seemed like such a dead subject. But I see we have found our way around that haven't we?
Tim... all I can do is shake my head and laugh...and agree with Choices about OR-or jokes.
I had never even considered Voldemort using specific people (James & Lily) as Inferi. That would be dirty!! I wonder.. can anyone whom is buried be used as Inferi?
Phelim Mcintyre - Sep 25, 2005 5:39 am (#63 of 188)
RoseMorninStar - what about your comment about this thread being a dead subject? Or was no pun infer(I)ed?
Choices - Sep 25, 2005 9:19 am (#64 of 188)
Wow, Happy Birthday Tim!! I wish you many more! :-)
RoseMorninStar - Sep 25, 2005 2:29 pm (#65 of 188)
Phelim, dead right you are!! I guess I am not as good at puns as Tim is.
Oh, and by the by... happy (belated) birthday Tim!!
Verbina - Sep 28, 2005 10:43 pm (#66 of 188)
I don't know about anyone who is buried....the Inferi in the lake still had flesh unless there is a spell to reconstruct the flesh to the body. Besides wasn't there something said about the army of Inferi being so large due to the deaths the Death Eaters had brought about the last time?
azi - Sep 29, 2005 11:08 am (#67 of 188)
Edited Sep 29, 2005 12:09 pm
Page 63, HBP UK edition;
Dumbledore - 'Inferi have not been seen for a long time, however, not since when Voldemort was last powerful ... he killed enough people to make an army of them, of course.'
Madam Pince - Sep 29, 2005 1:09 pm (#68 of 188)
MuggleNet has posted the cover art for the Swedish version of "Half-Blood Prince." It is very cool looking -- has Inferi in the water underneath the boat carrying Harry and a very Richard-Harris-looking Dumbledore. I love it!
M A Grimmett - Sep 30, 2005 12:49 pm (#69 of 188)
I wonder what happens to Inferi. What happened to the lot of them after LV went away? Are they just resting, waiting to be called, were they all destroyed, or have they disintegrated? What's the "lifespan" of one of them?
M A Grimmet. Inferi don't have a lifespan. That is to say, they had a lifespan; but now they're dead...............
It's the Deathspan we should be discussing. At least the part where they 'move about' a bit.............
haymoni - Sep 30, 2005 7:30 pm (#71 of 188)
The whole thing is just disgusting.
That lake is like a pot of Inferi soup.
It's just gross.
Fenrir disgusts me, but in an angry way.
Inferi are just yucky.
It's a technical term.
Troels Forchhammer - Oct 2, 2005 2:43 am (#72 of 188)
The Danish cover also shows Inferi in a rather tense situation.
I'm afraid that I can only find a rather small picture a.t.m. but will check to see if there is a larger picture somewhere.
Harry Potter og Halvblodsprinsen,
Gyldendal, 15 October 2005
Original title (well, obviously ): Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
pottermom34 - Oct 4, 2005 6:40 am (#73 of 188)
That's kind of creepy.
M A Grimmett - Oct 16, 2005 9:18 am (#74 of 188)
That's really icky.
Ok, Tim, I concede--deathspan for Inferi. So what's the deathspan of these things?
timrew - Oct 17, 2005 2:08 pm (#75 of 188)
LOL, M A Grimmett! I think the 'deathspan' of an Inferi could far outstretch its lifespan. I mean, how long have some of those things been in the lake?
Oliver Wood - Oct 20, 2005 6:54 pm (#76 of 188)
Personally I found the Inferi a little lackluster in the book. They were so built up through the entire thing, then they were there and gone. I don't know maybe it's just me. They're creepy, but they didn't seem as bad as they were made out to be. I mean you can beat them with fire, that's pretty basic swordplay.
Verbina - Oct 20, 2005 8:37 pm (#77 of 188)
Edited by Oct 20, 2005 9:38 pm
I thought the same way...a little bit anyway. That's why I am thinking that they will come into play in the next book in a big way.
I have thought that perhaps Dumbledore's Army would re-group in a sense and that some of the kids that are able to return to Hogwarts and are facing some pretty nasty things may find some of their relatives in the army of Inferi.... A nasty thing to see!
Madame Pomfrey - Oct 21, 2005 5:44 am (#78 of 188)
Troels, that cover is creepy but in my minds eye I expected rotting flesh. Where are their robes? Had I not read the book I would have thought Harry was being invited into a hot tub.
M A Grimmett - Oct 22, 2005 2:18 pm (#79 of 188)
Tim, maybe they have a freshness date.
Oliver Wood - Oct 23, 2005 5:34 am (#80 of 188)
Verbina, I would agree that if your relative appeared in an Inferi army, it might be harder to fight. Maybe part of there power lies in the emotional draw to people's past. I.e. could Lily and James show up to try a stop Harry?
Solitaire - Oct 23, 2005 9:25 am (#81 of 188)
Oliver, that is the possibility which I think would be a real problem for Harry. Remember back in PoA ... he wondered how he would ever produce a Patronus when part of him wanted to hear his parents' voices. What would he do if Lily, especially, turned up as an Inferi to try and stop him from killing Voldemort? Or what if he saw her as an Inferi battling Ron, Hermione, or Ginny?
Steve Newton - Oct 23, 2005 2:44 pm (#82 of 188)
In chapter 5 of POA, the first time that Harry sees a Dementor it is described like this:
"There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water."
The description seems to be a lot like the Inferi found in the cave in HBP. Could Dementors be some sort of offshoot of Inferi?
M A Grimmett:- Tim, maybe they have a freshness date.
"Ooooh! This Inferi is past its freshness date. Throw it back in the lake!"
Did anyone else seem to get the feeling that while Voldemort was gone the Inferi just...faded away? Nothing has been said about them until now. So either they disappear or they all went into hiding.
And if they were in that lake...what on earth is in the water to keep them from further rotting? And what could it have done to Dumbledore when he drank it? For some strange reason I keep thinking of pickling juice! Pickled Inferi anyone? UGH! I think I just grossed myself out on that one!!
Madame Pomfrey - Oct 23, 2005 8:33 pm (#85 of 188)
Edited Oct 23, 2005 9:34 pm
Ewee, Verbina, that is gross! I had thought the lake water was DoLD, sounds like a preservative for Inferi.
Oliver Wood - Oct 24, 2005 12:50 pm (#86 of 188)
What if Harry made a fatal error, for Dumbledore that is! If the water in the lake is some sort of preservative for the Inferi, what's to say that Dumbledore doesn't become an Inferi. Here's one thing I don't get though. In GOF when the bead hits Voldemort's wand and the people he killed begin reemerging from the tip, they're cogniscient of the situation. Harry's parents even talk to him. Others wish him luck. Why are the "zombie like" Inferi so monstrous, and the shadowy images almost like real people?
The people in the wand are just naturally more spirited.
Esther Rose - Oct 24, 2005 1:09 pm (#88 of 188)
Ah yes Steve that could be true but if so Harry could be the imprinter of the Inferi or the unintentional master since Harry fed Dumbledore the potion.
Perhaps this is also the reason why Snape had to kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore had to die to avoid becoming an Inferi.
Phelim Mcintyre - Nov 14, 2005 4:46 am (#89 of 188)
This is slightly off the point but I was at a talk given by Terry Pratchett last week. He was talking about his Night Watch books and the usefulness of having a zombie as part of the police force. That if you think there is going to be an ambush you send it in first. After all it's already dead. All it needs is some stitching together and can soon be back on duty.
vickilh42 - Nov 14, 2005 6:17 am (#90 of 188)
Reading CoS again last night, I was struck by Hermione’s proficiency at Waterproof Blue fire and then, I also recalled the Weasley's using waterproof fireworks. The idea of flames under water, reminded me of a speculation that Harry might have to return to the Cave.
When Harry tried "Accio Horcrux", just one of the Inferi rose to the surface. WHY?! The speculation is that RAB managed to switch the lockets but when the Inferi attacked, they dragged him and the original Locket to the bottom of the lake. Harry would then use the waterproof flames to keep the other Inferi at bay when he retrieved the Locket from Inferi RAB. Should this play out, Harry might even be distressed at RAB's appearance if he is Regulus--there might be a strong family resemblance to Sirius.
Nathan Zimmermann - Nov 14, 2005 4:18 pm (#91 of 188)
There is another possibility that Regulus with the aid of Kreacher stole the original locket replaced and in attempting to make his escape the Inferi caught and killed Regulus but not before Regulus was able to order to Kreacher back to 12 GP with the real locket.
Solitaire - Nov 14, 2005 4:20 pm (#92 of 188)
I feel certain we are going to see Inferi again in book 7. They are simply too creepy, and they have far too much potential for wreaking havoc not to use them again. If they are used, you can bet some will bear the likenesses of those close to Harry, in order to confound and discompose him. Well, that's my two knuts!
Verbina - Nov 14, 2005 10:25 pm (#93 of 188)
I posted this idea in the horcruxes thread but it can go here as well.
I was thinking about the Inferi that rose from the water. Normally, an Accio spell would have brought the item to Harry. But in this case it didn't. It caused a reaction in the Inferi but other than that...nothing. Nothing flew across the water to Harry. And if the Inferi was the horcrux or had the horcrux on its body, wouldn't it have flown through the air? But it didn't. Why would that be? I am thinking because there simply was no horcrux in the cave, the locket having been replaced. So...why the reaction from the Inferi?
What if LV made it so that a simple Accio spell would not work in the cave? After all, Accio would have made retrieval of the horcrux far too simple. Just as Apparating is impossible at Hogwarts, do you think that perhaps LV was able to do the same with the Accio spell in the cave? As for the Inferi reaction...what if LV made it so that if someone was attempting to retrieve the horcrux using Accio, the Inferi would be..."activated". Kind of like a burglar alarm type thing.
Also, and this part ties more closely to horcruxes themselves, if a person was murdered to aide in the creation of a horcrux and then made into an Inferi, would the Inferi be connected to the horcrux in any fashion? In other words, could that be the reason for the reaction of the Inferi? It was killed to make a horcrux?
Possible or am I needing to lie down a while?
Choices - Nov 16, 2005 5:29 pm (#94 of 188)
I think any spell that was used would have roused the Inferi? They are there to guard and I believe any use of magic in the lake area would have disturbed them.
Honour - Nov 17, 2005 1:42 am (#95 of 188)
If that was the case then why did only one rise for that specific spell? When Harry disturbed the water (filling the cup to quench DD's thirst) a whole bunch came out of the lake. DD also reminded Harry not to step into the water (not exact quote), so it seems that 'any amount' of disturbance would trigger the Inferi...
azi - Nov 17, 2005 5:46 am (#96 of 188)
Maybe it was a warning of what would happen if you were to proceed. Yes there is something horrible here so don't disturb it? If you showed people what was there in the first place too clearly then you risk them escaping and running to get reinforcements to help because they would see what they are facing.
Choices - Nov 17, 2005 10:21 am (#97 of 188)
I also think JKR likes for us to pounce on something and go to great lengths to make something important out of it. If she had three Inferi jump up in response to the spell, we probably wouldn't have thought anything of it, but when one jumped up, we immediately go to theorizing that it had the horcrux, was Regulus, was Regulus and had the horcrux, etc., etc. I can just hear her saying, "I got them on that one". LOL It might be important, then again JKR has us on her line and it might just be her making us wiggle.
Honour - Nov 17, 2005 4:08 pm (#98 of 188)
"wiggle wiggle... wiggle wiggle" LOL you could be right Choices :-)
CatherineHermiona - Nov 27, 2005 11:06 am (#99 of 188)
Sorry if someone already mentioned this. I see some similarity between Imperius and Inferius. Firstly, the name. Then, they are doing almost same thing. Inferi are Imperio'd dead people.
I'm still in the chat room. Kate
Mercedes - Dec 13, 2005 7:12 pm (#100 of 188)
What if Harry goes to visit his parents' grave only to find out that they had been dug up and turned into Inferi??
I hardly think Rowling is that sick but still. Not to say she is sick at all, just the idea is too mean to think about. it is kinda strange that Harry wants to visit the grave now. Perhaps he is just getting older and with all the death happening.
Still I think something big might happen at the grave site, even if is just a revelation.
Was that suggested already?
Inferi (posts #101 - #150)
Verbina - Dec 14, 2005 7:25 pm (#101 of 188)
Edited by Dec 14, 2005 7:26 pm
I think it has been discussed but I don't recall exactly what conclusion we came to. To me though...the Inferi we have seen are not skeletons. So it would seem to imply that they are "created" soon after death. At least before the flesh of the body had totally deteriorated. And there was very little talk about Inferi in the years that Voldemort was gone (we haven't seen them mentioned before) So it seems safe to say that there were no more made and those that were made either went into hiding in safe places like the cave or the magic faded, allowing them to basically deteriorate. That makes me think that if James and Lily were made into Inferi, it would have had to be done shortly after their deaths...but by who? If it were done now, they would be no more than animated skeletons. Plus the idea is just too disturbing.
Though I could be wrong in my figuring.
Phelim Mcintyre - Dec 16, 2005 12:51 am (#102 of 188)
Verbina - Bellatrix and others were still on the loose for a while after Voldemort became Vapourmort so it could have been them.
Puck - Dec 16, 2005 5:57 pm (#103 of 188)
I think most of the DE were either hiding or -in Bella's case- trying to find LV. I doubt creating Inferi was top priority at that point. So, I don't think we will see Lily or James in this way. Those who died and were buried aren't as likely to turn up as Inferi as those who disappeared.
Oliver Wood - Dec 19, 2005 7:34 pm (#104 of 188)
Mercedes, I brought up the possibility that James and Lily, (and possibly Dumbledore) could be Inferi back on posts 80 and 86 hope that helps
Maud Merryweather - Jan 5, 2006 2:48 pm (#105 of 188)
Puck: "Those who died and were buried aren't as likely to turn up as Inferi as those who disappeared." Why do you think that, Puck ?
If I remember correctly, didn't Ollivander and Florean Fortescue disappear. Their bodies were not found. => Ollivander and Florean Fortescue as Inferi ?! That's as horrible as Lily and James=Inferi (for me anyway)...
Choices - Jan 5, 2006 6:41 pm (#106 of 188)
It is a horrible thought - I agree. Even if Lily and James were Inferi, would they be recognizable? My idea of Inferi are just skeletons covered in rotting flesh - slimy and disgusting creatures - who can't speak and who blindly follow orders. I don't know what purpose it would serve if we could know who they had been in life. But if.....big if....Lily and James were Inferi and Voldemort ordered them to attack Harry, would they have enough recollection of life to not harm their son?
Solitaire - Jan 5, 2006 10:08 pm (#107 of 188)
Whatever they are, they were mentioned enough in HBP that I fear we may see them "in action" in book 7.
Weeny Owl - Jan 6, 2006 10:24 am (#108 of 188)
The whole thing about what it takes to make Inferi is as mysterious as the whole subject of Horcruxes.
Personally, I don't feel that James and Lily could be Inferi because by the time their bodies were dealt with, Voldemort was just a vapor. He didn't come back for years, and while no one knows what happens to dead bodies in the magical world, if they go through the same processes our bodies go through, then they would be skeletons now. It's possible that the magical world can preserve remains better than we can, but I don't think JKR would go quite that far with Harry considering what she's put him through already and what he's facing.
I do think, though, that people recently dead could end up as Inferi and scare the heck out of the trio, but I just can't see it being Harry's parents.
Solitaire - Jan 7, 2006 12:04 am (#109 of 188)
The problem, Weeny, is that the natural processes of decay may not necessarily apply to Wizards in Jo's universe. I'm just speculating here, because it seems that resurrecting James and Lily to torment and mislead Harry is just the sort of thing Voldemort might do to gain the upper hand.
Yes, Solitaire, I did say that it was possible that the magical world can preserve remains better than we can, but with everything Harry has to go through and what he's already been through, she's torturing him more than enough without having his parents pull a "Night of the Living Dead" on him.
While it's possible, I think it would be more of a shock for someone Harry, Ron, and Hermione all know, and maybe someone they didn't even know was dead.
Puck - Jan 8, 2006 7:07 pm (#111 of 188)
Maud Merryweather, I guess I just see it as far easier for the DE to use bodies they already have rather than to go around grave robbing. Besides, for all we know spells may be in place to prevent the dead from being disturbed. So many people went missing, the DE would have plenty to choose from.
Do we know if Muggle bodies can be used as Inferi?
Solitaire - Jan 8, 2006 7:54 pm (#112 of 188)
Well, remember Dumbledore told Harry that Voldemort had "an army of them" last time he was powerful. I don't see why Muggle bodies couldn't be used. Surely Harry was taken to a pediatrician for a check-up once in a while when he was with the Dursleys. If his body was any different, wouldn't a doctor have noticed and mentioned it? I would imagine that Muggle bodies may be a bit more fragile than Wizard bodies ... but I suspect they are essentially the same.
I do think Wizards will need to be careful about the Inferi. Wasn't Mundungus arrested for impersonating an Inferi? It seems that they are apparently being used by someone.
Why would Mundungus impersonate an Inferi?
haymoni - Jan 10, 2006 5:08 am (#114 of 188)
'Cause he's Dung.
I'm guessing he tried to scare the daylights out of someone so they would vacate their home or drop their valuables.
Matrona - Jan 10, 2006 9:38 pm (#115 of 188)
I don't know about the rest of you, but at the climax of HBP where Harry and Dumbledore come back to Hogwarts, I was so afraid that Ron/Ginny/Hermione would have been turned into Inferi and Harry wouldn't realize it at first, but then notice something about them that wasn't right...
I wonder why it was that the water had to be disturbed for the Inferi to attack, why they didn't simply attack as soon as the locket was picked up. (Was there any way for the potion's drinker to escape the island without drinking the water? Perhaps, if the potion-drinker tried to get in the boat without drinking the water, the boat would have moved back to the edge on its own, trapping the intruder and forcing them to try to swim through the lake or else stay on the island and die of thirst. Aaah, I'm rambling.)
Chinese fireball - Apr 17, 2006 5:44 pm (#116 of 188)
Not sure if this was mentioned before. Hermione's specialty is waterproof, portable fires. Can they be used to ward off the Inferi?
Choices - Apr 17, 2006 5:56 pm (#117 of 188)
I have wondered about that. Dumbledore conjured a crimson and gold ring of fire, but I am unsure if that is the same thing that Hermione does. Aren't the flames that Hermione conjures blue? I don't know if they would work the same on Inferi as Dumbledore's fire.
journeymom - Apr 18, 2006 4:16 pm (#118 of 188)
Hi! *waves* First time on this thread. Any thoughts how they're going to film the Cave Scene?? Doesn't it seem like something straight out of a gory horror flick?
haymoni - Apr 19, 2006 4:58 am (#119 of 188)
"R" rating???
journeymom - Apr 19, 2006 8:21 am (#120 of 188)
Exactly! I can just see it, one of those summer time horror flicks. I had a difficult enough time as it was, reading that chapter to my 10 y.o. daughter. (Of course she's already jaded and inured to that sort of thing. I remember being frightened of 'The Wizard of Oz' when it came on once a year. She's seen all the LOTR movies and loves them.)
I'm STILL afraid of that witch when Dorothy sees Auntie Em in the crystal ball and she turns into the witch and she's laughing and she turns towards the audience...
Oooh! Gives me the creeps!
Maybe they'll just cut that part out. A raving Dumbledore is scary enough.
Detail Seeker - Apr 23, 2006 1:37 pm (#122 of 188)
It would be nice, if the discussion about potential filming would be continued on the appropriate thread in the film section. Thank you .
Inferi are just gross.
I wonder why JKR wanted to include them???
Esther Rose - Apr 24, 2006 6:04 am (#124 of 188)
Well Haymoni,
I guess to make those Dementors look like fluffy bunny rabbits.
Puck - Apr 24, 2006 5:46 pm (#125 of 188)
You think the Inferi would win in a battle against a Dementor? There is no soul for the Dementor to pray upon, but an Inferi could possibly do some damage to a Dementor...
So, if Harry manages to trick the Inferi to chasing after the Dementors...
Solitaire - Apr 27, 2006 10:58 am (#126 of 188)
Why couldn't Inferi be commandeered to do the bidding of the "good guys"? Or is it simply that "good guys" would never resort to using Inferi? I was thinking about Inferi and wondering--should he run into any--whether Harry could "assume command" of them and turn them to fighting against Voldemort and the DEs. Just wondering ...
geauxtigers - Apr 27, 2006 1:15 pm (#127 of 188)
I think that Inferi are just horrible that’s the only word for them. I can't see good guys using them at all even if they didn't create them. It’s so evil, that a good guy using them would make them evil, but that’s just my opinion....
TheSaint - Apr 27, 2006 2:00 pm (#128 of 188)
My biggest fear...Dumbledore the Inferi.
timrew - Apr 27, 2006 3:16 pm (#129 of 188)
Dumbledore The Inferi:- I've been sent back to haunt you, Harry!
Harry:- Are you Richard Harris or Michael Gambon?
Shouldn't dead bodies be buried someplace???
Did Voldy kill all those people or did he just go to a graveyard and start stealing bodies?
It's just gross!
The "good guys" wouldn't use Inferi because those dead people are supposed to be "resting in peace".
Yuck!
Catherine - May 2, 2006 5:55 am (#131 of 188)
Ever since I read HBP, I wondered if this is why Cedric wanted his body returned to his parents.
How horrible for one's family to see a member's body reanimated and doing the bidding of Dark wizards. It's just so repulsive.
Choices - May 2, 2006 9:52 am (#132 of 188)
That is an interesting thought Catherine - definitely a possibility.
Puck - May 3, 2006 7:16 pm (#133 of 188)
Oooh, I hadn't thought of that one, Catherine. If Cho had run into an Inferi Cedric...shudder
Pamzter - May 13, 2006 11:26 am (#134 of 188)
So I just want to make sure that you can always tell that an Inferi is an Inferi. No chance of someone thinking that their loved one didn't die, or an Inferi being a spy, or anything along those lines?
Choices - May 13, 2006 11:41 am (#135 of 188)
Didn't Mundungus get caught for impersonating an Inferius?
Herm oh ninny - May 13, 2006 12:26 pm (#136 of 188)
Yes, he was sent to Azkaban for it.
Puck - May 14, 2006 4:11 am (#137 of 188)
Edited May 14, 2006 5:13 am
Yes, but what Pam is asking is can it happen the other way around? Can the "undead" appear truly alive and infiltrate society. I doubt it. They aren't interactive, and I bet they look "dead"; pale with vacant eyes. Flesh-eating zombies don't exactly blend in!
Choices - May 14, 2006 8:38 am (#138 of 188)
I get the impression that someone else controls an Inferius - they do not control themselves. I don't think they could be made to look alive, fleshed out and breathing, so I would guess they would be pretty easy to spot among the living.
timrew - May 14, 2006 5:02 pm (#139 of 188)
They should be quite easy to spot at a dinner party..................
"I say, old chap, could you pass the salt?"
"Gnaaaaarghhhhh!" (misses the salt completely)
"I say! You must be an Inferi, what............?"
Choices - May 14, 2006 5:05 pm (#140 of 188)
LOL I agree Timrew - at a dinner party they would definitely stick out like a sore thumb....and probably "stink" out, too. Not very appetizing!! LOL
HungarianHorntail11 - May 14, 2006 6:13 pm (#141 of 188)
LOL Timrew!
I thought the Inferi were described as grayish and scaly-skinned, as opposed to Dementors whose skin was slimy. If that is the case, yes, it is safe to say they could be spotted at a dinner party.
M A Grimmett - May 20, 2006 8:33 am (#142 of 188)
"I must say, you don't look well tonight."
Inferi coughs and mutters, "Dermatological condition."
ex-FAHgeek - May 23, 2006 10:45 am (#143 of 188)
I suppose it depends on how recently the Inferius died. While you wouldn't send it into a situation requiring witty conversation, for all we know, sending a fresh Inferius walking down the street to it's new "assignment," pretending to be an antisocial misfit could work if it hasn't yet had time to start decomposing and wears a heavy cloak.
Gosh, we know so little about the Inferius. It is my thinking that their main function is to attack the target and either kill it outright or drag it into the water to drown. We don't know if they can speak, but I would guess that they can't. I doubt they can think for themselves, but blindly follow the orders of the one who controls them.
Puck - May 23, 2006 5:14 pm (#145 of 188)
I imagine they are physically quite strong. They would have to be, or else they would be seen as gross, but not dangerous.
Oliver Wood - May 27, 2006 1:46 pm (#146 of 188)
The Inferi better hope this dinner party doesn't include candlelight!
geauxtigers - May 27, 2006 3:04 pm (#147 of 188)
or a fire in the fireplace!
Solitaire - May 28, 2006 9:26 pm (#148 of 188)
Choices, I got the idea that they were rather like some sort of "programmable zombies." Surely they are corpses only--no ability to reason or react ... **shuddering** Kinda creepy, ya know?
That is the impression I have, Solitaire. A form of "Night of the Living Dead" types.
haymoni - May 30, 2006 4:54 am (#150 of 188)
I've always pictured "Thriller".
geauxtigers - May 30, 2006 9:27 am (#151 of 188)
Ha Ha I can see it now, Inferius dancing to thriller! wow I would want to go that party!
Catherine - May 30, 2006 3:07 pm (#152 of 188)
That is all very amusing, but I do not think anyone would take kindly to the desecration of their loved one's (or ones') body.
I do think that is why Cedric Diggory asked for Harry to return his body to his parents. Nagini would be unable to have a Cedric snack, AND that is one less body for Voldemort's army.
I agree Catherine - Cedric did not want his body to remain in the enemy camp or in their hands. It is curious to me where Voldemort gets bodies to make into Inferi? Only once or twice in the books can I remember someone being killed and their body never found. I suppose he could have killed lots of people that were never mentioned and turned them into his army of Inferi.
Phelim Mcintyre - May 31, 2006 4:02 am (#154 of 188)
I think I said something similar about Inferi and Thriller much earlier in this thread about one way to defeat them would be to put on some early eighties disco music.
Choices - in HBP I think Dumbledore says something about in the last war Voldemort killed enough people to make an army.
Yes, I remember that Phelim. Wonder where he stores them when not in use?
Mattew Bates - May 31, 2006 9:31 am (#156 of 188)
Edited May 31, 2006 10:32 am
Well, Choices, as we hear a lot of warnings about Inferi in HBP but no reports of Inferi attacks, I'm guessing he stores them in an underground lake.
Maybe that's how RAB found the lake; he was tasked with leading the Inferi back there after an attack?
That's a thought!
virginiaelizabeth - May 31, 2006 9:44 am (#158 of 188)
OOOOO that is a good thought Mattew!! That would be a great way for someone so young to find out about the horcruxes. I can' see him now, "I wonder what that green thing in the middle of the Lake is?" Then maybe that was a start for him, he went to the center and tried it out, then it just eventually(though I'm not so sure how can someone help me here?) led him to horcruxes and what not.
Puck - Jun 1, 2006 10:24 am (#159 of 188)
And if he had control over the Inferi, so much the easier.
Still, I don't see all the DE lining up for that job. Imagine being selected to lead an army, then finding out an army of what.
Solitaire - Jun 3, 2006 8:17 pm (#160 of 188)
I believe Cedric knew his parents would need to see and touch his body in order to have closure. Amos Diggory seemed a very devoted and loving parent. Such a death as Cedric's would be horribly difficult to accept, because it was so senseless. It was hard enough for Harry, and he was there and saw firsthand the brutality of Voldemort in his own rebirth and the torturing of some DEs. I don't really think Nagini or Inferi were issues in Cedric's case, but that is JM2K, of course ...
Choices - Jun 4, 2006 8:59 am (#161 of 188)
I totally agree Solitaire. I did not mean that I thought Voldemort would have turned Cedric into an Inferius when I said he would not want his body to be left in the hands of the enemy. He would want to be returned to his parents who would mourn him and bury him with love and dignity.
Soul Mate for Sirius - Jun 7, 2006 9:38 am (#162 of 188)
I agree with you Choices and Solitaire. I saw Cedric's request as "leave no man behind" sort of thing like in the military. It would just seem so wrong to leave his body there.
TheSaint - Jun 7, 2006 1:32 pm (#163 of 188)
Or could it be that he did not want his family to suffer the doubt associated with death that leaves no body? Death that lets your mind wander to hope and outrageous scenarios (see proper death thread - LOL)? His family was given the chance to say their goodbyes and know it is final.
Miss Amanda - Jul 2, 2006 6:30 pm (#164 of 188)
What about Draco? "He says he'll kill me." We know that Snape has Draco. Will Snape give Draco to Voldemort? Will Snape try to hide Draco? Will Snape killing Dumbledore save Draco, as his mother so desperately wishes? So, Voldemort has plans for a dead Draco, if not the entire family. Couldn't he then use Draco as an Inferi?
I think that Harry will face Inferi again. I think to make the idea of a reanimated corpse seem more frightening, at least one of the Inferi will be a person that Harry knows.
We don't really know how much control Voldemort has over his Inferi. Are they simply going to attack when their ire is aroused? Or is a wizard REALLY capable of making Inferi "do his bidding?" Is the idea that one could give an Inferi a complicated task, or is it more likely that the idea would be "attack the person doing the annoying thing?" Snape seems to suggest that Inferi can do any task set upon them by the controlling wizard and that they would rip apart someone who got in the way of them doing their task. Dumbledore mentions "army" but does he mean "army-sized" or an actual troop of yuckiness?
Solitaire - Jul 2, 2006 6:59 pm (#165 of 188)
What if Inferi are like those storm troopers in Star Wars. Remember how Obi-Wan Kenobi used the force against them, to kind of "bend" their thoughts to agree with what he wanted them to think and say? It would be interesting to know if the "connection" between Harry and Voldemort would allow Harry to control Voldy's Inferi. Just a wild, harebrained idea ...
Choices - Jul 3, 2006 10:31 am (#166 of 188)
Worse than Inferi, I can see Voldemort punishing both Lucius and Narcissa by letting Greyback bite Draco, thus condemning him to a life on the outer edges of society - like Lupin - shunned, poor and having to endure the changes every full moon.
Miss Amanda - Jul 3, 2006 11:30 am (#167 of 188)
Choices, I think that making Draco dead is worse than making Draco an outcast. Draco is careless about Greyback, first bandying about the name and then not knowing that Greyback would enter the school. But Draco the werewolf seems useless, as he would be simply one of an army of werewolves under Greyback's control. Not nearly as frightening for Harry, I would guess, as being confronted with "zombie-ferret" Malfoy - lifeless and soulless.
And I'm wondering if Voldie won't be out to make Narcissa suffer. Lucius will be dead soon, as he is useless to Voldemort without his mask of respect to get him into positions of power. Besides, he led a team that failed to contain a bunch of teenagers. Draco didn't complete his mission and managed to blow Snape's cover. It is Narcissa who might be alive to suffer and serve. She alone is not going to stand accused of outright illegal activities yet. Her husband is in prison and she does not seem to hold that against him, which seems to me to say that as long as her family is alive she feels that she has avoided the worst. Her greatest fear, her greatest punishment, would be to face the ambulatory image of her dead family.
Weeny Owl - Jul 3, 2006 2:40 pm (#168 of 188)
Wow, Choices, that's the first time I've heard that theory. Perhaps you should add it to Draco's thread. I like it.
But Lucius and Narcissa are not poor. Draco might not be welcomed into society, but unless something happened to the Malfoy money, he would still have a place to live and access to the Wolfsbane potion, I am sure.
Choices - Jul 3, 2006 5:41 pm (#170 of 188)
He might be poor if Lucius is disgraced or killed and unable to provide for his family any longer. Draco would suffer as Lupin suffers and even if Lucius manages to escape Voldemort's wrath, Draco as a werewolf would be a constant and painful reminder to Lucius of his (and Draco's) failure to please his master.
I got the idea that the Malfoys are an "old money" family. I never actually thought of him as having to work. His main job seemed to be manipulating people with the promise of his Wizard gold for their pet projects and charities. JM2K, of course ... but this has nothing to do with Inferi, so I guess I'd better leave it or move it to another thread.
HungarianHorntail11 - Jul 4, 2006 12:24 pm (#172 of 188)
It would be interesting to know if the "connection" between Harry and Voldemort would allow Harry to control Voldy's Inferi. Just a wild, harebrained idea ...
Actually, not such a wild, harebrained idea, Solitaire. However, Harry did try to control the basilisk and it did not obey him. For that reason, I don't hold out much hope for any such ability to control either Inferi or Dementors.
haymoni - Jul 4, 2006 12:27 pm (#173 of 188)
Don't you think you could see - and smell - Inferi coming a mile away??
I suppose if one could transfigure Inferi in some way, it would be like the Clone army, but to just have a bunch of "Thriller" dancers walking around - who would buy that??
Mattew Bates - Oct 30, 2006 1:47 pm (#174 of 188)
I'm cross-posting this to the Horcruxes, Inferi, and Cave threads. It's an expansion on some things brought up in the R.A.B. - Your Thoughts? thread, but the ideas don't really concern R.A.B., and the conversation about it had died down there anyway, so I thought relocation to be the best option.
Voldemort would have wanted to be able to check on the cave without anyone's assistance. Indeed, he set up the cave so that only one fully qualified wizard could make it to the center at any given time, so I'm not sure that he could bring help even if he wanted to. Still, the way Dumbledore found past the potion required assistance. For Voldy to have an unassisted way past, it should involve one of the following:
1) a way past the barrier at the surface of the potion (a dark mark barrier or similar) 2) a potion that does him no harm (no conscience = no regrets) 3) a non-wizard assistant (like Harry or Kreacher) 4) carrying in an antidote to the potion 5) having another way to neutralize the potion
This small bundle of interlocking theories involves the fifth way past. Hypothetically, Voldy goes to check up on the cave. Once on the pedestal island, he summons a specific Inferius (something he can presumably do as its creator), and retrieves Hufflepuff's Cup from it. He uses it to drink the pedestal potion. This hinges on the idea that the intrinsic magic of the cup would neutralize the ill effects of the potion. After all, many Holy Grail myths involve it having poison neutralizing powers.
Pure speculation, surely, but it still answers the question as to why a body rose to the surface when Harry Accio'd a horcrux. It has the added benefit of convenience, as no special preparations are necessary for Voldy to check the horcruxes at the drop of a hat.
The biggest detractor to this theory, as far as I can see, is that Voldy would be unlikely to risk hiding two of his precious shiny things on one place. Still, putting one at the obvious focal point in the middle of the lake would certainly distract from the possible presence of another.
P.S. - as I was writing this, it occurred to me that if Voldy can order around the Inferi, then he could probably make them drink the potion per option 3. A bit more in line with Occam's Razor, but I still like all three of my theories.
valuereflection - Nov 1, 2006 1:32 pm (#175 of 188)
Mattew Bates, your ideas interest me but I can't think of anything right now to add to them. Is that the correct spelling for your name?
Some posts here asked what was frightening about the Inferi. I think the Inferi are frightening because their descriptions in HBP sound as if they have super-human strength. For this reason, I don't think that a human being could outrun an Inferi. In battle, the human would soon tire -- but the Inferi didn't seem to be as susceptible to fatigue as Harry was when they wrestled with him in chapter 26. They are nearly unstoppable because they can't be killed or injured.
Inferi weren't mentioned in Harry's DADA classes until sixth year. So a wizard of only average ability, who didn't study NEWT-level Defence Against the Dark Arts, might not know how to deal with them. If an average wizard tried to use the more common DADA spells against Inferi, such as Impedimenta or Stunning, they wouldn't be as effective in fighting them as a fire spell used by a more advanced wizard.
The most frightening aspect about Inferi for me, is that there can be so many of them. I picture the spell to animate Inferi as placing a minimal amount of flesh on the bones, so that almost any corpse could be used no matter what its state of decomposition. Voldemort and his Death Eaters could rob graves in every town and country to create their own armies of millions of Inferi. The wizard population would be vastly outnumbered by a horde that would just keep on coming, no matter how skillfully or bravely they fought (sort of like the armies of Orcs or Uruk-hai in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings). When not in use, Inferi would be stored in bodies of water or underground, until they were activated.
We know JKR has a strong background in Classics. The behavior of the Inferi in the Voldemort's cave reminded me of the prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave. I wondered if the Inferi behavior toward intruders and toward light is an allusion to Plato. (A difference between the JKR's Inferi and Plato' prisoners is that the Inferi are mute. Perhaps chattering Inferi would have distracted from the mood of menace which she portrayed in the Cave.)
Another classical reference which the scene is reminiscent of is crossing the River Styx.
S.E. Jones - Nov 1, 2006 5:08 pm (#176 of 188)
I don't think you can animate any body to use as an Inferi regardless of the state of decomposition. It seems to me that the body would still decompose, even if under the spell so you'd have to kill someone and use that body, not dig up graves that are decades old.
I think that, if there's anything peculiar about the lake water in the Cave, it has something to keep the bodies from decaying too fast so that Voldemort's army doesn't fall apart from the time he put them in there to the time he can come check on his Horcrux.
Why does this put me in mind of the 'Thriller' video?
Phelim Mcintyre - Nov 5, 2006 6:35 am (#178 of 188)
I've suggested in the past Tim that some early 80's disco music would be a great weapon against Inferi.
Hermionefan(#1) - Nov 26, 2006 3:16 pm (#179 of 188)
I haven't been here in a while, but reading all these theories and things makes me wonder how JKR can possibly tie up all loose ends in one book.
A few people have said that Lily and James probably won't be Inferi because they've been in the grave for too long, but couldn't Voldy have turned them into Inferi immediately after her murdered them? Just turned James Inferi, then killed Lily and turned her into an Inferi, and then tried to kill l Harry? Just a thought, I really don't think he'll have turned them into Inferi because he wouldn't have thought he'd need them to use against Harry cuz' cause he thought Harry was going to die. I hope that makes sense.
Pinky Prime - Dec 4, 2006 1:14 pm (#180 of 188)
What happens to an Inferi's soul? To me their souls may be used to strengthen a dark wizard directly (incidentally having a slave in the process). I used this theory in the R.A.B. Thread.
I don't think they are dead to begin with. "No magic power can resurrect a truly dead person." [Read the exact quote from The Guardian Unlimited, 2000]
HungarianHorntail11 - Dec 4, 2006 1:31 pm (#181 of 188)
My guess, Pinky, is that they're bodies without souls (I.e., the souls have passed and the bodies remain). Magic is what makes them "work".
I don't think they are dead to begin with. HungarianHorntail11
I read this on Jo's rules on the Lex...
"No magic power can resurrect a truly dead person." [Read the exact quote from The Guardian Unlimited, 2000]
Steve Newton - Dec 4, 2006 1:37 pm (#183 of 188)
I don't think that any people were resurrected just bodies. I think that HungarianHorntail11 got it right.
Meoshimo - Dec 4, 2006 6:40 pm (#184 of 188)
They're not resurrected bodies, they're just corpses magically strung up like marionette dolls.
Choices - Dec 5, 2006 6:19 pm (#185 of 188)
I think what JKR means is that no magic power can bring a truly dead person back to life - real life, like they were before they died. But, a dead person can be magically reanimated and made to do the bidding of the wizard who reanimates them. They are still dead, but now they are obedient to their "master". Thus, Inferi.
That's a great reply Choices. Clarifies a few things. I'm one that doesn't mind making mistakes that's how I learn and to me it's fun. Hope to make many more in the future Lol!!
(1) "But, a dead person can be magically reanimated
(2) and made to do the bidding of the wizard who reanimates them."
Sounds like two separate spells to me.
IMO - an Inferi's reanimation means their souls have left them and their bodies are now inanimate objects. While enervate can be performed on the living and transfiguration can change inanimate objects into animate ones and visa versa, why a dark spell from a dark wizard to reanimate(not reawaken) the dead.
There may well be laws that makes it illegal to tamper with the dead and not just to create Inferi. Even if there is a law it is morally and politically unacceptable for any decent person to do this in out of the Wizarding World. It is worse than grave robbing!!!
I can see now why it is a dark wizard's practice and not regular wizards that perform these spell(s). Like the Cruciatus curse when Bella told Harry you must really want to cause pain (mistake?) you must really have sinister intentions to reanimate the dead thus the dark wizard will receive more power and control over it's dead subjects.
Solitaire - Dec 30, 2006 2:42 pm (#187 of 188)
S.E. Jones: ...if there's anything peculiar about the lake water in the Cave, it has something to keep the bodies from decaying too fast ...
Perhaps it is full of embalming fluid! Seriously, given the shape Voldemort was in immediately following the failed AK on Harry, it seems unlikely that he could have done anything with the Potters' bodies just then. After all, the bodies were apparently still in the destroyed house, according to Hagrid, and by that time, Vapormort had flown. I find it hard to believe James and Lily would not have been taken and given a decent burial by Dumbledore. In fact, perhaps that is part of what Dumbledore was doing that kept him so busy until he met up with McGonagall outside #4 Privet Drive.
Unless Wizard bodies do not decay in the same way as those of Muggles, it would seem unlikely that James and Lily could have been turned into Infer by Voldemort. This is a different position than I originally held when I found out about Inferi ... but it seems more logical if Wizard bodies are the same as Muggle bodies. JM2K, of course ...
TheSaint - Dec 31, 2006 1:11 am (#188 of 188)
Voldie was Vapor and fled, so I don't think he had a chance to turn them into Inferi before they were buried properly, as in, holy ground.
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Lou Covey confirmed two names I heard on the editorial side in conjunction with Friday’s cutbacks at EDN: Editor in Chief Maury Wright and Senior Editor Mike Santarini. Two more on the business side are said to be Alan Robinson and Barbara Couchois. Covey reports that Ann Mutschler, who survived the Electronic News cuts in the fall, will take over the EDA beat. She covers many other beats as well.
Man. The EDA industry screeched when EE Times went down to one EDA beat reporter a couple of years back (Richard Goering). It writhed in pain when Goering was let go in the cuts of last June. And now Santarini’s out of action (at least for now; wouldn’t be surprised to see back and blazing in no time). John Cooley, the industry “gadfly” for EDA, hasn’t posted since Halloween. He’s had to help his parents in recent months. So that leaves the EDA with no coverage at major publications and websites. Yes, it’s shifting online (Goering is at SCD.com, )but it’s unclear whether online is gaining traction among engineering readers. John Blyler up at ChipDesign is covering the industry.
We’ve seen this coming for a long time and now it’s happening. But it remains to be seen whether the model works for the industry.
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Hi Brian:
I guess you don’t know me. I’m the full-time EDA editor at Electronic Design, so that would seem to indicate that there’s still at least one beat writer covering EDA.
Lou Covey
Yeah, David is the quiet one moving from fox hole to fox hole. He’s been one of the few editors willing to take meetings at trade shows and screwing up my premise that trade shows are lousy places to do editor meetings.
And let’s not forget John Blyler at Chip Design, and Paul Dempsey at EDA Tech Forum. Those three, I believe are the last of the lot involved in print for the industry
Cedric Iwashina
It wasn’t long ago that EDN hosted an event at Techmart featuring Mike and Maury as panelists among others. There, they claimed that, with EE Times’ cutting back on their EDA coverage, EDN was now king of the hill.
How ironic, or maybe not.
Perhaps, that was just a last ditch effort to save the business?
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Maybe everything finds its way, like water, but the transition is tough.
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Editor’s note: Hind Aboud Kabawat is a Syrian attorney. She is also a conflict resolution specialist and senior research analyst at the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, which is based at George Mason University in Virginia. The views expressed in this article are solely those of Hind Aboud Kabawat.
One of the most perplexing aspects of the Syrian revolution is the deep ambivalence felt by so many of the country’s Christians when faced with the prospect of freedom after four decades of authoritarian dictatorship. Some Christians have enthusiastically embraced the prospect of democratic change and a more open civil society, but many have not.
As a Christian, this provokes a great deal of sadness in me and others who are committed to transforming Syria into an open, democratic, inclusive, secular and religiously tolerant society. But the problem is that many, if not most, Christians in Syria do not believe that this will be the outcome of changing the regime.
On the contrary, they believe the present regime — corrupt and repressive as it has been — is the only true guarantor of secularism in Syria and, with it, the acceptance of the Christians as equals to their Muslim neighbors. Further, many Christians firmly believe that what will replace the regime is a fundamentalist Muslim theocracy that will strip Christians and other minorities of their political and civil rights, including their right to practice their religion in peace.
I sincerely believe they are misguided in this belief, and one of the principal tasks of the Syrian revolution going forward is to convince the Christian community to forsake such fears in favor of building a new Syria, democratic and secular, with their Shia, Sunni, Alawite, Druze and Kurd brothers and sisters.
Of course, when Christians do “rebel,” the regime responds with particular outrage and violence: “How dare you Christians criticize us when we have protected you all these years?”
Take, for instance, the case of a young Damascene woman named Caroline, who said she was arrested earlier this year and imprisoned for 25 days in a two-square meter cell. Her crime? Giving children Easter eggs wrapped in paper containing verses from both the Koran and the Bible.
For this simple act of kindness and tolerance, Caroline was interrogated for hours by the secret police, she said. Why, they asked, did she include a verse from the Koran on an Easter egg? Why is she involved in this kind of work? Why is a Christian showing support for the Syrian revolution? Although they did not say it in so many words, their main message was: Don’t you know what would happen to Christian communities when you “lose” the protection of this present regime?
Christians do know what could happen. In the wake of Saddam Hussein’s downfall, the Christian community in Iraq has more or less been decimated; those who haven’t fled the country are confronted with systematic repression. After the civil war in Lebanon, which Christians are generally perceived to have lost, the Christian community remains on the defensive and is shrinking. And in post-Mubarak Egypt, the Coptic Christians – 10% of the population - remain vigilant about their rights and their security.
None of these events has been lost on the Christian community in Syria, which is why many of them have not enthusiastically embraced the revolution.
Many of those who are predisposed to support the revolution do not because of the weakness and division within the Syrian opposition. For a Christian community that is inherently skittish about confronting established political authority, a weak opposition movement does little to allay their fears about challenging an entrenched 40-year-old regime that has shown time and time again its willingness to use brutal violence to silence its critics.
More from GPS: The great Syria divide
There are, however, many Christian Syrians who are, in fact, playing a pivotal role in opposition to the regime. Some, like George Sabra and Michel Kilo, are politically out front and vocal. Others, including many women, prefer to work behind the scenes doing humanitarian work inside Syria’s besieged towns and cities.
Among the Christians performing this vital humanitarian work is Yara Chammas, a 21-year-old woman who is the daughter of a well-known human rights lawyer, Michel Chammas. When unrest erupted in Baba Amr, Yara organized the distribution of medicine, food, blankets and baby milk. Her courageous display of Christian compassion resulted in her being jailed for 60 days over the Easter holidays. Yet not one leader in the Christian community came to her aid. Why? Because many of them vilified her as a “traitor” to their community for deigning to help the “enemy,” i.e., the children of Baba Amr. So much for their sense of compassion and caring.
Despite such hardships, the political engagement of Christians like Chammas hark back to a period in Syrian history when the Christian community was critically important to the political life of the country. Indeed, Christians founded both the Baath Party and the Syrian National Party. One of Syria’s greatest political leaders, Prime Minister Fares Khoury, was a Christian.
But since the advent of the Baath regime, Christians have played a much less visible role in the country’s politics. Minister is the highest position ever held by a Christian since the 1960s, and no Christian has ever held a serious leadership position. Even under the present proposed constitution, no Christian can be elected president.
Given their relative lack of status, why do Christian Syrians remain so loyal to this regime? It likely revolves around their fear of Islamic fundamentalism and their belief that the so-called secular state will be replaced by an Iran-style theocracy. There is also a fear that what will ensue from the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s repressive police state will be Iraq-style chaos and sectarian civil war.
How can such fears be addressed and allayed? It is time for all Syrians, no matter what their faith, to begin thinking like citizens of a common state rather than just members of a sectarian religious community. Our focus should be on the rule of law, an independent judiciary, a free press, free markets, democratic elections and an accountable government. Those will be the bulwarks of a free, independent, secular and inclusive Syria.
I am a devout Christian, proud and respectful of the church’s teachings. But in the political realm, I am first and foremost a citizen, a citizen of the new free Syria. I believe that my fellow Christians will come to feel the same way. I also believe the same should be true for our Sunni, Alawite, Druze and Kurdish sisters and brothers.
Recently, a rather extraordinary scene unfolded at the funeral for young Bassel Chehadeh, the young Christian filmmaker gunned down by the regime in Homs.
As thousands from all religious faiths gathered at a church in the Christian Kassaa district of Damascus, security forces bolted the church doors shut and began beating and terrorizing the mourners. The parishioners responded by reciting Christian and Muslim prayers and chanting “Syrians are one people.” It was a beautiful sight.
We are one people, and citizens of one state. Not a Christian Syria or a Sunni Syria or an Alawite Syria. Just Syria, the homeland of all of us.
The views expressed in this article are solely those of Hind Aboud Kabawat.
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"23. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance. ” Isaiah 19.
I pray and urge all Christians in Syria to seek first the kingdom of heaven for "our citizenship is in heaven." Phil 3:20. Take heart and persevere for your Christian brothers and sisters everywhere are praying for you to shine the light of Christ amidst the darkness and for God to pour out his Spirit in Syria for the Muslims to receive the gospel of Christ and be saved.
what's this guy smoking? The Islamists will take over Syria if Assad falls like that have in every other country that has over thrown their governments in the region. Once that happens, then the Christians will become targets like they have in Egypt. Look at what happened to Christians in Iraq after Saddam. The Syrian Christians know what will happen if the Islamists take over. It is an indication of the corruption of the Islamist ideology that they feel so threatened by a small minority of Christians that they actively promote violence and discrimination against them.
Yes Christians are treated equally, if you mean equally opressed.
Mahmood Sabri
It is interesting to read anti-Islam comments. Obviously, those who make these comments have not studied Islam. Islam respects the God-given right of every individual to believe or not to believe in God or believe in any way he wants. Those who call themselves Muslims and deny anyone freedom of religion do not understand Islam either. There is serious need for education on both sides of the isle. May God guide us to the right path. Amen.
mahmoud, stop generalizing, for the sake of your religion, stop acting like a marketing agent.
islam with some of its shapes now, is backward and agressive.
if you cant think of this critically, you will fail islam yourself.
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See for yourself, here is the future of Christians in the Middle East and around the world at the hands of Islam
Muslims Slaughter Convert to Christianity in Tunisia
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxGWlOQZyEs&w=640&h=360]
pjayonloose
Great .. some guys can put hoods on, sharpen up a knife and cut some other guy's head off. Brilliant. And we HAD to see that. Knives, it turns out, are primitive weapons. And the blood of the saints is seed.
Just do not buy this crap!!!! If rebels win, they will finish off all minorities. Period!!!!!
the main signs that syria story will be different is not only the relatively large secular sunni population, but also their strong critisism to wahabi culture, and radical islam.
in addition to islamic peaceful sofist tradition, and sheiks that promotes it. like jawdat saeed and mouaz el khatib. (which btw are nightmares to any dictatorship),
one correction also. christian fear saudi-style future and not iranian-style. it is time for western thinkers to start pointing their justified islamo-phobia toward the oil-political ally. The mid ages monarchy called saudi arabia.
that is what scares syrian christians.
the west politics is too pragmatic to be able to practice what it preaches.
lastofall
I would agree with the "many" Christians who do not think a governing change would accomplish much. So-called secular and religious tolerant governing lasts only for a while, not for ever, such as is in our country.
deepintobipolar
If Al-Assaad regime stop shooting live ammo at people, in one day he will fall, because of millions that will go out to the streets.. and that's exactly why he's not doing that..
and millions of syrian can't be wrong, and one dictatorship regime is right...
Interesting...I always laugh when reading comments like these. You're missing a critical point to your argument. Assad's "thugs" are made up of every religious denomination in Syria. They're 200,000+ strong. Do basic mathematics: 200,000 of 20,000,000? That is one percent of the population, but what about their families? What about other supporters? At best, you have a civil war. This slaughter is becoming too much to handle. I am disgusted when I see all these poor children perishing, and for what? So one dictatorship can be replaced by another? Give me a break.
I am really sorry I can't promise you what will happen if Assad fall, I am really sorry that they never built a time machine for the "known evil is better than unknown good" followers... so you have to either read signals on the ground... in statistical way to see how much better the future will be... look at the slogans (in statistics) look at the continuous demonstrations even though the militant battle is going on...
Since the beginning the signs clearly goes to the direction of civil society..
The usual argument bu syrian regime supporters that logic things a bit, that this is not a "clean" revolution, they are hallucinating that in Syria there must a Ghandi or Assaad... no one else can take us to a better place... well.. we will see..
I am a Christian Orthodox, and we in addition to liberal Muslims, and all other minorities form a big part of the revolutionist... sorry we are busy to market ourself... if you want a proof, look at the records of the detained young people in Damascus and Aleppo... see the percentage of young girls, minorities, and liberals or even communists. in addition to secular religious Sunnis..
I am sorry that you don't see us, and I am sorry that you want to apply all lessons of intellectual superiority of any one comparing Syrians...
However is afraid of more radical islam in the ME, should ask himself does he know the most backword islamic barbaric regime yet to exist on a country international accepted scale? (hint: "OIL")
What about rethinking the love relations with Saudi? If you care really about a better future to the whole ME.
ytuque
The author should ask how many churches have been destroyed or closed and how many Christians have been killed since the Arab Spring came to Tunisia, LIbya, and Egypt. The author seems to have her head firmly planted in her backside if she thinks a post-Assad regime would be democratic and protect minority rights.
Sid Airfoil
The discussion about whether or not we should support the Syrian rebels misses a key point. It is generally presented as a "damned if we do, damned if we don't" choice between supporting a SECULAR dictator (Assad) or supporting a RELIGIOUS dictator (the Islamists whom we presume will take power if Assad is brought down). I suggest that we stop focussing on this false choice. Instead, we should focus on supporting the Syrian people to CHOOSE their own government free from coercion. It should NOT matter to us (yet) what kind of government they choose. If they choose a Jeffersonian Democracy with respect for individual rights, fantastic. And if they choose a brutal secular strongman or an Islamist theocracy, so be it. Our cultural values are based on the principle "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". Or in this context "I may not agree with what the government you choose, but I will defend to the death your right to choose it".
HOW we choose to support this choice for the Syian people is a debatable point that I don't have room to discuss.
Of course, once the Syrians make their choice we will have to deal with them in whatever way is appropriate. IF they choose a government friendly to us, fantastic. If they choose to be our enemies, so be it. But at least we will know that the government truly represents the views of the Syrian people, and we will not have to choose sides in an internal conflict. We've never been real successful at that.
i want to know how many qurans are being desroyed and no muslim is saying a thing...watch the tape from simon ...thats islam the religion of peace..hah !
MuyGuapo
Thanks to George W Bush along with Tony Blair, Christians in Iraq have been decimated. They were much better off under their old regime. Something to think about before the US decides it wants to impose "democracy" on another country.
Wrong and biased report, you are full of fake reports. But I am not surprised that CNN is posting your toilette paper. When will CNN have the courage to post the truth on Syria? I dare you!
eupator
Christians in Syria are supporting Assad's massacres just as Jews are, meaning after rebels kill assad they should kill every christian and jew and demolish and burn every satangogue and church before proceeding with utter slaughter and annihilation of israel. there should be a nuclear world war 3 if necessary to kill and butcher every jew and anyone who thinks jew pest will avail them. all muslims must rise up from now on and turn the world upside down for every jew and christian parasite from now on. let the last annihilations begin, unti lend of the world.
You have quite the imagination.
desertfalcon
Syrian Christians will wish they never existed for helping and abetting Assad. That's a promise. You will pay in blood and horror for everything.
Kastoun
To the desert rat
Your words are returned to you, believe me, we and the whole world know how you should be dealt with you and alike,
Your caves regardless how many there are of, will be all destroyed, God willing
So here is a PARTIAL SOLUTION to the Syrian problem: Find a way to get all the Christians to leave. Prophylactic political asylum?
The western world including usa and uk have no clue whats happening, and to be honest with you they really do not care, all they care about is their interests oil money business...., whether they divide to conquer, and i would say the majority of people in the western world have false media to serve their interests and probably many of them are not chrisitans.
Christians were in the middle east long time ago , but it started from the british when they stopped peter the great again for their selfish interests, then fighting the soviets by creating fundementalists in that region with their devilish plans lead by brezenski and people like him , with the intelligence, not caring what is coming next or how will they control what they created!!!!, and now by interfering with countries starting from iraq where christians are abused and deported or killed then palestein , lebanon egypt and soon syria...
And everyone knows that the west specially uk and usa with the gulf oil countries are supporting those strict religious fundemetalists and probably supported by them to hurt and distroy syria , just because of their selfish interests.
Sometimes war is good business for the west , more comapnies , more jobs, better economy , pays some expenses, sucking resources....
By the way what the west is doing and did , will harm them too, because i do not think anyone will want to visit any of those countries that used to be loaded with toursits cheap tourisim , from tunisia to egypt to ......, it is not safe , many fundementalis , rising of islamists that ban and destroy freedoms even spirits, no openes anymore... and the next target for them might be closing themselves from the west and i mean new rules business rules , because after they are done from all this, whats next, it is applying their strict close principles in a civilized world, which means taking that region backwards with them 100 years behind. But hey maybe this is also what the west wants as politics to play the game, support this side once then support the other side then..... After all fundementalists were created by the wetsern intelligence and revived by them with the help of the gulf.
The west should look at countries like Saudi arabia were woman are still banned to drive or strict countries but again oil money , US debt and treasury bill....
There is little to no oil in Syria. Syria is important to the West because of its support of the Iranian regime, and Hezbollah. Their is no economic gain to Syria. The only country to make money off of Syria is Turkey; they have over twenty dams on the Euphrates. Even then, they're not really making money directly off of Syria.
Only moslems accuse Christians as a group because this is the tribal mentality of Islam that treats people as groups and that vilifies Christianity. Hind Kawabat's Christian heart is bleeding for the moslems who want her dead.
Here are examples of Christians who are against the regime who were killed, tortured or put themselves in jeopardy:
http://www.mecn.org/2012/06/syrian-christian-film-student-bassel-shehadeh-killed-in-violence/
http://www.mecn.org/2012/05/syrian-christian-activist-hadeel-kouky-opposes-syrian-regime/
http://syrian-christian.org/
This Western journalist says that he was deliberately set up by the Syrian rebels to be killed in Syria:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/08/alex-thompson-syrian-rebels
Let's stop pretending there are two sides, one just and the other unjust. There are two sides, both evil, with innocent Syrians of all backgrounds, Sunni, Shia, Alawi, Druze, and Christian, secular or religious, all in harms way because both sides believe they can defeat the other militarily. The author should not single out Christians when far more muslims support the regime than there are even christians in syria.
If for one day people forget about their Gods including those who worship money and power and think of other people as human being and treat them the way they want to be treated themselves... Peace will spread in the world
Religions were found to lead people to humanity but unfortunately we forgot
about the lesson an started fighting about the teacher
CallingCrane
Perfectly conceived, hard to achieve, but worth striving for: An independent, democratic and secular Syria to embrace all its individuals and groupings.
The Christians in Syria have valid concerns. The Muslim Brotherhood is now in power in Egypt and Libya.
Good point! However, they're not in power in Libya as of yet. Libya is more of a tribal than religious war. I think what deters a lot of Christians in the Levant is the financial support from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Both countries are Wa'ahabi regimes, who support staunch, conservative Islam. Another major supporter of the SNC is Turkey. I think there are quite a few reasons for hesitancy. Lebanon, a once Maronite dominated state (okay, maybe in the 1930's), is now a minority sect in Lebanon. Lebanon has not had a census since the 1930's, and this is presumed to be because of the influx of Shi'ite immigrants. Food-for-thought.
Shiite -immigrants in Lebanon?! The Shiites of Lebanon are Lebanese by ethnicity as much as the Maronite or Sunni Lebanese. Where people sometimes get their so-called facts from baffles me
Checedu
A man told his grandson: "A terrible fight is going on inside me - a fight between two wolves. One is evil, and represents hate, anger, arrogance, intolerance, and superiority . The other is good, and represents joy, peace, love, tolerance, understanding, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, and compassion. This same fight is going on inside you, inside every other person too."
The grandson then asked: "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply: "The one you feed." – Anon.
kracker
This is an article about religion. Where are all of CNNs atheist trolls?
god=pretend
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Ayodhya-Babri Masjid Hearing: Courtroom Exchange
By: Mehal Jain11 July 2019 8:42 AM GMT
Senior Advocate K. Parasaran, appearing for the plaintiff in the first suit in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, Gopal Singh Vishara, sought the indulgence of the court to decide on the dispute-
"As the highest court, Your Lordships have the authority to dispose off the matter if you so intend"
When Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi observed that time has been granted for mediation, he sought to submit that some stake-holders have not been able to join the process, that the court may also proceed with the adjudication, and that if a settlement happens to be affected in the mediation, an order could be passed. He added that even in the Allahabad High Court, the appeals from the 2010 verdict of which are listed before the five-judge bench, the three judges had asked all the lawyers in the matter to come one-by-one in an attempt to reconcile.
"My suit was filed in 1950, even prior to the Constitution coming into existence. Now the plaintiff has died and his son is on record", he advanced.
Next, Senior Advocate Sushil Kumar Jain, for the Nirmohi Akhada, also contended,
"The mediator should try to make the parties meet. The parties should come together. There has to be some meeting, otherwise, how can there be mediation?... They are all worshipers, not the title suitors..."
At this point, Senior Counsel Rajeev Dhawan, for the Sunni Waqf Board, countered,
"It is not fair at this point in time to criticise the mediation committee which is not before Your Lordships. Our understanding is that the committee has met people jointly and then also separately"
"Don't tell us all this. What we have in mind is to call for the report", remarked the Chief Justice.
"If you pass an order on this application, it will be a recall of the order by virtue of the committee was granted an extension of time...Just because one party is fed-up of the mediation, they cannot come to you to override the entire process. They don't say 'recall', but they are asking for the mediation to be scrapped! I object to an application of this nature. Please don't even issue notice. What is the purpose of it? To intimidate us? Actually very serious mediation is happening. Please let it not be scrapped on the strength of this application..."
"We constituted the committee. We are entitled to know what is happening", asserted the Chief Justice.
"If they said 'call for the report', it would have been fine. But just because one party is not fine with the mediation, they cannot say scrap it on our account!", urged Dr. Dhawan.
In his turn. Senior Advocate Ranjit Kumar, for Ram Lalla, argued,
"The first suit was filed in 1950. It has been almost 70 years since then. The Allahabad High Court decision came in 2010...The matter should be heard at the earliest so that it can be resolved...I have a list of dates where advocates have participated (unclear)..."
"No. We will go by our orders. Let our mediators speak", noted the Chief Justice, directing the Chairman of the mediation committee, Justice Khalifullah, to inform the court of the progress of the mediation and the stage at which the process is presently latest by July 18.
Topics : Senior Advocate K. Parasaran | supreme court | Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case | Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi | Senior Advocate Ranjit Kumar | Senior Advocate Sushil Kumar Jain | Senior Counsel Rajeev Dhawan
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Fisking Shatzkin's and Cader's Fisks of Amazon
Two days ago, Amazon released a statement explaining their position in the negotiation difficulties with Hachette. As many of us had guessed, it's all about ebook pricing.
Barry Eisler did a post about the statement, and I fisked Douglas Preston, history's worst poster child for publishing, because he continues to beat a drum that only 1% of authors can hear.
The fact that Preston acknowledges that many disagree with his position, but never responds to or addresses criticism, is equivalent to stuffing his face from a big bowl of fail with a spoon in each hand.
But elsewhere on the Internets, there are those who remain on Hachette's side and are vocal in their concerns about the Amazon statement. Among them, John Scalzi, Mike Shatzkin, and Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch.
Scalzi's take was skewered on the Passive Voice, with 178 comments so far, the majority of them critical of his POV.
I decided to address some of Shatzkin's and Caders comments, and Barry Eisler also weighed in on Cader on his own blog.
I'll start with Mike Shatzkin.
Mike: “Unjustifiably high” is an opinion, not a fact.
Joe: Mike, when Amazon has the data on what pricing structure is the most lucrative, that's not opinion. It’s math.
Mike: Publishers pay money for the right to exploit copyrights and their “opinion” on pricing should be at least as important as anybody else’s.
Joe: A publishers' opinion on pricing certainly applies to the wholesale price at which they sell their content to retailers. They've always controlled that. Publishers also insist on a recommended list price (books are one of the very few retail items that have the price printed on them). But unless the contract with the retailer states otherwise, that's where their opinion ends.
Mike: Agency publishers had a lot of experience with higher ebook prices that couldn’t be discounted before the DoJ stepped in and they apparently disagree.
Joe: Huh? Ebooks were being discounted, which is why publishers colluded to force the agency model on Amazon. The agency deal meant Amazon couldn't discount. When the DOJ stepped in, Amazon went back to discounting.
Okay, upon rereading your sentence, I think you're saying that the price- fixing publishers seemed to like higher prices.
Did they like them because they made more money? Probably not, because they had to give a lot of that money back to readers in the settlement.
Or did they like those high prices because they retarded the growth of ebooks and protected their paper oligopoly? How is that counter to Amazon stating that $14.99 is unjustifiably high? It seems to be sympatico. The price fixers wanted those ebooks to be priced high, and their justification was to protect paper.
Mike: This elasticity measurement considers only sales of ebooks at Amazon. What is the impact on print book sales when the ebook price goes up and ebook sales go down?
Joe: It only considers ebooks because ebooks are the items that Hachette wants to raise prices on. Hachette and other publishers make higher profits on ebooks, but they don't run a cartel over ebook distribution like they do with paper.
Mike: What is the impact on the bookstore distribution network when ebook prices go up and ebook sales go down? It would be commercially irresponsible of publishers not to consider those effects as well.
Joe: What's commercially irresponsible is not giving readers what they want. In the past, publishers had all the control. They priced hardcover books as luxury items, and those who couldn't afford them either had to wait for the library copy or wait a year for the less-expensive paper version to come out.
Publishers no longer wield that power. It's understandable that they don't want to let it go, but you can't put that cat back in the bag.
Amazon's press release isn't meant to be a comment on the state of the paper publishing industry. It's meant to explain the current negotiation situation with Hachette, which is about ebook pricing.
Mike: It is true that ebooks live in a world where they compete with other media. It is also true that the they live in a world which includes print, also an important component of a publisher’s and an author’s economic world. This analysis is very short on measurements of the impact on print sales of lower ebook prices.
Joe: Print is important to my economic world. It's about 2% of my income.
Ebooks are 1% of Legandare's income. And, again, this pricing issue is about ebooks, not paper.
We know Hachette wants to protect their paper sales. Why should Amazon care about that? Amazon cares about the needs of its customers, and Amazon and Hachette can apparently agree on terms for selling paper books. How does your argument that Amazon isn't taking paper sales into account affect Amazon at all? That isn't Amazon's concern.
Mike: It is good to hear that Amazon accepts a 30% share for retailers as reasonable. Will they now extend terms reflecting that to all the non Big-Five publishers who are trapped in “hybrid” terms, giving 50% or more in wholesale discounts to Amazon for ebooks? Of all the points raised by Amazon in this document, this is the most consequential in terms of commercial impact.
Joe: You mean "trapped" as in "willfully entered into the contract"? I'd be fine with a 50% wholesale deal with Amazon. I'd love it if they heavily discounted my books. I'd love it even more if they sold them as a loss-lead. But I don't have a paper empire to protect.
Mike: How about the academic and professional title universe that never operated on trade discounts until Amazon forced them into the trade discount world recently?
Joe: I don't think you understand the word "forced" anymore than you understand "trapped".
I'll give you a correct usage: "Amazon was forced to accept the agency model because publishers illegally colluded, and they became trapped by those terms."
No one is forcing any publisher to accept Amazon's terms. Amazon isn't a monopoly. Those publishers are free to go elsewhere. Amazon isn't breaking any laws by being a fierce competitor and negotiator. The same cannot be said about Hachette.
Mike: The economics of those segments of the book industry are being devastated by trying to put them into the trade paradigm where they never belonged and never intended to be.
Joe: Yes, the world will weep over the loss of $200 textbooks. I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking of it.
Again, it is not Amazon's job to give life-support to a business model that no longer works, whether it’s 8-track tapes or textbooks.
Technology, and consumers, have moved on. Publishers also need to move on if they want to continue to be relevant. Go with the flow, or drown.
Michael Cader of Publisher's Lunch was also critical of Amazon's statement, and he says some things worth responding to.
Cader: As most of our readership has likely seen by now, on Tuesday afternoon the Amazon Books team put up another unsigned, closed to comment post (an exercise in what Barry Eisler ought to call shameful "pointless, pernicious, promiscuous anonymity") on the Kindle Forum. The post is said to offer "specific information about Amazon's objectives" in their negotiations with Hachette Book Group.
Joe: Barry addresses Cader’s thoughts on anonymity on his own blog.
As to why Amazon doesn't allow comments, I'm puzzled by that, as well. They haven't allowed comments on any of their Hachette related posts. I doubt it would be because they fear criticism--Amazon tends to ignore criticism, even from the highest sources.
If I were forced to speculate, I'd guess--and this is a pure guess--that Amazon believes the comment thread would fill up with anti-Hachette sentiments, and that's not conducive to the negotiations they are currently involved in.
Or maybe Amazon truly fears that a pro-Hachette avalanche of posts would overwhelm them, as pro-Hachette authors have been lighting the Internets on fire with their fact-based, common sense posts.
(Can anyone point me to a single pro-Hachette fact-based common sense post? Anyone?)
Cader: If you have not read the post yet, check it out. It raises many questions, among them:
Amazon is very careful with their words, even if not elegant. The post begins, "A key objective is lower e-book prices." A lot of traditional media have written the post up as if it said "The key objective..." What are the other key objectives, Amazon? Why do your conversations with people in the trade talk about looking for your fare share of the "business efficiencies" produced by a rising ebook market and your investments, while your public words are only about pricing objectives?
Joe: Well, we agree that Amazon is careful with their words. It’s unusual to hear an observation like that leveled as a criticism. Does Cader prefer the Hachette approach, which is to clear English what a chainsaw is to a tree…?
That said, I'm pretty sure Amazon just agreed to a 30% cut of ebooks--that speaks directly to their business efficiencies of the rising ebook market, doesn't it? So they didn't just speak of pricing objectives. But since Hachette hasn't made any statements about pricing, we're left with the belief that this dispute is about ebook pricing, which is why Amazon is addressing that particular point.
Cader: Amazon says they have "quantified the price elasticity of e-books from repeated measurements across many titles" in their store. Will they provide that data to publishers? Will they do it for a variety of price points?
Joe: Have publishers released any price-point or sales data? No. We rely on third parties to attain that information, such as BookScan.
I find it interesting that Amazon is, finally, sharing some price point data, and Cader immediately wants more from Amazon and nothing from Hachette. It reminds me of that Louis CK joke about WiFi on airlines.
Amazon, like legacy publishing, has always been tight-lipped about sales figures. But with Amazon, authors get timely, easy to understand royalty statements.
Cader: Amazon keeps trying to push a public perception that most new ebooks are $14.99, overlooking the substantial number of titles at $11.99 and $12.99 -- and overlooking the post-settlement discounting provisions that led some publishers to raise ebook prices in anticipation of Amazon's discounting.
Joe: I had the impression that Amazon is focusing on $14.99 because that's the price Hachette is pushing for. Remember that the agency model is still in effect on Amazon, all the DOJ did was allow Amazon to discount those agency prices.
As for publishers raising ebook prices in anticipation of Amazon's discounting, I find it hilarious that there were abundant author complaints that Amazon stopped discounting Hachette titles. How about Hachette prices them fairly to begin with, in which case discounting wouldn't be needed?
Cader: And will they back up the contention that lower prices raises overall revenue in the form of advance guarantees, one publisher asks? Amazon is essentially offering an assurance that an ebook that sells 100,000 units at $14.99 will sell 174,000 units. Even if true, does that only work in isolation? E.g., if all $14.99 ebooks moved to $9.99, would the sales effect be mitigated as consumers are back to choosing among a wide swath of comparably priced books?
Joe: Well, we could always run a controlled experiment by using a parallel universe...
Oh, wait. We can't.
But we can allow Amazon to price ebooks where they choose, and publishers to wholesale those ebooks to Amazon for the price they choose. Which is how it used to be, except publishers hated the discounting so much that five of them colluded with Apple to fix prices.
Cader: Their figures consider a world of ebooks only. Their "total pie" is really just a piece of the pie. But publishers and authors are looking to maximize revenue across all formats. "Total revenue" on an ebook is only part of the "total revenue" for a new release book, and the hardcover edition still generates substantially more revenue per unit.
Joe: As I mentioned while responding to Shatzkin, this dispute is about ebook prices. Hachette is welcome to counter with a "total pie" argument, but Bezos believes "your margin is my opportunity". He's not in business to prop up the paper book market.
Cader: Publishers and authors are also looking to maximize exposure of their titles and revenue across all possible outlets. More viable outlets makings books available for perusal and sale is an essential part of the "healthy reading culture" Amazon talks about.
Joe: So it's Amazon's job to bolster its competition? It's one thing making books competitively priced with other media types. It's another thing to be competitive with other retailers selling books. Amazon wants low prices. It’s in Amazon's best interest if other retailers price books higher, or don't sell books at all. That's a no-brainer. Amazon's arrival on the publishing scene has given the industry a much needed shot in the arm. Writers, and readers, are benefitting. Amazon's position seems to be it wants those benefits to continue, but it isn't Amazon's job to enable the competition to compete better.
Cader: Of course it's in Amazon's interest to drive higher ebook sales -- where they have a 60 to 70 percent market share -- over print sales, where their market share is half of that or less, but it doesn't mean that is the solution for publishers and authors, or even readers.
Joe: As I stated above, my paper income is about 2% of my overall income. But publishers still have an oligopoly over the paper industry, and they want to protect that. This isn't an impasse. Readers will vote with their wallets. Because, for the first time ever, readers have a choice.
Cader: Tangentially, first-run movies would sell a lot of downloads on Amazon at most any price. The lower the price, the more downloads they would sell. Would that be good for the movie business as a whole?
Joe: Funny you should mention that -- because more and more pay-per-view movies are being released while the film is still in theaters, or in some cases before it is in theaters.
With some titles, like Transformers, the bean counters have decided a theater-first option is best. Others, like 4 Minute Mile, http://www.amazon.com/Minute-Mile-Watch-Before-Theaters/dp/B00LFE2558 are takign a different approach. And this seems to be good for the movie business as a whole, and for film lovers.
Cader: People in the business will smile at Amazon's writing, "Any author who’s trying to get on one of the national bestseller lists should insist to their publisher that their e-book be priced at $9.99 or lower." As we've demonstrated, it's harder than ever to get a regular new release ebook onto to Amazon's Kindle bestseller list, which now gives 40 percent to 50 percent of its slots to books Kindle Unlimited free trial members have clicked to download.
Joe: Uh, then maybe those publishers should enroll their books in Kindle Unlimited?
I just hit #11 on the Amazon Top 100 with Whiskey Sour, which was published back in 2004. I sold over 6000 ebooks in a week. I can get a ten-year-old book on the list with just a few ads, but giant publishers can't hit the Top 100?
But this is a straw man. Amazon is talking about lists like the NYT, which publishers deem to be extremely important (I've sold a few million books and never hit the NYT list). And if publishers want to get on the NYT or USA Today lists, Amazon is helpfully suggesting an ebook priced at $9.99 or less, because Amazon has data to show this is the best price point.
It just isn't a price point that publishers like, because they care more about losing power and therefore relevance (that paper oligopoly) than they do about losing sales.
Cader: We understand Amazon is playing to the crowd, where the idea has been embedded that agency pricing raised prices.
Joe: How could that idea have been embedded? Maybe because, under the agency model, prices went up? Isn't that what the DOJ proved? Why does Cader think five of the then Big Six colluded to fix prices? Were they trying to force Amazon to lower its prices?
Cader: But they way they phrase it in the post -- "the 30% share of total revenue is what Hachette forced us to take in 2010 when they illegally colluded with their competitors to raise e-book prices. We had no problem with the 30% -- we did have a big problem with the price increases" -- is factually wrong. eBook prices paid by consumers may indeed have risen post agency, but the agency publishers themselves did not increase prices. They lowered their prices to their retailers, and they eliminated discounting.
Joe: Huh?
Ebook prices paid by consumers went up. The publishers controlled those prices. And publishers and authors made less money. But this is all apparently okay as long as Amazon could no longer do any discounting?
Amazon has no problem with 30%, because that's what they take from indies. They did have a problem with higher ebook prices.
In the short run, Amazon made more money per ebook sale when the publishers forced the agency model on them, and they still had a problem with it because it meant higher ebook prices overall, which they didn't want.
Cader: "We had no problem with the 30%" is raising lots of questions from other players. Many publishers would love to limit Amazon's share to 30 percent.
Joe: And I'd love to sell my ebooks to Amazon at a 50% wholesale that they're free to discount. It all comes down to what sort of deal you're able to make with Amazon.
Cader: Smashwords founder Mark Coker wonders in our comments why that offer doesn't apply to the hundreds of thousands of Smashwords titles? "So agency is okay as long as it's accompanied by lower prices? Then why have they refused to allow Smashwords or other low-cost ebook distributors into their agency program?
Joe: I'll take a wild shot here: because Smashwords is a competitor?
Cader: We'll give them 30% *and* give their customers lower prices. If Amazon wants its customers to have lower prices, then why the doublespeak? And why then has Amazon been so stingy with free pricing?"
Joe: It's a mystery to me why Amazon doesn't see the value of free. They're leaving a lot of potential money on the table. But Amazon, like any company, is free to do business with whom it chooses, and how it chooses.
Cader: On Amazon's remarks about authors' interests and their share of ebook revenues, Coker adds: "Nice of Amazon to care about authors. But do they really care? If they care about the welfare of authors, then why for last four years has Amazon been robbing KDP authors every day via draconian price matching? Amazon routinely steals revenue from authors even when the price differentials are due to a competing retailer's error, and not the author's intention or fault."
Joe: I don't like KDP Select's exclusivity either. I also think Amazon should sell in epub format. I'd like to be able to make my books free whenever I want to. I've been telling Amazon this for years. But it's their house, their rules. If I don't like the rules, I can opt out of Select, or take my books off Amazon completely.
I don't expect Amazon to become altruistic, but since the days of DTP they have been operating according to a philosophy of enlightened self-interest. I have benefitted. So have tens of thousands of other authors. So have many millions of readers.
Publishers are correct to fear Amazon. Amazon is slowly disintermediating them. That's what this dispute is about. That's why Hachette wants $14.99 ebooks. Because as the ebook market grows, and the paper market shrinks, what’s the point of having a publisher? Most authors with even a pair of functioning neurons will cut out the middleman and take that share for themselves.
Publishers are middlemen. Once they were essential middlemen. Now they are, as Barry Eisler says, a value-added option. If you find value in turning over ¾ of your ebook royalties in return for cover art and editing.
Because when B&N closes, and paper distribution exists only for the big names like Patterson, Preston, and Turow, cover art and editing will be all the legacy industry can offer authors. And the legacy industry knows how lame that is.
So the Real Authors Guild is... Amazon?!
Joe sez: This is from Barry Eisler's blog. My comments to follow.
Barry sez: In case you missed it, today Amazon issued an update on its stalled negotiations with Hachette. It’s a great read: short, clear, and devastating to the meme that Hachette is in any way the good guy in this fight. But if you want just the executive summary, it’s this:
Amazon wants most ebooks to be priced at below ten dollars; Hachette wants ebooks to be priced higher.
So far, so simple. But what’s critical to understand is that lower ebook prices create more revenue — a lower price for the customer, and more income for the retailer, publisher, and author. In other words, a win for everyone:
We've quantified the price elasticity of e-books from repeated measurements across many titles. For every copy an e-book would sell at $14.99, it would sell 1.74 copies if priced at $9.99. So, for example, if customers would buy 100,000 copies of a particular e-book at $14.99, then customers would buy 174,000 copies of that same e-book at $9.99. Total revenue at $14.99 would be $1,499,000. Total revenue at $9.99 is $1,738,000.
The important thing to note here is that at the lower price, total revenue increases 16%.
This is what Hachette opposes. This is what the “Authors Guild” and “Authors United” are fighting to prevent. More money for authors. And not just that:
This is good for all the parties involved:
* The customer is paying 33% less.
* The author is getting a royalty check 16% larger and being read by an audience that's 74% larger. And that 74% increase in copies sold makes it much more likely that the title will make it onto the national bestseller lists. (Any author who's trying to get on one of the national bestseller lists should insist to their publisher that their e-book be priced at $9.99 or lower.)
* Likewise, the higher total revenue generated at $9.99 is also good for the publisher and the retailer. At $9.99, even though the customer is paying less, the total pie is bigger and there is more to share amongst the parties.
For anyone who follows Joe Konrath’s blog, none of this is news — Joe wrote a post over two years ago laying out why The Agency Model Sucks. Legacy publishers know — they have long known — that the sweet-spot price for most ebooks (the point at which per-unit price multiplied by volume maximizes revenues) is lower than what they insist on charging.
So why do legacy publishers insist on high prices for ebooks?
As I started pointing out about three years ago, “The current business imperative of legacy publishing is to preserve the position of paper and retard the growth of digital.” Why? Because although the legacy industry offers various value-added services (at least in theory), the only critical service they’ve ever offered — the only one an author couldn’t get any other way — has always been paper distribution. Paper distribution is the foundation on which the legacy industry built its agglomerated business model. That is: “You want distribution? Then you’ll have to take all the services you could have outsourced for a flat fee elsewhere (editing, jacket design, etc) along with it, and you’ll have to pay 85% of earnings for the agglomerated package.”
But in a digital world, authors don’t need distribution services from publishers. In digital, individual authors have exactly the same distribution reach as any corporate publishing partner, and for the same flat rate of 30%. Digital is changing the role of publishers from something authors needed to something authors might, for reasons separate from distribution, merely want.
Having the nature of your business go from “I’m a business necessity and the only game in town” to “If I can prove my value, authors might still want me” represents a cataclysmic change for legacy players. Remove the criticality of distribution from the equation, and the entire nature of the publishing business model dramatically changes, with services that once upon a time could only be had as part of a mandated and expensive prix fixe meal now available as low-price a la carte items authors can order from the menu however and from whomever they like.
If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Forcing someone to buy an unessential item as the price of being able to buy the essential one is called tying and it is frequently illegal, especially in the context of intellectual property. Or, for another example of tying, recall the pre-digital-distribution era way the music industry allowed you to buy the one song you wanted: by forcing you to buy the entire CD along with it. There are many other examples. What they all have in common is that in whatever context it develops, tying can only exist in the presence of disproportionate market power.
There’s much more to be said on the origins and nature of the legacy publishing business model; if you’re interested, here are some thoughts I offered in a Pike’s Peak Writers Conference keynote a little over a year ago and in a follow-up piece I wrote for The Guardian. And here’s some terrific analysis from Porter Anderson at Writing on the Ether.
But even if you don’t want to dive that deeply into this topic, the main thing to understand is this. When legacy publishers choose the price of your digital book, they are not doing it primarily to maximize your revenue (in fact, they’re doing it with the full knowledge that their price will shrink your revenue). Instead, they are choosing that price primarily in the service of their strategy to preserve the primacy of paper.
The legacy imperative of using high ebook prices in an attempt to maintain the primacy of paper costs legacy-published authors money.
Otherwise known, in legacy-speak, as “nurturing authors.”
Now, the biggest bestsellers in the industry — say, James Patterson, or Doug Preston, or Richard Russo, or Scott Turow — sell the majority of their books in paper. After all, they’ve won the distribution lottery and their books are available in every airport kiosk, Wal-Mart, drugstore, and supermarket across the land. So their interest in retarding the growth of digital — where the same distribution is available to everyone — and in preserving the position of paper is identical to that of their publishers. It stands to reason they would fight to maintain the system that has made them so rich. But if you’re a legacy-published author whose sales are increasingly digital, you need to understand that the legacy strategy of pricing ebooks high is costing you money. Is that really something you want to help perpetuate? Yes, it works for James Patterson, but what is it costing you?
Also, for the “Books Are Special Snowflakes” crowd:
Keep in mind that books don't just compete against books. Books compete against mobile games, television, movies, Facebook, blogs, free news sites and more. If we want a healthy reading culture, we have to work hard to be sure books actually are competitive against these other media types, and a big part of that is working hard to make books less expensive.
My favorite part of the update was this:
So, at $9.99, the total pie is bigger - how does Amazon propose to share that revenue pie? We believe 35% should go to the author, 35% to the publisher and 30% to Amazon. Is 30% reasonable? Yes. In fact, the 30% share of total revenue is what Hachette forced us to take in 2010 when they illegally colluded with their competitors to raise e-book prices. We had no problem with the 30% -- we did have a big problem with the price increases… While we believe 35% should go to the author and 35% to Hachette, the way this would actually work is that we would send 70% of the total revenue to Hachette, and they would decide how much to share with the author. We believe Hachette is sharing too small a portion with the author today, but ultimately that is not our call.
It’s going to be fascinating to see how the “Authors Guild” and “Authors United” try to spin this. Fascinating in no small part because Amazon is taking the very position on digital royalties you would expect — indeed, you would insist on — from any organization worthy of inclusion of the word “Authors” in its marquee. Instead we have Amazon championing authors, and “Authors” championing publishers!
Imagine what the “Authors Guild” and “Authors United” could accomplish if they caught the pass Amazon just threw them and drove toward the end zone. Instead, expect them to run in the opposite direction, as confused and frightened as creationists fleeing from carbon-dated dinosaur bones.
Look, I’m not saying anyone here lacks self-interest. Of course businesses are self-interested and that’s not the point. The point is, there’s enlightened self-interest… and selfish self-interest. A guy who steals a car and a guy who buys one aren’t the same because, hey, each just wanted a car. And in publishing, we have one camp that seeks to profit by keeping consumer prices high and author incomes low, and another camp that seeks to profit from lower prices and higher incomes.
Which side is deserving of your support?
Over to you, Authors Guilded and United...
Joe sez: For the TL;DR crowd:
If you signed Douglas Preston's letter, you picked the wrong side.
Even if you're a millionaire bestselling author, driven by greedy self-interest, you're still screwing yourself in the longrun by siding with Hachette.
Elsewhere on the Internets, Preston continues to be the absolutely worst spokesperson in the history of publishing.
Preston: Unfortunately, Amazon's actions are hurting, most of all, the debut and midlist authors who haven't yet built up a loyal audience. I'm okay, and the bestselling authors, we have an audience and they're going to find our books one way or another.
Joe sez: Wrong, Doug. It's Hachette's actions that are hurting all authors, including you.
Amazon is trying to sell more of your books and make you more money by stopping your publisher from making ebook prices too high.
Preston: But we're not against Amazon. And we're not for Hachette at all. We're really trying not to take sides. We're just asking Amazon to resolve its issues with Hachette without affecting authors, without dragging us into it.
Joe sez: I'm not judging you, Doug, but you're a complete pinhead.
See what I did there? I said I wasn't judging you, but I went ahead and judged you.
Exactly like you keep saying you aren't taking sides, but you keep asking Amazon to resolve its issues with Hachette.
If you weren't taking sides, you pinhead, you'd be asking Hachette the same thing.
Preston: But we're not fighting anyone's battle for them. I'm not even in contact with Hachette. They have nothing to do with it. We're just fighting our own battle.
Joe sez: Preston's complete lack of self-awareness astounds me.
Doug, how about you actually get in contact with your damn publisher and wield the power of Authors United, "power to face down one of the world's largest corporations", and tell those morons that they need to accept Amazon's proposal, which will make all authors more money?
Preston: We just want to be able to write our books, and have them sold fairly at the largest bookseller in the world and not have those sales blocked or impeded. If Amazon were a small bookseller, it wouldn't be so concerning. But they have 41 percent of the entire book market and, like, 55 percent of the entire ebook market. Amazon sells probably half the books I sell. So it's very concerning to me.
Joe sez: Then you shouldn't have signed away your rights to a corporation bent on exploiting you. Because if you want them sold "fairly" it should't be at the $14.99 that Hachette wants.
Hire a lawyer. Get out of your contract. Then you can deal directly with Amazon, and they'll give you 70% instead of 17.5%
But the problem, of course, is that Amazon pubbed and self-pubbed books are boycotted by B&N and most indie bookstores.
Hey! Here's an idea! Maybe the surging, unstoppable powerhouse that is Authors United can do something proactive about that! How about... hmm, what could you do to make a huge impact?... I got it, how about a $70,000 NYT full page ad! That'll show 'em!
Preston: Books are different from toasters and wide-screen TV sets.
Joe sez: Ah, the appeal to emotion fallacy.
This is what millionaire authors trot out when they can't say the truth:
We make a shit-ton of money selling paper books. That's what this is really all about.
Preston: "It was when the evidence emerged, that Amazon had been holding certain books hostage and delaying delivery of other books as a negotiating tactic in a dispute with Hachette. I felt that was unfair. We [authors] had not done anything to Amazon and aren't party to the dispute. And I felt it was unfair of Amazon to target authors as a means of leverage. That's what gave me the idea that we should try to address the situation, to try to change Jeff Bezos' mind.
Joe sez: And who moved my cheese!?
Doug, I'm actually begging you now, please open your mind a teensy weensy bit and see that Hachette has been delaying negotiations because they want ebook prices to be higher.
Amazon has no obligation at all to sell any Hachette books whatsoever. They don't even have a current contract in place with Hachette. The fact that Amazon is still selling any Hachette books at all is a supreme act of generosity, which they are probably doing because they don't want to screw authors by completely removing all Hachette books from their store, which is entirely within Amazon's right to do.
How about you force Hachette to accept Amazon's offer? And maybe, at the same time, force them to double author royalties to 35%?
Oh, wait. I forgot. You aren't in contact with Hachette.
Well, at least you keep insisting that you aren't taking sides.
Preston: I think most of us think that Amazon is a good company. We're grateful to it for selling our books. We've been a partner to it, we've been supporting Amazon from the very beginning, from the time it was a start-up. And we've felt a little bit betrayed by this. I'm speaking to you now, not as an official spokesman for anybody. That's how I felt personally, and it's turned out a lot of other authors felt the same way.
Joe sez: Ah, the harsh sting of betrayal. Because you've supported Amazon for so long. How selfless of you to do so, when Amazon has 41% of the book market and 55% of the ebook market.
Maybe you should reconsider your contract with Amazon since you feel so betrayed.
Oh... wait. You DON'T HAVE A CONTRACT WITH AMAZON.
You actually have a contract with.... Hachette! They are the ones preventing you from having pre-order buttons on Amazon, because they are the ones failing to make a deal with Amazon to do so.
If you're going to feel betrayed, pick the right betrayer.
Preston: Is this going to be Amazon's MO [mode of operation] from now on? -- to hurt authors and inconvenience their own customers every time they run into a rough patch negotiating with a publisher? I guess our feeling is that that's not acceptable.
Joe sez: Is this going to be legacy publishing's MO from now on? -- to use their authors as pawns to sacrifice in order to control ebook pricing, which hurts authors and customers?
Is this going to be rich, entitled, self-interested millionaire NYT bestsellers' MO from now on? -- to use their celebrity in order to secure media attention so they can protect their positions as rich, entitled, self-interested millionaire NYT bestsellers?
Unlike you, I don't need to guess what my feelings are. That's NOT acceptable.
Preston: You can't outsource Lee Child to China. They should not be treated as if they're boxes of cereal occupying grocery store shelves.
Joe sez: How about we please let Lee Child do the talking from now on?
I disagree with Lee about a lot of things, but at least he can ably defend his position. Lee wouldn't say something stupid like "you can't outsource me to China". Books are not special snowflakes, and Lee doesn't need to be outsourced to China because he is no doubt already selling truckloads of books there.
Comparing books to cereal boxes shows that you don't even seem to know what outsourcing is. And stop clinging to the belief that books are special. It is such self-interested BS.
We are entertainers. We aren't curing cancer. We aren't feeding the poor. We're incredibly lucky that we can make a few bucks doing something we love, which is a luxury most people don't have. But we don't deserve special treatment. Amazon removing pre-order buttons isn't equivalent to Alexandra burning.
If you truly believe reading books is as essential as eating or breathing, take the money you've raised for the NYT ad and give it to www.firstbook.org.
Preston: These are books and authors and writers whose livelihoods are affected by this.
Joe sez: Then force your publisher to negotiate.
Oops... I keep forgetting, you aren't taking sides, and you aren't in touch with Hachette. My bad.
Preston: (Amazon's previous offers to authors are) a lopsided proposal which would severely impact the publisher financially but wouldn't impact Amazon financially very much at all. It's almost like an attempt to ask authors to load Amazon's guns for them. And I don't think it's a serious attempt to bridge a gap, I think it's simply an attempt to divide authors from their publishers."
Joe sez: Why do I feel like I need to spoonfeed you common sense, Doug?
If neither Hachette or Amazon were making money off of Hachette titles, and instead the money went to authors, or charity, it would compel both companies to resolve this issue sooner.
As Amazon has said, Kindle books are only 1 percent of Lagardère Group's sales. Both companies can weather this storm, but something could be done to bring a faster resolution. Amazon has repeatedly tried to do that.
WTF has Hachette done in order to speed this process along? Why haven't you mentioned that?
Preston: There's a lot of stuff going around the Web, and views being imputed to us, views being imposed on us that are not accurate. People saying [for example] that we're for higher ebook prices. Well that's absurd. We haven't made any comments about ebook prices. I think if you looked at our list of signers, you'd probably find that most of us were in favor of lower ebook prices and discounted books.
Joe sez: Doug, you can't say you want the state to execute a convicted murder, and then say you are against capital punishment. That's some serious cognitive dissonance.
The position you and Authors United are taking will result in higher ebook prices. Period.
Preston: And then they say we're calling for a boycott of Amazon. Absolutely not. We're not calling for a boycott. I'm an Amazon Prime member and I'm still using the company. I guess I'd put it this way: you can be against a war and still be a patriotic citizen. I'm an Amazon customer, I'm just taking exception to this one thing they're doing.
Joe sez: Doug, you're the one that said Amazon is boycotting authors. Which they aren't, by any definition of the term.
Our letter asked readers not to boycott Amazon, because Amazon isn't at fault here. Authors United, and Stephen Colbert, are unjustly painting Amazon as a bad guy.
When you start whining in public about being treated unfairly, what do you think will happen? Could a consequence of your actions possibly be that some readers will agree with you, and subsequently not shop at Amazon anymore? Do you think, maybe, that might happen?
For example, I don't have an iota of the untold power that Authors United has (I haven't sold billions of books, and I'm under no delusion that I'm one of the finest writers in the English language). But I can guess, as a consequence of this blog post showing my readers how absolutely wrong you are about this issue, some of those readers won't buy your books anymore.
I'm not calling for a boycott of Douglas Preston books. But in fisking you, I know that a certain percentage of people are going to think you're ridiculous, and they are going to voice their opinion with their wallets. As a direct consequence of me whining in public.
You most certainly can be against a war and still be a patriot. I can love my country without loving my government. But your analogy is poor.
By continuing to sell your books on Amazon, by continuing to shop at Amazon, while stating publicly how harmful Amazon is toward authors, it shows you are a hypocrite.
A patriot against a war will refuse to fight in that war.
Preston: But I'll say this: there certainly should be room for both indie publishers and traditional publishers, for indie authors and traditional authors. I think we're all in the same leaky boat, and we should be bailing together. I think we should be friends.
Joe sez: I'll be your friend, Doug. And as your friend, I'll give you some heartfelt advice: Stop doing interviews about this topic.
Indie authors are not in the same leaky boat that Hachette authors are, because we control our IP. We're not subject to the boneheaded negotiating tactics of our publishers. And your pandering to indies is, well, kinda creepy and kinda elitist in a "let's make friends with the backwards savages" kinda way.
But maybe I'm just reading you wrong. I know how interviews can sometimes fail to convey tone and intent.
Preston: Most of the world doesn't give a damn about books and reading, frankly. Ninety percent of the world not only doesn't give a damn about books, they're actually hostile to books. So traditional authors and indie authors have a lot in common and should be friends. Let's not fight. We're not against independent publishing at all.
Joe sez: The world doesn't give a damn? But, but, but books are special! They aren't like toasters or boxes of cereal!
Doug, allow me to let you in on something: indie authors aren't against legacy publishing. Indie authors are pro choice, and some indies will take legacy deals.
But what all authors seem to be against is getting screwed. In fact, that's why you wrote your letter to Bezos. You incorrectly believe Amazon is treating authors unfairly.
In fact, it's the legacy system that has treated authors unfairly for decades. And it continues to treat authors unfairly. You don't seem able to grasp that, because you won the legacy lottery. You're rich. You have widespread distribution. You were plucked from the masses and given the star treatment.
The rest of us don't get that kind of treatment. But Amazon has allowed us, for the first time ever, to make some money and captain our own ships.
I'm not anti-legacy. I'm not pro-Amazon. I'm pro-author, and in this particular case, the interests of Amazon and of authors are aligned.
The only ones who can't see that are the entitled millionaires and those suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Preston: I want you and everyone else to understand how much we are in favor of self-publishing and indie publishing. I personally am and other authors [in his group are]. So I say let's extend hands, let's shake hands, let's be friends, and not view ourselves in opposition to each other, because I don't think we should be.
Joe sez: Then stop going to the media and saying Amazon needs to stop hurting authors. Stop saying that Amazon is boycotting authors. Don't take out a full page ad that will paint Amazon as the enemy. Stop rejecting Amazon's offers to help the very authors you claim to be trying to help.
Stop the stupid.
Preston: "Hugh is a nice person. And Hugh feels that Hachette forced Amazon to take these steps, that in order to get Hachette's attention, it had to do what it did."
In speaking with Amazon's Grandinetti -- "he's called me a couple of times" -- Preston says he's heard the same thing from him, as well, an assertion that Amazon, in Preston's take on Grandinetti's words, "had to do this to show Hachette that we were serious."
"But my response to that would be, 'Nobody forced you to do it. I mean, how old are we?' Look, we all have choices. And Amazon is a very powerful company...No one made it do anything."
Joe sez: This is exactly the type of stupid I'm talking about.
Hugh is right that Hachette forced Amazon to take these steps. Hachette refused to negotiate, even after their contract with Amazon ended. What was Amazon supposed to do? Would you allow Hachette to keep publishing your books if you no longer had a contract with them?
But you don't address that, Doug.
Russ has called you a couple of times. Has Hachette called you? Why don't you mention that?
Your response is "how old are we?"
I dunno, Doug. Are we a bunch of petulant, whiny two-year olds who aren't getting our way so we take out a $70k ad in the NYT?
You keep defending Hachette while admitting you haven't even been in touch with them. You like Hugh but don't respond to his well-reasoned points, just simply disagree without defending your position or countering his. You blame Amazon, reject their offers, and apparently absolve all the shitty things your publisher does.
And you do this publicly. You're trying to get people on your side.
And you want to be friends? Really?
Preston: There's really a great diversity of opinion among the letter signers about such things as the right price of an ebook, how should publishing look at the future...what kinds of royalties authors should get...but the one united thing we all share is asking Amazon, as simple as this: just settle your differences with Hachette without hurting authors. That's all.
Joe sez: Amazon has made three offers to avoid hurting authors.
You don't care about authors being hurt, Doug. You care about Hachette. Every offer Amazon has made, you reject because you feel it will hurt Hachette.
You can't keep saying Amazon is hurting authors. It's 100% wrong.
By dismissing Amazon's offers, Hachette is the one hurting authors. And so are you.
Preston: If Amazon were to say, 'Okay, we'll put the [pre-order] buttons back, we'll go ahead and sell the books the way we did before -- and we're not going to do this again' -- I think we'd close up shop" on the Authors United effort.
Joe sez: Why stop there? Why not also ask Amazon for a pony, and a blow job?
But whatever you do, don't ask Hachette for anything at all. Just think what would happen if you did. I mean, you might actually be able to force them to accept Amazon's proposal of 35% royalties for authors, 35% to publishers, 30% to Amazon.
And if that happened, it would hasten the end of paper's dominance. And then you would lose all the perks you currently have.
This isn't about helping authors, Doug. It's about helping yourself.
The inimitable David Gaughran has some questions for Doug at the end of the FutureBook interview:
1. Your comments focus a lot on the loss of pre-orders on certain Hachette titles. Are you aware that self-published authors and many small presses don't have a pre-order facility on Amazon?
2. Do you have an escalator/bonus in your contract with Hachette which kicks in if you hit the New York Times bestseller list (or similar lists)? Is this the real reason you are so upset about Amazon removing the pre-order facility?
3. Your letter described Amazon's actions as a "boycott" when it is no such thing. Here’s what a real boycott looks like. Since October last year self-publishers have been banned, en masse, from the e-bookstore of the UK chain WH Smith. The company has given zero indication when this ban will be overturned. How come you guys have never written an open letter condemning this actual boycott?
4. Why is this the issue you decided to organize a protest about? If you really cared about the plight of the average author, why have you never campaigned to raise royalty rates, or remove toothless reversion clauses, or awful non-compete clauses? Why have you been silent about the exploitation at (Penguin Random House-owned) Author Solutions?
5. You say you aren't in favor of higher prices. I find this incredibly disingenuous. It's clear that Hachette's aim in these negotiations is to take back control of retail pricing and/or restrict Amazon's ability to discount e-books. In other words, if Hachette prevails, e-book prices will increase. That's what you are campaigning for.
6. Your letter also complains that Hachette books are no longer being discounted to the same levels as before. Are you aware that Hachette is seeking to take discounting power away from Amazon? In other words, Hachette books will be discounted *even less* if Amazon listens to you and caves to Hachette's demands. Do you see the cognitive dissonance here?
7. You make reference to two of Amazon's offers to compensate affected Hachette authors, depicting them as either disingenuous or unfair. However, you fail to reference Amazon's first offer. That offer was to estimate lost book sales and pay out the respective author royalties from a pool, the cost of which would be borne equally by Hachette and Amazon. (Note: this was exactly what was agreed between Amazon and Macmillan in 2010). Hachette also rejected this offer. I'd love to hear how this first offer was either unfair or disingenuous. I'd also love to hear your thoughts on the complete lack of counter-offers from Hachette to compensate affected authors. It seems to me like Hachette wants to keep its authors in the firing line to keep the pressure on Amazon.
Joe sez: I'll add a few questions of my own.
8. You said our petition caught you by surprise. Did you even read it? Have you read any contrary point of view? Why haven't you responded to any of your critics?
9. Do you understand that if Hachette accepts Amazon's offer, Hachette can still control wholesale price? In the pre-Agency model days, authors and publishers made more money per ebook sale.
10. Have you ever negotiated with anyone? If Amazon shouldn't have removed pre-order buttons, what do you suggest it should have done when Hachette refused to respond to Amazon's attempts to negotiate, even after Hachette's contract with Amazon ended?
11. Why the hell haven't you contacted Hachette? You've done nothing but defend them, even when admitting you don't know what the negotiation is about. They're your publisher. Your lost sales are a direct consequence of their decisions.
Now, I predict Doug isn't going to answer any of these questions. Maybe, if he gets publicly shamed enough, he won't run the NYT ad. But even if he doesn't, his mind is already made up on this issue, and no amount of common sense or facts will open his mind.
What Preston needs to do to help his cause is stop all activism. Every time he flaps his jaws, it empowers Hachette to stall negotiations longer. Also, because his position is so indefensible, and the comments he makes so damn stupid, he's become a better pro-Amazon spokesperson than an indie author could ever be. The more he yaps, the more public opinion turns Amazon's way. Amazon couldn't pick a better poster boy.
Stop it, Doug. Really. I'm trying to do you a solid here. Stop the petition. Stop doing interviews. Stop the NYT ad. Stop it all.
For your own good, and for the good of all authors.
Barry sez: It would be encouraging if Preston would respond to David Gaughran's excellent questions above. And if he would respond to the questions I asked in this post:
http://barryeisler.blogspot.com/2014/07/amazon-cancer-cure-stunt-to-separate.html
After all, isn't Preston concerned that his failure to meaningfully engage his critics is what's allowing "the most vociferous voices take over the online discussion"?
At a bare minimum, it would be a really terrific development if Preston and "Authors United" could offer even a single proposal for how Amazon and Hachette might resolve their impasse that doesn't involve Amazon simply capitulating to all Hachette's demands. Have another look at the last paragraph of Porter's post and you'll see this is exactly -- and only -- what Preston claims would be satisfactory.
Which, of course, is the ultimate laugh-line in response to Preston's persistent eye-lash batting demurral that he and "Authors United" aren't taking sides in this dispute. "We're not taking sides; we just want Amazon to stock Hachette's books on whatever terms Hachette wants!"
It's been my experience that the most partisan people believe they have no politics, that the most biased journalists believe they're entirely objective, and that the most destructive personality types truly believe they're good people with good intentions who will produce only good results. What makes people like Preston so pernicious is precisely this: even as they fight someone else's battle, they're absolutely convinced they're as neutral as Switzerland. In other contexts, it might be funny, or it might be sad. In this one, unchecked, Preston's myopia is apt to cause a lot of harm, which is why I'm glad to be one of the people who's working to expose "Authors United" for all the qualities Preston is too blinkered to see.
Must. Stop. The Stupid.
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Special elections signal trouble for incumbents, Democrats
Two trends concerning 2007 elections to the Louisiana Legislature hypothesize that revulsion against incumbents will magnify to the benefit of Republicans. Special House elections today presented no signs of invalidating either supposition.
While none of the contests obviously featured an incumbent, two of them had a candidate who was a high-profile incumbent in another position. In District 4, Shreveport City Councilman Calvin “Ben” Lester found himself out in the cold, missing a runoff from the all black Democrat field that sent former Caddo Parish Commissioner Patrick Williams and former City Councilman Larry Ferdinand to next month’s election. Lester certainly did not help his own cause with recent ethical problems concerning both campaign finance and legal services issues.
In District 1, current Caddo Parish Commissioner Jim Morris did win (going away) – but he also was a Republican in a formerly Democrat district deemed very vulnerable for takeover as a result of term limits (prematurely in this case becaue of the untimely death of Roy “Hoppy” Hopkins). This result, combined with the special election result for Senate District 16 in December, would seem to indicate that in this kind of district an experienced Republican will do well, but in other districts where term limits have kicked in, woe be an incumbent legislator of any party facing a quality opponent.
A few elections a trend doesn’t make, but simultaneously they demonstrate anti-current-legislative-incumbency and GOP momentum may play big roles in elections later this year.
Redesign secondary school curricula, exit exam
A sad reality I face every day as a university professor is, in one way or another, providing feedback to students unprepared for college work that signals to them their plight. It’s unfortunate because, theoretically, students who meet our admissions standards ought to be prepared for college work – especially since a number of them will have received “scholarships” from the state indicating, at the very least, they should be capable of college work.
While many students wash out or have initial difficulty in college because their attitudes aren’t right, that many were not adequately prepared further vexes as a public policy problem because a high school diploma in Louisiana, requiring passage of a defined curriculum and exit exam, with a sufficient grade point average theoretically defines college preparedness. Yet if a significant number of those who pass the courses with the required GPA and the exam are unprepared, there is a disconnection in the system.
The purpose of the exit exam, the Graduate Exit Exam, is to provide a standard beyond internal evaluation at each school. Somebody strolling through Louisiana high schools would notice vast differences in the demands being made on students, so the GEE attempts to present a uniform assessment of performance statewide. Students must pass it to get a diploma.
However, some fault the GEE for providing incentive for the school to focus on teaching to pass it, which may detract from knowledge and skills acquisition needed to succeed in college. If that is the case, then one of two decisions or both of them must be made and implemented. One would be to shape the GEE more to a facsimile of a college entrance exam. This would require consultation between state secondary and university systems to make the exam both indicative of knowledge and skills desired to be imparted in high school and those useful to collegiate success.
The problem would be that this would limit the GEE’s ability to assess whether students capably had completed high school for those intending not to go to college. Hence, secondly, a GEE variant for these individuals must be developed. It could be set up so that for the 11th grade testing that the student would choose which track, collegiate or not, to pursue, with a different GEE for each. The difference would be that a TOPS award, the “scholarship” program, would come automatically with a passage of the “collegiate” GEE, but would not with the passage of the vocational-oriented GEE. But passage of either would suffice for a high school diploma.
This strategy would require some redesign of high school curricula. All such schools would have to offer a vocational track which the student would have to decide (say prior to entering the 11th grade) whether to pursue but the curriculum for which would be constructed to satisfy the “vocational” GEE requirements. The “collegiate” GEE then would then have as a dual purpose testing for the ability to succeed in college, much as the ACT test does currently.
With the proper design, students will have a better chance of succeeding in both high school and college (whether they will is a matter mostly up to them, and partly as a result of teacher quality, a subject best taken up at another time). At the very least, it would make less likely under-prepared consuming resources from which they cannot benefit in college at the expense of those who can.
Kennedy actions serving state and his political interests
Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy has kept his streak going, rare until recently among statewide elected officials, of speaking and acting in a commonsensical manner the opposite of the special-interest-favoring, good-old-boy ethos predominant in the state. If he continues, he may present reformers of the conservative and/or Republican stripes next year the necessity of having to take a leap of faith.
Only last week, Kennedy, in his role of serving on special state committees, properly and publicly voiced displeasure at a plan to bring less accountability to the State Bond Commission and to engineer quietly a potentially far-reaching financial transaction. During this term as treasurer almost always, and sometimes with a lone voice, Kennedy has advocated sensible spending priorities and transparency in government.
These actions have led some to wonder, since the vast majority (but not all) of the good-old-boy crowd calls themselves Democrats, why Kennedy still identifies with that label, and further speculation runs rampant that Kennedy will switch to the Republicans and launch a bid challenging Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2008. On the surface, this seems to be the optimal plan for Kennedy to achieve higher office, as he could present himself as the only other major candidate in that contest by taking away support another GOP candidate could get.
But it also raises an uncomfortable question for GOP supporters who would like nothing better than to get a Republican in and Landrieu out. Kennedy also ran for Senate in 2004, but in that contest his reformist tendencies were cloaked in left-wing rhetoric. That appeared to be a tactical decision on his part, thinking that eventual winner Sen. David Vitter would appeal to the right and Democrat Chris John would be boxed into the center by having a candidate like Kennedy come in from the left. It obviously didn’t work as Kennedy finished, if respectably, in third.
If Kennedy does have eyes on this office with this path, he will need to keep hewing to this line. The GOP may not be entirely convinced that he has put away his liberalism and other long-time Republicans such as (if he doesn’t win this year’s governor’s race) state Sen. Walter Boasso could be tempted to tackle Landrieu. A penchant for Kennedy publicizing every opportunity for contrasting his views against the populist majority of the state’s officeholders’ would be as much to promote good policy as to prove his trustworthiness to Louisiana Republicans.
Breaux entry unlikely to prevent GOP gubernatorial win
As Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s reelection chances continue to wallow, some Louisiana Democrats continue to hope some miraculous candidate on their side emerges to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Now they have increased hope latched onto Democrat former Sen. John Breaux as a potential savior. Should this happen, it would change the dynamics of the contest, but it’s not likely to change the results.
There are several reasons why Republican current candidate Rep. Bobby Jindal should be favored if it ever came down to this matchup in the general election runoff. First, Jindal has a tremendous head start in fundraising. Breaux has many connections and if Blanco bowed out a process could begin of defunding her campaign account and trying to move it over to his, but Breaux will not outspend Jindal in this contest by any significant amount, if at all.
Second, Breaux has been gone from the electoral scene and state for a couple of years, working in a profession wounded by recent unethical behavior by some lobbyists, an issue so important that apparently it was of some influence in determining the outcome of the 2006 elections. Jindal has been politically active and essentially campaigning for the past two years
Finally, Breaux is much more vulnerable on issues that Democrats might wish. It’s not hard to envision Jindal and other major Republican candidate state Sen. Walter Boasso hammering Breaux on a number of things – plenty of past votes showing how liberal Breaux has been in Washington, questioning how Breaux’s 32 years in office did not produce stronger levees, why only now Breaux has come out in favor of reform of Louisiana’s inefficient indigent health care system while Jindal has advocated it for a decade, etc. GOP candidates will have plenty of money to explain Breaux’s warts, something none others in their position have had since Breaux’s first attempt at the Senate.
The campaign theme would be very simple: in 32 years, as Louisiana fell further and further behind on almost every policy metric – economic growth, health care, education – where was John Breaux? What did he ever do to try to prevent this collapse, much less anything successful? What one thing did he ever do for the state, period?
Expect much of this exposure of Breaux to come at the hands of Boasso, for Breaux’s candidacy would eat much more into his support than Jindal’s. This would be a bonus to Jindal, who mainly could sit on the sidelines while one of his strongest opponents chips away at the strength of the other.
A Blanco withdrawal and Breaux entry would cripple Boasso’s chances, and about wipe out any small chance Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell would have to win. Almost certainly Breaux and Jindal would tangle in the runoff. But the fact is, Breaux is not well-positioned for a political resurrection in a climate where then state is slowly turning against good-old-boy politicians (especially of the kind associated with Prisoner #03128-095). The overall dynamic will not change – the GOP, Jindal specifically, would remain favored to win the office.
Processing tax chance may cost LA development projects
Even though it’s about eight months away, the uncertainty concerning the outcome of Louisiana’s governor’s election may claim economic development prizes badly needed by the state.
Louisiana is in the running for the nation’s first new oil refinery in about three decades, a proposed joint venture between Kuwait and an American company, although it has not yet been decided whether the idea will be pursued and both Texas and New Mexico also are in the running should it happen. The state also is competing with Alabama for a steel manufacturing plant which could provide hundreds of million of dollars worth of jobs and revenues. Obviously, the German firm will decide on the location that will maximize its profits.
But placing Louisiana at a competitive disadvantage for the steel facility is energy prices, which are significantly higher than those likely to be charged at the site in Alabama. The supplier would be Entergy, which has higher costs because of older equipment. More modern equipment including oil-burning generators would reduce the cost of electricity production to a more-competitive position.
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Legislators whiff trying to reach ethics gold standard
Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wanted to go for the gold rather than titanium standard as far as ethics changes were concerned for state elected, appointed, and other public officials, perhaps as a bow to political reality. He certainly won’t get the titanium standard, and he may not even get the gold standard.
Louisiana’s legislators reared their obstinate heads yesterday and today in refusing to ban allowing family members on payrolls of political campaigns, in continuing to permit free tickets to be given to them by non-lobbyists for non-sporting events, passing on forbidding any expenditures for food and drink for state and local employees by setting the limit at $50 per occasion, and declining to outlaw contingency fees for lobbyists. Adding to that refusal to make campaign finance records collect data on donations from employees of corporate entities makes the silver standard the only certain achievable award to be given for this effort.
How fast government service can alter one’s thinking and priorities was shown through remarks by Republican freshman state Rep. Patrick Connick, who railed against the prohibition on family member employment by a campaign. He averred it was no business for the law to tell him on whom to spend his campaign money and said the voters could dun him if they didn’t like any potential employment of his relatives – conveniently forgetting that most expenditures made within the last 30 days of a campaigning do not get revealed until after the election, meaning voters might not find out about employment of a family member until after an election.
No delay needed for pension removal amendment
Not getting much attention as more far-reaching matters traverse the legislative course in this special session of the Louisiana Legislature is SB 17, which would enable the Legislature constitutionally to strip pension benefits from corrupt public servants. The main contention comes over how to deal impact on spouses and dependents and whether to act on it now.
The latter question popped up when it appeared the language of the special session call did not appear to allow for the enabling legislation to put this into practice to be discussed in the session. Some have argued the enabling legislation ought to be dealt with in tandem with the constitutional amendment, at least bringing it to the floor of either chamber (versions are in both) and taking their chances with a ruling from the presiding officer in terms of germaneness (which, if past declarations reveal anything, are fairly loosely-constructed). That option seems to have been rejected.
This affects the former consideration, since other arguments against SB 17 (and similar bills) are that, given the complexity of the issue, before voters who would have to approve the amendment get their chance on the item at the voting booth, they should have full information about the kind of law that would get passed relative to the entire question.
Legislators show feet of clay dragged by ethics reform
Legislators’ cowardice remained on full display yesterday as they made strenuous attempts to water down ethics legislation regarding removing the acceptance of up to $500 a year of free tickets from influence-seekers and in limiting meals to $50 per “occasion.”
These protestations both slowed the progress of such legislation and revealed the amazingly insular world in which some legislators apparently live, even as they argued in the case of the tickets which they often use to attend various events in their districts assisted them in actually meeting real constituents. And this isn’t even a total ban – it’s just tickets from those who wish to advocate something.
Perhaps that’s why Democrat Speaker Pro-Tem Karen Carter Peterson expressed that the legislation, SB 3, if not worded precisely, could threaten the amount of freebies she gets which she claimed would take her entire legislative base salary of $16,800 a year to pay for the tickets herself. Now, unless I’m missing the mark and underestimate the newlywed Peterson’s wit, charm, and good looks, my guess she wouldn’t get a fraction, or even any, of that value in free tickets if she weren’t in the legislature as second-in-command of the House. (Actually, as the new Speaker Pro-Tem, she’ll find her salary has about doubled.)
Isn’t this a problem, when a legislator basically matches her compensation through unregulated gifts even if they aren’t coming from the taxpayer? And while the donors of such tickets mostly never will be in a position of desiring influence, surely some will after the event in question which is not in and of itself unethical but the fact is none of this is regulated at this time – only when it involves an entity with a reasonable chance to wish to obtain influence.
In a world where legislators had courage, all free tickets, period, would be prohibited. But courageousness seldom defines the doings of the Louisiana Legislature and the present situation is no exception, so now there’s all this haggling over definitions to allow the free ticket ride, excepting influencers, to continue.
At least some over in the Senate do have some courage, as demonstrated by the approval of SB 19 by Democrat Sen. Ben Nevers that would not allow any lobbyist-paid meals, period, in contrast to the $50 standard, SB 8, being pushed by the leadership and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration. But even that $50 is subject to carping by spoiled legislators. As Democrat state Rep. Charmaine Marchand’s impoverished district struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina, its legislator appears to be living high off the hog when she complains that the $50 limit would force her to eat fast food on lobbyists’ tabs. The stupidity of this assertion was noted by Democrat state Rep. Rick Gallot, who noted that this amount would be a night out for a family of four in the environs of Ruston (and, in fact, a big night out I can vouch from personal experience).
The ticket measure finally got out of committee today, even as legislators still were griping about how their legislative lives would become so crimped in not being able to take freebies and talking of altering the bill on the floor. When are these dunces going to learn that you don’t have to pop up at every glad-handing event to serve their constituents well? Or if that seems such an imperative, they can pay for the ducats themselves. Although perhaps a novel idea to some is that they could converse with constituents without having it tied into some extraneous event requiring tickets.
While the silver lining is these imperfect measures continue to move along the legislative process into law, the dark cloud is their doing so exposes ugly truths about the attitudes of too many legislators. Service to the public, not to themselves, too often gets forgotten by some.
Landrieu, others may decide fate of presidential election
In a contest looking to end up so close, every delegate counts and thus the spotlight is thrust upon Louisiana Democrat “superdelegates” in the decisions whether the national party choose Sen. Hillary Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama. And, just as many argue in the Republican case, the ultimate distinguishing issue between the two may come down to electability.
This is why Sen. John McCain apparently will carry the day in obtaining the GOP nomination, as several speakers exhorted during the party’s convention this weekend in Baton Rouge, despite being the candidate that on the whole deviated the most from conservatism and the wishes of the party base. This strategy also directly contradicts the party’s successful strategy in 2004: running relentlessly conservative messages (even as the candidate wasn’t completely conservative) designed to activate conservative voters in the belief that conservatives outnumber liberals.
That was correct and it worked. The problem with a McCain candidacy is the electability argument is but a half-truth. There simply are too many conservative activists out there only tenuously connected to the Republican Party who will look at McCain’s policies and past, understand he will deliver too frequently for liberals rather than conservatives, and decide that even as a Democrat president’s policies will bring needless harm and suffering to Americans, to a somewhat lesser extent so would McCain’s. They will figure this would discredit the only vehicle they have to bring conservatism into government, the GOP, so it would be better to allow a Democrat to come into the White House and tar that party for a generation as did Pres. Jimmy Carter in the hopes a refreshed conservatism and conservatives candidates like Pres. Ronald Reagan will emerge to create future conservative victories.
There’s only one thing that will change their minds, and that is to scare them with Clinton. Her veniality, core liberalism, but occasional penchant to sell out her principles for personal and political gain and long history demonstrating these things will make many consistent conservatives swallow hard and vote for McCain just because the destruction she could visit on Americans is so potentially great. Thus, McCain can beat Clinton thanks to enough conservatives voting not for him but against her.
But the same dynamic doesn’t exist in regards to Obama. Not only does he have little history with which to scare people (he in fact is more liberal than Clinton but has had just four years in the national spotlight to demonstrate it) he capitalizes on this as a reverse to Reagan: while Reagan had a gift for taking the complex verities of naturally-abstract conservatism and communicating them into concrete and identifiable policy prescriptions understood and supported by the majority, Obama has a gift of transforming the intellectually bankrupt, simplistic and half-baked musing of liberalism into vague, meaningless gibberish that inspires those who do not understand the human condition and/or who don’t deeply think at all.
It makes Obama appear messianic, or at the least non-threatening and this will fool enough people to give him the edge on McCain. It will dupe enough of the less-abstract-thinking conservatives, those who have grasped that conservatism properly understands the human condition but can’t explain why in great detail – exactly those Reagan was able to activate – into deferring from voting out of antipathy to McCain and feeling that Obama is not the threat that Clinton is.
Thus, the smart move for Democrats is to go with Obama, as longtime Clinton supporter Sen. Mary Landrieu seems to suggest when she argues the superdelegates from the state – who have nothing binding their commitments – should collectively vote in a way to reflect the state’s primary won by Obama. (This may also play into Landrieu’s spotty reelection chances, potentially presaging her vote in favor of Obama so she can be identified with him as he is more popular in the state among Democrats than Clinton.) Whether that can happen is another matter.
Just as Clinton’s long history creates the disadvantage of her seeming much more of a threat, it gives her the advantage of having an awful lot of chits to call in to get the superdelegates to support her. This is why she still has the advantage. Unless there is a decisive turn against her in the polls over the next month, she will win the nomination. As long as she runs no worse than parity with Obama, she’ll still be convincing that she has enough clout to call in these markers ands they will be the difference.
When the state Democrats meet on May 3, the situation should be enough resolved that it will be clear whether Clinton retained control of the party. Committed apportionments of delegates will be made there and the superdelegates (politically, not legally) will have to start committing. Especially among Landrieu and her kind, these should prove very interesting times.
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The Hunt For The
Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Because then we could call this mildly entertaining adventure film a "sequel" to a surprisingly successful earlier movie about a giant snake. If you felt that Anaconda left some unanswered questions, however, be warned that the plot of that film gets dismissed early on as "urban legend." Since the first film strangely catapulted Jennifer Lopez into stardom, we only wish that were true. Here's hoping that if Anacondaseses gets made, Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid will not be so similarly discarded.
Sssstanding on its own with a sssslightly borrowed title, this movie turns nature into a sssserial killer. Instead of ssssex-starved teens wandering in the woods, we have money-starved scientissssts floating down a river in Borneo. A pharmaceutical company has a lead on a chemical that could possssssssibly be a fountain of youth. The catch: it comes from the rare blood orchid, found, naturally, only in Borneo, blooming only once every sssseven years (apparently all at the same time) for six months. And they only have two weeks left to find a sssspecimen!
Does anybody else hear that hissing?
In between giant anaconda attacks that frighten even tigers in the opening sequence, the film works as a sort of jungle quest film. The group of scientists prove a diverse but two-dimensional lot. Because it's also coincidentally the rainy season, no reputable charter boat will travel upriver. Luckily, the roguish Captain Johnson (Johnny Messner) will take them on his rustbucket.
Calling him roguish is too kind. Messner plays Johnson pretty grimly, with the only twinkle in his eye reserved for his howler monkey, Kong. It's somehow refreshing, since Johnson tends to have the most pragmatic view of all the characters. Though possibly the hero, he doesn't even resort to clever one-liners. After all, life in the jungle is way too difficult to keep your ironic distance.
That falls to other characters, though most of the time the script's few chuckles come out of characterization rather than quips. Some might consider it amusing that the staff geek Cole (Eugene Byrd) is easily excitable. Then again, he has reason. Once the anacondas make themselves known, they are a pretty freaky sight, and at least twice as believable as the CG hyenas in Exorcist: The Beginning. As I am tired of horror movies featuring characters that have apparently never seen any other horror movies, hearing the obnoxious Dr. Ben Douglas (Nicholas Gonzalez) hum the theme to Jaws just before getting swallowed by a giant snake comes as a welcome twist.
Because if any of us ever get cornered by some sort of mutated freak of nature, our knowledge of horror films won't really help our escape. And, just as the characters do in this film, any friends we have with us will likely stand there screaming for about thirty seconds before running away as fast as they possibly can. Maybe you have braver friends.
So props go to a fairly clever script, written by several people including the team that wrote Robocop and Starship Troopers, Michael Miner and Edward Neumeier. No wonder it has touches that turn conventions upside down. Almost every time a character says or does something that smacks of clich�, another character calls him on it.
The direction, too, is serviceable. At the helm, Dwight H. Little has a decent sense of how to use overhead shots and other clever reveals without over-using them. Since he worked on some pretty effectively creepy television shows, like Millennium and John Doe, it shouldn't be surprising. On the flip side, the performances have that feel of "we've got to get it done in a week, people," that often plagues hour-long television. Everyone is stolid, but not necessarily that good.
Let that serve as the epitaph on Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid. It's not necessarily that good, but it's also not that bad. True, it should have gone directly to video, but there are still bigger wastes of time in theaters this week.
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Cult melodic rock/AOR heroes Fortune are back with a new studio album, “II”!
The seeds of Fortune were planted by brothers Richard and Mick Fortune, who came from a family of professional musicians. Their mother was a singer and their father a singer and bassist. Richard started playing the guitar when he was 16 and went on to play guitar and tour with the likes of Buddy Miles, Booker T & The MGs, and Spirit, while Mick started out as an accordion, keyboard, and trombone player before switching to drums. The brothers formed Fortune in the '70s and cut a self-titled album, "Fortune" for Warner Brothers in 1978, but by 1982 had totally revamped the group. A key acquisition for the new version of the band being the recruitment of Roger Scott Craig. A classically trained pianist from the age of 8, the Irish born keyboard player was previously known for a successful stint with the Scouse pop group Liverpool Express in the '70s. The lineup was rounded out by Larry 'L.A.' Greene, also of Top Gun soundtrack fame, on vocals and Detroit area session player and Elton John bassist Bob Birch.
Fortune eventually released their second self-titled album in 1985 (not to be confused with the 1978 album) to a warm reception, especially in Japan and Europe. It is still highly regarded today by fans of the genre as being a crucial AOR/melodic rock release of the time period. For many fans, it is indeed considered one of the best, if not THE best AOR album of all-time. While this is of course very much open to debate, the reality is that Fortune’s album is one of those lost gems from yesteryear that has aged like fine wine while the years have passed.
Camel/MCA Records (the same label that had, at the time, launched Night Ranger and Giuffria to stardom) was the label home for the '85 album, but unexpectedly declared bankruptcy for undisclosed reasons not long after the release and refused to give up the masters of the album, making an album re-release impossible until fairly recently. The band remained silent for years and while Larry Greene and Roger Scott Craig started working together with the band Harlan Cage (who released several albums in the second half of the 90’s and early 00’s), the Fortune brothers started the band back up again as a trio in 2006, until a proper band reunion happened in 2016 when the band performed at the Rockingham Music Festival that same year and then - thanks to the acclaim that followed that performance - in 2017 as well. These appearances ultimately led to discussions with Frontiers about a new studio album, "II". Fortune hasn't lost a step and their new studio album promises to be one of the AOR highlights of 2019!
The band will also perform live at Frontiers Rock Festival on April 28th in Milan, IT. For more information, visit www.frontiersrockfestival.com
1. Don’t Say You Love Me
2. Shelter Of The Night
3. Freedom Road
4. A Little Drop Of Poison (For Amy W.)
5. What A Fool I’ve Been
6. Overload
7. Heart Of Stone
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Larry Greene - Vocals
Ricky Rat - Bass
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FORTUNE Plan New Studio Album For 2019
Frontiers Music Srl welcomes AOR cult heroes Fortune to the label for the release of a new studio album in early 2019! Mick Fortune says, "[w]e are looking forward to working with Frontiers in both a recording and a touring capacity! Exciting times ahead!"
Fortune’s lineup is comprised of:
Mick Fortune (drums)
Richard Fortune (guitar)
Larry Greene (vocals)
Ricky Rat (bass)
Mark Nilan (keyboards)
The seeds of Fortune were planted by brothers Richard and Mick Fortune, who came from a family of professional musicians; their mother was a singer and their father a singer and bassist. Richard started playing the guitar when he was 16, and went on to play guitar and tour with Buddy Miles, Booker T & The MGs and Spirit, while Mick started out as an accordion, keyboard, and trombone player before switching to drums. The brothers cut an album, "Fortune" for Warner Brothers in 1978, but by 1982 had totally revamped the group with a new key acquisition being the recruitment of Roger Scott Craig. A classically trained pianist from the age of 8, the Irish born keyboard player was known for a successful stint with the Scouse pop group Liverpool Express in the '70s. With a lineup rounded out by Larry 'L.A.' Greene, also of Top Gun soundtrack fame, on vocals, and Detroit studio and Elton John bassist Bob Birch, Fortune eventually released their self-titled debut album in 1985 to a warm reception, especially in Japan and Europe.
Camel/MCA Records (the same label that had launched Night Ranger and Giuffria to stardom) released the debut and it is still highly regarded today by fans of the genre. For many fans of the genre, it is indeed considered one of the best, if not THE best AOR albums of all-time. While this is of course very much open to debate, the reality is that Fortune’s album is one of those lost gems from yesteryear that has aged like fine wine while the years have passed.
Shortly after that legendary self-titled album's release, Camel Records unexpectedly declared bankruptcy for undisclosed reasons and refused to give up the masters of the album, making an album re-release impossible until fairly recently. The band remained silent for years and while Larry Greene and Roger Scott Craig started working together with the band Harlan Cage (who released several albums in the second half of the 90’s and early 00’s), the Fortune brothers started the band back up again as a trio in 2006, until a proper band reunion happened in 2016 when the band performed at the Rockingham Music Festival in 2016 and then - thanks to the acclaim that followed that performance - in 2017 as well. These appearances ultimately led to discussions with Frontiers about a new studio album.
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STANDING ON TOP OF THE ROCK-INGHAM
Press Release: "Hey we're back, I heard you missed us? A different venue, less bands but no dip in quality is what Rockingham is offering this year. After last year’s successful weekend, plans were put in motion to deliver more of the same AOR goodness as organizer, Dave Herron, explains, “Following on from the incredible feedback from our 2015 event we have decided to make Rockingham a more permanent part of the UK festival scene.”
It’s all set to take place over the weekend of the 21st to 23rd of October, at Nottingham’s Trent University – a mere stones throw from last year’s venue.
With the likes of Trixter, Steelheart and Kevin Chalfant headlining over the three days, a stellar line up has been added to augment an already impressive top of the bill.
At least five of these acts have never played in the UK before, with the likes of Lionheart and Lee Aaron having never set foot on a UK stage since the eighties.
With the new blood being ably represented by the likes of Art Nation, Blood Red Saints, Angels Or Kings and Stone Broken, Rockingham is covering all the bases.
This promises to be a wonderful weekend of AOR
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Kevin Chalfant
So where do you start with Mr. Chalfant? That he should have got the job in Journey, possibly. Or that he recorded one of the finest AOR albums of the nineties with the Storm, maybe. Perhaps we should just say that he possesses one of the finest AOR voices to ever grace the genre, so you can expect a set stuffed to the brim with quality moments from a distinguished career.
Jean Beauvoir
Now here's a man that could possibly be one of the coolest to ever strap on a guitar. His tenure with Crown Of Thorns is legendary, their debut being one of the finest albums he's appeared on. Having worked with Kiss, The Plasmatics and Little Steven amongst many others, he's guaranteed to get everybody on their feet. Are you ready?
Having delivered one of the finest debuts of last year, Blood Red Saints will need no introduction. Gigs with the likes of Romeo's Daughter and Hand Of Dimes have shown them to be capable of delivering live what they put down in the studio. With a collective pool of talent that has seen them appear with the likes of Sam Thunder, Angels Or Kings, Gary Hughes, In Faith , The Shock, Lost Weekend and Newman, the Saints are the pride of the U.K.
The Poodles
Canine capers from Jakob Samuel and company is always a good way to spend your afternoon. Over the years they've produced several quality moments, garnering plaudits from far and wide. This is Scandinavian AOR at its most bombastic and fierce, so bring a muzzle as this dog bites.
Art Nation
Formed from the ashes of Diamond Dawn, Art Nation released one of the finest albums from last year, which saw critics liken them to a junior version of H.E.A.T. It's not gone unnoticed as Music giants Gain have recently snapped them up for a lucrative deal. So expect a highly charged set of fist pumping, anthemic AOR.
This was a shock addition to the bill, but a very welcome one. Having dispensed one of the finest UK pomp rock albums of the eighties, Lionheart toured with the likes of Def Leppard to rave reviews. Their brand of AOR is laced with luscious harmonies, biting guitars and surging keyboards. With ex Iron Maiden alumni, Derek Stratton, at the helm, the results should be breathtaking.
The Defiants
Let's cut to the chase here, the Defiants have made one of the best albums of this year pure and simple. Then again what did you expect from people that have plied their trade in Danger Danger, a band that are not shy of a hook or three. Between them, Bruno Ravel, Rob Marcello and Paul Laine have knocked it out of the park. Their recent performance in Milan is spoken of in hushed, revered tones, a true 'I was there moment'. Theirs is the sound of the eighties, amplified and cranked to eleven. Party on, dudes.
Trixter
Next to the Defiants, Trixter are another band born out of the eighties hair metal boom. Their brace of albums were lauded from far and wide, giving them gold records and stateside tours with the likes of Stryper and Kiss. Having reunited in 2008, they've since released two new albums, playing several prestigious gigs along the way. Another band that tore Milan apart, they're guaranteed to give it to you good.
Bringing the Glam to Rockingham, Crazy Lixx will be riding into town on the back of several well received albums. This year’s live album is the perfect starting point to help you understand what the Lixx are all about. They'll push the button marked instant party, so get ready for these Revlon rebels to bring the mascara mayhem.
Stone Broken
A hot hard rock band from Walsall, surely some mistake? Nope, Stone Broken has gifted the world a hard hitting debut that has seen the plaudits arriving their way by the truckload. For most they'll be an unknown quantity, but after this weekend they've the potential to be everybody's favourite new band.
From The Fire
After a fabulous sophomore album, albeit twenty years later, and a wonderful debut UK performance in the same year, From The Fire were once again the band on all AORsters lips. Led by the core trio of J.D. Kelly, Tommy Lafferty and Michael Sciotto, From The Fire are an old school AOR fans wet dream. They were a little ring rusty last time out in the UK, this time they'll return like champion prize fighters.
Lee Aaron
The Metal Queen back in the UK for the first time since the eighties is enough to make you dust of those old red spandex pants in honour of the fact. The Canadian chanteuse will stir the loins of every red blooded male, and female, with a rollicking dose of maple leaf mayhem. An award winning artist, Aaron is another coup for Rockingham.
Alessandro Del Vecchio Band
The little man with the big voice, Alessandro Del Vecchio should be no stranger to AOR fans the world over. He's appeared with the likes of Jim Peterik, Mitch Malloy and Axe amongst many others. With Nigel Bailey helping out, this could be one of the surprise packages of the weekend.
Angels Or Kings
Born in the eighties, this critically acclaimed UK AOR band were resurrected in the new millennium, releasing an album that generated rave reviews the world over. Currently preparing their sophomore release, the Kings will be one of the most eagerly anticipated bands of the weekend.
Fronted by Miljenko Matijevic, Steelheart were MTV darlings, an admittedly brief tenure with the media giant, before Grunge swept all before it. Releasing a brace of albums at the peak of their popularity, they were a chart bothering behemoth whose candle was snuffed out all too early. Sporadic activity over the years has seen Matjevic as the sole remaining member. These boys have set the excitement factor to eleven, so get ready to stand up and shout.
A bucket list moment for an awful lot of AORsters, this promises to be an unmissable set. With Richard Fortune, Larry Greene and Mick Fortune on board, you can expect their debut album to be played in almost its entirety. Don't be surprised if the roof is lifted when the likes of "Dearborn Station" and "Thrill Of It All" are played, this promises to be a keyboard fans dream gig.
Martina Edoff
Returning to the UK for the second time this year, Martina Edoff's brand of highly energized hard rock will set the afternoon alight. With a band that includes members of Skintrade, Last Autumn’s Dream and H.E.A.T, they've the pedigree to make sure a blistering set of hard rock is on the menu.
Returning after his show stealing performance at the inaugural Rockingham festival, Robby Valentine is sure to be one of the most grandiose sets of the entire weekend. The pomp factor will be high and the keyboard quota off the scale, making this a symphonic delight for all in attendance.
I think you’ll all agree that Rockingham Festivals AOR credentials have been fully endorsed by having such an array of talent on show. Fans and ticket buyers would also be wise to watch out for announcements of official pre and after shows in the coming months via the festivals Facebook page.
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Kylie Minogue Heading To Top Of U.k. Charts After Glastonbury Gig - Music News
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Kylie Minogue's new greatest hits album is heading to the top of the U.K. charts, after fans rushed to stream her music following her emotional Glastonbury set.
The I Should Be So Lucky hitmaker released her career-spanning record, Step Back In Time - The Definitive Collection, on Friday - two days before she played the British music festival's famous Pyramid Stage.
Figures from Britain's Official Charts Company show that the album is on course to top their rundown next Friday, landing her a seventh U.K. number one. She has outsold and streamed her closest competitor, and the current number one record, Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, by a ratio of more than two to one.
Representatives from the Spotify streaming service also told WENN she had received a massive boost in plays following her Sunday gig, with streams rocketing by more than 1,460 per cent.
Other stars who performed at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England over the weekend have also received a Glastonbury streaming boost. The biggest rise is Other Stage headliner Tame Impala, whose plays shot up by more than 3,300 per cent.
The Cure, who closed the event on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday, had an increase in streams of 2,390 per cent, with Miley Cyrus, who played there earlier in the day, bagging a rise of 2,758 per cent.
Saturday headliners The Killers clocked a streaming of 1,855 per cent following their barnstorming set, while Janet Jackson's plays rose by 2,827 per cent after her performance.
The viral moment of the festival came when U.K. grime star Dave hauled a teenage fan named Alex on stage to perform his soccer-inspired track Thiago Silva, with the youngster nailing the lyrics perfectly. Interest in the song has surged since Alex's impromptu rap, with streams rising by 1,020 per cent.
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Mysterious old European culture: The riddle of Odin’s ravens
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Odin had two ravens named Huginn (Old Norse “thought”) and Muninn (Old Norse “mind”). Every day, Odin would send them out at dawn, and the birds would fly all over the world before returning at dinner-time. They would then tell Odin everything they saw and heard. It is said that this is the reason why one of Odin’s names was “raven-god” (hrafnaguð).
In the Poetic Edda sonnet Grímnismál, the god Odin (camouflaged as Grímnir) tells Agnarr, the young son of King Geirröðr a very strange thing about his two ravens. I include here four different translations of the stanza in question so that you can get better feeling for what Odin is saying.
1797 Amos Simon Cottle in Icelandic Poetry “The Song of Grimnir”
Hugo, in azure fields of air,
And Mumin too each day appear:
I fear lest Hugo safe return,
But more for Mumin inly mourn.
1851 C.P. in The Yale Magazine, Vol. 16 “The Song of Grimner”
Huginn and Muninn, over the fields of earth
Fly daily; fear creepeth upon my soul,
Of Huginn, lest he come not faithfully;
But of Muninu I have greater fear than this.
1866 Benjamin Thorpe in Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða “The Lay of Grimnir” 1883 Gudbrand Vigfusson in Corpus Poeticum Boreale “The Sayings of the Hooded One”
Hugin and Munin
fly each day
over the spacious earth.
I fear for Hugin,
that he come not back,
yet more anxious am I for Munin.
1883 Gudbrand Vigfusson in Corpus Poeticum Boreale “The Sayings of the Hooded One”
Thought and Mind [his two Ravens] fly every day over the mighty earth
I fear for Thought lest he never come back, but I am still more fearful about Mind. . . .
Scholars have been wondering for a long time about the meaning of the above verses.
John Lindow relates Odin’s ability to send his “thought” (Huginn) and “mind” (Muninn) to the trance-state journey of shamans. Lindow says the Grímnismál stanza where Odin worries about the return of Huginn and Muninn “would be consistent with the danger that the shaman faces on the trance-state journey.”
Rudolf Simek is critical of the approach, stating that “attempts have been made to interpret Odin’s ravens as a personification of the god’s intellectual powers, but this can only be assumed from the names Huginn and Muninn themselves which were unlikely to have been invented much before the 9th or 10th centuries” yet that the two ravens, as Odin’s companions, appear to derive from much earlier times.
Anthony Winterbourne connects Huginn and Muninn to the Norse concepts of the fylgja—a concept with three characteristics; shape-shifting abilities, good fortune, and the guardian spirit—and the hamingja—the ghostly double of a person that may appear in the form of an animal.
Bernd Heinrich theorizes that Huginn and Muninn, along with Odin and his wolves Geri and Freki, reflect a symbiosis observed in the natural world among ravens, wolves, and humans on the hunt. He proposed that the Odin myth was a metaphor that playfully and poetically encapsulates ancient knowledge of our prehistoric past as hunters in association with two allies to produce a powerful hunting alliance. It would reflect a past that we have long forgotten and whose meaning has been obscured and badly frayed as we abandoned our hunting cultures to become herders and agriculturists.
I believe that the above stanza is a riddle, a koan, which was used for teaching the novices about the difference between Thought and Mind. The fact that Odin has two ravens called thought and mind is already very significant. Most people equate thought, thinking, the thought machine and mind. But interestingly mystics all over the world, since the beginning of time have been trying to tell us that the truth is exactly the opposite. Thought, thinking, thought machine and mind are two different things independent of each other. Odin is trying to tell us the same.
Many books were written on the subject of dualism of Thought and Mind. Basically anything ever written about meditation, mindfulness and achieving enlightenment actually tries to explain the relationship between the Thought and Mind. In my opinion one of the best was written by the guy called Eckhart Tolle. The book is called “The Power Of Now”. This is not a religious book. This is a practical guide to understanding the relationship between Thought and Mind.
But how are we to understand Odin’s worry that his ravens will not return. John Lindow is partially correct when he relates Odin’s ability to send his “thought” (Huginn) and “mind” (Muninn) to the trance-state journey of shamans. Only the Muninn’s flight is a metaphor for the meditative process. Huginn’s flight is a metaphor for the thought process.
Lindow says the Grímnismál stanza where Odin worries about the return of Huginn and Muninn “would be consistent with the danger that the shaman faces on the trance-state journey.” But actually I believe that Odin is not worried. It is a riddle. He is opposite from worried. He is hoping that the ravens will not return. The reason why scholars are still wondering what the meaning of the above stanza is, is because they are not vikings.
Ravens were used by Vikings to determine if there was a land ahead during their long voyages across the open sea. They carried ravens with them in cages. When they found themselves far away from the shore, and didn’t know which way to go, they would set a raven free. Raven would fly high in the air and then start flying in circles searching for land in the distance.
Because ravens can’t land on water, if the raven could not see a land, he would return to the ship. But if the raven saw land in the distance, it would fly straight for it. All the Vikings had to do is follow the raven. So raven acted as a guide, which guided Vikings through the unknown and uncharted waters to a safe haven. Which means that raven must be directly related to the idea of a guide, leader, just like Odin, Wodan whose name actually means Guide, Leader. You can read more about it in my post called “Odin the wandering deity”.
As I said already it is very important that there are two ravens of Odin. Thought and Mind. They are two ravens which each of us can use to search for the way forward through the unknowable future. Most people only ever use Thought. This is because they are not even aware of the existence of the other raven, Mind because they think that Thought and Mind are one and the same.
That mind is a sum of our thoughts, rather than a completely separate entity. This is a pity because all the mystics in the world throughout the history have been telling us that it is the mind, clear of all thought, the mind of no mind, which gives us the true vision, the true sight. The sight that reaches much further in space and time then our thoughts would ever be able to reach. And this is exactly what Odin is telling Agnarr. Odin says that although there is a possibility that thought might not return, he is more anxious about Mind not returning than thought. What this actually means is this:
It might be possible to use your thought to successfully guide you through life. This is symbolised by Odin’s fear that Hugin, Thought, might not come back. As I have already said, raven Thought would not come back only if it had found the way (Tao) through life which you can follow. But Odin says, that he is more worried about the Muninn, Mind, not returning. This means that Odin thinks that raven Mind, mind empty of thought, the opposite of thought, is more likely to find you the way (Tao) through life which you can follow. This is, I believe, the message Odin was trying to convey to Agnarr and everyone else.
And so, I believe, the riddle of Odin’s ravens is solved. A fitting message from the God whose name means Guide, Leader. What do you think?
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For the first time on this challenge I woke up in a nice warm bed in Tow Law. While Chappie is always likely to be my home on these sorts of challenges, I think it's wise, where possible, to accept the kind offers of accommodation that come my way. Thanks again to Mike for putting me up for the night. It was also nice to have my first shower in 3 days!
The day started with Mike and I loading Chappie onto the trailer ready to make the short trip to the previous day's end point. There was a slight detour to Greggs in Tow Law to stock up on bacon sandwiches. To be precise, it was 2 bacon sandwiches and a bacon and sausage sandwich. "Just sauces on the bacon sandwiches please" I told the lady behind the counter. The reason why is to fool them into thinking that the order is for more than one person and to disguise my shame at ordering such a huge amount of food.
We got to Sunniside near Tow Law for 0800 and I said goodbye to Mike. It was a sunny yet chilly start to the day and, once again, I felt relieved at not having to spend a 3rd consecutive night in cold temperatures.
I found it quite easy to devour my sandwiches while running. The previous day's calorie burn meant that I was ready for a good feed. They weren't the highest quality calories that I was putting in but the fat and salt that I craved suited me just fine.
I made my way past many farms in County Durham. Visibility was good and the views were spectacular. I didn't hang about to take photos and the downhill miles ticked by quite nicely.
I reached Langley Moor after 9 miles and noticed a familiar looking silhouette in a shop to my left. It was familiar because it was a sight that I'd been used to seeing when I ran across Australia and Europe. It was none other than sports therapist Jason Stobbs or Stobbsy as he's affectionately known. We had a brief chat and I continued on my way towards Durham. Of course, I'll be seeing Stobbsy at the Around The World Ball in a few weeks time.
I got stuck in a traffic queue on the climb up to Neville's Cross in Durham. I waited patiently and the lights were kind enough to stay on long enough for me to reach the other side safely.
A kind lady stopped me and handed me £4 for St Benedict's Hospice. In time honoured tradition, I paid it straight into http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
I made it into Durham City Centre with a bit of patience and cooperation from passing traffic. I stopped very briefly to take a picture of Chappie on Framwelgate Bridge. I didn't hang about and it wasn't long before I was on the busy A690 heading out of Durham.
I crossed over the A1 and decided to have a quick break at the 14 mile point. While I was eating a snack I decided to tot up how much had been raised on the 25th Anniversary Challenge. I realised that I was only £3.15 away from £400. I quickly put that out on social media and there was a flurry of donations.
My rest was over and I was delighted to be on a bit of a bike track at the side of the A690 for a while. I turned off the A690 south of Houghton-le-Spring at the 17 mile point. There was then a nice uphill stretch up to the 19 mile point. I had a really positive run from here on. I felt an overwhelming sense of pride as I ran the final miles to St Benedict's Hospice. I reflected on a successful 25 years of fundraising in my mind and thought just how proud my Mam and Dad would have been.
I kept getting notified of donations on my phone as I ran those final miles. I turned into the Hospice road to be told by a workman leaving the adjacent building site that the road came to a "dead end". I continued on my way and he didn't look too pleased that I ignored him.
I reached the Hospice entrance after 24 miles of running and Catrina, the fund raising manager, was there waiting for me. It was just like the old days when I used to finish a run at the Hospice and Anne Oliver (the fundraising manager at the time) would be there waiting. Incidentally, I believe that it was Anne's 80th birthday when I finished. Happy Birthday Anne and thanks for the part you've played over the years in my fundraising.
Andrew, from my sponsor SOS Group, was at the finish line. He'd being doing some business in the area and it was fitting that he was there to see me complete this run.
It was nice to talk to some of the Hospice staff while I stuffed my face with some delicious cheese scones from the Hospice bistro. The cheese sandwich and can of pop went down very well too!
When I got home I got a notification to say that two children had made a donation. The message left on my Virgin Money Giving page read "Mark the boys wanted to donate their pocket money this week . Well done keep up good work . James and Noah x".
How very kind of the boys to donate their pocket money.
Once I'd made a donation for the scones etc that I'd had at St Benedict's Hospice the final total for the 25th Anniversary Challenge was a very pleasing £500. Thanks so much to everyone who made a donation and left a message on http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun. That is far and beyond what I thought would be raised when I left home just over a week ago.
I later found that a few fundraising milestones had been hit during the day. The first was that the £120,000 barrier had been breached for St Benedict's Hospice. The current total for the Hospice is £120,039.27.
The second milestone was breaching the £20,000 barrier for the year for St Benedict's Hospice. The current total for the Hospice in 2018 is £20,007.37.
The total for the current campaign nudged closer to the 47k barrier and stands at £46,953.60. With the Around The World Ball in just 2 weeks time, it looks odds on that my personal target for the Stage 5 campaign will hit its £50,000 target. What's pleasing about that is that this campaign is just a 2 year one. It's taken longer in the past to raise a similar amount. The stage 4 campaign was 3 years long and raised £55,147.25. Stage 3 across Australia was only 2 years but had the backing of a local radio station and newspaper. Stage 2 across the USA was a four year campaign with £75,000 coming during the final 8 months. Again, it had the backing of local radio and newspapers as well as some unplanned national coverage.
nufc.com have been at the heart of my coverage since 2001. They remain the most important cog in the awareness machine and have been responsible for helping to bring in tens of thousands of pounds. The amount of contacts that I've made all over the world through nufc.com have been invaluable. Game changing.
Pound for pound, I think Stage 5 of the run around the world could be the most successful yet. The support on social media and the interest in the blog is very healthy. The support from my network of friends and colleagues for this stage has been outstanding. People seem to have bought into my vision of unsupported running with a 100+ kg buggy and with a lot of support from home too it all adds up to a tremendous team effort. Then their is the support that I've received from local people wherever I've ran. People all across my route in Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and this week in Northumberland, Cumbria and County Durham have been so friendly, supportive and generous.
Convincing people to donate to a cause that is not close to their heart is always very tricky. Getting people to back my very personal mission hasn't always been easy. The loss of my parents was a long time ago. I'm no longer riddled with the terrible grief. I sometimes think that my message isn't as strong these days. This is partly to do with the fact that, thanks to fundraising, I'm in a really good place. I think they refer to it as "mental health" these days.
What I absolutely must do going forward is make a better job of telling my sponsors what difference their money makes to terminally ill people. Those people are in the same situation as my Mam and Dad once were. They have no future. What they do have, though, is a supportive and professional institution who will try their best to make a person's final days as positive, comfortable and fulfilled as possible.
As Catrina from the hospice said earlier this year "This isn't a place to die, it's a place to live.". I've pondered over that statement all year and, relating it to my Mam's experience at the Hospice, I completely agree. My Mam's exact words in 1994 were "I'm not dying from cancer, I'm living with cancer.". It's the same message using different words.
There are so many people to thank over the previous 25 years. I hope that I've always managed to get that message of gratitude across. I have spent 25 years of asking a lot of things from a lot of people and I'm eternally grateful to them all. As are the charities who have benefitted I'm sure.
So what about the next 25 years? I'll talk more about that at the Around The World Ball on October 13th. Rest assured, I'm determined as ever to raise funds.
I'll finish this blog with Catrina's take on St Benedict's Hospice. If you'd like to make a donation then please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
I was woken at 11pm last night (Sunday) by a drunk driver who pulled up next to Chappie and asked what it was. I just said it’s a mobile B&B and after a few F words he seemed happy with my answer and drove off.
It took me a good hour to get back to sleep and I managed to put my fleece on as I was getting very cold. It was only 1 or 2 degrees Celsius on the hill overlooking Cowshill.
I kept waking up and putting my head inside the sleeping bag to try and keep warm. Then the lack of air woke me up and I’d get cold again. This continued throughout the night.
I woke up at 0600 with a really bad head and didn’t start running until 1000. I hadn’t gone 1/2 mile when I was stopped by a long term supporter called Dee. We had a good chat and I was very grateful for her donation. Thanks to the very good phone signal I paid it straight into http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
The following miles were very slow. Every time I tried to run my head pounded. At least the sun was shining and I managed to warm up. In fact, the conditions and the clothes that I was wearing were perfectly matched.
I made it to the 7 mile point near East Gate and got talking to a man called David tending to his garden. He invited me in for a hot drink. Both him and his wife (Judith) were teachers in Washington and we got talking about my former teachers and inevitably about my running. They also made a very kind donation via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
I had a couple of cups of coffee and some toast with peanut butter on. It was almost 1500 when I left and I knew I was way behind schedule. It was worth it though as they were nice people to talk to.
I started running towards Stanhope and my headache had gone. It’s amazing what toast can do for a headache! Or any ailment for that matter. Some ladies threw some change into Chappie’s basket and a man in a Volvo handed me a pound coin near Stanhope.
I knew I was up against it time wise so decided to increase the pace to 12/13 minute miles. I was able to maintain that pace for 10 miles.
I took a left at the 17 mile point and started running up Wolsingham Bank. It was shorter but steeper than yesterday’s climb out of Nenthead. I had to stop half way up for five minutes. I didn’t feel well at all. I managed to get to the top and I was soaked in sweat.
Waiting for me at the top was another long term supporter called Mark. I recognised him from the previous Around The World balls. He made a kind donation which I paid straight away into http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun. I must buy him a pint at the next ball in 3 weeks time.
There was a bit of a down hill and then another climb into Tow Law. I felt very hungry and out on Facebook “Please tell me there’s a chippy in Tow Law”. A follower of the Run Geordie Run Page (Tony Palmer) replied with an address and I made my way to The Golden Fry.
I ordered Sausage And Chips with curry sauce. Delicious!
I ate them inside the chippy and a man called Mike (pictured below) entered the shop having recognised Chappie outside. He was the first in the shop to make a donation. He found out about my running on Real Radio during the run across the USA.
I also received a donation from a young girl called Jessica and the rest of her family had a photo with Chappie.
The Golden Fry wouldn’t take my money for the food and they also handed me a bag of change. I paid the equivalent for my food and the change amount as well as money collected earlier in Stanhope to St. Benedict’s Hospice via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun and continued on my way.
The generosity in Town Law didn’t end there when Mike contacted me via Facebook to offer a shower and bed for the night. He was on a call out job but would be with me at 2030 to bring me back to Tow Law.
I climbed inside Chappie after 22 miles and waited for Mike. He arrived at 2030 and we loaded Chappie onto the back of his trailer and drove a mile back to Tow Law.
A hot shower, a cup of tea and a warm bed is not how I thought this day would end. I’m very pleased and very grateful to not have to spend the final night in almost sub zero temperatures again.
Tomorrow is the final day of the 25th Anniversary Challenge. So far £387.85 has been raised since I left home last Sunday. I’m really pleased with the amazing generosity that has been shown. I’m looking forward to reaching St. Benedict’s Hospice tomorrow afternoon and ending my first 25 years of fundraising at the place where it all began.
If you’d like to donate then please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun. Thanks in advance.
Without much cloud cover it was absolutely freezing up on Hartside Summit overnight. I got out of Chappie at 0915, packed up and made my way to the temporary Cafe. The picture below is the view back to the Lake District.
I ordered two bacon sandwiches and a cup of tea. Katherine, the owner, was kind enough to make a donation to St. Benedict’s Hospice.
As I was eating my breakfast, I got talking to two bikers called Tommy and John. They couldn’t work out what Chappie was so I told them all about our travels. They were kind enough to make a donation. I knew that I would lose my mobile phone signal 100 metres down the road so I promptly paid all of the donations in to http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
It was a nice to start the day running purely down hill. Despite the sunshine, it was a very chilly morning. I made my way towards Alston and reached the front street after 6 miles of easy downhill running.
I didn’t have a data signal so was unable to navigate my way to my old colleague’s Mam’s house. I’d been promised a bacon sandwich and a cuppa. To my surprise, as I headed out of Alston, I passed the street where I knew she lived. Five minutes later and I was drinking coffee and tucking into a bacon and mushroom sandwich. It was great to see Elaine again after so many years and her Mam was lovely too. They are both keen followers of my Around The World Run. It was nice to chat to them about it.
I left with a snack and a sports drink for the onward journey. Thank you to Elaine for her donation to St. Benedict’s Hospice too. I think I’ve cost her a lot of money over the years as she has sponsored me since the very early days of my fundraising. She was also very kind to me after my Mam died and I remember having some nice meals and a chat at her house.
The road from Alston to Nenthead was quite undulating and while I warmed up on the climbs, I struggled to keep warm on the descent. It made for a very uncomfortable and, at times, cold afternoon of running.
I stopped at The Miners Arms at Nenthead for a chicken burger. It was very good. My meal was well timed as there was a downpour while I was eating.
I was just about to get back on the road when Dave the owner of the bike shop asked me about Chappie. I told him about my journey. He’d also been having problems with body temperature while cycling.
Another man (John) asked about my journey. He gave me the last of his change and I paid his and Dave’s donation in to http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
I was stopped by some ladies a little way up the hill out of Nenthead. I was surprised to learn that the lady on the left (Adele) was in fact the Sausage Sandwich Lady from day 4. She’d first seen me in Hexham on day 2 and was one of the drivers who were cheering me up the hill. She caught a glimpse of the wording on Chappie that day and after a bit of Googling found my Facebook page.
Back to today and Adele handed me some home made cookies wrapped in tin foil. I had them later on the 16th mile. They were delicious.
The climb out of Nenthead was long and steep (see the elevation profile below). I just had to keep on putting one foot in front of the other and get on with it. Various cars, cyclists and motocross bikes waved as I climbed the hill and this really helped.
That climb out of Nenthead was the steepest that I’ve tackled since Ukraine. Just like all of the other climbs on this tour, I was really pleased with my fitness and also my attitude to getting stuck in.
I reached the summit after almost 2 miles of steep uphill. I was very warm with my 5 layers on!
One motocross rider passed and then turned back. He saw the “Run Geordie Run” on the side of Chappie and said he’d check it out later. There was also a mention of a donation so I’ll look out for that on http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
As I ran past Killhope Lead Mining Museum I could feel myself getting cold again. There were also some dark clouds approaching from the north.
I ran through Lanehead and Cornriggs and decided to stop for the day at a roadside inlet near Cowshill. I was quite happy with 18 miles for the day. The priority was to get warm and change into fresh kit.
Just as I was boiling the kettle for a cup of Northumberland Tea a couple called John and Lillian Shepherd pulled over in a classic car for a chat. I apologised that I couldn’t make them a cuppa as I only had one mug!
They made a donation to St. Benedict’s Hospice before they left. It was really nice talking to them. It was also nice to end the day with in the same way it started. i.e. with donations to St. Benedict’s Hospice.
I had a full strength 4G signal so I paid John and Lillian’s donation to the Hospice via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun while I drank two cups of Northumberland Tea. Incidentally, I later found that John is the cousin of my Sister in law’s husband. What a small world.
I setup camp and climbed inside Chappie. The view out of Chappie’s starboard window was a really great one.
Today’s low point of elevation was Alston. The climb after that looks very impressive.
There are now only 42 miles left to St. Benedict’s Hospice. I’ve decided to end this challenge there which was always my original intention. It will be a fitting end to the first 25 years of fundraising. I’m going to try and get someone with a van to give Chappie and myself a ride home to Bedlington.
Despite me not really doing this 25th Anniversary Challenge as a fundraiser almost £300 has been raised this week for St. Benedict’s Hospice. The current total is a very pleasing £273.80. Thanks so much, once again, if you’ve made a donation via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
As I’ve been typing these closing lines a police van has just pulled alongside. Ah, they’ve left now. Hopefully they’ll have made a note of my Virgin Money Giving page.
I set off from The Quiet Site near Ullswater just after 1000. I’d just had a full Cumbrian Breakfast which the owner wouldn’t accept any money for. Once again I paid the equivalent amount to St. Benedict’s Hospice via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
I reached Ullswater after 2 miles. There was quite a bit of traffic about but I was always given plenty of room by the overtaking cars.
I made it to the M6 junction after 7.5 miles and ran as fast as I could onto the A66 to avoid holding any traffic up. I wasn’t on that road for long before joining the A686 road to Alston.
At Langwathby after 12 miles of running I was faced with another set of traffic lights. I don’t think I made it to the other side in time and there was a stream of traffic behind me. Everyone seemed to be patient so there was no issue.
The climb to Hartside Summit started just after Langwathby. I had to remove two layers at the top of the initial incline as I was boiling hot.
I stopped at 1500 to cook some food and have a few cups of Northumberland Tea. I got going again at 1600 and felt full of energy. A lady called Lucy who I spoke to on Wednesday in the rain passed by in her car and wished me good luck.
The view to my left was stunning as I continued up the climb to Hartside Summit.
It was fairly cold as I neared the top despite the late afternoon sun.
I made it to the summit after 24 miles of running. It was a lot different to the last time I was up here right in the middle of Storm Ali.
I set up camp and settled in for the night.
There was a very nice sunset as I climbed inside Chappie.
Thanks to those kind people who have made a donation to St. Benedict’s Hospice today. If you’d like to do so then please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
Despite strong overnight winds on top of Hartside Summit I had a reasonable sleep. Chappie was in a good sheltered position and it was fairly quiet. The temperature of recent days is definitely when sleeping inside is most comfortable. It’s probably the most sleep I’ve had in Chappie over consecutive nights.
Day four of the 25th Anniversary Challenge began with a knock on Chappie’s door. I opened up to be greeted by a man called Steven holding a box. To my amazement he told me that his wife, Adele, had been following the journey online and had cooked sausage sandwiches for me. What another brilliantly kind start to the day!
As I ate the sandwiches, I noticed a hand written note on the enclosed napkin. What a nice touch.
I started running down from Hartside Summit just before 0830. The wind was the strongest I’d encountered with Chappie but it was very stable and I felt quite safe.
I arrived at the expected road closure and made my way down into the maze of country lanes to my right.
I could see PC Tony up ahead just after the two mile point. He’d brought me some coffee and I thanked him for his online donation made the day before.
We chatted about the fire at Hartside Cafe and the oncoming Storm Ali. We laughed that it was very aptly named!
The rain started at mile 4 as I tried to navigate what I thought was the most efficient route to Penrith. The route was very undulating with some challenging climbs.
I got chatting to some cyclists who had left Penrith earlier on. I warned them that the wind was strong near the summit behind. Some of their party had abandoned the ride and had been taken to Nenthead which was their final destination.
I described the route ahead for them and wished them luck. I later found out via the Run Geordie Run Facebook page that they had reached their destination safely albeit with a few cuts and scrapes. Three out of their party of five were blown off their bikes.
A little further down the road a runner called Lucy stopped and asked where I was heading. I have her a brief overview of my journey around the world and with a few kind words of encouragement from her I was on my way again.
I reached the bridge at Langwathby after 13 miles. The wind dropped and all of a sudden I found myself running in glorious sunshine. The bridge was one of three during the day where I had to sprint to the other side.
The sunshine lasted all of 20 minutes and the wind picked up considerably. Debris started to fly everywhere and the passing traffic added to this by driving straight over it.
It seemed a long old slog to Penrith and I was very relieved to reach the junction with the A66 at the 17.5 mile point. I crossed the busy roundabout and descended into Eamont Bridge.
I made it over the river Eamont just before the traffic lights changed. It was a steep incline but these bursts of pace helped to keep my body temperature up.
As I turned towards Pooley Bridge there was further evidence of Storm Ali’s destructive powers.
The wind speed increased and I had to really fight to maintain the pace.
Just before I reached Pooley Bridge a kind lady threw some money into Chappie’s basket. I counted it later on and paid it in to http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
There was another bridge to sprint over at the 22.5 mile point and I was now running alongside Ullswater.
There were branches strewn everywhere and the water was lapping up onto the road in places.
I eventually turned towards the campsite which was a 2 mile climb in a direction away from Ullswater. It dawned on me at this point just how good I felt considering I’d ran 24 miles into a headwind.
I felt very hungry as I dragged Chappie up the hill. I decided to munch on some chocolate eclairs that I’d been given the day before.
I reached the camp site after 26 miles just before 5.30 pm. It was without doubt one of the most difficult days I’d ever had running with Chappie.
I checked in to the campsite and headed to the bar for a pint. There was a power cut on the site and the place was lit by candlelight.
I ordered myself a pint (imagine the Hobbits in the Prancing Pony) and got talking to a couple called Jacquie and Jason.
We talked about both my adventures and theirs. I was interested to hear about the places that they’d cycled and their own fundraising work. It was a proper adventurer’s conversation and I think everyone was in their element.
I retired for the night happy with a good job done over the last 4 days. 90 miles of very tough running had proven to be a challenge fitting enough to celebrate 25 years of fundraising. An unexpected £112.50 had been raised for St. Benedict’s Hospice too which is fantastic.
There is now the small matter of a few days of walking around Ullswater before heading back home via St. Benedict’s Hospice starting at the weekend.
There’s approximately 120 miles left to run. There is a lot of climbing left to do. I’m looking forward to bringing this particular challenge to a successful end and getting as close as possible to my fundraising target of £50,000 for the current campaign.
If you like to sponsor me then please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rungeordierun.
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Carson City School District » News » Archived News Releases » 2017 » New Vice Principals
New Vice Principals Named at Carson City Schools
The Carson City School District (CCSD) is pleased to announce the appointment of four new vice principals for the 2017-2018 school year: Mrs. Michelle Cleveland at Bordewich Bray Elementary, Mrs. Chelise Crookshanks at Carson Middle School (CMS), Mrs. Julie Cowan at Al Seeliger Elementary and Mrs. Cheryl Richetta at Fremont Elementary School.
"We welcome Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Crookshanks, Mrs. Cowan and Mrs. Richetta in their new roles,” said Mr. Richard Stokes, CCSD superintendent. “They each will provide valuable and dynamic support to the administrative teams at their respective schools. The vice principal’s job is to help administer the operational programs of each school, and I look forward to working alongside these outstanding educators as they become familiar with their new assignments.”
In their positions, each vice principal will be part of an educational system focused on developing the skill and talents for all students through rigorous learning experiences, supportive relationships and relevant real-life applications. As vice principals they will be visible instructional leaders for the schools and propel student achievement in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, accountability and staff supervision.
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Nejibi (Spiral Sun)
- Owned by Soushin
- Cost: 15
A newly forged extension of Soushin’s own body, the “Spiral Sun” takes the place of his long-lost right arm. The prosthetic – though fairly orthodox in appearance (or, as much so as a faux limb can be) – is extremely advanced, inspired by designs garnered from a sweep through of the research laboratories in Yukigakure. Powered by a chakra-fueled battery, the limb is capable of absorbing electromagnetic radiation (light) and redirecting it in the form of concentrated microwaves.
Due to automated safety measures, the power of the microwaves is extremely limited – most damage requiring contact between the Nejibi and an opponent’s body. First degree burns require one post of contact, while second require two posts of sustained contact, three require three posts of contact, and so on and so on (with a maximum of six).
That said, the Nejibi does have ranged capabilities. Directing electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of 95 GHz, microwaves will excite the water molecules in an opponent’s epidermis to around 130 degrees Fahrenheit, causing a painful sensation of extreme heat. While not actually burning the skin, the burning sensation is similar to that of a light bulb being pressed against the skin. The focused beam can be directed at targets as far away as thirty meters and may target decently sized groups of people (maximum of eight), making it perfect for crowd control. (In this form, it may be maintained for three posts, before requiring a cooldown period of one.)
The beam may be seen by the average eye as a distorting "rippling effect"; while, for doujutsu users and those equipped with thermal goggles/contacts/attachments, it appears as a visible beam of yellow light
- Note: It may only be used six posts in a row before overheating – at which point it requires a three post cool down period. Also, of note, is the fact that the metal is extremely light-weight, despite its impressive strength and durability.
Class Two, Titanium-base Prosthetic with an active chakra circulatory system (9).
Chisha's Weapon
Funtake
Bamboo Powder –粉竹
Unique, 1 Point
Funtake is, surprisingly enough, a powder. A grassy gold in color, the powder has the potential to—with the aid of ninjutsu—grow into bamboo, each pinch serving as the base of one bamboo stalk. Outside of combat, one could plant it the same way they would plant a seed. If the setting permits and it has been well taken care of, it will eventually grow into a lush plant of bamboo. It is, essentially, a catalyst.
Shippei*
N/A – しっぺい
Unique, 3 Points
The shippei appears as nothing more than a basic combat knife—7½”, grey steel blade and a 5½”, bamboo-lined handle. However, like with the more powerful weaponry amongst shinobi, it has more to it than meets the eye. Along the handle of the blade is the kanji for bamboo powder. In reality, it is a seal—chalk full of funtake powder. Upon cutting into something, the knife will release powder from the used portion of the blade. A single edge will only give off a pinch worth, while the whole thing (i.e. if it were stabbed into the ground) would release a handful.
*A shippei is a bamboo stick used to strike mediators into greater wakefulness. There isn't really a translation. Yet, at the same time, shippei can mean "illness or disease". Potentially misleading.
Soushin & Hankyou
Irezumi Ido [June 2009] & Kyakudo Hakka [July 2009]
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Love is Just about Chemical make up
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Individuals who have actually been swept their feet understand the sensation. Love makes all of us feel amusing. That sense of giddy disorientation, unsinkable ecstasy and total fascination with a brand-new love can be so overwhelming, that it's hard to picture it's all about emotion. Now scientists are verifying there certainly might be a lot more going on in a body that's in love than basic, pleased thoughts. A wave of research has actually revealed exactly what kind of chemical and neurological activities take place at different stages of human and animal relationships. While the results hardly make love less mysterious, they do start to clarify why it can make individuals feel so amusing.
Helen Fisher, a research study professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, is among lots of scientists who think the flush of a new love is enhanced by natural stimulants in the norepinphrine, brain and dopamine . "These are standard characteristics frequently associated with romantic love and with these natural stimulants," she states.
"When a person is passionately in love, it is extremely interesting and intriguing , and if the loved one is not there, stressful," says Volkow. "The fact that drug addiction and passionate love may trigger the very same reactions, signals to Volkow that drug addiction is particularly hazardous considering that it taps into a natural feeling.
She mentions that current studies reveal the exact same areas of the brain including the frontal cortex which is triggered when a drug abuser is high when someone in love is looking at a image of a loved one. Scientists at University College in London just recently recorded modifications in the brains of people who described themselves as " really and incredibly" in love. The researchers, Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki utilized a practical magnetic resonance imager to scan the brains of 17 lovehappy volunteers. When the team revealed volunteers photos of their enthusiasts, the outcomes were remarkable. 4 little areas of the brain lit up quickly the exact same areas that have been revealed to react to euphoria-inducing drugs.
Old good friends, obviously, do not quite trigger the very same stir. Fisher is performing comparable research studies and is scanning the brain activity of individuals newly in love.
As the majority of understand; however, the rush individuals feel from brand-new love generally doesn't last forever. And Fisher is likewise thinking about understanding the biological stimulants and anthropological descriptions for all stages of love.
She argues that there are three main stages to a love relationship: desire, romantic love and attachment. The first, she states, is " to obtain you trying to find anything" and is driven by hormones like testosterone.
The romantic love phase, which develops the brain chain reaction described by the London researchers, serves to "force you to focus your breeding energy on a single person at a time."
And the fmal, less steamy stage of attachment is to ensure that any kids produced by a love match has moms and dads at least through its early years.
Research reveals there may also be chemicals associated with feelings of attachment. When scientists injected a natural chemical called oxytocin into the mice, the animals right away formed attachments. When they injected chemicals that obstruct the impact of oxytocin, Fisher says; the mice " prevented their partners and acted like cads."
Current research studies have zeroed in on the chemistry of love, revealing exactly what kind of chemical and neurological activities take place at different phases of animal and human relationships.
Love is enhanced by natural stimulants to the brain, noreinphrine and dopamine .
Gushy romantic experiences visit this website just like the high of drug dependency.
Regions of the brain stirred when thinking about the loved one.
The stages of love, accessory and lust are affected by body
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Review: A rich mystery awaits in S.J. Rozan’s ‘Paper Son’
Oline H. Cogdill, Associated Press
“Paper Son” by S.J. Rozan (Pegasus Books)
S.J. Rozan’s affinity for little known facts about Chinese culture has fueled exciting thrillers featuring private detectives Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. Memorable plots include a Jewish settlement in China comprised of refugees fleeing Nazi Germany (“The Shanghai Moon”), political art (“Ghost Hero”) and restaurant workers’ union (“A Bitter Feast”).
In the outstanding “Paper Son,” Rozan uses the history of Chinese immigrants who established regular grocery stores serving predominantly black neighborhoods in the Mississippi Delta during the early 20th century to sculpt a story about family, culture, prejudice and community. These businesses took hold because the Chinese laborers’ jobs building the railroads dried up and white grocers who would not sell to black residents.
Lydia, a Chinese American who lives with her traditional mother in New York’s Chinatown, had never heard of Chinese grocers nor did she know that she had relatives living in Mississippi until a tragedy happens. Her 23-year-old cousin, Jefferson Tam, has been arrested for the murder of his grocer father, Leland. Despite the strong evidence, Lydia’s mother refuses to believe any relative — no matter how distant — could be a murderer. She wants Lydia and Bill to go to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to prove Jefferson’s innocence. That alone is a revelation since Lydia’s mother has never approved of her profession and has even less regard for Bill, who is white.
With Jefferson’s uncle, Capt. Pete Tam, as their guide, Lydia and Bill maneuver through the morass of bigotry and an economically depressed community overwhelmed with drugs. Although the Tams have lived in Clarksdale for generations, the family still is disconnected from the rest of the town. However, those family members who moved away to larger cities have a different experience, including Reynold Tam, whose father married a white woman and who is running for governor of Mississippi.
Chinese families are complicated, as Lydia explains to Bill. While these people are distant relatives, they are still family. Adding to the tangled family tree are those men who are “paper sons” — immigrants who convinced naturalized Chinese Americans to file papers identifying them as a son. In some cases, these “sons” had never met their “fathers.” A bit of money helped.
Lydia and Bill were last seen in 2011’s “Ghost Hero,” but Rozan’s intricate plotting and affinity for characterization is seamless, making the reader remember how much we missed spending time with these private detectives. Rozan uses the historical footnote of Chinese grocers as a springboard for a rich, deeply satisfying mystery.
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Are abortionists a protected species?
By Melinda Tankard Reist - posted Friday, 15 September 2006 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
For years, women complained about their ill treatment at the hands of Sydney abortionist Suman Sood. The allegations included botched and incomplete abortions, failure to warn of abortion risks or to provide counselling or trained staff. The growing number of Sood’s victims described an uncaring doctor who ran a substandard practice with crowded waiting rooms, dirty beds and little or no follow up care. One patient described being repeatedly slapped after the termination.
There were also allegations the former owner of the Australian Women’s Heath Clinic in western Sydney tried to get extra money out of women and defrauded Medicare. But the Health Care Complaints Commission continued to sit on its hands, and Sood continued to perform abortions.
That was until Sood was prosecuted for administering abortion drugs to 20-year-old woman who was about 23 weeks pregnant. She went to her mother’s house, experienced labour pains and delivered a gasping baby boy into a toilet.
Sood was charged with manslaughter and performing an unlawful abortion. She was convicted of the latter. But a doctor who should never have been allowed near a pregnant woman again, was able to continue practicing. Last week, ahead of Medical Board hearings, she handed in her registration.
You would think those who claim to care about women would have demanded Sood be stripped of her licence earlier. You would think they might have seen fit to warn women against consulting such a dangerous person.
After all, the Australian Greens have information on their website which warns women off calling or visiting any of 60-plus pregnancy support agencies they label (pdf 44KB) as “deceptive” and likely to cause them harm.
And Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja has her private members bill designed to expose and fine these groups for “misleading advertising”.
But while the witch-hunt against pregnancy support agencies continues, abortionists who leave women maimed, injured and psychologically traumatised are able to practice business as usual.
To be consistent, the Greens should have had a big warning on their website in flashing lights saying “Stay away from Dr Suman Sood!”
Although Sood has now downed tools, it’s not too late for Kerry Nettle to show she cares adding the names of other abortionists who have left women brain damaged, with lacerated cervixes, infection, suffering cardiac arrest and septic abortion - all actual cases.
Perhaps they could warn women off the Brisbane doctor at the Planned Parenthood clinic who left 16-year-old “Sarah” with a severed fallopian tube, a fist-sized hole in her uterus needing 200 stitches, a torn bowel and bladder and missed baby body parts still inside her?
Doesn’t look likely.
Melinda Tankard Reist is a Canberra author, speaker, commentator and advocate with a special interest in issues affecting women and girls. Melinda is author of Giving Sorrow Words: Women's Stories of Grief after Abortion (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000), Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (Spinifex Press, 2006) and editor of Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009). Melinda is a founder of Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation (www.collectiveshout.org). Melinda blogs at www.melindatankardreist.com.
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Benazir Bhutto - some personal reminiscences
By Bruce Haigh - posted Tuesday, 15 January 2008 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
Even before my arrival in Pakistan I had determined that I wanted to meet Benazir Bhutto. This was based on my belief that it was likely that she would be the first female head of an Islamic state and that she appeared to be an attractive and engaging character.
I was posted to Pakistan as deputy head of the Australian Embassy in July 1986. Benazir had returned from exile in the UK three months earlier.
A week after my arrival I learnt that Benazir was visiting Islamabad and staying close to where I lived. I asked a locally engaged staff member to make an appointment and called on her the next day.
I was ushered into a comfortable lounge room. Benazir, who had been sitting, rose to meet me. She was even more striking than her photographs. Dressed in golden cream she had a white dupatta over her glistening black hair. There were three other equally well groomed young women in the room. Benazir extended her hand smiled and motioned me to sit opposite her.
She eased back in her chair crossed her legs and said coquettishly, “Did they tell you what a naughty girl I was at Oxford.” This was a question and statement entirely out of left field. Was she testing me? In light of my subsequent understanding of her I would say, yes, she was.
A provocative statement leading to a vigorous exchange was a Bhutto learning technique. In any event I said no. She asked if I knew her friend Alan Jones from Australia who had been at Oxford with her. I said I knew of him as he was a well known rugby coach and radio broadcaster.
Jones later told me that he used to chauffer her around in her little yellow MG. Late one night he was summoned to come and pick her up at her college. Once in the car she said she wanted a hamburger, so Jones drove her toward a popular Oxford hamburger establishment, realising where he was going she said, “No Alan, I meant the one we go to in London.” So off to London they went bought a hamburger and drove back to Oxford.
Benazir was charming, articulate, strong willed, stubborn, courageous, charismatic and a born politician.
We chatted for over an hour on a range of issues of concern. I took my leave having obtained enough information to provide an extensive record of conversation for Canberra. We both agreed that there was a lot more to discuss so I invited her to drop in at my home when next she was in Islamabad. She took me at my word and over the next two years, sometimes with a day’s notice and at other times with an hour’s notice she would drop in, often with a cavalcade of anything up to ten vehicles, police and minders, the watchers and the watched.
Benazir was always accompanied by at least two female companions, even at dinner or lunch and many male minders who secreted themselves around the house awaiting the signal. When the signal came a rush of activity would follow. Men would appear around corners to open house and car doors, engines would start, gates open, goodbyes waved through open windows and the caravanserai would depart in a fanfare of tooting horns and sirens. The signal was a raised arm and click of beautifully manicured fingers.
When Benazir was jailed at the end of 1986, on advice from the embassy, Canberra issued a strong protest.
I was the first diplomat to meet with Benazir following her return to Pakistan. When she was released from prison I suggested she meet with more diplomats in order that she give herself a greater measure of protection should she be imprisoned again. This was a measure I had employed in South Africa with respect to black activists. I proposed a lunch at which she would be the guest speaker. I invited about 30 deputy heads of mission and a number of foreign correspondents. The spectre of Zia was enough to deter about 10 of the invitees.
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Bruce Haigh is a political commentator and retired diplomat who served in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1972-73 and 1986-88, and in South Africa from 1976-1979
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Brief Introduction To The Top 3 Most Popular Musicals Of All Time
From outstanding story lines to whimsical live performances, musicals have a way of capturing the hearts of the public. But over the years, there are few of them which have stood the test of time. Here are the 3 most popular musicals of all time:
Based on the classic novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is a story about a French peasant named Jean Valjean and his uplifting journey towards survival and redemption set in the 19th century. The musical Les Mis is the second longest running musical in the West End since 1985 and its 2012 film adaptation received outstanding reviews and awards.
Another musical based on a novel called Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux, the plot is about a young and beautiful soprano prima donna who later became the obsession of a mysterious musical genius called the Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera is considered as the most successful musical of all time and it has been the longest running musical in Broadway.
Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical was based on T.S. Eliot’s collection of poems. The story revolves around a cats’ tribe named the Jellicles and their decision who of them will ascend to what they call “Heaviside Layer” and will come back to a new life. Cats is included in the list of longest running musical both in Broadway and West End, and has been translated to numerous languages.
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The 3 Most Famous Musical Actresses Of All Time
In the world of musicals, there are few stars that can attract both the audience and producers. By the strength of their name, experiences and talent, here are the 3 most popular musical actresses of all time:
Before becoming a famous movie and TV star, Julie Andrews was a theater royalty first. Debuted in the hit musical My Fair Lady as the lead role of Eliza Doolittle, where she was nominated in her first Tony Award and followed by another nomination in her lead role in the musical Camelot. After her success in theater, she also conquered the film industry with her lead roles as Mary Poppins and as Maria for The Sound of Music. She was also reknowned for her radiant skin during her time. Fortunately, in this modern era, there are a plethora of good face firming & tightening serums/ creams that can help you achieve her radiant look.
A much loved actress because of her rich voice, Judy Garland made her way into stardom by portraying Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Soon after, she made more musicals including the Strike Up the Band in 1942 and For Me and My Gal in 1943. Although she passed away early, her life is celebrated in a musical called Chasing Rainbows where it tells about Judy’s childhood and her journey to Oz.
Best known for her portrayal as Anita in the famous musical West Side Story, Chita Rivera is an icon in the musical history. Other hit musicals earned her 8 Tony Nominations such as Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago and Bring Back Birdie. She later won her 2 Tony Awards in the musicals The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Chita also received the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2009.
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If you are a spa lover, Coral Gables in Florida has plenty to offer. First off, there is the Hair Transplant Institute Miami. Not strictly a spa, this salon is nonetheless popular for those seeking to rejuvenate their hair as this salon specializes in non-surgical hair restoration and health therapy. If you are suffering from any form of hair loss or Alopecia, you will be happy to know that this salon offers some of the most effective hair loss treatments like shampoos for thinning hair.
As of date, there are only 2 products that went through extensive clinical trials, namely Minoxidil (for both male and female) and Propecia (for males only), and both have been proven to be safe and effective in treating and battling hair loss. The intensity or strength present from minoxidil is particularly effective in cases of receding hairline. Some products in the market have already added helpful ingredients that will act as hair growth boosters as well. As for men, another effective treatment called Propecia which can treat male hair loss. It can also compliment Minoxidil to bring out the optimum level of hair regrowth. If these type of products will not work, there are other medicines and products widely available in the market today. A balanced lifestyle and caring for your scalp may also promote a healthy hair growth. From proper hydration to eating foods that are high in protein, specifically keratin, will build a good block of hair. Proper washing and conditioning of the hair also stimulates a better hair growth. Do not overwash and look for items that contains vitamins such as A, B, C and or E, as these vitamins will nourish and hydrate the hair properly.
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The third recommendation for spa lovers is the Urban Spa & Skin Shop. The spa is a part of the Sesderma Group which the internationally renowned dermatologist Dr. Gabriel Serrano started in 1989. The staff are internationally trained and they specialize in treatments for acne-prone, anti-aging and dark-spots. The spa even offers the Essentials of Skincare Workshop wherein participants can pick up important knowledge regarding skin care.
And lastly is the Body Sense Holistic Spa & Wellness Center, a hidden oasis in Coral Gables. The spa is dedicated in restoring and rebuilding a person’s maximum beauty and health. Their experienced and licensed staff will help a person discover the status of his or her balance and well-being. Not only will it provide a wonderful spa services but will help their customers discover and empower their well-being.
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EDC Congratulates City of Springfield
From the EDC Oct 21 2009 Financial Services
The EDC would like to congratulate the City of Springfield for two solid economic development announcements this week. The first announcement was that plumbing supplier F.W. Webb will purchase 14 acres in the Smith & Wesson Industrial Park to build a two-phase distribution center at a total investment of $9 Million. F.W. Webb will increase its work force by 40 jobs when the expansion is complete. The second announcement was that the new Berkshire Bank Financial Services Center will open next month on the site of the former St. Joseph’s Church on East Columbus Avenue in the City’s South End. Colvest Group developed the 22,000 square foot facility at a cost of over $7 Million. We applaud Mayor Domenic Sarno and Chief Development Officer John Judge for their diligence in pursuing economic development opportunities.
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Bangladeshi construction worker dies in Malaysia
Dhaka-A Bangladeshi worker was crushed by a compactor in Malaysia, according to newspaper reports
Malaysian English daily The Star reported that the incident occurred on Sunday at Kahang Dam construction site in Kluang area of Malaysia’s Johor Bahru state.
Mohamad Laham, assistant commissioner of Malaysian police department, said the victim succumbed to severe head injuries after he was crushed by the machine.
The accident occurred when the victim was taking rest as the operator did not notice the victim when he started to move the machine and crushed him to death, said the police official said.
He added that operator fled the scene after the incident.
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Cyber Monday Tops Black Friday For Holiday Shopping
By Sammy Collins
Cyber Monday takes place on Monday, November 27 this year, and every year it is the Monday following Black Friday.
Cyber Monday is the Monday following Thanksgiving. Deals left and right are popping up everywhere, but the gimmick is having all these deals at once, making it harder to resist passing them up.
You can review the Thanksgiving Day 2016 Openings List to get a better idea of all of the stores to expect this year.
Many retailers will open on Thanksgiving, but the majority will hit their beds early, in preparation of Friday's sales.
Black Friday Dealer are a team of e-commerce experts who generate price forecasts and information about Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals on popular gadgets & electronics.
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Order on time so gifts arrive before Christmas. But you don't have to wait to save as this LG screen with 2160p resolution is now 21% off its regular price of $699.99.
We're fast approaching one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon is $117.99 (21% off) Raise your hand if you're planning to put Lego and/or Star Wars products under the tree this year? Canadians from coast to coast will be trying to cut the best deals possible in the run-up to Christmas Day, with the average Canadian spending around $1,500 over the holidays. Are we getting distracted from our festivities due to us chasing "amazing" deals on products we are standing in line for? Last year, a NerdWallet study found that some stores inflated the amount of certain Black Friday discounts to make deals appear better than they actually were.
One of the busiest shopping weekends of the year is coming up. (Don't forget Google Shopping and NexTag.com.) There are also a growing number of apps, such as ShopSavvy, Shopular, and BuyVia, that let you scan bar codes to compare prices, get discounts, and score coupons from local retailers.
Mourinho plotting January swoop for Valencia's Carlos Soler
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Military vehicles block road outside Zimbabwe parliament
One of our own sources also told us Mugabe is planning to address the nation, and announce his resignation. Reuters said another two military vehicles were parked 20 miles (32km) from Harare .
YouTube Adds Ticketing and Concert Dates to Artists Video Pages
In the future, it will roll out to all artists who have Ticketmaster shows in North America with plans to expand globally. Apple Music, meanwhile, tried and failed in artist-to-fan connections with Connect, a social feed for artist updates.
Many retailers will offer a special reduction, deal or sale on their online store on Cyber Monday only applicable to items bought online. "The day is not just one day, but we also see that customers sell their purchases during the holiday season". That can mean the only way to benefit from the discount is if you are at the front of the lineup outside the store.
Is the price really a good discount?
Legos, Star Wars, super heroes and other toy deals for Cyber Monday: Have little ones on your gift list, or some older folks who are kids at heart?
Never met a sale you didn't ♥? Lego sets will not only be hugely popular items, but they will nearly certainly be offered at a life-size discount.
You may be treated to different deals on Cyber Monday but there is no guarantee.
The story is similar at other retailers.
However, Thanksgiving Day shoppers may be disappointed this year.
"We are excited to get going", she said.
There will be deals on products including toys, technology, TVs, video games, health and beauty and more.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Boris Johnson to meet husband
It follows an apology by the foreign secretary for "anguish" caused by false remarks he made about the reason for her travels. Some critics called for Mr Johnson to resign, but Richard Ratcliffe said it would not be in his wife's interests.
Kate's uncle Gary Goldsmith 'punched wife during drunken row'
At the police station, Goldsmith told officers he had pushed his wife hard with his left hand, but denied using a hook. Their mother worked in a shop and also did accounts, while their father was a painter and decorator.
Brad Paisley adds tour date in Moline
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3 dead after shooting in Northern California elementary school
Students also were shot and wounded at an elementary school. "They went around the community shooting at the schools!" Gov. A reporter at Action News Now described anxious parents trying to get to their children at Rancho Tehama Elementary.
Jeff Sessions States That Obama-Era Cannabis Policy Will Remain In Effect
Had she remained in Texas, where medical marijuana is illegal, her next best medical option would have been brain surgery. THC, or Tetrahydrocannabinol, is the active ingredient in marijuana that makes people feel "high".
World's Most Beautiful Diamond Sold For $33.7 Million At Geneva
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Qualcomm rejects $130B Broadcom bid
Qualcomm also said the transaction may face regulatory scrutiny that would cast doubt on its completion. Through its proposal, Broadcom sought to conduct the second-largest deal in American corporate history.
Gujarat Elections 2017: Election Commission Bars BJP From Using 'Pappu' In Ads
Sambit Patra was quoted as saying, "The EC has made this word Pappu official and made it synonymous with Rahul Gandhi ". Earlier this year, a Congress dissident was caught using the name, which loosely translates to "fool or simpleton".
N. Korean soldier who defected used a vehicle to escape
An official with the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North's border guards fired at least 40 rounds. The South Korean ministry official said the soldier's condition and military rank remained to be verified.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) (TEVA) Analysts See $1.05 EPS
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Dan Graziano: Giants have regressed more than any other team in 2019
By: Mike Moraitis | 3 hours ago
Without question, the New York Giants took a drastic turn in a different direction this offseason, but does that mean Big Blue has taken the biggest step back of any NFL team?
ESPN’s national NFL writer Dan Graziano says the Giants have seen the biggest decline in the league thanks to their 2019 offseason moves. Moves that have been widely ridiculed, making Graziano’s review one of many in a sea of dissenting voices.
They’ve made themselves an easy target, but it’s all justified. You can’t tell me they’re better for trading Odell Beckham Jr., for letting Landon Collins leave and sign with a division rival instead of holding him in place with an affordable $11.15 million franchise tag, for trading pass-rusher Olivier Vernon then passing up on outside linebacker Josh Allen at pick No. 6 so they could take a quarterback who had a 59.9 completion percentage in the ACC. When your team has missed the playoffs six of the past seven seasons, what you want to know is that it at least has a plan and a vision for how to pull out of the malaise. There’s little evidence that the Giants have that.
Fellow ESPN writer Kevin Seifert predictably had a similar conclusion.
Kevin Seifert, national NFL writer: New York Giants. Their moves were confounding, from dispatching two of their best young players in OBJ (26 years old) and Collins (25) to reaching for quarterback Daniel Jones. But from a bigger picture, their contradictory vision and an old-school approach suggest this franchise is headed toward an extended down cycle.
In trading Odell Beckham Jr. and Olivier Vernon, the Giants rid themselves of a pair of expensive problems. Big Blue also added to its stockpile of draft picks and beefed up both the offensive line with right guard Kevin Zeitler, and the safety position with Jabrill Peppers.
Wide receiver Golden Tate was signed to help bandage the hole left by Beckham on an offense that thrived without No. 13 last season and already included Sterling Shepard, Evan Engram and Saquon Barkley.
Letting Landon Collins walk and getting nothing in return was a bit of a head-scratcher, no doubt. Still, Collins himself admitted he would have held out under the franchise tag, creating a distraction that likely would have dragged out until the start of the season.
Paying the oft-injured Collins what the Washington Redskins did was not close to viable for the Giants. In all, Gettleman saved himself a ton of money for the coming years after letting Collins go, and trading Beckham and Vernon.
The debate will rage on about the Giants’ 2019 first-round draft choices, but nobody can say for certain just how good or bad they were. That can only come with time.
In the meantime, yes, Josh Allen made more sense at No. 6 based on team needs and with the fact that Eli Manning is still the Giants’ quarterback. On the flip side of that coin, if the Giants just found their next franchise quarterback for the next decade-plus, the Daniel Jones pick looks a lot better.
The Giants had no shortage of controversial moves during the 2019 offseason. To say these moves caused the Giants to decline more than any other team in the league is a stretch when you actually break down the specifics of it all.
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Original article: https://giantswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/15/new-york-giants-regressed-more-than-any-other-team-dan-graziano/
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Miller Theatre hosts Tallis Scholars for an evening of Renaissance chorale
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The Renaissance music group Tallis Scholars filled the Church of Saint Mary with traditional holiday melodies on Saturday night.
By Sophie Smyke | December 4, 2018, 11:10 PM
The packed pews of Times Square’s Church of Saint Mary were abuzz with excitement as the Tallis Scholars, a renowned Renaissance and early music group, took the stage on Saturday night. The Church’s wooden doors gave way to a high-arched ceiling filled with dim amber light. Opened in 1894, Saint Mary’s Gothic Revival architecture sits just half a block away from the bright fluorescent billboards and bustling sidewalks of Broadway.
Columbia’s Miller Theatre organized the event, which featured the renowned Renaissance ensemble, as part of their annual Early Music Series.
Conductor Peter Phillips founded the ten-person ensemble in 1973 while studying at Oxford University, where he developed an appreciation for early and sacred vocal music. The group is made up of four soprano singers, while the tenor, alto, and bass sections each consist of two singers.
“I wanted to create an ensemble that would specialize in the singing of music for unaccompanied voices,” Phillips said. “I always thought this sound to be the most beautiful in all music-making, and I quickly realised that Renaissance polyphony had the most beautiful music to represent it.”
Saturday’s performance exemplified the impressive accomplishments of the Tallis Scholars’ 35-year history. The ensemble performed six pieces about the story of Christmas and debuted a new work by Nico Muhly that was commissioned by Miller Theatre for the occasion.
The loudest applause of the evening was given to Muhly’s work, “Rough Notes,” which is based on the diaries of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott from his ill-fated Antarctic exploration. The song’s tone was ominous from its onset. An ethereal beginning gave way to a resolved conclusion in which the chorus sang, “these rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale…”
Three of the ensemble’s pieces were composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, one of the most prominent Renaissance composers of the 16th century. The concert began with “Hodie Christus Natus est,” which celebrates the birth of Jesus as the Earth’s salvation. The piece provided an uplifting start to the performance and filled the nave with anticipatory fervor.
Phillips’ second piece, “Missa Hodie Christus Natus est,” started soft and slow and highlighted the individuality of each ensemble member’s voice. The sensitive storytelling in this piece culminated as voices joined together to produce a powerful sound that demanded the attention of each audience member.
“Magnificat,” by 15th-century British composer John Nesbett, included chanted sections interwoven with layered vocals. The hymn tells the story of Mary’s reaction to the annunciation and is one of the most regularly sung canticles in the Catholic Church.
William Byrd’s “Lullaby” begins peacefully with the comforting tones of a parent singing to their child. As a consort song, “Lullaby” is traditionally meant to be sung in the home. Softer sections expressed this heightened intimacy between singer and audience before rising suddenly into a forewarning message of the New Testament's Massacre of the Innocents.
“I hope [the audience] will take away a sense of a world outside themselves,” Phillips said. “I am often told this is music which can act on people like a benign drug—they don’t want it to stop. And it is great music. Whether you are religious or not, these are sounds which can help you leave your cares behind.”
With the closing of the final note, a rousing standing ovation broke what had been a captivating and disciplined atmosphere throughout the performance. The ten singers’ shoulders dropped in relaxation, and their smiles widened as they looked out at their audience and soaked in the applause. Under the approving eye of their conductor, the Tallis Scholars took their bows.
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New detector!
We've had some success recording an ultrasound source whilst in flight with our current detector set up that can be seen here.
Unfortunately, this set up does not enable recording whilst the motor is in use and required the gliding flight that we tested this with (see here). Our ideal solution is a detector that can record whilst in normal level flight and we might just have been sent one such detector!
Having posted our blog updates in the UK Bat Workers group on Facebook we had a reply to one of the posts from Peter at peersonic.co.uk. Along with a colleague, Peter has developed a very light and compact detector:
Detector front with LCD panel
Detector back
Peter very kindly offered to send us one of his prototypes and we were very happy to accept and give it a go.
Having thought about the placement of the detector we decided that if we placed it at the end of the wing we might just be able to get away with detecting the bats over the noise of the motor.
We came up with a way of attaching the detector to the plane (though at this point this hasn't been flight tested). The photos below show how we've attached the detector and put a polystyrene protector over it.
With our new set up we wanted to test whether an ultrasound source can be detected over the noise from the motor 'in-flight' . To do this we held the plane steady approx 2 m from the ground, set the throttle to circa 40% (which should be roughly level flight) and turned on our ultrasound source at multiples of 2 m from the detector.
The analysis of the data was then done in two parts. Firstly, Tom put together our usual graphs using R which produced the graphs below. It's worth noting that all the graphs use a negative decibel scale. 0 dB is the loudest sound detected and everything else is measured relative to this sound.
R analysed test data from various distances
The blips that show up regularly at about 30-45 kHz are from the ultrasound source. The lower frequency noise between about 20-30 kHz is from the propeller and motor.
Using this software it looks like we can detect the ultrasound source up to about 16m.
However, when the data was run through BatSound we were able to extract a lot more useful information. Have a look at the graph below which shows the distance at 20m and you can clearly see the blips from the ultrasound source:
BatSound analysed test data from 20m with the ultrasound source
So, we've got some good news: using the BatSound software we're able to detect up at 20 m and potentially a little further. We suspect that bats are going to be somewhat louder than our ultrasound source but would caution that ultrasound attenuates quickly. We'd be very happy if we could still detect at 30 m but we'll have to do some more testing to see whether this is the case.
As an interesting aside the graph above covers about 200 ms, the motor/propeller 'noise' (~20-30 kHz) is now split up into the actual rotations of the propeller. Working through this, we can tell the propeller is rotating at around 3000 rpm.
The next test we'd like to perform is a level flight over the ultrasound source at varying heights so watch this space. If we can achieve a recording from this then we'll progress to attempting to record some real-life bats!
We'd like to take this opportunity to give a big thanks to Peter at PeerSonic who kindly provided the prototype detector that made this all possible. Thank you!
Flying at night II
What do you need to be able to fly at night? Lights of course!
Our first foray into night flying wasn't terribly successful, have a look at our post here. Fortunately, we've now gone for a bit more of a professional looking setup and all seems well.
In keeping with other aircraft we decided to fit red and green lights to the wings of our plane to designate port and starboard respectively. They're fitted to both the top and bottom of the wings so we can see them even if the plane is banking.
The lights we used were strips of LEDs that are powered by a 12V battery. This is the same voltage as our flight battery but we're using a smaller additional battery to power the lights as we don't want them to reduce flight time.
As a short note, the canopy above the Pixhawk flight controller is also lit up as the Pixhawk has a green light on it when it's all systems go and there's a GPS lock.
We weren't sure how bright the lights would appear at distance so wanted to have a short auto-pilot test flight. Check out the video here:
Despite the fact that the lights look quite small and not terribly bright in the video they're actually very bright and easy to see. To give you a reference the landing was lit by car headlights on full beam.
We're pretty happy with how the lights have turned out and think we'll be able to manage night flying with out too much trouble.
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Ellie Goulding Opens On Select California Dreams Tour Dates
Fresh off of her sold-out summer US headlining tour, Ellie Goulding will be returning stateside this November to join Katy Perry on select dates of her California Dreams Tour. Earlier this year, the English pop singer’s critically-acclaimed debut album ‘Lights’ earned her appearances on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’ as well as a personal invitation by Prince William and Kate Middleton to sing at the Royal Wedding.
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Talking Sticks & Communication: in memory of Stephen Covey
I was surprised to hear of Stephen Covey’s passing on July 16. He was 79 and died peacefully in Idaho, USA, from residual effects of a bicycle accident.
Dr Stephen R. Covey won many awards and sold millions of his books in multiple languages. He was recognized as one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Americans.
Stephen gave practical advice and believed we can control our destiny. “Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom…The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephens promoted an important tool for communication, a talking stick. Aboriginal nations have used talking sticks for centuries, which is where he learned about it. You can watch this 3 minute video in which Stephen describes a way to use it.
In his book, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, Stephen explains:
“It is one of the most powerful communication tools I’ve ever seen, because, while it is tangible and physical, it embodies a concept that is powerfully synergistic. This Talking Stick represents how people with differences can come to understand one another through mutual respect, which then enables them to solve their differences and problems synergistically … all the parties involved take responsibility for one hundred percent of the communication, both speaking and listening. Once each of the parties feels understood, an amazing thing usually happens. Negative energy dissipates, contention evaporates, mutual respect grows, and people become creative. New ideas emerge. Third alternatives appear.”
Yes, this is so true! I use a talking piece in much of my own work with tremendous results. It changes the conversation in powerful and profound ways, including creating equality where all voices are heard and valued. Debate shifts to true dialogue.
A talking piece also sheds light on what Stephen describes can occur: “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological”. Multiple truths can exist in a circle and a talking piece helps us move forward in a way that meets everyone’s needs.
I use talking pieces successfully for different purposes, such as problem solving, healing, strategic planning, and in all kinds of settings including business, government, prison, and non-profit.
It’s easy to use. I’ve used different talking pieces, pending the situation, and am grateful to have been gifted a sacred eagle feather. But it can really be anything. Like the children in a playground who picked up a discarded juice box to use to resolve a dispute.
As my friend and mentor, retired judge Barry Stuart often says, a talking piece is the most powerful mediator in the world.
Thank you Stephen, you lived your own advice: “Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.”
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Battery-free microchip can measure sweat and detect illness
Researchers at Eindhoven University have developed a wearable, flexible sensor that analyzes sweat for levels of salinity and acidity.
We’ve seen many great health and medical wearables in the past, including an iodine supplementing bindi and hearing aids in a necklace form. Now using nature’s process of osmosis for inspiration, and flexible electronics materials for execution, scientists from ’s Mechanical Engineering department have produced a wearable microchip that analyzes sweat for a variety of diseases.
Built by laser micro-manufacturing, an evaporation-driven pump draws fluid from the skin and across a microchip sensor for analysis. The sweat then passes through the micro-channel and evaporates as it would normally. By measuring the levels of salinity and acidity in sweat, scientists and medics may be able to make more accurate, and earlier, diagnoses of certain illnesses, including cystic fibrosis and a number of skin diseases. As production of the sensor progresses, additional aspects of sweat will be able to be measured, widening the pool of potential earlier diagnoses.
The device was built with flexible plastic foil that uses particularly porous paper at the channel inlet to draw in the sweat. The process of evaporation then pulls the liquid across the sensor, allowing a flow of data to be collected over a period of time, without the need for batteries or electrical charge.
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The McKenzie Break (1970) Lamont Johnson, Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, War, Drama, Action
In the closing days of World War II, German prisoners riot in a POW Camp in Scotland. Fearful of a mass escape attempt, the British Army sends in an unorthodox Irish Captain in hopes of discovering exactly what is going on. The Irishman at once comes into conflict with the senior prisoner, a U-Boat commander, and the two must match wits, knowing that only one will emerge victorious.
An irish intelligence officer (Keith) has been given the unwanted task of figuring out what is going on in a british P.O.W. camp for german officers. He suspects the captives, under command of a submarine captain (Griem) are planning a major prison break, and during his investigation has several confrontations with his german counterpart. Brian Keith gives us one of his best performances opposite Helmut Griem (also memorable) in this suspenseful and highly original World War II drama. If you enjoy realistic war movies that doesn’t deal with “guys on an impossible mission”, you should love the underrated McKENZIE BREAK.
Also Known As (AKA): Wolfpack, Los que saben morir, L’évasion du capitaine Schlütter, Uomini e filo spinato, A Fuga, Escape, Ausbruch der 28
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Do you react too sharp?
Jan 07, 2019 by suny in Ethics & Morality
Action and Reaction
We all know about the Law of Action-Reaction and I have no intention to go into its scientific definition which describes it as – the forces on the two objects are equal in magnitude. While the forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, the accelerations of the objects are not necessarily equal in magnitude- but what I have in my mind is its impact in social life.
WE often see it happening in real life people reacting too strongly when they listen something against them or not in their favor as per their expectation. Actually, an unreasonable reaction without listening fully to the speaker is nothing but shows weakness of our personality that can well be classified as personality disorder.
A person who reacts too sharp on small things is probably at risk of playing in the hands of others. He has no proper thinking power or maybe suffering from other problems like arrogance, anger, greed etc. However, the majority of people suffer from such problems as living a reaction-free life in entity is hard to attain. It takes lot of efforts to reach to a level where a person could stay calm while facing criticism or take it positively.
Why do they react so sharp?
If you go deeper into the matter, you will find that some people react before hearing the whole sentence or without even having the idea about the intention of the speaker. However, that makes speaker upset because his intention was not to criticize the listener but he was only talking in a general way. It will hurt you in the beginning for sure but you will see that you are slowly getting closer to your object.
Now, the question arises whether we can avoid the situation and stay calm while facing criticism? Yes, you can but you will have to work on your power of tolerance. You will have to learn how to control your feelings in such a situation.
Reaction for insulting situation
A person could face insulting situations in many ways like being physical by way of slapping, punching or in some cases even spitting at looking someone. But there is nothing hurts worse than a verbal insult whether it comes directly or indirectly.
Now we come to another form of action, a verbal insult in form jokes mimicry or ironic comments or even funny facial expressions could hurt as much as direct insult. You will have to learn to control your emotions and how you react in a situation like that. How would you react in such cases?
Now these are different from the way you act and react in while you listening to someone in a situation of arrogance, anger, greed etc. Most probably you will react in an angry way but that’s perhaps the worst way of tackling the situation.
Maybe you would like to try insult simulator for fun
Then what, would you accept it? Maybe you will laugh at my suggestion but that is perhaps the best way of tackling the situation but we will have to see that who the person is and why he is doing so. Is he our well-wisher like our teacher, parents, a good friend.
If the insult is not from anyone that we can ignore then what, should we react in the same manner? I personally think that in such a case we should handle them according to situation. I could have quoted hundreds of famous personalities on this but I love this one-
“Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don’t want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd – Vernon Howard”
My question is- Do you react too sharp? Yes, when it comes to actions and bad behavior from people whom you know or maybe in case when it comes from strangers!
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Ryan Giggs is a boyhood idol of Aaron Ramsey
Posted by Steven Tan | Source from Paul Bailey, givemefootball.com -
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey will fulfil a lifelong ambition by finally lining up alongside Ryan Giggs with Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics this summer.
The 21-year-old never got the chance to play with the Manchester United veteran for Wales, as Giggs retired before Ramsey arrived on the international scene.
However, after Stuart Pearce named both players in his 18-man squad for the Olympic Games - Giggs as one of three overage inclusions in his under-23 team - the pair will be teammates in the collective bid for glory later this month.
"It's fair to say that this could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience," explained Ramsey. "Ryan Giggs retired from international football before I got into the Wales team and he's an absolute icon in Welsh football.
"He's done it all and most players would like to play alongside him, so hopefully I'll get my chance. I can certainly learn from him while I'm with the Great Britain squad."
Ramsey was just a baby when Giggs made his Wales debut in 1991, and grew up watching the 38-year-old excel for club and country. He retired from the national team in 2007 to concentrate on his Old Trafford career, which is set to extend into a 23rd season in 2012-13.
Giggs won 64 caps for his country in total, netting 12 goals, but never represented Wales at a major tournament. The opportunity to lead Team GB out at the London Olympics will be an honour for the most decorated player in English football history.
"Looking at the squad of players we have, I think we have a lot of quality in there," Ramsey added. "I'm sure we can do well, especially with home advantage."
Pearce's side kick-off their campaign against Senegal on July 26 and also face the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay in the group stage.
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Scott Craven
Author of Dead Jed series
You like your undead slow or sprinting?
One of the world’s greatest controversies, right up there with the best M&M color (it’s blue), revolves around zombies.
In one corner we have the walking, shuffling, easily confused undead of nearly every zombie movie ever made. They are a threat to the elderly and anyone not paying attention when stepping through a shattered storefront.
In the other corner we have the running, jumping, finely tuned dead of “28 Days” and “World War Z.” In this version, only the trim, fit and athletic part of the population succumb to various zombie-causing diseases, and once undead they are even better athletes. If these zombies carved out their own country, they would dominate winter and summer Olympics, and not simply by eating the brains of other competitors (though they’d do that too).
The world was perfectly happy with lumbering zombies since it made sense your body should suffer some sort of post-mortem penalty. Death should not reinvigorate you like some sort of Red Bull rebirth. I count myself firmly in the camp of the walking, tripping, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” zombies. The process allows for survivors, thinning the herd only of those unwise enough to look from grandma in a cellar filled with shelves upon view-blocking shelves of canned peaches. “Grandma, you down here? Because we need to get you somewhere safe.” Indeed.
The sprinting, victim-seeking zombie missiles are going to need a lot of food to keep their energy up. The constant search for calories could gut the food supply in a matter of years, making the zombie apocalypse not so survivable to the disappointment of thousands of doomsday preppers.
I decided to split the zombie difference in “Dead Jed.” Jed can keep up a decent jogging pace, but at a sprint he is far more likely to lose a limb. And while he doesn’t slur his words and uses usually impeccable grammar, he’s not prone to screaming incomprehensibly whenever he sees a stranger (and eats him).
Then again, Jed is the only one of his kind and thus can set the zombie bar wherever he wants.
I enjoy reading dedications in books. They give an insight into the authors, and you wonder how and why these particular dedications came about. Sometimes all you see is a name, wondering what made the relationship special enough to earn a dedication. Others aren’t mysterious at all, perhaps a mom or spouse (based on the hundreds of dedications I’ve seen, I’d give the edge to spouses, followed in rapid succession by children and moms).
But can you dedicate a book to a special day? Or an event? Or a memory?
Today I am reminded of how the subject of my first dedication was very easy to choose. As soon as I admitted to Paula I was writing “Dead Jed,” I knew she’d be on me to finish. Her efforts did not disappoint, as she demanded to read a new chapter each week. And if I did not have something to show her, I received stern looks and a quick “Turn off football and go write. Now” order. She was with me through thick and thin, and we naturally assumed we’d live out our lives together.
Paula would have been 53 today. Cancer stole her from me nearly four years ago. When I signed with an agent, she was the first person I told. But she left before we found a publishing deal, the book hitting shelves a year after that.
I miss Paula every day, but especially today.
Gone to the dogs
I’ve grown up firm in the belief every kid would benefit from a pet. My first dog was Misty, a Corgi mix who was so protective of her leash, she would grown at us when we approached. It made it very difficult when we wanted to walk her.
My current dog is Sandy, an Australian kelpie mix whose favorite hobby is sniffing. I wish I could wear her nose for a while just to see what the big deal is. I knkow pizza smells good, but maybne it;s incredible with a nose a thousand times more powerful.
When I began to think of a storyline for the second Dead Jed book, thoughts didn’t include a dog. It was not until I was a chapter or so in that I wondered, “What kind of dog would a zombie like? A golden retriever, to fetch any lost limbs? Or a Shih Tzu, because it could lend itself to so many edging-on-bad-taste puns?” Then I realized what Jed needed – a zombie dog, an animal he could truly relate to. But just how does one go about finding a zombie dog? I’ve visited many an animal shelter and have never seen any undead canines. Quite honestly, I consider that a good thing.
There are inherent problems with having a zombie dog. When he sheds, it’s more than just fur. And zombie dogs have to be very careful at a dog park, since a playful black lab could nab a zombie tail and take off with it, believing it to be a cool toy.
Still, what zombie boy wouldn’t want a best friend zombie dog? You can see how it will turn out in December when “Dead Jed 2: Dawn of the Jed” is published.
Top 10 reasons to write a book (an ode to David Letterman)
10. Nothing says “Personal accomplishment” like stringing together 75,000 words that take up way more space in your sock drawer than you ever dreamed.
9. Beats spending hours volunteering at a food bank or raising your kids.
8. Impresses people at parties, as long as they don’t follow up with, “Where can I buy it?”
7. Great way to get rich, if what happens to one author in 10 millions happens to you too.
6. No better way to get out of chores than to say, “Sorry, this is my dedicated writing time,” because every time can be dedicated writing time.
5. The “I’m on deadline” excuse will get you out of school plays, family gatherings and other annoying life events.
4. Chicks dig guys who deal with mid-life crises by writing books. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.
3. Pad your Twitter feed with “Banged out another 1000 words today,” even if all you did was bang out another 10-episode binge-watch of “Breaking Bad.”
2. Unsold books make great attic insulation.
1. Will finally allow you to order return-address labels with “Author” in front of your name.
Greatest author moment
Forget fame and fortune, which is convenient for me as I have neither. My greatest moment as an author occurred at the back of an independent bookstore where four rows of folding chairs were set up, the first two rows striped with yellow crepe to mark the “Members Only” section.
To the left of the small foot-high stage, a display table held several copies of “Dead Jed: Adventures of a Middle School Zombie,” arranged neatly in low stacks. In the middle was a photo of an old guy attempting to look important. A short biography under “Meet the author” described this gentleman as me. It was all fairly embarrassing.
Until I saw the girl in the front row, sitting on crepe paper and not caring, flipping through various screens on her phone. It wasn’t who she was or what she was doing. It was the paperback book on her lap, the cover creased, the pages fluffed like an accordion.
That was a book that had been read. And it felt amazing.
A month ago, I’d been invited to Club Read, a monthly meeting of kids who loved to read. Changing Hands in Tempe urged members to read “Dead Jed” before my appearance, but I had no idea if they’d follow instructions, or if it would be like the mom-based book clubs that were popular more for the excuse to start drinking in the early afternoon.
I brought a copy of “Dead Jed” with me, marking passages I intended to read. Arriving 15 minutes early, I met Eddie, the Club Read post. He told me to be prepared for anything, and that while it was smart to read certain passages, the kids usually asked enough questions to keep it going for the full hour.
The members slowly filtered in, parents telling them to be good as they headed back home. And nearly all of the kids carried “Dead Jed,” each one looking beautifully ratty.
Eddie started the meeting with the grand unveiling of the next month’s book, written by a rich and famous Newberry-Award winning author. The kids oohed and aawed. “I absolutely LOVE her!” one gasped. Eddie said he would try to get her to Skype in, but in the very least he would lead a discussion of the story. “I’m sorry, but it’s almost impossible to get such a big-name author to appear, and never in person.”
And then he introduced me.
The kids, however, treated me like a big-name author. They asked informed questions, and the hour flew by. I never touched my copy of “Dead Jed.” Nor did I get to all the questions.
About halfway through, when someone asked what it felt like to write a book, I was honest.
“As you know, I’m not a big-name author. I have yet to see a dime from ‘Dead Jed.’ Last year I went to a big book convention in New York, signing postcards of the book because it wasn’t out at that time. With so many talented writers there, I felt so small.
“I can honestly say that meeting you, seeing you with my book, especially which each book looking very well-read, is the best moment I’ve had as an author. It reminds me why I write in the first place. The fact each one of you devoted a few hours to a world I created, losing yourself in the characters, maybe even learning something about yourselves, absolutely blows me away. I thank each an every one of you, I really do. If you remember one thing when you leave here, remember that.”
At the end, the kids lined up patiently as I signed each book. A few had their photos taken with me.
It was my greatest author moment ever. If I never sell another copy of “Dead Jed,” all I have to do is think about Club Read and know that the months of writing, the years of finding an agent and publisher, were worth every second.
Parental hell
It was hot, and he was wearing a striped shirt and blue shorts. One second he was asking to be pushed on the swing. I turned my back to him, saw that the swings were full. I took a couple of steps toward them, thinking I would ask one of the bigger kids if he would mind taking turns. Turned around, my son was gone.
Maybe 10 seconds had passed. I panicked in a tenth of that time.
I have never been one of these parents who think, “That will never happen to me.” I read stories about drownings and car crashes and toppling furniture. Of course it could happen to me. I took precautions to at least lower the risk.
But this time, he vanished. Just vanished. He was three years old and gone.
I raced down the playground’s slope. I didn’t scream because it was odd how I did not want parents to know what had happened. I did not want to attract stares that said, “How could you lose your kid? How irresponsible are you.”
Twenty hours later, I found him. OK, it was twenty seconds. But count that out, slowly, in seconds, and see just how long it is. Then see how long it is when you are looking for your only son in a busy park.
He was behind a pine tree, picking at the cones. “Hey bud” I said very calmly. “So, looking at cones, huh? Cool.”
Did not yell at him for wandering off, since I should have been more attentive. He was three, after all. I was the responsible one.
I thought it would ease as he got older, but it never goes way. It evolves. The worst times is when he got his license, then a car. I had him text me when he arrived, when he left, when he arrived again, then I called him, had him text me photos of where he was at. Over a couple of years it eased, and now that he is 18, I only text him when I am wondering where he is.
But the old feelings come back quickly.
The other night he grabbed his jacket at around 8 o’clock and said he was picking up Marissa or Melanie or some such, and that he was heading to a place south of town, some sort of overlook that I may have called Make-Out Point in my day.
I woke at 1 a.m., not unusual since it seems to be vestiges of my parental warning system, largely dormant but not that night. His door was open, meaning he was not home.
I thought about his last words, him describing this out-of-the-way place, and that is where I pictured him, perhaps assaulted by those who hang out at those places waiting to assault young couples. No, of course not, that was ridiculous, he was probably fine, he may have gone …
Where? After midnight? In a very empty, dangerous part of town? Where serial killers roam?
Because I knew it could happen to me.
Got out of bed because there was no way I could go back to sleep. But this was bad.
Very bad.
I will text him. I knew that as soon as I sent off the text, I would be counting the time. Ten. Twenty. Thirty. Second. Minutes. Waiting for the screen to light, the familiar tone to chime. Incoming text.
I picked up the phone, punched in the unlock code.
There was a text. “Gone to see Wolf of Wall Street.” Time-stamped at 10:43. I knew the movie was almost three hours long. Heart slowed enough in the next 10 minutes to get back to sleep.
That feeling will never go away. I am sure it will dim. My dad is 86 years old, and if I don’t make my daily call at the usual time, he worries. Probably the same things he worried when I was younger, but concerns have evolved to include heart attack. Stroke. Hit by a bus.
I understand. And it’s OK.
Comforting, even, to know there is always at least one person looking out for me.
It was just a box. Nothing more.
It arrived at least a month before it had to. I’d find it outside my front door, wrapped in brown paper with my address written elegantly on the front, like something from the pre-Amazon time when people did their own shipping.
I took it to the patio, tearing off the paper that came off with equal parts tape. Once the box was revealed, I slit the tape and lifted the flaps, holding my breath as the strong scent of tobacco slapped me in the face.
Inside was the usual. A few wrapped packages, ones my mother took so much care to make the ribbons and bows just perfect. This one had socks and underwear. That one had a long-sleeve shirt. And the other held a pair of khaki pants. Or maybe the other one had socks and underwear, and this one had a shirt, and that one … never mind, it never really mattered.
Packed around the edges were stocking stuffers, the ones I was to put in my stocking and well as her grandson’s. Candy, deodorant, toothpaste, stamps, mouthwash, and of course the Lifesavers Storybook, a part of every Christmas since I could remember.
I fished out the smaller wrapped box at the bottom, as I always promised Mom I would use it right away – Hallmark ornament, a lighthouse, the next in a never-ending series.
I left the box outside for a few days to let it air out. The days of having to hide it from my son were long gone.
“I see the box arrived,” he’d say, seeing it on the patio. “Typical grandmom. Way early, as usual.”
As usual.
That box didn’t come this year. It won’t come next year, or the year after.
I tell myself that’s how life goes. Like kids getting older, like friends moving on, like families getting larger and smaller.
Christmas remains a constant.
But that does not mean my mood has to.
Next year will be better, I say. Next year it will be filled with peace and goodwill and cheer.
Besides, it was just a box.
But it was so much more.
I kind of wish it were a sprint
Measuring 8-by-5 inches, weighing 11.2 ounces, I am happy to say “Dead Jed” has been released upon the world, celebrating its official publication date today. Shortly after midnight, Eastern Standard Time, I received a note from Amazon it had been delivered to my Kindle, and less than 12 hours later, the paperback was available for shipment.
Back in June, I scheduled a vacation this week, thinking I might need to devote time to a school appearance, maybe even a signing at a local book store. Last month I made the rounds, book in hand, to a few bookstores, a handful of libraries, and dished them off to some friends who knew people in schools and libraries.
I sent out a few follow-up emails, hoping to get an invitation. No luck. So it turns out I will have plenty of time this week for other things. Washing my car. Walking the dog. Dusting … no, not dusting. That is most odious of all household chores. Even disappointment won’t drive me to dust.
I’ve looked forward to this day for five years, from the second I wrote the first chapter. It was a combination of Christmas, my birthday and my son’s college graduation (which hasn’t happened yet, but when it does it is going to be huge). Even with those great expectations, I kept telling myself to relax, that it’s a marathon, not a sprint, that if “Dead Jed” spends days, even weeks in stealth mode, it was OK. Keep contacting bookstores and libraries and schools. Work on spreading the word. Maybe by this time next year, the book will have built enough momentum that the second book flies off the shelves, or at least from servers to ebook readers.
So today will be spent quietly at home, wandering around the internet to find some early reviews, and prepping for the marathon.
To put it all in perspective, I recall an event that occurred just a few weeks ago.
On a very warm and pleasant Saturday, armed with a handful of brand-spanking-new books in my car, I stopped by the Phoenix area’s foremost independent bookstore — Changing Hands in Tempe. I grabbed one of the books off the pile and headed inside, and realized I had no idea who to see. I stepped to the counter, behind a mom who was buying about a dozen books for her two children who stood at her side. The daughter — mayebe 10 — and the son — around 8 — stood on tiptoe with fingertips on the counter, watching as the transaction progressed.
I noticed two copies of the latest “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” This was my audience! I tapped the mom on her shoulder. “Excuse me, but it’s apparent you’ve got a couple of avid readers. I’ve written this book about a 13-year-old zombie and I was wondering if I could give you a copy …”
Suddenly the children’s eyes lit up. The girl snatched it out of my hand and said, “Oh yes, and you have to sign it, I can’t believe I’m meeting an author in real life.” The boy chimed in, “That is so cool, how did you do it? I want to be a writer some day. I can’t wait to tell everyone I met you.”
Anyone who has ever written for others knows that everything after “Suddenly” is a dream sequence. Here is what really happened:
Mom: “Oh, that’s nice. Look kids, this man wants you to have his book.”
Daughter: “OK.”
Son: “…”
Mom: “He’s the author. That means he wrote it. Isn’t that wonderful?”
Daughter: “I guess.”
Son: “Yeah, I guess.”
The real beauty to this particular uninspiring encounter is I have no idea how it will turn out. All I asked them to do was tell other kids if they liked the book. I think they will, as fans of Wimpy Kid. So in my mind, this ends with them fighting over who gets to keep the book in their room, and with dozens of other kids hearing about Dead Jed.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Six reasons I kept “Dead Jed” to myself for so long
When people find out I’ve written a book, they invariably say, “Oh, that explains the ‘I’ve written a book tattoo’ on your forehead,” to which I reply, “Is it that obvious?”
Actually, friends were shocked when they found out I’d written a book, let alone one that found a publisher and was due to come out in just a few months. Only a handful of people knew about “Dead Jed.” Word got out only when an acquaintance noticed a Twitter chat in which I’d mentioned the book.
I kept my efforts to myself until I was about halfway through the book, when I revealed my secret to one person. I told Paula because I knew she would keep on me to finish it. Another three people met “Dead Jed” when I asked them to read it and provide feedback.
Besides my agent, and the publishing houses that would ultimately reject it, the book remained a secret. Here are six reasons I kept it to myself:
1. I wanted to own something. As a reporter, any number of people knew what I was working on in a given time. But the book? That was for me.
2. Fear of failure. It wasn’t as if I were a tailor who every night spent hours slaving over a legal pad, painstakingly crafting a novel in longhand. If I were, I’d Tweet about my progress about every 500 words. But I was a professional writer with loads of training and constantly learning from talented editors. If the book crashed and burned, I wanted as few witnesses as possible. By the way, are there still tailors?
3. Lack of confidence. This is “Fear of failure’s” wingman. My career is based on telling the tales of other people. Fiction was a whole other thing (regardless of criticisms over the years from folks who swore I made up stuff for the newspaper).
4. Privacy. I don’t share a lot about myself (I get the blog-related irony). I’m rarely on Facebook and when I tweet, it’s largely for work. “Dead Jed” was locked away in the brain basement for a long time. Now I’m booting him out the house hoping the world invites him in. He won’t take up a lot of room, I swear.
5. Worried how colleagues and peers would react. I work in a field where people are judged daily on their writing talents. Competition is as ever-present as compliments are rare. Given the extremely talented people I work with, I feared they would take any number of shots at a humorous, even frivolous, middle-grade book. Of course I was wrong. When word of the book got out, my colleagues were incredibly supportive. I realized how very lucky I was to be among such good people.
6. Did not want to be “That guy.” Going back to the tailor scenario, if I am sewing during the day and writing at night, I’m probably sharing the ongoing narrative with my colleagues, clients and anybody who would listen. Since most reporters want to write a book at some point, I didn’t want to be the guy with ad nauseum updates, beginning every sentence with “So my agent told me …” and becoming the newsroom Richard. Now if I were crafting a suit, I would be all like, “Dude, check out these lapels I finished last night.”
More than 18 years ago, something very special happened that has occurred only billions of times before. A child emerged into this world and as I held him when he was minutes old, I knew I’d never experience anything more beautiful.
But I got pretty close Friday.
For days I’d been waiting for the literary stork to bring me my first born, until I was informed the anticipated package had not even left wherever it was books were made (a part of publishing process that remains a mystery to me, but I am sure it involves cabbage patches, magic beans and glue).
Friday afternoon, when my dog Sandy delivered her “Evil is afoot” warning – a bark that accompanies doorbells, vacuums and approaching canines – I glanced outside and noticed a UPS truck. Probably just delivering more Eddie Bauer shirts to the guy two doors down, whose fashion sense is very manufacturer specific.
Curious, I watched the delivery guy lift the back gate, lean in and emerge with a compact box that appeared to be somewhat heavy, due to his grunt as he hefted it to his shoulder.
A box full of books might be that heavy. Could it be?
He turned toward the house and headed this way. Sandy’s barking went from “Evil is afoot” to “We’re all gonna die!” as the UPS man headed up the driveway.
I remained cool, continuing to stare out the window rather than rush to the door screaming, “The boosk the books the books!!” and potentially frightening the UPS dude.
I counted to, something, opened the door, threw a very casual “Thanks man” to the UPS guy as he walked away, and grabbed the box.
It was heavy. And the flaps bulged just a bit, as if straining to contain the awesomeness inside.
Slitting the packing tape with a knife, I folded back the flaps to reveal two neatly stacked rows of “Dead Jed: Adventures of a Middle School Zombie.”
More than five years ago, I’d written the first words of my first attempt at my first book. Up until this moment, it had existed as a series of electronic files. Real, but not really real.
I picked up the top book, ran my fingers along its shiny-smooth cover, admired my name.
You heard me. I admired my name. If there was ever a time to allow for some ego, this was it. I also am unapologetic about what I did next – opened the book to the middle to see my name atop an even-numbered page, then flipping through a dozen more pages to see my name go by over and over again.
I admired my book baby, knowing it was a special moment that has occurred millions of times before.
Dead Jed
Adventures of a Middle School Zombie
Jed would give an arm and a leg to fit into middle school, and he actually can since he happens to be undead. But his gray pallor and detachable limbs draw the attention of the school bully who thinks zombies should rest in pieces.
Now available.. Published in the U.S. by
Month9Books.
Edited by Courtney Koschel. Cover by Victoria Faye and Zach Schoenbaum.
ISBN: 978-0-9883409-0-9 (paperback), 978-0-939765-56-7 (ebook).
Coming in December: "Dead Jed 2: Dawn of the Jed"
Email: deadjed5@gmail.com
Win a signed copy of “Dead Jed”
by Scott Craven
Giveaway ends November 07, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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Spends Quality
“Time Peace” is a solid (if not spectacular) listen that puts a premium on optimism and substance while showcasing the versatility of Mr. Tay & Spends Quality.” — HipHopDX.com (read more)
“His music has hard edges, like many solid artists from L.A., but his songs also possess a seductive, dark allure that you can’t find south of Sacramento or east of the Rockies. He’s given plenty of thought to his lyrics, and the beats that weave and wind around the vowels and syllables he sings so well contain the same poised, philosophical quality.” — Jasentdavis.com (read more)
“Spends’ style is an agile and his flow is easy to follow. Even so, Spends goes ‘hard’ by going intelligent without going over one’s head. This intellectual spirit about his rhymes distinguishes him from numerous rappers and adds an extra sophistication; his lyrics are both meaningful and thoughtfully conceived.” – Brent Music Reviews (read more)
Quality Spending by By Jacquelynne Ocana, North Bay Bohemian (read article)
Spends Quality Interview by Adam Bernard on RapReviews.com (read interview)
“CFO Recordings rose out of the popular Sonicbloom hip-hop collective with the vision of the label and exec and founding member Spencer Williams, who also MCs under the moniker Spends Quality. On Time Peace, one of the trifecta of albums released by CFO in 2013, Williams raps over smooth, summertime beats produced by Mr. Tay. Keeping with Sonicbloom’s positive hip-hop vibe, this album is the perfect soundtrack for barbecues and lounging by the Russian River, all friends, smiles and good intentions. Maybe it’s all that Sonoma County sunshine, but Spends Quality avoids the gritty subject matter of most rap albums in favor of a celebration of love and life. “I ain’t flamboyant, I might blend in” Williams raps on “Til the Songs Done,” but he’s wrong: this is one of the stand-out releases in the North Bay for 2013.” — L.C., North Bay Bohemian
“Spends Quality, the bearded, earnest-looking rapper behind CFO Recordings, is a happy guy. Flight Music is full of good vibes and counted blessings and even the one track that explores darker material, “Sad Day,” circles a line about positive thinking. His bio touts stages shared with Blackalicious and Lyrics Born, and the comparisons fit—this is a guy who probably doesn’t use the term “conscious” to mean “alive and breathing.” Still, like the rappers he emulates, SQ plays with enough wonky sounds and rhymes to subvert his own wide-eyed sincerity—there are tinny cruising beats reminiscent Snoop’s L.A. (before he, too, became conscious) and cheesy sax strains that are pure Oakland all-night buffet. In his own words, “Spends Quality mixes soulfulness with intellect in a golden pimp cup.” R.D., North Bay Bohemian
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Acer Debuts All-New Swift 7 with Compact Design and Incredible Screen-to-body Ratio
Acer recently announced the incredibly thin and light Swift 7 (SF714-52T) with a new premium chassis that liberates the display. Honoree of a CES 2019 Innovation Award, its ultra-narrow bezels make it virtually borderless, giving the 14-inch Swift 7 an impressive 92 percent screen-to-body ratio. Powered by Windows 10, it’s feather-light too, meaning traveling professionals who carry a notebook through the day will rejoice at its weight of just 890 grams — giving the Swift 7 an almost weightless feel when carrying it in a briefcase or small bag.
“The Acer Swift 7 strikes a balance between art and technology, and in doing so pushes ultra-portable PC design to new territories” said Belinda Marais, Marketing Manager for Acer Africa. “With a striking screen-to-body ratio of an incredible 92 percent, Acer customers can stay more productive with a compact, thinner and lighter notebook that feels ‘barely there’ while carrying it around through the day and during business travel.”
“We designed the latest 8th Gen Intel Core processors to deliver a complete platform with the performance to enable rich user experiences and the power efficiency to extend battery life, all in a fanless design” said Chris Walker, Vice President of Client Computing at Intel. “It is exciting to collaborate with Acer on the innovation displayed on the new Acer Swift 7.”
Ultra-Compact Design Results in Stunning 92% Screen-to-Body Ratio
Thanks to incredible design and engineering advances, the redesigned Swift 7 fits the latest tech into a chassis that is significantly smaller than its predecessor. It has a four-side narrow bezel design with bezels measuring just 2.57 mm[2], dramatically reducing the width and depth of the notebook to just 317.9 mm W x 191.5 mm D (12.51 W x 7.53 D inches) for an immersive, almost full screen display. Like its predecessors, the Swift 7 (SF714-52T) remains incredibly thin and light, measuring under 1 cm thin at 9.95 mm (0.39 inches) and weighing less than 1 kg at just 890 grams (1.96 pounds).
The Swift 7 is incredibly thin and lightweight, yet durable. Designed for portability, it’s made with magnesium-lithium and magnesium-aluminum alloys. These materials are two to four times stronger than standard aluminum alloys at the same thickness, yet are up to 20 to 35 percent lighter to keep the laptop under 1 kg. In addition, Acer applied a micro-arc oxidation finish to create a surface with an elegant, ceramic-like material.
The 14-inch Full HD 1920x1080 touch display with IPS[3] technology allows smooth touch interactions and presents vibrant and crystal-clear images. Featuring a 100% sRGB/72% NTSC color gamut and 300 nits of brightness, the Swift 7 brings immersive experiences through its advanced display. Plus, it’s extra durable thanks to a layer of Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6.
Performance with All-Day Battery Life
The Swift 7 is powered by the latest 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-8500Y processor to deliver top-notch performance for web browsing, productivity with presentations and spreadsheets, and even using compute intensive creator tools while enabling a fanless design. With up to 512GB of fast PCIe SSD storage, a large amount of files can be stored and quickly accessed, and with up to 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM, customers can multitask smoothly. And with 10 hours1 of battery life, customers can use their Swift 7 well into the evening.
Connectivity via Thunderbolt 3 and Advanced WiFi
Customers can accomplish more using the two USB Type-C ports supporting Thunderbolt™ 3 for high bandwidth speeds up to 40 Gbps while also delivering system power and connecting to any display, as well as USB 3.1 Gen 2. The DisplayPort 1.2 provides fast data transfers at up to 10 Gbps and supports high resolution external displays and speedy charging of external devices. Staying connected with the Acer Swift 7 is reliable and super-fast with Intel Wireless-AC delivering Wi-Fi 5 capable of Gigabit speed and featuring 2x2 MU-MIMO technology. Peripherals can also be connected via Bluetooth 5.0, while the combo headphone and speaker jack ensure clear and crisp audio.
Intuitive Features for an Exceptional Experience
The Swift 7’s design delivers an exceptional experience for jet-setting professionals. The chiclet keyboard has well-spaced keys allowing users to type up documents with minimal mistakes. The keyboard also provides 1.1 mm of travel distance and responsive feedback. In addition, the backlit keyboard makes typing comfortable in low-light conditions.
The Corning Gorilla Glass touchpad is precise and responsive while scrolling and navigating. The glass touchpad also has an integrated click button, support for multi-touch gestures and a responsive physical click. Plus, the power button doubles as a fingerprint reader so customers can simultaneously turn on the device while using a more secure login through password-free Windows Hello.
The new Swift 7 features a push-to-open camera for webchats and video recording that can be kept closed to prevent unintended camera usage and to protect privacy. The camera has a 55-degree angle of view, and features high-dynamic-range (HDR) to deliver images in wider viewing angles to accommodate groups.
The Acer Swift 7 (SF714-52T) with a touch display will be available with 8GB or 16GB of LDDR3 RAM and either 256GB or 512GB of SSD PCIe storage. The new Swift 7 will be available in South Africa from July 2019 at a starting price of R 24 999.
Exact specifications, prices, and availability will vary by region. To learn more about availability, product specifications and prices in specific markets, please contact your nearest Acer office via www.acer.com.
Related Searches: Acer, Swift 7, The Acer Swift 7, CES 2019 Innovation Award, 14-inch Swift 7, 92 percent screen-to-body ratio, Powered by Windows 10, feather-light, Acer laptop, balance between art and technology, ultra-portable PC design, 8th Gen Intel Core, thin and lightweight, durable, 14-inch Full HD 1920x1080 touch display with IPS, layer of Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6, 512GB of fast PCIe SSD storage, 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM
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LAW Internet and Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control
Intellectual Property: Fair Use in Film
Intellectual Property: Innovation Industries
Intellectual Property: Copyright
Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law
Intellectual Property: Scientific Evidence in Patent Litigation
Internet Business Law and Policy
Internet Intermediaries
IP Advanced Topics: The Future of Online Music and Online Video
Privacy and Free Speech Online
Bankruptcy/ Reorganization
Lawyer as Facilitator
Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law
Advanced Legal Writing: Technology Transactions
Copyright and Content in the Digital Age
Deal Litigation Seminar
Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems
Ideas for a Better Internet
Intellectual Property: Issues in Entertainment Law
Law and the News Media
Internet and Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control
IP in Regulated Industries
Communications Law: Broadcast and Cable Television
Communications Law: Internet and Telephony
Policy Practicum: Copyright Policy Practicum
Communication and Leadership Skills (ENVRES 210)
Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
Programming Methodology (ENGR 70A)
Channels Management
Strategy in Global Supply Networks
The Entrepreneurial Engineer
Economics of the Internet
The Social Data Revolution: Data Mining and Electronic Business
Intellectual Property and Its Effect on Business
Creating Infectious Action
Global and International Marketing
Global Entrepreneurial Marketing
Marketing Management: Advanced Application
Media/ Entertainment/ Sports
Digital Journalism (COMM 117)
Digital Media Entrepreneurship (COMM 140)
Digital Media in Society (AMSTUD 120, COMM 120)
Journalism Law (COMM 116)
Leadership in the Entertainment Industry
Media Ethics and Responsibility (COMM 131)
Sports Business Management
Brand Planning
Management of New Product Development
Public Policy for Science and Technology
Technology Policy (PUBLPOL 294)
Leading Trends in Information Technology
Tech Law with Progressive Minds
Technologies of Reading and Writing: The Nineteenth Century versus the Digital Age
Advanced Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic
Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic: Clinical Practice
Copyfight
IP Watchdog
Expert Witnesses: Intellectual Property Cases
Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age
Intellectual Property and Open Source
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (5th ed.)
Intellectual Property: Examples and Explanations
Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright in a Nutshell (4th ed.)
Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities that Could Make or Break Your Business
Licensing of Intellectual Property and Other Information Assets
Ma+h You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software
No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment
Patent, Copyright & Trademark 10th ed.
Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity
BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal
Teaching Intellectual Property Law
Nimmer on Copyright : a Treatise on the Law of Literary, Musical and Artistic Property, and the Protection of Ideas by Melville B. Nimmer, David Nimmer.
The Rights of Publicity and Privacy by J. Thomas McCarthy
Stanford Law and Technology Association
[ Academia ] [ Litigation ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] [ Transactional ] Intellectual Property: Copyright Law
[ Academia ] [ Litigation ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] [ Transactional ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Internet : This course is an obvious choice for students of cyberlaw. It should also be useful for those who expect to serve clients with an interest in controlling the distribution of their intellectual property, such as those in the business of creating content. The interests of Internet service providers and other online intermediaries are also considered in this course, which reviews the competing concerns of those who want access to information and those who want to control the dissemination of certain information.
This course offers an intensive introduction to the field of cyberlaw. We will investigate the evolving nature of online architecture and activities, and the ways in which the legal toolbox has been, and will be, leveraged to influence them. Course themes include the complex interaction between Internet governance organizations and sovereign states, the search for balance between the ease of disseminating information online and the interest of copyright holders, privacy advocates, and others in controlling that dissemination, and the roles of intermediaries and platforms in shaping what people can and cannot do online. By application. Please note special compressed meeting times. No prerequisites. Special Instructions: The course will run from Sunday, January 4, 2015 to Friday, January 16, 2015. It will comprise 10 students from Stanford Law School and 10 students from Harvard Law School, including any cross-registrants from other Stanford or Harvard schools. There will be an opening Sunday set of activities; one approximately two-hour session each weekday in that period; and potentially one Saturday session, including field trips. Students enrolled in the course from both schools will be selected through an application process. CONSENT APPLICATION: The application can be found at http://brk.mn/InternetandSociety, and is due at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, October 10, 2014. Elements used in grading: Class Participation, Attendance, Final Paper.
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The league of fashion brands
Through its movie-inspired collection and its Manchester United range of products, Bengaluru-based Indus-League Clothing plans to reach the Rs. 1,000 crore revenue mark over the next two years
POORNIMA KAVLEKAR
Did you get jealous watching Kareena Kapoor flaunt her sexy figure with different outfits in the Madhur Bandarkar’s Hindi movie, Heroine? If you did, the Future Group-owned Indus-League Clothing Ltd. (Indus-League), engaged in apparel manufacture and retail, has done its job as one of the style partners for the film. “Out of the 150 outfits Kareena Kapoor wore in the movie, we designed close to 25 of them through our Jealous 21 brand, an exclusive women’s wear brand,” confirms Rachna Aggarwal, chief-executive officer and director. In September, the company launched its “Heroine” inspired collection which includes denims, tops, party and evening dresses. This is likely to augur well for Jealous 21 which is the fastest growing brand (growing at about 30 per cent to 40 per cent) for the company.
“Last year, we experimented with franchising options in Tier II/Tier III towns and it is working for us.”
In December 2011, the company launched the celebrity sportswear brand, Manchester United (Man U) in India and will soon have 12 exclusive brand stores. “We are not competing with Nike, Adidas or Reebok. This is more a lifestyle brand,” says Aggarwal. There is a huge fan following for this brand and to capitalise on this, Indus-League plans to make all types of lifestyle products available (like socks, laptop bags, school bags, sipper bottles etc.) and not just stick to apparel. The brand already has around 20 million fans from India registered on its Facebook page. The company aims to gain significant traction from its entry into new markets and launch new collections to become a Rs. 1,000 crore company in the next two years with a healthy EBIDTA of 14 per cent to 16 per cent. It currently has 110 stores (including 8 franchise stores) from 85 stores in January 2011 (when we last wrote about them). By March 2013, it aims to take this number to 125 stores (includes 15 franchise stores).
“We have been doing different things – be it for products, marketing or distribution. And all these factors have worked together for us to grow,” says Aggarwal. Its consolidated revenue has grown from Rs. 400 crore (year ended 2010-11 ) to Rs. 550 crore for the March 2012 fiscal. While the company’s growth has been quite robust, its margins came under pressure with the excise duty introduced in March 2011 which increased the input cost and the product cost. From September 2011, service tax was being charged on rentals and its occupation cost went up. “These factors did add some pressure on our margins and expansion,” agrees Aggarwal. She continues, “We did go through a phase where growth levels came down to eight per cent to 10 per cent as compared to the 20 per cent to 30 per cent which we were posting earlier.” The company finds good growth happening in its women’s wear while its men’s wear came under some amount of pressure. However, there are brands and categories that have been growing at a fast pace.
Growth drivers
One of the growth factors for Indus-League has been its expansion into the Tier II and Tier III towns. “As a strategy last year, we decided to explore the franchising options in these towns and it has worked for us and we have opened six or eight stores last year. This year we will be adding almost double the number,” adds Aggarwal.
It has also expanding its product range on the brand. “For a brand like Indigo Nation, this spring/summer, we made the brand younger and more happening with the entire new campaign which is about the philosophy of “changeism” where for the current generation the only constant is the change,” shares Aggarwal. The company has introduced a range of T shirts and denim wear in the brand to appeal further to the youth.
With its smaller brands like Urbana, the company has commenced experiential marketing. “We actually engage with our target audience and demostrate that if you spill coffee or wine on a white shirt you can brush it off,” says Aggarwal.
Digital marketing is a big initiative for Indus-League. Two of its brands – Indigo Nation and Jealous 21 have more than 2.5 lakh fans on its Facebook page.
For the company, growth is not being fuelled only through own stores as these have their own gestation period and cost attached. Indus League has partnered with other brands – Reliance Trends and Pantaloon being examples. It also sells its brands through various websites like www.myntra.com and www.fashionarra.com.
There is no doubt that the general slowdown in the industry will affect apparel brands as well. While April and May were not the best months, this season has started off well for Indus-League. It has done well for both Ramzan and Onam in August. “Now we have to watch how the current festive season picks up. I expect this season to be better than last season. The early indications seem to be that way,” shares Aggarwal. With so many international brands entering the country, fashion in India is much more advanced now and the company needs to ensure that its products also keep evolving by offering better value to the customer. “We have found that if we do something different for customers it helps to engage them,” concludes Aggarwal.
Launched the celebrity sportswear brand, Manchester United
Launched “Heroine” inspired Jealous 21 collection which includes denims, tops, party and evening dresses
Expanded into the Tier II and Tier III towns through franchising option
Expanded product range on its brands
Commenced experiential marketing
Partnered with other stores like Reliance Trends and Pantaloon
Commenced digital marketing initiatives
REVENUE Rs. 400 crore (FY11) Rs. 550 crore (FY12)
NO. OF EMPLOYEES 190 190 (change in the front end due to increase in the number of stores)
NO. OF STORES 85 EBOs with no franchise stores 100 EBOs & 8 franchise stores (September 2012)
NO. OF BRANDS MARTKETED 7 8
Poornima Kavlekar has been associated with The Smart CEO since the time of launch and is the Consulting Editor of the magazine. She has been writing for almost 20 years on a cross section of topics including stocks and personal finance and now, on entrepreneurship and growth enterprises. She is a trained Yoga Teacher, an avid endurance Cyclist and a Veena player.
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Minnesota Timberwolves (36-46)
Sun. 4/7 Tue. 4/9 Wed. 4/10
vs. OKC
Box | Recap @ Den
Clarke's double-double leads Grizzlies to title
LAS VEGAS (AP) Brandon Clarke had 15 points and 16 rebounds to lead the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies to a 95-92 victory over the third-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves in the championship game of the NBA Summer League on Monday.
Clarke, who was named overall MVP for the summer league, also had three blocks and four assists to earn the championship game MVP.
The Grizzlies, who led by as many as 17 points, led by only two after the three quarters, but got a boost from Grayson Allen, who scored 10 of his team-high 17 points in the second half and deflected the ball away to keep Minnesota from taking a last-second shot.
Points: Karl-Anthony Towns 24.4
Rebounds: Karl-Anthony Towns 12.4
Assists: Jeff Teague 8.2
FG%: Taj Gibson 56.6%
Steals: Robert Covington 2.11
Blocks: Karl-Anthony Towns 1.62
Rebounds: 45.6 (17)
Assists: 26.2 (27)
3P%: 37.8% (29)
xy-Denver 54 28 .659 --
x-Portland 53 29 .646 1.0
x-Utah 50 32 .610 4.0
x-Oklahoma City 49 33 .598 5.0
Minnesota 36 46 .439 18.0
7/12/2019 Jordan Bell Signed as Free Agent
7/11/2019 Shabazz Napier Traded
7/11/2019 Treveon Graham Traded
7/9/2019 Tyrone Wallace Signed as Free Agent
7/8/2019 Jake Layman Signed as Free Agent
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Warnings on HS2 are being ignored, say MPs
The Public Accounts Committee have questioned whether warnings from the infrastructure watchdog are being taken seriously, in a report published today.
The Major Projects Authority was set up in 2010 to oversee the progress of government projects, and this year merged with another organisation to form the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. However, following a recent inquiry, the cross-party Public Accounts Committee has found:
“We have supported the Major Projects Authority’s efforts to improve project delivery in government and recognise the steps it has taken to strengthen project assurance, improve transparency, and introduce project leadership training. But it is disappointing that after nearly 5 years we cannot see more tangible signs of what impact these initiatives have had.”
This is borne out by the fact that the MPA rated 34% of the government’s major projects as either ‘red’ or ‘amber-red’ at June 2015, meaning that successful delivery is unachievable or in doubt unless action is taken. For the projects due to deliver in the next 5 years, 35% are rated as red or amber-red. HS2 has been rated as amber-red since 2011, and whilst HS2 Ltd and the Cabinet Office agreed to publish 2011 reports on the eve of a judicial review in 2015 after initially exercising their veto, they are still fighting against publication of more recent ones, with a first tier tribunal concerning the November 2014 report due to take place in April.
The PAC concluded that senior officials were dismissive of warnings and that “Ambitious timetables for delivery are of little value to the public if they simply cannot be met.”
PAC Chair Meg Hillier said:
“The Infrastructure and Projects Authority told us in evidence the three current programmes it is most concerned about are High Speed 2, Courts Reform and Shared Services—taken together, complex and challenging projects that will continue to require close and careful monitoring.”
“If taxpayers are to get good value for their money, it is vital the Infrastructure and Projects Authority takes action now to ensure it provides effective scrutiny throughout the life of these and other projects.”
Tony Meggs, head of the MPA – Not happy with HS2
Stop HS2 Campaign Manager Joe Rukin responded:
“Ever since 2011, the MPA has published reports on HS2 which have said ‘urgent action is required’ to solve problems inherent with the project, but this urgent action never happens. It is clear that despite the fact alarm bells have been going off constantly for five years on HS2, the people running it have their fingers in their ears and are not willing to listen to criticism of any sort, even when it is intended to help them. When the man in charge of scrutinising projects lists HS2 as the number one project causing him concern, someone should really be listening.”
“It is a complete disgrace that MPs will be willing to vote HS2 through this week without the first clue or care about the issues which have caused the MPA to rate it in danger of failing for the last five years. We can only hope the Lords will take their job to scrutinise this vanity project more seriously.”
Projects Chief ‘Most Concerned’ about HS2
National Audit Office Slate Major Projects, Again
HS2 is Amber Red, yet again.
Public Accounts Committee say HS1 failure could be repeated with HS2
Well of course HS2 has been rated ‘amber-red’, it’s always bloody ‘amber-red’!
Tagged Amber Red, HS2, Infrastructure and Projects Authority, IPA, Joe Rukin, judicial review, Major Projects Authority, Meg Hillier, MPA, Public Accounts Committee, Tony Meggs
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Biblical prophecy indicates that the religion of the end times just before the Lord Jesus Christ's return to Earth will not be secular humanism, but rather a false form of Christianity. It's therefore interesting to see the President of France, a country that seems to be as secular as one can find, calling for better relations between church and state. As reported by Henry Samuel of the London Daily Telegraph, April 10, 2018 (links in original):
Emmanuel Macron faced today accusations of undermining French secularism for telling French Catholic leaders that “relations between Church and State have been damaged” and must be “repaired”.
Under a landmark 1905 law, France observes a strict separation between Church and State.
In an unprecedented speech to French bishops on Monday night in Paris, the French president said: “We share in a confused way that relations between the Church and State have been damaged and it is up to you, as much as us, to repair them”.
This, he said, would be done through a "dialogue of truth".
"A French president who takes no interest in the Church and its Catholics would be failing in his duty," added Mr Macron, who called on Catholics to “engage once again with the French and European political scene”.
The remarks infuriated Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party, who slammed them as "irresponsible".
"Macron in full-blown metaphysical delirium. Outrageous. One expects a president, one gets a sub-priest," Mr Melenchon said in a tweet.
"Secularism is the jewel in our crown. That is what a president of the republic should be defending," new Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said in a tweet.
Regarding his call for Catholics to get involved in political debate, former family and women’s rights minister Laurence Rossignol, responded with sarcasm that they were “already very politically involved”.
L’église catholique est déjà très engagée politiquement.
Contre: le préservatif, la contraception d’urgence, l’IVG, la PMA, le droit de mourir dans la dignité...#whatelse? https://t.co/Hz3VWFiITZ
— Laurence Rossignol (@laurossignol) April 9, 2018
Catholics were, she wrote, “against condoms, emergency contraception, IVF, assisted reproductive technology, the right to die with dignity...”
The Macron camp said that there was no suggestion the president was tampering with secularism if you read the speech in its entirety.
At one point, the president said: “My role is to ensure that the citizen has the absolute freedom to believe or not believe but I ask him in the same way to absolutely respect without any compromise, the laws of the French republic.”
Interior minister Gérard Collomb, in charge of government relations with religious groups, said there was no cause for controversy.
"What he is saying is that for human beings, there is not only the material world but also the search for absolute values, for spirituality, to find meaning in life," he said. "It is perhaps a new tone but in no way does it break with the great tradition of secularism."
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Quarterly Review: Trippy Wicked, Dunbarrow, The Vintage Caravan, Zatokrev & Minsk, Owl Maker, Orbital Junction, Bourbon, Birnam Wood, Wytch Hazel, The Soulbreaker Company
Posted in Reviews on December 3rd, 2018 by JJ Koczan
You know how this goes by now, right? Well, okay, except that because I skipped the Quarterly Review that I otherwise would’ve done in September (or, more likely, October), I’m doubling-up this time. 100 reviews instead of 50. Two full weeks of 10 albums per day. Will I survive? Yeah, probably. Will it be completely overwhelming? Already is. Thanks for asking.
I’ll save the summaries of the year that was for list-time, which is fast approaching, but consider the fact that there are well more than 100 albums I could include in this roundup emblematic of just how vibrant heavy rock and doom are in the US, EU, UK, Australia and elsewhere. It’s a universal thing, and accordingly, there’s a whole universe of it to explore. This is just a sampling.
But yeah, time’s a wastin’, so let’s get to it.
Quarterly Review #1-10:
Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight, Stakes n Scale
An acoustic EP from Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight — who, let’s face it, were way ahead of the curve when it comes to the UK scene’s thing for long and ridiculous band names — is a considerable departure from where they were two years ago on their split/collaboration with GurT (review here), but those familiar with the band might recall their past penchant for the occasional unplugged cover recorded for YouTube. Chris West (also Crawling for Carrion, Glanville, etc.), who engineered the recording and plays guitar, and vocalist Peter Holland (also Elephant Tree) revamp Trippy Wicked‘s “Up the Stakes” from 2012’s Going Home (review here), and cover “Scale the Mountain” by Stubb, of which both were members when the song was written. Together, they make for a nine-minute showcase for the character in Holland‘s voice and the melodies and craft at root in both tracks, and while its arrival feels like kind of a one-off, it’s certainly no less welcome for that.
Stakes n Scale by Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight
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Dunbarrow, II
The novelty of new bands playing through vintage gear in order to capture a heavy ’70s sound may have faded, but like all subgenres, as time goes on, the retro-ist style continues to shift and change as bands like Dunbarrow bring new character to established tenets. Their second LP for RidingEasy is aptly-titled II and sways between honoring the likes of Pentagram and acts like Witchcraft who’ve helped craft that band’s hindsight-founded legacy. Dunbarrow‘s noodly style, restrained rhythmic shove and ride-the-riff melody on “Weary Lady” and the foresty creep of “The Demon Within” capture the vibe well, the latter occurring in a second half of II populated with “The Wolf” and “Witches of the Woods Pt. II,” a sequel to the closer of their 2016 self-titled debut (review here) that here leads to the more severe roll of the finale, “On this Night,” emblematic of the changing character of the band even as it reaffirms in its tense midsection the roots from which they sprung.
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The Vintage Caravan, Gateways
With their third record and second for Nuclear Blast, Icelandic trio The Vintage Caravan affirm not only their passion for the boogie of old on cuts like “The Way” and the strutting “Hidden Streams,” but secure a place as being worthy of the consideration they’ve been given to a degree by the wider Continental European heavy underground. They are strikingly mature in their approach for still being a relatively young band, and their albums have worked quickly to develop a character that is becoming more and more their own. They do the fests and they tour, and so on, but they seem to be engaged in building their listenership one pair of ears at a time. Having a metal-major label behind them hasn’t hurt their promotional cause, but frankly, they’re not as big as they should be for the level of work they’re doing, and even with songs like “Reset” and “Reflections” and the composed-strictly-for-vinyl-sounding closer “Tune Out” to their credit, they’re still largely a word of mouth band, especially in the US. Well, consider this your word of mouth. If you haven’t heard Gateways yet, you should get on that.
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Minsk & Zatokrev, Bigod
Post-metallic powerhouses Minsk and Zatokrev — both of whom hit their 15th anniversary last year — teamed up for a European tour this Fall. To mark the occasion, Consouling Sounds and Czar of Crickets celebrated with Bigod, a split with two tracks from each band arranged in alternating order — Minsk, then Zatokrev, etc. — intended to highlight the symmetry between them not just of circumstance and root influence in the Neurosis school of atmospheric sludge, but the fact that they share these commonalities despite their origins in Illinois and Switzerland, respectively. Each band opens with a longer track (double points) in Minsk‘s “Invoke/Revive” and Zatokrev‘s “Silent Gods,” each of which push past 13 minutes as likely at any moment to be pummeling as ambient, and follows with two shorter cuts, Minsk‘s “Salvatore” swelling theatrically from its minimalist beginnings while Zatokrev‘s “The Chalice and the Dagger” seems to explode from the foundation the prior band laid out. It must have been a hell of a tour, but whether you saw it or not, the split is a welcome conglomeration from two of post-metal’s strongest acts.
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Owl Maker, Sky Road
Self-recording guitarist/vocalist Simon Tuozzoli (Vestal Claret, ex-Guerra, etc.) leads Connecticut-based three-piece Owl Maker through a complex thematic of Native American folklore and heavy metal classicism. The NWOBHM plays a strong role in his riffing style, but one of the two tracks included on the two-songer single Sky Road, “Owl City,” also veers into more extreme territory with a departure from clean vocals to harsher screaming. All told, it’s about eight minutes of music, but Sky Road nonetheless follows Owl Maker‘s earlier-2018 EP, Paths of the Slain (review here), with an uptick in melodic presence in the vocals of Tuozzoli and bassist Jessie May and progression in the chemistry between the two of them and drummer Chris Anderson, and with the fluidity of their transitions between various styles of heavy, their scope seems only to be growing. To wit, “Sky Road” itself is only 3:42, but still demonstrates a clear-headed compositional method based around storytelling and a subtly encompassing range. Whether it’s early warning for what they do next or a conceptual one-off, its quick run seems just to be begging for a 7″ pressing.
Sky Road by Owl Maker
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Orbital Junction, Orbital Junction
The Londonderground continues to produce acts ready and willing to worship at the altar of riffs. Orbital Junction‘s self-release debut EP makes an impression not only because of the markedly pro-shop production by Chris Fielding at Skyhammer Studios and the cover art by SoloMacello, but the hooks to live up to those high standards. “6 ft. 2” follows opener “Space Highway” with a bit of dudely chestbeating — note: I don’t know how tall any of them actually are — but the swing of EP centerpiece “Devil’s Double” and the bounce of “Gypsy Queen” speak for the four-piece’s roots and appreciation of straightforward heavy, void of pretense and tapping into an easy mid-paced fluidity that slows up somewhat on closer “Pagan” without really losing the central groove of the offering overall. They’ll have their work cut out for them in distinguishing themselves over the longer term amongst London’s burl-fueled hordes, but their first outing shows their instincts headed in the right direction in terms of songwriting, performance and presentation.
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Bourbon, Fuente Vieja
Crisp but warm in its tone and presentation, rife with melody and carrying a laid back spirit despite a fervent underlying groove — the bass on “El Sendero” rests well within gotta-hear-it territory — Spanish purveyors Bourbon emobody some of the best of post-Viaje a 800 Andalusian heavy rock and roll on their third LP, Fuente Vieja (on Spinda). Their fuzz makes its presence known early on “Si Véis La Luz, Corred” and continues as a running theme as tracks like “A Punto de Arder” and the side-A-capping title-cut grow increasingly progressive. There’s room for some shuffle, of course, as side B begins with “La Triste Realidad,” and the slower “Hacia el Sol” gracefully blends electrified wah and acoustic guitars beneath a well-timed standout vocal performance, but the highlight might be eight-minute closer “Destierro,” which seems to bring everything else under one roof while tapping into a poppier structure early — acoustics and electrics aligning effectively circa two minutes in — while providing the album with a graceful and fittingly organic-sounding finale.
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Birnam Wood, Wicked Worlds
Birnam Wood don’t have time for bullshit, but they do have time for a bit of shenanigans. Thus the 1:44 surge of opener “Time of Purification” leads into the sample-laden roller groove of “Richard Dreyfuss” on their as-of-now-self-released Wicked Worlds, and the “Hole in the Sky”-style “Dunsinane” shifts into the more blown-out “Early Warning,” which, by the time its tectonic low end kicks in, is indeed something of a clarion. At seven-tracks/34-minutes, Wicked Worlds is somewhere between an EP and an LP, but I’d argue it as the latter with the flow from “Greenseer” into the massive “A Song for Jorklum” and the seven-minute finale “Return to Samarkand” making for a righteous side B, but either way, it’s a Boston-crafted assault of grit-tone and aggro doom that finds the band not overwhelmed by the heft of their own tones but able to move and manipulate them to serve the purposes of their songs. Those purposes, incidentally, are mostly about kicking ass. Which they do. Copiously.
Wicked Worlds by Birnam Wood
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Wytch Hazel, II: Sojourn
It would not seem to be a coincidence that UK self-aware four-piece Wytch Hazel — guitarists Conlin Hendra (also vocals) and Alex Haslam, bassist Matt Gatley and drummer Jack Spencer nod to Wishbone Ash‘s Argus with the cover of their second LP, II: Sojourn (on Bad Omen). They do a lot of that kind of nodding, with a sound culled from a valiant blend of classic progressive and early NWOBHM styles that makes the point of how closely related the two have always been. “The Devil is Here” starts out at a fervent gallop with just an underpinning of Thin Lizzy, while the later “See My Demons” shifts from its steady roll and rousing hook into an acoustic/electric break that seems to pull from Jethro Tull as much as Scorpions. At 10 tracks/45 minutes, they have plenty of time to flesh out their ideas, and they do precisely that, whether it’s the careful unfolding around the keys and acoustics of closer “Angel Take Me” or the over-the-top instrumental push of “Chorale” or the moodier “Wait on the Wind,” the wah solo of which is a highlight on its own. There are some burgeoning harmonies in Hendra‘s vocals, which is an impulse he should follow as it would only enhance the material, but after making their debut with 2016’s Prelude, II: Sojourn finds Wytch Hazel sounding comfortable and well established in their niche.
II: Sojourn by Wytch Hazel
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The Soulbreaker Company, Sewed with Light
Progressive, expansive and engaging, the sixth album from Spanish sextet The Soulbreaker Company, Sewed with Light (on Underground Legends), taps into classically Floydian influences on songs like “The Word, the Blade” while still keeping a foot in heavy rock on the prior “Together,” and setting a quick course into a varied sonic persona via the seven-minute opener and longest track (immediate points) “Inner Dark.” Hypnotizing not necessarily with drift but with sheer willful exploration, The Soulbreaker Company work with a variety of key sounds and craft-minded ranging guitar in order to effect an atmosphere of thoughtful songwriting even in their most outwardly trippy moments. The sneering semi-psychedelic rock of “Avoid the Crash” and the more stripped-down roll of “Arrhythmia” (video premiere here) lead the way into closer “In the Beginning,” which marks yet another departure with its grandeur of string sounds and electronic beats leading to a chugging big finale. As with the bulk of The Soulbreaker Company‘s work, it requires an active ear, but Sewed with Light both encourages and well earns consideration as more than background noise.
Sewed With Light by THE SOULBREAKER COMPANY
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Electric Horsemen Announce Return After Seven Years; New Single Posted
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 8th, 2017 by JJ Koczan
Indeed, seven years. Seven years and a week, if you want to go by the last time I wrote about Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, sludge rockers Electric Horsemen. The occasion was a review of a split they had out with Count von Count (review here), and that was the last I heard from the offshoot of heavy rockers Black Cowgirl until a couple days ago. As it turns out, Electric Horsemen last month posted a single called “Milk Coma.” It was recorded back in 2008, but you can hear it below and it neatly encapsulates the density that was at root in their appeal way back when.
I don’t know where they’re actually at with new material — they say below there are plans to record “sometime this year” — but they’ve got a couple shows booked in Eastern PA next week with Backwoods Payback, and, well, it’s just kind of cool thinking they might get back to it, all hot pickled eggs and whatnot.
Confession time: I’ve never had a hot pickled egg. Not sure I could hang. Mostly these days I eat protein bars and chicken caesar salads without croutons. Rock and roll, y’all.
The band sent this down the PR wire:
Electric Horsemen – Back from Hiatus
Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s Electric Horsemen is ending a 7 year hiatus starting with two shows in February with fellow Pennsylvanians and friends Backwoods Payback. The band founded in 2006 is hoping to get back in the studio to record new material sometime this year. The lineup includes 2 current and 1 former member of Black Cowgirl, former bassist Chris Casse, current bassist Wyatt Kring and vocalist/guitarist Ben McGuire as well as original Electric Horsemen drummer Barry Lupacckino.
The band made a reputation for themselves in the myspace era for playing feedback-laden Crowbar influenced-riffs and being the heaviest band to ever come from Lancaster County PA (there was no competition) as well as having the market cornered in hot pickled egg sales. They are back in action, heavier than ever and filling jars with hot pickled eggs in preparation for their return!
February 17 – The Alternative Gallery (Allentown PA) Electric Horsemen w/Backwoods Payback and more!
February 18 – REX’s (West Chester PA) Electric Horsemen w/Backwoods Payback and more!
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Electric Horsemen, “Milk Coma” (2017)
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Black Cowgirl Release New Demo Track “The Traveler”
Posted in Whathaveyou on May 16th, 2014 by JJ Koczan
From the description Black Cowgirl sent down the PR wire, it sounds like a nightmare scenario that led them to release “The Traveler” as a pay-what-you-want download. The song was originally put to tape as the first cut for their Restricted Release debut. They went in the studio, put “The Traveler” down, took it home unfinished and then never heard from the engineer again. After putting the time in to write the songs, rehearse them, get everything where you wanted it to be, find someone to record, get to the studio, set up, get drum sounds, bass sounds, guitar sounds, vocal sounds, and then actually begin the process only to have it cut off like that — it sounds awful. What a waste.
It’s twice the bummer because the song sounds awesome. Their two-EPs-into-one-full-length self-titled was a cool listen, but already in “The Traveler” it’s clear the Lancaster, PA, four-piece were looking to take their tonal warmth to new heights and build on the steady heavy rock bounce they honed their first time out. I believe they had started working on the album in January, so hopefully they found someplace else to record, because “The Traveler” definitely warrants accompaniment.
For now though, it’s what we’ve got:
New free BLACK COWGIRL song!
Black Cowgirl entered a studio for one day in the dead of winter with the intent to begin recording their follow up their 2013 self titled release on Restricted Release Records. One song was recorded. The band went home that night with a unmixed, unfinished copy of a song called “The Traveler”. The plan was to go back and complete “The Traveler” and then record the rest of the album. Unfortunately the studio engineer mysteriously disappeared. Therefore the song cannot be finished and to celebrate the circumstances Black Cowgirl has made the demo for “The Traveler” available for free on band camp.
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Black Cowgirl, “The Traveler” (2014)
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Black Cowgirl at Work on New Album
Posted in Whathaveyou on January 8th, 2014 by JJ Koczan
Pennsylvanian heavy rockers Black Cowgirl had a pretty busy 2013, what with getting their own beer, playing The Artie Lange Show, putting out their self-titled debut on Restricted Release and so on, but rather than rest on their laurels — which, though guitarist/vocalist Ben McGuire makes light of them in the announcement below, are considerable — the four-piece have gotten to work on a sophomore outing to be recorded later this winter. The final touches are being put on the songs now, so chances are they’ll break out a couple new ones on Feb. 15 when they play The Depot in York, PA, with Borracho, Backwoods Payback and Kingsnake.
Good bill. Free pizza makes it even better. The PR wire presents details:
Black Cowgirl new album news
Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s practitioners of riffcraft Black Cowgirl are finishing writing their second album and preparing to record it later this winter. The album to be recorded will be the follow up to their self titled LP that received a national release last summer via Restricted Release Records.
2013 was a big year for the band, as Black Cowgirl imposed total domination of the Canadian AM radio charts for a almost a month pushing the legendary Black Sabbath out of the #1 spot for a bit. Last year also saw the release of South County Brewing’s Black Cowgirl Double Black IPA, and the bands first drunk television appearance which took place on The Artie Lange show.
Guitarist/vocalist Ben McGuire of the band had this to say: “If it was the 1970’s when AM radio was still a rock and roll delivery system to be reckoned with and the whole world was Canada and the signature Black Cowgirl beer was released by Miller Light or whatever our Dad’s were sipping on in the Nixon era and it was Black Sabbath vol. 4 that was pushed off of it’s throne and not Rick Rubbinz 13……then we would be quitting our jobs and hitting the road forever, but it is 2014 and I have to be at work in a hour.”
No word on what label will be releasing the next album yet but a vinyl version is expected regardless and shows to follow.
Black Cowgirl will be playing their first show of 2014 at The Depot in York PA February 15th. The show is FREE and will also feature FREE PIZZA! Backwoods Payback, Kingsnake, and Borracho will also be there.
Black Cowgirl on The Artie Lange Show
Tags: Black Cowgirl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Restriced Release
Black Cowgirl Self-Titled Coming Soon from Restricted Release
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 20th, 2013 by JJ Koczan
Previously issued by Bilocation Records in Europe on vinyl and limited CD, the Black Cowgirl self-titled double EP compilation will see domestic US shelves May 14 thanks to Restricted Release. The band, who’ve spent the last couple years tightening their approach alongside some hefty touring acts while clocking a bit of their own road time, have recorded a new cover of Rory Gallagher‘s “I’m Not Awake Yet” to accompany the new version.
The PR wire sees it like this:
BLACK COWGIRL ALBUM TO SEE NATIONAL RELEASE
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s BLACK COWGIRL will see the North American release of their self-titled double ep released via Restricted Release on May 14. The 11-song recording was produced by the band with mixing and recording by Rich Gavalis. The national release of Black Cowgirl has been expanded to include lyrics previously unavailable on the version of the album sold at live performances and the band’s official webstore. It showcases the unique illustration work of Adrian Brouch.
BLACK COWGIRL recently performed at West Chester’s The Note alongside England’s Viking Skull. It was the UK rocker’s final show. BLACK COWGIRL vocalist/guitarist Ben McGuire shares, “the Viking Skull guys have always been great to us. It is a shame it was their last show. We played our first show with them a couple years ago and were honored to play their last, though I won’t be surprised if they come back from the grave down the road.”
Black Cowgirl will also include a recently recorded cover of “I’m Not Awake Yet” by Rory Gallagher. One of the late Irish singer/guitarist’s most popular songs, it is a tough one for any band to tackle. “I’m Not Awake Yet” is one of our favorite Rory Gallagher songs,” notes McGuire. “We talked about recording it for a while because we felt like it fit in with our other songs pretty well. We are all big fans of his mellow songs that are often overshadowed by his blues rock songs. There is just something about the sad, desperate, lonely feeling he captures in some of his low key songs that strikes a chord with what we are trying to do.”
Originally conceived as a one-man instrumental project by McGuire, BLACK COWGIRL’s current incarnation took shape in 2008. Guitarist Nathan Rosenzweig, bassist Chris Casse, and drummer Mark Hanna with McGuire initially united their talents to record six songs. Recorded quickly, three days in fact, the band immediately set out on tour supporting local heros CKY. Drummer Jess Margera was immediately impressed by the band. “BLACK COWGIRL kicks ass,” he says. “The band combines all the best elements of classic rock, groove rock, and even some prog at times.” Since that maiden tour, BLACK COWGIRL has shared the stage with Graveyard, The Company Band, Radio Moscow, Karma to Burn, Black Tusk, Monstro, and many others.
Complete track listing for Black Cowgirl is:
1. Talk of Wolves
2. Roadmaster
3. The Ride
4. Alkaline
5. Dead House
6. Eclipsor
7. Weight of Oblivion
8. Three Seasons
9. Solarizer
10. Becoming Nothing
11.Unio Mystica
12. I’m Not Awake Yet
Tags: Black Cowgirl, Black Cowgirl self-titled, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Restricted Release, self-titled
Six Dumb Questions with Black Cowgirl
Posted in Six Dumb Questions on May 31st, 2011 by JJ Koczan
A while back, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, heavy rockers Black Cowgirl let me post one of the tracks off their self-titled EP for streaming (it’s still here, if you want to listen), and I was thrilled to do so, since the four-piece managed to touch on something pretty special with those songs. They were a little hurried-sounding, true, but Black Cowgirl achieved a potent and unexpected blend of riff and melody there — like earliest Fireball Ministry with a rural touch — that was all the more impressive for the lack of time the band had to make them.
The reason they were in such a rush was wanting to have a CD ready to go prior to a 10-date tour supporting CKY. Black Cowgirl managed to get the disc done, the tour was great and they all lived happily ever etc., and since I enjoyed the EP, I thought I’d fire up the old intertubes and see if guitarist/vocalist Ben McGuire (also of Electric Horsemen) had any interest in fielding a few dumb questions. Six or so.
McGuire was only too glad to oblige, and you’ll find the results below. Black Cowgirl is McGuire alongside guitarist Nate Rosenzweig, bassist Chris Casse and drummer Mark Hanna. Please enjoy the following six dumb questions:
1. How did Black Cowgirl get together? Did you know what you wanted it to sound like when you got going?
Back in 2006 I started recording instrumental songs under the name Time Travel Decelerator. I had a fantasy of a instrumental band that I did not have to sing in that was like Wishbone Ash meets Mystick Krewe of Clearlight. I recorded a bunch of guitar and bass songs on my four track and often thought about forming a live band but Electric Horsemen, the other band I play in, was really busy at the time and it never came together. I knew our drummer Hanna from playing shows with Backwoods Payback (great dudes/lady, by the way) when he was drumming for them and we had talked a couple times about playing together someday but we never got around to setting anything up.
In the summer of ‘08 I met our guitarist Nate at a show and we got to talking and by the end of the night I asked if he would like to add some lead guitar on my instrumental songs. Me and Nate live about a hour apart so for the next few months we started sending riffs, demos, and songs back and forth in emails and chatting on the phone like teenage girls for hours about music and guitar and found we had a lot of ideas that went beyond just instrumental songs. We had both been stockpiling ideas for songs that did not fit any of our previous bands for years and we had a ton of material between us to sift through and we decided to start a new band that had vocals as well. We looked for a singer for a while but had no luck and because I had sent Nate demos with me singing on them I became vocalist by default.
Once we had a couple of solid songs we wanted to find a drummer and the first guy we thought of was Hanna, and things came together one night at a party when the three of us jammed for about a hour and basically wrote two songs. Soon after that night we got together at my house and cooked some food and cranked out two more songs in no time. A little bit after that we added Chris on bass who fit in perfectly as he was a great bassist and already playing in Electric Horsemen and playing around with my sister (they are married and of consenting age) so that worked out great. Things went on like that for about a year (band-wise that is… I’d rather not think about the sister stuff which I guess is still going on), we would see each other every couple months, eat a ton of food, write a bunch of songs and talk about how much fun it was but we could never seem to get our schedules to line up long enough to record or play shows. Before the CKY tour we had only played maybe five times in public but the tour finally gave us a great reason to get into full productive mode.
2. Who picked the name Black Cowgirl?
We never thought about what the band should be called until we had our first show and had about a week to think of one. We tossed around a few other names like “Sharkcharmer” and some other terrible ideas until sticking with Black Cowgirl and we almost didn’t use that. For some reason some people thought it was racist which I thought was ridiculous. The name came to me in the middle of the night during a sleepy brainstorm and to me it represented the ultimate rebel. I imagined a black cowgirl who was a mix of ‘70s Pam Grier and Yul Brynner‘s character from the movie West World who would ride from town to town righting wrongs and shooting assholes in the face with her dual nickel-plated Peacemakers and sawed off lever-action shotgun. The ultimate rebel, the ultimate fantasy. So the name is a great litmus test for racists… if you think it is, you are.
3. How does the songwriting process usually work? Do you have something specific you try for going into putting together a song, or does it all come from jams?
There are songs that totally develop from jams that seem to write themselves and a lot of those ones end up being instrumental. We started and ended our set on the last tour with two of these style songs and they were different every night apart from a basic framework and so much fun to play for us because you had no idea where they were going to take you. Then we
have songs that begin very structured with a vocal melody and chords but even those songs change drastically once the whole band gets a hold of it and we begin improvising sections. We all take part in writing and arranging. Once in while me or Nate will have a song that is basically done before we all get to hear it but more often than not writing is a collaborative effort. We are also very open-minded as far as trying many different things to see what suits the song best. It is exciting and tons of fun writing songs with these guys, very effortless and very easy to bring any idea you have in your head into reality. The only thing we go for when writing is to make the songs fun to play and trim the fat and filler until nothing is left but a well-balanced hearty riffy meal with a reasonable harmonized snack at the end.
4. Talk about recording the self-titled. Where and when was it recorded, and was there anything in particular you wanted to accomplish in the studio this time around?
We had arranged to record some demos with our friend John Brenner (from the great bands Against Nature/Revelation) early in the year before we knew about the tour. We headed down to Baltimore and did five songs with the amazingly cool-headed John in about 16 hours straight. We were not very picky with our playing and tracking because it was basically just a demo to help us develop our sound. The week after recording that demo we got wind of the tour and realized we needed a CD that was a little more focused that we could bring out on tour. We did not have the heart to put John through another marathon recording session (even though I bet he would have been kind enough to do it!) so we decided to re-record it ourselves and pay someone else to mix and master it. Going to John‘s was totally worth it though, not just because we got to drink a bunch of Mr. Brenner‘s homemade beer and hang out, but we had a better idea of what we wanted to sound like on record. We may put the original versions John did out someday, the guitars are cleaner and have some cool mellotron and organ tracks on some songs.
A couple of days after finding out about the tour we started re-recording for a couple of hours a night for three or four nights in a friends basement studio which is nothing more than a soundproof room we equipped with some mics and Nate‘s little Korg portable studio. Then we took the tracks to Rich Gavalis at The Dome in Royersford, Pennsylvania to record vocals, mix and master. Rich is a cool dude and he did a great job of making what we had recorded sound less like a demo and more like a legit release.
We did not have very much time to mess with tones, sounds, and different instrumentation on the self-titled. It was more about getting it done in the most straightforward way we could, and getting what we sound like across as simply as we could. I think overall we are all pretty happy with it as a first release and we cannot wait to spend more time tweaking and fine-tuning sounds on the next one!
5. How did the CKY tour come about? What were those shows like?
Our drummer Hanna is a longtime friend of CKY/Company Band/Viking Skull drummer Jess [Margera] and he has done work for CKY acting as stage manager for a number of tours and our guitarist Nate plays in Uncle Matt and the Shitbirdz with Jess. CKY had a string of shows coming up and were kind enough to ask us to tag along. I was worried at first that we would not be well received by CKY fans, who are like KISS fans as far as their level of dedication, but we figured Graveyard went over great when they toured with CKY last year and it was a good opportunity for us to play to a lot of people so maybe it would be cool.
Turned out the CKY fans were very kind across the board and we were very well received and had a amazing time, great bunch of people everywhere we went. We got to play a lot of places I never thought we would get to play, I am used to basements and small clubs (which I love, basements especially) but it was awesome to play some bigger places. I hope we get the chance to do it again… and again… and again. We also got to play some all-ages shows, which I had not done it a long time and that was really cool too. It feels good to know somebody likes the band not just because they are 15 beers deep into the night.
6. What’s next for the band? Will you tour more this year or focus on writing or recording?
We are looking for more shows and we are about halfway through writing our full-length. We are also toying with the idea of recording an acoustic CD as well, kind of like a Neil Young Harvest-era style release. We may combine those songs with what we have already and throw them on the full-length or do it as a separate EP, not sure yet. Right now we are just trying to find the time to get everything we want to do done. If the right tour pops up we would definitely be into that and we should have some shows popping up here and there soon. Overall we are just happy to be an active band finally and can’t wait to make more music!
Black Cowgirl’s BigCartel store
Black Cowgirl on ReverbNation
Tags: Black Cowgirl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Unsigned bands
audiObelisk: New Black Cowgirl Available for Streaming; Tour Dates Announced
Posted in audiObelisk on March 7th, 2011 by JJ Koczan
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, four-piece Black Cowgirl have just completed recording a new six-song demo (the band was previously put On the Radar for their last release) at Westtown Lake Studios, and to celebrate, have announced a 10-day tour as direct support for long-running mischief-makers CKY. Black Cowgirl was kind enough to give me my pick of the songs to host, and of course I went for the longest — the catchy seven-minute jam “Eclipsor” — which you can stream on the player below.
The new demo, aptly-titled Black Cowgirl is available for purchase here and at the band’s shows, and I thought “Eclipsor” made a pretty good representation of what they’ve got going on: Melodically-aware and straightforward heavy rock with solid-packed groove, memorable choruses and an eye for letting the parts ride out. The fade-back-in jam at the end is a lot of the difference between “Eclipsor” and the other tracks I’ve heard, but even so, Black Cowgirl change up their sound and put enough of the Pennsylvanian countryside in there to make it pastoral in atmosphere.
Says Black Cowgirl’s Ben McGuire of the song:
“Almost all of our songs come together through collective stream of consciousness. One of us may have a riff or idea but we try to let the songs write themselves as much as we can without interfering then we tweak them. “Eclipsor” was a perfect example of this process. We had a main section and the rest came out on its own. The lyrics came out just the way they are the first time we played it through.
We never plan them or pick a topic. The best way to describe how we write is it is like using a Ouija board, we just put our hands on our guitars and hope they take us somewhere cool.”
Demo track listing:
Black Cowgirl on tour with CKY:
03/17 Lancaster, PA Chameleon Club
03/18 Philadelphia, PA Theater of the Living Arts
03/19 New York, NY Gramercy
03/21 Hartford, CT Webster
03/22 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall
03/24 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony
03/25 Morgantown, WV 123 Pleasant St.
03/26 Buffalo, NY Mohawk
03/27 Baltimore, MD Bourbon Street
03/28 Richmond, VA Canal Club
Six Dumb Questions with Tony Reed of Mos Generator
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Joel Drucker: Azarenka Flashes Championship Form in Win over Gavrilova at US Open
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WATCH—Extreme conditions really impacting players at US Open:
NEW YORK—The 79th-ranked woman in the world beat the 25th seed. But given the two players involved, only someone who’d never heard of tennis would consider it an upset.
Court 17 was the setting for a second-round match between the 79th-ranked Victoria Azarenka and 25th-seeded Daria Gavrilova. As fans poured into the cozy court prior to the match, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” echoed over the speakers; in theory, at least, a hopeful omen of what might happen. With these two never having played one another, with Azarenka still searching for the form that had once taken her to number one in the world, with Gavrilova known to occasionally show a pleasing range of tactics, the pre-match mood was one of uncertainty and curiosity.
Azarenka rapidly dispatched any such inquiry. For all the complications that have cluttered her journey—controversy about grunting, a custody battle—once the match begins, Azarenka can display exemplary focus. Added to that is the way she can smother opponents with her backhand and commando-like footwork.
So it was that Azarenka broke Gavrilova in both of her opening service games to take a 3-0 lead. Seven inches shorter than the 6’0” tall Azarenka, Gavrilova had fallen prey to a principle my Tennis Channel colleague Martina Navratilova once told me. At the lower levels of the game, it’s all about skill—footwork, technique, even tactics. But among world-class players, everyone has those qualities. Hence, a cruel reality: You can’t teach height.
As rally after rally ensued, it was clear that this was a match between a heavyweight and a middleweight. Azarenka was constantly in control of the court, mostly with depth and reasonable pace. It took her just 36 minutes to snap up the first set 6-1. Yet while Azarenka earned credit for her forceful play, the demerit here goes to Gavrilova. What truly was her plan for disrupting Azarenka? Did she surely think she could outhit Azarenka? Where was the slice backhand and occasional net attack that has made Gavrilova quite engaging?
Predictably, Gavrilova altered her tactics only when he had two fingertips hanging off the ledge. With Azarenka serving in the second set at 3-1, Gavrilova mixed in a few slices and struck enough big forehands to get back on serve. It was fascinating to see pros make the same alterations and fall prey to the same momentum swings that bedevil us civilians.
But then, with the chance to level the set and at last create some tension for Azarenka, Gavrilova faltered. At love-15, she netted a benign forehand pass and let out an enormous scream. Forget Vika the Shrieker. Call this, Daria’s Aria. And even though Gavrilova struck two aces from 15-40 down in this 2-3 game, Azarenka dug in, on the next two points winning both rallies off her weaker flank, the forehand. The next eight points also went Azarenka’s way, Gavrilova feebly poking a backhand into the net, her last of 27 unforced errors (to just 12 for Azarenka). Azarenka had won, 6-1, 6-2.
Unfortunately for the curious, this match hardly gave an indication of Azarenka’s form. It has now been five years since her best days, those 51 weeks in 2012 and ’13 when Azarenka held the number one ranking, won a pair of Australian Opens and twice reached the US Open singles final, losing to Serena Williams each time in three sets. Like Maria Sharapova, Azarenka is a player who over the last two years has staged a comeback. But also like Sharapova, it has yet to go as successfully as hoped. There have been flurries—such as winning the “Sunshine Double” of Indian Wells and Miami back in ’16—but not yet the superb Slam results.
“I don't remember how it felt before,” said Azarenka today, “because it feels like it's been a really long time ago. But I always love coming to New York. I always feel a special energy.”
More vivid to Azarenka are memories of coming to New York for the first time nearly 20 years ago. She was a 10-year-old then, all by herself, arriving in New York, on her way to Florida to play a series of international junior tournaments. But before the journey south, there came a trip to Manhattan. The young girl from Belarus kept looking up at the buildings, one skyscraper after another. Surely she had no idea then that she would rise every bit as high in the world of tennis.
And now, she once again has no idea what’s to come. Instead, Azarenka must rely on a newly acquired attribute born of meetings with lawyers: patience.
“But I tell you that patience wasn't my choice,” she said. “It was forced on me. But I'm glad it did, because it pushes me to improve.”
Certainly, those lessons surfaced today.
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The Whistling Orchestra
a whistling orchestra
Aaliyah Smith-Israel
Aaliyah Smith-Israel is a Sales Fashion Advisor and Behavioral Therapist. She was born and raised in Philadelphia and learned to whistle on the school bus in 1st grade.
Alanna Butler
Alanna Butler has spent her career working in public health and she is a sexual health educator. She has been whistling since she had baby teeth.
Amber Stewart
Amber Stewart is an artist, model, and actress who lives in West Philadelphia. Whistling helps her keep her form for playing clarinet.
Anthony Feaster
Anthony Feaster learned to whistle at age 5, and honed his whistling during twenty-two years as a bike courier. He is from Darby PA.
Bria Blauvelt
Bria Blauvelt has had a love for sounds since she was little, and whistling was a way to express those sounds. She is an actress and voice over artist who has performed in plays, musicals, TV, and film.
Caroline Winschel
Caroline Winschel is a choral singer and non-profit leader. She has spent nearly a decade convincing various East Coast chamber choirs to include whistling in their performances.
Carol Denson
Carol Denson is a Senior Electronic Technician at a small communications company. She has been a whistler for all her life, although her mother would say “Little girls should not whistle! It’s just like a hen crowing or a rooster clucking!” She is the worship leader for her church and incorporates whistling into their worship.
Doug MacAdam
Doug MacAdam learned to whistle by imitating PopPop, his grandfather. He uses whistling to call for someone’s attention, applaud a wonderful achievement, call an unruly meeting to order, or paralyze children in the midst of inappropriate behavior.
Eladio Olivo
Eladio Olivo is a lawyer and English-Spanish medical interpreter. He likes whistling because it is like singing and playing a musical instrument at the same time.
Jackie Reinhart
Jackie Reinhart comes from a long line of whistlers. She is a Vice President of Human Resources and a Girl Scout co-leader.
Jeff MacAdam
Jeff MacAdam is a Business Broker and former heavy metal drummer. He learned to whistle from his father Doug, who is also performing in the Orchestra.
Jenelle Wilson Johnson
Jenelle Wilson Johnson is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and works as a H.I.M Specialist at Einstein Medical Center. She enjoys whistling as a fun activity to do in the car, sitting at her desk, or even while doing household chores.
Jim Hummel
Jim Hummel is owner and operator of a retail flower shop in Bucks County. He is also a member of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus. He finds whistling useful in memorizing choral tunes and whistles along with the radio in the car.
John Baynard
John F. Baynard, Jr is retired after teaching for 41 years in the Camden, NJ public school system. He whistles because he finds it relaxing, and it brings pleasant memories of his father.
John Tatum
John Tatum is a trombonist, singer, and retired IT specialist. John’s mother taught him to whistle at the tender age of seven. He has been including puccalo style whistling in his music career since 2003.
Kenneth Schies
Kenneth Schies works as a project manager for a small telecom company. He learned to whistle as a kid by watching Popeye and whistling along to the theme song with his stepdad.
Michael L. Gorrell
Michael Gorrell is a veteran and now works as a caseworker for the Department of Public Welfare. During his 4 years in the Navy, he was known as The Whistler.
Mike Wells
Michael Wells is retired business representative from the Carpenters Union. He learned to whistle as a young child when birds would wake him up early, and he would entertain himself by whistling back.
Mimi Drummond
Mimi Drummond is a retired medical professional and has been a World Champion Whistler since her first competition in 1982. She was won first place medals at seven international whistling competitions, six national whistling championships, and was inducted into the International Whistlers Hall of Fame in 1996. She is the Lead Whistler of the Whistling Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Noah Donahue
Noah Donahue is pursuing a career in classical voice. Since he began singing at age 8, he has also been whistling.
Ronnessa Edwards
Ronnessa Edwards works as a Human Relations Representative for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission she investigates complaints of discrimination in Housing. She learned to whistle as a child in response to her mother’s whistle to locate her.
Sam Irwin is a multi-media artist, composer, and performer from Queens New York. His work involves designing his own digital instruments, and performance tools to create unique experiences.
Sandra Dowling
Sandra Dowling is a veteran of the US Army. She whistles to calm her nerves, for enjoyment, and to strengthen her voice for singing.
Shavon Coleman
Shavon Coleman works freelance for event marketing firms, as well as in natural and holistic healing. Growing up, she and her siblings would play “guess the song” by whistling tunes from radio or tv, which aided her love for music and reaching high notes.
Suzanne Wingate
Suzanne Wingate is a semi-retired literacy teacher and a well-travelled background singer. She loves recycling things into new treasures, and likes that whistling is a fun way to recycle the value of vocal chords.
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Category: Appointment with FEAR, Bloodbones, Bundles, Caverns of the Snow Witch, Company Info, Fighting Fantasy, Gamebook Adventures, Lords of Nurroth, Sagas of the Demonspawn, Spellcaster Trilogy, To Be or Not To Be / Tag: Fighting Fantasy, Herbie Brennan, Ian Livingstone, Jonathan Green, Ryan North, Steve Jackson / Add Comment
September is upon us! Originally the seventh month in the Roman calendar and derived from the word Septem, the latin word for seven, September is always one of those months which heralds a feeling of change. Change has certainly been on the cards for us here at Tin Man Games as we’ve started taking quite bold steps into new territories. With Appointment with F.E.A.R. we’ve left the comfort zone of our gamebooky interface and also jumped into Steam for the first time, we’ve released our first ever $10 four-gamebook collection in the form of The Complete Sagas of Fire*Wolf, and we’ve jumped into iOS 8 with both feet by releasing our gamebook apps into value bundles.
Nothing to fear but F.E.A.R. itself
And so with excitement and trepidation, we released Appointment with F.E.A.R. last month, and what a ride it turned out to be! Our first release using our new gamebook engine that Tin Man Ben (Britten) has been beavering away on for so many months and a major technical stepping-stone for future releases. A few commentators suggested it was our reply to Inkle’s recent Sorcery! apps, but in reality it was more about us testing our toes in the water of our new tech, whilst also being able to give a gamebook the treatment it truly deserved. AWF cried out for a more visual treatment that suited the comic book genre and was one of the reasons we sat on it for such a long time, waiting until the time and the tech was right. If people really want to pit us against the guys at Inkle (and to be honest both them and us find it amusing to be the Oasis and Blur* of the digital gamebook world) then The Warlock of Firetop Mountain will give be that ‘thing’. Maybe. Definitely Maybe.
The reception for AWF has been pretty phenomenal and we’ve had some awesome reviews across the board from places like Touch Arcade, Pocket Gamer, 148 Apps, Mature Gamer, Starburst, and many more. We also had a bit more marketing spend for this release than usual and placed adverts and re-skinned a couple of app sites to spread the message that Titan City was under threat. Possibly the most suprising thing for us has been how our new Steam audience has responded to us. For the first couple of weeks of release the Steam community group was packed with players taking screenshots, posting reviews, and very importantly, bugs. We were able to clean those up very quickly and the community were super supportive and very patient. Steam also brought us to the attention of Youtubers and lots of awesome playthroughs of the game have popped up, which have been a lot of fun to watch! Thank you to everyone, journalists, bloggers, youtubers and gamers for your support – it means a lot to our small, hard-working team!
If there has been a negative it is that we let down our iOS fans slightly for which we apologise. While we’ve released our apps in the past concurrently across iOS, Android and desktop, it has been with the old engine, which was tried and tested and above all a lot more stable. Releasing a new engine across so many formats was, in hindsight, not a great idea and sadly because the Apple approval process takes a lot longer than other app portals, it meant many of our iOS fans with certain iPhones and iPads were unable to save Titan City. It was harsh lesson learned for us (especially as we were featured on the App Store in the Best New Releases) and we’re sorry to anyone affected by that.
Is it possible to sell a digital gamebook app for $9.99?
It’s an intriguing question and one we’ll be answering over the coming months. We always wanted our adaptation of Sagas of the Demonspawn to include all four of Herbie Brennan’s gamebooks in one app. We could have sold each one separately as we’re doing with the Spellcaster Trilogy, but unlike that series, these titles are already fully designed and written having being originally published in 1984/85. Obviously that meant more work on our end (mainly for Clinton and Kamina!) developing four gamebooks in one go, which in turn increases dev costs and ultimately price. It will be interesting to see how things go and eagle-eyed TMG followers will already know that we’ve had The Complete Sagas of Fire*Wolf (our new name for the series) available to buy on Google Play for a couple of weeks already. So far, even though we’ve done no promotion, a fair number of copies have been sold. Good news for the barbarian!
The Complete Sagas of Fire*Wolf will be available on the App Store for iOS and Amazon Appstore for Android too in the next week or two. Also our user-interface designer, Elroy, has just posted some of his artwork for the app on his Tumblr – so check it out!
Little and big bundles of joy!
When we first heard that Apple were introducing app bundles to iOS 8, we thought it was the greatest thing for digital gamebooks since the original announcement of the iPad. Like the coming of tablets, bundles are perfect for book app developers, especially those apps with strong gaming elements that are also part of large libraries.We tick all those boxes so we were really keen to get on board with this and contacted Apple immediately to learn more about it. To our joy Apple have chosen to feature some of our bundles in the various international App Stores during this first week. Great exposure for us and will hopefully encourage more people to check out our titles. Here are a few of them:
Gamebook Adventures MEGAbundle – $24.99/£17.49 (Purchased separately: $53.91/£35.91)
Fighting Fantasy Steve Jackson Bundle – $9.99/£6.99 (Purchased separately: $14.97/£9.97)
Fighting Fantasy Ian Livingstone Bundle – $9.99/£6.99 (Purchased separately: $17.97£11.97)
Tin Man Games Heroes Bundle – $12.99/£8.99 (Purchased separately: $24.95/£16.45)
Also available Gamebook Adventures Bundle 1, 2, 3, and the Strange Loves Bundle.
A festival of fantasy fighting in London
One of the highlights of this month so far has to be the Fighting Fantasy Fest held in London. Meant originally as a launch event for Jonathan Green’s kickstarted You Are The Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy (in which we feature a fair bit!), it quickly became a bigger beast once Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson got involved. And so Fighting Fantasy Fest was officially born and will likely be a yearly gathering if the success of this event is anything to go by.
Neil headed along and gave a talk about Tin Man Games, showed off some of the lovely new Caverns of the Snow Witch illustrations and gave the assembled audience a sneak preview of some of our new gamebook engine tech that will debut in The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The crowd were very enthusiastic and the talk seemed to go really well, especially as it was the opening talk of the day. No pressure then. 😉
Also in attendance, as well as Mr. Livingstone, Jackson and Green, were some of the great illustrators from Fighting Fantasy’s past: John Blanche, Russ Nicholson, Leo Hartas, Chris Achilleos, Tony Hough and Malcolm Barter. Many others from FF present and past were also there including Jamie Fry (The current Warlock), Phillipa Dickinson (former editor at Puffin), Geraldine Cooke (original comisioning editor of Warlock), Arion Games (Advanced FF publishers), Inkle Studios (Sorcery! devs), and a host of others.
As well as an exhibition of FF memorabilia there were many talks put on by the special guests and an auction of lots of personal FF items owned by Ian and Steve. Two lucky attendees were also picked out of the hat to appear in a future Tin Man Games app – most likely to be Warlock!
A big pat on the back to Jonathan Green for not only a fantastic event but creating the wonderful tome that is You Are The Hero. He’s a top fella’ that Greeny.
A great Corehammer write-up of the event…
We’ve had some great press coverage of Appointment with F.E.A.R. this past month, but we’ve also been featured in a few other places as well. Most notably Neil was quoted on the BBC News website in an article about the ‘cult’ of Fighting Fantasy and Ben (Britten) was interviewed on camera in The Feed on SBS. Our TMG offices are based in The Arcade, a non-for profit game developers hub, and the show was not only about this awesome indie space but also about the Australian game funding and the recent cuts. Check out what Ben has to say!
Neil also appeared in issue 403 of Starburst Magazine in an article called the ‘Wizards of Aus’, as well as appearing on a few podcasts over the last month or so. If you can bear to listen to his yapping click the following links: Why I Love Comics – The Sausage Factory (Spong.com) – OMG Nexus – Just Press Start.
Finally, Ben (Kosmina) and Kamina, the dynamic duo, have recently been hanging out on Arvan Eleron’s Twitch channel accompanying Greg and his viewers on live play-throughs of both House of Hell and Appointment with F.E.A.R. Check out Youtube versions of these recordings here and here!
Next out of the Fighting Fantasy stable is Ian Livingstone’s Caverns of the Snow Witch. The original gamebook was published on October 24th 1984 and we’re hoping to have it ready for both iOS and Android around the same date 2014 – the 30th anniversary! This is has been developed using our standard gamebook engine that was employed for The Forest of Doom and Island of the Lizard King.
This is an extra special release for us as we’ve had all new illustrations commissioned by a team of seven artists, four of which are new to Tin Man Games. As well as TMG favourites Pirkka Harvala, Josh Wright and Simon Lissaman, we have the amazing talents of John Stone, Dan Angelone, Ben Ee and Leonardo Meschini. Ian has worked closely with us and the artists to make sure that the denizens of the Crystal Caves live up to your worst nightmares! If you’re an old-school FF fan then fear not, Crosby and Ward’s original black and white illustrations make an appearance in retro mode.
Announced on our Facebook Page as part of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Jonathan Green’s classic Fighting Fantasy, Bloodbones is also in development. This is the first FF app outside of Ian or Steve’s original line-up and we’re really proud to be tackling the original 60th FF title in the series that never nearly came to be! Original illustrator of the gamebook, Tony Hough, has been recruited to add a splash of colour to his original drawings and it’s all looking rather splendid so far!
We’ve also got underway on the development of Ryan North’s To Be Or Not To Be. This is using the new gamebook engine, so expect something very different to the original print book. We’re hoping to get this released in a few months time across all our usual platforms and it’s shaping up to be one of our most spectacular apps yet!
And Finally, we’re also beavering away on The Gatekeeper’s Oath, the sequel to The Forgotten Spell, the next Gamebook Adventures title, Lords of Nurroth, isn’t too far away, and we have Gamebook Adventures Collected editions coming to Android. A busy few months then for the TMG team!
* The Oasis and Blur reference relates to the battle of two major Britpop bands in the UK, during the mid-90s. Not sure which company would be which though! 😉
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Titanic News: Matchstick Brittanic, Sinking Ferry Passengers Invoke Titanic, Titanic Soap and a Titanic Hotel
May 1, 2014 Mark Taylor
HMHS Britannic seen during World War I.
Image:public domain
1. David Reynolds, age 55, decided to do something to commemorate HMHS Brittanic, Titanic’s sister ship that served in World War I. So he made a matchstick model comprised of 50,000 matchsticks, glue, varnish to build his 5 foot model. And it looks pretty good from the picture in the news article. It took him 700 hours to build the model, which is radio-controlled and water tested. He has built matchstick models before. His 23 foot tall oil rig “Cathedrals of the Sea” is at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in Florida and a world record for the largest matchstick structure. The article does not reveal what he plans to do with the completed model.
Source: Remarkable Matchstick Model Of Titanic’s Sister Ship HMHS Britannic(1 May 2014,Daily Echo)
Sewol at the moment of capsizing
Photo:Korea Coast Guard
2. As we learn more about the sinking of the South Korean ferry more sad stories are emerging about its final moments. The ferry had lots of school students aboard and footage from cell phones are know surfacing, In one the kids, who do not know how dire the situation was, were heard to say ‘This is like Titanic.’ Cries of desperation are also heard in kids saying they did not want to die, this looks like the end, or asking to call mom. More harrowing are images of an arm banging on glass to get the attention of rescuers and then sadly the ferry sinks out of range of the rescuers leaving the trapped to their doom. The footage is now part of the official investigation as to what happened. The captain has been detained and facing charges as are several crew members. Two employees of the ferry’s owner have also been detained. And now we learn that there were structural issues as well. Another ship captain warned of the instability caused by adding more cabins to the ferry. All in all, this is a major screw-up and preventable tragedy. Out of 476 passengers, 174 survived. 2 crew members also perished.
Source:It’s Like The Titanic!’: Harrowing footage from aboard doomed South Korean ferry shows students joking and laughing when ship begins to capsize(1 May 2014,Daily Mail)
Poster Advertising Vinolia Otto Soap for Titanic
3. In advertising before its sinking, Vinolia soap advertised it was being used on Titanic. In the movie A Night To Remember, Lightoller pokes fun at the advertising in the rail car scene at the beginning of the movie (in fact the actor had a reproduction of the ad he was looking at for the scene). The Vinolia Soap Works were once located in Bebington, UK , which is where a Unilever building stands today. It was a pricey soap back then costing 35 cents a bar so only people with money to spend could afford it. It was advertised as a cold cream bath soap that had “both antiseptic and antibacterial thanks to the boracic creams used in the recipe.” Vinolia was the only product given permission to advertise its connection to Titanic before the maiden voyage. The company itself was bought in the 1900’s by Lever Brothers and now part of Unilever. You can still buy the soap today but packaging may vary. At the Vermont Country Store, two bars sell for $16.00 and come in standard packaging bearing the name Vinolia. Sometimes it is packaged to show its Titanic connection such as on Amazon. As far as I can tell, they are the same product just different packaging (and prices do vary so shop accordingly).
Source:Bebington Soap Deemed Suitable For The Titanic(30 April 2014,Wirral News)
4. Denise Sheldon writes in The News Herald about how the first class ate on Titanic. They ate very well as many already know. She notes the excellent book, Last Dinner on the Titanic(Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley), as part of her article on the subject. She mentions something that does not get a lot of mention when discussing food and that its preparation was nearly all done by hand. Although Titanic had the best cooking facilities at the time, it required a huge staff to do all the prep work needed for every meal. Remember there were no food processors back then, blenders, standing mixers etc. Which meant you had to hand chop just about everything. Now that does not mean they were without any labor saving devices. They had food mills (hand cranked like the one I have to put my cooked potatoes through to make mashed potatoes), sieves, ovens, toaster racks etc. Just lower tech than what he are used to today. Today when we have tons of veggies to dice up for a crowd, we use a food processor. Back then you had teams of people to do all that chopping for every meal. At any rate Sheldon also finds a recipe, adapted for our time, with Chicken Lyonnaise. I do add a small caveat to it. I would recommend using real chicken stock rather than a broth, which are usually insipid for recipes like this. Swanson’s does have a highly rated chicken stock (highly rated by Cook’s Illustrated) or simply make your own.
Source:Titanic’s Passengers Enjoyed Fabulous Fare(30 April 2014,The News Herald)
5. The Titanic Hotel at Stanley Dock in Liverpool (not to be confused with Albion House, former home of White Star Line that is being converted into a hotel by Signature Living) is set to open in June. According to Bay Tv Liverpool:”The highly-anticipated hotel launch at Stanley Dock, Liverpool will be the first of a multi-staged redevelopment at Stanley Dock Village, which will transform the former Tobacco and South Warehouses, into an innovative residential, business, retail, educational and leisure complex.” The name Titanic Hotel is meant to concrete its connection to Titanic Centre in Belfast. While the development is certainly a positive, it certainly will be confusing to have two Titanic hotels in Liverpool. One at the old offices of the White Star Line and the other at Stanley Dock. Then again they city probably can handle two hotels centered around Titanic but it means tourists will have to be keen on which one they will want to visit.
Titanic Hotel Set To Open On Historic Site In Liverpool(30 April 2014,Bay TV Liverpool)
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